When Bebe Crosby Hanes '75, co-president of her class, learned from a friend last summer that Gov. Howard Dean was married to one of their classmates, she was surprised.
"Really?" she asked. "Who?"
Given the low profile Judith Steinberg Dean '75 has kept during her husband's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, it's not surprising Hanes didn't realize that one of the 300 women in her class could potentially be the nation's next first lady.
Those at Princeton during the early 1970s who recall the biochemistry major universally spoke of her as introverted and academically focused.
"She was very quiet, very bright; I was an athlete and liked to have a good time. She and I were not in the same crowd," Hanes said, laughing. "She was much more academic — she wasn't down the Street a whole lot."
English professor John Fleming, who was master of Wilson College when Steinberg was a student, also remembered the "rather quiet, shy, industrious premed."
Following graduation, Steinberg enrolled in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y. She met Howard Dean there when both were doing the New York Times crossword while sitting in the back of a neuroanatomy class. They were married in 1981 and began a private practice in 1985, which they ran jointly until Dean became governor of Vermont in 1991.
Steinberg has continued to see patients during her husband's campaign, though after coming under some criticism for a perceived lack of public support for her husband, she made appearances in the days leading up to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. She was not available for comment to the 'Prince.'
That Steinberg is camera-shy comes as no shock to those who knew her.
"It surprises me that she'd be married to a guy who's a politician, who'd even get into that sort of life," Hanes said.
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