Word: butterfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marion C. Belliveau, the registrar for many years, said yesterday Mrs. Butterfield was "a tremendous worker, with lots of energy and drive...
...Butterfield also earned a reputation as a social activist, who spoke out often on the Vietnam War. Kirsti Gamage, the current secretary of Social Studies, said yesterday she remembers her "delight on going to the Registrar's Office and seeing this lovely lady who had attached a poster of Chairman Mao to the wall...
...mass meeting against the war. Mrs. Butterfield took the microphone and, to thunderous applause, endorsed a University-wide strike to protest the Cambodian invasion and the killing of four students at Kent State University...
...Butterfield was also a frugal woman who disliked waste, Gamage remembered. "Her year in Social Studies she made all the food for the senior-Faculty dinner herself, because it bothered her that we were spending so much money," Gamage said...
Walzer explained that news of Mrs. Butterfield's illness had shocked her many friends. "When she retired this year, we expected that there were many years of continued activity ahead of her," he said...