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This years Smith College medalists may have been away from the college for a collective 211 years, but at some point during the past century, all five medalists were undergraduates at Smith, striving toward their first degrees just like todays students. Heres a snapshot of each medalist when they were at Smith, compared with where they are now.
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Rose Nona Epstein,
from New York City,
resident of Lawrence House,
member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Rose Epstein Frisch,
of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
is a professor emerita at
the Harvard Center for
Population and Development
Studies, and author of
Female Fertility and the
Body Fat Connection.
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Amy Laura Kaiser,
from Brooklyn,
resident of Dawes House,
graduated with honors in music;
participated in
first-year choir, Glee Club
and the Chamber Singers.
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Amy Kaiser,
of Saint Louis, Missouri,
is the director of the
Saint Louis Symphony Chorus,
and a frequent guest conductor
with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra,
the Berkshire Choral Festival,
and the Santa Fe Symphony.
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Anne Moore,
of Short Hills, NewJersey,
majored in biology
and lived in
Laura Scales House.
She completed her
Junior Year Abroad in Italy.
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Anne Moore,
who lives in New York City,
is one of the
leading authorities in the
United States on
breast cancer, as well as
a professor of
clinical medicine at
Weill Cornell Medical Center
and an attending physician
at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
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Elizabeth Olson,
a resident of Franklin King House,
graduated with honors in
history and spent her
Junior Year Abroad in Paris.
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Elizabeth Goldring,
of Groton, Massachusetts,
a poet and media artist
and a senior fellow at MITs
Center for Advanced Visual Studies,
has collaborated with scientists,
engineers, physicians and students
to enhance the visual capabilities
of people with limited vision.
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Carol Belita Thompson,
a resident of Duckett House,
majored in government.
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Carol Thompson Cole,
of Washington, D.C.,
is the former deputy mayor
of Washington, D.C., and is the
president of the Curtex Group,
a consulting firm that
focuses on project management,
organizational development and
community economic development.
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