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...BARNARD COLLEGE (2,000 women, Manhattan). After administrative positions at Radcliffe, Sarah Lawrence and Brown, Jacqueline Anderson Mattfeld, 50, takes on the presidency of one of the Seven Sisters just when it is being eyed acquisitively by Columbia University, its big brother across the street. Although Barnard has run a deficit in each of the last few years ($500,000 in 1975-76), the college and its $24 million endowment are nonetheless attractive to Columbia. Mattfeld, a Goucher graduate, argues a partnership, yes, a merger, never. Discovering some "ambiguous wording" in the intercorporate agreement with Columbia, Mattfeld had Barnard trustees...
...local boy, born and raised in the Boston area, and an outstanding pre-medical student. I did not see much of him during my sophomore year (his junior year). In fact, when I found him sitting in the middle of the hallway on the fourth floor of Barnard Hall at 6:30 a.m. one morning during my junior year, it was the first time I had seen him in at least eight months...
Bill was almost screaming, his voice echoing up and down Barnard's stark halls, so I tried to quiet him down. I left him there, sitting wild-eyed in the hallway, counting the rings on the other end of the line (I'll let it go to 50 'cause she's probably right at some critical point.").-Bill was flipping out. Within a month he withdrew from school...
Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld, L.H.D., new president of Barnard College. Gregor Piatigorsky, Mus.D., cellist...
...difficult time for single-sex colleges began in the 1960s. When men's colleges started going coed, siphoning off some of the best women students, the Seven Sisters had to take a new look at their original charters. Radcliffe elected to become part of Harvard; Barnard tightened its ties with neighboring Columbia, and Bryn Mawr with Haverford; Vassar took in men. Only Wellesley, Smith and Mt. Holyoke remained colleges for women. There is currently a new wave of interest in them, fueled in part by their courses in women's studies, but Kendall believes it is temporary...