<p>"…when nuns at a Catholic high school told the graduating senior William Fitzsimmons to avoid Harvard, a school of “communists, atheists, and rich snobs” where he would “lose [his] soul.”</p>
<p>I laughed when I read this since I graduated from this same Boston suburban high school a few years later. I was also from a blue collar background.</p>
<p>When I accepted a spot at a Seven Sisters college, a nun told me that “I would never fit in with those rich girls” and that I would regret my choice. </p>
<p>Happy to report that both Fitzsimmons and I didn’t listen to the good sisters!</p>