"It makes me very sad," Elizabeth R. Fishel '72 said. "I cannot imagine any other woman of my generation who wouldn't feel the same way."
The opposition is very small, however. Only two people expressed dissatisfaction at the meeting on Radcliffe Day.
"It's my sense, a personal gut feeling, that people are nostalgic and hate to lose the word college and alumnae even though it makes sense," RCAA Executive Director Judith Stanton says. "They are not violently opposed, but rather nostalgically opposed."
The emotions involved with Radcliffe's end are part of the reason RCAA's board has made an effort to be as clear as possible.
"We were very mindful that people were sensitive to being left out of the process of creating the [Radcliffe] Institute," she said.
Though the by-laws have been changed, Bundles said RCAA will continue to serve alumnae, regardless of the imminent name change.
"We'll continue to offer the same programs we've been offering and continue to evolve those programs," she said. "We're not changing the core of who we are, but we are preparing ourselves to evolve with future needs."
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