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March 2004 by Jeffrey Stanley Dr. Muriel C. McClendon ’77 is a tenured European history professor and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Affairs at UCLA. She specializes in early modern history. Her book, The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and The Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich (Stanford, CA/Cambridge University Press, 1999), based on her PhD dissertation, is a study of religious reform in a Tudor era city. She also co-edited the book Protestant Identities: Religion, Society and Self-Fashioning in Post Reformation England (Stanford University Press, 2000), a collection of thirteen essays on the Protestant experience in 16th century England. McClendon majored in European history at Yale, then received MA and PhD degrees in European history from Stanford. She is married and has three cats. McClendon was born in New York City and grew up in Canarsie. She still considers herself “a hardened New Yorker,” but adds, “I have to confess I love LA.” Her fondest memory of BFS is “everything,” she said in a telephone interview from her West Coast home. “I wax ecstatic about it whenever I have the opportunity. I came in 1970, I was in 6th grade.” Her sister Margot also attended BFS and graduated two years after her. “I miss the teachers. They always took you seriously, no matter how much of a jerk you were being. At Brooklyn Friends I learned how to be a human being. I try to do the same for my students.” In particular she recalls Madame Davis, who recently passed away. “I stopped studying French when I got to college because no one was as good as Madame Davis.” She also remembers her in-house community service work at the school, which in her day was structured differently than now. “I pushed a broom twice a week. I also worked in the Lower School.” Her classmates “worked in the cafeteria, they also worked at the front desk, we were everywhere in the building.” She advises current BFS students that the best thing for them to take away from their experience here is a sense of “how to live in the world, to learn about your community and your role in it. Community service is the greatest gift you can give.” |
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