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Returning top splashers include seniors Maureen Murphy in distancy free-style, and Kris Krendl, a back stroker and newly discovered diving sensation. Also back are juniors Jane Hendricks and Carol Rooey in backstroke and Sue Sawyer in butterfly. Sophomore stars Laura Downey and Carol Moore are swimming hard along with a fleet of outstanding new freshmen and sophomores...
...alumni office and the Radcliffe Institute take very different approaches to choosing. The alumni office has found that what Anway calls the "stellar approach"--finding well-known faculty members who are willing to teach a session on their specialty--gets the best response from alumni, while Downey says the Radcliffe program, which is only in its second year, is more intimate because it is smaller. "We're not in competition with Harvard's huge program, but we try to complement it," she says...
...Shultz points out, those are the two most widely chosen careers for Harvard alumni. About 30 per cent of the participants have been to other Harvard alumni colleges, with some people returning year-after year. The Radcliffe program is too new to really know where its market lies, Downey says, but she feels that the poetry workshops have attracted the "closet poets--people who love to write and never tell anyone...
...recent opinion poll of Harvard alumni showed that contributions increase when the University makes efforts to keep in touch with its graduates, but everyone involved with the alumni colleges seems to feel that fundraising is none of their business. Downey, Shultz and Kimball emphasize their lack of interest in increasing donations...
...education after they graduate. Shultz says he feels it is especially important for the middle-aged alumni who want to enrich their lives, who feel they're missing something in mid-career. "There are tremendously exciting possibilities in continuing education, and we've just cracked the surface," he says. Downey's attitude is similar. "I'm really excited by the adult capacity to grow, to learn, to develop," she says. If attendance is any indication, the alumni themselves seem to share in this excitement, returning year after year to programs which may or may not have any connection to their...