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Reminiscences of Mary Ingraham Bunting : oral history, 1978.

Creator: Bunting-Smith, Mary Ingraham, 1910-1998.
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 282 leaves. Tape 5 reels.
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Scientist, college president.

Scope and Contents

Family background, education: Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn; Vassar, 1931; University of Wisconsin School of Agriculture, PhD 1934; instructor at Bennington and Goucher, 1936-37; marriage to Henry Bunting, M.D., 1937 (d.1954); research assistant in microbial genetics, 1938-40, lecturer and researcher 1948-55, Yale; instructor, Wellesley 1946; dean, Douglass College, 1955-60; balancing career and motherhood; American Council on Education and National Science Foundation; equal opportunities for women in education, science, medicine and government; president, Radcliffe College, 1960-72: development of Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, undergraduate and graduate part-time study program, student activists, closing of Radcliffe Graduate School and Harvard, Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, co-ed housing, merger of Harvard-Radcliffe; member Atomic Energy Commission, 1964-65, and Population Council; development of Continuing Education Program at Princeton, 1972-75.

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