Index of Topics Addressed:

 

 

Thalia Joan Wharton Witkin:

            -Advanced degree.

            -Clapp Laboratory.

            -Columbia University:

                        -Anthropology.

                        -Medical School.

            -Masters at Mount Holyoke.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Microscopic anatomy.

            -Teaching.

            -Zoology department in 1950s:

                        -Christiana Smith.

                        -Isabel Sprig

                        -Bessie Boyd.

 

Nancy Mohr:

            -Changing the world.

            -Community service.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Mount Holyoke connections.

            -Volunteerism.

            -Sense of responsibility.

            -Writing.

 

Mary Lou Judd Carpenter:

            -Alcoholism.

            -Contradiction between support at Mount Holyoke and options in the ‘real world.’

            -Depression.

            -Divorce.

            -Legacy, family and Mount Holyoke.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -IBM, wiring boards.

            -Supporting husband through school.

            -Survey Research Center, Michigan.

 

Joan Winkel Ripley:

            -Chemistry.

            -Entrepreneurship.

            -Influence of:

                        Mount Holyoke.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Military Service, 1950s.

            -Segregation, Georgia.

            -Women’s work options.

           

Thelma Goldberg:

            -Arts, job in.

            -Boston Symphony Orchestra, trustee/

            -Little Orchestra Society of New York

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Non-smoking office in 1950s.

            -Retirement.     

            -Volunteerism.

 

Jane Barth:

            -Expectations:

                        -Job

                        -Marriage.

            -Graduate School.

            -Physics.

            -Retirement.

            -Community service, volunteerism.

            -Teaching.

           

 

Eleanor Graham Claus:

            -Five-year nursing program.

            -Healthcare profession.

            -Influence of:

                        Parents.

                        Mount Holyoke.

            -Legacy, family and Mount Holyoke.

            -Marriage and Children.

 

Anne Mazlish:

            -Contradiction between support at Mount Holyoke and options in the ‘real world.’

            -Divorce.

            -Entrepreneurship.

            -Expectations:

                        -Job.

                        -Grad School.

            -Influence of:

                        Parents.

                        Mount Holyoke.

            -Historical work.

            -Journalism.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Mount Desert, history museum.

            -Poetry.

            -Retirement.

            -Women’s work options.

            -Women’s Home Companion.

 

Gay Hartman:

            -Alcoholism.

            -Divorce.

            -Entering workforce later in life.

            -Fulltime motherhood.

            -Influence of:

                        Parents.

                        Mount Holyoke.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Remarriage.

 

Elizabeth White Saunders:

            -Hudson Guild.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Speech and Drama Department, 1950s

            -Theater and Acting,

                        -Arthur Penn and Philco Playhouse.

                        -Columbia University.

                        -New York Theater in the 1950s.

                        - Summer Stock.

                        - Uda Hagen and Berghoff Studios.

                        -Women’s Project and Production.

            -Retirement.

           

Deb Nash:

            -Connections to Mount Holyoke College.

            -Education, profession.

            -Graduate school.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Retirement.

            -Seven Sisters.

 

Pam Moody Harkins:

            -Divorce.

            -Dropping out.

            -Entering workforce later in life.

            -Finishing degree.

            -Marriage and Children.

            -Mount Holyoke connections.

            -Remarriage.

            -“Silent Era.”

            -Supporting husband through school.

            -Survival.