Brown University Around 1960

Richard, I read your comments about Brown with interest. I think I knew the woman you mentioned as your wife, if it was Anne. We were dorm-mates freshman year and I was impressed by her intellect and intelligent behavior. After two years at Brown, I married a man I had met when we were 14 and 17, ludicrous as that sounds, and we had a very good marriage. We ended up in Manhattan where he worked at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and I resumed my education, first at Hunter College (smart faculty but rather less interesting students). Then I spent two years commuting to Sarah Lawrence College, which was just the right place for me to end up. I had a baby girl and took her to school when I didn’t have a sitter. We had a wonderful life without really realizing how uncommon that it, and I miss my husband so much now, as he died in mid-2016. My memory is uncommon and I remember so much from my earliest days, hence my brain is full of faces and experiences, but I remember seeing you and Anne (if that was she) driving around Providence. I think she became a professor in California somewhere. I remember that she had come to Brown to study applied mathematics but was discouraged by an imported British faculty who made her feel very unwelcome. At SLC I found a kind of intellectual freedom and acceptance I had never experienced, and to this day I am grateful. Besides, it was rare among colleges then in permitting pregnant women to remain in school! We have indeed come a long way. At any rate, it was pleasant to read someone else’s memories of the rather down-ion-the-mouth opinion that Brown had of itself in those days. Much later, when the Kennedy kids went there, it seemed to raise its head a little. I did have a few good faculty: a decent history teacher, Mr. Jaworski and a marvelous woman who taught Soviet history and was rumored to be married to a man imprisoned as a Communist, who was raising 3 children alone. She later taught history at Princeton, moved to Toronto, and was a source of early French history for the movie,