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...Library last week. The Washington Post sent its political stars, David Broder and Haynes Johnson. The Los Angeles Times dispatched seven Washington reporters, who arrived in a limousine equipped with a bar and TV set. Scanning the press crowd, NBC's John Hart asked, "What is this, a reunion...
...Brace Barnes '58 remembers that when she attended her husband's 25th Harvard reunion in 1966, the men came back to "brag and boast" and the activities were arranged like "one big cocktail party." This week when Barnes and her husband return for her 25th, she and most of the other women will have come back to "see each other and to talk about serious questions...
Introspection seems the prevailing theme for the Radcliffe 25th, in sharp contrast to the raucousness and drunkeness that the women associate with their Harvard counterparts' reunion. The Radcliffe 25th is "a watershed which people tend to use as an opportunity to access their lives up until a point and to get support from other people," says Roberta Milender Goldwyn '58, one of the 25th reunion co-chairmen...
While many women might feel they are second class citizens. Goldwyn feels the Radcliffe 25th provides a different but just as beneficial experience where "we can establish a feeling of closeness with our classmates." Goldwyn attended her husband's 25th reunion last year at Harvard, and says she does not feel jealous in the discrepancies between the two reunions. While 588 members from the Harvard class of '58 have returned, only 82 members from the 241 mem- bers of the Radcliffe class of '58 have come back...
However, that discrepancy between the two events should all but disappear in 1988, when the Harvard and Radcliffe classes of 1963 will have the first joints 25th reunion. But until then most returning Radcliffe alumnae are not bitter about the discrepancies in reunions...