[Magdalen] Gap year (or more)

[Grace Cangialosi]

I was teaching in a Maryland suburb of DC in 1965, and one of my co-workers was cause she moving to Virginia. She was upset, because she had just found out she was pregnant, and even if she didn't tell the school system there when she interviewed, she'd have to stop when she started to "show"!  OTOH, I found out I was pregnant the following year during Christmas break and went right to my principal to ask if I could continue to teach. He looked at me as if I were nuts and said as long as it was OK with my doctor, it was fine with him.
I finished out the school year, and my son was born three weeks later!

On May 30, 2015, at 12:15 AM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:

When I first attended the Johns Hopkins University in 1948 as an
undergraduate, a certain hill near the stadium was known as rubber hill.
Wikipedia tells me condoms have been in use for 400 years. By the time I
got married in the mid 1950s, my wife continued into graduate school and
had a diaphragm which, in its more modern form, was invented in the 1880s,
popularized in Europe and reintroduced to the USA by Margaret Sanger after
WW1.

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:59 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:


> Back then, in the days before birth control was available to young
> unmarried women, pregnancy-and-marriage was the fate most of
> my childhood friends embraced. And college became impossible.
> That's changed, of course.


-- 
Allan Carr