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HARKNESS CHAPEL IN EARLY SPRING

March 1956 REUNION WEEKEND: CLASSES OF '31, '26, '27, '28, CONNECTICUT COLLEGE SCHOOL OF THE DANCE: '45, '46, '47, '48, '55. Members of Non-Reunion July 9 to August 19, 19S6. Classes are also invited to come to the campus American Dance Festival: To be presented during for the festivities. the week of August 13, 19S6.

College Calendar 1956 Executive Board of the Alumnae Association April 20, 21: Wig and Candle Play: First Vice-President: Margaret Royall Hinck '33 "Blithe Spirit". May 2; Competitive Sing, Melodrama. Second Vice-President: Margaret Kerr Miller '41 May 19: Fathers' Day. Recording Secretary: Ann Small Burnham '42 May 20: Outdoor Vespers. Treasurer: Carol L. Chappell '41 May 27: Musical Vespers. June 8, 9, 10: Commencement Weekend Cbmn, Alumnae Fund Conim.: Artemis Blessis Ramaker '50 Class Reunions. Chmn. Nominating Com m.: Lois Ryman Areson '36 JUNe 9: Annual Meeting of Alumnae Ass'n. Chmn. Finance Comni.: Edna Smith Thistle '26 Editorial Board Alumnae News Ch ....in, Personnel Conim.: Marjory L. Jones '28 Marion Vibert Clark '24 Directors: Mildred Howard '20, Alison Jacobs McBride '34, Gertrude Noyes '25 Henrietta Owens Rogers '28 Mary lee Minter Goode '46 Carol 1. Chappell '41 Alumnae Trustees. Catharine Greer '29, Roberta Newton Blanchard '21, Mary A. Clark '50 Natalie R. Maas '40 Roldah-Northrup Cameron '51 Kathryn Moss '24, Editor. Exeaaioe Secvetery: Kathryn Moss '24

Gifts to Connecticut College

You have been informed of the Crozier bequest to the because, said the Foundation, "They led the way in their College, which will be at least $500,000, and in connec- regions in improving the status and compensation »f tion with which plans for the Student-Alumnae Center American college teachers." are being considered. Announcement has also been made of other important gifts which will come from the Larra- For these splendid gifts all alumnae are indeed grate/ttl. bee bequests from the estates of two Groton, Connecticut, They carry with them a challenge to alumnae. Quick sisters. The amount of these gifts is as yet unknown. calculation as to investment rates on endowed funds, the number of faculty, toe cost of building today, indicates that we cannot now relax. Artemis Blessis Ramaker, Chair- Through the news sheet sent from President Park's man of the Alumnae Pend, well says: "The recent large office, as well as through the public press, alumnae have bequests to Connecticut were made because Connecticut is been informed that Connecticut College will receive at vital, is self-reliant. Help to those who help themselves!" least $632,500 in grants from the Ford Foundation, the major portion of which must be used for increasing facul- And! 10 underline the urgency! the necessity, of strong ty salaries. The accomplishment grant from the Founda- higher education in the United States! we ask you to con- tion may be used to increase faculty salaries or to meet sider seriollsly the significance of Miss Betbur urn's, Miss other urgent needs of the College, Connecticut is one of Dilley's! and Mrs. Benton! r articles in this issue of the 126 institutions which received accomplishment grants, Alumnae News.

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VOLUME XXIV MARCH, 1956 NUMBER 2

More Than a Bread - and - Butter Interest

By WINIFRED NIES NORTHCOTT '38

WITH Winifred Northcott's statement, "Work for the deaf is more them a bread and butter interest to me," we do agree. Her distinguished career in the teaching of deaf children is to be expected, as on the maternal side of her family she is the fifth generation of educators for the deaf, Dr. Harvey Prindle Peet, her great-grandfather, founded the school for the deaf in White Plains, New York, where her mother completed thirty years! of teaching in 1954. Dr. Elizabeth Peet, her great aunt, was long Dean of Women at Gallaudet College for the Deaf in Washington, D. C. Winnie's father, Dr. Edwin W. Nies, has been totally deaf from the age of 7. After graduating from Gallaudet, and later receiving his degree of D.D.S. nt the University of Pennsylvania Dental School, Dr. Nies in 1950, still a practicing dentist, was ordained to the priesthood in the Protestant Episcopal Church. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Donegan and took place at the historic St. Mark's-In-the-Bouwerie, New York, where St. Ann's Church for the Deaf meets for worship. Winifred herself has taught at the Lexington School for the Deaf in New York, at the Aggasiz Deaf School in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Hearing Society, and the University of Minne- W illifred Nortbcott sota. Since November 1955 she bas been the Director of the Nursery School of the Minneapolis Hearing Society, a Commu- nity Chest agency. There she works with twelve deaf children blackboard, and wait until the magic 'Steve' or 'Cindy' from the ages of 2 to 4. brings them to the Teacher's side to obey the 'Run; In the pattern of good wives of the period, Winne followed 'Jump' or 'Fly' commands." her husband John from place to place while he was in military service. After the war the Northcotts moved to Minnesota, where These children range in age [rom two to four, and son Hal in 1949 and daughter Heather in 1952 were adopted. you might think- Ho, Hum, another routine report of Winifred is the president of the Connecticut College Club of the a pre-school nursery group. But this is a quotation from Twin Cities. the monthly magazine published by the Minneapolis Hearing Society, and Steve and Cindy, along with the " 'VTWEare moving ahead on all fronts," the first other frisky little, precious little children who make up Nursery News and Views report to parents read, "the the dozen, are profoundly deaf. They came to us not chi ldren take off their own snowsuits and either shake being able to say a single word, not even knowing what hands with the grown-ups, as Buzz has taught them, say a word is. Think about that for a moment - here are "Hi," or just grin their hellos. We notice they settle children scarcely more than babies, far too young to be down to work readily and every child can match colors psychologically ready for formal teaching, who are ex- easily as we move into the second month of schooL Linda pected soon to be letter-perfect in producing sounds and has an infectious laugh and finds much merriment in words. Natural and appealing in their play? Certainly. deliberately mismatching a color, while Teacher pretends But to them it is a world of complete silence, and we are to be shocked, then putting it in the right spot." on hand to help make it meaningfuL "We are encouraged with the progress in group work, It is so undramatic to be deaf, and only four years too," the Report continues, "the children can find their old. There is no leg brace or Braille book to give visible own name card, match it with the proper name on the warning to the world that here is a little girl or boy who

3 can't say a single word. "Can P" "Why?" "Where?" As we talk, talk, talk we tie up the spoken word they would like to ask as the panorama of daily experi- with the written. After the children recognize their own ences swings into focus. Gestures and pantomime, yes names, through lip-reading, and by identifying their name they give clues to their state of mind. But what of the on the blackboard, we write simple news on the black- curiosity, frustration, the fears that pound inside. Our board. "Cindy has on a new red skirt." In turn, the pupils can only spill over their feelings in behavior-ex- children sitting in a semi-circle identify Cindy as the cessive shyness, tantrums, or just passive resistance. word is pointed to, draw a skirt over the word to show they know its meaning, and find the red chalk to color a And then their first formal teaching begins. Our square over the appropriate word. little group of pre-schoolers who come to us three morn- ings a week from 9:30 to 11 :30 run the gamut from lazy We move ahead on all fronts, not just casual lip- to ambitious, from dull to brilliant. They have one thing reading. We have the children match pictures to pictures, in common, an inability to hear spoken words through the and objects to pictures, for we always tie up the spoken naked ear (though they have a perfect speech mechanism, word to something concrete, and as time goes on we use organically speaking), and therefore there is no intelli- pictures more and more. We group the nouns which gible speech to date, have child-appeal into categories such as toys, parts of the body, animals, food, and clothing. Gradually we in- It's interesting to note here that surveys have proven troduce silent reading by having the children match the that congenita1ly deaf babies go through a babbling stage printed word to the correct object. A first reading lesson from six to ten months of age which is identical to that might start this way- "Jim, I wonder if you can find the found in babies with normal hearing, during which time airplane for me?" Jim points to the picture of the air- they gurgle and coo and make all the sounds known to plane in a group of 7 or 8 cards. (Jim only recognizes speech. But alas, the fork in the road appears soon after. the single word 'Airplane' but we continue to keep it in The hearing child's mother listens to his "mmm" and a whole sentence, varying the question each time. Then says excitedly, "Darling, you said MOMMIE!" And over we hand him the printed word 'Airplane,' and show his bath, she coos, "Mommie loves you, see Mommie, him it belongs with the object. "Here's a big ball. Can Morruuie won't leave you," until perhaps a month later you show me the big ball, Cindy?" After she has pointed he will respond to the repetition of sound and advance to correctly, we give her 'Ball' in print, to insert below the "Ma-ma." The magic of speech in intelligible form has picture on the rack. A week or two later would find us begun! The little deaf baby, however, cannot hear his merely holding up the printed word 'Airplane,' and ask- own voice. His eyes can't focus for lip-reading, and he ing~"Steve, can you find this picture for me?" All Steve soon stops even the aimless babbling that delighted his recognizes on the lips is his name, and the fact that parents so at first. He cannot progress beyond that bab- teacher is holding up a word he knows but he matches bling stage without formal training. the printed word to the object neatly. Later on, Steve How do we begin to teach a three or four year-old will do the matching as seat work while teacher works who has never heard speech, who doesn't even realize he with another child on speech. must watch the lips to understand thoughts of others? We saturate the child with natural language. We talk just Behind a closed door, another teacher works with as though he could hear, but in short sentences suitable to one child alone, in auditory training. They sit in front of any three or four year old, and we use natural gestures a mirror, holding a feather, and pert little Linda imitates as we go. "Jim, I like your new car (taking it in hand). "Wh" so faithfully that it flies out of her hand, The Does it go very fast, (Whiz it through the air), Be Warren training unit has been turned on, Linda has ad- careful (shake your finger) don't bump (bang the car justed the rubber-cushioned earphones, and turned up the into your open palm) anybody with your new car, will volume control to her own satisfaction. "Show me the you." fish," the teacher bids, with Linda's hand on the side of her face. Speech is taught through the visual, tactile and Jim doesn't understand every single. word, but you auditory approach-that is, by lip-reading the sound or bet he knows teacher is talking about his prized posses- word to be repeated, feeling the vibration of the word sion, and he got the warning frown, too. We never use by placing one hand on the side of teacher's face, (thumb Indian sign language, with a few nouns and verbs thrown extended to feel the rush of air on all breath sounds), in, either. "Car broken, Mama fix." Why? Because we and hearing the speech through the powerful amplifier. want Jim to get a feeling of the rhythm and fluency of Later, Linda will combine a consonant and vowel the speech. It will help him when he comes to speak in first step toward building up a speech vocabulary, lo~king whole sentences later on. into the mirror and repeating after the teacher, "Bo, ba,

4 I bee." All of a sudden she takes off the earphones, smiles an angelic farewell, and scoots out to push Jim off the rocking horse she vacated ten minutes before.

Music is an important part of the training of a pre- school deaf child. Sometimes we have Cindy rock her doll while the music plays, stop when the sound ceases. Or Steve may close his eyes until he hears the sound of the drum which will "Wake him up." Sometimes we cover our lips with a card, so Nancy can concentrate on the word without benefit of lip-reading. Through her earphones she must pick up the toy car and race it when she hears "Beep beep," while "aaah" is the signal to make the toy airplane fly.

You see, merely amplifying sound doesn't make it intelligible to our cherubs. Two or three of our group will eventually distinguish words and sentences with the help of a hearing aid, and go on to regular classes after a few years at a school for the deaf. They are only hard- "These little children have not one word of speech of-hearing, but at present they hear only "BARBLE, when they come to us:" GARBLE, GARBLE" while the profoundly deaf child merely experiences a series of vibrations through his earphones, "porn, porn, pom, Pff M, porn, porn" when a sen- Upon graduation from Agassiz school, the deaf tence is spoken. He never will be able to distinguish one youngsters attend public high school, entering the regular sentence from another, but the hearing aid will give him classes there, with a trained teacher still supplementing a feeling of the rhythm and pitch of speech. with work in speech correction. It is interesting to see how naive and idealistic these acoustically-handicapped Our goal at the Minneapolis Hearing Society is for children are. They know nothing of popularity-via-cash- each child to graduate to Agassiz Deaf School, a local mere-sweaters or of religious prejudice or class distinction. day school featuring the oral method (teaching speech As adults we were too wise deliberately to limit their and lip-reading, no signs or finger-spelling), at the age thinking, and they don't hear much slang or smalltalk of four. Here the children will continue their progress in either. speech and lip-reading and written language. At the end of one year in school, the average deaf child may have a We do have to include lessons in tact. The reaction lip-reading vocabulary of 75 words, 25-40 words that he of one pupil, prompted by the writer's return to substitute can pronounce well, and 150-200 words in silent reading. teaching, was, "Same face-more gray hair". Contrast this with the average six-year old who has a vocabulary of 2500 words and it is reasonable to require six to eight years for the deaf child to complete the first Times have certainly changed, though. We use the four grades of a public school curriculum. Gradually the term "profoundly deaf" now, instead of "deaf-and- nouns and verbs are connected into simple sentences, and dumb." We see the oral method used more and more in there is a feeling of connected language. From the fourth schools for the deaf, to bridge the gap between the silent grade on the standard curriculum of the public schools is and hearing worlds. A hearing aid is certainly a mark of followed, with special emphasis upon speech and lip- honesty nowadays, if not a distinction, because of the reading and correction of the faults in both. Teachers volume of average and illustrious citizens who wear one. grow expert in interpreting picturesque speech. "Me- And the thousands of successful adults who are graduates seven meats" is a six-year old's description of the ham- of schools for the deaf, in fields ranging from chemical burgers he downed at a school picnic. And once a mother and atomic research to power-machine operating and line- posed this problem-"When Kathy'S big sister does some- typing, are the best proof of the happy normalcy they thing silly, Kathy says "Dope." Now, should I make her have achieved through exposure to oral education for say "Sylvia IS a dope," or should I tell her to be quiet?" positive living.

5 • Two Faculty Leaves Spent In England

Political Theories

By MARJORIE R. DILLEY

Miss Dille)', chairman of the Gooemment Department, and Miss BethUfum, cbairmrm 0/ the English Depertment, have recernlv spent

academic leaves in England. Upon returning to the campus both spoke 10 students at all-College Assemblies-Miss Beibumm ,'11 the Fall of the currern academic year, and Miss Dilley at the beginning of the second semester. Their comments are highly signi/ir;ilu in

the light of current educational and political affairs in this country and abroad. Miss Dilley's remarks Oil education ill thl! Soviet Union and those of Helen Hemingway Benton '23 all the Un;1IerS;I)' of Moscoll', in the article 011 her experiences behind de 11'0/1 Curtain, may well be pondered together,

I HAVE A SENSE of obligation because of press was pretty critical of Labour and field study" which does not seem to offend my Leave during the past semester which Conservatives for their failure to discover their sensibilities as it dces mine. required me to agree to speak this morn- the disloyalty of these men and to prevent Almost every speaker asserted his unwil- ing when President Park asked me to do their departure for the Soviet Union. Ail lingness to have totalitarianism and McCar- so. Left to do as: I pleased-or to judge were concerned for the effect all this would thyism introduced into England, expressed whether it would develop my "personality" have on American governmental and public the belief that the civil service is loya I, and to do it-I suppose I would have refused opinion. They feared that we in the United announced a preference for maintaining to make any report to you. In any case, I States would say that we handle these English ways of determining guilt in which do fee! deeply obliged to the College for things better, disloyal elements are discov- due process and individual rights are main- the release from teaching for one semester, ered and removed sooner-and if some in- tained. with a grant the equivalent of my salary, nocent persons are harmed, well, we get to permit me to do uninterrupted studying. the guilty. They were afraid that this fail- Sir Anthony's speech did not elicit .my I thoroughly enjoyed it all. It is not for ure on their part might lead the United particular enthusiasm until he closed by me to say how valuable it has been; I hope States to be even less. willing to treat them saying that he would never be Prime Min- the value will be apparent to some of you. as allies. At the same time they did not ister in a Government which proposed io wish to adopt our methods, and they said deny fundamental rights to Englishmen, nod I chose to do my studying in London be- so very clearly and specifically; they seemed because of this he opposed changes in Brit- cause I like to be in England, and I wanted to me to be saying that our methods are ish laws about disloyalty which would give to live in a different atmosphere. It has "on-English." Government power to dismiss or arrest always seemed to me that I am more aware without evidence. When he said this--()h- of everything in a new setting. American I was in the House of Commons gallery viousfy his concluding remarks-c-cnes of problems studied from London take on a the evening of the day that the Burgess- Hear! Hear! rang from both sides of the different depth and shape. It is interesting Maclean question was discussed, and I House, and there was general applause. No of course to observe the problems of an- heard Sir Anthony Eden sum up for the one was happy about the debate or the other society while living in it, and to see Government. Labour was attacking the adequacy of the proposed study, but there our problems matched there. For example, Conservatives-the Government-for letting was little of the kind of recrimination I found the English engrossed in a discus- them get away, but it had to defend itself which we would have expected had such a sion about education. They were talking, because it did not discover them and dis- break in our security system been revealed. writing letters to the Times, and appoint- miss them earlier. It contented itself with Politics seems politer in England; there are ing commissions to study increase in enroll- asking for a special commission to study rules of the game, and people actually ment, increase in numbers entering college the security measures now in force. Sir shout "Shame" when they are broken. and university, methods of financing educa- Anthony said the Government did not dis- tion, and proper grading of work for dif- miss the two men or prevent their depart- You will know that I was in London ferent levels of ability and attainment. ure because there was insufficient evidence. during the excitement about Princess Mar- He accepted the suggestion to establish a garet. Since I have come home, I have Another problem of ours which I found commission and announced that it would decided that Americans were more excited to be a problem in England is the security be composed of experienced officials from about it than the English were, and I as- program in the civil service. Generally sume this was because we had license (not speaking the English have managed their both sides of the House. Because of the freedom) to be excited because we had checking quietly and without raising funda- nature of the study, there would be no pub- nothing at stake. The issues were super- mental questions of individual rights. The lic report on the findings. He informed the ficial for us, but they were not superficial problem was dramatized while I was in House that all candidates for the civil serv- for the English; they went deep into Eng- London by the disclosures about Guy Bur- ice are now thoroughly "vetted"-a term lish traditions, and people felt involved in gess and Donald Macl.can. The English in general use there to refer to our "full the consequences. I think that a definite

6 effort was made to get an expression of to produce motivation. Political theory ap- that an individual was truly free when he public opinion about the marriage, that it plies historical precedents to provide pers- was doing what he ought to do, and doing was expressed, that it was opposed to the pective and understanding, and it is of it because be understood why it was right. marriage, and that then Princess Margaret course concerned with contemporary aspects Hobbes theory could be freedom to do wrote her letter, in which, you will remem- of its various elements. nothing if one pleased to do nothing and ber, she stated that she was not marrying could stay alive that way. I read some other theorists, but I worked Mr. Townsend because of her duty to the Many aspects of our society have taught on Thomas Hobbes and Edmund Burke Commonwealth. I heard and read a good us an extreme form of individualism em- more than any others. It would be difficult deal of comment to the effect that Princess phasizing liberty, perhaps license, and omit- to find two men more divergent in their Margaret had been brought up to her job, ting duty and obligation. I suggest that approaches to the questions of political was well paid for doing it, and should not when students applaud an assertion that theory. give it up as the proposed marriage would they do not have any sense of duty or obli- require, As I heard one laboring elass wo- gation to study in college, they are expres- Hobbes asserts that men are motivated man say to another, "We pay her good and sing Hobbes' kind of individualism-a far by a desire for self-preservation, that they she has always known she couldn't marry cry from Princess Margaret's kind. The are completely selfish, and are continually like other girls." There were many differ- need for self-preservation might lead such striving to acquire more and more goods ent reasons for the opposition, but they students to study to preserve themselves, I or property to secure power to protect their united to form a large opposition, I should suppose, if they could see any connection. jives. Since their chief motivation is ego- say, It is clear that the Royal Family is I confess to feeling cold shivers at the istic, they strive in large part to persuade the servant of the people and accepts its thought that my survival depends in part others-by force if necessary-to accept responsibility and obligation. upon people who do not accept any obliga- their own opinion of themselves. tion to know. Mere survival today cer- These are some of the gleanings from tainly means survival of a way of life; my time in London. In addition to reading Obviously this would produce a constant, individuals within the way of life survive English papers and periodicals, listening to vicious, open struggle among human beings'. if it does. Burke would say, I think, that discussion in public meetings and in ses- Hobbes said that it would be a tooth and those individuals who survived after the -sions of governmental bodies, I worked claw fight. However, since no one could collapse of a way of life would not be the regularly in the Reading Room of the Brit- be sure of survival otherwise, he presumed same individuals. ish Museum. This period was the first that all had agreed to give to some superior since I was in London for a year in 1932 power the authority needed to provide a One of the most important problems for that I have had time "just to read," and peace in which all could stay alive, This us is this question of responsibility of all judging from the frequent use by faculty superior authority made law, and the law of us for contributions to our way of life. and students of the phrase "I wish I had established the only standards men had. It is important for us all to know more. time to read," I am sure that many of you He believed that individuals would not Our civilization is so complicated that it

will have some sense of how exciting this Ie/II"/! anything from living under the law; requires highly trained and exceptionally was to me. My decks were cleared, and I they would continue to try to do as they skilled-and probably dedicated-people to could read as I wished with no classes to pleased, but would be prevented from do- keep it functioning. Of course it requires prepare for; no papers to grade; no coming so by the ruler's power to enforce his knowledge in science and mathematics, but mittee meetings to attend; no interviews to legal standards. it also requires knowledge of history, the find time for. social sciences, and the humanities to under- This is a theory of extreme individualism stand it and to invent new devices for its When I applied for a card to use the according to which individuals recognize development. For years our leaders have Reading Room, I found that a small slip no obligation or duty to any other person, been concerned because of the decline in of paper about an inch wide and three in- institution, society, state, or history. It is the number of people studying mathematics ches long recorded the fact that I had every man for himself as long as he can and science, because of the apparent decline worked there in 1932, and that alone gave stay alive. in standards in the schools, and because of me entry. My new application form re- the failure of many with ability to get as porting academic progress since 1932 was Burke on the other hand believed that good training as they can get. This is con- thrown into a wastebasket, and a new card individuals are potentially moral and social cern for the internal survival of our sys- was issued because they had saved my slip beings, and naturally form groups, from tem, but there is also an external danger with thousands like it when the Reading which it follows that individuals are more threatening our survival, and these two are Room was bombed. This is very English! truly themselves in association with other not always separate, although they coosti- individuals, and particularly in historical tute a serious double threat. states with traditions. Individuals Learn, I was there to read political theory. This We have been living with a dangerous according to Burke, learn, acquire and un- subject is concerned with human nature as assumption-that in a state where there is derstand their moral standards or values in the basis of political institutions and social no individual freedom and where indivi- society; they are motivated to develop their relations, with the nature and function of duals are regimented, there is bound to be abilities for their own enjoyment and for law, with the question of the proper func- little loyalty and no real sense of obligation the common good, and in doing so they tions of state and government, with indi- to it, and that consequently, it will live slowly add to the accumulated wisdom of vidual liberty, obligation, and responsibility under a threat of revolt which will weaken their society. in organized societies. Political theory in- it. In addition we have thought that reg- eludes the problem of human motivation, imented people will not (earn much that and theorists discuss questions of how to In contrast with Hobbes', for whom free- (Continued 011 Page 15) discipline native human endowment or how dom was lack of restriction, Burke taught

7 Student Life at Oxford

By DOROTHY BETHURUM

In the few minutes allotted to me I shall try to tell you something about Oxford, where I spent last year. First I shall relate those aspects of college life in Oxford that make it seem a paradise, but I hope you wiIl not rush out and try to transfer until I finish this speech. A superficial look at Oxford makes it appear that this highly selected part of England's youth had gathered in a spot of unearthly beauty for no other purpose than to Beet .Miss Bethmrrm, whose leave was on a Fulbright grant. the time carelessly and enjoy each other's company. All the 31 colleges that make up the university have gardens of for yourse1f that the people who attend Oxford are treated great beauty, where, in the autumn or spring, you will see as if they wer'e intelJectually more mature than we imagine youths and maidens lolling on the grass or taking their you are, and the responsibility for their education is left ease in deck chairs, perhaps with a book in hand, perhaps in their hands. with a cup of tea. And on one of the two rivers that flow There is another side to this picture that may not seem through Oxford, the Cherwell, there are punts, in which so appealing to an American student. For one thing, all other youths and maidens push slowly up under the rich Oxford students appear to have taken a monastic vow green of overhanging trees, bent on nothing but the en- of enclosure when they matriculate, for no one, man or joyment of sun (if any), beautiful river and fields, and woman, is allowed to leave his college overnight during each other: s company. Occasionally on the river there is a term. There are three terms of eight weeks each, broken solitary studious one, book in hand; but he lies relaxed by long vacations at Christmas, Easter, and in the summer, in his punt under some tree and can't be doing anything and during these eight weeks all students are in their col- so odious as writing a paper. Or, if you happen to be in leges. Furthermore-and this will doubtless appal you- Oxford for the end of term in June, on the night of the gates of the colleges are locked each night at ten or at Comrnem Ball the whole city will have been transformed midnight, and there is little possibility of getting in or out into a paradise of lighted gardens, each with a large after that hour. I won't say it is never done by athletic pavillion for dancing; and these same youths and maidens, lads who can swarm up a twelve foot wall, but some of the dressed for the occasion-and how dressed-looking like walls are topped by evil looking broken glass fixed in something out of a "Come to Britain" advertisement, pur- cement, and ingress or egress by that method is difficult. sue pleasure aesthetically. Surely, you will say, this is what Besides, there is a proctor, an august individual, and four life ought to be. England has mastered the art of enjoyment. sub proctors, each with an aid known as a bulldog, and Then you turn to the academic side of this paradise and these stern officers roam the street at night to see that no it looks similarly attractive. There are no classes. There are undergraduate behaves indecorously. The Oxford standard no required subjects. A student takes only one subject, the of decorum might seem a bit curious to you, or perhaps choice of his heart, and this he pursues mainly alone or in the interpretation of the proctor is liberal; but the idea conversation with his friends. To be sure, he has a tutor is accepted without protest by all students. There are, you whom he is supposed to meet once a week and to whom see, no week-ends, and the idea of absenting oneself from he reads a weekly paper of a few pages; but it is always college to attend, say, a Bachelor's Cotillion in London possible to write a polite note to the tutor requesting a would never enter the students' heads. postponement of this meeting and suggesting that at a On the academic side there are also conditions without later date he will have gone more deeply into the subject. which this freedom I described cannot be enjoyed. Oxford To be sure, the university provides a series of lectures open students come to college having spent twelve or thirteen to all students, and many attend them, notebook in hand, years of hard work in the schools, and they know a good but they are not required to do so, either by direct or by in- deal. I shall illustrate by the English School, since I know direct pressure. Best of all, in the whole college course there that best. To be admitted to the study of English at Ox- are only two examinations, one some time during the second ford, a student must be able to read French, German, year and the other at the end of the course for the B. A. Latin, and Anglo-Saxon when he comes. Then he is ready I do not need to generalize on these facts. You can see to study English with a certain maturity and capacity for

8 judgment. Though there are no required subjects in the sider seriously. The emphasis at Oxford is on learning and curriculum, as I said before, the student has already had not on the people who are pursuing it, whether they be them in school, and within the field of his chosen subject, students or faculty. I can illustrate what I mean by a con- almost everything is required. In English he may concen- versation between an American girl, a graduate of one of trate on English from the beginning to Chaucer, and this our neighboring colleges, and the president of the Oxford demands a good deal of attention to language, or he may college to which she had gained entrance. The president concentrate on the period frorn the middle of the Lzlth asked her what she hoped to accomplish at Oxford. Century through the Lyth; but the work in those units is "1 hope to learn to express myself," the girl answered. strictly laid out, and though there may be excursions here "Oh," said the president, "I hope you will find some- and there, there can be no exclusions. thing more interesting than that to do." At the end of the course come the examinations over That attitude toward education suggests what has made the whole of this college work. Our comprehensives are Oxford a great university for eight hundred years~a long just fooling compared to them. In English there are nine time for sustained greatness. It suggests also what makes or ten written examinations of three or four hours each, it, in spite of its great diversity, a united community. followed by an oral known as a "viva." On the basis of In America we take pride on our emphasis on individu- these the students are ranked as having taken first, second ality, believing that to learn to express oneself is the end third, or fourth honors. There are now very few students of education. I think no one would doubt that becoming reading for a pass degree, and I have not described them. an individual is what we supremely want to do, and what In both classes there are, alas, some who don't make it and we ought to want to do. I question whether our methods are "ploughed" or "sent down." Except for the ranking achieve it most effectively. There has been until recently at the end of the preliminary examinations, these are the a strong urge in education to equate personal desires in only grades they ever get. even the very young children with individuality, and not The results of the examinations at Oxford and Cambridge to thwart Johnny was the first rule of every kindergarten are published in the London papers and arouse the greatest teacher. There had been a reaction from that position, an interest all over England. Particularly are they watched overdue one, and perhaps it is time we thought more about by the Government, for both universities are national in- having something to express than on removing every stitutions in a sense that none of our universities are. The hindrance to expression. Perhaps it is time we adopted an man who takes a first in "Greats" (that is, classics), "Mod- attitude of humility toward learning and tried to adjust ern Greats" (History, Philosophy and Economics), Foreign ourselves to the discipline required to attain it instead of languages, or English is pretty well assured of a choice post expecting the discipline to be adjusted to us. in the civil service if he wants it. Personality, individuality, is not given us at birth. We The national interest in the universities is not confined achieve it-achieve it not by measuring the world by our to examinations. During the year members of the govern- standard but by measuring ourselves by something larger. ment come to debate Oxford students in the Union (the Paradoxically, one becomes an individual by not asserting famous debating society), and on invitation they often individuality too soon, but by weighing, assimilating, learn- dine in one of the college halls. Many are alumni of ing a body of knowledge. And your professors perform the Oxford or Cambridge and are still members of the gov- best service for you, I am convinced, not, in the words of Jacques Barzum, by "Tip-toeing around every personality," erning body. but by holding before you the priceless learning built up You may ask what sort of girls attend the five women's through the long history of mankind, to which each of you colleges of Oxford. Are they entirely the intellectuals, must adjust herself if she is to attain individuality. destined for academic life? For the most part they are nice girls like you, and after they are graduated they follow Let me return to Oxford for a moment. What makes it the same careers you do. Mostly they get married. Like a great university is that the emphasis is on the main thing, you, those who study English desire above all things to get from the ceremonial performances of the Chancellor, res- some job in publishing when they leave college. They plendent and gorgeous as they are, to the delivery of books are, I am convinced, no smarter than you are, though they by the lowliest page in the library. That concentration unites the members of the university by close ties. Individuality are more disciplined. can then flourish, and Oxford tolerates and enjoys a large If I had time I would point out many differences between number of eccentrics that give spice to daily life. the English system and ours .. Not all the advantages seem to me to lie with the English. For example, I think our If in America we would combine our talent for experi- diversified curriculum a better one than their concentrated mentation, our gift for a genuinely individual approach to plan. But now I can emphasize only one feature of Ox- learning with Oxford's discipline and admiration for ford's way of thinking about education that we might con- quality, then indeed we would have an academic paradise.

9 This picture of Mac Clark, editor of Club Notes, was taken as (Ill inteoduc- Club Notes tion to her co-workers in the Cbelten, ham and Philadelphia stores of by MARY A. CLARK '50 Gimbel Brothers where she has re- 101 Maple Avenue, Wyncote, Pennsylvania cemly been appointed Editor of the GIMBELlTE (employees' magazine) and Director of Co-Workers' Activi- ties. Mac writes that the pbotograpb- Winter and Spring 1955"56-snow, sleet, er's comment, "From tbis angle yOIl and ice-yet Connecticut College alumnae look bright, but from tbat angle YOlt get-togethers bear the same brand of suc- look good," placed her all the harm cess as the proverbial U. S. MaiL Miles of a dilemma ill complying with our and minutes mean nothing when the request that she send a picture of her- gathering marks a reunion of old friends self for publicatioll. Also it left [irr or an opportunity to make new ones, IIndecided whether or not the gentle- Commuters' Tickets mall meant she had a split personality, The piaere above she says is from thll Evidence suggests that maybe the largest "good" angle in defense of her felll- expense on both College and Club balance ininity, bllt next time she's going 10 sheets will be marked "travel" Well any- look "bright." way, just look at the list: Mr. M. Robert Cobbledick, Director of Admissions, to PITTSBURGH for a prospective student tea including the mothers; to TWIN CIT- IES (Minnesota) where he was entertained Class af 1960 and Up gratitude, Miss Park discussed (vas inter- at dinner after visiting the area's secondary estingly as always") the recent gifts to the schools and spoke on "Connecticut To- DENVER's coke party brought forth College, particularly the Ford Foundation day"; to WESTERN FAIRFIELD (Con- forty future C.C.-ites accompanied by a Grant. necticut) where he was guest of honor at great number of alumnae as well. We can A medal of honor for "enterprise" above a tea for prospective students; and to bet the throng was due to the part Mary- and beyond: Those hard-working CLEVE- WORCESTER where Club members en- elizabeth Sefton '50 played as Connecti- LANDers are at it again! If the attractive joyed a review of the admission policies. cut's representative to the Eastern Wo- announcement of their most recent endea- (Whoever handles Mr. Cobbledick's ap- men's Liberal Arts College panel. She spoke vor is any indication, the buffet supper pointment book and travel arrangements at the two largest high schools as a panel preceding the benefit performance of "The must have her hands full!) Miss Hannah member some time before the alumnae- \'Vayward Saint" at the Cleveland Play- Hafkesbrink, Professor of German, to sponsored event. WASHINGTON where she discussed house was a smash hit! Twenty Club mem- Speaking of throngs, a combination of "Christianity and Politics". Loel Kaiser bers cooked and served the supper. Coop- the talents of alumnae, College students, '54, Admissions Office, to ROCHESTER eration and coordination certainly are the and prospective students plus publicity for a good old-fashioned bull session with ingredients for success. Proceeds will go material from College was a unique fea- Club members, after she interviewed guid- into CLEVELAND's: fund for a freshman ture of PHILADELPHIA's recent sundae ance counselors and prospective students scholarship. party honoring the prospective students. at local schools. Mr. W. Duane Lockard, A blue ribbon for originality: The Past Government. Department, to CLEVELAND Frantic phone calls and postcards to New Presidents' Night in, NEW LONDON fea- where his topic "History of the Balance of London produced four students (although tured corsages for the guests of honor, Power in Government" was the feature Dartmouth Winter Carnival and skiing at Conn Chord singing for the entertainment, speech at one of the series of lectures held Stowe threatened to spoil it all) whose and dainty sandwiches and tea cakes for under the auspices of the Women's Col- enthusiasm and poise and intelligence won the refreshments. Letters were read from leges Association of Cleveland. Miss Ger- admiration from all alumnae and looks of those Presidents! who were unable to at- trude E. Noyes, Dean of Freshmen, to envy from the secondary school girls. tend, and Miss Park and her assistant Miss WESTERN FAIRFIELD with Mr. Cob- There were tense hours the night before when the guest list reached the staggering Warrine Eastburn, both spoke informally. bledick as an expert on the transition from number of 75. The indomitable hostess, K,ay Moss, Executive Secretary, furnished secondary schools to college. And next-to- Helen Stott Heisler, wondered whether her history for the event by sketching dress last, but far from least, Miss Rosemary husband would come home to a house or and hairdo trends- through the reigns. One Park, President, to BOSTON (see below); a shambles. Floor and stair sitters saved marvelous comment on the evening: "It to NEW LONDON for a review of the the day. Ah, youth, (As a biased but also was one of those things that came off, as White House Conference on Education impartial observer, the youngsters! certainly such occasions sometimes don't." Sounds like fun! which she attended as a State Representa- exhibited maturity as evidenced by the nature of the questions they fired at our tive; and to ST. LOUIS where she host- willing and very able soon-to-be alumnae.) An orchid for stick-to-it-iveness: RO- essed a coffee for alumnae, friends, and CHESTER's still selling their name and parcel stickers-a project undertaken last parents of students when she was attend- Kudos Well-Deserved year as a fund-raiser. To quote the Presi- ing meetings of the American Council on dent, Jane Moore Warner, '31: "It is sur- A gold star for attendance: BOSTON's Education. AND Mr. Robert E, 1. Strider, prising how small profits mount up." turnout of 80 alumnae for Miss Park's re- English Department, to NEW LONDON cent appearance really rates a loud cheer. And it is surprising how the length playing his role as a newly-elected member Those alumnae who planned the dinner in of a column increases with enthusiasm! of the city's Board of Education. her honor must have been beaming with 'Nough said.

10 experiences J6eJtind <:Jte!ron eUFtaiJl

By HELEN HEMINGWAY BENTON '23

Late last Fall Helen Benton visited Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary with her husband lVi/ham Benton, who is the publisher 0/ the "Encyclopedia Britannica," and who served for [ora years as U. S. Senator from Connecticut, Accompanying the senior Bentom were their 13-year old SOil John, and a Russian-spea eing assistant, Robert Tucker. The purpose of the visit WaJ to enable Mr. Benton to make a firs/.hand analysis, to he used in the "Britannica Book of the Year," of the impact of Communist propaganda 011 people nnder Red domination. The BentOJIJ live ill Soiabport, Conneaiaa, bave four cbildren-s-Lonise, Helen, John and Charles, whole wife also is a Connecsicia alumna, Marjorie Craig Benton ex '55.

FLYING IN RUSSIA is stripped of the great artists including two magnificent Leo- shovel the snow; crouch in whatever pro- amenities we are accustomed to in the nardo de Vincis (two of only fourteen in tected corners there are in trucks for what- United States. No fanfare; just a shut door the world). We asked if she'd like to see ever work the truck is headed for. They and a start of the engines. Because of my our art galleries such as the Metropolitan. wear scarves over their heads, short jackets disability, I was taken to the plane before She said she would, but that she'd like -mostly hip length-that are quilted, short the baggage was weighed. I was on crutch- most to see Hollywood, and did we know skirts and high felt boots. At first I thought es; I had fallen in my home in Fairfield Robert Taylor? She saw him in "Waterloo the women in this particular category were and broken a bone in my leg, and the Bridge" and, with many blushes, confessed the ageless type-women "of a certain age." accident delayed our trip for a month. But that she had his picture banging over her Then one day I saw a beautiful young face, as the trip progressed, so did my convales- desk. unsmiling, in the back of a truck; she was cence. Before we left Moscow, 1 was to Moscow dressed like the old women. I pointed her abandon my crutches for a cane; and by From Leningrad, Moscow is a two-hour out to John. For the flicker of a second the time we left Budapest, I even aban- flight. We were ushered into a private she smiled. It was so furtive that it hardly doned the cane. But for the first half of waiting room at the Moscow airport, where seemed like a smile. The padded women the journey, travel was a burden confined the Intourist man (Russian tourist service) are of all ages. to a portable wheel chair on the ground, greeted us cordially, and we were driven Reception for Mr. U Nu and I was able to hobble to and fro only to the National Hotel, facing the Novo- One of our nights in Moscow we went to with the crutches. Manezhnaya Square and the Kremlin. John the Savietskaya Hotel, the city's newest ho- looked out the window at the red stars In Leningrad tel, to attend the Ambassador of Burma's shining from the Kremlin and said, "Boy, Coming in to Leningrad at night one is reception in honor of Premier U Nu. His the Red Square. 1 never thought I'd make struck by the many large lighted buildings. visit was Moscow's biggest political event it!" Through many windows one sees frequent- in our three week's stay. We practically The Red Square was not named by the ly the silk shades of the lamps (pink, bumped into Messrs. U Nu, Bulganin, and Soviets, but has been called that for cen- orange or yellow) edged with fringe or Khrushchev (with U Nu in the middle) as turies. Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great ruffles. It was like going back into the they led the guests into the huge ballroom. executed their enemies here, but the blood taffeta luxury of the mid-Victorian era. This was filled with rows of long tables that flowed here did not give it its name. The city itself is laid out with long vistas, laden with food and drink. No chairs. Red is the favorite color in Russia and is reminiscent of Paris. The people are the Again my crutches came in handy for me. synonymous with beauty. Thus' the name I was given a chair under a palm in the most interesting to me. Here some of the of the Square meant beautiful and magnifi- women are quite well dressed, and the chil- corner of the room. I toyed with a plate cent. This must be why the Communists of food and drank a glass of mineral water dren are sometimes well and all warmly took over the color. We asked the guide and wine while the 300 or 400 guests clothed. if "red" still meant beautiful. "No," he stood at the long tables, arranged in rows On our second evening we saw the ballet, said, "the modern interpretation is more down the length of the banquet room, and "Giselle", a century-old Parisian one. The the 'emotion to advance.' " ate and drank. This was a typical bigtime ballet in Russia is a two-century-old art. The University Moscow reception at which so much polit- Not only the stars, but each and every ical business is done. Mrs. Walmley, the dancer in the "corps de ballet" was superb. Far overshadowing the big red stars glit- U.S. Minister's wife, was offered a chair The ballet to many young people apparent- tering from the Kremlin towers, were the beside me. She was very kind and intro- ly takes the place of the movies in our central and the six surrounding towers of duced me to many of her friends from country. However, one incident shows that the new building of natural sciences of the other embassies. Several persons spoke to the movies have their place too. At the University of Moscow, which dominated my husband, including Premier U Nu and Hermitage, the great gallery of art in the the whole drive in from the airport. The Premier Bulganin, witb each of whom he Czar's Winter Palace, we were guided by University stands on the hills of Lenin, the chatted for about ten or fifteen minutes. a girl through the rooms of twenty-five highest point around Moscow. One of Premier U Nu had three Burmese ambas- great paintings of Rembrandt, another room the first impressions one gets is of the wo- sadors with him; from london, China, and with twenty-five or twenty-six by Rubens, men laborers, those who do the work of (Text continued Oil Page 14) also the rooms with Van Dykes and other men. They sweep and repair the streets;

11 THE BENTONS obviously made good "unofficial ambassadors" on their visit late in 1955 to Russia and satellite countries. Helen and John 13, have written naturally and interestingly of their experiences. Such informal accounts are valuable.

Me. Benton, publisher of the Ency-

clopedia Britannica! for which he went D to Russia to collect material for an article, has reported widely on his observations, especially in the field of higher education where he finds cause for serious concern on our part. At the recent meeting in Chicago of the Association for Higher Education he said:

"They (the Russians) are seeking to steal the American dream (in education) and in broad daylight Education is one area where we in America most surely have nothing to lose if we accept Russian claims. Inter- continental competition in education need be no challenge to an arms race or a war. If the Russians goad 1IJ 10 do a better educational job ourselves, then we shall only do what our own

best tradition calls for .!! Me. Ben- ton warns us against the dangers of complacency in doing our job. The Bentons leave their hotel in Moscow to watch parade celebrating anniversary of "October" revolution.

Tolstoy's Moscow home, now a museum. Students at Moscow ballet school. Amcrica« lamil!! iu Jblssia

Helen Hemingway Benton '23 with her husband and son visited Russia and satellite countries. Mr. Benton's strong belief: "EDUCATION has become a main theatre of the cold war."

John Benton in Budapest. Popular demonstration in anniversary parade. Kremlin right, Lenin Library left.

A section of parade celebrating revolution. the host from Moscow. The Burmese am- hours until the onlookers were exhausted, bassador from London previously served in we were told. The Boys New Delhi and spoke warmly of former Then came the so-called "popular dem- By JOHN BENTON Governor of Connecticut Chester Bowles. onstration." Like a river flowing between The boys I went to school with in Mos- Right now I should like to point out how these two lines of guards came the people, cow were really nice, The last day I was often my husband and I spoke of the Or- They carried artificial flowers, and great in school with them, I invited about ten ientals \ve saw everywhere in Moscow. bunches of artificial leaves, and artificial of them to have something to eat in my They seemingly flow in and out by the stalks of wheat. They bore banners of slo- hotel rooms at 7:00 that evening. (I in- thousands. gans and portraits of members of the pres- vited so many because I had asked three sidium, as well as pictures of Marx, and Anniversary Celebration of them the previous afternoon and al- Engels, and Lenin, and Stalin. They were though they accepted and I waited for two On the 7th of November there is a big gay. Men carried children on their should- hours, none of them showed up. I invited parade and celebration of the anniversary ers and lifted women up off the ground, ten because J wanted to be sure that some- of the "October" revolution. After the rev- just high enough to make them squeal. one would come.) I waited till 7:30, and olution, the Russian calendar was changed Some played accordiens. Some sang. This just as I was trying to call Dad to tell him to bring it into accord with the Gregorian parade is the only time I ever saw any they weren't coming again, I heard a knock calendar of the west, so the new November signs of gaiety in Moscow. 7th wns. the old October 17th. For many on the door. I opened it, and two of them I am greatly impressed by the power evenings, usually from 10:00 P. M. through were standing in the doorway. One was and strength and organization which lies midnight, there had been rehearsals. The the te-year old son of Konstantin Siminov, behind what I saw that day! but I am also first night I witnessed these drills from our the famous Russian writer with whom Mo- equally disturbed by it. Do these people hotel window I couldn't hold back tears at ther and Dad had a big long lunch. believe what they are told by these rulers? the thought that these boys in their precise I asked them to come in, and they said Are they content with their lot? Do they formations might someday be fighting our no, thank you, and that they had been wait- know anything different? Wilt they con- American boys, ing for me downstairs. since 6:45, Maybe tinue to sacrifice, not knowing that they are they had not understood me when I had John didn't have a ticket. Bill had tried sacrificing much, for the glory of the rulers asked them up to my rooms and had to get him one, but the Intourist man only of the USSR? waited downstairs. But I don't think so. shuddered at the thought of such an extra- The Monastery ordinary idea. Tickets are always at a great They just didn't want to be in my rooms. The last two days in Moscow were filled premium for this affair. This was to be my They still would not come into my rooms, last ride in the wheelchair before it went to the brim. The first of these was spent no matter how hard I tried to persuade in a trip to Zagorsk, the most publicized to its final destination. We decided John them. would wheel me. On the way to the Red trip out of Moscow, to a famous historic I went downstairs and asked them all to Square two photographers, one from Tass, monument, the Trinity Monastery of St. come up. They made all kinds of excuses Sergius which rivals Moscow itself in an- and one from a Soviet magazine, took many like "I am really not hungry" or "I am not pictures of us. My wheelchair caused much tiquity. A young student monk about 25 dressed suitably." I finally gave in. There excitement and interest, the center of our years old, who spoke no English, was our were seven boys and all eight of us walked guide. Several old women came up to him small family group. down Gorki Street, the big main street of to be blessed. He cupped his hands and Moscow with the fanciest shops, and not At the stroke of ten, two cars, one slight- they kissed them. very fancy either. We passed a cafe, and ly behind the other, drove in between the I like my Intourist guide even though I said I was hungry and asked them if they rows of soldiers and the Kremlin. Marshall she was a dedicated and indoctrinated Com- would like something to eat. The excuses Zhukov stood at salute, alone in the back munist. That was all she'd been taught. they had made at the hotel fell apart. They of the first car. With no interpreter around Otherwise, she wouldn't have had the job. were hungry too, and were dressed all right I couldn't tell who was standing in the She was intelligent. She was conscientious. for the cafe. We went in and after attract- second. A roar (to me it sounded like a J remember one day when she had a very ing a lot of attention, we finally got two college yell) started with the first ranks stiff neck. Even if she hadn't admitted it, tables put end to end so there would be and was taken up in waves by the next I'd have known it. I told her to go home, room enough for everybody. I wanted to and the next, and the next-as the cars please, that I didn't need her. "But I have treat them but I told them I didn't have passed. I was told the yell meant "Happy work to do, and it is my duty to do what enough rubles away from the hotel. I sug- Anniversary" or some greeting to that ef- you want," she said. "All right," I replied, gested that everybody pay for his own. fect, but it sounded to me like a long roar. "your duty is to go home and take care of They wouldn't let me pay anything. Then followed the speech by Marshall yourself." So I put my broken foot up, and I pulled out some 20 post cards with Zhukov, music by the huge bands (there hoped she went home, but I'd bet a nickel pictures of the U.S. they had asked me to were at least 5 of them) and a review of she didn't. She stayed around at the tour- bring. We had bought them at Idlewild troops, After the military, the trucks and ist office on the chance I might call later. Airport before leaving because two Colum- the bands, then came the groups of ath- But when she said, during this Zagorsk bia University students who visited Russia letes; all shod in rubber-soled athletic shoes trip, and after our lunch with the monk, last summer told Dad everybody in Russia whose silent steps contrasted weirdly to the "You know, I'm an atheist. I can't believe wanted them and they were better than ru- heavy shuffle of the military tread. The al! this nonsense," I couldn't help replying, bles. The boys studied them for a while, next section were the men and women rep- "I am not a Catholic, but I respect religion. and somebody got the idea in his head that resenting the factories, such as the Stalin It's difficult to explain to you. My religion he wanted me to autograph his two post Auto Works. The parade lasted three- is deep and personal." I doubt if she un- cards, so I had to autograph them all. quarters of an hour to the dot. During derstood, but perhaps she did . Her eyes Writing your name twenty times in succes- Stalin's time it went on for two or three looked as if she was trying to understand. sion is enough signatures for most people.

r IN MEMORIAM

been Director of the MARY K. BENEDICT-February 10, 1956. College since 1948. Formerly he had Dr. Benedict was Dean and Medical Director of the College Hartford Hospital. He was the father of Nancy Allen Rob- from 1924 to 1930, after which time she was in private practice efts '50. in New Haven. Dr. Benedict was the first president of Sweet- MAJOR W. DENNIS-February 3, 1956. briar College. * Mr. Dennis and his wife, Sarah, who died sometime ago, were FREDERICK S. WELD-March 6, 1956. for many years janitor end maid in Blackstone. As teacher of vocal music Mr. Weld was a member of the NAN HILL-October 27, 1955. College faculty from 1915 to 1936. Before coming to the College he was well known in musical circles in New York Mrs. Hill was for many years the maid in New London HalJ. and New England. MAMIE TALBOT-January 12, 1956. PAULINE AIKEN-January 15, 1956. Mrs. Talbot was for twenty-nine years- the maid in Vinal House. Miss Aiken had been a member of the English Department for fifteen years. She also had taught at the University of Maine, Note: Contributions from friends of Dr. Benedict have been at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Lingnan sent through the College to the Mary K. Benedict Scholarship Fund of Sweetbrier College. Alumnae wishing to make contri- University, Canton, China. butions are asked to send them through President Park's office. WILMAR ALLEN-Jimuary 16, 1956. Thus the gifts will be both individual ones and part of the Dr. Allen had been a member of the Board of Trustees of the College recognition of Dr. Benedict.

Political Theories the West and Russia will not be determined stituted the j'ighl 110t to kNOW if we do not in a war for survival; the final decision want to know, One can draw from Burke (Continued from page 7) may be made in the development within ideas which have meaning in a struggle is new in any field or discipline. We have our respective civilizations', and in our abil~ for survival because he speaks of conserv- relied on the threat from within Russia to ities to figure out ways to solve social and ing values from the past and applying them keep her weak and to prevent her expan- economic problems at home and abroad. to situations in the present so that they sion. We have assumed without much For example, social inventiveness in the may be handed on to the future. Each examination that the Russians would fall matter of race relations here at home will generation has its responsibility in this behind in knowledge and inventiveness in certainly serve us well abroad, and failure chain, and individuals are responsible with- social and economic matters, and we have to invent will do us great harm in both 10 each generation. We must know more assumed that the world outside our two areas. In this kind of struggle, individuals to accept our responsibility. countries' would prefer our ideas and in- cannot leave matters to the experts alone; stitutions' and even make some sacrifices if they cannot decide they have no obligations necessary to adapt themselves to them. We and do not wish to know anything or do have somehow never doubted our ability to CHRISTMAS CARDS BY CAROLYN anything to produce and support well-con- invent as we needed to, but we have not sidered, responsible solutions for our prob- thought we would need to change our in- HANDMADE CARDS OFFERED TO lems. stitutions either for domestic purposes or The amount of knowledge in a society ALUMNAE AT 10% DISCOUNT. for export. may decide its survival, and the only place Now it appears the Russians are making knowledge can reside is in individual heads. An additional 15% of the cost of real advances in science, in original re- Burke would have more to say about sur- your order is contributed directly to search and in technical applications of their vival by knowledge than Hobbes would. the Alumnae Fund. These are very discoveries. We are told by President Park, Burke's ideas of traditional values owned beautiful and original cards-created for example, that the number of students and maintained by each generation and de- by a fellow alumna-Carolyn Beattie studying mathematics and science in Russia veloped by it to hand on to the next with far outnumbers our own students in these individuals understanding the values, hon- Garbutt '49-which can be printed fields. We cannot assume that mathematics oring them, and believing in them enough with your name or that of your fam- and science are easy for young Russians so to develop a sense of obligation in each to ily. This is an excellent opportunity there must be some kind of motivation do his part seem to provide uS some reason to aid your Alumnae Fund and to there that we do not understand-and make to reconsider Burke as one who has some- use of. We are told on alternate days at thing to say to us today. But we will have obtain very distinctive handmade least that the new Russian foreign poJicy- to study to understand him and to apply Christmas cards. Drop a postcard in now buttressed by the changes in theory such wisdom as he offers. the mail now requesting sample cards announced at the sessions just ending-is In our acceptance of extreme individual- and details for your Club project. a serious menace to our international pol- icy. It seems that the Russians are outbid- ism, we have thrown out too much of the ding us for the support of the peoples of sense of obligation to do something useful CARDS BY CAROLYN with our abilities, and some of our sense Asia and Africa, and possibly in Western 87 Johnson Avenue of futility may result from this. For the Europe also. Winthrop 52, Mass. It may be that the final decision between right and obligation to know we have sub-

1 5 together our recorders-wooden instruments the ancestors of our present day flutes," Class Notes Dot mentions seeing Marie Munger '20 who keeps house for her brother in Madi- Editor of Class Notes: Mrs. Huber Clark (Marion Vibert '24) son. Dot Randle ex '23, who teaches ten- East Main Street, Stockbridge, Mass. nis in New York City, visited her Christmas day,

1919 wedding of a granddaughter. Carol, Henry My sister Ella, Roberta Neuaon Blan- Comstock's daughter and my "step-grand- chard, Agnes Leahy/ and I represented '21 CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Enos B. Comstock daughter," was married on Jan. 29 in at Alumnae Day, Oct. 15. Agnes was a (Juline Warner), 176 Highwood Ave., Blauvelt, N. Y. member of the panel discussion in the Leonia, N. ]. 1920 chemistry building, A delicate, original poem, as usual accompanied Alison Hastings Thomson's CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. J B. Cooper (Mar- 1922 garet Davies), P. O. Box 13\ West Christmas greeting. Virginia Rose sent a CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. David H. '{ale sketch of "the gate to my new house-a Lawn, Reading, Penn, (Amy Peck), Box 146, Station A, Meriden, very old one, really-c-I've sold my Ver- Mildred Howard is back on the job at Conn. mont place and moved in here (Water- Mt. Holyoke after a year's leave of ab- ford) Dec. I5-next door to the site of sence and a busy summer spent gadding, Margaret Baxter Butler wrote of two the home of my ancestors," Mildred If/hite She saw Dorothea Mart/ill Detwiler and her years of vacation travel. In 1954 on a four spent the holidays as usual in St. Peters- husband and their attractive apartment in weeks' trip, she flew to Ireland, visited burg, Fla. with her father, now 88. She Los Angeles and spent a week end with Scotland, and was in London eleven days. summered in Woodstock, Vt. and side- Helen Gage Carter on Martha's Vineyard. On her way back via Dublin to Shannon tripped to Nova Scotia and P. E. I. Dean Miff is enjoying her term of office on the Airport, she spent several days in the Kil- Nye, from Oklahoma City, commenting Alumnae Association Executive board. She larney area. In June 1955, again on a four on the time elapsed since "19 were fresh- says it is good to get back to college sev- weeks' trip, she flew to Amsterdam and men, writes: "Forty years might seem a eral times a year. then to Norway. She went by fjord steam- long time if I h-id not attended a com- er, sea-bus, bus and train above the Arctic mencement at Washburn College last Fanchon Hartman Title and Melvin had Circle to Tromso, then down through the June, representing the 60 year class, a delightful trip to Europe last summer. east side of Norway to Lillehammer and 1895!" Ruth Trail McClellan lists the They toured Spain, Italy and Greece, en- Oslo; flew to Stockholm and then to Copen- highlights of her year as "a visit from joying every minute of the trip. Their son hagen, spending some time in each large Merenda Prentis in July and two new Sam was married on December 18 to Sally city. Now she is studying Italian and rak. grandchildren, one in August and one in Gersbel at the Temple in Hartford with ing a course in photography, Margaret October, making seven." the reception at the Tumblebrook Country "has really got the flying bug", was in Ber- Club. The young folks have returned from Grand-nephews and nieces III ratio muda Christmas and New Years of 1953 their honeymoon and moved into their own twelve to four contributed to Florence and in New London in September of last cute modern house near their parents, Fan- Carns' holiday circle and interests. She year, She says, "Of course, between trips I chon had lunch recently with Marion Kof- says Florence Sneoety Blossom and her work and keep up house and garden anJ sky Harris '19, husband expect to settle finally in Anna various other interests." Maria, Fla. The past year brought Rllth Mary Brader Siegel has joined the Grand- Avery Prencb a new daughter-in-law when mothers' Club, Her son Charles and his Mabel King NelSON'S son Winthrop Jr. son Bill was married in June and came wife have a small son, George, who is a pastor of the First Congregational Church to live at Lake Garda, near Bristol. Her great joy to Brader. The sympathy of the in South Windsor, Conn" near enough so son John, having completed four years in class is extended to Mary whose father Mabel can "baby-sit" occasionally wiith her the Air Force, is alternating his eight- passed away in November. grandchildren, Peter 4 and Debbie 2, On week periods between Bristol and Flint, August 20, "the day after the big flood", I spent a week in Pittsburgh after Mich. while daughter Jean, besides teach- her daughter Ruth '50, was married to Rev. Christmas with my daughter and grand- ing, is active in theatrical productions. Dr. Daniel]. Theron, an assistant professor children when two of the children had Ruth fills her days with gardening and at Princeton Theological Seminary, Prince- tonsil-adenoid operations. church work in Moosup. Dr. Rllth A,/- ton, N, J, Theodore returned from Ger- derson of Boston writes of a summer 1921 many this past summer, was discharged drive to an L. A. convention and visits to from the army, and is now studying for the homes of friends and seven national CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Ruth Bassett, (Ruth his M, A. at the University of Minnesota parks. Esther Batchelder, before leaving McCollum), Mansfield Depot, Conn. in Minneapolis. Washington for Christmas in Hartford with her sister Laura, sent this item: Our deep sympathy is extended to Dor- According to the latest change-of-address "Dorcas Gallup Bennett and Merrill are othy Pryde in the loss of her mother last notice from the Alumnae office, Gertrude in Philadelphia this winter - he's on a June. Dot is kept busy this year guiding Avery Krout has moved to Fort Recovery, special project at the U, of P. Had dinner sophomores-c-t'so busy that I don't have Ohio; Betty Hall !f/ittenbet'g to Chappaqua, with them here and Dorcas, Mid lP ells time to think," Our choir put on a section N. Y., Jeannette Sperry Thompson to New Colby and I had lunch together." Prob- of Handel's 'Messiah' just before Christmas. Hampshire; and Blancbe Finley is back in ably another "first" for a CC alumna-the Every week a group of friends and I play New York City,

16 1923 aan Outdoor Art Exhibit. With touches of change when she saw campus in June. Her white paint on black paper, skillfully David is a 2nd it. at the Army Chemical CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Harold C. Bailey Center in Maryland, doing research and de- (Helen B. Avery), 274 Steele Road, West brushed with the aid of a magnifying glass, Les portrayed most lifelike poses of a black velopment and writing home more about Hartford 5, Conn. and white cat named "Skipper" Mickey's grandson Marshall, 14 mos. old, Diana Bretz/elder Levine is another of than about the army. our fortunate classmates who can escape the Hope Freeland Allen sent New Years' Mt/l"ie [ester lY/ atrous' husband Hal reo bleakness of a New England winter. She greetings and added that she is "still very busy as assistant clerk of the Superior tired after being with Aetna Life Insurance and her husband built a home at North Court, a most interesting position, with Co. for nearly 35 years and is gardening Miami Beach last year where they spend and collecting stamps. Last winter they en- November through May, returning to Con- passports, naturalization and allied work, joyed a 10 week trip to Florida, New Or- necticut for six months. Diana writes that plus Court sessions." leans, Texas and New Mexico. her life as "an average housewife" is "calm J924 Glad)'s Forster Shahdau spent six weeks and peaceful-usually-and Florida sunshine of last summer with her mother, who died is wonderful!" Recently, while in Florida, CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Huber A. Clark in September, and the rest of the summer she met Gert Traurig '22 who stopped over (Marion Vibert), Box 578, Stockbridge, at her home in North Carolina where they for a few hours on her flying trip to Haiti, Mass. were hit by the two hurricanes. She is now the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and other Grace Church, finally overtaken in East back in Montgomery in the center of soft vacation spots. Alexandria, Va., writes, "After two years coal industry where house cleaning is an Gioynetb ReeJ Gregory and her husband in the European area, I returned here last ever-present necessity. are now proud grandparents and at Christ- summer and am now in Eastern Area Barbara Kent Kepner finds the house mas time took a trip to the Panhandle to (ARC) in Hospital Service. Working and strangely quiet with her last son, Harry off see the newcomer. Gwyneth has resigned living in Europe was a wonderful exper- to Ohio Wesleyan, from which college from her job to have more of an oppor- ience and the territory 1 covered included have graduated his grandfather, grand- tunity to enjoy being a housewife and gar- France, Germany, Austria and Italy, with mother, father, uncle, aunt, sister, brother, dener again. headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. By and sister-in-law. Janet, married to a teach- taking full advantage of annual leaves, I Ruth McCollum Bassett '21 thoughtfully er at Stanford U. has a 2 year old daugh- saw more of Europe than I've ever seen of sent us the following item: "Today (Nov. ter, Marta. Philip is a Lt. in Nuclear Re- the USA. Easter in Jerusalem and Christ- 20) on Monitor, NBC Weekend, 1 listened search for the US Air Force. Utah State. mas in Italy are two experiences "I never to Helen Hemingway Benson being inter- where Bobbie's husband teaches civil en- forget." viewed on her trip behind the Iron Curtain. gineering, has more than tripled in size in She revealed that while she had not visited Ann Frailer Loiacono had a wonderful the 25 years the Kepners have been in Lo- any Russian homes, the long lines of wo- year-good health, happiness in a new gan. men waiting to do their food shopping and home, much gardening and the usual do- E1I1il)' Mehaffey Lowe spent Christmas other observations showed her the hard- mestic chores. Sarah Gordon Habn is kept in Florida after attending journalistic and ships of Soviet women." Many of us en- busy caring for her father and husband but fraternity conventions in Chicago and St. joyed the account of the Bentons' trip in manages a trip to New York about every louis. "Life" including the experiences of their six weeks to visit friends, catch up on plays Mfl/na Gardner Tbompson and Ralph son, John, in a Russian classroom. and do the shops-mostly from the outside. drove to Florida last year to see their third Madeleine Foster Conklin hopes for a child, Don, married to a classmate at Mi- According to a joint Christmas letter trip to Frankfurt, Germany in the spring ami University. Gardner, a captain in the from Olitle Holcombe Wheeler and her to visit her son who is serving his time in Air Force at Puerto Rico was the only one husband, "Olive wants to know who started the army attached to the 97th General Hos- of the family not horne for Christmas. Gail, the myth about having lots of free time pital; her daughter-in-law, Carol Wedum the baby, who was married a year ago, when the children grow up and leave home. '51; and her first grandchild, Charles Hill supervises a cleaning establishment just Her braided rug that she started two years Conklin II, born Apr. 27, 1955. outside the gate at Westover, while her ago is still the size of the dining table, not Amy Hilker Biggs is Director of H. S. husband manages a Chevrolet place in Chic- the dining room. Between weeding the gar- Guidance in Sayville, L. I., coping with the opee. Ralph couldn't stand retirement and den, committee work at the Y\'(JCA, sewing usual affairs of house, school and activities. built a new package store where he now for the family, going with Rufus on occa- Her husband is studying for the ministry works twice as hard as he ever did before. sional trips, reading, and generally running and her stepson is with the Air Force in Minna, unable to stand the empty house, her house, she wonders where time goes." England. Last March her mother died. Amy works at the Mt. Holyoke bookstore and the With a husband who is supervisor of mu- and Elinor Huneen Torpey met at Christ- blood bank. She still fools around painting sic in Schenectady schools, leader of the mastime and each reported the other look- the old house, doing a bit of upholstering, Schenectady Choral Society and member of ing wonderful. Hunken claims her news golfing in summer, bowling in winter, fly- the Yale Alumni Banjo Club, Olive lives sounds like a broken record. She is still a ing a little in her son-in-law's plane. She- in a musical atmosphere most of the time director of the LWV of NYC. George is describes most of us when she says "I and attends a good number of concerts and still serving his term as pilot in the Army, shrink a little, grey a little, weigh more, recitals. Of course grandson Davy, 14 mos., though he is now a 1st Lt. Janet will grad- and hug the fireplace more often but enjoy comes in for a big share of attention. Our uate from CC in June and Hunken will life .: sympathy to Olive on the loss of her join her and two friends in a European father last August. I had the three boys home for Christmas, trip. Dave having returned from Germany and Lesley Alderman' J artistic talent and originality made a great hit in the New Can- Marion UtWJOI1 Johnson found quite a been released by the army early in Decem-

17 ber. On Dec. 30, Gordon left for Parris she gave before the club on the care of were lucky that Peg Smith Hall was able Island and a three year hitch in the Ma- house plants. to take on the job. Peg has already sent rines. Helen Ferguson, one of New London, word that jessie Jr/illiams Kohl is planning the class dinner and will send fur- Elizabeth Holmes Baldwin is still at the Conn.'s outstanding doctors, is still a riding ther information later, Judge Baker Guidance Center in Boston, enthusiast and each spring transports her busier every year, if possible, About a year horses to Dublin, N. H. where she enjoys New addresses: Ellie IVhittier Abbott from now the office will be moving to a the beautiful trails in that vicinity. Helen is in Camden, Me., and CONnie Clapp new building, Betty and her husband still now has another hobby. She has two min- Kauffma/l in Jackson, Mich. commute every day to Boston from their iature Doberman pinschers and plans to home in Medfield. raise the breed. Recently, she and I had a 1927 Olivia [obnson's personal news remains grand day at her lovely home on the Nian- CORRESPONDENT,MissEdith T. Clark, 182 "pretty much static", her address and job tic river. Valley Road, Montclair, N. ]. the same, her summer vacations always in- 1926 Letters from our president, Sarah AiW clude a visit to Vermont. The Wilton li- CORRESPONDENT:Miss Frances Green, 55 Becker, and our reunion chairman, Beu y brary put on a large handsome addition last Holman St., Shrewsbury, Mass. Tremaine Pierce, are filled with plans for year. Olivia saw Dotha White at a state Frail Robison O'Brien and husband our class reunion (we'll let you figure out library meeting. Parke came east as far as Urbana, Ill., last the number of years!) June 8, 9, and 10, summer to visit Parke's mother. Fran's 1956. The roof garden of the Mohican Ho- 1925 son has completed his Navy duty and is tel, which was found so convenient and de- working in New York City. Her daugh- lightful in 1951, has been reserved for the CORRESPONDENT,Mrs.Edmund J. Bernard ter Pat, our class baby, is married and dinner Saturday but we must have 50 peo- (Mary Auwood), R. R. # 1 Oakdale, Conn. living in Monterey. ple to insure having the roof to ourselves. Married: Ann Nuveen, CC '54, daughter Congratulations to Amy Wakefield, who On Wednesday, Nov. 23, in Williams- of Grace Bennett Nuoeen, in October at a has been promoted to an executive posi- town, Mass., Nellie Coulter was married lovely home wedding. Grace, our former tion in the Mass, Employment Security to Robin Brooks, son of Robert and Mary vice-president, is now president of the Al- Office in Boston. Amy's family compound- Storer Brooes. umnae Association. Grace and her husband ed the usual Christmas excitement this When Margaret Wheeler returned from John Nuveen recently returned from a trip year by having their apartment completely a two months' European trip late this fall, to Puerto Rico. redecorated in December, Her sister Helen she did not, happily for those of us living Marion Walp Bisbee is first assistant in has been recuperating at home from a on the east coast, return to California, She the catalog department at the New Haven heart attack suffered in October, but has has a new job and a new apartment in public library, During leisure hours she now improved so that she hopes to return Philadelphia. and her husband are fast becoming Hi-Pi to work in March, Kay Foster continues to be excited over fans with the recent acquisition of a Har- Kay Doucby Bronson and her family her job as social worker. Recently she drove mon-Karden high fidelity radio and record found their supper party turned into a to California to the National Conference of player. house party the night the fall floods hit Social Work. Constance Parker wrote, "My career as the Danbury area; their guests had to stay Elizabeth Fowler Coxe and her writer an art director keeps me mighty busy ana until highways reopened, several days my department now numbers seven, Be- later. Although semi-isolated for some husband, George Harmon Coxe, who had tween vacation and business trips the year time and 'very busy helping with rescue his 35th book published in September '55, has included a nice visit with mother in work, they were thankful to be dry and departed for the Barbados on Jan 2 for Winter Park, Pla.; a trip to Michigan to safe themselves. By Christmas the floods three months. see my nephew graduate from Michigan had become history and Phil was busy Early in January Lois Bridge Ellis is fly- State University; and two Chicago business with hockey and Carol with organ prac- ing to California in time to greet her third trips, one of which conveniently included tice; she played for the Christmas service grandchild, Daughter Nan lives in Palo Thanksgiving at my sister's. I also spent a in their church. Alto. wonderful week this summer on Buzzards I took advantage of a sunny January Marjorie Halsted Heffron's daughter Jane Bay with Sis Angier Thiel '26, with whom Sunday and made a quick trip to New is in Anchorage, Alaska, with her G. 1. I have just enjoyed the merriest of Christ- London, where I saw Harriet Stone If/ar- husband until June. Son Frank was strick- mases." ner s freshman daughter at Knowlton en with bulbar polio in August and was House and missed seeing Harriet by only Connie also wrote that Geneoieoe Delap desperately ill. He has miraculously recov- a few hours, She, Oscar, and their young- Speer had a grand-daughter born on Nov. ered and returns to Middlebury College in est daughter, Marjie, had been there for 3, 1955. Shortly thereafter, Geegee and her February without crutches or leg brace. the weekend. Later I had supper with husband took a Mediterranean cruise, with Ellis and Barbara Bell Croecb, as the trips to Rome, Paris, and Madrid, and Warners had done the preceding night, 1928 Christmas at sea. and heard the latest news of Cal's family, CORRESPONDENT,Mrs.W. Edward Frazer If/inifred Smith Passmore and I hope to now living on Isle of Rhodes, where Cal (Eleanor Wood) 734 Clarendon Rd., Nar- get together at her home in Storrs, Conn, jr. and Peter are learning to talk in Greek berth, Pa. when the driving permits. Winifred is a before they do in English. Louise T oume Mitchell writes that Betty garden club enthusiast and the Norwich, When Edna Smith Thistle ex '26 had Olsen Kline and her daughter Bette spent Conn. garden club members still speak of to give up her post as Reunion Chairman a week in Bermuda in September before the very entertaining and informative talk because of conflicting travel plans, we Bette left for her third year at Northwest-

----~------« ern. Richard Kline was graduated from Yale 1929 A clipping from the Hartford Times in June and has a fellowship at Princeton. brings word of Ann Heilpern Randall. The CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. George L. Langreth theater editor writes that their department Eleanor Penney Herbst has a grandson (Faith Grant), 1024 Martha Ave., Pitts- has carried much news about ex-Randall born a year ago January, the child of her burgh 28, Penn .. daughter Laura Lou. School students such as Ernest Borgnine, From Seward, Alaska, Margaret Ander- star of "Marty", the first American entry MaolY Howard Bollentme's daughter SON Heimeister sorites "Those of us who to win first place at the Cannes Internation- Sally, CC '57, is taking her junior year at live in Alaska are grateful for 'Seward's al Film Festival. Ann, who has been on a the University of St. Andrews' in Scotland. Folly'-better termed Seward's foresighted- two year sabbatical from teaching and dir- "Despite the lack of central heating she ness and farsightedness." Margaret went to ecting, has agreed to meet weekly with a is completely in love with the people and Alaska in 1945 to work for the Alaska group of not more than 15 actors, carefully the country." Maroy says Sally recently Dept. of Public Welfare, married in 1946, screened for aptitude and experience, to recovered from a liver infection and was retired from 1949-1951, but went back to give them advanced work. With the time given excellent care, including X-rays, doc- her favorite district, Kenai Peninsula, in pressures of rehearsal both in professional tors, consultations and medicine, at no cost, 1951. She now covers, besides Kenai, Ko- and community theater, the actor has little as a foreign student comes under socialized diak Island, the Alaskan Peninsula, and the time for role development. The 3-4 hours medicine. Sally's twin Nancy is a junior at Aleutian Chain, travelling by means of car, weekly study with Ann will help him de- Sargent and the vice- president of her class. plane and mail boat. This is quite a district velop his craft and grow in stature as an She was elected to the Honor Auxiliary, the for one social worker who administers for artist. highest undergraduate honor. Maroy and the DPW, the Aid to the Blind, Aid to her husband are fine. She missed seeing Dependent Children, Old Age Assistance, Betty Gordon Vall Law when Betty was General Relief, and Child Welfare Serv- 1930 visiting in Needham. ices. Writes Margaret, "The terrain is so CORRESPONDENT, Marjorie Ritchie, 95 Myrtle St., Shelton, Conn. Betty Gallup Ridley met Dorothy Pasni]: varied, the problems so different and chal- Ruth Barry Hildebrandt's oldest son, Cramer last June on the train to Boston. lenging, and the people so fine that I Deane, was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dorothy was taking her eighth grade class wouldn't trade places with anyone." A five Dartmouth in June. He is married to Dor- on a jaunt to the Science Museum, Boston day work week gives Margaret long week rit Licet, a graduate of Smitb. Barry, the Gardens, etc. Gal says Dot was obviously ends to spend at her secluded home on younger son, is a sophomore at Dartmouth. having as much fun as any of her kids. Lake Kenai in the Chugach National Forest, reached only by water or by air. Their Ruth sees Babe Barrett Bertine and Dot Hazel Gardner Hicks and her husband friends who enjoy this type of life often Hamer Saunders, whose son was recently have been living at Curtis Bay since the visit Margaret and her husband Hans, a married. fall of 1954. Early in 1955 he was given machinist turned homesteader. During the Gretchen Langenbach Gray ex '30 is command of the Coast Guard Yard and week Margaret is active in the Seward Busi- happily settled in Elmira, N. Y. where her they moved to other living quarters. On ness and Professional Women's Club and husband is running a beautiful new depart- May 7 their daughter Jane, ex '55, was particularly in its current project-Seward's ment store. Gretchen has two grandchil- married at St. Andrews Chapel at the Naval only local weekly newspaper-accomplished dren. Academy to Lt. jg John H. Spiller Jr. Ha- strictly by volunteers, filling a great need Isabel Gilbert Greenwood's husband, zers son Bill is a first classman at the Coast and incidentally providing lots of fun. Tom, who is Bishop of the Yukon, had a Guard Academy, and will graduate in June. Connecticut weather this summer and fall wonderful trip to England. He represented Hazel hopes to combine reunion and grad- has kept Ethel Cook too busy to take time the Canadian church at the rededication of uation. She and her husband drove to the out for a vacation. She, as an accountant the Lambeth Palace Chapel and was quite Academy the summer weekend when the for the State Office of Civil Defense in overwhelmed when he found be was to be rains and flood descended. Going up they Hartford, has been overwhelmed with bills introduced to the Queen and royal family. had 67 mph winds and coming back floods, and claims for relief from the Federal Gov- but they made it. I changed positions this year. The new emment, special reports and auditors. Aside On a trip to New England this fall my lab was understaffed and I had no free from her civil defense work, Ethel is treas- husband and I had a brief visit with Edna time. This week we obtained adequate help urer of her American Legion Post and Somers in her beautiful office at Jordan and I will see that there is more news UD- works on committees in the business and Marsh. She had just finished three days of der the heading of '30. professional women's club of her church. strenuous work putting on fashion shows and she was really tired. In November we Elizabeth Speirs just returned from an- 1931 saw Dorothy Bayley MorJe and her husband other trip, a family reunion at her sister's CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Karl Warner (Jane Harry. Their summer home is progressing in Athens, Ga., stopping on the way at Moore), 167 Hermitage Rd., Rochester slowly but all the work has been fun. Dot Monticello and spending New Year's in 17, N. Y. is still a commercial artist and Harry is at Williamsburg. Karl's broken leg of last year having Cartiers. Dorothy Adams Cram and family have healed nicely, we Warners are back en- On her way back from New England to moved to the country, Redding Ridge, joying skiing. We leave for Stowe, Vt. Florida Peg Bell Bee stopped for a short Conn. Her daughter Em is happy at Ben- for a week in March. Jerry Smith Cook, visit in Philadelphia. She worked hard this nington while Barrett 4 is busy being a when asked if she and Ed would come to summer and was to start work again Dec. 1 country boy. They nearly lost Syl this sum- our cabin for a weekend of skiing, said as hostess at a resort hotel. Dot Ayers mer when she contracted bulbar polio but they had given up skiing for painting and BNck/ey and her children are spending miraculously she is on the way to complete were both having a wonderful time with Christmas with Peg. recovery. their art work, but would like to come.

19 Carol Swisher IPilliams' daughter Ste- 11. Mary is PTA president in Springfield, Department, and lives in Northridge, one phanie is a junior at Walnut Hill School Ill. of the faculty residence sections. for Girls in Natick, Mass., considering Pamela Ann 15 and Nicholas Paul 11 Gifford, Alice's husband, is chairman of Connecticut for her college, are the children of Donald and Rntb Paul the English Department of Stellenbosch Miller who reside in Westfield, N. ]. Don- University, South Africa, He, with their 1932 ald is a research physicist with US Steel. two sons, Keith 17 and Neil 14, were Ruth's interests are in PTA, Girl Scouts, CORRESPONDENT, Mrs, Donald P. Cooke visiting the Hooper family in England Cubs, church and Red Cross and her hob- (Hortense Alderman), 130 Woodbridge while Alice made her all-tao-brief visit to bies are gardening, armchair travelling, the USA. The university is now having St., South Hadley, Mass. making new friends and keeping old ones. the summer vacation, hence the traveling Mary Cullen Chappell did a beautiful Horticultural and historical clubs are Hoopers. job as local arrangements chairman for last Gerrie Butler's chief interests. Woodwork- Alice says she finds the general appear- year's reunion. Mary, Larry, vice president ing is Afary Kavansgb's hobby and her job ance of the campus beautiful, but some- of Thames Shipyard, and their 11 year old is as personnel director of the Memorial how greatly changed in appearance since Harold enjoy sailing and Mary is active in Hospital in Worcester. Mary studied at her visit in 1946. She was astonished end the New London Community Chest, Chil- Radcliffe for a certificate in Management delighted to find so many people of her dren's Services of Connecticut, and at the Training Program. college years still on campus or living hospital microfilming records and pushing Ex dress designer Beuy Patterson Tra- nearby. the book cart. vis ex '32 somehow finds time for hospital Barbara Mtll1d)1 Gr01ieS from North Attorney Lewis and Janice Egel Rsslen- work, the Republican Party, children's con- West River, Goose Bay Airport, Labrador, del" reside in Eggertsville, N. Y. Ralpha 11 certs of the Cleveland Orchestra, conver- says: "Life in these parts has changed and David 7 have created Janice's interest sation and some writing. Linda 18 is at considerably since I first came up in '44, in the PTA. For four months Jan was Hathaway-Brown, aiming toward Connec- Snowmobile to Goose Bay, fewer Jog secretary to the International Teacher Ed- ticut; Pete, 17 is a junior in preparatory teams, and soon there will be a road to ucation Program at the University of Buf- school; and Nancy 10 is in public school. Goose Bay, Getting like any small town falo and is now a Welcome Wagon hostess. Ev is a management consultant with Rob- anywhere minus stores, etc. Have a step" ert Heller & Associates of Cleveland. Priscilla Moore Brown paints trays and daughter, Phyllis, 16, in her last year at school, and my own Marjie, 51/2, just be- stencils chairs when time permits, Pree is Purchasing Director Robert and Eleanor ginning school." director of the Social Center for Older Sherman Vincent have three sons, Roger Jane Griswold Holmes wrote me that People, a Golden Age Club, and is inter- 14, Robert, Jr. 10, and Richard 8. Ellie, Lou Cain Dalzell has a son who is [I ested in PTA and church, Her husband, our class president, works with PTA, 1WV, the Republican club, and relaxes freshman at Amherst, and Betty Miller Alfred, is a mechanical engineer and their with tennis and golf. Landis' son entered Yale last fall. She boys are Stephen 16 and Duncan 13, The Robert Greens' son Tom entered adds, "Beware CC daughters," Jack and Leah Savitsky Rubin live in Amherst last fall, Skip is at Western Re- Sheila Hartwell /l>loses has two children Bloomfield, Conn, with Carolyn 13 and serve Academy, and Jeff and Judy are at in college and one still home in the 7th Sara 5. Jack is Assistant Attorney General school in Shelby. Ruth Green lists her grade. She keeps busy with Hospital for the State of Connecticut. Leah is in- activities: church and hospital guilds; Guild, church work, garden clubs, riding, terested in the PTA Library Committee, PTA; Brownies; Boy Scouts; Junior League oil painting, etc. She feels we are all health drives, gardening and reading and of Cleveland; garden, literary and hooking much too active and do not give enough is chaplain of the Emmanuel Synagogue clubs; and her hobbies are rug hooking, time to serious thinking. Sisterhood and Zionist Public Affairs chip carving, and Bolivia. Helen Hubbard Baird said, "It doesn't Chairman of the Hadassah. Alice Higgins, the society editor of the seem possible but our daughter Betty be- Susan 17, Peter 14, and John 6 are the Norwich Record, was chairman of the fair gan her first year at Washington College three children of Attorney Francis and in Norwich for the benefit of the hospital this fall. It is a small cooed school in Blynore Schneider JPelsb of Upper Mont- and is active in church work and the col- Chestertown, Md., and the 'greatest' ac- clair. Teddy has a job as claims examiner lege club. Alice enjoys swimming and cording to our happy enthusiastic freshman. for the New Jersey State Employment Se- fishing. Stewart is an 8th grader, who lives mainly curity, Colonel Larry and [een [obnsoo Smith for football these days." Rrab Smith Hemtfield, ex '32, has been are living in Biloxi, Miss. A two weeks' Abbie Usher Aurell said, "'55 has been taking her painting seriously of late and quite a year for the Aurells. Randy got his course at MIT for Larry enabled Jean to recently exhibited three portraits. After make reunion in New London. The Smiths doctorate at Yale in J line and is teaching learning to speak Italian, Ruth took an- spent part of last fall in Washington. at Teacher's College in New Britain. We other trip to Europe. She was unable to built a new home, just been in for a few return for our reunion as she accompanied weeks." The Aurells have a daughter, Ab- 1933 Chad to his at Cornell that same weekend. bie Anne. Jean Williams Smith's husband Frank CORRESI'ONDEr-:T, Mrs. William T. Brown Ruth Siiouon Greig, her husband and is Professor of Accounting and Director of (Marjorie Fleming), 38 Nearwater Lane, two children, took a quick tour of the Business Research at the University of Darien, Conn. campus late last summer. She was pleased Michigan. Their boys are David 14 and Alice Record Hooper, who for many to see so many landmarks and buildings Ned 10. Jean and Mar)1 MdXOI1 Pearson years has lived in South Africa, was re- that she recognized, to enjoy the view drove to New London last June together. cently on the campus for a visit with her from the hill top once more, and to see Dr: Emmet and Mary have four children, brother and his family. Mr. Mason Rec- the Arboretum and how lovely it has Edwin 18, Mary 15, Thomas 13, and An:l ord is a member of the college Sociology grown.

20 The four Browns spent the holidays in Hank's factory under eight feet of water Born: to Allen and Betty Corrigan Daniels Florida this winter and had a wonderful and the second flood resulted in four feet a daughter, Mary, Nov. 23, 1955. time. 1 like winter and cold weather but of water there. Joan Blair Carter and her daughter, a it is fun to have two weeks of summer Barbara Hervey claims to have a "dream potential freshman for the fall of '57, hope right in the middle of winter. On the way job" and a "perfect" boss. The insurance to visit the campus this spring. back we stopped in Annapolis and looked agency has moved into a new, modern, air- Folger and [eenneue Shingle Thomas up Anna May Derge Gillmer. She and conditioned building in the New England and their four boys, 14, 12, 10, and 16 her husband have a darling house right on Industrial Center, on Rt. 128 in Needham mos., were in Florida for the Christmas a snug little harbor, with their sailboat Heights, just three miles from her home. holidays for a strictly fishing holiday for (which Tom designed) tied to their own Bobbie is on the '56 slate of officers for them all. pier, right in front of the picture window. the Congregational Church as clerk. Drs, Charles and Margaret Aymar Clark Anna May said she and Elsie Nelson, Vic- Virginia Golden Kent finds that things and children, Peg 11, Mary 5, and Eddie ky Steams, Eleanor Husted Hendry, and do not calm down as the children grow 1'12, were in the middle west last Nov., Dot He/milton Algire met in Washington older. Having a teen-age daughter and two Dr. Charles getting his FACS in Chicago :0 October and had dinner at Dot's house social calendars to keep straight is a full and Margie and children visiting Betty in Bethesda. Eleanor had pictures of re- time job and at times she is glad her son Corrigan Daniels in Ohio. Marg was sorry union that Gay Stevens had sent her, so is only 10. Scouts, PTA and bowling fill not to deliver Mary Daniels who arrived they enjoyed looking at those and remin- Ginny's outside hours. three weeks after the visit, Margie writes iscing. Dot Hamilton Algire had written that she is retiring March 1 and it will be about this same dinner party and said they Catherine Cm"ttlJright Backus' two oldest wonderful to have nothing to do but the "swapped news and recipes." boys, Steve and David, are in school and Paul goes next year. Kaye is struggling usual running of a home and family, She Betty Overton Bryan wrote that they as a den mother for 7 energetic Cubs in- has already become active in Girl Scouting. love the midwest. They keep moving cluding Stevie. Ruth Burdsall Reed, husband and two farther away from the east and are now in children, Pat 12 and Warren 6, had a Peoria, Ill. Ma1·tha Hickam Fink recounts the ups and downs of life at Dog River Farms. grand camping trip through West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, and Canada. They 1935 "During the past year we have completed the buildings on the farm and have en- slept in tents and stayed at state parks CO-CORRESPONDENTS,MissLetitia P. Wil- larged some of the original ones. At the along the way. It proved most interesting liams, 3 Arnoldale Road, West Hartford, moment we have almost 10,000 chickens, and they hoped to go again when Floyd Conn. Mrs. James D. Cosgrove (June about 7,000 of which are producing. The finishes a course at engineering college. Cox), 222 North Beacon St., Hartford rest are in the expensive state of eating Elizabeth Adams Lane and Elizabeth Conn. and growing up to perform their life's Gilbert Gehle both serve on the board of Born: to Emerson and Ruth Fairfield Day work. Both of us like what we are doing. CC Club of Westchester and see each their fourth child, a daughter, Aug. 15, There is a great deal of satisfaction in other once a month. Each of them has a 1954. That makes two boys 16 and 15, producing something that is useful and es- child in the 7th grade at Scarsdale High and two girls, 12 and under 1. Ruth has pecially so when it belongs to you. How- School. Betty Lane took her three children dropped Girl Scouts and various commit- ever, lest any of you contemplate dropping for a tour of CC last summer. She has tees to stay home and enjoy the new baby. what you are doing and rushing to a chick- just completed a course at NY School of Ruth and Elizabeth Farnum Guibord see en farm, let me point out that the labor Social Work for Volunteers. She sees each other frequently. Betty, as chairman involved is similar to that on a chain gang; Theodora "Tippy" Hobson quite often and of the Scarsdale committee for a new ad- that the chickens eat more dollars daily reports that Tippy looks younger than in option agency, has found it exciting help- than your family does in two weeks; and college days, ing to establish this service for Westches- that any morning you may enter the laying Elizabeth Aye/" Newman's two daughters ter people. This is Betty's last year as house, hear a few coughs and sniffles, and are now 15 and 11 and they are consider- president of the Conn. Club of Westchest- be faced with the necessity of giving an ing CC for the older one. She sees Betty er. She also heads the PTA High Schol- immediate injection of aureomycin to sev- Gehle and Betty Lane at the Westchester arship Committee. Her youngest is now eral thousand hens! It is when such emer- alumnae meetings. 4 and in nursery school. gencies arise that I am called in. The rest Dr, John and Ruth Pierce Buckley, on Lois Pond says that she doesn't wander of the time my only specified jobs are to their way to Florida, stopped in Aiken, far from the campus. Even vacations from cull the hens weekly and keep the books S. C. to spend a wonderful weekend with college teaching find her nearby in her daily. In between times, I float around the Kenneth and Alice Lippil1colt French. The small place at Quaker Hill. farm offering unwanted advice and point- ing out undone tasks, As one of the men Buckleys' oldest daughter Joan spent a Maude Radem an Hickey writes that commented to Albert this summer, 'If we night at CC recently and now is bubbling "Time marches on" and her oldest boy, could get your mother out of here, we over to be a freshman there. Terry, is a freshman at Amherst. Brian is might be able to get some work done!" Sixteen grand days at Christmas were a sophomore at Englewood School for Boys We were very sorry to learn of Marion taken by Ralph and Betty von Colduz and Lynne is in 5th grade. Maude some- Anello Jackel's death on June 25, 1954. Bassett skiing in the Austrian Tyrol. They times sees Patricia Parkhurst Orcutt, whose stayed at a small village "high up" to be son is at Andover. 1937 assured of plenty of snow. Barbara Stott Tolman's home is in Con- A Bermuda holiday was spent by Ar- necticut and the floods last fall definitely CORRESPONDENT,Mrs,Albert G. Bickford thur and Lucinda Kirkman Payne and their curtailed the family's activities. They came (Harriet Brown), 359 Lonsdale Ave., four children. They went by boat and had back from a good, restful vacation to find Dayton 9, Ohio.

21 15 grand days of bicycling and swimming. Jean Ellis Blumlein sees a lot of Ruth those present were Ginger Clark Bininger, They returned by plane and are back at l/7ilson Cass who has just moved to San Gladys Bachman Forbes, Elise Haldeman their lovely red farm house in Susque- Francisco. Their husbands knew each Jacobi and husbands. Betty wrote that hanna. other in the war. Jean has two girls, Ann "Ginny looks wonderful, Ginger is the 1938 6 and Carol 3, and is active in the San same as ever with her finger in a hundred Francisco Children's Theater Association pies, Elise is having a wonderful time CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. William B. Dolan as well as a director in the San Francisco learning all about babies again, and I am (Mary-Caroline Jenks), 72 High St., Ux- Urban League. enjoying myself bringing up the twins." bridge, Mass. Among our "builders of their own Ginger wrote that the others looked so Dave and han Wi/hall are building a homes" is E. Fessenden Keneh who, with smooth and sophisticated that she went huge trailer park on their waterfront land her husband, is doing a lovely modern home and went on a diet. The newest near St. Petersburg, Fla. It was due to one in Maryland. E's children, Chris 7, addition to the Bininger clan is a bright open in December. Jane Hutcbi nson Cauf- Carla 8, and Karen 10, all went off to yellow 38' cabin cruiser named Lemon- field was just elected to the school board school this fall leaving E with time to drop, with which they enjoyed a marvel- in West Richfield, Ohio and is also a spare. So, after refusing to be secretary ous summer taking trips to the end of Cub Scout den mother. Jane has a new to about five organizations which discov- Long Island. Even Johnny 6 can run the colt which she expects to show next sum- ered her idle state, she went to machine dinghy with the outboard motor and all mer and her oldest boy is also showing shorthand school for three months, She is three children swim well. in horsemanship classes. president of the Alice Ferguson Founda- Billie Bindloss broke her ankle skiing Carman Palmer von Bremen in Living" tion, a non-profit corporation promoting last year and hobbled about on crutches ston, N. J. has been helping out with her educational and charitable projects in her for a month. About the same time she oldest daughter's Girl Scout troop, has fin- area. They have worked out some schol- joined the Big Sister group and acquired ished a membership drive as a VP in arships to Maryland State Teacher's col- a little sister whom she sees for weekly PTA, and has been recruiting for the Red leges as well as lectures, concerts and aids projects or outings, trying to help the Cross blood bank. Carmen's youngest to school funds. Priscilla Pasco had a little nine-year-old to adjust to normal daughter is awaiting school next year and week's vacation on Cape Cod after a busy living, In September she began a new her son is a new cub scout. swnmer in her shop in Kennebunkport, job with her company, the only female A note from Jeddie DawleJJ Kinney, Me. She was surprised to have Edie Frey on a staff of four appointed to study the including a picture of her children, says Higle as a customer one day. Priscilla is application of electronic data processing they are pretty well settled in Denver, president of the Hartford Alumnae this machines to the company's operations, and although one really never knows in the year and also does committee work in the she finds attending conferences, meeting government. Last summer she had a brief Society of Conn, Craftsmen. new people, and traveling quite fascinat- visit with her parents in Long Island and ing. fn October she vacationed with a plans a trip to Bermuda in April. Mary lv~illtoJl Dicegiessers mother, Kate Barber Winton, was awarded an hon- motor trip through the Blue Ridge Park- Last November, Liz Pieiaing flew to orary degree of Doctor of Science from way to Asheville through the Smokies, up Pittsburgh to address a group of Republi- the Univ. of Rhode Island last June. the Blue Grass country of Kentucky and can Women's Club presidents. She would Mary, who lives in Woodbridge, Conn. back via West Virginia and the Shenan- appreciate any ideas you may wish to pass says, "The last of the summer was a hec- doah Valley. She spent Thanksgiving with along to her regarding our reunion in '58. tic concentration on flood relief. No pic- her sister's family in St. Paul and Christ- In January, Marg Mintz Dietz entertained tures or words can describe the devasta- mas found her back in Mystic. the Worcester Alumnae Chapter with Dr. tion in the valley. Luckily Bob's plant is Evelyn Gilbert Thorner and family Cobbledick as the principal speaker. on another river saved by a dam which moved from Brooklyn to East Hills, L. 1. Esther Gabler Robinson in Scotia, N. Y. was ready to back up the quantities of a year ago and now feel as if they have has three children, Jimmy 11, Ann 9, and water. A group of us made trips three always been suburbanites. "There is only Christine 4 to keep her busy. She says times a day, feeding, clothing and equip- one drawback-we are surrounded by boys Jane Kellogg and Bud Staley now have ping 250 people in Beacon Falls. Their and my little girls don't appreciate that three girls and a boy. When visiting in extreme gratefulness kept our spirits up fact yet." She included long overdue news Ithaca, Esther often sees Mary Mar)' 3.S we continued this for four weeks." of MarjOl';e Moore ex '40 who left school Shultz and her two youngsters. the spring of our freshman year, married The first Eagle Scout after the long Beppe Fnntacci, and now lives in Italy. road up from Cubs is Doby Whipple Rob- 1939 Last year his son by a previous marriage inson's son Teddy. Doby and husband Jay CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Stanley R. Millard married the daughter of Frederic March are planning a trip to Egypt and Greece (Eunice S. Cocks), Powerville Rd., Boon- this spring and expect to be gone for two and a child recently born of that union ton, N. ]. months, now makes our ex classmate a grand- Doris Houghton Ott is deep in Scout mother. work. She took a Girl Scout campcrafter Fran Rockwell Kinney ex '40 has been 1940 course this summer and is den mother for busy the past two years with a most in- CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Harvey ]. Dwor- the Cub Scouts. On New Year's day she teresting job managing a small corpora- ken (Natalie Klivans), 1640 Oakwood saw Barbara Myers n.u; who this past tion which is running an old gristmill Drive, Cleveland 21, Ohio. fall moved to Birmingham near Dearborn near her home in Hinsdale, Ill. The grist- and finds life in Michigan quite different Last fall Harold and GinlJ)' Bel! Will- mill still grinds corn on a Buhr stone and from that in New Jersey: the cost of liv- tel's visited the States and reunioned with is also a museum. Her youngsters are now ing higher, the land flatter and 2000 chil- cocktails and dinner, at the home of Hay- 10, 12, and 14. Ed and Teddy Testwuide dren in the Sunday School her son attends, den and Betty Gehrig Streater. Among Knauf have a skating rink which keeps

22 them busy winter days and evenings. Ed- selves very fortunate to have had the 1942 die 13 is president of his school and privilege of living an exceedingly interest- CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. John D. Hughes active on the football team and Little ing and educational life 'in Europe, the (Adrienne Berberian), 437 Shrewsbury League baseball team. Steve is 11 and Bar- Gregorys will be most happy to be home sr., Holden, Mass. bara and Karl have started kindergarten. again. Dorothy Kitchell Brandt writes, "Our Boris and Anne Stem Biu eer and two Ted and Dorotby Cushing Redington news is that my sister Ellis Kitchell Bliss children are spending the year in Italy moved into a new home in Dallas, Texas '46 has moved to Evanston and Jives only on Borie's Fulbright scholarship. Rose in August and have plenty of room for two blocks away. Ted and I took our Soukup is now Mrs. John Campbell, liv- guests if any '41ers are in the area. Beebe first vacation without the children (Ricky ing in Auckla~d, New Zealand. Bill and Berman Levy is so busy with Girl Scouts 7V2, Heidi 5-) in May of last year and Renee Sloan Linton are stationed at the she has no time at present for other covered 8126 miles in 26 days. Saw the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. news. Southwest, California, the Northwest, '42 The Aldrich family (Etiie McGill) HOW Rims and Mary Farrell Morse are leav- Banff, etc. Saw Jean MO/'se Cockerill have 7 horses, plus other assorted live- ing Glenview, Ill. for New Brunswick, and husband and newly adopted son- stock. Betty Lundberg's new address is N. ]. where Rims has accepted a profes- spent the night there. We are busy all the Marblehead, Mass. Ollie McIlvain Kerr sorship in Food Technology at Rutgers. time it seems, but not with world-shaking and family have moved from Auburndale This will be the sixth move for Mary, activity." to Milton, Mass. from Connecticut to Masaschuestts to Ala- The Hughes news is the birth of our bama to Indiana to Illinois to New Jersey. third child, first daughter, Lisa Ann, on MARR1ED: Jeanette Beebe to Cedric Til- George and Betsy Barker McKenna have Nov. 24, 1955, Thanksgiving Day. Our lotson, in West Fairlee, Vt., on Oct. 1, bought a home in Mystic, Conn., where other children are John David III 6 and 1955. Jeanette (Butch) and Ced are liv- George is teaching eighth grade in ele- Paul Stephen 3. ing in Pittsfield where his work is and mentary school. Betsy taught math in are busy making plans for a new home. Westerly, Mass. for three years and is J943 Before her marriage, Butch enjoyed her now assisting at a local nursery school position at the Tuck School at Dartmouth. CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. William Yeager which she enjoys. The wedding was attended by Bob and (Betsy Hodgson), Box 163, Route 1, Doris Hart Zimmerman. Carla Eakin If/hite is on the Chicago Pineville, La. College Board which represents 28 col- BORN: last Feb. 3, a sixth child to Da- BORN: to Bud and Olive McIlwain leges and finds it very interesting. Carla vid and Mary Surgenor Baker. Surge Kerr, their fourth son, David Stratton, is going back to school herself to become writes that it evens the score to 3 boys Dec. 27, 1955. The Kerrs were delighted a Scout Leader Trainer for the area. and 3 girls but neglects to mention the with their new addition. They had moved Donna Ed Reynolds writes that they are sex of the latest. to a larger house in Milton, Mass. and very happy with their move to Noroton, made their annual ski trip to Canada in Rub)' Zegoren Siloersteiu writes, 'The Conn. and see quite a bit of Cameron and big news for our class is the remarkable February. Margaret Stoecker Moseley, in fact had a showing we made in the recently conclud- sail in their new sailboat last summer. ed Alumnae Fund drive. We were number J941 Doug and Peg Patton Hennab and Barb one among the classes in percentage of Twomey had dinner at the Reynolds's the CORRESPONDENTS, Mrs. Theodore R. Wills contributors, a place we have held almost week end of the Yale-Princeton game. (Ethel Moore), 17356 Beechwood Ave., constantly since graduation. Nearly 70 per Barb reports the rest of the weekend was Birmingham, Mich.; Barbara Twomey, cent of our class contributed to the drive. spent in New York. On the way back from 2500 Que St., Washington, D. C. This shows a healthy interest in our col- visiting her family at Christmas, Barb lege and a shining class spirit. Louise BORN: to Francis and Estelle Posolino stopped to see old friends in Greenwich Radford Denegve has served as class agent J ngenito, a son, Mark Christopher, on and Cameron and Margaret Stoecker Mose- and I know her notes have helped. Others Oct. 15, 1955. Estelle has been Research ley joined them for dinner. Fellow in the Department of Preventive like Evelyn Silvers Daly and Thelma GUJ- Sue Pleisber is back from her (almost) Medicine at Harvard Medical School since ta'[son If/)'land helped by serving as can- annual stint in Paris and had a brief but receiving her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from vassers in their communities." A big vote interesting vacation in September in Sicily Boston University Medical School. of thanks goes to Ruby for her work as and Malta, returning home via the Medi- publicity chairman of the drive. An ar- After almost three and a half years of terranean. Sue finds winter in Vermont ticle entitled "Knives That Carved a living in France, Frank and Sarah Kohl' lovely with occasional trips to Washing· Friendship", written by Ruby and her hus- Gregory are leaving Paris Jan. 31 on the ton, Philadelphia, New York and Chicago band, appeared in the July issue of SS America to return to the United States. to keep her from hibernating cornpetely. American Mercury. They will go directly to Washington, Sue conjectures that shortly there will be Carolyn Thomson Spicer and her eldest D. c., their home for five years before a few '41ers with children old enough for daughter Stephanie are now professional going to Europe. Frank will begin a com- the Experiment in International Living of models. They appeared in a July issue of muter's life with a daily trip to and from which she is a trustee as well as a staff Life Magazine for New Blue Cheer. Lynn Baltimore where he will head the office of member. has two other daughters. Barbara Batch- scientific research of the Air Research and elor Hamlin's husband has entered Ber- Development Command. Glennie 10 and Peter and Anll Rubinstein Hnscb sent keley Divinity School in New Haven for Hal 8 are eagerly anticipating their home- pictures of their five lovely children, Peg a three year course. Batch and her four ward voyage and the return to familiar 14, Tony 12, David and Joan 8, and Sally children, Louise 6, James 5, Susan 4 and territory. Although they consider them- t-c-and of the dog, Topsy, 5.

23 Bart 2, plus their Norwegian elkhound, for almost two years now I was most busily redecorating ever since. A snapshot are remaining in their Litchfield home un- interested in a note from Mafgerie Clav- of her brood showed her big handsome til her husband finishes his course. Batch erie Eames, who lives in Valdosta, Geor- boys, Dave, Roger and Brad, but she conducts a nursery school during the week gia, even deeper than J do. "Politics is a claims the youngest added gray hairs to for about 15 children. struggle but we've progressed to the point her head the day he knocked over two Jane AlIIze Grimley Norsworthy wrote, where we are trying to run a candidate mannequins at once in a store window. in the next city election but since there "We have been leading a transient life Sue Balderston Sean wrote of two sum- has never been anything but a Democratic which has kept me out of touch with old mer vacations, the first with her family contacts. Hugh is with the Aluminum primary and hardly anyone votes in a gen- at their home in Jackso.p Hole, Wyo. eral election, we're having (I should say Company of Canada, and working for the where she says they "really fell for that company we have been in Switzerland, Charlie as Republican County Chairman is gorgeous country," and a second of six England and Montreal. Last spring Hugh having) trouble trying to get a Republi- weeks at Jamestown, R. 1. Sue who lives was transferred to New York and in Au- can candidate on the primary ballot since in Springfield, Mass. sees Jeanne Estes gust I moved here to Manhasset with our the rules regulating such are hazy and Sweeney, Mac Cox IFalkel' and Nallcy three children, Gordon 8, Carol 5 (born everyone is vague as to how it should be Hotcbeiss Donovan now and then. Sue's in Switzerland) and Tommy 3. We have done. We are learning lots and maybe husband Tom is in the plastics division of had a busy time starting in the new school in a few more years and a lot more dig- Monsanto and travels about considerably. and fixing up the house. I have seen Mary ging we will have a two party system in V i,.gillia Eells Halasz works part time Louise Williams Haskell the last two sum- this county at least." in her husband's office in the Investment mers in Maine. She has three children the Marion Butterfield Hinman's new son's Dept. of Conn. General Life Insurance same ages as mine so our reunions have name is William Rogers. Co. in Hartford. Her little girl, Andrea been fun. She and her husband came to Tyler, 4V2, is enjoying nursery school. Canada last winter for some skiing." 1944 Ginny sees Barbara Snow, who is in New Jacquelyn Myers Couser has been made CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. William L. Tracy York, quite often. manager of a contemporary shop on Conn. (Helen Crawford), 217 Canyon Crest, Ave. in Washington, D. C. and writes Libby Travis Sollenberger's family is Whittier, Calif. "Brew (Alice Brewer Cummings) and well and happy and the house is bubbling BORN: to Neil and Ellie Abrahams Jo- Ray were through recently. Ray was here with Cub Scouts and dogs most of the fourth child, second son, Mat- for a convention of accountants. Brew sepbson a time. Freddie Giles Riley had an exciting thew Daniel, Nov. 7, 1955; to Frank and looks simply wonderful! And within an- trip to New York from New Orleans, La. [eanne Estes Sweeney a fifth child and other day J saw jakev (Anne Jacobs ex to see the Davis Cup Matches at Forest fourth son, Craig, Dec. 23, 1955. '43). She has just returned from two Hills last August. Algie Adams Hilmer's husband John years in Greece. She has gained about has been with a bond and mortgage com- Nancy (Sizzye) Hotchkiss Douooan is twenty pounds and never looked better. pany in St. Louis for nearly two years. busy tending her brood of two boys and She is staying on in Washington now. She says, "Our three daughters, aged 6, 4 two girls; she is program chairman for Chris and I are settled as if forever; we and nearly 2, keep me always concerned the Hartford CC Alumnae Club this year. planted hundreds of bulbs this fall. I had She and Dick just finished panelling a about the population ratio of male to fe- a wonderful trip to London and the Scan- cellar play room for the children and she male in the next generation. We hope to dinavian countries last summer buying for is now going to a weekly modern dance make our fifth move in seven years, all the store and I was able to get many group, at the suggestion of one of the within St. Louis, to a house big enough interesting items there. Loved every inch advanced dancers, Strenon Nicholson Gris- to closet all of us thoroughly. Bert and of it." As a footnote to this Brew writes wold. that jacquie is "happily convincing people Janet Leech Ryder and wonderful son that modern furniture isn't all wrought Tommy stopped to see us on their way Ruth Hine enjoys her job as a biologist- east from California to Annapolis where, editor for the Game Division of the Wis- iron and canvas." [ane Geckler Seelbach ex '43 saw Mar- as a Marine major, Bert will teach at the consin Conservation Dept., writing and tha Boyle lHorriJJon at Thanksgiving when Naval Academy. CC is getting quite fa- editing both technical and popular reports Marty was west visiting her family. Jane mous in St. Louis now (there was a lull on wild-life research. She says it's a happy says her children are all grown up. Her while I attended) and this thrills me no combination of pounding a typewriter and older daughter Sally has gone to two prep end." going out into the field for an occasional school dances. Jane has another girl Mar- Phyllis Cunningham reported vacation- day with the ducks and creatures. Her gie 9 and a little boy Chuckie 7. Jane ing in NYC where she spent four grand outside activities include teaching Sunday and Chuck went to Sea Island last April days with Sally Church in her lovely Peter School and serving as secretary for a local and saw many Yale friends but no Con- Cooper Village apartment and had a chat conservation society. necticut ones. Louise Dagblian Belcher is with Dawn Au-eli. Phil is office assistant Nan Grindle Amstutz recently returned back in Egypt after the whole family (hus- for a surgeon in Altoona, Pa. but she is from two interesting years in Indonesia, band Pat and two sons, Steve and Tim- looking for a job and an apartment in and they paused en route for a most pleas- othy) came home for two months last New York. Anne Davis Heaton wrote of ant luncheon date with Jean Caldwell spring. Ludie says she has at last started a wonderful time she and Sally had when Buell in Palo Alto, Cal. Nan, son Eric studying Arabic and is even learning to Sal flew out for a long weekend with the 3V2, and husband Bruce are living in Lex- write it-and demonstrated by giving me Heatons in Illinois last February. Davie ington, Mass. while Bruce attends the the Arabic for Coca-Cola, a sure indica- and her family had a vacation in Florida Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in tion that the signs are there, too. last year, then returned to buy a Cape Medford, completing work on his Ph.D. Having lived in the Democratic south Cod style house, which they have been and working as a research assistant.

24 Mimi, Griffith Reed writes that Barbara retrieved by the police; climbed into the away very suddenly after contracting en- Ann (Tweez) lP"iezer Scberioue visited dryer and closed the door; and managed cephailitis in February 1955. On behalf New York with her husband on a busi- to start the car. The more civilized men of the class, I want to express our deepest ness trip last year and Tweez spent a day in the family are David 9Vl, a Cub Scout, sympathy to Barbara and Ward. in Bloomfield with her. Over Thanksgiv- and Peter 7lf2, a pogo-stick addict, and ing weekend Mimi and her husband met husband Bill, who is occupied at present 1945 Bill and .i\1ary Ann Swanger Burns in in re-laying the bouse flooring and build- Philadelphia to see the Army-Navy game ing a wall of storage cabinets in the hall. CORRESPONDENT ,Mrs. Dorsey White- after which they went back to the Burns' My current effort is in working for the stone, Jr. (Patricia Feldman), 222A Rye home in Lancaster. establishment of a much-needed child- Colony, Rye, N. Y.

Edie Miller Montgomet"J sent an ador- guidance clinic here in Whittier. MARRIED: Shirley Braun Armstrong to able picture of her two youngsters, Mere- Barbara Pfohl Bymside disclosed that . Lee Morgan Meneice in Kansas City, Mo., dith and Trubo, dressed in matching wess- she is a friend and neighbor of my sister, Dec. 16. kits and plaid skirt and shorts outfits. An- [oan Crawford Howard '46; they are both BORN: to Mike and Betty Barnard Ber- other charming family scene was one of Navy wives happily settled on Coronado dan, a son and first child, Marshall Sin- the four Weller children carolling; Alice Island, in San Diego harbor. Barbara and clair, Aug. 16, by adoption; to Henry Carey lVeJler reports that they are happily Ben arrived on the coast after a five-year and Mary IVatkim IVolpert, a second son, ensconced in a modern hillside home and hitch in New London; Ben is now execu- Gregory, in September; to Bill and Grace are surprisingly enamoured of Washing- tive officer of the sub-tender USS Sperry (Doll) Wilson Webb, a third child and ton, D. C. and environs. and Barbara is enjoying the delightfully second son, Wilson. Mary- J ean Moran is busy tending her gay island life, as are their youngsters, Katie IVenk Cbrissoff ers says her life boys, who are noisy but lots of fun. She daughter Lee 10 and son Craig 4. She isn't fuJI of fabulous things, just house- and Al live in Woodbury, N. ]. but AI has also seen Peg Deoidson Pharr several wifely things, done with husband Bill and has an eye on California, his native and times and reports that all is well with son Karl (4) in January and just a typi- still-favorite state. Peg, her two youngsters and their lovely cal boy, small, blond, blue eyes. Tbe house at Rancho Santa Fe, Calif . .i\Jlary Adelaide (Mac) Cox lP"alker is Christoffers, who live in State College, Pa., busily involved in community affairs and Ethel Sproul Felts sounds as amazingly spent 6 weeks last summer at Beach Ha- keeping track of her four children. The active as ever; she and her three young- ven, N. ]. The summer before Katie and Walkers bought a large old farm, com- sters are busily engaged in community af- BiJ[ took an ocean trip for an overnight plete with stables, barn, etc. and Mac re- fairs in Miami, where they have made stay in Naples, Italy. "We really did it ports that their first venture into sheep their home. Ethel's work includes labors for the cruise, but it was fun when people farming 'was not entirely successful, as the on a Slum Clearance Committee and nu- asked our summer plans and we said 'to sheep have all ended up in the family merous church jobs, one of which brings go to Italy'. They always asked for how freezer. Their latest acquisition is a cot- her in contact with many foreign students. long and we could answer, 'Just 28 rage at Cape Cod for future family vaca- She adds, "I divide my Monday evenings hours'," Last fall, Katie won her fifth tions. between fencing and symphony concerts, golf championship, retired the club tro- The Tracy family had a sudden but de- The kids attend art classes at the Univ. of phy. She says she's not that good, just lightful surprise recently when Ralph and Miami, Barbara's a girl scout and Stephen more determined. Katie works at the hos- IJl'lty Rabinowitz Sheffer dropped in for a bas started piano lessons. We had a grand pital snack bar and at the Bloodmobile brief chat before flying home to Connecti- trip this summer; three months of wander- canteen, just finished her tour of duty as cut. Ralph, who is in advertising, had ing around, which included delightful vis- membership chairman of the hospital aux- come out to a convention in Los Angeles its with tbe Wellers and Sheffers. We iliary (a job which must have involved and Betty came along for the ride. They camped in New Hampshire and the dues collection, because she mentioned be- both looked radiant and tan after a so- Smoky Mountains and climbed Mt. Wash· ing without a purse and therefore having joum at Palm Springs. We enjoyed hear- ington the most valuable bra in State College). She is "some kind of a widow" this year ing of their trip to Europe last summer Barbara Jones Alling and Ward are en- because Bill is in his first year at Harvard and of the recent CC reunion-luncheon joying working on a hundred-year-oId Business School, going for his Dr. of Bus. Betty had at her home in Westport, when house they bought in Jordan Village, Admin. which will take about three years. Rusty Gvosoenor English came down to Waterford, Conn. Ward has pine-panelled Katie and Karl expect to join him for the join several other classmates. The three the fireplace and added a beam ceiling; he next couple of years. Sheffer children looked most attractive in works at the Savings Bank of New Lon- the picture which the proud parents pro- don. Barbara has been busy with church Via Katie: Doris Bergman Schindewolj, duced without too much urging; Betty says work (she is their youngest deaconess) as husband Richard and two children, Sandra they spend much time during the summer chairman of leadership education, and she and Ricki, live in Hamburg, N. Y., where at nearby Westport beach. Ralph has re- also headed the local CC Alumnae fund they have built their own home. Marjor;e cently been elected to the Westport City drive. Their son James 2V2 is a lively Schultz lives in New York City, works for Council. lovable youngster who has been a warm an adoption agency. Ted and Jane Teylor Huffman have moved from Iowa and As for your correspondent, an ever-in- comfort to them during a time of great bought a home in La Jolla, Calif. Ted is quisitive nature keeps me involved in as- sorrow. The Allings have had the heart- teaching entomology and zoology at San sorted community affairs, and trying to breaking experience of losing their other Diego State. Jane is involved in Cub Scout keep one jump ahead of our Johnny 2Vl two children; their son Ward died of work with her oldest boy, Teddy, Other consumes the better part of my day. He meningitis at the age of five days on children are Kyle and Bill. has already blown fuses; run away, to be Christmas day, 1950 and Janet 8V2 passed

7 [ean Patton Crawford in Trenton, Mich. plan to go to Jamaica. Kuhnny hopes to Connecticut after four years in Ohio. says, "All's well in our family. Hank en- get to reunion, our tenth. Hope you are Her husband, Bob, is general agent for joys his work at Ford still. We're both making plans to go. Aetna Life in Bridgeport. Robbie 6V2 is busy in the local Civic Assoe. Bill is a' in first grade and Betsey 4 starts kinder- typical 4-year-old and our three cats round 1947 garten next year. Terry saw Margot Grace Hartman last fall, and she looked, as out the family and provide much amuse- CO-CORRESPONDENTSMrs. Curtis P. Hinck- usual, marvelous. Another classmate liv- ment for alL ley (Priscilla Baird '47) Woodstock Coun- ing in Connecticut, Frannie Cox MeallY, Chuck and Connie Amoldy Butler and try School, South Woodstock Vt., Mrs. writes glowingly about her family which boys (Steve 6, Lee 5, Brian 3%, and Andy Richard M. Bendix (Gretchen Lautman) now includes Patricia 5, Pamela 4, and 2) in Manila, P. 1. related their activities 399 Fullerton Parkway, Chicago, Ill. Patrick 1. C. C. Hollerith Lefferts says, of the past year. These included an 18 day For a year and a half Ruth Colcord "Have 2 children, Helen 'Boo', age 31 vacation in Hongkong and Japan (they /1, Frerichs has been living in Phoenix where and Bobby, age IV2. We have seen [ene left by ship in the middle of a typhoon), her husband, Wayne, has started his med- Mme'J parents who live here (Darien), a successful skull operation on their young- ical practice specializing in ear, nose and but anticipate Jane's next trip here. Jane est son, Chuck's opening of a branch oxy- throat work. They have two little boys, has children, all boys think. Life is gen factory, completing their first year in 3 J Douglas 5% and Stephen 4 mos. Ruth is full of chow times and sniffles. Managed their new house, vacationing at their cot- taking sculpture lessons and writes that she to do about one water color this fall. Saw tage in mountain resort of Baguio, Chuck's was very pleased and surprised to take a Abby, A. B. Riley, Dodie, Joan Persons bowling and helping to organize a sea prize in the local amateur art exhibit last and Peg Inglis Cornwall not long ago. scout unit, Connie's taking up riding and fall. Jackie Bancroft Spencer has Everts All were fine I must say," continuing her interest in bridge. The But- remarried, a young doctor, and they are Corinne Mallning Black was curious lers' future plans include a trip around the planning on building a ranch home out- about our new house and said, "We have world-with a stop at New London, Conn. side Carrizozo, New Mexico, next summer. hopes of getting into a house in the next in June for reunion and a summer at Gro- At present Jackie is still on her old ranch year or so. In any case, all goes very, ton Long Point. raising quarter horses for show and racing. very well. Jimmy is a delight Prince- Connie's coming to reunion from the Her two little boys and little girl will ton is a more pleasant town to live m. Philippines-can you do less? probably be riding in the shows very soon. Let's begin making plans now so that a Patty Thomas Chamberlin is back with 1946 good part of the class can be at reunion her music, leading a choral group at the this June. CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Richard H. Ru- Lakeside School where Phil is teaching. dolph (Marilyn H. Coughlin), 499 Rutter Kitty Wile Bassett had a boy last spring, 1948 Ave., Kingston, Pa. John Bassett V. CORRESPONDENT, Nancy Morrow, 66 Born: to Gordon and Lois Marshall Clark Candy Fauik received her Ph.D. last Pleasant St., San Francisco, Calif. twins, Gordon Marshall and Carol Ann on January and is now school psychologist June 5, 1955; to Howard and [o Eggers BORN: to Hank and Frail Ferris Ackema for 40,000 children, elementary through l/Vilkinsoll a third child, first son, Bradford a fourth child, third daughter, Carol Ann, high school. Mibby BaH Taylor writes Charles, on Nov. 4, 1955. on Dec. 17, 1955 in Oakland, Calif.; to that they have just started their second Doc and Jane Gardner Head a second Sally Duffield McGillley, Mort and tour of duty in Key West. Her husband, daughter, Karen Lillian, on Dee. 14, 1955 their children, Anne and Whit, have Arnett, having finished his stint on a sub, in Washington, D. C. (Janie's time is moved to a new home in Colorado Springs. now enjoys land duty. Mibby's family con- pretty well occupied these days by Karen, Marie Alllle Bloomer Patterson and Dave sists of Robin 4, Jimmy 3, and Kenneth son Mark and elder daughter, Kimmy); have moved from Indiana to Binghamton. 6 mos. to Bob and Ellie Allen Me)'er a long- Gloria Frost Hecker has moved east to Glo Henry Newcomb writes very hap- awaited son, Bill, on Dee. 27, 1955. Westport, Conn. Lois Marshall Clark and pily of her life as a suburbanite in the (They have recently returned to the States Gordon have had their hands full with midwest. She and Ned have a girl, Katy from a two-year sojourn in Hawaii and their twins but Lois writes that both chil- 5, and a boy, Douglas 3. are now settled in their new house in dren are doing very well. Loie is now Bordentown, N. ]. Bob owns a Howard treasurer of the CC Club of Westchester. Puddy Crim Leidbolt writes, "We Loie also wrote that Dory Lovell Morrill moved to Milton, Mass. a year ago and Johnson restaurant, which Ellie helped him manage before the advent of their has moved from New York to Shrewsbury, love it. Now we have three small ones; son. She says that working together was Mass. Mary Carpenter McCalln -and Jau the first started school this year. We had Cl'uickshank McMullen are also classmates a visit from Jackie Dorrance just before great fun and that they love being their who have twins. Jo Bggerss Wilkinsoll she took off for California again and saw own boss.) vacationed with her daughters at Clear all the beautiful slides she had taken in Dits Fried Scbagrin's son, Harry Ronald Lake, Indiana last summer. Later Christine Korea. Jack (spouse) is now working in (Ronny) was born last April 12 and her 5 and Holly 3 enjoyed a trip to New York Boston in private practice, orthopedic sur- daughter, Gwen, started kindergarten last City with jo. The highlight of the visit gery, and teaching at Harvard Medical fall. Dits is busy with part-time promo- was a trip to the Bronx Zoo. Lee Mintel' School." tional work in Youngstown, Ohio. She Goode, husband, son and daughter are still Phoebe Blank Goodman reports, "We've has accounts such as DuPont, Celanese, in Maryland. Lee plans to attend reunion, been back from service for three years, American Cyanamid, etc., and finds it both Peggy Blocker Dill had a visit with Sally and my doctor husband has just opened a stimulating and enjoyable job. Van Hom in Oklahoma City. Harriet an office on Long Island. We have two Marge Reichgott SOSllik reports that life Kuhn McGreevey travelled to Phoenix, wonderful kids, a boy 6V2 and a girl 31/2' is blissful in Winston-Salem, N. C. She Ariz. last year and in April she and John T t:!l'l"yFam noortb SUmmon is back in keeps busy scooting around town in her

26 little Volkswagen tending to various local Louise Brown Johnson and Henry live Gale Craigie Childlaw writes that her civic duties and applying herself to the in a "little, very country town of Cary- husband, Bill, graduated from Colorado role of "good housewife" to husband Bob. ville" about one hour from Boston. They Univ. law school last June and now Elly Roberts is still working for Sim- have an old house with a mill pond in works for a law firm in Denver. They mons Tours in New York. Instead of her the back and easy access to Boston in the bought a house in Boulder and have two usual jaunt to Europe, she vacationed in front. She says Louise Marsh Robinson is boys, Ben 4 and Peter. She says Carol sunny Florida this year. in New York near Albany where Shep Young Pomeroy and Bob, who is a captain Keith and [eanne Ellard Hibner have does job printing. They have two daugh- in the Air Force, are in Naples, Italy with moved into their new house in Lloyd's ters, Helen 3 and Marsha 2. Bibsie Thach- their two children, Bobbie 4 and Diane 2. Neck, L. I. Keith, who is an architect, er Reed ex '49 lives on a farm in Penn- Mm'ilyn Shepherd Prentice and Norman are designed the house whose plate-glass and sylvania with Bob and the three children, in Boston where she works with the V A redwood facade overlooks Long Island Bill, Mike and Susan who was born last and Norm is getting his Ph.D. at Harvard. Sound. Jeanne has been busy with various spring. jane Richard Kerr and Edmund are in local community enterprises, including girl Belt)' Gouscbling was married about a NYC. Janie works for Doubleday Doran scouts. year ago to Lamont DuPont. They live on and Ed is a lawyer. a ranch in western Montana. Luke and Barb IF iue Kauth and their Vivian Panerbacb is still in NYC with [ean ne lFebber Clark lives in Duxbury son Chris and daughter Sara, 3, are living Harcourt, Brace & Co. helping to publish Spring and she and Jack have three little in Cedar Creek, Wis. and planning to books. She says Barbara Bohman was mar- ones, Carol, Sally and Johnny. Sally Hack- move to the "big city" of West Bend, ried on New Year's eve and is now in ett Chandler and Bud now have four chil- Wis. this summer. Richmond, Va. Betty Anderson Culbert dren. Sal and Jail Crapo Harvey are tied and Bill and their two girls are still in Phyl Hoge Rose and John and their two for the most children per parents in our Paris where Bill is stationed with the young sons have moved into a big, com- class, as well as living in Wellesley Hills. state department. fortable old house in Madison, Wis. They Lois Breen Kennedy bas had a full and [eanne Harris Hal/sell has an old colo- love it but it required a tremendous varied life since graduation. She started nial house that was bought last summer. amount of labor to clean up and renovate. by acting on TV, switched to production Herb practices law in Cleveland and be- Phyl manages to find time between house in '50 and spent two wonderful years sides helping him to fix up the house, and children to work on her doctoral dis- working as an assistant at NBC---on the Jeanne has two sons to look after, David sertation on Yeats, which she says is com- Pinza show, the All Star Review, and 2 and Jimmy. ing along nicely. other night shows. Found out after she ROlla Gl assman Fi nelestein and Nissen was married that she never saw her hus- have a lovely modern home, a boat, a 1949 band, so went into fashion publicity (a huge German Shepherd dog, and a "mar- CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Donald A. Kemp rat race, she says), where she worked for velous" son, Jess 1V2. Before Jessie carne, (Margaret Farnsworth), 8214 Trinity, De- one of the best, Eleanor Lamber, handling Ro did a lot of commercial art, but no troit 28, Mich. her TV fashion shows. After three months cartooning, which is a loss. Nissen, a of that, she developed battle fatigue and BORN: to \'{/alter and Naomi Gaberman physicist, directs research for the Bausch- so went into publishing. Was an editor Vogel a second child, first daughter, Lisa, Lomb Optical Co. and is a very handy on four publicity magazines where Rhoda in May 1955; to Herbert and [eanne Har- do-it-yourself at home. Meltzet· Gilill.fky once worked. Retired be- I'i,( Hansell a second son, James on fore her son, Douglas, was born on New Patricia Mmmil/g had a most glorious Thanksgiving day 1955; to Ben and Gale Year's day and now he's the one who trip last March-August all through the Craigie Cbildlaw a second son, Peter, in keeps her fully occupied. Her husband, Mediterranean and Europe and Scandina- March 1955; to William and Leona Ber- Tom, is in the import-export field, in met- via. Besides all the usual places of inter- liN Lebmnnn a first child, a daughter, Ter- als, and does a lot of traveling. La hopes est, which they covered, they were at Gib- ry Jane, April 1955; to Oliver and [enni- she and the baby may soon keep him com- raltar, Tangiers, Spain, Athens, some of [er judge Howes a second daughter, Wen- pany. Asia Minor and Yugoslavia where they dy Griswold, Oct. 30, 1955. met some rea! gypsies. She's back in NYC Betsy Bragg Crane and Paul moved a must make a correction. Estelle Par- now at the old grind. r year ago to Middletown, N. J. where they SOllS Gehman is with NBC, not CBS. I are near the shore, for which they are Muriel Phipps Smith and Wenda II are misread her letter. She is an editor now mightily pleased. They have two small in Pennsylvania where Wendall teaches and busy as a beaver. "terrors", David 3V2 and Anne 1, plus a school along with his writing. They have Lee Berlin Lehman has taught nursery beagle puppy. These three keep her ex- two darling little girls. Robin, one plus, school for four years until Terry arrived tremely busy. Last Thanksgiving they saw is as tiny as Moo but Laurie, the baby, but much prefers this type of life. She Mimi Haskell McDowell, her doctor hus- is a real chub-chub according to her and Bill see Jen Judge Howes and Ollie band, and two sons, all of whom are mother. Naomi Gebermen Vogel and Wal- regularly. They have two girls, Debby 2 dandy. Also got in touch with Peg Mc- ter are fine. They have two, Larry 3lf2 in August. They all live in Levittown. Dowell Lewis, Charlie and their Susan. and Lisa 9 mos. Larry goes to nursery Lee writes they saw a lot of Barbara Ay- Mac's husband is in his final year of law school twice a week and I would say, from ers Herbst and Don before they moved to in Albany. Betsy adds that Nancy Henne- their Xmas card, that Lisa is the spitting Bryn Mawr last fall. The Herbsts have burger Matthews and Freeman have been image of her mother. The same can be two little ones, Wendy 3 and Toby 1V2' sent to Zurich. He is in the diplomatic said of Sally Osman Spray's little girl. Besides running the polio drive at Peter service. They were in Palermo, Italy. Sal and Richard are in Manitowoc, Wis. Cooper Village, Lee attends pottery school They hope to get back to the States for a now and love it. Gloria Barnett Leoin and twice a week. visit this summer. Mort live in Brooklyn with their two

27 have a year old son, Stuart. Naomi says s"n~, Stanley 3~hand Neil 1¥2. Glo still ty Dumpty Magazine, "Promperdink, the she is happily furnishing her new apart- lrovnt learned how to play bridge, which Fierceless Monster" (written for Mr. Jen- is one reason she prefers the city life. sen's writing class-the title suggested by ment overlooking Central Park while rem- iniscing about the two months' tour of six Among other extra-curricular jobs, she has Bobby Gold Zingman); and a zoe-word done quite a bit of work with the Cere- essay for a local TV show won a Lewyt European countries that she and Maks took last summer. Culturally speaking, bral Palsy Fund. vacuum. The Kemps live in Iowa, where Naomi is "in the swim" since she sings Outside of picking up more curios in- Ed is a lawyer, and Polly, between stories, with the Norman Desoff choir. Jane works cluding a Currier and Ives print, trying keeps busy with their two children. Tom and Ann Thomes McDonnell and at Dodd, Mead publ ishers and is thrilled to keep up with Julie and her active with her fabulous new apartment which friends which is a losing battle, and fi- young son Mark are in Rio where Tom is has! a 25 ft. terrace. nally getting back into a bridge club, I working with the American Foreign In- have nothing mare to report at this time. surance Association. Libby Grilfill returned from two years BetJy Muirhead Garden ex '50 is at in Thailand on Dec. 10. Met at the air- home in Newton, Mass. with Laurie 31/2 1950 port by a CC welcoming committee, she and Jeff 1, while husband, Boats, is in was feted in NYC for a few days before CORRESPONDENT,Mrs.Erdmann E. Brandt Raytheon's public relations department. she left for Florida to see her family. I (Alice Hess), 402 Pembroke Road, Bala- talked to Libby on the phone and she told Cynwyd, Pa. 1951 of seeing CC faculty in remote places, BORN: to Fred and Stilly Condon Miller CORRESPONDENT,Mrs. Norman W. Cam- Miss Ruth Thomas in Bangkok and Miss a daughter, Megan Elizabeth, on Sept. 16, Marjorie Dilley in London. Vera Santan- eron, J r. (Roldah Northrup), Ford Hill 1955; to Dick and Candy Canova Schlegel Road, Whippany, N. J. iello has been in Germany since August a third child, second daughter, Sally Lin- 1954 doing recreational advisory work for MARRIED: Donna Schmidt to Daniel da, on Oct. 23, 1955; to Henry and Cbns- the Special Services. tine Holt Kurtz a third son, Christopher, Daley in June, 1955; Mary Ann Best to Joan Blacebnm DUYJ wrote that her in Oct. 1955; to Ted and Jane Keeler Edward Myles Murphy on Jan .7, 1956 new son very considerately waited to ar- Burnham a second daughter, Kim Heatley, at Valley Forge, Penna.; Nancy Kaufmtlll rive until the first night the floods sub- on Dec. 3, 1955; to Jack and Nancy to Walter Sichel on Aug. 21, 1955. sided and the roads were clear in the Keams MorriJ a second son, David, on BORN: to Bill and Emily Pemns Chaf- Hartford area. Now the Duys have bought Dec. 4, 1955; to Boardy and Ann Wood- fee a daughter, Anne Catherine, on Aug. a house in Longmeadow, Mass. and seem ard T bompson a second child, first son, 8; to David and Joan Blacebem DIiYs a well content with their situation. Emil) Peter Boyd, on Dec. 26, 1955. son, David F., Jr., on Aug. 25; to Jack Perrins Chaf!ei?, Bill and the baby are liv- Along with their new baby, Ted and and Rhoda Levy Schlein a daughter, ing in Syracuse, N. Y. while Bill is taking Stacey Ilene, on Oct. 20; to Walter and Janie Keeler BfJY1lham acquired a new his residency in internal medicine at the house, "Mulberry Hill" in Cochranville, Nancy Clapp IHillel' a son, Scott Colby, Medical Center there. Pa. They really feel like landed gentry on Nov. 18; to Justy and Mary Ca-dle with 17 acres of farm to call their own. Lowe a daughter, Meredith Ann, on Dec. Louise Stevens Wheatley and family are In the nearby Philadelphia area, Mac 9; to Dick and SIIJie Bergstrom Campbell thrilled to be living in their own house Clm·k has "landed" a new job at Gimbel a son, Richard Cheney Jr., on Dec. 31; in Lexington, Mass. now that Jim is out Bros. department store. She is director of to Cameron and Joan Truscott Clark a of the Navy and doing graduate work at all co-workers' activities, edits the employ- son, Scott Cameron, on Jan. 3. Harvard. Their daughters, Alison and Kit, ees' weekly magazine, writes and produces Marge IJYeeks Owens and George have are 3¥2 and 2. Norma Kocbenoia Knisely the store broadcasts. A philosophy major, a home of their own in Rockville Centre, reports that she, Burt and 23 mos. old Mac has varied her career in the commer- 1. I. "Re-doing" the house and running Julianne are very happy as civilians. Burt cial, industrial, and retailing fields. after 2 year old Janet keeps Marge occu- left the Coast Guard in September 1954 From Paris, Alice Earl ex '50 writes pied, while George has a full schedule and joined a group of consulting engi. she is working with Abbe Pierre, whose working for Johnson & Higgins, Insur- neers in York, Penna. The husbands of life has been dedicated to the "sous-pro- ance Brokers in New York and studying [onet Young IF"itter and Nancy Libby Pe- Ietariat" and whose conviction is "that for a master's in business administration terson are attending MIT. Jan lives in one must serve first him who suffers most, at N.Y.U. night school. Marge occasion- Winchester, Mass. and Nancy in Lexing- if society is to thrive and progress ally sees Sheila Albert Rosensweig who ton. The Coast Guard has sent Larry and Alice, herself, has been organizing a kin- lives in Freeport, 1. I. where Len is a Barbara Ridgeway White and their three dergarten for the homeless, painting pediatrician. Sheila's dad was recently year old son to Niantic, Conn. for four rooms, and being general handyman elected a NY state senator and she did years. Last August Phyl McCarthy Crosby, Howard and little Steve moved to Wash- Martha Adelizzi Uiblein ex '50 went her bit campaign-wise. Also on Long from CC to Katherine Gibbs (Boston), Island is Betty Sttuersop/ Haderer who can ington, D. C. where they expect to be for two years. They entertained Judy Clip- married an industrial engineer, and now boast having built-with help from in- pinger for Thanksgiving dinner. Judy lives has two sons, Eric 4 and Roger 3. The laws--the house she and George live in. in nearby Georgetown and works for the Uihleins have spring housebuilding plans Betty seemed justifiably proud of her aire- International Center in Washington. in Woodbridge, Conn. dale who won two first place ribbons in Literary fame and fortune ( ?) has dog shows the past year. From an article in a Boston paper I come to Polly Green Kemp ex '50, help- Beu Benenson Gasner, Naomi Salit quote in part: "The Electric Boat Com- ing fill the void left by the death of her Bimbacb and Jane Aluil' are all in New pany Division of General Dynamics Corp. young son Gary. Whitman's published York City. Bev is doing free lance and is proud of the four women scientists "Quincy and the Delivery Truck"; Hump- copy writing for Gimbel's. She and Alan on its payroll Marilyn Alfieri, from

= Connecticut College. . does what the and Dedi Bialik Taylor ex '52 a boy; to still living in Midland, Texas, and enjoy shipyard calls 'programming' work, pre- Jack and Shirley Kline Will penn ex '52 the west Texas life very much. A couple paring problems to be fed into electronic a boy. of classmates have mentioned seeing Jane calculators." While I was in Japan last year Mat'gie appear with her father on Edward R. From the New York law firm of New- Ohl did a wonderful job of being class Murrow's program "Person to Person". man & Katz I received an announcement correspondent. On the Air Force base Barbara Group ex '52 spent a weekend in that "we take pleasure in announcing that where Mel and I were stationed outside Boston in November, where she enjoyed Elaine Fensteru.ald has become associated of Tokyo I worked as a volunteer in the a reunion with Laura lVheelwright who with our firm in the general practice of base hospital and had great fun taking shares an apartment in Cambridge with law." Japanese Bower arranging and art lessons. Betty Johnson '53. Esther Hammaker has Once a week I taught English to fifth arrived back in the States after ten months Neil and Helen Pavlovich Twomey are graders of a japanese school in a little in Europe and has a new address in Wash- braving their second Chicago winter while town outside the base. The children were ington, D. C. Flops Porter Loomis and Neil attends the Univ. of Chicago Law always full of curiosity about the United her husband have bought a ranch style School. Pavvy has been working for the States and kept us on our toes answering house in Prairie Village, Kansas, just Chicago Dept. of Welfare as an occupa- their questions. In between Mel's B-26 across the state line from Kansas City, Mo. tional therapist. Justy and Mar)' Cordle flying and his basketball coaching we man- Vaughn and Betty Cedar Darnell are living Lowe have four and a half acres in Way- aged to find time to do quite a bit of in Los Angeles with their little son, Peter. zata, Minn. Plenty of room for 2Y2 year exploring in and around Tokyo and to Nancy Morloll is teaching in Greenwich, old JuJd and the dog to run-also plenty climb a few mountains with members of Conn. again this year and often sees Bev of work for the Lowes! Warren and Sis the Japanese Alpine Club. We are spend- Duryea Harley. Beoie Bower Shadek is Purnell McClelland have a new house in ing this year in Miami while Mel, a civ- living with her folks while Ed is in the Brookfield, Wise. which is well filled with ilian again, works toward his degree in Army. He gets home every weekend, how- their three children, Amy 3, Mark 2, and geography at the University of Miami. ever, to see her and little Suzie. Gail 9 mos. In St. Louis Ann Andrews Our little son, Andy, was born here in Margie Ohl spent a week in November Paxton is doing case work for the St. October. Driving across the country after Louis County Welfare Office while hus- at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago attend- our return to the United States this sum- ing the Camp Fire Girls' National Trien- band Pax is doing research for a year on mer we visited Bill and inann Meyer W nial Conference. She had a grand visit a polio grant. They had a visit in October and their darling twins, Kim Rosseuee with Jane GeThardt who is working in the from Lois Allen. and Bo, in Peoria. We stayed a few days trust department of a Chicago bank. She in Cincinnati with Dick and Betsy McLane When Norman and I went to Dave and just missed seeing Sis Brogan and Molly Jed/we Tucker Zenker's Christmas party McKinlley and their little blond "Cricket" Hunt Heizer who had a visit with Jane we found ourselves among a crowd of just before her baby brother, Ricky, ar- the next week. Nancy Laidley has been Jersey-dwelling alumnae including Henry rived. 'J{fe also saw a good deal of Tom working in the Department of Child Wel- and J oall Andrew JPbite, Bob and Bar and Bxnny l1Vood Price while in Cincin- fare at the University of Iowa. Sheila Bur- Nasb Sullivan, Les and NailCY Bolte Hu- nati. They had just bought a lovely new nell Sawyer is living in Coconut Grove. ber, Bob and Ginny Callaghan Miller, house and were awaiting the arrival of Fla., not far from me. Her husband, Pete, Johnny and Joy Karn Snltioan and Frank their little girl, Dorothy, whom they call is out of the Navy and works for his and Diane Roberts Gibson '50. "Bambi". Betsy writes that Tom and Swip father's steamship agency in Miami. Sheila lnkly Woods have just moved to Cincin- has heard recently frorm Nail Schlesinger 1952 nati with their two children. Another new Kempner ex '52 who lives in New York Cincinnati-ite is Helen "Sis" Brogan who CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Melvin G. Marcus and now has a little girl Adeline to kep has accepted a position with Procter and (Mary Ann Allen), 8251 S. W. 52nd Thomas Lenox, Jr. company. Gamble's Market Research Department Ave., South Miami 43, Fla. which will give her a wonderful opportu- 1953 MARRIED: Suzanne Mink to Edwin W. nity to travel about the country, in the Bleecker in Bristol, Conn., Oct. 8; Bev- course of which she hopes to catch up CORRESPONDENT, Miss Nancy Camp, erly Duryea to William Joseph Harley with some classmates. Sis and Betsy, Bun- Wheeler Road, Middlebury, Conn. III, Oct. 15; Gloria J011es to John Chal- ny and Barbara Frye Laco attended the BORN: a daughter, Debra Ann, on Oct. oner Borden, Jr., in September. Freshman Luncheon of the Cincinnati 29, 1955 to Donald and Ruth Ste11el1S01l Club of Conn. College this past fall. In BORN: to William and Wi/wln Meyer Il7hite; a son, Eugene J., Jr., on October Evanston, Ill., Sis spent an evening chat- 1955 to Pidge and Missie lI'7althou,. Pid- ROHetter,_ twins, a boy and a girl, Kim- ting with Molly Hunt Heizer and Jane geon; a second daughter, Robin, on Nov. berly and WjlJiam Aylesworth, Jr., in 13, 1955 to Jim and Pam Scott King; a April; to Howard and Florence Porter Gerhardt. daughter, Kathryn Ross on Mar. 20, 1955 Loomis a boy, Arthur Lawrence II, May September was a red letter month for to Andrew and Jill Orndorff Neely; a 17; to Charles and Corinne Fisher Smythe Gloria Jones Borden, Not only were she daughter, Wendy, in December 1955 to a girl, Barbara Lynn, Sept. 15; to Win- and John married at the Little Church Dick and Ph),llis Pledger Whipple; a sec- throp and Emilou Starke Piper a boy, Around the Corner in New York but she ond child, first son, John Peters IV, to Geoffrey Tindall, Sept. 20; to Frederic and was given a part in the Broadway play, John and Cbrisuna Schmidt Stet/ens HI; Jane Murchison Hamilton a boy, Frederic "The Diary of Anne Frank", which has had such a success with public and critics a second child, first son, John Mason IV, Crawford, Ir., Oct. 8; to Milan and Janet on Sept. 30, 1955 to John and Mary Ann Lilldstl'om Tehan a boy; Steven Allen, Oct. alike. Gloria and John have an apartment McCIemclIts Mason HI; a second child, 22; to Mel and Mary Ann Allen MarCNs on a tree lined street in Brooklyn. first son, Christopher Lenox, on June 18, a boy, \'

b s 1955 to Malcolm and [een Noyes Groves; Co. in Waterbury, Conn. Saily Wing is ing completed a stint in the Navy. Pat Browne Hunter is housekeeping in Spring- a daughter, Laurie Ellen, on Oct. 23, 1955 a graduate assistant for the second year to Jerrold and [oan Fluegelman lVexler; at Ohio University in the psychology test- field, Mass. for husband Lincoln and a daughter, Pamela Ruth, on Aug. 17, ing laboratory, majoring in Human Rela- daughter Pam and acting as treasurer for 1955 to Lincoln and P,11 Browne Hunter, tions with the hopes of being a school the Conn. College Alumnae of Western a daughter, Molly, on Sept. 20, 1955 to psychologist. She is working on educa- Mass. Ed and Connie Duane Donahue Edward and Connie Duane Donahue; a tional certification for elementary school. and little red-haired Molly live in Harts- daughter, Elizabeth Wilson, on Oct. 25, She has frequently acted as a substitute dale, N. Y. which is very near Flugy. 1955 to David and Virginia lVilJon Lee; housemother and is having an extremely Born the same day as Molly, MaryAnli a son, William, Jr., on August, 1955 to good time. Joyce Heissenbnuei is em" MtlJoll's little son John lives with Mom, Bill and V:JU Logan AtkillJolI; a son, Da- played by Little, Brown and Co. Publish- Pop and Kassie outside Chicago. John and vid Michael on Nov. 1, 1955 to Mark ing Co. in Boston. Christina Schmidt Stevens have' bought a Victorian house in Metuchen, N. J. which and [an Rourke If/hite; a daughter, San- Frannie IVilcox Johnson and her hus- they are on their way to filling adequately dra Elaine, on Oct. 5, 1955 to Peter and band Richard are living 10 Denver, with two children, Mary and John, and Aleeto Engelbert Pierce; a son, Thomas where he is a senior medical student at two cats. John is in the dairy business. Marks, on Aug. 28, 1955 to Robert and the Univ. of Colorado School of Medi- Rae Ferguson Reasoner is in Bradenton, Barbara Marks Spi1"O; a daughter, Sandra cine. Frannie is teaching junior and sen- Fla. She has a son, Andy, a year old who Lea, on Dec. 11, 1955 to Allerton and ior high English and sponsoring the dra- will soon be helping his father Bud in Pat T«sssig Marshali. matics club at the Cherry Creek High the nursery and landscaping business. The MARRIED: Annellen Fine to Murray School in Denver. She plans to complete Reasoners had a fascinating tour of Cuba Guth on Sept. 4, 1955; Barbara Mehldau her M.A. this June at Colorado College. last summer which included some deep to George E. McGregor, Jr. on June 18, They hope to be in the East for intern- sea diving. Libby Hamilton Mueller and 1955; Sheila Horton to William Francis ship next year. They saw Lynn If/ard George and Ned, 16 mos., were awaiting Skinner Kennedy. White and .husband Fred before they set- orders for the Mainland so they may have I want to thank the large number who tled in Chicago. Frannie and husband also left Honolulu by now. George and Betsy sent back the questionnaires I sent you. ran into Marion Streett and Polly Hume Porter Gilman in Washington, D. C. are I can't possibly write all the news in this in Mexico last summer and said it was kept busy with their two young boys, issue. I apologize for any mistakes or like old times. Margery Ludlow Benie- Paul and James. Howard and Sugar Kane omissions but next time, please make sure min is staff copywriter for Radio Station PaJhmtlJl live on a lake in Eastchester, your names are on the cards. WELL, Battle Creek, Mich. Her husband, J\!. Y. and son Neal 18 mos. may become Lysle, received his master's degree from MariOIl Streett is living at home in St. a skipper at a very young age. My apolo- RPI last June and is now working for Louis and working at the City Art Mu- gies to Tommy, Dell Stone MartiN and Eaton Mfg. Co. in Battle Creek. Puff seum primarily giving talks to school Paul who are living in Little Ferry, N. Bmton Brooks and husband Dick are liv- J. classes. In addition, she is doing volunteer for the error in the last news. work at the mental hospital and taking ing in Bristol, R. 1. where Dick is sta- courses at the University. Sue Brown and tioned following his return from the Philippines on Oct. 12. Virginia Klein AI!/l 1"1111'[//S are housekeeping together in 1954 Morgan and husband Howard are living New York. Sue is a Placement Counselor CORRESPONDENTS, Lois Keating, 6 Car- in Cincinnati where Ginny is in the Mar- with Just One Break, Inc., a philanthropic teret Pl., Garden City, L. 1., N. Y. Suz- ket Research Dept. of Procter & Gamble placement organization for physically dis- anne Gaffney, 87 Bradley Ave., East abled people. Ann is working at a Stu- and Howard is a sales engineer with Ana- Haven, Conn. dent Travel organization. Kit Goedner has conda Copper. Vivginia Wilson Lee, hus- MARRIED: A'nu Nuoeen to Marcus T. finished Occupational Therapy School and band David and tiny daughter are in Reynolds on Oct. 22 in Winnetka, III. is at the Children's Workshop in Bridge- Hartford at least until David graduates (Joell Brown Johnson was in the wedding port. She is getting a free musical educa- from Trinity in June. B. J. Englander party and Bill and Nena Cunningham tion, as her landlord teaches trumpet and Golboro and husband Alan are among the Debling were there); GinN'}' Gillis to trombone underneath her. Sue Benneuo New Yorkers of the class and B. J. keeps William Noonan on Oct. 22 (Bill is a is in the print and framing shop of the herself busy by attending the Art Students' Physical Education instructor at Bulkeley Munson Museum in New Haven. In what League. Junior High in New London where Ginny is left of her time, Sue attends a ceramics Julie Griggs Marty and Dr. Sam and teaches English); [eanne Geblmeyer to class and likes it very much. Virginia their two offspring Lucy and Clint are in Gordon Greist on Dec. 3 in Roslyn, L. 1., Bowman is in free lance advertising and L.'I Jolla, Calif. while Sam is stationed at N. Y. (fo Poriscb and Sally Lindblad public relations, running her own Ad the San Diego Naval Hospital and love it. were in the wedding party and Eoans Agency in Latrobe, Pa. Ozzie Osborn is Pam Scott King and Jim and their two Flickinger was a guest.}; Carol Lee Blake an executive assistant to the president of daughters, Hilary and Robin, are thrilled to Brooks R. Joslin on Dec. 16 in West Nametra, Inc. in New York City (Near with the colonial house that they have Hartford, Conn. (GWYIlII Doyle, Dudy East travel organization) and secretary of bought in Princeton, N. J. Ruth StetJen- Van McQuilling and Libbets Alcorn Holt the corporation. Smnue Macquarrie is SOil 1/7 bite, husband Don and little Debra were at the wedding); Mary B. (Beezie) teaching kindergarten in Norwood, Mass. are expecting a great shift as of Dec. 30 Clarke ex '54 to William Drake on Carol Gerard received her M.A. in Oc- when they wil! return to New York from tober from NYU and is now teaching sec- Fairbanks, Alaska bearing a discharge June 14. ond grade at Silas Wood School in South from the Air Force. Lydia Richards Boyer, BORN: to Lt. Ernest H. and Sally Huntington, N. Y. Barbara Jean MeDal/- husband David and daughter Margaret Thompson Damnuer a boy, William Er- aId is working for Conn. Light and Power will be living in Wilmington, Del., hav- nest, on Sept. 6 in Japan (Correction:

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I Ernie is in the Air Force, not the Ma- M'lee Catledge Daley writes of her at NBC-TV as is Ann Olstein who has rines); to Bim and Libbets Alcorn Holt busy life in Seattle and how she's looking been working on the "Home" show; a boy, Luther Emmett IVan Oct. 24; to forward to some stimulating entertainment Cathy Pappas who is working 'in town Chuck and Tinka Smith Little, now living that Seattle is supposed to have to offer now and living on Third Avenue near on Long lsI and, a girl, Dorothy; to Leet in the way of concerts and plays, when Ann Heagney, Ann Matthews and Carolyn and Sid Robertson Denton a girl, Carolyn; Frank has a chance to play hookey from Chapple, who is in the editorial promo- to Frank and M'lee Cat/edge Daley a girl, his job at Boeing or studies at Law tion department at Time, Inc. and is cur- Sharon Lee. School. M'Jee says that Beezie Clarke rently involved in the Junior League Pro- From Boston Barbie Guerin Colon Drake ex '54 is living and working in visional Course which has Mal"] Lee writes that life in Cambridge is hectic. New Haven where her husband is attend- Matheson as co-director and Cindy Fen- Cec is studying at Harvard Business School ing Yale Law School. ning as another "student"; [oan Negley as is Lee Zeichner's husband who just got From L. A. Nora Kearns Grimm tells Kelleber who is also doing League work out of the Navy. Barbie has run into Jan of the new house plans that she and Art in the Library-by-Mail department; Betty Rowe, who is at Harvard Law; Sally are making. The lot they've bought is Koul omzin who hopes that she and Mi- Stecker} IVig Teckemeyer and LaJCCl H«se. covered with avocado trees. chael will be able to do some traveling Meanwhile, Barbie has a job in the Dean's soon, as she can get ,» wonderful discount A Dec. '54 letter from Alice Stroeb ex office. Lee Zeichner is working in Cam- from Air France where she is working. '54, recently uncovered, said she is mar- bridge, too. Denny Robertson and Bob My trip to Austria for skiing, starting ried to Leonard William Miller and living Lenenthal are vacationing from H,B.S. by the end of February, is shaping up quite in L. A. The last CCite she had seen "skiing, skating, tobogganing and culti- well-three weeks' skiing and then four was Sally Thompson Dammier in the sum- vating our French accents" at the Chateau weeks touring Italy (in Rome for Easter) mer of '54, Lyn johnson and Buck Rodg- Frontenac in Quebec. Betsy Friedman is and Paris and return passage via the ers are now living in San Diego, Calif. also at Harvard doing research and secre- Queen Elizabeth. tarial work for a psychology professor. A cute card from Katie JJ7ebster Troast Claire Wallach Engel in New London ex '54 from some place in the south 7955 where Art is stationed while he does his is busy as Assistant to the Publicity Di- CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Robert G. Myers, tour of duty in the navy was adorned by rector and Secretary of the School of the jr. (Gail Andersen), 7776 Central Ave., little Katie. Dance (summer session) at Cc. Ray is River Forest, Ill. [eannie Pretzel Senbom wrote from a gunnery officer on the USS Nautilus Remember reunion-June 8, 9, 10. trailer (amp in New Jersey, the latest lo- ("USS means Underway Saturday and MARRIED: .Margot Col-min to Martin cation the navy has given them, Pretzel Sunday"). Claire is saving her pennies Kramer of Long Island, a UCLA grad- says that housekeeping in a trailer is a for "following the fleet", as Ray hopes to uate, on Nov. 13; they planned to live in cinch, Sandy is leaving the service in Au- be detached from the boat in June to at- Great Neck, L. I.; Maida Alexander to gust, although he m:l.Y be a "Chief' by tend the Nuclear Propulsion School at the Joel Rahn on June 26 in Holyoke, Mass., then, to continue his education in Indiana Local Sub Base (shore duty!), then on to with Barbara Rosen as a bridesmaid; in the fall, Pretzel expects to get a job Area, Idaho for more training and a new Nancy Bearce to Charles D. McAlister teaching then. joan Siloerberz Brundage assignment. Marianne Pisber and her hus- with Cynthia Russell Rosik and Gretchen is jiving in New Jersey now that Lyle is band Marshal Hess visited the Engels in Heidel as bridesmaids; Cynthia Myers to out of the service. Her mother had a party November. LTJG A. Avery Young on Nov, 26 in for them on Christmas which was attended Connie Farley is Society Editor for the Youngstown, Ohio, with Dona Bernard, by Deora Newberg, Gloria Goodiriend, New Haven Register, evening paper, and Gail Andersen Myers and judy O'Hare Aleta Frankel Frecbtman and Laurel Kap- jane Daly is working as hard as ever. Marsh ex '55 as attendants; jessie Rinci- lClII Sweye ex '54. Some fathers are real slave drivers! cotti to LTJG Charles L. R. Anderson in [oen, Brown Johnson and Hubby Art Beib Smith Brobst is teaching now that Harkness Chapel (the first of our class to saw GwynJl Doyle in Akron, Ohio when her husband Don is out of the service be married there, we think) on July 16 she was home for a vacation this fall. and back at school. Also teaching is with joan Flaherty johnson and Caroline Gwynn still enjoys her job and Boston, Elaine 'Goldsteill out on Long Island. Hoffbeinis '57 as bridesmaids; Ruth £1- joen and Art are trying to adjust to army New York City at this holiday season dt·idge to John E. Clark, jr., on Aug, 13 life in Pittsburgh, joen's keeping herself was full of '54 visitors: Gretchen Taylor in Nutley, N. J. with Bitsy Root and very occupied by teaching kindergarten in Ki ngman and Bob who came to town for Cynthia Crutch '56 as bridesmaids; Alicia a school a few blocks from her home, a "rest from the baby after Christmas"; Allen to Elmer "Twig" Branch on Oct, They keep track of Margie McVeall whose [oanie Painton, Dudy Vars McQuilling 27 in Short Hills, N. J.; Carole Chapin latest trip for Procter and Gamble was to and family who have moved to this area to Richard Aiken on Nov. 18 in Spring- San Antonio. (Per usual she's having a and are looking for a home near the city, field, Mass., with Mary j ean Carey as one B,ll) . Jim being out of the Navy and job-hunt- of the bridesmaids; Tabnba Andrews to Nena CUNningham Dobling and Bill ing;' Ann Christensen ex '54 who is here Pehr Curt Huber in New York on Oct. 22. wrote of Anne Nuveen's wedding and how to try her luck on Broadway as Ann Hyde MARRIED ex '5Sers: Beverly Stevens to married life is agreeing with them, Norma but whose talents were leased by Seks Herb Prakelt in Pomfret Center, Conn., Hamady has finally decided to take up Fifth Avenue during the Christmas rush; with Carolyn Diefendorf, Cassie Goss, skiing if only to escape her juvenile de- Mar Robertson jennings and Bob who and Carol Hilton as guests; Jane Hicks linquents for a while. Peter Haviland, have returned from their sojourn in Eu- to LTJG J. H. Spiller, Jr, in Annapolis, Debby Phillip's husband, is attending rope and have an apartment in midtown Md. on May 7; they are now living in Hospital Administration School at the Manhattan; Claire Garber and Nancy Norfolk, Va.; Marsha Morrison to John Univ. of Minnesota. Schatz ex '54 who are receptionists, Nancy Dodge in Heidelberg, Germany; Shirley

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where husband Chuck is a student. Nancy Mims to Donald M. Muirhead Jr. on Aug. tarial job in Washington, D. C. to join 6 with Helen Tolman Lee as a guest; Ev- her in Boston. Dona is last known to be is also taking some psychology and edu- elyn Dean to Robert Seaman on Aug. 20; typing still in c.c. but Necia Byerly and cation courses there. Martha "Beaver" Royer is working in the broadcasting di- they are now stationed at Fort Knox, Ky.; Doris Deming have made the big move vision of the Leo Burnett Agency in Chi- Mary Hunt to Ray Shivris in May, 1954; to Boston and have an apartment there Helen Tolman to James Lee of New Can- while both are working at the Mass. Eye cago and says that, although she finds the aan in May. - and Ear Infirmary. Maida ALexander Rahn, work interesting, she seems to be spending three quarters of her time in elevators. BORN: to David and Marilyn Smith who is teaching first grade in Ludlow, Mass. tells us that Barbara Rosen and Lois Sue Smith is a receptionist at the Harvard Hall ex '55 on May 29, 1955 a daughter; Liarbowiiz are rooming together in NYC. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Elizabeth Abbott. Bobbie is working at Random House finds Cambridge "a delightfully cosmo- Pauline Badham and Ann Fishman are (though it surely seemed she had a future politan place." working at Doubleday in New York City. in night club singing) and Loie is at Ex 55er5: Sbirley Mims Muirhead took Pauline says that neither of them has used Macy's. Ruth ELdridge Clark wrote glow- a secretarial course at Hickox and has a shorthand or typing as extensively as ex- ingly of her teaching work at the Village wonderful job as assistant to the presi- pected but they're learning all about the Nursery School in Brookside, N. J. dent of a new advertising agency. Her publishing business 'as well as seeing "as husband Don is in his first year at Bos- many plays as any tourist." Betsy Gregory Helen Quinlan, who has a seventh ton Univ. Medical School. Ray and Mary is' working in Hartford, Conn. Department grade class in Guilford, Conn. sent us a Hunt Sbiruis are in Chicago where Ray of Labor and Cassie GoSJ is learning all scrapbook of hilarious caricatures of her- has been attending electronics school. Herb about sponge baths as a student nurse at self and her class-c-one of a rather omin- and Bev Sreoem Praeelt camped and the Columbia School of Nursing in NYC. ous little boy with a small alligator toured in Canada and Vermont all sum- Jessie Rincicoui Anderson seems to be en- perched on top of his head. Judy Penny- mer. Herb is doing pre-med work at joying doing window and case displays at J)tlcker is working as assistant to an elec- Springfield College in Massachusetts while Claire's' in New London. Also in that tronics engineer with Sigma Relays, Inc. Bev is working as an assistant librarian well known town, Mart lP"amev OLson in Braintree, Mass. and making exciting on the City Library Association's Book· and Cynthia Myers Young are setting up plans. Arne and Hanny Jackson Schoeller mobile. John and !'darsha M01"J"ison Dodge housekeeping with their seafaring men. honeymooned in northern Minnesota and lived in Nuremberg, Germany, while John Since Dean has been out at sea a good then drove east to visit his family. They was in the army. After their wedding in deal lately, Mart has done most of the are now living in Cambridge, Mass. while Heidelberg, they traveled around Europe apartment settling alone but the life and Arne finishes two years of law school. for 68 days in their Volkswagen. Now the reunions seem to be agreeing with her. Apparently they have been acting like the they are back in the U. S. and John is Cynie reports culinary conquests, the proverbial one-armed paper hangers, for a junior in engineering at Brown while greatest of which seems to be roast beef they have redecorated all the rooms of Marcia is working for the athletic director and Yorkshire- pudding. their apartment by themselves. there. Marilyn Smith Hall's husband Dave Barbera Schutt is still a fly-girl and Nancy Bearse Me.Alister is working for is in his last year at the Univ. of Conn. during a New Year's visit tried to con- the Mechanical Engineering and Botany and is planning to enter theological semi vince Dona Bernard to leave her secre- departments at the Univ. of Wyoming nary for three years.

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