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Neil L. Rudenstine was there. Over the last 24 months the president of Harvard had spent hours talking on the phone and exchanging hand-written notes with Nancy-Beth G. Sheerr '71, chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees. In the end, the deal on the table was theirs...
Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson was there too. She was about to announce her own long-awaited resignation as part of a deal brokered almost entirely by Sheerr...
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 explained that the endowed position was made possible in large part by gifts from Radcliffe trustees past and present. Current RPPI Director Paula Rayman will be the first person to hold the title...