World Council of Churches, making her one of the first few women to do so. She told the council, "that the secular institutions need to be supplemented by a virile church, alert to its unique mission to keep man conscious of his relation to the loving, judging, living God." In 1950, McAfee became a vice-president at large of the National Council of Churches, upon its founding. She had previously been serving as the first female vice-president of the Federal Council of Churches, which had been working to merge eight interdenominational boards to form the National Council. While holding this office with the National Council of Churches, she also sat on the boards of NBC and RCA in order to develop religious programming. She would later become the president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. As an advocate for the ordination of women in the U.S. Presbyterian Church, McAfee wrote an article entitled "Second-Class Citizens or Partners in Policy", in which she challenged the church stating, "The crucial question about the place of women in the church is whether or not the church will accept the pattern of the secular society (with which most women are fully content) or will take the lead within it own life demonstrating the truth of ultimate worth, whether it be male or female." McAfee Hall at Wellesley is named in her honor, as is Horton Hall at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). She was President of the UNH Board of Trustees, serving on the board from 1963 to 1974. She died in Berlin, New Hampshire in 1994 at the age of 94, and is buried in Durand Road Cemetery. References Sources Further reading External links Brief biography and some photographs Records of the Bureau of Personnel Special Assistant for Women's Policy (PERS-00W), 1947–1991 1900 births 1994 deaths Centre College faculty Women heads of universities and colleges Oberlin College faculty People from Parkville, Missouri Presidents of Wellesley College Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal United States Navy captains University of Chicago alumni Vassar College alumni Female United States Navy officers WAVES personnel American women academics 20th-century American academics