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OF GENERAL INTEREST Winthrop Scholars Organize Florence M. Edwards, Kathryn Hul- bert, Edith V. Lindholm, Elizabeth V. HE honor students of Connecticut Nagy, Clarissa Ragsdale, Dora M. College, known as Winthrop Schol- Schwartz, Edith C. Smith, Marjorie O ars have voted by mail to remain R. Viets. a simple 'organization, with a president Class of 1921: Hattie L. Goldman, Char- and secretary as their only officers, the lotte Hall, jean D. Hippolitus, Loretta election to be carried on by mail. An Roche. organization meeting was held on campus Class of 1922: Gertrude C. Avery, Helen during Alumnae Week-end in February, E. Crofoot, Lucy C. McDannel. and another meeting has been called In Class of 1923: Ethel P. Adams, Carmela june, at which time the a.nnouncement of Anastasia, Helen B. Avery, Helen A. the results of the balloting for officers, Barkerding. Marie-Louise M. Berg, will be made. The purpose of such an Bernice M. Boynton, Florence A. organization is primarily to make the Hopkins, Adelaide H. Satterly, Harriet group feel that they are a unit, and to Woodford. Helene R. Wulf. have some one in authority to call meet- Class of 1924: Eileen M. Fitzgerald, ings each year. Eventually the group Marion E. Sanford, Katherine A. Shel- will doubtless desire to assert itself in ton, Marion L. Vibert. some concrete way, by taking a definite Class of 1925: Olga M. Gennert, Elinore part in some college project. H. Kelly, Dorothy Kilbourn, Dora Mi- The name Winthrop Scholars has been lenky, Gertrude E. Noyes. most fittingly chosen to designate those Class of 1926: Rosamond Beebe, Dorothy who have attained distinction for scholar- F. Cannon, Clarissa Lord, Grace M. ship at Connecticut College, for it is a Parker. name closely associated both with Con- Class of 1927: Margaret A. Battles, Mary. necticut, especially in and about New A. Crofoot, Frances M. Joseph. Cora London and with scholarship of outstand- E. Lutz, Harriet L. Taylor, Minnie ing quality since earliest colonial times. Watchinsky, Margaret L. Woodworth, Several generations of Winthrops took Mary M. Clish. active part in the building up of the Class of 1928: Roberta Bitgood, Theresa colony, and likewise pursued investiga- G. D'Alessio, Constance L. Irving, Ab- tions in several fields of science-astron- bie E. Kelsey, Anna C. Lundgren, Bes- omy, geology and other branches of learn- sie F. Meyer, Mildred Rogoff, Truth ing. In a delightful and illuminating talk Wills.· to the alumnae in February, Dr Leib Class of 1929: janet P. Boomer, jennie traced the history of these great early Copeland, Frances Hubbard, Eleanor L. Americans in an address which we deeply Michel, julia Rubenstein. regret there is no room to print herewith Class of 1930: Lelie Benedict. for the benefit of. those who did not -o-c-c- hear him. Alumnae Statistics In establishing the Winthrop Scholar- The Campus News give a an illuminat- ship, the faculty a year ago voted to ing summary of alumnae statistics: 32 make the action retroactive, affecting all states and 9 foreign countries, and 36 pro- classes from 1919, 00. The -names of fessions are represented among the. 784 those who have won the distinction thus graduates of C. C. Marriage is the most far follow: popular career, numbering 226 adherents, Class of 1919: Esther L. Batchelder, with 161 children; 116 are teachers; higher Grace A. Cockings, Gertrude K. Espen- degrees have been won by 42. Salaries scheid, Katherine Q. Holway, Marion range from $1.000, the lowest, to $4000, T. Kofsky, Miriam K. Pomeroy; Vir- the highest. The average compensation ginia C. Rose, Gladys E. Stanton, N. received the first year ranees between Juline Warner, Rosa S. Wilcox, Susan $1,200 and $1,3QO, salaries which compare R. Wilcox. favorably with figures from other Class of 1920: Marjorie M. Carlsson, women's colleges. Men graduates' sal- Olive E. Doherty, Marjorie M. Doyle, aries are somewhat higher. · ------2 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS -----

A Garden Project for C. C. $50 to the garden and we have had gifts of plants from various individuals from Caroline A. Black the Faculty and town. The sophomore (Dr. Black answers our request fOT news. of of tile college botanical garden with the followmg class in Botany this year, after having interesting aecol/Ilt.) the theory and practice of planting and 0 R many years the Department of growing spring bulbs, arranged a sale of Botany has attempted to start a their tulips, hyacinths, etc., in bloom. The garden. Various spots on the girls made about $40 from this and plan B to buy a bird bath for the garden. Two campus have been seized and attacked ~y of the members of the class are designing ambitious and enthusiastic stud.ents In different courses in Botany. Elizabeth this now and we will have it made soon. Nagy worked valiantly on a small strip Our present tool house is the garage near New London Hall. This gave place under Vinal's porch but we have visions to a row of garages which in turn dis- of a small structure built to match Vinal, appeared with the advent of the present with potting room and work room where athletic field. Alice Graue during one classes could be held adjacent to the gar- summer cared for a plot behind the Lib- den. In the meantime we have an out- rary, which her class had started in the door laboratory in the garden and hope spring. And so it has gone on until now, for future development. when south east of Vinal Cottage lies Caroline C. Black. what may be the promise of a Connecticut -0-0-0-- Botanical Garden. Its beginning is Loretta Roche Wins Poetry Laurels due to Mr. Lambdin who relieved the A successful poetess among the gradu- need of help in the small greenhouse ates of Connecticut College is Loretta adjacent to the Botany Laboratory by Roche '21, of Old Lyme. The first supplying a full time gardener for the prize in the poetry contest held by The department. Writer in March, 1928, representation in Work was first started toward the end two anthologies of modern verse, and pub- of last July. The area was a tangle of lication of many poems in the leading sumach and poison ivy. When this was serious and humorous magazines, are cleared the possibilities of a wonderful gaining for Miss Roche the favorable setting for a rock garden were revealed, comment of nationally known critics, and as well as a magnificent view, opening a a collection of her poetry may appear in new and unrestricted outlook. Below the the near future. ledge and boulders which form the crest Although poetry is the mode of expres- of the natural slope falling from Mohegan sion which Miss Roche prefers, she has Avenue to the Thames are some marvel- also written essays which have been pub- ous oaks. The rock garden is beginning lished in various magazines. In addition to take form. Plants are now interspersed to her writing, Miss Roche has been among the stones from an old rambling teaching in private and public schools, wall which crossed the ledge. Bulbs plant- tutoring, and has been assistant to the ed by students last fall, now give a little publicity committee of the Lyme Art As- color here and there. Cold frames contain sociation. many diminutive rock plants, annuals and The two anthologies which have in- perennials which will be transplanted as eluded Miss Roche's poetry are the Mod- fast as time permits. When one sees the ern Book of Catholic Verse, compiled by heaps of roots of sumach and poison ivy, Theodore Maynard and published by gathered from a very small bed, one real- Henry Holt and Company, and Current izes the difficulties in starting a garden Catholic Verse, compiled by Macastocker on new land. and Pfeiffer, and published by Scott, I t is expected eventually to establish Foresman and Company. Among the groups of native plants when the condi- magazines that have published her work tions where they will thrive are better are Verse, Poety-A Magazine of Verse, known. Both native and cultivated plants The Writer, JAPM, Contemporary Verse, now used in landscape planting are ar- The Bucccaneer, The Catholic World, ranged in beds, grouped according to fam- The Commonweal, The Harp, Holland's ily or genus. For example one can see Magazine, The Lyric West, Interludes, four types of forsythia in one bed and in The Measure, The Magnificat, Pan-Poetry another seven or eight kinds of lilacs and and Youth, Sewanee Review, The Step so on. Of course these plants are small Ladder, Voices, Virginia Quarterly Re- now, but a few years will make a big dif- view, The Chicagoan, Silhouettes. Her ference in their growth. Altogether there humorous poems have been printed by are about two hundred woody plants in Harper's Bazaar and Life. The book sec- the garden. tion of the following newspapers have also The garden is being maintained at pres- carried Miss Roche's poems: The New ent by a very small allotment from the York Herald-Tribune, The Boston Tran- usual budget for the department. Last script, The New London Day, and The week the New London Garden Club gave Boston Globe. _____ CONNECTICUTCOLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS -----3

Connecticut College Alumnae News ing editors who have labored with equal diligence, each to secure some important part of the collection of material that Vol. 6 june, 1929 No.4 must fill 16 pages four times a year. Then there is a business manager who has to Published four times a year, November, see to the printing, layout, and proof- February, April and june by the Con- reading-a colossal task in itself. Such necticut College Alumnae Association at labor involves hours of time for each in- 260 West 41st St., New York, N. Y. Sub- dividual, which cannot begin to be ap- scription price $1.00 a year. preciated by those who have had no share Entered as second class matter Decem- in the labor. Letters to editors, to the ber 15, 1928, at the post office at New secretary, to the contributors possible and York, N. Y., under the act of March, 1879. probable, have to be exchanged from one end of the country to the other. The staff is scattered throughout the country EDITORIAL STAFF -Cleveland, Indianapolis, New Jersey, Editor in Chief New York, and Connecticut. We have tried to issue a satisfactory magazine un- Juline Warner Comstock, '19 der these trying conditions, but much has 176 Highwood Avenue, Leonia, N. J. not been to our liking nor satisfaction. Managing Editor, Pauline Warner, '26 The wrappers are printed and addressed Assistant Editors: by our graduate secretary at C. C., who julia Hatch, '19; Miriam Taylor, '22' uses the treasurer's list (sent from Massa- Hazel Osborn, '26; Barbara Tracy, '27; chusetts) for her guide. These have to Louise Towne, '28. be sent to New York, from where the papers are mailed. Addresses change, and the notice does not get to her in time. EDITORIAL Papers are lost. Time is lost in the trans- actions. We need a central office and one And Now a Resident Secretary ? person to be permanently in charge. We HE Connecticut College Alumnae need a permanent Alumnae Secretary. Association is growing by over a -0-0-0- O hundred new members a year. The business of conducting such an organiza- Miss Evelyn Holmes Leaves tion via long distance accommodations Scholarship Fund to C. C. grows increasingly difficult. There are constant inquiries to be answered, sta- Miss Evelyn Holmes, sister of Miss tistics to be consulted, or tabulated, let- Mary Holmes, who died recently, has left ters to be written,-and an alumnae paper a provision in her will bequeathing the to be issued! Such tasks have been dis- sum of $6,000 to Connecticut College for tributed among several faithful souls, with the purpose of creating a fund, the in- several personal interests and duties to be come of which shall be used for a scholar- performed, and the difficulties of this ar- ship in the department of Chemistry to rangement are growing increasingly com- be known as the Mary Elizabeth Holmes plicated. True, we have a resident grad- scholarship. uate secretary, a part of whose salary we Connecticut College has reason to be pay, for the purpose of assuring ourselves grateful for these two kindly sisters who an alumnae representative on campus to made this last of their college homes so take care of our multitudinous alumnae much a part of campus life. Especially cares and correspondences. But her task the off-campus students were made to feel is also to represent, in a measure, the that this home was always open to them college body, and to take an active part as a welcome and inviting spot. In leav- in campus affairs. Moreover, she is a new ing such a fund, Miss Holmes and her person every year. She hardly has a sister will long be gratefully remembered chance to accustom herself to the varied by those of coming classes who were not and intricate duties that devolve upon her fortunate enough to know in person these office, when her year is up, and a new two real friends of all college students. graduate sevretary inherits her work. -0-0-0- Take for example the labor of getting out an alumnae quarterly. The editor Dr. Katharine Blunt is announced presi- each time has to get in touch with all dent of Connecticut College as we go to class correspondents, and see that all press. We know of Dr. Blunt that she classes are contributing their news items. graduated from Vassar in 1898, received (And how well and faithfully these cor- her doctorate from the University of Chi- respondents have done their share you cago, and has taught chemistry and home may best judge by the full and newsy col- economics. Her call to Connecticut umns that they have contributed each is- brings her from the Department of Home sue.) There are faithful and long-suffer- Economics at the University of Chicago. 4------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS----_

New Curriculum Committee Music Lessons That Are Fun Organized at College Katherine Stone, '23, writes of the Dunning System. (Tire jollrr.ving information about the new curriculum committee has been: SlIpplied by ~Mary During the past two years I have en- !II. Scattergood '29.) joyed teaching the Dunning System of Music Study which I have found espe- S YOU know the curriculum com- cially effective in laying the foundation mittee here-to-fore had been an for the study of music. This system was fI advisory body to the President, originated by Mrs. Carre L. Dunning, a called together at his will. When there pupil of Leschetizky, who, on her return was no longer a president, the committee to America taught advanced pupils until, went out of existence. impressed with their lack of general This year the Student Government cabi- knowledge of the fundamental principles net felt the need of a curriculum com- of music she sought a better method of mittee, but not one just like the old one. instructing beginners, particularly chil- Cabinet wanted a committee composed dren. of students and faculty who could act on The children meet in classes of about measures as well as deliberate on them. five and go on their "Trips to Music-land" An attempt has been made to form some- where they discover many wonderful facts thing like this. It is composed of the about music. The first couple of weeks Presidential Committee (Dean Nye, Dr. are spent in developing the sense of Kip and Dr. Leib) and three students, rhythm, learning the lines and spaces, the two Seniors and a Junior, nominated by value of notes, the correct hand position, Cabinet and elected' by the student body. and the relation of the keyboard to the (For 1928-1929 they were Frances Wells grand-steff. Then, when the children go and Mary Scattergood, Seniors, and Ade- to the piano there are not so many things laide Finch, Junior.) to puzzle out all at once. The drills are made interesting through the use of songs Students are supposed to bring all com- and games-and of course there is much plaints to their representatives, who in competition. Movable musical characters turn present them to the entire committee, are used to illustrate musical principles. which meets not at regular intervals, but No grotesque names are associated with whenever business arises. The duties of plain musical terms. Pictures and verses the committee are to talk over both sides give an intimate knowledge of the great of every question, the students present- composers and cultivate a taste for their ing their complaints and helpful suggest- compositions. ions. The members of the Presidential After about two months the children Committee, who naturally give the last have one class lesson and one private word in all matters, then discuss the lesson at the piano each week. In this questionn among themselves, and act on way they seem to move along much faster it if the committee sees fit. than we did when we learned the old way. Very little has been accomplished so My second year pupils are now talking far. As the name suggests, the committee in terms of dominant sevenths, cadences deals only with curriculum, that is aca- and modulations. They have reached the demic affairs. The main change th~t has point where they write melodies from dic- been made is in regard to the final exa- tation and compose simple pieces in dif- mination schedule. Exams are to be ex- ferent rhythms which would put my tended over a longer period than for- Freshman harmony work to shame. And merly, with fewer exams on each day. as for practise at the piano-there is noth- Physical Education is to be the very first ing like a bit of class rivalry to send Mary exam, and no 'big' exams are to take to the piano, without a thought of drudg- place the first day. This change has been ery, lest Ruth or Johnny get a bit ahead made in order to give a little recess in of her. -0-0-0- which to study between the last classes Campus News and the harder exams. The department of music recently en- Other projects presented by the stud- tertained with a unique program, Music ~nts are being considered, but cannot go for violin and piano, and a cantata based into effect until next year. on a. German poem were presented, all the mUSIC being the original composition of The committee is an extremely im- the five members of the advanced class portant one. Care must be taken in the in Composition. student election that girls are chosen who -0- ca? discriminate wisely between foolish The senior class has elected, among cn~lclsm and well-grounded complaints. other alumnae officers Eleanor Fahey With such members, the committee should president, and Julia Rubenstein Alumnae be able to better scholastic conditions. News staff representative . . ------CONNECTICUT COLLEGEALUMNAENEWS·-----S AMONG OURSEL YES

1919 find a dissertation on that subject at Co- lumbia University, the work of Esther Cor:respondent: Grace Cockioge , L. Batchelder, Ph. D. 336 Main Street, Bristol, Conn. Lucy Marsh Haskell has departed for "Met" Weed Seeley writes that she Vienna, Austria, to be gone until next is at present quarantined for whooping fall. cough which means she will be shut in for Wrey Warner writes from Constanti- six weeks, and will have to forego Tenth. nople of meeting Laura Jacobs' brother She has been studying French and Ger- when the cruiser Raleigh, which he com- man, belongs to a study club, works on mands, received a royal welcome to the the Education Committee for the Y. W., city. also the A. A. U. W., and is on the Uni- versity Committee which hires speakers. Mid White saw Miss Sherer in New York just before Easter. Miss Sherer, They expect to build a new home on the her niece and Margaret Ives, are going new campus (Duke University) and are abroad again this summer. Mid also vis- now busy with plans. She wrote she had ited Ruth McGarry Barry and reports just finished eighteen dresses for her three she has a very charming little' daughter. small girls, and is sending pictures of the Between times, Mid is busy going to children for the scrap book. Carol is the bridge parties, weddings and theaters. student, and has already skipped a grade Miriam Pomeroy Rogers describes her in school; Betty is the housekeeper, and home in McAllen Texas with much en- Ruth the tomboy. thusiasm-"This Valley is not like any other part of the U. S. A.-very young, Jean Sawin Hawley writes: "Mid very eager, very beautiful, its pouulation White and Mid Wells Colby were here made up of all sorts of people from all last week. We talked about the '1gers over the country. Democratic, outspoken, and such fun it was." Jean has two at- rough and ready, but striding ahead in tractive little girls. The older one, Barb- seven league boots-that is the Valley." ara, is five, goes to schol and loves to She writes she is very busy with house- read to her sister, Janice, who is only two hunting, and moving, and keeping up with years old. The Hawley family live in the a very lively little Jimmy, but in spite of country between Mt. Holyoke and Smith it all, she is coming East, and to Re- colleges. Mr. Hawley is secretary to union. Mass. Aggie, so they see a great deal of the students and college life. Jean called on Priscilla Ford Schenke when in New Haven recently. Dr. Ruth Anderson has been spending some time in Philadelphia where she has been taking some special P. G. work. May Buckley is making all the samples and designs and directs the work of five decorators for the studio of Miss Menard. They sell their articles thru "Mary Ryan", who has a large warehouse and carries about fifty different lines of goods. They are doing remarkably well, and have already had four re-orders from Wana- maker's. Polly Christie enjoyed her first auto ride since Christmas one Sunday recently. Dr. Ruth Anderson stopped off on her way to Philadelphia to see Polly. Classmates who may be curious to learn James Gladney Rogers smiles his agree- what is the effect of successive diminu- ment with his mother (Miriam Pomeroy tion of Vitamin A in the food on the Rogers '19) that Te~as is a very splendid nutrition and vitality of albino rats will place to live. p

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Elaine was born on April 5th, 1929, 1920 weighing 6 lbs. 15% ozs. Her mother Correspondent: Mrs. Philip M. Lcce, was Fanchon Hartman. 555 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. We were delighted to receive a card from Harriet Allen who informs us that she is employed in London, and that she is thoroughly enjoying life in old Eng- land. Alice Horrax Schell sails June 15th on the Homeric for Europe. Arvilla Hotchkiss Titterington writes that she expects to move to New Britain shortly, as her husband has been trans- ferred there from Waterbury. Joan Munro Odell has moved to 60 Gra- mercy Park North, New York City. Those of '20 who have not yet paid their class dues please make a note of Joan's new address and get o ut your check book. Justine P. Brockett Hjort is living in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dorothy Drummond (nee Hover) writes that her son Hall weighed 9 lbs. 8% oz. when he was born. DDt's new address is 826 Tioga Avenue, Bethlehem, Pa. We have heard, indrectly, that Alberta Lynch Sylvester, her husband and son Peter are building a home in Glenbrook, Conn., and expect to be moving soon. Nancy and larry Miner, children of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Reiche of Bristol, Helen Collins Miner, '20, "rinsing off after Conn., introduced Frank Perley Reiche to their swim". 1920 at the New Babies' Hour, station S-T-O-R-K, on May 8, 1929. Helen Collins Miner has just sent a Mildred Howard has been studying at very interesting letter, .telline of her two Columbia, on a leave of absence from her lively, husky children, Nancy who is al- work at Mt. Holyoke. most four and Larry who will be three -0.,....-0-0- in June. The children were asked to 1921 C. C. to take some tests given by the Correspondent: Anne P. Flaherty, Child Psychology class and Helen says 120 Madison A venue, New York City that they managed not to disgrace a C. C. Olive L. Corbin sends a picture of her mother. If you will look at the Fasci- two lovely children with this note: "Am nating picture she sent of them you will stealing just a minute between orange agree with me that their mother is in no juice and all other sundries to send along danger of being disgraced. a word to '21. We are building our own Besides her domestic duties which in- home with great glee-the corporation is clude running a ten room house, Helen expanding you see, and needs more work- is an the Board of Directors of the Y. W. ing space, and with this and that we man- C. A. also on the Executive Board of the age not to get bored with life. Hurrah American Red Cross. She is Recording for the future generation!" Secretary of this chapter. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters. Then, every Thursday she makes surgical dressings at the Lawrence Hospital. Besides these regular meetings she is on committees for benefit bridges for this that and the other thing, for the hospital cake sales, for luncheons and suppers etc. ad infinitum. Helen took her first airplane ride last week. She adds that Mid Wells Colby is living in Northampton, Mass. Mary Chipman Morris was visiting her last week. Catherine Troland is working as social reporter of the Day. Me and Mrs. Melvin Title have announced the birth of a daughter, Elaine. Children of Olive LitterhaJes Corbin. - ----~ CONNECTICUTCOLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS-----7 Anna Mae Chalmers: "With no Euro- 1922 pean trips with which to entertain you all-I've just sat back and read all the Correspondent: Dorothy Wheeler, exciting news about other C. C.ites. How- 19 Shultas Place, Hartford, Conn. ever, I have something to contribute this Hear ye! Hear ye ! The engagement time! It's a new daughter! Alan and announcement of Mollie Keing to L. Joan have a new sister who arrived April Fisher Silversmith. Mr. Silversmith is 15. Joyce is her name and altho she's from Brookline, Mass., an engineer and not so husky as yet, I'm hoping she'll be a graduate of M. I. T.. Mollie has a very able to swing a hockey stick some day. stunning ring and we extend our whole Alan and Joan are most amusing now and hearted congratulations. we have a lot of fun with them. Helen Helen Tryon and her roommate are Higgins Bunyan lives quite near me and moving about the first of June to the first we've seen each other several times. She floor of a 'double house where they will has an adorable Iitle girl, Anne. have four rooms and sun porch. The "Ruth Wilson Chaffe and I were to- new address will be 17 Harvard Park- gether a few days ago. She also has a way, New Rochelle. daughter, Rita, who is a year and a half Alice Hagar Schoffstall writes of being old." in New York for Easter and seeing From California: "Announcing the ar- Blanche and Ruth Rose. The latter took rival of Raymond William to Mr. and her and her husband to see some of the Mrs, Homer Holton, April 30." Congrat- sights on the East Side. She goes on: ulations Mother and Dad! (Charlotte "Am still working and manage to keep Hall-Ed.) house, too. It's quite a trick and the Loretta Roche continues to write poems actual housework is rather sketchy except and has had several more printed lately. for the meals. I surprised everybody by How about a collection of them, Lo- inheriting my father's ability to cook and (etta? that and my soccer record seem to be the only places where I'd ever get a medal." . Dot Henkle is coaching the Dramatic Helen Merritt has secured her M. A. Club play at C. C., "The Second Mrs. from Columbia and a certificate as Teach- Tanqueray." er of Education. She had heard from Lydia Marvin is secretary to Dr. Row- Grace Berger who is legal secretary to ley, a Hartford surgeon. She says: "I Judge Harold Lauderbach of the United am still singing but I sing contralto in- States District Court in San Francisco .. stead of soprano. It is the same voice .. Minneola Miller is back at Congamond but much easier for me to sing, as it is Lakes, Southwick, Mass., after wonderful placed where it belongs." months spent in the West. She writes: "When you were in Denver I was up in Dr. Jean Hippo litus is practising in a log cabin in the Rockies, 9500 feet up New Haven and is very enthusiastic about any way. I wish I'd have known you her work: "Last August I took the Civil were there; you'd surely have been Service exams for the position of school kidnapped and dragged away to my den physician and I was successful in getting in the Hills, where you could see snow my appointment. There are two of us in caps by day and hear coyotes at night, the city doing the work and when I tell sometimes whole choruses of them." you there are sixty-five schools, you can Minnie Pollard is to be married in June. get an idea of the enormity of the work. 1922 extends its very best to her. It's intensely interesting and I'm fond of Mary Damerel is studying at Brown children." University during her spare time from Dot' Wulf is planning a trip abroad this the Lorraine Community House in West- summer. Bon voyage, Dot! erly, Rhode Island. "Little Batch" and her family have Does anyone know anything about moved to the Honduran border, in Guate- Tony Taylor? Is she still studying mala, their farm being called "Entre music? Rios". Their post office address still is From Anne Slade Frey: "I'm still in Puerto Barr'os, however. Laura and the Hanover and have enjoyed it more this two children will accompany Mrs. Batch- year than ever before. My daughter is elder back to Connecticut, for the sum- 5% and seems an adult now-which I re- mer, where they will be joined later by sent. I've had an interesting nursery Mr. Sharpe. school for 2 years-with another faculty lady. And this year I've been playing a Harriet Louise Bassett arrived on April great deal, which has been a great pleas- 12, much to the delight of her parents, ure." Mr. and Mrs. George Bassett, of Mans- Dear old "Millsie" writes from Lon- field Depot, Conn. Harriet Louise Bas- don, Ontario: "We have had a hectic sett, born on April 12, is, as her proud winter! My husband had 'flu' in Decem- mother Ruth McCollum, declares, '21's ber and it left his heart weak-so conse- first chemistry baby. quently he has been in the hospital for ,------

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three months giving the heart a complete 1923 rest. He is progressing nicely now-a!1d in another two weeks I hope to have hIt? Correspondent: Mary Langenbacher, home again. Then in the midst of his Miss Wright's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa. illness my baby girl at seven months took On very impressive CAMP FIRE whooping cough and then the boy-four GIRLS' stationery with "Bernice Boyn- years old had it." ton, Executive" comes news of her and her work in Indianapolis with six hun- "Marjorie Wells has gained 12 lbs. in dred girls who keep her "everlastingly on San Francisco. The climate surely must the jump." We can almost understand agree with her. I expect to see Marge now why we haven't heard from her again this summer on my way from the sooner. "At present," she writes, "I am Canal to Alaska." in the midst of a Capital Expense Cam- paign for the Indianapolis Camp Fire Extracts from a letter from Wrey War- Girls' summer camp and working harder ner, ex-'22, describing a hydroplane trip than I ever thought I could or would. from Constantinople to Athens: "It was But the success is assured and we are all a grey day. but not very windy-at 10:05 happy as clams over it. But I shall reap none of the benefits of the newly equipped A. M. having had our baggage weighed camp, for on June 22nd I sail for Europe etc. we bundled up, climbed down into the to be gone until Sept. 15th. It is my first

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in Hollywood for 'Phantom in the Wine'." to Mr. Arnold Exell of England. Mr. Last February Caroline, Peg Jacobson, Exell is assistant manager of the Kobe Anita G. Harris and Mike returned to Branch Changing Bank of India. C. C. to find the "old halls of learning -o-o--c- looking very swell and sophisticated ... Below we have a "natural picture" On top of that the present students are of Betty Moyle Gold's boys. Betty all young and little and fluffy and radiant. is busy moving to their new home And we looked at one another suspiciously m the country, but has had time to go to and asked, 'Were we ever as young and the New Haven Chapter Meetings and little and fluffy and radiant as these?' dinner. Picture Ruth Wells and Abby and the raven-maybe it was Peg- Hollister alighting irom the trolley with croaked, 'Never. And not any more, immense balloons for Betty's boys the either.' So then we fell to pieces with day of the Yale-Army game, trying des- grief on one another's chests-Life, we pe rately to retain their dignity and still were sure, had just passed us by in the hold on the capricious balloons. night. Or to be specific, since 1923." "'Rams' consoled us a lot. She was just the same. A sort of trustworthy feminine Gibraltar in the midst of all this tangle of unspoiled youth and beauty ... I wanted to talk to Dean Nye and Dr. Leib, but both of them were hemmed in by basket ball games or constituents. I was happy to talk to Dr. Lawrence a few minutes. He's written a very fine thing in his 'The Not Quite Puritans' and of course it is highly praised everywhere. I looked for myoId locker, but it was gone. That was the last straw." And then comes the news of the engagement of Marion Page to Earle Ken- neth French of Lancaster, New Hamp- shire. Marion writes, "He attended Bow- doin for three years and is a graduate of Keene Normal College. He is now a teacher of manual training, geometry and mechinal drawing." No date has been set for the wedding. Marion has been in charge of the largest branch library in West Manchester (in the southern part Thomaston, two years old, and Beecher, four and a half, sons of Betty Moyles of New Hampshire) for over a year. Gold '23. Betty Dickinson and Hannah Sachs are working together in a commercial chemistry laboratory in Hartford. Betty likes 1924 the work because it is varied. "We test Correspondent: Helen Douglass North, milk for bacteria and butter fat, private Box 954, New Haven, Conn. supplies of water for their fitness to be Mr. and Mrs. David North announce used as drinking water, and analyze everything from tar to ice-cream. Occa- the arrival of a son, Richard Baldwin, on AnTiI 15, at New Haven Hospital. sionally something blows up, or 'tear gas' The fair child mentioned above, who is is accidentally formed, and then we weep for half a day." blessed with light hair, blue eyes, a wonderful disposition, and all that goes with a Rheta Clark, Betty says, is still en- fine healthy specimen of humanity, is the thusiastic about her teaching and library first boy to arirve in the Douglass family work in Wallingford and studies every in fifty-five years, and is. therefore, quite summer at Columbia. And more news: the pride and joy of all his relatives. Peg Louise Lindeman expects to be married Dunham, who is working at Yale Uni- the middle of August. versity, rather delighted in taking " a Abby Hollister and Anna Buell have little time off" to come to see me and the an apartment in Hartfort and gave a baby while at the hospital and she also birthday party there for Marcia Langley thinks the baby quite an asset to our in April. family. Dot Hubbell drove up one Satur- Laura Dickinson has a daughter, Eliza- day afternoon from New York for a short beth Dickinson Swift, born April 19. visit with me at the hosoital, and it surely Elizabeth CalIady, ex-'23, left Hartford was fine to see her. She seem to be as with her parents on May 4 for Yoke- busy as ever at the library at N. Y. U., hama, Japan, where she will be married but is apparently enjoying her work. 10)...---- CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAE NEWS-----

A letter from Catts Holmes (Brandow) Clara Cooper (Short) is living in Glen- states that she has a puppy, Dagmar, brook, Connecticut, and is working in the eight months old that is as high as th.e furniture establishment of Cooper and table and still going strong. The pup,. It Williams in New York. seems, is a Dane, so that accounts for Its Jane Crawford (How) writes, "I had tremendous stature. Catts adds, for the a nice long letter from Mary Snodgrass benefit of friends who might otherwise McCutcheon the other day in which she hesitate to call upon her, that Danes hCl:ve said that she and Don, her husband, had lovely dispositions. During the past, WIn- just moved into a house of their own. ter she and Walt have had many inter- It evidently is quite large because she esting times at West Poi!!t and Vassa r, says she has more than enough room for Walt who is in the life Insurance busi- Burt and the babies when we visit them- ness, 'loves his work, she says, and ,is get- and that takes a regular hotel. She says ting along nicely. Housework is not it is quite out in the country about twelve nearly as pleasant as was hockey in the miles from Pittsburgh, and very close to dim dark ages but so far neither she nor the woods. her husband nor dog) has starved, nor have they been buried in dirt as yet. "With a daughter a year .and a half old Catts made a flying trip to New York re- and a son almost five months, and a home cently and had lunch with Betty Holmes, and a husband, I am kept fairly busy. and Martha Bolles. Marion Vibert Marian Johnson (Schmuck), '23, came (Clark) was also expected to be present over last week to spend a day with me. at the party but I don't know whether Her daughter, Nancy, was born the very she actually got there or not. same day my Sally was and we try to get the 'twins' together once in a while. Connie Bridge (Allen) is spending a I'll have to admit that Nancy is bigger month at Brooklyn. Connecticut, whose and says more things than Sally does, claim to fame is that Israel Putnam left even if she is about four hours younger. his plow standing in a field there when he went to war. Con has been unable "I rather doubt if I get down to college to discover the landmark, as yet. this June for reunion. As my young Wee Hall (Spring) writes that her son, sister graduates from school, and my Sammy, is "a little devil, but you love young brother-in-law from college, I think them all the more for that. He walks, we will be rather busy flitting from one tries to talk, and is into 'everything.' commencement to another." Ernie recently made a business trip to Ava Mulholland became the bride of New York, and next summer Louise be- Carl Holver Hilton, Lieutenant, U. S. lieves the whole family will be able to Coast Guard, on Saturday, May 4, at five- make the trip East. thirty o'clock in the Church of the An- Peggy Call spent her Easter vacation nunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Hartford and New York, and wh ile Brookline, Permsylvania.. and is honey. there she caught glimpses of Fran Jones mooning in Dallas, Texas, which is Mr. '27, Genie Walsh, Connie Bridge (Allen) Hilton's official home. Ava writes, "Carl and Minna Gardner (Thompson) and hailed from Santa Fe, New Mexico, orig. "got caught up on all the gossip". Peg inally; is a graduate of Annapolis; re- is planing a wonderful summer abroad, mained in the Navy until after the war, and sails with a friend on June 29 on and then after a few years out, got back the new S. S. Statendam of the Holland- in again. Thank fortune, he's in the Coast American Line, and will return on the Guard and not the Navy now. These same ship in the last of August. "My ungodly long cruises that they hand them main reason for going," writes Peg, "is in the Navy are not to my liking. Our to brush up on my French and Spanish- first station is Sault Saint Marie on the and if possible to take in the Barcelona Great Lakes." Ava's husband, who will Exposition. We hope to settle down in be out at sea at Commencement time is a few places to get familiar with them leaving her a brand new Oldsmobile sedan instead of making flying visits every- (the groom's wedding present) in which where." he tells her she may "re-une to her heart's Mac Mehaffey is having a great time content." in California where she is studying at the Edith Kirkland is director of the Home University in Los Angeles. Decorating Bureau and assistant to the Madeline Foster (Conklin) has a son, Sales Promotion Manager of Valentine & Edward Foster, but we don't know when Co., with offices at 386 Fourth Ave., New he was born. How about some details, York City. Mad? Elinor H unken Torpey writes of a busy Muriel Cornelius was married on the but happy time, in her new home, 118-40 ninth of February to James Thurston Metropolitan Avenue, Kew Gardens, Cooper, Jr. N. Y. l CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS-----ll

1925 Our sympathy goes to Virginia Lutzen- kirken, who, after living in the same place Correspondent: Constance Parker, for eighteen years, has been going through 39 Nonantum Street, Newton, Mass. the throes of moving. Her new address is 1540, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. Hav- ing recently finished a secretarial course, she is all set to. look for a job "in order to eploit my newly found talents(?)." She reports that Kay Metcalf, ex'25, now has two sons, one age three, and the other born March fourteenth. Parkie McCombs, having just completed a month's practical work at the Raybrook Sanatorium carrying on a terrific program which she considered a very lei- surely life, has received a one year appointment at Bellevue Hospital beginning July first. Peg Meredith has the Wanderlust. She travelled abroad last summer, and plans to go down to Panama for several weeks this summer. "Perhaps", she says, "I will go around to San Francisco and home across country,-but that remains to be seen. There is nothing I would rather do than travel." She speaks of having seen Sarah Jane and Hewie in Boston, and says, "If you want to see a regular baby, go see Hewie's (Helen Hewitt Webb). He is simply precious and everyone knows at once that he is a boy. I fell right for him." Cay Meinecke was married to Francis Margaret Nuveen, three months old, Crawford at a lovely spring wedding on daughter of Billy Bennet Nuveen. the sixth of April. As Fran used to visit college our senior year, and Kay King Helen Ferguson, seeking variety after was a bridesmaid, C. C. was well repre- teaching three years at a school in New sented at the wedding. Haven, is now "bumming around New York for a while looking for some ex- citement. Occasionally I see Mae Au- wood Bernard, as well as Aida Fraiser, '28, who is working in one of the li- braries down here." Charlie Frisch celebrated her first an- niversary as Mrs. "Bob" Garlock on May fourth. Bob, who went to school with Grace Demarest Wright's husband, prac- tices law while, to quote Charlie, "I am continuing my social work, and am down on the East side working all day and having a competent maid do all the work I couldn't care for. I have entertained Phyl Iayme and Gid Locke, and receive glow- ing letters from Brownie from Jamaica." Olga Gennert Greene writes, "There isn't much to say about myself." One look at your adorable son, speaks volumes for you, Olga! She continues, "I just seem to have settled down the way most of us do to being a mother and housekeeper and enjoyingmyself. I sometimes feel I should have done something marvelous and start- led the world-but then, I probably wouldn't-you know how it is. And meantime one grows older. Frightfully philo- sophic." James junior, son of Olga Gennert Greene .

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Mr. and Mrs. Allison Hoyt Mitchell, inkling as to where she and. F~ank will in other words, C?rpha Brown an~ Hank, spend their honeymoon, but It 1S known announced the bir-th of Ann LOUIse early tnat they will eventually live in Evanston, in April. Illinois. Though Kay Bailey has "win- Along similar lines comes a letter rrom tered" in Plorrda and "springed" in Cali- Billy to ierd Shaw saying, "just a nne 1:0 fornia, she plans to be on for the great tell you oi the biggest thrill of a rue- evenc. time---one small baoy girt named Joan Barbara Brooks Bixby and Chet are Pierson Shaw, arrived on Febru.ary nme- leaving tor Washington on a combined teenth. Ken and I have certainty been pleasure and business trip. Babs expects proud of her." to see Imo, who, the last we heard, was doing social work.. . Marian Walp has completed the one The Gillette have b uilt a new house In year library course at Drexel Institute. She found the practical work at the New- California, and Harriet is enjoying it much. Jean is still in Springfield, Illinois. ark Public Library very interesting and Helen Hood Diefendorf has added gar- while there met Olivia Johnson, '24, who dening, and leading ~ missionary cl.a~s.of was working in the Art Department. thirty high school girls, to her acnvines. Marian adds, "Last week I went to the These, with classes at the settlement theatre with Jean Pegram, '23, and Mary house, a small house to take care of, Louise Weikert '23. Edna Haas Hamil- keep her busy. ton who is livi~g in Philadelphia, is do- Frances Green has returned to her home ing' psychological testing in a clinic in in Shrewsbury, Mass., after visiting for a Bryn Mawr:' few weeks in Miami, Florida. I, your correspondent, recently spent a June 18th is an important day for Barb- delightful weekend at Gee Gee Delap ara Belle, as then she plans to marry Spear's in Glenbrook, where the "Monk", Ellis Waldo Crouch of Groton. She is then a bride of a week, showed us her already busy moving and settling a little very stunning wedding pictures. My on~y new house. other item of news(?) is that so far 'this Elinor Bond Armstrong lives not far year I have lost my voice three times. from her, in a lovely old colonial house rmagine how that cramps my style! In in Lebanon. closing the year, may I thank everybody Grace Parker Schumpert has a litle son for their very nice letters, which I should Robert and his pictures .are dear-under- have liked to print in toto, as well as for stand. The family expect to spend the their intended letters! summer in Colorado. To Hazel Osborn we are indebted for Constance Clapp is attending a school the following item: "'Pony' Lutzen- of religious education in connection with kirken has been spending the winter get- Hartford Seminary. ting a grip on the Gregg method, and Katherine Colgrove is teaching in Great now is garnering fruits from her toil, as Barington, Mass., and Katherine Dauchy secretary to the president of the W. B. in Washington, Conn. raurray Co., who make devices which sim- -0---0-0- plify or something-traffic." 1927 --0-0--0- Correspondent: Barbara Tracy, 1926 1913 Taylor Road, East Cleveland, Ohio Correspondent: Helen Hood Diefendorf, June is here and news of Spring brides 165 Green Village Road, Madison, N. J. is beginnig to come in. Flops Surpless Eleanor Canty has become assistant seems to have been the first. She is now buyer in one of the departments of Jordan Mrs. Stafford Miller. She writes as fol- Marsh, Boston, according to the C. C. lows; "I was married April 11th-a home News. wedding and I had only two attendants, Rosky Beebe gave a "Bon Voyage" my sister as matron-of-honor and my shower for Annette and Margie Ebsen cousin as maid-of-honor. We had a short and Madie Smith, who sailed the last of honeymoon and now live in Ossinning, April for two and a half months abroad. N. Y., where Stafford is manager of the F. W. Woolworth store. I'm working in Marge Thompson and Helen Edwards New York in the New York University were seen together on Fifth Avenue. College of Dentistry as assistant secre- Marge had just returned from two months tary to one of the doctors. We have a in Jacksonville, and Helen was visiting in darling four room apartment and life is the East after spending a week in Atlantic City. one grand time. I'm loving the cooking / and even the dusting-nothing like it! I Kitty King is flying from one shower see Mary Wilcox Cross and Janet Paine to another. Her wedding will take place occasionally. T. T. Petersen lives here the 15th of June at the Madison Avenue in Ossining-she came over one night last I Presbyterian Church. No one can get an week-great to see her." 4

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Bernice Leete was married On the pal to his daughter. We send our sym- seventeenth of April to Mr. Robert Avery pathy to her and to Mrs. Harris in their Smith. The spirit of New York was upon sudden loss. them and they just went around the cor- Ethel Woodruff has been staying home ner and did it ,so unexpectedly that every this year because she has been ill. We one was surpnsed. They have taken an are glad to read that she is better and is apartment in Brooklyn-which they are preparing for her wedding in the fall. Furnishing by degrees-at 266 Washington She writes the following interesting let- Avenue, Apt. E.3. Bob is a singer and ter: "The first part of April found me is studying in New Yark. in Washington, D. C., as a platform page The next bride of the season was Lib at the D. A. R. convention. It was ; Fowler who was married to Mr. George wonderful experience and I thoroughly H. Coxe Jr. on May 18th at the Congre- enjoyed myself. Fran Huling ex'28 was gational Church in West Roxbury, Mass. there as a page also. She is as brown as Kay Foster was the maid of honor, while an Indian. Said she had been in Florida Mary Morton, Ruth Ford, Lyda Chatfield all winter and that 'Nubs' Vernon had and Marjorie Millet were her bridesmaids. been with her. Saw Alice Owens one They are to live in Hartford. day for lunch and we had a great old The engagement of Edna Linz to Mr. chat. She seems to be liking her work Avery Wells Barnes of New Haven, (secretary to the League of Women Conn., has been announced. She writes,- Voters in Washington) and is much the "He attended Weslyan and Yale Medical same as ever. I stopped over a day on my way home in New York City. There and is now associated with the firm of Winslow, Way and Stoddard in New Nathalie Benson, Lois Gregory, and Haven. No date has been set for the Helen Jordan met me and over our food wedding as yet but it will take place in we whiled away a noon hour with fast flying tongues. I stopped off at college the fall after which time w~ will be at home to anyone who can reach New for a weekend. Had a great time but Haven. Isn't it fine that it is situated on missed the old familiar faces. In Hart- the main line to New London?" More of ford I saw Ruth Hitchcock Walcott in Edna's good long letter will follow later. her darling home. Ruth Stevens and Cordie Kilburne are hard working girls Caroline Phelan, ex'27, was recently married to Mr. Joseph Devoe Norton, of at the Aetna. I spent a pleasant morn- ing with them at the office and they did Brookline, Mass. more talk than work. (Probably my bad 1927 with the class baby and other class children a-plenty now has an honor- influence. ) "This summer I am going to be in ary class baby. Nathaniel Phillips Carle- Maine at a small camp that three of us ton is the two months old son of Mr. and started last year. We run it for high Mrs. Philips Dean Carel ton. His mother school girls in July and older girls in was Miss Katherine Pease, his father August. It is a great little place-for teaches English at the University of Ver- good food, a good time, a good crowd and mont. And here is his description lest rest. If anyone wants any particulars, you should meet him on the street and I'd love to send them a booklet that we've not know him: "He was a funny little wudgett when he came-now he grows gotten out. lusty and mighty. He's developing a tem- "When I was in Washington I saw per. He wants to shout Norwegian songs. Miss Crosby. She hasn't changed a bit. His hair is darkish but I think it might It was nice to see her and she asked about be russet or auburn-not carrotty-more every body. She is teaching in the Chevy likely blond. His eyes are stunning- Chase School for Girls." deep dark blue and enormous. He is go- And here is some more of Edna Linz' ing to look like Phil. So far there is noth- interesting observations upon her class- ing of me in him. His head is dolicho- mates: "I want to add right away my cephalic-very finely shaped-his nose and praise of the Class Baby. I was visiting mouth are nose and mouth, hard to de- Helen Tatum Muth about the middle of scribe. His hands are fascinating-the March so I had the great honor of ob- longest, flattest, little thumbs and extra serving the royal child for two days. She long fingers-square hands." Thus his is the cutest thing-so dainty and good. mother describes Nathaniel at six weeks. Helen looks wonderful and she is as al- But they don't call him that-he is called ways most charmingly hospitable. I sup- Siguard in honor of that great hero of pose you know her hair is bobbed. Joe ancient Norway who slew dragons. is great. I think it's a shame he doesn't The class will be sorry to hear of the get more publicity-for he should be more death of Dorothy Harris's father. We than merely the Class Baby's Male Par- remember back to Freshman year when ent! Celestia will inherit so many fine "Red", proud of her soldier-father, clicked traits from both-I guess I'd better go on off a military salute at the bidding of the for here's that psych course coming- out again! Her fairy godmother, Celestia initiating sophomores. He seemed a real 1:41----- CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAENEWS------

Denniston, has been extremely successful closet in Blackstone House, is so full of with her dancing classes, and leaves June modern necessities that one must straddle 15th for a Camp at Cooperstown, N. Y., the frigidaire motor to get at the sink. where she will (1 expect) make all the They do their own cooking in which they camp-children into wood nymphs. I am are helped materially by fond mothers looking forward to seeing her quite often who still slip goodies into laundry boxes after I am married, for Hartford is just as in college days. Their library work a nice drive from New Haven. keeps them busy and interested. "Nubs Vernon entertained me last I saw Parkie McCombs just before and week. Emily Koehler Dombrowski, who just after her last exams in Medical really and truly is La Contesse, came up School. She was about to leave for a few for luncheon. She proved to be more in- months' experience in aT. B. sanatarium teresting than ever, now that she has in the Adirondaks. She, Harriet Eriks- added the role of Devoted Mother to her son, and I supped together and I was able others. The baby, although he's only to catch a word or two in their medical four months old is a real manly little diction which I had heard before. Then soul, having already exhibited a great dis- Buddy Elliott came around. She teaches dain for lacey furbelows and noticing English in the grades of a private day strange females who come to gurgle at school in Tuxedo Park, New York. Her him, with a superior calm. His eyes are extended delvings into English grammar fascinatingly alive, like Emily's. She has are more than offset by a Ford, after- so many interesting experiences, such as noons of golf, week ends at home etc. entertaining the Bremen flyers etc. and and, incidentally, English is proving in- she manages to keep a town house be- teresting. She is planning a most glori- sides two country houses. She told how ous tour through Great Britain and the they moved a small two-roomed house, in continent this summer. More of that in Lobster Bay, where it is next to impos- the fall, perhaps. sible to get lumber brought in-over next Did you ever return to college after a to their own house and just sort of tacked Spring Vacation when it didn't rain? My it on! There are so few houses there one day on campus saw me scudding be- that we wondered what the other inhab- tween the buildings in Mary Crofoot's itants might do, were they to need extra flapping goloshes for I was not equipped space! with wet weather boots. It was as cold and raw as any mascot day. I saw al- "Nubs was down near Palm Beach, most everyone I had hoped to see includ- where she acquired the most perfect tan. ing Maud and Cyril in Blackstone who After that she spent some time at a dude are still declaring that this is the last year ranch with Fran Huling. She said it was for them-ab-so-lute-ly. I went on to her life's ambition. Rachel Harris is still Boston to see Chick at Prince School. A working in Philadelphia." recent fire had robbed her of tooth brush I, (Bob TracY),-the typist, not the au- and bath towel, but otherwise all is well thor of this column, spent two weeks in except that she finds a thesis a bit of a New York at Easter time studying some burden (as do I). Thus have I been a African skeletal material in the Ameri- traveler in a small 'way. can Museum of Natural History. I spent But there are other more extensive my lunch hours and evenings visiting col- travelers among us. Laura Drake Lang- lege and other friends and taking in muir took a West Indies Cruise with her Broadway. Pat Clark and Lois Penny parents-in-law this winter: "It was a Storer proved especially good luncheon beautiful trip includng Nassau, Cuba, companions. A recent fire in Loie's Panama Canal, Trinidad, Barbados, Ja- apartment house helped to show that her maica and many other little islands equally college education as gained from being lovely." But Laura got sea sick "so fire captain of North had been of real that,-combined with missing John a lot, value for she got her silver, her bank made me feel very happy when New York book, her husband and herself all to safety harbor welcomed us back." She includes in the early mornig hours. Pat is trying a sketch of their new home at 593 Preble to get fat. At one of these luncheon fests, St., South Portland, Maine, and says: Frances Fletcher and Mary Lynn Wood- "You can see I've been busy making win- ley (married name unknown) were sighted dow curtains, and fixing a flower garden across the room. Mary Lynn is a stylist will be lots of fun. We love our house at Macy's and Frannie is gett'ng her esecially because it has an ocean view of M. A. in French at Wellesley. She was the Iiehthou se at the entrance to Port- spending her spring vacation in New land Harbor." York. And last and best comes Esther Chand- I stayed two nights w.th Annise Clark ler's account of her adventures across the and Mil Dunham. Such an attractive and Atlantic. "It was wonderful, of course. comolete anar tment as they have! Their I went with a girl I knew in prep school kitchen, which can be no larger than a and her father who was on a business ¢

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trip. We sailed from Boston on the 25th ones who are travelling this summer. She of November so that we experienced is sailing for Norway on July 6, and will Thanksgiving in mid-ocean. It was a go through Sweden, Denmark, Holland, stormy day and night and a very rough Germany, France, and England before her one-port holes were smashed, the writ- return some time in September. ing room was wrecked by a lurch of the Cordie Kilbourne writes a number of boat, several people were injured falling- interesting things about members of our and it was about a week after the Vestris class. About her own work she says, sank! The ship proved her seaworthiness, "I'm figuring premiums on insurance, and however, even if I failed to prove mine. doing clerical work. I like it a lot, but But I was thankful for the turkey sand- sadly bemoan the fact that I didn't get wich brought to my cabin by the stew- together occasionally with Dr. Leib in ardess. college." (Note: Cordie is with the "After landing we went directly to Lon- Aetna Life Insurance Company in Hart- don, at which King George nearly died ford, Connecticut.) "The other day I was and didn't recover until I was safe home madly figuring how much it would cost in Brockton! In true tourist fashion we this person to take out insurance when I visited Oxford and of course the Shake- casually glanced at the name, and it was speare country. When we were in Strat- Gertrude Salzer. With a whoop I ran ford, the masons were just starting to and showed it to Ruth Stevens and Connie rebuild the memorial theatre, but we Delagrange who work in the same de- weren't asked to lend a hand with the cor- partment and we had a regular alumnae nerstone plumbing. A London Christmas meeting over it as we do over all im- proved very interesting, but England was portant news concerning C. C." She con- not 'merrie' as I had anticipated. The tinues "Barbara Chesebro is super- King's illness perhaps sobered some of the visor of Art in the Winsted schools. gaiety and the heavy losses of the British Helen Little, at a very lovely party re- during the war are still comparatively cently announced her engagement to John fresh. We left London soon after Christ- Buttrick Clark. Kay Whitely, Del Kent, mas. By that time we were tired of liv- Gal, and Leila Stewart were there, ac- ing on brussels sprouts, cabbage, and pork cording to Kay's last letter. Kay Whitely products, though we hated to leave Eng- is still acting as secretary, although she land. Thence to France where my college has been out sick for about two months. French proved a total flop. After a week I received a most interesting letter from or so in Paris, we took a trip to the south Mickey the other day. Just at present of France and saw the Riviera in season. she is in Paris and whom did she meet Some of the small towns harboring art- there but Esther Chandler, who is back ists' colonies proved more interesting to in the United States now, and Mrs. James us than Nice, Cannes and other meccas who invited her up to her apartment. for tourists. Paris again for five weeks Mick is going to take a course in Danish before I sailed for home. And there was Gymnastics this summer in Denmark, and Micky Webb living just around the cor- coming back to the U. S. next September. ner! We met by accident and took trips Babe Pendleton is teaching English and together to Fontainebleau and Versailles. History in the Stonington High School." She plans to go to Denmark this summer Peggy Briggs also has some news to in the interest of the department (a school offer: "Charlotte Sweet sails for Europe of Danish gymnastics). in June, most of the time to be spent "I absorbed enough of Paris to have a with an uncle in Germany who is with French woman ask me In her native the U. S. Army Medical Corns. She is tongue to direct her to a certain street teaching now at the Ethel Walker School and enough of England to have a British in Simsbury, Conn. Mary Dunning has officer on the ship ask me if this were several more weeks to spend training in my first visit to America. Perhaps the Occupational Therapy and doing oractice old world culture took some affect after work at the Worcester State Hospital. alL" Madelyn Wheeler is engaged to Benjamin -0-0-0- Kilbride. Elmo Ashton is librarian in the Sharon, Pa., library. Jakie Savini is still 1928 perusing antiquity in Rome. She will Correspondent: Louise Towne, probably return in the fall. As for me, 15 Spruce Street, Cranford, N. J. my summer is a big question mark. I do expect to return next year (to the Kate Alida Sanford was married to Arthur Van Bronkhorst in St. Paul's Glastonbury High School)." Chapel in Brooklyn on April 6. Since The C. C. News published the follow- their return from their wedding trip they ing interesting item about Dot Daven- have been living in an aoartment on port: "Miss Dorothy Lou Davenport, a Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. Betty member of last June's graduating class at Olsen gave a very pretty shower for Connecticut College, is making her debut her. Betty, by the way, is one of the in the highest social circles of London. 16;-----CONNECTICUT COLLEGEALUMNAENEWS------

She is the daughter of Mrs. Harvey J. are living at Fort Leonard Wood, Mary- Burkhart, well known in London and New land. York, who according to a recent news "Barbara Bancroft ex '28, has been despatch from abroad 'has considerably granted a pilot's license in the state of revived the vogue for the tea party in Florida. London'." Mrs. Burkhart, the article "Ruth Peacock is private secretary to continues, is "a hostess almost as well the Sales Manager of the Egyptian Lac- known here as she is in New York for quer Company. her lavish hospitality. This week she "The engagement of Jeanette Bradley held an afternoon entertainment at the to Richard Brooks, Dartmouth '28 has American Woman's Club for nearly 200 just been announced. prominent Americans to meet her debu- "Lucia Gay is spending several weeks tante daughter, Miss Dorothy Lou Daven- in Porto Rico." port. Miss Davenport, in a gown of pale The dinner which was held for mem- pink and a triple choker of pink pearls, bers of '28 at the Neighborhood Club received more than 50 bouquets. Among House (New York we assume-Ed.) the distinguished guests were observed some time back, under the leadership of Lord and Lady Riddell; Wilson Cross, Betsy Ross, Ray Kilbon, and Carol Van president of the American Club, and Mrs. Buskirk was very enjoyable. More than Cross; Lady Annesley; Mrs. S. R. Lans- twenty members of the class were there, burgh, of New York, and Mr. and Mrs. and there was a regular get-together. We E. S. Linthicum of Birmingham, Ala- had dinner in a very pretty dining room bama". on the second floor, and then played The C. C. News also published the fol- bridge in the club rooms. lowing: "The marriage of Caroline Dorothy Bailey is leaving her present Whittemore '28, to Lieutenant Louis position to concentrate on free lance il- Peter Leone took place on April Srd in lustrating, in which she has been mak- New York. Lieutenant and Mrs. Leone ing a great deal of progress. AMONG OUR CHAPTERS

New York "The second meeting was a tea for the On Sunday night, May 12, about undergraduates. This meeting was held fifteen stalwart alumnae witnessed a at Elizabeth Williams' home. Eugenia presentation of Dr. Coerne's "The Bells Walsh had charge of the entertainment. of Beaujolais", by Judy Warner's music After the program tea was served and club, at Hudson Guild, augmented by everyone had a chance to get acquainted," Susie Warner, and Dot Bayley. Honey writes Hartford's secretary. Lou Owens, interpreter of the Dukedom of Beaujolais, was encouched with a re- Chicago calcitrant tonsil and as a result, I (Hazel Chicago has had "three or four" meet- Osborn), chorine of another era, was the ings this year, all of them dinners at wearer of the Turkish trousers. the Chicago College Club. In a "week New Haven or so" they are having their last meeting, the nature of which was not disclosed. Sue Wilcox, '19, reports a full year for It was, stated that attendance had been the New Haven Chapter, with four regu- poor due to the profuse and preponderant lar meetings addressed by members, a second generation. Connie Howe and dinner party at which the Meriden Chap- Jerry Smith Guy, ex '27, were at the ter joined them; a bridge during Easter last meeting and asked to be put on the vacation for the C. C. girls home for va- membership list. cation; and the raising of over sixty dollars which nearly completes a $500 en- Philadelphia dowment pledge of some years ago. A C. C. "sing" proved a most enjoyable pro- The Philadelphia Chapter had a bridge gram for the evening when elections and rarty on the evening of April 14 at the plans were the business to be transacted. Pennsylvania Hotel at which they made Hartford $95, which is being turned over to the fund for the Student-Alumnae House. "The Hartford Chapter has had two There were twenty-two tables at four meetings since the last report. The first dollars a table, and due to the generosity was held on March 2. After a brief of members who were unable to attend, busines meeting we heard a delightful the money collected was in excess of head talk by Dr. Lawrence on his book "Not tax for those present. There have been Quite Puritans" and future books he hopes four other meetings, all luncheons at the to publish. College Club.