Word: mayman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthurs, Mayman, Keenan, Levine...
...Mayman remembers high school in Stoneham with something less than nostalgia. "There were certain things that one had to do. It was the era when people felt that you had to be a 'well-rounded' person in order to get into college. So I did everything--I was a cheerleader, a member of the trampoline team, the glee club and the yearbook staff--everything except field hockey, but these things didn't mean very much to me," she said...
...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...
...Mayman went on to Columbia where she received her M.A. in comparative literature in 1969. She was a housemother at Barnard during the 1968 student riots and says both that it was an unhappy time and that graduate school killed whatever impulse she had to teach. Although she was offered a job at the Houghton Library, she signed on with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. "I had never done anything that wasn't academic, anything that smacked of frivolity," she said. "I didn't feel that raising money for the BSO was a weighty project. But it was exciting...
...will be a while before Myra Mayman can safely "fling" herself into her present job even though people expect action from her immediately. She says that she does not want to be badgered into purely administrative work, but as yet she has seen few of the undergraduates who are supposed to be her primary concern. She cannot avoid the controversial debate that has surrounded the role of the arts at Harvard for decades. And in order to sort out all of its intricacies, Mayman will undoubtedly have to draw on her varied experience as well as on her enthusiasm...