Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bunting-Smith was a visionary who saw Harvard as a platform to implement her ideas, her son said...
...Bunting-Smith] was a scientist and pointed out to people in an effective way that practices at the University did not make rational sense, such as getting a Radcliffe degree even though [women] were getting the same education as men at Harvard," Bunting said...
...Bunting-Smith's] ideas were visionary and were on target for what was coming," Bunting said. "The role of women was about to change in society and she was ahead of her time in helping to point the way. [She realized] that half of our population was not fully utilized...
Prior to coming to Harvard, Bunting-Smith taught and performed research at Bennington College, Goucher College, Yale and Wellesley and served as the dean of Douglass College. Bunting-Smith was also a member of the National Science Foundation and was the first woman to serve as a commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
Louise E. Donovan, Bunting-Smith's former executive assistant of 12 years, said the former Radcliffe president was an outdoors enthusiast...