Voice Dialogue Series – Hal and Sidra Stone

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Summary

• Sidra Levi Stone was born in Brooklyn, New York.

• She grew up in a working class neighborhood during World War II imbued with the ideals of that era and the expectation that she would make some sort of contribution to the world.

• Sidra's experience as a State Scholarship student at Barnard College was extremely influential in her development as an independent woman.

• At Barnard, even in the nineteen-fifties, women were encouraged to attend graduate school, earn advanced degrees and prepare for a profession.

• She received her B.A. with honors from Barnard in 1957 and, in September of that year, married and moved to Baltimore, Maryland where she began her Ph.D. studies at the University of Maryland.