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...Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith, echoes the prevailing view of contemporary technology when she says that "anyone in today's world who doesn't understand data processing is not educated." But she insists that the increasing emphasis on these matters leaves certain gaps. Says she: "The very strongly utilitarian emphasis in education, which is an effect of Sputnik and the cold war, has really removed from this culture something that was very profound in its 18th and 19th century roots, which was a sense that literacy and learning were ends in themselves for a democratic republic...
...Ker-thunk." Denis Martin's cruise missile from the point, which leaves a considerable dent in the back of the net. 5-2, Friars, five minutes left in the second period, and what's Carter saying on the radio...
...five persons elected to six-year terms as Overseers are Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman '62 (D-N.Y.); Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith College; Lewis Thomas, president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and Leo Goldberg '34, director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory...
...education, Jill Ker Conway was named the first woman president of Smith, the nation's largest women's liberal arts college (2,468 students...
Even while she spent her childhood herding sheep on the family ranch in Australia's Outback, Jill Ker Conway "took deep pleasure in ideas and wanted learning more than anything else." Now Conway, 41, brings that zeal to her job as the first woman president of Smith College, the alma mater of such feminists as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem...