 During the summer of 1963 she stayed for several weeks with the family of Georges Simenon at their Chateau d'Echandens.Admitted a year early to Radcliffe College, she received Harvard's Ferguson History Prize (1967) for her sophomore essay, "The Concept of Time and History", published that same year in the Foundation for the study of Cycles "Cycles" Magazine, Vol XVII, pages 67,68,69.In the summer of 1968, she worked at publicity assistant on location for the David Wolper production of the film "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium".