Oral history interview with Susan Storey Lyman, 1988.

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Oral history interview with Susan Storey Lyman, 1988.

Lyman discusses the founding of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe Seminars, student life, and the Harvard-Radcliffe merger in a 44-page oral history interview by Helen Homans Gilbert.

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Gilbert, Helen Homans, 1913-1989,

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Helen Homans Gilbert was graduated from Radcliffe College in 1936 and continued to serve and support Radcliffe throughout her life in many ways: she was trustee (1950-1972), and chairman of the Board (1955-1972), acting president (1964-1965), and active in two presidential searches. She was first woman member (1970-76), then President (1975-1976) of Harvard's Board of Overseers, and was on the steering committee of the Harvard Campaign (1980). Among her awards were honorary degrees from Tufts (1...

Radcliffe Seminars

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The Radcliffe Seminars were inaugurated in 1950 with initial funding from the Carnegie Corporation to provide non-credit liberal arts courses taught mainly by Harvard professors to women in mid-life. Currently, courses are offered in five areas: liberal arts, landscape design, management studies, non-credit enrichment courses, and study tours. From the description of Records of the Radcliffe Seminars, 1950-1985 (inclusive), 1950-1959 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: ...

Radcliffe College. Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute

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The Bunting Institute (former names: Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, 1960-66, and the Radcliffe Institute, 1966-78) was founded by Radcliffe President Mary Ingraham Bunting to foster scholarly study by women and on women. The Institute appoints Fellows and Research Associates in the arts and sciences, and provides them with workspace and stipends to further their research in a variety of programs. These in the past have included funding for part-time medical residents from the Josiah ...

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...

Lyman, Susan Storey,

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Susan Jameson Storey Shaw Lyman was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1919. She married S.P. Shaw, Jr., in 1939. The couple had three children and divorced in 1949. Lyman attended Radcliffe College, earning an A.B. (1949), a certificate from the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (1950), and an Ed.M. from Harvard (1963). After marrying Ronald T. Lyman, Jr. (1950), Lyman was appointed Marshall of Radcliffe College (1955-1958); she later served as Director of the Radcliffe Col...