Word: sheerr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dunn took her seat, sandwiched between Knowles and Fineberg. At last the murmurs about the "historic moment" and "the beginning of a new era" quieted down. With a stroke of a pen, Sheerr and Rudenstine signed a seven-page statement of intent to merge. And in the burst of applause that followed, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, so long in the making, was born...
...Enter Sheerr. Even as an undergraduate she was devoted to the Radcliffe cause--as president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), she advised an alumnae committee examining a proposed revision of the Harvard and Radcliffe's relationship in 1970. She began serving on Radcliffe's Board of Trustees in 1985 and was elected its chairman...
...Sheerr is deliberate and unswerving--according to Rudenstine, "rock-like"--once her mind is made up. With an office in Fay House and no other job to distract her from her volunteer position, she has an unusual level of oversight into the day-to-day operations of Radcliffe...
...Radcliffe began a process of long-term planning, Rudenstine and Sheerr were joined by Wilson for a friendly chat in the summer of 1997. In the Morning Room of ivy-covered Loeb House, the home of the Harvard Corporation, the three spoke in the most general sense about the intertwined past of the two schools and their potential for joining. Even then they laid out the idea of a Radcliffe Institute as their ultimate vision for the future...
...response was immediate," Sheerr says. "The overall conception of vision was a meeting of the minds...