Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of possible slots open for their sons in future years. Second, and more importantly, women are supposedly not able to donate at the same levels as men because they are traditionally not the bread-winners, and because married couples usually give more to the husband's alma mater than the wife's. Therefore, a reduction in men now is supposed to mean a severe drop in contributions 20 years from now. Money, then, is one of thickest and hardest layers to be eaten through if Harvard and Radcliffe are ever to become a single University dedicated to equal access...
...increase in women would not have more than a very short term effect on giving patterns in general. What's more the facts and statistics available for recent years tend to disprove assertions that women cannot be counted on to cough up large amounts of money to their alma mater...
...inception of Radcliffe. This time around, Harvard could not see that it had much to gain financially--despite the changes in values and career opportunities that women are now experiencing Harvard administrators are quick to point out that women do not contribute as much financially or educationally to their alma maters...
...alma mater, became mayor of Connecticut's second largest city by a nine-vote margin in 1971. Bridgeport's first Republican mayor in 44 years, Panuzio has given the 156,000 residents two years of tax cuts, created a Department of Aging to provide assistance and job training for older people, and operated one of the few self-sufficient transit systems in the state. Panuzio was re-elected by 2,000 votes in 1973, is now seeking the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination. Though his chances of getting it are slight, he figures to win wider recognition...
...mostly from grown-up adoptees with a deep-seated need to know who they are. One of them, New York Housewife Florence Fisher, who wrote a book about her ultimately successful 20-year hunt for her natural parents (The Search for Anna Fisher), in 1971 organized a group called ALMA (Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association) to help in searches for parents and to try to change existing statutes. Based in New York City, with branches in Los Angeles, Chicago and Fort Lauderdale, ALMA now has 1,800 members, mostly people looking for their original parents and natural mothers looking...