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After receiving her Bachelor's degree from Vassar in 1931 and her doctorate in agricultural bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin in 1934, Bunting-Smith taught at Bennington, where she became aware of the educational discrepancies between men and women, her son said...
...Bennington in the late '30s, she...became aware that at some institutions at that time science for women was not respected or taken seriously," he said...
Prior to coming to Harvard, Bunting-Smith taught and performed research at Bennington College, Goucher College, Yale and Wellesley and served as the dean of Douglass College. Bunting-Smith was also a member of the National Science Foundation and was the first woman to serve as a commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
Jennifer Belle is an exceptionally funny writer, but it's hard to get past the fact that she never gives us a believable reason for Bennington's particular work-study program. Belle herself supported her writing habit by working in real estate. That will be the subject of her next, and surely more realistic, novel...
When did we start electing First Ladies? Stop this foolishness. LAWRENCE F. POWERS North Bennington, Vermont...