Attitudes toward Educated Women: "Marriage is a Career"

The Winter 1965 Alumnae Quarterly featured speeches from an Alumnae Council Career Convocation.  Here is the speech from Gwendolyn Crawford Elliott ‘41 called “Marriage is a Career”. Elliott had earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Virginia and had been Dean of Women at the University of Delaware before quitting to become a housewife after marrying Randle Elliot, who eventually become president of Hood College.