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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Alumni News Archives 8-1962 Connecticut College Alumnae News, August 1962 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College Alumnae News, August 1962" (1962). Alumni News. Paper 140. http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/140 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. Executive Board of the Con nee tic ute 0 11e ge Alumnae Association President: EUZABETH J. DUTTON '47 Alumnae News 55 Langdon St., Cambridge, Mass. First Vice President: OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE JANE GRlSWOLD HOLMES '33 2957 Eaton Rd., Cleveland 22, Ohio CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Second Vice President: ELEANOR HINE KRANZ '34 VOLUME XXXIX NUMBER 4 AUGUST 1962 150 So. Highwood Ave. Glen Rock, N. J. Secretary: ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51 48 Deerfield Road Table of Contents Murray Hill, N. J. Treasurer: MARJORIE LAWRENCE WEIDIG '45 17 Oakdale Rd., Glenbrook, Conn. Directors: JANET BOOMER BARNARD '29 3 Tho Editor's Notepad 43 Garden Road 4 Reunion Celebrities Wellesley Hills, Mass. WINIFRED FRANK HAVELL '38 6 Utopias Unlimited 846 No. Euclid Ave., Oak Park, Ill. 9 "Rosemary, that's for Remembrance" PRISCILLA DUXBURY WESCOTT '41 11 Miss Park gives Final Talk to Alumnae 155 Otis Street, Hingham, Mass. 12 . The Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award MARY ANN WOODARD THOMP- SON '50 13 ........... Three Retirements 1103 Hillcrest Ave. 15 A Renaissance in Clubs Highland Park, Ill. 16 Annual Meeting of Alumnae Association Trustees: JANET M. PAINE '27 Rockefeller Foundation 17 The Trustees' Corner 111 West 50th Street 18 ..... Treasurer's Report New York 20, N. Y. 19 . Class Notes CAROL L. CHAPPELL '51 774 Ocean Ave. New London, Conn. WINIFRED NIES NORTHCOTT '38 4510 Cedarwood Road Campus Calendar Minneapolis 16, Minn. Chairman of Alumnae Fund: PATRICIA WERTHEIM ABRAMS '60 1 Gracie Terrace, New York, N. Y. September Chairman oj Nominating Committee: 15-20 Freshmen Week FRANCES BROOKS FOSTER '3D 21 Opening Assembly 84 Valentine Street West Newton, Mass. October Chairman oj Finance Committee: 6 Alumnae Day PRISCILLA PASCO '39 21 Inauguration of Dr. Charles E. Shain 17 South Main Street (by invitation only) West Hartford 7, Conn. November Chairman oj Scholorship Committee: 21-25 Tha nksgiving Recess WINIFRED NlES NORTHCOTT '38 4510 Cedarwood Road December Minneapolis 16, Minn. 19 Christmas Recess begins Executive Secretary: CHARLOTTE BECKWITH CRANE '25 january Connecticut College 6 Christmas Recess ends For photographs of alumnae fortunate enough to have been back on campus, see pages 4-12. LOUISE HOLBORN, Professor of Government, has been appointed advisor to the Peace Corps. In a recent The Editor's Notepad conversation she said that the Peace Corps is looking for men and women of all ages. There is particular need for REUNION was, as always, a festive, sentimental people to teach Spanish and French. "It is important for affair. Alumnae who arrived before Reunion attended the the alumnae to realize," she stated, "that the Peace Corps second Alumnae College, made up of four lectures by is interested in receiving applications from persons who faculty. An article describing this very successful event have been out of college for some time and particularly appears in this issue. On Friday evening a Faculty- from married couples." Alumnae sherry and buffet supper helped to set the tone for pleasant memories. An unusual exhibit at the Lyman DEAN NOYES commented with pleasure on the Allyn Museum was well attended after the supper. On number of alumnae out several years who are returning view was an outstanding collection of doll furniture ar- to study or preparing to enter teaching. She remarked ranged in especially-made doll houses. The collection that it would be a help to faculty recommending these is a gift of Mrs. Moss Baratz of New London (mother of alumnae if they would send in a few facts about pertinent Frances Baratz McNeil '40 and aunt of Frances Sears post-graduation activities when they request recommenda- Baratz '40). Curator Edgar Mayhew was host to the tions. alumnae. On Saturday, before class picnics, visits and tours of THE CLASS OF '62 started what they hope will become ~ permanent tradition. This past spring each sen- the changing campus began, alumnae attended the Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association (highlights of the ior contributed to Palmer Library a book in her major Meeting are recorded on page 16). Sarah Pithouse Becker field. Books were chosen from a list recommended by '27, our charming and able president, concluded her 3-year faculty members in each department, and every book had a bookplate giving the class year and inscribed by the donor. term of office, and on July first was succeeded by Elizabeth J. Dutton '47, who brings to the office years of experience IF YOU CARE to refresh your tired mind, you might as a devoted member of the Association. start on the freshmen summer reading list. Before set- The All-Alumnae Banquet had its gay moments and ting foot on campus, this year's freshmen will have read: its serious ones. The Class of '37, attending its 25th Re- John F. Kennedy's To Turn the Tide; B. M. Zeigler's union, presented Miss Park with $3000, the largest class Desegregation and the Supreme COUft; James Baldwin's gift in the history of the College. Skits were amusing, Notes of a Native Son; R. F. Gallagher's Nuremberg, The anJ the 3 recipients of the Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award Third Reich On Trial; H. Collwitzer's Dying We Live; were not only deserving but unusually photogenic. E. Crankshaw's Khrushchev's RUSSia; and The Hungarian Miss Park concluded the Banquet on a serious note Revolt, by R. Lett is and W. W. Morris. The theme of the in her final talk to the alumnae of Connecticut College. reading centers on The Individual's Responsibility for Good A short account of her talk appears herein. (Miss Park's and Evil in his Society. During Freshmen Week, freshmen final statement to the College appears in her "Report of will be addressed by F. Edward Cranz, Professor of His- the President 1946-1962," in which she explores issues tory, and then meet 3 times in small discussion groups. fundamental to education and to the College). They will also see 4 programs of the visual arts. ON THE COVER: Alumnae expressing their affectionate Editor: CORINNE MANNING BLACK '47, thanks to Miss Park at the All-Alumnae Banquet. Photo 182 Western Way, Princeton, N. ]. by Perry Studios. Editorial Board: MARION VIBERT CLARK '24, C/(ISJ Notes Editor Published by the Connecticut College Alumnae Association at MARJORIE LAWRENCE WEIDIG '45, Business Manager Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut College, New London, Conn. four times a year in December, March, May and August. Sub- RCLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51 scription price $2 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the RUBY ZAGOREN SILVERSTEIN '43 Post Office, New London, Conn., under the act of March 3, 1879. AAC member. RHODA MELTZER GILINSKY '49 3 Reunion Celebrities 2 1. Roberta Newton Blanchard '21, Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award winner, and Ruth Newcomb ex '20. 2. Elizabeth C. Wright, one of the founders of the College, with Robert H. Pierce, Director of Development. 3. Elizabeth J. Dutton '47, new president of the Alumnae Association. 4. Winifred Nies Northcott '38, Alumnae Trustee, at the Lyman Allyn Museum. 5. janet M. Paine '27, Alumnae Tnctee, with Char/ott:: Frisch Garlock '25, chairman of Fund Agents. 6. Pre-Banquet cocktail party. 4 J 4 5 5 6 Marjorie Ddley (above) lectures on African Politicsto attentive alumnae (left) During this academic year Miss Dilley will be in Uganda at Makerere Co!Jege, teaching there for the second time. Utopias Unlimited Alumnae College considers promised lands of past and future By M-ARClA BERNSTEIN SIEGEL '54 HE problem of providing a continuing intellectual 50 alumnae for a full day and evening of classesbefore T stimulus to graduates even after they have left the the start of reunion. fold is one faced by every American college today. Col- The theme was "Utopias: Dreams, Problems, Re- leges, a wellspring of intellectual growth for many, are alities," and the participants considered literature, tech- exploring new ways to prime the pump during the dry nology and modern world problems in relation to the . d spells of post-college life. Utopian concept. The alumnae were thoughtful, surpn.se, Connecticut College is meeting this challenge with even indignant; they were stimulated. And the diSCUSSIOns an expanding program of lectures and discussion specifi- overflowed from the Hale Laboratory lecture hall into ~he cally designed for alumnae, Several years ago the Alumnae coffee breaks and lunch, swirled about groups gathenng Association, in response to demands from its members, f'or supper, and bubbled up agalO. as the"dt"met stu en s asked the College to develop a program that would make at the alumnae banquet Saturday night. corning back to college more than just a sentimental jour- "Utopia or Else," Alumnae Warned ney. With the blessings of Miss Park, a faculty-alumnae To epen the series Thursday night Assistant Prof~ssor committee worked out the reunion lectures which were of English Peter ]. Seng spoke on the topic, "Utopia or held for a few years prior to 1961. That year Alumnae Else." Dr. Seng traced the Utopian idea throughout h,IS- College, expanded and rescheduled, became a separate tory as a subject of man's thought.