Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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The range of career options has increased two hundred per cent in the past twenty years. In that same time the concept of a “career” has changed. No stu¬ dent today leaves school thinking he will work for the same employer for his entire lifetime. What a person does for a living is a function of what kind of a person he is. 1 ask students to look inside — candidly. Once we have a feel for what we are, there is no great mystery in finding an activity compatible with that self-concept. 27

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Richard J. Blue Students come to Placement for only one reason. They are concerned about where they fit in the world outside. This concern sometimes takes the form of panic but more often confusion. They want to make a decision. Really, their parents, relatives and friends want them to make a decision. My first message to a student is that a decision is impossible. Not difficult — im¬ possible. Twenty or thirty years ago it was relatively easy to make a decision. A young person looked at his father’s occupation and decided. 26

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Antonia Chayes By profession a lawyer, by vocation an urban social planner, and not inciden¬ tally, Dean of Jackson College and mother of five children, Antonia Chayes brings a totally new atmosphere to the office of the Jackson Dean. The deanship is no longer held by one or even two stern, virginal spinster types, but by five attractive, ambitious, controversial, but undeniably capable women. No longer is the sole interest of this office Jackson College and its social rules, but now, for the first time, social and academic change for the entire university community stems from the Jackson Dean. Before coming to Jackson, Mrs. Chayes used the law training she received at Yale and George Washington Universities for work in metropolitan areas. She has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Court of Military Appeals. Locally she has served as Education Coordinator, and as Director of Urban Development for Action for Boston Community De¬ velopment, the Boston poverty agency. She also has worked as a consultant for the Boston Model Cities program. Both Mrs. Chayes and her husband were on the staff of the President’s Committee on Civil Disorders. 28