The third generation is represented by the founder's 30year-old grandson, also named John Bonner, and his sister, Octavia, 34, an unmarried Wellesley graduate who has come to flagrantly loose ends.

Therefore, they requested an additional speaker "who would more aptly reflect the self-affirming qualities of a Wellesley graduate."

There was no argument that Mrs. Clinton was an appropriate choice to address the Wellesley graduates.

Asked by The New York Times to look at the colleges attended by those women, she found 8 Wellesley graduates among the 439 respondents.

More generally, you missed the common denominator for why Wellesley graduates succeed in business - ordinary, boring diligence.

A bright Wellesley graduate from suburban Chicago, she had caught Mr. Clinton staring at her in the law school library and introduced herself.

In the midst of the debate about whether Barbara Bush was an appropriate choice to give the commencement address at Wellesley College, I asked two 1950's Wellesley graduates (one of them my wife) who was the speaker at their commencement.

That hordes of Wellesley graduates will continue to choose aspiring novelists rather than metalworkers as husbands is almost a certainty.

Wellesley graduates were supposed to take their education out into the world as scholars, teachers, reformers.

Recently this newspaper ran an article about the remarkable success of Wellesley graduates in business, far more success, even among alumnae of women's colleges in general, than their numbers (as colleges go, Wellesley is pretty small) suggest they should.