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...pressure on her to state her opinions about Harvard's policy on the arts--despite the fact that she came to the University for the first time just a month ago--has more than fulfilled Mayman's expectations of challenging employment. Even thought it may already be more than she bargained for, Mayman said this is precisely the reason she decided to accept Harvard's offer over other job possibilities. "I need to do something that has substance," she said in an interview last week. "I chose this job because I knew it would be the hardest...
This compulsion to take on demanding work seems to be a strong force in Mayman's personality and in part accounts for her annual stints in new areas ever since she studied in Germany during her junior year in college...
...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...
...night project but it took a year to plan. It was very nerve-wracking at times. But it was like this in that it all had to be started from a small basement office." (Mayman's temporary headquarters here is the old Radcliffe College Marshall's office in Agassiz.) Mayman left the BSO after a year however because as she put it, "I didn't feel that I could progress any longer in that job or become more competent or gain a broader range of experience...
...Mayman calls herself "a great extracurricular person" who has never made a commitment to any particular interest. Many of her interests are musical--she studied piano for 12 years, has taken guitar lessons since 9th grade, and plays the lute. When she studied in Germany she and a banjo player put together a series of concerts and lectures on American folk music. While working at Tanglewood for the BSO she frequented the shop of a violin maker because she enjoyed its atmosphere of glue pots and violin parts. However Mayman does not own one of the musical appliances which most...