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An Uncommon Women's Page
Here you'll find articles, tips, etc.
related to women and women's issues
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We have a new book
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PERUSAL
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Here’s your chance to share your talents with your classmates. We expect to have new material often because ’55 is full of clever women. Please contact
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Check out the Class of 1955's new
UNCOMMON WOMAN AWARD
Click on the sphnix to see some
exciting news!
We have 5 new Uncommon Women!
Our latest additions are none other than the vivacious and popular Chris Benfrey
and our new President
Danielle Holley
Edwina Cruise who spoke to us at our 35th reunion was the first post-grad honorary.
After our 50th we welcomed Eleanor Townsley who inspired us all with her immense help at our Seminar Day.
No reunion was ever complete without listening to Vinnie Farraro. We are delighted to claim him as one of our own.
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Memorial Page
We sadly report the deaths of:
Juli Shea Towell
August 1, 2025
Jan Scott
Ajugust 31, 2025
Wendy Loye Hall
October 20, 2025
Eleanor Graham Claus
October 23, 2025
Fleur Varney Chandler
October 25, 2025
In Case You Missed This ....
As you all know our class has elected special faculty who we feel have been especially close to our
class over the years.
We all know that our 1955 Honorary Vinnie Ferraro is our most popular lecturer when we go back for our “Back to School” mini every fall. Here’s the exciting news. He writes a blog. A what you say? A Blog called World Politics. What it means is that we can access that blog anytime just by signing up to receive it over our email. Then you can read it, save it, delete it, whatever, but you”ll be connected to Vinnie’s thinking and teaching of World Politics from your iphone or computer whenever you want.
To sign up for his blog go onto google and type in vferraro1971 and the form to sign up will become available.
Happy Politics!
Click the gavel to read our president's 2024
Class Letter
We need photos!
Please send us pictures of you and your family or you and other Alums as our roving photographer cannot cover the entire country.
Call us if you need instructions. You can send the actual printed photos or send them over the internet.
We are very flexible except in our knees!
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You can view these sessions by going to our zoom page and seeing everything about our zoom program. Just click on the blue and white camera above and you'll be there!
OUR NEXT ZOOM!
TUESDAY
November 18th at 3:30 EDT
ALL OF OUR ZOOMS
ARE ON OUR ZOOM PAGE
Since only a few of you answer my request for photos (Hint Hint) click below to see a whole slew of wonderful memories!
Keep the pictures coming Ladies!!!!!!
Actually, legacy admissions are good. Here’s why
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025- GUN VIOLENCE & CHARLIE KIRK
Who Will Control the Future of AI?
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CLICK ON THE CLOWN ABOVE TO GO TO OUR
JUST FOR FUN PAGE.
PLENTY OF FUNNIES TO TICKLE YOUR FANCY.
America Should Make It Easier for Young People To Serve Their Country
What caused this College President to Quit?
How Universities Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism
NEW FRANCES PERKINS and Labor Day
The Future Depends on What You Do Today
I Teach the Humanities, and I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is
A College Essay, Revisited Over 10 Years Later
The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They?
Fascism
The Discount Data That Some Colleges Won’t Publish
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How Higher Education Can Win Back America
CLICK ABOVE TO SEE WHAT DAVE THINKS WE HAVE JUST LIVED THROUGH
AND FIND A BIT OF TRUTH AND HUMOR!
LOOKING FOR AN EASY VOLUNTEER JOB?
Here is the PERFECT SOLUTION!
MADE TO ORDER FOR 1955ers!
College Can't be only for the Rich
Almost all the latest and the greatest...
There is an entire Reunion to cover
The Department of Education's Threatening Letter
70 years flies by pretty quickly---Little did we know!
$15 Billion Is Enough to Fight a President
Our Graduation Parade Back in 1955
Kathy Suarez's daughter, Nina , sent me these marvelous pictures, taken by her grandfather,
of our Graduation Laurel Parade.
THEY ARE TREASURES!
As you can see, there is no one back from the Class of 1985, which would have been the
70th Reunion Class.
It seems there was no one still left, as the Class Notes stopped at 1888.
THE 50TH REUNION CLASS OF 1905
WE THOUGHT THEY WERE VERY CUTE LITTLE OLD LADIES!
THE 30TH REUNION CLASS OF 1925
THE 25TH REUNION CLASS OF 1930
THE 10TH REUNION CLASS OF 1945
100% DRESSES BACK IN THE DAY!
It reads like fiction but it isn't!
Latest News from our NEWSHOUNDS
Pam Moody Harkins, Joan Willenbrok Leonard, Ann Tomlinson Edmundson & Dee Lamb Barstow
And of course our Award Winning Scribe Sue Nutter Keller
Conservatives Think The Market Always Gets It Right. It Doesn"t
Should American Jews Abandon Elite Universities?
What They Don't Tell You About Getting Old
Would We Have Paid Parental Leave If More Moms Were In Congress?
How Everday Sexism Harms Women
So You're Familiar With "Zuck Talk", Right?
HowHigher Education Can win Back America
DANIELLE DEFENDS ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Click on Danielle's Page to read her latest news
M.C. BACHMAN CHURCHILL and ELLIS BATCHELDER WEATHERLY reunite this fall
and roommates from our 70th M.C. and JUDY VERNON reconnect as M.C. wends her way home.
What's Lost When Liberal Arts Schools Close
