Laurie Wilson ’62:

I was excited to head east from Los Angeles, and I was glad to be going to a women's college––knowing that it would be ok to sound smart in class without worrying about what guys thought. I was also delighted to be on a beautiful campus a short bus ride away from Boston, where the concerts were cheap or free and the men’s colleges were nearby.

As an art history major, I discovered my talent and fascination with making art in the studio classes. That started me off on my future careers: artist, art therapist, art historian, and biographer of two famous artists, Giacometti and Nevelson.

When I was at Wellesley, it was the beginning of feminism yet I neither lusted after a “Mrs Degree” or threw myself into the radical second wave. Instead, Wellesley let me become whoever I wanted to be, and prepared me for a changing world.