Welcome to the Radcliffe College Alumnae Oral History Project!
The Project Director, Alice Abarbanel ’66, welcomes any inquiries to learn more about this project. You can reach her at radcliffecollegevoices@gmail.com
Click here for the complete Radcliffe College Alumnae Oral History Project Description
May 2021
Click here for the link to the RCAOHP Presentation on May 28, 2021 as part of Reunion activities
Click here for the RCAOHP feature article in the July/August 2021 Harvard Magazine
Donations to the project can be made here using “RCAOHP Donations” at the RCSF website.
The following is a summary.
The Radcliffe College Alumnae Oral History Project was begun by a committee of the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco in 2019. Its purpose is to record the oral histories of the undergraduate experiences of some Radcliffe College alumnae from the classes of the 1940s through the late 1970s, and to send the oral histories to the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University.
One of the many missions of the Schlesinger, which is housed in the former Radcliffe Library, is to maintain the Radcliffe College Archives. We learned from the librarians that the Schlesinger has very little material about undergraduate life during this period. The Schlesinger has welcomed the oral histories gathered in this project.
The interviews are conducted by volunteer alumnae and the recordings and professional transcriptions are prepared according to the Schlesinger’s archival standards. Phase One of the project has focused on alumnae from the classes of the 1940s through 1962. Phase Two will reach alumnae from the classes of 1963 to 1979.
Radcliffe Club of San Francisco sponsors the project, and provided the initial seed money. Other funding has been provided by private donations and seed money from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute. Additional donations, which can be made through the RCSF and are tax-deductible, would pay for more transcriptions.
Donations to the project can be made here using “RCAOHP Donations” at the RCSF website.
For more details, see the Project Description at the link above.