Full Speed Ahead

After suffering a heart attack and undergoing bypass surgery last fall, friends and family advised Dunn to slow down. But she again postponed retirement to be drafted as interim head of Radcliffe, a position she expects to hold for no more than two years.

"I think I'm going to retire, but then I thought that's what I was going to do when I left Smith," Dunn says.

Dunn is passionate about several nonprofit organizations on whose governing boards she serves.

"She loves to be on boards, but not boards that make money--boards that cost money," Richard Dunn says.

In particular, she is committed to the National Organization for Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund and to Music for Marlboro, a local music festival in Marlboro, Vt.

And she continues to take political stands. Last year she was one of a group of historians and scholars to sign a widely-circulated anti-impeachment tract.

But although Dunn is looking forward to the challenges of the next two years, her most important interest will lie at home.