Connecticut College Alumnae News, March 1965
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The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. j LazTUS House Connecticut College Alumnae News OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION VOLUME XLII NUMBER 2 MARCH 1965 Executive Board of the Alumnae Association 4 Doubleheader / by Marcia Hildreth Pond President: ELIZABETH J, DUTfON '47 9 Steady Pitching / by Rosemary Wilson [encees '62 First Vice President: ELIZABETH ROCKWELL CESARE '52 12 Tinker to Evers to Chance 16 CC in the Peace Corps / by Mary Elizabeth Second V ice President: Frandin Gehrig '42 ELIZABETH GORDON VAN LAw '28 18 In Memoriam Secretary: ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51 20 Items of interest Treasurer: E, ELIZABETH SPEIRS '29 22 Alumnae Wzitets / by Rhoda Meltzer Directors: JANET BOOMER BARNARD '29 Gilinsky '49 EDITH PATTON CRANSHAW '41 25 Books ELIZABETH PARCELLS ARMS '39 26 Letters JANE MUDDLE FUNKHOUSER '53 27 Class Notes Trustees: Cover by Helen Reynolds Smyth '29 CAROL 1. CHAPPELL '41 Photos by Philip Biscuti WINIFRED NIES NORTHCOTT '38 SARAH PITHOUSE BECKER '27 Published by the Connecticut College Alumnae As- sociation at Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut Chairman of Alumnae Fund: College, New London, Conn., four times a year in December, March, May and August. Subscription PATRICIA WERTHEIM ABRAMS '(,0 price $2 per year. Second-class postage paid at Princeton, New Jersey. Send Form 3579 to Sykes Chairman of Nominating Committee: Alumnae Center, Connecticut College, New London, JANET FLETCHER ELLRODT '41 Connecticut 06320. AAe Member. Chairman of Finance Committee: Statement of ownership, management and circulation required by Act of October 23. 1962; Section 4369. Title 39, United States PRISCILLA PASCO '39 Code. 1. Date of filing: Sept. 3D, 1964. 2. Title of publication:~on. Chairman of Scholarship Committee: necticut College Alumnae News. 3. Frequency of issue: 4 umes WINIFRED NIES NORTHCOTT '38 a year, December, March. May, and August. 4. Location of known office of publication: Princeton Printing Co., 176 Alexander Sr., Executive Director: Princeton, Mercer ce., N. J. 08540. 5. Location of headquarters of the publishers: Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut Co!lege, CHARLOTTE BECKWITH CRANE '25 New London, Conn. 06320. 6. Names and addresses of publisher, Connecticut College Editor, and Managing Editor: Publisher, Connecticut College Alumnae Association, Inc., Sykes Alumnae Center, C?nneweut Ed;to~: College, New London Conn. 06320; Editor, Eleanor Hine Kranz ELEANOR HINE KRANZ '34 (Mrs. John R.), 755' West Saddle River Rd., Ho·Ho·Kus, .N. J.; 755 West Saddle River Road He He Ku N Business Manager, Miss E. Elizabeth Speirs, P.O. Box 98, W'I~ddsor. ' - . s. ewJ ersey Conn. 7. Owner: (If owned by a corporation, its nameandau ress Editorial Boerd : must be stated and abo immediately thereunder the flamerand address of stockholders owning or holding I percent ~r more MARION VIBERT CLARK, '24, Class Note; Editor of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporaMn"the E. ELIZABETH SPEIRS. '29. Business Manager names and addresses of the individual owners must be gwen. ELIZABETH DAMEREL GONGAWARE '26 •A' sssstant Ed'aor If owned by a partnership or other un~nc~r~oratedfirm, its ~a=j ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON'S 1 and address, as well as that of each mdwidual must be gluJ ' RUBY ZAGOREN SILVERSTEIN '43 Membership corporation, no stock holders. 8. Known bo,ndhol ers, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holdlOg 1 per- PRISCILLA BAIRD HINCKLEY '47 cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other RHODA MELTZER GILINSKY '49 securities: None. DOUBLEHEADER This is the program... BY MARCIA HILDRETH POND Financial Aid Advise1' Mrs. Pond came to Connecticut College in Marchi 1964. A history major, she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe in 1950, and received her M.A. in Diplomatic History and Economics in 1951 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. After teaching for a year at the Hathaway- Brown School in Cleveland, Ohio, she became a research allalyst for the United States Government from 1954-57. She is the wife of Hartley L. Pond, now a physicist at the U.S. New,! Underwater Sound Laboratory in New London, and the mother of two sons, aged seven and four. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Laague of Women Voters of New London, and chairman of its committee studying the public library service of New London and Waterford. (At right she interviews a studens} 4 • that rescues students who have everything but enough money • that helps Connecticut enroll the students it wants "We are determined to continue choosing students for their ability to learn rather than for their ability to pay." ONNECTICUT COLLEGE, like others of its caliber, is an expensive school. A modest budget for a resident C student is now $3300 a year. Even families of sub- stantial means tend to blanch at such a figure, but it should not discourage any able girk from applying for admission. We are determined to continue choosing students for their ability to learn rather than for their ability to pay, and that accounts for the increasing interest in and support for our financial aid program. "During the past few years, financial aid has grown • • . to a matter of national urgency." During the past few years, financial aid has grown from the concern of a few private colleges, their benefactors, and a relatively small number of students to a matter of national urgency. The long struggle for equal educational opportun- ity has been intensified by a belated recognition that the talents of our young people are a great natural resource that we cannot afford to leave undeveloped. Since the largest pool of hitherto underdeveloped talent exists in low and lower-middle income groups, financial aid is an es- sential element in making higher education possible for these young people. College admissions officers are encour- aging the "rising expectations" of able, needy students, and 5 .' har ed wirh responsibility for State funds financial aid officers are c g f' d and distributing Many states have established and most othersate COn. marshalling the available sources 0 ar sidering scholarship and guaranteed loan plans. Eleven them in the fairest possible way. freshmen at Connecticut College hold $750 Stateof Connecticut College funds Connecticut Scholarships, and a number of otherstudents E the richest colleges no longer feel that their f?rmer have been able to bring their Rhode IslandOtNewJeIsey yen f holarship funds are sufficient for their ~x. Scholarships with rhem. Many States do not allnwtheir sc sourdcedes°eed (Harvard was one of the universities which scholarships to be used outside the state; but some,mOSt an n s. .. aJ P 800 000 linlltatlOn on annu ressed for remova I0 f (he $ , important to us, New York, are reconsideringthispolicy. ~orrnents of National Defense Student Loan funds ro a . ...) Our rraditional scholarship sources, Federal aid single insnrunon. d h the Swayze Fund, the Palmer, and Shea Funds, an t e The National Defense Education Act of 1958is Ire- many others listed in the Catalogue, supplemented by ge~- quently compared with the Morrill Act and the G.l.billin erous gifts from the Gordon Foundation, t~e ~laustelO discussions of its impact on American education.TheNa. Fund, the Rosensriel Foundation (for Negro girls) and the tional Student Loan program which it establishedhas al- Parents' (formerly Dads') Fund have done much to relieve ready grown from $30 million authorized in 1958·59to, the pressure at Connecticut College. Alumnae gifts are the projected $195 million for 1968-69. Collegesapplyforthe backbone of scholarship funds in many colleges, and amount of NDEA money they wish and provideone-ninth Connecticut College has been fortunate in the interest and of rhe total out of rheir own funds. The collegesarecharged generosity displayed by its alumnae. Our alumnae clubs in with the responsibility of administering and collecting the New London, Hartford, Fairfield County, New York, loans, under regulations set up by the Department of Westchester County, Washington, Cleveland, and Chicago Health, Educarion and Welfate. These loans (up to $1000 have given regular support to students from their areas. a year) are awarded on the basis of need and theirunero- Nevertheless, like most other schools, we are reaching our- nomic interest rate (3% beginning a year aftergradllll' side our restricted scholarship endowment income to un- tion), long repayment period (ten years, with postpone- restricted endowment funds and even current budget funds men ts for rnijirary or peace corps duty), and cancellation to support our financial aid program. provisions (up to 50% for private or public elementary, secondary, or college teachers) make them a formoffinan- Outside sources ci al aid. The last Congress passed more legislationccn. College resources are now being supplemented by a be- cerned with education than any previous Congressin wildering array of outside financial aid programs. In some history, but its record is almost certain to be outdoneby areas of the country, citizen groups have organized to pro- the new Congress. vide grassroots support for local students. An outstanding example is the Fall River, Massachusetts, program, which is " .•• who should be aided, in what amount,and in spreading to many other communities under the leadership what way." of the National Scholarship Foundation.