Radcliffe College's Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America has awarded grants to five graduate students and four postdoctoral researchers for the 1997-98 academic year for projects utilizing the Library's holdings. The funding for the grants comes from an endowed fund given in memory of Mary Lizzie Saunders Clapp.

The five recipients of dissertation grants and their topics are:

* Leslie Goddard, Northwestern University, "We Glory That We Are Theatrical: Theatricalism in the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement, 1908-1920"

* Rosemarie Holz, University of Illinois, "The Birth Control Clinic: Women, Planned Parenthood, and the Birth Control Manufacturing Industry, 1930-1975"

* Marian Mollin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Radical Pacifism, Political Activism, and Gender, 1945-1975"

* Kelly Schrum, Johns Hopkins University, "Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Evolution of American Teenage Girl's Cultures, 1930-1960"

* Karen Veselits, The College of William and Mary, "Black Women Editing Modernism: Dorothy West, Literary Alliances, Little Magazines, and Literary Editing, 1919-1937."

The four recipients of Radcliffe Research Support Grants and their topics are:

* Olga Church, University of Connecticut, "Challenges and Changes in Psychiatric Nursing: The Influence of Hildegard E. Peplau" * Marion Hunt, Independent Scholar, "Martha Eliot, MD: From Pediatrics to Legislative Medicine: 1924-1957"

* Larry Riddle, Agnes Scott College, "Biographies of Women Mathematicians"

* Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University, "PTAs and Pacifists: Popular Influences Upon Public School Criteria."

The Mary Lizzie Saunders Clapp Fund was established by Roger Clapp, in memory of his mother who was a student at Radcliffe College in the 1880s. The endowed fund supports dissertation writers and scholars who do research using the holdings of the Schlesinger Library. The next application deadline for these programs will be Feb. 2, 1998.

The Schlesinger Library, established at Radcliffe College in 1943, is the nation's foremost center for research on the history of women. The Library's collection includes books, manuscripts, oral histories, and photographs that document women's roles, achievements, and contributions to American life from 1800 to the present day.