The Radcliffe Club of San Francisco, founded in 1898, is the oldest and last remaining independent Radcliffe club in the world. Membership is open to all alumnae of the former Radcliffe College and to anyone who has been connected with any Harvard University department as a student, instructor or parent of a student. We are an official Harvard Alumni Association club.
Club activities include a lunch group, a film group, a book group, museum tours, writers' workshops and a speakers series. All activities are open to all members.
For monthly events newsletters and minutes of annual meetings, click on "For Members."
The user name is the name of our college. The password is the name of the street that runs between the Yard and the Quad. Both are lowercase. If you need help, please contact the website editor, Alison Boeckmann (alison_boeckmann@post.harvard.edu)
For information about the former Radcliffe College and the use of the name "Radcliffe" by organizations of women at Harvard College, see the wikipedia entry. See also
Radcliffe: From College to Institute.
NEW: Link from the Radcliffe Institute for Radcliffe College alumnae information
Club activities include a lunch group, a film group, a book group, museum tours, writers' workshops and a speakers series. All activities are open to all members.
For monthly events newsletters and minutes of annual meetings, click on "For Members."
The user name is the name of our college. The password is the name of the street that runs between the Yard and the Quad. Both are lowercase. If you need help, please contact the website editor, Alison Boeckmann (alison_boeckmann@post.harvard.edu)
For information about the former Radcliffe College and the use of the name "Radcliffe" by organizations of women at Harvard College, see the wikipedia entry. See also
Radcliffe: From College to Institute.
NEW: Link from the Radcliffe Institute for Radcliffe College alumnae information
Members may donate to the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco Scholarship Fund, the Schlesinger Library, and/or the Harvard College Women’s Center through the club via our membership form. Those who do so will receive credit from the university for their donations as individuals and as members of their college or graduate class.
Further information and donations to the Radcliffe College Alumnae Oral History Project are also available online. APRIL 2023 -- NEW MATCHING CHALLENGE OF $25,000 ANNOUNCED!
Radcliffe Club of San Francisco Volunteer Opportunities: Members
are invited to help organize and run the club's programs and projects. More hands make the workload lighter, and you know you will be working with smart women, right? We are looking for on-line event organizers to run our Speakers Series (a few sessions each year), good writers to update the club's history (some research involved), good organizers to help organize the club's files, and someone with financial expertise to be a Co-Treasurer.
Please contact Co-Presidents Kathy Henschel kghenschel@gmail.com or Pat Bourne patriciageraldbourne@gmail.com for information.
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Minutes of Annual Meeting Saturday, May 20,2023
Minutes have been posted in the "for members" section of the website.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Museum Event: Legion of Honor
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
Date: Saturday, Sept. 9, 9:30 am
(This page is now ready for sign-ups.)
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Book Group: Sunday Sept 10, 3PM via Zoom
The Peppered Moth - Margaret Drabble
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October This is Happiness- Nial Williams
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Culinary Adventures: Wednesday Sept 13 11:30
Pizzeria Delfina, 2406 California at Fillmore St.
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Film Group Saturday Sept 30, 1:30 pm Zoom
Vera Drake
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Museum Event: Legion of Honor
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
Date: Saturday, Sept. 9, 9:30 am
(This page is now ready for sign-ups.)
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Writers' Workshops: Please contact Cynthia Travis ctravis@sonic.net
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Speakers Series: Gabrielle Oliveira, Associate Professor of Education and Brazil Studies at Harvard.
Date Monday October 16, 10-11 a.m.
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For the history of the club, see
"WE ARE NOT EXTINCT, The First 100 Years of the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco"
( A pdf version rcsf.v2.pdf was uploaded on Oct 20, 2018. It may be easier to read if you download the pdf and use preview or the equivalent.)
The Schlesinger Library also has a copy of "WE ARE NOT EXTINCT"
See articles in the Crimson:
WE ARE NOT EXTINCT (November 8, 2018)
INSTITUTE RE-BRAND PUSHBACK (May 13, 2021)
See Scientific American article about Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, the founder and first president of Radcliffe College