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In Her Words: Jane E. Sachs ’73

Jane Sachs ’73 B.A., ’74 M.A., a clinical and forensic psychologist, found her home at Yale in Russian courses and the newly formed Yale Slavic Chorus.

Jane Sachs ’73 B.A., ’74 M.A., a clinical and forensic psychologist, found her home at Yale in Russian courses and the newly formed Yale Slavic Chorus. “The involvement of all things Slavic and Russian took hold of me,” said Sachs, whose mother was from the Ukraine. The Yale Slavic Chorus, an offshoot of the men’s Yale Russian Chorus, was an all-women singing group founded in 1969, the year that women were first admitted to Yale College. Sachs sang in the group its first two years, and then became the first woman to conduct the group in her junior year. “My interest and capability in music became pretty important to me,” Sachs said. “It was another culture, and it was women.”

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