Nov 28, Boston Globe: Wellesley was a ‘touchstone’ for Clinton

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https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/11/28/hillary-clinton-leans-wellesley-hometown-sorts/KCcqh1eDkqo0Ojy3YG6OlL/story.html

Wellesley was a ‘touchstone’ for Clinton
Democrat’s alma mater is a source of rejuvenation — along with volunteers, donors






Hillary Clinton, who graduated from Wellesley College in 1969, has long nurtured her ties with the school.

Globe File Photo (left); Brennan Linsley/AP

Hillary Clinton, who graduated from Wellesley College in 1969, has long nurtured her ties with the school.


By Annie Linskey Globe Staff November 28, 2015

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton was pressed for time, and needed to quickly leave the stage here for a high-dollar fund-raiser in Washington.

But Clinton made one more stop before heading to the airport: She had to meet the Wellesley students.

She expected a small group. Instead, 45 grinning students with “Hillary” signs lined up to greet the school’s most famous alum.

“I thought she might cry,” recalled Ahilya Chawla, a Wellesley College senior who cofounded a group of students supporting Clinton on campus. “But she’s Hillary; she doesn’t cry.”

It’s one of many examples of Clinton’s enduring ties to her college, more than four decades after she graduated in 1969. The all-women’s college where she tasted her first national successes serves as a source of campaign and financial help, and as a well of moral support, as she tries for the second time to make history by becoming the first woman to be elected president of the United States............


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Among the many alumnae who are supporting her campaign is Madeleine Albright, another former secretary of state.