Letters to the Editor

Volume CX, Number 1 (USPS 349-900) Fall 2020

President

Elizabeth L. Hillman

Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Nikole Hilgeman Adams

Managing Editor

Allison Rost

Design and Art Direction

Nancy Siller Wilson

Editorial Assistant

Lila Goehring ’21

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

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Letter to the Editor

Wasn’t the spring 2020 Quarterly amazing? So very humbled and proud to be an alum of Mills, an institution that’s leading the way in sustainability and outreach to the community. –Laurie-Sue Betts ’69, Phoenix, Arizona In 1963, I met my husband, Richard Harris, who was a student at Starr King, and we courted through 1964 at Mills when I graduated. He passed away in 1985, but would have been delighted to see Starr King at Mills, as I am. Such a colliding of memories. –Sharon Polson Harris ’64, Lake Forest Park, Washington

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!

Janet Kulig ’76

100 Years ofthe 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 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.