Harvard Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Elaine Yaffe
Yaffe Elaine (Gordon) Yaffe June 24, 1937 July 20, 2021 Elaine Gordon Yaffe, a writer, photographer and Colorado College administrator who authored the first biography of visionary women's college president Mary Ingraham Bunting, died July 20 at her home in Denver. She was 84. Yaffe was a 1959 graduate of Radcliffe College, then a women's school affiliated with -- but largely ignored by -- all-male Harvard University. During her college years, she resented the patronizing,...
