Volume CX, Number 1 (USPS 349-900) Fall 2020
Letter to the Editor Wasn’t the spring 2020 Quarterly amaz-
In 1963, I met my husband, Richard
President Elizabeth L. Hillman
ing? So very humbled and proud to be
Harris, who was a student at Starr King,
an alum of Mills, an institution that’s
and we courted through 1964 at Mills
Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement Nikole Hilgeman Adams
leading the way in sustainability and
when I graduated. He passed away in
outreach to the community.
1985, but would have been delighted to
Managing Editor Allison Rost
–Laurie-Sue Betts ’69, Phoenix, Arizona
Contributors Dawn Cunningham ’85 Rachel Leibrock, MFA ’04 Kate Robinson Beckwith, MFA ’13 Editorial Advisory Committee Angela Bacca, MBA ’12 Sheryl Bize-Boutte ’73 Melissa Bender Henley ’99 Sarah Lehman ’86 Mira Mason-Reader ’15 Mari Matoba ’03 Livi Perez ’14, MA ’17 Mason Stockstill, MFA ’09
colliding of memories. –Sharon Polson Harris ’64, Lake Forest Park, Washington
Design and Art Direction Nancy Siller Wilson Editorial Assistant Lila Goehring ’21
see Starr King at Mills, as I am. Such a
Corrections In the summer issue of Mills Quarterly, we included the incorrect name for one of our alumnae authors in the Bookshelf section. Love & Lies: A Secret Memoir was written by Ann Beckman Hymes ’67. Also in the summer issue, we mislabeled a photo of Janet Kulig ’76 in Class Notes. We sincerely regret these errors and any confusion they may have caused!
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Janet Kulig ’76
100 Years of the 19th Marjorie Moore Brown ’02 (as in 1902!) worked to gain women the right to vote in Nevada in 1914, later lobbying for final passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. She wrote a piece about her experiences
(Please use outline)
for her 1968 book Lady in Boomtown that also appeared in the winter 1981 edition of Mills Quarterly. Read the piece on our website at quarterly.mills.edu. Brown was also the mother of the late Marjorie Brown ‘36 and the grandmother of Kathleen Brown Martinez ‘72.
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