Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayman, who last year served as Bryn Mawr's acting director of admissions, said that the only job she has had that compares with her current post was the work she did with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in preparing for its 90th anniversary celebration...
Despite such romantic parentage, Mayman's attitude towards her work and her future is a pragmatic one: "Bryn Mawr was a revelation. I was impressed by the commitment that the people there make to something which they have judged legitimate. They're not going through the agonies of what they're all about. Their integrity has to do with being realistic, with recognizing their limitations...
...Bryn Mawr, in contrast, she said, "Nobody expected you to do or be anything as long as you didn't impose on anyone. You were told that you were on your own, but also that you were important, that you counted, that you had the right to make certain demands on a faculty member's time. I think that very few people say that to students...
Mayman said that it was after she had graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1966 that she became aware of the impact of attending a single-sex institution. "I hadn't thought of myself as being a girl first," she said. "It was assumed that you would go on to graduate school, that you would have a career, that you wouldn't just sell tickets at lots of ladies' luncheons...
...administrators to emulate. At women's colleges students also are more likely to enter such traditionally "male" fields as science. Recalling his own college days at coed Swarthmore, Kerr said, "We men felt the girls there were brighter than we were, but we felt the girls at Bryn Mawr were even brighter...