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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RCSF Speakers Series -- Monday, October 16 presentation by Gabrielle Oliveira, Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies at the Graduate School of Education, on “Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Separation, and the Hope for a Better Life" -- video recording of presentation and discussion will be posted on the password-protected "RCSF Speakers Series Recordings" page for 6 months. Please contact Kathy Henschel at kghenschel@gmail.com if you do not have our website password.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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New Year’s Eve get-together: Sunday, December 31, from 8:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. We are continuing the RCSF tradition of a “Cambridge Time” New Year’s Eve celebration. This year it will be on Zoom. Bring your glass of champagne (or whatever you want) to toast the New Year at 9 p.m. (midnight in Cambridge)! If you would like to participate, please RSVP to julie.cheever@gmail.com. You will receive a confirmation of your message immediately and then the Zoom link during the day on December 31.
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Lunch Group - Weds Dec 13, 11:30 AM, Stone Korean Kitchen, 4 Embarcadero, facing the Plaza
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Book Group -- Sun. Dec 10 ,3 PM Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann via Zoom
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Film Group -- Saturday Dec 2, 1:30 pm Zoom
Phoenix
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Writers' Workshops: Please contact Cynthia Travis ctravis@sonic.net
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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