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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master's situation is an extreme one, however. Few other wives of the Faculty have so thorough a connection with the college. Mrs. Fainsod, for example, has found time to hold a job of her own for almost twenty years. Currently working on a history of the Eliot Administration at Harvard under Prof. Paul Buck, she has also worked as an administrative assistant in the Russian Research Center, as an assistant to the Director of the Shady Hill School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous...
...what the Faculty wife does depends upon what she has to do at home, rather than on her husband's position, and this was echoed by Mrs. Bundy's remark about "maintenance." With four small children, not all yet of school age, a good proportion of Mrs. Bundy's time is devoted to raising children and keeping house. In addition, however, Mrs. Bundy has found time to get over to the Radcliffe library to study Spanish in preparation for a trip to South America which she and her husband will be making, to work actively for the C.C.A., to serve...
With her children grown, Mrs. Deknatel has found time to return to her interest in nursery schools. President last year of the Association of Day Care Services, a branch of the United Community Service, Mrs. Deknatel has spent a large proportion of her time providing day care for the children of working or problem families. She considers the value of the program a preventative...
...pointed out that the Faculty wife serves as an informal settling agent. At newcomer's teas, the most common question put to the "old guard" is where one can find a good pediatrician. The vast problem of helping the newcomers find housing and friends takes up some of their time...
...Teas don't generally do this very well," Mrs. Emerson remarked. "I often think that people bring too many cookies and not enough else with them. I prefer to give dinners. By six o'clock working wives can relax and enjoy themselves, the groups are smaller, and we have time to really talk. Teas are too large and too anonymous. One time, a newcomer at a tea came over to me and asked me if there was anyone I would like to meet. I was really very delighted...