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Carolyn M. Christensen '74, now a special student at Harvard taking undergraduate courses in the natural sciences, came to Cambridge not from the "mecca" but from New Canaan, a city in New York's Connecticut backyard. She had only limited exposure to the church before she arrived here: Her mother (whose grandmother was the daughter of a second wife of a polygamist) and father (a scientist who believes in super-intelligence and thinks Mormons are vain to see god as a personage) grew up in Utah. When they moved East 25 years ago, they rejected Utah and Mormonism as unwanted...
Though active in the church around the age of 12, when she was baptized, Christensen remained a half-hearted Mormon until she graduated from Ethel Walker, and all-girls prep school, where school choir practice took her away from Mormon services. When Christensen came here in 1970,she began to read the Book of Mormon and asked a lot of questions at church. "I found the answers more intriguing than the original questions," she remembers. In February and March of her freshman year, Christensen realized she was a believer, although not until late last summer did she take the step...
Tall, dark haired with wide eyes and a broad smile, Christensen says she feels no tension between her career aspirations (to go to public health or medical school and later develop health care clinics in rural areas) and the faithful wife stereotype. "A lot of this is how I was brought up," she says. Treated the same as her brothers and sent to an all-girls prep school, Christensen has never felt discriminated against. But she admits, half-jokingly, "I saw myself as a man coming home to a wife and kids." So while she endorses the virtues...
Three minutes into the final third of the game, John Christensen sizzled a slapshot toward the goal from the left point. The ever present Ken Farrish banged home the rebound...
...foreign airlines (including Pan Am) last week offered to plead no contest to charges that they had given illegal kickbacks to travel agents. Last week as well, financially straitened W.T. Grant Co. filed civil fraud charges in New York federal court against three of its executives -including John A. Christensen, a $72,000-a-year vice president-alleging that they had accepted bribes from an Atlanta-based real estate developer to lease inferior sites for shopping centers at inflated rates. According to the complaint, the kickbacks exceeded $100,000, and ranged from trips to Acapulco to a $33,000 stable...