Word: alumna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe alumna may be one of two women still held hostage by Iranian students in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran...
Radcliffe sent an alumna to that meeting to vote in favor of the proposal, Gardiner said. Although the bank's management opposed the resolution, an "astounding" 5 to 6 per cent of the shareholders voted for it, Gardiner said. Proposals opposed by management usually receive much less support, he added...
Atlanta's Spelman College harmonized with an apt duet of famous singers as it granted honorary fine arts degrees. One was to Opera Soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs, 53, a Spelman alumna who polished her coloratura with a Marian Anderson Scholarship. The other, fittingly, was awarded the legendary Anderson herself, now 77. Hailed as "the most famous and best loved contralto of our time," Anderson received a standing ovation for her long, path-marking career. Responded she in a brief, upbeat acceptance: "It's all waiting for you out there, and you can make your lives what you want them...
...bank holds its annual stockholder's meeting next Tuesday. An alumna representing Radcliffe will vote then in favor of a resolution calling for the bank to refrain from making new loans to South Africa and renewing old ones. A similar resolution last year garnered only about 5 per cent of the vote. Toman said...
Syracuse U. was an intellectual's academe, recalls Novelist Joyce Carol Gates ('60), but the sorority system, well, that was an intellectual's animal house. Reminiscing in the Paris Review, Alumna Gates speaks with horror of her days as a Phi Mu: "The asininity of 'secret ceremonies'; the moronic emphasis upon 'activities' totally unrelated to-in fact antithetical to-intellectual exploration." There was also "the aping of the worst American traits-boosterism, Godfearing-ism, smug ignorance, a craven worship of conformity." Grist for the Gates mill? Never. "To even care about such adolescent...