It’s been 40 years since ‘The Big Chill’ examined the nature of lifelong bonds — the ones forged in college — that couldn’t survive the real world. In the case of 12 alumnae who met as U-M freshmen in 1985, those bonds remain as solid as the day they moved into Alice Lloyd Hall.

Most of us know her as a name inscribed on one of Michigan’s residence halls. Meet Alice Lloyd: feminist, registered nurse, and for 20 years U-M’s highest-ranking woman.