Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...join. Carter, already contemplating a race for the presidency, was very responsive: he attended four of the first six Trilateral meetings over a span of 19 months. In his book, Why Not the Best?, Carter says the commission became "a splendid learning opportunity" for him. But Republican Congressman John Anderson, a commission member, thinks Carter was simply trying to acquire "a little shine and polish by being a member...
Following the British lead, Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, the U.S. Naval Research Lab, and the University of Washington in Seattle have all started using neutron irradiation. But Fermilab has a special advantage: it delivers neutrons at higher energies and thus can probe deeper into the tumors...
...result of the meeting was the formation of the Association of Black Radcliffe Women (ABRW), Shelley Anderson '77, chairwoman of ABRW, explains, because the women decided to take it upon themselves to put together a group that would be responsive to their particular needs. More specifically, she says, the women hoped to provide a catalyst for bringing black women together and a supportive force for individual and collective pursuits...
...Harvard can be an elitist place," Anderson says, straining to express the special position of black women here, "If you're a woman, there's going to be at least one time you'll confront that--if you are black you will surely have to. If you're black and female it can be a double burden." But she stresses that they did not organize because they fell oppressed by the environment, but rather "because we had an incredibly strong sense that we can help one another to deal with...
...Mitchell, former assistant dean of Radcliffe, had coordinated activities for black women, such as teas, open houses and a career symposium, thereby delaying the need for a formal organization like ABRW. "After she left, there was really no one around who had the interest she had in black women," Anderson says, adding that in forming an organization, the women decided they wanted to be autonomous, since "if we had felt there were groups that were responsive to our individual needs, we would not have needed our own." ABRW receives $5 yearly dues from each of its members, and this year...