Cover Photo by Doris
O’Keefe
Mount Holyoke College Class of 1974
REUNION BOOK And
DIRECTORY
Twenty-Fifth Reunion May 21 – 23, 1999
South Hadley,
Massachusetts
“Every time I come back
to reunion, I am amazed at the durability and resilience
of MHC women. It invigorates me, makes me proud. There
is a bond whenever and wherever you meet an MHC woman.”
Member of
the Class of 1974
Reunion
Book Staff
Special Thanks to Lynn Johnson Dodge, Karla Knight,
Carole LaMond, Ellie McGrath, Doris O’Keefe and Karen
Weikert Weston
Reunion Committee
Chairs Carole LaMond Reunion
Chair Beverly Campbell Moore
Reunion Co-Chair
Reunion Gift
Co-Chairs Jane Zimmy and Debby Hall
Questionnaire Co-Chairs Jackie Leavitt
Stafford and Lynn Johnson Dodge
Parade Costume Chair Marian Buff Spencer
Parade Sign Chair Jane Homan Antin
Friday Dinner Chair Sandra Beers Tuttle
Friday Auction Co-Chairs Cynthia Polk-Allen
and LaVida Dowdell
Saturday Dinner Chair Jackie Gagnon Pueschel
Entertainment Chair Robyn Davis Szewczyk
Room Chair Sharon Nelson-Barber
Assisted by Ranartha Jackson and Judith Johnson
Hospitality Chairs Janet Bagley Foley
Gail LaBroad LaRocca Debbie Foss Farrell
Reunion Scribe Marcia Halstead
In Memory
of Our Family Members
“She was instrumental in allowing me (financially)
and encouraging me (emotionally, socially, spiritually
and every other way) to go to Mount Holyoke College.
She died April 6, 1996.” Molly Allison in
dedicating her reunion gift to the memory of her mother
Molly Kirk Myers.
Else & Torkild Albertsen
Helen and Albert Baier H. Roger Broadley
Eric Corkhill James and Gail
Degan Elizabeth Byrne Etzel Dr.
and Mrs. Robert Holliday William E. Homan
Armig G. Kandoian Charlotte Kunz LaMond
Jay Madigan Molly Kirk Myers
Irene Solso Mabel J. Thomas
Dorothy H. Young
And in
Memory of Our Classmates
“In 1972-73 I had the time of my life, and it was due
largely to one person: Nancy Jane Jacobson. That was
the year that Nancy and I spent out Junior Year Abroad
in Paris and what a year it was. Although we didn’t
room together and didn’t study with the same programs,
we did most of our road-tripping together and laughed
our way across Europe…Nancy made the traveling fun even
when nothing seemed to go right. Somehow it all seemed
funny. We were young. We were carefree. We were
adventurous. We were the happy wanderers. Travel will
never be the same for me again.” Janet Wilkov
Twomey in a tribute to our classmate Nancy J. Jacobson.
Nancy died August 9, 1992.
Deborah E. Bernton
Mary E. Bogel Gretchen E. Crossley
Dorothy J. Dalbec Vivian J. Fagg
Nancy E. Fulton Pamela C. George
Marilee D. Hull Nancy J. Jacobson
Susan L. Jones
Timeline: A Look Back,
1952-1998
By
Doris O’Keefe
Not long ago I read that each generation is defined by the first
historical event stored in its’ collective memory. For
most of us that historical event is connected in some
way with the Kennedy era – his election in 1960, his
commitment to the space race, or his assassination in
1963. Carole LaMond also recalls reading that a
generation can be defined by the first odor stored in
its’ collective memory, and says for us it is Play-Doh.
This timeline is meant to stir our collective memory as to the historical
events and cultural trends that have shaped the second
half of the 20th Century, and thus, our lives. It
begins in 1952, the year in which most of us were born,
and ends with the political scandal of 1998 (pity the
generation whose first collective memory is of President
Clinton and Monica Lewinsky) and the crisis in Kosovo.
Coming as it does, near the end of the century (and the
millennium), our 25th Reunion seems a particularly
appropriate time for looking back at the same time as we
look ahead.
1952 American Bandstand premieres
on ABC TV; Mad magazine and the National
Enquirer debut on news stands.
“I like Ike:” Dwight D.
Eisenhower is elected president.
1953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces the
discovery of the polio vaccine.
Edmund Hillary and Tensing
Norkay reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of
Great Britain.
Ian Fleming publishes the first
James Bond novel, Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue
of Playboy, and IBM introduces its first computer
(the 701).
The first of
McDonald’s Golden Arches is constructed in Phoenix,
Arizona.
1954 Roger Bannister breaks the
four-minute mile.
Ho Chi Minh defeats the French
at Dienbienphu.
In its decision, Brown vs. The
Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court
rules that segregated education is illegal.
Lord of the Flies,
Lord of the Rings, and the first issue of
Sports Illustrated are published; The Tonight
Show (with Steve Allen as host) debuts on NBC TV.
The McCarthy
hearings are carried live on TV in April and May; in
December the Senate condemns the Wisconsin senator and
the McCarthy Era comes to an end.
1955 The Lawrence Welk Show,
Captain Kangaroo and the Mickey Mouse Club
all debut in 1955; President Eisenhower holds the first
presidential TV conference.
President Eisenhower signs the
law that requires the inscription “In God We Trust” on
all U.S. currency.
Disneyland opens in Anaheim,
California.
The first can
of Play-Doh is sold.
Mrs. Rosa Parks refuses to give
up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery,
Alabama and is arrested. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
organizes a year-long boycott of the bus system by most
of the black community of Montgomery. Buses were
integrated on Dec. 21, 1956.
1956 My Fair Lady by Lerner & Lowe
captures the hearts of theater-goers; Peyton Place,
a novel about small-town sex and intrigue, is a
best-seller.
Grace Kelly marries Prince
Ranier of Monaco.
The minimum wage is raised to
$1.00 an hour.
Nikita Khrushchev declares, “We
will bury you!”
1957 1,000 computers are built, bought
and delivered this year.
Sputnik is launched by
the Soviet Union.
President Eisenhower orders
federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce
court-ordered desegregation of the public schools.
The Dodgers play their last game
at Ebbet’s Field in Brooklyn – and move to Los Angeles.
1958 The first American satellite,
Explorer I, is launched.
The hula hoop creates a
short-lived craze in which 100-200 million are sold in a
period of six months.
NASA is created by the passage
of the National Aeronautics and Space Act.
John Kenneth Galbraith coins the
phrase “the affluent society.”
BOAC (British Overseas Airways
Corporation) establishes the first transatlantic
passenger jet service between New York and London.
The first women are admitted to
Britain’s House of Lords.
1959 Fidel Castro overthrows the Batista
regime in Cuba.
China crushes a revolt in Tibet,
and the Dalai Lama flees to India.
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th
and 50th states.
Mattel, Inc. introduces the
original Barbie Doll – and velcro hits the market.
1960
“Let’s do the twist!”
New inventions include teflon,
lasers, felt-tip pens, and The Pill.
Psycho, by Alfred
Hitchcock, sets a new tone for horror movies.
The U.S. U-2 reconnaissance
plane piloted by Gray Powers is shot down over the
Soviet Union.
The word Xerox becomes a verb.
President Eisenhower coins the
phrase “military industrial complex.”
John F. Kennedy is elected
president.
1961 President Kennedy establishes the
Peace Corps.
In an effort to “liberate” Cuba
1500 Cuban refugees land at the Bay of Pigs – all are
killed or captured by Castro’s army.
The Russian Yuri Gagarin,
becomes the first man in space – he completes one orbit
in 89.1 minutes.
Alan Shepard, the first American
in space, makes a sub-orbital flight.
The Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf
Nureyev defects to the West.
President Kennedy dispatches 100
additional military advisors and 400 Special Forces
soldiers to Vietnam. By the end of the year there are
3,200 U.S. troops in Vietnam.
East Germany closes the
Brandenburg Gate and seals the border between East and
West Berlin.
Both the Soviet Union and the
U.S. resume testing of nuclear weapons.
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
is sentenced to death and executed.
Cigarette manufacturers spend
$115 million on TV advertising.
Roger Maris
hits 61 home runs, breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 60
home runs set in 1927.
1962 John Glenn is the first American to
orbit the Earth.
The Pentagon announces that U.S.
pilots are flying combat missions in Vietnam; by the end
of the year there are 11,300 U.S. troops in Vietnam.
Rachel Carson’s book Silent
Spring raises awareness of the dangers of DDT and
other pesticides.
Johnny Carson succeeds Jack Paar
as the host of The Tonight Show.
The Cuban
Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war preoccupy
the president and the American people.
Vatican Council II, convened by
Pope John XXIII in 1962 and completed under Pope Paul VI
in 1965, changes the face of the Mass and confirms the
position of the Catholic Church on many issues.
1963 AT&T introduces the touch-tone
telephone.
The Beverly Hillbillies
is the top television show – and elephant jokes are the
rage.
When he is sworn in as governor
of Alabama, George Wallace pledges “Segregation now,
segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.”
More than 200,000 people take
part in the march on Washington in the cause of civil
rights and racial equality. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
delivers his stirring “I have a dream” speech.
The Supreme Court rules that
reading the Bible and reciting the Lord’s Prayer in
public schools is unconstitutional.
President Kennedy is
assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
1964 The Beatles visit the U.S. for the
first time and appear on The Ed Sullivan Show,
10 million of their records are sold in the U.S.
President Johnson signs the
Civil Rights Act into law.
A thousand young civil rights
workers head to Mississippi for the summer. Three of
them disappear after conducting a black voter
registration drive; their bodies are later found buried
in an earthen dam.
Congress approves the Gulf of
Tonkin resolution giving the president power “to take
all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against
the forces of the United States, and to prevent further
aggression.” By the end of this year there are 23,300
American troops in Vietnam.
1965 President Johnson calls for the
creation of the Great Society in his State of the Union
address.
Bell bottom trousers,
mini-skirts, and white go-go boots are the latest
fashions; Frisbees and lava lamps are the latest fads.
New and popular TV series are
Hogan’s Heroes, My Mother the Car,
Get Smart, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Riots plague the Watts section
of Los Angeles for six days in August.
The Government confirms that
Americans are undertaking combat missions in Vietnam.
Anti-Vietnam rallies are held in 40 cities across the
country.
A massive power blackout affects
the northeastern U.S., Ontario and Quebec.
1966 Dr. Robert Weaver, secretary of HUD,
is the first black Cabinet member in U.S. history.
The National Organization of
Women (NOW) is established and headed by Betty Freidan.
TV’s biggest hit – Batman
– airs twice a week. StarTrek takes a while to
catch on.
The Cultural Revolution begins
in China.
Richard Speck murders eight
student nurses in a Chicago dormitory. At Austin,
Texas, Charles Whitman shoots and kills 16 people, most
from a tower on the campus of the University of Texas,
before he is killed by police.
5,008 Americans die in Vietnam;
52,500, in traffic accidents at home. President Johnson
signs sweeping automobile legislation.
1967 The first Super Bowl game is played
in Los Angeles: the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas
City Chiefs by a score of 35 to 10.
In NASA’s first disaster Virgil
I. Grissom, Edward H, White and Roger B. Chaffee are
killed in a flash fire inside an Apollo space
capsule during a ground test.
The Arabs and Israelis fight the
Six-Day War.
The year of “the long hot
summer” is marked by urban and racial anger and
violence.
The first home microwave is
introduced by Amana.
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as
the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
The first successful heart
transplant is performed by Dr. Christian Barnard in Cape
Town, South Africa.
1968 The Kerner Commission reports that
the U.S. is moving toward two societies “one black, one
white – separate and unequal.”
The My Lai massacre of March 16th
is covered up by the Army until November, 1969.
Civil rights leader Martin
Luther King, Jr. is shot and killed in Memphis on April
4th. Within hours, riots erupt in 125
cities. It takes 55,000 federal troops and 21,270
arrests to quell the riots which leave 46 dead.
Cesar Chavez organizes a
nationwide boycott of grapes.
Robert F. Kennedy is fatally
shot in Los Angeles after winning the California
presidential primary in June. Riots occur at the
Democratic Party Convention at Chicago in August.
The 911 emergency system is
established in New York City. The number is adopted
eventually throughout the country.
Richard Nixon is elected
president.
The crew of Apollo 8 are
the first to orbit the moon; they broadcast the
spectacular image of the earth rising above the lunar
surface.
1969 American astronauts Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin take a walk on the moon, “That’s one
small step for man, one giant step for mankind.”
British troops arrive in
Northern Ireland to intervene in the sectarian violence
between Catholics and Protestants, marking the beginning
of “The Troubles.”
A half million people gather for
the rock music event at Woodstock, N.Y.
Sesame Street debuts as a
radical shift in television programming for children.
1970 Apollo 13 survives
near-disaster after an oxygen tank explodes in the
service module.
The U.S. invasion of Cambodia
leads to widespread and violent anti-war demonstrations
at home. In the worst incident four students at Kent
State University in Ohio are killed by National
Guardsmen.
The Class of 1974 arrives
at Mount Holyoke College.
1971 All in the Family is the TV
hit of the year.
The minimum voting age is
lowered to 18 by the 26th amendment to the
Constitution.
The first hand-held calculator
is marketed at a list price of $249.00.
Nationalist China is expelled
from the United Nations in favor of the People’s
Republic of China.
1972 Gloria Steinem, et. al., publish the
first issue of Ms. magazine.
Police apprehend five men
attempting to bug the headquarters of the Democratic
National Committee located in the Watergate Complex in
Washington.
American swimmer Mark Spitz wins
a record seven gold medals at the summer Olympic Games
in Munich. The world watches as eight Arab commandos
raid the dormitory housing the Israeli team and take 11
hostages. During a gun battle with German police at the
airport all of the hostages, five of the commandos, and
one policeman are killed.
CAT (computerized axial
tomography) scans are introduced in England.
Congress passes the Education
Amendments Act; Title IX forbids sex discrimination in
any educational institution receiving federal funds and
is used to promote athletic opportunities for women.
President Nixon is re-elected in
a landslide. Massachusetts voters sport bumper sticker
“Don’t blame me.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
breaks 1,000 points for the first time in its history.
1973 In the decision of Roe vs. Wade, the
Supreme Court legalizes abortion.
The Watergate scandal unfolds.
The House Judiciary Committee begins impeachment
hearings and televised Senate hearings give the American
people a close look at political corruption. In
November Nixon declares “I am not a crook.”
Alexander Solzenitsyn’s The
Gulag Archipelago is released.
In the “Battle of the Sexes”
Billy Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in tennis.
Vice President Sprio T. Agnew
resigns after pleading no contest to charges of income
tax evasion. Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace
him.
Drivers experience long lines at
gas pumps, the result of the Arab oil embargo.
1974 Streaking is the latest fad.
Hank Aaron hits his 715th
career home run and breaks Babe Ruth’s record, which had
stood for 47 years.
The House Judiciary Committee
releases volumes of evidence collected in its Watergate
inquiry and recommends that President Nixon be impeached
for obstruction of justice, failure to uphold the law,
and refusal to produce subpoenaed material. The
president resigns.
1975 Ella T. Grasso, MHC ‘40, becomes
governor of Connecticut. She is the first woman
governor whose husband did not precede her.
Mood rings are the latest fad.
American and Soviet astronauts
link their orbiting spacecraft signifying the end of the
space race.
Jimmy Hoffa, the head of the
Teamster’s Union, disappears.
An emergency helicopter
evacuation removes the last 1,100 American from Vietnam
as Saigon falls to North Vietnamese troops.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
is introduced in Congress (and never ratified).
The final episode of Gunsmoke
airs after a run of 20 seasons. Saturday Night
(later renamed Saturday Night Live) makes its
debut.
1976 The Concorde commences regular
commercial transatlantic service.
Tandy and Apple market the first
personal computers.
Americans celebrate the
Bicentennial.
Jimmy Carter is elected
president by a narrow margin over President Ford.
1977 The miniseries Roots attracts
80 million TV viewers. Star Wars and Close
Encounters of the Third Kind are box office hits.
Elvis Presley dies at the age of
42.
1978 Dallas premieres as the first
prime-time soap opera.
The world’s
first test-tube baby is born in Oldham, England.
The Camp David accords are
signed by Egypt and Israel.
The cult settlement at
Jonestown, Guyana, commits mass suicide.
1979 The Shah of Iran is deposed, and the
Ayatollah Khomeini makes a triumphant return to that
country.
A near-disaster at the Three
Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., is
regarded as America’s worst nuclear accident. It and
the prophetic movie The China Syndrome give
strength to the anti-nuclear movement.
The Conservative Party wins the
general election in Great Britain and Margaret Thatcher
becomes prime minister.
Iranian militants seize the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran – 63 Americans are among the 90 taken
hostage.
1980 Post-it notes are introduced and
show up on inter-office memos and refrigerator doors.
In April eight U.S. servicemen
are killed in a failed attempt to rescue the hostages in
the U.S. Embassy in Iran.
The U.S. team – and dozens of
other countries – boycott the summer Olympic Games at
Moscow because of Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
Solidarity, the Polish workers
union, is organized under the leadership of Lech Walesa.
Ronald Reagan is elected
president.
Former Beatle John Lennon is
shot and killed outside his NYC apartment.
1981 The Iranian crisis ends with the
release of the hostages on Reagan’s inauguration day.
The genre of old-fashioned
adventure movie is revived by Indiana Jones and the
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The “fairy tale” wedding between
Prince Charles and Diana Spencer is a major media event.
The space shuttle makes its
maiden voyage.
Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the
first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1982 Great Britain and Argentina fight a
war over the Falkland Islands.
The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial
is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
Cheers makes its debut.
USA Today commences
publication, calling itself “the Nation’s newspaper.”
Seven people in
the Chicago area die after taking Tylenol capsules laced
with cyanide.
1983 The final episode of M*A*S*H
attracts 121,624,000 viewers.
Shuttle astronaut Sally K. Ride
is America’s first woman in space. Lt. Col. Guion S.
Bluford is the first black astronaut.
Terrorists attack the U.S.
Marine headquarters at Beirut, Lebanon, killing more
than 200 marines.
The U.S. invades the small
Caribbean nation of Grenada.
Cabbage Patch dolls create
pre-Christmas pandemonium.
1984 Chrysler minivans (the Plymouth
Voyager and Dodge Caravan) establish a new
vogue in family cars.
Geraldine Ferraro, the
Democratic Party nominee for Vice President, is the
first woman candidate for national office.
President Reagan is re-elected
in the greatest Republican landslide in history.
Toxic fumes leaking from a Union
Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, kill more than 3,000 and
injure 20,000 more.
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev emerges as the new
leader of the Soviet Union. A summit meeting between
Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva brings the two nations
closer together.
The wreck of the Titanic
is located 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
Members of the Palestine
Liberation Front hijack the Italian cruise ship
Achille Lauro.
1986 The space shuttle Challenger
explodes immediately after liftofff killing all seven
astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe,
who is the first private citizen selected to go into
space.
For the first time in history
American women outnumber men in professional positions.
The International Court of
Justice at The Hague rules that the U.S. has broken
international law and violated the sovereignty of
Nicaragua by aiding the Contras. Later the Iran-Contra
arms for hostages deal is revealed in a report from
Tehran.
1987 The Dow tops 2,000 in January and
2,700 in August. On October 19th the stock
market plunges 508 points in the largest one-day drop in
history. The next day it rises 107 points, to that date
the largest one-day advance.
Iran-Contra hearings get under
way in Congress. Two Reagan nominees to the Supreme
Court fail; Robert Bork’s nomination is rejected by the
Senate; Douglas H. Ginsburg withdraws his nomination
when the public reacts negatively to his youthful use
marijuana.
1988 The California raisins become
celebrities, and the animated movie Who Framed Roger
Rabbit? is a box office hit.
The Phantom of the Opera
is a runaway hit on Broadway.
NASA’s James E. Hansen warns a
Senate panel that global warming, caused by pollution
creating a greenhouse effect, is already underway.
George Bush is elected
president. In his campaign he pledges, “Read my lips,
no new taxes.”
1989 The tanker Exxon Valdez runs
aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound spilling 11
million gallons of crude oil.
More than 10,000 pro-democracy
protesters occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing. After a
month some 5,000 students remain and on June 3rd-4th
they are assaulted and suppressed by the Chinese army.
The 7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake
hits San Francisco just as the World Series is about to
start at Candlestick Park.
The Berlin Wall falls.
1990 Iraqui forces invade Kuwait; within
a week U.S. troops are deployed in Saudi Arabia for
Operation Desert Shield.
McDonald’s opens its first
restaurant in the U.S.S.R.
1991 Three years after the end of the
Cold War the U.S.S.R. dissolves.
Kuwait is freed after bombing
raids and a 100-hour ground war (Operation Desert Storm)
– all carried live on CNN.
Senate confirmation hearings on
the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court
focus on charges of sexual harassment brought by Anita
Hill.
1992
EuroDisney opens near Paris.
After 30 years, Johnny Carson
retires as the host of The Tonight Show.
Rioting erupts in Los Angeles
when the four white L.A. police officers charged with
the Rodney King beating are acquitted.
Bill Clinton is elected
president.
1993 One of the worst winter storms of
the century lashes the East Coast from Atlanta to Boston
causing nearly 100 deaths.
Terrorists bomb the World Trade
Center in N.Y.C.
The standoff between the FBI and
the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, ends with the death
of many cult members in an inferno.
The final episode of Cheers
airs on May 20th.
Floods of the Mississippi,
Missouri and Kansas Rivers put 20 million acres under
water.
1994 An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the
Richter Scale topples freeways, bursts water mains, and
ignites fires in Los Angeles,
O.J. Simpson is charged with the
murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron
Goldman; the “Bronco chase” is carried live on TV.
The World Series is cancelled by
a baseball players’ strike.
1995 168 men, women and children are
killed when the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City is bombed.
20 years after the fall of
Saigon, the U.S. extends diplomatic recognition to
Vietnam.
O.J. Simpson is tried and
acquitted.
The U.S. government shuts down
when President Clinton and Congress fail to reach a
budget agreement.
1996 Theodore Kaczynksi, the suspected
Unabomber, is arrested.
TWA Flight 800 explodes off the
coast of Long Island shortly after take-off, killing all
230 passengers and crew.
Prince Charles and Princess
Diana are divorced.
President Clinton is re-elected
in a landslide victory.
Madeleine Albright is the first
woman appointed to serve as Secretary of State.
1997 In January the West Coast is
battered by winter storms. In March thunderstorms and
tornadoes ravage Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana,
Mississippi, Ohio and West Virginia. In April a spring
storm dumps 2 1/2 feet of snow on Boston…Blame it on El
Nino.
Tiger Woods, a 21-year-old
rookie, wins the Masters Golf Tournament.
Timothy McVeigh is convicted of
the Oklahoma City bombing and sentenced to death.
The American spacecraft
Pathfinder lands on Mars; the rover Sojourner
rolls out and sends back pictures of its exploration of
the Martian surface.
Princess Diana dies in a car
crash in Paris. Millions line the route between
Kensington Palace and Westminster Abbey for her
funeral. An estimated 1 billion watch the funeral on
TV.
Mother Teresa
dies. Crowds are barred from her funeral “to ensure the
safety of visiting dignitaries.”
1998 The Good Friday agreement between
Unionists and Nationalists in Northern Ireland is a
major step towards ending 30 years of sectarian
violence.
Mark McGwire and Sammy
Sousa break Roger Maris’ homerun record; McGwire
wins the race with 70 homeruns.
36 years after his historic
orbital flight, John Glenn goes back into space aboard
the shuttle.
The year of Bill Clinton, Monica
Lewinsky, Linda Tripp and Ken Starr ends with the
president impeached by the House of Representaives for
lying under oath about a sexual relationship with Monica
Lewinsky.
1999 President Clinton is acquitted;
Monica goes on tour with her book, Monica’s Story.
Motivated by the historical
memory of defeat at the hands of the Turks in 1389, and
by 600 years of real and perceived injustices,
nationalist Serbians under Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic, engage in a campaign of ethnic cleansing
against Albanian Muslims in the province of Kosovo. The
U.S. military joins NATO forces and bombs Belgrade.
The allied troops are unable to weaken Serb resolve, to
stop the killing, or to reverse the exodus of more than
500,000 Kosovar refugees.
The Class of 1974 returns
to Mount Holyoke College to celebrate its 25th
Reunion.
Timeline: Life at Mount
Holyoke, 1970-74
By Ellie McGrath
The following timeline was
compiled by Ellie McGrath, former editor-in-chief of
Choragos, with the assistance of Rebecca Mazur,
current editor-in-chief of the Mount Holyoke
News. All information was taken from the college
newspapers published from the fall of 1970 through
spring of 1974; with any luck it is fairly accurate.
Apologies to anyone whose favorite college event went
unreported.
1970
Freshman Year
Fall Semester
William McFeeley comes to MHC from
Yale to be Dean of Faculty.
Hampshire College opens with 250
students.
Assistant Attorney General William
Ruckelshaus speaks at Chapin Auditorium in October;
Hampshire students perform anti-war guerilla theatre.
Choragos runs a story called
“Abortion shopping” and includes a resource guide (two
years before the Roe v. Wade makes abortion legal
in America).
A poll conducted by Professor
Victoria Schuck finds that 50% of the students and 19%
of the faculty believe that Nixon is doing a “poor” job
with the Vietnam War. Students indicate that Edmund
Muskie would be their favorite candidate in 1972; the
faculty favor Nixon (and 3% of faculty prefer Ronald
Reagan).
The Rev. Robert Drinan, the
Democratic nominee for the gerrymandered Third
Congressional District in Massachusetts, speaks at Mount
Holyoke in October on "Issues and Student Involvement in
Politics."
The Lab Theatre presents Thornton
Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth.
The November trustee meeting sparks
debate about why the board even exists. President David
B. Truman writes an editorial in Choragos
exploring the elimination of the board of trustees, and
concludes that a functional equivalent might be even
more objectionable.
Mount Holyoke forms a Women's
Liberation Group, a birth control and abortion
information center.
Choragos reports that
average Mount Holyoke student earnings in the summer of
1970 were $670. Campus jobs pay an average of $1.60 an
hour.
The “fact finding report on
coeducation” is released and presents lists of “pros”
and “cons.” One of the perceived advantages of going
co-ed: “Presence of men in classroom adds to
intellectual and cultural diversity and stimulation.” A
perceived disadvantage: “Only in a separate environment
free from their traditional sex role, can some women
develop their capabilities to the fullest extent and
thus be prepared for the 'real' world.”
The Lab Theatre presents August
Strindberg’s The Stronger and Miss Julie.
Exams are held after Christmas for
the last time.
1971
Freshman Year
Spring Semester
Walter E. Stuart is named the first
chair of Mount Holyoke's Black Studies Department.
The faculty passes a 4-1-4 academic
calendar, but the issue of what the January term will be
used for remains unclear.
Faculty votes to end the English
L101 (a writing course) requirement for freshmen.
Several alleged incidents of
cheating during the fall exam period make the status of
self-scheduled exams precarious.
The U.S. invades Laos in February,
spawning protests nationwide. Students at Columbia stage
massive demonstrations, and the National Student
Association calls for a series of prolonged
anti-imperialist campaigns. The Choragos
editorial board asserts that there is “certainly a great
deal to protest” but cautions students against
demonstrations, which could splinter the anti-war
movement if people are forced to choose between their
academics and their political beliefs.
The Lab Theatre presents I,
Woman, a reader’s theatre production.
The New York Times reports
in March that the political trend at women's colleges is
to remain single-sex. As one of the last of the Seven
Sisters to make a definite decision, Mount Holyoke is
still uncertain as to which direction it will go.
Choragos editorializes: “For as long as Mount
Holyoke continues to be an institution for the education
of women, discussion among students about becoming
coeducational will probably never cease.”
The Lab Theatre presents William
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
1971
Sophomore Year
Fall Semester
Jean E. Ciruti becomes Dean of
Studies and takes action to improve the advising
system.
College becomes wired with the "centrex"
system for telephones. Forty-nine students have phones
in their rooms, but off-campus calls can not be received
after midnight.
The Mount Holyoke Glee Club tours
Detroit with the Williams College Glee Club.
A third of the junior class has
left for the semester; Choragos reports a steady
increase in students taking leaves. Students returning
from junior year at co-ed colleges cite the value of
coeducation.
25 Mount Holyoke students
participate in a demonstration for prison reform at
Danbury Federal Prison.
There is a deafening roar from B-52
bombers taking off from Westover Air Force Base.
Choragos asks a Westover spokesman, “Do they carry
warheads?” A Sgt. Sbraga says, “Unequivocably, NO!”
The MHC Conservation Action
Committee begins recycling bottles and newspapers from
dorms.
A computer that MHC shares with
Amherst generates course registrations for the first
time.
Faculty meetings, in which
coeducation and the grading system are debated, take
place behind closed doors. Choragos demands that
student representatives be allowed to attend.
The debate on coeducation becomes
the central issue on campus in October. The Majority
Report of the Faculty Conference Committee declares that
Mount Holyoke should remain a women’s college and
maintain the diversity of choice in American higher
education. Going coed, says the report, would “surrender
our relatively strong position as a superior college for
women in order to become a run-of-the-mill and possibly
mediocre coeducational institution.” The study also
cites the costs and the possibility of lower admissions
standards as obstacles to coeducation. The report
concludes that MHC should “stay a distinctive college
with a distinctive purpose.” A number of faculty,
however, support coeducation.
A capacity crowd fills an
all-college meeting on coeducation in Gamble Auditorium.
The most vocal students want MHC to remain a women’s
college.
The 13-point grading system and
bell curve come under attack as critics claim they put
Mount Holyoke students at a disadvantage when applying
to grad schools.
The Lab Theatre presents Luigi
Pirandello’s Right You Are If You Think You Are.
Livingston Taylor performs at
Chapin wearing a Mount Holyoke t-shirt.
Sister Elizabeth McAlister, one of
the Harrisburg Eight, speaks at Chapin and tells
students: “The war is not de-escalating.”
The new art building opens in
November.
The voting age is lowered to 18.
The trustees unanimously decide
that Mount Holyoke will remain a college for women at
their November meeting. Following the decision,
Choragos publishes an issue entitled “What Do We
Mean, a Women’s College?” Articles discuss the
possibilities of continuing education for older women, a
day care center for MHC faculty and staff, January
internships with alumnae who combine career and family,
a women’s studies major.
Harvard’s Matina Horner publishes a
study of women’s fear of success.
The Lab Theatre presents Damon
Runyon’s Guys and Dolls.
Dartmouth becomes the last Ivy
League college to go coed.
The J. Geils band performs for
Winter Weekend.
The student advisor program starts
on a trial basis.
1972
Sophomore Year
Spring Semester
The first January term is deemed a
success, despite the way it compressed the fall
semester.
Lower Lake freezes and students go
skating.
Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade
performs at MHC.
Mount Holyoke organizes a chapter
of Ralph Nader’s Western Massachusetts Public Interest
Research Group (WMPIRG).
Congressmen Allard Lowenstein, who
spearheaded the “Dump Johnson” movement in ‘68, speaks
at North Rocky.
A Choragos reviewer
criticizes the first issues of Ms. for its
“traditional harangues and rhetoric of the
Downtrodden.”
The college decides to allow
students who receive financial aid to take part in the
12-College Exchange for the first time.
A group of MHC students goes to New
Hampshire to work for George McGovern the weekend before
the March presidential primary.
Student representatives are allowed
to observe faculty meetings for the first time.
A Wall St. Journal headline
warns: “As Class of ‘72 Nears Marketplace, Class of ‘71
is Still Pounding the Streets.” MHC students worry about
the job market, while the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission begins challenging labor laws nationwide that
discriminate against women.
A Massachusetts state law that
prohibits doctors from issuing birth control to
unmarried women is overturned in March. The MHC
infirmary says it will not dispense birth control but
will continue to refer students to area gynecologists.
The viability of the honor code is
once again questioned as reserve books are taken from
the library and stolen from the bookstore.
The student-run Action on Academic
Issues publishes Prerogative, an evaluation of
courses and professors based on 4,000 student
questionnaires. Some untenured faculty find the
criticism potentially damaging to their careers.
The U.S. resumes bombing in Vietnam
in April. As bombers depart from Westover, students
block the road leading into the base and some are
arrested. Teach-ins are held on campus.
The Lab Theatre presents Brendan
Behan’s The Hostage.
Choragos reports the results
of a national study that finds that more than half of
Americans under 21 have smoked pot. Massachusetts laws
against marijuana are eased.
The U.S. blockade of Vietnamese
ports leads to more student protest.
1972
Junior Year
Fall Semester
Catering Management Inc. takes over
MHC food service, and the College Services Corporation
takes over operation of the college bookstore. Faculty
and students were not consulted.
A new 3-point grading
system—excellent, good, pass—goes into effect as well as
Course 399, “Demonstration of Competence in the Major,”
also known as “comps.”
A Holyoke student, Katie Hanna ‘75,
reports on being the second-youngest delegate to the
Democratic National Convention.
“The Ebony Quill,” by Naomi Iris
Bryant, debuts in Choragos to explore the
African-American experience and point of view.
As Vice-President Spiro Agnew
continues to attack the press, MHC holds a panel on
freedom of the press with Nat Hentoff, Eileen Shanahan,
William Shannon, and Earl Caldwell.
The Lab Theatre presents Euripides’
Medea.
V.S. Pritchett speaks on
autobiography.
Edward Cox comes to campus on
behalf of his father-in-law, Richard Nixon.
A political science poll finds that
64% of students plan to vote for McGovern and 34% for
Nixon.
The Danforth Report discusses what
it means to be a college for women. It recommends that
the college and curriculum deal with problems of
negative self-image among women, extend faculty
mentoring, and consider establishing a women’s studies
department, among other things.
Students declare that the quantity
and quality of food have declined under CMI; Abbey Hall
boycotts dinner; CMI shakes up management.
The student advisor program is
extended to every dorm.
The Lab Theatre presents
Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not For Burning.
The college embarks on a $40
million capital fund drive.
1973
Junior Year
Spring Semester
Amherst decides not to go coed
despite the fact that nearly three-quarters of the
student body support coeducation.
On January 27, President Nixon
announces the end of the Vietnam War.
The college finally agrees to hire
a gynecologist, after a campus survey shows that 90% of
the students feel they should have access to one.
Choragos explores the pros
and cons of tenure, after two female Smith professors
sue the college over the denial of tenure.
The Lab Theatre presents George
Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem.
John Sebastian performs at Chapin;
so does Tom Rush.
Gjertrud Schnackenberg ‘75 wins the
Glascock Poetry Contest in its 50th year. Judges include
Maxine Kumin and James Merrill; Archibald MacLeish does
a reading.
Five-college cooperation is
considered a way to provide some of the advantages of
coeducation to students at Holyoke, Smith and Amherst.
Choragos reports that
Barnard and Wellesley have the highest percentage of
female faculty members (59%), followed by Mount Holyoke
(50%).
The first Black Alumnae Conference
is organized by Beverly Scipio ‘74.
Students vote to abolish Fathers’
Weekend; Parents’ Weekend will begin the following
year.
The Lab Theatre presents Jean
Genet’s The Balcony.
A survey on college admissions
yield rates finds that MHC ranks below Bowdoin, Harvard,
Williams, Amherst and Yale, but ahead of Wesleyan,
Hampshire, Swarthmore, Wellesley and Smith.
An editorial calls for an end to
hitch-hiking after a Smith student is murdered.
1973
Senior Year
Fall Semester
Emily Wick, MA ’45, is named the
new Dean of Faculty; Bill McFeeley returns to full-time
teaching and writing a biography of Ulysses Grant (which
will later win a Pulitzer Prize).
Only 9 men come to MHC on the
12-college exchange.
Both MHC and Amherst have an
increase in students. Holyoke’s get rooms in dormitory
basements; Amherst’s sleep in the old infirmary and Lord
Jeffrey Inn.
The Willits-Hallowell Center is to
be built for faculty and alums. Choragos calls
for a center for students and campus organizations.
The campus tunes into the “Battle
of the Sexes” in tennis to see Billie Jean King defeat
Bobby Riggs.
Alumna Dr. M. Elizabeth Tidball ’51
gives a lecture describing her five-year study:
Graduates of women’s colleges are more likely to be
achievers than women who graduate from coed schools.
The Peer Counseling Program is set
up to advise students on contraception, which they can
get for the first time at the infirmary.
The drinking age is lowered to 18
in Massachusetts; beer is sold at the Rathskeller.
Mount Holyoke has trouble filling a
vacancy in the Black Studies department; only 3 out of
250 MHC faculty members are African-American.
Choragos uncovers a plan to
turn the apple orchard next to Dickinson into a parking
lot; campus reaction is negative and the parking lot is
not built.
Transportation improves and more
Holyoke students (466) take courses in the five-college
exchange. Most popular destination: Amherst.
Jesse Colin Young plays to a full
house in Chapin.
A group of students organizes
against development of condominiums on the Holyoke
Range.
The first issue of a new quarterly,
the Valley Women’s Studies Journal, is
published.
Leonard Delonga has a one-man
show.
President Richard Nixon refuses a
court order to produce Watergate documents, then forces
the resignation of Attorney General Elliot Richardson
and fires Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Students at
MHC and Amherst rally to protest Nixon’s actions;
Amherst historian Henry Steele Commager calls for
impeachment.
Students concerned about the Middle
East War set up a table in the post office for
collecting funds for Israel.
The Mount Holyoke boycott committee
supports the United Farm Workers and urges a boycott of
lettuce, grapes, and Boones Farm wines.
The Lab Theatre presents Arthur
Schnitzler’s La Ronde.
“Women in the Life of a Day”
conference is scheduled in November by Smith and Mount
Holyoke to “bring women’s issues closer to home.”
Alumnae panel “On Being a College for Women: Where Have
We Been?” explores traditional and untraditional lives.
The combined glee clubs of Mount
Holyoke and Union Colleges perform Handel’s Messiah
in Abbey Chapel.
For the first time ever, two
students become non-voting members on one of the
college’s most important policy-making bodies, the
Academic Policy Committee.
The energy crisis hits hard. Speed
limits are lowered to 50 m.p.h.; thermostats at MHC are
set back to 68 degrees.
The Amherst Student
publishes a story called “Sleazing,” intended to be a
satire on the need for coeducation. Many Holyoke and
Smith women are offended by the putdowns, some “boycott”
Amherst on the weekend, and Amherst President John Ward
sends a letter of apology to Mount Holyoke students.
Dizzy Gillespie comes to Mount
Holyoke, not to play his trumpet but to talk about the
Baha’i faith.
After Thanksgiving, Choragos
publishes a special issue called “Probing the Pressure
Problem.” In a remarkable article, President David
Truman writes that women come to MHC as overachievers
but lack confidence, causing them to do everything on
the syllabus out of “an unnerving sense of competition.”
Chuck Trout refers to the Mount Holyoke College
Pathology: reticence, dutiful devotion to work, loss of
a sense of humor. Truman calls for more “constructive
diversion.”
The Lab Theatre presents Edgar Lee
Masters’ Spoon River Anthology.
1974
Senior Year
Spring Semester
Mount Holyoke is the Valley’s
center for Winter Term (1,500 MHC students participate);
the college stays open despite the worldwide energy
crisis.
The Academic Policy Committee
approves a program in the study of complex
organizations. Students question the process by which
the program was approved when they read an article in
the New York Times that contradicts what they
have been told by the administration. Choragos
editorializes that a "credibility gap" is developing
between the students and the administration; President
Truman calls an all-college meeting.
A proposal is made to end
waitressed meals and change to cafeteria-style dining.
In March, 475 streakers set the
collegiate streaking record at the University of
Massachusetts. When two students run naked from Mead
Hall to Kendall, Mount Holyoke becomes the first women's
college to produce streakers.
The Lab Theatre presents Francis
Beaumont and John Fletcher’s The Knight of the
Burning Pestle.
Bella Abzug and Margaret Heckler
are among the participants at MHC’s April “Women in
Politics” weekend.
Marilyn Z. Pryor, associate
professor of biology, is appointed to replace Joan
Ciruti in the three-year post of Dean of Studies.
Staff disenchantment with working
conditions leads kitchen workers to unionize. The
maintenance staff also votes to unionize, against the
College's wishes.
English Professor Elizabeth Alden
Green ’31 retires after nearly a half century at Mount
Holyoke.
In April an anonymous caller
reports a bomb in Clapp Hall, causing morning classes to
be cancelled and the building to be evacuated.
The Lab Theatre presents Paul
Zindel’s The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon
Marigolds.
MHC trustee Beryl Robichaud
Collins ‘40, senior vice-president of McGraw-Hill,
speaks at graduation. Professors Tom Reese and Cathy
Melhorn, and Ellie McGrath ’74, give baccalaureate
addresses.
Questionnaire Results: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
By Lynn Johnson Dodge
The majority of the class of 1974 is so
busy that responding to questionnaires is not at the top of
their ‘to do’ list. We received approximately 150 responses
– the same return rate generated by our 20th
reunion questionnaire. At least we’re consistent.
Marriage: What’s in a Name?
Currently 70%
of us are married; half for more than 15 years. We married
in our late twenties (28 was the age of most brides) and 75%
have married only once. Upon marriage, nearly half of us
(43%) decided to change our name; but 45% still use their
maiden name professionally. The majority of those who are
currently married or divorced have children. Most of us
(64%) give our children their father’s last name. Many who
kept their birth name gave it to a child as a middle name.
Our oldest child is 38 and the youngest will be 6 months at
Reunion. Most of our children are in the wonderful
pre-teen/teenage (11-19) years. Thirty-one was given most
often as the age we had our first child. In general, we
raise our families in the suburbs and parent differently
than our parents raised us. However, we name our parents
most frequently as our heroes and heroines so we feel they
did something right! Over half of the other 37 heroes
mentioned were women and come from all walks of life. We
hope our children will avoid mistakes we made: not taking
enough risks, having too little self-confidence, marrying
for the wrong reasons and not having a career plan.
Home is Where the Heart Is
Our families are very important to us –
they are what we value most (a few of us valued our
mind/sanity over the kids). Family photos and our homes are
a close second. Given any additional amount of time, 40%
indicated they would want to spend that extra time with
their families. Many (47%) spend family time chauffeuring
the kids and have some say in the choice of the radio
station. 48% find it difficult to attend regular PTA/nursery
school parent meetings because of busy schedules. The lack
of regular attendance at PTA meetings does not seem to
indicate a lack of commitment to education because 60% of us
report they have college tuition saved for their children.
Of the 61% of us having jobs outside our homes, 66% travel
overnight on business and 69% spend more than 10 days a year
away from home. (Maybe this explains why only 19% of us
indicated that we would like to spend any gift of additional
time travelling.)
Who Cares?
Women’s role in caring for a family has
certainly changed from our childhood years. Only 27% do the
housework, childcare, lawn all by ourselves; the rest of us
have at least a cleaning person (43%) and a lawn service
(35%). We feel that the division of labor at home is evenly
divided – is this feeling a result of so many cleaning
people being employed by us? Some said it bothers them that
their children have little or no responsibility for chores.
As of now, the aging of America does not seem to be a heavy
burden on our class. Currently 31% are responsible for
parent care, even though half of us have lost at least one
parent. Over half of us have at least one pet (27% have
two): cats rule (74%) and dogs drool (64%). We have a wide
variety of pets: lobsters, chameleons, hermit crabs, and
frogs as well as the more conventional gerbils, hamsters,
and fish. A few of us consider our pets to be our most
valued possession.
All Work, No Play?
Professionally, 71% work full-time and
30% work part-time or freelance. Only 2 people indicated
they are retired. No single professional field dominates
our career choice. Most are in Medicine (15%), Law (13%),
Education (14%), Finance (13%), and Writing and Publishing
(10%). In the work place, 59% experienced sex
discrimination; 36% have felt sexually harassed. Most of us
have not hit a glass ceiling, but of the 24% that did, 29%
went elsewhere or learned to live with the ceiling. One
respondent reported that she didn’t think she’d hit glass,
but admitted her head has been sore for quite a while!
Perhaps the glass ceiling was the reason 38 women (27%)
chose to start their own businesses. Unlike most job
seekers, only 27% of us have used the “old girl network” and
some respondents were surprised to hear one exists.
First Among Equals
We do have spunk- we are the First
Woman to: receive a joint degree, be made a partner in a law
firm or medical group, become the highest-level woman in
finance, be hired by a firm, or to graduate from college and
professional school in a family. Interestingly only 15 % of
us can say we stayed on our original career path; 17% didn’t
have a career path and 29% veered completely off it. Despite
the failure of Plan A to work out - or to exist at all for
some of us - Plan B or C has led 69% of us to great
satisfaction with our life at this point. We haven’t stayed
in the same job: 29% have had 2-3 jobs, 27% 4-5 and 18% 6-7.
Some 20% have been fired from a job during their career.
Some have had multiple jobs for a single employer. Employers
recognize that Mount Holyoke women have “leadership skills”
and have been “prepared to do and be many things.” Having
these skills enables many of us to successfully create
opportunities for ourselves, follow opportunities when they
present themselves and give us the confidence to take on new
tasks when asked. As a result, we have served in leadership
positions in a variety of organizations: medical practices,
universities, law firms, government and consulting firms.
Some 62% have worked for 20-25 years full-time since
graduation. Another 26% have worked more than ten years
since graduation. It seems very apparent that having a
career is an integral part of many of our identities.
Perhaps that explains why 55% of us have been chosen as
mentors or have chosen to mentor in our communities and why
23% indicated a job change or loss was the biggest stress in
their life right now.
If You Want Something Done, Ask a Busy Person
Although we can’t decide whether our
children are more altruistic than we are, we do act as good
role models for them. We spend many volunteer hours in
schools, libraries, community action groups, churches, town
revitalization/development projects, scouting,
regional/state professional organizations,
neighborhood/community associations. Many serve on the
boards of directors or as an officer: 39% have been a
President/Chairperson, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Board
member. 72% of us volunteer in some capacity for at least
4-10 hours per month; 20% of us volunteer more than 20 hours
per month and 10% indicated they would spend their gift of
additional time as a volunteer.
Lifelong Learners
As can be expected, we take education
seriously. We overwhelming cited the excellent education we
received as the reason we were glad we attended Mount
Holyoke. Over half of us have Masters Degrees, with the
most popular areas being Education, English and Science: 5 %
have a Ph.D. Other advanced degrees are: 14% in Business,
17% in Law, 12% in Medicine. We learn for relaxation and
fun too: 39% have taken a class in Art, Cooking, Fitness or
Computer. The most common excuse for not taking a fun class
was – NO TIME. Since college, we have learned over 58 new
skills or hobbies ranging from rollerblading to building her
own home. The most popular post-graduate skills and hobbies
are gardening, sports, parenting, cooking and computer
skills.
The Three R’s: Reading, Reading, Reading
Another indication of the value we
place on education is evidenced by the amount we read: 21%
read at least one book a month, 22% read 2-3 books, 25% read
4-6 books. Recently we have read over 250 books (See list on
page xx). Cited most often as our favorite books are The
Bible and Pride and Prejudice. Book Clubs
include 17% as regular participants. Magazines and
newspapers are also piled up in our homes: 35% receive some
form of print media more than 5 days a week. Our favorite
newspapers are The New York Times (whether daily or
Sunday - 31% read it/ 64% of them consider it essential) and
The Wall Street Journal (15% read it /77% of them
consider it essential). Half of us read our local
newspaper; for 57% the local newspaper is essential
reading. One third of us read Time or Newsweek
and we subscribe to 72 different hobby/interest related
magazines. Some consider the Mount Holyoke Quarterly
essential reading. When we add the 50 different types of
professional journals many of us must read, no one should be
surprised we have no free time.
Who Are We Now?
Are we more assertive than we were in
college? 72% of us think so; 24% feel their assertiveness
is about the same. Interestingly only 48% feel they are
just a little different from the person they were in college
while 43% feel they are significantly different. (This is
really surprising considering how many of us have children).
Only 8% feel they have not changed at all. Another
interesting dichotomy is found in our feelings and actions
involving religion: 57% indicated they do not attend church
any more regularly than they did in college, yet
surprisingly we feel more religious (43%) now.
Back to the Future
We aren’t very
vain: 60% wear reading glasses and 59% don’t color their
gray hair. We seem to be healthy – 70% of us have not
experienced a major illness or injury since college. The
prospect of menopause doesn’t seem to scare or delight us -
instead it is viewed as a natural progression and
unavoidable. All of these trends would seem to explain why
the majority of us feel we are at our ideal age now or will
reach it in the future.
Move Over Richard Simmons
Some indicated health was their most valued possession. Not
surprisingly, 66% have made diet changes to lower their
intake of fat, red meat and sugar, while
increasing the amount of
vegetables and grains in our meals. Although one respondent
asked “Does Lean Cuisine qualify?” 59% of us cook 5-7 meals
a week. We take vitamins, but only 43% have increased the
amount of calcium in their diet. Even though we may not
indulge often in our favorite foods, we still love ice
cream, chocolate, cheese, seafood, pasta and dessert. The
consensus seems to be our class has gained more weight than
it has lost. Despite our aversion to exercise in college
(54% negative response to 40% positive response) we
participate more regularly in exercise now. 61% exercise
over 3 times per week and 26% of that fit 61% exercise
almost every day. Maybe this explains why 20% of us
responded that we love to wear casual clothes - jeans,
sweats, and shorts! Our most popular forms of exercise are
aerobics, walking and an organized sport. Skiing, swimming,
tennis and hiking are the most popular sports in which we
participate. We need 6-7 hours of sleep (57%) although 36%
need more than 9. We don’t smoke; but 76% of us drink
alcohol. Is that the result of stress related to our jobs,
being a parent, in some cases both?
We Keep on Truckin’
Our biggest causes of stress are:
parenting, time management (juggling work and family
schedules/demands), job responsibilities, deadlines, money
worries (tuition costs, job loss), concerns about aging
parents, and finding time for individual pursuits. 59% have
felt the desire, at one time or another, to run away from
our responsibilities. Many respondents asked, “Who
hasn’t?” Won’t they be surprised when they find out that
32% have never felt the need to run? To cope with tough
times or issues, many of us (53%) have undergone therapy;
overwhelmingly (95%), we found it helpful. Other coping
mechanisms that help us are: religious beliefs, family,
friends, a spouse/significant other, and exercise. Another
popular source of strength has been adopting a philosophy
based on “One day at a time/Tomorrow will come.” Typically,
a few said that their belief in themselves always got them
through. Many feel this is a testament to their Mount
Holyoke education. One alumna wrote “My ability to
problem-solve, to be resourceful, to not accept NO as an
answer have been essential to my success. I believe MHC and
the women’s college environment were instrumental in these
areas.”
Time and Time Again
The gift of time was precious to all of
us - a recurring theme. A desire for time to pursue personal
interests, exercise, create art or music, and take better
care of ourselves reverberated in many areas. We long for
time alone and time with a significant other, spouse or
kids. However, if any friend of a member of the Class of
1974 wants to give us our favorite gift item, buy us
jewelry!
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
In our leisure time, we like to see
movies, socialize and take vacations. We go to first-run
movies: 49 % see at least one movie a month and 38% see two.
When we socialize it tends to be with work colleagues or
people with whom we share hobbies. We value old friends: 62
% continue to socialize their Mount Holyoke buddies and 15%
cited enduring friendships as one reason they were glad to
have gone to Mount Holyoke. Each month 27% of us spend 3 -
5 hours with friends; 17% spend more than 20 hours. We trust
our friends: 57% share intimate secrets and 48% find our
current friendships as satisfying as those we had in
college. We like to travel: 48% take at least 2 - 3
vacations a year. Europe was the favorite vacation
destination; Italy was the country specifically mentioned
most often. (No wonder pasta is one of our favorite foods!)
Politically Correct
Politically, 57% identify with a
mainstream political party: 40% Democrat and 17% Republican.
Independents account for 36%. Our political views have not
changed much: 63% retain their college political views.
We’re nonpartisan on impeachment: 32% felt that Clinton
should be impeached. Our class did not translate its’
political identification into a desire to run for elected
office. Our earliest political memories are those of
Camelot: the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy’s
inauguration and assassination.
The More Things Change…
How we deal
with change brings a mixture of responses: 41% of us welcome
change with open arms while 28% view change with
reservations. Another 21 % are cautious types who need time
to analyze the nature of the nature of the change before
incorporating it. Two technological innovations we heartily
endorse are computers and microwave ovens. We consider the
microwave indispensable (one asked “does microwaving a
frozen dinner constitute cooking?” and another admitted, “I
would starve with out it”). Other beloved appliances are
the washing machine and refrigerator.
WWW. CLASS of 74.COM
Considering that less than half of us
welcome change with open arms, we have certainly welcomed
the Age of the Computer. Despite the fact that 73% of our
class did not use a computer at Mount Holyoke (some
indicated they didn’t know there were computers on
campus), we certainly have them now. We buy PCs (11% have
more than 3 PCs in their house) and we use them. Technical
skills are necessary in 69% of our jobs. We use e-mail
equally for business and personal use: 60% use e-mail all
the time and 29% use it occasionally. Interestingly, only
30% use Internet chat rooms and only 24% bank
electronically. Most of us feel that computers have made us
more productive; 21% say they would be lost without them.
Considering 50% of us say they can never fix their computer
and another 41% indicate that they sometimes can fix their
computer, it would seem likely the computer repair people
love to see us. This could represent an opportunity for one
of our class entrepreneurs!
Oh, Mount Holyoke We Pay Thee Devotion
Our strong loyalty to Mount Holyoke
continues: 44% gave an unqualified YES when asked if they
would send a daughter to Mount Holyoke, 22% said they
probably would. With the wisdom of a 25-year perspective,
63% view the decision to attend Mount Holyoke as the right
one. We feel Mount Holyoke’s excellent education and high
standards built character, increased our self-confidence and
helped us to think independently.
“I’ve been academically prepared for
all the challenges I’ve come across,” wrote one classmate.
Another cited the importance of being able “to try things
out and see the possibilities…” in a supportive environment.
Mount Holyoke provided “…a small town family with a world of
opportunities…”
Many indicated the single-sex
environment continues to be a significant reason for their
current success. They described the college environment as
one filled with “interesting, self-sufficient women…” who
had a “…durability and resilience.” A place where “…women
ruled their destiny” and “we could take pride in being a
woman.” One classmate wrote, “In class I found it easy to
ask questions. I wasn’t worried about what a boy would
think. I learned to be more independent and assertive and
that anything was possible. I developed self-confidence.”
25th REUNION PARADE SIGNS
STILL ROAD TRIPPING -
47% CHAUFFEUR THE KIDS
40% TRAVEL ON BUSINESS
BABIES TO MIDDLE AGE -
OUR CHILDREN'S AGES:
6 MONTHS TO 38 YEARS!
60% HAVE COLLEGE SAVINGS -
MIGHT THAT BE MHC?
66% WOULD SEND A DAUGHTER
ALL IS NOT VANITY -
60% USE READING GLASSES
60% LEAVE THE GRAY ALONE
YOU'RE STILL THE ONE -
62% KEEP IN TOUCH
WITH MHC FRIENDS
WE'VE GOT MAIL -
89% USE E-MAIL
AGE HAS CHANGED OUR DIETS
BUT WE STILL LOVE
ICE CREAM AND CHOCOLATE!
OUR BIGGEST STRESS?
THERE'S NO TIME
TO BE STRESSED
The
Zeitgeist and Us
By
Ellie McGrath
When we graduated from
Mount Holyoke, we were at ground zero for so many social
changes. A new wave of feminism was catapulting us into
graduate schools and professions that had been virtual boys’
clubs. Civil rights activists were championing equal
opportunity for all. Americans were becoming aware of the
need to protect our environment and natural resources. In
the aftermath of the Vietnam War and Watergate, voters were
beginning to believe that a woman belonged in the House -
and the Senate. Many of us left Holyoke searching for
equity: in marriages, in schools, in careers, in our world.
Now that 25 years have
passed, I wanted to find out how we have fared in our
personal quests. Although only 15 percent of those who
answered the questionnaire indicate they have stayed on
their original career paths, 69 percent say they are
satisfied with their lives. Whether we have become corporate
players or PTA presidents, ski bums or legal scholars, it
appears that we place more importance on living a life of
meaning than on defining success by a single narrow
standard.
Those of you who responded
to the “bonus” question have helped put into perspective how
the issues of the ‘70’s have influenced our lives. This
essay will touch upon some of the issues that have resonated
for us in the past 25 years. While it could not possibly
represent everyone, I hope it touches the pulse of our lives
and times.
Great Expectations
“Feminism was invigorating
when we graduated from Holyoke,” says Holly Mak. “It was
motivating.” Most of us believed we could go anywhere and do
anything. “We were able to consider alternatives for
careers, marriage, social responsibility and lifestyle that
were, at times, mindboggling in number,” says Nell Whiting,
a vice-president for Merrill Lynch in Princeton, New Jersey.
“Years ago, certain choices simply did not exist, such as
keeping one’s own name after marriage, having a career
outside the home, not having children.”
For many of us, the first
big step after college was into the job market. We were part
of the first wave of women who entered the workplace in
significant numbers - with great expectations and an
optimism that seems almost sweet in hindsight. A few of us
were pioneers, the first woman this or the first woman that.
But most of us who pursued careers became part of a new
critical mass that opened doors that had been shut to women.
We were determined to make it in a man’s world - and, better
yet, change it.
Janet Hayes, who is now a
vice-president in international marketing for Merrill Lynch
in New York City, remembers that new federal policies were
helpful to women back in 1974. “My first job in a bank was
the result of a need for diversity in the management ranks,”
she recalls. “Clearly, I would not have started in this
particular management training program without the times
a-changing. Would I have found as good a job without the EEO
decree? Maybe. Would I have been paid the same as the men in
the job? Perhaps not.”
Still, the world at large
was not exactly ready to receive women like us. Beverly
Scipio remembers 1970 as “the year that most campuses had
entering classes that were the most diverse ever.” After
graduation, she recalls: “Little did I know about the
realities of the politically charged, often hostile, work
world and the challenges that awaited me as a well-educated
Black woman. Too often my gender and ethnicity were greater
influences, in that they were received negatively, rather
than my credentials and ability and willingness to perform
tasks. Needless to say, many of my experiences have been
humbling, but adversity can be a tremendous motivator that
can produce positive outcomes.”
Coming from a women’s
college, where we were accustomed to a level playing field,
some of us found the world’s tilt a little disorienting.
Janet Wilkov Twomey reports: “In the 1980’s with my Columbia
MBA and a job in commercial lending, I felt like I was part
of the first generation that could really capitalize on the
‘women’s liberation’ movement. As long as I worked in New
York City, I was part of a critical mass of women in a
workplace that had become more accepting of professional
women, at least on the surface.”
All that changed when she
and her husband relocated to central Florida in 1984. Janet
joined a large Florida bank and after three years became a
vice-president and department manager, the only women at
that level in the organization. “I thought I was in a time
warp,” she recalls. “Out in the field it was worse - many of
the corporate customers and prospects had never dealt with a
‘lady banker.’ Most would tolerate it, but occasionally I
would have to send a male colleague in my place for the sake
of the bank.”
A lot of us were playing
games mother - or father - never taught us. “I was so imbued
with the assumption that I could accomplish anything,” says
Gail Gustin Kaneb, “that when I did encounter
discrimination, I assumed it was only a lack of
understanding on the other person’s part.” When IBM hired
her right after graduation as the first female new accounts
sales representative in the Boston office, she was given the
worst territory because “they didn’t know how the customers
would react.” Gail tried to turn being a female computer
sales representative into an advantage. “Once I got in, I
knew I had to do a better job than any man to gain
credibility,” says Gail. “But once credibility was
established, it was an equal playing field. That may not
have been completely true. But because I believed it was the
case, I had the confidence to act that way, and it became
true.”
Ah, yes, we were optimistic
- and we had energy. After graduation, I had gone to work at
Time Magazine, believing, hey, why can’t a woman be
the editor someday? At Time, women had traditionally
served as researchers, as did I when I was hired. Within two
years, I became a writer, and around 1980 I was the only
woman writer in the magazine’s high-profile Nation section.
I wasn’t getting great assignments, but I was hanging in
because this was the most important part of an influential
magazine. I thought I could help women be portrayed fairly
in stories and speak up when they should be included in
major reports, such as a special issue on leadership.
I’ll never forget, though,
the day I asked the editor for better assignments. He looked
at me and said, “I really don’t believe women should be
writing in the Nation section.” Stunned, I asked why. “It’s
too grueling,” he replied. Well, yes, we wrote under great
pressure at the end of every week, often staying up most of
the night on Fridays. But I was incredulous because this man
knew that I ran marathons. Stamina was not an issue for me;
it was more so for some of the hard-drinking male writers,
whose lives were about as healthy as John Belushi’s. Another
editor later explained to me late one closing night, “The
reason men like me have a problem with women like you is...”
I finally realized that in this environment at this time in
history with these particular people I would probably remain
an alien, an editorial E.T., so I decided I had to get out.
I asked for my own section in the less-harried back of the
book, where I wrote about education. After ten years at the
magazine, I quit, in part because I realized that I would
never get the chance become an editor, a job at which I
later succeeded - and enjoyed - elsewhere.
The workforce has changed
dramatically in the past 25 years, some of it for the good,
some of it for the not-so-good. As Janet Hayes observes:
“The times gave me the terminology necessary to help me
identify and confront the issues of the day. I might not
have been as aware of discrimination in the workplace
without the lexicon of ‘equal pay for equal work,’ ‘mommy
track,’ and ‘glass ceiling.’ Resolving the issues has not
always been possible, but identifying and not accepting them
has been. The times made the lifestyles of single and
working women or married women with no kids - remember DINK?
- more acceptable by labeling it and creating it as a norm.
While we may have watched films of Katharine Hepburn playing
a fashionable working lady, it was Mary Tyler Moore who
clearly made it okay to move to a city and try it ourselves
- preferably with a friend like Rhoda.”
Having It All
Now that was a concept! As
the media projected images of a woman holding a briefcase in
one hand and a small child in the other, we entered the
Superwoman era. A majority of us have married and had
children - and a majority of us work full-time. We are the
cohort who inspired Dressed for Success, The
Second Shift, The Time Bind, and the titles of
many other best-selling books. As the first generation of
women to have reproductive freedom, many of us delayed
childbearing until our thirties (the average age at which we
had our first child is 31), and some of us have had to cope
with infertility. As we’ve tried to juggle responsibilities,
the idea of having it all has sometimes felt like a slap in
the face.
“I would like to blame the
times on the desire to have it all,” says Janet Hayes.
“Unfortunately, that is too easy. Most of us who went to
Mount Holyoke had high personal goals and expectations of
ourselves. It did not in many cases occur to us that we
could not have it all. The surprise was - and always has
been - that life cannot be totally planned. Choices and
compromises have to be made and disappointments accepted.”
What has helped many of us
has been our ability to forge partnerships that are very
different from those of our mothers. The questionnaires
indicate that dividing domestic duties, for instance, is not
a particularly divisive issue for us. As women have changed,
so have men. Gail Gustin Kaneb notes, “I take more
responsibility for the kids, but I’m usually happy to do
that. I cook more often than Tom does, but he usually washes
the dishes.”
Indeed, many of us have
husbands who have turned out to be our biggest cheerleaders
and supporters. Gail, who has run a family oil business with
her husband in Cornwall, Ontario, says they have
complementary strengths. “I help him with people and
personal development issues,” says Gail. “He sees the next
strategic step in whatever I am doing.” It is not unusual
today for husbands to be more attuned to sharing
professional and personal concerns. Carol Stokinger, who has
been an assistant district attorney in New York City for the
past 20 years, graduated in the same class from Columbia Law
School as her husband. She observes: “If I have to be in
court and my son is sick and needs to stay home from school,
there’s simply no issue. My husband will stay home or take
him into his firm for part of the day.”
Many of us still struggle,
though, with how much we should do and how we should do it.
“With the feeling that you can do anything, the flip side is
you should do everything,” says Barbara Lemperly Grant, who
has a four-year-old daughter and manages the Chanel Boutique
in Boston. “The expectation level had a big impact on me. We
were supposed to be the best at everything: be the smartest,
have the best jobs, wonderful husbands, perfect children.”
What many of us have discovered is that few people can do it
all, all at once. “You do it at different stages,” says
Barbara, “reinventing yourself as you go along. At this
stage of my life, when I come the closest, I still struggle
with self-acceptance and the feeling that I’m not doing
enough. That’s one thing many of us share, and it’s the
reason we still struggle.”
Composing a Life
As we all know by now, life
is full of surprises. “Women today, trying to compose lives
that will honor all their commitments and still express all
their potential with a certain unitary grace, do not have an
easy task,” writes Mary Catherine Bateson, the
anthropologist-daughter of Margaret Mead, in her book,
Composing a Life. “It is important, however, to see
that, in finding a personal path among the discontinuities
and moral ambiguities they face, they are performing a
creative synthesis with a value that goes beyond the merely
personal....Individual improvisations can sometimes be
shared as models of possibility for men and women in the
future.”
Very few of us have
approached life with a single focus. As Anne Dowd Brady
writes, “In many ways my life has taken turns that make me
feel more progressive in my thinking now than I could have
imagined.” After Anne left Mount Holyoke, she married and
went to graduate school at Rhode Island School of Design.
Just after celebrating her fifth wedding anniversary, she
and her husband discovered that their one-year-old daughter
had a little-known, neuro-muscular disease called spinal
muscular atrophy. “The positive spin, as anyone who has
faced major life trauma will tell, was that we changed our
point of view on life,” says Anne. “We dedicated ourselves
to living more in the moment and less in the future. This
was not a very contemporary view among our peers, who were
busy climbing in their twenties and thirties, but it worked
for us.”
Anne continued her career
as an art educator in Philadelphia, and her husband, Tom,
continued to paint. They had another girl, born five years
later, then a boy, two years after that. “I had just
returned to teaching full-time, we had bought our first
house, and life was pretty grand for two hippie-artist
types,” recalls Anne. “But it became clear within his first
six months that James also had SMA, and like his older
sister would have health problems and use a wheelchair.”
Anne’s job became of great importance, because it carried
health insurance. “Again our life shifted,” Anne explains,
“and Tom became primary parent to a child who needed major
assistance.”
Bailing and Balancing
Our generation has gone to
great lengths to try to strike a reasonable balance between
the professional and the personal. In doing so, we have
focussed attention on what is now called work/family issues.
At the time when many women our age needed more flexibility
to spend time with their families, employers were downsizing
and demanding longer hours. While a 35- to 40-hour week was
considered full-time in 1974, it’s practically part-time
today. Fortune magazine ran a cover story in 1995 called
“Executive Women Confront Midlife Crisis” that chronicled an
exodus by women out of high-stress corporate jobs. While the
corporations assumed that women were going home to take care
of children, the reality was that many of them were using
their professional skills to start their own businesses. “So
many women have started their own firms that as a group they
now employ about three-quarters as many workers in the U.S.
as the Fortune 500,” reported the story.
Judging from questionnaire
responses, we’ve been on the cutting edge of this
development, too. Nearly one third of us have started our
own businesses or ply our professional skills independently.
Starting a business of our own, I suspect, is not just a
solution to conflicting demands in our lives or a way to
fulfill ambitions, but also a verdict on workaholic
professional cultures.
Some of us have just said
“no” to jobs that marginalize personal life. “I really love
the freedom of working for myself,” says Holly Mak, formerly
a senior vice-president of the Abu Dhabi International Bank
in Washington, D.C. Today she has a consulting business in
which she averages 30 hours of work a week, leaving her free
to spend more time with her two children, who are 14 and 12.
“I could easily have more work,” she says, “but I don’t want
to be working every minute.”
Gail Gustin Kaneb started
her own consulting business last year to help companies
develop leadership abilities in their employees. Cathy
Trauernicht, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland and ended a
career in banking to raise her two children, is
contemplating starting her own business, as well. “I would
hope more of us wouldn’t think twice about changing a field,
starting a business, or venturing into something new,” she
says.
A Better World
“Where have all the
protesters gone?” asks Carol Joyce. “I worry that most of us
who were politically active in the early ‘70’s with blazing
hearts and strong commitment to making a better world have
settled into a life of acceptance and fear of rocking the
boat, at home, at work, and at the polls. Why are so many
wonderful people unable to mobilize? I have accomplished
less than I wanted so far, but I truly strive to make an
impact on the world each day.”
Carol, a licensed social
worker, has served as a juvenile probation officer,
counseled adolescent sex offenders and developed therapeutic
community programs for mentally retarded sex offenders. A
co-founder of North East Planning Consultants in Western
Massachusetts, Carol continues to work with people with
cognitive disabilities. “I have continued to buck the
system, expose injustice and confront unfairness and
corruption,” she says. “This has earned me the deserved
reputation as a change agent, ‘mover and shaker,’ passionate
advocate, crazy radical, or loose canon, depending on which
side of the issues you stand. I have forsaken pleasing
everyone to become one of those strong women you either love
or hate - but rarely ignore.”
While we may try to think
globally, most of us have found opportunities to act
locally. Nearly three-quarters of our class do volunteer
work, despite careers or children - or both. And that work
has been defining for some of us.
Beverly Scipio says she
went to Mount Holyoke with a mission: “To bring something
back to a community that needed skills.” Armed with a
graduate degree in public administration and a masters in
Biblical Studies and Black Church Studies, she maintains: “I
have not lost sight of improving the human condition. My
purpose has been to serve as a voice for the voiceless.” As
an urban and regional planner in Cleveland, Ohio, Beverly
was recently project manager for an EPA initiative to
improve environmental conditions in a low-income
neighborhood. She is currently president of Zonta, a
world-wide organization of businesswomen, that helps women
without educational opportunities. And as a trustee of a
Cleveland nursing home that was started for the Black aged
and indigent, Beverly is trying to maintain health-care
delivery for inner-city residents.
In trying to do good, we
have also served as role models for others. “I have led an
ordinary life of motherhood, community activism and work,”
says Ellie Degan Pancoe, “but have tried to imbue it with
that ‘you can do anything’ idealism that MHC instilled in
us.” After serving for many years on the board of a reform
synagogue in Bangor, Maine, Ellie has become president of
the congregation. “This made me the first woman to hold this
position, and, as far as I know, the first woman ever to be
president of a synagogue in Maine,” she says. “I know that
my work inspired other women to take on positions of
increasing responsibility. It has also led to an invitation
to be on a previously all-male foundation board. So, I may
not be shaking up the world, but I am making some small
contribution locally.”
Anne Dowd Brady sees
herself as an agent for change in education by working to
keep the arts part of the curriculum and helping parents of
special needs children navigate the bureaucracy of school
systems. “I will continue to advocate better health care
options for all people,” says Anne, “and for an economy that
doesn’t rely on two wage earners for the family to survive
and prosper, so that someone can raise the children.”
For Pat Showalter,
volunteer work has led to opportunities that eluded her in
her professional life. She earned an engineering degree from
the University of California at Berkeley when women were
still unwelcome tokens. “I entered the U.S. Geological
Survey’s California District as the highest-level technical
female,” she says, “and left eight years later as the
highest technical female, even though I never got a
promotion.” After her son was born, Pat spent ten years
raising her two children and doing a great deal of volunteer
work.
That volunteer work
provided the experience that led to her appointment to
Mountain View’s planning commission. In California, Pat
says, planning commissions are really the front line of
defense of the environment. “I always wanted to be in
environmental policy,” she says. “Now in my current position
as director of San Francisquito Creek CRMP and as a Mountain
View planning commissioner, I can do that. I am a person to
be reckoned with. When the city managers came to me for a
solution for a water problem, I told them what to do, and
they are spending $500,000 to do it. In terms of salary, I
may not be considered successful, but in terms of influence
I think I am.”
Legacy
While change seems to come
slowly while you’re living it, we can look around us and see
a very different country from the one we grew up in. More
women than men now get college degrees. In 1970, only 14
percent of economists were women; in 1990, 44 percent were.
Only 6 percent of lawyers and judges and 3 percent of
industrial engineers were women in 1970; those numbers had
increased to 27 percent in two decades. I personally get
great pleasure in knowing that Time’s Nation editor
is not only a woman, but also a woman who graduated from
Mount Holyoke several years after we did. Still, even though
the workforce is nearly half female, 98 percent of the
senior-level managers of Fortune 500 companies are men. Most
of us would like to see more progress. We would like to be
represented by more women in Congress. We wonder if we’ll
live to see a woman become president. But I think we can all
feel some satisfaction in how women have taken on more
diverse roles in American society in the past 25 years.
“My daughter is six, and I
am proud that I may have helped open some doors for her,”
says Janet Wilkov Twomey, who now lives in Rochester Hills,
Michigan and cares full-time for her two young children. “I
had professional opportunities that my mother never had, and
my daughter will have opportunities that were unavailable to
me. The biggest positive change for women in the last
several decades has been that they now have choices. That is
what makes me optimistic about the future.”
Still, those of us who are
raising children, particularly girls, are both heartened by
the new opportunities for them and dismayed by certain
trends. “I find the culture in so many ways not respectful
of the potential of human beings,” says Cathy Trauernicht.
“I see commercials for so-called ‘family’ shows with girls
dressed in tank tops and bare midriffs. Girls are so much
more exposed than boys, and I try to fight that. So in our
house, we just don’t watch television and try to uphold
certain standards of dress and language.”
We want our children to
have lives that are not limited by society - or by ideology.
“As the mother of two daughters,” says Anne Dowd Brady, “I
have to support and inform their ideas on feminism. I watch
them grow and know they have been strengthened by the women
of my generation. I want them to know that feminism does not
and should not negate the value of the traditional roles of
partner and mother, that these roles are essential and are
among the choices available to them.”
Perhaps the women - and men
- who follow us will find an easier path to combining
meaningful work with rich personal lives. “As I look at the
women entering the workplace today, they are in a different
position to balance their lives,” says Janet Hayes.
“Maternity and child care leaves have been vastly improved.
Paternity leaves exist. Life-style balancing is an
acknowledged challenge.”
For the past 25 years, we
have spoken with what Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan
calls “a different voice.” We have tried to live lives that
honor our values—in the workplace, the community and in our
homes. As we continue our personal quests, may we do so with
a generosity of spirit. “There is still much work to be done
in terms of equity,” points out Ellie Pancoe, “but I want my
daughters to look beyond feminism to humanism. What
interests me now is not how women can fight their way to
equal status with men, but rather how both men and women can
be allowed to display and accept each other’s full humanity.
This is what I work for in my personal relationships and in
the positions of influence I hold. It is the legacy I want
for my kids.”
Read Any Good Books
Lately?
Just a Few…….
Favorites are designated with a
♥
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The
Bible |
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The
Dictionary |
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Beliefs and Blasphemies |
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Virginia Hamilton Adair |
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Tuesdays with Morrie |
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Mitch Albom |
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Little Women |
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Louisa May Alcott |
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The
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
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Sherman Alexie |
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Chocolate for the Woman's Heart and Soul |
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Kay
Allenbaugh |
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House of Spirits |
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Isabel Allende |
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Paula |
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Isabel Allende |
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Cavedweller |
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Dorothy Allison |
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How
the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent |
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Julia Alvarez |
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In
the Time of Butterflies |
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Julia Alvarez |
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D-Day |
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Stephen Ambrose |
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Nocomachean Ethics |
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Aristotle |
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Game
of Kings |
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Dorothy Arnette |
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Days
of Grace |
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Arthur Ashe |
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Clan
of the Cave Bear |
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Jean
Auel |
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Persuasion |
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Jane
Austen |
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Pride and Prejudice |
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Jane
Austen |
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Illusions |
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Richard Bach |
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The
Regulators |
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Richard Bachman (Steven King) |
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Anais Nin |
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Dierdre Bain |
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A
Quiet Life |
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Beryl Bainbridge |
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Simple Abundance |
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Sarah Ban Breathnach |
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Regeneration |
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Pat
Barker |
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Dave
Barry Turns 50 |
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Dave
Barry |
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Cupid and Diana |
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Christina Bartolomeo |
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Stalingrad |
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Antony Beevor |
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The
Plague Tales |
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Ann
Benson |
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Midnight in the
Garden of Good and Evil |
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Jeremy Berendt |
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Raising Boys |
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Steve Biddulph |
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Leaving the Doll's House |
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Claire Bloom |
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Shakespeare: Inventor of Humanity |
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Harold Bloom |
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The
Seekers |
|
Daniel Boorstin |
|
♥ |
Something Wicked This Way Comes |
|
Ray
Bradbury |
|
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All
Over But the Shouting |
|
Rick
Bragg |
|
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The
Cat Who Sang for the Birds |
|
Lillian Jackson Braun |
|
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The
Women's Great Lakes Reader |
|
Victoria Brehm, ed. |
|
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The
Universe Below |
|
William Broad |
|
|
Greatest Generation |
|
Tom
Brokaw |
|
♥ |
Southern Discomfort |
|
Rita
Mae Brown |
|
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A
Walk in the Woods |
|
Bill
Bryson |
|
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The
Diaries of Christopher Isherwood |
|
Katherine Bucknell, ed. |
|
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The
Master and Margarita |
|
Mikhail Bulgakov, et.al |
|
♥ |
Secret
Garden |
|
Frances Hodgson Burnett |
|
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The
Wanderer |
|
Fanny Burney |
|
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Cold
Sassy Tree |
|
Olive Ann Burns |
|
|
Possession |
|
A.S.
Byatt |
|
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How
the Irish Saved Civilization |
|
Thomas Cahill |
|
♥ |
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff |
|
Richard Carlson |
|
|
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Family |
|
Richard Carlson |
|
♥ |
Alice in Wonderland |
|
Lewis Carroll |
|
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Silent Spring |
|
Rachel Carson |
|
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The
Education of Little Tree |
|
Forrest Carter |
|
♥ |
The
Horse's Mouth |
|
Joyce Cary |
|
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My
Antonia |
|
Willa Cather |
|
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Wild
Swans |
|
Jung
Chang/Peg Kerr |
|
♥ |
Songlines |
|
Bruce Chatwin |
|
|
Life
and Death in
Shanghai |
|
Nien
Cheng |
|
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Mount
Dragon |
|
Lincoln Child |
|
|
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success |
|
Deepak Chopra |
|
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Red
Storm Rising |
|
Tom
Clancy |
|
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Noble House |
|
James Clavell |
|
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What
Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day |
|
Pearl Cleage |
|
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Age
of Iron |
|
J.
M. Coetzee |
|
|
The
Poet |
|
Michael Connelly |
|
|
Beach Music |
|
Pat
Conroy |
|
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True
North |
|
Jill
Ker Conway |
|
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Women of Power and Grace |
|
Timothy Conway |
|
♥ |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
|
Blanche Wiesen Cook |
|
|
Point of Origin |
|
Patricia Cornwell |
|
♥ |
East
to Eden |
|
Charles Corwin |
|
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Corelli's Mandolin |
|
Louis De Bernieres |
|
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Reading in the Dark |
|
Seamus Deane |
|
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Plum
Island |
|
Nelson DeMille |
|
|
Guns, Germs and Steel |
|
Jared Diamond |
|
|
Great Expectations |
|
Charles Dickens |
|
|
One
Pair of Hands |
|
Monica Dickens |
|
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Your
Best Years Yet |
|
Jinny S. Ditzler |
|
♥ |
Dancing at the Rescal Fair (Montana
series) |
|
Ivan
Doig |
|
|
Crime and Punishment |
|
Fydor Dostoevsky |
|
♥ |
Sherlock Holmes |
|
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle |
|
|
Rebecca |
|
Daphne du Maurier |
|
|
Caprice and Rondo |
|
Dorothy Dunnett |
|
♥ |
Embraced by the Light |
|
Betty J. Eady |
|
|
Evita Peron |
|
Tomas de Elia, ed. |
|
|
A
Romance |
|
Nora
Ephron |
|
|
The
Horse Whisperer |
|
Nicholas Evans |
|
|
Birdsong |
|
Sebastian Faulks |
|
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Servant of the Empire |
|
Raymond Feist |
|
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The
Diary of Bridget Jones |
|
Helen Fielding |
|
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Next
Year in
Cuba |
|
Gustavo Perez Firmat |
|
|
Death of Innocents |
|
Richard Firstman |
|
|
Future Eaters |
|
Tim
F. Flannery |
|
|
Pillars of the Earth |
|
Ken
Follett |
|
|
Sportswriter |
|
Richard Ford |
|
♥ |
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen |
|
Matthew Fox |
|
|
Ten
Pound Penalty |
|
Dick
Francis |
|
♥ |
Cold
Mountain |
|
Charles Frazier |
|
|
Outlander Series |
|
Diana Gabaldon |
|
|
A
Lesson Before Dying |
|
Ernest J. Gaines |
|
♥ |
Snow
Goose |
|
Paul
Gallico |
|
|
Western Abenakis of
Vermont |
|
Colin Galloway |
|
♥ |
The
Forsyte Saga |
|
John
Gallsworthy |
|
|
One
Hundred Years of Solitude |
|
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
|
|
Lovejoy mysteries |
|
Jonathan Gash |
|
|
Deception on His Mind |
|
Elizabeth George |
|
|
In
the Presence of the Enemy |
|
Elizabeth George |
|
|
The
Autobiography of Henry VIII |
|
Magaret George |
|
♥ |
The
Prophet |
|
Kahlil Gibran |
|
|
Joshua |
|
Joseph J. Girzone |
|
|
English Country House Murders |
|
Thomas Godfrey,ed. |
|
|
Memoirs of A Geisha |
|
Arthur Golden |
|
♥ |
No
Ordinary Time |
|
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
|
|
Wait
Until Next Year |
|
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
|
|
Spending |
|
Mary
Gordon |
|
|
"M"
is for Malice |
|
Sue
Grafton |
|
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"N"
is for Noose |
|
Sue
Grafton |
|
|
Personal History |
|
Katharine Graham |
|
|
Stargazer |
|
Martha Grimes |
|
|
Street Lawyer |
|
John
Grisham |
|
|
Still Missing |
|
Beth
Gutcheon |
|
|
Snow
Falling on Cedars |
|
David Guterson |
|
|
Without |
|
Donald Hall |
|
♥ |
Snow
in August |
|
Pete
Hamill |
|
|
A
Civil Action |
|
Jonathan Harr |
|
|
The
Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way
They Do |
|
Judith Rich Harris |
|
|
The
Healing House |
|
Barbara Harwood |
|
|
One
Day as a Tiger |
|
Anne
Haverty |
|
|
Art
of Christian Listening |
|
Thomas N. Heart |
|
♥ |
Blue
Highways |
|
William Least Heat Moon |
|
|
Into
the Forest |
|
Jean
Hegland |
|
|
The
16 Pleasures |
|
Robert Hellenga |
|
|
A
Soldier of the Great War |
|
Mark
Helprin |
|
♥ |
Dune |
|
Frank Herbert |
|
|
Funny Bones |
|
Joan
Hess |
|
|
Skin
Tight |
|
Carl
Hiaasen |
|
|
A
Murder for Her Majesty |
|
Beth
Hilgartner |
|
|
Smilla's Sense of Snow |
|
Peter Hoeg |
|
|
Here
on Earth |
|
Alice Hoffman |
|
|
Practical Magic |
|
Alice Hoffman |
|
|
Covered Wagon Women-5 Vol. |
|
Kenneth Holmes, ed. |
|
|
Cowboys are My Weakness |
|
Pam
Houston |
|
|
A
Prayer for Owen Meany |
|
John
Irving |
|
|
Widow for One Year |
|
John
Irving |
|
|
anything by her |
|
Susan Isaacs |
|
|
10
Fun Things to do Before You Die |
|
Karol Jackowski |
|
|
Inside Intel |
|
Tim
Jackson |
|
|
Woman Thou Art Loosed |
|
T.D.
Jakes |
|
|
A
Certain Justice |
|
P
.D. James |
|
♥ |
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky |
|
Susan Jeffers |
|
|
Feel
the Fear and Do It anyway |
|
Susan Jeffers |
|
♥ |
She:
Understanding Feminine Psychology |
|
Robert Johnson |
|
|
Rattlesnake Crossing |
|
Judith A. Jonce |
|
|
Ulysses |
|
James Joyce |
|
|
Perfect Storm |
|
Sebastian Junger |
|
|
Jew
in the Lotus |
|
Rodger Kamenetz |
|
|
A
New Song |
|
Jan
Karon |
|
|
At
Home in Mitford |
|
Jan
Karon |
|
|
Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton |
|
Julie Kavanagh |
|
|
Best
Short Stories of 1997 |
|
Katrina Kenison, ed |
|
|
Ship
of Gold in the
Deep
Blue
Sea |
|
Gary Kinder |
|
|
Raising Cain |
|
Daniel Kindlon |
|
|
The
Beekeeper's Apprentice |
|
Laurie King |
|
♥ |
Animal Dreams |
|
Barbara Kingsolver |
|
|
High
Tide in Tuscon |
|
Barbara Kingsolver |
|
|
Poisonwood Bible |
|
Barbara Kingsolver |
|
♥ |
Bean
Trees |
|
Barbara Kingsolver |
|
|
Amazing Grace |
|
Nathan Kozol |
|
|
Into
the Wild |
|
John
Krakauer |
|
|
Into
Thin Air |
|
John
Krakauer |
|
|
The
Unbearable Lightness of Being |
|
Milan Kundera |
|
|
4
Ways to Forgiveness |
|
Ursula La Guinn |
|
|
Soul
Harvest |
|
Tim
F. LaHaye |
|
|
Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those
Left Behind |
|
Tim
F. LaHaye |
|
|
This
Much I Know is True |
|
Wally Lamb |
|
♥ |
Bird
By Bird |
|
Anne
Lamott |
|
|
Nicolae |
|
Tim
F. Lattaye, Jerry B. Jenkins |
|
|
Sons
and Lovers |
|
D.H.
Lawrence |
|
|
Lost
Woods |
|
Linda J. Lear |
|
♥ |
To
Kill a Mockingbird |
|
Harper Lee |
|
|
Circle of Quiet |
|
Madeleine L'Engle |
|
♥ |
Sand
County Almanac |
|
Aldo
Leopold |
|
|
Chronicles of Narnia |
|
C.S.
Lewis |
|
♥ |
Babbitt |
|
Sinclair Lewis |
|
♥ |
Main Street |
|
Sinclair Lewis |
|
|
Einstein's Dreams |
|
Alan
P. Lightman |
|
|
Dance on Blood |
|
Gillian Linscott |
|
|
The
Inn at Lake Divine |
|
Elinor Lipman |
|
|
Heatwave:Women in Love and Lust |
|
Penelope Lively |
|
|
1916 |
|
Morgan Llywelyn |
|
|
About this Life |
|
Barry Holstun Lopez |
|
|
Cry
of the Halidon |
|
Robert Ludlum |
|
♥ |
Daughters of Time |
|
Lucinda H. MacKethan |
|
|
The
Long Walk to Freedom |
|
Nelson Mandela |
|
|
Small Miracles |
|
Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum |
|
|
Zenzele |
|
J.
Nozipo Maraire |
|
|
West
into the Night |
|
Beryl Markham |
|
|
Final Curtain |
|
Ngaio Marsh |
|
|
Peter the Great |
|
Robert Massie |
|
|
The
Snow Leopard |
|
Peter Matthiessen |
|
|
Toujours Provence |
|
Peter Mayle |
|
|
Under the Tuscan Sun |
|
Frances Maynes |
|
|
The
Color of Water |
|
James McBride |
|
|
Lucky Bastard |
|
Charles McCarry |
|
|
Angela's Ashes |
|
Frank McCourt |
|
♥ |
Thorn Birds |
|
Colleen McCullough |
|
|
Truman |
|
David McCullough |
|
♥ |
Charming Billy |
|
Alice McDermott |
|
|
Somme |
|
Lyn
McDonald |
|
|
Stone
River |
|
James Lee McDonough |
|
|
Building Your Self Image |
|
Josh
McDowell |
|
|
Amsterdam |
|
Ian
McEwan |
|
|
The
Assylum |
|
Patrick McGrath |
|
♥ |
anything by him |
|
John
McPhee |
|
|
Blackberry Winter |
|
Margaret Mead |
|
|
1912
Titanic |
|
Lil
Meredith |
|
|
Fugitive Pieces |
|
Anne
Michaels |
|
|
God:
A Biography |
|
Jack
Miles |
|
|
Evening |
|
Susan Minot |
|
♥ |
Gone
with the Wind |
|
Margaret Mitchell |
|
|
Up
in the Old Hotel |
|
Joseph Mitchell |
|
|
Lost
in Translation |
|
Nicole Mones |
|
|
Bluest Eye |
|
Toni
Morrison |
|
|
Rumpole of the Bailey |
|
John
Cliff Mortimer |
|
|
Diana: Her Story |
|
Andrew Morton |
|
|
A
Stranger in the Kingdom |
|
Howard Frank Mosher |
|
|
Born
Naked |
|
Farley Mowat |
|
|
Martin Dressler |
|
Steven Mullhauser |
|
|
Strong Women Stay Young |
|
Miram Nelson |
|
|
The
Eight |
|
Katherine Neville |
|
|
Bird
Artist |
|
Howard Norman |
|
|
Cloister Walks |
|
Kathleen Norris |
|
|
We
Were the Mulvaneys |
|
Joyce Carol Oates |
|
|
anything by him |
|
Patrick O'Brien |
|
|
Are
You Somebody |
|
Nuala O'Faolain |
|
|
The
English Patient |
|
Michael Ondaatje |
|
|
9
Steps to Financial Freedom |
|
Suze
Orman |
|
|
anything by her |
|
Sarah Paretsky |
|
|
The
Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet |
|
Edith Pargeter |
|
|
The
Idea Factory |
|
Valerie Parv |
|
|
No Safe Place |
|
Richard North Patterson |
|
|
Hatchet |
|
Gary
Paulsen |
|
|
An
Instance of the Fingerpost |
|
Ian
Pear |
|
|
Getting the Love You Want |
|
M.
Scott Peck |
|
♥ |
The
Road Less Traveled |
|
M.
Scott Peck |
|
|
Here
Be Dragons (series) |
|
Sharon Kay Penman |
|
|
The
Sunne in Splendour |
|
Sharon Kay Penman |
|
|
Deadly Innocence |
|
Robert Perske |
|
|
Brother Cadfael Mysteries |
|
Ellis Peters |
|
♥ |
Machine Dreams |
|
Jayne Anne Phillips |
|
♥ |
The
Shelter of Each Other |
|
Mary
Pipher |
|
|
Reviving Ophelia |
|
Mary
Pipher |
|
|
Donnie Brasco |
|
Joseph D. Pistone |
|
♥ |
Sherwood Ring |
|
Elizabeth Pope |
|
|
The
Shipping News |
|
Annie Proulx |
|
|
Black and Blue |
|
Anna
Quindlen |
|
|
One
True Thing |
|
Anna
Quindlen |
|
|
Ishmael |
|
Daniel Quinn |
|
|
It's
Always Something |
|
Gilda Radner |
|
|
Daniel Webster |
|
Robert Vincent Ramini |
|
|
Atlas Shrugged |
|
Ayn
Rand |
|
♥ |
The
Fountainhead |
|
Ayn
Rand |
|
|
10th
Insight |
|
James Redfield |
|
|
Violin |
|
Anne
Rice |
|
|
Unplug the Christmas Machine |
|
Jo
Robinson |
|
|
Old
Books Rare Friends |
|
Leona Rostenberg |
|
|
American Pastoral |
|
Philip Roth |
|
|
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
|
J.
K. Rowling |
|
|
God
of Small Things |
|
Arundhati Roy |
|
|
London |
|
Edward Rutherford |
|
|
Sarum |
|
Edward Rutherford |
|
|
The
Island of the Colorblind |
|
Oliver Sacks |
|
|
The
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat |
|
Oliver Sacks |
|
♥ |
Franny and Zooey |
|
J.D.
Salinger |
|
|
Five
Red Herrings |
|
Dorothy Sayers |
|
♥ |
Gaudy Night |
|
Dorothy Sayers |
|
|
Thrones, Dominations |
|
Dorothy Sayers |
|
|
Dr.
Laura's 10 Commandments |
|
Laura Schlesinger |
|
|
The
Reader |
|
Bernhard Schlink |
|
|
The
Fatigue Artist |
|
L.S.Schwartz |
|
|
A
Fez of the Heart |
|
Jeremy Seal |
|
|
Alexander the Great: His Armies and Campaigns |
|
Nick
Sekunda, John Warry |
|
|
Turkish Reflections |
|
Mary
Lee Settle |
|
|
Killer Angels |
|
Michael Shaara |
|
|
Henry V |
|
William Shakespeare |
|
|
Romeo and Juliet |
|
William Shakespeare |
|
♥ |
Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo |
|
Ntozake Shange |
|
|
Hoopi, Shoopi Donna |
|
Suzanne Shea |
|
|
Windmills of God |
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
|
The
Weight of Water |
|
Anita Shreve |
|
|
anything by her |
|
Anne
Rivers Siddons |
|
|
With
Fire and Sword |
|
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
|
|
Dakotah |
|
Lauraine Snelling |
|
|
Longitude |
|
Dava
Sobel |
|
|
Ballad of Peckham
Rye |
|
Muriel Spark |
|
♥ |
The
Notebook |
|
Nicholas Sparkes |
|
♥ |
Angle of Repose |
|
Wallace Stegner |
|
♥ |
Crossing to Safety |
|
Wallace Stegner |
|
|
A
Hope in the Unseen |
|
Ron
Suskind |
|
|
Joy
Luck Club |
|
Amy
Tan |
|
|
Why
are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the
Cafeteria? |
|
Beverly Daniel Tatum |
|
♥ |
Eloise |
|
Kay
Thompson |
|
♥ |
War
and Peace |
|
Leo
Tolstoy |
|
|
The
Bible and the Sword |
|
Barbara Tuchman |
|
♥ |
Huckleberry Finn |
|
Mark
Twain |
|
♥ |
Breathing Lessons |
|
Anne
Tyler |
|
|
Ladder of Years |
|
Anne
Tyler |
|
|
Kristin Lavansdatter |
|
Sigrid Undset |
|
|
Exodus |
|
Leon
Uris |
|
|
A
Year’s Turning |
|
Michael Viney |
|
|
By
the Light of My Father's Smile |
|
Alice Walker |
|
♥ |
When
I am Old I Shall Wear Purple |
|
Alice Walker |
|
|
Winter Wheat |
|
Mildred Walker |
|
|
Chanel, A Biography |
|
Janet Wallach |
|
♥ |
Good
Marriages |
|
Judith Wallerstein |
|
|
Arts
and Lies |
|
Jeanette Weatherspoon |
|
|
Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood |
|
Rebecca Wells |
|
|
Little Alters |
|
Rebecca Wells |
|
|
The
Optimist's Daughter |
|
Eudora Welty |
|
|
The
Wedding |
|
Dorothy West |
|
|
Ethan Frome |
|
Edith Wharton |
|
|
Year
of Liberty |
|
Kevin Whelan |
|
♥ |
Charlotte's Web |
|
E.B.
White |
|
|
Little House on the Prairie series |
|
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
|
|
Imagining to Learn |
|
Jeffrey Wilhelm |
|
|
A
Man in Full |
|
Tom
Wolfe |
|
|
Bonfire of the Vanities |
|
Tom
Wolfe |
|
|
In
the Pharoah's Army |
|
Tobias Wolfe |
|
♥ |
Orlando |
|
Virginia Woolf |
|
|
To
the Lighthouse |
|
Virginia Woolfe |
|
|
The
Gift of Healing |
|
Olga
Worrell |
|
|
What's so Amazing about Grace |
|
Philip Yancey |
|
|
Coping with Prednisone |
|
Eugenie Zuckerman |
Books
and Movies That Changed Our Lives
Books
|
The Bible |
|
|
|
personal growth books |
|
|
|
Ants
on the Melon |
|
Virginia Hamilton Adair |
|
Her
books |
|
Jane
Austen |
|
Simple Abundance |
|
Sarah Ban Breathnach |
|
In
Cold Blood |
|
Truman Capote |
|
Eleanor Roosevelt |
|
Blanche Wiesen Cook |
|
Sex
for One |
|
Betty Dodson |
|
Protein Power Diet |
|
Michael R. Eades |
|
Embraced by the Light |
|
Betty Eadie |
|
Science and Health |
|
Mary
Baker Eddy |
|
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