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Whitehead was an undergraduate at Haverford College and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1947. He has served as partner or director of numerous business concerns and as trustee for Haverford, Bryn Mawr College and the Carnegie Corporation. He has co-chaired the Republican National Finance Committee, and served on the Council on Foreign Relations and the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...brought the award winners together in New York City. We were astounded and somewhat awed by their accomplishments. For instance, all of 21 years old, Jennifer Spruill is not only a recognized expert in her field, she is creating it. A native of Pittsburgh and an anthropology major at Bryn Mawr College, she is researching the effect that cultural differences have in resolving conflicts. And at the University of California, Berkeley, Troy Wilson took the first direct image of DNA, the wonderfully intricate molecule that makes up our genes...
Novelist Cynthia Ozick, at Bryn Mawr College, Pa.: "In the possession of a heritage, there are no princes and no paupers. Every reader is a potential citizen of influence with a claim on patrimony and on the widest and most inclusive recesses of the culture...
...much time to complete people's taxes, but there's no way we can double our fees. My rates are about 25% higher than last year, and like many others, I'm just eating the difference." Some have even given up, as did the tax preparer who was helping Bryn Barnard, a free-lance illustrator from New Jersey, and his wife Rebecca. Says Barnard: "He saw what was involved and decided he wants nothing to do with...
...Bryn Mawr President Mary Patterson McPherson believes single-sex institutions play an important role by contributing to a pluralistic approach to education. She frets about the sameness of so many American colleges: "There aren't many institutions anymore that have a very clear image." Futter concurs, "We are dealing with an increasingly franchised commodity. This isn't hamburgers; this is education." Finally, educational leaders are far from convinced that the women's movement has erased the prejudices that gave rise to women's colleges in the first place. "Maybe there will come a day when women and men will...