Papers, 1938-1980 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1938-1980 (inclusive).

Correspondence, conference materials, speeches, newsletters, and photographs relating to alumnae of the Harvard Radcliffe Program in Business Administration; also reminiscences of and correspondence with its two directors, Edith Stedman and Raghnild Roberts. Records of the Committee Investigating Professional Opportunities for Women analyze changing opportunities for professional women, 1942-1951.

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Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration

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Initiated by Barbara Rimbach and sponsored by Radcliffe College Archives, the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project includes interviews with sixty-five women who graduated from the program between 1942 and 1963. The program offered a one-year course in business management at Radcliffe College, taught by faculty from the Harvard Business School. Women were admitted in 1959 to the second year of the MBA program at Harvard Business School. The HRPBA was discontin...

Whitehead, T. N. (Thomas North)

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Thomas North Whitehead served as a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps (635 MT Company) and was active in the East Africa campaign, 1916. From the guide to the Thomas Whitehead papers, 1914-1916, (Leeds University Library) ...

Roberts, Ragnhild.

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Stedman, Edith G. (Edith Gratia), 1888-1978

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Social worker, college administrator, and writer (Radcliffe B.A., 1910), Stedman was a canteen worker with the YMCA in France and Germany during WWI, a medical social worker at an Episcopal Mission in China (1920-1927), and head of the Appointment Bureau at Radcliffe, a vocational training and placement program (1930-1954). In retirement she lived half of every year in England, where she founded the American Friends of Dorchester Abbey, which raised money for restoration of the abbey. ...

Collins, Winifred Quick, 1911-1999

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Navy captain Winifred Quick Collins (1911-1999) was born in Great Falls, Mont., the daughter of Daniel A. and Mary Winifred (Farrell) Redden. She attended the University of Southern California (B.S. 1935), the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (1938), and Stanford University (M.A. 1952). She was commissioned as an ensign in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in August 1942, and in 1948 was in the first group of women commissioned in the United States Na...

Hall, Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Blodgett), 1909-

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The daughter of Margaret Kendrick and Thomas Harper Blodgett, Elizabeth Blodgett Hall was born in New York City, where she attended the Ethical Culture School. Her father was a businessman and the family moved to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1922, while he continued to work in New York. Elizabeth (Betty) attended Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield and studied for one year at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Returning to New York City to study journalism, Elizabeth married attorney Livin...

Bishop, Joan Fiss, d.1981.

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Joan Fiss Bishop (Radcliffe A.M. 1935), career counselor, held a certificate from the Radcliffe Management Training Program, 1938. She directed career programs at Wellesley, 1944-1975. She was active in the alumnae chapter of the Harvard Radcliffe Program in Business Administration. From the description of Papers, 1938-1980 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122372920 ...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Radcliffe College. Radcliffe Career Services.

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