Cless was elected to the Radcliffe College Board of Trustees in 1971. She was a Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year honoree in 1970 and was listed in Who's Who Among American Women in 1972. In 1985, after her husband died, Cless moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, near her daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. Cless died in Cambridge on July 20, 1992, at age 76. References Further reading Elizabeth L. Cless, "A Modest Proposal for the Educating of Women", American Scholar 38(4), pp. 618–627, Autumn 1969. Elizabeth Lawrence Cless, "1. Continuing education: The timing of women's intellectual, social, and economic contributions usually is different in time, though not in quality, from those of men", Radcliffe Quarterly, June 1971, pp. 5–8. Radcliffe College alumni American women educators Women and education Feminism and education American feminists Women in Minnesota Women in California People from Akron, Ohio 1916 births 1992 deaths University of Minnesota people University of Hawaiʻi alumni Claremont Colleges people University of California, Los Angeles people