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.