Word: rosenheck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquiries from well-to-do women yearning to complete their degrees. Instead, applications poured in from clerks, secretaries, farmers, nurses and switchboard operators. One woman, who worked as an apple picker, wrote in her application: "I am ready to go to school because I need to." Another Ada, Barbara Rosenheck, 46, the widowed mother of four, now spending part of the week in a Smith dormitory, feels as if she is living "with my own daughters...
...That's healthy for a college." Junior Jennifer Larsen, 20, agrees: "It is really help ful to have women who can bring in a lot of different points that have never occurred to people my age." The world out side Smith also stands to gain from the program. Rosenheck, a psychology major, plans to go into counseling "to help women like myself know that they can do this, too, that they don't have to settle for less." Says she: "I have a lot to give back." - By Janice Castro. Reported by RuthMehrtens Calvin/Northampton