Records of Radcliffe Career Services, 1918-1996 (inclusive).

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Records of Radcliffe Career Services, 1918-1996 (inclusive).

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Radcliffe Career Services records include office files of Director Phyllis Stein, Assistant Director Belle Brett, client notes, 1975-1986, by staff counsellors, career workshops material, and office personnel files. Also records of the earlier Appointment Bureau and Radcliffe Career Planning Office, including Bureau office files and surveys; oral history transcripts, audiotapes, questionnaires, and draft of book entitled "The Great Balancing Act: Women Graduates of the Seven Sister Colleges, 1930-1980, Reflect on Their Work and Life Styles," based on a 1981 study by the directors of career services of the Seven Sister Colleges; publicity scrapbooks; card file of job opportunities for students; summer play group materials; and other papers pertaining to programs sponsored by the Bureau between 1918 and 1961. Also alumnae placement files containing students' employment histories, 1926-1988.

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Albro, Mary.

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Radcliffe College. Radcliffe Career Services.

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The Bureau of Occupations was established in 1914 to assist senior students at Radcliffe in finding employment after graduation. It was renamed the Appointment Bureau in 1918 and, under the direction of Edith Stedman (1930-1954), also offered vocational training and administered a student employment service. The Career Planning Office assumed these responsibilities in 1966 and shared responsibility for undergraduate employment with the Harvard Student Employment Office. After the 1971 Harvard/Ra...

Stein, Phyllis Rosenstein.

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O'Meara, Lucy

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Brett, Belle

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Radcliffe College. Appointment Bureau.

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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. ...

Harvard university. Graduate school of business administration

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The faculty of the Harvard Business School was formally organized in 1913. For the school's first two years (1908-1910) the teaching staff was organized informally. From 1910 to 1913 the teaching and administrative staff was organized as an Administrative Board. From the description of Faculty minutes, 1908- [microform]. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269607747 ...

Radcliffe College. Radcliffe Career Planning Office.

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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...