As some of you know, I will speaking about Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography at the LoDo Tattered Cover on March 22 at 7:30. When I contacted my high school’s alumni office about the event, the alumni coordinator kindly suggested that she feature the event in the alumni e-newsletter and highlight me in the “Alumni Corner.” (Scroll down). As a biographer, it was fun to think back on how my high school experiences shaped my later life.
The high school in question is Kent Denver, known as the Kent Denver Country Day School when I went there. The school’s most famous alumnae is Madeleine Albright, who graduated from Kent in 1955, when it was still a school for girls. (It later merged with the Denver Country Day School for boys). When I was finishing my dissertation, I would often wake up (kind of in a panic) in the middle of the night, wondering if and when I would be done and what would become of me afterward. During of those bouts of insomnia, I watched a documentary about Albright in which she discussed finishing up her Ph.D. while taking care of her young children. It put my struggle in perspective and was oddly comforting. (And I loved her appearance on the Gilmore Girls) So let me conclude by saying Go Sundevils!
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