(Memoir by Nancy Slonin Aronie, graduate of the University of Virginia’s Mary Washington College) In my junior year of high school, my principal called me into his office and asked me where I wanted to go to college. I said, “Duke.” He said, “Duke?” I said, “Yup.” He said, “Why Duke?” I told him I heard it was the Yale of the South, and “Yale doesn’t take girls.” The year was 1958. He said, “What about the University of Virginia? They have a great theater department.”