Papers, 1961-1972 (inclusive).

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...

Bunting, Mary Ingraham, 1910-1998

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Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University. Bunting was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry A. and Mary Shotwell Ingraham; she was known as "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Her father was an attorney; her mother was the head of th...

Calkins, Hugh

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Solomon, Barbara Miller

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Barbara Miller Solomon, historian, received her A.B. (1940) and Ph.D. (1953) from Radcliffe College. She was Director of the Radcliffe Seminars (1959-1963), Director of the Schlesinger Library (then the Women's Archives) (1960-1965), and first woman dean of Harvard College (Assistant Dean, 1971-1973). As Senior Lecturer in American Civilization, she taught the first courses in women's history at Harvard University. From the description of Oral history interview with Barbara Miller So...

Radcliffe College. Alumnae Association

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The Harvard Annex Alumnae Association was established in 1887 and renamed the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association in 1897. It was administered by a president, a board of managers and an executive secretary (who was first appointed in 1920) and included representatives who served on the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe College. Since 1908 the Association has published an alumnae directory and since 1916 The Radcliffe Quarterly. The Association has also been involved in other activities such as fu...

Voss, Barbara Fischer.

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Skinner, Alice Blackmer.

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A graduate of Radcliffe College (A.B. 1945), University of Minnesota (M.S.W. 1951), and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1977), Alice Blackmer Skinner was married to Wickham Skinner, professor at the Harvard Business School. During the 1960s she was active in Radcliffe alumnae affairs, serving as co-chair with Barbara Voss, of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association's Study Committee on Merger, 1969-1971. From the description of Papers, 1961-1972 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCa...

Wolff, Robert Lee

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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...

Burr, Francis.

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Radcliffe Club of Boston

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Alger, Louise, 1900-1995.

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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...

Cabot, Thomas D. (Thomas Dudley), 1897-1995

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Bynum, Caroline Walker.

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