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Alumnae Council: The State of the College

President Charles E. Shain

To call this annual informal talk "the state of the sense of obligation for the use of certain municipal college" seemed like a good if slightly pretentious services, fire protection, police protection and the idea seven years ago. But perhaps in these times use of the city incinerator. We will also probably the title needs refining - by adding certain condi- be asked, along with other tax exempt institutions, tions: that is, "the state of the college as I under- to pay a sewer tax. stand it at 7:15 p.m., March 6, 1970." I shall try What will result from the acquisition of the tonight to generalize about our college and to pro- reservoir property is the opportunity to expand vide some enlightening examples of the way we Palmer Library more inexpensively than we other- live and learn now, but the only wise could. By 1973 the Library shelves will be prediction I think I shall make filled to their maximum capacity. In February the about the campus tomorrow is Trustees authorized me to have prepared feasibil- that there will probably be a par- ity studies for a library expansion that will use tial eclipse of the sun - which the south end of the reservoir property. Next week can be viewed especially well the Faculty lihrary committee looks at the first from the top floor of Bill Hall he- tween 12:28 and 2:56. (Some of studies prepared by the firm of Shreve, Lamb and Harmon who have twice added to the present OUf astronomy students have gone with their instructor to building. Here then is our next building target for Greenville, N.C., to photograph the Quest program. We have already collected the full eclipse.) more than one hundred thousand dollars for the It is always reassuring to have lihrary expansion. We shall probahly need two a group of alumnae on the cam- or three million more - and this at a time when pus. I wish we saw more of you library building grants have been cut off in Wash- more often. To my mind you help ington and when construction costs and money- to reinforce our sense of our- borrowing costs are at all-time peaks. But we must selves by providing, among other have room for books and readers or the College things, a sense of the continuity falters in its mission. We shall somewhere find the of the College. We are so much money. possessed by the power of mo- I hope I can convey to you next the confidence ment these days - the present and pleasure Ifeel in the experience of our first moments are apt to.be quite semester of coeducation. It may be only mini- powerful- that we can stand coeducation but if we can make judgments based now and then a sense of the past on our present success, Iam very hopeful of the a~d a sense of our graduates. Iheard a poignant future. Our thirty-eight Freshman and Sophomore tnbute to the past from a university president last fall, He was about to leave the presidency of a men have made the Dean's list in the same propor- western university which had not been a very tion as Freshman and Sophomore women. (One restful place these past five years, He said, "I have Junior man got straight A's but he was beaten by been in the academic world so long that I remem- a woman for Student Government president.) We ber a time when if a student went to see the presi- have sufficient good male applications for next dent, the student was in trouble." year - and we expect more - to meet our target ,Some of t~e interesting changes in our affairs in of adding one hundred more men, Larrabee House, th,lSaca~emlc year of grace Ihope you will hear our coeducational dormitory, is an exceptionally WIth delight. Perhaps the most solidly cheerful pleasant place to visit. Our basketball team plays pI~ce of news I can bring you is that we are Soon Vassar's tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 and hopes to going to take ~ossession of the approximately two even the score for a defeat in a close game last acres of ~and In the center of campus now owned week in Poughkeepsie. The presence of men on by the Clly of New London, the site of the two res- campus will of course be felt more strongly if we ervoirs. The negotiations behind this acquisition can count as many as 150 next year. I ask you to go bac,k several years and have resulted in a rather remember that what Vassar and Connecticut are complIcated bargain. In exchange for the reservoir doing (perhaps Sarah Lawrence and Bennington land and the street leading to it from Mohegan Colleges offer slightly different models) is making A venue, we deed the City two parcels of land one an historic shift in one branch of the American across Gallows Lane, to the west, for a huge water private college System. This change in mission is storage ~an~; another across Williams Street near the traffic CIrcle below the Museum Park f essentially different from the arrival of women at fire h ,ora Princeton, Yale and Wesleyan. We must be judged new re ouse. In addition, the College has volun- t!ered to pay the City for the next five years about by what happens over the next three years. I hope e even thousand dollars a year to represent our that at this meeting next year I can give you another favorable report.

2 Connecticut Cclleae Alumnae NAWf; • Summer 1970 At the same time that the coming of coeducation of seriously damaging the academic future of changes some of our campus way of life, other a group of students to satisfy the demands of changes have come rushing in propelled by this even a majority (who could be a very vocal energetic, ambitious generation of undergraduates. minority) is grossly unfair and should never It is difficult to separate causes and to know how be taken by any college. much our ways might have changed without the "A college should act in the best interest of presence of men. all its students. A system that allows freedom Certainly our upperclass women have supplied to those who have somehow proven them- the arguments and the pressure to persuade our selves capable of handling it (not worthy, Faculty to place students on Faculty committees, capable) while providing a guiding structure to schedule their own final examinations, to ask to the less well directed student is the only for reform of our calendar, to ask the Faculty to choice. It will be a very difficult system to consider new ways of using the upperclass years establish and may involve the setting up of and departmental majors. During my tenure here guidelines and the existence of (God forbid!) this is the year of the most prolonged debate be- rules, but some form of rules exists in all so- tween students and Faculty on the nature and con- cieties and in the long run such a system ditions of a Connecticut College education. The would be the most practical and the only fea- Faculty and Administration have responded read- sible solution." ily but often, as befits them, with feelings and The self-determining of our dormitory rules for attitudes different from dominant student views. men visitors, the key system and open parietals, Some Faculty and administration members are has now had a semester to make itself felt. The alarmed at the loss of student respect for previous record of our houses has on the whole been good. academic orthodoxies. I was thinking the other But some of our experience of the new freedoms day that if Roz Tuve were here she might be quot- has been disappointing. The administration has had to step in to remind the student leadership of ing John Donne at the most Rousseauistic of our a few houses that in such wide freedom begins reforming students: deep human responsibilities. A February college- "And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, wide meeting of student and faculty leaders on The Element of fire is quite put out, these questions recommended that next fall no The Sun is lost, and th'earth. and no man's dorm should have more than 30 or 35% Freshmen. wit Can well direct him where to looke for it ... The Deans and I are in the midst of meetings with Prince, Subject, Father, Sonne are things small groups of house presidents and housefel- lows to help them understand how crucially the forgot, For every man alone thinkes he hath got nature of this college can be changed by irrespon- To be a Phoenix, and there then can bee sible and anti-social dormitory conduct. A kind of None of that kinde, of which he is, but hee." "trouble-shooting" committee of four students and Faculty meeting votes are often close, and the four adults appointed by the new president of debates full of substance and sometimes of per- student government and me will be available to sonality. Students are invited in to speak their any house or any house member when a dormitory views at the meetings; their views do not always feels the need of outside support. prevail. Some of the issues that we debate you I remain persuaded from my investigation and will be hearing about tomorrow from deans, Iacul- consultation with all shades of student opinion ty members and students, and I won't go into them that our best hope lies in making the present self- here. But you won't be surprised to learn that our determining system work. Moral distinctions, sentiments divide recognizably into those of liber- adult moral imagination must be expressed and als and conservatives, or as Emerson called them, represented by adult college leadership, but, as in "the party of hope" and "the party of memory." your day, the moral distinctions that make up For those of you who read the College news- right conduct can only be achieved by one person paper and are led by it to believe the radicals (or at a time. We adults know that our moral ideals heretics) are completely in charge of the campus rise out of the logic of our own lives. Young peo- issues of the day, I quote from this week's issue ple must learn this. The College must rely on some what we elders of the tribe would like to call "rea- of the old ways and find new ways to support the sonable" student voice: moral aspirations of these new undergraduate "A student at the 'Liberal Mafia' meeting is lives. They are, at their best, on a search for new quoted as having said, 'It is easier to rely on a boundaries, for new relationships between men structure than on yourself.' This may be true and women at the college level of meeting. We but what many people fail to realize is that can't try to turn them back to a world that existed someone may need that structure to lean on in our own childhood and youth, while learning to rely upon himself. The risk

3 favorable to them than your ancestors ... The most consistently difficult human relations Remember all men would be tyrants if they on our campus remain those between our 38 black could. If particular care and attention is not students and many parts of the white world paid to us we are determined to fomen t a around them. On both sides of the barriers, and we might as well speak in these plain terms, we rebellion." are trying to make this year productive. At the John to Abigail in reply: "As to your extraordinary code of laws, I can- request of the Afro-American Society and as a result of an imaginative recruiting drive led by not but laugh. We have been told that our Dean Cobb, we have added this semester two struggle has loosened the bands of govern- black studies courses taught by two new black ment everywhere. That children and appren- faculty members. We look forward to an inter- tices were disobedient, that schools and departmental Black Studies major beginning next colleges were grown turbulent, that Indians fall, and to the addition of new black faculty. We slighted their guardians, and Negroes grew desire most sincerely that the effective individual insolent to their masters. But your letter was education of these students go forward; we want the first intimation that still another tribe, to increase their numbers here and to help them more numerous and powerful than all the live with the terrible burdens they have taken rest, were grown discontented ... Depend upon themselves: to redress in one generation as upon it, we know better than to repeal our they see it the American injustices of two cen- masculine systems. Although they are in full turies. force, you know they are little more than The new feminist movement has arrived on the theory ... We have only the name of masters. campus. I have been asked to pledge the College's and rather than give up this, which would efforts to raise the number of female faculty mem- completely subject us to the despotism of the bers, to examine any delays in female promotion' petticoat, I hope General Washingtoo and all and salary increases and to report each year to our brave heroes would fight." the AAUP the relative ranks and salary increases But I have gone on too long. I would like to add of the two sexes. I will be glad to accede to this reports on how much we have enjoyed the use of request. If you have any remaining doubts that Cummings Art Center, what it has meant to the these are revolutionary times, I invite you to con- increased student activities in Art and Music. How sider the analogies between some of the things in successful, apparently, are our fourteen new Fac- my report tonight and this exchange of letters be- ulty housing units. How pleased we are at the tween Abigail Adams in Quincy, Massachusetts, dramatically increased interest in careers in teach- and her husband at the Continental Congress in ing under our new leader Mr. John Santini. We are Philadelphia: well on our way to making the Office of Com- Abigail to John Adams at the Continental Con- munity Affairs create new working relationships gress: between Connecticut College and its surrounding "In the new code of laws which I suppose it communities. I hope you learn more about all will be necessary for you to make, I desire these current scenes and others in your sessions you would remember the ladies and be more tomorrow. I wish you a happy weekend.

Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 Alumnae Council

If Alumnae Council was an indication, this decode will be known as the "serious seventies." There were joyous greetings as classmates met, and the usual shore of laughter at particular memories. But from Marenda Prentis '19 preaching against social end Intellectuc! snobbery, to alumnae of the '60's comparing CC clubs, careers, and babies- this Council seemed to realize thot coIleges today need their alumnae as never before. Need their patience with student affairs. Need their money for deserving faculty. Need their faith in the administration's wisdom.

5 Conn Currents

Gertrude E. Noyes '25 Dean emeritus

CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER! SCIENCE TO THE FORE Faculty Promotions have been announced as follows: The Eclipse. Student astronomers from Connecticut to Professor. Mr. Dale and Mr. Seng; to Associate and Wesleyan with Mr. Brooks of our Astronomy Professor, Mr. Havens, Mr. MacKinnon, Mr. Reiss, Department and a Wesleyan astronomer, established Miss Taranow, and Mrs. Woody. a research station at Greenville, N.C. for conducting Faculty Publications. Mr. Havens' book, Nishi Amane tests during the eclipse. They focused on changes in and Modern Japanese Thought, has just come off the noise level before and after totality, took color photo- Princeton University Press. A teacher, writer, and graphs, and worked on determining the plane of government administrator, Nishi played a dominant polarization of the inner and outer corona. Another role in introducing European intellectual values and group of students made detailed observations from the laying the foundation for Japan's rise to wealth and observatory atop Bill Hall, and a meeting is planned power. Mr. Desiderata's Readings in General Psychol- to present the results of both observations. ogy, published by the MSS Educational Publishing Survival. Connecticut has formed an environmental Co."consists of essays mostly reprinted from recent action committee of faculty and students to work on journals illustrating the wide range of subject areas dangers threatening our area. The Survival Committee in contemporary psychology. Papers by Mr. Desider- meets weekly, sponsors subcommittees (research, ata and Mr. Goldberg are included. watch dog, and publicity), and has set up an Ecology Alumnae Publications include another historical novel Center in Holmes Hall. A regular column is conduc- from the fast flowing pen of Cecelia Holland '65. In ted in Satyagraha, and the Committee is sponsoring a AntiChrist the author deals for the first time with a special program for April 22 as part of the national hero who was a major historical figure, Emperor observance. Frederick II. With her usual exhaustive research and The Marine Science Summer Session [June 20 - August her narrative dash, she treats the crusade of 1228 and 7) will be expanded this year under the direction of the Mediterranean world of the period. Phyllis Hoge Mr. De Santo. Students will take a course in Marine Thompson '48, assistant professor of English at the Explorations or Marine Botany and may elect also a University of Hawaii, has published at the University non-credit course in Scuba Diving. press Artichoke and Other Poems, including poems previously printed in Harpers, The Nation, and other CHANGES OF COMMAND magazines and showing a variety of themes and Student Elections as we go to press are almost com- approaches. Family Under Sail is a "Handbook for plete. The three officers elected by all-college ballot Mates" (wives) written in tandem by Mary Varian have been chosen as follows: President, Julie Sgarzi Leonard '55 and Jane Kirstein with illustrations from '71 of Kingston, Mass.; Vice President, Pandora Mary's light hand. The book suggests shipboard tac- [acoubs '71 of Red Bank, N.J.; and Chairman of Judi- tics for the wives of sailing enthusiasts but is equally ciary Board, Anne Kennison '71 of Hollis, N.Y. The delightful reading for landlubbers. new Charter is nearing final form, and the first student Faculty Honors. Miss Macklin has been selected, with elections to college committees are being conducted. professors from Yale and Stanford, to participate for Meanwhile the new Student Advisory committees a week in the school system of Los Alamos in a pilot have been cooperating with their departments on program sponsored by the National Humanities Facul- plans for next year. ty. The election of Miss Eveline Omwake as president Changing The Guard. Recent alumnae will remember of Learned House makes an even closer link between the important role that Lt. Jerry Donovan has played the College and its favorite local project. since 1958 on campus. After a long illness, Mr. Dono- Senior Achievements. Barbara Troadec, Spanish van has retired to be replaced by Chief Francis major, and Diane Wassman, History major, have O'Grady, respected and popular head of the New been named Woodrow Wilson Designates in a London force. Jerry was part of the drama of all competition with 12,000 nominees; and Laura Nash college happenings through the years, from the comic Classics major, has been awarded a Danforth ' invasion of the Harvard Band for breakfast one fall Fellowship renewable for three years. The new day, through the various sit-ins and overnight teach- Watson Fellowship is awarded for the first time at ins, to the tragic Jane Addams fire. Connecticut College to Katie See for an independent study project on religious prejudice and tribalism AND THE HAPPENINGS INCREASE in Ireland and Africa. AND MULTIPLY The Music Department held an open house in its new STILL ANOTHER EXPERIMENTAL CALENDAR quarters on February 10 with invited guests from Faculty have voted to discontinue the Special Studies other colleges and schools. Opening with a lecture on period and have approved a new calendar with an modern trends in music criticism by Miles Kasten- opening right after Labor Day and examinations be- dieck, the program featured two works by Mr. Shack- fore Christmas. There will be a full week's break at ford, Toccata for Brass Sextet and Concerto for Two Thanksgtving and a longer Christmas vacation, with Pianos played by the Dales. Stravinsky's Cantata of second semester beginning on January 24 and Com- 1952 was sung by the Chamber Chorus with Instru- mencement coming on-May 30. The New London Day ~ental quintet, and Miss Jacynowicz with visiting tongue in cheek, headlined its article, "Time Off Fea-' Instrumentalists gave a brilliant rendition of Hinde- tured in College Schedule": but students will be mith's Concert Music for Piano, Brass and Two working harder than ever in term time to cover the semester's demands. Harps. Visitors were much impressed with the possi- (cent, on page 29)

6 Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 The National Scene*

• Turning Point? Over the past two years, the Meanwhile, an activist spirit that has developed federal government increasingly put pressure on among many young faculty members may be individual colleges and state college systems to spreading to potential college administrators. end racial bias and provide greater opportunities Graduate students preparing for careers in student for minority groups. But then; The top civil rights personnel administration have challenged mern- official in the Department of Health, Education, bers of that profession to take stands on pressing and Welfare resigned under fire, Congress showed social issues. a strong inclination to strip the department of its major administrative weapons against segregation. Vice-President Agnew denounced racial quotas • 'Teach-In' Time: As a focus for their concern and "open admissions" in higher education. over environmental problems, students have Although the White House issued a lengthy turned to the technique of the "teach-in," which statement on the problems of desegregation in anti-war groups first used with great effect in 1965. public schools, there remained much uncertainty Plans for a nationwide series of seminars, about the Administration's plans for enforcing the speeches, and demonstrations on a single day this Civil Rights Act of 1964 on college campuses. April involved hundreds of campuses across the country. The man who first proposed the environ- Within the academic community, concern over mental teach-in, Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wiscon- equal rights in education did not abate. In a special sin, saw it developing into a "massive movement" report, the prestigious Carnegie Commission on to improve the quality of life in America. Higher Education called for "universal access" to colleges and universities by 1976. "Inequality of opportunity must not continue to sap the strength • Federal Stringency: As higher education has of our nation," the commission declared. It said a grown more dependent on funds from the federal college education should be available to everyone government, it also has feared the possibility of capable of making "reasonable progress," a slowdown. Now that fear is a reality. At Presi- dent Nixon's insistence, Congress reduced education appropriations for fiscal 1970. For 1971 the • Rising Tuition: The pressure of inflation is Iorc- Administration proposed to end or curtail spending many colleges and universities to raise tuition ing on a number of programs affecting higher once again. An administrator in the Ivy League, education. where tuitions will reach $2,500 and more next Academic leaders were openly pessimistic. "Far fall, foresees "regular annual increases," Public from building on the foundations already laid," institutions are feeling the pinch, too. They have said the American Council on Education, "there judicial support, though, for charging residents of appears to be a move to dismantle the structure." other states more than they charge residents of Mr. Nixon later said he wanted to be sure educa- their own. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a California tion programs worked before he sought large out- case, has dismissed a challenge to such higher lays of new funds. rates. The situation is not likely to improve much in fiscal 1972, when the President would provide only a modest increase in federal aid for post-secon- • Turbulence Ahead: The relative calm on the campuses last fall appears to have been short- dary education. His recommendations, outlined in a special message to Congress, included expansion lived. Amid increasing reports of renewed vio- lence this spring, many college educators expect of guaranteed loans to students, a National Foun- the 1970's to be no less disruptive than the pre- dation for Higher Education to support "excel- vious decade. "The peak of activism has not yet lence, innovation, and reform," and a career been reached," said one university administrator education program for two-year colleges. Many educators, however, thought the message signaled at a national conference. further retrenchment. In particular, they saw it Evidently with that prospect in mind. a panel of adding to the financial burdens of high-cost prI- lawyers and academic leaders has cautioned that vate institutions. some efforts to maintain campus order "may themselves be excessive and may indirectly contribute to disorder." The panel, created by the American Bar Association, advised institutions to seek "order with justice" and to guarantee their students *Prepared for our reeders by the Editors of the Chronicle the right to dissent. of Higher Education

7 The Population Dilemma: Which Way From Here?

Elizabeth Ann Murphy '65

"Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here?" asked Alice. "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

ver since the early 19th century publications Eof Thomas Malthus' first essay on the values of population growth, demographers have been char- aclerized as prophets of doom, harbingers of the self-destruction of mankind. Equipped with an array of descriptive rhetoric, the demographer explains that the population bomb is ticking, the explosion is imminent and the flood of mankind is upon us. Or if fear-provoking similes are the order of the day, you may be informed that if all human beings on the planet earth were to stand together, the line would be one and one quarter million miles long, stretching to the moon and back twice and (in case that's not enough to get your atten- ., tion) will go around the earth fifty times at the ,:; equator. Absurd? Yes, but only in a tragic sort of way. The pressures of population growth are intensify- ing in such a way that specialists are convinced of the urgency of the problem, and feel that a potential state of emergency should be described

8 Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 as just that. The underlying assumption of course as that of any highly developed country. With is an optimistic one: that if an awareness can be few exceptions, the world is divided into two developed before the fact, tragedy can be pre- growth categories: the European-North American- vented. But is this scare approach having an im- Oceania-U.S.S,R. regions with moderately low pact? Do astronomical population figures have increase rates and the Afro-Asian-Latin American any effect whatsoever on determination of indi- countries with significantly higher rates. The vidual family size? Does the 1980 world population dichotomy is neatly divided along economic lines, projection of 4.5 billion have any relevance to the and this high fertility is consistently associated couple planning a fourth child? with a lower level of literacy, education, material comfort, urban development, and medical care. A disproportionate amount of world population growth is attributable to under-developed countries. "Sentence first, verdict afterwards!" Rapid population growth is a relatively modern phenomenon. At the time of the landing of the "A slow sort of country," said the Queen. "Now, Pilgrims, the population of the world was some here, you see it takes all the running you can do one half billion people. By 1800 - 200 years later, to keep in the same place." the people of this globe had doubled their number. The next doubling time - to 2 billion - was ac- This apparent inverse relationship between eco- complished in 130 years, by 1930. With an esti- nomic development and population growth is an mated world population of 3.5 billion in 1968, it is area of great interest to demographers and econo- clear that we are even faster completing the next mists. A basis of the interest is the hope that a transition from 2 to 4 billion. Population grows better understanding of the cause-effect relation- like money in the bank - the gains are small at ship of these two variables might prove useful in first, but the increase is exponential. A growth breaking the cyclic pattern of population expan- rate of 1°10 per year will double a bank account- sion and poverty evident in many parts of Asia, or a population - in 70 years; at 2°10 it will take India and Latin America. Rapid growth in these 35 years, at 3010, 23 years, countries is acknowledged as the most important retarding factor in the struggle for economic de- Prior to the 19th century an ecologic balance - velopment and an improved standard of living. No the near equality of births and deaths - kept sooner has one school- or hospital or food pro- expansion of human numbers to a minimum. Dur- duction plant - been completed, but the need for ing the 1800's a number of changes allowed a drop five more is already critical (the Queen added, "If in the death rate: the rise of the level of technol- you want to get somewhere else, you must run at ogy which made food, clothing and shelter more least twice as fast as that.") available, and the associated introduction of "death control" was manifest in the rising level But where does the United States, the most of nutrition, improved environmental sanitation economically advanced of all countries, fit in the and advances against infectious disease. The de- population dilemma? Does a growth rate just cline in the death rate in the western world was below 10/0per, year place us out of the grip of pop- followed later by a drop in births, but to date, the ulation pressure? Does our abundance of natural ecologic balance has not yet been fully restored. resources and food supply make the term "popu- Births still exceed deaths - though the range of lation explosion" irrelevant? these "demographic gaps" is a very wide one. For While demographers have more questions than example in 1968 Venezuela recorded 48 births and answers on this subject, further inquiry can be 9 deaths for every 1,000 population, an annual preceded by some general observations: First, the growth rate of 3.7°/0 which translates into dou- American birth rate is expected to rise signifi- bling time of less than 20 years! On the other side cantly in the 1970's, while the death rate will re- of the spectrum, Hungary registered 15 births and main fairly constant. The decline in fertility in the 11 deaths per thousand population, a rate of .4°10. 1960's was at least in part an artifact of child- The United States fell in between with 17 per spacing; women in the latter half of the reproduc- thousand births and 10 per thousand deaths, a tive age spectrum had spaced their children early doubling rate of around 90 years. in married life and had largely completed their Differences in growth rates of the world are families by the late 1950's; these women con- striking. Latin America is the fastest growing of tributed little to 1960 fertility. At the same time, all regions, not necessarily because its birth rate the young married couples in the 1960's were is so unique but because its death rate is as low postponing the birth of their first child - babies

9 that they will inevitably have in the early 1970's. is more realistic is the hypothesis that UMTED In addition to this spacing phenomenon, the post- STATES POPULATION GROWTH IS DUE TO war "boom babies" are now entering the repro- WANTED, NOT UNWANTED CHILDREN. Even ductive years, increasing the proportion of the the most effective and universally used pill will total population eligible for motherhood. not reduce this type of fertility problem. The psy- Second, a 1% annual growth rate may sound chological and physical health benefits accrued harmless, but our population is currently so large from widespread availability of contraception are that this increase can produce very substantial not questioned; what is currently on trial is the changes quickly. In 1969 there were 203 million traditionally alleged relationship of birth control Americans. Exactly ten years from today this total and abatement of population growth. will be in the area of 24D million (United Nation's We are daily reminded of the ecologic crisis in "medium" population projection). Should the birth America, of air, water ana noise pollution; of over- rate significantly rise, this figure of course will crowded .schools and cities with nerve-shattering be higher. Population projections made by the densities. But does the United States have a popu- United States Bureau of the Census for the year lation problem? This is an exceedingly disturbing 2,000 range from a low of 283 million to a high point to raise. It's much easier to blindly believe of 398 million - that's just 30 years away! that perfectly "planned parenthood" leads directly This type of population growth, while not "ex- to optimum population size. The national aversion plosive" compared, for instance, to various coun- to the alternative - namely, involuntary control tries in Latin America, nevertheless provokes such by way of government restrictions or inhibitions questions as: Are we ready, in terms of education, on childbearing - is so strong that we may feel housing and employment, for a doubling popula- compelled to gamble on pills and intrauterine tion in less than 70 years? Will "bigger and better" devices by process of elimination. continue to be the rule in our economic develop- But there is a middle ground. We can tread cau- ment, or does there come a point of diminishing tiously in a direction beyond family planning by returns? Do Americans, as disproportionate con- dispensing birth control information in the con- sumers of the world's natural resources, have a text of a more general understanding of the dy- responsibility to the global dilemma? Questions namics and implications of uncurtailed population are easy to ask, the answers not quite so simple. growth. It is possible that a widespread awareness of the simple but very potent formula that dic- tates the demographic future, will evoke feelings "Curtsey while you're thinking what to say, It of individual responsibility. Malthus in the 19th saves time." century, had little confidence in Man's ability to The question of "what to do" about population foresee danger and curtail his reproductive capac- comes under the general topic of "population ity. Are we in 1970 to fulfill his pessimistic pre- policy." Recent suggestions have been {1)"ignore diction? Demographers may be prophets of doom, it, it will go away," (2) "there is no cause for but underneath it all, they wish to be proven alarm, Science (that all-encompassing panacea wrong. spelled with a capital S) will come to our rescue," and (3] "family planning is the key ... develop Beth Murphy '65, a doctoral candidate in demog- and distribute the super-pill!" The last of these raphy and human ecology at Harvard University, the birth-control-can-save-us approach, has rallied received her M.P.H. [health education) from Yale uch n: s~ppor~; onl~ recently have critics ques- University School of Medicine, and an M.S. [de- tioned Its efflca~y In the struggle to relieve pres- mography) from Harvard. At Connecticut she sures of population growth. Is the family planning majored in sociology. Beth has worked with sex movement a means of stalling for time until we education and development of family planning can come to grips with some of the far-reaching clinics under the New Haven Health Department; and less attractive, components of a truly effective as. a demographer and family planning coordinator population policy? WIth the Maternity and Infant Care Project, The family planning orientation to population Massachusetts Deportment of Public Health; and conttol holds sacred that every woman should recently at Syntex Laboratories, Polo Alto, Califor- have the number of children she wants. It is nia, where sHe was an educational consultant. As ass~med that somehow, in the process of elimi- though these many accomplishments in five short natmg the ~nwanted child, population growth will ye.ars were not enough, her book (co-authored be ~utomal1cally curbed. In light of the national WIth Michael C. Quodland) Human Reproduction: fertility surveys, however, where United States A Programmed Text is being published by Syntex women reveal they want 2-4 children this as- Laboratories and will be off the press by the time sumption may be a totally unwarrant~d one. What you receive this issue of the News.

10 Connecticut College Alumnae News. Summer 1970 An Overview of British Infant Schools

Donna C. Hetzel Instructor in child development

Even the briefest visit to an Infant School in England points to the need for a closer look at the innovations in their system. Five through seven year olds all in one classroom? Totally free activity days? Thirty-five children to one teacher? Children indoors and out at the same time? Block building in the hallways? How can this be? All these atypical occurrences are characteristic of the vertically grouped Infant School. All are thought to be advantageous by those teaching in the open- plan school. Faced with many of the difficulties found in American public schools, i.e., teacher shortages, crowded classrooms, growing discipline problems, early school failures, etc., the British government began a study of Primary School Education. Since the publicalion of the Plowden Report in 1967*, the innovations of vertical grouping, gradual reception, open- school planning, and free activity programs have grown in popularity. In 1964, over 90'/, of the Infant Schools in Bristol were vertically grouped to some extent. Programs including such practices can be seen throughout the country: in West Riding, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Bristol, and even in the London suburbs. New ideas have taken hold in the more rural areas first, and then have slowly influenced education authorities in the larger cities. Vertical Grouping - What is it? An Infant School which is vertically grouped may have from three to 14 classes containing children ages five to seven-plus. Atypical class has 35 to 40 children with only one teacher, At first this appears to be an impossible task for anyone adult. But as you will see, the age arrangement and gradual reception of the five-year-olds makes it quite workable. At the beginning of the school year, the teacher meets with those children returning to her class. This group of approximately 24 children includes only five and six-year-alds from the previous term's class, for the seven-year-olds have moved on to the Junior school (ages seven to eleven-plus). As the year progresses, five-year-alds are received into the existing class during the term of their fifth birthday, There are three terms in the school year: September-Christmas, Christmas-Easter, and Easter-July, By the third term, the class again has reached full size. In this system then, the child

"Children and Theil' Primary Schools: a Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education [England); in response to a request by the Minister of Education in 1963, "to consider primary education in all its aspects, and the transition to secondary education." First published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1967. Lady (Bridget) Plow- den, Chairman of the Advisory Council.

11 remains with the same teacher for the entire seven the existing class. Throughout the year the five- year-old benefits from the availability of class- to nine terms in the Infant School. mates as models. His motivation is stimulated by A Look at the Classroom - Since each class is observing his friends reading, working "rnaths," composed of the same age grouping of children, and writing stories. Furthermore, he may work at equipment and materials are similar from room to whatever pace he can sustain because materials room. An open-plan school allows the children are geared far various levels of competence. There to use all available space for their learning activ- are no more upheavals. ities. Hallways are often equipped with work As a six-year-old, this child returns to a familiar benches and other material for large-scale, noisy classroom secure in his knowledge of the teacher's projects, and cloakrooms are designed to leave ways, the job to be done, and the materials to be space open for large block-building or floor-work explored. There is no interruption to learning. This projects. The classroom itself is typically sec- increased physical and mental comfort allows . tioned for activity in "maths," science, art, table- him to accept the increase in responsibility for hIS work, imaginative play, and reading. The free own learning. The six-year-old benefits too from activity plan allows children to move throughout the teacher's more appropriate expectations. From the day from one area to another, and from one working with the entire age range in the Infant learning task to another. Compulsory religious School, she knows even more precisely the needs instruction, physical education, and other events and abilities of the six-year-old. With the start of which require scheduling, lend a stabilizing but the second year, the teacher also is more aware of not restrictive routine to the program. the individuality of the returning child. By the time the child is a seven-year-old in the From the Child's Point of View - The five-year- Infant School program, he is most able to benefit old attending school for the first time comes into a from the open-plan school and the free activity setting totally new to him. In a traditional arrange- program. He has acquired the skills and abilities ment, as we have in this country, he arrives with needed to work independently, to accept tbe lead- Mother at Kindergarten to find a roomful of chil- ership role in the class, and to assist the teacher. dren all as bewildered as he, and a teacher Aware of the demands to be made on the seven- who is able to cope only with those whose needs plus when he moves on to the [unior school, the are most urgent. Few children openly express teacher carefully assesses and evaluates his prog- their fear on the first day, fewer still on the second ress in the third year. Filling in the gaps, a~d . day, and still less on the third. As the term goes stretching and firming-up newly acquired abilities on, these anxieties are internalized only to re- is her focus. appear the following September when the entire process begins again with a new teacher, a new classroom, a longer school day, and invariably From the Teacher's Point of View - The teacher quite a few new classmates. Along with these in such a classroom has a new and different role. superficial changes comes the increased pressure She is no longer the central source of information. of formalized academic learning with reading, Rather, she is the preparer of materials, support~: writing, and arithmetic; all to be learned as if the to those working, source of guidance when speCIfic Kindergarten teacher had magically brought every skills or facts are needed, a questioner, a listener, one of her children to the same level of readiness. and most of a11- an observer. In the vertically grouped classroom, the trauma There are many advantages which have come to of September is gone for the teacher as well as light from the practice and application of such an for the five-year-old. First of all, the classroom is imaginative plan. Teachers who work in these filled with children who are comfortably busy and systems have found their work-load lessened con- old hands at what to do and where to do it. Thus siderahly. Children helping children, and smaller the teacher is free to give the incoming five-year- age groups ease some of the pressure on the class- old the time and support he needs. In addition, room teacher. The urgency of the beginner reader, there is almost certain to be a sibling or neighbor- for instance, is easier to cope with if there are hood friend in the classroom who will take on the only 12 rather than 35 or 40. Having the oldest responsibility of helping a newcomer to become children working with i'nvestment for compara- acquainted with standard procedures such as tively long periods of time, sets a more leisurely where to put his things, where to hang his coat, pace than that which would exist in a roomful of how to find the bathroom and the playground. active five-year-olds with short attention spans. !here is also someone to help with the zipper that One of the greatest advantages gained is the IS stuck and the shoe that needs tying. Within a opportunity to examine the children's use of learn- few days it is virtually impossible to pick out the ing materials more closely (each teacher colle~ts newcomer, for he has been quickly absorbed into and constructs much of her own learning equip-

12 Connecticut College Alumnae News. Summer 1970 ment). The chance to work through the series and schemes with so many children is ideal for assess- ing omissions, shortcomings, and strengths. An alert teacher can spot the points where children stumble in their thinking, and then explain problems and amplify the concept with supplementary experiences. The long line of "naughty, big boys" no longer forms outside the headmistress's office. Character- istic bully groups of seven-year-olds are almost non-existent not only because their numbers have decreased, but also because an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competition has been fos- tered throughout Infant School years. Children who are allowed and encouraged to choose their own learning activities are not bored, restless, and troublesome. Instead, their energies have been directed into constructive channels on their own initiative. An obvious decline in discipline problems has been noted throughout the entire program. Finally, teachers feel that contact with a child and his family over such an extended period of time fosters good home-school relationships, Co- operation between parents and teacher lends consistency in approach to any problem, be it academic or social. I found visiting schools operating within the framework of the creative British system fascinating and thought provoking. Anyone examining practices of early childhood education should not overlook the British Infant Schools.

Next fall, this article will be published in Young Children, the journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Last summer, Mrs. Hetzel visited British Infant Schools during a five-week study trip partially paid for by a grant from Connecticut College Faculty Study, Research and Travel Fund. In January, she returned to England with twenty-one Connecticut students participating in the Special Studies program, They visited schools iR Oxfords hire and Greater London.

13 Business Not As Usual

Betsy A. Greenberg '66

Every summer thousands of Americans visit Italy. an uneasy world. The arts provide an important Last June an excited group of fifty young artists form of communication and give a sense of accom- and performers from inner city areas made a plishment. Timid and alienated youngsters huild unique, first-of-its-kind excursion to Italy, spon- up confidence when they find a means of self- sored by the New York Board of Trade, Inc, They expression; their sights are raised and they take were members of "Art from the Sidewalks of New steps toward more socially useful lives. If oppor- York." This undertaking, the first of a number of tunities are offered, latent talent can be tapped projected programs between American youth and and potentially destructive tendencies can be their counterparts throughout the world, is an converted into creative and constructive action. example of the part the Board is playing today in The arts are for everyone and their place is in the education. center, not the periphery of society. When it was formed originally in 1873, the New The arts can be a major source of strength for York Board of Trade's purpose was to improve the business community also. Their presence in a transportation. Eventually, as the community often influences favorably the decision Board branched out to foster and of personnel to join or remain with a company; protect the general interest of busi- they are an encouraging factor for the location of ness, it developed into a civic or- new firms in a city; and they attract conventions ganization. More recently, knowing and tourists. In addition, the arts emphasize the that a sound community is essential qualitative element of excellence and can reflect to business growth, the Board has this excellence upon a corporation, thus enhancing been providing a vehicle through its image. Business needs the arts in an even more which business can channel its re- basic way - for advertising, architectural design, sources toward the solution of the furniture design, etc. Finally, art humanizes busi- physical and social environmental ness by giving it a cultural dimension (while at the problems of New York. same time offering an attractive tax deduction). a.;1oIoI .. k....:.:.<;.._ ... 0;;. The Board of Trade is concerned In 1965 the New York Board of Trade formed with such areas of corporate respon- the Business and the Arts Advisory Council to sibility as the inner city, pollution, culture, educa- bring business and the arts closer together. Main tion - terms not usually associated with business objectives were: 1) to define for the business com- vocabulary. However, business as well as the munity its opportunities and responsibilities for nation, has been forced to realize the basic truth improving the cultural life of the city; 2) to pro- in Chief Justice John Jay's statement made when vide management with guidelines on the formation our country was young - that "The good of the of company policy on cultural affairs and the whole community can be promoted only by ad- implementation of specific programs; 3) to act as vancing the good of each of the members compos- a clearing house for information on specific art ing it." This premise is the basis of corporate projects and programs; 4) to provide professional responsibility. Corporate responsibility to the art and cultural organizations with opportunities community now has become a necessity, for busi- for management counsel in financial and organi- ness cannot survive in an unhealthy community zation methods and procedures. no matter how superior its goods and services. Following the announcement of the Council's Business is too dependent on people. purpose, many art groups - hoth the small and Faced with a rapidly increasing concern with struggling, and the firmly established-came to the the city environment, the corporate executive has Board for counsel. Some arrived timidly; others turned toward art as a way of reaching people. confidently, certain that they would find answers The arts, an integral part of our society, are the to their problems. However, when the business most effective and natural means of communica- community did not rush to the Board, it became tion between its many elements. Art tends to make necessary to find a dramatic device with which to people inwardly healthier and outwardly more attract corporate executives. This device took the alive; it provides a source of enjoyment and de- form of a conference on Business Arts light by offering refreshment and renewal; and and the furthermore, it is educating. which opened the new Forum Theater at Lincoln Center in March, 1966, In today's world which grows ever more tech- nological and scientific, the development of the The conference was divided into two sessions: the morning session concerned the rationale for arts is essential in creating a well and safely bal- anced society - a society where the individual corporate involvement in the arts; the afternoon can develop his capacity of sensitivity to quality. session dealt with the techniques of company The value of art education is far-reaching inas- programming. The admission charge was $50 and much as it offers a way for youth to find itself in the meeting was a success. Business began to see the need for a tangible interest in the arts.

14 Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 The Business and the Arts Advisory Council, knowing the need for art education, attempted to get business involved in specific programs. The first of these, a seminar series of six presentations held at the Fashion Institute of Technology, covered the major performing and fine arts: ballet, theater, opera, painting and sculpture, architecture, and the "happening." It was made possible by contributions from the Trade Bank & Trust Company, and the cooperation of the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries and the Arts Advisory Council of the New York Board of Trade. The Board then arranged for business to spon- sor "Jazzmobile," "Duncemobile," and "Theater in the Streets" during the summer. These programs of live music, dance and drama were conceived as a means of enriching the lives of the economically, socially and racially disenfranchised of New York City. The idea was to bring tbe arts to people who had no other way of experiencing them. Not only were professionals performing for a new audience, will also make possible a valuable exchange be- but this new audience was given the opportunity tween students and leaders of industry, Visits to become involved with the entertainers by actual between the two will be set up to develop a participation, The Chemical Bank and Pepsi-Cola broader understanding of business on the part of contributed to these programs, students, and to develop a one-to-one relationship "Top Talent Art Classes," another successful with representatives of private industry. McCann- program, has been sponsored for two years by Erickson, Inc. has provided funds for these classes. Chesebrough-Pond. This project began with the To reach inner city youth through art and edu- New York City Board of Education and the Board cation, the Board of Trade works on many projects of Trade combining forces, The former supplied with the New York City Department of Parks. One the gifted youngsters who lacked the chance to outgrowth of these programs was the trip abroad develop their talents within the framework of the mentioned in the beginning of this article - "Art regular school curriculum, and the latter intro- from the Sidewalks of New York." This program duced them to industry who had no other way of was sponsored as an educational step in acquaint- reaching the gifted and talented student at a point ing young New Yorkers with Italian culture, and when his career could be directed toward a par- also as a means of introducing some of the emerg- ticular field. The classes, held on Saturdays in ing new art forms to the public. seven high schools, are for specially selected art "Art from the Sidewalks of New York" actually students chosen by the chairman of the art depart- started when the executive vice-president of the ment in each borough. Applicants have come from New York Board of Trade met the vice-president academic and vocational high schools, and this of Alitalia Airlines at a Presidential Prayer Break- year from junior high schools as well. The classes fast in Washington, D.C. Because this man was so offer a morning of intensive and individualized impressed with the Board's activities involving instruction, and the afternoons are spent visiting business with the community and the arts, he proposed that Alitalia work with the Board, too, museums, artists' studios, etc. This past year the in developing a program. Subsequently, the public program has been expanded to include a traveling exhibit of the best work of these students chosen relations director of Alitalia decided that the most effective contribution Alitalia could make would from an exhibition held in June. be to bring a group of young artists and perform- Following in the footsteps of the Top-Talent ers who had received their training in community program, a pilot project has been set up this year centers in New York to visit Italy for one week to provide training in textile design, costume de- Eastman Kodak Cc., Trade Bank & Trust Co., sign, and advertising. This "Top-Talent Art- Capezio, Continental Can Co., J. W, Wilson Glass Industry" program was initiated because there is a Co.. and others joined with Alitalia in financing dearth of skilled craftsmanship in many industries. this adventure. At present most fine craftsmen come from foreign The groups were selected from among many countries. These classes will not only teach appre- working in New York's various ghettos. From ciation of, and training in handicraft skills, but

15 Mobilization for Youth, MUSE, the School of Having gained the experience of mobility and Visual Arts, the Episcopal Mission Society, and cooperation, after their return several groups Bands of Steel, Inc., came fifty young people who worked together in other performances in New were chosen for both their artistic ability and York City. There was great interaction among their leadership qualities. them all, both on a personal and group level. Both dancers and singers carne from Mobiliza- These young people created a new self-Image tion for Youth. This organization has been training by participating in this pilot project. They brought hard core unemployables, developing job oppor- new-found leadership to their communities, and tunities for them, and effectively placing them in their influence on their peers was greatly en- jobs (MFY also helps Lower East Side business hanced. Some of the steel band players became people maintain their small businesses). It was more confident and set up performances they had thought that representatives of their Cultural Arts not had the courage to arrange before. They taught Program would bring public attention to another many younger children to play the drums which dimension of this agency. gave them something to do in their free time. Two The eldest members of our troupe became in- young men from the MUSE group won music terested in music originally when some profes- scholarships to colleges - New England Conser- sional jazz musicians began a workshop program vatory of Music and Boston University. These two in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in had never before considered the possibility of conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum at MUSE. higher education, but from the trip they gained Through their training there, these young men incentive and confidence. Costume students from became the teachers - proof of the effectiveness the School of Visual Arts were made aware of the of training in an art form and in leadership. way they could involve a crowd, and became Students from the School of Visual Arts and the active festival participants and designers for some Episcopal Mission Society in the Lower East Side of New York City's neighborhood festivals during documented the trip in film, slides, and tape as the summer. well as presenting costumed improvisations which The trip had gathered together people from dif- captured the crowd wherever they went. These ferent sections of New York City, and enabled young people came to the Board's attention them to grow and see a new world. And it also through a playground they designed and built in had exposed others, in New York and Italy, to an the Lower East Side, and also through an environ- unfamiliar world. "Art from the Sidewalks of mental zoo they had constructed in a classroom. New York" was publicized in newspapers, radio The youngest members of "Art from the Side- and television; notably, a live segment from Rome walks of New York" were from Bands of Steel, appeared on NBC's Today Show and two feature Inc. They were selected by their peers from among articles were run in The New York Times. The the several units developed in ghetto areas around corporate community responded generously when New York City since spring, 1969. they were shown the possibilities of cultural While in Italy, the schedule was extremely interchange. crowded. The group thrilled young residents of Business has come to realize that we are all part Boys Town and the crowds in Spoleto and Assisi, of one society and that what enriches each indi- and gathered an audience in the Piazza Navona vidual enriches us all. in Rome. They were honored guests of Ambassa- dor Gardner Ackley at the American Embassy in When Betsy Ann Greenberg '66 majored in Euro- Rome, of Maestro Gian-Carlo Menotti in Spoleto, pean history, she probably never imagined that and of Rome's Mayor Rinaldo Santini. And they one day she would be taking a group of New York received a special greeting and blessing from Pope City ghetto artists to Rome. But as odmmistrctive Paul during a Canonization at St. Peter's - some- assistant to the executive vice president of the thing they were told had never been done before. New York Boord of Trade, programs similar to the Of course, there was plenty of sightseeing. one described in this article fill her working day. The Italians loved the New Yorkers - and the Since graduation, Betsy has compiled, edited and New Yorkers loved the Italians. They were con- published directories for the American Mcnoge- stantly surprised at seeing a group of black, Puerto ment Association, piloted research programs for Rican, and white young people working together, them, and written articles for their Management playing together and obviously enjoying each News. And while with the National Citizens Com- other. One young man, an employee of the youth mittee for Broadcasting, she recruited new me~.- hostel in Rome, said that he never had met a group bers, corresponded with 150 educational television so "simpatico." The word most prevalent among stations, and approved all expenditures of the the young Americans was "beautiful" - a beauti- $250,000 yearly budget. Outside of business, ful country, beautiful people, beautiful feelings- Betsy's interests include reading to the blind and or perhaps it should be, beautiful vibrations. recording textbooks for them.

16 Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 Today Everybody Loves "Baby"

Eveline B. Omwake Professor of child development and department chairman

Although Early Childhood programs are by no means an innovation in Education, the learning environment for the child under eight has become a.matter of intensive public interest and professional concern only within the past five years, Prior to 1960, the situation was like that of a Iam- ily enlarging beyond its abili'ty to satisfy the needs of its individual members. According to this analogy, the primary school was the younger sibling who trailed along taking what was left when attention and money were being distributed. Pub- lic kindergartens, appearing first before the turn of the century, represented an even more unwel- come new addition - tolerated, but not fully incorporated into the family group. As late as 1968, only half of the pqpulation of five-year-old children could enter school at that age. The nursery school, which was popular largely with middle class parents, came along as the "baby" around 1920 only to be ignored by its older siblings, and viewed as one too many dependents by the parents (the school administrators). They, in fact, turned it over to other agencies for foster care. Nursery Schools were either privately incorporated, established a.sParent Cooperative Schools, or developed as Laboratory Schools on college or university campuses to serve the needs of students in child development, home economics, medicine, psychology or social welfare. As a result of a variety of conditions, this sttua- tfon is now reversed and everybody loves the "baby," the Early Childhood period, and wants to share in his upbringing. One reason is that the "baby" acquired some godparents who were friends, but not members of the family. The first of these was the Ford Foundation who provided financial support for pre-kindergartens, and in- sisted upon their inclusion in the public schools as one facet of their Higher Horizons project. This program was being conducted in cities already engaged in physical redevelopment. Retrospec- tively, this period represented a breakthrough in public Education because with financial support assured for this innovation, schools were more free to welcome the four-year-olds. Moreover, they brought important researchers along with them to study early learning in its raw state. This event led to the exciting discoveries of the 60's regarding the importance of the early years. All aspects of Education were affected to some degree because of the status shift. Higher Education especially became newly involved because of the need to supply personnel for teaching, supervision and administration. Fortunately, financial support

17 for research and demonstration was also available who formerly had little to do with Early Child- to colleges and universities for their increased hood Education. Everyone is eagerly watching to effort. see what the effects of the new educational models will be. So far, however, there has been little The Ford Foundation project heralded Head change in the nature of the elementary school Start which was formally announced by President environment. Johnson in January, 1965. With vast amounts of money promised for a nationwide program (Proj- Project Follow Through, the sequel to Head ect Head Start), officials in the newly created Start, enrolled only 37,000 children by the end of Office of Economic Opportunity became the next 1969. It was hoped that by continuing the ideas "godparents." Although as with the Ford Founda- of Head Start (small classes with greater oppor- tion, tangible help was available only to children tunity for individualized instruction; supportive in low-income neighborhoods, many educators and protective service for children with medical, concerned with middle class children considered social and psychological problems; and parent the new ideas and adapted them to their own involvement at the planning and participation situations. It is hard to say whether the programs level), the record of performance of children en- have developed much beyond visual discrimina- tering school would improve. To the disappoint- tion exercises in helping children to look for the ment of many, statistical studies indicate that the "wonders of the world" because the overall pres- gap in performance between well-nurtured and sure on children today is to focus their attention poorly-nurtured children does not close at the downward on geometrical forms, colors, and the Primary Level as a result of a Head Start experi- printed symbol instead of encouragement to look ence. However, other kinds of benefits have been about them. Nonetheless, the eyes of children and informally observed: these gains have had to do adults alike have indeed been opened to many with independence, self-esteem, self-confidence, new sights and ideas since 1965. initiative, and informal language rather than motivation and success in symbolic learning and Project Follow Through, funded by OEO and formal language skills. There is room for specu- administered by the Office of Education to provide lation then, regarding the goals of the Head Start a continuation of Head Start but adapted to the designers and the expectations of the Primary primary grade child's learning level, has extended School teachers and administrators. the concern upward to the top limit of the Early Childhood Period. Parent-Child Centers (also One might expect that the new look at early growing out of Head Start findings) make guid- learning would have resulted in notable innova- ance for overall child care available to families tions at the kindergarten and primary school level. with infants and toddlers. This age group has also The fact of the matter is that major changes which come into prominence as having definitely estab- have occurred in the elementary school- the lished learning needs requiring attention from the trend toward non-grading and team teaching as a environment. way of meeting individual learning rates and abilities ~ have developed concurrently with, rather The 1970 generation of youngsters can look to than as a result of, Head Start and appear to be the Office of Child Development, created in April due to other influences. Head Start encourages a 1969 within the Department of Health, Education close teacher-child relationship and individualized ~nd W~lfare, as .its godfather. Because this agency teaching based on respect for individual differ- ISlow in funds, It cannot at present aid current ences. As a way of enriching and broadening projects as generously as did the Ford Foundation a child's world, it recommends curriculum de vel- and the Office of Economic Opportunity with opment around familiar aspects of his environ- Head Start. However, the oeD is considered a ment together with the introduction of new k~y department ~nH~W, for Secretary Robert experiences. These concepts, however, have not FlI~_chhas committed It to provide supervision, penetrated deeply into the system or been soundly guidance and protection for projects touching all integrated into the philosophy of the schools. aspects of Early Child Development. As a con- sequence of this new awareness of the needs of Actually, the standard public school serving children from the earliest years, Public Education middle class and upper-lower class families has is now extending its sphere of concern downward changed little in classroom dynamics. The physical to include four-year-olds, and at last Early Child- setting may be quite modern with new audio- hood ~ducatlOn IS on an equal time, space and visual aids, movable desks, educational games, attention basis with the older siblings in the and an occasional mini-skirted teacher. But it is school family. still common for children to be made to stand in the corner, humiliated and sent to the principal These new projects have aroused the interest for shuffling their feet, or threatened with being of the elementary school teachers and principals treated like a baby for acting child-like. Despite

18 Connecticut College Alumnae News. Summer 1970 non-grading, children know when they are in the before society feels that it is all right to be "dumb" reading or math group and when their "different." The ability to organize for flexibility teacher doesn't like them. The use of the library so that individual needs are met without disturb- often is reserved for the successful child as a re- ing order and stability of the group, is dependent ward while the slow reader, who especially needs more on teachers' knowledge of child develop- to feel close to books, is restricted to the one or ment than other substantive courses in the teacher two simple editions he is supposed to look at education program. The failure to value and re- until he can read them. spect individuality in the first eight years when children are still developing their self-concepts IS In many schools the non-graded, team-teaching often a strongly contributing factor to both child approach which is supposed to represent a trend and teacher failures. away from ability grouping, rewards the child who In addition to an increasing emphasis on course advances rapidly, but leaves' the average and low work in Child Development at the level of Higher average student with the same feeling of inferior- Education, which is responsible for adult knowl- ity experienced by his older brothers and sisters edge and attitudes in parents and teachers alike, in the era of Bluebird and Cardinal reading groups. there are other signs of shifts taking place in Early Fortunately, signs of exciting changes are not Childhood Education. Among these is the concept completely lacking. Children in some schools of "models" in teaching styles and curriculum appear busy, comfortable, challenged and in- planning which are being studied in a few urban volved with learning. Classrooms do exist where and suburban school systems. One experience teachers are obviously in control of themselves originating in Greeley, Colorado and now being and the situation, and where students are rea- tried in Stratford and Willimantic, Connecticut, is sonably in command of their impulses as they testing the hypothesis that children need men as converse, share knowledge and ideas with one well as women teachers in the Early Childhood another and move about the room in an orderly years. This is especially important for the 4's and manner. Some teachers help children to plan and s's who are at the height of dealing with problems carry out constructive projects without condoning of sex-role identification. The British Infant aimless activities or foolish behavior. School "Plan for Continuing Growth" is proving increasingly effective in England and elsewhere. A slowly increasing number of today's teachers Other interesting new designs have originated in do not dominate the situation, but with the child's Tucson, Arizona where an "experimental ap- own developing judgment in mind, keep the power proach" is being tried in a Mexican-American pop- in appropriate balance, and understand individual ulation. At George Peabody College for Teachers differences in terms of environmental as well as in Nashville, Tennessee a project stresses parent personality and growth needs. In order to be a participation as its planned variation, as does a secure enough teacher to share the rewards and program sponsored by the University of Kansas. responsibilities of authority, teachers must be soundly based in knowledge of children's growth At least fifteen such program innovations are needs and styles as well as of curriculum content. being adopted by school systems where Project An understanding of child development facts and Follow Through is in operation. In general, the theories is as essential to good teaching and con- model choices are of four types: 1) developmental- structive teacher-child relationships as knowledge curricular; 2) behavioristic-curricular; 3) parent of educational philosophy, curriculum develop- training and participation; and 4) parent-imple- ment, or methods and materials. Many so-called mentation and community power. The Office of "learning blocks" come from teacher's lack of Education provides the funds to the colleges and knowledge of the inner dynamics of the learning universities who design the models and then act process. Maximum understanding of the concept in a continuing consulting capacity to those school of individual differences in human growth and systems which select their particular one. development is basic to the teacher's skill in meeting individual needs within the group. Although The Stanford Research Institute of Menlo Park, individualizing teaching is a popular concept California has a United States Office of Education today, the practice tends to be limited to helping contract for a long-range study of the develop- a child who is either behind or ahead of the aver- ment and impact of Project Follow Through. It is age learner. By and large, once out of nursery hoped that this research will advance our knowl- school, children are valued for their likenesses to edge regarding the effectiveness of the di.ffere~t one another in performance and personal charac- models and that Early Childhood Education WIll teristics rather than for individual differences. then be on its way to the establishment of an Even though we talk less of "norms" and "con- (cont. on page 29) formity" than we did, we have a long way to go 19 Conn-Quest '70: Ain't Got No

Lois 1. Olcott '71 Helene Whittaker '72 onn-Quest is, and has been pathy is a word that has been C since its inception in 1964, a A kicked around a lot lately, and very nebulous event. Topics have not so lately, by a lot of different ranged from the arts and the phe- people in respect to a lot of different nomenon of multi-media, to the things. It is defined as being freedom problems of modern civilization and from or absence of feeling, an in- the myth of America the Beautiful. sensibility to emotion. I would argue One unifying theme of Conn-Quest with the first word of that definition. through the years has been its at- Apathy is not a "freedom" from tempt to approach and discuss a feeling, or anything else. Rather, it is current issue, not necessarily in an enslavement; the shackling of a hopes of achieving a solution, but in person's mind and heart to his own order to stimulate constructive particular world, revolving around thought. As this year's co-chairman his own narrow interests, shielding and a committee member for the him from interaction with the world past two years, Conn-Quest to me of other human beings. has always been more than a single February 20th to 22nd was Conn- weekend or event. It represents a Quest weekend; I don't think Ihave year of planning and worry, from to explain what kind of events took the definition of the topic, to details place. The topic of the three days of ticket sales and hotel reserva- was poverty, the goal was to exam- tions. And underlying everything, ine the causes, the effects, and the there is the desire to bring to Con- positive actionstaking place to alle- necticut's campus, through out- viate the problem. Entitled Ain't Got standing speakers and our own No: A Confrontation with Poverty, versatile faculty, the most crucial (cant. on page 40) problem facing the world today.

As Professor Seymour Lipset pointed out in his Saturday address, awareness of poverty is a painful experience. Most prosperous men need to ignore poverty to retain tbeir sanity; the sights that shock visitors to India or Appalachia produce a psychological blindness in those who see them everyday. In most of the world, the few affluent, surrounded by the poor, learn to look without seeing and hear without listening, but in this country where the poor are a minority amid the affluent, we are infinitely more sophisticated. Express highways and trains from the city to the suburbs a few miles away, allow most Americans to by-pass poverty. The poor outside the urban ghetto exist in isolated areas with isolated names well removed from the main- stream of American life: Appala- chia, Indian reservations, migrant worker camps, the rural South. Most Americans are aware of poverty in the painful manner that breeds anger and action only if they desire to be.

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20 Connecticut College Alumnae News. Summer 1970 Michael Ware '72 hen one is poor, his thoughts lucky ones who have money for W are of hunger and how to pro- coffee, getting what warmth they cure food. He thinks of ways to get can from it. Maybe you'll see some- food for his children or shoes for one poor walking in the cold, pass- them. His thoughts remain unre- ing the shops because he has no warded; his thinking is worthless money and can't go in because and his children are hungry. everybody knows he has no money When he sees his children steal he with which to buy the right. Loneli- is silent, for he knows it is the only ness is simple, strong in identity, way. When they cry, he does not unwilling to compensate itself for a comfort them. It is the only way. moment of bodily comfort. Comfort is a promise he cannot give. Some do divorce themselves and His children must learn as soon as travel away. As youngsters they they can understand that it is some- either decide to stay or to get out. thing no one assumes or asks for, Some keep themselves clean and but something one takes. pull out as their time comes. Others He knows his next child will be fall in love out of a need for that born hungry because his wife is commitment, or from a hope that it tired and hungry. He knows his next will make things better - somehow. child will be joyless because it will They usually have children young pang from within, born in the cold. and never move out. Some-times on a cold street there Others steal, are caught, and lose will be no poverty, no beggars, no the chance before they have sights children grabbing what they can. As on it, before they know what it you pass the diners you'll see the means, and soon assume they never had the chance; they pass the assumption on. All the resources of the poor are pooled for their own survival. Humanness is too often forgotten, sometimes never known. Children rarely sing, or laugh. They walk the streets scared of losing what they have, or letting on what they don't have. It is always their childhood they lose, having never known it. And being unable to gain the essence of accomplishment never known, a whole society of people feed upon their own frustrations. Yet so rarely are they a society of despair. There is optimism every time they place food on their children's plates or sense it in their own stomachs. Maybe they'll get out. As a poor man grows older he thinks about his younger generation more than himself. Maybe they will get to go, whereas before he thought about taking them himself, or just taking himself. Very few actually go. Strong roots are formed early and are the last organism to be unearthed. If I were not well fed, well clothed, and warm, I could not be of music, of writing, of art, of thought. If I were not rich, I would be poor, unable to know myself.

21 = A Block of Time

Isabel Coulter Abell Coordinator of practice teaching

his year the Education Department embarked Teaching in present day high schools involves T upon an improved program for student many problems. Students talk about "relevance" teachers which enabled them to teach in the local - they want what they learn to mean something schools for a period of eight consecutive weeks, to them. "Tell it like it is" is almost a universal every day and all day the schools were in session. slogan, Our students are cognizant of these forces For two years this "block of time" has been under and are trying to meet the challenge of the times. consideration. The Connecticut State Department Three students who taught in a comprehensive of Education disapproved the previous program high school last semester here "tell it like it is." of permitting students to do student teaching on any day or hour that was free in their schedules; the local schools condemned it for fracturing their Sonia Palkes, City College of New York, B.A., '69. own teachers' programs; and the students frankly Special student nt Connecticut College, nnd a admitted that they were missing the experience Russian and French major. of full time teaching. Obviously, the time had xperiences with learning and teaching a foreign come for a new program that would provide continuity and sequence, and would make opportuni- Elanguage make me aware of four principles which I like to follow: 1) vary the lesson as much ties available to the students for learning about as possible; 2) make the subject matter relevant the full responsibilities of a teacher. and real to the learner; 3) encourage the student's The "block of time" allows students opportuni- initiative; 4) help the student individually when ties for observation in the area they plan to teach. it is possible. Working with a cooperating teacher who in- terprets the method and materials being used, Of course, grammar lessons have to include students visit the library, business practices, guid- rules, drills, memorization, pattern exercises, cor- ance, homemaking, art and manual arts depart- rect sounds and intonations, but these should be ments, and recognize that some students who presented in a variety of ways and a variety of have many problems with academic studies activities. My method is to divide the class hour achieve commendable success in other areas. In into sections. For the first few minutes new di- fact, they get to know the staff, the whole pro- alogue is reviewed, and questions asked of the gram, the protocol and the philosophy of the students on the one thing they were supposed to school. prepare. This gives the teacher an opportunity to The implementation of the program did not review a lesson from the previous day. The next happen overnight. Meetings were held early with fifteen minutes is devoted to questions and an- Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Classes to ac- swers based on the dialogue (oral comprehension quaint them with the change, and to urge them to drill), and approximately ten minutes of each .plan for "a block of time" in the first or second period is spent on a new point in grammar. The semester of their senior year if they intended to do explanation is always short, and I encourage par- student teaching. "Read the catalog! Learn the ticipation in the lesson by having students explain certification requirements"! These were the watch the rule rather than listening to me explain it. words. Some students might have to go to sum- Finally, the class does a few exercises based on mer school, others might be able to over point. the rule that they have learned. If there is any Innumerable conferences have been held, college time left, I go back to the main dialogue. schedules adjusted, and in some cases, late afternoon and evening classes had to be arranged. Learning a new language means not only study- Considerable praise is due the faculty for their ing grammar, rules, vocabulary, spelling and other support, and the help they gave the students in skills; it also means learning about the culture of program adjustments. The new program involves the people. A good foreign language teacher, just both elementary and secondary, but this article as a teacher of any other subject, strives to make will embrace only the secondary. the subject matter relevant, and nothing succeedS in doing this as much as the "cultural hour," This At the close of this college year, fifty-two stu- time is used for the introduction of interesting dents will be eligible for teacher certificates. Of related reading materials, and discussion of cur- this number, fifteen will be for elementary grades rent events or other topics of special interest. A and thirty-eight for secondary in various fields (13 French class cultural hour was devoted to topics English, 10 History and Social Studies, 4 Mathe- such as French painting and architecture, modern matics, 4 Spanish, 3 French, 1 Latin, 1 Russian, 1 French music, Moliere and his works, Louis XVI Biology, 1 Chemistry). Altogether there are four and his times. A Russian class read and discussed M.A.T. candidates, five Special Students, one articles about the Soviet Union, and modern short Return to College, and forty-two members of the stories of Golgol and Gorki, and I gave a lecture class of 1970. on Russian art.

22 Connecticut College Alumnae News. Summer 1970 In addition to making subject matter relevant, it The teacher should stimulate students to teach must be made real. Visual aids enliven the lesson themselves. Beginners in the study of a foreign and lengthen the students' attention span. Colorful language enjoy guessing and answering questions maps, posters, postcards add interest. A student much more than listening to a teacher explain the reporting on modern French music played record- lesson. Teaching this way involves all the class, ings of Edith Plaf, Francoise Hary, Adamo and The teacher puts a riddle on the board and then Aznavour. To illustrate the beauty of France, my the pupils try to figure the answer. They match classes saw the films, Cathedral of Rauen and their answers with the teacher's and discuss why France and the Sea, I have used the French illus- it was right or wrong. In using this method, a trated weekly, Paris-Match, as a source of easy teacher must be well informed about the capaci- but interesting essays which I read to the class, or ties, needs and experiences of his students. assign to a student for a report. All these visual The first task of a teacher is to make the stu- aids make a foreign language more real to students feel that the teacher is with them and for dents. them. Upon meeting a new teacher, high school students are more interested in her as a person than in what she knows or is going to teach. There- fore, it is necessary at the start to establish a personal relationship with the students, to let them know what sort of person one is, and to make them feel free to approach the teacher about matters that are important to them. Only in this way will a teacher get to know each student and be able to help him in terms of his individual needs. A teacher should also be ready to help an individual student not only with academic difficulties, but also with problems outside the classroom. Some students understand things better and quicker if they are explained to them individually on a personal basis, It is up to the teacher to know who those students are, and to give them as much help as required.

Nancy Martin Casey '65. M.A.T. Candidate; teacher of History and Social Studies. o say I was nervous the first day would be Tabsurd. I had spent a week observing two of the teachers with whom I would work and the classes I soon would face. I worked diligently trying to master the names of the students, getting as much material as possible, and finally trying to muster up enough confidence for that first day! When I stood in front of the class to discuss a movie they had just viewed on Civil Rights, it seemed to me that everyone was listening to my rapidly knocking knees. The class looked extremely confident. After what seemed an interminable silence, the class warmed up and began discussing the movie and related issues. As luck would have it, who should enter the class that first day but the Principal of the High School, a photographer, and a news reporter! They were searching for a student teacher to photograph for a college pamphlet on Education. Unfor- tunately, I was standing at the front of the class so I turned out to be their victim. They said that they only wanted to take pictures and that I should

23 One of the first things I learned from observation and student teaching, was that my students had a universal dislike of history and social studies. They felt that history, especially United States history which is a requirement for all, was boring, useless, and a totally wasted period of time. Un- fortunately, they believed that events are not important or relevant if they happened prior to 1960; the past to them is just a useless series of facts that provide no clue to the present. They saw no relationships between the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era, and the turmoil of the present day, nor between the Revolutionary and the Civil War periods. They stressed the point that they had learned facts and details, but relationships and comparisons were not part of the pattern of history courses. It is important to mention that my sample of students consisted of only four classes and that generalizations like these are made on shaky grounds. However, it would be wrong to ignore these feelings of the student as merely idle gripes. The students did not like nor place much value upon learning history. To a history teacher this becomes an important consideration. proceed normally with the class! "Smile! Turn In an attempt to gather some enthusiasm for this way! Keep talking! Look happy! Act nat- history, I tried a variety of techniques. in the dis- ural!" were statements continually uttered by the cussion on the Blacks, we acted out plays in class, photographer. Finally, to my joy, they left. and used student reports and buzz sessions. One Reflecting upon that first day, I realized that this of the more successful ventures was our Soul Day. class had rallied beautifully to help me in mo- Some of the students in the class had asked if they ments of panic. They had an uncanny sense of could bring in records and poems to explain and knowing that I needed their full cooperation and demonstrate the meaning of Soul. Two days were help, and they carne to my rescue. This same con- spent on this project while students played music, sideration by students was exhibited in my other danced, and read to the class. It was a class idea classes also. and a class project and thus a most rewarding two T taught two subjects during my eight-week days. student teaching period. One course, "Twentieth Another assignment which appealed to the stu- Century Problems," was given to seniors; the dents was writing a paper on any social issue they other, "American Society," was for sophomores wished. They were permitted to choose their own with reading difficulties. I had two classes in each topic, to research it, and to analyze it. This project subject and was supervised by two cooperating was designed to show them that their opinions teachers which gave me the benefit of different and ideas were important, and that they were opinions. The "Twentieth Century" course con- capable of planning their own work. Topics cov- centrated on the many problems encountered by ered a wide range- from drugs, to Vietnam, and Blacks in America. The students had studied the dating. Some papers were read by the authors, beginning of slavery and the horror of the slave and then discussed by the whole class; thus a trade, and were then reading excerpts from Fred- student was given a chance to conduct the class erick Douglass' autobiography. Both the materials and defend his ideas. and structure were very flexible in this Course. In the two "American Society" classes, I tried to The "American Society" course reviewed differ- ~aintain interest and work on reading at the same ent forms of government found around the world time by bringing in many paper-backs. Any stu- as a basis for the concentrated study of the United dent who needed to, could read a book and report

States Constitution. These classes had a more to the class, report to me personally I or write a structured format, and a great deal of time was short paper on the significance of the book. One of spent with the students in developing reading the best reports was given by a student who read skills. Both of my cooperating teachers strove very John Hersey's Hiroshima. It was, to say the least, hard to make the students feel at ease and to make o?e ~f the goriest reports, but it opened a discus- the classes enjoyable. SIOninto all aspects of America's actions in Japan.

24 ------Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 For the most part, the students had not heard of play, Antigone by Sophocles, was studied more Hiroshima, nor did they have any idea of the enthusiastically by a general group of seniors than impact of the bomb on the populace. This detailed by a college preparatory group, and by the time and comprehensive report excited the class and it they were finished, they wanted to study even excited me. more Greek plays. What is the intrigue? It is that In conclusion, I loved my classes and my as- the concepts and themes dealt with by Sophocles signment as a student teacher in this urban school. are not very different from those dealt with by I learned so many invaluable things - the most many authors today. While the rules of society important of which was that teaching is an ex- were different in Sophocles' time, there were rules tremely difficult profession sprinkled with much nevertheless, and there was a society in which enjoyment. Student teaching made me see the people had to live. That people always are faced great discrepancy between education courses with dilemmas and problems is a fact remaining dealing with the history and philosophy of educa- unchanged throughout history. For this reason, the tion, and the practical problems one faces in the students were able to relate to the Greek charac- classroom. There is no better teaching course than ters and their problems. standing up in front of a class and getting to work. In the study of English literature, there is place Eight weeks is a short time, but it definitely pro- and challenge enough for those students who are vides an insight into the problems to be faced, and very talented. Teaching English to an honors group into the important question of whether teaching is is especially exciting and rewarding, for most of really one's field. Becoming a member of the these students have really fine, analytical minds. school's professional staff and discovering the They are able to discuss a work -philosophically responsibility of that position, is also a worth- and critically. The particular honors group I taught while experience. showed this ability in their study of Joseph Con- rad's Heart of Darkness; this work probes the Elaine Kerachsky '70. meaning and effect of "civilization" quite deeply. English major working with College Preparatory, My students held many excellent discussions and Honors students in literature. based on the story, and on their very definite opin- eaching English to high school students today ions about life and the world today. It was not can be a very exciting and worthwhile experi- T only Marlow who thought ahout Kurtz's dying ence. Students are better informed in general and words, "the horror, the horror," but also these more concerned about the world around them than ever before. This fact makes them even more students. receptive to literature than ever before. Literature One work the college preparatory and the hon- really is a reflection of the minds and movements ors groups enjoy studying particularly is T. S. of various periods in history; in this sense, it is Eliot's poem, "The Hollow Men." In this poem very much like a mirror of life, reflecting all the Eliot makes a statement concerning the human styles, problems, events, emotions, and people condition. Most of what is said of the basic problems in the world today, end up being a statement included therein. Through the study of literature, about the human condition also. Students today students understand hetter the problems of the relate to such statements, whether they agree with world they live in, and they become aware of the universality of human beings and of the themes of them or not. life. Almost nothing in literature is irrelevant. The study and teaching of literature is derived The three basic forms of literature taught in from and generates a deep understanding of the high school are prose, poetry and drama. All of world as it has been, as it is, and possibly as it these forms can be taught effectively to all kinds will be. From the standpoint of the teacher, this of students. Often the results are amazing to stu- growing awareness makes the job of teaching ever dents and teachers alike. For example, the Greek more important, interesting and exciting.

25 In Memoriam Marjorie Dilley Professor emeritus ean Burdick used to chuckle over a remark she "knew in advance" what her attitudes, opinions, D heard President Blunt make to a visitor as she or actions in particular situations would be, What walked with her to meet the Dean: "Miss Burdick at times might appear to be contradictions in her is a bright, kind, generous, wise woman." One decisions did not break down confidence in her could hear Miss Blunt saying it in the Dean's tell- good judgment. Her attitude asked for and she ing, Miss Burdick was all this, and more, more received the benefit of the doubt until further ex- than any words can tell. Those who knew her, ad- planation or time clarified her position. She did mired her, and loved her have their own words to not ask anyone to accept her judgments because describe her, and at the same time know they are they were hers; she did expect a hearing and she unable to name exactly what it was that everyone was prepared to explain, She was an extraordinar- recognized and responded to. ily effective spokesman for a cause she believed in, She had character. Her integrity and independence were unique. She believed in the ability of She "cleaned" us all with grace and good humor. people to improve, and she was primarily con- She listened. Her listening invited an orderly, cerned with improvement in academic perform- honest statement of the facts essential to the con- ance, She understood the human needs involved sideration of the problems we took to her. These in such pursuit. She gave approval generously; problems were both college and personal, and we she remembered successes. Her disapproval was were invited to state and discuss them imperson- clear but tentative. She offered compassion and ally. She asked sharp, shrewd questions that understood its healing quality. She believed that encouraged accurate and complete reporting. She kindness, generosity, honesty, and wisdom were a gave advice sparingly, and more often than not necessity in good human relations and demon- she led the seeker of advice to accept the implica- strated her belief in her own relations with others. tions of the evidence he had himself ordered under In doing this she influenced all who were at Con- her careful probing. She invited one to think about necticut College when she was, and her death will the probable and possible results of any proposed not lessen her contribution to us all. action. Thus she would ask: "Have you thought about the consequences? Do you really want to risk securing that result?" She was in favor of "facing facts," and was adept at developing alternative approaches. She did not permit belittling comment and always recommended a generous resolution of differences. Her advice was often given indirectly in a story about people and their affairs remote from the subject under discussion. No one who heard it will forget her invitation to apply her neighbor joe's views on history to the consideration of graduation requirements at Con- necticut College.

She was a thoughtful person, knowledgeable in unexpected matters. She always thought of herself primarily as a teacher. She thought about the nature of wise decisions and was reasonably certain that they required standards for judgment. She believed in having agreed standards for human conduct, and thought it important to state them (and restate them) and use them. We responded by trusting her to an unusual degree. Individuals in disagreement accepted her moderating suggestions. She could take the heat out of controversy by her quiet approach and her insistence upon discussion of the issues rather than the personal- ities involved, We counted upon her to ease emotions, and she often did this with a witty comment that brought all parties together in laughter. She frequently surprised and confounded those who

26 Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 We would thank Thee at this time for the life and labors of a beloved friend and colleague, now de- parted from this life, and for whose sake we now come together in fitting tribute to her memory. We remember before Thee her many years af faithful service to this College. and the lasting contribution which she has made to its welfare - a many-sided contribution: physical, mental, moral, as well as musical, spiritual and religious. We recall her un- flagging interest in the life of students, and her unique ability to resolve difficult problems. oft- times helped with a saving sense of humor, We remember too her patience under affliction, her courage in suffering, and her devotion to a loving mother. For the privilege of association and friendship with a gracious personality over the years, we render to Thee due thanks, and will ever hold her in grateful remembrance. Excerpt from the prayer offered by Professor emeritus Paul F. Laubenstein. Memorial Service for Dean emeritus Alverna Burdick. Harkness Chapel February 21. 1970.

27 Elizabeth C. Evans Retires

Mary Louise Lord Professor of classics

Seriptores Physiognomoniei for the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commen- taries. For the breadth of her academic experience Miss Evans has won distinction both in the Col- lege and in the larger field of the Classics. In Sep- tember 1963 she was designated Henry B, Plant Professor of Classics, one of six name chairs awarded by the College. She has served on the State Advisory Committee on Foreign Language Instruction, and in 1961-62 she was President of the Connecticut Section of the Classical Associa- tion of New England. She has served as Chairman of the Examining Committee for the Advanced Placement Program in Latin for the College En- trance Examination Board. She has been a member of the National Screening Committee to review loquent witness of the affection and esteem applications for Fulbright awards for Italy and E with which Elizabeth C. Evans has ever been Greece. She has also filled the post of Chairman regarded by her students is the escutcheon deaf the Advisory Council of the School of Classical signed for her by members of the class of '63 and Studies of the American Academy in Rome and framed in her apartment. Its sprightly mottoes; has served on its Classical Jury and on the Man- In hoc signa Evans and Liber, Lux, well bespeak aging Committee of the American School in her wise counsel and warm good humor. Ever Athens. Miss Evans persuaded the College to join since she' came to Connecticut College in 1953 as as a cooperating institution both the American Professor of Classics and Chairman of the De- School in Athens and the American Academy in partment, after twenty-one years of teaching at Rome, associations from which both faculty and Wheaton and Vassar, she has worked with imagi- students have richly benefited. She has been in- nation and enthusiasm to establish in the Classics strumental also in gaining for the College member- a sound training that has enlightened the present ship with the Intercollegiate Center for Classical while revealing the past. Studies in Rome. She is on the Board of Advisors A graduate of Radcliffe and a Ph.D. in Classics of the College Year in Athens, a program which from Radcliffe, she was awarded the Prix de Rome and was a Fellow of the American Academy in has helped a number of our students to gain an Rome from 1930-32. Her study there led to the introduction to archaeology in Greece. publication of The Cults of the Sabine Territory A very high percentage of the Classical majors by the American Academy in 1939. She has trav- have achieved academic distinction. Three of the eled extensively in Greece and Italy, and in 1959 seniors have been named Woodrow Wilson Fel- she traced the. Roman Wall in Britain and drove lows, and three have received Honorable Mention to many other Roman sites. in the Woodrow Wilson competition. Two seniors In 1960-61, on leave from Connecticut College, have been awarded Fulbright grants. A member of Miss Evans lived as Visiting Scholar and Research the class of '70 has just received notice of a Dan- Fellow at the Radcliffe Graduate Center. At that forth Fellowship. That several of the students time she was awarded a Shirley Farr Fellowship have pursued advanced degrees in the nation's from the American Association of University leading graduate schools is directly attributable to Women as well as a grant from the Penrose Fund Miss Evans' inspired and untiring leadership. of the American Philosophical Society. Her work, During her years at Connecticut College Miss which has included the writing of several articles, Evans has frequently expressed her pleasure at culminated in the publication in 1969 by the Amer- working with lively and congenial colleagues. ican Philosophical Society of a definitive mono- Through her own sturdy voice in faculty meetings, graph, Physiognomies in the Ancient World, a she has set the tone for a responsible discussion study of the art of interpreting character from of the vital academic issues that have always been physique from the time of Homer to the end of the her concern. We are fortunate that the Board of fourth century A.D. In this book she sheds light on Trustees through the President have asked her to a wide range of ancient literature, embracing epic, accept an appointment next year beyond her re- lyric, drama, philosophy, and satire. Her research tirement. She plans in the future to live in Cam- was extended during her leave in the second term bridge, Massachusetts and to work in Widener of 1967-68 when she gathered material on the Library. Feliciter velimus teque Iaudamus!

28 Connecticut CollegeAlumnae News. Summer 1970 Wedgewood Connecticut College Commemorative Dinner Plates Set of four $10.00 (only 100 sets available) A Unique Commencement or Wedding Gift

Harkness Chapel, Palmer Library, College En- These plates also make an attractive wall decora- trance, and Knowlton House engraved from draw- tion. ings by Robert Fulton Logan, former chairman of Cbecks payable to Connecticut College Alumnae the art department. Black on white dinnerware. Association should be included with the order.

(cant. from page 19J (cant. from page 6J bilities of the new building and the talent on campus. acceptable, effective approach to the learning- Under Mr. Armstrong's direction the Chorus held its teaching-learning process which will be so appro- joint spring concert with the University of Pennsylva- priate to children's needs and interests that it nia Glee Club, featuring several small groups in a will endure. variety of styles. The Yale-Connecticut Tour Chorus Additional government activities include the will be on the road from March 20-27,with concerts in National Laboratory for Early Childbood Educa- New Haven, Bethlehem, Pa., Cleveland Heights, and tion which coordinates eight large university- the University of Toronto - and a bonus of a free based research projects covering the major aspects day at Niagara Falls. of early learning, As recently as early March, Commissioner of Education James Allen re- On The Lecture And Conference Front, Conn-Quest affirmed the federal agency's concern for improv- (reviewed elsewhere in this issue) was the outstanding event with a focus on poverty. During Negro His- ing the quality of existing kindergartens and tory Week the Committee for Interracial Education primary schools, and working even more inten- and Cooperation sponsored several events on campus, sively to provide for the pre-school age group. including a lecture by Dr. James Comer,psychiatrist And a National Institute of Education was an- of Yale, a Book Fair, and an Art Exhibition with Yale nounced in March also. This kind of interest and and Wesleyan artists participating. support suggests that children are at long last about to have their day in educational as well as On The Dramatic Front, Frost's Masque of Reason other matters that concern both them and the was presented at Matins by a student-facuIty group, adults in their lives. with Mr. Evans playing God and Mr. Grimsey, Satan. Undoubtedly the most unusual event was the evening His many friends among the alumnae will be of Chinese Opera brought by Mr. Chu and attended saddened to learn of tbe deatb on March 27tb in by Chinese scholars and students from other colleges. New London, of Dr. Gerard E. Jensen, professor Mrs. Pian of Harvard opened the program with an emeritus of English and former chairman of the explanation of some of the distinctive features of Peking opera. Two operas were presented with or- department. A memorial article will appear in the chestra, and the campus was initiated into this exotic next issue. and beautiful art product.

29 Class Notes

Editor of Closs Notes: year, Helen Stickle Downes to Virginia and IN MEMORIAM Harriet Bynon RoUe to West Hartford. Har- Mrs. Huber Clark riet's husband has retired. They went to KATHERINE WINCHESTER SHERMAN '19 Florida this winter and while there saw (Marion Vibert '24) EDITH LINDHOLM BALDWIN '20 Gladys Smith Packard. Helen Peale Sumner and husband have also been in Florida as East Main Street ESTHER CHIDSEY McEWEN '21 has Constance Hill Hathaway, who is re- RUTH McCOLLUM BASSETT '21 covering from illness. I, Amy Peck Yale, Stockbridge, Mass. 01262 spent last weekend with Lucy McDannel whose mother died in January. We both at- Luces, children of Jessie Menzies Luce and tended Alumnae Council weekend. There r 1919 Correspondent. Philip, recently moved to Charlotte, N.C. saw Dorothy Gregson Slocum '21 who told Mrs. Enos S, Comstock (Juline Warner) "Grandma" was cheered by their Christmas me Jeannette Sperry Thompson's husband 176 Highwood Ave., leonia, N.j. 07605 visit to Richmond. Marion Luce Butler and has not been well and they are Hvtag quietly family not finding enough snow in Dayton, at their home in New Hampshire. On a 1920 Co-correspondents: Ohio, spenl a week skiing in Vermont. Eleanor Hartford radio program, Ruth Bacon Wick· Mrs. Philip tuce (Jessie Menzies) Seaver Massonneau's oldest granddaughter is wire's son Franklin is reviewing his new 1715 Bellevue Ave., Apt. 8-902 a freshman at St. Lawrence Univ., her book, the first life of Cornwall ever written, Richmond, Va. 23227 parents' alma mater. Eleanor's son, Dr. for which he and his wife did research in Mrs. King O. Windsor (Marjorie Viets) Robert Massonneau, finishes his psychiatric England a few years ago. Gertrude Traurig, 350 Prospect 51. course at the medical college in June and her sister and brother went to Hawaii for Wethersfield, Conn. 06109 will stay in Burlington. 1920's Colonel Charles their vacation this winter, after a few days I. Clark, husband of the late Agnes Mae in California where Gert phoned my grandson '70 Our Reunion _ make it the best! Bartlett Clark, is definitely coming to reunion. just after I had left there. Marjorie Smith is Margaret Davies Cooper and Bennett spent a active in Lifetime Learning work again this Married: Dora Schwartz Knapp to Max Epstein month in Lancaster, Pa. caring for their son's on Dec. 31. year. I went to the National Farm Bureau 50th family while Laurie was in the hospital. They Bruce Odell, son of Joan Munro Odell, and Anniversary convention in Washington in are now back in Hendersonville, N.C. Hen- December, and while there visited the Na- his family live in Portage, Wis. Bruce sends rietta Costigan Roome gave up her osteopathic word of Joan's grandchildren: Bob a high tional Geographic Society headquarters. From work with children but still creates small school senior chosen for Badger Boys' State; there I flew to California and visited my sculptures with original designs. Her interest Nancy a sophomore in high school; Betsy a daughter, Amy Yale Yarrow '48. ':"'e saw in making pottery is as great as ever. Al- freshman and David in 7th grade. Rachel Marjorie D'oyle Sullivan '20 on their lovely though an invalid, Henrietta looks forward to Parker Porter did not go to Florida this year hilltop where she and her husband work driving her car for short distances when and found herself caught in Connecticut's with their son Maurice in his book business. spring comes. For several years she taught deep freeze. In October she and Max went to We spent a day with Marjorie WeUs Lybolt embryology, physics and chemistry on the Pinehurst for the "Three Score and Ten" and took her to ride in Marin County on college level. She has two sons, one a business golf meet. They have three grandsons in their worst day of floods. Her home in college, a granddaughter at Stoneleigh-Burnham executive and the other an arterial surgeon. Fairfax is on a hillside among redwood girls' school, another grandson in prep school There are five grandchildren, two of them trees. I phoned Elizabeth Merrill Blake's in Washington, Conn. and two still at home. sludying at the Sacred Heart School in New daughter and had dinner later with her nephew York. Marjorie Carlsson Lees and Malcolm There were 13 of the family at the Porters' and his family in Pacific Palisades. entertained Malcolm's son and family from for Christmas. The oldest grandson graduates This winter death claimed two members from Hobart CoUege on reunion weekend and the Boston area for Christmas. Marjorie's of the class: Ruth Bacon Wickwire died we probably will not see Rayon the Hilltop. oldest grandson will be in college next fall. just before Christmas and Helen Tryon two Alice Horrax Schell and Fred visited in the Kalherine Schaefer Parsons and Nelson spent weeks later. Our sympathy goes to their Carolinas and Florida and then on to Port of Thanksgfvtng with their son Bob and family families, and to Constance Hill Hathaway Spain, Tobago and Curacao on the ore freighter in Pennsylvania. They spent Christmas in on the loss of her husband. Alcoa. They visited the Poteats (IBahelle bed with the flu. Maud Carpenter Dustin and (Belty) Rumney and John) in Tryon and the her husband enjoy their home and entertaining Luces (Jessie Mendes and Phil) in Richmond. their several children and 14 grandchildren 1923 Correspondent: Al talked to Cluissa Ragsdale Harrison in who visit frequently. Helen Collins Miner's Alice P. Holcombe Miami. Clarissa and her husband will be at son reports his parents enjoying a long vaca- 59 Scotch Cap Rd. reunion. Al also talked to Dorothy Doane tion in Florida-until the first of May. Ellen Quaker Hill, Conn. 06]75 Wheeler in Sebring and urged her 10 join us. Carroll Wilcox, grandmother of 8, says a granddaughter's poem was read over a Soufh The winter trip of Fanchon Hartman Title and 1924 Co-correspondents: Melvin took them to Panama on the Michel- Carolina station and recorded. Emma Wippert Pease is busy with club work, especially Mrs. Bernard Bent (Eugenia Walsh) angelo. Then they flew around all the countries Washington Cove, Md. 20880 of Central America. After a couple of days in editing year books for the Hartford Women's Miami they returned home. En route Fanch Ass'n and the West Hartford Music and Arts Kathryn Moss was planning CC reunion activities and hoping Ass'n. Our sympathy goes to Dora Schwartz P.O. Box 13]4, New london, Conn. 06]20 to find your memorabilia from college days Epstein for the loss of her nephew and his awaiting her for display in the library. Mildred wife on the Swissair plane that was sabotaged 1925 Correspondent: Howard and her neighbor took off for the on its way from Zurich to Tel Aviv. He was Derothy Kilhourn Sleepy Hollow Restorations in Tarrytown, an authority on public health on a mission B4 Forest St., Hartford, Conn. 06105 concerning it. N.Y. From Sleepy Hollow they progressed up the Hudson Valley visiting restored houses as The class extends its sincere sympathy to 1926 Co-correspondents: far as Hyde Park. In September and October the family of Edith Lindholm Baldwin. who dfed March 17, 1970. Miss Hazel M. Osborn Miff went on a Mediterranean cruise to Greece 152 East 94th St., New York, N.Y. 1oo2B and the Greek Islands, arriving home in time Soon it will be June. So come ye members to join her brother, sister-in-law, nephew and of '20 to your 50th reunion. Miss Marjorie E. Thompson his wife for 10 days in Grenada, the Spice We hope to C U at CC in '70. 162 East BOthSt., New York, N.Y. 10021 Islands of the Caribbean and St. vtacect. Kathryn HUlbert Hall and her aister are on 1921 Correspondent: On Mar. 1, Annette Ebsen O'NeiU retired a special U.N. Ass'n of America cruise to the Mrs. Alfred J. Chalmers (Anna M. Brazos) after 18 years as program director and assis~ant Caribbean on the Argonaut. Mary Brader Box 31], Rte. 4 to the director at Recording for the Bh~d. Siegel often sees Alice Horrax Schell, Fanchon Hendersonville, N.C. 287]9 "Perhaps the most gratifying part of my Job Hulman Tille, Dora Schwartz Epstein, La was the contact r had with blind students Fetra Perley Reiche and Mildred Howard. 1922 Co-correspondents: in Africa and Asia, as well as in the USA and Canada. They were so eager for higher edu- Brader will be coming to reunion. Her main Mrs. David H. Yale (Amy Peck) cation that would fit them for good profes- interests are antiques and genealogy. She 579 Yale Ave., Meriden, Conn. 0&450 sional jobs, financial independence and. ~ull assists at antique shows mostly to determine Miss Marjorie E. Smilh prices. She belongs to the DAR, Huguenot participation in the sighted world. In addlti.on 181 Jrving Ave., Providence, R.r. 02906 Society and Nesbitt Memorial Hospital AUXi- I worked closely with the RFB reco~dlDg liary and does church work. The Rebert units .... My job was to plan and coordlD~te Two of our members have moved this the production of books recorded at the units

30 Connecticut College Alumnae News. Summer 1970 by setting the standards and the pattern of and 20 Shetland sheep dogs at Fujisawa City work that was needed in order to get the in the garden of a Buddhist Temple. Elizabeth 1929 Correspondent: tapes to the students when they had to have Olsen Kline's daughter Virginia is doing Mrs. Thomas L. Stevens them." Annette's first stop when she left graduate work in music at the Univ. of (Adeline McMiller) New York was in Winter Park, Fla. visiting Denver where she was awarded a teaching 287 Overwood Road, Akron, Ohio 44313 Myrtle (Tommy) Ryder Duryea and her hus- fellowship after her graduation from DePauw '70, Our Reunion - make it the best! band. Then she visited friends in some of the Univ. Betty is flying to Denver in March for 21 RFB units in various parts of the country. a visit. Henrietta Owens Rogers' greatest joy Classmates working with Catharine [Speedro) In the process she plans to choose a place is two grandchildren, Michael Mcquarrie 11/! Greer to make our upcoming reunion "best where she will settle in as a volunteer worker. and his sister Molly, born Dec. 13, children ever" include: Pbyllis Heintz Malone, Janet Elizabeth Lee continues to serve as our class of their daughter Kathie and Irvine Mcquarrie, Boomer Barnard, Eleanor Fahey Reilly, Flora agent chairman for the A.A.G.P. She remains now in his second year of neurosurgery at (Pat) Hine Myers and Elizabeth (Bibbo) Riley ever hopeful of new contribution records N.Y. Hospital. Daughter Patsy runs the music Whitman. Our class president, Normah Ken- from our class. Last summer Betty and a dept. at the New Lincoln School in NYC and nedy Mandell with husband Web spent a friend took a train trip through western composes music. Son Jim and Linda live in recent Sunday evening with Tom and me when Canada. Constance Clapp Kauffman did all the New York where Jim is at Columbia untv. they drove to Akron from Shaker Heights. "preaching" in the First Congregational-United School of Architecture and a member of the Normah was getting packed to attend Alumnae Church of Christ at Constantine, Mich. during Army Reserve. Honey Lou was one of a half Council on campus the next weekend. Normah the fall and winter months when her husband dozen women featured in the New York 'rtmes plays bridge regularly with Elizabeth Mc- was ill. He continued to write the sermons but on Nov. 11 as; "Once Sheltered Wives, They're Laughlin Carpenter who is busy building an Connie delivered them and also "did all the Marching to a Different Drum" because of addition to their home in Chagrin Falls. other things involved in caring for a church her activity in organizing a Start Peace I Stop Meredith Sheppard Jarvis' husband Phil has during a cold, snowy winter." In addition to War! campaign in New Canaan in 1968 and fully recovered after recent hospitalization in writing the church bulletins, sending announce- her election in November to the minority seat Boston and is back at his teaching post at ments to the newspaper, planning the music on New Canaan's a-man Board of Selectmen. Western N.E. College. Flora (Pat) Early for the choir to sing and teaching 3rd and She says she received the Democratic nomi- Edwards and her husband bought a condo- 4th graders in Sunday School, Connie ad- nation for selectman by accident but once minium in S. Laguna, Calif. and sent Normah ministered Communion and "had a few she had it, she campaigned hard and ran a "seascape" of the view from their apartment window. Despite a broken finger suffered in situations, where I didn't know what to do." 40% ahead of her party, largely because young She is active in AAUW in Three Rivers 8 people supported her. The job now consumes turning a balky mattress, Bibbo Whitman wrote of a motor trip Dorothy Thayer White miles away. The study group to which Connie her hours and energies morning, noon and belongs made a study of student revolts in night. Elmo Ashton Decherd and Kirt had a took last summer with friends through Great colleges and universities and she presented a delightful trip to Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan, Britain. Dot and Bibbo see one another often paper titled "Revolt against Reason." One of Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand last as they both do much volunteer work for the Brunswick Regional Memorio.l Hospital. your correspondents spent the winter months spring. "After successfully negotiating the Cynthia Lepper Reed and ber sister, a ...... ell- at Marathon on the Florida Keys enjoying sun frighteningly wild traffic in Bangkok and known map maker and lecturer of Southport, and sea. The other one went to San Francisco Tokyo, Kirt and I were both mowed down by Me" took a voyage along the coast of Norway in March where she chaired a session at the a car on Long Island last summer. He wasn't with their ship stopping at many interesting annual conference of the American Ortho- hurt badly but I had a concussion and was towns and villages. Jane Kinney Smith and psychiatric Ass'n. En route back to New hospitalized for two weeks. I still have some her husband have been taking trips since York, she visited a nephew in Los Angeles minor effects from it but am glad to be alive." his retirement a year or two ago. They are and spent Easter in Wickenberg, Ariz. with Last June Margaret Dahlgren retired from the in Europe but will be back in tlme for Jane Charlotte Lang Carroll '25. tax dept. of the Bankers Trust Co. in NYC because of too much overtime work. A few to be on hand for reunion. Bibbo extends weeks later her mother, who had been living thanks to those who have contributed to 1927 Correspondent: with her, died. Margaret has driven across A.A.G.P., which this year will constitute our Mrs. L Bartlett Gatchell the continent five times. She now has a class gift. (Constance Noble) part-time position she enjoys with the Lillia 6 The Fairway Babbitt Hyde Foundation in Elizabeth, N.J. 1930 Correspondent: Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 Karla Heurich Harrison and Gene spent last Mrs. Paul T. Carroll (Ruth Cooper) summer in Highlands, N.C. Merle Hawley 6017 N. 16th si.. Arlington, Va. 2220S 1928 Correspondent: Smith and Alex enjoy retirement and travel- '70 Our reunion - make it the best! Mrs. Alexander C. Mitchell ing. Having found Florida cold last winter, (Louise Towne) they tried Arizona this year. Molly is active Frances (Pete) Brooks Foster's husband, Dr. 15 Spruce si.. Cranford, N.j. 07016 in the Akron C.C. Club. Margaret Crofoot Frank Foster, is retiring from the Leahy was charmed by the Hawaiian Islands last Clinic in Boston and will return to his college '70, Our Reunion - make it the best! summer. Her homeward trip included San town where he will teach at Dartmouth Madi- Francisco, Yosemite, Sequoia National Park, Class president Dorothy Davenport Voorhees, cal Center. Pete has been a committee lady at Los Angeles and Albuquerque where she and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for 4 fresh from the March alumnae Council meeting her friends rented a car and drove to Santa years. Victoria Selickman Robins moved to and eager to share with us what she saw and Fe for a week of pueblos, cliff dwellings, an apartment in East Orange, N.J. Her experienced on campus, urges us all to come Indian market, dances, etc. Peg continues daughter Pat attends Upsala College in East to reunion June 12-14 and to attend Alumnae to enjoy her job as admissions worker for Orange. Ruth Cooper Carroll visited Helen College for insight into what is being taught Philadelphia Presbytery Homes, Inc. Roberta Oakley Rockhold in the tatter's new colonial today. She discussed reunion plans with Bitgood Wiersma's travels last fall took her home' in Bow, N.H. last summer. Helen is Hazel Gardner Hicks, who has invited us to to Rochester, Minn.; Groton, conn.: Detroit happy to have her son, Sgt. Alan Rockhold, her home again for the class picnic. Edna and Saginaw, Mich.; and Bloomington, Ill. back from Vietnam. He is now in San Somers has taken over as chairman of the for organ recitals and junior choir and organ Francisco. Helen's daughter Carol, husband nominating committee, the previous commit- workshops. In addition to being in charge oi and baby Betsy live in NYC. Mabel Bartlett tee having resigned. On Sunday Roberta music for the First Congregational Church in is busy at her library work as well as the Bitgood wterema will playa memorial service Battle Creek, Mich. Roberta plays viola in Tenure and Grievance Committee. Norma at Harkness Chapel. Dot reminds us that con- the Battle Creek Symphony and had a few George Murray went on a fishing trip to tributions to AAGP this year w ill become our new publications last year. Her husband Bert Ecuador and last fall spent a month in Europe, class gift at reunion. Hilda Van Horn Ricken- has joined the OT staff of the Veterans' ending with a week's cruise to the Aegean baugh and her husband returned in February Administration Hospital in Battle Creek. In Islands. Sally Diescber Kountz's husband from a a-weeks' trip to the Orient to visit October Alec and I, Louise Towne Mitcbell, Buzzy died five years ago. "He left me with their daughter Ann, husband Andrew Kelsey spent a few days with Eleanor Penney Herbst a men's shop he had started in 1958 after he and 3 grandchildren in Bangkok. They made a at her home on the Niantic River. Pennie retired from business. It is thriving, 21 circle of the South Pacific "from Acapulco and r renewed our youth by visiting our old employees, a good manager and office staff. to Tahiti and Moorea, Sidney, Singapore, rooms in Plant and Branford and welcomed Consequently I am free to travel as much as Bangkok, Hong Kong, Japan and the Hawaiian the chance to observe today's students and I want. Fishing occupies a great deal of my Islands. In Japan they saw the exterior of see how beautiful and functional the campus time and I have a friend who fishes tourna- Expo '70, Osaka, the gardens of Kyoto and has become. ments with me each year. My other main spent a few days in Tokyo. Hilda was asked interest is sport car racing and rallies. Was a by the Japan Collie Club to judge 100 collies Do come back to reunion!

31 'pit girl' at the last Daytona 24 hour race. enjoys her freshman year at Wellesley. Son 1934 Correspondent· Actually my duties consisted of making sand- Bob goes to college next year. Ruth Caswell wiches, and being den mother in general, not Clapp's son David, home from the Frontier Mrs. J. Arthur Wheeler, Ir. (Ann D. Crocker) changing tires. Elizabeth Edwards Spencer's Program in Hong Kong, lives in Cambridge, husband has taken early retirement and they teaches American history in Lincoln-Sudbury P.O. Box 454, Niantic, Conn. 06357 have bought a house with a View in Morris, High, and coaches J.V. hockey with great Jean Berger Whitelaw has been "busy with Conn., just south of Litchfield. Her son John success. Son Steve, now with the Center the pots," (pottery making, not addicts) and is a junior at Denver Univ. and a topnotch for Political Research in D.C., reports on is taking a course at the Umv. of British skier. Ethel Odin retired from teaching last welfare programs for the National Journal Columbia. Her doctor husband Mac and son June. She travelled to Spain and Portugal and writes for the Washingtonian. He and Bill went to Tuh Toyatack on a bird watching and says, "It's better than teaching!" Leila' Sara made Ruth and Ed grandparents with trek. Helen Frey Sorenson and husband cele- (Lee) Benedict Simmons and husband have the arrival of Emilia Diana on moon-landing brated their 25th wedding anniversary during retired to New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Margaret Monday. Nancy with her B.A in sociology, a trip to New England; spent Thanksgiving Jackman Gesen just had her 17th grandchild. is a student nurse in N.Y. Hospital under in Key West, Christmas in Nassau, April in Meg's daughter, whose husband works in the Cornell Uni v. Ruth "decided to follow a New Orleans. Emily Witz Charshee had a Pentagon, lives in Rockville, Md. Meg is gnawing desire to help someone learn to reunion with Frances Rooke Robinson and active in trying to preserve the home of read" and takes a U. Conn. course to prepare husband. Fritz is teaching art in an ele- Pres. Franklin Pierce from demolition by for substitute teaching or aide. Susan Comfort mentary school near Pleasantville, N,Y. Her Urban Renewal in Concord, N.H. It has been met her freshman roommate, Constance Ben- husband is recovering from a severe illness. declared a historic shrine by the National net! Crail in Philadelphia in October. Connie, A two weeks trip to Key West and plenty of Register of Historic Sites, but the same old paralyzed from the waist down for over 30 her favorite sport, deep sea fishing, helped problem-lack of funds. Marion Allen HershaI years. has always had a job, from which Anne Shewell recover from a nasty bout with lives in Oakland, Calif. near Lake Merritt. she is now retiring. She has moved into a new the flu bug this spring. Minna Barnet Nathan Last summer Ernestine Vincent Venner and home and is as pretty and spunky as ever. and husband moved to permanent residence her husband visited there. Ruth Barry Hilde- Sue herself is off on her jumbo a-month on Martha's Vineyard and find it a wonderful brandt's son Barry owns two book shops cruise to the South Pacific and Orient. spot to entertain grandchildren. Minna's daugh- in Cohasset and Hingham, Mass. Mary Kidde Dorothy Friend Miller, starting her 4th year ter Sally and family have settled in a 1620 Morgan and her husband just celebrated their on the Bookmobile on Maui, enjoys bridge, house in Gloucester. Dorothy Sisson Tuten 40th anniversary. Virginia Joseph writes from golf and square dancing. She gained two more ventured north this winter but continues to Treasure Island that there is an active grandchildren in '69: a son to Janet in Ireland, prefer her garden spot in Florida. Despite alumnae group of about 15. Frances Kelly a daughter to Ruth in New Hampshire. Vaca- recent operations, Alma Nichols maintains Carrington is a member of the staff at South- tion trips included Ireland, Boston, and a her grand outlook on life. Monmouth College, bury Training School, Conn .. has been there tour of her own Hawaiian Islands. Elizabeth N.J. is near her and she enjoys the 6000 stu- for 29 years. Margarel Brewer Bunyan has a Gabriel Haas loves her new life in Naples, dents, among them the great unwashed, the niece, Marcia Toft, graduating from Connec- Fla.; apartment living; and new found friends, hippies and the ytpptes. "We do need to com- ticut this year. Peg writes, "Alden and I, though too far from children. grandchicks municate better and to re-assess our own retired, are coordinators for volunteer teachers and Buffalo friends. Janet Hamilton Middleton sense of values." Rose Braxl is director of and non-reading adults, chiefly Puerto Ricans, and John tripped to Denver in November for nursing service at Harrington Memorial Hos- in Greater Hartford area. The Dr. Frank the wedding of son Frank, an accountant with pital in Southbridge, Mass. and looking for- Laubach method and materials, through work- the Denver U.S. Ban Corp. Son Kent, after ward to a busier year than ever with additional shop training sessions, facilitate this en- two years of teaching in Tunis, with the buildings nearly completed. Mary Curnow grossing work. Our son Bruce, wife and two Peace Corps, I is doing graduate work at Berger is working part time at Manhattanville small sons enjoy their farm in Hebron, Michigan Univ. Mabel Hansen Smith sold College in New York. Her twin sons finished Conn." Juliet Phillips spent a month in Coral their business in Florida because of her engineering courses, one at Cornell, the other Gables and on the way home viewed the total husband's illness but still works in the store at NYU and Clarkson. One son is married to eclipse in Beaufort, S.C. Ruth Jackson Webb harder than- ever. Sbe and her husband a "beautiful Norwegian girl," the other is has a new granddaughter. Ruth's son is between them have a grand total of 24 grand- "still shopping." Red's husband Tack saw returning from the island of Rarotonga in children and two great-grand-daughters. Mary Ernestine Herman Katz's husband Morrie and the South Pacific. Her other son will return Kent Grant's husband Sidney has been a learned that his blind twin girls have been from England to this country. Isabel Gilbert patient at Togus V.A. Hospital in Maine for placed in suitable homes. Son Mike and wife Greenwood writes, "My husband retired last almost four years. Mary drives the 90 mile are continuing their studies after returning June; so we left beautiful British Columbia round trip from their home in South Bristol from Hawaii. Jack also saw Louise Hill Corliss and drove to Ottawa where we had decided almost daily. She also writes a regular in Louisiana. Lou is involved with LWV. Two we would like to settle down. We bought a column of mystery reviews for the "Library of her children are married, two in school. small house in the Manor Park area. I en- Journal." Jane MacKenzie officially retired Eleanor Hine Kranz had a solidly packed 1969. rolled as a volunteer in the Heads tart program in June from her teaching career but has Pebble Kranz was born to son John and wife; in the centre city, which I find rewarding and returned to substitute. Besides planting hun- son David came back from Vietnam and is challenging. Our two younger daughters are dreds of flower bulbs, she has kept busy with doing graduate work in English at Berkeley; at home. Meg is working part-time and taking "peregrinations" to Maine, New Hampshire, daughter Ginny was married on Martha's courses at Carleton Univ. Anne is in Grade Vermont and Hawaii. Dorothea Petersen South- Vineyard and is teaching kindergarten in New- XII at Rideau H.S. Our son David is married, worth and Kenneth have taken an early ton while her husband studies law at B.U.; having a sabbatical in England and our retirement and are eager to get to their new daughter Judy is a freshman at B.U. Hiney is married daughter Sally and her husband still home in Edgartown, Mass., "in spite of looking for a job that insures her of a summer live in Kamluops." Dorothy Quigley is our Kennedya and oil slicks." Lois Richmond vacation. Miriam Greil Pouzzner's children nominating chairman and Louisa Kent our Baldwin works in the Elmira College Library and a delightful grandchild brightened the reunion chairman. Our class president, Helen as secretary to the director and head of holidays. Mim's husband has been very ill Benson Mann, would be so happy to see acquisitions. Daughter Martha with children during the past year. Mim heard from Nancy many of you come back to reunion. 10 and 6 lives in Palo Alto, Calif. Son Bob Clapp Quigley whose husband has also been The class extends its deepest sympathy to is also married. Ann Thornton Malcolm and ill for several months. Grace Nichols Rhodes' Marion Allen HershaI whose husband died husband Wilson retired from his Florida son Richard is married and working for a too late for the notice to be in the last News. pastorate to Texas to be near their twin degree at Berkeley. Daughter Natalie is study- Our sympathy to Mary Kidde Morgan on the sons. Buddy, single, is in personnel with ing political economy at Charles uatv. in death of her mother and to Elizabeth Perkins Delta Airlines. Ed, married, teaches at the Prague. Son Roger sang 42 concerts with the on the death of her sister Olive. Federal Aviation Academy in Oklahoma City, Amherst Glee Club in 15 different countries and has provided grandchildren, Angela and from Taiwan to Nepal. Grace keeps busy with Debra. Ann and Wilson bought a year-round weekly handcraft classes for senior citizens. 1931 (o-correspondents: cottage at Lake Grapevine about 30 miles Five grandchildren is Florence Baylis Skelton's Mrs. Ross D. Spangler from Dallas, living close to nature and its story to date. Babe and Bob keep a crib perma- (Mary Louise Holley) ever changing beauty. Adelaide Thompson nently set up in the "old homestead" and it 810 South High Street Hicks and Kenneth live a new life amid the is used very often. Babe teaches art in the West Chester, Pa. 19380 Connecticut hills. Addie writes, "Heritage Brockport, N.Y. High School. Alice Gal8nt.e Mrs. Ernest A, N, Seyfried Village is an adult community of condominium Greco was the subject of several feature ern- (Wilhelmina C. Brown) apartments occupying the old Victor Borge cles in the New. Haven and Wallingford news- 37 South Main St., Nazareth, Pa. 18064 estate, offering. all kinds of facilities and papers. She loves her work as a guidance interests. At first it seemed as if we were on counselor. Husband Carmela is planning officer 1932 Correspondent: a vacation resort, using pool, golf facilities, for the slate colleges in Connecticut. Son Carl etc. I believe it is a first for New England is a student at Central. Libbie Blumenthal Mrs. Alfred K. Brown, Jr. and unique in selling and design." Their son (Priscilla Moorel Jacob's son Jim is at the Univ. of Mo. and her Ken Jr. was married in September. Son John daughter is married, mother of two. Libble 27 Hill St., Shrewsbury, Mass. 01545 still single, lives in San Francisco. returned to Connecticut in March for her Our class extends sincere sympathy to Mary niece's wedding. Dorothy Luer Harms spent Marion Allen, area fund solicitor for C.C., Elizabeth Osher on the death of her husband, the winter in Mexico while her husband went is a staff superintendent with the telephone Norman W. Osher, M.D., on Dec. 26 of cancer deep sea fishing. She was back in their North company, keeps house for her mother 94, and in Phoenix, Ariz. Platte, Neb. hunting lodge in lime for the wild looks forward to retirement. Belty Linscott, turkey hunts this spring. A virus-induced busy with her secretarial -job, lives with her heart attack cancelled a trip to Israel for mother 92, Deborah Roud Cutler has daughters 1933 Correspondent: Edith Richman Stolzenberg but she is re- at Wheaton and Brandeis. Louisa Rhodes Mrs. Thomas C. Gillmer covering rapidly. Younger son Jon married Brown lives in Harvard, Mass. Her husband, (Anna May Derge) his childhood sweetheart and is finishing at retired, is regaining his health after a heart 1 Shipwright Harbor Harvard while his wife continues at Brandeis. attack. Ruth Baylis 'roaa' daughter Barbara Annapolis, Md. 21401 Older son Rafe is at Ann Arbor. Millicent

32 Connecticut College Alumnae News. Summer 1970 Wagborn Cese'e daughter Caroline flew to nf work with the YWCA and being director judge, landscape design critic, teacher of two Thailand with a brand new baby to join her of the Boston Residence Club, is retiring to courses in plant identification in the U.S. Dept. Coast Guard husband. Son Steve is living on Florida. Her daughter Barbara has 5 children. of Agriculture Graduate School, and lecturer a "do-It-yourself" 34' catamaran While he Elizabeth Parsons Lehman has two married at garden clubs. Aside from plants and horti- attends a local college. Rose Piscatella Insinga children. four grandchildren; one daughter a culture. her latest hobby is macrame. Her and husband moved away from the land-slide graduate student at Simmons School of Social husband is assistant director for research in area in the Pacific Palisades and are living Work and another at business school in the Bureau of Sports, Fish and Wildlife; her in a safer spot. Rose had to stop working Boston. Parse and Charlie traveled to Greece son a high schnol senior. Josephine Pralt Lumb is busy with volunteer hospital work and because of her health but she finds it difficult last fall. Mary Beattie Harmon's surgeon hus- trustee of Vassar Brothers Hospital. Two eons to take it easy. A post card mailed from Yoka- band, retired after 20 years with USAF, now work for their father. Son Stephen married heme in January told that Ceda Zeissett practices in Fort Worth. Mary writes of Barbara Grubb (eC '65) daughter of Kay Libutzke and husband were off again on one wonderful tours of duty in U.S. and Japan. Kirchner Grubb (CC '37). Daughter Barbara is of their cruises. "We are nine days behind Daughter Nina was ARC worker in Vietnam; now Mrs. Paul Jeffers. Margaret Stark Huep- schedule because of boiler trouble and rough now is in -California doing social work. Twin per's husband is still in advertising in NYC. weather but who cares? The trip is fabulous." sons Chris and John are in college and Navy. Sandy is busy teaching and on Sundays has Marion Bogart Holtzman and George helped Priscilla Spalding Scott has a second grand- a church school class for 4 and 5 year olde. a friend take a boat down the Intracoastal child. She had a grand trip to Brazil recently Youngest son is a high school freshman; Waterways to Florida and have spent the to visit Dough's daughter and husband who are both in the Peace Corps. Petey kept busy daughter Nancy, Mt. Holyoke '66, an ele- winter in Delray Beach. George is executive mentary school teacher; son Stephen, Wes- director of the C.G.A. Foundation. Elizabeth building a house in Farmington. Jane WyckoD Bishop, after a long siege of illnesses and op- leyan '64, served in the army in Korea and is Archer Patterson's job with a travel agency now married and working in a bank. Frank keeps her on the go. Recently she visited erations, is recovering well from a stroke last March. She spends winters at Sanibel and Sandy are busy with a badminton club. East Africa. then Mexico. Purely pleasure are golf and a little tennis when weather permits. the j aunts to Virginia to visit her grand- Island, Fla. Elisabeth Beals Steyaart and doctor husband retire this year to Sanibel Margaret Richardson Philbrick keeps busy children. She keeps trim and fit with lots of with many community activities, painting, golf and tennis. Two Rhode Islanders are Island. Betsy has long been active in teaching, scouting, AFS, church, civic clubs and school travel and sailing family style. Arline Goettler waiting for a reunion with your correspondent, Stoughton and husband Bob just returned from Elizabeth Gallup Myer, available at the State board affairs. She has two married children. Frances Ernst Costello has three daughters: a business and pleasure trip to California. House in Providence, and Dorothy Smith They visited son Dave who is busy in the Denby who teaches at the Barrington High Diane a graduate of Centenary and Huron Road Hospital School of Nursing, now mar- music world. Alice Dorman Webster has a. School. eait Lewis Witt's smiling face showed new grandson, Bill III. Mary Griffin Conklin up in the Bridgeport Sunday Post this spring. ried; Linda a nursery teacher; and Cynthia a senior in high school. Caroline Stewart Eaton's also has a grandson. Her other son Rick was An assistant librarian in Monroe, she was married in November and now is in Vietnam. demonstrating a new duplicating machine. husband is dean of Nichols College; son Ladd in Vietnam; daughter Ann. Endicott graduate. Elizabeth Davis Pierson has a new grand- Marjorie Bishop is consultant for the McLean now an assistant librarian. Carol keeps busy daughter. Gertrude Weyhe Dennis visited San Home in Simsbury, an experimental treatment Francisco in August. center for the physically handicapped, due with hospital volunteering. woman's club, garden club and church. Jeannette Brewer Frances Vivian Hughes is now with Conn. to open in early 1971. Marge went to Europe Goodrich has two sons, Schuyler III, St. Law- . General Life Insurance Co. Daughter Nina for two weeks with 27 severely handicapped rence '66, and Glenn, Union College '70. They will enter Pine Manor in September. Dute, youngsters (paraplegic, quadreplegic, amputee recently went to Florida with retirement plans Shi, Gris and Nancy Burke Leahey (CC '37) and blind) from the Rehabilitation Center in in view for Sky from G.E. Virginia Bowen had a fall reunion in West Hartford. Alletta Chicago. Marge recently published an article Wilcox currently teaches social science at Deming Crane is still active as nurse's aide, and developed slides recording the trip with in blood bank and as a sewing teacher. Her Florida State Univ. Her two children attend this group. She and Cary Bauer Bresnan meet Florida State Univ. H.S. and her husband is latest hobby is tape recording; she is "a real occasionally and are doing some painting head of physical education at Leon High hi-fi nut." She took a winter vacation to the together, "making fake paintings." "Fall Caribbean. Daughter Judy, now working, plans School. They spend summers on a farm in River. Mass. is a depressing place, all brown," to return to college in the fall. Son Chip is Whitefield, N.H. Elizabeth Taylor Buryan's Olga Wester Russell wrote me when she heard married, an engineer for IBM in the patent son Rick is at Cornell and daughter Bets about my new part-time job at the Union Hos- dept., going to law school nights. Sarah works for her master's at got-bonne, Lib has pital. I am finding the work on pediatrics any- Leight Laubenstein lives in Quaker Hill. as retired from the Welcome Wagon. Elinor thing but drab, am trying to learn Portuguese the Coast Guard took her house for their Knoche Baird has two married daughters, because so many of the parents do not speak expansion. Gertrude Mehling Partington's two grandchildren. She does the usual com- English. Olga's biography appeared recently daughter Connie is a junior at Univ. of munity service work and lots of traveling. Wisconsin. Trudi and Phil go to England in in the new edition of "Who's Who in the East." including a round-the-world trip last year Our class will be saddened to hear of the and currently a three-weeks cruise to the April. death of one of our honorary members. Dean We extend our sympathy to Gertrude Weyhe Caribbean. Dorothea Montgomery Engleman E Alverna Burdick died in February after a Dennis on the recent death uf her mother. has 5 grandchildren. As she travels a good long illness. bit with her husband on business trips, her 1937 Correspondent: 1935 Co-correspondents: projects at home are far behind. Margaret Morehouse Kellogg is busy with church work. Mrs. Emma Manning Mrs. Thomas S. McKeown Daughter Sally has a son. Daughter Peggy, (Emma Moore) (Ruth A. Fordyce) SCSC '70 graduate, will be married in August. 304 Santa Clara Way 2141 Ridge Ave., Apt.-3-A Son Vernon is a graduate of Univ. of Ver- San Mateo, Calif. 94403 Evanston, Ill. 60201 mont now studying medicine there. Son Mrs. Eugene S. Backus Duane studies theology at Barrington College. 1938 Correspondent: (Catherine A. Cartwright) Lois Ryman Areson has three sons in college: Mrs. William B. Uolan (M. C. Jenks) 27 Halsey Drive Colorado, Dartmouth, and a junior year 755 Great Plain Ave. Old Greenwich, Conn. 06870 abroad from St. Lawrence. Ry enjoys visiting Needham. Mass. 02192 and skiing with them all. She still has two Married: Margaret Ann Mulock to Ralph W. 1936 Co-correspondents: daughters at home and is involved in CC Bastian. Mrs. Elmer Pierson (Elizabeth Davis) theatre benefit but finds time to bowl. Ruth The Bastians live in Ft. Dodge, Iowa. Elisa- 9 Riverview Street. Essex, Conn. 06426 Norton Kuhl has a married daughter Barbara beth Gilhert Woods moved from Sewickley to Mrs. Alys Griswold Haman living in Scotland with her professor husband Harrisburg, Pa. where her husband is deputy Ferry Road, Old lyme, Conn. 06371 and son. Other daughter Karen is married attorney general. He served for the past seven and teaching in Wyoming. Norty enjoys sym- years with Gov. Scranton and is now with the Bianca Newell Stebbins keeps busy with phony and is busy with the arts and creative volunteer work: hospital, church, AAUW, present Gov. Shafer. AdelaJde Lubchansky writing. She and Bob often vacation in Europe. Slopak'S daughter Barbara took her junior plus trips to Europe with husband. Ruth Agatha McGuire Daghlian lives in Indiana Chittim Eufemia teaches non achievers and year abroad from the Univ. of Pennsylvania where her husband is professor of English at to study at the Hebrew Llniv. in Jerusalem studies for her master's; daughter Susan the university. Daughter Alice (CC '66) i~ a Vanderbilt teaches mentally retarded; son and spent her summer months in Nigeria reference librarian in Boston and married. Steven is a high school senior. Margaret Wood- experimenting with the Group in International Daughter Elizabeth will graduate this June Living. Her other daughter, Charlotte. received bury Thomas' daughter Louise (CG '69) mar- from Indiana Univ. and is engaged. Son ried last August. Twin sons John and Dick her Ph.D. in psychology from the Univ. ?f Charles is a freshman there. Dorothy Kelsey Penn. Adelaide and her husband traveled In are sophomores at Gettysburg and Bates. Rouse manages her own real estate agency Margaret Myers Ross is librarian at Hamden the Far East with a rest-up period in Hawaii with some help from her married daughter. upon their return. Margaret Young S~iv~ Hall Country Day School which daughters She also has a married son and two grand- Irma and Debbie attend and teaches at is back teaching at the Kelly Jr. HIgh In children. Letitia Bear Springsted keeps busy Norwich, Conn. Her husband is an attorney Southern Connecticut. Evelyn Kelly Head, selling real estate too. Her husband IS a teaching, has 2 married daughters and 3 in charge of housing in the state of Connec- dentist. Tish has one married daughter and ticut. Tom Jr. graduated from the Russian grandchildren. Gladys Bolton Berlowe has a one allending Univ. of Penn. and a son a School of Defense Language Institute in Mon- married daughter, one grandson, a son at- helicopter pilot. Josephine McKeriban Triebel'. terey. Calif. and is now at Misawa, Japan, for tending Univ. of Arizona, a daughter in high Admiral husband is now retired from .the a tour of duty in the Navy after having spent school. Dorothy Boden West is busy with Navy. Her three children are all marrle?, the past year in Turkey. #2 son Dan is at volunteer has pial work. on golf and bowling oldest son a lawyer; and son lieutenant III Boston College Grad. School and has plans of teams. Son David is an Army major. daughter Navy (flter) with two children.; d~ughter a entering Georgetown Dental in Septem,?er. Patricia a chief medical technician and daugh- jjntv. of Colorado graduate Hvlng III Wash- #3 son Dick is at Siena College, Loudonville, ter Bonnie married to an Army major. Elva ington. Elizabeth Bindloss Johnson i~ very "" N.Y. Their 4th son Jack is at St. Michael's in Bobst Link does substitute library work and ttve in garden club affairs, conservation chair- Burlington, Vt. The only daughter. Rosemary, takes her leisure at her lake cottage in the man this year, an accredited flower show Adirondacks. Edith Thornton, after 25 years

33 is a freshman at Newton (Mass.) College of time off from her teaching to do a few things Kathy from Mills; David from untv. of Min- the Sacred Hearl. Bethy Anderson Verduin's for herself. Both sons are married; Fred ltvtng nesota; Henry from Harvard. Chuck Is a husband received an interdisciplinary teach- in Rome where his wile is learning Italian sophomore at Univ. of Penn. and Mary is at ing grant of five yeara' duration to teach and taking lessons in painting and dress- home. Kathy teaches 5th grade in Annapolis aquatic ecology. They now live in Carbon- making; and Bruce in Greenwich Village where her husband is a yacht broker. Dave, dale, Ill. where they recently built a new where he is working in the treasurer's office in Montana, having just finished his basic in house on 10 acres of land. Their oldest son, of Standard New Jersey and Terry is working the Reserves, Is a weekend ski instructor and Lans, now married and a graduate student in for her master's degree in Slavic languages at has applied for law school. Henry Is at medi- physics-electronics, has a teaching assistant- N.Y.U. Winilred Nies Northcott went to Salt Lake cal school at Minnesota, "telephone near". ship. Jan, a physical therapist, had a 12 week City in November to read a paper on "A Deaf Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune's daughter Candee tour of Europe with her sister Charlotte who Child in a Hearing Nursery" at the National opened a gallery of grapbics in Houston in is a French and German major, and who re- Association for the Education of Young January and Pete's son is at Harvard Gradu- turns to Southern Illinois in the fall while Jan Children. During the year she conducted work- ate School. She writes, "Katharine Gilbert goes on to work In Hawaii, Another daughter shops for teachers in Florida and in con- Smith and Pete are off to Tanzania on a Lesly is a sophomore at Southern Illinois. nection with her work as consultant on early trip. Suzanne Getler Manker's new apartment Hazel {Dinny) Sundl Brownlee is co-chair- childhood education programs lor the deaf, in Chicago is absolutely beautiful. I saw man of a community group called "Friends-in- she has visited in Maryland, Utah, New York, Barbara (Sis) Homer Beckham and Willie in Learning", an academic program to help Texas, Alabama and New Orleans. As project Florida in November, just back from Europe children with problems in learning on the director in the Minnesota Dept. of Educstion and had been house guests of our ambassador high school and college level. Mary McCluskey she is helping to develop a model pre-school to Spain." Jean Smith Coward recently moved Leibold has a year-old granddaughter, born on center for the hearing-impaired. She also into their new home and is "in seventh heaven Lincoln's birthday. Her oldest married son is serves on the school board for the 14th year. on a beautiful Jake in North Carolina just a dentist studyIng at the Un!v. of Texas After having four sons, Selma (Sally) Kings- 2 minutes from the first tees of two 16-bole Medical Center, to become an oral surgeon. dale Lewenberg has a new granddaughter born golf courses." Husband Red is president elect Mary Is a busy college librarian and husband in January to son Steve and his wife. Peter, of Vardell Hall, a girls' preparatory scbool Bob continues to practice obstetrics and graduated from Univ. of Mass. in June, went near by. Son Sandy, a It. in the Navy, is a gynecology. Gertrud Backes Littlefair's two into the Army Reserve and is stationed at Ft. test pilot stationed in Maryland. Son Curtis daughters, Candi and Margo, are both married. Ord in California. Roger, in his last year in and bride are living in Virginia where he is Candi teaches In Plymouth, Mich. Margo and high school, is the only one still at home. with Union Camp Paper Co., having finished her family have an 1100 acre beef cattle ranch Muriel Beyea Crowell has a newly married his Naval Reserve tour last fall. Jean wonders in the Upper Peninsula, Mich. Another daugh- daughter Priscilla Irvtng in Franklin, Mass. how many are planning to return for reunion ter Wendy teaches junior college in Denver. where she attends Dean Jr. College. Mu has in June. Barbara Deane Olmsted hopes to Christopher is at the Unlv. of Michigan and recently opened a needlepoint shop in NYC make it all the way from California. Some- Alan at Coe College. Jane Hutchinson Cauf- called "In-Stitches". one sent in news witb no signature. If your's field's son John was married last November to Our sympathy to Frances Willson Russell isn't included here, please write again to Patricia Ann Bebesi in Clinton, Ohio. Jane and on the death of her husband David on Feb. 9, Lundie. Correction: Patricia in the last 1940 Ed started a busy year with trips to St. 1970. He was a land developer and President notes was Palricia Alvord French_ Martin and Florida. In May they attended a of the trustees of Admiral Farragut Academy. The class extends its sympathy to Evelyn medical convention in San Francisco and flew McGill Aldrich whose husband Thomas R. on to Hawaii for three weeks. Upon their Aldrich Jr. died suddenly on April first. return they had a successful show eeaeon 1939 Correspondent: with the horses. Now Jane and Ed look for- Mrs. Major B. Ott (Doris Houghton) ward to building a smaller house and turning 172 Marlyn Ave., lansdowne, Pa. 19050 1941 Correspondent: over their horse training business to their new trainer. Ed had increased responsibilities 1940 Co-co--esccncents. Mrs. Ernest T. Shaw Uane Whipple) this year as president elect of the medical 521 Altavista Ave., tatshmere Manor Mrs. William J. Small Harrisburg, Penna. 17109 society and will have additional duties when (Elizabeth lundberg) the new med school is completed at Akron 131 Sewall Ave., Brookline, Mass. 02146 State Univ. Last fall Jean (Hops] Howard flew 1942 Correspondent: by helicopter from Washington and landed Mrs. Charles I. Forbes, Jr. Mrs. Douglas O. Nysledt (Susan Smith) on the roof of the Port Authority Building to (Cladys Bachman) Rte. 302, Glen, N.H. 03838 be the speaker for the CC Bergen County, 59 Harrison Brook Drive N.J. fall meeting. Last spring Bill and Wil- Basking Ridge, N}, 07920 Virginia Stone Dixon's daughter Molly was helmina Foster Reynolds spent three weeks '70 Our Reunion - make it the best I married to Robert Francis Bauman on Dec. 27. touring the British Isles in a rented car. Billie II was fun to be greeted at the first reception still is actively involved in the Germantown Olive McIlwain Kerr and Bud took a trip of Alumnae Council by Jean Slaats Lorish in YWCA and at this year's lOOth anniversary to Morocco in February and skied in the her new role as CC faculty wife. Bob is bead was responsible for putting on a successful High Atlas, Switzerland and Austria. "One of the Government Dept., their two sons, art show featuring works of local professional small avalanche swept across Just ahead of Robert Jr. and Chris are married, Nancy is 8 women artists. She is a trustee of the United us one day but we made it to safety." Sewing, sophomore at CC, Ellen is a student at Wil- Fund of Philadelphia as a representative of birding, hospital volunteering and church work liams Institute, right on campus. In compe- Sheltering Arms. Their daughter Sue spent the fill the gaps between house and garden. With tent evidence the whole busy weekend were spring semester at Williams College as part two boys in college and two away at school, Mary Anna Lemon Meyer, Alumnae trustee of the Vassar-Williams exchange program. "there still isn't time enough to do everything and laurels chairman; Eloise Stumm Brush, During the summer she worked in the lab I'd like to." Anne Hardy Antell's youngest, director-at-large; Mary Elizabeth (Pete) Frank- of a chemical company in Philadelpbia and Ruth, is "following in the footsteps of her lin Gehrig, nominating committee chairman. then returned to Vassar as a chem major. sister Patty being accepted Early Decision at Jane (Woody) Worley Peak and Paul cele- She plans to go on to graduate work to be Connecticut College." Son Steve is with the brated their 25th wedding anniversary last a bio-chemist. Ted and Marjorie Mintz nette Red Cross in a field service program and June; their 5th coast-to-coast family vacation are proud grandparents of a year-old grand- Rich is a senior at Washington and Lee. Alice transfer by traHer; and Paul's 25th reunion at son. Last summer Dan and Carman Palmer Porter Downer does protective case work for USCGA in the fall. Janet Carlson Calvert and von Bremen bought a 17' outboard motor Conn. State Welfare Dept. Daughter Laura Ann Cal celebrated their 28th anniversary on New boat and spent happy hours riding the waves models in NYC and attends Fashion Institute Year's day. Son Peter married a lovely Texan of Lake Otsego, N.Y. Tbelr younger daugbter of Technology. Son Cbarles is a student at at ThanksgiVing and became a 1st Lt. at Barb is enjoying her first year at Green Culinary Institute of America in New Haven. Christmas. The destroyer Scott is on is cruis- Mountain College in Vermont and son Bob "He cooked our Tbenkagtvmg dinner." Alice's ing in Northern Europe this spring. BUl is Is stationed in Pensacola, Fla. for a year. husband is teaching a pilot course in social enjoying his second year at Hinckley. Peter, With the rising cost of housing, daughter science at Berlin (Ct.) High School. They all son of Gordon and Sara Sears Siosberg (class Janet and teacher husband are considering love their Siamese cats. Betty Walker Wainio vice president), is a sophomore at Columbia moving out of New Jersey to New Hampshire got her M.L.S. from Rutgers in 1962 and is studying engineering. Steven graduated from or Vermont. Evelyn Falter Sisk's second daugh- director of Somerville, N.J. public library. Oberlin last JUDe and works in Boston. Loil ter, Nancy, was graduated f.rom Keuka College. Daughter is a junior at Sarah Lawrence and Brenner Ramsey and Charlie's Ken is at Last summer Dave and Helen Swan Stanley husband a biochemist, a professor at Rutgers Amherst, occasioning a New England tour for visited their daughter Betsy in London, toured who has just finished a tome called Mam- them last fall. They saw him play varsity Scandinavia and in Geneva saw their son malian nitochondriol respiratory chain. Elise football and had a trip to New London, with Dave, who was recently released f.rom the Haldeman Jacobi enjoyed her 16-month-old CC obscured by a pea-soup fog. Eldest son, Army. gran~daughter at Christmas. Mary (Betty] Charlie Jr. finished active duty with the Navy Nance Darling Hwoschinsky spent the Gebtlg Streater and Hayden built a rancb at Christmas. Youngest, Steve, is a high school summer swimming and boating at their sum- house and moved into it on the hottest day junior and a ski nut. Doug and Susan Smith me-r place in Maine. Upon their return home of the year. They are 4 minutes from the Nystedt are still beating the path between they were greeted by son Pete back from golf course and Long Island Sound. Daughter Glen and Marblehead. Sumner is in his and Vietnam. A couple of days later Nance and Noel teaches and lives with two girls. Son year at U.N.H., John his first at Dartmouth, daughter List flew off for a two week visit Jim is in the ROTC and graduates in June Evan a junior at Proctor Academy. to Russia where they visited Moscow, Lenin- from Niagara College; so they won't be able grad, Kiev and Sochi. They did everything to make our reunion. Susie is a freshman at !.rom a trip in the hydrofoil to the galleries Radford College in Virginia. Betty teaches lst 1943 Co-correspondents: and palaces, the museums and ballet. During grade. Barbara Hellmann the past year Dorothea Bartlett did a bit of Katherine (Petty) Warner Doerr and Henry 52 WoodruH Rd. hedge-hopping which included trips to Cape love their new "dream house" and have en- Farmington, Conn. 06032 Cod, Cleveland and Washington, D.C. With the joyed raising their "brood" on Lake Minne- Mrs. John S. Morton (Mary Jane Dole) children all away Winifred Frank Haven takes tonka. Three have graduated from college: 15 Bay Vista Dr., Mill Valley, Calif. 94941

34 Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 Swanger Burns and families. Mary Melville 1944 Co-correspondents: officials and control pollution. Harriet Kuhn Zildjian lives in Hull, Mass., and runs an McGreevey has a happy freshman daughter at Mrs, Richard Vogel, Jr, antique shop. "My three daughters are having CC; John starts Dennison next year for pre- (Phyllis Cunningham) all the lively moments this year," says Mary. med; Jim is a high school sophomore; Sally Is 230 E. 71st St., Apt. 4-6 "The oldest is married and has been in Jamaica. a 6th grader; Bill is in kindergarten; husband New York, N.Y. 10021 Craigie is graduating from Lake Erie College John is moving into the hospital's new radi- Mrs, David Oherlin (Elinor Houston) and spending an interesting semester working ology dept.: Harriet is PTA treasurer, active in ]700 N. Woodstock SI. with a judge in Lake County under a new the hospital's auxiliary, and looking forward Arlington, va. 22207 grant. Debbie is living the full life in Europe, to our Z5th reunion. Anne Woodman Stalter spending her junior year at the Univ. of caen.': teaches full time and her husband Ollie pub- Married: Martha Davis to Gustave Zubetsky, a The Stanleys (Lucretia (Teeto) Lincoln) moved lishes the daily newspaper in Springfield, vt. retired pharmacist. on June 20. to South Windsor, Conn. where they live Anne says she is a "liberal Republlcan, a Mona Friedman Jacobson and George took a with two high-school age sons, Paul and rather lonely designation In this part of the 25th anniversary trip, traveling through Eng- Gary. Three older sons are in the full-time state." However, in her small way, she works land, France, Holland, Germany and Italy. ministry as Jehovah's Witnesses. Husband for peace by writing to Washington. "1 may While there, they saw Teresina Cerutti Man- George is doing interior decorating for be a Democrat the next time you hear from nino and husband. Other news from the Jacob- supermarkets, an undertaking which involves ~e." Woody is a sophomore at Harvard, living sons in White Plains, N.Y. includes the advent the whole family at times. They also volun- 10 Leverett House. Daughler Kim had a of a granddaughter Amy to Lynn Jacobson Dra- teer lime each week to bring Bible information wonderful summer at Exeter where she par- noff '53, now living in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the to anyone in the community who wishes it. ticularly enjoyed courses in art and French. Jacobson's son Peter, a freshman at Prince- "No generation gap in our family!" Constance Mary Topping DeYoe has a budding female ton. making the dean's list. Elizabeth Cochran Geraghty Adams who lives in Walnut Creek, commercial artist going to college next fall, Kemper writes from Cleveland, Ohio, "Bob a suburb of San Francisco, was surprised last Older son is a 2nd year man at Lehigh and and I spent three weeks in Europe this fall- fall by a call from Elinor Hnustun Oberlin younger is in junior high where Topper France, Switzerland, and Italy. Paris was from a local hotel where she was spending a teaches corrective reading and study skills, especially memorable, as we were given the few days with Dave. They spent a happy day "Hope to see everyone at reunion in '71," red carpet treatment by a French boy who together lunching, sight-seeing, and catching she says. spent the summer with us two years ago." The up on ZO years of news. Nancy (Rusty) Gros- The older of Barbara Caplan Somers' two Kempers' son Ben is a sophomore at Lake venor English's two sons flew to Europe on daughters graduates this year from Univ. of Forest. Shirley Berlin Kahn and husband the CC charter flight to spend three months wiec.: JoAnn will be a junior there; Harry is Arnold visited Lisbon, Madrid and southern there. Chet and Rusty spent a month in high school junior. Barbara still teaches Blh France, where Shirley's proficiency in French Bermuda and over Christmas holidays they grade. For Jane Ruller Tirrell and family love proved an asset. She still attends a French went skiing in Stowe, N.H. Another ski of life on a farm increases with each passing conversation class. The Kahns' oldest son. enthusiast is Mary (Mel] Duncombe Knight'8 year, despite miserable winters. Only child. Jeff, will graduate from Harvard in June and son, a freshman at New England College, Hen- Jerry, is a freshman at Boston College. Jane plans to enter medical' school in the fall. niker, N.H. Other members of the Knight and Jim feel they must be doing something Younger children are Jonathan, a junior at family include a daughter at Ursinus College, right because Jerry has not yet become a Roxbury Latin School, and Jill, a freshman at Collegeville, Pa.: a daughter who is a high hippie and he even joined ROTC. On the Brookline High School. In Seattle, Wash .. school sophomore; an older son the father of way to Boston last September. the Tirrells Jean Loomi8 Hendrickson's husband, Capt. twins, who has just opened an aquarium store. stopped in Rhode Island where Elinor St. John Harold T. Hendrickson, now retired from the Elizabeth Williams Smith is secretary to the Arnold was visiting family. Ellie's older is a Coast Guard, is a research engineer with dean of humanities at New England College. freshman at Smith and her son is at Hotchkiss. Boeing Co. Jean, in her 7th year of Red Cross Gail, Betty's husband, is a .macutacturer's Horne is California but Ellie has not traded Gray Lady work, is a deacon of the Presby- representative for sporting goods in Maine, New England in altogether. The latest vital terian Church, is studying speed reading, Black New Hampshire and Vermont. Son Ted (Dart- statistics from Judith Willner Stacy: Stanley, American studies, and taking guitar lessons. mouth '68) is a Peace Corps volunteer, teach- junior at Smith and Breck, Harvard sophmnre : The Hendricksons will have a guest from Den- ing English at Chung Ang Univ. in Seoul, Judy doing nothing for a year to celebrate mark this spring, 18-year-old Hanne Larsen, Korea. Joan is a senior at the Univ. of New the receipt of a master's in English; husband who is related to Harold and who will study Hampshire; Marianna and Larry are senior Charles, tax lawyer working day and night in nursing in this country. The Hendrickson's and junior respectively at New London High Charleston. Mary Bob King's husband Frank, son Paul, 23, graduated in '68 with a degree School. Marianna plans to attend Keene Slate retired from the Navy in '68, started 2nd career with Ingram Contractors in New in chemical engineering, is now in his second next year. Our co-correspondent, Phyllis Cun- Orleans. Gary is graduating from Naval year of law school at the Univ. of Washing- ningham Vogel and Dick spent a recent eve- Academy and Nancy from Duke. In March, ton. He plans to devote himself to the prob- ning wilh Elaine Kappel Siris and Burt in Nancy was married to a classmate in the Duke lems of air and water pollution. Chris 20. Rye, N.Y. They hadn't seen each other since Chapel. Henry, child is eyeing Vanderbilt having been a National Merit scholarship 1941 when Kappy and Burt were married. #3 for September and the two youngest are in finalist, .ts a sophomore at Stanford, studying Kappy is busy doing speaking engagements elementary school. Mary's interests are Scouts this year at their overseas campus in England, for United Jewish Appeal, both in the U.S. and Jr. Great Books. Shirley Wilson Keller with the opportunity of traveling in Israel, and abroad, and spends a good deal of time in hoped to have a daughter at CC but she chose Denmark and other countries. Israel. The city-dwelling Vogels have suc- Wellesley instead. Peter went off to Hebron Lois Hanlon Ward and Ken toured Virginia cumbed to the lure of country living and Academy in Maine. The Kellers are down to one and the major Civil War battlefields and later bought a COllage; they are looking forward child at home but life seems as busy as ever. drove north through the White Mountains to to spring and summer weekends working in Patricia Smith Brown is appearing again in a medical convention in Quebec City. Lois is the garden. the outside world because Jonathan 9 is be- taking two courses in art appreciation and is coming a space scientist and Bethy is in active in garden club and LWV. Son Mark, an 1945 Co-correspondents: nursery school. Pat is busy with Cub Scouts avid skier and golfer, is finishing junior high. Mrs. Walter Griffith (Betty Jane Gilpin) and helping husband Paul type scientific Elise Abrahams Josephson writes from Weth- 8704 Hartsdale Ave. papers for publication. Paul is still at Har- ersfield, Conn., "I keep house for husband vard, working with much success on his own Neil, high school daughter Miriam, high school Bethesda, Md. 20034 Mrs. Norman Barlow (Natalie Bigelow) research. The Browns look forward to warm son Matthew, and my parents who make their weather and retreating to their lakeside New horne with us. Son Russ, spending his senior 20 Strawberry Hill, Natick, Mass. 01760 Hampshire cabin. Adela Wilson Wheeler could year at CC, will graduate from Wesleyan '70 Our reunion - make it the best! not persuade daughter Kathy to attend CC. this June and then work as program director She elected to become one of the first coeds for New London Head Start. Daughter Gail is 1946 Correspondent: at Lafayette. Dick is studying hotel admi~is- married to a medical student and both are Mrs. Sidney H. Burness Oosn Weissman) tration and Mary. "a bouncy, sver-Icving, in Tours, France, where she teaches at the 280 Steele Road teeny-bopper, is actively engaged in cheer- university where her husband is studying." West Hartford, Conn. 06117 leading, boy-watching and beach-bumming." Marjorie Geupel Murray, divorced five years Larry and Day stay young with their 8 year With the advent of four teen-age daughters, ago, is working part-time for a manufacturer's old Bob, Cub Scouts and Little League. Day's Joan AlUng Wuerth's activities have been cur- representative. She is able to plan her own activities include the usual club work, mostly tailed. Her one new endeavor is an inspiring working hours, which is helpful with son political, and trying to keep the waistline experience as phone counselor at their church. Drew lOll! still keeping her busy at home. For down playing tennis year round. The Wheelers Vichy, Joan's eldest, going to the Univ. ?f recreation, Marge plays golf and tennis and love living on the shore. took a trip to Europe last falL Oldest child, California in September, spent last summer 10 Betty Reiflel Bry'. freshman daugher Ellen, Germany with Youth for Understanding Ex- Lee 24, is a sophomore in medical school; intensely interested in drama, is unhappy at change Program. Shelley enjoys an active 18-year-old Keith a freshman at the Univ. of [acksou: Bill is getting excited about dri~i~g; Miami at Oxford, Ohio. Mariana Parcells Scout program which took her down the John is full of beans. Betty loves ad writing Wagoner works hard at recruiting students for Colorado rapids and back-packing in the High for Stamford radio station. Husband Dick CC from the Boston area, where she will be Sierras and Hawaii. The l2-year old is an struggles to keep ahead of the bills. Marie chairman of that effort next year. Son Walter, avid year-round team swimmer and Wendy Ann Bloomer Patterson acknowledges a "22 is their happy little Brownie. The family had a law student at Yale, married a classmate, year old, David jr., whose interests at Case two weeks in their Edgartown cottage last Ann Hill, on Mar. 21. Marjorie Alexander Har- Western Reserve have recently polarized- summer. An extra week cruising on Vine- rison in Andover, Mass. reports daughter anthropology and a girl named Debby." Susan Midge graduated from Columbia Univ. Nursing yard Sound in a chartered 37' ketch satisfied is a happy sophomore at Skidmore majoring a dream of her husband's. Jack is program School last summer and in August married in education and we sense she is also matricu- manager for North American Rockwell ~nd is Richard E. Fleming, a medical student at lating at RPI. Luckily we still have 2 at home, becoming very active in Fullerton, Calif, as Columbia. The couple lives in New York where Don, a dedicated skier who spends nearly all organizer of "Property Owners", a vehicle Midge is a visiting nurse. Ted and Marge his spare time on the slopes and does well took a trip to Florida during the holidays and to improve city planning, enc.ourage .the el~c- in school, and Julie, a 4th grader. At present saw Alese Joseph Shapiro and Mary Ann tion and appointment of high caliber CIty

35 all aspects of the family rewardingly fill my and Brooks, a 1st grader, are at home. Virginia 1950 Co-correspondents: Kiefer Johnson of South Yarmouth, Mass. life, I am no longer an indiscriminate volun- Mrs. Richard T. Hall (Polly Hedlund) teer, assisting only where I strongly feel my works part time as a legal secretary and is involved with the AFS and a four season 34 Glen Avon Drive help is needed. Otherwise I suppose I am a Riverside, Conn. 06878 middle age dropout who is content to be camp in Maine. Steve is at Stonehill College. wife, mother and housekeeper." Husband Mike is 18 and Ricky 13. Joanne Begg Chope Mrs. Joseph Mersereau (Mary Bundy) Dave, president of a steel fabricating business, has moved 10 Cotuit, Mass. from Columbus, 3738 Chain Bridge Rd. Fairfax, Va. 22030 is seriously involved as a member of the Ohio, where she was active in day care cen- '70, Our reunion - make it the best! Broome County Planning Commission, presi- ters and a residential treatment center for Dick and Joann Cohan Robin and children dent of the board of the Sheltered Workshop adolescent boys. [o's husband Wilbert is are spending Dick's sabbatical from Mt. Hol- and Rehabilitation Center and bank director. chairman of the board of Industrial Nucleonics Corp. He was selected by Jr. Chamber of yoke at their home in South Hadley, Mass. 1947 Correspondent: Commerce as Outstanding Young Man of He is working at home and at the Harvard Columbus and the State of Ohio and one of Library. David is in 1st grade, Debbie in the Mrs. Philip Welti Uanel Pinks) college kindergarten. Both children enjoy 5309 N. Brookwood Dr. ten Outstanding Young Men in U.S.; is honorary Doctor of Science at Muskigum College; school and are playing the piano. Dick has Fort Wayne, Ind. 46805 and won the Distinguished Alumnus award at been chairman of the philosophy dept. for two years and is now chairman of the co- 1948 Correspondent: Ohio State. Their children are Doug 6 and Kathy 2. educational committee as well as teacher of a Mrs. Peter Roland (Ashley Davidson) Marilyn Sullivan Mahoney has a busy life course at the Univ. of Massachusetts. Joey 7 Margaret Place, lake Placid, N.Y. 12946 with 5 children 5-16, John is an orthopedic says, "Mt. Holyoke has not been removed '70 Our Reunion - make it the best! surgeon in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The children from the campus turmoil and thus teaching is a very difficult profession to be in these The big news is reunion! Barbara Kite attend Nova Schools, an experimental public days." Besides enjoying her family, Joey has Yeager hopes everyone will come June 11·13. school and Sullie is a visitor's guide. She Shirley Reese Olson had a good response to plays tennis and had a ski trip to Vail, Colo. given a piano recital at the Holyoke Com- the questionnaire. PoUy Amrein writes that the this spring. Richard and Sela Wadhams munity College and participated in other programs with one or two solo works, is questionnaire is not acceptable to the "Wom- Barker, Sela 16 and Kirtland 13 spent 6 months now accompanying for a town-wide 5th and en's Liberation Front", those devoted to keep- in Munich, Germany, in '69 on sabbatical 6th grade chorus, and is preparing for some ing the population down. Polly is off to Lon- leave. Richard is an associate professor of don and sends a toast to '46. Louise Gold engineering and applied science at Yale. Sela ensemble programs. Although not now active in Levitt is attending the Osaka Fair in May is a substitute teacher. William and Janet music therapy, she is secretary of the Board and plans a short Orient tour. She is on the Alden Carrick have done extensive private fly- of Directors of the Holyoke Mental Health PTA boards of two schools in Kansas City, ing throughout the U.S. Daughter Lisa is Center Ass'n and a state-appointed member Mo. plus the hospital and philharmonic aux- married. Jan works part lime in IBM Account- of the Holyoke-Chicopee Community Mental iliaries. Tom is at Yale while Jim and Ann ing Service. Wilda Schaumann WilliaplS works Health and Retardation Board. She serves on are at home. Bruce and Elizabeth Morse part time in the field of fashion in Charlotte. the certification committee of the Mass. Music Haptie will spend three weeks revisiting Oer- N.C. Her children are fill at U.N.C .. Nina 17, Teachers Ass'n and is actively involved in many as well as Betty's English and Bruce's Karl 15, and Charles 13. Joan Dimmitt Lewis, PTA. Martin and Naomi Harburg Levy and Scottish relatives. Joanne is, Skidmore '72, wife of Washington, D.C. medical writer Ted son Jonathan visited the Robins last summer, Sandra Boston Univ. '74, Susan 15, Robert 11 Lewis, works part time for HEW's Professional joined by Dan and Mary Lou Oellers Ruben- and Kate 9. Len and Virginia Gieson Richard- and Executive Corp. as a personnel specialist, stein and family and Ridg and Mugaret Mac- son plan a European trip via the polar route. Joan Reinhart Stroker is a grandmother. Dermid Davis and children. Marshall and Lois He is headmaster of the Katharine Branson Daughter Sharon Foley had a son in Decem- Papa Dudley and their three stopped by in School, Ross. Calif. and Ginny is a full time ber. Joan keeps the books in the Family March, Edgar and Barbara Gold Zingman have school librarian. Harold is at U.C. Vera Cruz. Counseling Gift Shop in Ridgewood, N.J. three children, one starting to look at col- Jack is 16 and Vicky 14. Harry and Nancy where she Jives with her husband, Sally 16 leges. Barbara taught for three years at the Head Bryant are returning from France and and Nancy 9. Shirley Reese Olson has moved Univ. of Louisville, Ky. and then "dropped Spain in lime for Anne's high school gradua- to the New Town of Reston, Va. Merritt works out to drop in again" as a doctoral candidate tion. Ellen is 16, Susan 15. Nancy works part- with Rand Corp. in Washington, n.c. Their due to finish this year. She is doing some time in adult education and is active in boys are 15, 13 and 8. Shirl is involved in free-lance book reviewing and other writing Laconia, N.H. civic groups. Janet Evans LWV and Reston Community Ass'n, especially for the Louisville papers. Virginia Hargrove McBrIde has completed her M.A. in speech in school areas. Carol Paradise Decker Okell completed work for her master's in pathology at Northwestern and is doing a teaches adult Spanish courses in the Univ. of library science at Rutgers in January. To post master's to be certified as a teacher of Connecticut. Continuing Education for Women celebrate, she is taking a course in auto the deaf and hearing impaired. Janey has been program is headed by Betty Roper '46. She is mechanics. In January Polly Earle Blandy a social case aide In the Florence Crittenden president of FISH of Norwalk, Inc., a volun- started at Lehigh Univ. to get her master's for house, did hospital work and was a mental teer organization that in its first year has teaching. Now a sustaining member of the health technician for the Chicago Board of brought help in more than 1000 emergency Jr. League of the Lehigh Valley, she is finish- Health. She may move east with John 17 and situations. The family enjoyed a a-week cross- ing the second year of her term as president of Derek 14 whom she has enrolled in a learning country camping trip to Yellowstone and the the Bethlehem branch of AAUW, teaching 8th disabilities school in Philadelphia. Margaret Tetons last summer. Angela Sbona is working grade in Sunday School and serving in an Reynolds Rist is taking an American history in Hartford but spends as much time at her advisory capacity to a teen-age group. course at Norwalk Community College prepara- home in Rhode Island as she can. She spent Jim and Janet Pinney Shea and family are tory to being accepted at Western Connecticut several days with Barbara Bates Stone in overseas again, this time in Guyana. Jan State College where she hopes to get her Louisville on the way back from a business writes, "Guyana was, until its independence, M.S. and teaching certificate. Elizabeth Stuart trip to Florida. Bebe returned from CC Alum- British Guiana, next to Venezuela on the Kruidenier'S husband is general manager of nae Council weekend this spring favorably northeast shoulder of South America. In spite the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Lisa is impressed by students, faculty, administration, of location, it considers itself a Caribbean 14 and Ibby a freshman in law school. Paul trustees and other alumnae. Her oldest child rather than a Latin country. We are not in the and Helene Sulzer Guarnaccia both teach Susan graduates from Duke in June. Ted is a tropical but the torrid zone. Trade winds Spanish at Fairfield Univ. in Connecticut. sophomore atNorthwestern. Scott graduates from which blow almost constantly help a lot. Some They spent 8 weeks last summer in Spain with high school, has been named Yale National of the greatest of the true jungle is in this Steve and Peter, a sophomore at Harvard Scholar and is a National Merit finalist. Janet country. We've been over it, at its edge, and who has just received a research grant to Is a sophomore in high school where she is a on its creeks, but not actually in it. I'm told work on an anthropology project in the poor gymnast and good hockey player. Hus- that once you force your way through the Chiappas region of Mexico this summer. band Aid is a home laundry engineer with GE wall of growth on the edges, travel is easy, Helene works with ABCD backyard camps, and Bebe keeps busy with church and PTA, for there is no underbrush, but very few Experiment in International Living and Human as president of local alumnae club and mem- people, including Guyanese, seem to have Relations Social Action Committee. ber of United Ministries in Higher Education gone into the rain forest. We are on the coast Diana UPJohn Meier teaches elementary Commission. Rita Weigl Ledbetter will miss but the ocean isn't swimmable; the Amazon school in Monroe, Mich. and hosted an ex- reunion because she is helping with the plus the great rivers of this coast pour so change student from Manila. Rich is 18 and Eastern Women's Golf Ass'n championship at much silt into the sea that it is very muddy. Mardi 16. Eleanor Barber Malmfeldt is a her club. Scott is a freshman at Duke; John a The big rivers aren't swimmable either but teacher aide in Mercer Island, Wash. and senior at St. Paul's; Whitney a 4th grader in the smaller creeks are. There, water is pure working tccvard her master's in librarianship. Greenwich. They went skiing at Vail this but darkened by mineral deposits so that you Daughter Barbara is married; Kit is an AFS winter and will be at Sea Island over spring dive in and disappear _ great fun for the exchange student in Japan; Carl has been vacation. Laurie Turner Dewey moved to children. Most of this coastal strip, where a chosen one of 14 to bicycle cross country to Lincoln, Mass. last August. Ned runs his large percentage of the people live, is below NYC this Summer; Ellen is 12. Marquita Sharp business in Oneonta, N.Y. long distance and sea level. An elaborate system of dikes, Gladwin is leaching English 6 and 9 at For- is working in black small business develop- canals and sluice gates controls the sea. The man School, Litchfield, Conn. winters and ment in Boston's inner city. She joins the rivers and creeks are the highways; there teaches in Maine in the summer. Laura will rest of us in hoping to see you all at reunion aren't many roads and for people living in graduate from Lynn Hospital School of Nurs- in June. the country, the tides set the schedule of their ing where Kathie plans to go also. Warren, lives. Goats and hibiscus-loving cows wander recently made a sergeant, is stationed at 1949 Co-correspondenls: the streets keeping things mowed. All the Yokota AYB, Japan. Charlotte McCorkindale Mrs. Robert A. Duin (Phyllis Hammer) yards are fenced or we'd have no flowers." Smith expects a new son, a 5'/: year old 106 Quinn Rd., Severna Park, Md. 21146 The Shea children go to an American school Korean-American child, this spring. Bard is run by missionaries; Tim is in 4th grade. Dean of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. Mrs. B. Milton Garfinkle Jr. (Sylvia Joffe) Jenny 3rd, Matthew 1st. Annette Rapin, and professor of religion. Son Peter is in the 22 Vista Drive, Great Neck, N.Y. 11021 "transplanted to Freiburg, Germany, works army; Sue is at a state college; Laurie 18 '70, Our Reunion _ make it the best! in a lab with specialists in her field, bacterial

36 Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 cell walls. Rabbit tells us Freiburg, celebrating the commanding officer of the Coast Guard inauguration in January. Kathleen O'Toole its 650th anniversary this year, has lots of Field Testing and Development Center at Rich and Bob spent a week in Korea. Usually charm and many lovely buildings. The coun- Curtis Bay. their travel includes the three children, who tryside is full of hills, forests and pastures Ruth Lorber Mendelsohn, whose husband are getting the most out of the family's three with lots of nice paths where one can walk Bob is a busy internist, keeps active with the year stey in Japan. Claire Carpenter Byler, and many do. George and Helen Haynes Keith three boys 7, 13 and 15 and daughter 10. but husband David and girls 8, 10 and 13 have own their own business, "The Finishing spends spare time helping at Miriam School given up their boat and now find camping a Touch", which includes furniture stripping. for children with learning disabilities and hobby they can enjoy. Last August they repair and refinishing, custom woodworking, emotional problems. Last spring Ruth had traveled to Fundy National Park in New Bruns- and an antique shop. Helen serves as lunch with Nancy scltz Hyams who had come wick, Canada, but more frequently they camp bookkeeper, secretary, clerk and cleaning to SI. Louis on business with her husband. with friends in Pennsylvania. Nancy Reeve woman. She is also director-teacher of St. Barbara Rex Kaemmerlen has two sons, Bruce, Blank has expanded her activities after 7 Mark's Nursery School, cub den mother, a high school freshman and basketballer, and years as library story hour lady to become junior activities chairman of the Mystic Gar- John, a high school junior who keeps in- assistant in a church nursery school for 20 den, and secretary of the church board of volved with the school swim team though 4-year-olds. Please note correspondent's change trustees. In spare time she takes an art course he must undergo unpleasant treatment for of address, something which became final on (mostly stenciling), teaches creative writing scoliosis. Husband John is Ass't Chief of the day she typed these notes. and sews. "The girls and I make all our Pulmonary Disease Section of the Albany VA Hospital. Dene Laib Olin resuming that name own clothes. Camping, gardening, bridge, etc. 1953 Correspondenl: round out my 26 hr. 8 day weeks." The after her divorce, is a fine arts consultant. Keith children are Donna 18 (family artist), mostly for private clients, but has done some Mrs. Frank R. Pahland (Dorothy Bomer) Kitty 16, Bruce 12 and Doug 10. The boys public things like Tiffany's windows and 4418 Olympus Drive are ardent Little Leaguers and peewee foot- Bloomingdale's model rooms. Dene was on Bremerton, Wash. 98310 ball players. Helen closes, "Hope to see you the Joan Rivers Show (Joan Molinsky '54) and and lots of other '50ites at reunion." Her newspaper reports that her apartment is a 1954 Co-correspondents: hope is echoed by your reunion chairman, showcase for young, often undiscovered artists. Mrs. John A. Brady (Ann Dygert) Lois Papa Dudley, and by your co-correspon- The paintings and sculpture keep changing: 2439 Goldenrod, Sarasota, Fla. 33S79 dents. so Dene continues her CC major in art history Mrs. C. Rohert Jennings in a professional way. Dene had an earthshak- (Mar Robertson) ing experience as Jean Lattner Palmer's guest 1951 Co-correspondents: 277 8ronwood Ave. in San Francisco, but Jean may Dot want the Los Angeles, Calif. 90049 Mrs. Marvin H. Grady credit for that kind of entertainment. Lenore (Susan Brownstein) (Lynn) Tresenfeld Singer went through eight With our reunion still three years away, our 110 High Wood Road months of daily battles with the builder of classmates are making do with mini-reunions. West Hartford, Conn. 06117 their new home while keeping the otber house Belty Sager Burlem visited in New York with in appealing shape for prospective buyers. Mary Lee Matheson Larsen and Cynthia Fen- Mrs. William M. Sherts ning Rehm. Sally Stecher Hollington and Dick (Mary Martha Suckling) Now she spends four half days a week buying, advertising and display planning for the family vacationed in New York and Sally saw the 107 Steele Road celebrated baby of our class, Joan Molinaky West Hartford, Conn. 06119 lingerie business and finds it a perfect setup. Husband Sam has a busy optometric practice. Rivers, after her performance at "Upstairs at the Downstairs". Sally's husband is deeply 1952 Correspondent: Riki fane and Nancy Ellen are active in ath- letics, music, drama, social activities, wh.ile interested in Ohio government and represents Mrs. John Knox, Jr. Jamie at 6 is almost toothless in 1st grade. his county in the state legislature. Jane Mix- (Alida van Bronkhorst) Julie Russillo Gave and her sportsminded son sell Hullman and Bud conventioned in New 28 Broadview Ave. Tom live in Italy where Julie is on a 3-year York. Ann Heagney Weimer and George were Madison, N. J. 07940 term as secretary at an army NATO base Dear in Washington, D.C. and saw Jan King Evans and Ben. Lasca Huse Lilly and Dick Marded: Margery Rose to Alfred A. Schindler Pisa. In gwttzerland at Christmas she and admit in a note from London that "both of in September. Nancy Day, who is teaching at the Inter- U8 are getting spoiled by the easy pace of Ruth Manecke Gruber, with girls Mary Beth national School in The Hague, got together. London and the economy of living to some and Cathy, continues in the business of sup- They continued their visit through New Year's extent graciously. People are certainly kind plying animals for TV shows, including Cap- in Italy. Barbara Scheib Brazill has reached and thoughtful." Nancy Gartland Bose also tain Kangaroo and Sesame Street. Raising a the end of the road after 18 years as Jr. found how kind people can be as she at- cougar was one of her recent assignments. League volunteer. Last year she worked for the tempted to do her marketing in Germany with Elizabeth Rockwell Cesare is Dean of Stu- Day Care Council, PTA as class mother, Girl a limited German vocabulary. "Much pointing dents at Low-Heywood. Her boys, Edward and Scout cookie chairman, conservation aide. This year she did church fund raising, headed and a sense of humor have gotten me home Benjamin, attend school next door. Her hus- with about what I set out to buy. Instructions band is in the typography business nearby in the League filmstrip library, and worked with Youth Consultation Service studying preg- on packages are in German, so meal prepara- Stamford. They are all avoiding commutation. tion is like an hour over the German-English Mary (Mollie) Munro Austin has Donald in nancies among unmarried in the high schools. The Braztlls favor sailing and tennis in the dictionary and twenty minutes on the stove." grade 7, Laura in grade 2. Mollie adds editing Joan Aldrich Zell is now in Hong Kong, China. a medical manuscript, working with local summer but substitute paddle tennis and skiing with their girls in winter. Natalie Sperry Those old Honolulu hands, Claire Wallach music clubs, and helping in her husband's Engle and Ray are "very deep in barbershop- architectural office to domestic chores. They Meyer has spent her first year in Kansas and can accept, but not casually, the strong winds, style singing with Ray president of the local built a contemporary house in Maine for the chapter and me as International Public Rela- summer and boughl an old Greek Revival dramatic electrical storms, tornado warnings, barren winter and summer's relentless heat tions chairman for the 20,000 member Sweet house in Southport Village for the winter. Two Adelines organization." Claire is also presi- Newfoundlands "keep the middle-aged spread and humidity. Daughter Marsha graduated from braces and, although active in school dent of the local CC Club, chartered last year, under control." Gertrude Perkins Oliva is an and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth. Ray is avid gardener with a passion for orchid-grow- clubs, earned enough money to buy her own radio, tape recorder and TV set. Sister now Captain Engle, serving as asst. chief of ing and spends a good deal of time at their staff of the Pacific Submarine Force. Joanne place in Georgia. Their girls are 12 and 14, Debbie, chagrined at her new braces, is con- soled by her horse stabled nearby. Jennifer Williams Hartley and Dick went to Hawaii in the boys 5, 7, 10 and a 15-year-old at Andover. February - a change of pace for their ice- Gert finds time for day care civic work and applied her 4-year-old skill with scissors to her own hair and created a disaster which skating daughters, Pam and Margot. Annette maintaining her interest in opera. Shirley Sly Stud7:inski Mead and Robb teach in San Pedro, KreUler has assisted the Girl Scout troop of only time will alleviate. Nicki's main hobby is still her dogs, Hathaway Labr-adors. She Calif. in the Los Angeles city schools. Annette her 11 and 13 year olds for the bicycling and spends mornings working as part of a pro- cooking badges. Beverly is 5 and in nursery has hopes of AKC championships. Janet Stevens Reed's Connemara breeding gram called "Social Opportunity", with stu- school. Shirley's neighbor moved to Rio de dents who have failed courses or have been Janeiro where her daughter became a class- farm is smaller. She does social work part time for the Concord public schools and is uncooperative in classes. The other half day mate of Catherine Kirch Dietrich's son. An- Annette supervises the schools' reading pre- nette Kunstler Frank is a stockbroker, her grateful for education in a specific profession she has always liked and to which she can gram and teaches a "How to Teach Reading" husband executive vice-president of DAB workshop for teachers. She and her husband Industries. Stephanie, the cute baby in our return. Ken is professor of marine biology at Boston tjnrv.. illustrating lectures with his both have pilots' licenses; after an all too Koine, is a freshman at Univ. of Wisconsin adventurous !light in bad weather. Robb and Lisa is in grade 10 at Kingswood. Dorothy own movies. He spent a month in '69 with Jacques Ives Cousteau doing some special decided to learn to fly by instruments. Nora Shaw feels she is almost a fixture at the Conn. Kearns Grimm and Art live outside Sacra- State Welfare Dept., having worked there photography for him. Janet, the boys who are accomplished divers, and the two girls will mento in an ideal community for their fiva since graduation except for two years at a children who enjoy the "acres of bridle trails, TB Ass'n in Mass. She has been promoted to accompany Ken for his sabbatical year in Micronesia to make a movie for the National lakes for swimming and fishing and pastures Program Supervisor in charge of four case for horses." Elizabeth (Beth) Smith Brobst Geographic Society. Sara Mascbal Sullivan had supervisors and 24 caseworkers on the Aid to and Don live in Lock Haven, Penn. Don is Families with Dependent Children. Marguerite the turmoil of adding a new kitchen and two bedrooms to the house this winter. Lew en- on the faculty of Lock Haven State College Hoadley O'Connell was selected Military Wife while Beth is involved with the Head Start joys obstetrics and gynecology in a group of the Year by the C.G. Officers Wives Club program and is secretary of the AAUW. They of Baltimore. Pidge has been active in Officers practice which allows him some free time. Their children are David, Kathy, Jimmy and enjoy family camping wilh their two girls, Wives Clubs; was chairman of volunteers for Cincy. Joan Purtell Cassidy bas twins 16 and Cindy 7 and Judy 5. A move from Long Island the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen's to Mountain Lakes, N.J. puts Patricia (Pat) other children 13, 12 and 2. Husband Warren Club; has been volunteer library aide, leader McCabe O'Connell and Rocky only five min- was elected mayor of Lynn, Masa., with of Brownie and Girl Scout troops, as well as enough problems in their 92,000 population utes from his new job as general manager of working for church and hospital. The O'Con- Light Products, a division of U.S. Radium. to make the job a great challenge after his nells have two children. Midge's husband is

37 Dona Mclntosh Buchan, ruefully recalling that Born: to Bob and Blanche (Bannie) Steger summer tbere. Sydney is still active In history and botany were nol exactly her best Ellis Paula Reymann on July 9; to Elllswor~h Windiles, the library and an annual Children's subjects In the fifties, finds historic preserva- and Ann Feeley Davis Oliver Ellsworth, In Arts Festival. Suzanne Kent Visited Mary Jane tion and conservation fascinating in the sev- May '69; to Al and Sydney Wrightson Tibbetts (M,J.) Driggs Pacholczyk and family in enties. She writes that Mr. Goodwin's talk Elizabeth Kennedy, on Dec. 20; to Bob and Tucson, Ariz. in March. Peggy Goldstein Marx, on conservation to alumnae groups of the Barbara (B.J.) Jenks Harris Dianne, in Feb. living in Port Chester, N.Y., keeps busy with Denver area was great. Barbara Bearce Tuneski's husband is mili- her children, sports and art crafts, member- tary aide to The Honorable John A. Volpe, ships in local organizations and some substi- 1955 Correspundenl: Sec. of Transportation. Last summer Barb ac- tute teaching. Ann Feeley Davis is happily companied Bob on an official trip to Europ.e, entrenched in Hartford and active with the Mrs, Elmer A, Branch (Alicia Allen) traveling extensively through Italy, Spain Stage Company and other community projecta. 2&Scenery Hill Drive and England. Here her life revolves around The Davises returned from a trip to Grenada Chatham, N.j. 07926 two sons, Cub Scouts, school and Coast Guard this winter, ready to go right back. The pride Officers Wives Club. In January Ward and and joy 01 the Ellis lamily [Bob, Blanche 1956 Correspondent: Grelchen Dielendorf Smith combined a busi- Steger and sons) is a baby girl named lor her Mrs. Norris W, Ford (Eleanor Erickson) ness trip to Europe with 4 days skiing in maternal grandmother, Paula Reymann Steger 242 Branchbrook Road St. Moritz. In London Dief visited Cynthia '33. Ann Frank Potts' husband Gordon is busy Wilton, Conn. 0&897 Stauffer Spurdle in their "town house" just with the many lacets of his work in neurc- Born: to Bill and Margot Harper Zeeb Kathryn across lrom Hyde Park. The Smiths spent a radiology, including co-editing a book. In Ic on 4/24/69; to Martin and Suzanne (Skip) weekend in Surrey before returning home (to addition to her small private practice in physi- Rosenbirsch Oppenheimer Alexandra on 2/4; reality). The Jay Kaplans (Susan Satz) spend cal therapy, Ann is a volunteer therapist at to Robert and Heidi Schweizer Ely Malin in winter weekends skiing at Waterville Valley. Columbia-Presbyterian in NYC. She took June '69; to James and Marna Wagner Fuller- Sue is busy with their three boys, nursery courses in wine tasting and Italian painting at ton Laure Marna on 4/14/69. school, PTA and a Brandeis study group. Al- the Metropolitan Museum last fall. Susan Sarah BlU'tlett Reeves and children moved to though her daughter takes up most of her Hirth Wanner is still at Reader's Digest. Her Greenfield, Mass. in October while Aubry Is time, Arline Hinkson Saison teaches Z days husband Charles is a "headhunter", placing in Vietnam. Nellie Beelham Stark, a research a week at a Long Island private school. In people in export-import international jobs. associate at the Desert Research Institute, re- February she gave a concert titled "Lyric The Wanners are renovating their Greenwich cently attended the 11th International Botanical Theatre in Cameo", a novel blending of song, Village apartment - actually two apartments Congress in Seattle where she gave a paper drama and music. June Bradlaw Wragg is which together are a "floor-through". on nutrient cycling. Sarah Dawes Hauser and completing her coursework at George Washing- family had a ski trip to Bayne Mt. in Michigan. ton Unlv. towards her Ph.D. in microbiology. Margot Harper Zeeb and six children are still She continues her work on environmental con- 1959 Co-correspondents.' In Tennessee where Bill was named vice pres- trols and health problems at the FDA. June Mrs. Arthur G. VonThaden ident of Exhaust Systems Operations for Mare- is president 01 the Rockville, Md. Junior (Ann Entrekin) mont. Jacqueline Jenks McCabe is busy deco- woman's Club, working with Mildred Schmidt- 44 Nottingham Rd. rating their new house plus painting needle- man Kendall on several charity fund-raising short Hills, N.J. 07076 point canvases which are sold in kits from projects. June and Dodd see John and Jean Mrs. James A. Robinson (Ann Frankel) a local needlepoint shop. The McCabes had a Cattanach Sziklas who live in nearby Colum- Route 32, Swanzey Center, RFD#1 trip to Vermont last summer. Marian Lenci bia. Altbough the Sziklases have enjoyed many Keene, N.H. 03431 Tapia and husband live in a Spanish style trips to museums in Baltimore and Washing- two floor concrete house they designed them- ten and lots of ice skating this past winter, 1960 Correspondent: selves. Both are still teaching at the university they look forward to returning to Connecticut in Mayaguez, P.R. The Tapias had a trip in August when John becomes co-director of Mrs. Peter L. Cashman (Susan Green) stateside at Christmas and will go to Europe nuclear medicine at Hartford Hospital. For Joshuatown Road, Lyme, Conn. 06371 this summer. Irma Levine Alperin and lamily Joel and Simone Lasky Liebling, alter 31/J Born: to Robert and Joan Adams Pirie Susan, leave lor Israel in July where Harv will study years in Connecticut, it's back to Greensboro, in October '66; to William and Gail Turner at the Weitzman Institute. Nancy Siewart N.C. Joel is now general manager 01 Worth Slover David William, on Oct. 16; to James Roberts teaches beginning Spanish and meth- Chemical Co. Audrey Bateman Georges' hus- and Virginia Pings Taylor Kathryn Kristine, ods 01 education at Conn. College. "I see band Lee is chief of the Nuclear Medicine and on Nov. 7; to Elihu and Jane Silverstein Root Geneva Grimes DeLabrey, a Return to Col- Endocrinology Depts. at Portsmouth (Va.) Suzanne Nathalie, on Nov. 20; to Robert and lege student, on campus and it makes me feel Naval Hospital. Audie and Lee visit with John Mary Dawes Armknecht Susan Lovejoy, on as though it were 1956, not 1970." Cyvia and Jean Lawson Carlslon who are Irving in Dec. 19. Russian Aronll is writing a thesis for a mas- Virginia where John has returned to private Jerome and Maureen Mehls Kiernan moved ter's degree which she hopes to have pub- practice. Gail Weiland Stewart finds it nice unexpectedly to Cherry Hill, N.}. last May lished in book form. Cyvia and Marvin and to be settled in their new home in Villa.nova, after Jerry was translerred to the Philadelphia their sons had a trip to England and Hoiland Pa. and getting involved in permanent ettua- office of Lybrand, Ross Eros. & Montgomery. when Marvin was invited to make Grand tions - school, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Jr. They hated to leave their brand new house Rounds in plastic surgery at Oxlord Univ. League. The Stewarts have purchased an old in Madison, Conn. but Jerry doesn't have to Heidi Schweizer Ely still loves Alaska and Charles Addams type cottage in Canada. do so much traveling now. The Swim Club, the excitement of great changes with its new Lucia Beadel Whisenand is corresponding conveniently near their new house, saved oil wealth. "Tours are most popular with secretary 01 the Jr. League in Syracuse, serves Maureen, Deidre and Sara from the "torrid" older people; so we go 'outside' to keep up on the board of a local integrated community N.J. summer. The Kiernans have seen ~olIy with Irtends.' Helen Sormani Lepke and theatre group, and is helping to organize a Kurtz Baynum and her lamily several times family went to Europe last summer and visited church parish council. Cassandra Clark Wes- and were paid a surprise visit by Jill Reale Arno's lamily in Germany and Helen's in terman's Jr. League work at the Hartford Mervin shortly alter they moved to t:'lew Switzerland. The Lepke'a have a new home Youth Opportunity Center includes interviews Jersey. Jill enjoys her new job with Amefl:an in Hudson, Ohio, wbere Helen is assistant and counselling sessions with the hard-core Express. Eleanor Saunders teaches a section professor 01 Cerman at Kent State Unlv. disadvantaged in an attempt to help these 01 senior American history this year at the Victoria Tydlacka Bakker and lamily have peraons find employment and solve some Northfield School, in addition to being coun- moved to Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. and enjoy very complex problems. Cassie and Barbara selor to half 01 the junior class and 50 their new home and pool. Marna Wagner Cohn Minden met recently in the beauty seniors (enough, she says, to keep be~ out Fullerton and lamily spent a week in Sun parlor. In January Bobbie drove to Boston to 01 trouble). She saw Edith Chase FenlIDore Valley skiing last spring. The whole family lunch with Elaine Goodman Springer whom last lall when Edie's sister entered Northfield enjoys pampering their baby girl. Sally she badn't seen in years. During the winter and has talked to Nancy Switzer FOBS who Whittemore Elliott and lamily moved 10 a Bob and Bobbie spent two weeks golfing and lives in Williamstown, Mass. Cynthia. Enloe new old house in Mountain Lakes, N.J. which sightseeing in Spain and Portugal. Jim and returned to Miami untv.. Oxford, OhIO, last they find quite a change alter nine years on Peggotty Namm Doran vacationed in Mexico September after five "nomadic months." She Long Island. Both Janet Ahlborn Roberls and City in February. Peggoty ia membership co- was awarded a National endowment lor the Janet Fleming Haynes and their families vIsited chairman 01 the CC club of Hartford. Judith the Elliotts last summer. Sally attended Alum- humanities, a Iederal gov. loundation, In t~e Johnson Vanderveer and family are delighted spring of 1969 which sent her off to MalaySla nae Council and "came away leeling very to. be back in New England, located in a excited about and proud 01 C.C." (the two day flight from New York was unique spot on 40 acres in Ipswich, Mass. "ghastly"). She was in Malaysia l~r the ?a- They have ponds lor skating and the beach 1957 Co-correspondents: tional elections and the communal note WbICh only minutes away lor year-round enjoyment. lollowed in May, and which curtailed a good Mrs. Roberl Friedman (Elaine Manasevit) Judy, Gerry and children spend many summer deal of her research since she was "curlew.e~ 185 Stone leigh Square hours sailing aboard their sloop and look for weeks". Alter another 46 hour flight, Wit Fairfield, Conn. 0&604 forward to a 3-week cruise up the coast 01 a two-day stop in Cambodia, Cynnie wa~ ?~ck Mrs. James L Daigle, III Maine this summer. Judy "keeps out 01 mis- in the U.S. and spent the summer as a VISltlO~ (Beverly M. Vahileich) chief" with several activities, including her lecturer at Northeastern Univ. in Boston. Las 3201 Whitethorn Road admissions aide work for CC. Bill and Edith December Cynnie was a panel member at Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118 (Dede) Swain Bullock live in Maine. Bill is Nixon's White House conference on Food, V.P. and senior loan officer at Merrill Trust Nutrition and Health. She has signed a can- 1958 Co-correspondents: Cu. in Bangor. They happily traded the NYC Iract for her first book, "Ethnic Conflict and Mrs, Richard A. Bilotti "r~t .race" for hunting, fishing, skiing and a Political Development" (Little, Brown ~ CO'J (Philippa A. Iorio) bUildIng project on their home. The Tib- to be published in 1971. In Boston Cynme ha 77 Fairmount Ave. bettses (Sydney Wrightson), who thought they a nice visit with Carol Sroggini Catlin and her Morristown, N.J. 07960 were finally finished with building, have hegun lamily in Weston, Mass. and she recently saw another additibn to their New Hampshire Mrs. John B. Stokes (Margaret Morss) Elizabeth Hood Wilson who was about to home. They keep their travel trailer on the 232 Seneca Place, Westfield, N.j. 07090 depart lor Expo '70 in Japan. Art and. Dia~e Cape at Wellfleet and spend most 01 the Endres Spring have moved back to California,

36 Connecticut College Alumnae News _ Summer 1970 this time Los Angeles. Arthur, Sara and Amy the Walker Home for Children located in re!?ote but delightful. Judy and Jim thoroughly and Matthew are busy with school and sports, Needham, Mass. Jerry and Joan Dickinson emoy their connection with the Foreign see- and Diane is busy keeping up with them, being Karter with their two daughters are settled VIce Branch of the U.S. Information Service a Brownie leader, playing tennis, and re-doing in Lowndes Square in the heart of Londoo, and have learned much in their travels. yet another house. As Art is now a V.P. of England. Jerry travels extensively and rides Host International, the Springs look forward the "Underground every day during its finest to staying put for a while. hours." Joan reports the "butcher shop a 1965 Correspondent: Robert and Joan Adams Pirie. John, Carl charming place in an elegant brick building Elizabeth Murphy and little Susan are living in Virginia Beach, with Romanesque windows complete with 19 Everett St., Apt. 43 va., loving the beach life there, and wishing beasts hanging on display." lndr-ikis and Cambridge, Mass. 02138 it could last forever. Bob is the captain of the Yolanta Berzins Kaneps are fixing up an old '70, Our Reunion - make it the best I nuclear submarine SKIPJACK which is being house in Allendale, N.J. Indrtkis received his overhauled in Portsmouth, Va. Jean Chappell architect's license and is an associate in the 1966 Correspondent: Walker. an admissions aide for Connecticut firm of [chn R. Gilchrist, Bergenfield, N.J. Mrs. Patrick K.5.L.Yim since last September, looked forward 10 Alum- Helen Rosalyn Hargis Motter lives in a Dew Uoan M. Bucciarelli) nae Council weekend. Jeanie has a busy sched- home in Kansas City, Mo. Roz works in an 1082 L1imaDr., Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 ule on the home front with her three children antique shop and gives tours at the art gallery. and substitute work at the Bradford Pre-School. Presently Elizabeth Haines Nash is finishing 1967 Correspondent: Mary Dawes Armknecht worked with water her Ph,D. in botany at Rutgers Univ. Anne Mrs. Michael Britton resources and housing problems for the Dover, Goodwin Wagner has been in Ann Arbor for (W.endy Thompson) Mass. LWV: and on a booklet for the Boston two years while Ken studies for master's de- 32 Mountain View Ave. Children's Zoo, Graham 41/t helps make all of grees in naval architecture and marine engi- Avon, Conn. 06001 this activity possible by being such a big neering. helper around the house and with his new In March Steve and Linda Hay Malusewic Married: Sidney Davidson to Richard Bruce sister Susan. Bob Armknecht travels to Paris sailed for four months of roaming Europe. Morgan on 1124; Ellen Paul to Michael L. Silk and Amsterdam several times a year as finan- When they return to Madison, Wis., Steve will on 6/1S: Barbara Brush to Peter Wright; Cyn- cial counselor for Loomis-Sayles, Inc. Sally begin his MFA and Linda will resume her thia Rosenthal to Jeffrey Cole; Elizabeth Glanville Train's children, growing fast, are job as documentation specialist for the UW McCaslin to Nicholas Battles; Deborah Small in a non-graded school. John Train was made Space Science and Engineering Center. While to James Russell in 6/67; Robin FrOsl to a partner in his law firm last November. Sally with the Air Force, Jon and Annetle Lieberman Jon Dawson on 6/14; Judith Budding to Frank teaches art to underprivileged children at Goldstein live in Altus, Okla. Jon recently Kemp on 9/13. the Atlanta museum and works every morning finished his surgical residency in New York. Born: to Peter aod Elsa Allyn Soderberg a for "Jimmy Carter for Governor". The Trains Dexter and Anne McClain Johnston are get- son, Peer; to Michael and Conalaoce Wormaer saw Susan Biddle Marlin in Florida last ting the grounds of their new home in shape Mitch'ell, Michael: to Robert and Diane Gilbert January and plan a March trip to Puerto Rico for spring. Anne's two young daughters keep Beggs. Sarah, on 12/4: to Edward and Jane and St. Thomas. William and Gail Turner her busy. While Juri continues his research Harman Brewer Elizabeth on 12/20; to James Slover welcomed their third child last October at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies and and Deborah Small Russel Matthew James and are "settled at last" in Hartford where teaches mathematics at NYU's uptown cam- on 2/21/69: to John and Suzanne Rossell Boyer Bill practices radiology. Elihu and Jane Silver- pus. Linda Morris Toomre manages her two . daughter Aubyn 2/21. stein Root are back in Houston after two youngsters and her newly acquired home in Eliza~elh Deane Loutrel has been taking years with the Army, one in Vietnam for Eli. Harrington Park. N.J. Linda entertained Pamela design courses in landscape architecture in He is training in cancer chemotherapy and Page Leckonby and Susan Sterner Wolverton Boston for the past two years. She worked teaching at Baylor Medical School. Teddy is at a gourmet lunch in February. Tom and on an estuarine survey of the entire U.S. coast- in 1st grade, Irene and Danny in nursery Ellen Walson Payzant moved from New Or- line to be used in future planning by the Dept. school, and all are delighted with the arrival of leans to Philadelphia in July. They live in of the Interior and is currently working on little Suzanne. Despite an occasional wish for Springfield Township where Tom is superin- park plans with the Cambridge, Mass. Model some snow they all enjoy Houston. Your tendent of schools. Caring for three young- Cities program. Husband Steve hopes to teach correspondent talked briefly this past Novem- sters and taking their 10 mo. German Shep- after receiving his Ph.D. in mechanical engi- ber with Georgiana (Jody) Silverthorne Wardle herd to obedience school keeps Ellen busy. neering from MIT this summer. New hobbles while she was in New York on an unexpected The Payzants enjoy winter sports again but include winter mountaineering which means whirlwind business trip with her husband missed Madri Gras. David and Carla Peterson packing for a weekend everything including Peter. She reported all fine in San Francisco Eylers visited Katherioe Efthimion Waite and ice axes, ropes and snow shoes and climb- and that she was off to have lunch with Jamie husband on the Cape this summer while the ing peaks and ridges in the New England area. Singletary Snyder. now living in Wilmette, Eyler's were touring New England and Nova Diane Gilberl Beggs is kept busy with daugh- Ill., whom she had run into in Schwarz. Scotia, Carla now works as a programmer/ ters [ennife r and Sarah while husband Bob Maureen Mehls Kiernan. our class agent chair- analyst at Chester National Bank. Pamela finishes his ard year of tr.conn. Law School man, pleads for your continued support of Poppe Good is education committee chair-man nights and works for Society for Savings Bank. Carol Friedman has abandoned sunny Cali- the AAGP program. of the Trenton Jr. League. The family of prudence Roberts Kidd has a new "baby", a fornia for Chicago and works as an admissions Mooney airplane just big enough for Larry, representative for the Ferry Hall School, Lake 1961 Correspondent: Prudy and their two girls. Mike and Doris Forest, Ill. She travels throughout the country Mrs. James f. Jung (Barbara frick) Ward Lawson spent March and April of 1969 visiting schools, interviewing students, hosting 268 8entleyville Road in Haiti where Mike worked in a hospital alumnae cocktail parties and popping in on Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022 inland from Port au Prince. They found the '67 friends, such as Deborah Murray and Susan trip interesting but the people very poor and Brackin Smith. Susan Cohn Dorao is basking 1962 Co-correspondencs: sickly. Now the Lawsons live in Ft. Lewis, in tbe Hawaiian sun with Bill who is on vacation from his 13 month assignment with Mrs. E, Benjamin Loring (Ann Morris) Wash. while Mike is in residency with the Army, the army in Korea. Sue has been teaching 5th 27 Old Meadow Plains Road grade in Greenfield, Mass. and tutoring on the Simsbury, Conn. 06070 1963 Correspondent: side, also taking a Spanish course and "slim- Mrs, Charles E. Wolff II nastics" at the local YMCA. Barbara (Button) (Barbara MacMaster) Mrs. A. P. Mclaughlin III Brush Wright teaches elementary school In (Milbrey Wallin) 128 Tulip St., Summit, N.J. 07901 the Bronx. Elizabeth McCaslin BaUles and 23 Clairemont Road Nick live in Philadelphia wbere Liz is very Married: Elizabeth Haines to Thomas H. Nash Belmont, Mass. 02178 successful as a stockbroker for Goodbody & on Dec, 20; Helen Rosalyn Hargis to William Co. Cynthia Rosenthal Cole and Jeff make Calhoun Motter Jr. on Feb. 18. '67. 1964 Correspondent: their home in NYC where Cynthia worked at Born: to Peter and Constance Kaufman Dickin- Mrs. Richard T. Young the Frick Art Reference Library last year. son Elizabeth Page on 2/15: to Richard and (Nancy lindstrom) Also in NYC is Judith Dubben who is art re- Nancy Clarke Harris Nathaniel Goff on 11/11: 18 John Robinson Drive searcher for the U.S. edition of Reader's to Robert and Carolyn Young Schaal Patricia Hudson, Mass. 01749 Digest. Suzanne on 1/18; to Lawrence and Carolyn Brien Mulrux Chelminskl is in Paris where Carey Malone Colin cerev on 11/12: to Indrikis Born: to Dick and Carolyn Thomas Wood Harris Ricbard on 6/23: to Dave and Platt Rudi is a correspondent lor 'rtmen.rre. Brieo and Yolanta Berzins Kaneps Mas-is Indrikis on likes Paris much better then Moscow. Wendy Townend Arnold Margaret Dycos on 11113: 5/25/69: to Donald and Elise Irving Tucker Casman after graduation took the publishing Benjamin Brewster on 9/14: to Gerald and to Harry and Anne Burger Washburn Thomas Todd on 11114; to Bill and Susan Hackenburg course at Radcliffe and is now in her 3rd year Katrinka Craw Greger Peter Van Wie on 11/24; of working on design and production 01 chil- to Michael and Jane Levene Zuckerman Trethewey Elizabeth Jane on 12/20; to Lee and Virginia Budarz Ruck Christopher Martin dren's books for Little, Brown & Cc., Boston. Caroline Beth on 3/6/69; to Juri and Linda For excitement Weody, Elizabeth Martin and Morris Toomre Derek Kalev on 7/6/67 and on 1116. Harry and Anne Burger Washburn now Betsy Rawson went to Europe. Betsy received Krista Anar on 4/8/69: to Bill and Pamela her M.A. in social work from Utah last June live in Cambridge, Mass. Harry is with an Page Leckonby Robin DeBlois on 11/19; to and is now working in NYC. Deborah Small Tom and Ellen Watson Payaant Kristin on advertising firm in Boston. Also in Boston Katbarine Archer Smith is working at the Russel and husband Jim live in Oakdale, 3/24/69. Museum of Fine Arts. Barry and Eleanor (Lee) Conn., 7 miles from New London. Debby has Elise (Woody) Irving Tucker is moving to been an assistant in the Zoology Dept. at C.C. Jones Wendell are in Tokyo, Japan, for three New York where Don will be with the legal which involves teaching physiology and geo- years. Barry has opened a branch olIlce of dept. of Celanese Corp. Margery Flocks eral biology labs. Jim was a marketing repre- Masinter is involved in producing a children's the First National Bank of Boston there. Judy Cosier Pollock and Jim now live in Medan. sentative for Aetna LUe and Casualty Insur- theater for White Plains. This year they ance Co., Hartford, until October wben he played before the elementary scbools, several Sumatra, Indonesia where Jim is Branch Public Affairs Officer for most of Sumatra. Medan is became an associate in the Sumner and Sum- hospitals and institutions. Jacqueline Good- ner Insurance Agency of Willimantic, Conn. speed works as director of development for a smaller town than Djakarta and a bit more

39 Olson to Peter ColHns: Patril::ia Bethel to Webb, a bridesmaid at Barbara's wedding, has Debby divides her spare time between son lived in Princeton since her marriage. Pam Matthew and fixing up their new house. John J. Egan: Patricia Gowdy to Arturo Ponce de Leon in 121'68; Anne Harvey to William C. works at Educational Testing Service as an Robin Frost Dawson and Jon live in NYC in administrative analyst. Her husband is a a four-Right walk-up brownstone apartment Taylor in September: Stephanie Barrett to Christopher Branch: Gail Weintraub to David graduate student at Princeton, working toward that only newlyweds could love. Robin works a Ph.D. in biochemistry. Dorcas Hardy is for Time magazine writing FM commercials in Stern on 8/25. Lucy Upson' is in Boston where she will employed by Senator Clifford R. Case. She their promotion dept. They are anxious to worked for Conn Quest this winter, and repre- leave the city but so far vacations to Aspen teach high school social studies in the inner city next September after receiving her MAT sented the Washington D.C. area club at and Barbados have provided their only escape. Alumnae Council in March, She has seen Robin and Anne Moloney go to the YWCA from Webster College in St. Louis in August. Marcia McMeen is working on her master's in Susan Byrnes. Deborah Hastings and Ellen twice a week for a sHmnastics course called Sudow often in Washington. Debbie is working Moid to Measure. Judith Budding Kemp is Chinese at Indiana Univ. Anne Harvey Taylor with the House CrIme Committee, as Is an assistant editor for Harper 8: Row, NYC. plans to begin law school this fall. Roxanne Rebecca Hoffert. Ellen works on civil rights, Marjorie Singer Yarmutb is completing her Wilcox and Nancy Krook are working for housing and education legislation with the' 2nd year of law school at NYU. Her husband Jordan Marsh in Boston. Pal Gowdy Ponce de House Democratic Study Group. Jean Kehoe is a graduate of Columbia Lew School. Key Leon lives in Mexico City. Her husband, a MacDonald teaches in Westboro, Mass. while Rotbegeb Brimijoin is a research associate to graduate of the trntv. of Mexico School of her husband Marc is in Antarctica with the the director of medical student education at Architecture, is a member of an architectural Coast Guard. She recently returned from an Louisiana State Univ. Medical Center, which firm there. Cathleen Hull, living in NYC, has unexpected trip to New Zealand, wbere Marc's means she handles the organization and ad- been invited to show a piece in the 17th ship was being repaired after becoming in- ministration of the medical student education National Print Show at the Brooklyn Museum. capacitated in Antarctica. At Gail Weintraub program. Her status is one of a full time Nancy Finn, having completed her M.A. in faculty member with all faculty privileges English at the Univ. of North Carolina, works Stern's wedding, Ruth Cherls Edelson was and she finds the people stimulating, dynamic for CBS in New York as assistant feature matron of honor and Helen Epps a bridesmaid. Gail and David joined Vista in October and and young. Kay's husband is in the Coast editor in the Press Information Dept. Cheryl Guard. They both look forward to returning Shepley Deane teaches 4th grade at Albany work in southeast San Diego. Gail is involved to New England in Jan. 1971 when he plans Academy and does part-time graduate work, in organizing welfare rights organizations to enter Harvard School of Design. hoping to finish by next January. Teny is in while David is working on the establIshment his 3rd year of medical school: next year is of a co-op. his last and then internship and residency, 1968 Correspondent: probably in surgery. Barbara DiTrolio Mannino 1969 (a-correspondents: Mrs. Jeffrey Talmadge lives in Roselle Park, N.J. Before her marriage (Katherine Spendlove) Barbara worked at the Chemical Bank as a Alice F. Reid The Peddie School trust administrator in the Personal Trust Dept. 64 Prentiss Street Hightstown, N.j. 08520 She is now a professional employment coun- Cambridge, Mass. 02140 Married: Jean Kehoe to James MacDonald on selor with Snelling 8: Snelling in Plainfield, Mrs. Ronald E. Walker (linda McGilvray) 6/28; Iris Chartoff to Jay Leonard: Barhara N.J. Her husband Ross, also from Westfield, is 2112 Balboa Avenue, Apt. 8 DiTrolio to Ross J. Mannino on 12/13: Karen co-owner of his own business. Pamela Berky San Diego, Cal. 92109

[cant. from page 20, col. 1} Conn-Quest '70 was unexpectedly don't want to think about it and I'd The most frequently given reason a measure of the College's psycho- rather sleep." for not attending was, "Well, it's logical blindness, a blindness that The reaction is understandable; not like it's some new issue, or even has reached epidemic proportions. perhaps apathy is a necessary psy- a controversial one. After all, there Poverty is not a pleasant subject, chological crutch. Initially the mind have been poor people since the but it is a problem that must be recoils at each freshly exposed hor- days of Jesus Christ. I mean real- faced and dealt with realistically if ror until it develops a protective istically, what could I do about civilization is to survive. Poverty callus. But this is a luxury we can- it?" The fact that it isn't a new issue and malnutrition breed apathy, but not afford. It is too expensive in is true; tragically, regrettably so. given a leader and a shred of hope, terms of human suffering and in Poverty since the days of Christ? men and nations will fight desper- terms of the world our children will Maybe it's time people started notic- ately for a better life. Connecticut inherit. We are moving too fast to ing, caring, acting. What could you College is blessed with an abun- ignore a problem of such mind- do? Perhaps caring is the first step dance of material goods, but we are shattering, world-shattering poten- to positive action. tial, a problem that won't wait until cursed with spiritual poverty in our Students all over the world have lack of concern and awareness. we get around to solving it someday. been dissatisfied with the "estab- Yes, yes, everyone knows about Children are starving now. Men are lishment." They stage sit-ins, dem- poverty and hunger. Everyone, angry now. And now is the time for onstrations, riots and other related especially a college student, is action and awareness. extra-curricular activities, But when bombarded with statistics and pic- it comes down to a positive, non- tures and more statistics and we are (cant. from page 20, col. 2) headline making conference, bent weary of hearing about it, but that the conference was an enlightening on tackling one of mankind's oldest does not remove the problem or the experience for those who realized establishments, they do nothing. responsibility. Self-flagellation and that they didn't know all there was They don't care. It's not controver- guilt are not the answers, nor is to know on the subject and for those sial, or it doesn't touch them direct- psychological blindness, but this who cared about the inhuman con- ly. How sincere can their claims be? campus has managed to go from one ditions under which some of their extreme to another. Two years ago, fellow men are forced to exist. They accuse their elders of not caring; how much more do they Conn- Quest presented Jonathan But the weekend proved to be en- Kozol and Dick Gregory as part of its lightening in another way. Less than care? program, and a capacity crowd was five hundred people attended one or Conn-Quest '70 was an experi- moved to tears and anger by the in- more of the various functions be it ence; it was a double confrontation. justices within the United States. the movie, colloquium, forum: ban- It made one realize the kinds of Most of that audience never at- quet, or myriad of seminars. Less things anyone who is fighting paver· tempted to do anything constructive than five hundred. And I can't even ty or any other quiet tragedy is up about it; Conn-Quest had only a say they were all Conn students; against. One confrontation of the cathartic effect that relieved their many were dates or interested out- weekend was with poverty; the consciences. But at least Conn-Quest siders. There are over fourteen hun- other was with the human element informed and increased the cam- dred people on this campus. And which must be reached before this, pus's awareness. This year the cam- about one thousand of them just do or any related problems, can even pus said, "I'm sick of poverty; I not care, They are apathetic. be approached.

40 Connecticut College Alumnae News. Summer 1970 ••I All Alumnae invited Reunion 1970 Special class festivities for '20, '28, '29, '30, '40, '45, '48, June 12-14 '49, '50, and '65

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