Bundles said yesterday that a name change is crucial for the group's survival.
"There are a few people who feel lost when Radcliffe College is taken out of the name," she said. "But I think that those of us are looking at how we will survive in the future realize that graduates are becoming scarcer and scarcer."
The RCCA currently includes all women who graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges until 1999. This year's graduating female seniors were the first to graduate from Harvard College alone and did not automatically become RCCA members at Commencement.
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"I truly understand [the alumnae's] feeling of loss and mourning," Bundles said. "But I also want to continue to exist."