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...Ellie McGrath, Williams' former editor and mentor, founded a publishing house and secured a printer on the writer's behalf. Meanwhile, Williams worked during weeks in intensive care, editing from her hospital bed. When Williams contracted pneumonia in May 2004, McGrath figured someone else would have to finalize the edits. "But as aggressive as her tumor was, Stephanie was just as aggressive," says McGrath. "When I handed her the galleys, she pulled off her oxygen mask and pointed out an error in the typeface." In June, Williams finally held copies of her novel, Enter Sandman, printed months ahead of schedule...
Williams didn't live to see the Boston Globe call her novel "remarkable" and "compelling." Although she would have loved the accolades, the point was getting the book out there. "She couldn't marry the love of her life. She couldn't have a child," McGrath explains. "For a person dying so young, leaving something meaningful behind alleviated the anguish. This was her legacy." That legacy also helped family members cope. "It was easier to let go of her because we saw her living life to its fullest," says Faye...
She’s not the only Levin groupie in the aging set, says Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73. “Some people audit every course he takes,” she says. “He seems to have attracted a loyal following...
Those opinions were backed up by the larger campus population: according to a 1969 Crimson article, a poll administered that year by the Radcliffe Union of Students showed that 95 percent of the Radcliffe women supported co-ed dorms. As McGrath Lewis says, “They were walls you wanted to storm. You wanted to be on the inside...
Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said that requiring a heritage form would send the false signal that Native American roots determine admissions decisions...