An article about the first recipient of a Ph.D. from a CUNY campus. Her degree was in English Literature.

The article is celebratory and lighthearted in tone, sympathetic to the nontraditional gender roles that the couple occupies, with Dr. Stern’s husband proofreading her writing and being excited about taking care of the baby when she goes back to teach at Hunter.

The article makes it clear that a graduate education in liberal arts will open doors for a woman of this era: she describes the career options she had after her undergraduate career (specifically as a woman) as “deadly.”

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