Sarva Ramakrishna Rajendra ’83, a political-science major from Charleston, W.Va, knew from example that education could change a person’s life: Her father grew up in poverty in Thalagavara, a village outside of Bangalore, India, and he eventually became a civil engineer in West Virginia…More
Class Notes
Class Notes By Year
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1919
Susan Graffam ’22 winds up for a throw.
ALUMNAE PROFILES
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Katherine Shamraj ’98
“I’m about the most nonlinear entrepreneur you can imagine,” says Katherine Shamraj ’98, CEO of Sproot , a company she cofounded in 2012, which delivers healthy lunches to kids in Boston-area preschools and daycare centers. She was working in fast-developing Abu Dhabi from…More
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Katherine Hamilburg CE/DS ’08
Katherine Hamilburg CE/DS ’08 knew she needed a maple dessert for the winter menu at 80 Thoreau, the seasonally inspired fine-dining restaurant in Concord, Mass., where she works as pastry chef. Oatmeal would be an obvious ingredient to incorporate with her new offering, a maple panna cotta (…More
In Memoriam
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1946–2013
Adrienne Asch, who died on Nov. 19, 2013, taught at Wellesley for just a little more than a decade, from 1994 to 2005, but in that time, she made a profound impression on the students and faculty members who came to know her.More
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1939–2014
Molly Campbell, Wellesley’s legendary dean of students from 1984 to 1998, died on Jan. 28.More
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1928–2013
Anne de Coursey Clapp, one of the first American woman historians of Asian art, passed away peacefully at her home in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 21, 2013.More
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1921–2013
The passing of Gabriel H. Lovett on Dec. 22, 2013, signifies the loss of one of the most distinguished Hispanists of our time.More