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April 19,
2002
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Psychology Today A page-long review in the March/April
issue of Psychology Today praises MHC psychology professor
Gail Hornstein's recent biography of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, a
key figure in the progress of psychiatry in the twentieth century.
Hornstein's To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World
"is a lively, well-written account of a charismatic leader
in an important period of psychiatry's history," wrote reviewer
Paul Chodoff. The Spanish translation of the book appears this
month in Argentina.
First! In 1972, she was the first black woman to run for
president. For fourteen years, she served in the United States
House of Representatives from Brooklyn, and in the 1980s, she
taught for several years in Mount Holyoke's politics department.
Now, according to a "Following Up" column in the March
24 New York Times, Shirley Chisholm, at age seventy-seven,
has settled into a quiet Florida retirement. "People laughed
at me," Chisholm said, "but somebody had to start, and
someday there will be a black person or a woman who will be president."
Secretary Speaks Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao ‘75,
will deliver the commencement address at St. Mary's College in
South Bend, Indiana. The first Asian American woman appointed
to a cabinet position, Chao was confirmed by the Senate last year.
"Secretary Chao is an excellent example of what women can
achieve with hard work and a solid education," said St. Mary's
president, Marilou Eldred.
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