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...rainforest in Venezuela; learn the lambada and other Carnival dances in Rio; party with Desmond Tutu, the mayor of Cape Town, South African students and several ANC representatives at the Bishopscourt (Tutu's residence) in Cape Town; witness and anti-Moi riot in Nairobi, Kenya; learn mantras at the Madurai Temple in India; visit biotechnology production plants, rubber plantations and the beach in Malaysia; visit the Hsin-Chu Science Park in Taiwan; tour Guangzhou (Canton) in Southern China with the mayor to several of Southern China's special economic zones and factories and stay with a Japanese history professor...

Author: By Raymond J. Blanchard jr., | Title: The Academic Love Boat | 12/1/1992 | See Source »

...biography of 19th century Editor John Bigelow. One year later, as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, she was tapped for the presidency of the venerable women's college. An advocate of well-balanced liberal arts education, she resigned in 1966 to head tiny Lady Doak College in Madurai, India, a country she had never seen. She later became Minister-Counselor of Public Affairs in the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, the first woman ever to hold that diplomatic rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 13, 1974 | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...Madurai, South India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1968 | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...Adams, 51, dean of Douglass College, the women's division of New Jersey's Rutgers University, and soon she will take a stand at Massachusetts' Wellesley College as successor to departing President Margaret Clapp (who will go on to be head of Lady Doak College in Madurai, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: New Name on Wellesley's Door | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

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