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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Alumni News Archives 12-1952 Connecticut College Alumnae News, December 1952 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College Alumnae News, December 1952" (1952). Alumni News. 113. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/113 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Connecticut College Alumnae News I ============jJ -~ .~~. , . " I December 1952 ALUMNAE COUNCIL REUNIONS ON CAMPUS Saturday, March 7, 1953 June 5,6,7, 1953 Council this year will be a one-day rneet ing on Carup'us for club, Class, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23, '24, '25, and Carnpuign Workers. '38, '39, '40, '41, '52 Detailed Infor-matfon later. Executive Board of the Alumnae Association President Directors MRS. RICHARD W. MEYER {Mary Anna Lemon '42) MRS. EDWIN B. HINCK (Margaret Royall '33) 96 Hen Hawk Road, Great Neck, N. Y. 270 North Mountain Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. First Vice-President NATALIE MAAS '40 MRS. THOMAS COCHRAN (Rosamond Beebe '26) 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Radnor" Pa. Second Vice-President JUNE MORSE '4' MRS. WILLIAM H. DINSMORE (Gertrude Allen '36) 7 Millett Road, Swampscott, Mass. 7 B Washington Square North, New York 3, N. Y. Recording Secretary Alumnae Trustees MRS. JAMES G. RAYBURN (Leann K. Donahue '41) MRS. RICHARD HEILMAN (Eleanor Jones '33) 16712 Stockbridge Avenue, Cleveland O. Aldwyn Lane, Villanova, Pa. Treasurer MRS. OLIVER BUTTERWORTH (Miriam F. Brooks '40) CAROL CHAPPELL '4' Box 283, New London Sunset Farm, West Hartford 7 Chairman of Finance Committee CATHARINE GREER "9 .MRS. BURTON L. HOW (Janet Crawford '24) New Hackensack Road, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 35 Clifton Avenue, West Hartford Chairman of Nominating Committee Executive Secretary MRS. JOSEPH s. SUDARSKY (Edith Gaberman '43) KATHRYN MOSS "4 8 Iroquois Road, West Hartford New London Editorial Staff of Alumnae News Editor AS50ciate Editors KATHRYN MOSS "4 Alumnae Office, Connecticut College, New London OLIVIA JOHNSON "4 Business Manager FRANCES GREEN "6 CAROL CHAPPELL '41 MRS. JOHN R. MONTGOMERY, JR. (Edith Miller '44) Published by. the Connec~jcut College Alumnae Association at Connecticut College, 751 Williams Street, New London, Conn. four times ,1 year In December, March, May and August. Subscription price $2 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, New London, Conn., under the act of March 3, 1879. The cover photograph is of MY]. James Tl7. Morrisson, Secretary of the Conneciiaa College Board of Tressees. Co nne ctic u t College Alumnae News OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION NUMBER 1 VOLUME XXXI DECEMBER, 19)2 What the United Nations Has Done By MARY FOULKE MORRISSQN Weare happy' to present in tbis issue of the ALUMNAE NEWS articles by [onr members oj the Board of Trustees of the College. Three are by OHr own Alumnae Trustees, and one, wbicb appeau below by Mrs. Morrisson, secretary of the Board. Alumnae at oarions meetings of Alumnae Council beve [onnd tbemseloes pa·yticipating in panel discussions which have opened new avenues of thollght and information concerning the problems of the teacher and the taught; the administration of colleges, and the affairs of Connecticut College in par/;m/wl". Very often Mrs. Morrisson has been the chairman of sncb discussions, and thns many alumnae have come to know and admire this olltstanding "woman of affairs." Mrs. Mor-risson's career in pltblic service has been long and distingl/ished, She was secretary, then president of the Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, and in 1915-16 was secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage ASSOCIation. Active today as Foreign Policy Chairman of the New London League of Women Voters, Mn Morrisson helped to found the Leaglte of IVomen Voters, as well as the Illinois League, of which latter group she was president from 1924- 27. She has been first Vice President of the National Leagne, and off and on member of the Board of the Connecticut Leagrce. Active ill important war work, M"S. Iviorrrsson ill 1917 initiated the organization of the Woman's Division of the Illinois Council of National Defeuse and served on its executioe committee during World War I. In World IVaI' II she started the organization of the Groton [Conn.] Dejense Cor/neil, and was head of its IVomen's Division, Also during World War II she operated the Russian Rooster, a servicemen's center in Groton. She is the holder of the Connecticut Medal for Distinguished Civilian IVar Service, and also of the Distinguished Citizens Award from the Men's Clnb of Congregation Beth El, New London 1951. All this, and home too--in Groton, Connecticut. In 1900 Mary Foulke, the young Bryn Mawr graduate, was married to James IV. Morrissoll. Now there are five children and eleven grandchildren. Connection College is hon- ored in having Mrs. Monisson as a Trustee. Her article below was gi'ven as an address in Harkness Chapel. Two men, speaking before the same great audience in failing to do 50. You know better, thank goodness. You New York the other day, made statements that seemed to know it is not a government and. you know why-that no existing national government, great or small, is as yet will- me very significant. ing to surrender to a new and untried organization enough One said., "Peace cannot be won as war is won. Peace of its sovereignty, its responsibility for and control over in the world, like good government at home, is a goal we the lives. and fortunes of its people to make the UN a func- approach but never perfectly attain. Peace, like religion tioning government. Too bad, perhaps, but very under- and the good life, is the task of each new day, it must be worked at in little things and in big things so long standable. Such surrender can only come after many years of as breath we draw." working together on common problems have proved that The other said, "All cooperative action among free na- "a more perfect union" is not a dream but an indispens- tions must be based upon genuine understanding. The able need, when mutual confidence has deepened and when development of that understanding is the starting point of there is a far greater common ground of agreement on any program toward lasting peace." what the purposes of such a government should and could These two statements, it seems to me, give the com- be. When you remember how long it took the American pelling reasons why we have a United Nations, why, if we colonies, with a common language and background, a fairly did not have one, we would have to create one, why we even educational and economic level and an empty, rich must support and strengthen and above all try to under- land, to make the surrender of sovereignty needed to pro- stand the structure we have built and of which we are a duce the Constitution of the United States, and then con- part. sider the differences in language, education and technical Let us consider a few things about that structure, what skill, to say nothing of religions and cultures between the it is, and more especially what it is not. Some of us talk nations of the world today, you realize how remote is that as if the United Nations were a functioning government, that could pass laws regulating the behavior of its mem- goal. But that does not mean we can do nothing now, that bers and enforce those laws, and we blame it severely for 3 ever known. And it is not just academic. From those we are doing nothing, or that what we dc0 ISi not important. conferences men and women go ou.t to grapple with the We need to remember what the United Nations was set age old enemies of man, hunger, disease, poverty as well up to do, as the problems brought about by our complex modern Mr. Trygve Lie, speaking to a college group last spring life. The work of the Economic and Social Council has said "Mankind lives in a world that has been transforme,d been called, deservedly, the biggest piece of international by ~cience and technology, where a third World War .15 cooperation for human welfare in the history of the world. quite capable of wiping out CIVI"I' rzatiIOn ~s. ~ e know It. The United Nations is the response of civilized men to Some projects are vast: feeding eight million children, this kind of world. The United Nations cannot abolish resettling nearly a million refugees, examining 37 million conflicts of ideology and power, or the new nationalism children for T.B., giving protective vaccine to 17 million, or the revolutionary upsurge of peoples. The purpos.e ~f spraying two-thirds of an. entire country wi~h.D.D.T. and the United Nations is to contain all these forces within thereby pulling the malaria cases from a million down to the peaceful bonds laid down by the law of the Charter:' 50,000 a year and making it possible for that many people to work again. The Charter is a solemn pledge by all members of the United Nations not to use force in settling their differ- INCREASED FOOD SUPPLY ences with each other.

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