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.
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PLEASE NOTE:
As Harvard and all of higher education are threatened, and as Harvard has emerged as a strong defender of academic freedom, a growing group of alums has come together as Crimson Courage to support Harvard's stance, and to encourage it to continue to fight. Their first event was a Webinar on Tuesday, May 27th at 7 p.m. EDT.
The link below will take you to the zoom recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk2C8kljbyY
You may also scroll down to the bottom of the
https://www.crimsoncourage.com/ web site to find the recording
Watch our webinar!
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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 ([email protected])
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
UPCOMING EVENTS
(See event details in the June 2025 Newsletter -- click on "2025" in the red bar to your left)
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Radcliffe Institute Fellows: Throughout the year, the Fellows at Radcliffe Institute share updates on their research and projects. Check for upcoming events at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/events-and-exhibitions
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Book Group - Sunday, July 13 at 3 p.m. via Zoom
The July book is Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Lunch Group - Wednesday, July 9 at 11:30 a.m.
Alora Pier 3 Embarcadero
Film Group - no July meeting
August 9 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom -"The Go Between
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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. JANUARY 2025 -- We have another $30,000 Matching Challenge Grant for 2025!!
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-President Kathy Henschel [email protected] for information.
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