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For more information, please contact [email protected]. rThe LE~LEY COLLEQE CU~ENT Summer1982 Joyce Baylor, '82G, and Jenny Commencement 1982 AlumniWeekend Stateof 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 seroed 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 fonner 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 Child" problems, such as, Who accompanies more than nurturers. All agreed that 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 Child" Seminar. Several years ago a she were seen with an unrelated man at Lesley. Lesley project team was given a grant people would say she was sleeping They talked about the importance to study the gifted child. The team with him or her marriage was on the of networking, workshops, and sup• defined gifted and talented children rocks.