SPOKANE, Wash., April 26 (UPI) -- Allison Stacey Cowles, a trustee emerita of Wellesley College and board member of the Smithsonian Institution, died in Spokane, Wash., her son said.
Cowles died Saturday night of pancreatic cancer at age 75, William Cowles said.
Allison Cowles was married to William H. Cowles III, whose family owns The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane. He died in 1992 and four years later she married Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who is now chairman emeritus of The New York Times Co.
As a college student, Allison Cowles was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Wellesley and served as editor of The Wellesley News in 1955. In later years, she retained close ties to Wellesley, and was an advocate for educational and conservation programs in New York and Washington state.
Cowles, who was born in New Jersey, also is survived by a daughter, a brother and four grandchildren, all of Spokane.
