Wellesley College; An all-women’s college outside of Boston (alma mater) to Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Nora Ephron, Cokie Roberts, Diane Sawyer, Susan Sheehan, Diane Ravich,Lynn Sheer and Paul Ryan’s wife, Jenna, who broke the mold.)
It was, and is, a wonderful place for a woman to get a superb education. Even though I was too immature and would have benefited more if I had matriculated when I was 25 rather than 17, I carry the experience with me all the time. It defined me.
We were, by an large, a serious and sober group…when not studying, most of us played bridge (and smoked). We found our social life, by and large, in Cambridge, New Haven, and some of the other all-male campuses, with an occasional foray to MIT, BU and BC.