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Elise du Pont, educated at Miss Porter's School and Bryn Mawr, entered politics late in life, having raised four children before she started law school in Philadelphia at age 40. Her volunteer effort for the Reagan-Bush 1980 campaign won her a high-level appointment to the Agency for International Development in Washington in 1981. Rich, well bred and painstakingly polite, Du Pont hopes to coast in on the President's popularity in the conservative state. She has been coached on tax cuts and the balanced-budget amendment by G.O.P. Supply-Siders Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich...
Radcliffe in the thirties was thought of as something of a poor relation by the other women's colleges. The chic girls went to Vassar, the intellectuals to Bryn Mawr, and the comfortably placed bourgeois types to Wellesley and Smith. At least that was the way it seemed to us. We may have been Cinderellas but we knew something our haughty stepsisters did not. We were getting the best education in the country, and besides, and we weren't banished to the sticks to rusticate. Weekends at Yale and Princeton may have been the answer to a maiden's prayer...
DIED. Richmond Lattimore, 77, distinguished American poet and classical scholar whose literal yet lyrical translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were widely praised for their scrupulous adherence to the original Greek metrical pattern and syntax; of cancer; in Rosemont, Pa. A professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College from 1935 to 1971, Lattimore also produced five volumes of original poetry, which earned him critical praise and, only last month, a $10,000 award from the Academy of American Poets...
...student at the University of Pennsylvania; her father was director of the school's Flower Astronomical Observatory. Doolittle and Pound were not the only future literary stars in the vicinity. William Carlos Williams was also enrolled at Penn, and Marianne Moore attended nearby Bryn Mawr, where Hilda eventually dropped out after failing English. In 1911 she left for England and Pound, who was already there politicking for modernism and cutting a rebellious figure in velvet jacket and flowing tie. He edited her new poems in the British Museum bun shop, trimmed her byline down to initials and made...
Mayman herself is no stranger to the arts. A 1966 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Mayman says she has studied the piano for 13 years, and taken painting, drawing and dance lessons. After college, Mayman's various activities included: working as an associate director of admissions at Mt. Holyoke College: acting director of admissions at her alma mater: and living in Puerto Rico and England for a year a piece For two years Mayman worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, one year coordinating the BSO's 90th anniversary and another fundraising as the assistant director...