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...most important influence of Radcliffe on undergraduate life, according to Lyman, is Horner's increased clout in policymaking decisions since the 1977 clarifying agreement. "We (the Board) are all here to support her, and Matina is heard. She's got to be heard." Horner now sits in on many of Harvard's policymaking committees--but she's quick to distinguish between policy-and decision-making. "Policy's not day-to-day management," she notes, "but it's now clearer that Radcliffe is not under Harvard but has an equal responsibility for its students...
Susan Storey Lyman '49 entered Radcliffe with two children. She gave birth to her third in her junior year. She was not the typical Radcliffe girl for 1949; but she now chairs its Board of Trustees and is one of its most effective advocates...
...began to think, this is ridiculous. I've got to do something more constructive with my time. So I went over to Radcliffe, and they were not particularly responsive. It was pointed out to me that I had made my choice, that indeed I was a wife and mother." Lyman stood firm, however, and was finally admitted on the basis of her previous admission several years before...
...Lyman joined the Board of Trustees in 1958, and returned to get a degree from the Ed School in 1963. At this time, she says, she began to see "a tendency towards a group who was assuming Radcliffe should merge with Harvard and be distributed in it. This concerned me because I wasn't sure whether this was quite the way we should go...I realized that money was a major problem, and that lack of money seemed to be the real threat to Radcliffe's survival." So Lyman became interested in fundraising, and it soon became evident that...
...Lyman believes that Radcliffe's priorities now are initiative and advocacy on behalf of women in the university, and to undergird its existing programs with appropriate funding. But, she cautions: "I wouldn't want Radcliffe to be rich. There's always a need to be a bit hungry...Radcliffe is a flexible unit, and flexibility has to do with being a little insecure. You listen better when you're anxious, and I think that Radcliffe shouldn't be enormously wealthy. It would get a little fat in the head...