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ALUMNAE WEEK - END

The week-end of Washington's Birth-day saw many alumnae back on thecampus enjoying the opportunity of see-ing old friends, of attending a class ortwo, chatting with former teachers-infact doing all the things an alumna likesto do on returning.The first event was the basketball

game in the gymnasium between thealumnae and undergraduates, which wasexciting but not difficult to judge as anundergraduate victory. The Faculty-Alumnae Tea, given in the Faculty Roomin the new library by the New LondonChapter, welcomed constantly returningalumnae with some cheering tea andcakes and hearty smiles from the manyfaculty members who were there. Dr.Carey looked especially chic in a three-months'-old shingle. Teas at C. C. havenever failed to be the kind you just loveto go to, instead of the dreaded pink-teaaffairs that are in vogue in most places.They are homey and comfortable andtouch the right spot, just as the teadoes.One of the nicest features of the week-

end came Saturday evening, when Mr.Bauer and Mr. Weld combined to give adelightful musicale. The program is asfollows, and we wish our readers couldget even 3J little bit of the enjoymentfrom the printed program that we gotfrom listening:l-Sonata, Op. 81 (Beethoven)

Les Adieux: Adagio-AllegroL'absence: Andante expressivoLe Retour: Vivacissimamente

Mr. Bauer2-Tannhauser, Act III, Scene 2,

Wolfram's Song (Wagner)Mr. Weld

3-Troisieme Etude de Concert(Sternberg)

Chant D'Amour (Stcjowski )Serenade a La Lune (Raoul Pugno)

Mr. Bauer4-Ah! Non Lasciarmi No! (Old Italian)

Viens Aurore (Old French)When Phoebus Begins Just to Peep

o'er the Hills (Old English)Mr. Weld

(Prokofieff)5-Marche, Op. 12, No.3Mr. Bauer

6-Sapphische OdeDie MainachtZigeunerlied, Op. 103, No.5

Mr. Weld7-La Campanella

Mr. Bauer8-The Sea

Sweet Blue-Eyed MaidThe Danza

(Brahms)(Brahms)(Brahms)

(Liszt-Busoni)

(MacDowell )(MacDowell )(Chadwick)

Mr. WeldSunday was another day of music and

the Glee Club concert held in the Gym-nasium in the afternoon was a few hoursof pure delight. There is no doubt thatthe Glee Club has advanced with hugestrides since its beginning just a fewyears back. The ever popular whistler,Margaret Elliott, '27, was a feature ofthe program, which is printed below:l-(a) College Hymn (Arr. from Men-

delssohn's Farewell, byKathryn Hulbert, C. C., '20)

(b) Murmuring Zephyrs (Adolph Jensen)(c) In the Boat (Edvard Grieg)2-(a) On the Wings of Music

(Mendelssohn)(b) When Love Comes' to Stay

(Lewis Adolph Coerne)(c) Nina (Pergolese)3-Enchantment (Mary Turner Salter)

Louise MacLeod, '274-(a) Menuet (Weckerlin, arr.

Louis Victor Saar)(b) Maiden Remember (Weckerlin, arr,

Louis Victor Saar)(c) The Three Cavaliers-Russian FolkSong (Arr. Kurt Schindler)

5-(a) The Snow (Sir Edward Elgar)(b) The Lorely (Liszt, at-r.

Bertha Remick)6----Whistling Selection

Margaret Elliott, '277-(a) Carmena (H. Lane Wilson, aIT.

F. E. Rich)(b) The Year's at the Spring

(Mrs. H. H. A. Beacb)In the evening at Colonial House a

group gathered around President Mar-shall, who read our favorite poems to usin that most entertaining way he has.

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Nothing gives us quite the thrill thatPresident Marshall does when he readsNoyes' "The Highwayman."The real alumnae get-together came at

noon in the pretty dining room of Colo-nial House when a luncheon was held andcherry tarts served as dessert in honorof George Washington. Judy Warner,'23, served as chairman in the absence ofAgnes Leahy, President of the AlumnaeAssociation. Dean Nye spoke a fewwords of greeting to the alumnae in herown charming way. President Marsha 11told about the reading lists that the col-lege plans to send out to its alumnae.He said that the college, recognizingits obligations to continue the interest ofits students after graduation, was pro-posing to send them from time to timeissues of the "Bulletin." The firstone will probably be out in the June"Bulletin." He also spoke of the bequestof David Hale Fanning of Worcester,Mass., who died last January and wholeft $25,000 to the college and also namedit as one of the four institutions to sharein the residuary of the estate, theamount of which is not yet known.The luncheon broke up into separate

class meetings and from these the alum-nae departed homewards, anticipatingthe June re-union as another pleasantspot on the calendar.The returning alumnae were as fol-

lows:1919:

Pauline Christie, Dorcas Gallup Ben-nett, Margaret Ives, Mildred Keefe Ma-rion Rogers Nelson, Marenda pr'entisMarion Wells Colby, Mildred White'Winona Young, Dr. Ruth Anderson. '

1920:'Mary; Chipman Morris, Helen Collins

Miner, Marion B. Gammons, Mary HesterCamp, Clarissa Ragsdale, Edith Smith.

1921:Anna ~. Fla.herty, Agnes Leahy,

Rachel Smith, Edith Sheridan Beady.1922:

Margaret Baxter, Abby Carley, HelenCrofoot, Blanche Finesilver, AugustaO'Sullivan, Marjorie Smith, DorothyWheeler.

1923:Ethel Ayers, Leslie Alderman Helen

Avery Bailey, Helen Barkerding Neu-bt:;l'g~Anna Buell, Rheta Clark, ElizabethDickinson, Hope Freeland Allen BessieE. Goldberg, ~elen Hemingway, 'Marga-ret Hyer, Olive W. Holcombe MarciaLangley, Louise Lindeman, Alice Ram-say, Katherine Stone, Rachel TiffanyInto, Mary P-. Wheeler, Lucy WhitfordHeaton, Harr-iet Woodford, MerrimanHelene Wulf. '

1924:Mary Courtney, Janet

leen Fitzgerald, HelenCrawford, Ei-Forst, Gladys

FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVECHANGES.

Resignations have been accepted fromthe following members of the Collegestaff:Erma Louise Cole, Ph.D., Associate Pro-

fessor of Greek.Ruth Crosby, A.M., Instructor in English.Katharine Hopkins Pease, A.M., In-

structor in English.Clarissa Ragsdale, B.S., Instructor in

Fine Arts.Helen Geneva Leopold, A.B., Instructor

in Chemistry.Felicite Marie Cam, L.esL., Instructor in

French.Ruth H. McGarry, Secretary in the Presi-

dent's Office.Helen M. Black, Cataloguer in the 'Lib-

rary.Margaret Baxter, Secretary in the Office

of the Endowment Fund.Agnes O'Sullivan, Clerk in the Business

Manager's Office.

* *Leave of Absence for the year 1925-

1926 has been granted to the following:Caroline A. Black, Ph.D., Associate Pro-

fessor of Botany.Mary Clarissa McKee, A.M., Assistant

Professor of Chemistry.Bessie Bloom Wessel, A.M., Associate

Professor of Economics and Soci-ology.

New Appointments have been made asfollows:Alice Cowles Fairchild, A.M., Assistant

Professor of Home Economics.A.B., Oberlin College. 1912; B.S.. 'Teacher-s'

College, Columbia University, 1913; M.A., 1919;instructor in home economics, College of Indus-trial Arts, Denton. Texas. 1913-1915; assistantprofessor of home economics, 1915-1918; profes-sor of home economics and director of department.Rockford College, 1919-1921; extension service.Cornell University, 1923-1925; practical experi-ence in home-making, 1921-1923; assistant pro-fessor of home economics. Connecticut College,1925.

Forster, Virg'iniar Hays, Amy Hilker,Gloria Hollister, Elinor Hunken, Eliza-beth Mcfrouga ll,' Julia Morrissey, Kathe-.rineRenwick, Marion Sanford, KatherineSlayter,' Marion Vibert, Ruth Wexler,Lucille Wittke.

1925:Anna Albree, Sara Crawford, Helen

Ferguson, Margery Field, Lila A. Gallup,Janet Goodrich, Jessie Josolowitz, Elea-nor Kelley, Dorothy Kent, Dorothy Kil-bourn, Ellen McGrath, Jane Nevers,Adele Roos, Grace Ward.

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May Hall James, Ph.D., Assistant Pro-fessor of Economics and Sociology.

Ph.B., Brown University, 1909; A.M., 1923;Ph.D., 1925; teacher in Providence Public Schools,1905-1909; principal of Pembroke School, Cal-gary, Alberta, 1913-191{; supervisor of recrea-tion, Edmonton, Alberta, 1914; instructor inProvidence Public Schools, 1922-1925; assistant ineducation, Brown University, 1923-1925; asaiatantin social and political science, 1924-1925; assistantprofessor of economics and sociology, ConnecticutCollege, 1925-1926.

Evelyn Ida Fernald, Ph.D., AssistantProfessor of Botany.

A.B., Vassar College, 1912; A.M., CornellUniversity, 1920: Ph.D., 1924; instructor in New-ton High School, 1912-1914; instructor in Hope-dale High School, 1914-1915; instructor in biology,Framingham Normal School, Framingham, Mass.,1915-1918; instructor in biology and chemistry,Woman's College, Newark, Delaware, 1918-1919;instructor in biology, New York State College ofAgriculture, CornelJ University, 1919-1924; assist-ant professor of botany, Connecticut College,1926-1926.Catherine Oakes, A.M., Instructor in

English.A.B., Wellesley College, 1915; A.M., 1917; Edin-

burgh U~versity, 1921-1922 (first semester);Untvezstw of London, 1924-1925; assistant inEnglish, Wellesley College, 1917-1919: instructorin English, Putnam Hall, Poughkeepsie. N. Y.,. 1920-1921; instructor in English, Stuart Hall,Staunton, Va., 1922-1924; assistant in English,Wellesley College, Feb. 1925-June 1926; instruc-tor in English, Connecticut College, 1925.Alice Bradford Chapman, A.B., Instruc-

tor in English.A.B., Wellesley College, 1923; Wellesley College

Scholar; Catharine Gibbs School, Boston, Mass.,Sept. 1923.Jan. 1924; instructor in Latin, HighSchool, Norwich, New York, 1924; instructor inEnglish, High School, Sherburne, New York, 1924-1925; instructor in English, Connecticut College,1925.

Margaret Bishop Ives, A.B., Instructorin Fine Arts.

A.B., Connecticut College, 1919; School of FineArts, Crsfts, and Decorative Design, Boston,Mass., 1919-1920; director of vocational work for. infantile paralysis cases, Department of PublicHealth, Burlington, Vt., 1921-1925; instructor infine arts, Connecticut College, 1925.

Ellen Loraine Hurlbutt, A.B., Assistantin Zoology.

A.B., Mt. Holyoke College 1925; assistant inzoology, Connecticut College, 1925.Evelyn Brower Mann, A.B., Assistant in

Chemistry.A.B .. Wellesley College, 1925: Durant Scholar:

assistant in chemistry. Connecticut College. 1925.

Agnes Berkeley Leahy, A.M., Assistantin Psychology.

A.B., Connecticut College, 1921; A.M.. ColumbiaUniversity, 1925: graduate secretary of studentorganizations, Ccnnecttcu t College, 1921-1922; sec-retary of personnel bureau, 1921; assistant inpsychology, 1925.

Meta B. Aussieker, A.B., Cataloguer inthe Library.

May Hail Fischer, A.B., Assistant Cata-loguer in the Library.

Emily Warner, A.B., Graduate Secretaryof Student Organizations.

Julia Hodge Craighead. A.B., Secretaryin the President's Office.

Ethel Louise Hull, R.N .. Nurse.

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EDITORIAL STAFF SAD NEWS FOR 1924

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Editor-in-Chief, .. Blanche Einesilver, '22Assistant, Helen Avery Bailey, '23

EDITORIALIn answer to many inquiries we beg to

state that the January 1st issue of the"Alumnae News" was the first this year.It was published as Volume I, No.3, forno other reason than that we had no ideawhen a volume ran out and another be-gan and so figuring this as the thirdalu~nae publication, we numbered it asread. There are to be but three issuesthis year, therefore, it is not a Quarterly.Four times to us seems a complete im-possibility, we hope the next editor won'ttake her duties too seriously.

• •The next issue is to be a' Commence-

. ment number and will be received by Lhealumnae just before it is ready to startto the re-union, We are in hopes thatthe more soft-hearted members of theAssociation will before, on or about May1, send us ar-ticles of any description,news of every description, pictures, etc.,for the next issue. Our ingenuity is justabout worn to a frazzle. Send to BlancheFinesilver, 91 Plainfield Street, Hartford,Conn. • •Several months ago in a Hartford

newspaper was published a list of candi-dates who had passed examination forlicenses to practice allopathic medicinein the State of Connecticut. There weretwo women among twenty-eight candi-dates who passed, one of them beingMary Raytwick, '21, of Union City.

• •The engagements of Luciie Wittke, '23,

and Florence Lennon, '19, have recentlybeen announced. • •Feta Perley Reiche's baby was born on

January 26, 1926, and he is Karl A.Reiche, Jr.

• •Last October Jessie Menzies Luce visit-

ed in Detroit and called on J. P. Brock-ett, now Mrs. A. H. Hjort. Jessie saysshe is the same J. P. Across the streetlives. Mildred Cline/ ex-'21, who is nowmarr-ied.

From the Montclair Times: "It willbe a great shock to the many friends ofMrs. Vivian Sauvage, formerly MissElmore Harrison, to learn of her un-timely death on Thursday, February 18.Mrs. Sauvage, who was in her twenty-fifth year, was the daughter of M'r. andMrs. James R. Harrison of 216 LorraineAvenue, and a niece of Mayor and Mrs.Henry A. Lardner. A little daughter,Shirley Elmore, was born to Mrs. Sauv-age early Thursday morning. Unexpectedcomplications set in which proved toomuch for her lowered vitality, and shepassed away Thursday afternoon."Although Elmore was with us on the

hill for only a part of our college course,the charm and sincerity of her personal-ity could not fail to make deep impres-sions on all those with whom she cameinto contact. She possessed the veryessence of our C. C. spirit and her goingleaves a profound sense of loss to allwho knew her. Surely 1924 will wantto decide on some lasting memorial tobe left on campus. Please send sugges-tions to

C. B. Holmes, Acting Secretary,22 Waterbury Road,

Montclair, N. J.

Mr. and Mrs. John Crawford of West-port, Conn., have announced the engage-ment of their daughter, Miss JanetCrawford, to Burton Lenox How, son ofMr. and Mrs. Edward C. How of LaPorte, Ind. Miss Crawford is a gradu-ate of the Connecticut College forWomen, class of 1924, and since hergraduation has been with the WesternElectric Company of this city.Mr. How is a member of the class of

1917 at Dartmouth College, where hewas a member of the Alpha Delta Phifraternity. During the war he servedin France for two years as a Lieutenantof infantry. He "is in business in NewHa ven, Conn. • •Bobby Massoneau celebrated his sec-

and birthday in February by giving aparty which was attended by some of his"aunts", namely Agnes Mae Clark, JoanMunro Odell and Jessie Menzies Luce.His mother is Eleanor Seaver Massoneau.

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the tooth. On three sides his crib wassurrounded, and first singly, then col-lectively, each head bobbed and each onemurmured the magic word. We wererewarded by fat smiles and excellentglimpses of one tiny pearl in the greatopen spaces. Finally we had had enoughbut not so with Robert. This delightfulgame was so exhilarating! He cravedmore! He stayed awake until the weehours, complaining bitterly and fightingthe Sandman. Since then, the word"Cuckoo!" is not used at 10 p. m.Mrs. E. D. Odell, or Joan Munro Odell,

is living in Tarrytown where her sociallife is a little dancing, bridge and teaswith a smattering of social work and astill smaller smattering of church work.Joan still sees Jessie, Eleanor, AgnesMae, Clarissa and Alberta. The '20-itesare still greatly interested in each other.Joan says Jessie has a beautiful apart-ment and is looking splendid, betterthan ever before.LaFetra Perley Reiche has a small

son who, I believe, is Karl A., Jr.From Al Horrax Schell: "There is very

little news of '20 in Philadelphia, I'msorry to say. There are only three ofus here-Peg Milligan, Marion HendrieMilligan and myself. Peg is now a full-fledged physician and awfully busy withclinics, etc. Marion has an apartmentright around the corner from me, so wesee a great deal of each other. I amtaking work in the Graduate School atthe University of Pennsylvania this yearand enjoying it. There are four grad-uates and six or seven ex-members in orabout Philadelphia and we are awaitinga charter in order to organize into achapter and have regular meetings."

PEP AT LAST!Mrs. Charles Irvine Clark, otherwise

known as Agnes Mae writes that thiswinter she has taken a secretarial courseat the C. F. Young School in Brooklynand had a substitute position for fourdays at the Brooklyn Museum just totide them over until their own secretaryreturned from the West. Otherwise thesame round of household duties andparties.Snatches from Emma Wippert Pease's

letter: "It is 10.30 of a mournful drizzlymorning and I have just popped a weeRobert Louis into his ivory crib andpushed it into his room where, if thegods be propitious, he should slumberuntil 1.30 p. m. In the bathtub is asix-foot mound (or so rt seems) ofRobert's washing so the Pease Laundrymust get into operation. Upon the stovebottles are boiling right merrily and inthe double boiler his cereal is roundingout its fourth hour of cooking activity. Ishare the kitchen table with a cake ofcastile soap, a can of Zinc Stearate, atoothpick, Robert's bathtub and a puddleof water. Notwithstanding these signssomewhat distressing to the heart of aConscientious Housewife, I proceed tothe dull recital of my present activities.There is a Robert Louis, now almost 7months old. He is a most engagingcherub and is the proud owner of twosharp teeth-one in the early stages ofadolescence, the other a mere infant. Heis growing by leaps and bounds-somuch so that we can squeeze him intohis crib now with difficulty, and if hecontinues to expand, we'll have to get aroomier bed or fold him at the waist-line. The contrast between his occa-sional gusts of masculine wrath with theangrily-kicking pedal extremities andthe maidenly Gertrude petticoats is veryfunny. However, Mother must beware ofshowing amusement, for the wrath-in-flamed eyes of Sonny are keen and be-fore her eyes he turns an apoplecticmahogany. These episodes usually occurwhen his small tummy craves food. It isremarkable what a change 7Jh oz. ofmilk make! It transforroe a raging lioninto the meekest of lambs.When the first tooth sprouted through,

Aunty was summoned to view the phen-omenon, and we had to wait until 10o'clock feeding. Sonny was too sleepyto respond to anything but his bottle.We discovered that the word "Cuckoo!"accompanied by a nodding head wouldproduce a weak smile and thus display

1921 GIVES AN ACCOUNTOF ITSELF

"A year ago last July," writes MarionBedell, "I came to Washington with agirl I had met at business college. Wehunted up a pretty apartment, furnishedit ourselves, and once settled startedjob-hunting. At length I found myselfin the office of the Public Library, andto my surprise met a grrI there fromC. C.-Gertrude Craven, '2"4, who issecretary to the Assistant Librarian. Itook the only position open at the time,stenographer to the head librarian.When George Washington Universityopened its doors in the fall of 1924 MissCraven and I decided we would line up

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for tryouts for an M. A. in English. Atfirst the Graduate Committee told usthey would not accept our B.A.'s fromC. C., but before mid-years they learnedof C. Co's acceptance by the A. A. U. W.and changed their tune. I finished allthe work required for the degree at theend of the summer school in 1925 andhave been writing my thesis this winter.Miss Craven has taken her work moresanely and wisely, stretching it out fora longer period. My roommate expectsto be married in the early part of thesummer and at that time I expect tocome home. Washington summers holdno joys for me. They are terrific. Myplans for next year? I hope to go toYale and go on with my graduate workin English."Anna Mae Brazos Chalmers says, "My

days seem more than full trying to takecare of my care and 'bring up' a verypeppy 6 months old boy. Alan (AI andAn) is his name. Laura Dickinson washere a few weeks ago. She is teachingin Dover, N. J., High School, and I ex-pect Dot Wulf here in February for afew days. Jeannette Lettney Skinnerhas gone to Florida to live; she has twolittle boys. Marion Lyon Jones is backagain in New Haven."A rolling stone is what Mildred Fene-

lon calls herself although at the presentmoment she happens to be at home inYonkers. "For the past year or more Ihave been traveling. I spent last win-ter in Miami Beach amidst riotouscrowds of investors and land speculatorsand the soothing atmosphere of delight-ful bathing and tropical moonlight. InJune I sailed for Europe where I touredthrough many countr-ies until fall. Invarious places I got glimnses of C. C-ites.In the Vatican Museum I saw one mem-ber of '23 examining the beautiful tapes-tries which Raphael designed. As Iwas about to enter a small boat to makethe thrilling entrance into the BlueGrotto near the island of Capri, anotherC. C. girl confronted me. One eveningin the early part of August, I got justa fleeting sight of Dean Nye and MissErnst as I passed one of the stationsalong the Grand Canal in Venice. Inanswer to Dot's question 'How do I likeit?' my answer is 'Immensely'!"Pat Flaherty wishes to inform the

Alumnae Association tnat she is "NewYork's best teacher of Romance Langu-ages, etc., etc., ad infinitum." She isthe same jolly Anna, spending her hard-earned money chiefly going to theatres,and occasionally to Hunter.Charlotte Hall's letter seems to be

a travelogue: "To begin with I camewest in August by train as far as Den-ver and then by automobile with mybrother and his wife the rest of the way.We made a rather speedy trip and had

various experiences, SUCll as a torrentialrain on the desert in Utah. Another daywe drove up into some of the hills ofUtah into the worst hailstorm I was everin. There wasn't much more excitementafter that but plenty of monotonous drycountry which is the specialty of partsof Utah and most of the state of Nevadauntil we climbed the eastern side of theSierra Nevada Mountains over TiogaPass and slid down into Yosemite Parkwhere we spent a peaceful lazy Sunday.California greeted us warmly with oneof the hot days of the season as we drovesouth to Claremont. We drove an nighton that trip just to get out of as muchheat as possible."Since that trip I have been right

here in Claremont, some 35 miles eastof Los Angeles, except for a few daysin San Diego in September and a fewdays at a big cattle home ranch of theman who leases the whole of one of theold Spanish grants, some 46,000 acres, torun cattle on. He doesn't even breedthem, but buys yearlings from Arizona,ships them in, and then keeps them ayear or two to grow up and fatten onthe grass in the natural pasture. Thecattle guards are interesting Easterners.They run a fence down to the road onboth sides, but in the roadway itself theydig a trench a foot or so deep and acouple of feet wide and on the levelwiththe road set in bars possible five inchesapart. A cow would step down betweenthe bars and be caught so they don'tever try it. I should think a cowwithenterprise could jump it, for a horse doesit easily, without thinking about it, butapparently none ever try it."Probably you wonder why it is that

I came West, leaving a perfectly goodfamily and job behind. 'I'here [is 'areason, of course, and you may know itis a masculine one. His name is HomerHopkins Holton and our engagement hasbeen announced for some time. He is achemist in the employ of the HollywoodChemical Company, so presumably weshall live in that wicked but lovely part ofLos Angeles, before another year rollsaround. I live with my aunt, do a greatdeal of sewing, and indulge in the socialactivities of a pleasant college town.The only fly in the ointment is that Ihaven't seen a C. C. person since I leftColorado, where I spent some time withLouise Ansley Knapp before she left forthe east."- Another Californian, Jennie Hippolitus,is interning at the St. Francis Hospitalin San Francisco. "I left N. Y. June 25,on the Finland for my first boat trip,18 days. I was alone, going thousandsof miles away from home to a strangeland. It didn't take me long to get ac-quainted, however, and before long all

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the passengers were like one big family.Our first call was at Havana, a newworld of color and romance with housesof soft pink and blue, narrow picturesquebusiness streets, cathedrals, hotelsand cafes. The g-reatest thrill was yetto come-our passage through the Pana-rna Canal. It took us eight hours to gothrough and it was fiendishly hot. Itwas a genuine thrill to feel ourselvesbeing lifted 85 feet to sea level. At SanDiego we also stopped for several hours,as well as at Los Angeles. Arriving at SanFrancisco I was whisked to the hospitalin a taxi and found it to be a fine privateinstitution of 382 beds. I'm enjoying mywork immensely and am sorry to realizethat in a little over five months, T shallreturn East again. California is all thatone hears about, and when I do get backI shall be an ardent booster! I shalleventually practice in New Haven.Hasn't time flown? I've been so busythese last four years I haven't even hadtime to visit C. C. The Alumnae paperwill be just the thing for me!"Ruth McCollum writes: "Owing to

my father's death in December, I amhome helping my mother with the busi-ness. During the past year I had beenchemist in the medical department ofthe Prudential Insurance Co., at theHome Office in Newark, N, J. Ella isdoing research work in nutrition atTeachers' College, working under thedirection of Dr. Mary S. Rose, expert innutrition, and author of several well-known textbooks. Gladys Beebe wasmarried to Fred Millard on October 5,and they are living in Philadelphia,where Fred is an electrical engineer fora telephone company."Dottie Wulf is teachmg physical edu-

cation at Drew Seminary, where thereare 125 girls. But Dottie's chief aver-sion is the task of getting out in theearly morn for setting up exercises. Re-minds me of camp! She writes thatLavinia Hull is teaching physical educa-tion at Wallcourt, Aurora, N. Y.Dorothy Pryde, after reading the first

issue of the "Alumnae News", decided toall costs to help the cause along and sohere she is: "Am still teaching mathe-matics in New Haven School and likethe job as much as ever. Just to keepme out of mischief I Cr.) a little volun-teer social service work on the side andam being educated along court proced-ure and institutional homes. Beinggiven some problem girls in school thisyear to look after, I realize more andmore the necessity of teachers and socialworkers being fitted into each other'sviews. Summer before 'last I spentpartly in viewing Canada via canoe.Last summer I spent some time inMichigan. Hope to go again soon to

Europe. The most burning questionwith me at present is: Which is moreeconomical, a Ford or a Chevrolet?" Cananyone help Dottie out?Another who was prodded into gener-

ous response is Al Purtill, who writesfrom St. Petersburg: "We have beenhaving an awfully cold winter and at onetime hadn't been able to get any woodin town for three weeks and finally thecity gas supply practically gave out.It's great now and we were in swimmingin the Gulf today. Esther Lanterman,ex-'23, is here. Virginia Niemeyer Mar-ing, ex-'24, who has been living heremoved to Hartford last summer. Shehas an adorable baby boy. Before Icame down in November I spent a week-end with Flaherty in New York, and sheshowed me the town in her true form.Had dinner a couple of times withDorothy Hubbard Dowlin, '23, who isstill blissfully happy and 'working forHelen Barkerding's husband. Also- sawEvelyn Gray Talmage and just missedAmy Hilker. Harriet Bynon is workingas secretary at the Connecticut Generalin Hartford, with a European trip hermost immediate objective. She andGladys Smith, ex-'22, have a most attrac-tive apartment at 125 Washington Street.Harriet and I saw Lovie in New Londonlast summer, and if you really wantnews of Alumnae you ought to interviewLovie. She was a veritable encyclopedia.Met Bub Forst in Middletown and she

was talking of going in the Home MadeMayonnaise business. She was veryslim and looked great. You've probablyheard that Chris Pickett has announcedher engagement. I'm living herewinters with my Dad and in Middletownwhen we're North. I'm still only ableto eat one square meal a month withoutgaining ten pounds. Everyone here isso busy making money and having agood time that time flies, though oftenI feel it's quite a futile life. I'm anxiousto get North. Harriet and I are plan-ning to spend a week-end with Jeannetteand then there'll be Re-union in June.I'm going to Cuba next week so I'll havean opportunity to e-ealize how littleSpanish I know."

1924'S SHIP A-SAILINGMartha Bolles is teaching in a junior

high school in Plainfield, N. J., whichshe says "allows for many more freehours than an office position in theMetropolitan Museum of Art. And myfree time allows me to make a weeklypilgrimage back there to study muchthat I saw in that marble pile whererests some of the world's great treas-ures."

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Peg Call says: "While pursuing lan-guage positions, I feU into an opportun-ity to substitute teaching French atWestern High School ror 10 days. Ijumped at the chance and, much to mysurprise, was reappointed for. the restof the semester. I'm not crazy aboutteaching as such, but it's experience. Ilanded on these shores the last of Sep-tember after 14 months abroad, andworked with the conference, in Washing-ton at the Capitol, of the Interparlia-mentary Union, acting as head of theFrench interpreting at the InformationBureau. That quite spoiled me, for Igot $10 a day, and it was wonderfullyinteresting. Saw Pinky Stiles in a teashop a couple of weeks ago when MinnaGardner and I were there. Pinky isworking with some girls' hotel in town.Merry is here, too, working at thePagoda, mending tapestries, etc. SawJessie Bigelow just after she returnedhome. Minna stopped off here for anight with her aunt on their way motor-ing to Florida.""I still have the same old job, with the

Western Electric Co., in the PurchasingDepartment," writes Janet Crawford."I am living in New York this winterwith Sally and a friend from Smith. OnFebruary 1, or whenever the EndowmentCampaign is ended, Helen Hemingway iscoming down to live with us."Gladys Forster is teaching Algebra

and Latin in Somerset, lust across theriver from Fall River, Mass. She hasbobbed her hair and finds teachingstrenuous but enjoyable.""When all of the old world and New

England were made, God flattened outthe leavings into Illinois, 500 miles longand 200 wide and 3 feet deep," writesKay Hamblet unflatteringly. "In themiddle is Jacksonville, of 18,000 popula-tion. Illinois Woman's College is aMethodist school of about 350 girls, nicebunch. Am crazy about the position,but not about the town. There are threeof us in the department, and I havecharge of swimming, athletics and an-atomy. The gym and pool are great, thegirls most enthusiastic and even thoughnearly half of them have never swum astroke they are coming and hopeful.Mike, my sister, and I leave for Europethe second week in June. Haven't donea thing to put in the 'News' like gettingmarried, engaged or divorced. There'snot a man in the state, it's all corn andsky and until Christmas, was eternalrain!"Betty Hollister is at Teachers' College

working for an M.A. in the School ofEducation, in preparation for the furtherteaching of Natural Sctences.From Glo. Hollister: "I am oscillating

between Suffern and N. Y. C. At Suf-

fern I captain a full scout troop of 32super-energetic girls. Field hockey wasintroduced this last fall. My troop wasthe first one to take ep hockey. Atthe farm I am raiaing and showingprrze poultry and Persian cats. Here inthe city I am becoming acquainted withmy family, studying and doing volun-teer Scout Executive Service."The following news was gleaned from

many letters: "Madeleine Foster is en-gaged to Charles Couhlin, Jr., and is tobe married perhaps in June. Ellen Me-Candless Britton, who is living in MiamiBeach, was married rast September.Ginnie Eggleston is at Yale UniversityDramatic School, enjoying it and mixingwith people of high account in the dra-matic field. Helen Forst is being suc-cessful at social work in Middletown, andit is rumored that as a side line shemight sell mayonnaise. Neal is teachingHistory and English, I believe, at OceanGrove. Evelyn Ryan is living in Cali-fornia, either studying or playing. KayMoss is in New York looking for a job."I'm quite happy working at 'Good

Housekeeping' magazine, nominally assecretary to Helen Kouer, an associateeditor, which really means I am anassistant in the Fashion and InteriorDecorating Departments," writes ElinorHunken.Edith Langenbacher teaches history

and also drawing in the junior and seniorhigh schools in Madison, N. J.Another school teacher is Mickey Law-

son, who teaches Mathematics and Sci-ence in Hitchcock Academy, Brimfield,Mass. "I just love teaching which keepsme busy along with being guardian-of aCamp Fire.""I'm still with the Connecticut Chil-

dren's Aid Society here in Hartford assecretary in the publicity end of thework," writes Doris Miner, "and I likeit a lot. I'm going to be married sometime next year, no definite date as yet.Engagement was announced last year.His name is Frank Stockert and he isfrom Torrington."Betty McDougall says she went over

to England with a Student Third Classgroup but came back steerage, taggedand labelled like all the rest of the immi-grants. "We enjoyed both crossingsequally. Since that first summer I havebeen at home, kept very busy becauseof my mother's long illness. This lastsummer I went to Nova Scotia for a fewweeks. The coast is much like the Mainecoast : and the people are quite NewEngland, though in places whole com-munities still speak French and othershold services in old Gaelic."Kay Slater broadcasting: HI am still

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tempting to teach everything from gymto sewing, hal hal This latter ac-complishment is due to a past room-mate known as Jane."Gladys Westerman Greene is living at

162 Maple St., Danvers, Mass., and isenjoying the young housewife's exist-ence.Gertrude F. H. Blank writes that the

only thorns among her matrimonialroses are dishes, and likens them to out-side readings. As to her major, shesays: "My spirit, though, sings a never-ending Hallelujah for the coming to passof my major. There is a fulfillment in-life and a soul satisfying contentmentthat are possibly only in a real mar-riage.".Amy Hilker is teaching this year in

Patchogue, L. I. She says: "It is arelief to like it after the way I hatedmy other teaching job last year. Ofcourse, living at home makes a differ-ence. The children are graded accord-ing to intelligence. The A classes keepyou on your toes contmually, the boysespecially are very clever and free fromself consciousness, so that there is muchrepartee. I played some basketball andrefereed quite a bit--everything takentogether makes of life a more pleasantthing than it has been since I left thehilltop."Catts Holmes, secretary of the class,

writes: "December 4 I graduated fromthe year and a half course at the BostonSchool of Occupational Therapy. Thework had consisted of groundwork intwo or three dozen kinds of handcraft,such as weaving, basketry,' modelling,and leatherwork, lectures in abnormalpsychology, anatomy, mental and ortho-pedic diseases, and we had some ex-perience in settlement work. This fallwas filled by field work at various typesof hospitals-c-applying crafts to suit theparticular needs of the patients, as pre-scribed by the physicians. It soundstechnical, I know, but is in reality vastlyabsorbing and fascinating, for it isalways the human problem, and no twoclasses are alike. I expected to look fora position as therapist in a nearbyhospital, but since living at home for thefirst time in five and a half years, Ithink now it is best to 'major' in stand-ing by the family for a while, as neitherof my parents are well. 'Minors' includechauffeuring, marketing, learning theart of sweet domesticity, and renewingacquaintance with my friends."Barbara Kent announced her engage-

ment to Harold Kepner this December,and plans to be married this July. Theywill live in Troy, where Mr. Kepner isinstructing at the Polytechnic Institute.

ANN CHERKASKY, '19,CROSSES MER DE GLACE

Perhaps one of the most thrilling talesbrought back from the other side is thatof Ann Cherkasky,'19, teacher of romancelanguages at Washburn College. Kansas.While on a tour of the French provinceswith a party of friends, Miss Cherkaskyarrived at Chamonix and determinedto cross the famous Mer de Glace, or seaof ice, which tops Mt. Montenvers. De-spite the protests of the hotel ownersand guests because of the dangers in-volved, she procured a guide and startedout early in the morning with the ex-pectation of arriving back at the hotelbetween four and five in the afternoon.During the summer those who attempt

the trip ~t a.ll are taken up the mountainIII a tram III about ten minutes fromwhich elevation they gaze at, rath~r thanattempt to cross. the vast expanse of ice"It took us about three and a half hour~of steep uphill climbing over mountainpasses none too wide and covered withice and snow to reach the chalet at thetop where 'we rested and lunched," saidAnn."The Mer de Glace consists of great

blocks of ice, and my spiked shoes andalpine stick kept me from slipping intothe icy waters as I jumped from blockto block. Often my guide would hew astep for me on a particularly jaggedpiece of ice. His oft-repeated 'Ca ne~isque rien' (There is no risk) wouldImpel me forward at times when I hesi-tated before taking a particularly haz-ardous leap."But if climbing the mountain has

seemed never-ending and crossing the icedangerous, the descent of the mountainproved infinitely worse than either orboth of these combined. I had to facevast chasms of depth, and the chancesof slipping and falling were numerous.On the very narrowest ledges there wasan insecure railing, but on those a bitwider, nothing but terrifying space.Here the ICa ne risque rien' formulafailed to re-assure me."The guide would tie a rope to the end

of the railing! advance as far as the ropeextended, walt for me to reach him byusing .the rope as a railing, go back,untie It and return to me. It was slowwork and nerve-racking. I breathed asilent prayer of thanks when I reachedthe forest that lay at the foot of ·themountain. and even my hardened guidebreathed a sigh of relief.

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"His relief was shor-t-lived. The de-scent had taken so much longer than theguide had bargained for, that night camewith a disconcerting suddenness as weentered the forest. It was a night soblack and so dense that I had to hold theguide's hand in order to be able to fol-low him at all. By this time I was verytired and cold and not a little frightened.So it didn't help matters much when theguide lost his way. After what seemedan eternity of wandering we at lastreached the little station just three milesfrom Chamonix where a train would takeus the rest of the way in a few minutes."I thought I had run the gamut of

emotions during the day, but imaginemy distress when I learned we had miss-ed the last train! I felt that three mileswere an impossibility, another mountain.How 1 managed them, 1 don't know. Iwas numb now with fatigue and cold, andhardly remember my arrival at the Hoteldes Etrangers."I do know that shortly after I found

myself in bed with blankets heaped uponme and whiskey and hot drinks beingforced down my throat. It had beenfeared at the hotel that darkness hadovercome us and that we had perishedon the mountain. I was mighty thankfulthat I had come through safely, but im-agine my thankfulness," Ann continued,laughing at the recollection, "when themistress of the hotel came to my roomand asked in the greatest agitation howmy guide had behaved. Of course I saidhe had been splendid, and to my horrorshe told me he had a reputation of thegreat blackguard in Chamonix and hadbeen arrested several times for attackingwomen!"But a good story was spoilt, she has-

tened to assure us, when on the next dayit proved to be a case of mistaken iden-tity.Ann spent most of her seven months

abroad in Paris, studying French man-ners and customs, as well as taking theusual Caul's de Vacances at the Sor-bonne, where most of the foreign pursuetheir studies. One of the things thatimpressed her was the custom of tippingat the theatres. Although the price ofadmission is cheaper than over here, theultimate cost perhaps amounts to thesame thing. One buys a program onentering and tips the usher selling them.Should you by any chance forget to tipthe usher escorting you to your seat, hewill put out his hand and remind you"Une petite benefice pour moi." How-ever, these ushers are often employedwithout salary and are obliged to liveon their tips. The' French people urgeAmericans not to tip too lavishly, as itmakes it rather hard for the average

THE ONLOOKER AT C. C.Just strolling around campus is a de-

light these days. The roads are walk-able, there are many walks where thereused to be knee-deep mud, lawns looklike lawns, the girls look like so manyyoung boys with effeminate swaggers.And then, of course, there are the olddelights like the distant view of thespot where the river and sound join, thedeep blue of the Thames, the submarinebase at night.Week-ends there are usually a few

alumnae to be seen. And one gleansmuch news. For instance, we heardthat Jessie Bigelow is engaged. Re-member the professor who visited herlong ago at C. C.? That's the one. RaeSmith was seen during Alumnae Week-endt Iooking as chic as ever with a be-coming close shingle bob. And MaryHester Camp was also present withher erstwhile bob tucked under a net,and also looking excellent. It seems that

Frenchman whose pocket is meagre."There is a slight but gradual change

taking place in the life of the Frenchgirl since the war," she declared, as forseveral months she had boarded with atypical French family. "A French girlis usually carefully guarded at home andnever allowed to go out with a man.During the winter the French mothersgive two or three salon dances in theirown homes, and in this way the girls be-come acquainted with those whom theirmothers consider eligible men. But nowsome French girls are taking the libertyof going to theatres with men whom theyhave met in their homes and have knownfor some time. One of my friends saidto me, 'We criticize you Americans, butwe want to do. as you do.'"This same gradual change is also to

be seen in their clothes. Until very re-cently a French girl never wore sportclothes. They were considered very uglyand unfeminine and public opinion wasagainst them. However, I saw manyFrench girls wearing sport clothes of themodified type. They will never dress asthe English, it is true, nor wear flatheels, but they are coming to a stagewhere sport clothes are not considered im-possible. Perhaps their admiration forLenglen and Wills is helping this along,"

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Emily Slaymaker Leith-Ross has recent-ly arrived from a trip abroad. Her hus-band is an artist and quite successful inhis line of endeavor, what that is, wedon't know. From report it also seemsthat Emily met him at Woodstock whereshe was supposed to be studying art, butnot with a capital A, as she wanderedthrough the delightful woods in the de-lightful company of her present hus-band, and within the short time of oneweek, it was decided. Mrs. Slaymakerhastened to the scene and promptly fellin love with the gentleman herself,whereupon Father was called, and amarriage ensued. Very romantic wecalls it.Eleanor Thielen Wunch is spending

the winter and perhaps the summer inPortsmouth, New Hampshire. LouiseLee has added an appendix to the list ofher grievances which have lasted forover a year. She had it out recently inNew York City and is recuperating atRuth Wells' home in White Plains. An-other victim is Alice Hagar, but she isnow back on the job in Reading, Pa.We wandered into the Art Department

to see Miss Sherer who is as nice as ever,and who showed us some lovely prob-terns her students were doing in Colon-ial interior decorating. The work of thedepartment is developing splendidly andalthough her classes call the. old-timerslike Bobby Newton, Rae Smith, LouiseFish, Abby Gallup and others, the Im-mortals, yet Miss Sherer says they aredoing work that even Immortals shouldenvy. We like the Art Department because the girls seem to enjoy their learn-ing like the students at 'I'oulouse towhom Miss Nye says learning IS achief delight. And another reason welike the department is because it is oneof the places where the good. works. you do live after you. Even If youmanaged but one chef d'oeuvre, you liveby it. Miss Sherer saves the best ofeach problem from each class and usesis as a model when introducing thatsame problem to another class. That'sa complicated way of sayrng it, but youknow what we mean. While if you man-aged a difficult problem in calculus, orknew enough French to argue wittilywith Miss Ernst, or got more than oneA with Dr. Wells, who knows? Yes, welike the Art Department!Another place we always wander. into

is the office which houses the MIssesWright. A little chat with them alwaystouches the right spot. They are socompetent, so steady, and have such asane point of view of the affaIrs. ofcampus and general affairs. We WIshstudents knew the value of a little chatwith the Misses Wright.

Dr. Wells' classes look like youngstadium meets these days. He hasabandoned the famous English room inNew London Hall for more spaciousquarters in the Library. There is agreat deal of commotion about theamount of work he is giving this year,which we understand is no more than atother years. We lived through it com-fortably with no more than an occasionalgrunt when life seemed full, but on thewhole comfortably! It is a cry thatseems to rend the air every year, but wewonder why it is causing so much stirthis year. Can it be, oh, can it be, thatthe cream of the schools seeking highereducation at C. C. are not as capable aswe were? Perish the thought, but thereit is 1We think undergraduates lose so much

because in most cases awe preventsthem from really enjoying a good talkwith a favorite teacher or two. In somecases it is awe, in others embarrassment,but the results are the same. Miss Nyeis one of our favorite conversationalists,She is always interesting, always up tothe minute, always informed about theAlumnae and genuinely interested inthem, and never allows a pause in theconversation that will prove embarrass-ing. And of course our next candidateto the Hall of Fame is Miss Ernst. Herconversation flows in, through, and allaround you, and her sense of humor justmakes you forget you are student andteacher, that perhaps once she flunkedyou. She is writing a book now, wethink a historical novel, although we arenot quite sure. We hope she won'tmake it too serious for us and that hernatural wit and humor will be allowedto seep through its pages.

We often wonder how President Mar-shall does it. How he can welcomeeach returning alumna by her rightname and an appropriate greeting foreach. It makes one feel "to home" andgives a week-end "that touch you love."Agnes Leahy was not present during

Alumnae Week - end, as she attended aconference in Washington.

Judy Warner lost her voice at the cru-cial moment and at the Alumnae Lunch-eon could not lead the Alma Mater. Sheasked Chippy Morris, who has a beauti-ful voice, to lead it and poor Chippycould not recall it, but after a fewagonizing moments, her voice lifted intriumph and all went well.

Edith Sheridan Bady (we are not surejust how her name is spelled), an ex-member of the class of '21, was presentat the luncheon with her husband. LesAlderman was another visitor on campusthis week-end.

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OUR FACULTY TELL ATOURISTS'TALE

PALESTINE AND SYRIA.

After leaving Cairo toward the lateafternoon, we reach Kantara West aboutnine in the evening. A confused scurryof porters, a shadowy ferry crossing thestill more shadowy canal, a hasty ex-amination of passports, and we find ourplaces in the sleeping-car for Jerusalem.Next morning, the wilderness ofSouthern Judea; a land of grey rockyhills and valleys, the peculiarly clearblue sky of the Mediterranean countries,brilliant flashes of scarlet anemones andglimpses of delicate pink or white cycla-men, as now and then the train movesmore slowly.The first day in Jerusalem, which for

us includes the Church of the HolySepulchre, Bethlehem, and a panoramicview from the Mount of Olives, is almoststaggering in its impressiveness. J eru-salem, a city holy to the Moslem, theChristian, and' the Jew; we see the Arabkneeling in prayer till his foreheadtouches the cold stone of the pavement,the Catholic devoutly bending to kissthe golden star in the crypt of the Nativ-ity. and what does it all say? Thisword: How rich are they who have, howpoor are they who lack, a living fa~th!The site of ancient Jericho, the RIver

Jordan, the Dead Sea, and the eveningand the morning are a second day.Great beauty is there in the soft sky, theoutline of the dimpling slopes that seemas though freshly molded by the fingersof a mighty hand, the gleaming sheet ofsapphire silvered, and on the furtherside dim in mist, the hills of the land ofM,oa'b. Day follows day, and the interestdeepens .. The quiet brotners and sistersof the Christian community where welive, and the simplicity of their-.unselfishlives, the eager 'young ZIOnIst 'fromwhom we learn of college men andwomen rejoicing to live in tents withonly the barest necessities in order. tohelp in the difficult 'York of ~08:d-bUlld-ing as their share III 'reclaiming thehome of their fathers; we thrill to findit still the land of the Crusader.Bethany, Samaria, Mt. Carmel, Nazar-

eth, Tiberias-and from a Roman ruinwe are watching the sunset colors onGalilee! Next morning driving north-ward again, past flowers in astonishingprofusion, red, white, rose, lavender,deep blue, yellow , , . Here we touch theold old caravan route connecting thevaIiey of the Nile with the valleys ofthe Tigris and Euphrates. By this wayperhaps passed Abraham, with his flocks

THE PICTURE PAGEI-Freshman in 1915.

2-Freshman in 1926.

3-Robert Mills Murphy. I-year old sonof Marguerite Mills Murphy, '22,

4-Jane Emily Coulter. I-year old daugh-ter of Evelyn Bitgood Coulter. ·19.

5-Mrs. Edna Blue Tonks and I-year olddaughter, Mary Lew.

6--1920's Freshman Party.

and herds when he came out from Dr ofthe Chaldees. Here we realize that thiscountry has always been and is still "theland-link of history's chain", the hubwhose spokes may reach to the ends ofthree continents. Again, later, comesthis realization at the mouth of DogRiver, near Beirut, on the ancient roadwhich has conveyed the hosts of Phoen-icia, Egypt, Persia, Babylon, Greece,Rome, Western Europe, Turkey andDamascus, to battle, and whose rockywall still bears inscriptions cut for theconquerors from Egyptian Pharaohs tothe marshals of France.On a height overlooking the head-

waters of the Jordan and their tiny bluelake, with the perpetual snows of Mt.Hermon before us, we share our lunch-eon with the friendly Arabs who havebrought us a clay jar of cold springwater.In the days of good Haroun al Raschid

there was a poor wood-cutter who, axe onshoulder, drove his patient little donkeyback to the city at night, while hiswealthier neighbors watched their longtrains of camels. towering with burdensmountain-high. kneel groaning and snarl-ing. that their bonds might be loosenedby the servants and the logs and faggotsroll off in the dark-arched courtyards.So it was in the days of long ago-orwas it yesterday? Damascus, the oldestcity in the world, "old when Memphis,Nineveh and Babylon were infant settle-ments", is unchanged. 'We saw thedonkeys, the camels, the wood-cutters atnightfalL We walked through the greatKahns and saw the dusty merchants, ofwhom we read in our childhood, at theirbargaining. We heard the Muezzin farabove our heads intone the four-fold call

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to prayer. We climbed the hill ofSalahiyeh and looked down upon thepearly city, watered by the Barada whichsupplies the orchards and gardensspreading around it on every side. Fromthis height it was that Mohammed,gazing upon the "eye of the east", ex-claimed that as there is for man but oneParadise he would not enter Damascus.Very early on the last morning we saw

the delicate skyline of swelling domesand slender minarets against the fierysky at sunrise. No; we, at least, werenot among the tourists who were "dis-appointed in Damascus."Then Baalbek, the "city of the sun",

lifting its amber shafts to dizzy heightswhere the eye can scarcely bear to fol-low, Baalbek the tremendous-c-first builtby Cain and peopled, so they say, bygiants-Baalbek, too, became ours.Later its circuit of snowy mountainsopened to give us passage, and as ourcar wound down the slopes of Lebanontoward the beautiful harbor of Beirut,we came slowly back to the life ofmodern times.

IRENE NYE.• •

FROM THE AEGEAN TO THEBLACK SEA.

The aim, Constantinople; two roadsconverging, one (taken by Miss Nye )starting at Beirut; one (taken by me)at Port Said. Two ships, one sailingpast Cyprus, Rhodes, Patmoe, Samosand Chiqs, the other coasting alongCrete and threading its way through theenchanting Cyclades; both passing Les-bos "where burning Sappho loved andsung," and by special favor of the gods,entering the harbor of Smyrna together.Here the first flavor of Turkey-Turkishcaiques cushioned with rugs appear anddisappear leaving behind the suggestionof heavy veils, or of pale faces, ivory-hued, large black eyes under heavy blackhair. Then in a single course up throughthe Dardanelles, passing the site of Troyand Gallipoli, crossing the sea of Mar-mora, until beyond the villages of SanStefano and Macri-Keui begin to rise thecupolas and towering- m-narets of Stam-boul. Constantinople lies before us in anideal vision. The Golden Horn shinesin a luminous haze. The immense cityseems as if descending from the sky.In the pure ether the domes of the in-numerable silent mosques guarded byslender lances profile their curves.Thousands of ships, of barques; a never-ceasing agitation, all the tongues of theeast and of the west, all blend to com-pose a matchless Oriental dream.The poets say that the courageous

traveler should go no further, but carry

home the unspoiled memory. Today,especially, that Stamboul is crumblingto pieces, there is some truth in thestatement. But are we ready to wipeaway the romantic picture of the Turk-ish town at night, black and gold behindthe water, seen from the heights of Pera,with the tall cypresses of an abandonedgraveyard in the foreground? Bocklinhas not suggested even In his "Island ofthe Dead", anything like It. Would weforego the memory of the old windingTurkish streets with their overhanginglatticed windows and their secrecy? Orvisit to the mosques and their treasures,or the strolls in old cemeteries and to theburial-places of Sultans, Vizirs andBeys? No, and, above all, we would notgive up the ride on the Golden Hornwhich took us to Eyoub .... Eyoub,where Azyade lies buried, where thewhole and the smallest «etail annearedto us "d'une turquerie dehcreuse." Nota single tourist besides ourselves. Inthe middle of the marketplace, century-old sycamores lift their huge twistedtrunks. High up in their branches adozen storks soar above their nests.Round a few turbaned heads, flocks ofdoves circle. The perfume merchantsmiles engagingly. Stand after standoffers its goods. amber, beads, amulets,sweets. It is Friday. The mosque isfull of adoring faithful, and, shod withbabouches, we steal in to behold thepicturesque gathering. On one side ofthe court smaller halls for prayer arebuilt, and, with their heavy rugs andtheir kneeling figures visible from theoutside. they attract with the force of amysterious magnet. But the guard atthe door is adamant, and firmly shakeshis head in negation.Later there is the wonderful ride along-

the Bosphorus to the Black Sea in thesunset and the vapors of the evening.with the air full of reminiscences of Lotiand Farrere, with glimpses of the Ameri-can colleges on the romantic hills. TheBlack Sea, glorious in the sunshine andthe cold breeze, the coasts of Bulgariaand Roumania. a day spent at Constanaa.so near the site of Tomi, whither Ovidwas exiled; then the return, bringing usbefore noon to the entrance of the straits,displaying a new Bosnhorus, fascinating',so varied in aspects that we forget timein the contemplation of its two splendidshores. And today, the approach toConstantinople finds us wiser. Galata,Pera, Stamboul, Scutari, the Isles of thePrinces, are our friends, and we can callthe numerous mosques, the towers, thecastles by name. It seems that we arelosing much, very much. when they alldisappear upon the horizon.

CAROLA LEONIE ERNST.

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WE HEAR FROM FORMER TEACHERSOne of the most popular instructors at

C, C. was Miss Nann Clark Barr, whotaught English and Psychology in1915-17. Many of 1919 and 1920 will re-member her. She is now Mrs. ArthurBenton Mavity, whom she married De-cember 25, 1917, and has two children,Nancy, born in 1919, and John, born in1921. Mr. Mavity is connected withHenry Holt and Co., publishers, in NewYork.Mrs. Mavity was literary editor of the

"San Francisco Chronicle" from 1919 to1924. In 1924 she was sent by the "Bun-set Magazine" on a trip around thePacific, New Zealand, Australia, DutchEast Indies, Singapore, China, Philip-pines; and Japan to write a series ofarticles partly of observatton on socialand political life, partly of personal ad-venture. These articles appeared in thatmagazine from November, 1924, toAugust, 1925. Now she is editorial andfeature writer for the Oakland "Tribune."She has also contributed to magazinesand is the author 'of "A Dinner ofHerbs", "Hazard", and (in collaborationwith A. B. Mavity) "Responsible Citizen-ship." Another activity which demon-strates Mrs. Mavity's interest in thepolitics of her country is her position aschairman of the Authors' Council of theNational Woman's Party, CaliforniaBranch. • •This is probably one of the most pleas-

ant surprises that the Alumnae will re-ceive in these issues-a real, honeat-to-goodness letter from the erstwhile favor-ite "Miss Blue", now Mrs. 'Lewi Tonksof Scotia, New York:II 'Alumnae News' is deadly enough

stuff until it is that of your own pet palsand pet places. The work of this house-hold stood steele still in its tracks, theinhabitants tiptoed about and withhushed voices whispered to each otherthat 'Mommy is reading!' as 'Mommy'leaned on the snow shovel, and, in verynearly zero weather, consumed the in-formation about 'who married who';Miss Nve's nice new house; the horsesand guns on the Hilltop. It was allgood."I've always thought that just living

was a jolly business, and I am inclined toagree with myself more and more asevents slip along and pile up behind me.The fun with me has arranged itselfalong these lines-a job at C. C. withthe finest sort of folks to work withand for; another of infinite variety andvery close to humans in New York city;a delightful and rarely fine friend for a

husband, and a trip with him throughthe Old World with which to start lifetogether, (I suggest it as an excellentway of beginning); a bungalow withjust sufficient bulge to always allowroom for one more fr-iend, incidentlyalways bulging; enough ground to growenough food to put on winter shelves anda tennis court in the offing; the 'broadMohawk' a few hundred feet away infront with hills on the other side, just abit like C. C.; an old ark of a bus withamazing power and speed and built withthe bungalow bulge. AND-you see weare not original-a husky small toughnamed 'Mary Lewellen' who rolls downthe terraces, especially in snow, and in-dulges in such astounding activities foreighteen months that we derive the mostsatisfaction out of a moving picturecamera, which we regulate to a slowshow afterwards so as- to be able to seewhat really did happen. Mary-Lew'srunning mate will probably have ar-r-ived by the time the next 'News' an-pears. We are disposed towards girlsfrom past experiences, but March 17would be an excellent day for a 'Mickey'to come."Is it surprising that life should seem

so jolly to me? But 'The proof of tb-ipudding, etc., etc.,' and so we'll pretendthat the 'News' is WGY and through itwe broadcast an invitation to come eatwith us. If you go east or west bvmotor you must needs pass 520 MohawkAvenue in Scotia, N. Y., Just outside ofSchenectady. " ••This is also from Miss Blu-c-I mean.

Mrs. Tonks' dashing pen: "About BerylSawyer Appleton at Verona, New Jer-sey-I only know that I had a delight-ful Christmas gift, and that she posses-ses two mighty fine looking sons, Her-bert, Jr., and Don, who is younger-thenearest thing I heard about 'em waslong ago when 'Don couldn't walk andHerbert crept!' Perhaps this summerDr. Tonks (the scientist kind) andfamily will go caravaning in the oldark and pick up broken threads thatlead back to old friends."

• •Marjorie Barstow Greenbie taught

English at C. C. in 1916-17, and is aformer favorite of many alumnae."Since leaving C. C. I have been an

editor, writer and sometimes even apoet! I have traveled around the world,and in Mexico, have married SydneyGr-eenbie, an author and lecturer, andhave two children, a tall little yellow-

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haired son, aged six, named Barstow, orBar-rie for short, and a curly-haired littledaughter of four named Alison.I am at present Director of the Press

Bureau at Mount Holyoke College, and amember of the faculty of English. Ilive in an old house which has alwaysbeen inhabited by faculty on the edge ofthe Mount Holyoke campus in the middleof the college apple orchards and aroundthe corner from the college swimmingpool. I belong to the Town Hall Clubin New York, and my husband belongsto the National Arts Club, and thesetwo hospitable centers serve as NewYork homes for us on our frequentvisits to the city, and as permanent NewYork City addresses."About my journey around the world

I wrote a frivolous and girlish volumecalled 'In the Eyes of the East,' of whichI enclose a circular. My husband and Ihave just published a book together, ofwhich I also enclose a circular, called'Gold of Ophir.' Last winter the RiderPress of New York published informallya small sheaf of my verses called'Ashes of Roses.' The edition has runout, however, so that all there is leftare a few copies in my hands which Tsell off for a small price. I hope toissue more verses and a novel shortly, ifT ever find time to get them in orderfor publication.

"I gladly send greetings to the girlsI knew at C. C. by name or sight. Ihave heard from Alison Hastings withpleasure, though T never answered be-cause I lost her address and marriedname. I have seen Marion Warner, andhave always been in touch with RuthBarber. I'd love to know what happenedto Mary Strange and 'Tommy' Morris.And there are many others I should beglad to hear from."••Miss Helen B. Thompson, who taught

dietetics from 1915 to 1920 at C. C., andwhose present address is 4272 RosewoodAvenue, Los Angeles, Calif., writes asfollows:"In returning to the west I was happy

to be called to the institution in which Ihad studied as an undergraduate and inwhich I had begun both my graduatestudy and my teaching. After the firstyear I had Ruth Trail and Marion Will-iams with me as assistants in the De-nartment of Food and Nutrition. MissWilliams did not stay through thesecond year because of illness in herhome, but Miss Trail stayed to earn aninstructorship, a master's degree and anassistant professorship before going toanother college and then to Alaska toget married. It was very pleasant tohave that association with two of myformer students. During the five years

which T spent in the Kansas State Agri.cultural College as Dean or the Divisionof Home Economics, we reorganizedmany of the courses, formed four depart-ments of instruction out of the threewhich had previously made up that divi-sion of the college and built up an inter-est in graduate study."I had the pleasure of returning to

New England in the winter of 1922-23as a member of the fact-finding group,appointed by the U. S. Bureau of Educa-tion to make a survey of the opportuni-ties and facilities for higher educationin the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.My part was to find the facts with re-gard to the education of women. (I havelong been thinking that I should like topresent the library of Connecticut Col-lege a copy of the published report ofthat survey. I shall try to do so soon.)In June, 1923, I was called to Washingtonas a member of the committee invitedby Secretary Wallace to consult withhim about plans for the organization ofthe National Bureau of Home Economicswhich was established the following fall."During my administration of the

Division of Home Economics in Kansaswe secured a building for the cafeteriawith class rooms for household econom-ics, an experimental laboratory and asmall art gallery. Last April when thecollege celebrated the anniversary of thefiftieth year of Home ~conomics, thatbuilding was named for me. I felt thatto be a very great honor, indeed, andwas sorry not to be able to attend theGolden Jubilee, particularly as honorarydegrees were granted to three of theolder women graduates. That is some-thing the co-educational schools have notyet made a practice of doing."In September, 1923, I came to my

present work in the Southern Branch ofthe University of California. The Uni-veraitv is scattered over the state withthe older part at Berkeley and the Ag-ri-cultural College divided between Berke-ley and Davis. The Southern Branch isdeveloping rapidly. It will move to anew campus and have a permanent namein two more years. I have a fine grouoof students, about two hundred eachveal', and a teaching- staff of eight mem-bers. I have bought a little home. Thehouse is covered with vines, there is apalm tree in the front yard and a rosegarden in the rear. Just now there areseveral pink roses which look very finenodding above the border of purple iris.The mocking birds are singing at sixeach morning. A little later in the year,I am sorry to say, they sing in the midd!eof the night. However, it is a pleasantsong to hear. From this work I expectto retire some time to a little countryplace where I can read and write and

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CONNECTICUT COLLEGE SECONDGEKERATION.

1919.Bitgood, Evelyn (MI's. Herman M. Coulter)-Jane

Emily Coulter, December 24, 1924.Bradley, Ethel (Mrs. Frank L. F'irtb j-c-Chai-les

B. Firth, July 21, 1\)23.Chipman, Mary A. {Mrs , Fvank E. Morris)-

Marilyn Morris, June, 1920; Jean Mor-r-is,"Mal'ch, 1925.

Dray, Madeline (MJ's. Joseph M. Kep«s)-JosephDr-ay Keoee, July 12,1923.

Gallup, Dorcas (Mrs. Merrill K. Bennett)-JohnFrancis Bennett, January 13, 1925.

Hastings, Alison (MI'S. Longshaw K. Porritt)-Nancy Mather Porr-itt, October 5, 1922.

Kugler, Amy (Mrs. Milton S. W. Wadsworth)-Barbara Cary Wadsworth, March 18, 1!l24.

Mitchell, Margaret (Mrs. Howard B. Goodrich)-Herbert Douglas Goodr-ich, June 30, 1\)23.

Provost, Mildred (Mrs. Charles MacElroy}-MaryElizabeth MacElroy, June 22, 1924.

Rogers, Marion (Mrs. Ronald R. Nelson)-LloydSteadman Nelson, March 29, 1922.

Saunders, Frances L. (Mrs. Philip Tal'bell)"':"Philip B. Tarbell, Jr., September 8, 1923.

Sawin, Jean (Mrs. Robert D. Hawley)-Barbal'aSawin Hawley, July 22, 1923.

warner, Juline (Mrs. Enos B. Comstock)-HenryB. Comstock, 15; Alfred J. Comstock, 7.

Weed, Emetta (Mrs. Walter J. Seeley)-CarolynAda Seeley, August 10, 1921; Evelyn MarySeeley, May 23, 1925.

Wells, Marion (Mrs. Orville T. Colby)-Janet W.Colby, September 25, 1923.

Wells, Jessie Hay (Mrs. Clinton Lawrence)-Clinton Charles Lawrence, September 211922; Marfor!e Jane Lawrence, February 20,1924.

1920.Carpentei-, Maud (Mrs. Cliffol'd Dustin)-Donald

Carpenter Dustin, Febr ua.ry 7, 1925.Collins, Helen (Mrs. Waldo Miner)-Nancy

Goodwin Miner, May 27, 1925.Davies, Margaret (Mrs. J. Bennett Cooper)-Mar.

garet Eynan Cooper, October- 31, 1925.Doyle, Marjorie (Mrs. Maurice Sullivan)-Maurice

William Sullivan, July 28, 1925.

mind the hens. The country all aroundLos Angeles is so beautiful that it ishard to decide upon the exact location,There are paved roads, water supply,electric lights, gas, trolley connections-all things necessary to comfort in thecountry. I hope Connecticut Collegefriends will come to see me when theyare traveling in the west."I should have included the news that

I sometimes enjoy visits in the home ofMrs. Nancy Barr Mavity, known as Dr.Barr in Connecticut College. Mrs.Mavity has two very interesting chil-dren and a fine husband, She doubtlesshas sent you word of her work and ex'-periencee. She visited me last Thanks-giving."

Hartman, Fanchon K. {Mrs. Malvin W. Title)-Samuel Hartman Title, July 14, 1925,

Hotchkiss, Arvilla {Mrs. Raymond J. 'I'it.ter-ing ton]-Raymond J. Titterington, November 30,1923 (Deceased).

Hulbert, Kathryn (Mrs. David Hnllj-c-Nancy Hall,July 15, 1925.

Lindholm, Edith (Ml·S. Raymond Baldwin)-Son.Matteson, Dorothy (Mrs. Willard C. Grsy)-WiIl·

ard C. Gray, .j r., May 17, 1923.Schwartz, Dora (Mrs. Louis Y. Gaberman)-Edith

Sykes Caberman, July 19, 1922.Seaver, Eleanor (Mrs. Reginald C. I\lassonneau)-

Robert Livingston Massonneau, Febr-uary 5,1924.

Stelle, Dorothy (Mrs. E. Wadsworth Stonc)-Wadsworth Stelle Stone, September 28, 1923.

Waller, Gr-ace (Mrs. Ross M. Preatcn j-e-Ross M.Preston, December 22, 1924.

wtoper-t, Emma (Mrs. Daniel Pease, Jr.)-Son,July, 1925.

19Zt.Avers. Louise (Mrs. Richard J. Favorite)-Nancy

Randall Favor-ite, May 15, 1923.Brazos, Anna Mae (Mrs. Alfred J, Chalmers)-

John Alan Chalmers, June 21, 1925.Cone, Catherine (Mrs. Thomas FOl'd)-Edith Ann

FOl'd, January 21, 1924.Coldman, Hattie (Mrs. A. B. Rosoff)-Chestel'

Bel·tram Rosoff, February 18, 1\)23.Lettney, Jeanette (Mrs. Raymond F. Skinner)-

Raymond F. Skinner, Jr., July 22, 1922;Edwin Myron Skinner, February 26, 1925.

Lyon, Marion (Ml·S. Wesley T. Jones)-MarionLyon Jones, July 7. 1923.

Newton, Roberta (Mrs. Willard H. Rav j-c-Rcber-taPage Ray, September 30, 1924.

1922.Carley. Abby Palmer-Mary Carter, July 21.Mills, Murguel'ite (Mrs. Albert H. Murphy)-

Richard Mills Murphy, March 25, 1925.Peck, Amy (Mrs. David H. YaleJ-Juliua Robel"

Yale, August 17, 1925.Powell, Winifred (Ml·S. Harry Slayton)-WiUiam

Cary Slayton, March 21, 1925.Slade, Ann (MI·s. Albert Wesley Frey)--J:llle~

Wendell Frey, October 13, 1923.Smith, Claudine (Mrs. Elmer August Hanet-e--Mef i-

cent Esther Harte, April 6, 192,1.Thielen, Eleanor (Mrs. Edward wuncht-c-John

Edward Wunch, April 15, 192:>; WilliamStuart Wunch, October 26, 1924.

1923.Backes, Marjorie (Mrs. Bennett Mix 'I'er-rellt-e-

Son.Higgins, Helen (Mrs. George A. Bunyan)-

Daughter. November 21, 1925.Maeen, Melvina (Mrs. Horace E. Bailey)-Bruce

Mason Bailey, May 28, 1925.McCarthy, Margal'et (Mrs. Leonard E. Morrissey)

-c-Leonard E. Morrissey, July 22, 1925.Moyle, Elizabeth (Mrs. Beecher D. qold)-Beecher

Davis Gold, Jr., June 2, 1924.Satterly, Adelaide (Mrs. Sidney Tuthill)-Sidney

Preston Tuthill, February 28, 1925.1924-.

Hardwick, Kathryn (Mrs. Thomas Latimer)-Ann'Hardwick Latimer, July 29, 1925.

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