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For Dirks, Pearl Harbor's import didn't hit until the men started disappearing. "I was pretty stupid about the war," says Dirks. "Pearl Harbor didn't register for a while. I was going to a Law School dance that night. And then suddenly it registered, because the place was...
Even then, Dirks says, the full import of the war didn't hit her. "It was still a bit of an ivory tower. You're there, and you're protected, and war is just one of those terrible things that happened thousands of miles away," she says. "We picked apples...
Until a junior-year tutor "taught [her] to think," Dirks relegated studying to a second-priority activity. "We were probably less serious than [Radcliffe students] today," says Dirks, co-chair of entertainment for the reunion. "We danced a lot, and we got in trouble a lot with housemistresses, and we...
"A typical weekend you waited for the phone to ring," Dirks says. "If you were unlucky and unfortunate enough not to have a date--believe me, if you didn't get asked for a date, you were miserable--we stayed up and played bridge and smoked."
When not listening to the Big Bands at Norumbega Park or taking picnics to Walden Pond, football provided the primary activity, Dirks says.