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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brunette with a booming tennis serve and a fine basketball hook shot. After she left Radnor, the brunette became one of the best lyric-coloratura sopranos in the world. Last week a busload of teachers journeyed to Manhattan to cheer the school's most famous alumna in a new kind of starring role. Young (24), shapely (36-24-36) Soprano Anna Moffo was making her debut at the Met in Verdi's La Traviata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Radnor High | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Bunting became the dean at Rutgers in 1955. A Vassar alumna, she had previously taught at Bennington, Goucher, and Yale. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from Wisconsin...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Dean of Students at Rutgers May Become Next Radcliffe President | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

Between World Wars I and II, Mary Clarke lived in Europe, told friends she did so because costs there were low. "She always gave you the impression that she had to be very careful with money," says a friend. It is Smith's good fortune that Alumna Clarke was careful-and that at Smith something happened to the quiet, 20-year-old college girl, memorable enough to stay bright for seven decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Quiet Alumna | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Married. Sheree North, 25, cooch alumna turned cinemactress; and Psychologist Gerhart Sommer, 30; both for the third time; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...which throws the air conditioning out of whack, so that everybody is too hot or too cold. Walled and barred at street level, the Smith dormitory looks a good deal less hospitable from the outside. No student living there will ever have an experience like that of one Smith alumna who lived in an old-fashioned dorm. Clambering in through a ground-floor window one night after hours (10 p.m.), she felt a friendly shove from behind, looked around to see Smith President William Allan Neilson winking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Building for Learning | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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