"I would absolutely send them in the direction of Byerly Hall," Illingworth says.
Stepping Stones
Rogers says that she considers learning new skills an essential component of the right job for her, and that it was the institutionalized mentoring at Byerly that kept her there for so long.
"I learned under Bill Fitzsimmons and Fred Jewett, and they were obviously the best possible teachers and mentors," Rogers says.
But in addition to general skills, the connections with alumni that Rogers developed while in Byerly proved handy when in 1990 she moved into fundraising for the college.
But even when she left Harvard briefly to work at an executive search consultant firm Rogers says the skills she learned in Byerly Hall came in handy.
"Doing presentations and being persuasive but honest were very helpful in the search world as well," Rogers says.
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