Advice Columnist Nominated For Alumni Board of Directors

Harvard graduates soon may be able to "Ask Beth" for information about the Alumni Association.

Elizabeth C. Winship '43, the author of the syndicated advice column "Ask Beth," is a candidate to become one of the 18 directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).

The nominating committee within the alumni association recently proposed Winship as part of its slate of 12 candidates for the six directorships up for election this year.

During their three year terms, members of the alumni association board of directors attend meetings three times a year and serve on a variety of committees, said Joanne Woods, assistant to the association director.

Candidates for the board of directors are chosen after the nominating committee solicits sugestions from about 700 alumni who have been active members of the association, said Nancy O. Sandler, the HAA's associate for human resources. Nominees tend to be alumni who previously have served on other alumni committees.

Winship is a member of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees and chairs that body's student relations committee. "I am particularly interested in student affairs because most of my work involves teenagers and other young people," the advice columnist said yesterday from her home in New York City, where she writes her column.

She has been writing "Ask Beth," which advises teenagers and college students on sex, drugs and life in general, since 1963 and the column now appears three times a week in newspapers across the country.

"I hear about college in my letters, so I am looking forward approaching it from the other side, [as an alumni officer]," she said