Word: gilberts
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Helen Homans Gilbert '36 a long-time Radcliffe official and the first woman ever elected to Harvard's Board of Overseers died of cancer Tuesday...
...Gilbert worked for the University in many different capacities over the years--but she always returned to Radcliffe. She was on the Radcliffe Board of Trustees from 1950 to 1977 and was acting president in 1964. A year later, the Radcliffe Alumni Association awarded her the Alumnae Recognition Award...
More recently Gilbert chaired the advisory committee for Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library...
...more aware than I of how much Radcliffe owes to Helen Gilbert," said former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting. "The time, energy wisdom and wit and the love that Helen has given to Radcliffe have bound...
...Gilbert became the first woman member of Harvard's alumni-elected governing board in 1970, serving as Overseers president from 1975 to 1976. While on the Board she was the primary author of the Gilbert Report a study of how Harvard's two governing boards--the Corporation and the Board of Overseers--shared control over the University...