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.
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.
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.
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 article about us in the Crimson
Members who wish to do so can 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 still get credit from the university for their donations as individuals and as members of their college or graduate class.
Information and donations to the Radcliffe College Alumnae Oral History Project are also available on-line.
Annual Meetng will be at 11:00 am on Saturday, May 22 PDT via Zoom.
Jenny Gotwals, Curator for Gender and Society at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, will speak on “DocumenIng Women’s History at the Schlesinger Library.” If you have quesIons for Jenny in advance, please email them to Kathy Henschel at kghenschel@gmail.com. In addiIon, Alice Abarbanel will give us a brief update on the Radcliffe College Alumnae Oral History Project, and we will elect club officers and decide on the club's contribuIons to the projects we support. Members will receive zoom link by email in advance.
Culinary Adventures: Wednesday, May 12 at 11:30 a.m., at your home via Zoom .. or outdoors?
RSVP to Pat Bourne at 415-474-0212 or patriciabourne@post.harvard.edu.
Book Group: Sunday, May 9 at 3 pm.at your home via Zoom.
RSVP to Alison Boeckmann at 415-589-7001 or alisonboeckmann@fastmail.fm
Sunday May 9 "Quicksand" Nella Larsen
Sunday June 13 "Middlemarch" George Eliot
Film Group:
RSVP to Lucille Poskanzer at LBPoskanzer@icloud.com
Saturday May 15 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Pinky Directed by Elia Kazan
Writer's Workshop: Please contact
Gloria Wu gwu2550@gmail.com (fiction), Cynthia Travis ctravis@sonic.net (nonfiction)
Oral History Project panel at Harvard virtual reunion: Friday May 28, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. PDT via Zoom.
This panel is a featured presentation at this year’s online reunions For details, see the May newsletter.