Possible Clues:

• "Mater" preceder
• Word often with "mater"
• Wife of 17-Across
• Michigan liberal-arts college
• Girl taken in by general manager
• __ Mahler, Viennese socialite immortalised by Tom Lehrer?
• ____ mater
• ___ mater (school from which one graduated)
• Head of the college one attended?
• College town on Michigan's Lower Peninsula