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A Little Help From Her Friends
The female connections so sought by generations of women are a natural outcome of a Wellesley education
By Marilyn Koenick Yalom ’54
Well Fed: three friends at the Well in Alumnae Hall in the early s.
Well Fed: three friends at the Well in Alumnae Hall in the early s.
In May of this year, I flew from San Francisco to Boston to celebrate the 80th birthday of Lia Gelin Poorvu ’ Lia and I have been friends since the fall of , when we both lived on the French corridor in Tower Court.
Though I was a senior and she a sophomore, we bonded over our shared Francophilia and seeded a relationship that has flourished for more than 60 years.
Three years before, she had flown in the opposite direction for my 80th in Palo Alto.
Another Wellesley friend, Phyllis Kyrides Lapham ’54, came from Dallas, and the three of us spent rich and poignant hours recalling our campus days when we hurriedly donned our jeans in the morning, rushed