Joan Prichard Cudhea ’54

I was a Wellesley Washington intern for one month in the summer of 1952 (I think). About 15 of us lived at a hotel for women. The Political Science department had arranged jobs for all of us. Mine was the only one with a lobby. All the others were with officials elected to Congress. I was with the National Farmers Union. I learned that it was a much smaller lobby (representing mostly wheat farmers) than the National Farm Bureau (corn farmers mostly).

Born and brought up in New England, it was eye-opening for me to learn something of the middle states of the USA. It was the McCarthy Era (Presidents Johnson and Nixon era), so being in D.C. at that time was an especially challenging time for the USA.