Kathy Stone

Wellesley High School Author: Kathy Stone (1970)

            Kathy was a passionate activist as a student at WHS. She is now an attorney and a writer. Her recent book, They Called Us Girls, is a collective biography of seven women who aspired to professional jobs in the mid-twentieth century. It was an era when women were expected to find fulfillment at home, in the mold of television’s June Cleaver. But these women broke the mold, defying expectations to succeed in jobs reserved almost exclusively for men – as doctor, lawyer, artist, physicist, executive director and intelligence officer. Claire Messoud calls the book,”riveting and inspiring,” and Lisa Napoli of the New York Times insists, “this book should be required reading for young women.” With this book, Kathy has come full circle.