Papers, 1954-2007 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1954-2007 (inclusive).

Collection includes memoir, correspondence, and clippings related to Amy Mims' studies at Radcliffe and her 50th year reunion; articles written by Amy Mims about her career as a Greek translator; biography of Helen Mims written by Amy Mims; and Helen Mims' unpublished manuscript on 16th century Spain.

4 folders.

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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. Class of 1957

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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...

Finley, John H. (John Huston), 1904-1995

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Sullivan, Helen, 1906-1992

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Mims, Amy.

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Translator of modern Greek literature, Amy Mims was born in 1936 to Helen Sullivan and Edwin Mims. She studied classics at Radcliffe College (A.B., 1957), where she was the winner of the Fay prize. She then received a Marshall scholarship for study at Oxford, where she studied ancient and modern Greek literature. Her mother, Helen Sullivan Mims, was a sociologist and historian. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Radcliffe College in 1952, where she worked on a manuscript on the 16th century h...