rThe LE~LEY COLLEQ-E CUR!LENT Summer1982

. Joyce Baylor, '82G, and Jenny Commencement rlbe LE~LEY COLLEQ:E C 1982 AlumniWeekend

State of the College Report

by Jennifer Page* programs in PMBI offer an opportu­ nity to those who are already em­ Lesley has changed over a period ployed in middle management posi­ of time, yet the heart of the College tions to finish their bachelor's degrees remains a women's college for under­ or to earn a master's degree by learn­ graduate students who are training in ing about personnel management, the fields of education and other re­ crisis intervention, long-range plan­ lated services. Fifty years ago that ning, and fiscal management. included programs in domestic sci­ The industries where we now have ence. Today it includes the Child and these programs are already doing a Community major which prepares good job of giving technological sup­ students to work with children in non­ port to their managers. What indus­ teaching settings .... tries have been crying out for are The Graduate School too has programs that help their managers changed over the years and now com­ become better at working with people. prises several divisions. It started out I can't imagine a better place to learn with programs in Education and Spe­ how to do that than at Lesley College. cial Education, but today its divisions We are experiencing enormous suc­ and willing to travel by offering student Vice President Jennifer Page (right) chats with also offer programs in Management; cess with PMBI. ... teaching programs in England and in Julie Paige, '76, and Virginia Andrews Lassieur, Mental Health, including Counseling The total picture for the institution Arizona. '32, and her husband Eugene at the Pre-Pops Supper . Psychology and the Institute for the is alive and well. The Placement Office What are the challenges that the Arts and Human Development; and is busy finding jobs for our graduates. College faces? Inflation. The College Outreach and Alternative Education From a year ago, in spite of Mas­ is not well endowed. We continue to with campuses throughout the coun­ sachusetts Proposition 2½ and the depend pn the tuition that we gener­ try and even some abroad in Germany decline in the elementary school ate. We need endowments for schol­ and Israel. population, 84 percent of the under­ arships and for facilities. As the fed­ Another endeavor of the College is graduate students seeking positions eral government moves away from in bilingual education. For several were placed in teaching and teaching funding of major scholarships and years we have had a major grant related fields. financial support for students, we will from the federal government to print This Spring Lesley was host to a need to find other sources of support. and disseminate educational mate­ 3-day MERC Conference (Mass. Edu­ Publicity and recognition! We need to rials for children who are bilingual. cational Recruiting Consortium). continue to face the challenge of mak­ The grant for these foreign language One-hundred-twenty educational ing the College known throughout materials is for $700,000 a year and recruiters were on campus from fifty­ the country. To do this, we need the is awarded to Lesley's Evaluation, nine school systems around the coun­ help of alumni, parents, and friends Dissemination and Assessment Cen­ try. The Conference was attended by as well as the able professional work ter located on the Washington Hill students and placement officers from of our admissions counselors and our campus. colleges throughout Massachusetts. placement officers. These are the About four years ago the National An extraordinary number of job offers challenges for us: placements, re­ Center of Economic Education for came to our students from recruiters cruitment, recognition, and financial Children was founded by the College. who attended. The teaching market backing. We have the programs, we In 1979 it gained national attention in Massachusetts is still not good but have the campus, we have a good when President Jimmy Carter invited Texas, Florida, Georgia, southern story to tell, and we enjoy telling it. senior Lesley administrators to the California, Arizona, New York City, We are bringing in a new Director Oval Office of the White House to Maryland, and pockets of Utah have of Alumni and will rebuild the alumni announce and hail the creation of the an enormous teacher need. network. We value the alumni, and Center. We expect the Center to make Peg MacDonald, head of our Place­ look forward to increased alumni a major impact on teachers through­ ment Office, said that if a school sys­ activity. We think that alumni are out the country as we develop teacher­ tem has had one Lesley graduate, it very, very important to the long-range training programs and materials in will want more. We not only bring survival of the College. I see it as a economic education for children in recruiters to Lesley, but also Peg and two-way street: The alumni can be grades K-6. her staff travel to school systems all helpful to the College. It is in their Our most recent venture is PMBI over the country telling about the best interest that the College do well (Programs in Management for Busi­ College and our students and en­ because the greater the reputation of ness and Industry). PMBI in some couraging recruiters to come to the the College, the more confident they respects presents the most radical campus themselves. will be about the direction of their departure from what we have been Part of our overall strategy is to lives, and the more the College can doing hitherto .... We have already train our students that "the world" do to help them. discovered, by offering diverse pro­ does exist beyond the confines of What can you as individuals do? In grams in the Graduate and Under­ Massachusetts! Each year we invite addition to providing financial sup­ graduate Schools, that the applied several recruiters to the campus to port, you can continue to work with behavioral sciences which have been talk with groups of students, and we the Admissions and the Placement an important theoretical underpinning interview them on videotape about offices keeping us in touch with pro­ of the teacher education programs their cities or states. Gradually we spective students and job oppor­ *Jennifer Page has served as Acting Executive Vice President during the sabbatical of Robert also have relevance for adults who are building a video library about tunities. And, finally, we urge you to work with people in business .... The teaching and living in many different Lewis. She is the former Head of the Education continue to tell the Lesley story wher­ Division of the Undergraduate School. In July, parts of the country. We also encour­ ever you go. 1982, she assumed new responsibilities as Vice age students to become independent President for Administration. 2 1982 AlumniWeekend

must go with a fundraiser in order to Cambridge; and Mimi Almeida, '78, make an impression on the prospec­ Program Coordinator, Recognition tive donor. She said, "I never accept Programs and Planning, E.F. Hutton, more than $100 from anyone. I don't New York. Each discussed the skills accept money from political action and tactics needed to make the trans­ groups or other organizations, but do ition from education to business. Com­ accept their endorsement." mon to all was having the courage to Roxanne said that money for cam­ take risks and being in the right place paigns is spent liberally in Cambridge. at the right time. She and Merle spent about the same, Mimi, for example, always carried but the money went further in Maine. a resume, even on a Puerto Rican She said, "My campaign was mostly beach where she had an unplanned door-to-door because I couldn't afford successful interview for a job. Donna the higher cost of mailings. Money emphasized the need for negotiating can make or break a situation." Often skills. Beverly said it was important local politicians support another can­ to analyze one's teaching skills and didate with contributions from their translate them to business skills. Mary Mindess, Professor of Education, makes a point at her seminar. campaign committees. She accepted Teachers, she said, might feel timid no more than $100. initially when entering the business "So You Have a Gifted The candidates also faced special world but should see themselves as problems, such as, Who accompanies more than nurturers. All agreed that Child" you. The female candidate never goes a certain amount of bravado was Mary Mindess, Professor of Educa­ anywhere alone. Roxanne's father or necessary and the ability to sell one's tion, led the "So You Have a Gifted brother escorted her. Merle said if self, qualities they felt they had gained at Lesley. Child" Seminar. Several years ago a she were seen with an unrelated man Lesley project team was given a grant people would say she was sleeping They talked about the importance of networking, workshops, and sup­ to study the gifted child. The team with him or her marriage was on the port groups. The audience was hungry defined gifted and talented children rocks. Other common problems are Roxanne Leary, '75, Attorney, (left) and Repre­ for tips on how to make the necessary as those who are able to put ideas caring for your pocketbook, and wear­ sentative Merle Hoyte Nelson, '57 transition. Each speaker then talked together in unusual ways. This defini­ ing hair short so it is easy to care for, a bit about herself. tion is useful because it provides a full skirts so slips won't show, and Mimi Almeida had gained valuable key to a particular thinking style. The Women in Politics lipstick so you don't look exhausted. The skills transferable from teacher experience while working with Mary In deciding how to aid a child's Seminar social and emotional development, education include being able to trans­ Mindess on the Kindergarten Confer­ mit an idea simply and clearly and ence at Lesley. The skills which she she said one must decide to what Merle Royte Nelson, '57, a member being at ease before a group. Merle gained she transferred to E.F. Hutton degr_eethe characteristics ofthe_gifted of theMaine House oiHepres.entk__ satcr,--''lam not afraid to make a as Program Coordinator. Her advice are present in a particular child. Gifted tives, and Roxanne Leary, '75, Attor­ speech.°'' Roxanne had been a substi­ was to take advantage of the oppor­ children are often observant, curious, ney, spoke about the transition from tute teacher where she was forced "to tunities offered at Lesley beyond the and questioning. They become persis­ education to politics in a seminar led walk in cold" to a classroom everyday course work. tent and often absorbed and involved by Mary Dick, '82. and to memorize names. "This helps Donna Buonopane, Franchise Di­ in an activity. They can be critical, Merle decided to run for office be­ in a campaign," she said, "because rector for a specialty gift shop, travels expressive, inventive. They may also cause, she said, "I had a feeling of you are constantly meeting new one or two weeks a month to set up be creative, versatile, independent, restlessness at my age. I wanted to be people." Teachers also deal with stores and select new locations. When energetic, sensitive, physically coor­ taken seriously and to influence people people who have different per­ at Lesley, she had been a teaching dinated, friendly, outgoing, and per­ beyond my own circle. How clever I sonalities and who are from diverse assistant in the Education/Psychology ceptive. This list represents some of was to stumble on politics. It is to backgrounds. Junior Student Teaching Program. the characteristics of some gifted women's advantage to run for office. Merle concluded by saying that This gave her the opportunity to learn children. They gain recognition, get the same people have nice warm feelings about many of the leadership skills that she If there is a gifted child in the class­ pay as men, and don't need special teachers - all to your advantage. uses today. room or home, one should be mindful education to run. Women of my age of the benefits and the possible prob­ should look at politics." lems present, said Professor Mindess. Roxanne had long been interested Once aware of potential problems, in politics. She said, "I had the bug. I one can take specific steps. just waited for the opportunity to For example, teachers should re­ come. Running for School Committee member that gifted children are often seemed right for me." creative. The teacher may give them Being a female candidate in Cam­ an assignment and expect them to bridge presented no problems for respond in a certain way and to follow Roxanne. It has a strong liberal and certain prescribed procedures. Gifted college population who accept women children, however, may get the correct in politics. "It's second nature for answer in an unorthodox way. Such a them," she said. Old-Cambridge child is often inventive and may reason people accepted her as the "girl next in clever, unique ways to find original door," because she grew up in the Lisa Ehrlich, '74, (far left, dark blouse), Donna Buonopane, '78, Mimi Almeida, 78, Beverly Siskind solutions to problems. The teacher city. Kahn, '65, and Karen Robinson, Division Head for Education . must either make adaptations in the Merle said she did well in Maine, assignment or find a way to take into and is running for her eighth year. account the child's learning style. Because she has a man's name, she Gifted children may put ideas to­ at first was advised not to put her Transitions to Business Lisa Ehrlich who teaches design gether in an original fashion. This picture in any publications. But, she and technology at Digital has literally can threaten certain people. Gifted said, she quickly cast off that idea. The Transitions to Business Semi­ mixed the two worlds. children need help in becoming aware Years ago some people would not nar was led by Karen S. Robinson, Beverly Kahn started her own busi­ of this. Professor Mindess suggested have voted for a woman, wouldn't Division Head for Education and ness, New Dimensions, placing people that a possible solution is to engage have given her a chance. Coordinator of Field Placements. The "in the high tech area." To broaden gifted children in identifying and solv­ Raising money is very hard for speakers were Beverly Siskind Kahn, the scope of her agency she at first ing problems, then providing them women, both agreed. Merle said that '65, owner of New Dimensions - took computer science and marketing with the challenge: Can you find a men can go to their peers for financ­ Executive Search Technical Place­ courses and is today enrolled in a different way to do the same task? ing. They are taken more seriously ment, Swampscott; Lisa R. Ehrlich, business program at Boston CoHege. than women and don't have to prove '74, Senior Educational Specialist, All made the successful transition themselves. She has a male Treasurer Digital Equipment Corporation, Bed­ and contributed much to this lively "who goes after the money." When ford; Donna Buonopane, '78, Fran­ session. asking for "big money," a woman chise Director, Have a Heart, Inc., 3 1982 AlumniWeekend

Helen O'Malley Jackman Computers in Education Eileen Macleod had been a Ilda charges a one-time fee for graduate student in Counseling Psy­ visiting the school system and on an Richard Carter, Lecturer in Com­ chology at Lesley. She became inter­ hourly basis for a lesson. When she puter Science, led a "hands-on work­ ested in alcoholism counseling, which first sees a child she spends some shop" for alumni. He said that two she teaches at Salem State College, time on remediation of the skills the new programs have been instituted at because there was alcoholism in her child never attained and needs in Lesley. In the Undergraduate School family. "It sort of evolved," she said. order to progress, and some time on a computer science minor has been Ilda King had been a Bilingual classwork. She also works with the added to the curriculum. All freshmen Portuguese teacher in Cambridge severely reading disabled, e.g. a sixth­ are now required to take a two-credit from 1974-76. She then became a grader who reads on a first-grade Computer Literacy course. In the Learning Disabilities (L.D.) Tutor and level. ' Graduate School a Master's degree Education consultant. She diagnoses She usually sees a child two hours and a CAGS in Computers in Educa­ learning style and academic weak­ a week for a remedial situation and tion have been started. nesses, and tutors adults and children, three for a more serious problem. Why is Lesley doing this? It has with or without an L.D. She works She acts as a liaison between the been said that within the next few with parents, the child, and the school family and the school, interpreting years 20 percent of the available jobs system to develop an appropriate tests, offering a second opinion, and will demand some knowledge of com­ educational plan. Her clients came to talking to the school authorities. puters and 60 percent will depend on her by "word-of-mouth," by advertis­ Often the parents feel intimidated by them. ing, and through the Massachusetts the technical jargon and welcome Microcomputers are quickly be­ General Hospital (M.G.H.). In 1977 having her deal with educational coming part of the educational scene. she completed a program at M.G.H. authorities. One producer of educational micro­ in therapy for Specific Reading Dis­ Eileen said, "The power of believing computer programs recently said that ability. M.G.H. has a waiting list for has enriched me and has enabled me the demand for these educational tutoring and has since referred parents to do anything I want." She clears out "Keeping busy is the secret of being to her. negative thinking, meditates, opens happy," might be the words Helen her mind to positive ideas, and passes O'Malley Jackman, '23, would choose them on to her clients and students. to describe her life, both past and She said, "We're living in a world of present. Helen was the "grande dame" negativity. We must reprogram our­ of Alumni Weekend June 25-27. As selves to a positive way of life." She representative of the most senior stressed the importance of support Lesley Class present, she graduated groups and the rejection of negative 59 years ago! feedback. Helen spent several years substitute In discussing how to succeed as an teaching following her Lesley gradua­ L.D. Tutor , Ilda talked about the im­ tion before earning her LLB. from portance of in-depth training and an Portia Law School in 1928. She spent extensive testing background. "Above the next 54 years in private practice all," she said, "it is important to be as a Real Estate Title Examiner and honest with the parents, because by consultant to bank attorneys before the time they come to you they're retiring in 1980 at the age of 78. In jaded. They have had it. They want to 1951 she married William Jackman, know for certain, Is this the ultimate who died in 1972. Richard Carter, Lecturer in Computer Science, (right) for my child?" Helen was also actively involved in with Mary Greene Freeman (left) and Irene Bucek, '29 Each talked of the value of her Cambridge civic affairs, including the Lesley education. Eileen said she feels materials is far outstripping the ability Cambridge Chapter of the American a great sense of gratitude to Lesley for Red Cross, where she served as a of his company to produce them. And having given her the joy, happiness , during the last year the cost of some Board Member for 25 years. In 1949, and peace which she has in her life while Director of the Cambridge Civic microcomputers has actually dropped now. below $100! Although computers Association, she was drafted by that seem to be here to stay, the question After the Seminars, many of the group to run for election to the City of how they will be used is still open. alumni visited the John F. Kennedy Council Board, the first woman ever Will they be used as electronic drill Library. In the evening, they had a so endorsed. "I lost," she recalls and practice machines pushing chil- light supper in Alumni Hall and then ruefully. dren into a common and limiting were off to an Evening at Pops. An In the midst of all this, Helen still mold, or as liberating tools freeing After-Pops Party at the Cafe Amalfi found time for Lesley causes, serving children's minds to create, discover, wound up the evening and the sched­ on the Alumni Board of Directors and explore. uled programs for the 1982 Alumni from 1948 to 1951. She co-chaired Current use seems to lead toward Weekend. - Kathryn Furlong her 25th Reunion in 1948, and was what Seymour Papert, the developer chairman of her 40th in 1963. She of the Logo computer language, de­ was also active in her church's Parish scribes as the computer programming Council, and served on the Board of the child: electronic page-turners that Entrepreneurs Ilda Carreiro King, '74, and Directors of CASPAR, an organiza­ run students through repetitive se­ Eileen Macleod, '79G tion devoted to helping alcoholics. quences of exercises. An alternative Eileen's clients come to her also In keeping with her 1980 retirement possibility does exist: Computers can through "word-of-mouth," through from business, Helen in that year also be used to create new learning envi­ teaching at Salem State, and through decided to resign her memberships in ronments to enhance children's capa­ Alcoholics Anonymous (M) and everything except The State Club of city to learn, think, and deal with new Al-Anon. She practices in her home. Massachusetts, a bipartisan political and complex phenomena. She is not a traditional therapist, but organization whose "dinners are good advocates exercise and nutrition. She and speakers are interesting," as she Entrepreneurship in uses the holistic healing approach puts it. Human Services and believes in getting in touch with Luckily for Lesley, Helen also main­ the power that is within each of us. tains her commitment to her alma The Entrepreneurship in Human Her clients are co-alcoholics (the mater. A longtime Cambridge resi­ Services seminar was led by Mary spouse or significant person who dent, she enjoys visiting the campus Huegel, Dean of the Outreach and feeds into and enables the alcoholic frequently in addition to returning for Alternative Education Division of the to continue) and the para-alcoholics her 50th and 55th Reunions in 1973 Graduate School. Ilda Carreiro King, (the children or others who are af­ and 1978. Helen is already lociking '74, a Learning Disabilities Tutor, and forward to next June's Reunion '83, fected by the disease.) Joan Bennett Kennedy, '81G, spoke about the Eileen Macleod, '79G, an Alcohol Eileen has a contract with her value of her Lesley education at the Alumni promising, "With luck and if my Education Counselor, talked about clients: They must exercise and Luncheon, The Keynote Speaker, Dr, Winifred health holds out, I'll move in early their experiences. change their diets, and they must go Lair, Professor of Psychology, reminisced and stay late for my 60th!" to M or Al-Anon. about her years at Lesley. 4 Commencement

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a. Lesley Corporator Charles A. Pappas and his wife Helen, parents of 1982 graduate Betsy, accept from Dr. Don Orton, President, the citation for Thomas A. Pappas, founder of a Lesley scholarship fund.

b. Cathy Maccini , '82 a One way to live forever is through c. Ruth 8. Love, General Superintendent of Schools, Chicago Board of Education children. Give them your very best . . . . I say to the cynics, sure, education d. Jennifer Page, Vice President for Adminis­ Excerpts from is expensive, but it's a bargain when tration, (left) and Anne E. Chisholm, Project Commencement Address of compared to the alternatives - wel­ C Director of the Parents Center of Parents' and fare, unemployment, juvenile hall, Children's Services of the Children's Mission, RuthB. Love Boston, and recipient ofthe Annual President's prison .... I have learned a few funda- Award mental truths about education ... . First, all children can learn .... It is e. Michelle Nadeau, '82, voted the outstanding sometimes tempting to equate poverty graduate of her class by faculty and adminis­ tration , recipient of the Edith Lesley Wolfard with inability to learn, just as it is Award sometimes tempting to believe that children who do not speak English f. Retiring faculty member, Avis Brenner, cannot learn .... Second, the expec­ receives an honorary citation from Dr. George tations that teachers set for their Miller, Vice President and Dean for Academic students are powerful determiners of Affairs. what the students will actually achieve .... Third, there should be only one standard of minimum re­ quirements. Schools must decide what knowledge and understanding students must acquire in order to pass or be promoted, and then insist that every child meet these minimum standards .... Fourth, the ultimate goal of education is to teach students how to think. ... Let me quickly sketch my outstanding teacher. First, she is present. Good instruction requires continuity .... Second, [she] is intel­ lectually curious .... [She] greets each day with optimism and determi­ nation .... Most important, she has compassion .... [She] likes and re- spects children .... [She] is proud of her accomplishments and is prepared to be accountable for doing her job . . . . If we create, perpetuate, and isolate a class of the permanently poor, we are sowing seeds of destruction for this country. If we abandon the public school systems to the poor, fail to keep our standards high, and fail to provide adequate funding for these schools, we leave these children no real options in life. We are creating social dynamite that threatens the very fabric of our nation .... As an interested party, I am encouraging you to consider teaching in the public schools of our cities. That is where the great challenge and the great opportunity and frontier are today ....

b 5 NOTES OF CURRENTINTEREST

New Vice President Dean/Director of PMBI New Institutional Relations Appointed Director Linda Escobedo, former Assistant Dean Jennifer Page, who served as Acting and Graduate School Teacher Certifica­ Kathryn K. Furlong, former Director of Executive Vice President of Lesley College tion Officer, has been appointed Dean Publications at Lesley College, became its for 1981-82, was appointed Vice President and Director of PMBI (Programs in Man­ Director of Institutional Relations in for Administration by Lesley President agement for Business and Industry). August. Don A. Orton on July 1. Ms. Escobedo holds B.A. and M.A. Ms. Furlong has a B.A. degree from Ms. Page holds degrees from Swarth­ degrees from the University of Denver in Simmons College in communications and more College and Harvard Graduate education and special education. She has art history. She was previously Director School of Education . She joined the Lesley completed all of her doctoral course work of Publications and Public Relations at teaching faculty in 1970. Prior to serving at U.C.L.A. in abnormal psychology and Pine Manor College, and Instructor of as Acting Vice President, she held the organizational behavior. Magazine Publishing and Editor of the position of Division Head for Education In addition, she taught in the Manage­ Simmons Review at Simmons College. and Assistant Dean of Education. ment Division of the Graduate School for three years and was principal of an elementary school. She has written numerous grants re­ lated to staff development and to desegre­ gation order for public schools, and is co­ author of the book Tools for Leaming. Ms. Escobedo is married and lives in Concord. Mona Boyd New Personnel Director

Mona Boyd joined the Lesley Commu­ nity in April, 1982, as Director of Person­ nel. A graduate of Boston University, Ms. Boyd has more than six years of personnel experience, most recently as Human Resource Manager with the Mas­ sachusetts Department of Social Services. Prior to that, she was Director of Recruit­ ment and Selection with the Department of Correction, and Personnel Generalist and ANEEO Administrator with the Department of Youth Services. Ms. Boyd is a member of Black Women Kathryn Furlong Sally Lenhardt for Policy Action and TransAfrica. DMDI Management Seminars The Graduate School's Division of Graduate School Outreach and Alternative Education Appointments launched a new program in late August, the Lesley-Dible Management Develop­ Sally Lenhardt, former Director of ment Institute. DMDI seminars in man­ Recruitment and Information Services at Linda Escobedo agement will be offered at twenty locations the Graduate School, has been named throughout New England, New York, and Assistant Dean for Information and Stu­ Economic Center Names Pennsylvania during October, November, dent Services. New Staff and December. Seminar Topics include Ms. Lenhardt will supervise internal Assertiveness Training for Managers, and external information dissemination Robert W. Reinke is the new Director of Fundamentals of Data Processing, Funda­ for the Graduate School including publi­ The National Center of Economic Educa­ mentals of Professional Selling, Practical cations, media relations, and advertising. tion for Children at Lesley College. Mr. Negotiating Skills, and Project Planning She will continue as coordinator and Reinke will be assisted by a new team of and Management. Each daylong seminar supervisor of recruitment practices within professional staff as the Center begins its is taught by experienced management the Graduate School's various divisions. third year of operations. professionals who have had works pub­ A graduate of Pennsylvania State Uni­ A native of Minnesota, Mr. Reinke lished and who have taught management versity, Ms. Lenhardt was coordinator of began his career in economic education skills. the Southwest Pennsylvania Association in the Robbinsdale School System in DMDI is a Fairfield, California, organi­ of Social Workers before joining Lesley suburban Minneapolis. He has been a zation, owned and directed by Donald College in 1979. visiting professor at four universities Dible. He is author of the best-selling James Magee, Assistant Dean of the across the country and spent two years as book, Up Your Organization, and other Graduate School, has taken on the addi­ an instructor in economics at Anoka major works on management. Susan tional responsibility of teacher certifica­ Ramsey Community College in Min­ Bicknell, Director of the Lesley-DMDI Carleen Albonizio tion and accreditation. nesota. He has also served as the Assistant Seminars, and Mary Huegel, Dean of the Director for the Center for Economic Assistant Dean for Student Division of Outreach and Alternative Education at the University of Minnesota Education, feel that Lesley's co-sponsoring and as Corporate Manager of Economic Services these top-quality seminars with DMDI is Education at A-T-O, Inc., in Cleveland. an exciting new area for the College. Carleen Albonizio became the new Most recently he was Director of the Assistant Dean of Students and Director Cleveland Center for Economic Education of Residence Halls this summer, replacing In Memoriam at John Carroll University in Cleveland. former Assistant Dean Mary Williams, Mr. Reinke earned his B.S. and M.A. who left Lesley to pursue private interests. The Lesley Community was saddened degrees in economics and social studies She was formerly Assistant Director of by the death on April 9, 1982, of Lesley education, and received his Ph.D. in edu­ Residential Life at Keene State College in College Corporator Mrs. Emmy cation and economics education from the New Hampshire. Farnsworth Littlefield. Born in Winchester, University of Minnesota in 1982. He and Ms. Albonizio has a B.A. in sociology Mrs. Littlefield was a teacher by training, his wife, Diane, and three daughters are and elementary education from Franklin graduating from Columbia University in residents of Boxford, Massachusetts. Pierce College, and an M.A. in student 1943 and also receiving her master's Donald Miltner, formerly Vice President personnel administration from New York degree in education there. of Public Affairs, is Vice President and University. In addition to her experience Mrs. Littlefield was elected a Lesley Director of The National Economic Center at Keene State College, she has held Corporator in 1977. Her interest in teach­ Foundation, the development "arm" of administrative positions at Pratt Institute ing and teacher education extended The National Center. in Brooklyn and The Rockefeller Founda­ beyond her active participation in Lesley James K. Blake, former Director of tion. She is a member of the American affairs to commitments with Boston Chil­ Public Relations, is Director of Marketing College Personnel Association, National dren's Hospital and the Weston Schools, for The Foundation. Association of Student Personnel Admin­ where for many years she worked with Completing the staff are Eleanor Sabini, istrators, and the American Association handicapped children. Robert W. Reinke Staff Associate of The National Center, of University Women as well as a Franklin and Cathy Vanden Heuvel, Foundation Pierce College Trustee. Development Associate. 6

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New Alumni Director Named 1925 Hannah Douglas Roberts has been Bessie Brown Bliven and her husband, named Director of Alumni Affairs at Lesley Richard, observed their 50th Wedding An­ College and assumed her new duties in niversary last September, 1981. "How many September, 1982. others in the Class of '25 have been married fifty years ... or more?" wonders Bessie. Formerly Director of Alumni Relations "Frank and I are well, and enjoying six at her alma mater, Hampshire College in months of the year in Marion and six months in Amherst, Ms. Roberts also has an exten­ Florida," writes Mary McCarron Meade. Her sive background in education and chil­ husband plays a lot of golf, she reports, "while I ride nine holes three times a week." The dren's services. Meades spent the summers of 1978-80 in Ms. Roberts lists among her early Ireland salmon fishing, and planned to spend achievements her entry as the first woman the summer of '82 in Northern England. Adds to the all-male Holderness Preparatory Mary, "We are smiling away our aches and School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. pains." Psychology and education were her inter­ "My sincere thanks and appreciation to all ests while a student at Hampshire College, who have responded to my letter requesting Fiftieth Anniversary, Class of 1932 where she earned her B.A. in 1975. She donations to the Lesley College Annual Fund!" spent several years teaching in Scotland writes Gretta Becker Sauer. "We are all and England, where she was a drama and proud of the 'Golden Eagles' of '25 who have given so generously each year ." Gretta sends music therapist for disturbed and mentally news of her six grandchildren, who are doing handicapped children. She then returned well in school and college. She reports that her to Massachusetts to become Parent antique shop continues to grow and expand. Director for Preschool Programs in Gretta is still substituting in Mena (Arkansas) Northampton, and also served as Director Public Schools several days a month so Lesley of the Hampshire Community Action is still a big part of her life. "One is so happy Commission Group Day Care Programs. when busy," she concludes. Ms. Roberts worked in several adminis­ trative capacities at the University of Vermont while earning her M.Ed. in Or­ 1928 ganizational and Human Resource Doris Nelson Harrington and her husband Development in 1979, and also served as celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on a guidance and career counselor for South May 2 with a church reception and family Burlington Middle School. As a Human "Homecoming" in Montross, VA, given jointly Services Aide for Vermont State Agency by their families. "We are both in good health," of Human Services in Waterbury, she writes Doris, "and having a wonderful time." assisted in planning for children's foster care and worked as a youth career 1942 counselor. Ms. Roberts has experience in adminis­ From Troy, NY, Ann Swenson Sharke tering all aspects of alumni programs and sends news of the recent births of two grand­ Twenty-fifth Anniversary , Class of 1957 events, and is looking forward to her first children, Elan and Ethan, born to her daughter "Lesley semester" and beyond. Kirsten and her husband, a minister of Friedans United Church of Christ in Schenectady. Her other daughter, Ingrid, is head librarian for the over the years. Times Record in Troy. Husband Karl is head Hammond Hall Revisited chemist for the City of Troy Water Treatment Mrs. Eva Spanos, the present Mary Leeds Johnson, '77G Plant, and Ann is in her ninth year as patient by Moyra Traupe* owner, has lived at 39 for 25 years. representative at the Samaritan Hospital in She and her husband had purchased Mary Leeds Johnson, '77G, has been Troy, a job she "just loves." Over a leisurely breakfast in Char­ the house from the person who bought appointed Head of the Cambridge Friends School. Mary received her master's in lie's Bookstore Cafe on the Sunday it from Lesley College. The house is now split into apart­ counseling from Lesley and has been a morning of Alumni Weekend, some­ therapist and group leader for the past one suggested that it might be nice to ments, but Mrs. Spanos let us look several years. Prior to that she was a saunter over to Hammond Hall to see around as much as possible. We teaching assistant at Harvard University In Memoriam where Lesley students of the thirties toured her own apartment and the and earned her master's in elementary had lived. Of course, few of us had former Hammond Hall residents were education from the Harvard Graduate Helen Freeman Coughlin, founder of ever heard of Hammond Hall or for able to compare things then and now. School of Education. She has taught all the Carroll-Hall School of the Lesley that matter of Hammond Street, lo­ A wall had been put up here, a fire­ elementary grades, and math and science College Schools for Children, died July 8 cated off Oxford Street. place removed there, and so on. I at Cambridge Friends School for seven in Boston. A dedicated teacher of special It was a perfect morning for a walk think it turned out to be the highlight years. needs children in Dorchester, Mrs. Mary grew up in Philadelphia and is a Coughlin in the early 1950s established a and Kay Concannon, '32, Laura of the weekend for these alumnae. Before we left, Mrs. Spanos disap­ Friend. She has lived in Cambridge for municipal day camp at Castle Island for Rogers Tuttle, '32, and Barbara Davis over 25 years, and was a founder of the physically and emotionally handicapped Young, '33, reminisced as we walked peared down the basement stairs Cambridge Friends School. Her three children. This served as a model for similar along Hammond Street. Suddenly saying that she had a souvenir for us. children, Daniel, Sarah, and Joanna camps later established in South Boston they all stopped in front of 39, a large We could not think what it could be. Mendelsohn, are all CFS alumni. In addi­ and Jamaica Plain. She was the co­ and gracious house, painted red with After several minutes and much tion to serving as assistant clerk of the founder of Harmony Hill, an overnight white trim. A hedge of flowering hon­ bumping and thudding from the base­ Board of Trustees of Cambridge Friends camp in Cohasset for emotionally handi­ eysuckle cascaded over the fence and ment, she reappeared with her trea­ School since 1980, Mary's memberships capped youth. its wonderful scent assailed our nos­ sure in tow. in other organizations include the Cam­ In 1957, Mrs. Coughlin became director trils. Obviously, somebody cared a It was the old slate message board bridge Family and Children's Service, of the Carroll-Hall School, and also taught Cambridge Alternative Public School, several courses at Lesley, including "The great deal about the garden. The which had hung by the telephone at the back stairs in the 1930s. It looked and the Cambridge Civic Association. Psychology of Subnormal and Unadjusted · house is on a triangular lot and we Children." In addition to her work as a as if it had been much used and had were thus able to walk around on the Alumna Publishes Book teacher and administrator, she was an sidewalk and get a good view of the held many important messages. It active member of the Greater Boston certainly brought back a flood of back. Ingrid Glatz Elliott, '80, wrote, designed, Association for Mentally Retarded Chil­ It was great fun to hear some of the memories. Kay Concannon took it and published the book, Hospital Road­ dren, past president of the Massachusetts stories of incidents that had taken home with her to Lowell. This made map, "to help explain the hospital experi­ Special Class Teachers Association, and place at Hammond Hall. I am sure it me wonder whether Lesley might not ence to young children." member of the Dorchester Historical was our excited chatter that brought benefit from the creation of a small Ingrid received her B.S. degree from Society. the owner of the house to the back "museum," maybe in a corner ofthe Lesley in Continuing Education in the door. I explained our reasons for giv­ Library, where treasures from years preschool and director program. In 1976 ing her home such attention, and she gone by could be displayed. she studied "Human Growth and Devel­ promptly invited us in. This was more opment," with Mary Mindess, Professor of than we could have hoped for. In we *Moyra Traupe was the Joint Coordinator with Education, who later was her advisor for trooped and it appeared that the en­ Susan Bennan of Alumni Weekend. She also the project. assists Mary Mindess with the Kindergarten Ingrid is studying for a Master's degree trance hallway had changed little Conference. on Children in Health-care Settings at Wheelock College. 7

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found her present husband, Ted, although the 1943 1967 two of them grew up only 30 miles apart in New York. They were married October 17 in Mary-1.oai- Hood Harvey enjoyed a Keeping busy with Robin (11) and Stephen Delmar, NY. Jamie enjoys Houston, which she March reunion with classmate Elaine (8) is Mwne Watstein Kates, who is also a describes as a "big boomtown," and the Blun­ Engagements Cavanaugh in Newton. Mary-Louise and her producer and news reporter for cable TV in dells are in the process of buying a home. With Marilyn Beth Alexander '80, Barney H. husband, David, continue to be active in Keene Hartford. Maxine's husband, Dick, is an OB­ the Gulf nearby and Texas history well• Foltman State College academic life and community GYN specialist at Hartford Hospital. Maxine preserved in the area, Jamie finds Houston an Lisa Antupit '81, Peter D. Besen activities in Keene, NH. She wishes to publicly reports that her daughter, Robin, is already interesting and challenging place to live. "We Donna Buonopane '78, Leonard F. Pinto congratulate her classmate, Elaine, who was convinced she wants to go to Lesley! do miss the North at times," she reports, Janet Jean Cavallaro '77, Frank George presented the Lasell Junior College Medallion The family of Rosemary Dvento Penta "especially during the hot, humid summer, but Meesa,Jr. Award for her many years as Director of the has moved from Middletown to West Long not at all during the winter." Karen T. Dworman '81, Michael J. Fay Child Study Center. Mary-Louise is looking Branch, NJ. Rosemary's husband, Carmen, is Edith Klausner has been appointed princi­ Charlene Gavrilles '78, Malcolm Trebach forward to joining all her 1943 classmates at a partner and CPA at Gentile, Weiner and pal of The School in Rose Valley, Moylan, PA. Carol E. Goulian '73, John Bassett Place, II their 40th Lesley Reunion next spring! Penta. Their children are Kristen (11), Michael The School in Rose Valley, a small independent Joan Ellen Greenberg '81, John Coleman Wain (6), and Jonathan (3). school in the Philadelphia area, was founded in Marjorie Ruth Hurwitz '80, Michael Marc 1929 on the principles of Dewey, and, adds Jacobson 1946 Edith, "is well-known as a progressive school Janice Elizabeth Hutchinson '79, Stephen Paul 1970 that continues to operate in much the same Wilkins Vermont College of Norwich Univ. awarded manner as it did in Dewey's era." Edith lives in Anne Moor Jennison '82, George Blasko Marilyn Cummings Hart an honorary Doctor Michel-e A. Kozinetz, of Conway, SC, Norristown. Elizabeth Victoria Jolliffe '79, David Scott of Humane Letters at commencement this writes, "1981-82 has been a very good year for Elaine Laponte has married William Kenyon June. Marilyn's husband, Loring, has served as this 1970 graduate." She is working on courses Austin Trible, Jr. They live in Dunbrooke, VA, Maria Andrea Kelley '79, James Marriott president of Norwich for the past ten years. Her which will lead to a doctorate in educational where Elaine is an L.D. teacher at Warsaw Guyer citation expressed appreciation for Marilyn's administration. Michelene plans two more Junior High School. Her husband is co-owner Susan Beth Lovins '80, Lawrence Jay Weiner support of campus activities as the president's years of classroom work before a total commit• of a building supply company in Mary Elizabeth Lyman '77, Robert Alan wife, and recognized her service as Norwich's ment to administration. Awards came in tripli­ Tappahannock. Bascom first woman instructor, having joined the staff cate to Michelene this year: Outstanding Mary Anne Manning '78, Brad Snow in 1959. Young Women of America in 1981 ("I was Stephen W. McKenna '81G, Dawn Elizabeth proud to be chosen one of many,"); Who's Who Pars in South and Southwest in 1982 ("It's marvel­ 1978 Mary McMillan '81, Anthony Marvullo, Jr. ous to be included in this famous book!"); and After two years of teaching in Andover and Barbara W. Matzkin '77, James J. Olsen "Teacher of the Year Runner-Up for West 1960 Beverly, Donna Baonopane has left teaching Charlotte Hardwick Morris '81G, Richard Conway Middle School," where she has taught to go into business. She is franchise director Eugene Cote for only two years. Michelene enjoys life in the Rae Dinner Seife's family now resides in for "Have A Heart, Inc.," which sells all kinds Linda Moszka '81, William J. Mayo South, and best of all, she reports, most North­ Denver. Daughter Debbie is at Wellesley Col­ of heart items in F anueil Hall Marketplace. Judith Ann Murray '75, Stanley Vetovitz erners she's met know about Lesley and its lege, and son Jeffrey is at Oberlin. Rae is now "The most fun," writes Donna, "is that I'm Maura Jean Paticchio '81, Mark Joseph Lally solid reputation. "I'm proud!" employed in a Denver real estate office and back in Cambridge!" Her business now has five Donna M. Petrone '81, Jay A. Palladino Linda Regene Martin is teaching 5th finds her work interesting. Her husband is the franchises - one in Seattle - with more to Karen J. Rickard 'S0G, James E. Murray grade at Portsmouth Middle School in Middle­ Director of Radiology at Rose Medical Center. open soon. She is engaged and will be married Judy Rosenthal '80, Neil Richardson town, RI. She is busy with her children, Jessica, Adds Rae, "l would love to hear from some of in April, 1983, to Dr. Leonard Pinto, a South Elizabeth Steeves '81, Timothy O'Rourke Jennifer, and Jeremy. my Lesley friends!" Shore podiatrist. Susan Barbara Sutherland '79G, Paul Barbara P. Jasinski has been a Resource Weisman Room teacher in Tewksbury since September, Sharon E. Tull 'SO, Stephen L. Bohannon 1962 1972 1978. She is currently on maternity leave . Leslie Krozen Libesldnd married in June, Marriages s--n ffmiowe Howe enjoyed chatting Lynne w-ley has been leading a very full 1978, shortly after graduation. She and her Jean Ann Ammon '78, John Scoefield with a Lesley representative at her daughter's life in California; she reports several jobs - husbantl'have a daughter, Kimberly Brooke, Rowland, II high school in Alexandria, VA, this winter. one as self-employed haircutter. Lynne is also a who was born January 25, 1981. The Libeskinds Leslie Ann Chase '81, Michael H. Soha Susan also enjoyed her 20th reunion at Lesley labor coach, and childbirth and parenting live in Randolph. Seane Higgins Donohue '76, Benard Dominic June 25-27. educator. In addition, she counsels battered After teaching ED adolescents in Cambridge Marren, Jr. women and does community outreach on for three years, Thomas E. Scruggs (G) is Alicia M. Fernandez '80, Walter M. domestic violence. ("Yes, I am still political!" completing doctoral studies in special education Mooney.Jr. 1963 writes Lynne.) Some of Lynne's other interests at Arizona State Univ. He plans to get a job Heidi Christine Fernsebner '81, Joseph include running, jazz dancing, body building, teaching special education at the college level Trubacz After teaching from 1963-1968, Naacy feminist issues, and part-time courses. Her after next year. Martha A. Kettle '80, William C. Johnson Eisen Newman and her husband, Michael, daughter, Shoshannah Riva, is now nine. Karen Singleton earned her master's Stacey Ann Lubin '78, Neil Cohen started a family. Now they have three sons, Lynne has also been raising two stepdaughters degree in special education at Simmons College Lorraine Maddox '79, Aaron Arlan David, Mark, and Richard, and the family has for the past seven years, Amy and Anzelle. in 1980. She is currently a teacher-coordinator Helen Nomicarios '79, Michael Edward Butler lived in Rye, NY, for 14 years. In 1975 Nancy Lynne still enjoys a yearly visit "back East" and in a special needs alternative program in Bos­ Deirdre C. Pearson '72, Warren T. Johnson opened her own real estate business, and hopes all is well with "the gang." ton. Karen was married in 1980. Wendy Ann Postlehwaite '79G, Kevin G. "Country Properties" is doing wonderfully and Sullivan occupies much of her time. Cynthia Richmond '79, Scott D. Ricker 1973 1979 Brenda Anne Sullivan '78, Paul C. Bennett Jacquelyn Tilbor '75, Gerald Tarnoff 1964 In Mary Esther, FL, Cathy Allen Abbott is Barbara Gahl is acting director of Summit Karen Kay Waltrip '81, Daniel Thomas enjoying being "Mom" to her son Chris and his Youth Environments in Binghamton, NY. Bennewitz During the 4th of July weekend of 1981, the baby sister, Lindsey. Cathy has earned a Braille Summit Youth Environments is a nursery/day• transcriber's certificate from the Library of families of Mary Moore Johnson, Janet care center with over 50 children. Next year Births Beske Kophs, Joyse Finkelstein Pulaski, Congress and does volunteer work for the she will become Educational Director of Sum­ and Lovisa Wells Hill met at Lake Winnipe­ Northwest Florida Visionnaires. She writes mit, which will give her responsibility for all Joy Ford Berezin '73 (Andrew); boy, Jared saukee, NH, for a mini-reunion. The weekend that this mainly consists of "Brailling" educational areas of the school and less re­ David was filled with rain, but the children fished and textbooks, tests, menus, and even a hurricane sponsibility for its bookkeeping and financial Adelaide Nicholson Berry '77G (Wilton); boy, boated while the parents looked at old school tracking chart for the blind in her area. aspects. Justin Wilton, December 27, 1981 slides and pictures, and reminisced. Lovisa Helene Maltzman is in her second year of Nancy Dunn Connor '76G (Douglas); girl, writes that she was very fortunate to visit Mary teaching physically handicapped children in Meagan Leigh, March 28, 1982 in Denmark, where she lives, when Lovisa's 1976 Houston. She is also "Singles Rep" on the Kathie Kaufman Feldman '76 (Hal); girl, husband was on a business trip to Hamburg, Board of Directors of The Jewish Community Jaclyn Melissa, March 20, 1982 Germany. The Hills drove to Aarhus, where Ellen Derman (G) is teaching multiply Center. Leslee Ludwig Halleran '79, '82G (Roy '78G); they enjoyed not only Mary's hospitality, but handicapped children at the Dillingham Ele­ girl, Sarah Rachel, May 26, 1982 also the wonderful tours she took them on to mentary School in Dillingham, Alaska. Ellyn is Carol Cook Kennedy '77 (Christopher); girl, various historical spots. also part of a local organizing effort called Kathryn Amanda, March 2, 1982 SAFE, which provides shelter and advocacy 1980 Ellen Kramer Rachlis '68 (Mitchell); girl, Beth Diane, April 29, 1982 1965 for battered women, their children, and victims Susanne R. Dodge reports the birth of a of sexual assault. Susan Solmonson Ross '73 (Darrell); girl, daughter, Emily Susanne, in March, 1981. Meredith Leigh, May 14, 1982 Dale Bloom Mashlln and her family have Patrice Brown Woodward and her hus­ Susanne is living with her husband in Ellsworth, moved to Scottsdale, AZ. "It is a lovely and band, John, report the birth of their first child, Margaret Donohue Urquhart '75 (William); ME, and teaches first grade for School Union girl, Katherine Diana, July 29, 1981 beautiful part of the country," she writes, Jonathan Jesse, on March 22, 1981. The Wood­ #98 on Mt. Desert Island. "quite different from New England, and an area wards live in Florence, MA. Vickie Booth Foster (G) was married in which I know we'll enjoy." July, 1981. She is currently teaching LD at Deaths Broken Arrow High School in Broken Arrow, Katherine Hansbury Cahill '26 1977 OK. Mary Martin Connors '37 Gail E. Nichols reports her July, 1981, Flora Holden Crowley '23 Jamie Hornberger Blundell has been marriage to Chester Morris Rodrigues. Gail is Marian Winn Dade '27 living in Hbuston for more than two years. a LD Resource Teacher for Greenville (SC) Agnes Welch Feeney '18 "Like everyone," she writes, "I came down to School District. Gwendolyn Smith Gray '30 find a better job." In addition to her job as Catherine M. Hagan '40 assistant finance manager for Ketchum Com­ C. Denise Lucier '32 munications, an advertising agency, Jamie Frances H. Shea '59G Merle Royte Nelson, '57, Alumni Weekend, 1982

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