Alumnae Profiles

Loving the Earth
At 79, Marjorie Hope Young says she still hasn't found time to retire. Together with her husband James—her "closest colleague and soul mate"—who died earlier this year at 84, Young has written five books, with the latest published two years ago... | full story

Optimist
Jere Fletcher '75 is at once both grounded and fond of uplift. Even his business e-mail is not complete without a short exhortation to seek goodness, create felicity or simply accept contentment.  Fletcher doesn't work for a greeting card company—he's a lawyer... | full story

Smashing
You know those television shows on Fox, the kind with an innocent college student by day who becomes death-defying CIA agent by night? So imagine this one: financial services technical writer by day, bone-crunching professional football player at night—and this is real life... | full story

Going Beyond the Cookies
Writer Esmeralda Santiago was astonished to learn that when Girl Scouts of the USA was to hold a gala celebrating 90 years, she was to be one of 12 women honorees to receive the organization's first National Women of Distinction awards, in such company as Elizabeth Dole and Vera Wang Becker '71... | full story