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Connecticut College Alumnae News Vol. 11 No. 2
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Vol. XI February NO.2 1934
Alumnae Week-End
The Alumnae Week-End Committee, of Sunday, February 25
which Dean N ye is chairman, has arranged 9 to 10 A.M. Special breakfast at the Mohican a program for February 24 and 25 which Hotel. it is hoped will be equally interesting to the 10:15 A. M. Conference: This Changing athlete, the musician, the pedagogue, the World, or Riddles for Social mother, and the business or professional Science, Mrs. Wessel, Corn- tycoon. The program is here reprinted for muters' Room, Fanning 101. the benefit of those alumnae who may have 10:15 A. M. Critical Conversation on Modern lost or failed to receive one of the recently Architecture. Mr. Winslow mailed folders. Ames, Director of Lyman Allyn Museum, at the Museum, Allyn Saturday, February 24 Place. 9:55 A. M. Chapel. Announcement of II :45 A. M. Conference: Connecticut Col- Winthrop Scholars by Presi- lege Poetry, Past and Present, dent Blunt. Mr. Kip, Commuters' Room, 10: I 5 1\. M. Meeting of all Winthrop Fanning Jar. Scholars in the Palmer Memo- r I :45 A. M. Conference: Archaeology and rial Room of the Library. the Present. Miss Nye, Presi- 2:00 P. M. Alumnae-Senior Bas k e t b a \1 dent's Office, Fanning 20I.
Game. 1:30 P. M. Luncheon for Alumnae and 4 to 6 P. M. President Blunt's Tea in Wind- Faculty at Thames Hall. Speak- ham House for Alumnae, ers: Miss Blunt, Mrs. Milligan, Faculty, Seniors, and Juniors. Miss Moss, and Miss Gloria Music by Mr. Bauer and Miss Hollister. Vocal solos by Miss Skilton. Marion Nichols. Mr. Bauer at 6:00 P. "M. Class dinners, arranged by the the piano. classes. 7:00 P. M. College Vesper Service at the 8:30 P. M. Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience" Gymnasium. Speaker, Dean presented by the Glee Club Willard L. Sperry, Theological under the direction of Mr. Weld. School of Harvard University. r Connecticut College ...Alumnae News
New Developments Placement of College Women Alice Ramsay '23, director of the Personnel Through two very important happenings Bureau, recently attended the Personnel Con- at Connecticut the idea that the intellectual ference for College Women held in New York development of a college should go hand in hand with its physical development is being at the American Women's Association. The main theme of the conference was "How Can carried out. Business and the College Get Together More Recognized by Phi Beta Kappa Effectively for the Guidance of College Connecticut College has been officially Women?" Field trips for the personnel execu- recommended for the establishment of a tives were arranged to publishing houses, chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and it is expected advertising concerns, banks, broadcasting that the charter will be granted in September. studios, department stores, food institutes, and A disappointment to many of the alumnae business offices. The conference was con- who are Winthrop Scholars is the positive fact sidered extremely important because for the that election to the national society will not be first time personnel directors and business retroactive for them. However, three alumnae executives were able to discuss together the will be elected every year on the basis of aca- problems of placing and employing young demic scholarly achievement after graduation. college graduates. As an illustration of the last-mentioned policy President Blunt points out that Dr. Botsford Reports from '933 of the faculty has been admitted to the Mt. Reports received so far in the personnel Holyoke College chapter as an al umna office indicate a reasonably satisfying measure member. of success on the part of 193'3 graduates in Presented with a Harkness Dormitory obtaining employment. Ninety-five out of a Mrs. Edward S. Harkness of New York and class of lIO have reported their situations. Of Goshen is the latest contributor to the physical this number forty-seven have positions and development of the college. She has presented nine are continuing to study, either in grad- Connecticut with the sum of $150,000 for a uate schools of other colleges and universities, new dormitory. or in secretarial and business schools. Nine- The building will be called Mary Harkness teen are teaching, six are in social work, and House and will be located south of Knowlton six in secretarial. Others are working in in accordance with the plan for the architec- laboratories, museums, banks, clinics, depart- tural development of the college in which ment stores, on newspapers, and elsewhere. the Palmer Memorial Library is the center. The plans, which are being drawn by Shreve, Alumni Secretaries Meet Lamb, and Harmon of New York, are re- ported nearing completion. Kathryn Moss '24 attended the meeting of the eastern division of the American Alumni Council which held its annual conference at The Alumnae Register is in the process of Northampton on January 18 and 19, with of- being compiled. There is time for those who ficers of the Smith College Alumnae Associa- have not sent in their new addresses, occupa- tion as hostesses. Executive secretaries of the tions, and names to do so. The Register is an alumni associations of the New England col- expensive publication, and we feel that we leges were present and discussed problems cannot afford to publish inaccurate informa- common to all alumni associations. The tion. Few colleges are publishing registers program was divided into three sections,- this year because of the expense involved. the alumni office, the alumni mag-azine, and �C"-o~n~n:,ec~t'Cic~u,:t--,C,,-,:,ol,:le:Jg~e,--=Jl::::lu,,-m,!,,,n",a,,-e...:'N~e",IV:::' 3
Gloria Hollister' 24. M. A. Research Associate in the Department of Tropical Research and Fellow of the New York Zoological Society, with "Trumps," her prizewinning wire-haired Fox Terrier, who is mascot on the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions and a diver in his own name. Gloria will be the chief speaker at the alumnae luncheon on February 25-
the alumni fund. Needless to say, ways and of an extremely interesting panel discussion means of financing the associations in these on "Should the Federal Government Sub- difficult times were discussed at length. Miss sidize or Control Education in the States?" Mary Higley, secretary of the Mount Holyoke President Woolley of Mount Holyoke, Presi- Alumnae Association, was the director of the dent King of Amherst, Director Sievers of conference. Massachusetts State College, and Mr. Payson At one of the meetings President William Smith, Commissioner of Education ~f Massa- Allan Neilson of Smith College was the leader chusetts, also participated in the discussion. Connecticut College ~lumnae News 4 Mr. Selden-An Appreciation By a Former Student
Among the faculty and administration of life he was the pupil of Howard Pyle, Kenyon Connecticut College there is a small but im- Cox, George Bridgman, F. Louis Mora, portant group of people, the members of Charles H. Woodbury, N. A., Birge Harrison, which are known to every student who has N. A., and Edward Clark Potter, N. A. been in college. This group is composed of "He was associated with the Art Students the people who have been associated with the League from 1907 until 191I. He came to college since 1915, the year of its founding, Connecticut College in 1915, the year in which and for them the alumnae have an especial the college opened. He served successively as affection. They have endured so many dif- instructor, assistant professor, associate profes- ficulties and have been responsible for so many sor, and finally full professor of fine arts." achievements that they have come to seem Mr. Selden the Teacher indispensable to the life of the college, a permanent part of its functioning. The art majors among the alumnae who Me. Selden because of his achievements and have continued to work and study in the field his years of association with the college has have long since learned that Me. Seiden was always been an outstanding member of this extraordinarily versatile. He was not merely small group, and his death will be felt as a a teacher, a designer, or an etcher, a painter in very personal loss to the alumnae. He died oils or water colors. He was all these things- on January 25, after having been ill with an all-round artist. Moreover Mr. Selden pneumonia for only a few days. painted scenery, he designed boats, and sailed them, he built an exquisite model of a Viking An Artist of Outstanding Ability ship as a class mascot. All things things he The New London Day said: "Mr. Selden did with contagious enthusiasm and a degree was recognized as an artist of outstanding of perfection possible only to a cre~tive artist. ability. His paintings have been exhibited by As a teacher Mr. Selden was very successful. the National Academy of Design, the Amer- His technique, which he probably would have ican Water Color Society, the American Fed- denied having, was natural and no doubt eration of Arts, and the Pennsylvania Acad- largely unconscious. Being very sensitive and emy of Fine Arts. His beautiful painting, The somewhat reticent himself, he was always care- Blue Pool, which now hangs over the fireplace ful not to discourage or hurt any of his stu- in the salon of Knowlton house, the gift of the dents. He gauged his criticisms by the ability class of 1932 to the college, won the Charles ar"id experience of the individual students, ex- Noel Flagg prize awarded in 1929 by the plaining to each one only what she could com- Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. prehend and appreciate at the time, but unob- "He was a life member of the American trusively helping her to increase her capacity Water Color Society, a member of the New for appreciation. Frequently he would criti- York Water Color Club, the Lyme Art as- cize a group of paintings by emphasizing only sociation, the Allied Artists of America, the the good points of each study. When he Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, and the finished each student invariably knew the Artists' Fund society. weak points of her work. "Me. Selden studied at Princeton University His method as a teacher was, of course, the after which he went to the Pennsylvania Acad- natural outgrowth of his own characteristics, emy of Fine Arts. At various periods in his (Continued on page 9) ------
Connecticut College Alumnae News Vol. Xl February, 1934 No.2
Published four times a year in November, February, April, and June by the Connecticut College Alumnae Association. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, New London, Conn., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription price, $1.00 per year. Editorial and General Office: Fanning Hall, Connecticut College for Women, New London, Conn. Editor-in-Chic]: Jennie Copeland '29 Business Manager: Mary Crofoot DeGange '27 44 Blackhall Street, New London, Conn. 715 Ocean Avenue, New London, Conn. Managing Editor: Kathryn B. Moss '24 Assistant Editors: Alumnae Office, Fanning Hall Juline Warner Comstock '19 Connecticut College for Women Kathryn Hulbert Hall '20 New London, Conn. Henrietta L. Owens '28
What's In a Name Ever since the college came into being But "Connecticut College for Women has in 1915 on its beautiful hillside above the just attained its female majority," pointed Thames River, it has borne the name of out Time of January I, where a crisp article Connecticut College for Women. For on the Education page states: "Its own some time there has been considerable dis- students and alumnae blush at the 'for cussion of the feasibility of a change in women,' prefer to call their alma mater name; the interest in this direction seems simply Connecticnt College." to have become more pointed of late. That the interest among alumnae goes The strongest argwnent against the pres~ beyond a mere nod of approval is shown ent name is its erroneous implication-that by the fact that two alumnae chapters have the college is a state institution, financed, already voted their desire for a change of maintained, and directed by the state of name. The vote recently taken by the Connecticut. This argument is strength- Providence group was a unanimous one; all ened by the fact that the former Connecti- the Springfield members with the excep- cut State Agricultural College at Storrs has tion of one also voted for a change, in- changed its name to Connecticut State dicating Sykes as their choice. College, resulting in much confusion be- An important development is the request tween the two institutions now bearing the made recently by the Board of Trustees that name of the Nutmeg State. President Blunt appoint a committee to Upon consideration it appears that the consider a change of name. Miss Mary name of Connecticut College for Women Buckley is chairman of a committee includ- was valuable in at least two ways. It served ing Mildred Howard '20, Rosamond Beebe to make known the location of the college. '26, and Dorothy Merrill '35, president of Secondly, it will be remembered that when student government. the college was first projected, the state of For the few of us who prefer to cling to Connecticut had four colleges for men- the old and tried because it is the old and none for women j as the new college was a tried there is the consolation that several pioneer movement, its title fittingly pro- well-known colleges originally bore other claimed that this was to be a college for names. Outstanding among these are women. Goucher, once called the Women's College
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of Baltimore City, and Duke University, of the college for an individual and him- once known as Trinity College. self suggested Connecticut College for There comes up, of course, the all- Women. The possible name of Thames important question: What will be the new College seems to have many followers. 10 name? Among the names suggested at this connection it is interesting to note that various times have been Winthrop, Plant, the college was incorporated in April 191I and Thames. The objection to Winthrop under the name of Thames College, bur is that a college in South Carolina has had that after a few months the trustees decided that name for 48 years. As for Plant- to change that name to the present one, there is the fact that the late Morton F. What's in a name? Enough to think Plant was strongly opposed to the naming about, certainly.
Windham House
"A place in which to stretch one's mind"
Connecticut College places emphasis on a fun, a place for the thoughtful solitude that satisfactory community life at college in its gives serenity and keeps one in touch with new dormitory, Windham House, which was one's sources of inspiration. It is, in short, formally opened this year. The building, the a place to make happy and worthy members gift of the people of Windham County, Con- of the college community and of the com- necticut, is one of the most beautiful on the munities to which they will go. campus and provides a new center for the "Windham House helps attain the ideal social life of the college. with its living rooms filled with beauty and Speaking at the dedication exercises, Presi- comfort where the students can enjoy meeting dent Katharine Blunt said, "An ideal dormi- with each other and with outside friends, tory is a place in which to stretch one's mind young and old; with its colorful and quiet and help it to grow by long hours of reading dining room for friendly association three and thinking and by stimulating talk with times a day; with its games in the game room, congenial friends. It is a place to make friend- books, piano, victrola, radio; its students' ships that will last, with a basis of common rooms, singles and suites where they can be thoughts and experiences, with generous give sociable or alone, can work or play; and its and take. It is a place for play and happy sunshine, color, lovely views, shrubs and trees."
-+ ConnecticutCollege ~lumnae News 7 A Day In a Library By Olivia Johnson '24
FEW YEARS AGO a magazine article Every Saturday, also, three generations of A appeared which greatly annoyed the the Brown family arrive. Grandpa Brown is library profession. It drew a picture of incredibly thin and wobbly, a perfect stage libraries and librarians as they were a genera~ type of a little old man. He shuffles and brings tion ago, perhaps, while seeming to describe himself together with a sort of click before he things of the present. Indignant retorts sprang is able to speak at the desk. He likes to read into print from many champions in the field biography, but it must be just the right sort. who were eager to correct the false impres- Grandma is devoted to Louise Jordan Miln's sions which they felt had been created. There Chinese stories, and Father must have a de- are, of course, an ever current series of articles tective that he hasn't read before and super~ on library services and problems of all kinds vise young Betty's selection from the children's published in our professional periodicals, but department. Betty is fat and more than a 1 do not recall any simple picture of a small little clumsy. She loves to skip the length general library in action today. I hardly dare of the center rug, her long flaxen curls to believe that Iam attempting something new bobbing from under the fussy pink hat, under the sun, but at least I have the strong Many the Types Who Enter hope that my subject is not hackneyed. Meanwhile arrives one of our sophisticates, The "incorporated village" of Glendale, as his Columbia graduation hardly yet cool in his you may guess by the phrase, is located in the mind. He wears dirty white flannels and state of New York, but you will not find it seldom condescends to a tie. Union Square under that name on any map. It lies in the he pronounces "utterly banal, a sentimental midst of beautiful country, largely given over collection of Saturday Evening Post stories." to farming, and looks off to the mountains. "And imagine," he says, "having anything so The charm of outlook has attracted several stupid as a young man drinking himself to wealthy families to build beautiful estates on death over a girl. I happen to know the the surrounding hills. original, and it was hashish he was taking, It Stands on Main Street to stimulate his literary style." The library was erected as a memorial, but I manage not to be overwhelmed by this gives free service to all residents. It is styled and maintain an expressionless face while I like a small Greek temple and stands on Main look for Margaret Pedlar for an old lady who Street a few blocks above the bank. There is likes sweet love stories and thinks that most but one large room, containing the stacks, the modern novels are not at all improving. reading tables and the charging desk, which "Why, really, you know, mothers don't have faces the front door and is backed by a fire- to tell their daughters anything nowadays [" place and an imposing oil portrait. The A Scandinavian gardener wants to find the reference books are grouped at the back, and novels of Bjornson and Sigrid Undset, so I the Children's Corner is near the front door. indicate how the stacks run from B to U, and Here a twelve-inch Pinocchio swings his cross over to collect the rental from one of wooden heels from the top of a bookcase and the rotogravure young ladies from an estate surveys all comers. Regularly every Saturday who doesn't feel that Pull Devil, Pull Baker a very small boy greets him with pleasure and was worth the money, and I agree with her. explains to his parents, "The clown is look- The parson slips into the magazine corner ing at me." for his weekly look at The New YO'l'ker.
.. Connuticut College ...Alumnae 'News
A Character from an English Nooel and she never sends any suggestions or com- ments, so that it is more or less a running Suddenly a great voice booms from the doorway, "Where is Miss Scott?" I answer broad jump to select for her. All I ever hear gently that she is away on her vacation and is, "Oh, she liked 'em all right. You seem ask if I can render any service. "No, no, but to have good luck about not getting one she's tell Miss Scott that I consider it a personal read." It gives me an odd amusement to sup- affront for her to be away when I come to the ply the mental diet for someone known to me library." Here is a woman who is the actual only in imagination. embodiment of some character in an English Here is a man who wants books on rock novel. Her Turn of the Century costume is gardens so that he can make one which perfect in every detail-large white georgette "won't look like a dog's grave," and a woman hat with flat crown and shirred brim; a green who'd like a book on navigation. In this figured dress,closefitted to a yoke,with elbow small inland town that interest is so unusual sleeves,the skirt long and full, cut in gores, that I am baffled, for our collection has no gathers in the back and ruffies at the hem, books on the subject. Then I remember the below which appear stout laced brown boots. almost infallible Britannica and find a long She keeps the town in talk whenever she article full of sextants and mathematical appears. formulae sprinkled with Greek signs, and we A mother and daughter come in with a are both happy. schoollist, and we talk over the titles, hoping The End of a Day to have the selection prove a pleasure instead The closing hour begins to strike, simul- of a task made irksome because it is required taneously with the arrival of a precise little reading. The girl's unspoiled spontaneity man who announces, "Your clock is fast;" heightens her unconscious charm. and he refutes the deep strokes with the face Tony and Angelina and Assunta lay down their two books each and trot off for new of his watch, which gives him three minutes ones. Not a day passes without their vi-sitto grace. "I've just travelled six thousand miles the library, and choosing never takes long. with this watch, and it varied only ten sec" onds." I congratulate him on its wonderful "Sounds Pallid" accuracy, and privately puzzle on the prob- A voice from a black bundle seated by the lem of how he adapted himself to the chang- New Book shelves announces, "I haven't my ing time belts for so much travel. glasses. Will you read me these titles?" But the present problem is a book for the Book by book and shelf by shelf she takes week-end. A long, barren Sunday looms them down and says, "Now tell me about ahead. He turns down several suggestions, this one," and I struggle'to convey by a very dismisses biography, despises detectives. brief sketch what each is like. "Sounds Finally he asks, "What's this Pageant?" pallid," she condemns. "I can't bear Deeping. "Oh, it's laid in Tasmania, historical. One I don't want any more Galsworthy. I hate of ,;hose stories of the generations," I say. sea stories." Finally she is willing to risk A story of degeneration?" he quizzes. The House of Exile and As the Earth TU1"nS "So many of 'em are, nowadays." on my recommendation, but I feel she will "No," I reassure him, "these all managed show me no mercy if they happen not to to stay pretty decent." suit her. "Well, I guess I'll try it." And I am free I see our familia~ old man standing meekly to lock the doors and put out all the lights by the desk. He IS the gardener on one of except at the desk. Only the routine of cir- the estates,and every week he takes two books culation count, cash, statistical entries date for the waitress. I have never seen the girl changes remain to complete another d:y. Connecticut College ..Alumnae News 9 From An Alumna Trustee By Jeannette Sperry Slocum '22
My three years as an Alumna Trustee were cern financially. A nice balance that to main- most pleasant for me and all too brief. U n~ tain!
I fortunately I was cheated out of the first year Efforts of Board of Trustees by "an act of God," for my second son was In my term of office the depression grew born in the middle of that year, and I was into the undreamed-of monster that it was able to attend only the opening meeting in destined to be and from which every college the fall. In those days Alumnae Trustees suffered. Connecticut held its head above were curiosities at Connecticut. I was the water because of the efforts of the wise and third, Julia Warner and Esther Batchelder hard working men and women on the Board having been the first two. I enjoyed my ap- of Trustees. I have a pigeon-hole in my desk prenticeship with them, and learned much full of the reports of all the meetings of the from them. Just as I felt that I dared speak Board of Trustees of Connecticut College from up in meeting my term was over. But there 1930 to 1933. But they don't tell what I got are advantages in being shy, for I did an un- out of those meetings. And perhaps I can't usual amount of listening, and thereby learned tell you myself in so many words. Then you more no doubt that if I had dared voice my will think I have failed you, the members of opinion. What the other trustees have gained the Alumnae Association, whose representa- from having Alumnae Trustees among them tive I was. But I was only one in a series of I cannot say, but I can speak for myself. Alumnae Trustees, and it is the whole long Another Side of College Life line of them through the years which is going I learned a great deal about another side to serve as the strong link between the Col- of the life of the College. It was like seeing lege administrators and the members of the the inside of a machine at work, or going Alumnae Association. Alumnae Trustees back stage, or entering the door marked "Em- are new beings with us and so have only just ployees Only." During my four years at Col- begun to unfold their wings. Those wings lege I had seen college life from only one were barely sprouting when I served, but with angle-a narrow sort of view it was-so that each succeeding alumna who becomes a Trus. my horizon was immeasurably enlarged when tee strength grows and before long the wings I became a member of the Board of Trustees. will be strong, and to be relied upon. Perhaps I was slow in maturing mentally, in seeing the broader horizon. Probably I was Mr. Selden-An Appreciation influenced by the naive age in which I was (Continued from page 4) an undergraduate, 1918-1922, when "Daddy and perhaps his outstanding characteristic was Long Legs" was still remembered as one of his generosity. He had achieved a brilliant the books enjoyed when one was sixteen. I technique as a water colorist, but he gladly had thought no more about the Trustees and taught his students points in water color their work than had Judy Abbott in that tale, technique which he had learned only after a and J was surprised to find them a group of period of years. Not only could he paint him- intelligent, sincere men and women, working self, but he had the ability and the desire to hard for the college in a fuller, broader sense teach others to do so. than I had ever dreamed of in my selfish stu- We can only be grateful that we learned dent days. I saw what a problem it is to run to know as students those qualities which a college well, so that it is a real fount of made Mr. Selden an artist, a teacher, and a learning, and at the same time ~ going con- friend. Connecticut College .Alumnae News r 10 ------~ Among the Chapters
New York dustrial conditions in Connecticut and sug. Fannie Hurst was the guest speaker at the gested a number of ways in which the club open forum marking the second general meet- might cooperate with the League. ing of this chapter at the Pan Hellenic Club Dorothy Cannon '26 of New York will be on January 13. About 80 people attended, the speaker at the February meeting, when including a few guests and Mrs. Milligan. her subject will be publishing. It was voted to have a benefit performance Plans are being made for a tea during the for "Mary of Scotland" for the evening of spring vacation for the Waterbury students
February 2, when students might have the now at C. C. opportunity to attend between semesters. The officers of this chapter are Katherine A very successful supper dance was held Colgrave '26, president; Harriet Stone Warner in the private ballroom at the Park Lane the '26, vice-president; Rosemary Condon, ex-'27, evening of November 10, with about 400 secretary; and Gertrude Traurig '22, treasurer. people in attendance. Music was furnished by Others who have so far joined the club or Pancho and his Central Park Casino orchestra. signified their intention of doing so are Arvilla Vivien Mader '23 entertained with some of Hotchkiss Titterington '20; Hannah Sachs, her exquisite Hawaiian dancing. Katherine Stone, Margaret North of '23; Dora The executive committee hope to make the Milenky '25; Catharine Dauchy '26; Annice affair an annual one, as results were gratify- Clark '27; Marion Pierpont and Eleanor ing, both for pleasure and for revenue. Penney Herbst '28; Bertha Moskowitz '30; and Helen Peasley '33. Cleveland Besides Waterbury the members hail from A dance was held on December 22 for the Naugatuck, Southbury, Middlebury, Water- purpose of raising money for the scholarship town, and Washington. fund and the club treasury. The committee consisted of Lucille Cain '33, chairman; Ruth Springfield Judd '32, Josephine Lincoln Morris '31, Mary Twelve people attended the meeting which
Sherman, eX-'32, Mary Newcomb, eX-'32, Jane was held on December 10 at the home of Griswold '33, and Margaret Sterling Werntz Dorothy Stelle Stone '20 in Longmeadow. '26. Gertrude Yoerg '32 was elected president, and Attended by approximately 350 couples, the Hortense Alderman '32 secretary and treas- dance was one of the outstanding social events urer. of the holiday season and was a great success, The second meeting of the year was held both financially and socially. at Gertrude Yoerg's home in Holyoke. More The annual Christmas luncheon-bridge than 20 members attended. Kathryn Moss, given for the undergraduates was held on executive secretary of the Alumnae Associa- December 27. The committee in charge was tion, was the speaker. . headed by Helen Smith Haldy '29, who was Plans were begun for a bridge to be given assisted by Elizabeth Schroeder '29, and during the spring vacation for students now Mrs. R. G. Myers, ex-'28. at C. C. and for prospective students.
Waterbury New Haven At the last meeting Miss Jeannette Studley, The officers of the New Haven chapter are executive secretary of the Consumers' League Susan Chittenden '27, president; Dorothy in Hartford, gave an interesting talk on in- Wheeler Spaulding '33, secretary; Susan R. COfm~cticutColl~g~ .Alumnae N..~ws II
Wilcox '19, vice-president; Ruth Brown 30, An open meeting is planned for the spring, treasurer; Marie Jester '24, membership; when bridge will be played and a charge made Marion Nichols '32, publicity; and Isabelle to raise money for the Alurnnne Association Bartlett '32, social. fund. A musicale and tea were held at the home Buffala of Professor George E. Nichols of Yale Uni- "We have only four active members now versity on Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, and our going is hard l" reports Mercer Camp with a large attendance. Vocal selections from Stone '30 of the Buffalo chapter. "However, the works of Protheroe, Greig, Massenet, and I am working hard to send girls to C. C. as Mozart were sung by Mrs. George E. Nichols, our major contribution. I have two there as soprano,Marion Nichols '32, soprano; Mildred freshmen, and I have two more prospects for Fagan McAllen '20, contralto. next year. Mr. Bauer of the C. C. faculty played "I am handicapped by the lack of pictures several groups of piano selections, including of the campus and freshmen houses off cam- compositionsby Chopin, Henselt, Moszkowski pus, and I would appreciate some application and Paderewski. blanks. I sound like a high pressure sales- Serving at the tea which followed the man, but I'm beginning to feel like one, too." musicale were Dr. Mary K. Benedict, Mrs. Charles S. Farnum, Mrs. William Bauer,
Marie Jester '24, Susan Wilcox 'T9, and Miss NOTICE TO SECRETARIES AND PUBLICITY Farnum, CHAIRMEN Hartford To insure completeness and accuracy or The officers of this chapter ar; Florence chapter news please send all material for the Silver '21, president; Flora Hine '29, vice- NEWS in finished form to Rosamond Beebe, president; Jane Burger '31, secretary; Augusta 232 Park Street, Montclair, New Jersey. O'Sullivan '22, treasurer; Katherine Russell '30, chairman of entertainment; Dorothy Barrett '30, chairman of publicity; and Mar- ]n ~emoriam gretta Briggs Noble, chairman of membership.
GEORGE S. PALMER, 1855-1934 New London Member of the Board of Trustees, 1918- A dinner at Norwich inn was scheduled for 1921; Chairman, 1921-1931; Honorary the February meeting on the twelfth of the Chairman, ]931-1934. Donor of the month, with Irma Hutzler '19 and Rosa Palmer Memorial Library. Wilcox '19 in charge of arrangements. Presi- dent Blunt and Dr. Henry W. Lawrence will HENRY BELL SELDEN, 1886-1934 beguests, and Loretta Higgins '20 of Norwich will render vocal selections. Instructor in Fine Arts, 1915-1917; Rosamond Beebe '26 was the guest speaker Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, 1917~ at the November supper meeting at the Home 1922; Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Port, giving an interesting talk on her work 1922-1930; Professor of Fine Arts, and contacts at Macmillan's. Dr. J. Lawrence 1930-1934. Erb spoke on "Christmas and Music" at the December meeting held in the faculty room in IRENE BERAN, T901-1933 Fanning. The January meeting was featured Class of 1924. Teacher at Stonington by supper in the faculty room followed by High School, Stonington, Connecticut, a social hour. I2 Connecticut College .Alumnae News
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Compiled by Mr. Cobblcdice Compiled by the Members oi the Department Department of Economics and Sociology at History and Political Science Beard, C. A., and Smith, G. H. E. "The Semple, E. "The Geography of the Mediter- Future Comes." Macmillan, 1933. ranean Region: Its Relation to Ancient His- Lindley, E. K. "The Roosevelt Revolution." tory." Henry Holt, 1932. Viking, 1933. Guerard, A. "French Civilization from its Adams, A. B. "OUf Economic Revolution." Origins to the Close of the Middle Ages." University of Oklahoma Press, 1933. T. Fisher Unwin. Strachey, John. "The Coming Struggle for Roeder, R. "Man of the Renaissance." Vik- Power." Gollancz, 1933. mg, 1933. Cole, G. H. D., and Cole, Margaret. "The Massingham, H. "The Great Victorians." Intelligent Man's Review of Europe." Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1932. Knopf, '933. Trevelyan, George Macaulay. "History of Counts, Villari, Rorty, and Baker. "Belshe- England." Longmans, 1926. vism, Fascism, and Capitalism." Yale Press, Lattimore, O. "Manchuria, Cradle of Con- '932. flict." Macmillan, 1932. Soule, George. "A Planned Society." Mac- Van Darn, H. A. "Twenty Years of the millan, 1932. Chinese Republic." Knopf, 1932. See, Henri. "Modern Capitalism." Adelphi, Harvey, E. "The Mind of China." Harcourt, '928. Brace, 1:932. Tugwell, R. G. "The Industrial Discipline." Townsend, R. "Ways That Are Dark." Columbia University Press, 1933. Putnam, 1933. Epstein, A. "Insecurity, A Challenge to M. and G. D. H. Cole. "Intelligent Man's America." Smith & Haas, 1933. Review of Europe Today." Knopf, 1933. Douglas, Paul, and Director, A. "The Prob- Hindus, M. "The Great Offensive." Harri- lem of Unemployment." Macmillan, 1931; son Smith and Robert Haas, 1933.
The Hemlock Grove in the Arboretum connecticttt College .Alumnae 'News 13 Away from the Hilltop find Billy Williams a guest, too. Ruth Avery '9'9 French and family are living in Portland, Corn:spondent-Grace Cockings, Conn., again. Their address is Bartlett Street 82 Bellevue Avenue, Bristol, Conn. Extension. MARRIED-Frances Otten to Joseph H. Seymour, Seattle, Wash. 2 OTHER NEws-Margaret Maher enjoyed a '9 3 trip abroad this fall. She spent three days Correspondents-Virginia P. Eddy, 35 Otis in Paris, then went to Biarritz, from which Street, Newtonville, Mass.; Edith B. Gold- placeshe motored through the Pyrenees. She berg, 32 Beverly Road, West Hartford, visited the shrine at Lourdes, Carcasonne, Conn.; Helen H. Bunyan, 435 Webster Marseilles, Mentone, Monte Carlo. Another Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. day she drove from Nice to Grenoble. Mar- BORN-To Margaret Morrissey, a third son, garet also visited Geneva, Montreux, Inter- Charles Thomas; to Katherine Francke laken, Lucerne, Mt. Rigi, Lugano, Stresa, Stover, a son, Albert Andrew Stover, III. Milan, Florence, Rome, and Naples. OTHER NEws-our plaintive wails for Carrie Chapman Devine, ex-'I9, lost her news were heard up in the Berkshire foothills youngest.child after a few days illness with and hence a grand note headed Emily Leith- pneumoma. Ross, Spring Hill School, Litchfield, Conn. Dorothy Gray Manion, her husband, son Yes, it's from Plupe, who writes: "We quite Bobby, and Sue Wilcox drove to Bristol in changed our mode of living this year from the Octoberfor a short visit with me. Batch, who haphazard existence of an artist colony to the is teaching in the State of Washington, spent field of progressive education. Bunny, being Christmas with a married friend in Victoria, six, had to start school this year, and there B. C. She came East last summer and on the was no place in Woodstock to send her. The return trip visited the Fair and attended the school is a progressive co-educational boarding American Chemical Society meeting. school for younger children. I am in charge Lucy Marsh Haskell was another visitor at of the home life of the girls, their games and the Fair. While on a trip to New York City recreations. Tony has his studio away from this fall, Lucy saw Margaret Ives in Lord and the school where he works and escapes the in- Taylor's store. Margaret had worked there fernal racket." for several months and told Lucy that Miss There was a very fine portrait of Vivienne Sherer was working in Macy's. Huapala Mader in the New York Times on Florence Lennon Romaine and husband October 8. Vivienne appeared during that attended the American Legion convention in week at the Radio City Music Hall in a series Chicago in October. Evelyn Bitgood Coulter of Hawaiian folk dances-part of a dance cycle and family motored through New Hampshire entitled "Revue de la Danse." and Vermont in the fall.
doubt be attracted by the small estimated re- a year old in November) ar~ enjoying the union tax. Effective costumes are being de. pastoral scenery of Rocky HIll, near Hart- signed by Constance Bridges at an attractive ford in a house built by Sally's great-great- minimum. grea't-grandfather in 180+ . .. . Will you please send to Helen North as soon Mary Dunning McConnell IS l:vmg III Ox- as possible a comparatively recent snapshot of ford, Ohio, where her husband IS a student- yourself taken alone or with the family? It pastor at some school. . must be a glossy print suitable for reproduc- Jakie Savini sort of pops III and pops out tion. This is not for the Alumnae News. after a flying hello, which tells absolutely no The class of 1924 extends its deep sympathy news of herself. to the family of Irene Beran, whose d~ath came on December 10; to Peggy Shelton Bm?- 2 loss whose mother was killed by a truck 10 '9 9 Bridgeport in December; and to Pegg? C.all Correspondent-Muriel S. Kendrick, whose brother Ben died in October with in- 115 Bellevue Street, Newton, Mass. fantile paralysis. BORN-To Ernestine Mitchell Wheeler, eX~'29, a son, John Mitchell Whiteway Wheeler, on December 28. 1925 OTHER NEws-Mary Slayter is living at Correspondent--Grace Demarest Wright, Pat Hine's this winter and has been placed at [225 Park Avenue, New York City. the Hartley Salmon Clinic in Hartford for Marion Barnett has been in Worcester for training experience toward her M. S. S. from the past year as supervisor for the Associate:! Smith College School for Social Work. Fat Charities. She writes that Elsa Deckleman IS Hine and Betty Kane are still working elbow a new arrival in that city. to elbow at the Life Insurance Sales Research Helen Brown Elliott's arrival in New York, Bureau in Hartford. with her husband on a four-month leave of Smudge Gave, ex-tac, is secretary to a absence from the Philippine Islands, has been Brockton lawyer. This fall she won a golf the occasion for many parties for members of championship at the Brockton Country Club our class. Phyllis [ayme gave a luncheon in and now is spending much of her free time Bronxville for Brownie in January; Olive at bowling. Hulbert, Peg Meredith Littlefield, Verna Speedro Greer has been made head of the Kelsey Marsh, Helen Nichols Foster, Kay non-executive employment department at Meinecke Crawford, and Charlotte Beckwith Bloomingdale's. We assume she spends her Crane were present. At a tea at Verna Kelsey days firing and hiring. Marsh's in Rahway were Brownie, Spuddie Zeke Speirs studied landscape architecture Ward, Jackie Albree Houston, Jeannette Me- at Cornell during the summer. This winter Croddan, Olga Gennert Greene, Phylis [ayme, she is back with the Personnel Department at Kay Meinecke Crawford, and Helen Nichols Yale. As a side line she is attending a class Foster. The last party for Brownie before she in charcoal drawing. We understand that left for the coast to sail was a small luncheon "doing feet" is her specialty. given by your correspondent. Helen Reynolds continues at Sloane's; she ~ -<$> winter, where her father is engaged In some- Penna., and teaching physics in the evening thing governmental. Frankie Tillinghast's high school. husband is studying at the Yale Graduate Mary Read is tutoring and taking secre- School, and Frankie has a job in New tarial work in Pittsburgh, Penna. Alice Coy Haven. Schwenk and family (one darling daughter) have been in California all winter but are returning East this spring. 0 '93 Evelyn Watt has been made secretary to Correspondent-Jane Murphy, the head of the Yonkers library. Yvonne 89 West Street, Danbury, Conn. Cairns was in Philadelphia last spring with ENGAGED---Betty McCusker to Addison the Hedgerow Theater, but latest reports are White of East Orange, N. J.; Jackie Kanehl of a business course in New York. to David [effre, class of 1920 Yale. o MARRIED-----Louise Pretzinger to John L. OTHER NEws-Muriel Scholsberg is a social Pemberton on November 4; address-c-adf worker with the City Mission Society of New Oriole Parkway, Toronto, Canada; Jean York in the Harlem branch and says she loves Myers to Andrew Verdin on October 12; the work. She expects to be married within address-c-rop Lewis Parkway, Yonkers, N. Y.; the year. Edith Graff to Chester Latowell on October 7; address-4oY2 Brookfield Road, Upper Mont- The editors regret greatly that because clair, N. J.; Sheila Hartwell to Harlan Taft of a decreased budget this issue must be Moses on October 22. limited in size and that the class notes BORN-To Mary McCook Stokes, eX~'33, a could not all be included. Only the class daughter, Mary C., on September 20; to Eleanor Robbins Smith, ex-'33, a son, Robert material arriving on and before the Montgomery, on December 5. deadline could be published. The Book Bargain of the rear The Cambridge History of English Literature 15 volumes, formerly $56, now $20 The Cambridge History of American Literature 4 volumes, formerly $r8, now $4 THE COLLEGE JBOOKSHOP THE MOHICAN HOTEL at NEW LONDON, CONN. FRANK B. WALKER, Mgr. Where Sound and Ocean Meet 300 ROOMS AND BATHS RESTAURANT CAFETERIA BEAUTY SHOP BALLROOMS PARKING SPACE UNSURPASSED for CONVENTIONS and SOCIAL AFFAIRS ALL THE YEAR 'ROUND COMFORT and SERVICE SPECIAL RATES TO PERMANENT GUESTS f Sometking OYortk (Jrowing Gf60ut Today when everybody is stretching every dollar as far as they can, no wonder they crow after discovering our hotel values. They've settled the question of where to stay in New York. And here's why. OUf rooms are most comfortable and our rates are most moderate. 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