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She was a four-year competitor in fencing and field hockey, and captained the fencing team as a senior. A wearer of the Women's Athletic Association "C", she also served as manager of the fencing squad as a sophomore and junior. In addition, she was president of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association and the WAA Council in 1941. She earned her law degree from Cornell in 1943 and practiced in New York, Albany and Ithaca prior to her election to the New York State Assembly in 1962. After she left the Assembly in 1974, she became Cornell's vice president for land grant affairs, a post she held from 1976 until 1980.