Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 6-1-2012
Recommended Citation
Lear '62, Linda J., "Agents of Change: Three Women Who Made a Difference" (2012). Reunion Addresses. 1.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/reunionadd/1
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Comments
In her address, also titled "Carson, Conant and Cantwell: The Burden of Conscience," Linda J. Lear '62, author of "Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature" and "Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature," speaks to the Sykes Society of Connecticut College "about three women who made a marked difference in the world by changing public attitudes. Each was an agent of change, but each was first of all an ordinary woman with vision." Those women are Rachel Carson, and Connecticut College alumnae Elizabeth Babbott Conant '51 and Mary Lee Cantwell '53.