Class Notes

Photo by Richard Howard

A little rain didn’t dampen the spirits of the class of ’66 at the reunion parade.

ALUMNAE PROFILES

Corinne Whitaker ’56

Corinne Whitaker ’56 envisioned computer-designed sculpture well before 3-D printers arrived to revolutionize industrial production and titillate home hobbyists.More

Katherine Haines Freeman ’84

Katherine Haines Freeman ’84, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, studies tiny amounts of what are called biomarkers from ancient plants, algae, and bacteria, to learn more about past environments and climates.More

Marseille “Mars” Allen ’01

On Sept. 1, 2015, Marseille “Mars” Allen ’01 moved to Flint, Mich. It was about 16 months after officials started the flow of Flint River water to city residents—the headwaters of a public health crisis that would soon spill over into unimaginable scope. By Mars’s…More

In Memoriam

1928–2016

Claire Zimmerman ’50, professor of psychology, died on March 17, after a prolonged illness. She joined the Wellesley faculty as an instructor in 1953, the year before she received her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College. She taught at the College for 57 years and served as dean of the class of 1966…More

1921–2016

Doris Holmes Eyges, lecturer emerita of English, died on Feb. 16 at the Brookhaven retirement community, in Lexington, Mass., where she had lived since 2007. She was 95. Doris was a class dean at Wellesley from 1969 to 1977 and an affectionately admired member of the English faculty from 1972 until…More
Tributes to Wellesley alumnae by family and friends.More