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<p>My great aunt got her bachelors and masters degrees from Notre Dame – not St. Mary’s – in the 1950s. Impossible, you say? Well, interestingly, there was a little-known exception to the all-male rule for nuns. After graduating, my great aunt became very active in alumni affairs, became president of one of the local chapters of the Notre Dame alumni club and was voted “Notre Dame Man of the Year” some time in the 1960s. </p>
<p>Interestingly, before she was elected president, the alumni club held its meetings in a prominent city club that did NOT allow women through its doors (at least to the portion of the club where the meetings were held). She somehow stormed the premises and managed to get admitted to the club as a guest decades before other women were admitted. </p>
<p>I have an extremely large family. She was the only person in that generation (my grandparents’ generation) or in my parent’s’ generation to go to college.</p>