Spring 2002 volume 98 issue 2 : letters
Cover Story Revisited
Congratulations on a fine and important story about Anita Hemmings (winter 2001). Other details that may add even more interest: (a) Anita’s brother attended MIT also in the class of 1897 as "colored," (b) Anita preceded her time at Vassar attending the prep school Mt. Herman, (c) Ellen Love, Anita’s daughter, attended Vassar herself and also sent her children to the Horace Mann School in New York City. By coincidence, reporter Brent Staples wrote a piece on the editorial page of the New York Times on Dec. 17, 2001, about the [Sally] Hemings family and "passing" without knowledge of Anita and Vassar. He is working on a book on the extensive issue of "passing."
Frances Levison Low ’41
San Francisco, California