Records, 1915-1990 (inclusive).

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Records, 1915-1990 (inclusive).

Reunion material, biographical information, letters, clippings, speeches, photographs, and reports document the life course of a cohort of Radcliffe women through careers or marriage and family life into old age. Also evident are their lasting connections to each other and their relationship and reaction to change at the college.

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Sands, Dorothy, 1893-1980

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Dorothy Sands (1893-1950), a stage actress for nearly 50 years and an accomplished diseuse and mimic, died last Thursday at a nursing home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. She was 87 years old and had been a resident of Manhattan. Made Broadway debut in Catskill Dutch (1924), followed by Little Clay Cart, Exiles, The Critic, Grand Street Follies, The Dybbuk, The Apothocary, The Seagull, Jeannie, Misalliance, Quadrille, Mary Stuart, My Fair Lady and Bell Book and Candle; had 2 one-woman shows, Styles ...

Worrell, Dorothy, 1892-1983

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Journalist, local historian, and author, Dorothy Worrell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1892. She earned an A.B. from Radcliffe (1915) majoring in economics and government, and also earned certificates from the Henry George School of Social Science (1919), Portia Law School (1919), and Babson Institute (1920). An active member of the League of Women Voters and Boston's Municipal Affairs Committee, she authored three books on civic life in Boston. She died in Braintree, Massachusetts in 19...

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...

Alger, Catherine Jackson.

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Browne, Alice Billings.

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Merrill, Ruth Atherton, 1894-

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Constantine, Mildred.

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Mildred Constantine is an author and former Associate Curator at MOMA. From the description of Research papers regarding Tina Modotti, 1920-1993. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81773320 Mildred Constantine, d. 2008, Art historian of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Mildred Constantine, 1976 May 3-1976 Aug. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397243 Mildred Constantine (1914-2008) was an art historian f...

Radcliffe College. Class of 1915

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The Class of 1915 consisted of 110 students, of whom 93 graduated. Forty five members of the class never married and went on to have careers. The largest group were teachers; others worked in medicine and social service, journalism, business, libraries, and theater and music, including Dorothy Sands. Alice Billings Browne, in a speech about the class in 1970, said: The class contains "no world famous alumnae, but a noteworthy record of honors achieved, successful careers, happy marriages, and a ...

Richardson, Dorothea Whitney.

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Crossley, Dorothy I.

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Durant, Barbara Leighton.

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Shaw, Gertrude H.

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Gertrude Madeleine Shaw (1892-1991) graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1915) and Simmons College (B.S. 1917). She worked for 39 years at Harvard University's Widener Library before retiring in 1957 as chief bibliographer. Shaw served as secretary of the Radcliffe Class of 1915, as director of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (1955-1958), and was a member of the Cambridge (Mass.) Musical Club. From the description of Papers, 1884-1986 (inclusive). (Harvard University). Wo...