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...background of many of these students has been a surprise to the college. Ada Administrator Eleanor Rothman recalls that when the program was first proposed, the faculty expected to receive genteel 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...
More than half the Adas need some sort of financial aid, and much of Rothman's time is spent cajoling money from a variety of sources. The most important one for her at present is the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation of Flint, Mich., which has given a grant to Smith for the education of mothers on welfare. Since 1975, Rothman has raised $2 million, and the money, she says, has been well spent because Adas are achievers: 20% graduate Phi Beta Kappa, and 34% win honors...
These achievements are often against incredible odds. Eileen Harris, 32, a telephone operator from Springfield for the past 14 years, works the 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. shift, grabs a few hours of sleep, gets her children off to school, then drives 18 miles to class. Says Rothman: "The Adas are not more intelligent than the traditional undergraduate, just more highly motivated." Explains Beverly Donovan, 31 , a divorced mother of two children who is on welfare: "It's very clear to me that I'm going to have to be making money and supporting myself and my children...
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Nevertheless, Rothman said she and Becker are considering a similar project at Harvard, but this time focusing on stereotypical men. "Men are much easier to do because you don't get accused of being sexist...