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...responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners, and graduate and undergraduate meetings is theirs. Others elect a university affiliation: the Drs. Rudolph teach a course together on Indian Government and the Handlins work together on research. Mrs. Galbraith teaches German at the College while Mrs. Fainsod is currently working as a research assistant to Professor Paul Buck, and Mrs. Murdock is working on a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature...
...Master's situation is an extreme one, however. Few other wives of the Faculty have so thorough a connection with the college. Mrs. Fainsod, for example, has found time to hold a job of her own for almost twenty years. Currently working on a history of the Eliot Administration at Harvard under Prof. Paul Buck, she has also worked as an administrative assistant in the Russian Research Center, as an assistant to the Director of the Shady Hill School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous...
...Work is a luxury for me," Mrs. Fainsod explains. I have always counted on doing something useful with my education (B.A. Bryn Mawr, M.A. Radcliffe). I like to put my training to a gainful and useful purpose. It is a real privilege to work. One must be able to afford it financially--the cost of housekeepers and the income tax set up make this difficult--and also, one must be sure that one's home and children are not being slighted. I have to count on really professional help at home...
...addition to her University job, Mrs. Fainsod has also had to contend with the role of "wife to the Chairman of the Department." The responsibility for entertaining visitors plus the responsibility for the newcomers to the department falls upon her. Mrs. Fainsod has also served on the College Tea Committee, which sponsors a series of teas for the wives of newcomers to the University...
...plight of the newcomers is one which Mrs. Rupert Emerson feels quite strongly. Both she and Mrs. Fainsod pointed out that the Faculty wife serves as an informal settling agent. At newcomer's teas, the most common question put to the "old guard" is where one can find a good pediatrician. The vast problem of helping the newcomers find housing and friends takes up some of their time...