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Margaret Mead Exhibit at Barnard Highlights Student Years
A Barnard Library display titled Margaret Mead will run April 15 to May 10 in the Reserve Room. Sponsored by the Barnard Library Development Committee, the exhibit draws from Blackberry Winter My Earlier Years and showcases manuscripts proofs and Mead’s Barnard years photos writings. Mead arrived at Barnard in 1920 graduated 1923 as psychology major. later studied at Columbia with Boas Benedict earning PhD 1929 and LLd 1964. Barnard’s 75th anniversary noted and Mead received Distinguished Alumna Award in 1971. Her works include Coming of Age in Samoa Growing up in New Guinea and Culture and Commitment. The exhibit probes what Mead found at Barnard fifty five years ago.
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Margaret Mead
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Wollman Library
Barnard Library Development Committee
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Columbia University
Franz Boas
Ruth Benedict
Columbia
Samoa
New Guinea