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Off the Shelf: Spring 2012

Nonfiction In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765–1799 By Loiuse V. North,

Tara Roberts ’91: Connecting Female Changemakers Worldwide

Tara Roberts ’91 spearheaded several programs encouraging girls’ leadership while working for CosmoGirl magazine. When that publication folded, she refused

Her Name Was Bette: An Illuminating Account of Disease, Family, and Forgiveness

To celebrate her tenth wedding anniversary in 2007, Sherri VandenAkker ’87 and her husband, Malcolm, drove west from Boston to

Jane Hurt ’65: Educating Kids and Their Parents

Jane Hurt ’65 spent the majority of her working life in finance, including stints as an institutional stockbroker, portfolio manager,

Off the Shelf: Winter 2012

Nonfiction Flora’s Empire: British Gardens in India By Eugenia Herbert During the colonization of India, British expatriates feeling homesick for

A Playwright’s Perspective on Wendy Wasserstein

By the early 2000s, younger actors and directors began asking “Wendy who?” I had to brave the question: does her work hold up now?

Bylaws

A Closer Look: Seeing in 3-D… at Last

Sue Barry remembers the first time she saw the world in three dimensions. She had just come out of her optometrist’s

Family vs. Work: Do You Really Have to Choose?

The Quarterly arrives. I open to the class notes, and sigh. Another mother of three gets a promotion at her multinational corporation. Or publishes a book.

Battling Bullying: What to Do When Push Comes to Shove

The story of Phoebe Prince, a fifteen-year-old student at South Hadley High School who took her own life last January after being

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