He was extremely involved with the literary and artistic Signet Society and Mrs. Armstrong laments "if I was only 11 years older I might have been able to be in the Signet too!"
Today, she and her husband like to joke that they share four Harvard degrees on two pillows.
However, hers was not a purely literary mind, she says.
At 7:30 every morning, Armstrong remembered stumbling down from the Radcliffe Quad to the Charles River in the early light with other dedicated rowers to practice with the first female crew.
"I don't remember that we rowed
against others or were competitive," she said. "But I do remember the catcalls we received from all the men driving to work."
Armstrong was affiliated with Briggs Hall while she was at Radcliffe, but was relegated for a time to off-campus housing in her first year because the flood of returning veterans placed a premium on dorm space.
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