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 Radcliffe Institute to Alumnae
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 Radcliffe Institute to Alumnae
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.
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, some tech folks to work on transition to a new website, 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.
Further information and donations to the Radcliffe College Alumnae Oral History Project are also available on-line.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Museum Event: Private Docent tour of Sargent and Spain
at the Legion of Honor Sunday March 19 at 9:30 am
See radcliffeclubsf.org web site for tickets and more information...
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RCSF Speakers Series:
Thursday, April 13 - 11am (Pacific Time) to noon via Zoom
Sara Naomi Bleich, Harvard Vice Provost for Special Projects, will discuss "Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery"
If you wish to attend, please register promptly using this link –
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcO2hqDosG90e2thbEfrhXIQORi2cd338
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting --
please save the email! Or you can send an email to kghenschel@gmail.com. Those who register will receive a
reminder email on April 11th with the Zoom link to connect.
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Writers' Workshops: Please contact Cynthia Travis ctravis@sonic.net
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Book Group: Sunday, Mar. 12, at 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. The book for March will be The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough.
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Film Group: Saturday, Mar. 18, at 1:30 p.m. on Zoom. We will view The Marriage of Maria Braun, directed by Rainer Fassbinder.
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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