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...mean time, Radcliffe is in the process of searching for a new president. Horner's successor will take over in June of next year, and the Radcliffe Board of Trustees hopes to name the new president next winter, said Nancy-Beth Sheerr '71, who heads the search committee. But the trustees have not yet decided what kind of candidate they are seeking...
Shortly after becoming president of Radcliffe in 1972, Matina S. Horner went to the Faculty Club to meet with a member of Harvard's main governing board. Although women traditionally had been led in through the back door of the club and served in a dining room apart from the men, Horner thought it time for a policy change...
...Horner claimed a seat in the main dining room and declined gentle invitations from the staff to follow custom and retreat to the back room. She says that the surprised staff allowed her to remain, thereby ending a Harvard tradition of segregation...
...think it's only a matter of time until there are more women at the top echelons," says Zeckhauser, who was promoted from within, rising through Harvard Real Estate to the vice president for administration. Horner, too, followed the inside track when in 1972 she became the first Radcliffe president to come from inside the University...
...that women have begun to reach the upper ranks of Harvard's administration, Horner says, their presence has contributed to what she calls a changing perception of women in the University...