It's where she found true love. True intellectual love, true emotional love, and true love of the college experience. And, as she likes to say, she's never really left. So when the Class of 1975 returns to campus today for its 25th reunion, it won't be a homecoming for Sandra A. Nadaff '75--she has made Harvard home for almost 30 years.

As a member of the Class of 1975, Naddaff watched the barriers to gender equality at Harvard fall. Women began to make greater strides in terms of social opportunities and moved from the fringes to the mainstream of College life. From co-residency to female professors, women became more comfortable with their surroundings at one of America's elite universities.

While the changes may not have been so obvious at the time to the literature concentrator in North House (now Pforzheimer), they are now more apparent to her as the co-master of Mather House, one of Harvard's largest dorms. As a Harvard administrator and, more importantly, a confidant for students, Naddaff can see the difference that 25 years makes--and she likes it.

"Today the women are so much more secure," she says with a smile. Although this was apparent when she became a House master, it was not always that way.

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