Radcliffe College to Honor Nine for Their Achievements

Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '73, Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) cofounder Sayre Phillips Sheldon '48, social psychologist and management professor Lotte Bailyn AM '53, PhD '56, and Texas State Representative Diana D‡vila '88 are among the distinguished women who will be honored by Radcliffe College during Commencement/Reunion Week in June.

Award ceremonies, which will include the presentation of Alumnae Recognition and Distinguished Service Awards, Graduate Society Medals, and the Jane Rainie Opel '50 Young Alumna Award, will take place on Radcliffe Day, Friday, June 5.

Radcliffe College will also sponsor "Great Expectations: Women Reshaping Society," a tribute to the legacy of the late Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith, on Friday, June 5, from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. Award winners Townsend, Sheldon, Bailyn, D‡vila, Rutgers School of Law professor Dorothy Roberts JD '80, and sculptor Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier '33 will participate.

Greene-Mercier, Sheldon, and Townsend are the recipients of 1998 Alumnae Recognition Awards from the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RCAA). Presented annually, these awards honor women "whose lives and spirits exemplify the value of a liberal arts education." The awards will be presented during the RCAA symposium on Friday, June 5, at 10:15 a.m. at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St.

Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier is an internationally known sculptor, who was part of the American Renaissance of sculpture between 1940 and 1960. Described as "one of the most gifted sculptors in the United States," she is noted for her large, abstract bronze sculptures.

Solo exhibitions of her work have been held in Athens, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Paris, West Berlin, and other cities in Europe and the United States. Her large-scale sculptures have been displayed in museums, colleges, churches, and public buildings in this country and abroad, while her smaller works are part of numerous private collections in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

After studying art in Rome as a teenager, she earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Radcliffe College. Her continuing studies included a year with the famous Bauhaus artist and teacher Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

Greene-Mercier's work has earned many awards, including silver and gold medals from Cannes, and the first prize from the International Festival of Saint Germain-des-Pres in France. In 1979, Greene-Mercier was one of the featured artists at West Germany's Summer Arts Festival, which was organized by the galleries of Bernard Beck. She is listed in Who's Who in America and, for many years, has been listed in Who's Who in the World.

Greene-Mercier has been the subject of numerous articles and several books published in the United States and Europe. She has also been a writer, editor, and contributor to many magazines.

Sayre Phillips Sheldon has been an activist throughout her life. An educator at Boston University since 1962, she has retired as a professor in the English Department, but continues to teach in the university's Metropolitan College and its College Degree Prison Program.

Active in the civil rights movement during the 1960s, Sheldon organized against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early '70s. With Helen Caldicott, she founded Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), now called Women's Action for New Directions, and served as its first president from 1982 to 1987. Sheldon, the president emerita of WAND and a member of its board, has traveled around the country for WAND, and represented the organization at national and international conferences, including the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, in 1995. She is a founding board member of Massachusetts Action for Women, a nonprofit organization geared toward improving the status of women and girls, based on the Beijing Platform.

Her writings, which reflect her professional and personal interests, include articles on literature and disarmament for The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. Sheldon's anthology, Her War Story: 20th-Century Women Write About War, will be published by Southern Illinois University Press next year.

Sheldon holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Radcliffe College and a master's degree in American literature from Boston University.

The Hon. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the first woman to serve as the lieutenant governor of Maryland, has devoted her professional life to public service. As lieutenant governor, she has developed and launched a series of model initiatives to combat crime and drug abuse. One of those initiatives, Hotspots, is the first statewide program in the nation that systematically targets specific places that account for the lion's share of crime. Townsend has also launched Maryland Police Corps, quadrupled state spending on after-school programs, and established the first statewide character education program.

Before becoming lieutenant governor in 1996, she served as deputy assistant attorney general in the United States Department of Justice, where she oversaw a budget of over a billion dollars to support local law enforcement, and established community policing programs across the country. Townsend has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and Essex and Dundalk Community Colleges.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Townsend also holds a law degree from the University of New Mexico Law School, where she was an editor of the law review. She has received numerous honorary degrees.

Townsend is the founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the former chair of the board of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation. The elected chair of the National Democratic Caucus of Lieutenant Governors, she serves on numerous boards, including the National Institute for Women's Policy Research.

Her articles on environmental conservation, international trade, and economic development have appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, Ladies Home Journal, and several law reviews.

Janie Rainie Opel '50 Young Alumna Award

Texas Representative Diana D‡vila '88 will receive the 1998 Jane Rainie Opel '50 Young Alumna Award from the RCAA during the annual meeting on Friday, June 5, in Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard.

The award, which honors former RCAA Executive Director Jane Rainie Opel '50, HRPBA '51, for her 18 years of service, is presented annually to an alumna in the 10th reunion class for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of women, to her profession, or to the College.

Now in her third term in the Texas House of Representatives, D‡vila was the youngest member of the legislature when first elected in 1992 at age 26. Citing education and the overall needs of children as her priority, D‡vila has formulated a legislative agenda that addresses child abuse and neglect, early childhood education, primary health care, minors' access to tobacco, and domestic violence. Her tenure has been marked by efforts to empower community groups through initiatives promoting affirmative action, women's rights, minority voting rights, and economic development.

D‡vila began her career as an instructor at Houston Community College, teaching English, government, and civics. After working as an administrative assistant to State Representative Roman Martinez for three years, she was elected to the Texas legislature one year later. As a full-time public servant, D‡vila is an advocate in her community, visiting schools, mentoring students, and speaking out against discrimination and attacks on society's most vulnerable citizens.

D‡vila graduated with a bachelor's degree in social anthropology from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1988. She is a board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Houston, Associated Catholic Charities, Children at Risk, and the MHMRA Hispanic Task Force on Mental Disabilities, the vice chair of the Harris County Legislative Delegation, and the chair of its Children's Task Force. D‡vila presently serves on the House Human Services Committee and the Public Health Committee.

Her honors include the 1998 Activist Award from the Houston Advocates for Mental Health in Children, the 1995 Woman of Excellence Award from the Federation of Houston Professional Women, the 1994 Women in Government Award from the Hispanic Women in Leadership, and the 1995 Distinguished Public Service Award from the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans. D‡vila's life and accomplishments were profiled in the book The Twentysomething American Dream by Michael Lee Cohen.

Currently, D‡vila is working as a neighborhood developer for Neighborhood Centers Inc.ÐRipley House. She was recently accepted into the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston.

Graduate Society Medals

Social psychologist and management professor Lotte Bailyn, AM '53, PhD '56, and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts, JD '80, will receive 1998 Graduate Society Medals from the RCAA. The medals are given annually to alumnae of Radcliffe and Harvard graduate schools and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, who have made outstanding contributions to their professions. Bailyn and Roberts will receive their awards during the RCAA symposium on Radcliffe Day, Friday, June 5.

Lotte Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and the Chair of the M.I.T. Faculty. An authority on conditions in the workplace, she studies the relation of organizational practice to employees' personal lives, and has focused on such workplace innovations as telecommuting, flexible scheduling, work-family benefits, and work redesign.

Bailyn, who began her career as a research associate and lecturer in Harvard's Department of Social Relations, has been a member of the Sloan School faculty at M.I.T. since 1972.

A noted author, critic, and management consultant, Bailyn has written several books. The latest is Breaking the Mold: Women, Men, and Time in the New Corporate World (Free Press, 1993).

A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, Bailyn earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics with high honors from Swarthmore College, and master's and doctorate degrees in social psychology from Radcliffe College. She has been the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at Radcliffe College, and a visiting scholar at educational institutions in England, New Zealand, and Italy.

She is a member of the Academy of Management, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society.

Dorothy Roberts is a professor at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, where she teaches courses on criminal law, family law, and civil liberties. This fall, she will join the faculty of the Northwestern University School of Law. Roberts also writes and lectures extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction and motherhood.

The author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997), Roberts has written more than 40 articles and essays that have been published in books, scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines. Her article, "Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy," has been included in a number of anthologies.

A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale College, Roberts earned a juris doctor degree from the Harvard Law School in 1980. Roberts has been a fellow at Harvard's Program in Ethics and the Professions and a visiting professor at several institutions, most recently at Stanford Law School. She was elected twice by the Rutgers School of Law graduating class to be the faculty graduation speaker.

Roberts serves as a consultant to the Center for Women Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the board of directors of the Public Interest Law Center of New Jersey.

Distinguished Service Awards

Catherine Chappell Hislop '38, Ellen Gordon Reeves '83, MEd '86 and Phyllis Rosenstein Stein '63, MEd '70 are the 1998 recipients of Distinguished Service Awards from the RCAA. The awards are given annually to alumnae "for outstanding service to the RCAA, and, through it, to the College." RCAA President Jane Tewksbury '74 will announce the names at the RCAA annual luncheon on Friday, June 5; the awards will be presented at the annual meeting.

Catherine Chappell Hislop, a former reporter for Life magazine, who worked for the Red Cross overseas during World War II, has served Radcliffe College in numerous capacities.

A director of the RCAA from 1971 to 1974, Hislop served on the Schools and Scholarship Committee for 35 years. Active in the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco, she later became a founding member of the Radcliffe Club of the Peninsula. Hislop, who serves on the board of the Peninsula Club and supports many of the club's activities, also chaired and participated in its Book Group. A member of her 50th reunion committee, she has worked on several planning committees for Radcliffe on the Road events in San Francisco.

Hislop earned a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1938. Her service has been honored with several previous awards, including an Apple Tree Award from the RCAA.

Ellen Gordon Reeves has served the College for the past 15 years. Since 1993, she has been an editor at The New Press, a nonprofit book publisher in the public interest. Reeves has also taught in Cambridge, New York, and St. Germain-en-Laye, France, and has written two curriculum guides for Book Wise Inc. in Cambridge.

The current president of the Radcliffe Club of New York, Reeves is a member of the RCAA Board of Management and the board of managers of the Harvard Club of New York City. She is also an appointed director of the Harvard Alumni Association and chair of its Radcliffe-Harvard Committee.

Within her class, Reeves is serving as class report editor, reunion cochair, and Radcliffe Gift Committee cochair for her 15th reunion, and continuing her work for the Harvard College Fund. She is also the secretary of her class.

Reeves previously served as the director of the Radcliffe Club of Boston, a member of the RCAA Futures Committee and the Alumnae Council/Young Alumnae Council Committees. She was the first woman to serve as the president of the Association of Harvard College Class Secretaries.

In addition to a bachelor's degree in French and American history and literature, Reeves holds a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a master's degree in writing and teaching writing from Northeastern University.

Phyllis Rosenstein Stein, the former director of Radcliffe Career Services and its successor, Radcliffe Career Programs, has served the College in numerous ways.

Noted for her cutting-edge programs relating to the workplace and workplace issues, Stein brought Radcliffe Career Services into national prominence. She currently maintains a private career counseling practice in Cambridge, and serves as the senior consultant to the Worklife Institute, which is run by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

During her 21 years at Radcliffe College, Stein served on numerous committees relating to work and women's issues, and spoke on career-related issues within, and outside of, the University. The cochair of a Strategic Planning Group for "Radcliffe as a Model Employer," she also cochaired the Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard and Radcliffe, and served as a representative to the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee.

Working with alumnae across the country, Stein designed a wide range of career projects, and collaborated on workshops related to career issues. She counseled hundreds of alumnae in person or by mail during her career at the College, and offered career counseling for graduating senior women at Harvard and Radcliffe. Stein wrote and was featured in the award-winning video Not Just a Job: Career Planning for Women.

Stein graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, and earned a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was named director of career services and programs emerita in 1997.