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...your May 2 story on Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller's success in getting a contribution for Wellesley's fund-raising campaign from husband Governor Nelson Rockefeller: we are an illustrious, independent school educating kids aged 4-17, one-third on scholarship, all colors and creeds. We are busily engaged in raising $2,000,000 for a desperately needed new school. We love Tod, and submit...
Some officials see this trend as a healthy antidote to overemphasis on tests. Says Wellesley's Director of Admission Mary Evans Chase: "We're interested in character, too, you know. By the way a girl tells us about the things that interest her, and from what her teachers say about her, we may realize that she is a stunning human being. Someone has to be in the bottom half of the class, and often these are the girls...
...four generations, the Rockefellers have admired Wellesley College for women. No exception is Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, wife of New York's Governor. Though not a Wellesley alumna (she graduated from Virginia's Foxcroft School, attended the Sorbonne for a year), Mrs. Rockefeller is a loyal and energetic Wellesley trustee. Two months ago, she fired off a letter to her husband's office, reporting that Wellesley's campaign to raise $15 million for faculty salaries was almost three years old and less than one-third to the goal. Last week she proudly revealed the tardy...
...Dear Tod: Thank you for your letter of March ninth concerning the Wellesley fund-raising drive. I would be delighted to contribute towards this campaign, and accordingly, this note is a pledge of securities having the market value of approximately $150,000, this amount to be paid at my convenience prior to January...
...biggest single pledge in Wellesley's campaign so far,* Nelson's husbandly gesture swelled the take to $5,082,851. Even at that, Nelson was less generous to Wellesley than his grandfather, John D. Elected an honorary member of the class of 1901, John D. was so pleased with being a Wellesley "girl" himself that he shelled...