Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third group manages to find activities outside the University. These include the almost one hundred percent working wives of teaching fellows, the young mothers who, as Mrs. Bundy put it, "are engaged in maintenance," and those wives who do volunteer work or have careers of their own. Faculty wives have taught at Milton (Mrs. Yeager and Mrs. George Snyder), presided over the League of Women Voters (Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Feinsod), worked at the polls or for the C.C.A. (Mrs. Bundy), practiced Medicine and law, painted and sung. They have written novels and children's stories, been professional photographers...
...typical month's calendar, crowded with student teas each Tuesday afternoon, tutor's dinners, Winthrop House galas such as the Christmas party and the spring musical, visiting scholars, and House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time. I spend some hours at the polls now, but I no longer am able to lobby at the State House. Winthrop House and its problems have pretty well taken over...
...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...
...individuality of the Faculty wives, Harvard University is the inescapable social center for most of them. The large majority of the Faculty live in Cambridge, their friends are made within the departments. Even more corporateness is manifested than in a large business organization. It would be unusual to find all IBM employees living in the same neighborhood and to find them all friends. Whatever William Whyte may say of the organization man in business, to some extent this syndrome is ever more6Along with other Faculty wives, Mrs. McGeorge Bundy finds time for varied activities while raising a family...
Instead, he expressed his wrath by sending slices of his cake to the steel industry's chief negotiator and the president of the steelworkers' union. They are likely to find his disapproval unimpressive and stale...