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Smart Dressers

November/December 2009
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Glamour magazine picked these three Pembrokers for its “ten best-dressed college girls” in the 1960s, but they weren’t just stylish.

Three black and white vintage photographs of women.
From left: Annette Grant ’63, became a longtime New York Times editor and arts critic; Mary Shimkus ’67 painted and sculpted as the artist Stefania Conrad; the late Libby Newsom Mohr ’61, worked at the Atlanta College of Art. Photos: Pembroke Alumna archives.

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