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...first Monday of the new year, five City Council members declared their aspiration to ascend to the top spot in Cambridge politics: Henrietta J. Davis, Marjorie C. Decker, David P. Maher, Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, and E. Denise Simmons...
There was just one obstacle in the path to making it official: my mom, in all of her hormonal and high-risk pregnancy bliss, mandated that I be named after her-much-beloved-Aunt-but-not-actually-an-aunt Henrietta, whom I never had the opportunity to meet to verify that claim. My father would have preferred to keep the extant name for simplicity and, well, pragmatic reasons. My parents decided to compromise and use both names, but call me by my middle name. (For the record, “Bratton” is my mom’s last...
However, using “Zane” has come back to bite me. Up until recently, my driver’s license said only “Henrietta Z. Wruble,” so using it as identification to fly created a mismatch with my plane tickets. Most airport employees realized that the unusual letter plus my utterly harmless appearance meant that I wasn’t worth harassing, but freshman year one ticket counter attendant decided to chew me out for it. After a short argument and her insistence that “the Z could stand...
...high school graduation. After I received my diploma, the Head of School pulled me over for a hug. As he did so, he delivered the ultimate blow to my emotional solar plexus, revealing he knew nothing whatsoever about me: “You’re a special person, Henrietta...
...gotten better over the years at accepting the inherent confusions that my name brings. I just smile in silence when the Greenhouse Café card swiper chirps, “Have a nice day, Henrietta!” Or when someone I meet up with for the first time in Lamont exclaims with shock, “I wasn’t expecting you to be a girl!” I can laugh it off and say, truthfully, that it happens all the time...