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Challenges and Changes
"...I wanted to get my masters...and Ernie said 'Nope, we're getting married...'"
"If you didn't get a ring or you weren't pinned in your junior year..."
"Well, separation of the races, I guess."
"I know nowadays more and more fathers sometimes stay home, which is a big step."
"...you were supposed to share your innermost feelings..."
"...I told my father, 'Daddy, you're not going to get us back into the kitchen.'"
"...she was told that if she ever dated him again, she would be asked to leave Lesley because he was black."
"...met somebody at one of the dances at Harvard Law and I went to his dorm..."
"...I went out with this guy named Potter and ended up getting pregnant..."
"The gal who I replaced in the dorm had evidently been associating with a gal from [Sargent]..."
"I came at such a different time. It was so different."
"But change is very important..."
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Alumna Remembrances
Challenges and Changes
Lesley Traditions and Transitions from the 1920s to the 1960s
Lesley's Song
"The Lesley Hymn"
"The School Song"
"Loyal Lesley's Daughters"
Alumna Remembrances
Why did you choose Lesley?
Leadership and the Lesley Way
Life at Lesley
Challenges and Changes
Transitions in Teaching
Life After Lesley
Student Life in Pictures and Documents
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1930s
1940s
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1960s