Word: smith
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...Bunting-Smith was a visionary who saw Harvard as a platform to implement her ideas, said her son Charles I. Bunting...
When she was chosen to succeed Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan in June 1959, Mary I. Bunting-Smith conceded that, with just one visit to the Cambridge campus under her belt, she certainly had "a lot to learn about Radcliffe...
...ironic that 39 years later, Radcliffe's future plans may depend on further scrutiny of Bunting-Smith's own groundbreaking achievements during her term as president of the college...
...years, beginning in 1960, "Polly" Bunting, as she was fondly known, was a figure of stability at a time of great unrest at the University. As students took over University Hall and protested the Vietnam War, Bunting-Smith established a reputation as a Radcliffe devotee, an administrator interested in bettering women's education both at the undergraduate and graduate levels...
...somebody who was very caring, very committed to undergraduates and very committed to women and opening up opportunities for women," recalls Carol F. Lieberman '61, an undergraduate for one year during President Bunting-Smith's tenure and currently president of the Radcliffe Club of Boston. "She had a very down-to-earth and realistic way of trying to open up possibilities for women...