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...thequestionnaire we sent out for the Radcliffe 50threunion book wished that Radcliffe had worriedmore about our future than our decorum. Sixty-fourpercent found fault with the almost nonexistentcareer counseling. The main advice that we weregiven at graduation was to take the secretarialcourse given in the summer by the Katherine GibbsSchool in the basement of Fay House. Defying thisindifference to our professional futures, a fewclassmates went to graduate school to becomedoctors, lawyers and academics, but most of usrepaired to the suburbs and became active membersof the PTA. Not until after our children were oldenough to go to school did many...

Author: By Aida K. Press, RADCLIFFE CLASS OF 1948 | Title: Alumna Recalls 'Best of All Possible Worlds' | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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