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...Bridefare" by critics. The Governor prefers to call it "Make Room for Daddy" and insists that the program will make fathers more responsible for their children. Says Republican state representative Susan Vergeront: "The concept of trying to promote two-parent families makes good sense." But Democratic state representative Barbara Notestein brands it "a state-sponsored shotgun wedding," and adds, "No one objects to bringing fathers in, but should the government do something that encourages teenagers to get married and limit their options...
...welfare. One proposal, known as "two hots and a cot," would have provided welfare recipients with a place to sleep and two meals a day instead of cash grants. More than 80 food pantries where the needy can get emergency food have sprung up throughout the city. Says Barbara Notestein of Milwaukee's hunger task force: "We've never had the kind of demand for emergency food that we're experiencing now." In 1982, the only highlights were the opening of the city's snazzy $70 million glass-and-steel downtown mall, and the pennant-winning...
Died. Ada Louise Cornstock Notestein, 97, first full-time president of Radcliffe College (1923-43); in New Haven, Conn. During her last year as president, Notestein ended a 64-year custom by persuading Harvard to open its courses to women...
AMERICAN EDUCATION, especially the education of American women, lost a champion when Ada Comstock Notestein died last week. Born, as she liked to point out, the first white child in the Red River valley, in Moorhead, Minnesota, she grew up loving the wide prairies and wheat fields of the West. She was encouraged by her father, to whom she always felt close, to go east to college. She graduated from Smith College in 1897, took graduate work in English at Columbia and from there went to the University of Minnesota as a teacher of English and the first dean...
...Notestein came to Radcliffe from Smith College, her alma mater, where she was dean. Born on Dec. 11, 1876, she graduated from Smith in 1897, received her M.A. in English at Columbia in 1899 and from there went to the University of Minnesota as an instructor in English and the school's first dean of women...