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Vol. 8 FEBRUARY, 1931 No.2

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VoL 8 FEBRUARY, 1931 No.2

GLORIA HOLLISTER LECTURES AT C. C. TELLS OF DIVING IN

Gloria Hollister '24 has appeared on the descent in the Bathysphere when she lecture platform several times during the made the world's diving record for women winter. Her newest lecture, "With Beebe -400 feet. in Bermuda," tells of her experiences off Margaret Elliott '27 was Miss Hollis- Nonsuch Island where the Bermuda ter's assistant for six weeks at Nonauch Oceanographic Expedition of the New Island last spring and shared in many of York Zoological Society bas been study- the experiences of this great adventure. ing deep sea life. Dr. William Beehe is -0-0-0- the director of the expedition. Miss Hollister returned to Connecticut 1919 PRESENTS FIRE SET TO HONOR College early in the winter to deliver this DR. SYKES lecture. The gym was packed and Dean At the 10th reunion, 1919 voted to buy Nye is said to have reported that a Tee- a fire-set for the President's new office in ord number of automobiles were parked Fanning Hall. The set was to be pre- on campus. sented in memory of the many happy fire- Miss Hollister is the technical assistant side hours with Dr. Sykes. Katharine of Dr. Beebe. She has charge of examiu- Holway, who is in the antique business, ing the fish that are brought daily from was designated to collect the set and has the nets. In this connection she dlscov- secured a very fine one which is already ered a method of clearing the tissues of in use in Dr. Blunt's office. It is to have a plate attached in a suitable place, with the fish so that the flesh becomes trans" the following inscription: parent and the skeleton is fully visible. By this "fish magic" the skeletons may "By the Class of 1919, at its Tenth Re- be studied without dissecting the fish and union, this Fire-set is presented in mem- spoiling the specimen. She also studies ory of many happy fire-side hours with Dr. Fredertck H. Sykes, the First Prest- the live fish in the tanks, observing their dent of Connecticut College." methods of swimming and other interest- ing details. ~o-o-o- The most spectacular part of the Ex- pedition's work is observing the deep sea CAROLINE FRANCKE'S PLAY life from the newly invented Bathysphere. PRODUCED AT N. J, C. In his steel ball Dr. Beebe and an as- The Little Theatre Worship ClOUP sistant descend for almost two miles and of the New Jersey College for Women view through the quartz window the won- chose "Exceeding Small" for presentation ders of the fairyland of the deep. Gloria's at the intercollegiate conference held job while the men are down observing is November 13. "Exceeding Small" is "telephone girl." She takes down all the the play written by Caroline Francke observations telephoned up to her and C~)llnecticut College '23. Professor lnge: transmits to them all messages of im- director of the Group, picked the play portance. On another page of this issue from among 233 possibilities. "It is not you will find her own story of "Telephon- one of the great plays," Professor luge said, "but it is a big one." This play ing to Davy Jones' Locker," and in the was the first production at the Dramatic April issue will be her story of her Arts BUilding this year.-C. C.News. 2------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAENEWS------

CHAPTERS HEAR C. C. FACULTY; DAUGHTERS OF PROMINENT MEN FRESHMAN FROM AUSTRIA SPEAKS ARE FRESHMEN AT CONNECTICUT Among the freshmen at Connecticut Several of the Faculty, an Alumna, College this year there are several who and an undergraduate of Connecticut have are daughters of men unusually interest- all had their share in making meetings of ing for the posts they hold in the 'world of various Alumnae Chapters interesting. education and executive responsibility. Judging from the amount of comment They are: received by the editor, Dr. Jensen must Mildred Felt, prepared in the Pekin have greatly amused and entertained the American School, who is the daughter of Hartford Chapter with his droll and Dr. Carl A. Felt, a missionary in China. humorous account of college today. Helen Annette Laycock, whose father is Craven Laycock; dean of Dartmouth. Dr. Lawrence spoke at the December Helen Miles, daughter of Professor meeting of the New Haven Chapter. His Miles, exchange professor of psychology topic was "Internationalism." He gave a at Yale from Leland Stanford University review of textbooks used in many of the in California. European countries illustrating his state- Camile Sa.ms, a daughter of Walter R. ment that "patriotism as taught in most Sarris, president of the J. C. Penny organi- nations, includes not only love of and zation of . pride towards one's own country, but also Margaret AusLin, who has just spent hatred and suspicion towards foreign the summer in Russia where her father, countries." This "critical patriotism," Wilbert Austin, is building the first com- Professor Lawrence said, "makes war munistic city in Russia, called Auet!n- perennially imminent." grad, in honor of its builder. Dr. Lawrence brought with him Miss Martha Wilhelmina Bray, daughter of Mathilde Metzger, an Austrian student, Frank Chapin Bray, widely known editor who is enjoying a year's scholarship at of the Literary Digest and other publi- Connecticut made possible through the cations. generosity of the undergraduates at C. C. Mary Knight Seabury, daughter of Miss Metzger is a girl of charming per- George T. Seabury, president of the sonality, a brilliant student, and one who, American Society of Civil Engineers. Mathilde Metzger, born in Trieste, Dr. Lawrence admitted, is keeping every- one on the campus, including the faculty, daughter of an industrial counselor of on his toes. She compared the young commerce, and his wife, the Baroness of people of Austria and America and con- Sternentels. With the general emphasis of the fore- boasted the two school systems. most American colleges on the impor- Miss Rosamond Beebe '26 of the Mac- tance of contact between students of millan Book Co., spoke to the New Jersey widely differing background, it may be Chapter, in December, upon the making expected that this group will add its of books. Quota to the broad educational values found at Connecticut. The New York Chapter heard Dr. Law- -Kew London Do}'. rence late in the fall, and Mile. Ernst -0-0-0- spoke to them on Contemporary Litera- NEW YORK CHAPTER HAS ture in January. They plan to have other CLUB ROOM college friends at their meetings during the year in their new club room. The New York Chapter has at last attained the enviable position of having -0-0-0- a central meeting place. It is at 18 Gramercy Park South, in the Gramercy MR. LAMBDIN HONORED BY Park HoteL The room is very small but GOVERNOR CROSS it gives the members the privilege of the Mr. Allen B. Lambdin, business man- club rooms throughout the hotel. Pic-- ager of the College, has been chosen by tures of Dr. Marshall, Dr. Blunt, and sev- the newly elected Governor of Connecti- eral other friends of Connecticut hang cut. Wilbur L. Cross, as one of his offi- on the walls. cial staff. Pictures in the rotogravure Any C. C. girl at any time may use the section of the Hartford Courant of Janu- room to freshen up in, and visitors to ary 25th show the Governor and staff at New York may secure a room in the luncheon preceding the inauguration hotel at greatly reduced price. The where-with-all for this venture has ceremonies. Major Gene Tunney is all- been raised in various ways. Last spring other member of the group. a block of seats was bought for a per- Governor Cross was formerly Dean of formance of "Rebound" and resold, and Yale University and a member of the a series of bridges followed. Board of Trustees of Connecticut College. ______CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS ·----3

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Vol. 8 February, 1931 NO.2 IN MEMORIAM VERA LEAR GRANN COPELAND '24 Published four times a year, November, With the passing of Vera Grann Cope- February, April and June, at 219 South land, the Class of 1924 loses a third mem- Fourth St., Springfield, Illinois, by the ber, and the College loses one of its Connecticut College Alumnae Associa- most loyal and interested Alumnae. Mrs. tion. Subscription price $1.00 a year. Copeland died on January the- eighth of Entered as second class matter at the pneumonia, which followed close upon post office, Springfield, lll., under the Act several months of illness. of August 24, 1912. Vera was a commuter who entered into the College life on the hilltop with en- ,~8 thustasm. She was exceedingly interested in newspaper work and, as the head of the College Press Board Association, EDITORIAL STAFF handled much of the College publicity. Editor-in-Chief...... Barbara Tracy '27 After graduation, Vera was employed State Museum, Springfield, JIl. as society reporter on the New London Day. Following her marriage to Samuel Managing Editor ....Jean Gillette Smith '26 Copeland she moved to where she has been doing free-lance writ- Assistant Editors: ing for newspapers and magazines. Loretta Roche '21; Helen Douglass North The Alumnae send their deepest sym- '24; Alice Taylor Dugan '25; Phyllis pathv to her husband, parents, brother Heintz '29; Eleanor Tyler '30. and sister. ,!,,-,,-"-,,-,,-"-"-"-"- .•-"-.'-"-."-.'- ••-"-"------••-"-."-"-"-"-"-"-"-'''-''1' I EDITORIAL ! I All the Alumnae who will be fortunate enough to return to campus for I i Alumnae Week-end, February 21-23, would do well to review the words of i " the College Hymn and to memorize the new third stanza which was written ~ I by the author, Kathryn Hulbert Hall, '20, and dedicated to the returning I i Alumnae of C. C., June, 1930. The class of 1920 sang the stanza for the i ~ first time at their tenth reunion in June. ~ I Everybody learn it so that we can all sing it during the Week-end. I ) COLLEGE HYMN ! I (Written in 1920 by Kathryn Hulbert Hall '20.) I 'I a College years, how swift they run! ~I Our love for thee has hut begun, i Dear Alma Mater by the sea, f

'.1. We'll soon be far away from thee,~ _.1 _ And river, hills and thy grey walls [ Will ever seem 1 : To be a dream ~ 1 Of long ago. i I Oh may the freedom and the strength 1 I or hill and river be at length, 1 i Dear Alma Mater by the sea, ~I A symbol of our love for thee.

:1 1 And friendships prove that college days .1 May never seem ~I To be a dream ! ~ Of long ago. 1 1 (Dedicated to the Alumnae of C. C., June, 1930) i The years may come, the years may go, ~ But still our love for thee will grow, I Dear Alma Mater by the sea, i We'll e'er renew our strength in thee, '1 And through our JOYS and sorrows learn • Life ne'er will seem 1 To be a dream . Of long ago. +-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..! -.+I 4------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAE NEWS------WHY BE A COLLEGE TRUSTEE?

HE~'RY W. LAWRENCE (Heprillted from School and aoctew. Val. XXXI, :"0. 808, .rune 21. 1930.)

hl' beatill~ witne~s to the truth, and th~ guilty to relieve Diligent search has failed to reveal any- their Innocent brethren from censures which they were con- thing worthy of mention on the plight of sciOUS that themselves alone de,erved. On this the 14 the college trustee; and it is this plight masker! stepped rorward and avowed themselves the persons /lulHy or whatever had passed. On the evidence resultmg tha t I would here examine, with the pur- rrom this enquiry. three, the most culpable. were expelled. pose to display a timely warning for all The eleven other maskers were sentenced to suspcnstons or who may hereafter be enticingly per- reprimands. suaded toward accepting membership in Jefferson's evident approval of this a board of college or university trustees. harsh interference with the pursuit of Caution about yielding to such persua- happiness is less deplorable, however, sions is clearly recommended both by the than the sentiments he utters a month observation of contemporary distresses later concerning the lessons learned from and by the reading of authentic history. thls harmless escapade: Each of these sources of wisdom offers We mean to be prepared. alld to ask of the legislature much in support of tbe view that the a t){lwer to call in the civil authority in the _first instant or disorder, and to quell It on the spot by Impriwnment natural rewards of college trusteeship and the same legal ooercions pr-ovided against disorder are, from without, mockery and vilifica- generally C{)mmitted by other citizens. from WhOlll, at their tion; from within, an irresistible drifting agc. they ha,'o no right to distinction. into splr ltual decrepitude. Alas, that Jefferson ever allowed him- From observation during the past dec- self to be made a trustee! ade, chiefly through newspaper reports, Lo, the unhappy trustee! There re- T have learned that, out of 218,354 minor mains to me space for only the briefest academic disturbances and 16,458 major mention of the distresses of vilification collegiate rows, most of the blame has that also overtake, him sooner or later. been allotted, by majority opinion, to the A single example must suffice, but it trustees in 212,657 of the disturbances comes from the diary of the Reverend Dr. and 16,379 of the rows. Cotton Mather, than whom few could Powerful reinforcement to the con- vilify with a more he.artfelt and pious sensus about the progressive spiritual acidity. The trustees of Harvard Col- decrepitude among trustees is afforded, lege, in 1724, had just committed t.he moreover, by a study of the biography incredible (to Mather) ineptitude of not of eminent Americans who have been choosing him for the presidency of that exposed to trusteeship. I have space to institution. No doubt he uttered some cite in illustration only one of these but tart. complaints to the Almighty, in his he seems to me the most astonishin'g of private devotions, but of these words we them all. He is Thomas Jertersou, whom have no record. What he confided to his we think of instantly as the great friend diary, and probably also to hls sympathiz- of rioters and revolutions, the arch- ing friends, is the following: enemy of coercive restraint over the turbulent and the liberty-loving. All tI'i" I am now informed that yesterday the six Men. Who call themselves the Corporation of the College melt, and Con- he was, indeed, until he allowed himself trar.\' to thc enedemlcal Expectation of the rjountrey. cho,e to be made a trustee of the University a modest YOUng ~ran. of who;;e Piety (and little else) of Virginia. The extent to which his every OIlC /lh'es a laudable Character. I always foret.old these two Thin~s or the Corporation; First, that it it Were once free-spirit thereafter suffered the possible for thcm 10 steer dear of me. tlley will do so inevitable arid decay can not be better Secondlr. that if it be possible for them to act foolishly, indicated tban by his own words, written they will do so. The perpetu31 Emy. with Which my Essay. to sene the Kingdome of God are treated among in the year 1825: them, and the 'rcrro- that Satan has of my beating up his In the nlJtht a party or J4 students. animated first wlth Quarters at the Colledge, lcd mc into the former Senti- wine. masked themselves so as not to be known. anrl ment. Thc marveltous Indiscretion, with which the affairs turned out On the lawn or the University. with no Inten- of the Colledge are carried on, led me into the latter. It tion. It ts belie'ed. but or childish noise 3nd upro3f. j'wo proves accordingly. r-rcressc-s hearing it went out to see what was the matter The)' were recehed with insults. and even brick-ba ts weN Let the prospective trustee look for- thrown at ~hem. Each or them seized an offender. de- ward with stoical serenity to the mock- manded theIr names (ror they Could not dfstfngulsh them under their dlsgulsel. but were refused, abused, and the ery of spectators and the vilification of culprits calling on their companion lor a rescue. got loose. disgruntled Cotton Mathers. Above all and withdrew to their chambers. else, let him, or her, not hope to escape The next day chanced to be that of the meeting of the that senescence of soul so shockingly il- Visitors (I.e .• the trustees). The Visitors called the whole bodl' or students before them, exhorted them to make known lustrated in the sad case of Thomas Jef- the persons masked, the tnnecenr to aid the cause or, order ferson. ------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAENEWS------S TELEPHONING TO DAVY JONES' LOCKER

GLOmA HOLLISTER '24

I wish my readers could ask "Central" believable observations came as rapidly for Bathysphere 0001 and hear for them- as I could record the depth, time and selves. as I have, the excited voices and message. This in itself assured me that thrilling observations of two pioneer ex- conditions with the divers were splendid plorers sealed in a sphere of steel, sink- and I frequently called out a message to ing down and down into no-man's-deep. cheer the anxious staff and crew. At ten o'clock on June eleventh 1 was For the next two hours I was wholly seated on the rolling foredeck of a absorbed in receiving and dictating mes- weather-worn barge, the "Ready," in tow sages of all kinds, mechanical, metero- of the Gladtsren, eight miles out at sea logical, and scientific from depths to south of Nonsuch Island. I was crouched which living men had never heretofore close to the gasoline engine which gen- penetrated. erated light for the sphere and was ad- Once during this record dive when the justing tbe ear-phones to my head and sphere had almost reached the deepest connecting the telephone battery which depth 1 was confronted with intermittant was the heart of our only connection with static which was soon controlled on deck. the Bathysphere. Even the slightest indication of this The divers were trouble worried me for already in the sphere on a previous descent and Dr. Beebe's face static was caused by appeared at the center trouble in the hose near window signalling that the sphere which re- they were ready tor the sulted in a complete final electric light and break in the connec- telephone test. I plug- tion. The deadly silence ged in for only an in- during the rapid recall stant because the ham- of the sphere with its mering on the bolts of human cargo was al- the foul' hundred pound most unbearable. So it door reverberated over was easy to wonder the wire beyond endur- whether som e t hf n g ance. more serious had hap- There was tense but pened than a severed silent excitement every- wire. It was only too where on deck as each easy to imagine that man performed his the sphere had broken share of the prepara- loose from the cable tions and then waited and like the head of a at his post for the aus- comet had plunged picious calm during downward and down- which the Bathysphere ,,"" ward leaving only a could be swung from momentary trail of deck to water. My brief phosphorescence. words of assurance to While the sphere, on the divers that everything was ready and tto way up, hung just below the surface in order seemed to echo from every part waiting for the last re-adjustment of the of the barge. As the sphere was hoisted weary creaking booms, the Director's high above the deck and lowered below voice came over the phone asking if I the surface, Otis Barton, who had the were ready to make the next dive. My sphere end of the telephone, thought and imagination was working at top speed, wondered aloud about the many mechan- but I refrained from any definite hope ical things that might go wrong. In his ex- until I could be certain that this was not citement he had forgotten that even a just another joke from below to lighten faint whisper reverberated in my ears the strain on board. Between great, like rushing wind through a gorge. Each smooth, surface rolls, the sphere was land- suggestion reacted vividly on my keyed- ed safely on deck and in a few minutes up imagination. I clamped the phones its human cargo was released. Then the closer to my ears lest these ideas sboutd Director and Otis Barton presented me be overheard and interpreted as de- with the strangest and most desirable moralizing facts. Soon after the sphere birthday present in the world-a ride to started its descent reports of almost un- Davy Jones' locker. ('1'0 Be Continued) 6,------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAE NEWS------VAGABONDING ON SOUTHERN TRAILS CATHEIHKE ROLi\fES BRA]\))OW '24

Have you ever had a secret longing to At Natural Bridge the annual meet of throw off the responsibilities of twentieth the Virginia Fox Hunters' Association century civilization and head for the open was taking place. We lunched at the road, encumbered only by the minimum Inn, finding derbied riders on their knees necessities for living, plus a zest for ad- in the lobby, warming up over a crapp venture? The opportunity carne to us in game while their behabited wives chatted the form of a compensation when the in horsey jargon around the hospitable doctor prescribed living out-doors with a open fire. You see it poured all week, change of scenery as an aid to pulling my dampening the riders' ardor and saving husband back to health. the foxes. I cannot now recall which of us origi- nated the plan of campingwith a trailer Backwoods so I shall give the credit to Dagmar, our We pushed on in the rain and red mud, brindled Great Dane pup. She stands passing carloads of gypsies, to whom we thirty-three inches in bel' stocking feet, were related in that our cbief joy was in and is renowned for bel' perfect disposi- "gypping" the hotels by tratlertng. The tion, philosoph- country sur- ical sense of rounding pic- humor, and for turesque Pen- being more nington Gap human than was still im- "dawg.' After bued with real considerable backwoods liv- searching, the ing-no paint trailer mater- had dripped in ialized for us t hat direction in the ter-m of for ages, and a faded khaki the rugged "z a g elmever," ranges were veteran of many clotted with log thousands of cabins, pigs, miles. When and mules. It closed up it re- is a land of the sem bles a can- sunbonnets and vas box, on two overalls; both Ford wheels, and trails the car perfectly. living and "likker" are hard. "Hi! You With five minutes of skilled adjustment, all are a right smart piece from home, it can be detached from the car, made ain't yer?" someone called. stationary, opened out sideways and up- Tennessee, and the Great Smoktes was ward to give standing room of over six our next goal. A friend has been teach- feet. A wide- door opens out at the front ing the mountaineer children in the forming a table and disclosing shelves for vicinity of Gatltnburg for years. We groceries, a drawer for silver and dishes drove as far as we could then traversed and-most comforting to the housewife- the last half mile over swinging bridges an ice box. Inside are two full length and r-ocky paths to the little stone cabin beds, and a box effect useful as a bureau, built for bel' by the people she is helping. linen closet, library and desk. Our guide was one of the chief magnates The middle of October saw the de- of the section, being the owner of the parture of the caravan. Travel with us best stills. We had a warm reception through the southland and take a fleeting and were much interested in stories of glimpse of a few of the scenes on route. these homespun folk, who make hand Aristocracy woven coverlets and rustic split wood Hot Springs-mecca of Aristocracy for furniture, and who raise corn and large generations! Here we were fortunate in families. Their one or two-roomed cab- being onlookers (from the porch) at the ins are often lined with newspapers. We annual cake walk. The "Homestead" were told that Dag would supply con- guests were regaled in the ballroom by versation subject matter for months. about a dozen of the darky servants. Florida Camp Such strutting of ebony beaux in dinner Over the St. Mary's River and into Sun- suits, with spats, straw hats and canes, nv Florida at last! We made camp about and such Charlestonlug of dusky belles, twenty-three miles from Fort Myers on a in pink rompers, pantalette costumes or narrow island where only fishermen live. what had they!! This spot was heaven indeed. The sun ------CONNECTICUT COLLEGEALUMNAENEW5------7 shone down intensely, giving us layers CHAPTER OFFICERS of tan. We lived in bathing suits and New Haven Chapter explored the six miles of beach or read in the shade of the trailer. Pres., Elizabeth Speirs '29. We lived a halcyon existence. OUf V. Pres., Margaret Graham '27. thrills were in watching the fires of stills Sec., Betty Moyle Gold '23. back in the woods or the fishermen boot- 'I'reas., Frances Saunders Tarbell '19. legging from Cuban boats. An immigra- Social Oh., Mary Slayter '29. tion officer sat on the beach three hours Cleveland Chapter one night with revolver and flashlight Pree., Margaret Sterling Werntz '26. and held us spellbound with grim tales V. Pres., Normah Kennedy '29. of hangings-l gave him a Hershey bar. Sec. Trumana Foote Dennison '28. We were loathe to break camp in De- Treas., Olive Tuthill Reid ex '22. cember-e-to leave the open and sleep Publicity Ch., Mary Auwood Bernard under house roots after winds had rocked '25. us to sleep in our canvas home-on-wheels Social Cb., Virginia Eggleston Smith for seven weeks. We emerged three very '24. tan beings. and two at least with rested -0-0-0- nerves and expanded souls. Five thou- The class of 1930 has given to the sand miles of open road had tuned our Library, as a class gift, two hundred dol- hearts to a permanent Vagabond Song- lars which is being used for the purchase Sun-worship a la Trailer is great medi- of books to fill in incomplete sets. cine: "Ask the man who owns one." -e. c.· News. AWAY FROM THE HILL TOP

1919 Education at Columbia. Mr. Comstock, co r-respondent: Grace Cockings who is an artist of renown, illustrated 336 Main St., Bristol, Conn. a story for Courtney Riley Cooper which Louise Ansley Knapp had an interest- was published in the Elk's Magazine in ing trip to Europe this past summer. December. Mr. Knapp is writing a biography of Dorothy Dart complains that there te SmoJlett, so all but eight days of their nothing exciting in the prosaic existence time was spent in poring over old books, of a housewife. Outside of a few good manuscripts and newspapers, gathering movies, such as: "Grumpy" with Cyril material. Before coming home, they Maude, "Disraeli" with George Arliss, took a bus trip to Edinburgh and the and some rides with friends, she says she Lake Country, stopping a whole day at has little news. Ruth Potter visited the beautiful Smollett estate on Loch Dorothy. Ruth is still doing lovely weav- Lomond. Louise enjoyed London, too. ing as well as occupational therapy in She writes: "London is fascinating with one of the hospitals. its sidewalk artists, maids scrubbing K. Holway and her mother have taken doorsteps every morning, old women sell- an apartment, until April, at HOllywood, ing beautiful flowers on every corner, Florida. Hollywood is eighteen miles many tiny automobiles, and public drink- from Miami and has a beach all its own, ing cups on the steps of the British Mu- so that K. is enjoying daily swims. There seum. These are a few things that are golf courses and tennis courts for seemed different from American cities." one's amusement, but K. is spending most Julie Hatch is still in Richmond, Vir- of her time learning the Australian crawl. ginia, where she is getting valuable ex- Winona Young and a friend have re- perience in Social Work. She likes the turned from a trip to California, where city and the people very much and by they visited Dorcas Gallup Bennett in sharing a car with two friends, has seen Palo Alto and Ruth Trail McClellan in the historical points of interest in Vir- Oregon. They 'called on Dr. Nan Barr ginia. Mavity, but did 110t find her at home. Lucy Marsh Haskell attended the meet- Alison Hastings Porritt, Dorothy Stelle ings of the American College of Surgeons, Stone and Martha Huston Allen were in Philadelphia, with Dr. Haskell. She among those who attended a bridge party met Dr. Margaret Milligan '20, at an eve- given by Betty Williams at her home in ning meeting. Hartford. Juline Warner Comstock and family Mariesther Dougherty is teaching in a visited in Wisconsin this summer, where private school in New York. "Meddle" they had a most enjoyable time. Wrey has been to Europe for the past five or Warner is living with Juline, this winter, six summers and was in Paris this last while studying for an M.A. in Physical summer. 81------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAE NEWS------

Ruth Markam, a former '1ger is living Hester Camp was influential in starting. in West Hartford. I think that it has done him a great deal Norma Regan fell from a horae and of good. . Please remember me to all has been confined to the hospital for the girls." some weeks. Alberta Lynch Sylvester has been star- Florence Leunon Romaine is busy ring in amateur dramatics in Glenbrook. bringing up two nieces as well as her Last summer she told stories to children lively son, Stephen. Besides this, Flor- at a recreation center. She has two ence teaches in night school and substi- lovely children, Peter and Martha Jane. tutes in day ecbool. Two other C. C. ttes, In spite of this attraction she manages Doris Miner and Margaret Fisher, teach to leave home for some music in New with her at night school. Florence York occasionally. talked on the telephone with Amelia Eunice Gates Woods, ex '20, has just Tutles, ODe of '19'8 doctors. Amelia is moved to a beautiful new home in Mor- very busy, but now bas the help of her ristown, N. J., fittingly called "Gatewood," younger brother, who is a doctor, too. where there is a brook where they swim Helen Gough, who is practicing den- in summer and skate in winter! tistry in , N. Y, is working hard, Jessie Menzies Luce likes her new but enjoys her profession. borne in Larchmont. N. Y., "in spite of Miriam Pomeroy Rogers spent the sum- the furnace and the stairs"! She writes: mer in Stamford, Conn., but now bas re- "Bobby and Marion have benefited greatly turned to bel' borne in McAllen, Texas. here .... Marion adores music and sings Mary Robinson is teaching in Berkeley. her Sunday School songs for hours. Just California. She spent Christmas with before Christmas I met Ruth Wilson Ruth Trail McClellan. Cbaftte in New Rochelle. I'm going to Margaret Maher underwent an opera- take Marion over to see her two daugh- lion on December 30th and is now recov- ters and their bran new baby brother ering nicely. She has been teaching in soon. A day or two ago Les Alderman Paterson, N. J., this fall. dropped in to see me. She is doing some Frank Otten spent a week-end with statistical work for Collier's Magazine May Buckley in November. and lives in White Plains." -0-0-0- Dotty Stelle Stone writes of a bridge 1920 party which Betty Williams gave in Correspondent: Kathryn Hulbert Hall Hartford during December to which she 14 Crescent St., Wellesley Hills, Mass. and Edith Williams were invited. "We 1920 is very proud of her mathemati- had a gorgeous time, some brtdge and cian, Juettne MacGow.an Masse, who is much chatter. Jessie Williams Buck, studying for an Actuarial career, and bas Alison Hastings Porritt, a.nd Martha already passed the first examination of Houston Allen were all there so that it the Actuarial Society of America. This seemed like a small sized C. C. reunion, we gleaned from her very modest letter Winthrop House in miniature. Coming written in June telling us bow sorry she from a nice little village where the ab- was that she could not be with us for sence of curb stones is quite marked I Reunion. She writes: "My work deals distinguished myself by falling up the only with pension insurance here, but I gutter after carefully parking the car. have some idea of general life insurance My legs became hopelessly entangled in for I worked in the Actuarial department yards of chiffon in an extra long skirt, of the Traveler's Insurance Company for the bran new pocketbook flew in an ob- two years. It is fascinating work for any- scure corner of the gutter, my Paris hat one who likes mathematics. Although I took on a very New England angle and am employed by the Teachers' Retire- my pride or vanity, whichever you care ment System, I actually work on pensions to call it, had an awful jolt. Nature for all city employees; each department never intended me for the high lights of pays the salary of a part of the actuarial society, it is plain to be seen. Never- department. The actuary in charge is one theless I had such a good time that I of the leaders in the field of pensions, and hope some day to stage a return 'inter- the first woman Fellow of the Actuarial state' bridge in my own home. Society used to work in this office. That "My young son has enjoyed his holi- seemed quite thrilling to me. There are days more than I have I am afraid. He very few women in this field because keeps the house in a constant uproar most of the insurance companies say that with the stunts he pulls. Yesterday be women do not actually stay more than came in very wet and I found that he had f ve years (just long enough to become walked through the brook which runs useful) and the training is wasted .... under the bridge over which the main My little nephew in Watertown has been highway from Hartford to Worcester and going to a Nursery School that Mary Boston passes. He assured me it was ______CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAENEWS------9

Quite proper because he had not taken however." (How we'd like to take a peek little Sister with him. So goes the day. in on Harriet's beauty parlors.) and I shall welcome the clang of the -0-0-0- school bell tomorrow." 1921 La Fetra Perley Reiche has these two Correspondent: Anna P. Flaherty fine sons, Karl Jr. and little Frank. Karl 120 Madison Ave., New York City is ill kindergarten and loves it-got the Class-Atten-shun! " family up before dawn on the day it was No "Class-at ease!" will follow tbis to begin. command for this is '21's busy year with 10th Reunion just ahead! We must go right into thoughts of "getting in line," "face-right" and "forward-MARCH!" toward Connecticut in June. We can go in twos, fours, or even single file but the roll call must be long and loud. A few mental memory GYMNASTICS will fol- low with a chance for cutting a few capers, and best of all the old GA.ME of seeing new faces and renewing old friendships. Let's all be in attendance at this "week-end class" in June! No "cuts," no "lutes," no "excuses"! -c-Dorothy weir. -0-0-0- 1922 Correspondent: Dorothy Wheeler 19 Shultas Place, Hartford, Conn. Telegram: "Joel Byron Slocum, born January 9. That is all the news I have. Children of LaFetra Perley Reiche Signed, Jeannette Sperry Slocum." From Betty Hall Wittenberg: "We all have- just lived along in our peaceful, We are intensely sorry to learn that rather uneventful, way-I really should Marion Hendrie Milligan, our Alumnae not say peaceful-for with two little boys, President, has just been through a series Bob Jr., and Lester, aged four years and of illnesses which laid her up for most one year respectively, each day is filled of the fall. While in Louisville, Ky., on with its small but important affairs. We a vacation trip with her husband, she spend a good share of every summer with came down with bronchitis, influenza and my husband's family at Twin Lakes, Con- pneumonia. At Christmas time her necticut, where we have a wee small youngest son, Lincoln, came down with cottage or guest house for ourselves for intestinal flu-"Altogether things were a sleeping purposes, but really live with bit hectic." the family. We have seen Louise Avery Hendrie goes on to say, "Alice and Favorite '21 and her husband occa- Fred Schell were East during the holi- sionally. They have recently purchased days and Peg Milligan and 1 had lunch a fine place in a suburb of one of the with them in Philadelphia. Both were Newtons and are very happy in their looking splendid and Al is doing some new home. Then, of course, Helen Hew- very interesting work. 1 certainly wish itt Webb '25, is a near neighbor. We all we could keep them in the East. Peg play bridge once in a while. A week ago spoke over the radio last Tuesday- the Webbs, some other neighbors, and WLIT in Philadelphia-on Infant Feed- ourselves had a jolly coasting party. As ing. I went with her and got consider- for thrilling trips, and hair-raising ex- able kick out of hearing my first broad- periences, there have been none. I am cast. The work is done in connection too busy keeping Lester from eating but- 1 with the Women's Hospital in the city." tons, chalk, and Teddy Bears' eyes and P. S. Last minute news is just in from teaching Bobby that it isn't art to paint j London! Harriet Allen writes from the living room windows with cold there: "I love England, it's a fascinating cream." place with fascinating people in it. But From Walnut Vale Farm, Meriden, Amy I'd like a little more sunshine! 1 spend Peck Yale writes: "There isn't much roy days trying to stay the ravages of news from here. My four babies are all the years and indulgence-mostly indul- flourishing, the farm is out of the tornado gence-among the London's lovely-and and flood districts so nothing worse than otherwise-ladies. It's most interesting, general business depression bothers." 10'------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAE NEWS------

Her oldest girl, Amy Elizabeth, was in is a member of the U. S. Lawn Tennis. the hospital recently for an operation but Players Association. is all right now. Here is Carolyn, the dainty little Eleanor Thielen Wunch is living at 10 daughter of Lucy Whitford Heaton. She Allen Court, Staten Island, for Ted has is just recovering from a broken collar- duty at the 3rd Naval District and in be- bone caused by a tumble down the stairs. tween times goes to Columbia. Her Dr. Dagbltan's brothel' was her X-ray spe- kiddies are fine. Jack is in the second cialist at the hospital. grade and Bill in the first -0-0-0- 1923 Correspondent: Mary Langenbacher 716 Old Lancaster Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pa. From our President, Helen A very Bailey, comes a glimpse of an Alumnae tea in Hartford with Anna Buell, Betty Dtcktnecn. Abby Hollister and Harriet Woodford Merriam enjoying Dr. Jensen's account of the latest happenings on cam- pus told in that characteristic manner whicb those who pursued Adv. Compo will not soon forget. Ethel Adams Due-as has joined the Hartford colony, and has a position, as well as a husband. to look aEter which probably accounts for her absence at the tea, although I believe husbands were invited that time. Besides working at the Brooklyn Bu- reau of Charities, Gwyneth Rees has been studying at the New York School of Carolyn, daughter of Social Work. Tony Stolle is busy at Lucy Whitford Heaton home teaching music. Harriet Woodford Merriam is Secre- Alumnae Reunion week-end is nearly tary of the West Hartford Woman's here. If any of you have suggestions for Chorus and Olive Holcombe Wheeler is our class, do send them to Helen A very also keeping up her music. The latter Bailey. Perhaps a dinner could be plan- was home from Schenectady for the holi- ned. Everyone should try to be in New days. London that week-end. Helen Bailey adds that she is busy with Industrial Work, having charge of a (Editor's Note)-From the class notes. Library at one of the Hartford factories. of 1924 comes the news that Mary Lan- At South Norwalk, Dorothy Hubbard genbacher, your faithful class news Bell has built a charming house, and gatherer, announced her engagement in Helen Barkeding Neuberg has done the November to Arthur Morrow Clark of same thing at Rivervale, New Jer sev. Montclair, a Wesleyan graduate. Helen's new home is a Dutch stone colo- -0-0-0- nial, typical of that section, built on an 1924 old Revolutionary battlefield between two of the oldest estates in Bergen Coun- Correspondent: Helen Douglass North ty. Rae Tiffany Into was home from Maple Ave., North Haven, Conn. Toledo for the holidays and visited Again it has become my sad duty to re- Helen. Rae's little girl is almost two. port the death of another of our beloved Our class baby, Ann Alden, is "beaued" members, Vera Gran n Copeland, a friend to school and back each day by Allln of all who knew her and admired by Mae (Brazos) Chalmer's small son, so everyone Although a day student and Htgete told Judy at the last Alumnae not a resident on campus, Vera always meeting. took active interest in the affairs of the During the winter months Dot Randle College and was always willing to do her holds her tennis classes at the Vincent part to make '24 doings successful. Richards Tennis School Courts, 71st Vera died in New York of double pneu- Armory, Park Avenue at 33rd Street. monia. Her death was all the more sad With two others, she directs the "June because she was about to become a Tennis and Dancing Camp" at Naples, mother. She .waa buried in New London. Maine. The circulars are very attractive To Vera's husband, other relatives and The Camp Season is from June 9-29. Dot friends, the Class of 1924 wishes to ex- ______CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS 11 tend its heartfelt sympathy in this time little. She's a normal 4-year old now- of bereavement. in height." ••••••••••• Agnes Jones' engagement to Harold After trying unsuccessfully for I don't Staebner was recently announced in know how many eons to pry some news Hartford, and Agnes writes, "I'm leaving out of Hotsy Warner, I actually bumped the office on the 31st of this month into her during Christmas vacation at the (January) and am going directly to N. Y. bridge given in New Haven by the C. C. to look for an apartment. It is possible Alumnae Chapter there. She's looking that we'll be married in the Little Church fine and is apparently enjoying her work Around the Corner and spend our honey- in a Nursery School in Pittsburgh to the moon right there in New York as Harold utmost. 5118 was home (Beacon Falls) will have very little time for a long trip for the holidays whicb accounted for my at this time." The best of wishes for seeing her in person. The summer, she years of happiness to you, Agnes. said, was spent in traveling out f n Colo- I spent the evening of January 14 in rado where she had a wonderful time. Hartford, so naturally kept the old tele- David Cat-lysle Johnson, Mickey Law- phone wires humming trying to get news son's young son, sent my Richard a of '24 girls located there. I had a fine Christmas card which also said that he chat with Genie Walsh but she wasn't was not Quite 17 months old yet but inclined to be "newsy." However, J weighed 28 pounds. He loves to climb, learned from Dot Bradway Roberts that and life for him, he says, is a study in everything was going well with her and black and blue. The Johnsons, it must her family; that Myrtice Tryon, whose also be noted, have moved from their work h.as been in Willimantic as librarian former address to 280 Maple Street, Bur- of the Windham High School, is on leave lington, Vermont. of absence for a year and that she is A splendid letter came recently from taking a library course in New York at Bobbie Kent Kepner whose new address , and that Marion is 82 North 2d East, Logan, Utah, from Vi bert Clark no longer lives in New which I am going to quote liberally. Jersey, but is now residing at 26 South- "Harold," she writes, "is teaching Civil worth St., Williamstown, Mass., where Engineering at the Utah State Agricul- her husband is a professor at the North- tural College and likes his work ever so side School for Boys. located on the cam- much. This is a pretty little city, com- pus of Williams College. pletely surrounded by mountains. A Anna Frauer told me that she was en- beautiful canyon begins about three miles joying her work as teacher in Bulkeley from here and extends for twenty-five High and that on Christmas Eve, while miles to Bear Lake. We spent Armistice registering at the Hotel Lincoln in New Day at the last camp cottage up the can- York, she saw and chatted a few moments yon and saw while there a deer, a with Amy Hilker. grouse, and an ermine. It was quite a After trying in vain to reach Hazel 'wild' day for us. Converse, T learned that she was at the "During Christmas vacation several Hartford Hospital where she was suffer- men went up to the camp and saw lion ing from an attack of pleurisy. tracks. Every paper has reports of moun- Catts Holmes Brandow writes, "Walt tain lions being killed in nearby towns, and 'Dag' and T send best wishes for although 'all the towns are quite far apart. happiness in 1931. We bought a %,-acre "We went to Denver for ten days' grove of avocado trees in the gorgeous Christmas vacation-700 miles, a distance 'back country,' 18 miles east of San Diego which to me in New England would have in the hills. So imagine us discussing seemed a long trip, but out here I didn't 'crops' with the other ranchers, wearing think so much of it. blue overalls as we irrigate and soon "Wyoming was interesting country to aiding a carpenter to build a tiny Span- me-all humps and rocks-with no houses ish bungalow-for the trailer and tent in sight for miles on end lt's the kind are somewhat cramped-not to say an- of country I always pictured in Zane tique. I had a perfect visit with Betty Grey's stories, although most of his are Holmes and Mac Mehaffey over Thanks- laid in southern Utah. We're in the giving week-end, visiting Imperia] Valley, northern part just a few miles from the the Salton Sea and snow-capped moun- Idaho border. tains above the desert." "The day we arrived in Logan, Janet Elinor Hunken Torpey has been busy had the whooping cough so I didn't get planning and building a new home, ac- to see the town much for six weeks. I cording to a November communication wish she would stop growing tall for from Mary Snodgrass McCutcheon. Mary about two years now, and fatten up a also wrote that Jinny Hays' business 5

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keeps her on the jump, having three head- now on the high road to recovery. Ken quarters, and that on the side, she is had had a serious operation on his throat; studying architecture. Billy had to go to the hospital for a ?"en- Katy Wells Duncan sent in tbe lovely eral overhauling; and baby Joan decided snap of Edward Stanley Duncan taken to celebrate by running up a temperature when he was eleven months old. Just of 101. But in spite of everything the look at those eyes sparkle-doesn't that Shaws have moved into a delightful new indicate he's a livewire? English cottage at 13 McKinley Ave., Easthampton, Mass. There is only one '25er in Cleveland and that is May Auwood Bernard, al- though she counts Chick Tracy a second '25er. But Chick is training director at the Lasalle & Koch Co., Toledo's biggest and best department store-so it looks as though she represented us better there. '25 wants to voice a protest at the slip which caused Thelma Burnham's name to be left off the annual list of Connecticut College Graduates who have received their advanced degrees. Thelma was awarded the Masters Degree at Radcliff College early in 1929. She is now busy Son of Catherine Wells Duncan helping Professor Ireland of Harvard Betty McDougall was married last Law School write a book on International Thanksgiving Day to Ernest Jesse Pal- Law. mer. Mr. Palmer is field collector and You will all be delighted to know that assistant botanist at the Arnold Aboretum Kathleen Boyle is once more feeling tip- of Harvard University. He has made top. Just to express in a small way the many botanical explorations and is an sympathy felt by the Hartford Chapter authority on plant taxonomy, plant geog- of Connecticut College Alumnae for Kath- raphy and forest distribution. Betty Ieeu during her illness a leather book writes that they will be off for three cover was sent with the Chapter's best weeks of collecting in March. They are wishes. living at 72 Robinwood Ave., Jamaica Olga Gennert Greene has a delightful Plains, Mass. Best wishes for a lot of and handsome young son, James B. happiness, Betty. Greene Jr. We are all anxious to see a -0-0-0- picture of Joanne Campbell Greene born 1925 last Fourth of July. Olga has just moved Correspondent: Alice Taylor Dugan to 32 Grand View Terrace, Tenafly, N. J. Palisade Green, Windsor, Conn. A line from Miriam Cbadeavne tells us News, at last, has reached your class that she mixes pleasure with substitute corr-espondent about the long silent Janet teaching in the public schools in Ossin- Aldrich. As always still waters run deep ing. for Janet was commissioned to do some Grace Parker Schumpert has had a research work for the League of Nations busy fall with a son and daughter to after having taught school for several make things lively, while Bob is study- years. And from this a romance de- ing at the University of Wisconsin and veloped for Janet became the bride of doing full time "Y" work. The Schum- Manley O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of ner-ts have just moved to 303 South International Law at Harvard who gave Rand-all Ave., Madison, Wisconsin. her the original appointment. Prof. Bea Fowler Dike is busy teaching Hudson is author of several books on school, keeping house, and doing church international law. He was attached to work-having just been elected chair- the international law division of the m.an of a group in the Episcopal Guild. American Commission to negotiate peace Sally Crawford Maschal is the proud in Paris in 1918-19 and was a member of mother of Sarah Jane, born January 4th. several commissions at the Paris Peace The Maschals are living at 19 Cannon St., Conference of 1919. Norwalk, Conn. Class of 1925 is now represented in Marian Walp is married. We all wish Honolulu, T. of A., at Schofield Barracks you would write and tell us more, bv Winifred Smith Passmore. G. Hunter Marian! Passmore is with the 21st Infantry of the The Hartford Courant of .Ianuary 25th United States Army. announces the engagement of Lila Gallup Billy Field Shaw, Ken, and Joan are to Mr. Joseph Madison Ulrey. ______CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAENEWS------I3

1926 Schneidewind said she and Chick and their little girl were all well. I talked Correspondent: Elizabeth A. Blair with K. Bailey, too. She certainly man- Gardner Road, Flossmoor, Illinois ages to keep busy. Besides tap dancing, ATTENTION, our president speaks. tangoing, toe dancing (l think) and most "Dear '26ites: every other kind of dancing, she is study- "June 1931 and five years out for us. ing French-has private lessons-and is But let's forget the awe-inspiring con- planning to study art appreciation, too. notation of a fifth reunion, leave mun- She expected her mother to spend Christ- dane affairs behind and join each other mas with her in New York. She's living on the hill-top for a grand get-together. at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Most of us have catching up to do on "We are enjoying little Donald so each other's children, occupation, etc., much. He is seven months old now and and it is really a grand chance to see weighs twenty-f ve pounds, so you see whether our class prophet was right or he is on his way to being a football wrong! Also we have business to tran- player." sact and other class affairs which need During the fall, Jessie Williams an- the opinion of alL Not least will be the nounced bel' engagement to Frank J. joy of absorbing once again the C. C. Kohl. Jessie is still Mr. Lambdin's sec- atmosphere, a renewal of friendships retary, up on campus. with faculty, a stone wall stug perhaps, Katherine Colgrove found our column and a long gaze down the river and out a bit wanting in the November News so to the Sound. We are counting on you she took her pen in band immediately to make this reunion a memorable one!" and came to our rescue with a letter full Teddy Hewlett. of news. While we are on this subject of memo- "Harriet Stone recently (this was late ries do you all remember our Sophomore November) had a C. C. reunion at her Hop and the orchestra WB had? The home in Southbury. Among those pres- leader of that orchestra is none other ent were Bunny Bond Armstrong with than the famous Rudy Vallee! Ask her husband and son, George; Alice Hess Dorothy Brooks. They both come from Pattison with her husband and son, Rob- Westbrook, Maine, and 1 believe they ert; Barbara Bell Crouch and her hus- went to school together. Dot may even band; Hazel Bracket, Frances Green and deserve credit for his success, for it was Kay Dauchy. she who persuaded him to play for our "Arline Haskins Funk also entertained dance. a party of C. C.ites at her 110me in Scot- Upon my almost tearful request for land on Labor Day. Chris Lord, Inez news, Kay King Karalake responded Hess, Dot Andrews, Ikey Newton and I nobly with a letter and a sweet picture got together and 110W we did talk! of her attractive son, Donald King Kars- "Inez is doing social service work in lake, born May 31, 1930. Bristol Conn. but finds it rather tame after her excursions into Ohio and Ken- tucky. "Ikey Newton spent a wonderful sum- mer in Europe where she saw the Passion Play. She is now instructor in biology at Simmons College. "One week-end this fall Kay Dauchy, Margaret Knight '27 and I took a little trip up through Vermont and New York State in Kay's cal'. Much to our sur- prise, we saw Frances Andrews '27 and her husband in Ticonderoga. The next day we stopped in Saratoga Springs at Skidmore College and bad dinner with Lois Watkins '27 who is dietitian there." A request to D. D. Low for my lost issue of the November News brought a Donald King Karslake prompt, interesting and pleasant note from that hard working young person Kay was home for Christmas. Here is who has been sitting up "into the wee her short but interesting letter. bour s of morn for practically two full "I wish I could have seen some of the months" preparing a new and modern old crowd while T was borne but tele- edition of the Alumnae Register. She phone conversations were the best I says that Grace Clark is now Mrs. A. could manage. Helen Ea r n s w o r th Bradford MacKain and she lives at 4522 14,------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAE NEWS------

Osage Avenue, West Philadelphia, ~a. D. D. spent a ten day Christmas vacatton in Florida with her family and had a glorious, and well earned, holiday. -0-0-0- 1927 Correspondent: Margaret Woodworth 515 Laurel Road, Ridgewood, N. J. Greetings to the new youngster for th~ '27 cradle roll. Janet Ccxe, daughter of Lib Fowler Coxe, was born on Sept. 28th -blue eyes, brown hair, and of course, adorable. .. Mary Crofoot took an auto trip to W IS-. constn this summer, going by way at Washington, D. C. wi.n» i~lChicago ~he paced the pavements Iooktng for a .J~b in the big city, but not wtsbfng to join the bread line for the unemployed, she went back to Connecticut to work with Dr. Leib. She is taking baby German for a winter's diversion. She saw Harriet Taylor at Christmas time. Harriet took one of her semi-annual trips to New York to see the sights and counteract the calmness caused by teaching in a peace- ful country day school. Marie Copp sends out an S. O. S. for Class Baby of 1927 news of "anyone desiring a teacher of philosophy." She has hopes of finishing her doctorate at Radcliffe this June Bill and I drove up to Middletown for Jerry Jerman visited Fannie Young '30 Christmas." in Astabula Ohio, over Christmas. They Buddy Elliott is starting training at the drove into Cleveland to the bridge-tea Presbyter-tan Hospital, New York City, which the Alumnae gave for the under- this month. graduates. Nubs Vernon amuses herself taking a In the '26 class report we read that course at N. Y. U. and skating lessons Frances Andrews was seen in 'Tf con- at Madison Square Gardens. deroga with a husband. Come now, -0-0-0- Frances, share the news with us. Who is he? 1928 Our class baby must be more grown up Correspondent: Henrietta L. Owens than this by now for the picture was 10 East 16th Street, New York City taken last spring. It is too cunning a Space-of-the-month goes to Eleanor picture not to print even if it had to be Mann, seen recently by some of us in delayed. Meet Celestta Denniston Muth, New York City. Ee is a colorist and daughter of Helen Tatum Muth. designer for the Schwar-zenbach-Huber Sue Chittenden writes on a Christmas Co. (If you can't pronounce it, at least card: "Am still interested in the Stock know that it is 100 years old, largest silk Market and am sliding along with it. Of manufacturing house in the U. S.) Last course I find New Haven very lovely and summer Messrs. Schwarzenbach and Hu- am enjoying life Iully." Sounds gay, to ber sent Ee to Paris, 'where she lived in say the least. Esther Chandler is another the Hotel des Etats Unts, sketching, ac- one who takes the back of her Christmas quiring titian curls and jotting down va- card to say that she likes her job in rious addenda on life, love and literature I the Boston Library. In effect, they are these: Russians are Peggy (Rich) and Bill Raley are very swell; Frenchmen are so-so; Germans are 11appy in their apartment at 640 w. l53rd all right; and Turks are not swarthy, do St., N. Y. C. Peg is working at Columbia not wear scimitar moustaches, and look University where she seems to be in like American foot baIlers. Ee contem- charge of renting dormitory rooms to plated taking a sketching course at Co- students. She writes "As to my job, it's lumbia upon her return this Winter, but jobbish.-Just sold a dormitory room to "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien (Broadway a Chinaman who had a committee of com- sylph salon) won out. She goes there patriots along to help him choose it. thrice weekly, swathes her individuality Hope they don't all plan to live there.- in gutta pet-cha underwear, and is now CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAE NEWS------15 busily engaged in minimizing her totalit.y championships to his credit. He is assist- to the extent of three pounds per session. ant track coach at the University of What remained of Ee when we saw her, Washington, in Seattle. told us that Bo Day is now in Paris, Joan Cochran West's military husband studying figure drawing. And Molly (R. John) has been transferred from Fort Craig was married last spring to Charles Ethan Allen in Vermont to Honolulu. Rice, who is in the advertising business. Mary Jane Benson Britten has a son, The Rices are living in New York, on born early last fall. Aud Jackson is sec- Spuvten Duyvil Parkway. retary to an interior decorator in New Hettie Bruce Stephenson writes briefly York. from San Francisco: "Hello, how is Pat Hine and Dot Thayer both have sis- everybody? I am engaged and expect to ters in the present freshman class at be married this spring. His name is college-1934. Owen." Teachers and secretaries: secretaries Jakie Savini is assistant to the director and teachers! Mary Bond is again at of Casa Italtana, at Columbia University. Miss Sayward's in Phtladelohia, teaching She recently returned from a cruise to Physical Ed. Frances McElfresh teaches Bermuda, Nassau, Cuba, and parts Carib- French at Caskin School in Devon, Pa. bean, and speaks of bumping into Dot Eleanor Michel is an English instructor Pasnik in Havana. (Sm.all world etc.) in Meriden High School, Meriden, Conn. Ginny Hawkins announced her engage- Betty Seward is teaching her former ment this fall to EaTI ("Pete") Perrine, majors, English and Music. J don't know Brown '29. what their fields are, but Ellen Soderman Another 1928 child! Joan Riddle Mar- is teaching in Stamford Conn. and Fran quis, daughter of Helen Boyd Marquis, Wells somewhere in New Jersey. Edith was born in East Orange, N. J., on Oc- Porter is director of Music at a school tober 29, 1930. in Bridgeport Conn. Edith Simonton is The Peg Merriam Zellers have emi- instructing the young of her home town, grated for three months to Utica, N. Y.. 'I'hornnsonvtlle, Coun., in English and there to be concerned somehow with French. someone's some sort of factory. Sorry we know so little about it. Ad McMiller is secretary to the Art and Abbie Kelsey announced her engage- Music Supervisors of the Akron Public ment in November to Edward Cady Schools, in Akron, Ohio. Lil Ottenheimer Marsh, brother of Abbie's brother-in-law has a similar position with the Dean of who is the husband of Verna Kelsey Connecticut Aggie at Storrs. Elsie Peter- Marsh, ex '25. SAn.Marian Vaine, Polly Seavey, Frances Pat Towson is spending the winter in Tillinghast, and Esther Stone are all Honolulu. Betsy Ross and Edwina Pratt filling varied positions in this same field. are ladies of leisure in Massillon, Ohio. Jo Arnold has a place with the Open They drove to Cleveland at Christmas Court Publishing Company in Chicago. time for the Alumnae bridge-tea. To quote her-quite without permission The latest news from Ridgewood: List of copvrtght-c-"I have a job and it is Harmon has announced her engagement quite an interesting one I do a little to Ward Pardee, Princeton '27, and the of everything secretarial, but the main Edward W. (Peg Tauchert) Johnston s task at hand is to assist a bit eccentric, have moved to Jackson Heights, Long but very pleasant boss, in her translation Island. of a French book, some four hundred And Alumnae Weekend is February 21. seventy-five pages in length, the Coming? subject is the philosophy of Celsus." Jo -0-0-0- and Betty Williams are officers of the Chicago C. C. Chapter. Betty was one of 1929 twenty-five out of a group of two hundred Correspondent: Muriel S. Kendrick fifty who passed the Civil Service Exami- Mount Ida School, Newton, Mass. nation for Social Workers. Ann Heilpern and Wilbur Randall Mar-g Anderson is Psychiactrto Social (Vale man) were married at her home in Worker at Essex County Hospital (for Hartford on December twenty-eighth. In the insane) at Cedar Grove, N. J. Winnie November, Ann was down at college to Link is hard at work at the Institute for coach the fall play, Pinero's "Amazons." Juvenile Research in Chicago. In the New York Times of December Muriel Ewing is with "Time" (no doubt thtrtv-th-st, I came upon an announce- the only one of us who feels that way). ment of the engagement of Gin Shank Madelin Bartlett is with the Literary to Steve Anderson. Steve is co-holder Guild organization. Gertrude Sizkin is of the world record in 120-yard high an agent for the United Life and Acci- hurdles, and has several more track dent Insurance Company at Hartford. 16,------CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEALUMNAENEW5------

Glad Spear is at Teacher's Business Col- which we can give no further statistics lege at Shelton, Conn. at present. -0-0-0- We're a little bit worried about Betty Capron. She was, when last heard from, 1930 in charge of the girls on parole at Long Correspondent: Eleanor Tyler Lane Farm, and somehow the idea of 44 Morningside Drive, Apt. 43, N.Y.C. Betty, armed with a club, surrounded by There seems to be a lot happening to people with criminal tendencies, preys 1930. and, as in any good news column, on our minds. ours begins with Jane Murphy has turned into a Iull- Romance: Sunny and Babe, and Elea- fledged newspaper woman. As reporter nor Thayer and Mercer. on the Danbury Times, she has charge Sunny Barry's engagement to Dean Hil- of all the news from one section of town, debrandt, of New York, was announced besides the school items. A little differ- in November and they're being married ent, reports Jane, from Press Board. in ApriL Who said a college education wasn't worthwhile? Dean and Sunny Four of the workers have acquired a met at our Hop Sophomore year and this furnished apartment, with an organ and is the result. three goldfish. They and their respective Babe's engagement was announced on jobs are: Kentie-on the staff of the December 18th, to Edwin Berttue and Junior League Magazine. The first morn- the wedding will be in early March. They ing she went to work, she fell flat on the have a house in Pelham already and (as floor of the Barbtzon. Her stocking? Oh, this goes to press) are measuring for car- yes, it was the same story. Edwards- pets. Babe, getting thoroughly domesti- Assistant Manager in the cafeteria of the cated, is hemming tablecloths (with only Consolidated Gas Company. Her worst a little help). faux pas-a large doughnut dropped in a Eleanor Thayer was married on Janu- customer's bowl of spinach soup. Doris- ary 15th, to Lieutenant Albert Livingston has just left the Cherry Lane Theatre, Toney. Betty McCusker was one of the where she had a part in "The Bigot." bridesmaids. From now on, Eleanor's She's now in a theatrical office, prepara- address is Virginia. tory to opening in a play before long. And Uffie-Director of the Glee Club at Miss Mercer Camp and Alan Stone are being Hewitt's School and doing private tutor- married on February 14th. Mercer's en- ing on the side. gagement was announced last spring at college. There are lots more of us still studying. And then, there are the working girls. Dot Barrett is getting her M. A. in Psvch We begin with the story of Helene Som- at Columbia, and Ev Utley her degr-ee in ers, because it is the story of a different Chemistry and assisting in the Lab. Ad kind of working girl. Growing weary Finch is taking Business Administration of ease and elegance and a penthouse three times a week at Columbia. Gwen apartment, Helene started out to see how and Connie Smith are preparing to startle the other half lives. The last we heard the business world at Katie Gibbs in New she was driving, in her Austin, to the York and Kay Halsey is following the place where every day, at lunch time, same career in Brooklyn. Mary Gary is she "checks" trays in a cafeteria. We student dietitian at the University of have heard strange stories about the time Pennsylvania. she charged two people twenty cents dif- ~nd bringing up a personal subject, ference for the same lunch, but that may WhICh I had to bring up eventually I'm be exaggerated. At any rate, after work grimly pounding a typewriter and turn- she drives back in the same Austin, to ing inside out to read back my own the penthouse. Which is our idea of the shorthand in the offices of National Radio way 'Nark should be. Teddy Harrison Adverttstng, Inc.-all this a mere prelim- comes home at night to the same pent- mary, you understand, to editing Scrib- house, after doing statistical work-on ner's. 2

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