Suzy Underwood

Suzy spent her first two years of college in Comstock Hall, ending up as dorm president, and her last two in Lowell House, where she was elected to House Committee. Both living situations were great in different ways. She posed the question at the Radcliffe Journeys program about what was lost and what was gained from the move to co-ed living. Since graduation she has remained actively involved with our alma mater, as an interviewer for thirty years, chair of the local Schools Committee for twelve years, and as a board member of both the Harvard Club of Sacramento and the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco (the last remaining Radcliffe Club in the world). She has also been on the class of ’72 reunion committee for the past three reunions, and for the 50^th reunion she was delighted to be in charge of Gatherings.

Suzy practiced law from 1977 to 2007, and then happily retired at the time of our 35^th reunion. Since that time she has found many activities to keep her busy. She is a member of the Sacramento Ethics Commission (and chair in 2022). She is one of the primary interviewers and organizers of the Radcliffe Alumnae Oral History Project, an exciting effort to document the lived experience of Radcliffe students from the 1940s through the 1970s, which will be archived at the Schlesinger Library. In January 2021, she went to Georgia to work for the Democratic Party in the runoff for the two Senate seats (we won them both!), and will be going again in November 2022 for the midterm elections. She owns and administers the memoir-writing site Retrospect (www.myretrospect.com), which currently has a total of 3,000 published stories, and she herself has written almost 300 of those stories.