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BOTANY MAJORS, NOW ALUMNAE, DOING SUMMER RESEARCH
August 1956 ------
Calendar for the Year 1956·57
(New Club and Class officers please note: The Calendar is printed for Y01lr convenience in each iJSue oj the ALUMNAE NEWS. /11 it are included the dates around which yOIl will plan at least part of your program for the year).
OCTOBER FEBRUARY 13 ALUMNAE DAY jointly with celebra- 3 Inter-semester recess ends. tion of 25th anniversary of founding of 4 Second semester begins. The Arboretum. MARCH ALUMNAE COUNCIL NOVEMBER 1. 2, 3 22 Spring recess begins. 21 Thanksgiving recess begins. 25 Thanksgiving recess ends. APRIL 3 Spring recess ends. DECEMBER MAY 20 Christmas recess begins. 24 Comprehensive examinations for seniors. Final exams begin. JANUARY 28 6 Christmas recess ends. JUNE 23 Mid-year exams begin. 5 Final exams end. 31 Mid-year exams end. 9 COMMENCEMENT
The Cover: Joan Lake Kaiser '55 and Barbara Rice Kasbonsei '54 UJorking ill Arboretum Natural Area. Instrument held by Barbara is cover sight used to measure density of foliage,
Executive Board of the Alumnae Association
President: AGNES B. LEAHY '21, 222 East 57th Sr., New York, N. Y. First Vice President: MARGARET ROYALL HINCK '33, 270 N, Mountain Ave., Upper Montclair, N, J. Second Viee President, MARGARET KERR MILLER '41, 88 High St., Glen Ridge, N, J. Secretary: ELIZABETH JOHNSON HUME '30, Peterborough, N. H. Treasurer: ~AROL L. CHAPPELL '41, Box 263, New London, Conn. Directors: ELINOR HUNKEN TORPEY '24, 83-73 Charlecote Ridge, Jamaica, N, Y, ALISON JACOBS McBRIDE '34, Box 72, Lebanon, Conn. MARY LEF. MINTER GOODE '46, 4405 Stanford St., Chevy Chase, Md. ARTEMIS BLESSIS RAMAKER '50, 903 Asylum Ave" Hartford, Conn, Alumnae Trust ees: Rml.ERTA NEWTON BLANCHARD '21, 32 Calumet Rd., Winchester, Mass, NATALIE R. MAAS '40, 111 Broadway, New York, N. Y. MARION NICHOLS ARNOLD '32, 48 East Lake Rd. Skaneateles, N, Y. Chairmen of Standing Committees: Nominating LOIS RYMAN ARESON '36, 153 Bellevue Ave., Upper Montclair, N, J. Finance: EDNA SMITH THISTLE ex '26, 3 Chester Rd., Upper Montclair, N, J. Alumnae Fund: FRANCES BARATZ MACNEIL '40, 115 Laurel Dr., New London, Executive Secretary: KATHRYN Moss '24, Connecticut College, New London.
Editorial Board of the Alumnae News
ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51, Ford Hill Road, Whippany, N, J. MARION VIBERT CLARK '24, East Main Street Stockbridge, Mass, MARY A, CLARK '50, 101 Maple Avenue, Wyncote, Pa. GERTRUDE NOYES '25, Connecticut College, New London. HENRIETTA OWENS ROGERS '28, Lone Tree Farm, New Canaan, Conn. CAROL CHAPPELL '41, Business Manager, Box 263, New London. KATHRYN Moss '24, Editor, Connecticut College, New London.
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Connecticut College Alumnae News
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
VOLUME XXV AUGUST, 1956 NUMBER 4 On Campus
The Music and Fine Arts Departments request that alum- Art Exhibitions nae be informed of outstanding events scheduled for the Fall and Winter season. AT the Lyman Allyn Museum, under the direction of Mr. McCloy and Mr. Mayhew of the College Art De- Music Calendar partment, the following exhibitions will be presented: October 7-November 4, Coptic Art. Also a one-man show MR. QUIMBY of the Music Department announces the of IValter Meigs, chairman of the Art Department of following events: the University of Connecticut. Wednesday, October 3, 8:30 p. m., Palmer Auditorium- November Ll-December 2. Sculpture, Heinz rVameke, resident of East Haddam, Connecticut, and teacher at Faculty recital: Helen Boatright, soprano, and William the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D. C. Dale, pianist. November 11 indefinitely. An exhibition of prints, chiefly Wednesday, October 17, at 8: 30, Palmer Auditorium- architectural, by the late John Taylor Arms. The prints Julliard String Quartette. were a gift to the museum in the winter of 1955. Twilight Organ Recitals! Harkness Chapel, til 5:15 p. m. December 9-January 6. Textile exhibition, Empire (early (Tuesdayaftemoo11S) tcth century French). Also, Paintings of London, October 16-Pre-Bach music. Arthur W. Quimby. small oils by the late Anna Brewster. The gift of Mr. October 3D-Bach. Janet Grier. Brewster. January 20-February 17. Large show on Contemporary November 13-19th century organ mUSIc. Arthur W. American Architecture, with three-dimensional slides, Quimby. photo-murals. November 27-Modern organ compositions, including a composition by Martha Alter. Janet Grier. Library Notes The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will give a concert for children at 3 :30 o'clock on the afternoon of Novem- ALMER LIBRARY exhibitions to come will include ber 14. The concert will be sponsored by Music for Chil- Pthe Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition of the Con- dren, Incorporated, of which Mrs. Robert E. L. Strider is necticut Arboretum. Another exhibition will be of Every- the president. man's Library (published in the United States by Dutton and by Dent in England.) The publishers have presented Off-campus, William Dale, pianist, and member of the the library with a copy of the 100th publication, Aristotle's College Music Department, will give a recital in New Metaphysics. York on Tuesday evening, November 13, at 8:30 P: 111. in At least two exhibitions of general interest will have Carnegie Recital Hall. special significance locally. They are the exhibition in Note: The Connecticut College Choir, assisted by the honor of Mrs. Marion MacDowell, wife of Edward Mac- Swhiffs and the Conn-Chords, campus informal singing Dowell, American composer. Mrs. MacDowell, the foun- groups, will give a concert on Friday evening, November 9, der of the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New at 8:30 o'clock, at the Eastern Junior High School, River- Hampshire, lived at different times in Waterford, Con- side, Connecticut. The concert will be sponsored by the necticut, where her sister, Mrs. Anna Nevins, still has the Western Fairfield County Alumnae Club for the benefit of family home. the Student-Alumnae Center building fund. Inquiries: The other is an exhibition on Richard Mansfield, famed Mrs. E. S. Backus, 27 Halsey Drive, Old Greenwich. actor, whose home for many years was in New London.
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• Alumnae of the '20's will remember Mrs. Mansfield's Miss Frances Brett of the Physical Education Depart- coaching of College plays. ment is a member of the United States Lawn Tennis Doubles Championship Committee, and is in charge of The dates of the exhibitions have not been fixed. women's umpires and linesmen at the Longwood Cricket On Sunday, November 11, Miss Ruth Thomas of the Club, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Physical Education Department will show slides of pictures taken by her in the Orient in the summer of 1955. In- * * * cluded will be pictures of Thailand, China, and Kashmir. The College Physical Education Department will this year conduct the physical education program of the girls' A recent library acquisition is the gift of Mr. Max Fisher high school located on the campus, Williams Memorial of Detroit of beautifully printed and bound Press Books Institute. The department will organ,ize and administer the (the work of private presses which specialize in fine print- program of which Lois Pond '35 wiII be the director. ing and binding). Mr. Fisher is the father of Jane Fisher '60. Class of 1960-Relatives of Alumnae * * * Miss Hazel Johnson, librarian, announced that the fund Linda Ames-Cousin to Henrietta Jackson ex '55 established by a $50 gift made by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Diana Bassett-Sister to Cynthia Bassett '53 Knup (Helena Wulf '23) in memory of Dr. John Edwin Susan Biddle-Sister to Barbara Biddle 'SO; niece of Wells, formerly chairman of the English Department, has Dorcas Freeman Wesson '30 reached $1,000. This sum will be invested and the income Nancy Bland-Cousin to Eleanor Russell' 52 used to purchase books in memory of Dr. Wells. Beatrice Block-Cousin to Judith Schwarz '57 Jean Chappell-Cousin to Carol Reeves '58, niece of Carol * * * Chappell '41; granddaughter of our trustee, Mr. F. Announcement is also made of the fact that a $1,000 Valentine Chappell fund has been established for the Government Department Shirley Devitt-Niece of Thistle M. McKee '27 through the gifts of a faculty member and an alumna. In- Kate Driggs-Sister to Mary Jane Driggs '58 come from this fund will also be used for the purchase of Sally Feinberg-Cousin to Ruth Kaplan '52 books for the department. Elizabeth Froment-Related to Helene Bosworth '40 Ruth Gallup-Cousin to Dorcas Gallup '19 * * * Agnes Gund-Cousin to Jane Roesler '56 and Stephanie The Henry Wells Lawrence Lecture will be given on Baker ex '57 Thursday, October 11, by Dr. Eric f. Goldman, Professor Harriet Harris-Daughter of Harriet Deland Smith '32 of History, and Senior Fellow of the Council of Humani- Jane Harris-Sister to Priscilla Clare Harris 'SO ties, Princeton University. The topic will be "The Third Elizabeth Hood-Cousin to three Diefendorfs American Revolution: An interpretation of recent de- Margery Hume--Daughter of Elizabeth Johnson '30 cades." Josephine Jackes-Sister to Nancy Jackes '52 * * * Phebe Jones-Sister to Betsy Jones' 58 Jane Kempner-Cousin to Evelyn Cadden '23 On October 16, the English poet Stephen Spender, will Candace Kinney-Daughter of Claire Calnen '23 speak at Convocation in Palmer Auditorium at 7:30. Maureen Mehls-Sister to Barbara MehIs ' SO Ann Milner-Cousin to Joan Milner '53 In Physical Education Emily Montgomery-Cousin to Janet Evans '39 N Saturday, October 6, at 11 a. m. the Stuyvesant Laura Pritchard-Cousin to Prudence Murphy '56 OField Hockey Association will sponsor an exhibition Penna Reardon-Niece of Margaret Monjo '30 game on campus between the Northeast Field Hockey Joyce Rosenfeld-Cousin to Barbara and Marjory Wasser- Team and the Northeast Reserve Team. The game is the strom, '57 and '59 result of the desire on the part of the National Section Susan Ryder-Daughter of Gertrude Koetter '26 on Girls' and Women's Athletics to stimulate interest in Sara Sharp--Cousin to Martha Canterbury ex 'S6 the area in field hockey. Betty Weldon '57 is a member Barbara Siegel-Sister to Phyllis Siegel '55 of the Northeast Reserve team, and twenty students play Emily Silver-Daughter of Madeline Thune '28; Cousin with the AmsterdamseIs, New London's women's hockey to Florence Silver '21 club. (Continued on page 9)
4· Comments on Scholarship
and its Recognition
By ROSEMOND TUVE
EDITOR'S NOTE: Poetry, 1933; Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery: Ren- aissance Poetic and Twentieth Century Critics, 1947; (ed.) T. i~s 1955 ~atio~al Convention the American Asso- A Palingenius' Zodiake of Life, 1947; A Reading of George cratron of U ruversity Women presented to Miss T uve, Herbert, 1952. A book on Milton's minor poems is to be in recognition of her outstanding contributions to scholar- published by the Harvard University Press next year. ship and teaching, the AAUW Achievement Award of $2,500. She went out to Los Angeles to accept the award Miss Tuve, in response to questions put by the editors which she will use for further study whenever she can get of "Twentieth Century Authors," said, "I was born in a away. Parts of her acceptance address, from the October small South Dakota town between the Big Sioux and the 1955 issue of the "Journal of the AAUW", are printed prairies. My father was a mathematician, president of a below." small Lutheran college (Augustana) then located at Can- ton, and my mother taught music at the same college. My Miss Tuve, who is a graduate of the University of four grandparents had severally come from Norway as Minnesota, and holds an M. A. and a Ph.D. from Bryn pioneers, escaping from rigors of one sort or another, a Mawr College, has also studied long and frequently in too dominating state church or a sea-captain's hard life or England. She is a shining personification of the liberal arts too much family, and we children were taught to think that tradition in education, being eminent as scholar, writer, America was synonymous with freedom, and that each teacher, and critic. In addition she is an "original" com- man's own mind and spirit was the measure of his excel- pounded of uncompromising intellectual standards and lence. 1 suppose it was a corollary to this that we under- sympathies which may be readily enlisted on behalf of stood that one thing no sensible man occupied his head deserving people and principles, and her humor, ranging with was money, either making or keeping or spending it. from subtle to boisterous, has brought refreshment to sev- Except of course for education. In the small rural college eral generations of students and faculty. community these astonishing generalizations stood up rather better against the wear of experience than one could Alumnae will not be astonished to learn that another expect." honor has come to Miss Tuve, and through her to Con- necticut College. She will be a visiting lecturer first semes- "I was brought up on everyone in the family of six ter at Harvard, teaching full time in the English Depart- (but especially my mother) reading aloud to all the others ment-the first such invitation to be extended by the Har- who had 'things they had to do,' incessant singing in parts, vard English Department to a woman. Both courses which mostly of Bach chorales and hymns, and vast terrains, sum- mer and winter, of leisure that was completely unscheduled she will offer, a graduate seminar and a "middle group" except for Shakespeare 'on Chatauqua' in July, endless hot undergraduate course in which graduates are included, will afternoons without sight of a person, 'staking the cow' be concerned with the sixteenth century, and with romance, along the road-edges where the grass outlasted the dry Da- allegory, and pastoral studies centering on Spenser. The second course is much like her seminar here, which she kota summer (and training her to stay content with one staking per chapter of a book), and in winter, except for will retain. school or town 'operettas' and a debating team. . Barring The principal scholarly works by Miss Tuve are: Seasons the old Reo, we had nothing that cost anything, but no and Months: Studies in a Tradition of Middle English one took our time."
* Reprinted by permission of the [osmol of the American Association of Ulliversity If/omeJl.
5 Comments on Scholarship and Its Recognition
(C ontinned from page .5)
ACON says in that great tre~tise, '~The Advancem~nt . Bof Learning", which he wrote In 160) to persuade Kmg James to look into the parlous state of studies in the Eng- land of that time:
It may be truly affirmed, that no kind of men love working for itself but those that are learned; for other persons love it for profit, as an hireling, that loves the work for the wages, or for honour, as because it beareth them up in the eyes of men, and ref resheth their reputation; or because it exerciseth some faculty wherein they take pride, and so entertaineth them in good humour and pleasing conceits towards tbemselvesc-c-or because it advenceth any other their ends Only learned men love working as all action according to nature, taking pleasure in the action itself, and not in the purchase.
Now I do not agree with Bacon, that learned men are the only ones who do things for the sake of what is done, not for the sake of the doer. But I do think that with our competitive emphasis, our worship of "enterprise" and our exaltation of "ambition" (a sin, not a virtue, in the age I study), and with our blind over-attention to individual re- wards, we have come close to making the values of the tradesman, the buyer and seller of goods, obtain almost in every province save that of tonight's subject-"The Pur- suit of Truth." They will never obtain there. You cannot buy one ounce of "truth." The man whose thoughts are MISS TUVE bought cannot think.
There is in all thinking a thinker involved, who cannot one could just go out and buy another Oppenheimer some- be both a thinker and a reward-getter, and may as well where. It doesn't happen. The very sensitivity and super- face the fact early that he is going to have to choose the honesty that more vulgar minds find dangerous in such an former, or else become only the latter. open and questioning intelligence may be the very quality without which we should for generations miss out on what This does not mean that we cannot support thinking intelligence could find. with material aids-only that if the material aids cost any- thing, you'll get farther in the end without them. No The saving grace in the wh~le situation is the one I money in the wide world can produce Dr. Salk's idea; or think is illustrat~d in, for one thing, the AAUW's Fellow- the sense of responsibility and devotion that led him to ship Program. You don't give money to people in whom take steps that brought him to it. you have faith. You give it to the thing they have faith in because you have faith in it too. Is isn't that we have faith N the heart of ev:ry discover~ and ~very piece of every in Dr. Salk; our faith lies in that marvelous orderliness of Ischolarship there IS one key Ingredient or comporrcnt: reality, by virtue of which we are led to believe that there an indispensable human mind, working without thought is a cause behind that effect we call polio, that there is a of reward or gain or of anything except finding out. lose rational structure into which the questing mind of man, this, and no amount of money can buy you another. The who has his rational side, can unwearingly search, until he most shocking aspect of the Oppenheimer case was the at- comes upon that which is our tonight's subject: the truth titude taken in some remarks by persons in authority, that that will free him.
6 It is this common belief, held by both supporter and your own pruning, even trees of your' own planting. So worker, that there is such a thing as truth, and that man the human race itself. And in my kind of area some of the should put all lesser considerations in a lower place and go things most necessary to be kept alive are not the kind of out and look for it--his is the faith that has enabled man thoughs or beauties we would naturally think or see, but to find out things. the ones unpopular in our times, the ones that don't look self-evident, the unfashionable points of view and the kind of tastes that aren't in the current magazines. THE zeal to find things out is reborn with every new hu- man being-but it is easily squelched and easily per- One of the results of this is that intellectuals ge:lerally verted. It is not the major motive of our culture. It is not support what looks useless to others. What earthly differ- even as characteristic a motive in ours as it has been in ence does it make if I don't know exactly what form Spen- many others. I would emphasize again that you can get ser read a medieval romance in? Only this, that I might along for a while without everyone who supports learning make some tiny little error in trying to figure out how he having this zeal, but you can't get along overnight without got in the habit of using romance situations to symbolize workers who have it. The only way a worker can hang certain important moral problems. onto it is that society's support to the inquiry into truth comes as an absolutely free gift-given not to some think- And am I going to make a big contribution to literature er for something he does in return but simply put back into and morals by knowing this? Not at all. I'm going to see the common pool to ensure that learning and the pursuit whether some ideas about symbols and allegory that came of truth should not vanish from the world .. out in sornebody's book nineteen years ago, and which I've been gradually questioning over a period of eigtheen This is what I mean by saying that the achievements years, might need a little adjusting and correcting. That your reward recognizes are certainly not achievements of little adjusting might turn out to make us realize that the the person to whom you are entrusting the grant. The great power of allegory in the Middle Ages results from achievements were in this case put into the world, to make the fact that allegories were understood as vast metaphors, it a better one, by at least the seventeenth century. You are not little old Bunyan-like picture-language tricks. When we supporting the poetry of Edmund Spenser, John Milton, understand that, we read the great Spenser ian metaphors the religious poets of the late Middle Ages and the seven- as figures of our own state, and suddenly he is more beau- teenth century, the beautiful prose and the profoundly hu- tiful than he ever was and more gripping. mane ideas of Francis Bacon and John Donne and Sir Philip Sidney. BUT this is much too useful for my purposes as an ex- ample. Doing something of which I myself can see the There is even a sense in which we cannot "give" to moral and aesthetic uses, right in my own lifetime-that men of this size, who have done things of the magnitude doesn't take much devotion. The far more usual situation is and the loveliness that these have done. We announce our that scholars look up things they don't know the precise gratefulness that they in their day put all lower considera- usefulnes of either, just because they want to know them. tions in a lesser place, and served the things of the spirit. I would warn you, if I didn't think you knew it already And we try to make it possible for what they left to go on and acted on it, that this odd activity is what you have to in its centuries-long habitual way of enriching the lives of work your fingers to the bone getting money to give away those who read them. for. Your faith has to be in the great postulate that there are relations between things which it's good for us to find THERE is no paying for some things. You just give out, because in the great super-web of truth, especially his- money away, and hope that some of what you give wilJ torical truth (what did really happen and what was it keep the evils of impermanence from attacking the things like?), a knowledge of multitudinous relations will some- that are permanent and inviolable. For these things -can get time lead some to see pattern. hidden from men if they do not look out. The permanent things can get lost if no one takes care. To see that pattern, significance,what we call "meaning" -that is the end, in itself. Scholars in the fields I represent keep our past alive. And You can't sell a "meaning" in the market; yet you know it is true without a past a human race, like a human being, yourself that those moments when you have suddenly is a poor thin thing. Consider your own life, and see. Im- thought you came upon something of the significance of agine yourself confined to thoughts of your own thinking, life are precious beyond rubies. That is the human experi- religions of your own finding, symphonies of your own writing, language of your own inventing, landscapes of ence par excellence.
7 Your only safe emissary into that endless adventur~ of sponsible for the fire and for not curbing it, I .see some finding the things that sometime may lead to the me,anmgs evil in his violin, but by and large unless we dedicate our- is the curious person. He will be one who doesn t care selves to the principle that somebody has to keep on 'Ntt~ whether things are useful or not-he just wants to know. the violin instead of waiting till the fires are out, we won t He has a different definition of "useful"; a thing feels use- have any cities worth saving. "Life," naked a~d unquali- ful to him if it's something he can know for sure, He sim- fied, isn't valuable. What life? Beetles have life. So-- ply enjoys that. Scholars, and children, ~nd students, and artists aren't so "all-fired sure" of what IS useful as other Point i-Scholars, artists, writers, and intellectuals general- people in a society are. So this makes for struggles and ally are an annoyance to their society because they do what fights. looks useless, and may even prove to be so, who knows, If your faith is real, support them. would assume that this gr~up d~es not belong in that I cannot help interpolating that the support I should Isegment of our society which raises the old bogey of best like would be: produce some to carryon, The lack of "Ivory Tower." The scholar who doesn't live i~ an ivory devoted students is one of the major causes of inanition tower at least part of every day is likely to lose Sight of the in college faculties. They don't have anybody who values ideals that make him a thinker, and also to see no more than everyone else can see, down on the plain, of what life what they value. Who cares about helping a student to get can be. I should think most of you are anxious that at least a grade, to satisfy a parent? That is only, in Wordswor~it's professors in universities and colleges give your young peo- phrase, to become, as a teacher (that is, a senior student} ple some notion of what can be seen in and from the Tow- "the witless shepherd who persists to drive , , . A flock er of Ivory, some notion of what it means to transcend this that thirsts not to a pool disliked." I will not do it; I 1:.1Ie small and transitory life, how a man can get past being too much respect for my pooL It is a common compl.aut ; "confined and pestered in this pinfold here." "And be not we want students who don't want to get somewhere, \v110 conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the re- don't care what is thought of them, who simply Iik- to newing of your mind, that we may prove what is that good, study. Parents, and all early teachers, can produce the-m. and acceptable and perfect will of God." Without any, scholarship will die, and money will not save it. Who ever thought we could get at the true nature of I think myself that this is part and parcel of a larger the good by staying down in the rabbit-warren of what problem. The disinterestedness that produces scholars pro- looks to our century as if it would be useful? The man duces also the great humanitarians, the great helpers of with a real tower of ivory, whence he can evaluate truly others. It all comes out of the same root: a generous U11- some of the fake towers that fall so unexpectedly, doesn't self-centered vision of the thing outside one, from which need to go to a mental hospital to get over the shock of one stands to gain nothing-merely to pitch in and do seeing towers fall. It's the nature of non-ivory towers to what one was made to do. They used to put this more sim- fall. But their glory is that they copy the ivory ones. ply: Man is created for the glory of God. Is there some nobler end? So I take it tor granted that this group understands about the so-called "uselessness" of knowledge that doesn't look Point 2.-This kind of eccentric non-conformist behavior useful. And supports that knowledge against its detractors. annoys, in an acquisitive, materialistic, individualistic cul- But it can be very annoying when the intellectual, the ture like our own. . There is not much to wonder at in scholar and artist, has this seemingly irresponsible attitude the fact that the old friendship between Scholar and Stu- toward getting the work of the world done, You call her dent, between old enthusiast and young neophyte, is be- up to serve on a rummage-sale committee. "Oh, I haven't coming a thing we meet chiefly in memoirs. Friendship got time." This is part of the price. If society wants to see disregards age, but it does require common zeal to pursue farther than its own nose, it has to value and support those common ends, love of the same things. Scholars on cam- who "haven't got time" to do what looks like their duty, puses do not want disciples; they want co-workers, young because they are hell-bent on finding out what exactly minds who do not want to be told what to like and do, Abraham Fleming said about Virgil's Eclogues in his trans- but out of love for the same things pitch in to pursue truth lation of the mid 1500's, in their way.
Because although a great deal is made of old Nero fid- Not all the "faculty-student relations" busy work in the dling while Rome burned, it is essential that someone fid- world can produce this comradeship-and since most dles while cities burn. I grant you that if Nero were re- young students now ask a faculty member to be another
8 parent (to guide, reassure, help, cherish when bumped), Then along about 1955 the AAUW added their recog- the scholar backs off. This is not only because he thinks nition of his achievement by an award that honors his de- nineteen-year-olds should cherish their own bumps, or at votion and his poetry, among others of his time and craft. most ask it of each other. It is because he knows that only He needed no reward; he had it. We can give him noth- love of the subject will produce decent work. Love of the ing, can only recognize with gratitude what he gave us. For professor's approval produces nothing; an empty B here he did nothing for honor, his motives were the same time- and there. Because it is a veiled form of love-of-self. honored ones that are still the true motives of any scholar. I shall read them as Bacon said them, stating the false ones A scholar is only a student; he likes all true fellow-stu- and the true, the incomplete ones and the full: dents-those are whom he should like. He will nourish But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or mis- them in his bosom, feed them of his dish, and give them placing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have of his drink. The present tendency to ask him to nourish entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon everybody in his bosom, fellow-students or not, is only a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite-as if there were going to result in crowded bosoms, and no ewe lamb in sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit. Sometimes to entertain their minds with variety the end. and delight-a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect. Sometimes for ornament Point 3-Scholarship is the slowest form of productive and reputation, and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit work known to man. Nothing is more usual than that one and contradiction-as if there were sought in knowledge a tower throws the work of a year right down the drain. Not that of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or com- there isn't a residue; one of your ideas BUy have moved manding ground for strife and contention. And most times for lucre and profession-as of a shop for profit and sale. And sel- over from northwest to north-northwest. Besides, you en- dom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the joyed doing the work, so what matter if there are no re- benefit and use of men-for this is knowledge truly, a rich store- sults that show? But there is always a judge sitting ready house for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate. to say, after eight months of hard labor and giving up your This then is what I assume you and I honor tonight- swim and your dinner: "No. Not good enough. Probably nothing we possess or achieve, but something we know ex- not true. Scrap it." That judge is oneself. ists and have seen men die for in the past: knowledge, a storehouse of truth that attests to the glory of its creator, This sounds like frustration; it isn't at all. It is exhilarat- and that asks every student old or young to give account of ing. The pursuit which is the subject of this evening's ex- his gift of reason to the benefit and relief of man's estate. amination is the race Milton spoke of when he said he could not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexer- cised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her Relatives of Alumnae (continued from page 4) adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal Betty Jean Spaulding-Daughter of Dorothy Wheeler '33; garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. niece of Madelyn Wheeler '28; Sister of Carol Spauld- ing '57; Cousin to Priscilla Crim '47 Deborah Stern-Daughter of Charlotte Harburger ' 35 HENCE this kind of thoughtless spouting tonight is just Ann Stilson-Niece of Katherine Russell Loomis '30 not my kind of thing. I prefer dust and heat. I wish Linda Strassenmeyer-Sister to Carla Strassenmeyer '56 to run after the immortal garland-not to wear it, heaven Linda Travis-Daughter of Betty Patterson ex '32 forbid such presumption-just to run after it, and put one flower straight that might otherwise fall and get trampled. Melinda Vail-Sister to Nancy Vail ' 51 Judith Van Law-Daughter of Elizabeth Gordon '28; I have complete faith in the immortality of the garland, and in the value to mankind of those who do wear it. Cousin to Patricia Cate ex ' 53 Pamela Van Nostrand-Daughter of Jane Hunter Alexan- der '34 (deceased) Milton himself is one. He began to plan his greatest Suzanna Ward-Niece of Ruth Ward ex '40 epic in the early 1640's having trained himself to be such a Catherine Warne-Daughter of Catherine Fitzgerald '35 man as could write one, from about 1620 onward; he lived Marian Whitney-Sister to Carol Whitney '58 a full political life in Cromwell's commonwealth, blinded Karen Widder-Niece of Helen Lavietes '34 himself knowingly writing the Deiensia pro Populo Angli- Sylvia Wood-Sister to Aileen Wood '58 cano (the defense of the action of the English people in Sarah Cleaver '58-Daughter of Janette Warriner '31; bringing their kind to judgment), began the writing of his cousin to Ellen McCandless '24 epic poem, blind, continued it though meanwhile witness- ing the complete failure of all he had spent his political Dorothy Davis ' 59-Daughter of Dorothy Feltner' 30 Susanne Kent '58-Sister to Eleanor '50 and Barbara '54 life to bring about, and published it in 1667.
9 Members of the Executive Board of the Alumnae Association
EXECUTIVE BOARD members elected in necticut College Alumnae Fund, editor of MacNeil '40, ALUMNAE FUND Chair- May 1956 are: PRESIDENT, Agnes B. employees' magazine, G. Fox, Hartford. man for 1956-57, was three years, a staff Leahy '21, New York Personnel Director SECRETARY, Elizabeth Johnson Hume '30, member of Alumnae Office, working with of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Has been Peterborough, N. H., formerly social Alumnae Fund, active in volunteer club, president of the Alumnae Association, worker, now active in community affairs, class work. served two terms as Alumnae Trustee. mother of Freshman daughter. ALUMNAE TRUSTEE, Marion Nicbols Also pictured below: Roberta Newton Arnold '32, Skaneateles, N. Y, charter Appoimed: DIRECTOR, Mary Lee Blanchard '21, Alumnae Trustee; Alison member of Central N. Y. Club, organized Minter Goode '46, Chevy Chase, Md. (to Jacobs Mcbride '34, Director. On Board, Alumnae Council on campus. DIRECTORS: fill unexpired term of Frances Westbrook but not pictured: i st Vice President Mar- Eli,,'),. HUl/keN Torpey '24, New York, '48) active in Washington club. Edna garet Royall Hinck '33, 2nd Vice President long-time president of '24, Director of Smith Thistle ex '26, FINANCE COM- Margaret Kerr Miller '41, Treasurer Carol league of Women Voters, N. Y. City, MITTEE Chairman for 1956-7, served in L. Chappell '41, Alumnae Trustee Natalie mother of Janet '56. Artemis BleJJiJ ReI- same capacity last year, active in New Jer- R. Maes '41, Kathryn Moss, Executive maeer '50, chairman for two years of Con- sey Club, in class work. Frances Baratz Secretary.
Roberta l3l(/!/chard Marion Arnold
, i ~;;;;II Agnes B. Leahy
Frances lHdcNeil JHtll"Y Lee Goode
Edna Thistle Artemis Ramaker Elinor Torpey AliJOIl Aft-Bride 10 REPORT OF TREASURER CAROL L. CHAPPELL Connecticut College Aumnae Association July 1, 1955 Through June 30, 1956
1955-1956 RECEIPTS Individuals Non-Alum. Clubs Classes Unrestricted $24,351.05 $575.00 $ 3,292.81 $1,225.00 Restricted 100.00 725.00 S.A.C Scholarship. 200.00 1,585.32 Refunds 152.98 Memorial 268.50 $24,551.05 $575.00 $ 4,978.13 $2,371.48- $32,475.66 DISBURSEMENTS Salaries and taxes $11,252.77 Alumnae Fund Printing . 620.60 Postage . 191.00 Envelopes . 166.82 Cuts 17.87 996.29 News Printing .... 3,207.47 Mailing 130.11 Cuts, photos 303.61 Envelopes 368.52 Salaries 500.00 4,509.71 Travel Tickets 744.00 Hotels 157.01 Meals 99.94 1,000.95 Operating Expenses Supplies ...... 653.34 Tel. and Tel. 448.52 Postage 853.69 Printing. 594.97 Dues & Registration . 92.50 Petty Cash 80.00 Blue Cross. 88.00 Vis. Meals 48.75 Express 24.99 Xmas. 15.00 Flowers 15.00 Magazine Subscription 3.00 2,917.76 Equipment and Maintenance. 569.99 21,247.47 11,228.19 Restricted to class of 1958 and paid .. 25.00 Restricted to College and paid 262.50 Paid to College-Special Alumna gift. 75.00 362.50 362.50 Balance in Checking Account. ~10,865.69 SAVINGS ACCOUNTS K. Blunt Fellowship Fund...... $ 422.13 Revolving Fund 20,000.00 RESERVE FUNDS Bank Interest 793.07 U nex. budget past years ... 3,684.17 Retirement 669.00 Bonding 50.00 9'57.02 Depree. & Equip. Respectfully submitted, 118.52 Contingency ..... Carol 1. Chappell, Treasurer 11 REPORT BY CLASSES
ALUMNAE FUND CAMPAIGN FOR 1955 - 56, REPORT AS OF JUNE 30. 1956
ARTEMIS BLESSIS RAMAKER '50, Chairman
Number of Contributors ...... 2,330 Percentage of Contributors ...... 50% Average gift per individual alumna (grad.) ...... $10.55
Number Grad. Non-Grad. % % Number in Contnb- Contrib- Contnb- Rank Amount Class urors utors utors 1919 62 33 5 53% 9 $ 376.50 1920 64 28 3 43% 19 468.00 1921 39 23 3 59% 3 397.00 1922 39 22 1 56% 6 224.00 1923 83 43 4 51% 11 629.00 1924 . 83 33 1 39% 27 558.00 1925 65 29 4 44% 16 1042.00 1926 75 45 4 60% 2 803.05 1927 101 39 4 38% 28 586.00 1928 125 47 3 37% 32 562.50 1929 98 34 5 34% 36 310.00 1930 105 40 6 38% 29 485.00 1931 128 57 8 44% 15 1114.50 1932 112 60 7 53% 8 740.50 1933 108 46 4 42% 22 471.25 1934 114 41 4 36% 33 668.14 1935 111 43 5 38% 30 411.00 1936 130 51 9 39% 25 774.50 1937 136 45 6 33% 37 665.50 1938 129 54 5 41% 23 636.00 1939 126 53 6 42% 21 572.00 1940 146 63 8 43% 17 788.50 1941 154 82 12 53% 7 1030.11 1942 157 72 15 46% 14 856.84 1943 138 90 18 65% 1 931.66 1944 121 64 14 52% 10 642.00 1945 151 86 20 56% 5 1112.50 1946 171 81 11 47% 13 702.50 1947 154 61 10 39% 26 610.00 1948 180 72 9 40% 24 688.50 1949 190 67 10 35% 34 682.50 1950 189 71 16 37% 31 662.00 1951 152 89 10 58% 4 831.00 1952 184 63 11 34% 35 563.00 1953 152 64 9 42% 20 557.00 1954 150 65 8 43% 18 598.50 1955 138 65 15 47% 12 772.00 1956x 6 27.00 Total 2029 301 $24.551.05 First Ten Classes in Rank 1 1943 6 1922 2 1926 7 1941 3 1921 8 1932 4 1951 9 1919 ...... 5 1945 10 ...... 1944
12 STATEMENT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE
Edna Smith Thistle, Chairman
The following budget was presented to the Alumnae Association and adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Association on June 9, 1956.
BUDGET FOR 1956-1957 SALARIES 3 full-time secretaries $11,500.00 Part-time help 500.00 Social Security . 225.00 Retirement 690.00 $12,915.00
ALUMNAE NEWS Printing, postage, etc. 4,100.00 Editorial help 400.00 4,500.00
TRAVEL 1,500.00 1,500.00
OPERATING EXPENSES Supplies 400.00 Telephone and telegraph 325.00 Printing and postage 1,200.00 AAC dues .. 50.00 AAC Conferences .. 75.00 President's Fund. 150.00 Blue Cross. 120.00 Miscellaneous 280.00 2,600.00
ALUMNAE FUND Printing and postage 900.00 Envelopes 175.00 Cuts 50.00 Supplies .. 10.00 Emergency...... 115.00 1,250.00
CONTINGENCY FUND . 1,185.00 1,185.00
ACCRUED ITEMS Depreciation 1,000.00 Bonding .... 50.00 1,050.00
TOTAL BUDGET $25,000.00
The following recommendations were presented by the Finance Committee to the Executive Board at a brief meeting held June 9, 1956, and were adopted as recommended:
1. The purchase of an addressograph machine to cost approximately $2,000.00. 2. The refurbishing of the Alumnae Office at an expenditure of not more than $250.00. 3. The Finance Chairman be directed to inquire about insurance which the college may or may not carryon the contents of the Alumnae Office. In the event it is not pro- vided, it is recommended that adequate coverage be secured and paid for from Alumnae funds.
13 Summary of Total Receipts of 1955-56 Alumnae Fund Campaign, July I, 1956
Unrestricted Unrestricted A. F. College Use Scholarship Books S. A. C. Totals I. INDIVIDUALS Special alumna gift 75.00** Special alumna gift 200.00 $24,276.05 Totals 24,276.05 75.00 200.00 $24,551.()j 2. MEMORIALS ~. Col::"'n A,m~~cong'48 6.00 262.50** 26R.',C) Charlotte Tracy Browning '25 75.00 (Included in Unres. A. F. Total) 3. CLASSES 1926 250.00 1927 400.00 1928 300.00 1931 700.00* 1945 450.00 1946 200.00 1947 3011.00* 1948 250.00 Class of '30 75.00 (To be added to Reunion gift made in 1954) Receipts of June 1956 Reunion Exp. 152.98
Totals 852.98 450.00 1,775.00 3,077.98 4. CLUBS COLORADO-Denver 100.00 CONNECTICUT-Fairfield 50.000/< Hartford 225.00 425.00 Meriden-Wallingford 25.00 New London 250.00 360.32 MASSACHUSETTS-Boston 400.00 Springfield 100.00 NEW JERSEY-Bergen County. 250.00 Central New Jersey 100.00 New Jersey 55.00 NEW YORK-New York City 1,000.00 Westchester 400.00 700.00 OHIO Cincinnati 200.00 Cleveland 150.00 WASHINGTON, D C. 100.00 WISCONSIN-Milwaukee 137.81 Totals $3,292.81 50.00 1,612.32 100.00 5,028.1 :>, 5. ALUMNAE SCHOLARSHIP 650.00* 650.00 6. NON.ALUMNAE Mary Taft 500.00 Mildred Levering 25.00 Gaisman Foundation 50.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. Mayers 25.00* John Wiley & Sons 15.00* Totals $550.00 40.00 25.00 615.00 TOTALS $28,971.84 $615.00 $2,435.32 $268.50 $1,900.00 TOTAL ALUMNAE FUND RECEIPTS 1955·56.. $34,190.66
* Sent directly to College by donor . 1,740.00 * *Paid to College by Alumnae Fund when received 337.50 Total Alumnae Fund Receipts, 1955-56 $34,190.66 Payment to College for unrestricted College uses $4,421.84 Payment to College for restricted College uses 2,691.32
7,113.16 Sent directly to College Donor. by 1,740.00 Paid to College when received by Alumnae Fund 337.50
Cash gift for 1955-56 of Alumnae Fund to College. 9,190.66 Alumnae Association Budget 25,000.00
TOTAL RECEIPTS $34,190.66
14 1921 Class Notes CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Ruth Bassett, (Ruth McCollum), Mansfield Depot, Conn. Editor of Class Notes: Mrs. Huber Clark (Marioo Vibert '24) Born: to Bob and Harriet Bassett Mac- East Main Street, Stockbridge, Mass. Gregor '51, a third child, first son, Wil- liam Robert III, May 19, Cambridge, Mass. The baby is the first grandson of Ruth 1919 Iy enjoying. Sally is active in the Evans- McCollum Bassett. ton Junior League and is secretary for the COltRI!SPONDENT: Mrs. Enos B. Comstock Chicago Chapter of CC Alumnae. Since Fred has been transferred to White (Juline Warner), 176 Highwood Ave., Plains, N. Y., he and Gladys Beebe Mil- Leonia, N. J. A letter from [essie Menzies Lace brought the surprising news that she and lard have sold their home in Short Hills, From green Vermont comes news of Phil have moved to Petersburg, Pa., where N. ]., and are househunting in the West· J{lli~ Hatch, who writes, "I am feeling Phil is working with the Allied Chemical chester area. Daughter, Eunice, married, really settled and happy in the liveliest and Dye Co. in Hopewell, Va. It wasn't with one child, is with her service husband ~t:lte there is. After war-torn Germany and easy to pull up stakes in New Rochelle but in Williamsburg, va. Son, Lucian, a frenzied Miami, I hankered nostalgically they are making new friends and enjoy- Worcester Poly tech '53 graduate, has com- for New England and feel Vermont and ing a one-story house with no attic to fill pleted his army service and is now with Burlington are just right. I like the job with hoardings. Their daughter Marion GE in Erie, Pa, at the Vermont Children's Aid, love the Butler '49, her husband and two small fry In March I enjoyed a southern motor scenery, and have bought me a little left Japan early in May to fly to Hawaii, trip with Ella, her husband and cousin, house in the country with a gorgeous view thence to California where they picked up visiting Charlotte, N. c., Williamsburg, of the Green Mountains." a car and drove across country to Virginia. Va., Monticello, historic places of Civil lrma Hnrzler, with Marelldd Prentis, met When jessie wrote, she was eagerly wait- War, and Washington, D. C. Julie at the National Conference of Social ing to see those babies, the younger one Work in St. Louis the last of May. Julie 1922 having been born in Japan. They will be was to spend a week with her niece Barb- stationed in Philadelphia now, near home. CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. David H. Yale ara and three children near St. Louis. Mar- Jess tells me that J. O. Brockett Hjort ex (Amy Peck), Box 146, Station A, Meriden, ion. the other niece, has two daughters. '19 and her doctor husband have moved Conn. Irma sees Mdl'ion Rogers Nelson often and to Lebanon, N. ]., where they have bought Our reunion chairman, Marjorie Smith, reports that Marion's son is being trans- a charming little house with delightful is busy making plans for reunion next ferred from Troy to Cleveland the first of views from every window. year. Ruth Bacon Wickwire plans to be July, Irma and her sister are staying at the Mildred Howard attended some college with us at that time, her first trip to reun- beach and "can't wait to get down evenings. professional meetings at Lake Geneva, ion. Ruth is' in East Berlin for the sum- We make the most of our week-ends there," Wis" early in June, after which she and mer, she and Grant aand Mother Wickwire "be adds. a friend went on a motor trip through living in Katie's house for two months, She With the closing of school, the Warner Wyoming and Colorado. Miff saw Helen is having a chance to baby-sit with her sisters (except Marion, who is in Salt Lake Gage Carter recently when Helen was en two granddaughters and grandson. Ruth's City) will probably be reuniting with route home after visiting in Vermont. Miff son, Franklin, received his M.A. in history Mother at the family home in Beacon Falls. also sees Judy Warner '23, as Judy is from Indiana University this June, and is 1920 working at Smith College. working with Katie's husband on the farm Poncbon Hartman Title goes to the Girl this summer, before starting work on his CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. J. B. Cooper (Mar- Scout Senior Roundup in Michigan this doctor's degree at Yale in September. garet Davies), P. O. Box 135, West Lawn, Reading, Penn. summer, where it will be her job to su- Gertrude Treurig keeps quite busy with The grandmother's club is happy to pervise the feeding of some 4,000 Girl school and family but "did manage a fly- welcome Betty Rumney Poteat as its new- Scouts. ing trip through the West Indies at Christ- est member. Daughter Sally, Mrs. Daniel Alice Horrax Schell and Fred moved into mas" and loves the Islands for a vacation DuHammel, had a daughter, Elizabeth, on their new home in a blizzard in March. spot. May 13, Mother's day, and Betty and John The cold, wet spring has meant no lawn, Alice Hager Schoffstall tells of her job are proud grandparents. Betty came on no garden, no driveway, but they love the at the library, Her son Peter came home from Louisville to see the baby and help place anyway and it sounds most attractive, from the service in December. Al says Polly's father died last Christmas day. Re- Sally. Our son Jim has finished his freshman This year's graduating class at CC in- year at Ursin us College and gone to Beach cently Al talked with Mid White when cludes Lucinda, Dorothy Stelle Stone's Haven for a summer job. Bennett and I Mid was in \Xfoodstock. Marje had a note from Lucy McDannel daughter, and Elizabeth, daughter of Alice are looking forward to the annual visit and one from Ann Slade Frey, Ann has the Crawford Gardner. Dottie writes that Lib- from Eynon and the three grandchildren. by is truly her mother's daughter with po- As I write this, Bennett is knee deep in same reason for missing reunions that Ruth has-commencement at the college where etry in her fingertips. We all remember strawberries and the garden is beginning to they are located-and she also has grand- AI's poetry. Lucinda received a fellowship grow after the cold weather we had this children who "begin showing up early in for graduate study at Mills College in spring. June." I wish my grandsons could-from Berkeley, Calif. Dottie's son, Wadsworth, The sincere sympathy of the class is ex- and his wife, Sally How Stone '49, have a few weeks this past winter. California. Helen Tryon wrote at length about her new home in Northbrook, Ill., which they tended to Joan MU1lro Odell, whose two summer project, after a word about four and small daughter, Suzanna, are thorough- brothers and a sister-in-law died within a
15 feet of snow at Easter at the farmhouse Helene IVulf KJlup keeps her interest fire research and the training of psych i- in Rowe, Mass., which she and Bertbn Cha- in CC doings. She was one of three judges atrists and allied professions. She keeps her pin bought a few years ago. They have re- chosen to select the recipient of the Ben- own apartment and spends frequent week- modeled and "now have a lovely colonial jamin T. Marshall Prize for the best poem ends commuting to New Haven to look homestead and from July first through la- submitted in 1956. after her mother, bor Day operate a summer guest house, Katherine Stolle Leavenworth took time Elizabeth JVigfall Root's son is home, Rainbow Hill, tucked away in the northern out from her busy schedule to take a long discharged from the service. She finds that Berkshires overlooking Adams Mountain, planned automobile trip with her husband gardening in Fieldston and Wo",·is Hole just off the Mohawk Trail, where you can to visit Washington and surrounding where they spend their summers 'has its treat yourself to all the pleasures of your points of interest. The Leavenwortbs were rewards and helps keep the avotrdupois own home in the country with none of the able to indulge their hobbies of photogra- down", Lucille If/iuke Morgan'r -uughter worries." A new Atomic Energy plant is phy and bird study. Tony still plays the has a daughter 21 months old. I: __r son is being built in Rowe, "will put the town organ for church services and occasional back at the University of Conn. mer go- on the map." Helen and Bertha put on 11 weddings, as well as teaching piano. ing around the world on a destr. rver dur- special Easter service for the children of 1 To celebrate their silver wedding an- ing his intervn l with Uncle Sam. l.u :e still the town, complete with a 14 foot cross, niversary in June '55, Marion Page French works six full days a week in a dl(',~shop spotlighted, and recorded music on a loud- and her husband enjoyed a trip through Il- -"would like to do something different speaker that could be heard for more than linois and parts of the middle west, then and interesting". a mile. The service itself was Sunday on into Ontario. Marion has a second My family is back at the usual summer School in the morning, and after it, Helen granddaughter and her son Alden became occupations - - gardening on the Choate es- served buns and cocoa in the house and engaged last September. Son Robert en- tate for Huber, cutting grass de. for a gave each a colored egg and jelly beans. listed in the Army, graduated from Fi- keep- Stockbridge-beautiful association for Olive Tuthill Reid has been in New nance School and now has an office job Larry, ordinary housework for me. Dave is London frequently this past year, for her at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. working in Cincinnati; Gordon is a. Marine daughter, Patricia Reid Dinsmore, ex '48, Emily Slaymaker Leitb-Ross writes, "My at Camp Lejeune; Barbara is busy with lives in a new development called Farm- husband and 1 spent last summer in Utah young Jan, the survivor of twin daughters stead, off Vauxhall Extension, about a half- where Tony taught painting at the summer born Apr. 27, I visited late in May when mile west of the college. Pat's husband, Lt. sessions at the Univ. of Utah in Salt Lake Jan came home from the hospital incu- R. P. Dinsmore, has been teaching at the City and at the College of Southern Utah, bator, and had more fun helping 'with her. Academy for the past three years. In Jan- Cedar City. I attended two classes at the u:uy Pat's fourth child was born. One University, TV writing technique and ad- Sunday Olive and Kirk and the two grand- 1925 vanced acting. They were really tough and daughters went into Bolleswood "where Correspondent, Mrs. Edmund J Bernard I worked harder than I ever did in college! one adult (guess which one) and the grand- (Mary Auwood), 849 Glenview Road, I got a lot out of them, though I have no children slid on the ice where the students Glenview, Ill. plans for turning pro. We drove both ways" were skating," Olive's son lives in Wickliffe carrying an entire water color exhibition of At Alumnae Council, '25 was repre- Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, and works Tony's work on top of the car. Last winter sented by Grace Bennett NU1Ieen, who pre- for General Motors. He has two boys. we went to St. Augustine, Fla. for a brief sided as president of the Alumnae Associ- 1923 painting trip and got home just in time for ation; Betsy Allen as class agent; Catberine CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Harold C. Bailey the blizzard. Otherwise the winter was Calbonn as class councillor; and Cberloue (Helen B. Avery), 274 Steele Road, West spent working for the LWV and taking a Frisch Gadock as class president. Grace's Hartford 5, Conn, crack at adapting one of our original musi- husband, John Nuveen, was a member of cal comedies to TV with my collaborator. the panel discussion on Friday night. Since Two grandsons at once came as a happy Last but not least, I'm sitting on the edge that time" because of the pressure of per- surprise to Katbryn IVilcox McCollum and of my chair waiting any minute to be called sonal affairs, Grace has found it necessary her husband when daughter Betty Anne to Chicago to celebrate the advent of my to resign from the presidency. gave birth to identical twins, Henry Me- first grandchild:' Dougal Neilley, jr.. and Gregory Scott Neil- [anet Goodrich Dressers grandson, Allen ley. The Neilleys outgrew their New York Our very deep sympathy goes to Alice Frederick Ape!, was born Nov. 1, 1955, apartment overnight and are Jiving tempor- Holcombe on the loss of her mother, the son of Joan Dresser and George Apel. arily with the McCollums, Kay says, "It is Mrs. Harriet 1. Holcombe, in March and Allen and his mother are waiting navy so much fun and I love every minute of her brother-in-law in January, orders so they can be with his dad. it. I'll miss them when Mac and I go to 1924 Catherine Calhoun had just returned Bermuda in July where we have rented a from a 7500 mile trip to California when house for a few weeks," CORRESPONDENT, Mrs, Huber A. Clark the floods came to Connecticut and she was [eannett e Smiderl and declares that she (Marion Vibert ), Box 578, Stockbridge, involved in Red Cross work, answering "is not making any news." However, she Mass. some 5,000 telephone inquiries and some did attend the Conn. Library Association Ann Rogoff Cohen and Sarah Gordon 3,000 telegraph inquiries. meeting at Norwich in May, stayed over- Hahn caught up on back news in New Cborloue Beckwith Crane has finished a night at the Norwich Inn and on the way London not long ago. Ruth W'exler, reo two year term as president of the Woman's drove around the campus at CC which she turned to the U.S., is psychiatric social Club of Larchmont, "a wonderful exper- found a lovely spot as always. She saw worker at the Eastern Penna. Psychiatric ience and in effect a full-time job." She Rheta Clark and Dot Cramer '24 at the Institute, a new state hospital soon to open and her husband Perry hope to spend as meeting. for 300 patients, whose primary purposes much time as they can at their new·old
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r home in New Hampshire, an early 19th sessions a week in return for the privilege 1928 century house they are in the process of of being able to send my patients to the CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. W. Edward Frazer restoring. Their son Tim is finishing his hospital for care. I began with the title of (Eleanor Wood) 734 Clarendon Rd., Nar- Assistant in Medicine to the outpatient first year at Dartmouth and works during berth, Pa. the summer as a councilor at a boys' camp department and have gradually worked up A most successful reunion was enjoyed in Maine. to Associate Attending to the New York by all thirty-one "girls" from Friday until Thelma Burnham returned from a trip Hospital, the appointment which has just Sunday when peace was again restored to to Bermuda and attended a meeting in been made. On Jan. 1, 1955, I took over East House where we stayed. Ably planned Boston of the National Secretaries' Asso- the job of Director of Medicine at the and run by Elmo Ashton Decherd, as- dation. While in Boston, Thelma phoned New York Infirmary." sisted by Peg Briggs Noble, 'Grace Bige- "tlen McGrath and [ene Nevers. Jane was Since last October I have been dividing low Churchill, Made/ille Wheeler Chase, handicapped by a broken leg. my time between Connecticut and New with entertainment provided by Benv Gor- Aileen Fowler Diee's son Gordon is York. For two weeks in May I was the don V;m Law, Edna Somers and Pat Tour- -cirh the air corps and present in Green- house guest of Helen Ferguson and we son Moeller, reunion was worth attending. !.,:td for a special assignment. He re- rode daily from the college stables over the On Friday evening the classes of '27 and temperatures around 20 below in bridle paths that have been made since "our r-orrcd '28 had a joint buffet supper at Wil- May. Aileen is still teaching English to day." They extend for miles on either side liams Memorial Institute with delicious veniors at Windsor, Conn., High School. of the Norwich Road and down to the food. Then '28 held a class meeting in river. From Connecticut 1 drove to Scar. Dorothy Kilbourn is home from a won- the living room at East House. Madeline boro, Ontario, near Toronto for a few .Ie-rful Mediterranean cruise. Margaret lVbeeler Cbase was elected president, HOll- days with my cousin, and then back to 11- Ewing Hoag reports that Alice Garrett ey Lou Owens Rogers, vice president and linois. Haag was married to Paul M. Bator, June our next reunion chairman, Betty Gordon 2. They will be living in Washington, as 1926 V!III Law, secretary-treasurer, and I, class Paul is, clerk for Justice Harlan. Nancy correspondent. Saturday we took part in Hoeg Blanchet has four children and is CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Frank A. Boehler the Class Day parade, after attending an living in Washington where her husband, (Margaret F. Ebsen}, 3299 Hudson Boule- alumnae picnic given by the trustees. Jeremy, is in the State Department. Mar- vard, Jersey City 7, N. J. HOlley Loti Owens Rogers read a very ti" Hoag Myer with two children is living Eighteen of us returned for our 30th re- amusing poem she had written concerning in Cambridge, her husband being an archi- union. On Friday night there was, an im- the privileges extended to Miss Park upon tect with Stubbins, Inc. promptu dinner at the Picadilly in New becoming an honorary member of our Sally Crawford Maschal's daughter, Sara London and then we returned to East alumnae association. Miss Sherer, sponsor jane and her husband Dr. Lewis Eldon House for a get-together with the latest ar- of our class, attended our banquet on the Sullivan, who received his M.D. in May rivals. Saturday morning breakfast in East roof garden of the Mohican Hotel. Ed1ld from New York Medical College Flower House started off with Lorena Perry Tay- Somers dressed in a white bunny fur coat and Fifth Avenue Hospital, are on a leis- lor's generous and delicious gift of or- announced an unusual fashion show mod- ULe1y motor trip from Connecticut to San anges. The SWHIFFS entertained us with eled by members of our class. The dresses Francisco where he will interne at St. songs at the Alumnae meeting. Helen and hats from the era of the '20's were Mary's Hospital. Sa11y'& son has finished Hood Dieiendori's daughter Gretchen '58 hysterical. his third year at Dartmouth. One after- is a member of that excellent group. An From the 72 questionnaires returned, noon while I was visiting my relatives in overheard comment, "Ed Sullivan should Peg Briggs reported we have 60 married, Norwalk, Sally came for tea from her have them on his program." Next was 12 single; 25 boys and 30 girls among the home in neighboring Westport. the Trustees' picnic where we mingled children; 2 boys and 2 girls among the Much to the delight of Cberloue Lang with other classes and were delighted to grandchildren and 3 boys and 2 girls step- grandchildren. Our classmates have acquired Carroll, Hazel Osborn '26, who is in the meet again some of the faculty members 18 advanced degrees in many different graduate school at the University of Chi- that we had the privilege of studying with. fields. Roberta Bit good lWiersma acquired C2g0, spends a bit of time with her on _ We were the oldest returning class this three, M.az., M.S.M., and S. Mu/D. week ends. year and therefore led the Class Day pro- Hilda Van HOr/! Rickel/baugh flew from On June 9, Cbavloue Frisch Garlock en- cession decked out 10 red and white Denver, Colo., and said it was worth the tertained 24 for dinner, a school board af- shoulder sashes with numeral '26. The trip. Mary Dunning McCollnell came from fair, her husband Robert being a trustee class banquet at the Mohican had been ar- Laramie, Wyo., to see us and to visit her on the board. The next day they went to ranged by Marg!lret Smith Hall and Jessie family. Peg Bell Bee drove with her moth- New Haven for Bob Jr.'s graduation from lP;Jliams Kohl and included a wonderful er from Florida. She is working as social Yale, and on the following day Bob Jr. memorabilia of pictures, play programs and hostess in Vermont this summer. left with the Yale Glee Club for a coun- other items recalling our campus activities The class of '28 extends its sympathy to try wide tour. Peter 17, whose graduation during four college years. Next morning the family of Emma LOll Dickey Zabuiser, followed Bob's, enters Yale in September. a farewell breakfast in Thames Hall and the end of another perfect CC weekend. Jr., who died last fall. Parks McCombs, M. D., says in a CC As Leontine Oakes Rogers ex '26 said, "I publication, "In the fall of 1930 I began 1929 have been back for every reunion and working at the old Cornell Clinic seeing wouldn't miss one for anything." CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. George 1. Langreth patients and teaching medical students as- (Faith Grant), 1024 Martha Ave., Pitts- signed there for clinical work. At New A special 1926 news letter was com- burgh 28, Penn .. York Hospital-Cornell I have worked in piled by Prances Green from the question- Adeline McMiller Stevens will be going the clinics since 1930, giving from to five naires and sent to class members.
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back to a college campus for a few days in to fly to Bermuda again this year to watch tute teaching in Math last fall, taking the June-but to Kent State University where the boats come in and be there for the job with the understanding it would be her P.E.O. chapter is entertaining the state festivities but an unexpected hospital trip for a few weeks only and ending up by convention. Ad is busy keeping up with and operation have made it necessary for teaching the whole semester. the activities of her two sons Tom 16 and me to quiet my tempo these weeks. A recent phone call from Cbarlone Nix- Bill 12 plus a few of her own-garden on Prigge revealed that while she was vis- club, church, and P.E.O. 1930 iting Williamsburg, Va. last spring, she Margaret Mahan Jones keeps on the CORRESPONDENT, Marjorie Ritchie, 95 saw Ruth Smith Heartfield, ex '32. move these days, from Exeter, N. H" to Myrtle St., Shelton, Conn. While in Swampscott at a bankers' con- teaching at St. Agnes School, Albany, this Ruth Harrison Street's daughter Sally, a vention I talked with Janet Rothwell Way. winter and just now has completed other junior at the Low-Heywood School in Her June was married last fall and is liv- temporary work at the Montgomery Rose Stamford, met Dr. Cobbledick and Miss ing in Kansas. Her son Dick goes to Gardens in Hadley, Mass. Her children Noyes at a tea for prospective students and Bucknell in the fall. are mostly grown up and all away, an old- has applied for admission to CC in '57, Pree Moore Brown writes: "My chief er daughter married and in New Hamp- Ruth spent a weekend with Helene Som- problem is running the Golden Age Club shire, a son who will enter the Univ. of ers Millar who has built a charnming house Mass. in the fall, and a son 12 a cadet at the YW-135 members to be kept hap- in Garden City where she lives with her in the Junior School at Kawston Military py two days each week winter and sum- son 13, a student at St. Paul's. Their pets mer with programs, crafts, service activities Academy in Virginia. are cats, parakeets, ducks and a dachshund. and refreshments." Steven, who is a sen- Jean Hamlet Dudley s news came to me Helene is busy in community affairs, golf, ior in high school, has ben installed in the in the Dudley Doings Xmas newspapers bridge, and teaching a class in painting. National Honor Society, He and freshman of 1954 and 1955. Jean says their life is Mary Clauss Gescheider's son George 19 Duncan are both very active in all school becoming a saga of moves, 1954 at Nep- is a sophomore at Denison University, and activities. tune Beach, Fla., where Dud was district her daughter 17 was graduated from high manager for Atlantic Refining Co. was With the next issue Marion Arnold is school in June. Although there is no CC both a good and a bad year-starting with taking over as correspondent. I have been chapter in New Haven, Ruth Brown says the loss of jean's beloved father; then swamped. I was chairman of this year's hello to Betty Capron and called on Boe- many busy months filled with the chilo Red Cross campaign, co-chairman of last lyn [eralds Moss who is in charge of the dren's ( Lucinda, Harry and Jonathan) year's combined Boy and Girl Scout drive, Cheshire Library, In May Ruth, who is at doings, music, scouts and community ac- aand I'm still finance chairman of the lat- the Yale Library, made a trip to Vassar tivities; and ending with first Jean and ter and a member of the membership nom- and Hyde Park, a combination library then Dud in the hospital. 1955 saw a inating committee. As vice-president of the meeting and pleasure jaunt. Elizabeth Av- move back to North Carolina. At the close Holyoke Hospital Aide Association I'm ery Hat! and family are in a new parish, of school, after long and exhausting house- heading a committee to make 1000 pup. Blauvelt, a newly developing community hunting, they located a 5Y2 acre wooded pets for the children's ward, and I work in the suburban area of New York, farm at Cornelius, N, C. For nil it was a in the Coffee Shop. As a director of the Community Chest, I'm on the budget com- difficult move; for Jean leaving her Cub 1932 Scouts was heartbreaking. But now the mittee and although, obviously, I've been Dudleys are happy among their new and CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Donald P. Cooke a sustaining member for several years, J old friends aand Lucinda has her long de- (Hortense Alderman), 130 Woodbridge occasionally do something for the Junior sired y-gaited chestnut mare. St., South Hadley, Mass. League. My home and garden have suf- fered to the point where I am now saying The end of May, Frances Fenton Mac- l\1m·ioll Nichols An/old has been "No", When time permits I take on a Murtrie and her husband went to their elected an Alumnae Trustee for a term of paying job, usually of a statistical nature. beach home in Fairfield, Conn., for the five years and has been appointed to the I do manage to get around with Don in season. Last February they sold their mod- Arboretum, Library and College and Alum- pursuit of classic cars, either with or with- ern house of the last five years and moved nae Relations committees, As "Keeper of out our Packard, for which we have now to a colonial further out of the village of the Scrapbook," Marion is to send cards secured all missing parts. Jf all goes well, Westport. suggesting that you start to try to get pic- we hope that by June, 1957, it will have tures of yourselves and your families so Our David has just finished his fresh- a spanking new paint job. It was loaned that we can have a complete fill-in for man year at Yale and much to our delight, this year to a friend for her 25th at our 25th reunion scrapbook. In the April was a ranking scholar. He is working this Smith. summer at the Jones and Laughlin Experi- issue of "Look" Robert and his Microd ap- peared among others in a story of Skane- mental Lab, Sue and Jane were buried all 1933 year in the many activities of busy fifteen- ateles activity. The Arnolds were in the year-old sophomores. Ann goes to junior New Bedford area for two weeks in Au- CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. William T. Brown high next fall. All three girls will soon gust while Brad was on active army re- (Marjorie Fleming), 38 Nearwater Lane, serve duty. leave for eight weeks of camp on Lake Darien, Conn. Dr. Robert and Mabel Barnes Knau!' s Champlain. George has just left to go in While most of the class of '33 seem to the biannual race to Bermuda. He races daughter Virginia plans an October wed- lead lives of marked similarity, though in on the Carina II, the yacht that won the ding, scattered communities, each of us being in- Newport to Sweden Race, the Fastnet John and jHary Butler Melcher's archi- volved in scout work, hospital and other Race, the Brittanica Cup Race and others tect son was married in September to a volunteer work, plus a few cultural pur- off England last summer. I had intended Los Angeles girl. Mary did some substi- suits, and never forgetting the taxiing of
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our children thither and yon, gardening, Miriam Greil Poezsner' J son John 14 to school the second time (with the chil- etc., Muriel Schlosberg Webb ventures and daughter Laurie 13, with community dren ) much harder than the first time. At farther afield. She writes, "I have been activities, keep her busy. Last summer she this point what I have forgotten seems to writing a manuscript for the National went to Hawaii and before that had had be much more than what I remember." Council of Churches on 'The Churches and trips to Europe and South America. Her son Jimmy 8 is an eager Cub Scout. Libbie has an annual trip east and always Social Welfare', and have just finished it. Harriet Isberioood Power is busy with sees Helen Leuieses Krosnice. Lib and her My work is with the National Council of three daughters, 3, 9, and 11, Brownies, husband Seymour celebrated their 15th the Episcopal Church as Associate to the chauffering and church activities. Director of Christian Social Relations. Our wedding anniversary with a Caribbean work includes the national programs of Eleanor Hine Krenz finds news scarce cruise. Health and Welfare Services; Christian but reports that the first of her brood, Lucille Austin Cutler's daughter Ann is Citizenship; Urban-industrial work; and John 16, has left home for Salisbury taking a medical technician's course at School in Connecticut. The whole family Resettlement of Refugees (about 3,500 of Michigan State Univ. Ted, who has one tbem ): For this, J go into the national is hoping for a summer at Martha's Vine- more year of high school, has been chosen headquarters in New York and on occa- yard without hurricanes. to go to Boys' State twice. Carol is finish- sional field trips for conferences. The other Ruth [ones IPentworth came east last ing 5th grade. four days I take care of my husband and year with her two children, Nancy 16 and Anne Shewell has been home this year two children, Celia 18 and Robert, Jr. 15." Sam 13, for Ruth's 25th school reunion. except for a trip to the West Indies with -"lcmha Sui man Ribner' s son Bob is They stopped in Washington on their way her father. She does a little volunteer graduating from high school this year and home. Nancy is one of the Senior Scouts nursery school clinic work and Red Cross is going to college to major in business selected to represent their Council at the work. administration. Her daughter Joanne is Senior Roundup in Michigan this year. Anne wrote that on May 13 she read of 16. Martha is busy with community work. Ruth works in scouting too. the death of julia Anne McVey Rolfe, Sophia Gordon Coyne just had a baby girl, Dottie Leer Saylor' J twin girls are 17. wife of Charles E. Rolfe, Jr. I know we ;Inc! also has two boys. Dottie and family live in Alton, Ill., but are all saddened to learn of this. Cay Porter Hodell wrote, "Life here- have an apartment in St. Louis, Mo. The abouts is uneventfully eventful. Our Anne girls go to Mary Institute in S1. Louis. 1935 Threde has a job this summer in Saks in is in her freshman year at CC and our CO-CORRESPONDENTS: Letitia P. Williams, St. Louis as a model and clerk. Thrude "Jeep" (George Porter Hodell) starts kin- 3 Arnoldale Rd., \'V'est Hartford, Conn. dergarten next year. Between laundry and has been accepted by the American Friends Mrs. James D. Cosgrove (Jane Cox), dishes I manage to sandwich in a little Service Committee to be sent to New Mex- 222 North Beacon St., Hartford, Conn. Red Cross and church work. Keeps me ico to work on a Navajo Indian Reserva- fvom stagnating, I hope." tion. Dottie asks, "How could twins look The first daughter of our class to enter so much alike and be so different?" CC will be Debbie Stern, daughter of Helen Smiley Cutter lives in a very Charlotte Harbue ger Stem. Ham is thrilled, small town (50 houses and two stores) in Ruth Lister Davis has a family of four of course, and Debbie seems as enthusiastic ')y. arerford, Va. Her husband commutes to -one, Jane, at Colby Junior College tak- as Ham. The Sterns are moving to a new Washington 40 miles away. She wishes ing a Medical Technician course. Ruth is home in July. Ham has lived in the same some CC girls would move near-by, as no just finishing as PTA Council president one since 1923 and has saved everything, one there seems even to know where New for their town. She also served as Motion so she has quite a job ahead of her. London is. Picture and Visual Education Chairman for three years for the R. I. Congress of Marion lParren Rankin is following the Ruth Norton MathewJOll at Easter sent PTA. She finds time occasionally to sew, general pattern of many of us homemak- a card from Bermuda where she and Doug garden and read. ers, active in church, PTA, Garden Club and the girls, Heather and Mary, were and College Club. The Rankins will spend vacationing. Later, in May, Ruth and I Barbara johnson Stearns in New Hamp- much of the summer sailing. Jean 5V2 met for a little shopping and lunch at shire had plenty of winter and no spring. thoroughly enjoys the water. White Plains. She has become involved The kids enjoyed the skiing. Ruth gradu- in DAR work, having been elected an offi- ates from grammar school this spring and Nancy Walker Collins and her husband cer in a Westchester County chapter. The Rick is a junior at Kimball Union. Barb Bill have returned to the U,S. after spend- girls are going to camp for a month this says she manages to keep busy like every- ing 21 months in Italy. They lived in Posi- summer and Ruth will be at Highland one else doing some YW work and help- tano, a beautiful fishing village on the Lake, Winsted, at her mother's, where ing out on various drives. Amalfi Drive, midway between Sorrento and Amalfi. Bill is Professor of Painting Doug will spend his vacation, and come In Evanston, Belt)' Arcber Pauerson's at Washington University in St. Louis. up weekends. activities are almost the same this year as last. She is again treasurer of the Visiting Arriving home with them were two chil- My term of office as class correspondent Nurse Board, secretary of the Chicago dren adopted in Naples. Elizabeth 7 and ends with this issue. My successor will be Michael 5 are learning to speak English Kay Hammond Engler (Mrs. Kenneth G. Commons Board and secretary of the sus- and to roller skate. They are as delighted Engler), 16 Delwick Lane, Short Hills, taining members of the Junior League. She is also assistant choir mother. Both by television as Nancy is by packaged N. ]. children seem equally busy with sports, glee foods and electrical appliances. 1934 club, dramatics and scouts. Catherine jel1kJ MOI"toll and her fam- Libbie Blumenthal jacob's daughter Dor- ily have been buying camping equipment CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Sterling T. Took- othy Ann 14 is graduating from 8th grade for some time and plan to live in the open er (Alice Miller), 91 Gilbert Road, Rocky this June. Libbie's comment, "I find going as much as' possible this summer. Kay has Hill, Conn. 19 heard from Ruth lP'orthillgtoll Henderson. mers of '54 and '55, Dot is teaching in a summer camp in Connecticut and hopes She and Jim are completing their first year the commercia! department of Billerica to catch a quick visit to Cc. at the Maumee Country Day School, where Memorial High School and spent last Liz Fielding is extremely busy in Wash- Jim is headmaster. spring in Williamsburg, Va. She has a ington these days, This spring she attend- Martha Funkhouser Adamson ex '35 beautiful collection of Royal Daulton fig- ed a lovely White House tea that Mrs. writes that this will be a quiet summer urines wearing pink or rose colored Eisenhower gave for top Republican wom- compared to last when there were two dresses. en leaders in Washington. Following that weddings in the family in less than six Now in the throes of "life with teen- Liz had a series of out-of-town speaking months. Her older daughter, Joanne, was agers and cub scouts, [enet ThOrJI engagements and in August she expects to married on June 18 and her younger one, Waesche and husband are stationed in go to the convention in San Frar-.tsco. Jacquelyn, on Nov, 5 (Marty's birth- Washington. Their teen-agers are Judy 16 day). Joanne graduated from Denison Uni- and Marilla 13. Russ, the cub scout, is 9. 1939 versity the Monday before she was married. For the first time Janet's and Elizabeth COltRES1>ONDENT,Mrs. Stanley R. Millard Jacquelyn, a sophomore at Denison, quit Stromberg Naab's husbands are stationed (Eunice S, Cocks), Powerville Rd. Boon- college to marry the love of her life. Mar- together. Betty has six sons. The oldest ton, N. ]. ty brags of having two of the most won- has won a Holloway Plan Scholarship for Born: to John and Prances O'Keeie derful sons-in-law anywhere. She also has college. a son Johnny 13. She enjoys her part time Cowden, a second son, fourth chile, Ed- Evelyn Miller INgalls writes from North job as a receptionist at the Miami Valley ward Scott, on Jan. 29, '56, Hollywood, Calif., that since leaving the Hospital. When not playing golf, her fav- Ellen Mayl Herbericb has spent this research department at Paramount Studios, orite sport, Marty likes to work in her year designing and building her house, the she has been on a two month European garden. outside of which is copied from Holly tour. Evelyn has been involved in politics Lois Smith MacGiehall and her family Hill in Maryland. Ellen says she has one and this year is president of the North moved west to Fort Wayne in October be- son 13 and two German Shepherd dogs, Hollywood Republican Women's Club and cause of her husband Neal's new job as all of whom have muddy feet. She does a member of the Republican County Cen- assistant to the president of General in- a lot of singing both in Akron and Cleve- tral Committee, The Ingalls spent their dustries, Inc. which manufactures a high land. Madelaine Kin g Congdon is still on summer at Balboa, quality, low-cost "prefab" house. This her farm and going great guns with her keeps her husband busy and Lois is not 1938 Black Angus, working into the purebred idle with her two girls 11 and 4, her dog, side which she says is foolishness but fun. resident mother-in-law, PTA and LWV. CORREWONDENT, Mrs. William B, Dolan She has only one man working for bel' As Lois says, "any old housewife can fill but as he has ten children there is lots of (Mary Caroline Jenks), 72 High St., Ux- in the details." help when school is out. bridge, Mass. Warm weather is sending Kat Ef.'J..,h, 1937 IVinllie Nies Northcott has just been an officer of the West Fairfield Golf Asw- elected to the school board of St. Louis CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Albert G, Bickford elation, back to the fairways. Mtlrjcn'i! Park in Minneapolis, having received the (Harriet Brown), 359 Lonsdale Ave" Mortimer Kenney has been elected prcsi- highest number of votes of the four can- Dayton 9, Ohio, dent of her PTA for next year and is au- didates. In order to be a candidate, Win- ticipating a busy fall following a jean- Jane Flannery Jackson and husband are nie had to resign her office as president tucker vacation in August. The ti-rcc the proud parents of their first child, an of the LWV. adopted son, Thomas Addison Jackson, daughters of Sis Ake Bronson have CC Kay Caldwell Nichols and her family born in March '56. Tom has prompted sweat shirts purchased by Wright at the love their new ranch which is only twen- Jane's retirement from the American Heart Booksbop on his last trip. Ginlly 'Tuber ty miles from where they go skiing during Assoc. and from medical statistics and edit- McCamey helped chaperone a group of 30 their girls' Christmas and spring vacations, ing, Jane's husband is an editor and they high school boys and girls on a two day Martha Cahill Wilhelm reports that they are living in New York. trip to New York this spring. Her hus- have made 14 moves into different states band, Frank, is ending his second year of Shirley Cohen Schrager has had two in 17 years. At present she is living in study towards a Ph, D, in zoology. Ginny trips to Florida this past winter and be- Winnetka, 111., where her husband is with is chairman of the Bird Group of the tween trips has been busy with their two the Container Corporation of America with Woman's Club and does part time work children, Republican politics, LWV, and offices in Chicago. Their three children helping out in homes where there is a hospital work. She writes that Irma Wit- are Pamela 13, Pete 11, and Christine 6. new baby. Daughter Eleanor is a freshman kower Reiner is back home, out of the in high school. service. After marching with my Cub Scouts in the pouring rain on Memorial Day, I Our ambassadress, Ruth Hale Becbeuan, Jim and Pearl Myland Kaufman are came home to a ringing telephone-Jane writes, "I have been in D. C. for a month spending the summer in Europe after get- Hsacbinson Caulfield calling from Boston. ting their three boys off to camp, Dr. and this spring to visit the children, ages 10, She had just finished a sightseeing tour Rosamond Brown Hansen and two boys 12, and 14, in school in D. C. Having of the city with her oldest daughter. As been tutored in Luxembourg for the last 6V2 and 2 are in Denton, Texas, where they were leaving for New York the next Professor Hansen is teaching at North two years, they needed some American ed- day, it was impossible to meet her, but we Texas State Teachers' College, ucation in our opinion, 1 spent the fall talked fast and furiously for a few min- here with them and the Ambassador was Dorothy Richardson spent eight weeks utes. From Baltimore, Judith Bergman home with us over Christmas. Then we in Europe this summer and also the sum- Perch is sending her only child, Barry, to went back in January and it was really
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It was all fascinating and at this saw Sis Ake Bronson in Ohio and she is dren, Reed 10 and Holly 7, and are in- point we feel very lucky to have visited hoping for a trip to Europe this year. volved in Cub Scouts, PTA, church activ- all those places without having any 'un- ities and golf. Bob and Sally Schley Mane- fortunate incidents'. I love my life as 1941 gold flew over New London on their way 'Chstelnine' and the Embassy in Luxem- CORRESPONDENTS, Mrs. Theodore R. Wills back from a five week trip to Europe. bourg is really beautiful. It is situated on They visited Italy, Austria, Germany and (Ethel Moore), 17356 Beechwood Ave., ;l hill overlooking the valley where Cae- Birmingham, Mich.; Miss Barb-ira Twomey, France after sailing over on the Nieuw sar fought the Gauls. The whole country Amsterdam. Last summer the Manegolds 2500 Que St., Washington, D. C. is like a fairy story and full of history, and another family drove east and en- Aside from being a tourist guide all sum- Born: to Philip and Virginia Newberry joyed camping in Maine, mountain climb- mel", I spend most of my time arranging Leacb, a fourth daughter, Lucinda Anne, ing in New Hampshire, and sightseeing in flowers for the Embassy which I love to on July 10, 19'5'5. The Leaches are hoping Boston-eleven of them in all, the young- do. Also in my spare time I have taken to start soon building a summer home in est 4, the oldest child 15, and they all had up painting and there are so many beau- Vermont. a wonderful time. tiful scenes one hardly knows where to [ene Alerri/f Bentley is still busy get- A few weeks ago Ted and I (\'\fills, begin. Last winter I even did some por- ting settled in their new home in New that is) greatly enjoyed seeing Sally KiJ' traits. Entertaining, attending concerts, Jersey. Her three children are Richard Jr. k(lddell McClelland as Ruth in the Avon opening of bridges, monuments, etc., keep 9, Elizabeth Ann 8, and Walter 6. Kay Players presentation of "Blythe Spirit." us very busy but it is all fun, Living here Ord McCheJJley is hoping that the new The McCleliands have a lovely horne on has been wonderful for my French which home they are building in Los Altos, Cal., ten scenic acres in Rochester, Mich. and 1 haven't studied since High School but will be a permanent stop, They have a two boys, David 9 and Bill '5. Among 1 find I can speak quite fluently and am new beagle pup; three children, Doug in other things Sally was president of the able to run the household staff complete- 6th grade, Glenn (a girl) in 4th, and PTA this year. ly in French, We are always delighted to Donna in 2nd; and are busy with golfing, see our American friends or to hear from gardening, Cubs, Brownies and other com- 1943 them, so I do hope if any CCites come munity activities. to Luxembourg this summer that they will CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. William Yeager Peg Patron HaJuwh has occasional drop us a note or call while there." (Betsy Hodgson), Box 163, Route 1, lunches with Gene Mercer. Peg flew out Pineville. La, Marie lIVhitwell GilkeJOJI'J four chil- to Minneapolis in June for a surprise Born: to Elwood and Jean Koblberger dren, Kay 12, Richard 10, Tom 9, and Mother's Day dinner. Doug, Peg, and the Carter a second child, second daughter, David 16 mos., keep her busy in scouts, children, Kathie 12, Annette 9, and Pat Deborah An:J., on Apr. 16; to Ray and PTA, etc. She is looking forward to a 6, are going to vacation at Eaton's Ranch Alice Brewer Cummings a fourth child, restful summer with the two older boys in in Wyoming in July. Gene Mercer and fourth son, Stuart Ainslie, on Mar. 2; to camp and Kay with her grandmother. The Barb Twomey are hoping to spend their Charles and Dorotbv COllover Kingsley ex Shell Oil Co. has accounted for 10 moves vacations together this summer, Betty Hol- '43, a fifth child, second son, John Con- made by Middy lJ'/eitlich Gieg who is now lillghead Seelye made a quick trip to Pitts- over, 0:1 Apr. 27; to Morton and [anet in the great Northwest. She says, "This burgh recently and she and Gene stopped Corey Hampson a second child, second son, summer we are going east with our oldest over to see Mtlrg Hamra Canpeld. John, on July 31, 1955; to Kenneth and son Bill 16, so he can decide on the col- BeN)' Neiley Cleveland says that Spar- Barbara Bst abroo e Hassrice, a third child, lege he wants to attend. Our second son tanburg, S. has a new man-made lake. c., third son, Matthew, in April. 12 is entering the Soap Box Derby and is Sailing is very much of a novelty in this busy building his racer. Sally 9 is our pi- area so the Clevelands have quite an audi- El and Jean Koblberger Carter vacationed anist and Todd 3 is the original Dennis ence when they go for a sail in their 9 ft. in Mexico City and Acapulco in the spring the Menace." Ruth lJ'/;IJOIl Can moved to turnabout. They are going to visit Betty's of 1955, going down via New Orleans and San Francisco last September, likes it there brother and sister-in-law (Ginny Railsback San Antonio. Recently Elizabetb Middle- and plays golf regularly. She entertains Neiley '43) in July. Nancy MarVin lVhee- ton Brown telephoned Jean. Teal and hus- lots of out of town guests, as her husband lock is terminating the year's activities with band had just returned from a three week is 1st vice president of the California Con- fly-ups, annual reports, luncheons, Little vacation to Bermuda, a vacation also from tainer Corp League, etc. She is looking forward to a Hank 2 and Scott 6. From Barbara Esta- slightly calmer summer with Debby 11 at brook Hassrice, "The big news around After winning a dryer and a few small Girl Scout camp and Pete 8 at day camp. our house is the new baby Matthew. Jon- prizes, Grace Hecht Bloch has given up Betsy 6 is still too young for camp. Nancy athan at twelve is taller than I am and is contests and taken up stamp collecting. She was co-chairman of patronesses for the busy learning the trumpet. Jerry 11 is says she would rather track down an elu- Pops orchestra this year and among those working on the clarinet and is an excel- sive Israeli issue than tell why she likes who aided her were Beth Main Chandler, lent baby-sitter. The rest of the household something in 25 words or less. Grace vis-
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consists of two monkeys, two Cockatiels, Murphy a third child, second son Tommy, life in the country near Morristown, N. a red squirrel, a kinkajou, and Wallace in 1955. J., where husband Don is practicing in- who is a basirisevou and too rare for ternal medicine. Her four youngsters, Eve- A cheery report on CC comes from Ruth words. Also two cats and occasional kit- lyn 6Vz, Don Jr. 5, Bobby 3V2 and Carol Howe Hale, our class representative at col- 11;2, prove a full time job, leaving little tens, and most of all, Ken, who is now lege during Alumnae Council weekend in working practically single handed to run leisure for outside diversions. Jane How- March. Beuy Rabinowitz Sheffer was there our plate-making shop (printing) though arth Hibbard's youngsters, Jack 7, Ann 4 as our fund representative. Our reunion I"m doing the bookkeeping at home:' ~he and baby Sally, inspired a recent move to in 1957 will be held after commencement larger quarters-a new four bedroom home names of those animals (?) are copied to relieve crowded facilities both on and in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. They had directly from Dolly's letter. off the campus. Ruth reports that Titus their fling last year with a good vacation From Frances Adeois Crane. "The only made cut beautifully as chief cook and at Cape Cod and a trip to New York in girls I see frequently from '43 a~e. Emi~y hair-dresser, tending their two daughters, November. Libby Massey Ballinger's brood Carl Davis, who is now back living 10 Kathie 6 and Laurie 10. The Hales are Hillside, N. J., with husband Lou and settled in Portland, Conn. of four don't seem to deplete her energy; precious daughter Cindy, and K~ckie John- she practiced daily for a month last fJ.!1 as Mary Crockett -Nagl er, having sent no a member of a precision chorus for the SOil Anders, who is living in Elizabeth and news since graduation, proffered the fol- very active in community affairs. As for Junior League Follies in Philadelphia lowing. Shortly after graduation, Crcckys Bob and me, we managed a trip to Europe while she was also busy taking the pro- father passed away and she and' her moth- last summer without our three children and visional course. Her husband Montgom- er moved to California where she went to it was a wonderful experience. Toure~ ery was recently promoted to the rank of USC and got a master's degree in bio- England, France, Switzerland, and beauti- captain in the Navy and they were trans- chemistry. She met her husband through ful Italy. While in Paris, Bob attended the ferred to the Portsmouth, N. H., Naval Frederica Giles Reilly; he was her part- International YMCA World Alliance Con- Base. There libby has been doing volun- ner in Freddy's wedding party. Having no Ference-c-it was really a great thrill. Bob teer work with the Portsmouth Rehabilita- children, Crocky has been working most of has entered into politics by conducting and tion Center, helping with the Blood Bank the time, is now research associate in the winning a vigorous Republican primary for and teaching Sunday School. Betty Mel'- pharmacology department at the Univer- State Senator from Union County. I o~ly cer BlitZ and Roger are settled in Altadena, sity of Texas' medical school. She sees hope we live through another campal~n Cal., and her new baby keeps life buzzing; Freddy whenever Freddy comes to Texas to for election in November. I keep busy With her other youngsters are Donald 9 and visit her parents and snys she has three Geoffrey 9, Jonathan 6 and Deborah 4. Anita 7¥z. Betty Williams Kloth writes wonderful children, a boy and two girls. Deborah Burton Adler ex '43 has .th.ree from Bronxville, N. Y., of seeing Rtuly daughters, June in junior high, Christine Libby Traois Sollenberger's Gus is much G1"OHienOr English and Lila Sullivan Mur- in 4th grade, and Wendy in kindergarten. pleased to have an assignment to the phy. Betty's youngsters are Ted 9, Joan Debby is busy with college, PTA,. church Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, 7, and Larry 2. Her husband Ed is a "real, and Republican clubs and Brownies. She Va., for five months, which will be fol- live psychiatrist, and has his office in New and Wally did get away for a two week lowed by a tour of sea duty and the fam- York." She adds, "Mother just returned trip to Nassau last winter. Bill and Yvollne ily is on the move again. Libby says, from a three year stay in India and we Forbus Parker spent last year in England "Gus is still a pilot, loving every flying are having a wonderful time watching her where Bill wrote a book; this winter he is minute. We discovered our five-year-old unpack her treasures and seeing her love. completing another in Williamstown where Dick has an exceptional musical talent; Iy slides. She has been working with Yvonne has taken up her dancing and is has a full-size accordion and plays like the lepers in the Philadelphia Mission Hos- both teaching and taking classes. Bill is sixty, reads music perfectly, though he pital in Ambala City, Punjab, where she working under a grant from the Ford can't read words yet." will return in October." Foundation but Yvonne neglected to say Mildred Gremley Hodgson, whose son A new home in the country outside of what his field was. Peter, now 7, suffered from a brain tumor Chagrin Falls, Ohio, has been project one four years ago and was not expected to for Frances Domino Drake and her hus- 1944 live more than a few months, writes, band. She reports, "We watched it go up "Through the miracle of deep x-ray treat- from the first pencil line on paper to the CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. William L. Tracy ments, the tumor was shrunk and re- last nail, so it's just what we want. We (Helen Crawford), 217 Canyon Crest, moved surgically; his recovery amazed all love the country-an ideal place to raise Whittier, Calif. the doctors concerned. He has a slight our two young ones, Grant 8 and Ann 6." She enjoys her active Cleveland Club, and Married: Jane Bellack ex '44 to Rush weakness- in his right eye and side, but is hoping to make the next reunion. Fay T. Wray on June 10, 1955. is doing quite well now in first grade." Ford Gerriu writes from New london Born: to Donald and Frances Di-uer Burt The Hodgsons moved to LaGrange, Ill., that her two sons, Keith 7 and Ford 4, a fourth child, second daughter, Carol, in two years ago when Ken took over the have attended CCs nursery school, and her the fall of 1954; to William and Jane Chicago office of his company. and while Reid 3 has an eye on the college for next Howarth Hibbard a third child, second he does a lot of travelling, Milly keeps year. Steve, Fay's husband, is a general daughter Sally, on Apr. 26, 1956; to Mont- busy with church choir and women's club contractor and they have just finished their gomery and Libby Massey Bellingev a fourth work. Last summer Milly took Peter and new home in Waterford, Conn. Fay has child, third hoy, Michael, in November their other son, Christopher 3, back to bad a busy year as president of the CC 1954; to Roger and Betty Mercer Bmz a Connecticut for a wonderful visit home. Alumnae Club of New London, and bas third child, second boy, David Mercer, on The following reports come from ex been asked to serve again next year. Her Dec. 28, 1955; to Murph and Lila SlIllivan '44 members. Pranny Diver BlIrt enjoys Alumnae Club co-sponsored a most sue-
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cessful bridge party with the local AAUW baseball leagues and being a Boy Scout; settled in Ambler, Pa., after working in branch, which netted $500 for a CC schol- Roger 6V2 is in first grade, and Bradford various cities all around the country; her arship for a local student. Fay also had a 2¥2 keeps one jump ahead of his mama husband, Ted is in radio at \XfCAU, a wonderful time at the ~lumnae Council all the time. [ean Brown Bagby's husband CBS station in Philadelphia. Doris had weekend at Cc. From Phoenix, Ariz., Nan- Oliver is head of the Ordnance and Gun- been writing radio copy and doing pro- cy-Carol Smith Lesure summarized the nery department at the US Naval Post grams for women and children before the Thomas B. Lesure family productions Graduate School in Monterey, Cal., and advent of her own children, Leslie 4 and neatly: "By Nancy and Tom: four babies the Browns are enjoying community life Charlie 2. She says they love radio but it -Linda 6, Wynn 5, Bonnie 4, Kim 2. in Carmel, where they recently bought a keeps them constantly hopping. lovely new home. With their youngsters, By Tom: one 'baby': "Adventures in Ariz- Helen Bull Withrow and Dick have Richard 12 and Christie la, they took a ona," published by Naylor, San Antonio; three boys, Ricky 8, Johnny 6, and David month-long camping trip last summer, hav- coming out this fall. Informal guide to 3. They live in Barrington, 111., where sights, lore, legends and history of Ariz- ing a marvelous time visiting Banff, Lake Helen has been president of the Barrington Louise and other beautiful spots, With ona, Junior Center of infant Welfare. Selling the children in school all day, Jean has A familiar chord ( (to all mothers) real estate around Fort Lauderdale and gone back to her books, studying sociology sounds in the note from Karla Yepsen Pompano has been occupying Dorothy and psychology at Monterey Peninsula Copitbom, whose twins, Rip and Fred 7 Hale Hoekstra in addition to tending her College. and Tina 3¥2 had just weathered four brood of three boys and a girl, aged three weeks of measles, "I need a rest! How I Harriett Dewees IVilsoll reports briefly to 12. Dick has been associated with the long to have time for a good book," But from Lake Forest, 111., that she and hus- Miami Herald for the last two years, and she also says Babylon, N. Y., is wonder- band Theodore have one son, Percy 3V2' they enjoy life in Florida immensely. Dot- ful: sailing and beaching are among their The advent of Lila Snllivan Murphy's new ty sees Alary W'hite Rix every iointer, favorite pastimes. Kula is still redecorat- son Tommy spurred the Murphys to move The whole Tracy menage is flying east ing, is a class mother, does volunteer work to larger quarters; they used up the pre- for a vacation in the New York and Cape and holds an office in the Hospital Aux- vailing bedrooms on daughter Brian 8 and Cod area this summer; we can hardly wait iliary, and also manages to help out on all Christopher 4. So, after six happy years in to revisit all the dear old haunts, the usual fund drives. Suzanne Harbert Tuckahoe, N. Y, they are migrating to Boice returned to Orlando, Fla., after serv- Riverside, Conn. She says, "We love the 1945 ing as a delegate to the Junior League Con- new house despite complete lack of clos- vention in Quebec where she ran into six ets, but hate to move, as I've been in- CORRESPONDENT, Mrs, Dorsey Whitestone other CC alumnae. On her way home she volved in PTA and CC Alumnae doings Jr. (Patricia Feldman), 222 A Rye Colony, met her husband Nels and daughter Smo- where we've met wonderful people Rye, N. Y. we're particularly pleased that our West- key 10 in New York. There she chatted Born: to Richard and joyce Stoddard Aron- chester alumnae raised over $1300 at a with Ginny Weber Marioll and S,ay Hunt- son a second daughter, Ann, Mar 1; to dance." They all went to Murph's reunion er Smith; the Marions are all thriving and Walter and AI/ne McCarthy Miller a sec- at Princeton this year and sound much in- the Smiths are building a new home in ond daughter, Lauren Mackenzie, May 16; terested in CC reunion next year. Christine Darien, Conn. Nels Boice is in acreage to Alan and Connie Barnes Mermann a Ferguson Sci/mon's husband George is a and cattle business in Orlando. fourth daughter, Elizabeth, May 16. pediatrician and they have a mixed four- Cookie Romney Roth's husband Jack is some to practice on, Nancy 9¥2, AI 7, Attending reunion, a sportive crowd, the Chevrolet dealer in Merced, Cal. They Christopher 4 and Bill 2. Latest addition were: Almy Scudder Bierregeard, ex '45, have two adopted children, Shelley 4 and to the family is an Arabian stallion, 9 Nancy [nd.son Brown, Connie Amoldy John 2. Cookie adds, "Recent excitement months. Chris says, "Have had a con- Butler, Betty Bevans Cassidy, Gidge consists of a marvelous trip to the Hawai- struction company, which is idling at the Downs Cawley, Katie IVenk Cbristoff ers, ian islands and completing plans for a moment, and have recently built our own Bev BOl/jig Cody, jean Mendler Davis, new house we hope to start soon. We saw home the second we built ourselves." The Pat Madden Dempsey, Charlotte Kavanagb arlo and Libby Swisher Childs at their Ferg~sons live in Short Hills, N. J. Dlwally, Charlotte Burr Evans, /IIlarcia home in Salt Lake City some time ago; we Faust, Framry Conooer Gagney ex '45, were returning from Wyoming where Jack Mary Beebe Paponos has an impressive Penny Gilpin Griffiths, Gerry Henning, had been elk hunting, The visit was won- brood; five sons, ranging in age from 3 Peggy Pipel Hanrahan, [une Sawhill derful and all too short; they have three to 1Il/2' She and Stan live in Coven'ry, Heineman, Caryl Maesel Kaercher, Beuy children now, and have since moved to Conn., where, in addition to multiple do- Brown Leslie, Bunnv Riesner Levene, RlIlh Denver." mestic duties, she h3.S served on a commit- Veevers Mathieu ex '45, Sarah Bauern- tee studying school needs an-i helped in From Cleveland, Ohio, Suzan Marquis schmidt Mmray, joanna Dimock Norris, PTA activities. In the small mountain town Ewing reports that they are still enjoying Patty Turchon Norton, Barbara Fielding of Bumesville in western North Carolina, life in their oneinal home with the snrne Polk, '/\-large VallaI' Pratt, Alln Simpson [ane Bel/ark W-ra:y helps her husband run two daughters, Deborah 9V:z and SU:;.2n 7. Rice, Katherine Gander Rutter, Mariechell a charming old inn (the Nu-Wray Inn) An April vacation on the Florida beaches, ]j'/ilder Smith, Betty Ellsworth Starbuck, which has been in his Family for three far from the snow drifts of Illinois, was a Pat Feldman W1hitesfOne, Suzanne Porter generations. jane also does Junior Le3.gue treat for Anile Davis Heatoll and her fam- IVilkin.f, Betty AI/dersol/ IV;ssmdll. work in Ashville and church work at ily. Davie's husband Fordon buys boys: TOlli Fentoll TUtlle couldn't make it at home, and she serves on the Girl Sco~t clothes for Sears Roebuck and Co., which Board in addition to leading a Browme the eleventh hour because of mumps seems appropria:e for the father of three (hers) and Gerry Till Williams was said troop. Doris Campbell Salford's family has very active sons, Dave 12 enjoys bowling, to have been similarly foiled by measles. had written from State College, Pa., of her 1946 problems in picking a menu for dinner Several persons reported having seen [anet CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Richard H. Ru- guest, Milton Eisenhower. Her final choice Comtois Slim and a son-type little boy dolph (Marilyn H. Coughlin), 499 Rutter was something like guinea hen cooked watching the reunionites parade on Class Ave., Kingston, Pa. Day. Barbara Baudoein Brown managed outdoors, a salad, and maybe angel cake Our tenth reunion was a tremendous to get down to New London for several with sillabub. success with over fifty members of the class hours Sunday morning, though she and Pellny Gil/Ii" Griffith and family who present. Everyone looked wonderful. Teo Tammy had just bought a larger house in have been living in Groton, Conn., for years had wrought little change. Figures Pleasant Valley, Conn., and were in the four years, left for Paris in July. Naval were still sleek and the suntan still pres- middle of selling their present home in husband Walter is in psychological war- ent. Jan Weiss Smith threw the cares of the same town. fare planning (he's had lots of practice at her household and four children to the The program was fun: instructive Alum- home, says Penny). They have three winds and worked on the many intricate nae Association meeting in Palmer Audi- daughters; Susan 8, Jan 5V2, Betsy 3· problems confronting a reunion chairman. torium, picnic lunch on the chapel lawn, Charlotte Burr Eoans moved back to Sis Tide-nan James flew all the way from Class Day exercises in which the reunion hometown of Fairfield, Conn., two years San Diego. She stopped long enough to classes marched (our favorite comment ago with husband Chuck, a manufactur- hand over her two children to her fath- made by young girl graduate who eyed the er's agent, Barbara 8, and Nancy 6. Would er at ti-e Chicago airport. Ruth Goodhue numerals on our sashes and class ban- hardly tell pet activity because of its- Voorhees of Hollywood, Calif., combined ner, then scanned our faces, "Oh, they to her-Helen Hokinscn connotations. It's a trip east with reunion. Lee Eneqiast Fer- don't look so old.") Then came class din- Garden Club-and some of our best gilson came from Pittsburgh with news of ners, ours (good-thanks to New London friends are members. a book her already famous husband is writ- resident, Bets Ellsworth Starbuck) in a ing. Ann Muir King, who drove up with Jean Mendler Davis, who did a very new (to us) restaurant on Pequot Ave- T au.i Easibnrn Biggin from Levittown, P 24 - er Patterson and All/} 1/7ood.man Stalter Present were [oan Albrecht Parsons, Pris- derful and her two boys and baby girl are drove over Bear Mt. from New York State cilla Baird Hillckley, Nancy Beebe Spindler, darling, with me. From N. J. came Joyce Hill Nancy Blades Geiler, Elizabeth Bogert Moore and Corky Cooder Berry, Bobby Hayes, Mal'garet Camp, Priscilla Crim Leid- 1948 fi1illcf Gusta/JOn and Mary Carpenter Mc- holt, Elizabeth .011//011, Anile Fromm Nap- CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Merritt W. Olson Canu who are in New london were busy pa, Priscilla Gardner Rhodes, Muriel Hart, (Shirley Reese), 3635 Country Club Rd., between their husbands who are leaving Mary Hasson, Margaret HIILst Kluge, Su- Johnson City, N. Y, for Bermuda and reunion for which they san Hunt Haioeed, Gretchen Lamman Bell- Married: Mary Loft Thompson to Karl H. were making some arrangements. Mary dix, Lor-nine Pimm Simpson, janet Pinks Peck, Jan. 1, 1956, They live in Hartford RobhJon Sioe left her new twins to spend Welti, Ann Riley Browne, Patricia Robin- where Karl is an engineer with Chandler- the ci.ry on Saturday. Lois Andrews Year- SOIl, Lynn Ronci Kahil, Joan Rosen Kemler, Evans and Mary Lou is a social worker Ick "'flit from Westfield, Mass. M(lrtha Stevens lf7alsh, Margilret Stirtoe with the Conn. Division of Child Welfare, Miller, Alln IVetherald Graff, Laura Lee AJ"HJst everyone had arrived by Friday Born: to Larry and Jail Leibemen Karter 117iley Burbank, [tene Williams Weber, We even.ng in time for a picnic at Buck Lodge. a daughter, Marguerite, on Mal'. 10, 1956; went to Lighthouse for dinner Friday night, Satur.iay was a full day and Saturday eve- to Del M)'ers Biedron a daughter Kathryn, attended Class Dayan Saturday in the ning found us dining on a delicious shore 10 March. dinner at Ferry's Tavern in Old Lyme. We Arboretum, enjoyed a fascinating talk by Miss Park at the Alumnae meeting and '48 celebrated a very successful 8th re- had a new outlook after Class Day when had a delicious banquet at Skipper's Dock union with headquarters in Branford. Angle one elderly gentleman was heard remarking Saturday evening . The new buildings are Sbona, chairman, rounded up an enthu- as our class paraded its colors, "Now lovely. Hale Laboratories across from siastic group with her letters and excellent there's a class with some ginger left." Blackstone are large, airy and modern. Both planning. We talked until the wee hours, We managed to catch up on some of the infirmary and WMI building are ex- sang all the songs we could remember, those ,....ho could not attend. Ann Hogate tremely good looking, These three build- sparked by former Schwiffs Mary LOll Plan- MUf!1by, saw Sally DuffIeld McGJlidey of ings are sensible modern architecture in agall Coffill and [anie Gardner Head, wore Colorado Springs and A1argaret Gregory every way and point to an up-to-date cam- our new blue and gold sashes, and saw WillJJer of Milwaukee at the recent Junior pus of a college constantly trying to im- Angie's color slides of previous reunions League conference in Quebec. Ann Ord- prove itself. and of her recent European trip. About way Dines is recuperating slowly after two fifty attended the class dinner at the Wagon Connie Nichols Prout writes, "We are senoos operations. Mary-Nall'll Heyssen Wheel in Groton. President Kay Noyes now living in Torrington, Conn. My hus- Hart-nan and Jack will move in the near Fuller conducted the business meeting and band is assistant superintendent of gas op- futu-e to Beloit College where Jack has the election of officers, as follows: pres- erations with the Conn. Power Co. We accepted a teaching position. Lucy Eason ident, Harriet A1arJbdi Reeoes; vice-pres- have two boys, Parker 9V2 and Stanley 6, just returned from Europe and will study ident and reunion chairman for '60, Mary and a little girl, Consie 3. Recently we for 'I teaching certificate this summer in Lou Flanagan Coffin; treasurer, Virginia stayed overnight with Flo Parker John- Pre! -nration for her job this fall. Bobby Doyle Thurston; correspondent, Shirley stone also saw Doris Davin 1/7egner Mil>r Gusta/Jon and Lois Andrews Year- Reese Olson, Phyllis Hoge ROJe from Mad- in January Doris Heuage Russell, her hh otre also teaching. Bryna Samuels Spyro ison, Wis. won the prize for having trav- spouse and three children came up for Sun- whuse husband was killed in an airplane elled the farthest. Pat Reid Dinsmore and day dinner also enjoyed seeing Nail accident several years ago was married re- Ashley Davidsoll Roland shared the honors POUler.s T. and Stilly Marks W. recently." cenity in Bridgeport. A telegram from Lee for having the most children, four each. Mi;llel' Goode explained Lee's absence was Cap pie Cole Peek and Bill have two Anile Doherty Rush, not present, has six due to a case of mumps. The new class girls 4V2 and 2. Says she, I'm the original children. officers who will serve until our next re- 'housebound'-Iove it but feel so inefficient At the annual Alumnae meeting, Jane union are President Shirley Wilsoll Keller, sometimes love to all our friends at Cardnel' Head presented the Mary Coleman Vice-president PriJcilla Wright Pratt, Treas- reunion Armstrong Memorial Fund to the college urer Mary Roemer Brickley, Corresponding for the purchase of library books in the Marje Farrell Cheetham has a boy 4 and secretary Ditto Grimes Wise, Reunion chair- field of history, Skip's major field, a girl 1 and tbe family lives in a house Dick man Jallet Kelliledy Murdock, Class corres- built two years ago in Old Lyme, Conn. Six '48ers met in larchmont, N. Y. June pondent Barbe"l" Grimes IFise. Mar)' Elizabeth Val! Nostrand Huzagh, 7 for a shower for Joan Wilmarth given after 17 moves in 10 years, is settled with by Barbara Kite Yeager and Shirley Reese 1947 her family of two boys in their own home Olson. CurleY plans a July 28 wedding. CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Curtis P. Hinckley on Long Island. A growing family made Shirley MacKenzie WiltOIl, Rita Hirsh (Priscilla Baird), South Woodstock Ver- it impossible for Joan Hickey GlIdefm to Mead and A, V, Smith Bm'ret! attended the mont. attend reunion, I had a nice visit with her shower and were joined by Shirley Nlckel- during spring vacation in New York. She SOil ROOJ for the drive to New London. Married: Dott)1 Dismukes to Robert Lind- and her husband began an export-import say Gutman on Apr, 7 in Pittsburgh. They MarioJ! Koenig Schm-jellstelll and daugh- business five years ago in their apartment are now living in Fort Wayne, Ind, ters Jeanne and Susan are following Tom and now employ several other people and Born: to Larry and Bette Datlis Tuttle on to Guam where he is with the Coast Guard have had to move to make room for the Feb. 22 their second boy, fourth child, Air-Sea Rescue Service. Bob and Sally files, Peter Bulkeley. 117'ard Lutz and their two daughters have On my way home from reunion I saw moved from Portland, Ore. to Hinsdale, We had a wonderful group at reunion Ada Maislell Goldsteill. She looked won- Ill. where Bob is with the Chicago division and it was fun to catch up on all the news, of Blue Bell Sportswear. Karl and Sally a second girl, Susan, on Jan. 4, 1956; to Hank went to Florida and Nassau on their Jf/allace Kmlpp have left Aberdeen, S. D. Bob and J(1/1 Crapo Harvey twins, fifth girl' honeymoon and are living in Washington, and are in Glenshaw, Pa. with their son and first boy, on Oct. 27, 1956; to Bob and D. C and daughter. Steve and Enid U~illiford Nail Schmuck Keel/an ex '49 a second Barry and Gale Holman Mmk.r ex '49 Waldroll, Karen and Cindy, now live in child, first boy, Scot Brewster, on Feb. 9, have bought a home in Barrington, R. I. Scarsdale, N. Y. Bob is with Kennecott 1956; to Bob and Phyl Hammer Duin a Barry is on the faculty at Brown Univer- Copper, having made a change from Ansco third child, first girl, Julia Constance, on sity. Gerry Dalla Tisdale ex '49 said Dave in Binghamton, N, Y. May 19, 1956; to Irv and Joyce Benie- and Betsy Hom Baker and their two girls min Gloman a second girl, Carol, on Mar. Ralph and ,'V!aggie Milliken Tyson and (Laurie is 2V2) are moving to Yonkers 22, 1956; to Wendall and Moo Phipps two sons have bought a home in the sub- in the middle of June as they are sick of Smith a third girl, Cynthia Sherrick, on urbs of Detroit. Paul and [ean Mueller apartment living in NYC. Dave is head of May 20, 1956; to Ned and Marge Stutz Bernard and their four little girls vaca- the Pediatric Radiology Department at Turner a third child, second son, Peter tioned in New Hampshire while awaiting New York Hospital. Phil and Betty Leslie Beverley, on MH. 13, 1956; to Harry and completion of their new home in Weston, Ha!m and their two boys are building a Cynthia Carey Teylor a first child, Bruce Mass, John and Mary LOll Flanagan Cof- home in Milford, Conn. Grace Lertan jives Carey, on Mar. 20, 1956; to Hal and Mary fin, Christina and Jed, are heading for an in NYC and works for an advertising Stecher DOllthit a third child, first girl, engineering position in New Haven, after agency which she enjoys tremendously. Sue Morgan, on Apr. 25, 1956; to Rich- several years of teaching at Lawrenceville, Curly and Sue Farnha-nz F01'd ex '49 live ard and Sally Osman Spray a second child, N. ]. in Short Hills, N. ]., with Peggy 7, John first son, David Bryan, on Apr. 10, 1956; 4, and David 3. They are the same ages as Lee Pope Miller is a busy organist and to Joe and Marian Markle Pool IV ex '49 Gerrie's three and she and Sue are trying choir director at Hackley School, Tarry- a fourth child, first son, Joseph Henry V, town, N. Y., where Larry teaches, Penny to get the two families together to see on Dec. 1, 1955; to Parker and Vickie Penfield Spencer, at the Univ. of Maryland, what happens. Gerrie has moved to a sub- Simer Poole Jr. a fourth child, first girl, takes pride in the completion of husband urb of Albany where they bought an older Christina Choate, on Feb. 17, 1956; to Guil's book; she helped type. Pat Sloan is house and are graduatly modernizing it. Bill and Jane Smith Moody a third child, folowing an acting career in NYC. Mal"_ Along with all that she has taken up golf. second boy, James McLane, 00 May 2, garet Flint Nugent's hobby is birdwatching. 1956. Polly Lisbon COWell and Bob, with two She is a member of the Utah Audubon children Carolyn and Billy, live in Ar- Society in Salt Lake City. Natalie Shal!llck Married: [oenne Lambert to Henry Roemer lington Heights,' Ill. My card reached Harper is a fashion coordinator in Port- McPhee Jr. on May 19, 1956 in Kentucky: Luck)' Siller Victory in the hospital where [and, Me., as well as a raiser of children, fail Crapo Heroey now leads '49 with she had Maureen, Her boys are Tom Hampshire sheep, and German shepherd .lr. six little ones. Marian Markle Pool and dogs. Carol Conant Podesta, living in Rye, who was 4 May 8, and Patrick, who was Joe arc tied with Howie and Sally Hack- N. Y., is in radio work. Dorothy Fried 2 Mar. 12. They have been in their new en Cbandler with four. Markle's are Su- Srbagrin has a part time job as the home in Shaker Heights one year now and san 7, Sydney 5, and Debbie 3 and their all is fine, Youngstown, Ohio, representative of the son, above, Merchandising Group. Jean Black McCa/lS- Sylvia Joffe Garfinkle writes that they land is secretary to the president of Johns Vi,'gini::l Ferguson Leacb used to live in live in suburbia. Milton practices obstetrics Hopkins University. my home town of Providence but has and gynecology and Syl is becoming quite moved to Cohasset, Mass. They have two Barbara Chope Spence is in partnership a mid-wife. Their son is and their boys, Robert M. III, born Oct. 12, '49 and 4V2 with her husband in the Spence Lumber Louis Christopher born Apr, 2, '52. Bob daughter 1V2' Another Ceer with a Dr. Advertising Co. for market surveys and husband is SHe Brenner Geller ex '49. is with the Glenwood Range Co. Mm'gie research in Three Rivers, Mich. Nancy Lee Stutz Turner and Ned have, besides Peter, Jack is on a Public Health Fellowship in SUlift is a Red Seal Record coordinator Robert Spilman, Oct. 24, '52 and a girl, NY working on endocrine research with a for RCA Victor in New York City. Pbytlis very famous endocrinologist. This summer Cary Page, Sept. 17, '54. Ned works- for the Hoge Rose has completed the course work he plans to start practice in the Northern N. J. Zinc Co. and they bought a house for her doctorate at Wisconsin Univ. but last fall. \'(festchester area and earn his first dollar motherhood has slowed up the completion in nine years. He hopes to start a radio- of her thesis. Shirley Nickelson Roos fol- Phyl and Bob D»i» have been trans- isotope lab in the hospital and use his lows her singing husband, and does vocal ferred to Honolulu for a few years, While special training. In his free time, he and coaching and hospital entertaining. Casper Phyl was in the hospital with baby Julie, Sue have travelled the tennis circuit (he's toured last year with "Carouser' and ap- she read two books on Hawaii and now nationally ranked) and they have been to peared this summer at Jones Beach, N, Y, can hardly wait to get there. Mildie lVeb- Europe, Israel and all over the USA. They In "Showboat". ber Whedon, bnsband John, and two girls, live in a contemporary home on two acres Gale 4 and Pat 15 mos., are busy bees of land, with cows, pigs, two boxers, a 1949 these days making a patio, Up to now she Siamese cat, and every now and again rab- and John have hauled and laid 2270 CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Donald A. Kemp bits, frogs, and chickens. Jonathan is 6 and bricks. At 12:40 a.m. one morning Mildie (Margaret Farnsworth), 8214 Trinity, De- daughter Jamie 3. Sue used to teach nurs- aod the girls picked up an eleven weeks troit 26, Mich. ery school, did some art work. Now she old female boxer at the airport-all alone, is busy with house, yard, kids, tennis, and Born: to Tom and Lois Siller Victory a as Poppa was away. Thus her hands are painting for fun. At various times she has third child, first girl, Maureen, on May really full. Mildie sent a clipping of Jo- seen Mitzi Hillman and Mickie Flink Ker- 21, 1956; to David and Betsy Hom Bakel' anne Lambert's wedding picture, She aod ner, She used to see a lot of Ellen Schock I Gilbertson before they moved. Ellen has 1955; to Bill and Janet Doherty McCarthy Duke, husband of jldy Bartlett Harri- two children and Frank is still in training a daughter, Carol Ann, on Oct. 25, 1955; SOil ex '50, is now president of Long Is- to be a surgeon. According to Sue, Frank to Ross and Lonnie Allen Roberts a daugh- land Airways at MacArthur Field, L. T. is the one doctor who has trained longer ter, Susan, on Jan. 19, 1956; to Joe and He sells planes, does charter work, teaches than Jack. Beth Steane Curl a son, Thomas Windsor, flying. Judy is working on him to take on Jan. 21, 1956; to Jim and Carol Dowd some aerial pictures of cc. Gay 3 and Alln Perryman Burke is finally getting Vz Redden a daughter, Cathleen Elizabeth, on Lynn 2 are the Harrison progeny. settled in La Grange, III. Doug started Jan. 31, 1956; to Don and Cal Smith work for Western Electric last fall but Hutchi 7 ance in Hartford, so they are settled down their residence formed a brief backdrop 1952 to norma! living at last. Elizabeth Babbott during the filming of "Carousel." The Lo- CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Melvin G. Marcus received a Ph.D. from Radcliffe in June gans have two sons, William Ward 2V2 (Mary Ann Allen), P. O. Box fin, BOLd- and left the U.S. on Aug. 2 en route to and Alexander Tener 1. Pat Miller Lltke- der, Colo. Japan. She has a 2 year appointment teach- me)'er ex '51 wrote of her hopes to get ing biology at the International Christian to our next class reunion. Her husband Married: Barbara Jean GueillziJ!f to Wil- University outside of Tokyo where the stu- luke owns the Hudgins-Cuter Men's Store liam Gill Gridley Jr., Sept. 4. 954, in dents are 95 % Japanese. Babbie describes on the circle in Indianapolis. Wisconsin. (We are a few years late in herself as "alternately excited and terrified" reporting this). Ka). McLatchit' to Harvy at the prospect. Lyn» Cobbledick left her Beryl Gigle Cape well, after graduating C. Maher, Dec, 10, 1955, in \\i'innetb, post in Christian Education at the Second from CC, attended Hartford Theogical III.; Janet Gilrhrist to Marvin Kun.e, May; Congregational Church in Holyoke, Mass., Seminary and received a Bachelor of Divin- Barbara Therese Goldman to Jni,n Lionel in June to attend Union Theological Sem- ity degree in 1954. This led to her job as Cohen, June 2, in Cincinnati, Oh.i". inary for the second summer. In the fall assistant minister at the Japanese Church Born: to Bill and Barbnnr Geeinzi«s Gill a Lynn will have a new post as Director of in Seattle for a while. Now married to daughter, Katherine Mead, on Mar. 7; to Christian Education at the Old First Marvin Cape-well who is a civil engineer, Stewart and Leila Larson Klein a daugh- Church in Springfield and will attend An- Beryl has terminated her official church ter, Lisa Kristen, Mar. 31; to 1L,ctin and dover Newton Theological School one day work to care for Ruth Anne 2 and Paul 11 Bess Alllhony Begien, their second child, a week in preparation for a master's de- mos. However, she still managed to teach Susan Brownell, in March. gree. the high school class and advise the Youth Fellowship of their church in Paramount, Cathy Kirch Dietrich, Ned and three- Bargara 1l7iegand Pillote, Bob and Cal., doing the latter work with her hus- year-old Libby moved from New London daughters, Lynn and Catherine, moved into band. to Idaho. Ned graduated from the Nuclear a new house in Bethesda, Md., last March. Power School in June an::! the next six Peggy Frallk Huber wrote, "My hus- Bob expects to finish law school this sum- months or so are to be spent at the Na- band George, 23 mos. old Kathy and I mer and to take the bar exam in Decem- tional Reactor Test Site at Arco. Cathy have been living in San Diego since Oc- ber. Cameron and Joan Truscott Clark are says [auet Schmitz A1cCaule)' has moved also proud new home owners, After Cam- tober 1954. George, who is a dentist, is a from New London to Southington. where eron's release from the service last winter, lieutenant in the Navy stationed here and she and Bill bought a house. Na'1ry Day he took a job in a Philadelphia bank and we all love sunny California, He will be has a job with American Cyanamid in they have bought a ranch house in nearby discharged July 14 and then we will head Stamford and just returned from Furope. Merchantville, N. J, Bobbie Tbompson Sta- eastward via Banff and Lake Louise. We Mm'y Ami Rossi Bmc eenridge is in Provi- bile and family moved to Glen Burnie, aren't positive at this time of our destina- dence where her husband is working on Md. in June following Ben's graduation tion, i.e., what town George will start his his Ph.D. [aue Espy Speer has - baby from MIT. Helen [obnso» Leonard is now practice in. I'm keeping busy with Kathy daughter and when last heard from was in located in Cincinnati. She and George have but also doing volunteer work with the Albany where her husband attends .nedi- joined their church choir and love their Navy Relief Society. cal school. Peggy Rebbun Packer returned new home and friendly neighborhood. to New London after being stationed by Johnnie, George and 2Vz year old Jessica fo)' Kam S!llIithll/ spent two weeks in the Navy in Key West, Monterey and made a trip east in August and spent much Bermuda last May at about the time Henry San Diego. Sam is at present on shore of their time swimming at Bay Head, N. J. and f041l AI/drew IWhite were living it up duty with the Submarine School staff. They AI/I/obel Beam Caster has been busy get- in New Orleans and Biloxi, Miss. Fiori have bought a house in Gales Ferry with ting settled in her new home in Cleveland Wedekind has forsaken roommate Willie plenty of yard space for their three chil- but did find time to go to Nassau for a Brugger and their Greenwich Village dren, Sam 5, Mike 4, and Cathy 2, Peg few weeks in the spring. The Custers have apartment this summer to take a three says that it's wonderful to be back where two daughters, Sherri 2V2 and Robin 1. month vacation in Europe. She sailed June there is a change of seasons again and Sewickly, Pa. is the site of the new home 16 on the liner Liberte. Bett y ANn Orr ex they thoroughly enjoyed shoveling out of of Chris Griggs Nimick ex '51. Her chil- '51 visited Florida in February and Europe all the blizzards this winter, dren are Marion 2 and Francis III 8 in May. Between travels she works at the months, Last year JI)Y Anderson Nicholson Fidelity Philadelphia Trust Company as an Betty Cedar Darnell IS enjoying the ex '51 moved from Worcester to Grafton, account analyst in the trust investment de- changeless seasons near the ocean outside Mass. where they bought and remodeled partment, "fascinating work particularly Los Angeles where she, Vaughn and little an old colonial house. They now have the with the stock market booming as it is," Pete live, They are planning a trip to Col- space both indoors and out, that is needed [oan DeMino Onthcwk takes the cake for orado, Rocky Mountain National Park, to for their two boys and two girls. Joy and travelling with her recent trip around the vacation this summer. She and Vaughn are Nick are trying their hands at gardening, world. She went to Bangkok for her wed- very enthusiastic about the National Park tearing down a dilapidated playhouse and ding via Formosa where she visited Jim system, having camped in parks the past rebuilding stone walls. Joy's main outside and Anita Tbollseu Mullens. Joan and two summers. From Betty I hear that activities include one morning a week at ~onald honeymooned in Europe, return- Frencb Paris Dyke and her husband Peter the Well Baby Clinic and a job on the Ing to the States in June. My only claim to are in Munich for a year and a half and Junior League Newsheet. fame is a paltry two-week trip through that Sally Backes Leigh/Oil was having her Virginia and the Carolinas last April with orals in May. Her husband is in the Navy, Bud and AnN JONes Logan live in my husband and sans enfants-a real shot Buzzy and Pat Aheam Berger are living Boothbay Harbor, Me. where last summer in the arm nevertheless. in Harrisburg, Pa. Their oldest daughter, 28 Mary Julia, was born Oct. 14, 1953 and from New York to Cincinnati for Barbie For the past two years Jan Parker has her little sister, Ann Patricia, Jan. 4, 1955. Goldman's wedding and stayed with Betsy been teaching economics at the University From Sharon, Pa. Mary HNrriJOJl Beggs and Dick. of Conn. and working towards her master's writes that Westinghous,e is transferring degree, Jan Penn is secretary to the prin- hear from Gloria that Louise Durfee Jim to Baltimore. Mary enclosed a picture cipal and dean at the Friends- School in lives down the street from her in Brook- of their little Maureen taken on Easter Baltimore. Emilie Camp is studying for lyn and is a lawyer with one of the big morning. Bette Snow Knowlton and [oan her MS degree in science education at Cor- New York firms. Ruth Stupell has been Strachan Zacharias have their heads together nell. She expects to teach science on the acting in winter stock in Florida, is a doing some short story writing. scondary level this fall. Since September member of the N, Richard Nash acting 1954 janice Adams has been working as a IN!;e Hovey Slimm on has been secretary group in New York and a student of Uta research assistant to a physiological psy- for the CC Alumnae Club in Hartford this Hagen. chologist at the Univ. of Penn. medical year. Helen Fricke Mathiesoll and Drew school. have bought a house in Westfield, N, J, 1954 Drew has been transferred to the Westing- CO-CORRESPONDENTS,Lois Keating, 6 Car- Arthur and Nora Keams Grimm have house plant in Jersey City, Francine La- teret Pl., Garden City, L. 1. N. Y, Suzanne recently moved to Yacolt, Wash, where Pointe Buchanan, JP"arren and their daugh- Gaffney, 87 Bradley Ave., East Haven, they will be for three years. Nora's hus- ter Jean are living in Hudson Falls, N. Y, Conn. band is an engineer for a dam project, [oau Abbot who is studying for her mas- Bess AllthollY Begien reports that this Married: Joyce Tower to William Wayne ter's degree in zoology at Washington Univ. bas been quite a year for the Begiens. Sterling on Sept. 16, 1955; Sf/ra Godette in St. Louis, is spending this summer at Their Susan was born in March between to James Franklyn Poirier on Mar. 2, 1956, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods blizzards, they've acquired another cat and in New York City; Arlie Biemiller ex '54 Hole, Mass. Pris Sprague has been work- a house in Egypt, Mass. Tn the spring they to Charles Parker on Mar. 29, 1956 in ing at Yale since Mayas a secretary in the were enjoying their apple orchard in its Baltimore, Md. (her husband, Chuck, is physics department. Gwynn Doyle is a full glory. Bill and Sis Gueinziss Gridley in medical school at the Univ. of Mary- nursery school teacher at Boston Floating are living in New Yark with their baby land where Arlie is a junior instructor in Hospital. This past year [oni Peldgoise Kate, Bill is busy at the Chase Manhattan the biochemistry department.) ; Phyllis Kel- Jaffe taught 8th grade English and Social Bank and going to school at night taking ler to Rev. Theodore o. Granberg on May Studies and 7th grade Math at the Abing- financial courses, Sis worked as a copy- 12, 1956 in Glen Ridge, N. ].; Carolyn ton Friends School in Jenkintown, Fa. Her writer until two months before the baby Chapple to David M. Reed on June 9, husband Paul, an attorney, is vice chairman was born, says she is now happy as a clam 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Cynthia Limon of the Penn, Junior Bar. Midge Briggs taking care of Kate, Corky Fisher Sm:rthe was maid of honor. Ann Heagney, AIlIl Quandt obtained her MA from Radcliffe stopped to see the Gridleys en route to a Afatthews, Barb Guerin Colon and Barb in June 1955. This September she will Bermuda vacation in April. Jean Leitner Garlick Cm·/Joll were bridesmaids. David teach at the Delaware Township School Elliott paid them a visit in January with is going into his last year at Princeton in Sergeantsville, N. j. Bob. The Elliotts are moving to San Fran- Theological Seminary to get his bachelor cisco. Sis sees a lot of Cyodie Fenning '54, of divinity degree); ESf( Cleveland to Frank Trice Brooks Skidmore ex '54 and her who is godmother to baby Kate, The god- Danby Sackey III on June 9 in Pelham husband are in Lucknow, India, where Bill father is John Borden, Gloria Jones' hus- Manor, N. Y. (Norma Hamady and Beo has a Fulbright to study this coming year at the Lucknow University Law School. band. It was sis and Bill who introduced liVhite H'lIIselman ex '54 were attendants.) Gloria and John on a skiing trip last win- Trica will be doing part time teaching in ter. Born: to Bernie and Missy A1arcus Feuer- English and Economics. Anita Gurney, an stein a daughter, Susan Leslie, on Feb. 25; assistant manager in the Stauffer System, I am writing this column while visiting to John and Louise Klump Tanner ex '54 has been living in San Francisco since last Gloria and John at Naples, Fla., where a boy in March; to Eugene and Lee Ander- summer and loves it. Alllle French ex '54 they are vacationing. Gloria left her play, SOli Freund a bQY, Eugene Jr., in April; to is doing secretarial work at NYU and tak- "Diarv of Anne Frank" in April. She and Bruce and Jane Plummer Mansfield a ing courses at night. AlIlle CroH Frost is John 'will Jive in Kingsport, Tenn., next daughter, Linda Jane, on Apr. 17; to Alvin a secretary at the Mississippi River Fuel year where John will be working for Bor- and Dot Libner Wolf SOil a son, Steven Corp. in St. Louis, Mo. Ken, after getting den Mills. Mel, Andy and I are on our Frederick; to Frank and Kitt)' White Skill- out of the Air Force in September, will way from Miami to Boulder, Colo, Mel ner a boy in March; to John and Ann enter \Xfashington University. will be teaching at the University of Colo- D)'geJ"1 Brady a daughter, Robin Elizabeth rado next year while working on his MA M'Lee Catledge Daile)' s father, manag- on May 12; to Robert and joan Herman in geography. Before leaving Miami we ing editor of the New York Times, was Wabatoff a daughter, Diane Lynn, on May had a week's visit from Dick and Betsy an usher in Margaret Truman's wedding. 13; to John and Nancy Blau Lasser a McLane McKilllley with two-year-old Crick- After a bout with the mumps, A1ary Lee daughter, Lynn, on May 14; to Maxwell et and eight-month-old Ricky, Sheila Bur- MatheJon has decided to give up teaching and Milzi C01!itz Rafkill a daughter, H~l- nell Sawyer brought her Carlene over to and become a business woman. Marilyn lis SUS:ln, on Jan. 9; to Robert and Harr~:t play and with Andy, our house seemed Johnson Ragen and her husband are living Bel/wit/ Kirschellbaum ex '54 a son Benpe like a regular nursery, Betsy had a busy in San Diego where Dick is stationed on F b 13 1954 and a son Roger on Mar. week ahead of her when she returned home on e. , . C a submarine, He plans to get out of the 26 1956· to Newton and Joan Britton ox Navy this summer and start at Notre Dame working on a benefit the Conn. College ex' '54 a' daughter Ellen on Sept. 22, 1954 Law School in the fall. Club of Cincinnati was sponsoring. At the d,ughter Anne on Sept. 30, 1955, and a end of May Betsy Gosselin made the trip 29 -- Loie Keating had an exciting trip to babies on June 12, David Robert and Rich- Diamond LupotJ are living in Newport, Europe last winter. She went to Austria ard Frank, fraternal twins. R. I. while Jerry is serving in the Navy. and Switzerland for skiing and was in Syl Doane and Sue Donnally are work- Alan and JOtlN Stulman Horowitz have cel- Rome for Easter. While in Geneva, she ing in the research department of N. Y. ebrated their third wedding anniversary and stayed with Al and Dot Libner Wolfson. Life and living with Marta Lindseth at the are happily building a home in Scarsdale. AI is studying medicine at the university. Beaux Arts. Marta Lindseth is working at They spent their first year of marriage Loie writes that when she was in France, the Hanover Bank in NYC in the Secur- travelling around California with the Mar- she did not stay with Prince Rainier's best ities Analysis department, as well as doing ines, but now Alan is in the construction man-only his first cousin, Jacque, whose volunteer work in occupational therapy in business. Their biggest pride and joy, of wife is an old friend of hers. the tuberculosis ward at the N. Y. Hos- course, is their blonde blue-eyed daughter, pital. After she became Mrs. Richard Gies- Linda Jean, who celebrates her second 1955 ser in September '55, Connie Silverman and birthday in September. Linda Bel'ktl"cm is CORRESPONDENT, Mrs. Robert G. Myers, her new husband spent a wonderful five currently doing public relations work in J r. (Gail Andersen), 7776 Central Ave., week honeymoon in Europe. They're living the traffic and sales promotion department River Forest, Ill. in Cambridge, Mass. She is pleasantly of the Edison Electric Association in New Married: Judith Pennypacker to Ensign employed at the Center of International York. Wesley Griffin USCG on June 2 in Quincy, Studies, which is sponsored by the Ford Mass. (her attendants were Jocelyn An- Foundation and connected with MIT, work- CHRISTMAS CARDS BY CAROlYN drews, Mary Ann Wolpert and Connie ing on a psychological study of xenophilia Schive); Carolyn Diefendorf to Howard to try to prove that many people have a HANDMADE CARDS OFFERED TO Preston Smith on June 2 in Summit, N. J. positive prejudice in favor of foreigners. ALUMNAE AT 10% DISCOUNT. (Henny Jackson Schoeller, Dee Dee Dem- Polly Longnecker found time out from An additional 15% of the cost of ing, and Necia Byerly were attendants, with her job as a secretary in the UN to go your order is contributed directly to Dief's sister, Gretchen, as maid of honor. skiing many weekends last winter. MdTY the Alumnae Fund, These are very Carol Hilton, Frannie Steene, Shirley Smith AnH Wolpert is still working for the NY beautiful and original cards - created Earle, Alicia Allen Brancb and "Twig", Life Insurance Co. and got down to New by a fellow alumna-Carolyn Beattie Gretchen Heidel, Barbara Schutt, Bitsie London to give the white glove inspection Garbutt '49 - which can be printed Root, Beverly Stevens Prakelt were all to the apartments of Cmi e Myers YOIlJlg with your name or that of your fam- and Melr! rWamer Olsou-s-ro demerits. there); Shirley Smith to Ralph Earle Jr., ily. This is an excellent opportunity June 30 in Swarthmore, Pa.; Harriet Ry- Harriet Ryberg COllfOY is working at the to aid your Alumnae Fund and to berg to James F. Conroy on July 4 (Jim Boston Gas Home Service department. Pres obtain very distinctive handmade is in law school so they'll be living in and Carolyn Diefendorf Smith honey- Christmas cards. Drop a postcard in Cambridge.) . mooned in Florida before heading for their Born: to Dennis and Libby Fiala Trone new home in Denver, Colo. the mail now requesting sample cards and details for your Club project. ex '55 in March, a daughter, Janet Louise Sue McCone ex '55 received her MA in (Dennis is a Lt. j.g. in the Navy and education in August from Stanford Univ. CARDS BY CAROLYN they're stationed in Long Beach, CaL); to She is planning a friend-storming tour of Race Lane John and Louise Klein Binswangee two New England this fall. Jerry and Barbara Marstons Mills, Mass. Connecticut College DINNER PLATES By Wedgwood Engraved from Drawings by Robert Fulton Logan THE PLATES are sold in sets of four. Sets include one plate of each of four scenes; Harkness Chapel, Palmer Library, East Entrance, and Knowlton House. The price is 5.115 per set, or $42 for. three sets. The color is a dark, soft sepia gray on white which was developed by Wedg- wood in collaboration with the historical museum at Wil- liamsburg. It will go well with any other china as dinner plates. ORDERS, accompanied by check, should be made payable and sent to the Connecticut College Alumnae Association in New London. 30 » Clubs of the Connecticut College Alumnae Association, Presidents and Secretaries CALIFORNIA MINNESOTA Northern: Miss Margaret E. Coulter '37 Twin Cities: 1422 Bellevue Avenue, Burlingame Mrs. John P, Northcott (Winifred Nies '38) Mrs. Harold R. Manning (Emma T. G. Moore '37) 1823 Edgewood Avenue, St. Louis Park 304 Santa Clara Way, San Mateo Mrs, James W. Stephan (Margaret Ross '37) Southern: Mrs. W. A. Detwiler (Dorothea Marvin '20) . 230 Valley View Place, Minneapolis 19 (temporary chairman) 620 Acanto Street, Los Angeles 49 MISSOURI COLORADO St. Louis: Mrs. Thomas Mulvihill (Nancy Jackes '52) Dentler: Miss Maryelizabeth Sefton '50 437 Carrswold Drive, Clayton 5 1324 Monaco Parkway, Denver 20 Mrs. Harry Koenigsberg (Ann Trepp ex '35) Miss Donna Ruth Mclntosh '54 57 Aberdeen Place, St. Louis 5 LOa Vine Street, Denver 6 NEW JERSEY CONNECTICUT Fairfield (Western): New jersey: Mrs. Lester P. Jones, Jr. (Chloe Bissell '51) Mrs. David Weidig (Marjorie Lawrence '45) 75 North Walnut Street, East Orange 17 Oakdale Road, Glenbrook Mrs. Robert F. Sullivan (Barbara Nash '51) Miss Thursa Barnum '31 Greenbrook Road, North Caldwell 16 Myrtle Street, East Norwalk Bergen Cou nty : Hartiord : Miss Priscilla Pasco '39 Mrs. Daniel Hickey (Maude Rademan '35) 1596 Boulevard, West Hartford 188 Glenwood Road, Englewood Mrs. Morgan B. Brainard 3d (Patricia Kohl '53) Mrs, Philip S, Hartnett (Betsy Clarendon '43) 286 Farmington Avenue, Apt. 4A, Hartford 131 Valley View Avenue, Ridgewood Meriden. Wallingford: Mrs. William Regan (Grace Reed '31) Central New jersey: 273 Long Hill Road, Wallingford Mrs. Robert Wyland (Thelma Gusatfson '43) Mrs, Allyn F. Ehler (Helen Crumrine '48) 141 Harold Avenue, Fanwood One Wilson Avenue, Wallingford Mrs. Robert A. Wenneis (Jane Storms '43) NetIJ London: Mrs. Stephen Genitt (Fay Ford ex '44) 27 Pine Avenue. Madison Shore Road, Waterford NEW YORK Miss M, Augusta O'Sullivan '22 One Gallup Lane, Waterford New York City: Miss Ann Hutchison '53 IPaterbery: Miss Marion Pierpont '28 63 East cth Street, Apt. 4M, New York Meriden Road, Waterbury Mrs, Edward Blitzer (Nancy Mayers '45) Miss Gertrude Traurig '22 75 Central Park West, New York 23 174 Euclid Avenue, Waterbury Central New York: Mrs. Howard Lewis, Jr. (Jane Folts '43) DELAWARE Jf/fJmillgton: 318 Jamesville Road, Dewitt 14 Mrs, Delbert Kolterman (Carolyn Taves '49) Rochester: Mrs. Karl Warner (Jane Moore '31) 308 Nichols Avenue, McDaniel Crest, Wilmington 167 Hermitage Road, Rochester Mrs. Edward Cooch, Jr. (Sarah Rodney '41) Miss Geraldine Coon '35 Third and Harmony Streets, New Castle 149 Pleasant Way, Penfield DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JlYeJlchestet': Mrs. Paul Allen Edna Fuchs '42) If/ashington: 52 Edgewood Road, Scarsdale Mrs, Gerald S. Norton (Mary Kent Hewitt '44) Mrs, Anthony V. Ellrodt (Janet Fletcher '41) 5108 First Street North, Arlington, Virginia 48 Lafayette Drive, Port Chester Mrs. Richard W, Goode (Mary Lee Minter '46) 4405 Stanford Street, Chevy Chase, Maryland OHIO AkrOIl: Mrs, Richard Staiger (Charlotte Enyart '50) 1LLINOIS 224 Lownsdale Avenue, Akron 13 Chicago: Mrs. Sam Fawley (Doris Stone ex '49) Mrs. Thomas L. Stevens (Adeline McMiller '29) 1182 Carol Lane, Glencoe 287 Overwood Road, Akron 13 Mrs. Wadsworth Stone (Sarah How '49) 1942 Thornwood Lane, Northbrook Ci ncinnati: Mrs. Jack Geiler (Nancy Blades '47) 2757 Eugenie Lane, Cincinnati 11 KENTUCKY Mrs. John Burgevin (Clarissa Weekes '40) Louisville: Mrs. R. W. Hogue (Isabelle Bartlett '32) 1139 Fehl Lane, Cincinnati 30 3923 Druid Hill Road, Louisville Mrs, ]. R. Poteat (Isabelle Rumney '20) Cleoeland : 2553 Trevilian Way, Louisville Mrs. Philip Partington (Gertrude Mehling '36) 3681 Traynham Road, Cleveland 22 MASSACHUSETTS Mrs. Andrew P. Carstensen, Jr. (Elizabeth Marsh '48) Boston: Mrs. Philip Brickley (Mary Roemer '46) 3226 Chadbourne Road, Shaker Heights 77 Pinckney Street, Boston 14 Miss Gretchen Heidel '55 PENNSYLVANIA 58A Garden Street, Boston 14 Philadelphia: Mrs, Charles J. Tenney (Janet Baker '50) Springfield: Mrs. Donald C. Hutchison 784 Holly Road, Wayne (Carolyn]. Smith '50) Mrs. Thomas Heisler (Helen Stott '40) 31 Donamor Lane, East Longmeadow Hilldale Road, Villanova Miss Barbara Norton '49 19 Princeton Street, Holyoke Pittsburgh: Worcester: Mrs, Theodore Deitz (Marjorie Mintz '38) Mrs. A. Douglas Hannah (Margaret Patton ex '41) 9 Chiltem Hill Drive, Worcester 4752 Bayard Street, Pittsburgh 13 Mrs. Ralph B. Martin (Lois Anne Nagel '43) Mrs. Parker Wellington (Dorothy Harris '37) West Waldheim Road, Pittsburgh 15 5 Brook Hill Drive, Worcester » Regarding S-A - c A committee of the Executive Board of the Alumnae Association (Chair- man, Mildred Howard '20, head of the Physical Education Department of Mount Holyoke College) has been working on plans for the alumnae section of the STUDENT-ALUMNAE CENTER. You will be kept informed of developments as they take place. Agnes B. Leahy, President o] the Alumnae Association CLASS REUNIONS, 1957 THROUGH 1961 BELOW are listed the classes scheduled to hold Class Reunions during the next five years. Connecticut reunions are scheduled according to the plan whereby classes which were in college together return together for reunions. Any class may request the Executive Board of the Alumnae Association for permission to return at another time. Correspondence on reunion affairs should be addressed to the General Reunion Chairman, who is Mn. Charles Beckel', [r. (Sarah Pithouse '27), 112 Buck Lane, Haueriord, Pennsvioania. The complete reunion schedule will be published in a later issue of the ALUMNAE NEWS. 1957: '22, '23, '24, '25, '32, '41, '42, '43,' '44, '56 1958: '19, '20, '21, '33, '37, '38, '39, '40, '56, '57 1959: '33, '34, '35, '36, '52, '53, '54, '55, '58 1960: '29, '30, '31, '32, '35, '48, '49, '50, '51, '59 1961: '25, '26, '27, '28, '36, '44, '45, '46, '47, '60