Oral history interview with Wilma Kerby-Miller, 1976 November.

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Oral history interview with Wilma Kerby-Miller, 1976 November.

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Transcript of on oral history interview by Kathleen Elliott records Kerby-Miller's recollections of her childhood, education, and career at Wellesley and Radcliffe College. She focuses on her years as Graduate Dean at Radcliffe and Harvard, the 1963 merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe Graduate schools, and Harvard's treatment of women as faculty and as graduate students.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Radcliffe College. Office of the Dean of Instruction.

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Kerby-Miller, Wilma Anderson, 1897- ,

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Wilma Anderson Kerby-Miller was born in Rockford, Illinois. She attended Rockford College (A.B., English and Math, 1924) and the University of Chicago (A.M. 1928, Ph.D. 1938). In 1931, she married Charles Kerby-Miller. She worked as a teacher in Michigan and Sweden, and was lecturer at Wellesley College from 1939 to 1941. In 1942 she was Dean of Freshman and Chairman of the Board of Admissions at Wellesley. In 1946 Kerby-Miller became the first Dean of Instruction at Radcliffe College, and a par...

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. Office of the Graduate Dean.

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Elliott, Kathleen Overmyer.

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Dean and college administrator, Elliott received her A.B. from Ohio State University (1931) and Ph.D from Radcliffe (1942). She held many administrative positions at Radcliffe from 1943 until 1976, including director of admissions, and dean and vice-president of the college. She was lecturer in Classics at Harvard University and a member of many professional and community associations. She was married to Van Courlandt Elliott, teacher of Greek at Roxbury Latin School, and died in 1995. ...