Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joy D. Jones would have been a member of the Class of 1997 next fall, but she turned down Harvard's admission offer because she thought the campus would be hostile to her as a Black student...
Janet D. Jones, Joy's mother, says she wouldn't have encouraged Joy to go to Harvard even if she wanted to because she says she has "seen many Blacks come out of that place as Caucasians with Black skin...
...Joy Jones also says Harvard's efforts to persuade admitted students to accept its offer are much less intense than at other colleges. After highly publicized racial incidents at Duke, for example, Duke embarked on a calling campaign to assure its admits that the administration was taking steps to alleviate the tensions on campus, according to Jones...
...Whatever joy was going to be was kind of taken away," she says. "Some of us were '43, some were '44. It was important to have the umbrella called Radcliffe...
...language that she knew but was not expert at, she became serious, studious and focused. The infielder and the would-be vet gradually receded. Her adviser, Lillian Katz, says Masako "never needed moral support. She knew her own worth, and she knew that she was her parents' pride and joy." Belmont has reason to remember its former high-schooler. Since the engagement, Japanese tourists arrive by the busload to ogle her alma mater and the Owada house...