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...Horner, however. Daughter of a Greek professor stranded in the U.S. by the outbreak of World War II, she was born in Roxbury, Mass., and neighbors recall that even when she was a kindergartner, she used to drill local youngsters in spelling and arithmetic. She won an A.B. in psychology from Bryn Mawr, where she met her husband, Dr. Joseph L. Horner, who was studying for an M.S. and is now a research physicist in Cambridge for the U.S. Department of Transportation. They have three children, born while both Homers were getting doctorates at the University of Michigan, and absolutely...
...Horner ran representative groups of Radcliffe students through a Thematic Apperception Test; she discovered that more than 75% "showed evidence of high fear of success." Dr. Horner noted a particular significance in this: Radcliffe students "are chosen primarily because of their high ability, achievement, motivation and previous success." She found that many students arrived at Radcliffe with hopes for a career but then "changed their plans toward a less ambitious, more traditionally feminine direction...
...President of Radcliffe, Horner will be in charge of the remaining Radcliffe facilities which include the Schlesinger Library, the Radcliffe Institute, the Fund Office, the Graduate Career Planning Office, and the Agassiz Theater...
...apart from her activities at Harvard. Horner also has family duties to share with her husband, physicist Joseph L. Horner. "It's just incredible," one of her women students remarked recently. "Every day she goes home to her children after working all morning, then comes back in the afternoon and does more work. She's phenomenal...
...will have to be if she is to live up to the mamoth set of commitments and responsibilities with which she is now faced. Nevertheless, nearly everyone who knows Horner has expressed their delight at her appointment and their confidence in her ability to do the job. It could be that the University is now witnessing the birth of a new kind of administrator, one who is in her own life intimately involved with wide ranges of community interests and concerns...