Papers, 1833-1978 (inclusive) 1913-1978 (bulk).

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...

Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973

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Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. Ada Louise Comstock was born on December 11, 1876, in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Solomon Gilman Comstock, an attorney, and Sarah Ball Comstock. Her father recognized her capabilities and potential and set about to cultivate them by encouraging an early and sound ...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Radcliffe College. Appointment Bureau.

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Creshkoff, Nancy Harper.

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McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997

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David Thompson Watson McCord (1897-1997), noted poet and essayist, was graduated from Harvard College in 1921. He earned a masters degree in 1922, and in 1956 he was awarded Harvard's first honorary doctorate of humane letters. Well-known for his literary and humorous approach to fundraising, McCord served as Executive Director of the Harvard Fund from 1925 until his retirement in 1962 and was editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin from 1940 to 1946. From the description of Papers of ...

Gregg, Marjorie True, 1883-1968.

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Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945

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Author Margaret Wade Campbell Deland was born in Allegheny, Penn. She became interested in the plight of unmarried mothers, taking them into her home until they could find proper jobs. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letters, 1884-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007073 Margaret Deland was born in Western Pennsylvania, was educated in New York, and lived much of her adult life i...

Holt, Augustus Fifield.

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Gilbert, Helen Homans, 1913-

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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...

Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977

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Wife of Winston Churchill. From the description of Letter, 1943 Sept. 27 : London, to Rev. J.T. Hodgson, Brighton, Sussex. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 24727037 Clementine Churchill, wife of Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and Prime Minister. From the description of [Letter] 1945 Sep. 4 [to] Mrs. McGrath / Clementine Churchill. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 184742054 ...

Bundy, Mary Lothrop, 1924-

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Sitwell, Sacheverell

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Sitwell was a poet, critic and author of volumes of verses. He died in 1988. From the description of The parrot's voice snaps out=No good to contradict=What he says he'll say again: Dry facts, like biscuits, = : calligraphed illustration. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863289 Sacheverell Sitwell was an English author and critic. Born into an aristocratic and gifted family, he joined with his brother Osbert and sister Edith to help change the tastes of British society in a...

Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002

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Elizabeth (1900-2002), the Queen Mother, wife of King George VI of Great Britain. From the description of Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582494 Places: England Epithet: Queen Consort of George VI British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000387.0x00036a ...

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. ...

Day, Chon, 1907-

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Beadle, Muriel

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Ormsby Gore, David, Baron Harlech, 1918-

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Ramsbotham, Peter, 1919-2010

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Dorchester Abbey

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Gilliat, Martin John, Sir, 1913-

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