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...really wanted a college with grad students at it. At Bryn Mawr, it was getting a bit freakish because I was one of the oldest students there," Stotland says...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Late in the Game: Life as a Mature Harvard Student | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

Stotland failed her junior and senior years of high school but still obtained her General Equivalency Diploma (GED). She worked as a museum guide, an Omniplex projectionist and a free-lance caterer before attending Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania for two years, then coming to Harvard as a junior transfer student...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Late in the Game: Life as a Mature Harvard Student | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...next really big male opera singer may not be a tenor. Ask Joseph Volpe, the Met's general manager, what he is planning to do when Pavarotti and Domingo are no longer available to open the season, and the first name he mentions is that of Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. "At some point," he confides, "we're going to open with a Don Giovanni starring Bryn." No, Terfel can't sing a high C, but Volpe is betting that won't matter. "Bryn's the one who has all of the goods," he says. "He's the natural successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tuning Up New Tenors | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

While at Yale, he met Jane Cheney, a Bryn Mawr student to whom he proposed on their first date. Although Spock's mother had a low opinion of Bryn Mawr, Spock and Cheney were married in 1927. By that time, Spock was enrolled at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City, where he graduated first in his class in 1929 and set up a pediatric practice. His experiences during the 1930s were crucial to the development of his child-rearing theories. He realized that most of the problems brought to him were behavioral rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Loved Children: DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK (1903-1998) | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

DIED. WILLIAM LAMBERT, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning forebear of modern-day investigative journalists whose 1969 LIFE expose of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas (he accepted $20,000 from a stock swindler) led to the jurist's resignation nine days later; in Bryn Mawr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 23, 1998 | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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