"I need some jokes," Jane Knowles says as she closes the door behind her, mimicking her husband's morning departure routine. Jeremy Knowles agrees that much of his best speechwriting humor comes from his wife.
With the new merger between Harvard and Radcliffe, the Knowleses say they have a renewed sense of working together.
"It's so much easier, so much more fun," Jeremy Knowles says.
Jane Knowles says she felt the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship was ambiguous since she first became Radcliffe College Archivist.
"I've always thought that the [1977] merger was incomplete," she says. "It's such a relief to have this resolved and to be part of the family."
Their partnership has also given them insight into the relationship between the two colleges.
"My wife has seen Radcliffe through Harvard's eyes, and I've seen Harvard through Radcliffe's," Jeremy Knowles says.
And both the chemist and the historian say that they love what they do and where they do it.
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