Word: derderian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lillian Kasparian Derderian still clearly remembers the fear she felt when news of Pearl Harbor broke...
...Derderian agrees. "Those were the times," she muses.Courtesy Radcliffe College ArchivesThe 1942-43 Radcliffe Press Board...
Like many of her classmates, Derderian chose to "accelerate" and graduate in three years by studying straight through summer, in order to pursue marriage, national service, or wartime careers. By graduating a year early, however, Derderian left behind the friends from her entering class...
...Derderian sees the move to co-ed classes for Harvard and Radcliffe as a step backward in some ways. "Mixing up the sexes got in the way of women's learning to be their own person and training their leadership," she says. "The men diverted their attention from their studies...
...science classes, men and women used separate labs for the same projects. "There was no mingling of the sexes," says Derderian. "I was surprised that in the sciences we had our own labs for chemistry and physics," she says. "Educationally, we were pretty much equal, except for the segregation...