A PSYCHOLOGY TODAY OPINION PIECE ABOUT MIMI - and MISS PORTER'S ALUMNI

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY : LAURA BETZIG on MIMI ALFORD and HER AFFAIR

There were pleasure trips with the President.  How does Miss Porter's School figure in to all of this.  How did the school "finish" girls?

Excerpt:  In the summer of 1962, Mimi Alford - a graduate of Miss Porter's Finishing School, admirer of fellow Miss Porter's graduate Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, protegee of fellow Miss Porter's graduate and the First Lady's Press Secretary, Tish Baldridge, and coworker of fellow Miss Porter's graduate Priscilla "Fiddle" Wear - started her job as an White House intern. Four days later, president aide and "first Friend: Dave Powers called her on the phone and invited her fro a swim.