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When Gay W. Seidman '78 was elected the first female president of The Harvard Crimson in 1977, she didn't expect hundreds of reporters to descend onto 14 Plympton Street. Yet within days of the announcement, she found herself the object of national media attention, with featured stories in the New York Times, Boston Globe and on most national TV networks...
...tried not to let the attention I got affect my relationship with the people inside of the Crimson," Seidman says now, in a telephone interview at her home in Wisconsin. Along with the media attention came several post-graduation job offers at major publications, as well as an invitation to appear in an advertisement for Motorola. Seidman declined them all, not because she wasn't interested, but because she feared that her fellow Crimson editors would think she was using her status as the first female president of the Crimson as a stepping-stone to success. "I was aware that...
Looking back on her years at The Crimson,Seidman claims that she received strong supportfrom the older women on the paper, many of whomstarting "grooming" her for the presidency hersophomore year. "Someone had decided that if Ikept on working as hard as I was, there was a verygood chance I could do it," she explains. "They[the other women] were incredibly demanding andtough, but in a very supportive...
...percent of the cases of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are transmitted genetically, said Dr. Christine Seidman, associate professor of medicine at the Medical School and director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...Lunch in the White House mess with Ricki Seidman, the President's scheduler...