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Connecticut CollegeAlumnae News

December, 1951

Connecticut College Academic Year 1951-52Spring recess begins, 11 a.m.Spring recess ends, 11 p.m.JANUARY 22 Saturday

3 Thursday Christmas recess ends, 11 p.m. 3D Sunday

14-18 Registration for second semester18 friday Period closes, 4 p.m. MAY

21-26 Reading Period 5·928·29 Review Period

3D Wednesday Mid-year examinations begin 9 Friday

FEBRUARY23 Friday

7 Thursday Mid-year examinations end 19-2410 Sunday Inter-semester recess ends, 11 p.m.11 Monday Second semester begins, 8 a.m. 26-27

15 Friday Period for change of individual pro- 28 Wednesday

grams ends, 4 p.m.JUNEMARCH

1 Saturday and 5 Thursday2 Sunday Alumnae Council Meets on Campus. 8 Sunday

Period for election of courses for1952-53

Period ends, 4 p.m.Comprehensive Examinations forseniors

Reading PeriodReview PeriodFinal examinations begin

Final examinations endCommencement

Executive Board of The Alumnae Association 1950-1952

President?dRS. RICHARD W. MEYER (Mary Anna Lemon '42)

96 Hen Hawk Road, Great Neck, N. Y.

DirectorsMARJORY JONES '28

360 Edwards Street, New Haven

NATALIE MAAS '40115 Broadway, New York 6

JUNE MORSE '427 Millett Road, Swampscott, Mass.

First Vice-PresidentDOROTHY WHEELER '22120 Ansonia Street, Hartford

Second Vice-PresidentMRS. THOlvfAS COCHRAN (Rosamond Beebe '26)

Radnor, Pa.Alumnae Trustees

MRS. H. RICHARD HEILMAN (Eleanor Jones '33)Aldwyn Lane, Villanova, Pa.

MRS. OLIVER BUTTERWORTH (Miriam F. Brooks '40)Sunset Farm, West Hartford 7

CATHARINE GREER "9

New Hackensack Rd., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Recordinc SecretaryMRS. JAMES G. RAYBURN (Leann K. Donahue '41)

16712 Stockbridge Avenue, Cleveland, o.Treasurer

MRS. ALYS GRISWOLD HAMAN (Alys Griswold '36)Old Lyme

Executive Secretary and Editor 01 Alumnae Ne".KATHRYN MOSS '24

Alumnae Office, Connecticut CollegeNew London

Chairman of Nominatinl" CommitteeMRS. JOSEPH S. SUDARSKY (Edith Gaberman '43)

8 Iroquois Road, West Hartford

Connecticut College Alumnae NewsEditor

KATHRYN MOSS "4Alumnae Office, Connecticut College, New London

Associate EditorsOLIVIA JOHNSON "4

471 Pequot Avenue, New London, Conn.

MRS. JOHN BERNARD (Marie Hart '39)8 E. 9th Street, New York, New York

FRANCES GREEN '2655 Holman Street, Shrewsbury, Mass.

ELIZABETH FIELDING6509 Knollbrook Drive, Hyattsville, Maryland

MRS. JOHN R. MONTGOMERY, jn. (Edith Mille< '44)75 Longhi ll Road, Springfield, Mass.

Editorial AJJ1JtaJltMRS. BETTY H. FUSSELL

Alumnae Office, Connecticut College, New London

BUJineJS ManagerMRS. ALYS G. HAMAN (Alys Griswold '36)

Old Lyme. Conn.

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Alumnae NewsConnecticu t CollegeOFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT COLLEG.E ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

VOLU~O[EXXX NUMBER 1DECEr.rBER, 1951

From Cloisters to CantileversA Brief History of Connecticut College Architecture

By BETTY FUSSELL

If a student of the class of '19, lying in a hospital bedin the original quarters of the infirmary on the second floorof Thames Hall, had seen the cover photograph of thisissue of the News, she might have uttered an exclamationof more than mild surprise. Even to later students who, atone time or another, were forced to occupy the later quar-ters of the infirmary in Deshon House and then in "Presi-dent Marshall's house," now called the "old infirmary," aglimpse of our brand-new modern infirmary building mighthave caused eyes to goggle. However, students of the earlyclasses would have been no more surprired at the new In-firmary than at the present campus as a whole. For onlythirty-eight years ago, while the college was still a blueprintin the minds of the founders, the bleak and windy hillsideoverlooking the Thames River offered little more than afine view and a tumble of large granite boulders. Today,the magnificent view remains and, in addition, the hillsideis covered by extensive lawns and plantings and containsmore than twenty-six buildings.

Even within the short period of time from the found-ing of the college to the present day and to the unfailingastonishment of the alumnae of the early classes, the archi-tectural style has shifted from collegiate Gothic to Georgian

to Modern. The new Infirmary, designed in the most con-temporary style, stands only a few thousand yards awayfrom buildings, such as Plant and Branford, suggestive offifteenth and sixteenth-century England. Perhaps the mostgratifying aspect of the Connecticut College architecture isthat, in spite of the variety of conflicting styles, the campusgives the effect of a unified whole.

Sunlight sans GlareIntere:tingly, the buildings of the college reflect certain

major trends in American architecture. The most recenttrend-a more complete acceptance of "extreme modern"-is represented in the design of both the interior and ex-terior of the new Infirmary. The most striking feature ofthe building, the way in which the west end appears 1O besuspended in mid-air, results from the fact that this end iscantilevered: a single masonry-covered pier supports twolarge steel girders in the side walls. According to Mr.Bernhard, a member of the architectural firm of Shreve,Lamb, and Harmon, architects who designed the building,the principal reason for cantilevering the Infirmary is topermit the service road to continue on under the buildingand thus provide a convenient service entrance on the base-ment floor.

The firs! buildings, New London, Plall! (/Ild Blacistone stood mnid grallite boulders and biner roinds,

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The solarium: bright draperies ({lid Knoll chairs.

By taking advantage of the sloping ground of the site,the architects were able to make fuJI llse of basement rooms,of which the principal one is the kitchen, serving the entirebuilding. On the floor above, all bedrooms have beenplaced on one side in order to permit south light to enterall the bedroom windows. An eight-foot copper louvre,which runs the length of the south side, serves as a rer-manent sunshade to eliminate excessive glare from therooms. On the roof, a "penthouse apartment" for residentnurses is still under construction, and the roof may be usedeventually as a sunbathing deck for students, if New Lon-don supplies its quota of sunshine.

Brick Used Wirhout, Modern Colors WithinBreaking precedent with the plan of the previous

buildings, the Infirmary is the first campus building inwhich brick rather than stone has been used for the mainportion of the building. Mr. Bernhard used granite onlyin the lower part of the building and in the front facade.In the upper part, he employed a face brick resemblinglimestone in color. Originally, the Infirmary was to havebeen built entirely of granite and limestone, but the presentexpense of quarrying and hand-cutting the granite has madethe cost of this material prohibitive.

In addition to the bedrooms, which can accommodatetwenty-two students, the main floor also contains a dispen-sary, consultation room, treatment room, general office,pantry, lobby, and laboratories. Surrounded by windowson three sides, the wonderfully modern solarium, at theextreme west end of the building, offers an unusually fineview of the arboretum and surrounding countryside. Hap-pily, the formidable, clinical-white of the usual hospitalinterior has been deliberately avoided in the Infirmary'sinterior. Bright colors and modern furniture have beenused throughout. Patients' rooms are completely equipped,

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and even contain such luxury items as overbed tables, the

gift of the class of '50,

Gothic versus GeorgianThe modernity of the Infirmary reflects the change in

taste in the kind of architectural style considered suitablefor college buildings. In the not far distant past, Easterncolleges and universities were generalJy built in one of twostyles: Georgian Colonial, considered more classic, formal,and symmetrical; or Gothic, considered more romantic,irregular, and picturesque. Both styles, however, are"traditional," and it is significant that the architecture ofAmerican universities has tended to be considerably moreconservative than continental styles, partially because a newcountry tends to value highly the historic traditions that ithas and tends to import traditions it lacks. The use ofGothic architecture in college buildings of this country hasbeen largely inspired by the American respect for Oxfordand Cambridge.

In order to understand some of the indirect causes forthe choice of style for Connecticut's first buildings, it isnecessary to go back to the so-called Gothic Revival. TheAmerican university Gothic style, often called "collegiateGothic," is primarily a result of this movement which orig-mated in the late-eighteenth century and is exemplified bysuch famous buildings as Horace Walpole's Gothic villa,Strawberry Hill. The movement received new impetus inthe Victorian period under the influence of Ruskin in Eng-land and through the efforts of the architect H. H. Rich-ardson in America, who designed, by the way, the NewLondon railroad station. During the 90's of the last cen-tury and the first decade or so of this, a great number ofcollegiate Gothic buildings were erected, among the mostnotable those at West Point, Princeton, and Yale.

Because of its relatively recent date of founding, Con-necticut has had an advantage over many older colleges inthat our buildings could be planned all at once, eventhough the plans might and did undergo innumerable mod-ifications. At the time the college was founded, the exist-ing hilltop buildings, such as the Lee and Prentis housesand the family farmhouse of Anna Hempstead Branch'smother, were personal residences and naturally would nothave prescribed the architectural style of the college build-Ings.

Chosen by the Board of Trustees on the competitivebasis of submitted drawings, the first architects employedby the college were Charles Ewing and George S. Chappell,son of Alfred H. Chappell (first treasurer of the college)and brother of Valentine Chappell, present trustee andfather of Carol Chappell '41. Previously, Ewing and Chap-pell had designed a number of buildings in Tudor Gothicfor other colleges, as well as the private mansion, BranfordEstate, of Mr. and Mrs. Morton F. Plant of Groton. At

the time, only two possible styles of architecture were feltto be appropriate for college buildings, Colonial or Gothic,and the choice of Gothic was largely determined by thepreference of Mr. and Mrs. Plant for this style. Commo-dore Plant had built and furnished the first dormitories,Plant, Blackstone, and Branford, in addition to donating$1,000,000 to start the college endowment. His wife,Nellie Capron Plant, who was interested in architecturalstyles, was particularly fond of Tudor Gothic and had hadthe Plant estate built in this style.

In addition to considering the wishes of the donor inthe choice of style, the architects and trustees felt that theearly English style lent itself more completely than a classicone to the particular location of the college. As MaudeBail lard wrote in the New London Telegraph in 1914,"The picturesqueness of the site and its environment madesome form of romantic art appropriate." The site of thefirst quadrangle, bounded by Plant, Branford, Blackstone,and New London HaU, was largely determined by thesweeping views south to the Sound and east to the Thames.

Manor House or Bleak Institucion ?Contemporary comments on the choice of style varied.

Those inclined to eulogy were fond of adapting a quotefrom Thomas Hardy to describe the hoped-for results:"The manor house, solidly built of stone, in the never-to-be-surpassed style of the English country residence-themullioned and transomed Elizabethan." A note of skepti-cism, however, is revealed in the remark of one critic in a1915 Hartford Daily Courant, "There is a uniformity, agrey sameness about the buildings at present that is a littledepressing." Of course the absolute barrenness of the hill-side with its four nearly identical grey buildings perchedon the top amid mud, stones, and bitter winds, did nothingto aid architectural beauty. However, even with grass, trees,ivy, and flowers, later buildings have sometimes been dub-bed jocularly, "Alcatraz Colonial."

The architects did not attempt to produce a preciserepresentation of early Gothic, but made organic modifica-tions of traditional features of the style. Although theyused casement windows with "Hood" panes imported from

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Plmu alld Blackstone in 1915

The buildings were built very close together for "conven-ience of communication and economy of maintenance," al-though today the minuteness of the original quadrangleforms a striking comparison to the broad expanse of thepresent campus.

Stone, of course, is the essential building material forthe Gothic style. Yet, oddly enough, not until after thecollege had chosen the style was the large quantity of nativegranite on the college grounds discovered. The contractorlocated the stone first in, of all places, Bolleswood. MissElizabeth Wright, first bursar of the college, relates withhorror how she accidentally stumbled upon workmen allset to blast the lovely hemlock grove. Fortunately, theysought and found granite elsewhere.

England, the panes were square rather than triangular, thetraditional shape. On the other hand, the peaked gables,deeply-inset windows, horizontal stone bands, square cen-tral towers, and small arched oak doors are all traditionalGothic features.

Early Plans: Some Completed, Some AbandonedOn the opening day of the college, September 27,

1915, President Sykes and the group of excited studentsthat made up the first freshman class, could view withpride the nearly finished dormitories, Plant and Blackstone.Each building was designed to hold 50 students and therooms, equipped with draperies and bedspread in additionto the regular furniture, were considered the last word inluxurious accommodation. The corner rooms of the ground

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floor were built with doors connecting adjacent rooms, inorder to overcome the "natural objection" of women tosleeping on this floor. Evidently the fire hazard was great,for no chafing dish parties or the equivalent of "gas jetfeasts" were allowed in the rooms. Instead, kitchenetteswere provided. One issue of a 1915 New London Daystates, "It is believed that this will in large measure el.mi-nate the danger of alcohol blazing up en d setting fire tothe light dresses of the students."

Among the buildings originally planned was a largetwo-story refectory, considered to be "a novel innovationin the culinary department," for instead of building Onemammoth hall, the refectory was to be divided into eightsmall dining rooms. In praising the plans, one contempo-rary newspaper asserted, "Much criticism is directed at theaverage American college girl for her habit of loud talk.This habit is believed to result from a custom acquired inthe clatter and noise of a large dining room when she isrequired to raise her voice in order to be heard. This wiIlbe entirely done away with by means of the smaller diningrooms. Unfortunately, insufficient funds prevented the

erection of the building. As a temporary measure, the leeand Prentis houses, already owned by the college, werejoined together to form Thames Hall, in which the stu-cents are while, it may be assumed, talking loudly.

Another plan abandoned because of lack of funds wasthe design for a pavilion gymnasium. Only one wall wasto be solid; the other three were to be built of glass inorder that the glass sides might be opened and the classesheld in the open air.

Georgian and Modern Take OverIn a period of only fourteen years, from the era of

World War I, yeomanettes and farmerettes, to the era ofthe flappers, twelve buildings had been built at Connecti-cut: New London Hall, Plant, Blackstone, Hillyer Gym-nasium, Winthrop House, North Cottage, Branford, VinalCottage, Palmer Library, and Knowlton House. By theerection of Palmer Library, during the administration ofPresident Marshall, who himself led the line of book-ladenstudents on the library march from the old quarters inNew london Hall to the new building, a major change

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The first of the Georgian buildings, Palmer Library,

Larger l:/UlIJJ .. larger dorsnnories, Knoudton, A'Jar)' Hareuess, [ene Addams, end Freeman ill the backgrouNd,

was brought about net only in the prevailing architecturalstyle of the college, but also in the site of the main quad-rangle. Mr. George S. Palmer, donor of the building, hadwanted the lights of the library visible at night from thecity of New London. Consequently, he chose the highestground on the hilltop as the site for his projected building.Not until Miss Blunt's presidency five years later, however,were the full potentialities of a new and enlarged quad-rangle finally realized.

With Palmer Library, built in 1923, the predominantstyle of campus architecture changed from collegiate Gothicto Colonial or Georgian. The architect of the building,Mr. Geoffrey Platt, whose forte was classic architecture,later designed Fanning Hall, Knowlton House, and theLyman Allyn Museum. In spite of the diametrical opposi-tion of the two styles, Gothic and Georgian, the campusbuil::!ings pre:ent a unified appearance, largely because thesame building materials-granite and limestone-have beenused throughout. In addition, there are certain similaritiesin the styles themselves; both have peaked gables, sharplypitched roofs, and outsized chimneys.

The designs of Knowlton and Fanning follow gener-ally the classic style of Palmer Library. Knowlton, in fact,was called Cclcnial House until the college was free to usethe donor's name. Originally intended solely as a recrea-tion building, the plans for Knowlton were suddenlychanged, while the building was already under construc-tion, to include student rooms on the second floor.

Under Miss Blunt's presidency, eight dormitories werebuilt in remarkably rapid succession: Windham, MaryHarkness, Jane Addams, Freeman, Grace Smith, East, andKatharine Blunt House. \X!indham was the first campusbuilding to be designed by the architectural firm of Shreve,

Lamb, and Harmon of New York, who are best known forhaving designed the Empire State Building and who de-signed all the campus buildings, with the exception of thechapel, since 1933. Although Windham, donated by thecitizens of Windham County, was built in a recognizablyColonial style, the style of the succeeding buildings hastended towards an increasing simplicity and modernity inthe flat surfaces, the lack of decorative detail, and theflatter roofs. For the sake of variety, the architects haveweed an increasing amount of limestone, with granite blocksforming a decorative surface pattern.

One of the primary reasons for the simpler style ofthe later dormitories was the economic necessity of ob-taining maximum floor space at minimum cost. In orderto be economically sound at the present day, a dormitorymust house at least sixty-five to eighty students, Branford,Blackstone, and Plant, on the other hand, can house onlyforty or fifty students each, for in cclleg:ate Gothic a greatdeal of upstairs space is lost under the slope of the pitchedrocf. The plans for the newer buildings were extremelysuccessful financially, for their cost, in proportion to theirsize, is lower than that of most other college dormitoriesIn the country.

Another ingenious method of saving expense was theLIse of only one set of architectural drawings for twobuildings: Jane Addams and Freeman. By simply reversingthe single drawing, and by adding a connecting tower tobreak the roof line, two buildings were designed for theprice of one. A similar device has been used in the inter-connecting Grace Smith and East House, built in 1940, andin Katharine Blunt House, the most recent dormitory.Built after the plans of Jane Addams, one wing ofKatharine Blunt has been faced with stucco rather than

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stone in the expectation that another wing will be addedas Freeman was added to Jane Addams.

Thanks to careful planning by architects and adminis-tration, Connecticut students aren't subjected to dormitoriesthat appear too institutionalized. The housekeeping depart-ment has individualized the interior of every living roomand recreation room. Even more important, the college hasfulfilled the desires of the founders for a non-institutionalrefectory by instituting 2. plan whereby each later dormitoryhas an individual dining room. In order to make the planeconomicaIIy feasible in Jane Addams and Freeman, and inGrace Smith and East, the architects designed a singlekitchen to serve two dining rooms.

Buildings with Special FunctionsHarkness Chapel, designed by James Gamble Rogers,

father-in-law of Henrietta Owens Rogers '28, combinesdements of both Georgian and Gothic styles. An unusualfeature of the building's exterior, with its Georgian col-umns, doorway, and spire, is the use of granite and lime-stone as building materials, rather than the white wood orbrick generally associated with this kind of New EngJandchapel. In the interior, a late-English Gothic ceiling iscombined with Rornanesque arched windows and a typicallyGeorgian apse with an elaborate Baroque organ loft, com-plete with carved angels.

With the exception of the Infirmary, the buildingsmost modern in appearance are Frederic Bill Hall andPalmer Auditorium (built in memory of Frank LoomisPalmer of New London), both constructed in 1939. In de-signing the Auditorium, the architects were faced with two

major problems: the nature of the site and the function ofthe building. A Jaw building was necessary to harmonizewith existing buiJdings and to prevent an obstruction ofthe view. By adapting the building to the sloping ground,the architects were also able to create a good-sized audiotorium. A large auditorium was essential, for it was toserve as theater and concert hall for both the college andNew London community. Although a large stage wasneeded for concert use, a small one was required for dra-matic productions. The probJem was solved by employing alarge collapsible apron which can either enlarge or diminishthe size of the stage. The wavy walls and sectional ceiling,two of the most interesting features of the interior, weredesigned for both harmonious appearance and good acous-tics. The numerous varied planes and faces of wall andceiling surfaces break up the sound waves and prevent thesound from echoing.

When ground was broken for the first building ofConnecticut College, the wielder of the spade little realizedthat within forty years the hilltop site, formerly known asthe "Farm of the Four Winds," would house an entirecollege community of over twenty-six campus buildings.Even in such a short period of time, the taste in architec-tural styles changed just as rapidly as did the taste inclothes. The excited and expectant students who first enter-ed the Gothic haJJs of Plant and Blackstone probably nomore dreamed that their daughters could one day doze inthe solarium of a long, low, sleek Infirmary, than theycould imagine themselves dressed in moccasins, khaki shirtsand blue jeans. The style of the buildings has changedand will continue to change as the college continues to ex-pand, but the buildings themselves stand as a permanentmemorial to an enduring core of values.

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Branford living room in 1926; Mary Hortmess lounge ill 1952.

committee was appointed. The over all needs of the collegewill be studied with a view to giving priorities to those

most urgent.During this waiting period your exploratory committee

has done a good deal of ground work. We have tried tounderstand the purpose of these two efforts-alumnae andstudent-in order to see more clearly their areas of agree-ment. The following statement written by Virginia C.Rose '19, gives the origin of the Sykes Fund for a Student-

Alumnae Buildillg:

Useful and AppropriateWhy was a Student-Alumnae Building designated as

the goal of the early alumnae group of the college?

We were planning for something that would honorthe memory of the first president, under whose leadershipwe had the thrilling experience of starting a great, newadventure in the education of women.

In the first place it must be something worthy; it mustbe significant, and it must embody the element of contin-uity. With only three stone buildings on campus it wasnatural that a building should be the logical choice, butwhat sort of building-so many were needed.

As we had been the first students, now we were thefirst alumnae, and while still conscious of the needs we hadknown as students we realized the importance to the col-lege of a growing body of alumnae. One is an undergrad-uate for four years at most (we hopel) but she is an alum-na for the rest of her life.

And so as a goal that seemed worthy, and somethingthat we and all the students who should come after usmight unite in working for, we set our sights on a Student-Alumnae Building. We envisioned one that should haverooms for the use of day students, of whom there were agreat many in the early days; and that should house thevarious student organizations, aU of which we had seencome into being-Student Government, Service league,Dramatic Club, Debating Club, French Club, Athletic As·sociation, The News-to name a few that come to mind-and in addition provide offices for the Alumnae Associa-tion :lnd facilities for the various needs of returningalumnae.

As undergraduates we had visited various campusesas delegates to student government conference~, News con-ferences, etc., where we appreciated buildings of this sortat Vassar, Weltesley, and other colleges. It seemed to usthat eventually Connecticut College must have a Student-Alumnae Building.

Student-Alumnae Building Project ReviewedBy WINONA YOUNG '19

One of tbe clearer memories in the mind oj everyConnecticut almnna is likely' to be thai of bersel] and her[nmds rnsblng about camplfs seLLing or btl)'ing tickets forSykes Fnnd benefits, "Working to build IfP tbe total of theStudent Alumnae Building Fund, excitedly' discnssmg tbebuilding and what it would mean to tbe life of the campm.from the time the earliest classes decided that tbe most ap-propriate memorial 10 tbe beloved Dr. Sykes toonld be aStudent-Alumnae Building on campus, to tbe wonderjuLL}entbnsiastlc actnnties of the present students, mns the un-broken thread oj interest in smb a b1filding. At times ;n-terest has been LeSJ keen tban at otbers, but etlwa}s it basbeen presenl. The delightful lille fiier recently meliled b)'students to almnnae is partial evidence oj current campminterest in tbe project.

The students hope thaI the Alumnae Associanon unlljoin them in working jar what Ihey now term tbe "KecBuilding," and tbns by alumnae particip ation tHm tbe pro-posed Recreation Building nuo tbe Sltldent-ALml7llae Bnild-ing, tbe goal of the original S}keJ Memorial Fnnd, Beforeasking the entire almnnae bod} to 'vote Oil tbe matter tbeExecutive Board of the Almnnae Association has asked acommittee of alumnae to gi-ve 1!J aN some backgrolfnd in-[ormation, paJl and cmrent, 011 the subjecl. lVmona Young'19, chairman of tbe committee, presents the interestinginteresting ini orrnation gi'ven below.

At the reCJuest of the Executive Board of the Connec-ticut CoJlege Alumnae Association, the president of theAssociation appointed a committee to explore the areas ofagreement in the interest of the alumnae and students ofthe college in the matter of a so-called Recreation Building,as proposed by a group of students, and the alumnae pro-ject of many years-a student-alumnae building as a mem-orial to the first president, Dr. Sykes.

This committee appointed by President Mary AnnaMeyer '42 consists of the following members:Emily Warner Caddock '25, Dorothy Royce Hadden '45,Sylvia Snitkin Krieger '50, Jessie Menzies Luce '20, Kath-ryn Moss '24, Gwendolyn Knight Nevin '39, Virginia C.Rose '19, leah Pick Silber '20, Dorothy Stewart '36, MaryChapman Watts '39, Winona F. Young '19, Chairman.

A meeting of the committee was held at the collegein May at which time the charge to the committee wasgiven by letter from Mrs. Meyer. ]t was made clear thatall fund raising for the college would be held in abeyanceuntil the College Development Committee was appOintedand functioning. During the latter part of November this

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Outdoor recreation, neoer a problem at CONnecticut.

As a goal it answered the requirements-it was need-ed, it was worthy, and it was significant-and it had atimelessness and all embracing quality that appealed to us.It would be of use to the student from the day she enteredas an undergraduate and continue so for the rest of her life.It was a project in which students and alumnae could havea joint and equal interest. It symbolized the wide rangeof interests and activities of the college from the earliestdays in an unbroken chain as far into the future as onecould think. And to paraphrase a line recently made fam-ous, "Old students don't just fade away, they become alum-nae," and the building would symbolize this continuity ofrelationship to the college and its welfare, and so be worthyof honoring the memory of that vital, stimulating, scholarlyman who was its' first president.

That's the way it started, but somewhere along theyears the idea has become vague, until today we realizewith amazement that it is almost unheard of among thoseon campus. There are a number of reasons for this, noneof which in any way reflects on the soundness of the orig-inal goal, but they do not seem to me important now. Thequestion now is, does the original plan have appeal for thestudents and alumnae today? Do the undergraduates feelthe need of facilities for day students and student organiza-tions, and do they realize how soon they will themselves bealumnae and come back to campus with no place availableto them? We must have some thoughts in common andthe problem now, it seems to me, is to find areas of agree-ment and proceed from them to something for which wecan all work together-students and alumnae.

-VIRGINIA C. ROSE '19

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To Honor Dr. SykesThe Student Recreation Building Committee has de-

signed a brochure which they have mailed to alumnae andto all parents of students showing the campus interest andenthusiasm for their project.

Dr. Nancy Barr Mavity Rogers, one of the originalfaculty members, has written 'of Dr. Sykes and his dynamicleadership in the earliest days of the college in a way thatbrings it back to those who were there, and we think bringsan understanding of it to those who came after. Her articlefollows:

Connecticut College is still young-so young that menand women who were present at its birth and could onlypredict its growth in terms of an unrealized future are byno means doddering oldsters today.

But college generations are short-four years com-pared to the biological thirty-and by this reckoning Con-necticut College has spanned nine generations. The timehas been long enough for traditions as well as buildings togrow on the hills above the Thames.

Rightly, and even more rightly for an institution stillso young and vigorous in development, the attention ofstudents, faculty and governing body is focused primarily~n ~h~ pre.sent and future. But the tradition, the spirit, theindividuality that imbues a college and makes it different~rom a~y other is not something that springs spontaneouslymto bemg, nor is it born anew with each incoming studentbody. It reaches back ware into the past as it reaches intothe future.

That "personality," in precise form and shape, couldnot be foreseen in detail in 1915. But its essence, its "soul"if you will, was alive then and is alive today. It was alivein the purpose that saw the need for Connecticut Collegeas a venture, an experiment, with its own individuality andcharacter, and not as "just another college."

That purpose, character and vision can best be exem-plified or symbolised in the person of Connecticut College'sfirst pioneer president. In establishing a memorial to him,we are not memorializing something ancient or abstract,but something as much alive in 1951 as it was in 1915. Itis not even a link with the past, for links are static, but amark of recognition that the founding of the college, andits present and future, are all parts of a continuous process.

Frederick H. S)'kes, first p-esideut,

Nevertheless, it is of real value for the students oftoday and tomorrow to have a reminder, more substantia!than human memories, of the founding of their college-what it was like and what it meant. Dr. Sykes, with hisquesting, eager, adventurous mind, his boundless enthusi-asms, and the warm feeling of active participation whichhe spread to all who were engaged with him in what hemade them fed was a joint enterprise, was its movingspirit. Not every educator is able to make his studentsalertly aware of it as such, as an exploring field trip intofresh territories of the mind and of living.

Your beautiful, commodious, and smoothly organizedcollege of today will mean much more to you if you willreconstruct, with imagination based on the still vivid recol-lection of those who were there, the college Dr. Sykes first

showed us.

It was, perhaps, symbolic--it was certainly unromfort-able-and he made it seem great fun, that the paths weremuddy, the buildings still smelling of wet plaster, or half

completed, or only projected in blueprints. Something wasin the making, and we were privileged to be "in" at the

beginning.

Dr. Sykes was not administrative or executive TopBrass, shut away behind a cordon of secretaries. lt is notenough to say that he was accessible to students and facultyalike. He was right down in the middle of the hurly burlyand the hubbub. When he spoke, whether in faculty meet-ing or assembly, it was like the calling of a family council,to attend the problems of the moment or work out pro-grams for the future.

His two most cherished convictions, the heart of thewhole project, were interrelated. They may not have work-ed out in detail as he envisioned them. He would not evenhave wanted them to. For no educative scheme was everto him a dead formula. The requirements of life and cir-cumstances change, and he would have been the first tomodify, re-outliue and reconstruct the basic design to con-form to a changing, because a living, reality.

But, whatever the external shape of things might be,he believed first, that the faculty should not be set apartfrom the students, coming down from the empyrean to im-part instruction and then vanishing into thin air, but thatthe relationship should include a real sharing of lives andexperience. Second, he believed that culture and the artsand sciences should not be incapsulated from life, nor a"preparation" for life, but should be related, through anexpanded and expanding curriculum, to the concerns ofliving itself.

Because his own training was in English literature,Dr. Sykes had a great way of taking words from the pastand flashing them on the situation at hand. There weremany such swift, illuminating passages. But the lines heflung out most often, and which remain forever associatedwith him and with those days, were these:

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be aliveBut to be young was very heaven!"

He made us feel that about the founding of Connec-ticut College. I hope that every new generation will feelsomething of that, too. I hope they wiJl never forget thatin this spirit their college was founded. I hope that thismemorial to Dr. Sykes will help them remember.

-NANCY BARR MAVITY

The Sykes Fund for a Student-Alumnae Building nowamounts to over $23,000. The specific problem is, can theoriginal objective of the Sykes Fund and the RecreationBuilding now the dream of the present students at cotlegebe realized at the same time? That is what we hope may beachieved. We must judge whether present ideas meet thetest of harmony with our original purposes. Ideas and sug-gestions from any member of the Alumnae Association orstudent body will be welcomed by the committee.

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Alumnae Fund Workers on CampusMiss Park's luncheon address to Class Fund Agents

and gUEsts was the highlight of a brihlianrly successfulAlumnae Fund Weekend held on campus early in Novem-er. Directed by Dorothy Stewart, Alumnae Fund Chairman.assisted by Mary Anna Meyer, Alumnae Association Presi-dent, and Sadie Benjamin of the Alumnae Office staff, theWeekend seemed in part to follow the pattern set by theweather. Not wild and not wet, as the weather emphatic-ally was, certainly quire controlled and well organized,the meeting too was filled with the spirit of energy, ofgenuine excitement, and it moved-fast. The enthusiasmof the Class Agents was catching. The delegates under-stood and approved of the plan of team organization foreach class. Some of them had already organized theirteams. All of them knew what they planned to do withtheir teams in the next few weeks and what they wantedto say about those plans. They said it at the workshopsessions with zest and intelligence, and at the other sessionsthey absorbed information about the College and enjoyedthe light-hearted antics of student singers and actors.

j\1iJJ Sir/r;gi, Spr/uish Depmmem.

Miss Zelmira Biaggi, in charge of campus work withforeign students, presented three students, one each fromAustria, the Philippines, and Egypt. Now a requested an-nual event, these talks by foreign students invariably giveto the Weekend the most eloquent expression of the reasonfor being of Alumnae Funds and Class Agents.

With regret the Agents learned of the approachingresignation of Dorothy Stewart as Alumnae Fund Chair-man. Assistant to the President of Mitchelh College, NewLondon's community college, Dorothy finds her new jobso all-consuming as to time as to make necessary the elimi-

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nation of important outside activities. Regretful at herleave-taking, but grateful for her leadership under whichthe Alumnae Fund work has certainly taken a long stepforward, the Agents assured the out-going chairman oftheir intention of carrying on their work according to theplans which she had outlined.

Not simply as a record of the recent Weekend, but asa statement of principles and procedures of Alumnae Fundwork at Connecticut College, all alumnae will be interestedin Dorothy Stewart's own resume of the workshop meet-lOgS held during the Weekend.

Resume of Workshop MeetingsForma/ion of Class Fund Teams: Each Agent appoints

a group of workers from her class, assigns them names tocontact, and then follows up on ensuing activity, makingsure that (1) definite instructions for procedure are given;and (2) immediate notification is sent when contributionsare received. Teams will vary from two to perhaps tenmembers, and may be picked on a basis of geographical resi-dence, social affiliation, dormitory residence in college, orjust plain willingness to help. Keeping assistants enthusias-tic, informed, and working is the major job of the Agentunder the team plan. She becomes a kind of senior partnerwith definite supervisory duties. It is especially importantthat she tell ber workers at once tobon gifts are received,and also pass on changes of address.

Schedule of Circnlerization: October I-Printed ap-peal mailed from Alumnae Office. November 22-Dead-line for personal notes from Agents and team workers toclassmates whose contributions have not yet been received.December I-i5-Printed reminder mailed from AlumnaeOffice (an attractive blotter and return envelope stronglysuggested by fund workers). Febmary I5-Deadline forsecond round of personal' notes to con-contributors. Furthercorrespondence may follow, but it is important that thefourth appeal be out by this date.

Tbe Personal Appeal Leiter: Its value lies in the factthat it reflects )'0/11' enthusiasm, )'0111' knowledge of the col-lege (and its needs), yOlll' friendliness, and )'0111' hope thatothers will catch the spirit of Alumnae Fund purposes. Youcan lise facts like: your gift supports the Alumnae organ-ization, publrshes the NEWS for you, and provides moneyfor scholarship and other purposes. Many uncovered needsstill exist-instructional equipment, more adequate faculty~alaries, etc. Above all, the ultimate fate of the private,Independent college appears to rest solidly upon the shoul-

ders of people like us, the $5 - $25 givers-thousands ofus-working and living together.

Mailing expenses: If the cost of stationery and stampsused in Fund work is a burden to an Agent or team worker,she should ask the Alumnae Office for reimbursement.Many agents, by absorbing such costs, however, are in effectincreasing their own personal gifts in an indirect way andwelcome this opportunity to "pay as they go."

Potentially Large Givers: Agents agreed they wereinterested in broadening the base of alumnae giving by se-curing averoge contributions from many more people. Al-though willing to cooperate, they felt the Alumnae Fund

Committee should take the leadership in organizing solici-tation among the potentially large givers.

Recommendation to Finance Committee: The Agentswent on record as favoring unanimously the continuanceof an unrestricted gift to the College, and the inclusion intbe Association budget of tbat gift. This-the recommen-dation that an unrestricted gift to the College be includedin the Association budget-was perhaps the most far-reaching decision made during the weekend. It evidencesa growing comprehension of the financial problems of theCollege and a willingness to increase alumnae support tohelp meet them.

Report Given by Organization CommitteeElection Procedures Discussed at Annual Alumnae Meeting

The- meeting was called to order by the President of theAlumnae Association, Mary Anna Lemon Meyer, at 10:15.

As the Secretary's report of the Annual Meeting inJune, 1950, was printed in the Alumnae News, it wasmoved, seconded and resolved to dispense with the Secre-tary's report.

The Treasurer's report had been mimeographed andwas distributed to the Annual Meeting. On motion madeand seconded, it was resolved to approve the report

The report of the Alumnae Fund, also mimeographed,was distributed to the Annual Meeting. This report wasamplified by Dorothy Stewart, chairman of the Alumnaefund Committee. Miss Stewart reported that the averagegift to date this year was $5.31, as it had been approxi-mately for the past several years, but that the number ofcontributors had dropped somewhat. Therefore, the totalFund income was less. With regard to plans for theAlumnae Fund for next year, Miss Stewart reported thatthe Alumnae Fund Committee hoped to move toward thecommon average of comparable colleges-that is, averagegifts of approximately $10.00. In this connection MissStewart pointed out that our average gift has increased inthe past few years from an average gift of $3.00. She alsoreported that the average of the class of 1923 was $7.20,and the average gift of the class of 1936 was $7.21, whichwere the two highest averages to date (see statistical reportof Alumnae Fund in summer issue for report to endof fiscal year). In the classes of 1926 and 1946, she statedthat 57% of the members made contributions.

Miss Stewart said that it is recognized that the present-day pressure on everyone's pocketbooks is such that it isdifficult to give, but that each of us can work if necessaryat such jobs as baby-sitting, typing, et cetera, to raisemoney specifically to give to the Alumnae Fund. It wasfurther stated that this report and the figures therein were

meaningful only in relation to the plight of the privatecolleges.

In concluding Miss Stewart pointed out that the Alum-nae Fund is an amalgamation of three sources of giving,dubs, classes, and individuals. This report was concludedwith the thanks of the Alumnae Fund Chairman to theClass Fund Agents, the members of the Alumnae FundCommittee, the Executive Board, and to Miss Moss andMrs. Benjamin.

The report of the Nominating Committee was read byMrs. Meyer, who announced the election by alumnae ofCatharine Greer '29 as Alumnae Trustee for the term 1951-1956. Miss Greer's name is to be submitted to the Boardof Trustees of the College for election by that group.

The chairman of the Pol icy Committee, DorothyWheeler, gave her report. She stated that the Committee isconsidering and working on a job analysis of staff members,including the relationship of one job to another. Aftersufficient information is obtained, this Committee wilt rec-ommend to the Finance Committee the establishment ofsalary scales. As a part of this inquiry, the Policy Com-mittee is considering the establishment of vacation policiesin line with policies of the College for administrative em-ployees and for library employees.

Miss Wheeler also ret-orted that with regard to theAlumnae Association rhc Policy Committee is consideringexpenses incurred by alumnae in connection with Associa-tion work. Along these lines, the Committee is givingconsideration as to what is included in "traveling ex-penses." For example, if travel is by railroad, when is firstclass fare allowed, when should coach fare be the limit?If travel by car, what mileage should be allowed, and issuch mileage to be paid when the' train fare would be less?Also, the question of valid hotel expenses in terms of mini-mum and maximum and other expenses incurred, such as

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taxis, tips, phone calls, meals and sitters, is being con-sidered.

With regard to the educational functions of theExecutive Board, Miss Wheeler reported that the PolicyCommittee is considering whether it is the responsibility ofthe Executive Board to strengthen the relationship of thealumnae with the College as an educational institution,and to this end is examining the question whether theBoard should plan an annual "campus program," this toinclude the general Association membership, Council, Fundworkers and Reunion classes. The Committee suggestedthat there be one Alumnae Day in the fall, to which allalumnae be invited, or three days in the fall with the alum-nae divided according to the three major divisions of thecurriculum, the humanities, the natural and physical sciences,and the social sciences.

The Committee is also considering how the ExecutiveBoard can further enhance the importance of the AlumnaeAssociation among the alumnae and suggests the possibilityof recognizing distinguished services of the faculty andofficers of the Association, of promoting more dignity andceremony along that line, and through the means of hon-orary membership in the Association. In addition, theCommittee is examining ways in which the Association candeal more publicly with personalities within and outsideits membership, and suggests that past presidents of theAssociation might be invited to give suggestions along theselines and might be invited to attend some meetings of thePol icy Committee.

The report of the Finance Committee, Emily WarnerCaddock, chairman, was read by Mrs. Meyer. The FinanceCommittee has met twice this year. As a result of these twomeetings, staff salaries have been reviewed. It was decidedto establish a reserve fund for the Association.

After consideration of the Alumnae Fund report, theFinance Committee made the following recommendation tothe Executive Board: "To strengthen the Alumnae Fundnext year, the initial step being the increase by one of theAlumnae Office Employed Personnel."

The Finance Committee also recommended the publi-cation this year of an Alumnae Register.

The Committee has given serious consideration to thepossible use of the Sykes Fund toward the current studentdrive to raise funds for a recreation building. However,the Committee felt decisions or final recommendations mustawait more specific information from the College Develop-ment Committee.

The chairman of the Finance Committee submitted achange i.n the method of setting up the budget, suggestingthat an lnc~me budget .also be included. The final budgettherefore will be submitted to the Association membershipby mail for its approval.

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The report of the Committee on Organization wasgiven by Natalie R. Maas, chairman of the Committee.This Committee has recommended several policy changesin connection with a revision of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association. These policy changes includeacompromise between multiple ballot and single slate whichwould have all officers except directors elected by singleslate and a director from each decade of graduated classeselected by multiple choice ballots.

The Committee also recommended that the term ofoffice be changed from two to three years with one-thirdof the officers elected in each year in order to have a rotat-ing Executive Board.

The Committee also recommended a reclassificationofmembership into active and inactive members, activemem-bers being those who contribute to the Alumnae Fund.

The Committee has also attempted to clarify variousprocedures without changing them. These procedures in-clude petition procedure for adding names to ballot andvoting by mail.

The report of Mrs. Caddock for the Alumnae Trusteeswas read by Mrs. Meyer:

"The Alumnae Association has been represented onthe Connecticut College Board of Trustees this past yearby:

Miriam Brooks Butterworth-term 1950-55Eleanor Jones Heilman 1948-54Emily Warner Caddock 1946-51

Each of the Alumnae Trustees carries committee work, be-ing appointed by the Board. Committee responsibilitiesthis past year were as follows: Mrs. Butterworth-Arbore-tum Committee, College-Alumnae Relations Committee;Mrs. Heilman-Education Committee, College-AlumnaeRelations Committee; Mrs. Caddock-Library Committee,Gifts and Bequests Committee, Committee on Committees,Chairman of College-Alumnae Relations Committee.

The College-Alumnae Relations Committee, of whichthe senior Alumnae Trustee is always chairman, has had aseries of meetings this past year. Through this channel, ithas been possible to bring to the Board of Trustees someof the concerns expressed by individuals and groups withinthe Association-notably need of the College for an in-creasingly active fund-raising and public relations program.Some proposals were made to the Board of ways in whichthese needs might be met. You will be interested to know~hat these proposals were received by the Board with greatmterest, and we are encouraged to believe that the explora-tion done by this committee will bear fruit in the shapeof actual planning which may go forward in the comingyear.

A plan has been inaugurated providing for an annualreport which will be given at each October meeting of theTrustees, setting forth the achievements of the AlumnaeAssociation during the preceding year. This gives a good

opportunity to report to the Trustees developments withinthe Association and its support of the College.

The Board of Trustees is setting up a DevelopmentCommittee to plan and carry out a financing program forthe College. There will be representation on this Com-rruttee from each group in the College Community: thefaculty, the students, the alumnae and the Trustees.

Miss Moss gave her report as Executive Secretary. Shestated that the problems of Connecticut College were thesame as the problems of other colleges and that we mustplan practical ways and means by which we can be of serv-ice to the College. She emphasized the importance for allof us as alumnae of full and correct information about theCollege and the Alumnae Association, and explained howthe Alumnae Council and the Alumnae News have recentlybeen used for the purpose of making certain informationavailable to large numbers of alumnae.

Miss Moss reported that, believing the Alumnae Court-cit meetings to offer excellent opportunities for obtaininga cross-section of alumnae opinion, and also for dissemi-nating information to the local groups represented by theCouncilors, President Park invited all Councilors to meetat her home dur,ing the February meeting. At that time

Miss Park, Miss Anna lord Strauss, College Trustee, Em-ily Caddock, Alumnae Trustee, spoke on the financialsituation of the College. Dorothy Stewart, Alumnae FundChairman, spoke on plans for the Fund. The Sykes Fundand its relation to the proposed recreation building wasalso discussed briefly. A full report of this meeting wasprinted in the Alumnae News.

lt is our job, Miss Moss stated, to render the ablestassistance to the College of which we are capable, and inthis connection vitality and unity of purpose are indispen-sable foundation stones. She pointed out that AlumnaeAssociation aid in admissions and publicity are not merelydesirable, but necessary, the latter becoming increasinglyimportant. She reported that at a Boston Club meetingthree College officials had met with club members, second-ary schooJ officials, and parents in a somewhat different typeof admissions meeting. This program, she said, probablycan be had by other clubs within reasonable distance ofthe College.

With regard to the clubs, Miss Moss pointed out thevaluable contributions in terms of service along educationallines of many of the Clubs. She commented particularlyupon the activity in this regard of our new clubs, Baltimoreand Wilmington. She further pointed out that the variousbenefits and the financial and other contributions therefromshow a laudable unity of purpose and much hard work.

In conclusion Miss Moss said she genuinely felt thatas an Association we are at the beginning of an interestingand productive phase of activity, since both our experienceand our numbers now permit us to undertake ambitiousprojects, which, when carefully planned, can be success-fully achieved.

Mrs. Meyer then gave her report as President of theAlumnae Association. She pointed out that the four chan-nels for work of the Alumnae Association are the AlumnaeOffice, Clubs, the Executive Board, and Committees.

Mrs. Meyer spoke of the great indebtedness of theAssociation to the staff in the Alumnae Office and extendedthe thanks of the Association to Miss Moss and Mrs .Benjamin.

She then pointed out that many clubs are only nowhaving their final meetings, hence the club reports are notcomplete. Of the nine clubs whose reports are complete.the total potential membirship is 1875, the average attend-ance 21. Their money-raising work is reported in theTreasurer's report, and the number which have meetingsfor prospective meetings is six. The clubs generally haverequested closer contact with the College by means of films,speakers, and publicity.

Mrs. Meyer stated that the Executive Board has hadthree meetings this year. The first meeting in Septemberwas devoted largely to planning the year's program and tothe appoointment of committees. To the meeting in No-

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"ember two students were invited to attend to discuss theirproposed student recreation building. The plans at thattime were still nebulous, but the idea was to include gymand recreation facilities, facilities for student government,physical education, and the alumnae. As a result of thatExecutive Board meeting, it was voted to appoint a com-mittee to consider the use of the Sykes Fund toward thestudent recreation building. Winona Young is chairmanof that committee, whose final report must await furtherdiscussion among alumnae, faculty, administration andstudents and further reports from the Development Com-mittee which is a Committee of the Board of Trustees.

At the May meeting, the Executive Board voted to ac-cept the recommendation of the Finance Committee that anextra person be added to the Alumnae office personnel.Reports of various committee chairmen were read andaccepted. The suggestion that there be an Alumnae Dayor series of days was also passed by the Executive Board.Mrs. Meyer, in conclusion, requested the Alumnae Associa-tion to let the Executive Board know any ideas which theymay have on any Association questions.

Following Mrs. Meyer's report, there was an open dis-cussion of the use of the Sykes Fund and of the Organiza-tion Committee report.

The question was raised whether a recreation buildingwas a suitable memorial to Dr. Sykes. The answer wasmade that there would be some place within the building,that is, some part thereof, which would be a suitable mem-orial. It was pointed out that the alumnae could make astart on this student drive by putting in the Sykes Fund,although the students are talking in terms of a $1,000,000building with the possibility of doing it piecemeal. Thestudents are working very hard on this project via self-help.]t was moved, seconded and resolved that this annual' meet-ing send a statement to the students that the Association isinterested in their project and wants to hear more whenthe plans are further developed.

With regard to the Organization Committee report, itwas suggested that elective officers be rotated among thedecades. One member of the Association objected to theproposed change -which would require a contribution to theAlumnae fund for active, i.e., voting, membership and sug-gested that no such requirement be made for the first fiveyears out of college. Miss Moss pointed out that it wasexpensive to send the Alumnae News to all members andthat this is to be limited to contributing members. She alsopointed out that those who support the Alumnae Associa-tion by financial contributions to the Alumnae fund shouldhave some additional recognition.

It was moved, seconded and resolved that the meetingbe adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

NATALIE R. MAAS, Secretary Pro rem

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Harkness Cbapel.

BUDGET OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

FOR 1951 - 52

Approved by tbe Executive Boardof tbe Alumnae Association

SalariesSupplies .Postage, printing, and stationeryEquipmentTelephone and telegraphAlumnae News .TravelMiscellaneousCash contribution to College

$11,850.00400.00

2,200.00500.00325.00

2,500.001,000.00

500.008,000.00

$27,275.00

Because of rising costs of supplies, equipment, tele-phone, and postage the Executive Board of the Associationset a maximum figure of $27,500.00 for budget expendi-tures. The above figures are based upon actual expendi-tures for 1951·52.

On Campusof Kalamazoo; the other, married to a freelance writer andliving in Montana, is the holder of a Master's degree fromColumbia in nursery school education. Currently she isputting her academic knowledge into practice with twosmall daughters of her own. The senior Warnshuises, itneed hardly be said, are the traditionally proud grand-parents of the two youngest members of the family.

Still somewhat astonished by such a rare stroke ofluck in the fortunate coincidence of the Warnshuis' planswith Connecticut's need of a College Physician, we takegreat pride in the first director of our new Infirmary-e-a.woman of warm sympathies and acute perceptions, a doctorof outstanding competence, who is truly eminent both per-sonally and professionally.

Dr. Lilian Warnshuis, now in her third year as collegephysician, heads a staff of eight in the new infirmary-fivenurses and a full-time chef and house cleaner. Appropri-ately, since alumnae have worked long and actively to helpbring the Infirmary to reality, Martha Thumm '38, techni-cian and secretary, is also on the charter staff.

Members of the campus community, grateful that thecollege is blessed with a distinguished physician, enjoy tooin Dr. Warnshuis a bracing personality, a thorough-goingcosmopolite with more than a hint of her native Scotland in

her speech.Born Lilian Cook in Edinburgh, Dr. Warnshuis was

graduated from the University of Edinburgh, came to theUnited States by way of India. There she went as a physi-cian to Vel lore hospital, later becoming professor of medi-cine and acting principal of Vellore Medical College forWomen as well as examiner in medicine for the Madrasgovernment. Then out of the west came a young Americanminister, Dr. John Warnshuis from Michigan, wso wasdirector of teacher-training at a mission in southern India.For several years after their marriage the Warnshuises con-tinued to live in India, and their children, two daughters,

were born there.After coming to the United States to live, Dr. John

Warnshuis remained in religious work, and Dr. Lilian be-came associate chief of the metabolism clinic and clinicalprofessor of New York Medical university. She was alsoon the staff of Bellevue and Staten Island hospitals, andwas director of the metabolism clinic of the latter institu-

tion.

From 22 States

Both Vassar graduates, one Warnshuis daughter, to-gether with her husband, is connected with the civic theatre

The College continues to draw on the state of Con-necticut for its largest source of students. Of the 256freshmen students this year, 66 come from Connecticut,with New York providing 51, Massachusetts 38, Pennsyl-vania 23, and New Jersey 21. Almost half are from theNew England states, although Rhode Island has suppliedonly 3 and Maine 4. The remaining number IS distrib-uted as follows:

Alabama 2California 2Colorado 2Delaware 1Illinois 7Indiana 1Kansas 2Kentucky 1There are seven new students, including transfers,

from foreign countries as diverse as Switzerland, Monaco,France, Egypt, Germany, Austria, and the Philippines.

MarylandMichiganMissouriOhioOregonWisconsinWashington, D. C.

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INFIRMARY ~TAFF: .MiSJ Priscilla Fraser} R.N., Itaff nurse; Mrs. Eleanor Roberts, staff nurse; MiIS Alartha Thumm '38, tecbni dan andsecretary; MHs DOriS M"l~a!JeIl} R.1';l., mallp:ge,. of the Illfirmary and. head IJUr!e; MrI. Lois Haf[rield, R.N., dispensary ill/TIe; Mrs. EthelHull, R.N., It,tff nurse: Lilian C. W'amsh,m, M.D.} College Pbysician, Not m the picture, -"10. Tbevese Peringer alld Mrs. Mary Mac-DOllald, in charge of cooking and cleaning.

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Alumnae ScholarshipsEight students have received scholarship aid for the

current year from alumnae clubs. They are:Bergen COll11t)', New Jersey Ctllb-Janet Lindstrom

'52 of West Englewood.Hartford Clllb-Shirley Lukens '52.New Jersey C1Ith-Mary E. Harrison '52 of Glen

Ridge.Nelli London-Alice Dreifuss '53.Pbiladelphia-Jane Dornan '55 of Lansdowne.Pittsbllrgb-Elizabeth Smith '54 of Williamsport.lf7asbinglOJl, D. c.--Janet Fenn '54 of Baltimore.IlYeslrhester-]anet Kellock '52 of New Rochelle.The Alumnae Scholarship of $600 was awarded last

June to Frances Wilcox '53, and the Cleveland Club se-lected Noreen Bonk '55, Cleveland, the recipient of its

scholarship this year.

agency of the government.the class is working as aYork Telephone Company.

The highest paid member oftraffic engineer for the New

Summer EmploymentAlthough the college has emphasized from its very

inception the need for students to supplement their aca-demic studies with more practical experience, this year forthe first time it has become an official policy of the college.The new catalogue will read: "Students are urged to spendpart of each summer in useful activity and to spend at leastone summer in significant paid employment." The Per-sonnel Bureau reports that 62 % of the students workedduring this last summer, that 170/0 studied, 7% traveled,and 14%, including those who were married, were ill, orwho helped at home, vacationed. The total earnings ofthe students equaled $108,400: the class of '54 earned the

Carol singing ill pre-Auditorium da-ys,

Marriage Still PopularOn the basis of statistics from the Personnel Bureau,

it would appear that the majority of Connecticut Collegegraduates still find marriage the most attractive field ofendeavor. Of the 150 graduates of the class of '51, thirtyare already married. Graduate study, however, hasclaimed an exceptionally large number: twenty-three mem-bers of the class are studying in universities and profes-sional schools throughout the country. For those employedin jobs, merchan-dising and teaching appear to be the mostpopular fields: twelve graduates are working in each ofthese fields. Insurance and clerical work have claimed tenstudents each, whereas editorial work has claimed onlyfour. Among students who have found more unusualpositions are two who are working in Munich for RadioFree Europe and two working for the Central Intelligence

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highest percentage and the class of '52, the lowest.Positions as waitresses, counselors, and general office

workers claimed the largest number of students, althoughjobs ranged from teaching swimming on the Riviera tofeeding mice in a zoo lab. Wages ran from a low of $40to a high of $718. Evidently waitressing is one of thebest-paid summer jobs available, for most of those studentswho earned over $500 were employed as waitresses. Theaverage wages for the different classes varied widely. Asis to be expected, the older the class, the higher the wage:the average wage for the class of '55 was less than $100,whereas the class of '52 earned an average of $300. Theclass of '53 earned, on the average, about $200-$300, whilethe class of '54 earned about $150·$250.

Many students attempted to correlate practical experi-ence with their fields of specialization: for example, a few

English majors did library work; many psychology majorsworked in personnel offices or as psychology internes; anart major worked in an advertising agency; students ma-joring in child development did camp work, nurseryschool work, and casework for the County Welfare De-partment; a government major did clerical work for apolitical party. It is the hope of the college that summerjobs will benefit the employer as much as the student em-ployed, in spite of such minor mishaps as were experiencedby one economics major who, working in a bank duringthe summer, unwittingly locked the vice-president in thebank vault for the entire lunch hour.

From Miss Potter in Alaska117e annotmce regrelfull:y tbet Miss Louise Potier bas

resigned as Assistant to tbe President in order to becomedean of 'women at the Uni1Jersity of Alaska in Fairbanks.lf7e asked bel' how it fell to be smldenly transplauted fromcollege hfe ;17. New England 10 college life in Alaska.

"Dear Kay:Alaska, 'the great land,' to translate the Indian name.

There are are at least ten Alaskas. I am in central Alaska,four miles from Fairbanks, and across the river from theinternational airport. Today it is 3 above here-blue sky,sun sparkling on the snow, which came to stay on Oct. 5,covering the sweet peas and poppies. I have just had awalk in the spruce and birch woods on the ridge near themagnetic and seismic observatory. The campus view ofthe Alaska Range, pink in the afternoon sun, is genuinely'out of this world.' At night the starlight and aurora are

incredible.We have approximately 300 students, of whom 76

are women: 42 in my dormitory, 33 married, and fourliving at home in Fairbanks. They look, act, and talk likestudents at Conn. College. They are occasionally late andget rampused. They ski and skate, they hunt caribou,they go dancing. One girl from Wiseman shot both abear and a moose before she came down to college! A4 to .1 ratio of males makes for few psychoses-among the

women!Most women take liberal arts courses, one is in agri-

culture, four in pre-nursing. Many men are taking min-ing engineering, geology, or wild-life and conservation.The University attracts many scientists because of work inanthropology, paleontology, and research in the aurora,arctic agriculture, weather, etc.

The library and museum are excellent-'something'when you consider we are 2000 miles from either Seattleor Edmonton. Just as at Connecticut we have lectures,concerts, movies, ski dub, camera dub, campus radio sta-tion and 'The Polar Star', student paper.

There are about 25 faculty homes on the campus. Ifind the faculty a friendly, cooperative, and hospitable

group. Parkas and mukluks are coming out now-as the

weather deepens.Everyone works in Alaska, the students are no ex-

ception, summer or winter. In the cafeteria you may sitbeside a young man who spent the summer digging fossilsat Kotzebue, or fishing off Dillingham, panning gold onthe Chandalar, or photographing mountain sheep in Mt.McKinley National Park.

What do I do? I work 7 days a week. My daybegins at 8:00 when I get on my storm coat and go to thecafeteria for breakfast. Four days a week it ends at 10:30,2 days at 11 :45, and Saturdays at 1 :30 - no union fordeans, alas! Harriet Hess Hall has an attractive lounge,as the men's houses don't, so I sometimes feel I also serveas dean of men.

I have no bell maid or night maid or male janitor.I chase the plumber and electrician myself; Alaska is noplace for the helpless female, or one who has dignity topreserve. I listen to tales of untidy roommates, discussstudy plans with freshmen, confer with the dean of menwhen we are in a creez, and sometimes the president. I amgetting out a general information book with pictures forthe University, much the same sort as I did for Vassar andConnecticut. I do not know where the days go to, butthere is never a dull moment,' and it's fun."

From the Student's Point of ViewIVe knOll." tbnt ahnnnae enjoy hearing about campus

e-uents from the tmdergraduale's poil1t of view. Hence webave asked Frances lf7i/cox '53, daughter of Ellen CarrolllVi!cox '20 and tbis year's holder of the Alumnae Scholar-dJip, to write some notes for ns.

The college has been fortunate in having a series ofexcellent concerts this year. The first performance was apiano recital given by William Dale, a new instructor inthe music department. Covering a wide historical span, Mr.Dale's program included works by Scarlatti, Mozart,Brahams, Debussy, Quincy Porter, and Hindemith. Theworks of Porter are of particular interest to Mr. Dale be-cause he studied under that composer at the Yale School ofMusic. Mr. Dale plans to repeat part of his concert in Lon-don this June. He will be in Europe during the summerunder the Charles Ditson Foreign Fellowship which givesmusicians the opportunity to study and perform abroad.

A piano recital was also given by the noted New Yorkpianist, William Kapell, whose performance opened thisyear's concert series. With prodigious technical brilliance,he performed works by composers as diverse as Bach, Mo-zart, Moussorgsky, Debussy, and Liszt.

A third recital, this time on the organ, was given byArthur W. Quimby, head of the department of music. Oneof the most interesting and effective pieces on the programwas Sowerby's CJaJ5ic S)'mpboll)', a work transcribed forpiano and organ. Miss Patricia Rapp of the music depart-

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rnent faculty, assisted Mr. Quimby at the piano for the per·formance of this work.

J\Itlrgtlrel Hazlewood '32, DramtllirJ.

The drama workshop class, directed by Marga~etHazlewood '32, chose Every1JJ(IIl, the medieval moralItyplay, for its fall project. In an attempt to s.uggest the al-legorical nature of the work, th~ ~resentatl~n and ~tagesetting were made deliberately artificial and h~ghly stylized.Against a simple background of three GothIc. arches, theplayers formed tableau-like p~ses and mov:d 10 a p.roc~s-sian through the audience during Everyman s symboltc pil-grimage to the grave.

Connecticut has accumulated within the thirty-sevenyears of its existence a sizeable body of traditi~ns, withoutwhich college is like a sundae minus the whipped creamand nuts. Climaxing Freshman Week and beginning theCollege social calendar was the ritual enactment of a tradi-tion almost as old as the ivy on Plant House-the CoastGuard Reception. After the first awkward ceremony ofmatching ear-ring, bracelet, or diamond tiara, each housejunior, with a "remember-this-is-good-for-you-socially"smile, herded her particular group of powdered and per-fumed freshmen into Knowlton Salon. Dancing soon brokethe ice and the number of psychological casualties provedto be no more than average. Since then, a less formal butequally distinguished reception has been held with Yale.

Seniors who looked wistfully over the banisters at thedancing freshmen and vaguely regretted the passage ofyouth, took a full measure of revenge on Senior Day. Everysenior was to be addressed by underclassmen as "Vision ofLoveliness and Joy Forever." To implement her obviousdeficiencies in loveliness, each underclassman was requiredto wear beauty spots on her face, one high-heeled and onelow-heeled shoe, and a skirt which did not descend belowthe top of the knee. The sight, however, must have beensuch as to wake compassion even from implacable Nature,

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who sent down quantities of rain and consequently, enableduantities of underclassmen to huddle under the concealing

~rotection of boots and raincoats.Mascot Hunt, ruost favored of traditions, began and

ended in confusion for all concerned. Juniors exercisedtheir ingenuity by concealing the first clue in the bottomof a toothpaste tube from which the paste had been re-moved and, needless to add, replaced. An example of thestudious persistence of these searchers after truth occursinthe story concerning the sophomore class president, whoretired to her room and to her bed in the hope of losingpursuing juniors. She had been reading the paper for abouttwo hours when a wan voice from under her bed piped,"When you're through with the funnies, please pass themdown." The class of '53's mascot and class gift turned outto be an electro-cardiograph machine for the new Infirmary.

The campus became coed for the hectic Soph Hopweekend. In Knowlton Salon, the carols of the ConnChords, the siftings of artificial snow flakes, and the mir.rors decorated with dimpled Santa Clauses made Christmas-and vacation, too- seem just around the corner.

IN MEMORIAMIt was with profound sorrow that the college com-

munity learned of the death, on September 21, of Dr, An·tonic Rebolledo, Professor of Spanish and Chairman of theSpanish Department.

A native of Peru, Dr. Rebolledo received his bache-lor's degree from the University of California and tookhisdoctorate at the University of Madrid. He taught for anumber of years at New Mexico Highlands Universitybe-fore coming to Connecticut College in 1947. Mrs. Rebel-ledo and four children (one of them Angeles Lopez-Per-tillo Stiteler, ex '50) survive him.

Dr. Rebolledo was a gifted writer in his native tongue;a number of his short stories have been published and arewell known in Mexico. He was a wise and highly regardedteacher; the affection ill which he was held by his studentswas demonstrated by their anxiety during his serious illness,and by the eagerness with which numbers of them con·tributed blood to the New London Red Cross to replacethe plasma he had needed during his first serious operation.He was a colleague respected and esteemed by his fellowfaculty members; his well-reasoned opinion was constantlysought and his presence welcomed at every kind of function.

The loss of such a man to the college communitycan-not be measured. Yet Connecticut College, founded asacollege must be on faith in human dignity, can take pridein having had in its community so worthy an embodimentof what the Renaissance, an age that perhaps had a clearernotion of the meaning of human dignity than ours, calledthe "complete gentleman."

From East to West with the ClubsEditor: ELIZABETH FIELDING '38

6509 Knollbrook Drive, Hyattsville, Md.

Special honor.'> go to Alice Horrax Schell"20 and Lillian Dauby Gries "27 of AKRON.In September these two enthusiastic alum-me gave a tea at the Schell home for in-coming freshmen, present students, andalumnae. What's so special about that?Well, Akron bas as yet no organized club,though we understand one is very much onthe way.Although the BALTIMORE club was

formed only last June, they are already wellunder way. At their first meeting, held inthe home of Martha Reid Hudson, ex '44,they solved problems of organizing thenew group and heard a talk delivered byMrs. George Clark, wife of a Baptist min-ister in Towson.The BERGEN COUNTY, New Jersey,

club began their fall program with a re-ception for freshmen, given at the home ofMadeleine Foster Conklin '24. Later, theyhad the pleasure of hearing Mary AnnaLemon Meyer '42, president of the Alum-nae Association, speak at their next meet-ing.Alice Ramsay, director of the campus

personnel bureau, recently spoke to a largemeeting of the BOSTON club, held for thefirst time in the Junior League headquartersand topped by a buffet dinner. Miss Ram-say spoke about new developments at theCollege, and particularly about new coursesoffered. An unusually large representationboth of classes and communities within theBoston area was there.In November the NORTHERN CALI-

FORNIA club, meeting at a San Franciscorestaurant, had as speaker and guest ofhonor Kathryn Moss, Alumnae AssociationExecutive Secretary. Kay, on a brief vaca-tion visit to her brother and his family inBerkeley, sandwiched in the meeting inorder to bring news of the campus and theAlumnae Association to the widespreadmembers of this area. She repeatedly em-phasized the value of clubs far distant fromNew London as centers of Connecticut in-formation, and elicited many nostalgic sighswhen she showed the campus pictures.

The CHICAGO club gave a very suc-cessful tea in September for five new fresh-men and many upperclassmen at the homeof Grace Bennet Ncveen, Jr., "5. In Oc-tober, club members met for luncheon atthe horne of Elizabeth Martin McMillan '41to plan their fund-raising projects. Mrs.McMillan started the ball rolling by donat-

ing the proceeds from the luncheon to the

treasury.The CLEVELAND club got off to its

usual fast start again this year with Betty

Schlesinger Wagner '37 as president. In a

neat mimeographed program all 1951-52

events are listed-from the September tea

to bathing suits for next June's meeting.

The meetings already held-the tea at the

home of second vice-president Mary Lamp-

recht Slobey; the lecture series luncheon in

October with Me. Robert Strider of the

campus English department as guest; the

evening reception at Hathaway- Brown

school for President Park. Me. Cobbledick,

Director of Admissions, has also been in

Cleveland this fall, to attend the College

Choosing Dny.

Managed entirely by new graduates andunderclassmen, and co .chairmaned by BettyBeck and Annabel Beam, both 'SI, the teadance held in September at the SkatingClub was highly successful. According toCleveland newspapers, this pre-school teadance promises to replace the annualChristmas ball that made such' a name forthe Connecticut Cleveland club. A seriesof party nights at different homes has beenplanned as a special project to raise moneyfor the Recreation Building Fund.

jU,. Cobbledhk, Admissions.

Eleanor Clarkson Rine '46, secretary ofthe COLORADO club was hostess at the

first Denver meeting. Plans were made forthe Christmas vacation luncheon for Colo-rado students at Connecticut. Petunias andother flowers and plants were potted lastyear at the home of Sally Duffield McGin-ley '46, and their successful sale enabledthe small but enthusiastic club to send asubstantial contribution to the AlumnaeFund.The DELAWARE club recently put on

an enormously successful scholarship bene-fit, presenting a benefit performance of theplay "Patty Cannon." Although the playwas given Monday night and although theperformance had already been seen by manyresidents of Wilmington and adpacentcommunities, the project was gratifyinglysuccessful in every way. Patty Cannon, in-cidentally, is a local historical figure, avillainess involved with the illegal sale ofcaptured slaves.The EASTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY,

Connecticut, club is planning an all-outmeeting in January with a speaker from thecampus. They held a very successful teafor incoming freshmen and present studentsbefore college opened at the home of HelenHemingway Benton '23. Barbara FreedmanBerg, ex '48, has been selected as their newpresident.Carrying off typographical honors with

their attractively printed blue folder, the\"VESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY clubgives a list of officers with addresses, out-lines the full-year program, and issues acordial invitation to everyone in the areato join in the fun. With a potential mem-bership of approximately 100, this groupis remarkablv successful in interesting themajority of 'alumnae in the vicinity. Thesuccess of their major project last year, alecture by Marguerite Hig qins, astonishedand inspired the club members themselves,and made possible a splendid gift to theAlumnae Fund. Led by president Alice CoySchwenk '31, the first meeting of the yearwhich featured a speaker on interior deco-rating, was held in October at the home ofvice-pn'sident Gloria Hollister Anable '24.In November a rollickingly successfulsquare dance for husbands and friends washeld at the Darien Community House.

The very active HARTFORD dub is al-ready working on the April 19 Tri-CcllegeDance to be given with"'Skidmore and Col-by Junior College. This project was out-standingly successful last year. In Decem-ber, as a non-financial project, the club sport-sored the annual Glee Club concert of theTrinity and Connecticut College Glee Clubsat Trinity. Regular meetings have includeda box supper at the Buena Vista clubhousewhere slides of the campus were shown.and an open meeting held at the Courallt

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auditorium which included a tour of thenewspaper plant and a talk by Miss Flor-ence Harrison. Miss Harrison, formerly ofthe Connecticut faculty is now director ofthe Service Bureau for Women's Organiza-tions.

The first fall meeting of the MERIDEN-WALLll\'GFORD club, held at the homeof president Alice Galante Greco '34, wasalso a farewell party for Janet Pinks Welti'47, who has moved to St. Louis, Christmascards, wrappings, and children's books andrecords were sold in order to increase thetreasury. Miss Katherine Finney, Dean ofSophomores and member of the CollegeDepartment of Economics, spoke at the No-vember meeting on new developments onthe campus, This dinner meeting was heldat the St. George Inn in Wallingford.

Three meetings of the MILWAUKEEclub have been held-at the homes ofDiane Goes Markham '44, Margaret Greg-ory Winkler '46, and Vi Egan Candee '46.At the autumn party for high school stu-dents interested in Connecticut, slides ofthe campus were shown and various aspect-of campus life were discussed. Plans arewell organized for the benefit Quadr:lOgleBall, by now a well-established annualevent.

Getting off to a good start, the NEWHAVEN club had Alice Ramsey, personneldirector at Connecticut, for the speaker oftheir first meeting, held at the home ofAnna Cofrances Guida '31.

The executive board of the NEWJERSEY club acted as hostesses to incom-ing freshmen and their mothers at a teathis fall, where Gertrude Noyes, dean offreshmen, acted as guest speaker. Theirannual scholarship bridge benefit and fash-ion show was a tremendous success sociallyand financially. They report that their Con-necticut College models were even photo-graphed for the pages of a state magazine,At one of the fall meetings, the membersgained some bright ideas on interior deco-ration from the speaker, Mrs. KatherineUris, a professional decorator. They werealso fortunate in obtaining Mae HowleyBarry, the noted poet-playwright, to speakon "Ireland-Island of Saints and Scholars."

Harriet \Xlarner '24, program chairmanof the NEW LONDON club, and directorof the Connecticut College Nursery School,has lined up an enviable series of meetings.For these she draws heavily upon Collegefaculty and administration, Mr. Dale, newmember of the Music Department has al-ready been presented in a piano recital,which was preceded by a coffee in theCommuter's Room. At the next meetingMr. Logan, chairman of the Art Depart-ment, led a guided tour at the Lyman Allyn

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Picnic 011 campus boulders.

Museum of the John J, Audubon Centen-nial exhibition. Mr. Logan shared honorswith Mrs. Logan, also of the Art Depart-ment faculty, as guest of honor.

At the meeting of the 1\if,W YORK clubheld in the early fall for thirty prospectivestudents, the color slides of the campuswere shown. Barbeur Wise Grimes '46,who moved out of the city, has been suc-ceeded in the presidency by Jane Caul .er '47.

Appropriately, Patricia Moree! '49, socialchairman of the PITTSBURGH club, washostess at the first meeting of the year.Treasurer Barbara Huber '47 showed slidesof a recent European trip. Florence Parker.47, president, announced plans for anothertheatre benefit similar to the splendid oneof lnst year. Mrs. Rinehart of the MoralsCourt gave an unusually interesting talk atthe November meeting of which NancyCrook Tishler '43 was hostess.

The SPRINGFIELD club Ins started offthe year with two notable events: a dinnermeeting in the fall, and their annual teaf~r incoming freshmen and undergraduates,given at the home of Ruth Katz Webber '49.

The first meeting of the WASHINGTONclu~ was held at the home of programchairman Dorothy Cramer '49. The group

expressed regret at the transfer of its vice-president, Karla Heurich Harrison '28,whose husband, General Eugene Harrison,has been re-assigned to Fort Riley, Kansas.Karla did much to help Julie AhearnWalsh '49, present president, make an out-standing success of last year's benefit pre-senting Helen Traubel. Operating expensesof the dub will again be met by the saleof stationery and by rnagaaine subscriptions.

Emrnabel Bonner Esdale '41 was hostessfor the tea given by the WATERBURYclub for entering freshmen and upperclass-men. The club has planned to have eachmember give a benefit between now andMay, by means of bridge parties, teas, orsales, to raise at least $2 apiece as a con-tribution toward the club's gift to theCollege.

A very stimulating speaker from theUnited Nations addressed members of theWESTCHESTER club at their first meetingthis fall, at the home of Mary Birch Tim'berman '23. Earlier, the executive boardwere hostesses for the tea given in honorof incoming freshmen. Plans have beenmade for a series of community bridge par-ties and an auction to raise money for theirgift to the College

I ,Does everybody find t.he new ALUl\INAE REGISTER as useful as [ do?,nd" dareb catlalogued over 5,000 Alumnae names indexed and cross-

10 exe y c ass geogra I' I' d" ,c 1 " "p uc ocanon, an malden and married names,thmp e~e l;lth. street addresses. The Register of classes from 1919I[OU

lg 51 bl~ an up-to-the-minun- source of important information for

'I a umnae, kut especially for those who are tied up in any w'y witha umnae war It's old II d T' ," ..

II. . " n y a 0 ar, an Tm sure you II acree that It s

money we spent Th Al Offi' q: 'W

it f' . ~ umnne ce still has some copies available,n e or It now while thi k f' ,so You w 't b ' ,you lin' 0 It, If you haven't already done, on e sorry"

(A tip in using this Regi-te if ' I k' f 'your geographi be ;, r: 1 you re c we «ng or everyone 111graduate ge~ r~c h~ret, t e sure to check both the graduate and non-suburbs that ~a~ b~lIS S't ndo~ondl~ ~o~ your city, but also for surrounding

) oc!. e 10 a JOll1lng States,) E. F.

Class NotesEditors: OLIVIA JOHNSON '24; FRANCES GREEN '26

For Classes of '19 through '37, Olivia [obnson '24, 471 Pequot Avenue,New London, Connecticut.

For Classes of '38 through '51, Frances Green '26, 55 Holman Street,Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

1919MRS. ENOS B. COMSTOCK

(Juline Warner), CorresjJolldeHf.

176 Highwood Avenue, Leonia, N. J.

Aliso» Hastings Tbomson and familyspent the summer between Hartford andTwin Lakes; her first grandchild was bornin july. Florence Len lion Romaine writes,"I am still at Hartford High, still have Doeclass of veterans-no discipline with them,but roday's youngsters are a constant chal-lenge." She and son Stephen (a scienceteacher at South Windsor High) journeyedto Washington, where they saw EssberBeubelder, and later drove to Detroit tovisit Florence's brother. \X!ord of Batchand her delightful new home also comesfrom her fellow-townsman in Silver Spring,Maryland, Marioll II/ells Colby: "the samevivacious Batch-a sailing enthusiast."Mid's Janet, now Mrs, John Bills, lives in\'{!ashington, but son Wells, a second lieu-tenant, is at Fort Bliss, Texas. The Colby'Senjoy swimming, fishing, and crabbing attheir Cape Cod cottage on Chesapeake Bay.

Up from Richmond for an autumn vaca-tion, Dorothy Gray i\1aJlioll and husbandstopped in New Haven en route to NewLondon and Boston, and called on Suewu.», of the New Haven High Frenchdept. Sue took a trip to Maine and NewHampshire over Columbus Day. WritesMildred White, librarian of Caldwell, N.J.,High School, ·'1 spent the summer inWoodstock as usual; Orie Sherer spent a

week-end with us, and we had one grandtime. We rented our old mill for an an-tique shop, and friends are restoring an-other old house on our property." Having"deserted the classics for more utilitarianthings," ROJa Wi/cox has been teachingsocial studies and American history in Nor-wich Free Academy, taking courses atvarious universities during the summers,and guiding her students on trips to theGeneral Assembly in Hartford, to Conn.College to hear Mrs. Pandit, and to Wash·ington.

Still in Klamath Falls, Oregon, RlllhTrail McClellan has moved to a grain ranch.

Son John and his brother Stanley (who hashad to postpone plans for it medical mis-sionary's career) have been called into theservice. Daughter Margaret is teaching mu-sic, besides being a wife. Last year Ruthenjoyed a call from l/7inoJla Young and avisit with Dorcas G,lllup Bennett and fam-ily in Palo Alto, where Ruth also saw Dr.Helen Bishop Thompson, of Connecticut'sfirst faculty.

1920Mns. JOAN M. ODELL

(Joan Munro), Corresnonde»t

31 Church St., Tarrytown, N.Y.

There seem to have been lots of sonsmarried this year: La Petra Pede)' and KarlReiche's son, Karl, was married in July;Dot Stelle and If''adJworfh Stone's son,Wadsworth, in October; Dot Qlli/llardMix's (ex ·20) son, Averille, in Febru-ary. KCI)' Hulbert u-n has a new grand-daughter born to her daughter Nan in June.Betty Poteat has moved to Louisville, Ky.Enmta ll'/hippert PeaJe's son and his wifehave received their Ph. D.·s and are work-ing as a research team in California. Em-

ma took a course in creative writing lastwinter, which save her "that life-begins-at-ninety feeling." Ennice Gales llYoods,ex '20, still has her shop in Mystic. Shesold her lovely home and is building asmaller one. Her youngest son is in Ger-many; her eldest lives in Florida. CatherineFinnegan, ex '20, vacationed in WatchHill and Pennsylvania this summer. Jockand Kay Hulbert n-n are enjoying havinga German youth (who came to themthrough the American Field Service) spenda year with them. Margaret R. Milliganpassed away September 23, 19'51.

19UMns. HUBER A. CLARK

{Marion Vibert), Correspondent

R. F. D., Kensington, Conn.

Gloria Hollister AI/able has a new home,just north of Stamford; recently the NewYork chapter of the Society of WomenGeographers met at the Old Grist Millon

her property. Glo is "a Fellow of the N.Y.Zoological Society and recipient of Flag #3of the Society, which she carried to a depthof a quarter of a mile off Bermuda, in thefamous bathysphere, in a diving expedi-tion." Elizabeth Holmes, for years with theJudge Baker Guidance Center (which helpsjuvenile delinquents), is Chief of SocialService there. Betty's colleagues reportthat she is one of the most eminent mem-bers of her profession. She also workspart-time for Boston College School of So-cial Work; her vacation took her to Mexi-co and Gott's Island.

Genmde Huff Blani: reports the mar-riage of her elder son, Philip, in June; herdaughter, Frances, '50, works for theIrving Trust Co. in New York; Peter, theyounger son, is a senior at Trinity thisyear. Marie Jester IP'atrous tags along overConn. with her attorney husband, while heis on a case. They stop along the way tofish or swim, and have earned the name of"River Rats" by spending so much time onthe Connecticut River in their 14 ft. CapeCod knockabout. Marie finds being a home-maker most enjoyable after all her years asa busy executive. Barbara Kent Kepner'shusband teaches civil engineering at UtahState; her daughter, Janet, graduated fromOhio Wesleyan in '49 and has been doinggraduate work at Stanford and will con-tinue at Berkeley; son Philip is a sopho-more at Ohio Wesleyan; son Harry, thecomedian of the trio, is starting 9th grade.

Marioll Lawson J OhU.fOIl acted as hostessat the National Liquefied Gas Convention(her husband was chairman) in Chicagothis spring. Later she attended the gradua-tion from R. P, I. of her son David, who isnow in the Knowles Laboratory for Atomicand Chemical Research. After spendinglast Christmas vacation in Florida, theJohnsons stopped to see Gladys ForsterShtthda}l in Raleigh. Elizabeth McDougttllPalmer sent me a card in the midst of can-ning beans from her garden; making jamfrom her own plums and blackberries;writing her oldest son who is working inManchester, N. H.; collecting things forGrace, who entered Earlham College thisfall; keeping a fearful eye on her IS-year-old Theodore; and botanizing with her hus-band.

Gladys Barnes GJ(lJlmere took a two-week trip to California in January with herhusband, the headmaster of Wm. PennCharter School in Philadelphia and chair-man of the Secondary Education Board.Gladys is on the Board of the SouthernHome for Children. Hazel Converse La antells of helping her husband with hisflorist's business, along with managing a

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house and a t y-year-old daughter, Gretchen.Hazel has been president of the local Wo-man's Club and the Visiting Nurse Assn.,and is now chairman of the Girl ScoutCommittee. Madeleine Fosler Conkliu wasvisited by E//eJ1 McCal/dleJJ Britton, on herway from Oak Ridge to celebrate her hus-band's 3~th reunion at West Point and tocollect her daughter, Joan, from Conn. Col-lege. At Cape Cod this summer, Mad sawElizabesb 'Fig/all Root and Helen ForSI.On her 25th wedding anniversary recently,Mad had a telegram from Virginia Eggles-ton Smith of Seattle,

Elizabeth Hollister, a science teacher atWMI in New London, describes a generalupheaval in the city's secondary educationset-up. AI/n Frailer Loi,lcal1o is member-ship chairman of the New London Leagueof Women Voters. Kathryn MOJJ enjoyeda long-delayed vacation in October on aranch near Tucson, Arizona. Anna RogoffCohen works in the office of her physicianhusband in Lynbrook, N. Y; was a stategrand officer of the Order of the EasternStar; and has a 20-year-old son attendingcollege in New Hampshire.

Margaret Lamberton SweaU writes from ...Minnesota that her son, Charles, is marriedand working in Toronto. Her second son,Henry, is a sophomore at Princeton, andher six-year-old twins, Peggy and Sally, arein first grade.

They have an old farmhouse and 200acres on the Shenandoah where they huntwith the Blue Ridge hounds. Margaret ischairman of the Ways and Means Commit-tee of the Northwestern Hospital Board inMinneapolis and has held two summerbenefits at her home.

News of our ex members: Lucy FordMcCorkil1dale (Sioux City, Iowa) wasmarried. in 1924, has 2 sons, works for thechurch, Red Cross, Bays and Girls Homes,and Community House. Lillian G rlf1llmaNvacationed at a Maine camp surrounded bymountains she "has ceased to climb." Shelives with her sister at Fairfield Beach,Conn. Estelle Halfman Susman has 2daughters and a son: Barbara, 24, em-ployed in the laboratory of Hartford Hos-pital; Toni, 16, at Wellesley; Peter, 22, inthe Naval Hospital Corps School at Bain-bridge, Maryland.

1925DOROTHY KILBOURN

Correspondent

18 Townley St., Hartford, Conn.

Peg Ewing Hoag has a new grandsonborn to her daughter Nancy in January;Peg's daughter Alice entered Smith this

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fall. Grace Be'lJlell NU'lleen's daughterMargaret is now married and wi.ll live ~nGeneva. Grace Demarest If/"1gb, willtravel this year to England, Scotland, andSouth America with her husband, who ispresident of the American Heart Assn.Her daughter Barbara was married thissummer; Alison is at Chatham Hall, andhopes to enter Connecticut later. Peg Mere-dith Lilliefield, who has a son in the 9thgrade and a daughter at Mt. Holyoke, re-ports a delightful visit with Ca)' Mei//NkeCrawford and her 2 boys in Ridley Park.Dorothy Loewen/hal Pneiiu has a son in thenavy; Nancy, '50, is with the Family Serv-ice Agency in Chicago after a year at theUniversity of Chicago. Son Arnold ofBeny Arnold Hoy.res, ex '25, was recently

married.Jo Perry IVesfoll's elder son enlisted in

the Navy after 2 years at Dartmouth; heryounger son is a sophomore there. Jo isstill playing golf. Peg Carl Palmer is exec-utive secretary for the Connecticut Women'sGolf Assn. Her older son is a lieutenant(j.g.) on a destroyer; her younger is work-ing at the Electric Boat Co. Peg reportsthat Nail Apled IFoodTltff's daughter wasmarried in August. Alina Albree Houston'sdaughter, Ann, graduated from Colby Jun-ior College this spring and is going toSkidmore, but Jackie is trying to interestMarcia in Connecticut. Virginia Lmzen eie-eben reports a luncheon date at Pbyl [urn-me's with Charlotte Lang Carroll, whoseson has been called into the Marine Officer'sreserve. Const ance Parker, who visitedGloucester and Nantucket this summer, re-cently had dinner with Bets)' Allen. Betsy,who lives with Jean Howard '27, gave afine performance of her marionettes.

1926FP.ANCES GREEN

Corresp ondent55 Hnlm'ln St., Shrewsbury, M1.Ss.

AlltY ll'/'c/kefield left for a late vacationwith her family in September, taking inMinnesota, Michigan, and Kansas City,where Amy's sister is now making herhome. Barbara Bell Crouch and family(except Calvin, whose duties as a CoastGuard Cadet preclude family trips) had aweek in Quebec in August and came borneenthused. I brought Barbara's daughterJudy to Shrewsbury for Labor Day week-end and introduced her to camping on theLong Trail in Vermont. Despite 3 days offog and rain, we had an enjoyable timeand Judy.proved a good camper. Judy, to-gether WIth Judy Kohl, [essie IViWamsKohl's younger daughter, had a busy sum-mer teaching swimming in Waterford. Tes.sie's older daughter, Pat, has transfe;red

from Connecticut State to Conn. College,as a junior.

from l rene Peterson Caterson comes thewelcome news that she has made a splendidrecovery from her spring operation. Ka)'Col grove took time while vacationing atNantucket to send me news of the recentmarriage of Clarissa Lou funk, daughter ofthe late Adelle Hes eins Funk and step-daughter of Dorotby Andrews Funk, bothof '26. Kay also wrote of Alice HeH Pili,tisoa's change of locale, and I wrote InezHess for details. She writes, "G.E. is start.ing a new plant in Louisville, Ky. andmoving key men, Wes being one. He andAl flew there and bought a home in St.Matthews, where they expect to move he-fore November. Bob, a senior, will con-tinue at the University of Connecticut.Aunt Inez had a workout as an Aunt whileAl W~lS ;1\vay and took the kids to Albany.Hartford, etc., to see more of the east be-fore going south."

Helen Hood Die/elldorf sends word thatBabs Brooks Bixby, when last heard from,was having a grand vacation abroad. Helenwrote from England, "Our son Robert en-listed in the Navy in July and has beenstationed at Bainbridge, Md., for basictraining." Her daughter Carolyn is a fresh-nun at Connecticut this fall. Helen alsowrote that Donald, son of Kill)' KilrslakeKhlg, is now in the Army, Kay Dlll/ch)Bvouson and her family took a quick tripinto Maine this summer and several shorttrips, including one to Old Sturbridge ViI·lage. It is with great personal sorrow thatJ report the death of my father on Octo-ber 23.

1927EDITH T. CLARK

Correspondent182 Valley Road, Montclair, N. J.

Richard, the son of William and LoisBridge Ellis, was married in October. Ed-ward and Frances Il'/illiams Wood'! firstgrandchild was born in September. Ourpresident, SClulh AI/II Pilhollse Becker.spent a busy Slimmer entertaining paintersand paper hangers, and is now starting onher round of flower shows: she is co-chair·man of publicity for the Pennsylvania Her-ticultural Society's section of the Philadel·phin Flower Show.

Eleanor Richmond, who is teaching biol-ogy in Newton High School, flew toPuerto Rico this summer for a three.week

visit with friends. Elizobetb Leeds WI/fJOiI

took an eight-week bus trip this summerthrough the south and up the west coast;she stopped in Potsdam, N. Y., to see

i\1ildred Beardsley Stiles and two of herthree daughters. Mildred received herM.A. in education from St. Lawrence Uni-versity. Edmund and Natalie Benson 111m/-ley have two daughters at Connecticut: Su-san is a junior and Martha is a freshman.The entire family spent the summer inBrattleboro, Vermont.

Lucile Gil1J1(///, head of all the hat de-partments in Bonwit Teller of Philadelphia,is president of the Philadelphia MillineryCouncil and was in charge of the HattersBall. A nice newsy letter arrived fromBarbara Tracy Coogan, who is leading herusual quiet life of mothering four children,organizing Camp Fire Girls, speaking forthe Red Cross, taking a course in homenursing, etc.

To George and Elizabeth Fowler Coxewe extend our warmest sympathy on thedeath of their only son, George IIl.

1928MRS. ERNEST W. BAKER

(Abbie Kelsey), Correspondent93 Roycroft Ave., Pittsbu.rgh 28, Pa.

We moved to Pittsburgh in Septemberand received a prompt welcome from LouisaGa)' Fuller, who arranged for me to attenda meeting of the Pittsburgh Alumnae Club,and I must say it was a very pleasantway to be introduced to our new commun-ity. A long letter from Bugs (Edith ClovesMdlwaille) tells of the "most wonderfulsummer imaginable": Bugs and her son,John, went with Mrs. Cloyes on a j y-daytour to the Pacific Coast; then with Bugs'husband, Joe, on two of his business tripsin N. Y. State; and finally, spent ten daysat a lake in Vermont.

Beatrice Lord, whom I saw at reunion,is Assistant Guidance Director in the schoolsystem of Winthrop, Mass., Counselor inthe Junior High School, and an activemember of the College Club, Delta KappaGamma, Church Guild, and Mass. Assn.of Deans. Mildred Rogoff Angell broughther whole family to reunion: her attorneyhusband, and two daughters, Judith, 13,and Janet, 6. Mildred is doing substituteteaching and works with the Girl Scoutsand P.T.A. Also at reunion was Dill PageMrNlflf, whose husband and two sons,aged 16 and 11, had driven with her fromPhiladelphia as far as Durham. [eannett eBradley Brooks came all the way fromGreensboro, N. C. Her husband is Gener-al Manager of the Carolina Paint and Var-nish Works; they have two children, Janet,16, and Donald, 8. Because Jean said thatone thing she missed down south waslobster, we all had dinner Friday night at

Skippers' Dock. Hazel Gordner Hicks didnot have to travel far, for her husband is aCoast Guard Officer at the Academy; theirdaughter, Jane, is a freshman at Connecticut;their son, Bill, hopes to be a Coast GuardCadet in two years. Bell)' Gordon V an Law,full of pep, says she still rides, swims, andplays golf at their home in Westchester.Her husband, Jesse, is a Life Insuranceexecutive; the}' have two daughters, 15and 12.

1929MRS. ROBERT B. KOHR

(Peg Burroughs), Correspondent.

309 Woodland Road, Madison, New Jersey

Elizabeth Utley Lamb vacationed lastsummer in West Swanzey, N. H. Ptll HilleAl)'en, Mm')' Slayln Solenberger, and JanBonnner Barnard spent a good deal of timeon Cape Cod during the summer. Francesw-n, Vroom spent the summer betweenSouthold, L. I., and Montclair, while herdaughter Barbara, 13, had a glorious timeat camp. Elizabeih Speirs worked in theoffice of the Connecticut College School ofthe Dance last summer and reports it wasan enjoyable change from her usual workwith teen-agers at Chaffee School in Wind-sor, Conn. Ellie Neu-miller Sidmml'sdaughter, Shirley, is a freshman at Connec-ticut this fall. Helen Minckler Dawson andher husband, Ted, are now living withHelen's father in Geneseo, N. Y. Theymoved there in June at the end of Helen'syear of teaching in Waterford, N. Y. JeanHamlet Dudle)' has also changed addresses:she moved from Guilford, Conn., to Char-lotte, N. C.

1930J\'lARJORIE R:TCHIE

CorrespondentPondville Hospital, Walpole, Mass.

RUlh BI'oWI! attended in October the250th anniversary of Yale-a great occasionwith representatives from many colleges.Ruth had Blanca R)'ley Bradbury as a week-end guest recently, when they went to theirhigh school reunion. j\1eg Jackman Gesell's(ex '30) oldest daughter graduated fromPembroke in June. I was in Swampscott inJune at the national convention of MedicalTechnologists.

Margaret Cook Cmry is in Marietta, Ga.,where Herman has a position with Lock-heed Aircraft. Frances is a junior at Mon-treat College, Peggy Jean is in 10th grade,and Johnny, 9 months old, keeps Peg busy.Bill and Ellie Meurer Chis well and sonBilly have moved to Stoughton; Jane is en-

joying her first year at Jackson. Ruth Lang-ley, ex '30, is secretary of the MassachusettsChapter of the American Physical TherapyAssn. and has been teaching physicaltherapy at Sargeant College since 1947.

Helen Heyden Villamil unpacked her re-union-packed suitcase at home to take careof the two youngest of her brood of fourwho had suddenly developed measles. Thefamily is very musical and plays a trom-bone, trumpet, two clarinets, organ, Frenchhorn, and piano. Kaibleen Halsey Rip/Jereand family went on a trip in October toWatkins Glen, Niagara, and Cooperstown.The trip was perfect even if they missedPrincess Elizabeth by only half a day atNiagara.

Dorotby Quigley and her parents went toIndiana and returned home through Canadathis summer. In addition to teaching Amer-ican history and international relations atNew Britain High, Dot has three picturesentered in the Amateur Artist's Show.Ethel Odin, ex '30, reports that she had awonderful summer in Sweden, Norway, andSwitzerbnd.

1931MRS. Ross DAVIS SPANGLER

(Marie Louise Holley), Correspondent

802 Ceredo Ave., West Chester, Pa.

Dorotby Cbabe Scbooi came north inJuly to celebrate her mother's birthday andto get Linda from camp. Dottie and Caro-line B. Rice recently had a get-together inNew York. C. B. and Alice Kindler hadtheir usual visit with Louisa Kent '3D onCape Cod in August. A newspaper clip-ping, sent me by C. B., tells of the prowessof Me/irellt If/ilcox Buckillgbmll's son,John: he won the Law Cup at Indian Har-bor Yacht Club for the Pequot Yacht Club.

It is with deep sorrow that we announcethe sudden death of Edna Martill Kirtridgeon July 10, 1951, in Michigan.

1932MRS. CHARLTON C. FERRIS

(Peggy Salter), Correspondent58 Morton Way, Palo Alto, Calif.

Congratulations to Mtlry Elizabeth WyethJones who, to the best of my knowledge, isthe first of our class to have a daughter onthe campus. She writes that Pamela is nowall settled at North Cottage and is mostenthusiastic. Eleanor Roe 1I1errill has hada full summer: after spending 10 days inPittsburgh with her parents in the earlysummer, she and Earl had a grand vacationin Nova Scotia, the Maine coast, and an in-

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land Maine lake. Ellie and Earl also tookin :1 Yankee baseball game in New Yorkwith Ruth Seanor Hubbell and her husband.

PriJCilla Dennett l/7ilJard writes that be-ing a working gal as well as being a home-maker keeps her busy, but not too busy totake on the job of our class representativeon the Alumnae Fund. Marjorie StolleDonaldson went east this summer and, onthe way back to Tiffin, stopped to spendtwo days with l sabelle Ewing Knecht inWarren, Ohio. Stoney's eldest, Mike, isgoing to Western Reserve Academy thisfall. Stoney also writes that she has becomean enthusiastic golfer, and she and her hus-band have joined a summer theatre group.

After being in California for a year, Ihave finally seen AIm)' Bntler Melcher(Northern and Southern California arefarther apart than you Easterners maythink). Mary and john and their children,jack, 16, Bill, 14, and Lynn, 8, stoppedhere in Palo A!to to spend a day with meand my family. Mary is still tiny and redheaded, but not one of the children resem-bles her in this latter respect.

1933MRS. ROBERT DALZELL

(Lucile Cain), CorreJ!JolldeJlf2475 Wellington Road

Cleveland Heights 18, Ohio

Helen JlValJiJ Cbristense» has been livingin Kansas City for five years and has twogirls: Linda, 12, and Patsy, 8. The Chris-tensens hope to occupy soon a new homewhich they are building further out in thesuburbs, and they extend a cordial invita-tion to any Conn. College-ires passingthrough Kansas to be sure to see them. Ona trip east, Helen spent a delightful day withMarjorie Hennng Browl! and Ruth Norton1"lathewJOI!. j\1argaret "SuI/IIi' Ray Stewartsays, "like many of us, most of my timeis occupied with family and householdchores." However, she still finds time todo volunteer work at the Evanston hospital,and is active in the Junior Le:lgue and aGarden Club.

A note from A/lila Mil)' Derge Gillmer,who lives in Annapolis, Md., says that shesees Doroth)' Hamiltoll Algire in Bethesdaas often as possible. On one visit to Dot·shome they spent an afternoon with ElsieNelson and Jo Eakill Despres. Elsie hadjust won an honorable mention in a Phila-delphia Art Show for an oil she did underthe direction of Dot's father. Jessie 1Ivd-

chellheim Bllr<lck, on a short vacation, visit-ed the far end of Long Island to spend theafternoon with Gay Step hells. jessie has

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two children, Betty, in junior high, andBilly, in kindergarten. She fin~s time,however, to enjoy tennis, gardeOlng, andplaying football and baseball with heryoung son, "jo Athlete," which helps to

keep her young.Katberine Hammond Eugler brings news

that she is doing publicity for the Connecti-cut Alumnae Club in New Jersey. Much ofher time is also spent as publicity chairmanof "New Eyes for the Needy, Inc." Kayhas also done some radio and TV work,and still manages to find time to look afterher husband, son, and home. Our classpresident, Dorothy Wheeler S!lt/lildingwrites that her husband, Earle, is still con-nected with Temple University Hospital,teaches, and does a great deal of researchwork. The Spauldings have three children:Carol, 16, Betsy, 13, and Dick, 11. Dottiedevotes much of her time to the religiouseducation committee of their church and toa second-hand shop run by the TempleUniversity Women's Auxiliary for a build-ing fund for a new hospital.

1935MRS. RUDOLPH FINK

(Martha Hickam), Con·espolldellt

2833 Fairmont Avenue, Dayton 9, Ohio

Born: To Richard and Ctltherille JellksMortol1, their third son, Frederick Allen,on August 5. To Keith and Ida ScbaubHmnress, twin girls, Margaret and Bethany,on May 12. Ida now has four girls andone boy.Dorothea Schallb Sc!nvarzkopj, with her

husband and two sons, vacationed at Pointof Woods this summer with Kay Jenks1I1o/"toll and her family. Dot has been statesecretary for the League of \Xfomen Votersof Connecticut for the past three years andhas recently accepted the position of secre-truy for the Middletown leagu.e. DorothyKril!sky Steil! writes that her two boysspent the summer at camp in New Hamp-shire while she relaxed at home with herthree-year-old daughter, Nancy. Ntll1q'lr'alker Collins has moved to Buffalo, N.Y.,where her husband is an instructor at Al-bright Art School; she has opened an an-tique business there.MariOIl lr'tIITell Rallkill, her husband, and

b~,by daughter, jean, have recently boughta new house in Wethersfield, Conn. Dur-ing the summer the family moored theirsloop in the hubor at Branford ConnB'Jbbie Bim!?)' Pra!! and her famil~ had ~corn roast at their home in Plymollth, Conn.,this fall at which there were eight membe:-sof aUf chss, comolete with husbands andchildren. BesiJes Bobbie I~erself there wereKa)' Jenks Alortoll. S/~bb)J BIlI"I" Sunden.

Mm")'-Al Dmlis Cbanpell, Ai(/)'t)' 11::.'(11'1"('1/Ra)/kin, Joe Ferris Rater, Mm·iOIl WhiteVal/der Leta, and Dot Schaub SchwarzkoJlf.

Belt)' Loti Bozell Forrest writes thatjohnnie has been made head of Civil De-fense for Larchmont and Mamaroneck, inaddition to doing a great deal of work withthe Boy Scouts. Betty Lou's own projectis being chairman of the personnel andclinic committee for the New RochelleGuidance Center, for which several otherConnecticut grnduates work. To cap it all,the Forrests have three PT.A.'s to attend.The entire family took off this summer forn lengthy trip, which included the GrandCanyon among many other national parks.

1936MRS. ANDRE\" T. ROLFE

(Josephine Bygnte ) , Correspondent

Country Road, Westport, Conn.

As some of you may have noticed, ouraddress has changed. We are in a newhouse and though it is rather bare both:nside and out, we like it very much. Wespent three days in August in Manchester,Vermont, playing golf, and hope wheneverpossible to center any further vacationsaround a golf course. We had a couple ofwonderful evenings both here and illBronxville with "'Jafgaret McKeltle)' Reo-ner, Harriet Kell)' Dowling, and AliceDOl"1lltt!/ lr'ebuer. We missed seeing JoyceCo!!er Kern at Gertrude IVeyhe Dennis,but hope to catch up with her in the [learfuture for I hear both she and E11el)'11KellyHead are now living in Stamford.

A real reunion took place at Saybrook,Conn., in the form of a picnic and swimat BUIIII)' Dorml/N [Webster's summercottage. Alys Griswold HmJUIil came overfrom Old Lyme with her parents anddaughter, Wendy. Frances Vivian Hughescame down from Manchester, Conn., anduu» Ir'oodhead DOllghert)', ex ·36, wasin Old Lyme while her two children wereat C:lmp, so that she was able to join us too.Betty Pm·sol/.r Lehmi/ll-the real reason forthe get-together-was there with her 12-year-old daughter, Anne, and her mother.P:trse had been taking a look at the college:Ind said that Anne was quite impressedwith the campus but still a little too youn~to find the idea of going away to study veryappealing. JOJe!,hiue Merrick Mock, ex '36,sends word that her daughter jolly wentto Baltimore in August to enter the Na-tional Championship for sailing and wonthird phce for her chss of boat; her sonBruce is on the high school freshman foot-ball team.

1938MRS. JOHN K. STRIFERT

(Beatrice Enequist ) , CorreJpol1del1t186 Kilburn Road, Garden City, N. Y.

Born: To Jacob and Bethy AndersonVerduin, a daughter, Leslie Amelia, onOctober 9, 1951. Bethy's other childrenare Laos, 8, Jan Christine, 6, and CharlotteMaria, 2. Her husband teaches at the OhioState University biological station locatedat Put-in-Bay. They are doing over ::0 oldfarm, complete with cow, calf, chickens,etc., and Bethy extends a cordial invitationto any of OUf class to visit them. Andrewand Mm'Y Mor)' Schultz report the birth ofa daughter, Susan, in December, 1949."Mory's husband IS a full professor andl-ead of his department at Cornell. JeanHou.ard, ex "38, flew in to Ithaca in theLdJ of '50 and had a nice visit with Maryand her husband while her plane wasgrounded.David and He/ell SUNil! Stanley have

built a new horne in four acres of woodsnear Vienna, Va., a spot which delightstheir three children. David, 9, is a CubScout; Margaret, 7, is a new Brownie; andBetsey, 3, keeps her mother busy at home.Helen is a Den Mother, secretary of Fair-[ax League of \Women Voters, active in aPT.A., and enjoys, with her husband, thehobby of folk and square dancing.John and Mt/rf!.arel Myeu McLetlil have

been busy since March starting a MissionEpiscopal Church in Bon Air, a suburb ofRichmond, Va. "Cricket" is president ofthe Women's Auxiliary and John is Junior\"larden. Their two boys, ages 7 and 6, arein St. Christopher's School in Richmond.Natalie Stlilliere Eddy spends most of hertime tfflvelling with her husb:md, who owns?nd operates Helicopters. California istheir main base. Nat saw Elinor Glly Kiugin \'{/ashington, D. c., and Barbara CaseFrtlnklill in Cleveland. Kitty and "Casey"'each have two children.

Your correspondent keeps busy withthree children and their innumerable activi-ties. Dottie, 11, is a Girl Scout; Louise, 7,is a new Brownie; Richie, not quite oldenough for kindergarten, is a big help tome at home. My husqand is working on athesis and hopes to get his M. A. fromN.Y.U. this spring. We spent p:ut of ourvacation this past summer at C'lpe Cod.

1939MRS. LOUIS W. NIE

(Dreda Lowe), Correspondenl4305 Central Ave., Indianapolis 5, Ind.

Born: To \X!right and Calherine Ake

Bronson, their third daughter, Pamela Sue,on August 13, 1951.Dorosby Clements Dou.uiug has exchang-

ed case work for remodeling an old familyhome. She, her husband, nine-month-oldDonna, and assorted pets comprise thefourth and fifth generations to live there.Others who are enjoying long range plansfor redoing old homes are Beatrice DoddFosler and Ennire Cocks !"'1ilIard. They,together with Carol Prince Allen, Virgil/itlTaber McCumey, Mrlr)' IWimoll Dicegies-ser, Barbara M)'ers Heldt, and their hus-bands, had a great reunion at Bea's lastJune. This group, plus Doris Hough/OilOn, Elizabeth Fessenden Kenub, NallcyIJVestnll Lincol-n, and Heevierta FanmmGotcbell, has kept a yearly round robingoing for over ten years. Bea's daughtersarc Susan, 5, and 'V:"/endy, 20 months.

Helen Gnssenbeimer Neunnan, ex '39, isliving in Montgomery, Ala., while herArmy captain husband is in Japan. Helenhas a daughter, 5, and a son, 1. EuniceTitcomb is working at Grumman Aircraft.Jedll Ellis Blmntein, who moved into a newhome last spring, is a member of the Boardof Directors of the S1n Francisco League of\X!omen Voters and a member of a studygroup of the \X'orld Affairs Council ofNorthern California.

1940MRS. HARRY L. GOFF

(Mary Giese), CorvespondemlR Hawthorne Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Born: To Bill and Pal Alvord French, adaughter, Jeanne Lyon, on September 27.To Peg Baer Gardller and husband, adaughter, Kathy, in March.Dot Newell If/(/gner writes that she has

has two daughters, Ellen, 4, and MarthaAnn, 6, and lives in the country-"'in factat Podunk Four Corners, Mass., which isalmost as country as you can get." BelsyDoerillt, Shim mill, ex '40, has also movedto the country. She and Dave have a verybusy working day running a dairy farm out-side Columbus, Mo., and taking care oftheir two children. Polly Frank Shank, hus-b1.cd, :lnd two sons have moved to WhiteBear Lake, Minn., and are remodelling abig old house. She sees Hcnry and Kathe-rille ll~al"l/er DonI" and their four children.Occasionally she sees jt/!!e C!tlrk Hee!" andfamily on visits to Columbus, Ohio.Kdlherille Meili Ailderloll and her two

boys have moved back to New York becauseher husband, Dave, is now an associateeditor for McGraw Hill's AVIATIONWEEK magazine. Shirley (Mickey) RiceHolt has moved to Groton, Conn., with herthree children: Carla, 7, Cindy, 4, and

Charles, 3. She loves being back nearConn. College and, together with Pats)'Tillin gbast Shall', in Mystic, is working forthe Alumnae Fund. Dick Holt is stationmanager for Northeast Airlines in NewLondon, and Mickey teaches at nurseryschool. Mickey also writes that CtaherillePm'/ridge Post has three children and livesin Lakewood, N. J., and that Nancy BadgerHodsdon still lives in Portsmouth, N. H.,with her two sons.Milly Heitmann Thi stlet inomte, ex '40,

has two children and lives in South Bend,Ind. Priscill a Pill sbnry Tilden, ex '40, nowhas three daughters. Con/lie BlIckley Cook-SOIl has moved to River Edge, N. J., withher husband and daughter, for Tom is nowworking as a project engineer for FederalCommunications Laboratories in Nutley.We finally moved ourselves, our four chil-dren, and neurotic dachshund to a large oldhouse with a tremendous yard in WellesleyHills, and are very happily settling down.

1941MRS. THOlllAS P. DUR1VAN

(Lorraine Lewis), Correspondent

204 Broad Street, New London, Conn.

Born: To Irving and Barbara BermanLev)', a third child, Mary Jane, on February27. To Eleanor Fuller Skinller and bus-band, a second son, Christopher, on AprilR. To John and Elizabeth Morgall Keil, adaughter, Marguerite, on September 25.

Rnrb DeYoe Barren writes that she istaking an AAUW-sponsored course in hercollege major, art, this winter. When sheweekended with Lu Horan last June, Uffielearned that Lu collided in Bermuda withRlilb Doyle. Betse)' Barker McKel/iUl doessubstitute teaching in the New Havenschools and tutors children; her husbandworks for the New Haven Boy's Club.Bellie Brick Cvllier is now a "full-fledgedinsur~nce broker." Bill was called backinto the service and is now somewhere be-tween Kiska and Japan, expecting Koreanduty momentarily. Bill and Peggy Hm'd)JSrinveizeJ" have returned to Elmira, N. Y.,where Bill is \·ice-president in charge ofmanufacturing 10 his brother's aircraftplant. The Schweizers and their three boyshave :1cquired a 100-year-old house. AlIlleBre)'er Rltsf'n, Ian, and the three childrenwill leave in February for at least a year'sst:1}' in Japan. They will ll10ve into a new,modern home on the island of Kyushu:servants (plural, no less), a car, and a two-week vacation in Tokyo are included.In New London, Cmlllie 3rt/gaw Camel'

takes care of her two children, Anne CarolMargaret, 6, and Philip William Hemp-stead, 5; acts as representative for concerts

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and lectures tor Crawford productions inNew York and Open Forum Speakers Bu-reau in Boston; and ghost-writes for musi-cians, supplying either music or lyrics. Irecently saw Edith Patton Cmnsbmo, ournew class agent, who was here in NewLondon to attend a meeting of class agents.At a League of Women Voter's trainingsession in Glastonbury this summer, Ibumped into Tbe« Dutcher Coburn. whois busy with community work. I also sawRae johns Off, ex '41, in Linwood, N. J.,in August: the Offs have two daughters, aSt. Bernard, a cocker, black angus steers,and a beautiful home.

1942MRS. PAUL R. PEAK

(Jane Worley), Correspondent533 Vista Drive, Falls Church, Virginia

Married: Priscilla Burr, ex '42, to Carl-isle Stewart, on April 28. The Stewartslive in San Francisco; Priscilla still worksat the Business Training Institute, whichher husband owns.

Born: To Robert and [ean Staats Lorisb,Nancy Staats, on October 23, 1950, in Al-lentown, Pa.; the other Lorish children areBobby, 7, and Chris, 4. To Russell andElizabeth Bentley Viering of Hartford,Peter Bentley, in February; they have an-other son, Chip, 6. To John and AdeleRosebrock Burr of Yonkers, N.Y., RichardCharles, on March 16; Pete will be threein May. To William and Dorothy BarlowCoy Kendall, Frederick Barlow, on April23; their other children are Robert, 7, andCarol, 5. Dot and Bill have a real estatebusiness with Betty Letsch Gmnow and herhusband in Riverside, Conn. To Stanfordand Lois Linehan Blitzer, Dorothy Ann, onAugust 5, in Long Beach, Calif.; in Sep-tember the Blitzers moved to Boston. ToRoger and Grace Nelson Auge, Grace Gal-vin, on June 15, at Park Hills, Ky. Afterso many years of baseball suits and bluejeans, they are thrilled to have a girl inthe family. Roger is in the third grade,and Nelson is in the first. Big Roger trav-els for the Electric Storage Battery Co.

Bill and Margaretta Hosack jones, ex '42,celebrated their 10th anniversary in Junewith a picnic supper at which "'far)' AnnKwis Calbonn, Olive Mallthe Stone, andSally Turner McKelvey were present. Mar-ny and Bill have three children: Tommy, 7,Patty, 3, and Trudy, 2. They own theirown home in Youngstown, Ohio. BarbaraSexton Clark has moved to Porterville,Calif., where her husband is minister of thePopular Community Methodist Church.Their children are Ginger, 6, and Bobby, 3.Belt)' jane Binger Harrison, ex '42, and

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her husband live in Hibbing, Minn., whereHugh is president of Pacific Isle MiningCo. They spent three months in Arizonalast winter with their three children: Scott,8, Diane, 7, and Perry, 4. In August Bettyand Hugh took .10 ore boat down theGreat Lakes.

We Peaks have been busy lately. Paulgot his M.S. in physics at Ohio State Uni-versity and has been assigned to CoastHeadquarters where he is the radiologicalsafety engineer. Our daughter, Lucy Nicol,was born on August II, in Columbus.Roger was only 1 and Lucy was not yetfour weeks old when we moved to ourpresent apartment in Falls Church, a sub-urb of Washington. We have bought asmall modern house, now under construc-tion, in Maryland. I am now membershipchairman of the \Washington chapter ofCoast Guard Wives.

1943MRS. SAMUEL SILVERSTEIN

(Ruby Zagoren), CorrespondentHaddam, Conn.

Born: To Herman and Elizabeth Failorll'7oodUJorlh, a second son, Robert Merrill,on August 14. To Farnum and CarolynThomson S/Jicer, a second daughter, Melis-sa Louise, on July 22. To Philip andBets}' Clarendon Hannen, a daughter,Barbara Clarendon, on July 8. To Elwoodand [ean Kohlherger Carter, a daughter,Susan Jean, on April 27. To Lawrence andBelJY Pease iVlarshall, a third child, ThomasDudley, on July 27.

Early last summer Katharine E. [obnsonAnders and Elizabeth MiddletON Brown re-turned to Connecticut for a weekend; theyhad dinner with Dean Burdick, Miss War-ner, and Miss Thomas and sawall the restof the physical education department. Eliza-beth Smith Livesey, ex '43, has Betsy, 7,and Bill, 4, and is therefore busy withPTA. lrene Steckler jacobson writes thatshe is on leave from her job as a psychia-tric social worker with the NYC Bureauof Child Guidance and is taking care ofher year-old Laurie. She was at Connecticutin June for her sister Ann's graduation andsaw Thelma Gusmison lFJ1laild who wasthere for her sister Mona's graduation.Irene comments that "Thelma and Bob arethrilled with their adopted son, Brooks."Irene also S,i.W Jack and Alicia HendersonSpeaker, who have two children and live inGroton. Virginia Lear)' entertained a guestfrom Australia this summer and also man-aged a visit to Atlantic City. Back at herregular job of tEaching at Norwich FretAcademy, Ginny is taking rug-hooking asan extra-curricular course. Betsey Pease

i\.Jarshall is again in Connecticut, for Law-rence is teaching at the Coast Guard Acad-emy; they have a cottage in Niantic. Betseysays Elaine H:/tlgner and her three boys arethere too, and she's also seen Alirio Hen-derson Speaker and [onet A)·en Leach, allCoast Guard wives.

1944MRS. ROGER F. KLEINSCHMIDT

(Jeanne Jacques), Correspondent

16 Parker Street, Belvidere, N. J.

Born: To George and Georgmlll HawkesWatsoll, a third child, Judy Ann, this sum-mer. To Dick and i\iar)' Louise DuncombeKnight, a third child, Richard Raynor, onJuly 30. To Sidney and V;"gillia PassauantHenderson, a third child, Sidney Elliott Ill,on August 9. To Orin and MariOIl KaneWiller, a daughter, Helen Hubbard, onAugust 25.Dorothy Raymolld Metld writes from

Rochester, N. Y., that her son Eddie, age 2,keeps her busy and is the primary reasonfor her and husband Elbert's house hunting.Dottie reports that she has seen Helen Rip-pey Simpson a few time at alumnae meet-ings. From Belt)' Rabinoioirz Sheffer, whoenjoyed a summer at Westport, Conn.,comes the news that Teresino Cerutti andBarbara Snow both traveled to Europe thissummer. Helen Crawford Tracy has movedto Whittier, Calif., where Bill has a job atNorth American Aviation. The class ex-tends to Helen their sympathy in the lassof her mother and sister Barbara in April-Mel Duncombe Knight reports that in

addition to their new son, she and Dickhave two other children: Kenneth, 4, andCarol, 1. Bell)' Creamer Gerven writes thatimmediately after graduation she accepteda job with the Army Signal Corps in Wash-ington, D. c., and two years later marriedLieutenant Commander James Garrett, whohad just returned from the South Pacilic.They moved to Durham, N. c., where Jimattended Duke University and obtained hisPh. D. in mathematics. Their daughter,Patricia Lynn, was born on December I,1949. They have now bought a bome inAtlanta, Ga., where Jim is an assistant pro-fessor of mathematics at Georgia Instituteof Technology.

1945MRS. DON .....LD S. TUTTLE, JR.

(Lois Fenton), CorrespondentWitsend Farm, Bethlehem, Conn.

Married: Allne McCarthy to Walter Ed·w".rd Miller, on September 1, in Point Abi-no, Ontario, Canada.

Born: To Lou and Margery Roge,'s Saf-

ford, :1. son, Platt Rogers, on June 12, 1950.To Elmer and Clura Si nnou Lipsey, a sec-ond son, on Novemb~r 27, 1950. To Jackand Barbara Avery [ubeli, a daughter, Su-san, in March. To Howard and Clara Gut-ford Barto, ex '45, a daughter, Nancy Lynn,in April. To Adrian and Elizabeth BevensCassidy, a third child, Lynn Porter, onApril 2. To William and Gert""de ProsserFuller, a third daughter, Julia, in May. ToBill and Groce lFilsoll w-u, a secondchild, William, Jr., on July 22. To Meland Charlotte Tomlinson Taft, a son, MiI-lens Walter III, on September 13.

A letter from [nne Oberg Rodgers inWashington, D. c., brings news of alumnaein that area. H:/ilda Peck Ben neu and Edhave just moved into a new Rambler there;Kaberine Mur!Jhy Kreutzer and Gn/rudeProsser Fuller are in the same vicinity. Jerryis president of the Washington chapter ofCoast Guard wives. Jane also reports thatEthel Schall Gooch, Warne, and youngSkip are now back in the States, in Taft,Calif. Ethel and Warne toured the Philip-pines for a vacation this summer. BettyGil/Jill GrifJilh and family are also in Cali-fornia, in Mare Island.

Elizabeth Seissen Dnblgren and Wallaceare in Corpus Christi where Wally is in-structing air cadets. Clara SiJ/llo11 Lipsey'shusband, Leo, is in flight training there.Other service husbands include EleanorStrohm Leavitt's Bill who is in Frankfurt,Germany, with the Army; COJ/Ilie BarnesAfennan's husband, Alan, who is in theNavy; Marioll IfVhite 1Il'eber's (ex '45)husband, Herbert, who is back in the AirForce in Illinois. The Webers have twodaughters, Janet, 6, and Vicki, 4.

A letter from Eleanore Strohm Leavitttells that she is living in Montclair withher mother and two daughters. Kathr)'11Gallder Rlttler writes that they moved toBarberton, Ohio, in the spring, where Jackis an engineer with the Babcock and Wil-cox Co. The Rutters have two daughters,Ann. in kindergarten, and Jane, age 1.Kaki writes that Shirley ArlllslrOllg hasmoved to Kansas City, Mo. Grace I/I'ilsollIFebb reports they've moved to anotherpbce in Charlotte. N. c.: Bill has recentlyformed a partnership there with anotherbWl'er.

1946MRS. RICHARD H. RUDOLPH

(Marilyn Coughlin), Correspondent128 East Walnut St., Kingston, Pa.

Married: Barbara Netlille to DonaldKornreich, on September 1, 1951, in Hark-ness Chapel. They are making their homein Bradford, Pa., where Don is an engineer

with Dresser Co.Born: To Samuel and j\JiriclIlI l mber

Fredman, a son, Neil Allen, on August 29·To Albert and [oan [acobson Kronick, adaughter, Susan Dana, on August 8. ToJohn and Alice lVilgoos Ferguson, a seconddaughter, Sandra Elizabeth, on May 16. ToJohn a~d Harriet Kuhn McGreet1ey, adaughter, Susan Robinett, on June 13. ToLemuel and Elinor St. John Arnold, adaughter, Carolyn Lee, on June 14. ToSidney and Joan 1ll'eisSJJ1rlll Burness, a sec-ond child, Patricia Gail, on March 31. To\'(filliam and [ane Fullerton Ashton, a thirdchild, Robert Stewart, on May 11. To Johnand Prltricid Kreutzer Heath, a second son,John Carlyle, on June 10.

For the past two years the Heaths havelived in Exeter, N. H., where Jack teachesEnglish and coaches soccer and basketballat Exeter Academy. During the summerthe Heaths direct a boys camp on LakeChamplain. Patty writes that MarjorieBolton 01"1" and Bob are in Fairfield, Conn.,where Bob works for General Electric;their son, Duncan, is 9 months old. SlIMII

Briles Heath, ex '46, and Darwin entertain-ed Patty and Jack during spring vacationat their home in Media, P:L Darwin ishead of the research department of JohnArndt Advertising Co. Virginia PeersonBoyh{lII, Matthew, and their daughter spentthe summer near Patty in New Hampshire.

Patricia Lirk Sieck, ex '46, Charles, andson Chuckie, 3, are living in Harrisburg.Betty ReilJel Bry, Dick, and Ellen Jane, 11months, spent the summer on a lake nearBedford Village, N. Y. Barbara Fr)' Starr,Buck, and Buddy, 2, are living on LakeMichigan; Buck is a reporter for the GaryPost Tribune. Dorothy Fiske Willl/efte,ex '46, Winn, and sons, Mark Allen, 3,;~nd Ward Perry, 1, have purchased a homein Emporium, Pa.; \'(!inn is an engineerwith Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. V;r-l!.illid Sommerfield Hackmall, ex '46, andBob vacationed in Canada this summer;they and their daughter, Cindy, 1, are liv-ing in Bridgeville, Pa.

1947BARBARA MILLER OTiS

CorrespoIJde111

333 West 78th Street, New York, N. Y.

1hrried: NlII1CY Yedger to Charles F.Cole, on June 21. /Har,ha StetJelJ.f to JohnAndrew Walsh, on November 17. CorrilJei\1tt1willg to Cyril Black, in June.

Born: To Dick and LOIUill Pimm S;,np-SOil, a daughter, Dale, in September. ToRalph and J1me Willia1/1s Weber, a daugh-ter, Christina, in August.

Chuck and Nicki Yeager Cole have taken

lip residence in Bakersfield, Calif., whereCludes is with the J. c. Penny Co. [aneCoulter drove out to the coast this summerand, en route, paid Nicki and Chuck avisit. She came back with glowing reports.Nicki, incidentally, was home for a visitthis fall to attend the wedding of herbrother, Bill, to Barbara Kite '48. Johnand /'.1rlrt)' Stet/ens ]j'/alsh are living inRensselaer, N. Y. John is with an insur-ance company in Albany. Cyril and ConineMal/llill/!, B1Mk are living in Princeton,N. )., where Cy is teaching history atPrinceton University.

Phil and [nner Pinks IFel/i have movedfrom Meriden, Conn., to Louisville, K¥-.,and will be living close to Nancy RemmersCook. Phil is with General Electric's newoffice there. [ean Fay has a new job withFranklin Simon department store as a copy-writer. Betsy AfcKey is an assistant editorin the college textbook department ofPrentice-Hall, Inc. Pat MeNu!! Doneganis the society editor of the New LondonDAY in New London.

1948.MRS. DANIEL FULLER

(Katherine Noyes),Tell1pm·m)' Correspondent

2 Jackson Ave., Mystic, Conn

Married: Cbella Sladek to Lieutenantf ig)George R. Schmidt, USCG, on February 20,in Chicago. They are now living in Guamwhere George is stationed. Mm·grlret Mil-liken to Ralph W. Tyson, on March 10, inWilmington, Del. Helen Crumrine to Al-lyn F. Ehler, on May 6, in Cheshire, Conn.They are now living in Wallingford andhave returned to their respective jobs: she'swith the Aetna Life Insurance Co. of Hart-ford; he's with Landers, Frary, and Clarkof New Britain. Rosalie Crerl1J1e,. to H.Henry Heintzelmann, on June 16, in Vine-land, N. J. They both work for the sameU. S. Government agency in Washingtonand have taken an apartment in nearbyArlington. Bell)' Burroughs to Henry Bie-lecki, in August. Hank works for PfizerChemical Co. in Groton, where they nowlive. Barbara Kite to William Yeager(brother of Nickie Yeager '47), on Octo-ber 6, in Larchmont. Be/led)' Campbell toAlbert L. Foster, on September 22, inScarsdale, N. Y. They now live in Rye ateasy commuting distance from New YorkCity, where Bev continues as receptionistfor the ad\'ertising firm of Batten, Barton,Durstine, and Osborn, and where Al is as-sociated with Lord and Taylor·s.

Born: To Len :lOci Virginia Giesen Rich.rlrd.rt?ll. a son, Harold Leonard III, in May.

Afarika Hm·,'JJlaJ1 Herndon. Dudley, andnine·month-old Dudley III have bought a

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new home on the outskirts of New London;Dud works with the Electric Boat Co. inGroton. Marion Koenig SharjenJteiu hasbrought her year-old daughter, Leslie Jean,to her parents' home in Brooklyn wherethey'll stay until June, when Tom returnsfrom a year's duty with the Coast Guardin the Aleutians,

Ed;lh AJChaJlellburg and Augela Sbonetook time off in November from their jobswitb the Phoenix Mutual Insurance Co. ofHartford to enjoy a holiday in Florida andto tour the south in Augie's car. RitaWeighi Ledbetter and Jack are living inHartford with their year-old son, Scott.Mary Alice Clark is now in Bradenton,Florida, doing botanical research for thestate.

1949SYBIL WIZANCorrespondent

1'50 Magnolia Street, Hartford, Conn.

Married: Emily GarriJOl1 to WilliamRoger Vincent Lort, on September 22; shemet him while studying in England. SailyHow to Wadsworth Stelle Stone (brotherof Mary Elizabeth Stone '49), on October 6.[ean Huribul to Robert Compton. HelmBrengle to Barrett Farlet Emmert, on April28. Beny Ruth IVilliamJ to Captain Cor-nelius Wakefield ("Wake"), on March 2.Barbara Ayef! to Donald F. Herbst.

Born: To Al and Barbara Cowgill Per-rins, a daughter, Martha Lynn, on June 20.To Jimmy and Babette Flint Eiler, a daugh-ter, Margaret Victoria, on April 29.Joan Underwood has switched jobs and

is now teaching kindergarten and helpingwith girls' athletics at her alma mater,Tower Hill School, in Wilmington, Del.PhJ'lliJ Hammer Duin and Bobby are nowliving in Mobile, Ala., where he is station-ed with the Coast Guard. Belly Ruth Wlil-liamJ IFakefield and her husband will bespending the year shuttling between FortSill, Okla., and Fort Bliss in II Paso, Tex.Pat FoltJ is teaching math at a girls' schoolnear Boston. AI/II Cobey and Jeall Carlerwent to Bermuda this summer. Doro/hySpivey spent about three months touringEurope. Mary Elizabeth SloHe has gone toSouth America with her boss to help withsome kind of zoological experimentation.

1950RUTH 1. KAPLANCorreJpolldent

38 American legion HighwayDorchester 24, Mass.

Married: Anile Gartner to Robert Wilder,on June 23, in New York City. Helell

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Haynes to George Keith, on August 11.Carol Crane to Robert Louis Stevenson, onSeptember 1, in Detroit, Mich. [ac qnelineHamlin to Herbert Maltby, on September 15-Roberla Trager to Ralph Cohen, on Septem-ber 16. [oenn Caban to Roy Dreier, onSeptember 22, in New London. MargarelldacDeftllid to Ira Ridgeway, on Septem-ber 22, in Bordentown, N. J. [oan MapeJto Donald Keith Bater, on September 22,in Hartford. [snbelle Oppel/heim to RalphGould, on September 23. PhJ'l!is Clark toCharles Nininger, on October 13, in Lowell,Mass. Charlotte Euvart to Richard Staiger,on October 20, in Akron, Ohio.

Born: To Lieutenant Frank and Selbylnman G}"(/!Jt/1Il, a son, Frank Wesley, Jr.,on July 30, 1950. To John and DoroibylP"arren lP"hile, a daughter, Caroline, inJuly. To Richard and RosanNe Klein Ratt-ner, ex '50, a son, Michael, on September13. To Lieutenant (jg) Neal and .!I1C1riiYIlCrane lP"illialllJ, a daughter, Laurie Ann,on July 8. To John and Eleanor lP"oodRoberts, ex '50, a daughter, Elizabeth Pen-field, on September 22. To Robert andPoliy Hedlund Hampton, ex '50, a son,Mark Steven, on September 19. Polly andBob have moved to Berkeley, where Bob isstarting his first term of law school in theevenings and is working as an accountant inthe daytime.

Many of our classmates are doing gradu-ate work. J oan Como)' is working for herM.A. in English at the University of Con-necticut. Dorothy Hollinger is studying forher M.S, in education at the University ofPennsylvania, Rachel Ober is continuingher study of music at Columbia University.Joyce Baile}' KClJ'e has earned her M.S. inpsychology and is now studying for herPh.D. while working for the clinical psy-chology department of Boston University.Nancy Allfm spent last year at the NewYork School of Social Work .1t ColumbiaUniversity and is now a social worker atthe Newington (Conn.) Home and Hospi-tal for Crippled Children. Nallcy Pllklin:lOd Ch~lrlene HodgeJ are both at the Uni-versity of Chicago. Nancy is living at theInternational House and studying for herM.A. in social work; Charlene is workingfor her M.A. in English, Jeall McClure isat Yale Divinity School and hopes eventu-ally to get a position as assistant to a col-lege chaplain.

Teaching, too, has claimed many of us.Virginia DratJiJ is teaching physical educa·tlon in Yakima, Wash.; Ginger is contem-pbting picking apples in her spare time,for apple-pickers make more money thanteachers do. Ella Lou Ho)'t Dimmockteaches music at the Shady Hill School inCambridge, Mass., and also continues her

voice study. Joann Cohan Dreier is work-ing with musical therapy for children whoare victims of cerebral palsy, Barbara Bid-die is working at the Y\X/CA in Newark,N. J., where she holds the impressive titleof "Director of Teen-Age Activities."Mdllelle Mood)' is teaching at the Green-vale School on Long Island. Terry MUllgeris now in her second year of teaching phys-ical education as well ' as doing part-timepsychological testing at St. Margaret'sPreparatory School in Waterbury, Conn.

Among those in the publishing field areCarol Crane Stevenson, who works forConde-Nest publications 10 Greenwich,Conn.; Belh Y'on man, who works forCORONET, and Priscilla Harris, who worksfor MCCALL'S, both in New York City;MfIITi.l Doriman, book editor and assistantto associate editor of SEVENTEEN; DO"o/hyGl abns, editorial assistant for MODERN IN-DUSTRY; Diane Roberts and Barbara GoldZiilgmaN, who works for Fairchild Publica-tions, Di in New York and Bobble as theLouisville, Ky., correspondent. Bobbie alsowrites society news for a Louisville paperand is research assistant for the Chamberof Commerce. Edanee BlIJCh does researchwork for FACTS, INC,

Alice l-f e.cr does market research for theAtlantic Refining Co. Edith Kolodny Mit-cbell is a buyer for Allied Stores; her hus-band, Sheldon, gratuated from law schoolin June. Nallcy Bemiss and Cyntbie Hillare both at Jordan Marsh Co. in Boston;Nancy is secretary to the head of the dis-play department and Cinny is in the train-ing department. Also in Boston are [aneKeeler and Rhodfl Freed, who are both inthe training squad of Filene's departmentstore, Deirdre Coons works at B, Altman'sin White Plains, N. Y., to support a newaddition to her family-a horse, namedCherry Birch. After several months inFlorida, Pdt [iltO is now in merchandisingat The Tailored Woman shop in New YorkCity. Shirlq HOJIack is a junior pharma-cologist at Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc., in Nut·ley, N. J. Also In New Jersey is Nil/a All'tOl1ideJ lWi/l.for, who is with Merck's Inc.Alice N01Jey is secretary to the president ofColumbia University.

Gabrielle NOSt/lOrlh)1 Ryder is now amember of the U. S. Air Force stationedin Engbnd and finds life on the basedelightfully similar to life in K, B. Anl1Gehrke recently returned from severalweeks 10 Hawaii. Carol Booth spentlast fall and winter in Europe and isnow working in Washington, D. C. NaomiHarbllrg and Ruth Kaplan vacationed inCanada this summer. Both are now work-ing for the federal government; Naomi atthe Boston office of the OPS and Ruth at

the Boston Naval Shipyard. Dovotby Ab-e-ryn Turtz is at Fort Worth, Texas, whereher husband, Arnie, is stationed as a doctorwith the Air Force. Selby il/NUW Grahamis now living in Key West, Florida, whereher husband, Frank, a Navy lieutenant, isstationed, Cbristine H oil Kurtz and Henryrecently bought a house in Miami. HollyBarret! Harris and Dave are building ahouse just outside of Bristol, Conn., andhope to have it completed by June. Mt/ri-lyn If/ullker [ulnes and Marilyn emileWilliams are both living in Seattle, Wash.Nallc)' Canova Schlegel now lives in Allen-town, Pa., very near her sister-in-law,/l1aril)'" lHalizia Schlegel, Junius and Mar-lis B1NmaN Powell are planning a trip hometo Montclair over the Christmas holidays.

1951SALLY BUCK

Correspondent570 Wolcott Hill RoadWethersfield 9, Conn.

Married: Barbara Thompson to BenedictL. Stabile, on June 10. [aue Lent to Ensign\\'illiam j. Baldau, USCG, on June 18.Pallia Mellzer to Melvin j. Nelson, onJune 21. Zita P//1"IIell to Warren McClel-bnd, on August 4. Peggy Frank to GeorgeHuber, on August 25. Nallc)' Ubby to En-sign Karl F. Peterson, USCG, on August 25.Mar;Mie lY/eeks to George Owens, onSeptember 1. ."'L:/r)'CaTdle to Justice Lowe,on September 7. Chloe Bissell to Lester P.Jones, Jr., on September 8. Barbara Nasbto Robert F. Sullivan, on September 22.Pt/I Roth to Joseph l.oeb, on October 14.Others married since graduation in June:lriJ Baill to James M. Hutchinson; CarolJ"lFiJlIl to Edward Saeks; Phebe George toFrancis G. Mason; Ariell Ha/(skllech, toRobert Mack; ElizabellJ HoIz to William"\"X!aterhouse; Mary Pelll/YUlin to MaxwellLester III; Betsy 117((sserman to NewtonColeman; NallC)' lr'irtemburg to W. Steel-man Morss, Jr.Bobb}' T homj)Joll slabile and Ben are

now living in Arlington, Mass., where Benis stationed with the Coast Guard; Bobbyhas a job with the personnel departmentof Jordan Marsh Co. William and jalleLenl Balda" as well as Karl and NallcyLibby PClerSOIl are also living in the Bostonarea. Warren and Zi,a P"r/lell McClelialldare living in Youngstown, Ohio, where Sisis taking an eight-weeks course prior to be-coming a library assistant. Peg Frank Hu-her and husband are living in Philadelphia,where Peg is doing personnel work for adepartment store. Mary Cardle Lowe and.lusty are living in Allston, Mass.; Maryhas a part-time job in the physics library

at Harvard University. Chloe Bissell [onesis at present enrolled in a merchandisingtraining program at Bamberger's. NallcyJl7ir/embmg Mor.rs is now head of the in-fants department at a new Sears & Roebuckstore in Stamford.

Touring Europe during the summer wereLois Allen, Cbavlotre Cbap ple, Louise HHl,AI/n [ones, Phyllis 1\1cCarlhy, DonneScbnddt, juslille Shepherd, Mm'y MarlhaSucklillg, Diana Jl7eeks, and Frances 1/7il·SOil. Two tour leaders, Olivia Brock andjlldy Clippinger, liked the trip so much thatthey decided to remain in Munich, Ger-many; Olivia is working for Radio Europeand also teaching English, history, andphilosophy in night school; Judy has a po-sition with the International Refugee Or-ganizntion.

Both Sbeli« Albert and [oan ANdrewtook secretarial courses this past summer.Eleanore Holsermann and [can Truscott areat present enrolled at Katherine Gibb's.Elaine Fensteruraid and Brlfbara J'vJolillsk)'are attending Columbia Law School. Alsoat Columbia are Nalalie Bowell, takinggraduate courses in music, and Helen Pav-lovich and Frances W'ilsoJ!. both in theOccupational Therapy School. Sue Askilland Ann Dalliels are at the New YorkSchool of Social Work; Danny is sharingan apartment with Fiori Von Ir'edekel/d.Ntfllc)' MoSJ is enrolled in the PhiladelphiaSchool of Social Work. At Boston Univer-sity Mona GUJ/afsoll is taking graduatework in psychology. V(lIIghll GWI/er is at-tending the Fletcher School of Diplomacyin Boston. jotl/Ille lWil!ard is at Cornellgraduate school, enrolled in their Deantraining course. Cal'ol Burllell is studyingclassics at Brown University and acting ashousemother for Pembroke. Elizabelh Bab-boli and FraNces Net1il{J are doing graduatework at Harvard University. Ph)'llisMcCarth)' is working for her Master's inphysical education. As a Fullbright scholar,Olga Kmpen is studying in Italy.

jud)' Ad.1skill is on the training squad atfilene's department store in Boston. En-rolled in the trainee program at Sterling-Lindner-Davis, a Cleveland departmentstore, is Sue Ber,f;,J/rolll. Virginia Callaghalland Mary Ialle jobsoll are business traineesat Tn.1E, INC. A true Auerbach major,Vit,iml JOhllSUII is continuing with thetraining program at G. Fox & Co. Withthe Central Intelligence Agency in Wash-in,f;ton are AIlII Andrews. Carol Halk, Rose-I!!ary Luke. jalJ(!I Shicklalld, Allila ThlJlf-sell, and Barbara l/'/iegalld. Among thoseteaching are Renate Ascha/fel1blll'g, at apri,'ate school in 'Maryland, Belse)' Colgall,teaching kindergarten in \'Xlestbrook, Conn,.COllllie Kelley, hal dinE; classes in Latin and

physiology at the Gateway School in NewHaven, Dol Koip pel, in Cambridge, andj «stine Shef)herd, instructing physical edu-cation in New Jersey.

Beoerty T uceer is working for the Provi-dence \'V'ashington Insurance Co. in Provi-dence. With the Prudential in Newark isRhoda Leoy Nal/c)' Clapt) and [oanneDings are doing statistical research for theNew York Life Insurance Co.; they sharean apartment in New York Cit}' with [oannAflflle)'t1rd, who works for the GuarantyTrust Co. Nallcy Bolte is a personal salesrepresentative for the Liberty Mutual In-surance Co. \"X!orking for the TravelersInsurance Co. in Hartford are Saily Buckand Lois Allen, as actuarial clerks, PriscillaMeyer, in the publicity department, and[anet Young, in the underwriting depart-ment. Helm [obnson works for the AetnaInsurance Co., also in Hartford. [oanBlackburn, Sari Bmbner, and Inez Marg arein the publishing business: Sari is secretaryto the managing editor of ARGOSY, andJnie is connected with CUE. Radio workhas claimed Pbyllis HOfJWdllIl, secretary tothe program 1ll,1Oager at a Chicago station;jalle Aluh, at CBS, and Peggy Pm'k, in thecontinuity department of CBS.

Anile l/Yiebel/Joll is a receptionist an::Jdesk girl at the Cleveland Clinic. In ,lddi-tion to working for her M.A. at the Hart-ford School of Social Work, Ver(/ Sanlalli-ello is employed as a· social worker for thestate department of welfare. Elizabethsmiersopf is with the nursing staff of theNew York Hospital. MarilYII Alfieri andAlaril)'11 Cobhledick are working in the de-sign department of the Electric Boat Co.Nallcy Kaufmall works for the PersonalLoan Corp. AI/II .McCreer)1 is an assistantto a professor at tht Harvard BusinessSchool. Back at C. c., Kathe,.ille Sheehtlllis now in charge of the mimeographing andmailing office. This past summer jalliceSchaTlmalJll was a lecturer at the DuPontexhibit in Atlantic City. Pf1IdellCe Merrittis at the reservation desk of Pan AmericanAirlines. Rfillica lWilliams works for atravel bureau in Bermuda. Alice Kinbergis a service representative for the New Eng.bnd Telephone Co. in Worcester, Mass.Mrlr;;ie EI·ic·kJIJ}l is with McQueevey, Wer-ring, & Howell Co .. a retail buying house.Marlba Morse works for a Schraffts' res-tamant in \'White Plains, N. Y. In Cleve-land. Anllabel Beam, Belt)' Ber:k, and Mal'-Iht/ l-larfiJ are doin.g 100 hours of volun-teer ,,'ark in connection with their JuniorLeflgue course. Annabel, Sue Bergstrom,Mm'J' j\1erkle, and AI/lie lWiebellJoll recently,eave a Monte Carlo party to raise moneyfor the Recreation Hall Fund: theyraised $SO.

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Clubs of the Connecticut College Alumnae Association, Presidents and Secretaries

C:"UFORNIA

Nor/hem: Mrs. Harold Manning (Emma Moore "37)17 Temple Street, San Francisco 14

Miss Susanne Higgins '351282 A Page Street, San Francisco

Sombern: 1'1", Donald Voorhees (Ruth Goodhue ex '46)515 z-tth Street, Manhattan Beach .

Mrs. G. Rex Shields (Susan Vaughan 40)111()R Acuna Street, North Hollywood

COLORADO

Denver: 1'1", Morten McGinley {Sally Duffield '46)848 Medea Way, Denver 9

1'1", Clyde 5, Rine, JL (Eleanor Clarkson ex '39)1216 forest Avenue, Denver 7

CONNECTICUT

Eastern Ftlirfield Comu y: .1'1", Richard J. Berg [Barbara Freedmen ex '48)Richmondville Avenue, Westport

M", William Gay (Ruth Raymond '32)472 Woodbnd Drive, Devon

li7esfem Fa;,/idd County:Mrs. Otto G. Schwenk (Alice Coy '31)66 Delafield Island Road, Darien

1'1", David P, Weidig (Marjorie Lawrence '45)17 Oakdale Road, Glenbrook

Hartiord. Mrs. Sidney Burness (Joan Weissman '46)280 Steele Road, West Hartford

Miss Elsie B. Miller ex '5044 Beverly Road, West Hartford

A1eriden·]V allillgford:Mrs. Carmelo Greco (Alice Galante '34)18 Lincoln Street, Meriden

Mrs. Bradstreet Hyatt (Elizabeth Upham ex '33)157 Curtis Street, Meriden

.New Haven: Mrs. K. M. Kelley (Barbara Barlow '44)96 Norton Street, New Haven

Miss Anne Cobey' 4932 High Street, New Haven

New London: Mrs. Donald Bradshaw (Jean Bemis '40)36 Westomere Terrace, New London

Mrs. John DeGange (Mary Crofoot '27)95 Oneco Avenue, New London

W"",bu,y,' 1'1", F, G, Woods (Evelyn Whitt,moce 'Jl)97 Scott Avenue, Watertown

Mrs. Joseph c. Swirsky (Jeanne Peinn '44)133 Pine Street, Waterbury

DElAWARE

Il'/ilmillgtol/: .Mrs. Willard L Johns (Jeannette Rothensies '38)1412 Woodlawn Avenue, Wilmington

Miss Mary E. Power '452735 West Sixth Street, Wilmington

ILLINOiS

Chicago: . ,Mrs. Franklin de Beers, Jr. (Nancy McMillan ex 37)930 Surrey Lane, Glenview

Miss Jane Broman50 Essex Road, \Vinnetka

MARYLAND

Baltimore. Mrs. Anton S, Nevin (Gwendolyn Knight '39)711 Stoneleigh Road, Baltimore 12

Mrs. Warren Olt (Nancy Ford. '50)1618 Sherwood Avenue, Baltimore

l\,L"SSACHUSETTSBOJlolI," M", Alfred Willmann (janyce Pickett '34)

16') Clifton Street, Belmont 78Miss' Joan Dickinson '4923 'Forsyth Street, Boston

SprinOfitild: Miss Barbara Norton '4919 Princeton Street, Holyoke

Miss Marion Allen '3217 Woodside Terrace, Springfield

MICHIGAN

Detroit: Mrs. John E. Parrott (Cherie Noble '44)691. Colonial Court, Birmingham

1'1", Wamn Kendall {Shirley Devereaux '40)19464 Manor Avenue, Detroit 21

NEW JERSEYNew Jersey: Mrs. Roger K. Dearing (Jean Hall '42)

436 Mountain Avenue, WestfieldMrs. William de Veer (Frances Hutchison '42)121 Buckingham Road, Upper Montclair

Bergen Comn y:Mrs Harry S. Howard, Jr. (Lenore Tingle '42)84 Lydecker Street, Englewood

Miss Ruth Seal '46159 Park Avenue, Leonia

NEW YORK

New York City.' Miss Jane Coulter '47333 West 78th Street, New York 24

Mrs. Ralph Sheffer (Betty Rabinowitz '44)325 East 41st Street, New York 17, N. Y .

[rc'estchester: Mrs. Philip M. Luce (Jessie Menzies '20)87 Berrian Road, New Rochelle

Mrs. Howe Wheelock (Gretchen Kemmer '37)93 Echo Lane, Larchmont

OrneCleoetnnd:Mrs. Charles H. Wagner, Jr. (Betty Schlesinger '37)1295 Hereford Road, Cleveland Heights 18

Mrs. Paul Domino (Frances Drake ex '44)2613 Ashton Road, Cleveland Heights

PENNSYLVANIA

Pbiladetpbie: Mrs. Davis P. Smith, Jr. (Janet Weiss '46)RFD 1, Hatboro

Pinsburgb:Mrs. W. V. Johnstone (Florence Parker ex '47)916 Farragut Street, Pittsburgh

Mrs. James N. Stewart (Mary Reed '31)31 Banbury Lane, Ben Avon Heights, Pittsburgh

WISCONSfN

Milwaukee:Mrs. Richard C. Jones (Margaret Hemingway '43)2921 North Stowell Avenue, Milwaukee

Mrs. R. A. Candee (Vi Egan ex '46)2924 East Linwood Avenue, Milwaukee 11

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