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...Bendix 's former veep lands at Seagram...
With a Harvard M.B.A. and striking good looks, Mary E. Cunningham was bound to land a new job. But could the 29-year-old executive Wunderkind, who was forced to resign from Bendix Corp. last October, get back on the fast track at a major firm? No problem. After considering and discarding a flock of other offers, she last week accepted a "six figure" post with Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., a subsidiary of the Seagram Co., Ltd., the world's largest distiller (1980 sales: $2.5 billion). Her new position: vice president for strategic planning and project development, similar...
...meeting of Bendix employees, Agee, 43, remarked that Cunningham's rapid advancement in the firm had nothing to do with a "personal relationship we have." That caused a furor, and two weeks later Bendix's directors accepted Cunningham's resignation. Cunningham, who had graduated from Harvard Business School just 15 months earlier, went into seclusion...
...using Bendix's Southfield, Mich., headquarters as a mail drop, she received more than 170 job offers. She separated them into three piles, which she labeled "Fascinating-I never thought of that before," "No way" and "Maybe." Of the companies that seriously interviewed her, Cunningham said: "They did not want to focus on the Bendix event except superficially, at the outset, to ask if I could leave it behind...
Take Wellesley, for example. At one time considered the paragon of academic excellence for females desiring a college education, Wellesley boasts a proud tradition of its graduates going on to high-powered jobs and prestigious careers. CBS White House correspondent Diana Sawyer, Mary Cunningham of the recent Bendix brouhaha, and actress Ali McGraw are but a few of the successful Wellesley alumnae. In fact the heritage of academic excellence has been at Wellesley for so long that it is not unusual to hear of current Wellesley undergraduates having mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and even great-grandmothers who attended Wellesley in their...