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...three alumnae chosen to participate in the program are Anne Libbin, a partner in the San Francisco firm Pillsbury Madison and Sutro; Jamie Gorelick, the vice chair of the Fannie Mae Corporation and the former deputy U.S. attorney general; and Verna Myers, deputy chief of staff to the Massachusetts Attorney General...
Growing up onscreen, Dorothy was pretty as a Keane picture, vivacious as Betty Boop, and slim--slim as a black actress's chance of movie stardom in the whites-only golden age. Nina Mae McKinney (in Hallelujah) and Fredi Washington (in Imitation of Life) had radiated passion and depth, but by the late '30s Hollywood was consigning blacks to comedy roles and musical numbers...
...were about to go upstairs to help run the adult service. But before they got there, a timed-explosive device planted under the church steps ripped massive holes in the side of the building, sending stone, glass and metal flying in every direction. Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carol Robertson--ages 11 to 14--died in the blast. Even during the bloodiest days of racial conflict in the South, even in a city so beset by explosives that it was nicknamed Bombingham, this was a uniquely shocking crime. Recalls Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights...
Three members of the 25th reunion class of 1972 were given the same honor--Thomas F. Birminghman '72, a state senator since 1970; Jamie Shona Gorelick '72, former U.S. deputy attorney general and current vice chair of the Fannie Mae corporation; and Elizabeth A. Kellogg '72, associate professor of biology and Putnam fellow at the Arnold Arboretum...
Moving to work as part of the three-person office at Fannie Mae--which ranks No. 27 on the Fortune 500 list of companies and has perhaps the largest group assets of any company in the U.S. today--Gorelick hopes to continue her service to the American public...