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Playing fields and Long Island Sound seen from Palmer Library,
August, 1954 COLLEGE CALENDAR NOVEMBER 1954 - JUNE 1955
NOVEMBER FEBRUARY 7 Monday Second semester begins, 8 A.M. 24 Wednesday Thanksgiving recess begins, 11: lO A.M. 11 Friday Period for change of individual pro- Thanksgiving recess ends, 11 P.M. 28 Sunday grams ends, 4 P. M. APRIL DECEMBER 2 Saturday Spring recess begins, 11: 10 A.M. Spring recess ends, 11 P.M. 18 Saturday Christmas recess begins, 11: 10 A.M. 12 Tuesday MAY Period for election of courses for JANUARY 9-13 1955-56 4 Tuesday Christmas recess ends, 11 P.M. Friday Period ends, 4 P.M. Registration foe second semester 13 lO-14 Friday Comprehensive examinations for Period closes, 4 P,M. 27 14 Friday seniors Reading period 17-22 23-28 Reading period Review period 24~25 Monday Review period 26 Wednesday Mid-year examinations begin 30 31 Tuesday Final examinations begin FEBRUARY JUNE 3 Thursday Mid-year examinations end 8 Wednesday Final examinations end Commencement 6 Sunday Inter-semester recess ends, 11 P.M. 12 Sunday
Executive Board of the Alumnae Association
President Chairman of Finance Ccmmtttee MISS JULIA WARNER '23 MISS NATALIE MAAS '40 Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts III Broadway, New York 6, New York Directors First Vice_President MRS. EDWIN B. HINCK (Margaret Royall '33) MRS. JOHN NUVEEN (Grace Bennet '25) 270 North Mountain Avenue, Upper Montclair, New Jersey 5 Indian Hill Road, Winnetka, Illinois MISS MILDRED HOWARD '20 Second Vice-President Sycamore Knolls, South Hadley, Massachusetts MRS. WILLIAM H. DINSMORE (Gertrude Allen '36) MRS. GEORGE D. WESTBROOK 147 East 61 Street, New York 21, New York (Frances P. Farnsworth '48) Recording Secretary 19 Fernridge Road, West Hartford, Connecticut MRS. JOHN M. BURNHAM (Ann Small '42) Alumnae Trustees Lloyd Road, Waterford, Connecticut MRS. OLIVER BUTTERWORTH (Miriam Brooks '40) Treasurer Sunset Farm, West Hartford MISS CAROL CHAPPELL '41 MISS CATHARINE GREER '29 Box 263, New London Old Hunting Ridge Stable, New Hackensack Road, Chairman of Nominating Committee Poughkeepsie, New York MRS. ROBERT H. ARESON (Lois Ryman '36) MRS. HAROLD H. BLANCHARD (Roberta Newton '21) 153 Bellevue Avenue, Upper Montclair, New Jersey 32 Calumet Road, Winchester, Massachusetts
Chairman of Alumnae Fund Executive Secretary MRS. ROBERT RAMAKER (Artemis Blessis '50) MISS KATHRYN MOSS '24 903 Asylum Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut Alumnae Office, Connecticut College, New London Editorial Staff of Alumnae News Editor A.aod.te Editou MISS KATHRYN MOSS '24 Alumnae Office, Connecticut College, New London MISS GERTRUDE NOYES '25
Business Manager MRS. HUBER CLARK (Marion Vibert '24) MISS CAROL CHAPPELL '41 East Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Published by the Connecticut College Alumnae Association at Connecticut College, 751 Williams Street, New London, Conn. four times a yc::ar in December, March, May and August. Subscription price $2 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, New London, Conn., under the act of March 3, 1879. Connecticut College Alumnae News OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
NUMBER 4 VOLUME XXXII AUGUST, 1954
Campus Notes ~ Autumn 1954
On Saturday night after their arrival on campus the In March, joining with the Yale Glee Club, the Choir Freshmen enjoyed a reception in Knowlton to which the will have the great privilege of singing Mozart's "Mass Coast Guard Academy cadets were invited. Under the in C Minor". Two performances will be given, one at direction of Service League such receptions have been held New Haven and one at New London. Mr. Arthur Quimby, throughout the year. In the past Freshmen from Yale, chairman of the Department of Music, is the director of Brown, Wesleyan, and Trinity have been entertained at the Connecticut College Choir. Connecticut and have entertained our Freshmen on their campuses. Similar arrangements are being made for this year. The first Convocation lecture of the year was given by Service League also sponsors the annual Midwinter Dr. Rollo Mayan "The Constructive Uses of Anxiety". Formal held in February for all classes. The weekend is Alumnae are invited to attend Convocations, which are the high point of the winter season, and provides fun and held in Palmer Auditorium at 8:00 o'clock, admission free. relaxation for all from Friday until Sunday. The following lectures have been announced: The charity and social service program is also under the Wednesday, NOVEMBER 10: Dr. Kemp Malone, "The auspices of Service League. Under its supervision students Middle Ages". give their assistance to organizations in New London for Thursday, DECEMBER 9: Dr. Vera Michcles Dean, "New the collection of special drives, and also work regularly at Trends in Europe". the local settlement house. The annual visit to the campus Wednesday, MARCH 9: Dr. George Gamow, "Atoms, of the Red Cross Bloodmobile is sponsored by Service Nuclei and Elementary Particles". League.
Interest of alumnae in new members of the faculty and The sixteenth Concert Series of Connecticut College in- administration is always keen. In answer to the numerous cludes the following recitals in 1954-55: questions asked about the new members of the College Community, we are printing the list with complete bio- Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Rafael Ku- belik conducting. graphical data. The First Piano Quartet. It is with pride that we announce that Miss Dorothy Bethurum, chairman of the English Department, is lectur- Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch conduct- ing this year at Oxford University. In a later issue we ing. Cesare Siepi, baritone. shall publish news of her activities. Mr. Smyser is chairman pro tern. of the English De- All tickets for the series have been sold. partment. Miss Biaggi of the Spanish Department is on leave for the yen which she will spend in Spain. Mr. Lockard of The year's program of the Connecticut College Choir the Government Department is on leave on a Ford Fellow- began on Sunday, September 26, when the Freshman Choir ship, and is currently running for membership in the sang at Vespers. The College Choir will sing regularly at legislature of the State of Connecticut. every Vespers service and at Thursday morning Chapels. Others on leave for the year are Miss Monaco, French, The Christmas program will be presented with the Wes- who is teaching at Bryn Mawr; Bernice Wheeler '37, Zo- leyan University Glee Club, and will be given on both the ology, who will be doing special work at Yale. Wesleyan and Connecticut campuses. The program will On leave for one semester are Miss Aiken of the English include selections from Handel's "Messiah". In addition Department and Miss Weaver of Home Economics. Miss the Choir will add much to the color and atmosphere of Finney of Economics will be on leave for the second the Christmas Pageant. semester.
3 New Members of the Faculty and Staff September, 1954
1950. City College of New York, Instructor, 1947-48; MRS. SUSANNE K. LANGER University of Maryland, Instructor, 1948-53; University of Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Department Colorado, Lecturer, Summer 1953; University of Rhode of Philosophy. Radcliffe College, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Island, Assistant Professor, 1953-54. PUBLICATIONS: A Radcliffe College, Tutor in Philosophy, 1928-43; Univer- sity of Delaware, Columbia University, New York Univer- Merchant Prince of the 19th Century. Jf/illiam E. Dodge, sity, New School for Social Research (part-time); Visiting (Columbia University Press, 1954); also articles and book Professor, Northwestern University, Ohio State, University reviews.
of Washington, University of Michigan. PUBLICATIONS: MRS. ALICE T. SCHAFER Tbe hac/ice of Philosopby. (Henry Holt Co., 1930); Assistant Professor of Mathematics. University of Rich- lntroduaions 10 SymboJ,ic Logic, (Dover Press, 1937); mond, A.B. 1936; University of Chicago, S.M. 1940; Ph.D. Philosophy ill a New Key, (Harvard University Press, 1942. University Scholar, 1939-40; University Fellow, 1942. Reprint, New American Library); Feeting and Form, 1940-42. Connecticut College, Instructor in Mathematics, (Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1953). 1942-44; University of Michigan, part-time Instructor in Mathematics, 1945-46; New Jersey College for Women, WILLIAM A. MCCLOY part-time Lecturer, 1946-48; Swarthmore College, Assis- Professor of Art and Chairman of the Department of Art. tant Professor, 1948-51; Drexel Institute of Technology, State University of Iowa, A.B. 1933; A.M. 1935; M.F.A. Assistant Professor, 1951-53. PUBLICATIONS:"Two Singu- 1949. Drake University, Assistant Professor, 1937-38; larities of Space Curves," Duke Mathematical [onrnal, University of Wisconsin, Assistant Professor of Art Edu- December 1944; "The Neighborhood of an Undulation cation, 1939-43, 1946-48; U. S. Army, Clinical Psycholo- Point on a Space Curve," American [onrnal of Mathe- gist, 1943-46; University of Manitoba, Director and Pro- matics, April 1948. fessor, School of Art, 1950-54. Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Chicago Art Institute; Second National Exhibition of American Painting (1937), Glimpses of the Academic Procession New York City; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Kansas City Art Institute; Wisconsin Salon, University of Wisconsin; Cincinnati Art Museum; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin; Indiana University; Lawrence College; Milwaukee Art Institute; National Academy of Design, New York City; Old Northwest Territory Art Exhibit, Illinois State Fair, Springfield, Audubon Artists, 6th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Galleries; Wis- consin State Centennial Art Exhibition, Milwaukee; Mon- tana State University; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Spring- field Art Museum (Missouri); National Exhibition of Prints, Library of Congress, Washington; Canadian Na- tional Exhibition, Toronto; Dominion Gallery, Montreal; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Toronto Art Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery, Inter- American Congress of Religious History and Art, Buenos Aires.
RICHARD LOWITT Assistant Professor of History. City College of New York, MR. COBBLEDICK, Director of Admissions, member ot B.S.S., 1943; Columbia University, A.M., 1945; Ph.D. Sociology Department.
4 RICHARD G. STERN Bennington College, Instructor in Biology, 1932-36; Dalton Lecturer in English. University of North Carolina, A.B. School, New York, Biology, 1936-38; Bard College, Assis- 1947; Harvard, A.M. 1950; State University of Iowa, tant Professor of Biology, fall terms, 1950 and 1951. Ph.D. 1954. University fellowships, State University of
Iowa. College Jules Ferry, Versailles, Instructor 1949-50; ARLENE E. GORTON Heidelberg University 1950·51; Coe College and Univer- Instructor in Physical Education. Pembroke College, A.B., sity of Iowa, 1952-54. Assistant Editor, IV estern Review, 1952; University of North Carolina, M. Ed. 1954. 1953-54. PUBLICATIONS: Stories in IPestem Review, 1953, reprinted in Prize Stories of ]954; Kenyon Revieio, 1954; Criticism in Accent, 1953; Poetry, 1953. D. JOY HUMES Instructor in Government. University of California, A.B., 1950; University of Nebraska, A.M. 1951. Syracuse Uni- ARCHIBALD J. BYRNE versity Scholar 1951-52, Fellow 1953-54. U. S. Navy Part-time Lecturer in English (1st semester). St. John's (W.R.) 1943-46. University of California, Part-time Re- University (Brooklyn, N. Y.), A.B. 1938; Harvard, A.M. search Assistant, 1949-50; University of Nebraska, Grad- 1940; Harvard, Graduate Assistant in English, 1940- uate Assistant, 1950-51; Syracuse University, Teaching February 1942; U. S. Navy-served in Pacific Theatre; Assistant in Political Science, February 1952- June 1954. Harvard, Teaching Fellow and Tutor, February 1946- PUBLICATION: (with Bruce R. Andrews) "The Mock June 1948; Oberlin, Instructor in English, 1948-54. Convention: A Student Experiment," Social Education, October 1952. MRS. CLORINDA FERRUOLO Part-time Lecturer in Italian. University of Florence, Diploma in Italian and Latin Letters, 1929. Collegio Fior- ALEX F. RICCIARDELLI entino (Florence), Teacher of Italian and Latin, 1931-42; Instructor in Sociology. Brooklyn College, A.B. 1950; Uni- Professional School (Castel Fiorentino), Teacher of Italian versity of Pennsylvania, A.M. 1953. U. S. Navy, Pacific and History, 1949-50; Harvard University, Instructor in Theatre, World War II. University, of Pennsylvania, Italian, 1953-54. Reader in Anthropology, 1951-52; Student Assistant, University Museum 1952-53; Bryn Mawr College, Instruc- MRS. LOUISE GARRETT tor in Anthropology, February-June, 1954. PUBLICATION: Part-time Lecturer in Zoology. University of Chicago, "Anthropologist in Alaska", The General Magazine and Ph.B., 1927; Cornell University, M.S. 1929; PhD. 1931. Historical Chronicle, Spring, 1953.
MISS OAKES, Dean of Sophomores and member of English MISS DILLEY, Government Department and MISS TUVE, Department. English.
5 MARlA DE UNAi'.'fUNO d Instructor in Spanish. University of Madrid, Maestra _ e Primera ensenanza, 1946, Middlebury College, A.M. 19)2. St. Anne's School, Charlottesville, Va., Spanish, 1948-50; The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Spanish, 1950-54; Middlebury College Summer School, Instructor in Spanish, 1950-51-52.
M. JANET GRIER Assistant in Music. University of Pennsylvania, B. Mus. 1950; A.M. 1952. University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Assistant, 1950-51; Wilson College, Instructor in Organ and Music Theory, 1952-54 .
.MARCIA ROWAN Assistant in Zoology. Hunter College, A.B. 1954.
MRS. LOIS E. PATTERSON Part-time Teaching Assistant in Zoology. Wheaton Col- lege, Wheaton, Illinois, B.S. 1942.
Department Chairmanship Changes ALICE RAMSAY '23, Director of the Personnel Bnreas, com- Mr. Vernon G. Smith, pleted her twenty-fifth year in charge of campllS Personnel Chairman of the Department of Education. office fast June, was given orchid by Alumnee Associotlon, Mr. George Haines, IV, called to platform at annual meeting to receive affectionate Acting Chairman of the Department of History. and appreciative greetings from alumnae. Mr. Hamilton M. Smyser, Acting Chairman of the Department of English. AVERILL L GRIPPIN Lucretia M. Allyn Professorship Assistant to the Director of Personnel Bureau. Skidmore College, A.B. 1949; New York State College for Teachers, Miss Margaret S. Chaney has been appointed to the Lucre- A.M. 1954. French Teacher, North Creek, New York, tia M. Allyn Professorship, which is held by the senior 1951-52; Teacher-Librarian, Milford, N. Y., 1953-54; professor of the faculty. Skidmore College Vocational Bureau, part-time assistant, Administration summer 1954.
WARRINE E. EASTBURN MRS. ELLEN N. RAYNO LOS Assistant to the President, in charge of Public Relations. Secretarial Assistant to the Faculty. Secretary to the Head- Ohio State University, B.S. 1932; University of Oregon, master and Administrative Assistant, The Choate School, A.M. 1937. Ohio State University, Instructor in Physical 1944-51; Research Assistant, Tucson, Arizona, 1951-53; Education, 1932-35; University of Oregon, Instructor in Secretary, Durham, North Carolina, 1953-54. Physical Education, 1935-42; New York University, Ex- change Instructor in Physical Education, 1940-41; Welles- ley College, Instructor in Physical Education, 1942; Lt., U. S. Navy (W.R.), 1942-46; Sarah Lawrence College, TO ALUMNAE: Director of Physical Education and Recreation, 1946-47; New York University, Instructor in Physical Education, 1947 -50, Assistant Professor of Education, 1950- 54. If you change your address, Departmental Chairman of Publicity and Promotion. please notify the Alumnae PRISCILLA E. EDWARDS Office promptly so that all Assistant Dietitian. Framingham (Mass.) State Teachers College, B.S. 1948. Wellesley College, Assistant Dietitian, issues of the Alumnae News 1948-52; Mrs. Hall's School, Pittsfield, Mass., 1952-54; may be sent to you. Relief Dietitian, New England Hospital, Boston, summers 1950-51-52.
6 MUNICH REVISITED
By H. M. SMYSER
he was interested in nineteenth-century American history, MR. SMYSER, acting chairman of the Department of and he in his turn said that he was especially interested English, spell! mas! of the smnmer in M1l1lich, which city in the Civil War. One following the other, they elab- he has visited six times. His comments are of interest and orated this thesis. Somehow the material seemed vaguely -ualne to alumnae who wiJh to understand the peoples familiar and I recalled that Gone Il7itIJ the IVind was hav- oj foreign cormtrles, especially those countries whose ing a tremendously successful revival in Munich at the affairs are so deeply involved with our own. moment. (It takes an extra hour there because of two half-hour intermissions in which everybody eats.') Munich is a city of nearly one million people and has a corresponding metropolitan ism, but, as is well known, But the man's real hobby, she told me, was that er hum- it is full of geniality or Ge"lIIetlichkeit. In my student nreu. Although the dictionaries are less colloquial, the days, when I was learning to speak German, a friend proper Munich definition of bnnnneln should be "to pub- advised me to go to Munich. The advice was sound, as I crawl and/or take a walk." It seems that from the time he found again this past summer. ends work on Saturday, the Bmnrnler pub-crawls until the beer halls close, at four A.M. Then he walks briskly in the In Munich even if one restricts oneself to only three beautiful park of Munich, known as the English Gardens, or four meals a day in addition to an evening of beer- until the beer halls open again, which in Schwabing would drinking in a restaurant or the garden of a restaurant, one presumably be about eight A.M. But he goes to bed early is almost certain to have plenty of opportunity to hear and on Sunday night and is thus fit as a fiddle for his work speak German at length. Almost inevitably, in any ordi- on Monday. nary restaurant, one shares a table and so can get an insight into the minds and characters of many sorts of people. I tried to elicit his political opinions but he insisted merely that he was neutral! like the Swiss, and his wife I should like to begin these rather desultory notes with begged me not to persist. They changed the subject by a highly insignificant story and then get on to matters telling me that the wife was also employed and asked me from which one might conceivably draw conclusions. to guess what she did. She had mahogany-colored hair, and it seemed to me that I had seen such hair, which is On my first Saturday night, the first of many spent In popular now in Germany, most often on the heads of Munich during the summer, there came to my table a man ladies behind perfume counters. So I guessed "cosmeti- and his wife. What the man's occupation was I never cran She was precisely that - a hairdresser - and was learned. It was clear that he was not one of the many Aabbergasted and distinctly alarmed at my uncanny insight. artists and intellectuals who, along with an infinite variety of other people, make up the quarter of Munich known as In similar fashion I met this summer a man whose Schwabing. He and his wife were a very devoted couple occupation is servicing slot-machines in beer-locale. He and their conversation went by turns. The wife would questioned me eagerly as to why slot-machines were illegal utter a sentence and this would be followed by a sentence in most of our states. On my replying that it was merely from the husband, and then would come the wife's turn Pnrit anrsmns, he shook his head sadly and painted out' again. with pride that his company returned 60% of the "take" The man was making less than an American private to the winners. Then there was the architect who was beside in the Occupation Forces, which according to him is himself when he spoke about Mozart-and most knowl- ninety dollars a month. (My friends in Munich later edgeable. And the senile and lovable sculptor, who ram- guessed that such a Muenchner as this probably made fifty blingly told me how, in his youth, he had been exempted to sixty dollars a month.) At any rate, he vastly prefers from military service by the Wittelsbach rulers of Bavaria what he is making now to the twelve and one-half cents because of his talent (their decision seems not to have a day that he made for seven years in the German army. been bad, if I may judge by what he told me about the The wife said that her husband (her Mann) had a hobby: museums which have his originals and those which have
7 Nazism was so stubbornly courageous that it is. a marvel copies). He accompanied me ro the street car and we he was alive to show me around Munich this summer, could waved each other out of sight. And the distinctly ama- not with the best will in the world fully get the point of teur economist who assured me that Munich had no a long and arduous conversation on this subject. In this industries what'soever. When I asked how people lived, conversation, I tried to explain that the presence of Negro he said, after a bewildered pause, that there was much troops in the American army of occupation, far from being building going on. (This is indubitable.) And the engi- an insult to the Germans, was inevitable. Racism long neer who was rhapsodical about American scientific antedates Hitler in Germany. Witness the case of the achievements and who as a boy used to take dancing les- sons at the Vieriabreszeiten Hotel. And the elderly couple French Sengalese troops on the Rhine immediately after who had moved in from Chiemsee and who were so bitter the first World War, a cause of bitter resentment. The about Allied bombings in Germany that I felt impelled to spectacle, by no means uncommon, of white German wives remind them that London was earlier bombed. And so and black soldiers is
9 CHEERFUL GIVERS CONTRIBUTORS TO '53-54 ALUMNAE FUND CAMPAIGN
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Woodruff Pulsifer Altn Colburn Steege Vh-ginia Stephenson Margaret Woodworth Shaw Elizabeth Lanctot Cynthia Lepper Reed Isabel Colby Dorothy Stevens Alice Coy Schwenk Rachel Tyler Carroll 1928 Mltrgaret Linde Ingteeals Alice Van Deusen Powell Winifred Link Stewart Marjorie Disbro Fichthorn 52% Lillinn Otten helmei- Katherine Dunlap Mai-sh Evelyn Warren Tuttle Ruth Petrofsky Katherine Eggleston Wadleigh Eleanor Wilcox Sloan Elizabeth Arthur Roth Jane Fitch Roland Alice Winston Liebman Rebecca Rnu Gertrude Yoerg Doran Elmo Ashton Decherd Elizabeth Riley Whitman Margaret Fitzmaurice Colloty Elizabeth Augsbury Gainsbrugh Priscilla Rothwell Gray Dorcas Freeman wesson Dorothy Ayers Buckley Mary Scattergood Norris Louise Gladding 1933 lone Barrett Elizabeth Sewar-d Tarvin Dorothy Gould 48% Margaret Bell Bee Mary Slayter Solenber-ger- Ruth Griswold Ferguson Grace Bigelow Churchill Helen Smith Haldy Elfrida Hawthorne Cha.ffee Marion Agnew Kirk Roberta Bitgood Wiersma Eliombeth Speirs Hnt-riet Hickock Hardy Dorothea Bascom McAllister Dorothy Bl:lir Coffel Helen Stephenson White Virginia Hinman Allen Adalisa Bronstein Scheirer Katherine Booth Esther Stone Marie Louise Holley Spangler Sarah Buehstane Helen Boyd Mar-quia Carolyn Terry Baker Ruth Johnson Lucile Cain Dalzell Murgretta Briggs Noble Dorothy Thayer White Alice Kindler Susan Crawford St.ahman Sarah Brown Schoen hut Elizabeth Utley Lamb Jane King Hues Adelaide Cushing 'I'huen er- Margaret Crofoot Frances Wells Vroom Josephine Lincoln Morris Winifred DeForest Coffin Dorothy Davenpor-t Voorhees Elizabeth Williams Morton Virginia Levis Parker Anna May Derge Gillmer Evelyn Davis Fernald Katherine Lowe Streiferd Virginia Donald Usher Margaret Dawson Fick 1930 Imogene Manning Joanna Eakin Despres Anne Delano Hanscom 53% Lorna McGuire Mary Eaton Le Fevre Florine Dimmock Porter Vera Mead Thorne Ruth Ferree Wessels Elizabeth Douglass Manross Madon Alien Jane Moore Warner Frances Field Hnignere Prudence Drake Elizabeth Avery Hyatt Vivian Noble Wakeman Marjorie Fleming Brown Jeanette Felsenthal Pearlstine Elizabeth Bahney Mills Kathleen Noonan Gros6 Sylvia Goldstein Breman Elizabeth Gallup Ridley Katharine Bailey Hoyt Elizabeth Norton Neilson Alice Gordon Washton Hazel Gardner Hicks Dorothy Barrett Bertine LuciJIe Poppe Frances Greco Benjamin Louisa Gay Fuller Ruth Barry Hildebrandt Grace Reed Regan Marjorie Green Sullivan Betty Gordon Van Law Helen Benson Mann Mary Reed Stewart Jane Griswold Holmes Emma Gorner Larsson Jane Bertschy J/lckson Virginia Reitzell Edith Gruberg Margolies Elizabeth Hart Collins Jeannette Booth Sherman Caroline B. Rice Katherine Hammond Engler Virginia Hawkins Perrine Helen Boyd Estus Elizabeth Rieley Armington Sheila Hartwell Moses Josephine Henderson Gillespie Margaret Brewer Bunyan Dorothy Rose Griswold Martha Johnson Hoaglund Karla Heurich Harrison Frances Brooks Foster Betsy Schaibley Grimes Eleanor Jones Heilman Joan Hoge Ruth Brown Gretchen Shidle Martin Alice Kelly McKee Emily Hopkins Jean Eurroughs Kohr Jeannette Shidle Morris Elizabeth Kunkle Palmer Margaret Howard Ballantyne Elizabeth Capron Elinor Smart Strong Erika Lnnghnmmer Grimmeisen Marjory Jones Mary Cary Gertrude Smith Cook Jean Marshall Simpson Edna Kelley Evelyn Clarke Marjorie Smith Sites Elizabeth Miller Landis Abbie Kelsey Baker Margaret Cook Curry Catherine Steele Batchelder Margaret Mills Breen Delgracia Kent McConkey Elizabeth Edwards Spencer Evelyn Watt Daniels Lois Morse Harmon Adelaide King Quebman Ruth Ferguson EliZl1.beth Way Williams Barbara Mundy Groves Helen Little Clark Adelaide Finch Royle F,linor Wells Smith Elsie Nelson Beatrice Lord Helen Flinner Smith Elizabeth Wheeler Ruth Norton Mathewson Eleanor Lowman Stansbury }''rances Gabriel Hartman Ann White Andriola Elizabeth Palmer Buron Eleanor Mann Romano Jennie Gada Gencarelli Evelyn Whittemore Woods Catherine Porter Hodell Catherine Mar Whittaker Marian Geer Melicent Wilcox Buckingham Mary Prudden Kettle Emma Jean McDonald TSflhel Gilbert Greenwood Jane Williams Howell Fannie Rasin Margaret Merriam Zellers Betty Gitlin Muriel Williams Margaret Ray Stewart Elizabeth Olsen Kline Norma George Murray Virginia Yancey Stephens Alice Read Lundgren Henrietta Owens Rogers Constance Green Freeman Paula Reyman Steger Catherine Page McNutt Frieda Grout 1932 Margaret RoyalJ Hinck Ruth Peacock Macintyre Kathleen Halsey Rippere 47% Muriel Schlosberg Webb Eleanor Penney Herbst Ruth Harrison Street Nancy Smedley Janet Perkins Dixon Elizabeth Hartshorn Hortense Alderman Cooke Marion Allen Grace Stephens Mary Petersen Stoddard Ruth Hodgkins Dorothy Stokes Marion Pierpont Mal'garet Jackman Gesen Helen Alton Colmar Mflbel Bflrnes Knauff Virginia SWlln Parrish Helen Prugh Paull Ruth Jackson Webb Charlotte Terhune Moore Marguerite Riemnnn Roberts Virginia Joseph Isabelle Bartlett Hogue Ruth Baylis Toaz Dorothy Tomkinson Fnirbank Catherine Ruddiman Gertru 12 Florence Wilkison Kennedy 1941 Mary Ware Penelope Paulson Kuehn Jane Whipple Sbaw Nancy Wolfe Hughes Patricia Pope Fairbairn 58% Muriorie \Vicoff Cooper Jnne Worley Peak Florence Rankin Jane Wray Lindsay Alma Zeller Margaret Robison Loehr Betsey Barker McKenna Mary-Ellen Salom Stevens Barbara Berman Levy Maryhannah Slingerland Barberi Harriet Blaney Giese 1942 1943 Virginia Taber McCamey Dorothy Boschen Holbein 68% Ellaabet.h Taylor Dean Constance Brngaw Carney 500/'0 Estelle Taylor Watson Elizabeth Brick Collier Frances Adams Crane Irene Traggis Elb:abeth Burford Graham Shirley Austin Judith Bnrdoa Pinter Barbara Andrus Collins Nancy Tremaine DeWoody Elizabeth Byrne Anderson Filomena Arbor-in Dillard Catherine Warner Gregg Dorothy Barlow Coykendall Martha Chapman Laughton Mary Louise Batchelder Cogswell Barbara Bailey Lord Mildred Weitlich Gieg Carol Chappell Jane Bakken Beetz Julia Weld Grunbery Virginia cnone Richmond Bnrbaru Beach Alter Nancy Beaman Flanders Priscilla Barley Margal'et Weston French Anne Henry Clark Bar-bat-a Batchelor Hamlin Ruth Wilson Cess M,u"y Goeken Dillon Betty Bentley vterms Adrienne Berberian Hughes Marjorie Batsner wei-set Mary Winton Drckgiesaer Carolyn Con klin Helen Borer Jackson Nancy Weston Lincoln Dorothy Cushing Redington Doris Boies Guyton Barbara Brengle Wriston Martha Boyle Morrtsson Mary Louise Cutts Alice Brewer Cummings Henrietta Dearborn Watson Louisa Bridge Egbert Margaret Brisco Cheney Deborah Burton Adler 1940 Ruth De Yoe Barrett Barbara Burns Brandt Marion Butterfield Hinman 49% Lean n Donahue Rayburn Alys Campbell Vincent Ruth Doyle Bru-b.u-a Bun Roth Justine Clark Emily Carl Davis Jeannette Allen Adams Thea Dutcher Coburn Hope Castagnola Boger-ad Carla Eakin White Frances Cornell Nielsen Patricia Alvord Fr-ench Mary Lew Crowell Pauli Anna Chdstensen Carmon Elizabeth Anderson Lei-chen Dorothy Earle Kreider Betsy Ciat'endon Hartnett Donna Ed Reynolds Susan Dart McCutcheon Katherine Arnstein Heinemann Anne Dorman Atherton Margery Oluverie Barnes Nancy Badger Hodsdon Catherine Elias Bullowa Janet Gorey Hampton Mary Farrell Morse Elinor Eels wetase Frances B1'Il'/ltz Mouser Vivian Eshelman Kunkel Dorothy Conover Kingsley Elizabeth Bur-ron Dingman Susan Fleisher Lois Creighton Abbott Janet Fletcher Ellrodt Vesta Firestone Weese Jeannette Bell wtnters Mary Elizabeth Franklin Gehrig Nancy Crook Tishler J'ean Bemis Bradshaw Mnrg-a.ret; Ford Dat.ty Crouch Hargrave Eleanor Puller Skinner Virginia Fr-ey Linscott Breck Benbow Dr-aper Mru-gru-et Gieg Rullman Louise Daghlian Belcher Anahid Berberian Uonstantian Virginia Fullerton Connors Jeanne DuBois Catharine Doris Goldstein Levinson Carolyn Goelitz Blossom Helen Bernard West Elizabeth Graham Ewen Mary Lou Elliott Dea.rnley Sybil Bindloea Janet Graham Bullock Barbara Estabrook Huss rick Phyllis Grove Slocum J nne Guiney Pettengill DOJ"isBonner Jean Hall Dearing" lVlul"jorie Fee Mnnning Helene Boswor-th Shepard Mary Rail Ruth Hunkf na Jane Folts Lewis Bar-bur-a Brasher Johnston Margaret Hardy Schweizer Yvonne Forbus Parker Rosalie Harrison Meyer Sylvia Hansling Eunice Br-ewster }<'OS8 Selma Har-t Rosen Jean Forman Harrington Mil'iam Brooks Butterworth Janice Heff"rnan Whiting Eliaabet.h Harvey }'ickh 15 Patricia Kohl Brainard Alice wenir Nancy Jean Lafler J uatine Shepherd Barbara Frye Laco Janice Wei! Janet Silber Paper Janet Gilchrist Laura WheelwriKht Jean Malony Murdock Janet Strickland Barbara Goldman Susan Manley Helen Ann Wilsory Barbara Marks Mary Martha Suckling Sher-ra Elizabeth Gosselin DorothY Wood prtce Roseline Marut Costello Barbara Thompson Stabile Pauline Grisch Joan Yohe Jeanne Tucker Zenker Sylvia Gundersen Elb:abeth Zorn Mettler Mary Ann McClements Mason Nancy Vail Wilson Esther Hammaker Mary McCol'ison Mourkas Hope Hayman Friedman Fiorimonde von Wedekind 1953 Joan Milner Carol Wedum Conklin Mary Harrison Beggs Judith Morse Diana Weeks Jean Hewitt Thomas 41% .JRne Muddle Marjorie Weeks Owens Mal"guerite Hoadley O'Connell Elinor Noble Martinez Barbara Wiegand Pfltct e Nancy Juckes Mulvihill Constance Baker Woolson Ann Oldham Kirk Joanne Willard Joan Katz Easton Cynthia Bassett Sa.lly Ostrom White Frances Wilson Roberta Katz Anne Becker Har-barn Painton Nancy Wirtemburg Morss Catherine Kirch Dietrich Eva Bl uma n Janet Perry Janet Young Witter Helen Knight Johnson Dorothy Bomer JOHn Pickus Dene Laib Susan Brown Helen Pleasance ]952 Jean Lattner Patricia Browne Mary Lee Prentia 43% Monica Lennox Noling Mar-y Lee Cantwell Lescher .Jn n ice RIIwson Francis Janet Lindstrom Tefi an Patr-icia Ca te McKay Kathryn Roche Barbara Ackroyd Sur-anne Longley Rogers Jean Chandler J nnet Rourke Georgianna Albree Markel Dana Lourlu Mary-Joan Churchward Joan Rudberrr Mary Ann Allen Marcus Shirley Lukens Rousseau Naricy Ann Clark Bever-ly Snndbach Katharine Alling Farina Josephine MacMl'lnU8 woods Nancy Crouch Betty Ann Schneider Ottinger Norma Anchin Urrtez-meyer Ruth Manecke Gruber Asoaeea DeligOl'p:es Fr-ederica Ann Schneider Ann Ball Rose Roberto Mauro Thurrott Hildegarde Dr-ex l Nancy Schoeffel Overpeck Mary Anthony Begfen Elizabeth McLane McKinney Eugenia Eacker Marion Sker ker Brenda Bennett Bell Genevieve McLaren Aleeta Eng-elbert Marion Streett Elizabeth Blaustein Kaye McLatchie Catherine Ferguson Renson.-r Patricia Ann Taussig Lucia Jane Boyle Nancy Anne Morton Mar-y Field Pn.r ket- June Van Voorhis Elizabeth Brainard Kathleen Nelles McClure Annellen Fine Lois Waite Helen Brogan No,.ma Neri Covert Mary Zita Flaherty Letn Weiss Marks Sidney Brown Kincaid Mru-gar-et Ohl JO/1n Flueg-elman Wexler Virginia Wilson Sheila Burnell Sawyer Elizabeth Osg-ood Elaine Fridlund Virginia Cahill Weldon Florence Porter Jean Gallup Cl'Il'nnghan Nancy Reeve Katherine Gardner Claire Carpenter Eylel" 1954 Elizabeth Oedar Barbara Rex Kaemmerlen Christine Gomes Regan Julie Clark Elizabeth Rockwell Ann Gordon Pauline Bancroft Rosamund Connolly Bur-bet- Julie Russillo Jane Graham Sue Sbinbach Nancy Day Beverly Sager Morris Jane Griffin Sheoard Ernestine Dreyfus Barbara Scheib Juliana Gl'iggs Mat"ty Bever-ly Duryea Pntr-lcia Sherman LeFevre Jocelyn Ha ven 1955 Jnnice Engler ShirleY Sly Clara Jllne Hirsch Julia Enyart Sain Nancy Soltz Nancy Hudson Susnn Friedel' Cordelia Ettl Janet Stevens Mary Rume Elizabeth Floyd Jenn Van Winkle Ann Hutchi~on Ann Foster Margaret Waller Mary Ireland Rule ]956 Suzanne Foster Pab"icia Wardley Hamilton Diana Jackson Helen Fricke Mathieson .Joan Wardner Allen Mary Jemison Grover Mad Lyml'ln Carolyn Fried Cohn Beverly Weber Raynor Kathryn Kalkhof Alison Philp TO ALUMNAE: The next issue of the ALUMNAE NEWS will be published early in December. Beginning with that issue we shall be 'back on the regular publication schedule of December, March, May, and August, We thank you for your kind understanding of the delays brought about by the extra volume of work involved in the special three- year Alumnae Fund Campaign, During the campaign the Alumnae Fund gift of cash to the College will be added to the Student-Alumnae Center fund, KATHRYN Moss, Editor 16 Continental Congress in Washington in Class Notes April and in June was honored by being elected president of the Capitol District Regents' Council, N. Y. State DAR. She Editor of Class Notes: Mrs. Huber Clark (Marion Vibert '24), is also Eastern Director of the N. Y. State Federation of Home Bureaus. Ruth and East Main Street, Stockbridge, Mass. her husband are leading what seems like an idyllic life in a too-year-old house on a large apple farm in Washington County, dens with canning, freezing, and jelly mak- N. Y. Ruth occupies spare moments knit- 1919 ing keep many of us busy these days. ting innumerable sweaters and mittens for MRS. ENOS B. COMSTOCK Congratulations to Joan Munro Odell her 11 grandchildren. Her hobby is col- (Juline Warner '19) Correspondent who became a two-time grandmother on lecting pitchers, of which she had 300 of 176 Highwood Ave" Leonia, N. J. June lath when her son Bruce and his all varieties. To use her own words, "We wife Doris had a little daughter, Nancy are travelling along life's journey enjoying Details of the Distinguished Service Marie. Jessie Menzies Luce has received the family and the farm, the TV, and the Award given by the U. S. Dept. of Agri- word of the safe arrival in Japan of her satisfying though different life that the culture last May to Esther Batchelder ap- daughter, Marion Luce Butler (c. C. '49) country offers, a goodly measure of health pear elsewhere in this issue. When pressed and her baby, who have joined Marion's and mental peace and I've decided that is for particulars, Batch wrote: "Janie gave a husband in the service over there. what counts in this world today." luncheon for me afterward and Mid If/ ells Emma Wippert Pease wrote of the fun Lavinia Hull Smith has been in Nassau Co/by and [essie Bigelow Martin '23, were she had last winter in a writing class, eighteen years and likes it better all the there, as my C. C. friends hereabouts taught by a newspaper man. She has been time. She regrets that she could not leave Spent a weekend with Mid and Ted at program chairman of the Community Club to attend class reunion last year. Lavinia their new place at Turkey Point on the in Hamilton (Ohio) for two years and a and her husband are kept busy entertaining Bay. It's a wonderful spot and they seem vice-president of the Civic Music Associa- visitors from the States, among them sev- to be enjoying it." tion. Her son Bob is a teacher at Tufts eral C. C. girls. Both experience a feeling 1919 has lost another classmate in the College and his wife plans to teach at of anticipation when a plane or the S. S. death in May of Miriam Pomeroy Rogers Northeastern. Miff Howard wrote of the Nassau are due, wondering who will ar- of Los Angeles. She leaves a son, James l st International Congress for Physical Ed- rive next. On Queen Elizabeth's birthday, Rogers Jr., of Los Angeles and a small ucation in the United States, which was the Fourth of July and at other times dur- granddaughter, besides her brother, Dr. E. held in April at the Colleges of the Con- ing the year, the Smiths are called upon W. Pomeroy of Windsor, Conn., and two necticut Valley, with delegates from 26 to attend Government functions and parties sisters, Ethel Pomeroy of New York and countries as well as from the U. S. Miff which, of course, are exciting. Lavinia is Mrs. George Gregory of Groton, Conn. found it a thrilling experience. She is en- "completely spoiled" by the mild tempera- Miriam's gift for poetry, which contributed joying her contact as a member of the ture in Nassau, where, in the hot weather, to the first editions of the '·NEWS" and to Alumnae Association Executive Board, and she has refreshing breezes and daily dips the words of the first songs of undergrad- getting a great deal of pleasure out of in the ocean. uate days, as well as to reunions, will be landscaping her new place. Harriet Woodford Merriman has been memorialized in a booklet being assembled elected secretary and treasurer of the Win- He/ell Collins Miller and Waldo spent by her sisters with the help of Alison Has- throp Scholars. She spends part of her a week in Vermont celebrating their wed- tings Thomson, her fellow-poet of 1919· summers in her cottage at Fenwick where ding anniversary by returning to the place Alison and her husband spent a winter she entertains her friends. Recently she they went on their honeymoon. Jean Har- vacation in Florida, as did Dorothy Peck visited Ruth 117ells Sears and testifies to ris Paul, ex '20, is the proud grandmother and Florence Lennon Romaine, who visited the interesting life Ruth leads. Harriet of two girls and a boy. Helen Gough in Clearwater. Florence adds: keeps busy writing, reading, working in the "Amelia Trnles lives in town (Hartford) 1921 Community Red Cross, volunteering at the Hartford Hospital, interior decorating and with her sister Josephine, but does not MRS. RUTH BASSETT practice. Norma Regan, just retired from playing bridge. (Ruth McCol1um '21) Correspondent teaching, is interested in music and litera- Katherine Stone Leavenworth is still an Mansfield Depot, Conn. ture." enthusiastic teacher of piano. The program The sympathy of her classmates goes out BORN: to Wil1iam Robert and Harriet of her June recital shows thirty-seven pu- to Irma Hutzler, who lost her father in Bassett MacGregor '51 on July 6, a second pils participating. Tony recently was ac- Norwich last May. daughter, Kathryn Lee, granddaughter of companist in an hour long song recital Ruth McCollum Bassets.' before the Artists and Writers of Conn. 1920 Alice Boehringer teaches at the Thomas MRS. J. BENNETT COOPER 1923 A. Edison Vocational High School Annex in N. Y. City. In these last years she has (Margaret Davies '20) Correspondent MRS. HAROLD C. BAILEY travelled widely with her 80 year old P. O. Box 135, West Lawn, Pa. (Helen Avery '23) Correspondent 274 Steele Road mother, visiting Lake Louise, California, Few responses to cards sent out asking West Hartford ), Conn. Florida, and the Gaspe. She spent her for news means that everyone is too busy sabbatical in the spring of ')1 studying at or not busy enough to make interesting Ruth lVells Sears, as Regent of the Ti- N. Y. University. Alice is associate Sun- notes. Flower gardens and vegetable gar- conderoga Chapter, DAR, attended the day School superintendent, historian of 17 Char/olte Lang Carroll and her husband Eastern Star, secretary of the Long Island New Jersey. Gloria Hamster 1'Ul~le, as drove around Europe this summer, visiting Swiss Club and finds time to raise fruits, reported by Gladys, is very. active m the new places and revisiting others, flowers, and vegetables on her bungalow bird and garden clubs in Fairfield County. Catherine Calbonn, Torrington High lot in Springfield Gardens, N. Y. Eileen FitzGerald, stopping in for an School librarian, in March, was given the Our sympathy goes to Mary IV heeler afternoon, brought word that she has been "Woman of the Year" award of the Tor. who reports a "grim" year. Mary's mother's teaching..S. m pnog f eId for 25 years, that rington Quota Club at a testimonial dinner sudden death in September was followed Gladys Forster Shahdan and her husba~d when city officials and representatives of by the passing of her father in February. art spending the summer at their home in the city's civic and fraternal organizations The family home was sold and Mary is Raleigh, and that Kay Moss is making her joined the club in honoring her for out- now living in an apartment in New Haven. first trip to Europe. standing community service. Catherine is The one bright spot in her year was a trip An/1 Rogoff Cohen claims to have lost with her sister to Bermuda where she went contact with C. C. graduates other than a past president of the Junior Women's Club, the Litchfield County Women's Col- to gather strength for the sad job of break- her sister who jives nearby. ing up her old home. My David, after basic and a ~3 week lege Club, past regent of Marana Norton We are saddened to hear of the death radio operator's course at Fort Dix, is in Brooks Chapter DAR and has taken a of the mother of Elizabeth Whitten Fales. Fort Benning, Ga., for a 14 week course standing community service, Catherine is Elizabeth and husband have moved to be as communications chief. Larry goes to Torrington High School. nearer the University of Oklahoma where Haverford in the fall. J join the many their son is studying to become a chemical housewives in the cooking, cleaning, sew- 1926 engineer. Elizabeth's activities include pro- ing, canning, and jellying which are usual FRANCES GREEN ·'6 gram planning for her church Circle, help- to the stay-at-home in summer. Correspondent ing in the Mother's Club of her son's ')5 H o lman St., Shrewsbury, Mass, fraternity, gardening, reading, and pursuing 1925 her librarian training with her neighbors' In June Kay Baile)' MallN graduated MRS. ROY CARROLL children. from the Nursery Training School of Bos- (Charlotte Lang '25) Corresp ondeni ton. Kay plans to open a nursery school 1924 73 Locust Road, Winnetka, Ill. at her home in Kingston in the fall ac- MRS. HUBER CLARK cording to Amy T/.7akefield, who saw her Marion Barnett Halket, for 14 years (Marion Vibert '24) Correspondent in Boston this spring. Amy has completed executive secretary of the Travelers' Aid her two years as president of the Boston Box 578, Stockbridge, Mass, Society in Springfield, from which she re- Chapter, C. C. Alumnae, in which she has signed in January, has been appointed the done an outstanding job. Now she's again Marie [ester ]f/atroJIS had a two week first family counselor in the history of the finding time to cheer for the Red Sox and vacation on Cape Cod this summer after a Holyoke Day Nursery. Her part time du- to go to some of their home games. I have busy and hectic year whose events included ties will consist mainly of guidance work seen Amy several times this spring in her mother breaking a hip and her hus- with parents of youngsters enrolled at the Shrewsbury and Boston and spent a night band having a siege with pneumonia and nursery. Marion has a Master's Degree with her late in April when we went to a four month stay at Gaylord Farm. from Western Reserve University and has Barbara Bent, daughter of Genie lP"alsh see "Pajama Game" shortly before its sue- Bent, will be a sophomore at C. C. next cessful New York opening. fall, with plans for a major in music. This Oscar and Harriet Stone IY/amer spent summer she is working at the Library of March in Florida, fishing and sunning. Congress. Daughter Anne, who enters her senior year at S1. Margaret's this fall, is spending her Margaret If/ells, whose old house has summer studying violin. Marjie, also at been closed for over a year, is now trying St. Margaret's, will be a sophomore this to get organized after her return to it. fall. Nancy, having finished her sophomore Gladys If/eJterma!l Greene, after August vear at Middlebury, made a quick trip to 11, will be living at Decoy Farm, Rock Florida to attend a convention of her soror- Hall, Md. a 37V2 acre farm famous for ity in June, then returned to Connecticut its mallard ducks and wild geese, which been associated with the Cleveland Asso- to work this summer at a camp for handi- she and her husband bought from Charles ciated Charities, the Springfield Welfare capped children. In June, Harriet enter- Hatch, once Assistant Secretary of Defense. Association, and the Rochester Associated tained the Waterbury C. C. chapter at her They look forward to living there, with its Charities, \."' 18 these 7 already in or entering this fall: After being crippled with acute bursitis Your correspondent was overwhelmed Shirley Sidman (two years C. C. and now for several weeks early this spring, I re- with joy to have a twenty-four hour visit in Katherine Gibbs), Cynthia Reed, Mar- covered in time to spend two weeks at Ft. from Mm'gm'el lVheeler during the early tha Kohr, Ellen Smith, Cecily Inglessis, Monmouth in June, again the only WAC part of June. Margaret came east from Phyllis Malone, Gail Myers, Our husbands with my Reserve unit. En route to and California where she works in the Califor- are lawyers, physicians, bankers, teachers, from I stayed overnight with Kay Daltchy nia State Library to attend her nephew's architects, dentists, engineers, insurance and Bransan and her family in West Redding wedding in New York City. After leaving advertising men, financial and business and Kay and I had a great time catching New Jersey, she motored up through New executives, and sales managers. From plant up on news and comparing African violets England with her sister, with a stop in owner on, we chart a variety of 17 other which we both enjoy, Bert and Phil show- New London to look at the campus and professions. The majority of us live in ed me, with justifiable pride, their latest one in Portland, Me., where she had a project, a marble fountain on the shore of brief visit with Grace Trap pan and Gwen Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, their new reflection pool, its plume of Lewis Hoist, She writes that she was much New Jersey, and Ohio, but we are scattered water supplied by an old-fashioned hy- impressed by the campus but had difficulty from Maine to Florida, from California to draulic ram. Kay and daughter Carol met locating the old landmarks. \Xfashington and even to Alaska. Our 0=" me in New York on the interim Saturday cupations are housewives and mothers, and we saw "Kismet" together before they teachers, secretaries, social workers, a law- had to hurry home so Kay could sing that yer, a physical therapist, and an accountant. night with a chorus to which she belongs. 10 have receive higher degrees and 9 have advanced certificates. Our outside activities On my way to F1. Monmouth, too, I are many, the most popular being church, stopped briefly in Montclair to see Edna hospital, Red Cross and other social service Smith Thistle (ex '26) whose husband, work, PTA, scouting, decorating, and poli- Bob, had died suddenly in late May while tics. Gardening seems to be our favorite they were travelling in Norway. The class hobby, followed by reading, bridge, sewing, extends warm sympathy to Edna, especially 1929 flower arranging, painting and art in va- remembering how at our z yth reunion Bob MRS. GEORGE L. LANGRETH rious forms, golf, bowling, badminton, was elected an honorary member in recog- (Faith Grant '29) COI'l'espondent music, photography, and the theatre, nition of his many helpful kindnesses at that time. 1024 Martha Ave., Pittsburgh 28, Pa. 1930 1927 Those present at our 25,h reunion were: MARJORIE L RITCHIE ·30 EDITH T. CLARK "27 Kay Aieens Val/ AJetej', Barbara Bent Bail- Co-respondent Correspondent ey, janet Boomer Barnard, Margaret Bur- 182 Valley Road, Montclair, N. J. roughs Kobr, Iitbet Cook, RUlh Dudle}', Pondville Hospital, Walpole, Mass. Eleanor Fahey Reilly, lVilhelmilla Faun. When approached for news of herself, lilil! Strh"kland, Nellie Fuller Math/colfi, Mary Deaange Painter has, since Dec. Peg Moore answered in a characteristically Faith Graill Lallgreth, Catherine Greer, '51, been in Nebraska where John is on amusing vein, "Twenty-eight individual Verne Hall, Phyllis Heintz MalONe, Flora Naval Reserve duty as Executive Officer of problems from R:30 A.M, to 3:30 P.M.- Hille Afyen, Rosamolld Holmes Smith, the NROTC at the University of Nebraska. teaching here (Hudson, N. Y.) in public Elizabeth Kane Marshall, Lepper Cymbi« It has been :10 enlightening experience to school-do I need add more? But I do Reed, Margaret Linde l nglessis, lVilliffed be there as ;1 civilian among service people enjoy it!' LInk Steioen, Frances McElfre.rh Perry, and at the same time in the service among Carol Johnson Harris, daughter of Henry Adeline Mci\-1iller Sreoens, Helen Minckler civilians, They miss New England with and Gertrude [obnson Harris, was grad- Dawson, Eleanor Newmiller Sidman, Lil- its views and many-course dinners, The uated from Vassar on June 14th with a lian Otten beimer, Ruth Petroisey (Mrs. children have not seen an Indian. major in child study. On June 20th she Henry), Gertrude Reasee BliH, Helen Rey- Kay Be/ife}' Hoyt's family with Virginia became the bride of Edward Topkin of nolds Smyth, Elizabeth Riley Whitman, 15 and Jean 11 went to the Coronation Mystic, Conn, The young couple plan to Alice Salford Miltoll, Mary Scattergood and the usual places on the continent. The make their home in New London. Norris, Elizabeth Speirs, Esther Stone, trip was a little different from the one Sallie Barber Pierce writes that their Mary 1P'"alsh Gamache, Frences 1F ells Kay took with the C. C. girls in '30. On eldest daughter was graduated from Mary- Vroom, Mm-;orie G01)e Studley ex '29. their return they moved into a new house. ville College in Tennessee on May 18th You should see us (especially Eleanor Kay continues her pencil sketching. and will spend a year at 51. Luke's Hospi- Fahey in her 1929 prom dress) in our tal in New York as a dietetic intern. Sallie banquet picture which may be purchased Those of us who lived in Knowlton and Ray drove to Tennessee to the gradua- through the Alumnae Office for $1.50. junior year will be interested to know that tion. Daughter Nancy is a sophomore at Zcke Speirs so ably described our activities Mary Elizabeth Wyeth [ones '32 had din- Willimantic Teacher's College and Sally over the weekend that I will give only ner in New York recently with Megs Linde Jane is a sophomore at Norwich Academy. statistics from the questionnaires. Of a tnglessis '29 and her winsome daughter Edna Linz Barnes informs us that she is class of 99 graduates and 26 active non- Jean. now the proud possessor of a baby fox graduates, reports were returned by 56. Of As for myself, the laboratories have been "the size of a kitten, gingery fur but his these 47 are married and have a total of 89 moved into a large modern building and I legs are black already. He washes like a children ranging in age from 24 to 3. 49 have just returned from a trip to Lake cat and is very curious," are girls, 12 or more beading for C. c.; Winnipesaukee. 19 secretary letic and particularly likes the athletic pro- ing at Calvert and is membership gram at Kent, as well as all of the other 1931 of the museum. opportunities offered there. Kathie started MRS. KARL D. WARNER After thirteen years of being in or near Junior High this year, and is enthusiastic 167 Hermitage Road, Rochester 17, N. Y. \'V'ashington, Susan Comfort returned to about the novelty of changing classes and (Jane Moore '31) Correspondent Haverford, Pa., in June and is job hunting teachers, and al l of her new subjects. And in Philadelphia. then dancing school begins again soon, and C. B. Rice and I have discovered that Isabelle Heins Meyer was in South Had- that is fun! Bill is with the Shell Oil Co. we are both enthusiastic bird watchers. She ley in May on a very brief visit with mu- in New York. He is Manager of the Plant writes that she and Ai Kindler go bird tual friends and Ger! Yoerg Doran and I Engineering Dept. and in charge of con- hunting whenever they can, and also that talked with her on the phone. Isabelle struction and operations throughout the AchJah Roberts Fennell's husband is head and Henry's two sons, Henry and Thomas, United States. of a Junior Audubon Club in his area and are at Middlesex Academy in Concord. has spoken twice at annual Audubon meet- Ru/h Norton Mathewson and husband, ings. Jennie Fusco Ripka is staff physician Cbavlotte Nixon Prigge travelled mid- Doug, and two daughters, Mary 13, Hea. at the Penna. State Sanitorium in Hamburg. westward this spring and lunched with ther 10, make their home in Pelham Manor Belly Petterson Treois in Cleveland. Nick She goes into Reading every week end and Doug cornmuntes to N.Y.C. where he she and Alice Hangen are planning a get- spent a night with us in June en route to practices law, and is also professor at New together. Amherst. Don and r have seen Pat and York University. Ruth says the girls have hope to see more of her this summer. The a full program with school, music, skating Edith Schneider MtlcGlashml has three Travises have a cottage at Highland Lake, club, social dancing, and horseback riding. children. Carol, the eldest, is entering Winsted, Conn., while Ev, who is with Alina May Derge Gillmer writes that she nursing school this fall. Don, the next in Robert Heller Associates, is working for line, has a paper route and is very pro- and TOIll have lived in Annapolis for 15 a month or two in Hartford. Their Linda, ficient on the trumpet. Her youngest is years. They have built a house on the 16, will be a junior at Hathaway-Brown another boy, David, 9. Betty Batter P),per's water, and enjoy being in a small com- this fall; Peter is 15; and Nancy, 8. Pat son, John, is a student at the University of munity. Christy is 16 and just beginning tells me that Peg Stllter Ferris is in the Georgia on a full music scholarship, and to date midshipmen and having a gay time. east vacationing with her family. while still in college, has a studio down- Charley is 12 and interested in baseball town and teaches clarinet. sailing, and swimming. He is just start- 1933 ing Junior High. Tom is not in the Navy Clyde and B,ll,e lY/llcox BuckIngham MRS. \XfILLIAM T. BROWN now, but is a professor in the Dept. of have moved to Fairfield, Conn., where they (Marjorie Fleming '33) Corves p ondent Marine Engineering at the Academy. Anna have a brook running through their yard. 38 Nearwater Lane, Darien, Conn. May says she has seen Dot Hamilton A/· Anrelia Hmn Robinson and her family girl.' and Elsie Nelson occasionally. have built a new house completely designed A reunion of '33 Branfordites took place by the Robinsons. Dorothy Rose Griswold Greetings to the Class of 1933! Dottie last August at Jerry W'el'theimer Mal/gal" has moved to Woodbury, Conn., and since Wheeler SpauldIng, class president has /hau's apartment in New York. Those that is Kar-l's home town, I shall look her asked me to be the correspondent for this present: Jerry, Eleanor Cairney Gilben, up the next time we drive down to visit year. I will welcome news from you all! E1!elYIl Carlough H,gglllJ, Virginia Vail the family. We saw Dorcas Freeman HVes- Helen IJVa!lis Cbristense»; who lives in Laoino, and Esther T),ler. Also present ex- SON again this year in Stowe, and besides Kansas City, Mo., came east for two weeks officio, Jerry's small daughter, Kate. Facts four of her five children, she also had with in August, with her husband, Lyle, and her through the chatter: Tempi is now attend- her another "Ducky" Freeman, daughter two daughters. They came to Darien sev- ing a teachers' college on Staten Island of Connie Green Freeman '30. eral times for a swim, a picnic supper on and plans to teach in the elementary school the beach, and a party or two. It was such The sympathy of the class goes to [an- as soon as her son Rick reaches junior ett e If''arrin er Cleaver whose husband died fun for me and my family to see them. high, daughter Barbara is finishing high last December. The girls, Patsy and Linda, are 11 and 14, school; Carlo has acquired a furious inter- and my children, Kathie and Richard are est in baseball, in order to keep up with 12 and 16, so they all had a marvelous 1932 her son, Mike. Carlo's daughter Deborah MRS. DONALD P. COOKE time together. Ruth Norton Mathewsoll is in high school; all of Ginny's three boys (Hortense Alderman '32) Correspondent and husband, Doug, came for a buffet sup- are away at school. Esther says one may 130 Woodbridge St., South Hadley, Mass. per while the Christensens were here so have graduated last June; Ginny is launch- we had a small Vinal reunion. Helen likes ed in business, decorating compacts, hand- Kansas City very much. She is president of Mary Elizabeth If/ye/h Jones reports that bags, etc. Jerry's daughter has started she has seen several members of our class the PTA and is very active in several other school and Jerry is preparing to get herself during the past year. Constence Bennett community projects. She said that an back into the intellectual life. Tyler writes Crail, ex '32, came east from Los Angeles attempt is. being made to organize a C. C. for a series of trade publications, mostly last spring. Rsab Judd Cree" also was in Alumnae Chapter there. They have had dealing with plastics, and directs for Da- Baltimore for a brief visit. Jimmy saw one meeting. There are about 25 alumnae rien's little theatre. Ty's post-war little John and Rllth Seanor Hubbell in New in Kansas City. Lyle is Vice-President in theatre is called Showcase, Inc., and is a York. Johnny, the oldest of the Hubbell charge of sales of the Marley Co., Inc., community-wide project. Some of its high four, is at Loomis. Jimmy's Pamela is at makers of cooling equipment. spots have been "Mr. Roberts" (Ty won Sarah Lawrence and hopes to spend her My son is now in his second year at the goat), "The Women," and "Juno and Junior year at the Sorbonne. Benj ie is Kent School, and preparing for Princeton. the Pavcoc]c" Currently she is working on going to Pomfret this fal\. Jimmy is teach- He enjoys it very much. He is very ath- "My Three Angels." 20 Mary Spooner HaYJ and her children, We learned about W.M.r., the secondary 1934 John, 14, and taller than his mother, Em- school which is being built on the east MRS. STERING T. TOOKER ily, 12, and Barbara, 7, are all active in side of the campus, below the Auditorium (Alice P. Miller) Corl'espolldellf scouting. Polly is completing her fourth parking lot. The College will hell' in 91 Gilbert Road, Rocky Hill, Conn. year as a Cub Den Mother and starting forming the guiding principles of the her second year as president of the Sulli- school, but the school will be separate from Reunion was the big moment in our van (Indiana) Girl Scout Council. Her the college, run by its own staff, We also lives. Twenty-seven from the Class, none husband, John, practices law and serves were brought up to date on the New Lon- of whom had changed one bit(!), had a part time as a special consultant to the don School of the Dance, which takes wonderful time rediscovering how uncom- State Department in Washington. Vera place on campus each summer. plicated and thoroughly enjoyable our lives IFarbclJJe Spooner wrote that Polly and her After the Trustees' picnic, at which al! were twenty years ago. The campus was children spent some wonderful days cram- reunion classes presented the college with a revalation, with all its new buildings med with sailing and swimming at her gifts of money for the Student-Alumnae {and plans for more). home at Ann Arbor in September. Vera Center, we went to Class Day. The Reunion Letter brings everyone up- and her family hope to come east to Woods Our dinner was held at the Mohican, to-date on who was there and what we Hole next summer for the first time in where we had a joint cocktail party with did. Miss Oakes, now a Dean, was won- four years. the classes of '34 and '35. Miss Brett was derful as OUf guest of honor at the Class our guest for the evening and gave a fine, banquet. It was indeed a rewarding ex- informal talk about present requirements perience wl.irh we wish more of you could for the B.A. degree. have shared. Glooeue Beckwith-Ewell and Mary Deg- Recent news from Allie Jacobs M(Bride nOI/ have agreed to serve as a nominating tells me that she and her father and three committee. They will have a report for us children were in a cottage at Matunick, later. Also, those of you who did not fill R. I., when hurricane Carol hit. The house . out the questionnaires will be asked for was flooded waist deep and then blown some material from Mary, who is going to about for two hours before they hit higher assemble a scrap book and try to keep it ground and could swim and wade to safety. Our newly-elected class president, Mm'- garet Bayliss Hrones spent the summer up to date on all the doings of our class. with John and their four children at their I hope to see you all at the next reunion 1935 camp at Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Peg in 1958. LETITIA P. WILLIAMS managed to climb Mt. Monadnock, but not Sincerely yours, Correspondent without puffing! Elizabeth Dutch is enjoy- Dorothy E. Baldwin 3 Arnoldale Road, West Hartford, Conn. her new home, with plenty of room to MRS. JAMES D. COSGROVE move around, a garden and a piano. Lydia 1938 (Jane Cox), Correspondent Alb-ee Child is quite adept with a hammer MRS. WILLIAM B. DOLAN these days. Her family has outgrown their 222 North Beacon Street, Hartford, Conn. (Mary Caroline Jencks '38) Correspondent ranch-style house and Jill is lending a hand 72 High Street, Uxbridge, Mass. BORN: to John and Irene Larson Gear- with the necessary addition. Besides car- pentering, she's busy canning and freezing. iug, a son, John Frederick II, on July 13, BORN: to C. H. and Marie Schwenk The children are active in 4-H work, Cub 1954. TJ7arillg, a son, Jeffrey Mark, on Jan. 9, Scouts and choirs. Last spring Mabel Janet Paslson Kissling and her family 1954. This news comes to us from Marie's Spencer Haiek wrote that she was antici- are "all healthy and making the most of oldest girl, Kathi, age 11, who wrote that pating a busy summer, freezing great quan- it." She has two children, Barbara and Lee her sister, Melinda, is 7; her father is a tities of vegetables from her husband's (male), 11 and 6 respectively. Jan keeps commander in the U. S. Coast Guard now garden. Mabel is still secretary to the pres- out of mischief with housekeeping, volun- stationed in Washington, D. C.; and that ident of the Middletown Savings Bank. teer hospital work, and other civic activities they live in Rockville, Md. She went on -with time out this past year for a winter 1937 to say that her aunt Elsie Schwenk Fuller. holiday in Guatamala and a summer one ton has moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., with MRS RALPH P. BASSETT in New Hampshire. Right now she is con- all five rousins-c-Allen 13, Elaine 11, Larry centrating on housebreaking an Airdale (Elizabeth von Colditz ) Correspondent 8, Waffy 4, and Kenny 1. pup! 130 Rosewood Drive, Dayton 5, Ohio Elsie and Fran WillJon RUJJell have According to Mary Savage Collins, her seen each other occasionally as Fran puts family's vacation at Madison was memora- Dear '37 ers: it "between trips" Since our last writing, ble for four cases of mumps, including Those of us who were back for reunion Fran and Dave have made business trips Mary herself, and two hurricanes. The in June missed the rest of you. We had to Chattanooga, Tenn., and to Quebec. hurricanes caused plenty of excitement, but fun and much exchanging of all that had fortunately did little damage thereabouts. happened during the intervening years. We wonder how many of you happened Hurricane Carol also hit White Sands Friday evening we took full advantage to see the picture of Harriet Moore Helle- Beach at Old Lyme where Sabrina Burr of the new snack bar on campus and talked veld and her family in the May issue of Sanders and her family were vacationing. into the wee hours. Saturday morning we "Woman's Home Companion." It was Subby lost her station wagon, but her fam- attended the Alumnae Association meeting, quite an article and you might like to try ily were 2.11 safe. This year her four sons at which time President Park brought us some of her recipes which sound very are all in school. up to date on new developments at C. C. tempting. 21 Quebec. Mary Kurtz Hall's husband .is and the PTA can get along with other Bill and I (M. C.) have just returned recruits! from a motor trip to Nova Scotia in our with the E[i Gilly Pharmaceutical Co. In little M. G. 1l1intz is very much involved Indianapolis. They have three children and 1940 in Worcester projects and regrets that she a cocker spaniel for each one. Polly Salons MRS. HARVEY r. DWORKEN has to resign her job as correspondent. Sseoens took her two daughters (11 and 8) (Natalie Klivans '40) Correspondent to Florida for spring vacation. Both girls 1640 Oakwood Drive 1939 got measles and spent the entire ~ime ~n Cleveland Heights 21, Ohio bed. Mary Marlin McGurl has hve.d In MRS. STANLEY R. MILLARD Texas for two years now and says this al- (Eunice S. Cocks '39) Correspondent BORN: to Harold and [eaneue Bell If/ill- most makes a Texan of her, except that Powerville Road, Boonton, N. J. ters, their second child, first son, Harold she does retain a few traces of the U, S. F. j-., on May 7, 1954, at Montclair, N. J.; Miriam Cooper works in the laboratory of BORN: to John and joya If/eld Grrlll- to Kenneth and Eunice Brewster Foss, a the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New bery, a son, and fourth child, Christopher daughter, in May; to Karl and Elise Halde- London. Grace Hecht Block spends her so- Minot, on Jan. 7; to Edward and Elizabeth man jacobi, a second child, second son, called spare moments editing the monthly (Poke)') Hadley Porter, jr., a son, Edward George Jeffrey, on July 12. bulletin of the local chapter of Hadassab H., III, on March 23. MARRIED: Elizabeth Gilbert Wild to and entering all kinds of contests. She MARRIED: Mary Elizabeth (Bet) Baldwin Robert P. Fortune on May 21 in Indian- says the prizes have been surprisingly fre- to John R. Dickinson III New York on apolis, Indiana. quent and varied, from diaper service to January 23. Billie Klink McGibbon, living on an "small but beautifully cashable checks." "But" Patton l/Yamer IS representing the Illinois farm, raises children, horses, chicks, \'XIestchester Alumnae on the Board of the Marjorie Mortimer Kenney lives in Fall sheep, and dogs. Husband Edmund doesn't United Negro College Fund, an organiza- River and is very busy being the' wife of clliim to be a farmer and commutes daily tion which raises funds for 31 Negro col- an orthopedic surgeon and the mother of to his Chicago law office. Newest arrival leges in the U. S. and is sponsored by 9 two boys, besides serving on the hospital is a wee Scotch lassie, Bonnie Laurie (now of the leading women's colleges in the Woman's Board. Helen Kreider Belmer is IYz)' sister to Sandy, 11 and Jean, 8. East. Because both of her children were a very enthusiastic member of the newly Their winter vacation took them to Miss- in school, [enie Guilford Newlin has had formed parents' committee for better issippi, Alabama, and New Orleans. Be- a part time job this year in the school and schools in Annville, Pa., and hopes to run sides her family, Billie enjoys a nice social has also been taking some painting courses. for the School Board next year. She is life, PTA, Garden Club, and church work Libby Taylor Dean has three children and also a member of the Girl Scout Council. in her own bailiwick. Bud and Ollie Mel!- a farmhouse and grounds to keep her busy Bets Parcells Arms says she has just moved Wtlin Kerr enjoyed skiing with their six- besides the usual civic projects. She also into her new home in April and had, on year old in the Laurentians in January, the day she wrote the card, had lunch with likes to paint (pictures as well as fences) skiied the rest of Vermont and New Hamp- and to make lampshades. Beuy Y o/mg shire on weekends, and spent the summer Reidel has been in Hawaii for a year and in Maine with their boat. BeN)' Morton a half and wonders if she will ever get Carlsen moved into a cute little house in shoes back on her children. Her husband River Forest, Ill., gave up her job, and is stationed there as a Coast Guard En- keeps busy chauffeuring the children. gmeer. She says "We are all becoming Alice Porter Downer lives in New Bri- happily demoralized beachcombers but we tain, where her husband teaches in the really miss that lousy Connecticut weather." Berlin High School. She spent the sum, Dotty LOll Loomis has spent the winter mer moving rocks from ground to wall, -and I quote-c-t'running a personal taxi Dede Lowe Nie, eu.» Mayl, Nallcy Tre- endeavoring to make a garden. The two to town to accommodate Cub Scouts, choir maine delWoody and Harriet Ernst Veale. children kept busy catching frogs and fall, boys, b:J.11 teams, swim champs, not to Next year she will be busy teaching Sunday ing into the brook. Alice sings in the local mention the three-foot blonde and her girl School and as Chairman of the Home- choir and teaches Sunday School. Louis friends." This is in addition to being the crafters Shop. GiNny Taber McCamey is and Beny Downs Bmdley (ex '40) are only woman member of the building com- working on her house in the woods in living in Orange, Conn. Betty's current mittee for their church addition and being Storrs. She and husband Frank and daugh- hobbies are the children: Sheldon 13, Carol on a few other civic groups, Na/lcy lWes- ter Eleanor are building it themselves and -I 0, and Lynn 9, and tray painting. Their ton Lincoln is another very active person. r have a picture of Ginny on a ladder latest project is the addition of a bedroom She is treasurer of the Junior League and nailing roof boards to prove it. When not wing to their home. as such was sent as a delegate to the Re- filling joints in plasterboard, she helps on During the past winter Pete and Kafhie gional Conference in Boston last fall. She church suppers, with the Brownies, and 'in Gilbert Smith skiied around Michigan and is raising two Golden Retrievers and is the Woman's Club. The hospital that Mont Trernblant. Their oldest son, Peter publicity chairman for the Maine Retriever Barbara Myers Haldt and I have been so 13, was top boy at Cranbrook Lower Trial Club. She and her doctor husband interested in (Bobby is treasurer of the School during the spring. Attending a participate in all the sporting activities of Woman's Auxiliary and I am on the League of Women Voters convention in her state-fishing, duck hunting, and game Board) is finally taking form just a mile Denver in June, Kathie saw Laura Sheerin hunting-c-though she leaves deer hunting down the road from my house. Bobby and Gnns "who looks wonderful and has three to her husband. Also in the past year, she I are planning to drop a lot of outside sons, one of whom writes music at a tender has attended two medical conferences with activities and take the Nurses' Aide course a.ge ..· Ruth Rusch Sbeppe has moved to her husband, one in Hartford and one in and work in the hospital. The Brownies Westmoreland Hills, still near Washing- 22 '43 and Ruby Zagorell Silverstein '43 to ton, D. C, and is active with the Alumnae August vacation were closer. She is look- make generous contributions to the Alum- Club there, her home being the site of the ing forward to a visit with Nancy Vall nae Fund. spring picnic and the September meeting. Homen McFall and family in York, Penn. Ginnie Ben llVil1ten returned to Puerto From St. Louis, Mo., we hear that AnN Rico with the baby in June, following Rubenstein HUJCh's four children keep her 1943 Harold and three-year old Evie, who now busy. Peggy, 12, is interested in dramatics; MRS. WILLIAM YEAGER thinks that you get babies at Grandma's, Tony, 10, is in Little League; and the six- (Betsy Hodgson '43) Correspondent year olds, Joan and David, are interested in and who enjoyed such stateside diversions Box 163, Route 1, Pineville, Louisiana as snow in April, nursery school, cousins, "everything". Ann has a Girl Scout Troop escalators, and TV. Ginnie, Gladys Bach- which she enjoys very much. She sees BORN: a second son, Robert Winsor, to mall Forbes, Betty Gehrig Streeter and Muff Haack Hensley '40 occasionally. William and Al-yce Jr/ at ion McAllister, Ginger Clark Bininger held a reunion in June 2; twin daughters to Leslie and l eau Montclair during Ginnie's "wait". Waflace Dongles; first son, third child, Harvey and I are pleased to announce George, to George and jean Gebhard that we are finally homeowners and spent Hussey, the summer with painters, plumbers and Betsy Yeager, our regular correspondent, carpenters renovating a lovely rambling will be back with us next issue. She is cottage. In June we toured the British busy building a home in Alexandria, La., Isles, rhorougbly enjoying the wonderful and will move in the fall of '54. Jim and scenery, magnificent castles, and charming Mary LOfJ IValsh ...Thackrey have bought a old inns of Ireland, Scotland, and England brand new, larger house on the opposite Sidney and Phyllis Groves Slocum are side of Pasadena nearer Jim's work. Leslie 1941 the proud parents of Tommie, who thir- and jean IVal/ace Douglas have a new MRS. THEODORE R. WILLS teen months ago was welcomed by his three home in Washington. Larry and belle (Ethel Moore '41) sisters, Sandy 11, Karen 6, and Barbie 3. Steckler jacobson have moved from New They all live in Sid's grandmother's lovely York City to a White Plains home with 17356 Beechwood, Birmingham, Mich. big house and have a cocker spaniel called their four year old Laurie and one year BARBARA TWOMEY ·4l jo-] o. Though busy, Phyl manages to keep old son. Jack and Alicia Henderson up with her Junior League work. Speaker made the biggest move of all, from 2500 Que St. NW, Washington, D. C Groton to Honolulu, where Jack will be Ted and I (Wills, that is) and Bill and Correspondents stationed with the Coast Guard. Sally Kiskaddell McClelland spent a [anet Fletcher Ellrodt at the time of the slightly lost weekend in Chicago recently, Bob and Thelma Gustoison Wylalld have last issue was busy packing Tony off for one of the high spots of which was an a new young son, Christopher, to keep a to-week tour to the wilds of Africa. She evening with Fred and Donna Ed Reynolds little Brooks company. Martha Boyle Mor- rissou and Edith Gabermall Sedars For- reports that he is not writing a book but and Roy and Mary Perrell Morse. I was ey, selling Vicks to the Mau-Meus. Janet is very impressed with Donna's three children eign Policy Association volunteers, chap- left at home with the odd paint jobs, hop- and sorry not to make the young Morses' eroned a group of 50 teenagers to the UN for a day. This program was headed by ing not to receive a package containing acquaintance. I heard lots of news but Florence Urban IVyper last year. Reeves Tony's shrunken skull. was so busy enjoying myself that I'm afraid and Martha Morrisson vacationed in Wash- [eau Moore ex '41 is working for the I absorbed very little of it. ington this spring. Ben and Marion But- Ralph Jones Advertising Co. and is still an terfield Hinman celebrated their tenth active participant in winter and summer 1942 anniversary with a trip to Florida where sports, skiing, bowling, etc. Ed and Mar- MRS. JOHN D. HUGHES they watched the Yankees in spring train- garet Kerr Miller are planning to vacation (Adrienne S. Berberian '42) Correspondent ing. Their little boy, Joel Dyer, 1, has this summer with his family in Platte City, 20 Pocasset Ave., Worcester, Mass. his mother's red hair and good disposition, Missouri. BORN: August 10: a daughter, Nancy it is reliably reported. jane Holbrook Jewell has started a "Pet Chaffee to Richard and Frances Hyde Louise Radford Denegre is our new class Portrait" business and would be glad to Forde. fund agent. We can all be proud of our hear from any interested in a charcoal class, with 63 per cent of us contributing pencil portrait of their pet's head, which Alln Small Bu mbam and her family to the Alumnae Fund Drive. she can do from snapshots. Betty Hollings- moved into a new home in Waterford out- head Seelye writes that they are enjoying side New London last year. Ann, who has Emily Carl Davis, our class president, life in suburban Philadelphia and that she been president of the New London Alum- lives in Stuyvesant Town, N. Y. c., where is expecting big things of life next year nae Club for the past year, has been ap- her husband attends night law school. pointed Secretary of the Executive Board when she sends her youngest off to kinder- Emmy represented '43 at Alumnae Council of the Alumnae Association, replacing garten. Betty has found that being presi- in February and visited with Alicia Spea- dent of the Conn. group in Philadelphia Barbara Hervey '35. ker. At that time Alicia was busy selling has been very rewarding and has kept Barbara Brengle lVri!ton's drawings for "Connie After College" for Alumnae Fund. her in touch with campus news. Barbara the cartoon book "Connie After College" Alicia did a fine job selling more than 300 Twomey went to Nag's Head, North Caro- were widely publicized and brought much copies. Alice Dimock works in the State lina, over Memorial Day weekend and had publicity to the Alumnae Fund as well as Department in Hartford and frequently enough sun and swimming to wish her enabling Bobbie, Alicia Henderson Speaker weekends in New London. 23 Louise Sctnoerz COla, husband Dan and which brought [oan [ecobson Kronick 1944 daughter Barbara, 3, live in Milwaukee, Mary Gates, Margy Coughlill Nelsoll e; MRS. ROGER KLEINSCHMIDT Wis. Muggsy and Dan, vacationing at Sea '46 and Jane Lyman Smith together. On (Jeanne Jacques '44) Correspondent Island, Ga., last spring, ran into Salty their way to Washington, D. C, Lee Min- 525 E. 14 St., Bartlesville, Okla. Weckler JohnSON, ex '45. t er Goode and Dick stopped for a visit with the Mcr.anns. At the Academy Home. Marge Lawrence flYeidig was matron of MARRIED: Marjorie M. Moody to Wen- coming, Mary and Jack saw Pris Wi/killJ of honor for George and Barbara IJ:7ads- dell R. Schiffer on May 1. The Schiffers Magee and Gil who, with the children, are arc now living in Brownstown, Pa., in the ioort b Koeniszer in their Providence, R. 1., moving from N. ]. to Portland, Maine, middle of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, wedding last May. Barbara and George are Mary also saw Betsy Teller Reddy recently. where Wendell is a plumbing and heating living in Stamford, Conn" where George Betsy, ex '46, and Mike and their four contractor. is with the Dorr Company. Bobby has children are now living in Lake Forest, Ill. been with the Stamford Research Labora- 1945 tories of American Cyanamid, Mm·y Margaret Topping De Yoe sent a card from her new home in Whitney Point, MRS. DORSEY WHITESTONE, JR. Sally Hosack, ex '45, and David S. Schaff N, Y. The De Yoes, who bought a bottled (Patricia Feldman '45) Corresp ondens were married last January, honeymooned gas company in this small town, have 222A Rye Colony, Rye, N. Y. in Nassau, Jamaica, Haiti; are now living thoroughly enjoyed getting settled in the in Youngstown, Ohio. David is with an business and their new home with its large MARRIED: Barbara IVadsworth to George aluminum company, Youngstown Indus- garden. Topper grows all her vegetables H. Koenitaer on May 22. tries, in nearby Girard. Sally does volun- and specializes in strawberries. Two rivers teer Junior League and Civic Children's Eleanor Strobm. Leaum's good letter re- flow on either side of their lovely site and Theatre work. The Schaffs met John and ports that the Leavitts made their tenth both make good fishing for son, Teddy. move in six and a half years last Septem- Ann MerCllr McComb, ex '45, at a Pitts- Mary Eastburn Biggin and Jim and their ber. One move came shortly after the Ko- burgh wedding last spring. son spent the last two weeks of July at rean "incident" when Bill was called back Surf City on Long Beach Island. Peggy into service and the Leavitts ended up in 1946 Blocker Dill and Austin flew east from Germany for "a glorious six months." MRS. RICHARD H. RUDOLPH Oklahoma City the first week in July for Srrohmie made the most of a golden op- (Marilyn H. Coughlin >46) Corves pondeni a visit with Peggy's family. fo Eggens portunity, saw as much of the surrounding 499 Rutter Ave., Kingston, Pa. Tr/ilkimol1 flew west from Van Wert, territory as she could. They returned to Ohio, for a visit in Boise, Idaho, and then this country two years ago and finally got MARRIED: Lorraine LillC011l to Leon Li- on to San Francisco. back into their N. ]. home the next Feb- berman on February 20, 1954. Bee Littell Lipp, ex '46, has now entered ruary, By July, Bill had been transferred BORN: to Afiriam lrnber Fredman and by IBM to Roanoke, Va. The family, Sam, a second sao, Andrew David, on another business venture. She is practically which includes daughters Anne and Ricky April 7, 1954, an executive with the Cleveland, DubIe, (6 and 3V2) was reunited eventually in a and Arnold Real Estate in Greenwich, Lucy Eaton is off again for foreign house in Roanoke-and they love it. The Conn, Bee is most enthusiastic about real shores-this time on a four-week driving girls, the house and some volunteer and estate and has her own new home with tour through England and Scotland with church work keep Strohmie busy, The Lea- many glass walls an dredwood siding on two other girls, starting in May. Lucy is vitts spent a month at the Jersey shore 3.99 acres of wooded land back of Cos an assistant underwriter in the Group this summer where they saw [o Vieli MO!1- Cob. Bea has seen Barba,.a Bushman Stal/d- Dept. of the Conn. General Life Insurance zani and her family. Jo has a new baby, berg and Peggy Cole Jennings and every Co. in Hartford, has been doing volunteer her third daughter, born in March, Other now and then runs into [an e Qllltckenb1lsh news via Strohmie is that Aleen Brisley Loll and her four children. She reports Kress's husband is staying in the Air Force also that Janet Cmickshallk Mc.Mullell is and that they should have left Alaska by getting along very well with her five rhil. now; that Janet Comtois Slim had a daugh- dren and her new waterfront estate. ter; and that Roberto Marlin TValson had Phebe Gm·detler Roc ebolz wrote recently a son a year ago August. to inquire about the name of the company An/! Barnett If/olgin writes that the which handled our class rings. Does any- Wolgins have had an eventful year. Bill work at the Hartford Hospital and was one know it? Phebe, who has two sons, got out of the Army about a year ago, is secretary of the Hartford Ski Club. At a 7 and 2 years old, joined the Levittown now an M.D., urologist, in practice in recent al umnae tea held in Hartford, Lucy, branch of the AAUW where she met Philadelphia. They have a "relatively new fody Ferry Gates and Joan Paul Loomis Barbeur Grimes lWiJe. She hopes to join baby," Frances Ann, 10 months, and a son, were hostesses. the pastel group in the fall and a group Richard, 4, Back in New London are Don and Mar- which makes silver jewelry of merit. Betty Barnnvd Berdan and Miriam Braun tha Greene Ullery and Jack and Mary Lambert, ex '45, are a frequent golf team Carpen/el" McCalln. The McCanns with 1947 and real threats, according to Barny. They twins, Cathy and Bart 7, and Michael 3, DORIS A. LANE '47 came in last in the golf tourney last season returned when Jack, who was in Korea Correspondent and aim for the next-to-bottom spot this during the last year of the war there, re- 1310 Stout St., Denver 4, Colo. year. Betty and Mike live in Defiance, ceived a four-year assignment as an in- MARRIED: Eleanor Katherine Wile to Ohio; Miriam and Donny and two daugh- structor at the Coast Guard Academy. Mary Doctor John \X!ishington Bassett on June ters in nearby Toledo. wrote about Lorraine Lincoln's wedding 5, 1954, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 24 to Pete and Newcy Libby Peterson, a BORN: to Cyril and Cortnue Manning Andy, April 15; to Randolph and JOJie Black their first child, a son, James Man- Frank Zeloo, a daughter, Charen, May 2; daughter, Patricia Gail, on March 8; to Bob and Bobbie Wiegand Pillote, a daugh- ning, on June 12, 1953; to Curtis and to Robert and Carol Crane Sseoenson, a Priscilla Baird Hinckley a girl, Karen, on second son, Jeffrey, June 12; to Murray ter, Margaret Lynn, on April 1; to Ted Jan. 18, 1954; to Wilburt and Joanna and Brenda Ginsburg s.u», a daughter, and Sally Buck Thompson, a daughter, Swaill Olsen a second son, Rodney Swain, Diane, June 19; to Robert and Barbara Marcia Cook, on March 2; to Jim and on May 11; to Seymour and Jeanne Stiefel Earnest ClIIlIIingham, a third child and Louise Stevens If/heatley, a second daugh- Goodman a daughter, Nancy Kate, on first daughter, Amy Elizabeth, June 25. ter, Katherine Holbrook, on March 28; to Neil and Helen Pavlovich Twomey, a September 19, 1954. Joan Burdick Boothman, ex '50, reports daughter, Christine Elissa, on May 29. Kill)' Wile Bassen's husband, Johnny, is that she and husband Warren now are a surgeon who served in Korea during the living in Warwick, R. I., with their three- Nallcy Bath Doyle is progressing well war. Sue [ob nson Walters and family have year old twins, Warren and Pamela. Annis in her recovery from polio; she can walk just moved to Monterrey, Cal. Mary Vance BOCJlle, ex '50, on leave of absence from alone and take care of son Bobby. Nancy Sweraldi has turned up in Washington, her stenographic work at the Atlantic Re- Libby Peterson was at home for the sum- D. C, and she and Pat Hendvix, who is fining Co. Laboratory in Dallas, Texas, is mer in Maine until fall brought Pete back teaching at Mt. Vernon Seminary, plan to touring Europe this summer. Doris Dris- from Greenland and both Petersons to get together. lei" Ferguson, ex '50, and husband Gary Boston environs. Dorie Cramer Olmstead live in St. louis where Gary is a reporter is attending Yale School of Nursing. March 1949 for the "Post-Dispatch." They have a son in Nassau (like April in Paris?) found MRS. ROBERT A. DUIN Arthur, 3, and a daughter, Frances, 2. Tom Lois Allen and Ronnie Williams enjoying (Phyllis Hammer '49) CorreJ/Jondent and AnI! Thomas McDonnell are living in a week in those climes. Spring fever drove 252 Lincoln St., Lexington, Mass. Cairo, Egypt, where Tom is an insurance (flew) Joey Dings and Nancy Clapp to executive. Sally Condon is practicing law the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico for a BORN: to Cole and Mary Bill Brooks in New York City. Also in New York is vacation. The sounds of hammering on Price, a second son, James Lowell, on Noelle Mercan/oll, who is assistant to the Long Island probably were from Don and Feb. 4; to Arch and Pat Folts Doole)', a Beauty Editor of "McCall's" magazine. Ellie Holterman Rehman building their son, Arch Richard, Jr., on July 3; to Bob- Mac Clark is doing personnel work for an own house. Summit, N. ]., has a new by and Phyllis Hemmer Duin, a second industrial instrument manufacturer in sub- Skip and Mary Pennvwin Lester-built house son, Stephen Birchall, on July 28; to Barry urban Philadelphia. Out West we find to which they'll be moving in June. Pam and Gdle Holman Marks, a daughter, Pam- Dick and Geraldine Foote Dotioer and Pemsioortb French is being an Army wife ela, on July 22. daughters Wendy and Gail in San Diego,· in Virginia while Jack is stationed at Fort From Frannie Adams Nichols came a where Dick is teaching our Coast Guarders. Lee. Joan Andrew While, Naomi Solit, snapshot of the newest Nichols, Peter. In Don and Mary Gillam Barber, ex '50, and Carol Halk, Sari Buchner, Joey Dings, and the accompanying letter, Frannie told of a their daughters, Patty and Nancy, are liv- Nancy Clapp were seen at New York party she was planning for the following ing in Elgin, 111., where Don is manager Chapter Connecticut College cocktail party day for Dodie Stone Fawley and her 3V2 of manufacturing for Howell Manufactur- in May. Nothing so prosaic as a house year old Bill and baby John; Edie Klvn ing Co., makers of dinette furniture. Dick for Libby Griffin-she's living in a former Alarshall and her two year old boy; Salty and Mm-ilyn Raub Creedon and daughter palace in Bangkok, Siam, where her job How Stolle and her Susannah; PLUS Fran- Madelyn are back home in Indiana, where with a Florida export firm has taken her. nie's three young'uns. Dick is a salesman by day and a law stu- Received a letter from Lauranne Thomas dent by night. Within sight of the Wash- Jane Keltie was a bridesmaid at Margie FreY/JOf with the news of her marriage ington Monument, across the river in Erickson's wedding, which was also a great July 11, 1953, to Jack Freyhof and the Virginia, live Henry and Carol Baldwin reunion for East-ires Roldah Northup Cam- events since. Jack is now a junior at Cin- Koehler. While Hank serves his hitch in croll and Norman, Mary Pennyioiu Lester cinnati College of Medicine while Lau- the Navy, Carol is taking a course in and Skip, [o Appleyard Scbelpe-t and John, ranne is teaching school. When she wrote, sculpture. Ellie Holterman Reb-non and Don, [obnnie she was recovering from mumps contracted Johnson Leonard, Nancy Clapp, Joe), from her little gremlins at school. I visited 1951 Dings, and JA. 'er JIIS Shepherd, Margie with Phyllis Nectow Shycon recently and PEGGY PARK ·51 and Murray will be living in Stamford. made the acquaintance of her little girl Correspondvnt Conn. Chloe Bissell [ones has a "gem" of Ellen. You will be glad to hear that Phyl 302 West 12th St., New York 14, N. Y. a job as assistant buyer of jewelry for has made a grand recovery from the polio Bamberger's department store in Newark, she contracted last year. MARRIED: Ann Daniels to Byron Hacker, N. J AnI! Andrews ended her two-year Feb. 13, in Manchester, N. H.; Marjo,.ie stint in the land of gemutlichkeit and such 1950 Bric eson to Murray Grieve Albertson, May -Germany, where she was with the CIA; RUTH 1. KAPLAN ·50 1, in Maplewood, N. ].; Eleanor Tuttle to she's now in Washington, D. C. Rennie Correspondent Lieutenant (j.g.) Donald Wade, May 8, in A.rchalfenbllrg Christensen and Bob are 82 Halcyon Road, Newton Center, Mass. Teaneck, N. J.; Katherine Perher to Ralph now located in Natick, Mass. Betsey Col- Waltman Stell Jr., May 16; Phyllis Holf- gen, [us Shepherd and [o If7illetrd are MARRIED: ANn Thomas to Thomas mall to Frank A. Driscoll, June 5, in Sea frequent visitors to the Neil and Helen McDonnell in January. Girt, N. ].; Sue Askin to Paul Carroll Pavlovich Twomey residence in Keansburg, BORN: to Jack and Nancy Kearns Morris Wolman, Jr., June 24, in New York City. N. J., which boasts a location one block a son, Donny, in February; to Jerry and BORN: to Fred and Sugar Sessions Spral- from the beach. Naomi Salit can now be Marger)' Asber Russem, ex '50, a son, ley, a daughter, Sandra Leigh, On Feb. 17; found in the promotion department at 2S "Mademoiselle." Public affairs department siding in Concord, N, H. [ane Graham to showroom in New York .. Connie Duane is at CBS is getting an efficient helping hand Bruce Barker on March 6 in Garden City, teaching nursery school in Providence, R. 1. from Doreen Cbn, Sari Bncbner and room- N. Y. Elizabeth Kotseean, [oenn Eash, and Bill and Judy Whit/a Clinger are living mate were drinking up the sun in Nan- Susan Mallley were in the bridal party. The in Washington, D. C; after returning from tucket. Nancy )'\1011, up to New York for class of '53 was well represented by Anl1 several months in northern Africa with See Askin's wedding, was planning a south Gordon, Diana [aceson, Audrey JJYatkins, the Navy. Judy flew to New London in of the border vacation in Mexico. Peggy Sally B, Zellers, Joan Rudberg, jinx February to receive her belated Phi Beta Park is doing work as radio-television Church, Peg Lewis, Judy Morse, AnN Kappa award. Jack and Mary Alln McCle- specialist with United Cerebral Palsy. Hutchison, Jay Graebe, Nancy Camp, Jean ments Mason have recently moved to Chi- Garett, and Dorothy Bomer. After return- cago. An11 If/a/thou!', Anne Marctts, Sue 1952 ing from their Bermuda honeymoon, the Brown and Ellen Israel have all departed. MRS. MELVIN G. MARCUS Barkers moved to Norfolk, Va., where They plan to be gone most of the summer, (Mary Ann Allen '52) Correspondent Bruce is stationed on a destroyer. Jtlilet visiting England, France, Germany, Italy c/o liLt. Melvin G. Marcus Roesch to Frank Prankenfelder in Cleve- and Switzerland. Elizabeth Kotsrean is 6th Tow Target Sq., Box 82 land, Ohio, on Dec. 26. They are living in working at the nursery school at Washing- APO 994. c/o P. M., San Francisco, Calif. Alaska where Frank is stationed with the ton University in St. Louis. Small lvlailley On July 29, with her train due to leave Coast Guard. Nina Davis to William is studying at the University of Mass. for Seattle that night, Mary AnI! Marcus Jackson on March 27 in New York (COI1' Jeanne Garett is working at the Equitable wrote the "NEWS" Editor that the lack of nie Baker Woolson ex '53 and Jocelyn Ha- Life Insurance Co. in New York. JOIIII news for '52 was. due to her being in a ven were in the wedding party). Janet H. Redbeeg, Dorothy Bomer) Judith Golen- wedding in Peoria over the 10th and sud- Perry to Lt. Herbert Newton Townsend on kolJ and Cindy Schutt Folsom are all ern- denly receiving her Port Call. During her Sept. 11. Emmy Beth Storey, ex '53, in played at the New York Life Insurance 16 month stay in Japan, Margaret ou, June in Westport, Conn. Patricia T tlllssig Co, in New York. Nallcy Camp was last Poland Center Road, Poland, Ohio, has on June 26 in New York. seen at the Harvard Club in New York. agreed to act as substitute correspondent. BORN: to Albert and Leta IPeiss Marks, She is working for a bank in the city. a son, Jonathan; to Leonard and Joyce Charles and Pip Tulloch Schultz are now 1953 Hoibeimer Strelitz, ex '53, a daughter, living in New York. Charlie is out of the MRS. RICHARD B. MINDLIN Bonnie Lee; to Alan and Mary Lloyd Stit- service. Dick and Sue l/Yeinberg Milldlill (Sue Weinberg '53) Correspondent zel' Bogardus, a daughter. visited Dick and Belt)' Alln Schneider Ot- 320 West 46 Terrace, Kansas City, Mo. Janet Perry received her B. A. in Educa- singer in Dayton, Ohio, on their way to MARRIED: jO(1lJ Church ward to David . tion from Harvard University this June. New York recently. JO(1Il Fluegelman Jenkins (jeal! Ann Hallows Drigger was Frances Toto, who also received her B. A. ]F.7exler has her own summer nursery school in the wedding party). Frederica Hines to in Education from Harvard University in in Scarsdale this summer. Ralph and Ellen Horace Vaile on June 12 (Chip will at- June, is planning to teach mathematics in Lee Richardson, ex '53, are living in De- tend Harvard Business School after being the fall at the Natick, Mass" High School. troit, Mich., where Ralph is affiliated with discharged from the Army in September). Annellen Fine is working as an economist's "Life" magazine. Freddy LOll Rosenstock, Sally B. Zellers to Lee Wallace on May 15 assistant in the Prentice-Hall publishing ex '53, has just returned from a vacation in Southport, Conn. The WaJlaces went to house. Anile Becker is studying music and in Sun Valley, Idaho, and is back at her Bermuda for their honeymoon and are re- working part time in the Steuben Glass job as fashion assistant for "Seventeen". With President Park . DRUSILLA FIELD- ING '32, Secretary to President Park, and BAR BAR A BELL C R 0 U C H '26, Part-time Sec- refclry 111 the office of President Park. PRESIDENT ROSEMARY PARK greeting BEVERLY TASKO '55, president of Student Government in the Green Room of Palmer auditorium before the freshman assembly 011 Monday, September 20. 26 Make Your Plans Now CONNECTICUT COLLEGE REUNION WEEKEND June 10, 11, 12, 1955 Classes: '30, '31, '32, '33 '49, '50, '51, '52 '53, '54 FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY Florida fruit still in season, still being sold for benefit of Alumnae Fund Season 1954-55 Special to All Fellow-Alumnae of Connecticut College VARIETIES Dear Alumnae: PINEAPPLE ORANGES: You can help your college and have some fruit at the December 15 to February 15 approximately. same time. TEMPLE ORANGES: For every order from Connecticut College alumnae, January 15 to April 1 or later. whether gifts or for your own use, we'll give 10% of the FANCY TANGERINES: fruit price of each order to the Alumnae Fund Campaign December 1 to February 15 or later. to help in the current campaign for the Student-Alumnae SEEDLESS V ALENCIAS: Center and in other worthwhile projects. Approximately March 1 to June 1. In the three years we have tried this special offer alum- MARSH SEEDLESS GRAPEFP. UIT: nae have doubled their orders. You can help us make it Usually all season to June 1. many times more this season. All who responded the last three seasons were most enthusiastic about our fruit. One PRICES FOR FRUIT alumna writes: "Think this idea is an excellent one benefit- All Oranges bu. $4.50 half bu. $2.70 ting both the College and alumnae as individuals." Others Grapefruit bu. $3.75 half bu. $2.50 have also expressed approval. Mixed Baskets bu. $4.25 half bu. $2.70 A SPECIAL GIVE-AWAY: A free basket of citrus fruit with a SPECIAL SURPRISE GIFT will be shipped Tangerines bu. $4.00 half bu. $2.50 each month to that party in whose name the most shipments Recent express rates for private citrus shipments to are made for that month for his own use or as gifts. Conn., R. I., Mass., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Ohio, lnd., etc.: Best wishes to you all and to c.c. $2.58 per bushel, $1.85 per half bushel, including Federal tax. (Other rates on request.}. Lorena K. Perry, Agent C. C. '26 Our season order plan: 10 percent discount on The Dr. J. C. Taylor Indian River Ridge Groves, fruit price on orders of 5 or more at intervals, or all at one time. Other special rates. Wabasso, Florida. Clubs of the Connecticut College Alumnae Association, Presidents and Secretaries CALIFORNIA MINNESOTA Northern: Miss Margaret E. Coulter '37 Twill Cities: 1422 Bellevue Avenue, Burlingame Mrs. William S, Norton (Jean Merrill ex '48) Mrs. Harold R. Manning (Emma T. G. Moore '37) 5613 Wood Lane, Minneapolis 17 Temple Street, San Francisco 14 Mrs. John Reid (Elizabeth Merrill ex '43) 7136 First Avenue South, Minneapolis COLORADO Denver: Mrs. John T. Webb (Ruth Jackson '30) MISSOURI 1914 Leyden Street, Denver St. LOII;S: Mrs. John Hilmer (Alice Adams '44) Miss Lucia Boyle '52 7334 Pershing, University City, 5 99 South Downing Street, Denver Mrs. John Friedman (Ellen Cronbach '37) 46 Washington Terrace, St. Louis CONNECTICUT Tr/estern F:1irfield County: NEW JERSEY Mrs. Prescott Littlefield (Margaret Meredith '25) New Jersey: Mrs. Robert Areson (Lois Ryman '36) Sylvan Road, Darien 153 Bellevue Avenue, Upper Montclair Miss Elizabeth Rockwell '52 Mrs, Charles Forbes, Jr. (Gladys Bachman '40) Longshore Avenue, Harbor View, South Norwalk 141 Berckman Street, Plainfield Hartford: Mrs. Mark B. Creed (Jeanne Turner '41) Bergen: Mrs. John R. Kranz (Eleanor Hine '34) 22 Brookline Drive, West Hartford 150 South Highwood Avenue, Glen Rock Mrs. A. Douglas Dodge 2d (Elizabeth Thompson '40) Mrs. Laurence Tuttle (Mary Louise Weikert '23) 243 Clearfield Road, Wethersfield 32 Hillside Avenue, Englewood Meriden- TV"allingford: Central New Jersey: Mrs. Howell Wood Jr. (Sarah Marks '47) Mrs. Robert B, Wyland (Thelma A. Gustafson '43) 23 Glen Place, Meriden ]41 Harold Avenue, Fanwood Mrs. David Evans (Eunice Morse '38) 758 Yale Avenue, Meriden NEW YORK New Haven: Mrs. John Booth (Bernice Neumann '49) New York City: Miss Cordelia Ettl '52 Orchard Road, Orange 131 East 35th Street, New York Miss Anne Cobey ,49 Mrs. Edward Blitzer (Nancy Mayer '45) 99 Howe Street, New Haven 91 Central Park West, New York New London: Miss Helen Louise Brogan '52 Rochester: Miss Emily Warner '2.5 45 Ramsdell Street, Groton 175 Clinton Avenue North, Rochester 2 Miss Augusta O'Sullivan '22 Miss Barbara Bohman '49 P. O. Box 158, Waterford 393 Bonnie Brae Avenue, Rochester 18 Walerbury: Miss Katherine Colgrove '26 Westche.rter: 901 Watertown Avenue, Waterbury Mrs. Robert D. Guibord (Elizabeth Farnum '35) Miss Doris Bonner '40 35 Roxbury Road, Scarsdale 92 Euclid Avenue, Waterbury Mrs. C. James Greenleaf (Alida Reinhardt '41) 9 Devon Road, Larchmont DELAWARE Central New York: 117ilrningtolt: Mrs. Nelson Daly (Evelyn Silvers '43) Mrs. Walter Attridge (Virginia Rusterholtz '48) 326 Delaware Avenue, McDaniel Crest, 109 Croydon Road, Syracuse Wilmington 3 Mrs. Powell Holbein (Dorothy Boschen '41) Mrs. W. W. Walls, Jr. (Joan Underwood '49) 3910-C Lancaster Pike, Lancaster Court, Wilmington 100 Sherbourne Road, Syracuse DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OHIO Wesbington: Akron: Mrs. Richard Staiger (Charlotte Enyart 50) Mrs. Frederick B. Wiener (Doris Merchant '35) 224 Lownsdale Avenue, Akron 13 2500 Wisconsin Avenue N.W., Washington Mrs. Thomas 1. Stevens (Adeline McMiller '29) Miss Esther M. Barlow '33 . 287 Overwood Road, Akron 13 200 F Street N.W., Washington Cincinnati: ILLINOIS Mrs. Thomas Price (Dorothy Ann Wood '52) Chicago: Mrs. James Woodbury (Ethel Lawrence '46} ] 2 Garden Place, Cincinnati 8 1035 Pleasant Lane, Glen Oak Acres, Glenview Mrs. John Burgevin (Clarissa Weekes '40) 1139 Fehl Lane, Cincinnati 30 Mrs. Bruce Thayer (Nancy Noyes '47) 319 Greenwood Boulevard, Evanston Cleveland: Mrs '. Robert Dalzell (Lucile Cain '33) 2475 \Vellll1gton Road, Cleveland Heights 18 KENTUCKY Mrs. Ralph Tyler, Jr. (Mary Brillhart '45) Kentucky: Mrs. Monroe Heumann, Jr. (Lucy Block '46) 3767 Princeton Boulevard, Cleveland 21 Colonial Hill Road, Buechel MASSACHUSETTS PENNSYLVANIA Boston: Miss Elizabeth Dutton '47 Philadelphia: 62 Pinckney Street, Boston Mrs. Elwyn Seelye II (Elizabeth Hollingshead '41) Miss Cynthia Terry '46 106 Deberan Lane, Rosemont 33 Dean Street, Braintree Mrs. Francis X. Connors (Virginia Fullerton' 41) 912 Nicholson Road, Wynnewood Springfield: Mrs. Donald Cooke (Hortense Alderman '32) Pittsburxh: 13 Woodbridge Street, South Hadley Mr-s. Robert Armstrong (Mary Coleman '48) Mrs, Robert Doran (Gertrude Yoerg '32) 210 Rockingham Road, Pittsburgh 15 149 Central Park Drive, Holyoke Mrs. George Langreth (Faith Grant '29) 1024 Martha Avenue, Pittsburgh 28 WOl'cester: Mrs. Harold Constantian (Anahid Berberian '40) WISCONSIN ..(35 Salisbury Street, Worcester Milwaukee: Mrs. Milton Freedman (Martha Lubchansky '34) Mrs. Norman D. Cota, Jr. (Louise Schwarz '45) 28 Creswell Road, Worcester 2 J810 East Hampton Avenue, Milwaukee