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Connecticut College Alumnae News
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KATHRYN MOSS '24 MAY NELSON '38 Admissions Office, Connecticut College Alumnae Office, Fanning Hall Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut THELMA GILKES '39 Palmer Library, Connecticut College Assistant Editors
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Exec~tive Secretary and Editor of Alumnae News Chairman of Nominating Committee KATHRYN MOSS '24 MRS. CHARLES THORNTON (Edith Thornton '36) Alumnae Office, Connecticut College 210 East 77th Street, New York, New York New London, Connecticut
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
Volume XVIII NOVEMBER, 1949 Number 1 SCIENCE IN A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE
By DOROTHY RICHARDSON, Chairman of tbe Department of Zoology
This subject with which I have been presented could be It is proper that the general course should be criticized considered in a number of ways. A survey might be made by the general student as well as by the scientist, and un- of present methods of teaching science in liberal arts cur- less we believe primarily in early specialization it is fitting ricula. This kind of study is valuable and has been done that the introductory courses in a liberal arts college be recently by various groups in the whole field of education planned not first as an introduction to the major, but first in America. Or a summary might be given of discussion as an introduction to the field for the student who will of general science courses in Doe particular college over a make her knowledge gained therein not part of her career number of years. This is also of value but would perhaps but only part of her total view of life. My own acquaint- be a little dryas an article for the Alumnae News. I shall ance with zoology was through a professor who contended choose a third way out of the many approaches one might that among other advantages the study of biology helps us take, and write informally from my own experience as an to be less lonesome in the universe. Certainly, the proper alumna of a liberal arts college, and from my thinking as study of any field may achieve that end. The humanities, a teacher of Zoology for more than twenty years, lately as with their overwhelming revelations of man's thought and a member of the science faculty of Connecticut College. achievement give one a sense of kinship and a feeling of When the careers of most of my colleagues and contem- pride and joy in belonging to the world of man. But the poraries were beginning, it is doubtful if any of us were study of the natural world we live in should be as real and so self-conscious about what we were getting or what we vivid and meaningful to us as the world of ideas. It should wanted from our courses as we are now, or as students are have its share in engendering the "reverence for life" of now. We were aware that some courses were vivid and which Albert Schweizer writes. Actually, the field of sci- memorable, others not. If asked for reasons, we could ence has both worlds to present. have found some valid ones, but it was the rare student or This last point is no doubt pact of the difficulty. The even teacher who questioned the established course patterns faculties of the humanities often call for presentation of very vigorously. Yet I realize now, and some of my gen- science more in the form of history or philosophy than its eration have told me of similar post-graduate conclusions, usual present form which emphasizes scientific method and that the contrast between courses designed with all students investigation of the physical nature of life. Relative im- in mind and those planned chiefly for the major student portance for the former viewpoint cannot be denied, nor was clear and even appreciated, albeit somewhat uncon- can it be denied that this aspect has been often slighted if sciously, twenty-five years ago. The science course which not grossly neglected in science courses. The average a student was eager to take in addition to the regular re- student may thus become the layman of science who con- quirements, and from which he or she could draw experi- tinues the misapprehension of the "man of the street" up ence, knowledge and values later in adult life, was not to the present era. Science has been regarded by this man the orthodox introductory course as a rule, but a course as something incontestable and incontrovertible. He forgets which had been vitalized by some professor's peculiar or does not know that it is but another of the pursuits of energy and creative ideas. It was a course in which science human beings, and one kind of search for the riddles of was shown to have relation to other parts of one's life, to existence. He minimizes this role, man's search for under- be valuable aid in learning to think and in understanding standing of his own world, and elevates scientific discovery the world and much that was in it including ourselves. into a sort of god, or at least dogma. It is this latter
T'H R E E zun, author of Teacher in America, and A. B. Garrett, pro- fessor of chemistry at Ohio State University, apparently agreed that the plan and content of a beginning Course may be varied indeed, provided that such a COurse be taught by the best teachers available for it in the depart- ment, and by those who have a deep and genuine concern for the success of the course, and a comprehension of the way in which the sciences, equally with the humanities and the social sciences, are a vital part of general education. To quote from Baraun, in a resume in the Proceedinys of tbc American Conference 01 Academic Deans, January, 1949, remedies lie easily to our hand. After '\ie have enumerated our new intellectual and emotional goals, by means of the usual academic committee, we can take a variety of steps for presenting to the younger generation a desirable view of the scientific enterprise. No one system or syllabus seems absolutely superior to the rest. We can Min Richardson, right; Min Tho?nJ01/and Mr, Goodwin use the history of science; we can study principles and of Botany Department philosophic assumptions; we can have discussion groups working upon an integrated series of problems; we can do delusion which has accounted for some of the reaction and we ought to do whatever OUf local resources seem to against the study and achievement of science which we offer as soundest and least disturbing to our previous hab- began to observe in the last decade. Already scientists its." "But," he goes on to say, "that we must do something themselves have realized the danger of this, I believe. If and do it fast seems at this point beyond argument." Do i they have, then a changed attitude within the ranks of the the liberal arts colleges agree with this? Do most of them scientists themselves may well shift the direction or feel that revitalization has already taken place? Or do they emphases of teaching in th~ general courses, aided con- feel there is really no such ground for criticism? cretely by the suggestions and discussions which have abounded in the field of education since the war. Both men seem to agree that science should be taught accompanied by laboratory experiments as well as by lec- There is little need for concern at Connecticut College ture, demonstration and discussion. The extreme view of that students specializing in the sciences will become nar- a lecturer from a nearby university that scientific studies row and one-sided. Science instructors seem to concur should be completed for the liberal- arts student at the end with the students' desire for a fairly wide spread of elec- of the high school period, taught largely by the movies and tives. On the other hand, the science requirement is well similar visual aids, would surely be discarded by al! bal- supported by faculty members in the non-scientific disci- anced thinking as a way as effective as the old "ivory lab" plines. Whatever problem may exist does not lie here method, of giving the layman a dangerously distorted view but in the nature of the courses themselves. Everywhere of science. I am speaking of the beginning courses. The advanced Professor Garrett is more specific on several points. In courses, on the whole, meet the needs of the majors well addition to evaluating man's place in nature, he points out for a college of this size, judging by the reactions and per- the importance of the students' grasping both the possibili- formances of the majors themselves after graduation. The ties and the limitations of science, and of gaining an aware- main question at hand is: Does the student who takes only ness of the impact of scientific development upon our civi- the science requirement in college feel, now or later, that lization, at the same time realizing "that the mind that her science courses have enriched her understanding and finds these facts and conceives theories and laws of science appreciation of the world in which she lives, as well as is still greater than the sciences themselves." Perhaps an- helping her to cultivate a scientific approach to controver- other way of expressing this last would be to put it: "Even sial matters? I am sure that there will be divided honest more remarkable to contemplate." opinion here. It is a pity that an instructive study of alum- nae opinion cannot be made. It would be difficult to get All of our lives we are seeking for greater understand- a really significant poll, however. mg. The contemplative spirit is the only one which will get us very far in this endeavor. Other kinds of activity It is worth noting that at last year's Conference of Aca- are also excellent and necessary, but the inner peace which demic Deans, two of the principal speakers, Jacques Bar- we all really desire, depends most of all on thoughtful con- templation of man and his environment in the largest lectual life. Is the student brought to see the essential sense. All basic units of a liberal arts curriculum should nature of the scientific approach? Does she realize that work together toward such a goal. True, the catalogue the scientist must go on searching no matter what he finds, will include courses of a different kind; they should not for such indeed is the fundamental character of Homo overbalance those essential to the above purpose, but they sapiens? Read Dorothy F. Cannon's new "Explorer of the have their own value. Such courses come- with the speciali- Human Brain"; "The Life of Santiago Ramon Y Cajal" zations. It is the rare, almost non-existent liberal arts insti- or Valery-Radot's "Life of Pasteur" as evidence. Or con- tution today which does not to some extent try to prepare sider the life of a contemporary scientist mathematician, its graduates toward entering some profession or vocation. physicist, philosopher-Albert Einstein. It cannot train them to be experts in these lines, nor should In conclusion, a general science course may be organized it attempt to. But the discipline of a major and the moti- in a variety of ways. It can be very general in its con- vation of a practical purpose have their own very real tent, and include a large number of items. Great care must value in education. then be taken to avoid superficiality. Organization is the At the same time, the major student herself would profit secret here as it is for that matter in a different scheme in from an introductory course which is broader and which which there is very special and limited selection of topics. stresses general significance more consistently than many A good many advocates of present-day education in science such courses have in the past. favor a course which overlaps several fields. This would Let us scrutinize as thoroughly as we can our liberal ordinarily show relationships better than a departmental "core". And since here we are considering the science course. Nevertheless a course given by one or at most two division in particular, let me, because I am a zoologist, departments can make dear a similar picture of relation- concentrate on biology, which I know best, merely as a ships, provided the instructor has himseJf the background sample of self-criticism to be practiced, and of certain aims to enable him to impart such information. At least a which might well be kept in sight. Do we make the living glimpse into the boundaries of the once rather rigidly cir- world, our main environment after all, truly "come alive?" cumscribed divisions of science is imperative today, if the Do we present as. clear a picture as we can in the time we student is to have even a hint of what is going on in the have of what this world means to man? Do we show how one-time "no man's land" of physics, chemistry and biol- we can regard the multitudinous life around us so that ogy. There lie the keys to the now much-publicized inves- order comes into it, and apparent plan, and natural law? tigations of anti biotics, immunology, hormone physiology, Do we convey the miraculous nature of infinite detail, re- the behavior of the blood, the mechanism of heredity, to peated over countless ages according to established pat- pick just a few outstanding instances. terns? Do we get across to the student the remarkable If relationships to be considered at any length are even equilibrium maintained in all forms in the physical uni- broader, then a special course would have to be devised, verse, including ourselves? And at the same time the like one now being experimented with at Goucher College: continual shift and changes that occur imperceptibly but "The Methods and Nature of Science". This, to quote their unmistakably? Do they appreciate the continuity between Alumnae Quarterly for the summer of 1949, "represents the phenomena of physics and chemistry and those of biol- a cooperative effort on the part of various scientific depart- ogy' And do they ponder when they study any living ments, the Philosophy, History, English and Economics organism, a total individual, be it ameba, honeybee or man, Departments to bring students to an understanding of sci- that the whole is in bewildering measure greater than the ence as a force in the social, political, economic, cultural sum of all its parts? There resides the unsolved mystery and religious development of mankind. Beginning with of life, so far as the scientist as scientist is concerned. The an historical approach, the course then shifts emphasis to biologist must attack this question in an almost infinite selected case histories and finally to an inquiry into the variety of ways, and each small step must be repeated, con- interrelationships of the sciences and other human activi- trolled, tested, verified, hundreds of times before it can be ties." This experiment will be an interesting one to watch. added to established hypothesis. This does not make the Naturally, it will not take the place of an introductory scientist the drudge of the hive, however. His hypotheses science course. Meanwhile, considerable advance and im-, can be as creative and as far-reaching as ideas in any field. provement within our own present framework can be made, His method may be different, but in its highest manifesta- provided alertness is the watchword, and continual thought tions, his ingenuity, his passionate desire for the truth, and as to the best way to present our material is sustained. No his courage and determination in the face of adversity and course in science has an excuse for being static or dull. apparently even insoluble problems are demonstrated to be Demanding, yes; but rewarding at the same time it should as great as that of the original thinker in any area of intel- always prove to be! I
FIVE What Do You See In Dogfish and Bugs?
By MARlON L. DRASHER'44
"What do you ever see in dead dogfish and bugs ?" is years spent with. that group were highly profitable ones the query of many of my new acquaintances upon hearing for there I was initiated into the excitement of research and had the thrill of seeing my .first scientific paper in that I am doing graduate work in Zoology. Usually this is print. a purely rhetorical question which I do not attempt to answer except by a weak laugh as though I had just heard About this time came the report from the University of Minnesota that a weed, Litbospennsm rnderale, which had a not-too funny joke and immediately turn the conversation been used by the Indians for many centuries for contra- to the concert series. However, since I have been asked ceptive purposes, would inhibit the estrous cycles of mice. specifically to put down in black and white exactly what I The laboratory became interested in this material in con- do find fascinating in "dead dogfish and bugs" my usual nection with their cancer research program. Dr. Dorothy path of escape is closed and I am forced to admit that this Richardson can testify that my first love was endocrinology is the first time in many years that I have asked myself for she was the .first to encourage me along these lines. that question, and can find no ready answer except the Here in this dusty plant seemed to be a problem with tre- truth which is that I, myself, do not find anything inter- mendous possibilities for a would-be endocrinologist but esting in either dogfish or bugs. I have only a nodding it was not long before I realized that I was sadly lacking acquaintance with the former, acquired mostly from assist- in the necessary knowledge and technical experience to ing in a Comparative Anatomy laboratory, and am singu- pursue it adequately. And so the fall of 1947 found me larly unadept at swinging a butterfly net. heading toward the University of Illinois and the resump- But wait-I am not a zoologist at all in the sense in tion of my graduate work-this time in the department of which many of you think of Zoology, but a biologist, and Physiology. somewhere in that ambiguous category meaning nothing There, as a teaching assistant, I discovered to my horror more than "one who studies living things" I can fit all of that impressing the details of Mammalian Physiology upon my un-zoological activities from days spent hunting along the virgin minds of Freshmen was not as simple as I in railroad tracks for a very special weed to the tall adsorp- my innocence had thought. Between learning how to keep tion columns on my laboratory bench filled with fluids of order in a. laboratory filled with students having their first most unappetizing aroma. Actually that path which led me experience at pithing a frog and coping with a full sched- to my present interests is not as devious as it might appear ule of graduate courses, the problem I had specifically and it may be worthwhile recounting briefly for those of you who wonder how a person ever becomes interested come to do lay forgotten in a never-opened notebook. in the small, specialized area in which he does his research. Rumors of the active group in endocrinology revolving During my last years' at Connecticut College, I was for- about Dr. W. R. Breneman of the Zoology Department tunate in having the opportunity of spending two summers at ~ndiana University began reaching my ears and by the at the Jackson Memorial Laboratory where I learned some spnng of 1948 I had decided to pull up stakes once again of the most important pieces of working information I and move to Indiana. Here I found a most stimulating ever acquired. There, under the patient direction of their and congenial group with every facility made available for experienced staff, I learned to comb the original literature research and graduate students with interests similar to my and to translate my ideas into an actual experiment to test own always ready for a lively discussion of their problems their validity. I also gained a healthy respect for the In such an environment it was not long until the ideas I humble mouse, which I have never stopped using in my had been nursing in the back of my mind for so long work since that .first introduction. Clutching a new Mas- materialized into piles of plant material, a colony of mice, ter's Degree from the University of Wisconsin in my fist, chemical extraction equipment, and a desk filled with mi- in 1945 I plunged blindly into the whirlpool of job-hunt- croscopic slides-and, most satisfying of all, the feeling ing and when I opened my eyes, found myself assistant to that at last something was under way. the physiologist at the Haskins Laboratories in New York At pre.sent t~e intriguing puzzle of Litbospermmn has City with a roomful of mice waiting for me. There the resolved Itself into two phases; first the elucidation of the major current of research was directed along the lines of ~e~h~~ism of its activity, which now appears to be an various problems dealing with malignant growth. The two inhibition of one of the hormones secreted by the pituitary
SIX the immediate field of concentration. Mine happen to be Biochemistry and Physiology and with close cooperation between departments, it is a simple matter to extract course work most important to your interests and needs.
I have dwelt at such length on my own experiences since graduation from Connecticut College, and on some of the details of the graduate program in general, because it seems to me to be a fairly typical "case history" which might serve to give those of you who are students in Zoology at Connecticut now or are considering it in the near future, or perhaps those of you who are just plain curious, an idea of what you may expect if you choose a career in Zoology.
In the past years Zoology has undergone profound modi- fications which have changed it from a static, observational field into one of the most exciting and dynamic fields fOi experimental investigation, a fact which is sometimes un- apparent to the beginning student who finds the drawing and redrawing of the entrails of animals, the memorization , of classification schemes, and the use of new and peculiar Marton Dr asher at work equipment uninteresting and dull. But it is these semes- ters of observation and dissection which later make it pos- or "master gland", and second, a search for the chemical sible to operate on and observe experimental. animals, examine tissues for aberrancies, and perform other "rou- substance responsible for this physiological activity. tine" tasks of investigation which become second nature, But life of the graduate student in biology is not all -to such an extent that we are inclined to forget where sweet ambrosia and intellectual discussions for although it they were first learned.
has been said that we do not Jive by bread alone, we cer- I feel impelled to remind those of you who may now tainly do not live without it S EVE N CAROLA LEONIE ERNST At Connecticut College Since 1916 which lifts them and carries them, even in the midst of their task, above and beyond all that is petty, wearisome, and routine. She communicated to generations of her stu- dents and to many fortunate colleagues something of the high adventure of her own search for knowledge and un- derstanding. Those who had the fortitude and the faith to follo~ her where the path was difficult, or strange, could share with her glimpses of landscape they might never have seen, but [or her. All those who knew her - students and faculty alike- were aware of an integrity, of an intellectual and moral rectitude which made compromise impossible in first things, and difficult even in lesser ones. One was always MiS! Ernst and Dealt Nye sure that her words were a clear reflex ion of her convic- tions. Miss Carola Ernst, Chairman of the Department of European in mentality and in education, Miss Ernst French and a member of the Faculty of Connecticut Col- served the College community for many years as a line of lege since 1916, died on September 24 at her home on communication with European thought, not only during Williams Street, New London. the years when she regularly spent her summers in Europe, but up to the last days of her life when one could find on For many alumnae, Miss Ernst epitomized the great im- the desk of her study the latest books and periodicals from portance and genuine excitement of learning. Never the Europe, with their pages waiting to be cut. cloistered scholar, she also represented to many the cosmo- politanism of scholarship. A student in describing her to The years of her life fell within an epoch of world a friend once said, "she is a worldly woman," and indeed catastrophes. In a time when young and old feel the need she gave to all who knew her a sense of the kinship of all of turning for help to those who have found enduring students. values in the general chaos, we of Connecticut College have, indeed, been blessed to have had on our campus for Miss Ernst, a native of Charleroi, first came to the Col- a period of thirty-four years a great-souled teacher and lege in 1915 'on a lecture tour for the Belgian government. friend who knew so well how to distinguish between what President Sykes asked her to remain as a member of the is mediocre and what is great, between what is transitory faculty and in 1916 she accepted the invitation and remain- and what is eternaL ed a member of the faculty until her death. A permanent memorial for Miss Ernst is planned and a The memorial note read into the minutes of the Faculty Fund has already been started, details of which will be Meeting on October 4, 1949, is printed below: made known to alumnae later. In the death of Carola Ernst, Connecticut College has lost a gifted teacher. She was one of those who "gladly A memorial service was held in Harkness Chapel on the teach", who teach with all their being, and with a joy campus on Sunday afternoon, November 6 at 2:30 o'clock. E 1 G H T Mr. Francis A. Widdis, visiting assistant professor of music, was the conductor of the Yale Freshman Glee Club, 1946-49, after various musical positions throughout the country. Along with teaching various classes, he is con- ON CAMPUS ducting the choir while Mr. Quimby is away on a leave of absence. Two alumnae are new members of the Connecticut Col- There are several other new additions to the English lege Board of Trustees. department. Mr. Kenneth Lewars, instructor in English, Eleanor Jones Heilman, '33, was elected Alumnae Trus- comes from Columbia, where he was a lecturer in English. tee for the term 1949-54. Mrs. Heilman, who lives in Mrs. Mabel C. Donnelly is a part-time instructor in Eng- Villanova, Pennsylvania, is a former President of the Alum- lish. nae Association and is an active and long-time member of Mr. W, Eugene Ferguson is an instructor in mathematics. the Philadelphia Club. He was assistant in mathematics at Yale from 1947-~949. Helen Lehman Buttenwieser, ex '27, a graduate of the Eleanor B. Penfield is also new to the math department School of Law of New York University, was appointed in She is a graduate of CC, class of 1948 and received her June to regular membership on the Board of Trustees. M.A, at the University of Michigan in 1949. Mrs. Buttenwieser is a practicing lawyer in New York and Mrs. Priscilla F. Bok is part-time lecturer in astronomy. is a member of the Connecticut College Club of New York. She was recently a tutor at Radcliffe College. Coming from --0-- Northwestern, where she was teaching assistant is Miss As the 1949-50 years open, the faculty at Connecticut Frances E. Eshbach, Miss Eshbach is an instructor in phy- College includes seventeen new members in eleven depart- sics. Mr. Glen L Kolb is a new instructor in Spanish, His ments. Mr. Randall Stewart has come to take over the latest position was that of instructor in Spanish and French American Literature Seminar, which was given for thirty at the University of Michigan, Miss Madeline R. Somers, years by Mr. Gerard E. Jensen. Mr. Stewart is, at the pres- instructor in physical education is 'a Smith graduate. She ent time, the chairman of the Department of English at spent three years in the WAVES and taught at the Woods Brown University. School in Langham, Pa. Another new member of the English department is Mr. Another graduate of Connecticut College is Harriet War- Jay W. McCormick. He was previously assistant professor ner. She comes from the Department of Education and of English at Wayne University. He is also author of two Child Study at Smith to be instructor in home economics novels, November Storm and Nightshade. and director of the nursery school. Left to right are Simone Mor.od, Paris, France; Laura T. I Tarquinio, Bahia, Brazil; Mafy Craigie, Sail Francisco del Oro, Chihuhahlta, Mexico; Marianne 111. Kertesz, formerly of Budapest, Hungary; and GUllhild Buumi, Heidelberg, Ger- Eleanor Heilman Helen Beuemoeiser many. NINE Mrs. Marian K. Chamberlain, who is a part-time instruc- tor in economics graduated from Radcliffe and was recently teaching at Albertus Magnus College. A new part-time instructor in the sociology department is Miss Carolyn C. Comings who graduated from Smith and received her M.A. at the University of Connecticut. Miss Rena M. Cotten is part-time assistant in social anthropology. Miss Cotten served as volunteer assistant to the curator at the American Museum of Natural History, 1945-1946_ Miss Charlotte E. Turner, assistant in chemistry, received her B.S. at the Teachers College of Connecticut. The new part-time assist- ant at the nursery school is Mrs. Carolyn S. Clearwaters. Mrs. Clearwaters was previously teacher of home economics at Crawfordsville High School in Crawfordsville, Indiana. -0- The Concert Series for the year includes recitals by the Philadelphia and Boston Symphony Orchestras. A concert by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra will be presented on November 15 with Eugene Ormandy conducting. A concert by Halo Tajo, Bass-Baritone, will be presented Harriet Bassett '51 on January 10. editor of the Lippincott Publishing Company of Philadel- On February 14, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will phia. Recently she has resigned her position with Lippin- return to the campus. Although Mr. Koussevitsky will be cott and is doing Free-lance scientific writing, pamphlets greatly missed, we are indeed fortunate to have the oppor- and brochures, chiefly for pharmaceutical companies. More tunity of hearing the orchestra conducted by Charles important, however, is the fact that she is at present at Munch. work on another book and is under contract for still an- The Series will be concluded with a recital by Alexander other. Borovsky, Pianist, on March 15. --0-- The Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company returned Announcement was made in June of the award of the to the campus in October, this time presenting "The Tam- Alumnae Scholarship to Harriet Louise Bassett of the Class ing of the Shrew" and "Julius Caesar". Last year, Miss of 1951. Harriet is the daughter of Ruth McCollum Bas- Webster staged "Hamlet" and "Macbeth" on the Connecti- sett and the niece of Ella Vahlteich, both of the Class of cut Campus as on many campuses throughout the United 1921. States and Canada. A Child Development Major, Harriet is currently look- --0-- ing forward to a career of nursery or elementary school The Sixth Annual Henry Wells Law nee Memorial teaching. --0-- Lecture was presented on campus on October 26. The speaker was Conyers Read whose topic was "Problems of One of the outstanding new books of the past few Present Day Britain". Mr. Read is President of the Ameri- months is "Explorer of the Human Brain; The Life of can Historical Association, Professor of History at the Uni- Santiago Ramon Y_ Cajal" by Dorothy F_ Cannon, '26_ versity of Pennsylvania, and the author of "Mr. Secretary Dorothy has held several important editorial posts In Wilsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth" and "The various publishing houses, most recently that of medical Tudors". TEN During the war our majors, as well as those from other MISS McKEE REPORTS colleges for women, experienced the joy of being sought out and welcomed with open arms by industrial firms- firms which in prewar days had looked askance at the em- ON CHEMISTRY MAJORS ployment of women in chemical laboratories. During those days few of our department graduates went on with uni- Below are a few notes on present activities in the lab- versity graduate study and practically all went into indus- oratories on the third floor of New London Hall and- trial work in such firms as the American Cyanamide, more important - the past and present accomplishments of Merck, Pfizer, Inter-chemical, General Aniline and Film, Rohm and Haas, etc., etc. So far as we know no Connec- those who have gone out from Connecticut College as ma- ticut College Chemistry major has left such a position ex- jors in Chemistry. The total picture forms a pattern a little cept at her own desire - usually to become a homemaker like that of the structure of the atom, that is, a nucleus Since the war the tendency is again veering toward grad- from which the whole spreads out into space. The alum- nae majors have scattered to distant places in the United uate study or research in the biochemical field. States and abroad. In far western Canada, Dr. Isabel Gil- This summer, Mary Corning (1947) received her M.A. bert Greenwood (1930) works with her husband and from Mount Holyoke College and accepted a position at children in the mission field; Ruth Skaling Murray (1936) is in Nova Scotia; Paquita Revaque (1947) is employed the United States Bureau of Standards to work in the field in industrial chemistry in Mexico City; Ethel Schall Gooch of spectroscopy; Joyce Benjamin Gloman (1949) is em- ployed in the Blood Chemistry Laboratory of the Cleveland (1945) is living in a navy station on Guam; Priscilla Crim Leidholdt (1946) at last reports was in China; Barbara Clinic Foundation; Phyllis Hammer (1949) is working on blood lactic acid at the Army Hospital and Metabolic Murphy Brewster (1943) in London; and, just this month, Mary McGeorge (1948) has begun a year's research and Center at Valley Forge; Louise Marsh (1949) is at the Brookhaven Laboratories; Connie Raymond (1949) is a study with Professor Paul Brachet in Brussels. research assistant at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratories. Over 70% of the majors in Chemistry (1919-49) have married and the children number well over one hundred. At present we know of only a few of our graduates who Pictures of the families come back to us and are cherished are in atomic research, for instance Marion Warner Hovey and shown to all who will listen to our tales of the "grand- (1920) at Richland, Washington. Several, among others children." There are four Ph.D's in the group and others Mary Louise Stephenson (1943), are working with radio- in process of attaining the degree. The latest to reach the active isotopes as tracer substances. goal is Ann Williams Wertz (1935) who is Director of Research in Nutrition at the University of Massachusetts. As to what we are doing at home - just training your There are many who have earned the master's degree; six student successors to the best of our ability and watching M.D.'s with two, Imogene Manning (1931) and Muriel with pride your success and theirs. Micro and semi-micro Hanley (1947), now in medical school; several have com- techniques in inorganic and organic analytical courses pleted nurses training at Yale or elsewhere. (qualitative and quantitative) are now being used to a greater extent than when many of you took these courses. Approximately 35% of the group have taught or are More work in physical chemistry is being given than ten teaching in colleges or preparatory schools. Miss Ramsay years ago. Our students tend to have greater interest in the wishes often that more were available to meet the need mathematical side of the work than they did in the 1930'5 for teachers. although not more than in the early hi~tory of the depart- ment. Our laboratory and office space are too restricted We are proud of the records of our industrial and semi- but we are not as handicapped now for lack of room as we professional workers. Due to a happy decision made when were during the war. On the whole we keep on doing the the Class of 1919 was in its junior year, the College has same things as when you were here, trying to do a good supported liberally a course in biochemistry of "senior class job teaching chemistry to undergraduates. Some of your grade." We were then pioneers in thus directing the atten- sisters and daughters are with us now and we welcome tion of majors in chemistry; the training afforded them has them, but most of all we shall always be glad to see and been most useful in placement after graduation. Almost hear from )'ou. half of the majors have been employed in what may be Mary C. McKee termed the "medical-nutrition field;" laboratory research Chairman, Department of Chemistry has been their chief interest. ElEVEN GROWTH SOCIETYMEETSON CAMPUS IN AUGUST Reported by BERNICE WHEELER '37 and BETTY THOMSON, Departments of Zoology and Botany The aura of Dance, School and Festival, had scarcely zoologists, or those who have focused their attention on begun to subside when late in August the Society for the animals. In addition some members of a relatively new Study of Development and Growth arrived for its ninth "subspecies" of zoologists known as developmental gene· annual symposium. The Growth Society, as it is more ticists were on campus for the meeting. commonly called, holds a conference each year on the The symposium met for four days, each meeting begin- subject indicated by its name, and being more interested ning with an hour's lecture, followed by a brief intermis- in better than in bigger, intends to remain sufficiently small sion for leg-stretching, and a return to the lecture room to hold meetings which will encourage informal discussion for discussion. Under the guidance of the moderator, who and shop talk among people actively engaged in studying in each instance, was an expert on the general subject of growth from all possible points of view. Thus its mem- the lecture, discussions were lively and enlightening. bership cuts across boundaries which have traditionally The conference was opened with a welcome from Presi- separated botanists, zoologists, biochemists, bacteriologists, dent Park, who remarked that scholars in such areas as medical researchers, and still others into tight compart- philosophy and philology rather envy the scientists for be- ments. ing occupied with things really new in the world, for their Members and guests arrived in New London on the tail concern with growth and development rather than with of a Florida hurricane which left the drought-desiccated recurrent cycles. campus fresh and shining. Visitors were housed and fed Daniel A1azia, University of Missouri on campus, and not even the most gala of campus week- The first paper of the conference was presented by Mr. ends has brought an assemblage of men from so many Daniel Mazia of the University of Missouri, whose research colleges-from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Colby, Amherst, has been primarily in the field of analytical biochemistry. and Rutgers, from Missouri, Illinois, Stanford, and others One of the first well-established facts which an elemen- between. But the gathering was by no means exclusively tary science student learns is that all cells contain a central a man's. affair. There were women from Smith, Wellesley. (usually spherical) structure called the nucleus, and that Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, to name a few. Con- within this nucleus are chromosomes which we now regard necticut was represented by several alumnae, and by present as structures carrying units of heredity, the genes. The and former faculty. members. Three members of our cur- biochemist, by ingenious methods, can now tell us the rent faculty constituted the committee on . local arrange- chemical composition of the material in the chromosomes ments,-Miss Dorothy Richardson of the Zoology Depart- which we believe is identical with the genes. This chemical ment, and Mr. Richard Goodwin and Miss Betty Thomson compound bears the rather formidable name of desoxy- of Botany. The Growth Society was assisted by the Jane ribosenucleid acid, or for short, DNA. Coffin Childs Fund and the Cancer Research Foundation It is a puzzling fact that chemists can find no difference in bringing together five speakers from this country and in DNA from different sources. Whether extracted from two from abroad. Mr. A. Lwoff, protozoologist at the the chromosomes of fish sperm,' from salamander cells, Pasteur Institute, flew from Paris, and Mr. C. W. Ward- starfish eggs, or mammalian liver cells, it all appears to be law, Professor of Botany at the University of Manchester, chemically identical. And yet if DNA is the compound came from England. of which hereditary units are made, how can the genes of Here were the chemists who comprise a group now des- such diverse forms as starfish, fish, amphibia, and mammals ignated either as biochemists, analytical chemists, or physi- be made up of identical chemical material? cal chemists. The physicists were represented by at least One of the possible answers is that the minute differ- one famous biophysicist from M. 1. T. Botanists were in ences in the quality of DNA actually do exist, but as yet evidence as morphologists (those who engage chiefly in the chemist has not been able to detect them. Dr. Mazia observation and interpretation of the structure of plants), has investigated this possibility by using living embryos embryologists (those interested in the developmental phe- to look for differences in DNA molecules. He has grown nomena concerned in growth), and immunologists (those some salamander embryos in a dilute solution of DNA closely related to bacteriologists). The morphologists and derived from beef and others in DNA from salamander experimental embryologists were not confined to the botani- cells. Strangely, the salamander embryos develop normally cal population, but were also well represented among the in the beef DNA solution, but soon stop growing in the TWELVE salamander DNA. This may mean that all DNA mole- to believe that the nucleus is the center of all cellular activ- cules are not identical, as chemists have thought until now. ity and that all chemical and physical processes which occur The living embryos may be able to distinguish small mole- in the cell are ultimately under the control of the nucleus. cular differences which the methods of analytical chemistry Yet these extra-nuclear particles behave quite independently cannot detect. of the nucleus. They are large enough to consist of a whole group of molecules and are capable of dividing inde- Dr. Bstber MaClllla! Yale Unioersity MedicaL Scbool pendently. The particles are capable of producing a wide Dr. Esther Maculla of the Yale University Medical variety of structures in the cyptoplasm (living material out- School reported the work which she is doing on immuno- side the nucleus) which perhaps indicates that they are logical relationships among embryonic, adult, and tumor affected by different cyptoplasmic factors or are under "re- tissues of mice. The ultimate goal, still probably far in mote control" from the nucleus. the future is to develop antisera which will stop the growth It is interesting to speculate whether these particles in of tumors. This is a difficult assignment. The immuno- the cyptoplasm are somehow related to genes which we logical reactions between normal embryonic and adult tis- have until recently thought were confined to the chromo- sues must be thoroughly understood before inferences can somes with the nucleus. Their size would indicate that be drawn about immunological reactions between tumors this is feasible; their power of independent division is an and normal tissues. The picture is further complicated by even stronger point in favor of this view. The fact that the well-known fact that not all tumors are identical in the cyptoplasm may influence the kind of structure which chemical and cellular composition, and therefore the answer will be produced by a given particle is in keeping with our will not be the development of a single magic antiserum, more recent trend of thought that there is a reciprocal rela- but the discovery of perhaps many antisera, each one active tion between cyptoplasmic factors and genes located in the against a given kind of tumor. nucleus. Perhaps Mr. Lwofl's findings will eventually pro- A. Lwoff, Pasteur t nstltote, Paris vide evidence which will make us modify our categorical The zoologists were proud to be represented by a mor- statement that all genes are confined to the chromosomes phologist of such renown as Mr. A. Lwoff of the Pasteur within the nucleus of the celL Institute, who has been working with a group of single- C. 117. W ardiaw, MallcheJter University, England celled animals which includes the familiar Paramecium. For many years a great deal of theorizing has been done, Mr. Lwoff has tremendous respect for these microscopic supported by very little experimental evidence, about the creatures, and says that to work with them one must be factors controlling the development of the stem growing willing to nourish them with plenty of "love E-nd perse- point, a permanent embryonic region in plants. Mr. C. W. verance." Wardlaw of the University of Manchester has provided a Mr. Lwoff has investigated the behavior of certain vis- substantial body of factual information from his beautifully ible particles outside the nucleus of the single cell which performed and ingenious experiments on the growing constitutes the entire animal. We have been brought up points of ferns. Why are leaves produced in a regular pattern around the developing stem tip, and what deter- mines just where the next leaf will arise? In the course of much arm chair speculation many fac- tors have been called up as the basic controlling one: the new leaf arises by a bulging out under pressure of excess new tissue, or in a region of minimum tissue tension, or in the largest available space, or at some critical and mysti- cal angle with the position of the last leaf. Dr. Wardlaw has demonstrated that the area of a fern growing point which gives rise to a leaf has a certain "sphere of influ- ence" over adjacent tissues. This "sphere" has an inhibit- ing effect which prevents other leaves from forming any where within it. A new leaf appears only when an area becomes available. He has demonstrated experimentally that removing a leaf as soon as it becomes visible results in the appearance of another leaf in the space now freed Deep ill formal diJcUJSiOJl 'outside Grace Smith House (Ire Dr. from the inhibiting influence. Although the chemical na- Mac Edds, Jr., Brown University, and Dr. Oscar Scbotte, Amherst ture of the inhibiting influence is not known, at least we College. THIRTEEN now have a clear demonstration, with concrete experimen- and once the number has been reduced to a certain mini- tal evidence, that such a mechanism is at work in fern mum the stimul us to migrate is no longer present, and development. they remain stationary. Victor C. Twitty, Stanford 5. Glueclesobn-Schoenbeimer, Columbia Dr. Victor Twitty of Stanford University gave a con- The research workers on amphibians have progressed prehensive review of the work which he and other workers with great strides in revealing many of the answers to in the field have done concerning the growth and develop- problems underlying vertebrate development. But the sci- ment of pigment cells in amphibia (frogs, toads, salaman- entists studying mammalian development have been con- ders). These color-bearing cells originally come from the fronted with very difficult technical problems. An am- dorsal part of the nerve tube (neural crest) of the embryo phibian (frog, salamander, toad), conveniently develops and migrate out from this dorsal region to their final po- outside of the parental environment, and the course of its sitions in the adult. development can easily be followed by microscopical obser- The primary problem with which Dr. Twitty has been vations made from time to time. A mammal (mouse, rat) concerned is what causes the migration of these cells. With stays hidden from view well within the uterus of the movies of living pigment cells, removed from the animal, mother and cannot be taken out and put back at the will he clearly showed the inherent properties for movement of of the investigator. An understanding of mammalian em- these cells. Almost every science student has at some time bryology and the relationships which exist between differ- in her career seen an amoeba, and has watched the creep- ent parts of the developing embryo therefore has been ing movements which it makes by stretching out small arrived at, largely by an indirect rather than a direct strands of its protoplasm. The pigment cells move in very approach. much the same way. But their movement is not an aimless one and their final distribution results in a very definite In the laboratories of Columbia University, Dr. Salome pigment pattern, characteristic for each species of am- Gluecksohn-Schoenheirner lias been investigating the de- phibian. velopment of mice which carry certain mutated genes. These changed or mutated genes have not been artificially The question arises why some species have pigment cells produced by X-ray, but have arisen, spontaneously in the concentrated in a more or less single black stripe running mice. Some of these genes cause the death of the mouse along the side of the animal, whereas others have their embryo before it is born, others result in death soon after pigment quite widely distributed. By cutting out a section the birth of the mouse and some of the mutations merely of embryonic pigment cell tissue from one species which result in tail abnormalities in otherwise fully developed has a "single stripe" adult pigment pattern and transplant- mice. ing this piece to the embryo of another species of amphib- ian which has the "widely distributed" adult pigment pat- By microscopic examination of the abnormal embryos or tern, the transplanted piece proceeds to develop its charac- abnormal parts of the embryos can be studied in detail, teristic "striped" pigment pattern although it has been and from the abnormal picture often the normal relation- maturing in the environment of the other species. This ships between tissues can be deduced. For example, Dr. can mean only one thing-the genes or hereditary units in Shoenheimer has found that in one type of tail abnormal- the transplanted piece are in some way controlling the ity, with one exception, all tissues which one would expect pigment distribution and are strong enough to overcome are present. Without this tissue (known scientifically as any influence which the host tissue ("widely distributed the notochord) the tail eventually shrivels and disappears. pigment pattern") might exert. It appears that in the course of development the presence It is now dear that inherent locomotor capacities within of the notochord is essential as a kind of "organizer" for pigment celis plus genes for characteristic distribution of the rest of the cells. Without it the other cells cannot the cells determine pigment cell migration and final pig- survive. ment patterns. Why do pigment cells stop this movement It is clear that a study of the perfectly normal tail devel- and thus take up their final and stationary position in the opment of a mouse could not have revealed this relation- adult? ship between the developing embryonic tissues. The mu- Dr. Twitty believes that this question is answered in tated genes caused the elimination of one group of cells part by the fact that the cells move from an area of greater (notochord) and the effect of the loss on surrounding cells pigment cell numbers (neural crest) out to an area of was then studied. It is anticipated that this combination lesser pigment cell numbers (sides or flanks of the ani- of the study of genetics and embryology will reveal many mal). If these cells find themselves concentrated largely in fads about mammalian developmental relationships which the neural crest region, they move away from that region, heretofore have remained complete enigmas. FOURTEEN Present and former Conneaicat College students and factilty members attending the Growth Symposium included: Standing left to; right, Dr. Betty Thomson, Dept. 01 Botany; Carolyn Taves, '49, now graduate student in botany tit University of Wisconsin; DI'. Sally Kelty, '43, Dept. of Plant Science. Vassal' College; Dr. Richard Goodwin, Chairmen of Botany Deta.; DI'. George Avery, director of the Brooel yn Botanic Garden; Dr. Evelyn Fernald, Dept. of Biology, Rockford College; Miss Sybil Hausman, Dept. of Zoology, Kneeling, Dr. Florence Barrows, Dept. of Biology, W'heatoll College; femme Mershon, '47, graduate student in zoology at Brown University; Mary Elizabeth Stone, '49, technical assistant at Yale University School of Medicine; Dr. Bernice Ir'heeler, '37, Dept. of Zoology. W. 1- Robbins, New York Botanical Garden Mr. Robbins chiefly uses various molds as his "guinea The concluding address of the symposium was delivered pigs," as these small and simple plants can be grown easily by Mr. W .J. Robbins, director of the New York Botanical and under rigidly controlled conditions in the laboratory. Garden, who spoke on "Some Factors Limiting Growth." Occasionally under the influence of X-rays or atomic radia- One of the important new borderline scientific fields to tion, or other still unknown influences, a mold undergoes develop in recent years can be described as biochemical sudden inheritable changes or mutations which may result genetics. One of its basic concepts is that there are certain in a change in its power of synthesis. Over the years a specific chemical substances that any plant or animal tissue wide assortment of such mutant molds has been accumu- must have to work with in order to grow. Some of these lated, each different in its synthetic abilities and deficien- the tissue can synthesize from other usually simpler sub- cies. By means of offering such a mutant a series of chemi- stances and to that extent it is independent of its environ- cal compounds, and determining which ones it is still able ment. Other essential substance it cannot make, and hence to make use of, it is possible to unravel the nature and in order to grow, it must obtain them ready-made, either sequence of the chemical reactions that take place in the from another part of the plant or animal body or from the final reaction which we describe as growth. environment in which it lives. For instance, the roots of With Me. Robbins' address, the Growth Conference tomato plants require the Vitamin B 1 (thiamin) to grow. came to a conclusion. For many of the scientists who This they ordinarily obtain from the leaves where it is attended, the few days were indeed momentous ones, and made. When roots are detached from the plant and grown we trust that before too long in the future, Connecticut in glass flasks they must be given thiamin in the culture College will again be the scene of a meeting for this medium. important group. FIFTEEN THE DIVIDENDS AND DIFFICULTIES OF NURSING Pediatric and Public Health Nurses Report on Their Profession By LOUiSA MORRIS KENT '30 Pediatrics is defined as that branch of medicine that care of all ages, sizes and backgrounds would in itself make treats of children's diseases, therefore pediatric nursing as for an education. a specialty means caring for sick children. The ramifica- The student nurse may first work with medical patients tions of this classification are far and wide which accounts and for forty-four hours a week, when she is not having in part, for the fact that pediatric nursing is such an classes, has an opportunity to absorb a great deal of clinical absorbing and challenging field in which to be working. material of specific conditions and at the same time use her This September several thousand young women entered knowledge and her ability to take care of these sick people the many Schools of Nursing all over the country. For who depend so much upon her. This is probably the most of them, there are three long, hard, interesting years greatest satisfaction that the average student nurse can get. ahead. Such subjects as anatomy and physiology, chem- To make somebody feel better, to be of some real service- istry, bacteriology, materia medica, dietetics, history of these were essentially why she wanted to be a nurse in the nursing, have to be understood to some extent before the beginning. student nurse is ready to assume the responsibilities of her The student nurse never stays on one service very long. profession. In large hospitals where the school of nursing Surgery, and the surgical specialties occupy almost a year is connected with a university, these courses are conducted of her training, three months with obstetrical patients and in close connection with the university and the lectures in the newborn nursery; for some a three month affiliation given by professors of the medical school. Laboratory, in psychiatry or neurology, some a glimpse into public library, and other educational facilities are available to the health nursing, and three months in a children's hospital nurses and the amount of scientific knowledge to which a student nurse is exposed during her first year in training learning pediatric nursing. During this diversified experi- is enormous. However, life is not all books and micro- ence, she has had at least two vacations, and is now prob- scopes. Recreation, fun, social life,-these have an impor- ably in her third and last year of training. tant place and occupy a good part of the calendar each A student is not expected to learn all about pediatrics month. Actually,' entering training in a large, modern in three months. There are many who have been doing Medical Center is very much like starting off for college pediatric nursing for more than ten years who learn some- agam. The same atmosphere, the same requirements, the thing new every day. But the student nurses who spend same group of eager, enthusiastic beginners wondering twelve weeks at the Babies Hospital all agree that they what it is all about. One difference which always makes know a lot more about children than they would have it that much more intriguing to the beginning student is believed possible to learn in such a short time. There are the uniform-the variety of uniforms, the starched white between seventy and eighty student nurses at one time uniforms which stand for something nebulous-some far spending twelve weeks in pediatrics according to the state off, greatly desired degree of attainment which each stu- requirements, learning the clinical material and getting an dent has for her g~al-or one of her goals as she starts understanding of infants and children and the special prob- on her way. lems in dealing with them. The age group of patients The next three years are perhaps the most absorbing, ranges from the tiniest premature who may have been born the most interesting, and may well be the most difficult two hours before and rushed across the city to the prema- years in which any average young woman may find herself ture nursery-on through the infant group, the toddler involved. It is a different world, and it is not an easy one. age, and the older children of ten, eleven, and twelve years The training and the education that one gets these days in of age. a school of nursing call for mental, physical and emotional It is interesting to note that children's hospitals and stamina. Fortunately, there are many intelligent and un- hence pediatrics is a comparatively new field as compared derstanding advisors and teachers along the way to help with other branches of medicine. In this country, the first when the going gets very rough. Usually the more diffi- hospital for sick children was built in Philadelphia in 1855 cult a situation, the more chaIJenging and the more inter- and the Children's Hospital in Boston followed in 1869. esting. Working with people, talking with people, taking The Babies Hospital of the City of New York was incor- SIXTEEN and who knows what to do in this critical period. There are times when there is nothing anyone can do for a too fragile premature. There are other times when it is "nip and tuck' for days-and finally the worst is over and the outcome is favorable, and the student nurses who learned what to do during this period, and who had used their knowledge, skill, patience and fortitude in saving this child are adequately rewarded by the deep, personal satisfaction of a job well done. A nurse who has chosen pediatrics as her field is con- stantly meeting people who say, "How in the world can you work with sick children? It must be depressing; I don't see how you stand it." Actually, there is no field in nursing that is less depressing. True, there are some very sad situations, some tragic episodes that are emotionally exhausting for everyone concerned, but on the whole, working with children is a cheerful, pleasant, stimulating and happy occupation, about which many experienced ones would say, "There's not a dull moment." Children are essentially cheerful and happy, and for the most part, for- tunately, they do get well. Their period of being acutely Kentie (/1'1:/ !Jat;ellt ill is usually a very short one, then they are on the con- valescent list. For the short period in which they are ex- porated in the year 1887, and was located on the northeast tremely and desperately sick, the nurs~ is so busy doing corner of Lexington Avenue and 55th Street where it re- everything she knows to make the child more comfortable mained until the affiliation with the Columbia-Presbyterian and to get him better, that she actually does not have time Medical Center in 1929 when it was moved to its present to allow herself to get upset. That may come later- site at Broadway and 167th Street. This hospital has a most nurses at one time or another have a quiet cry in the capacity of 166 beds, which includes cribs for very small, linen closet-but while she is working, she knows she must medium, and larger children, as well as incubators for pre- be calm, and keep her mind on what she is doing. matures and very young sick infants. In addition to the seventy or more student nurses who have come from But for one unhappy and upsetting situation, there are eighteen different schools of nursing in different parts of a hundred children who bounce back to health and who New York State, New Jersey, and even as far as Emory spend days or weeks in the hospital for some reason or University, Georgia, there are about forty graduate nurses another. These are the children with whom the pediatric including supervisors, instructors, head nurses, assistant nurse spends most of her time and effort. This is how head nurses, and general duty nurses. This staff covers she learns so much about them, their needs of all kinds, twenty-four hours of the day, since it is particularly impor- their complexities, and most of all, their characteristics tant to have a children's hospital adequately staffed during which are a never ending cause of awe and admiration. In addition to being cheerful and spontaneous, children are the night as well as during the day. brave. They resist anything which is painful, naturally, Pediatric nursing has a great appeal to the average stu- but as soon as a child can dimly understand what is being dent nurse, and quite understandably so. She enjoys taking done and why, he tries his best to cooperate. Even if he care of babies, and the helplessness of small sick infants doesn't understand, he forgives so easily. It is quite a lesson for adults to see how readily and how simply a child brings out the very best capabilities of a good nurse. A is willing to make friends with a doctor or a nurse who tiny premature infant who has landed in the cruel cold has just recently been forced to inflict quite an unpleasant world six or eight weeks before his proper arrival time may well present a situation that is as tense and dramatic procedure upon him. Then too, children are so completely as the best O'Neill drama. The first few days or week unpredictable. They say such amazing things-their im- aginations are so fertile. Spending eight hours a day with often determine whether the infant will survive or not, and these children is an eye-opener for those taking care of after the doctors have done all that science and training know how to do, it is, the nurse who stays with that baby them. SEVENTEEN There are a few children who spend most of the early anyone working with children. For unless these conval- years of their lives in the hospital for one good reason or escent children are kept busy and entertained, they get into another. About ten years ago, a little boy of 20 months mischief and there may even be more serious results. Chil- named Dominick came into the hospital-sick, and highly dren love attention and some have devised quite unique upset, with a type of kidney ailment that may go on for means of obtaining it. One little boy, about six years old months or years. Dominick spent most of the next three lying quietly in his crib on the medical floor having a years in the hospital. His parents came every visiting day long convalescent period from rheumatic fever found him- and when he was on the danger list they came every day. self quite happily the center of attention when he acci- At times he would be sent home, but back he would come dently swallowed a marble. Once a day, usually twice, in a week or two. He had his third birthday in the hos- some member of the house staff would hoist him on his pital, and his fourth birthday in the hospital, and when he shoulder and carry him to the x-ray room where some was four years old, his mother said to the head nurse, other members of the staff would gather around and ex- "Now you've had him for two years and I had him for claim in interest as the fluoroscope machine enabled them two years, so he's half yours and half mine." During this to follow the progress of the marble down through the time, the nurses really brought Dominick up. He was a stomach and so on its way. This interesting diversion bright, precocious youngster and learned very fast. He used went on for more than a week. Other doctors who came to sit on the head nurse's lap after supper and repeat inar- in the ward stopped by his crib and asked "\Xlhere's the ticulately the last words in each line of "James James marble now?" However, as all good things come to an Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree", and end, so did the marble, and this excitement was over. From other A. A. Milne classics. Dominick nearly died about then on, no fun. And as a special precaution, the nurses fifteen times-probably more resident pediatricians stayed made sure he had some constructive diversion, and that up all night with Dominick than with any other single all marbles, coins, and other small objects were eliminated patient over a period of three odd years-but Dominick from his surroundings. This dull situation went on for got better, then he got well, then he went home, started about two days, then early one evening he shouted "Nurse! school, has gone on skipping grades and doing well, and Nurse!" When she arrived at his crib he triumphantly he now returns twice a year for a check-up and a visit to held out the front of his pajamas. "Hey, look, I swallowed those who remember him well. He likes the hospital. Like the button off my pajamas. Call the doctor. He'll have to most of the other children, (though there are a few excep- take me to X-ray." tions), his hospital experience left no psychological trauma. For the benefit of this almost constant group of sixty or The traumatic part of hospital experience usually hits more restless children who spend long weeks in the hos- the parents rather than the children. Parents are afraid, pital, there are recreational facilities each week day as well and communicate their fear to the children. Some parents, as school for the older children, but on each Salurday sadly enough, have held out the fearsome spectre of the afternoon comes the big treat of the week for which the doctor or of the hospital as a threat to their child, and children wait with much anticipation. Movies. It's movie naturally enough when the children come into the hospital, day! About two o'clock the children from age two to everything looks ominous. One of the first problems with twelve get up from their naps, and are assembled in wheel which a nurse has to deal is that of handling the parents, chairs, stretchers, and even baby carriages for the trip to answering their questions, reassuring them over and over the fourth floor where the movies are held in the Amphi- and trying to see that they go away feeling their child will theatre. It is quite a sight when they are assembled there. receive the best care possible. This is often a feat that is It could be a pathetic sight, but the chidren are all having well nigh impossible. Pediatric nurses, almost more than such a good time that it's more heart warming than pa- any other, find themselves in the role of teacher a great thetic. Sometimes the movies are cartoons-actually the deal of the time. The children themselves, are constantly children seem to like cartoons more than any feature which being taught somethmg. Their learning processes go on is especially suitable for children. They also love the loili- all the time they are in the hospital. Then the parents pops that are handed out before the movies begin. Often have to be patiently and exhaustively made to understand a child will s,eethe same cartoon he saw a month ago, but what is going on and why. The graduate nurse in pediat- he never seems to mind that. He usually is pleased be- rics must be ready to teach and teach constantly not only cause he knows what is going to happen and can shout the the children and parents, but the students who come and news to those who haven't seen it. go and whose amount of learning depends upon the enthu- • Just a year ago on a certain Saturday afternoon in Oc- siasm of a good teacher. tober, a visitor coming into the Babies Hospital might have Imagination and enthusiasm are two handy assets for stopped short and looked twice to be sure she was in the EIGHTEEN right place. "Sharkey", the versatile, friendly, and noisy insight in understanding their G.I. patients, so many of seal was on his way up in the elevator to put on the show whom were not much more than adolescents and who were of all shows for the children. "Sharkey" had been discov- in new and frightening situations with no familiar faces ered by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness while he was performing to reassure them. at Ocean Beach, New London, and it was through the generosity of Mrs. Harkness that this special event was The education and training of a student nurse, whether brought to the children. Children, doctors, nurses, tech- she has been to college previously for four years, ~Of two nicians, visitors,-it would be difficult to say just which years, or not at all, is a tremendously broadening experi- group was getting the greatest kick out of the entertainment. ence. In spite of the difficult going at times, very few These are a few--a very, very few of the sidelights that drop out once they have gone through the initial period. make pediatric nursing such a desirable field for young At the end of three years, with a pin and diploma in hand, graduate nurses. Obviously it is such an excellent prepa- each member of the graduating class is entitled to glow ration for bringing up children of one's own. The pe- with pride and satisfaction, and feel secure in the knowl- diatric nurses who were fortunate enough to spend consid- edge that she has equipped herself with the practical and erable time overseas with the Army Nurse Corps found scientific background necessary to take her place in the that their experience with children had given considerable professional world. Lack of Knowledge :of Our Own Public Health Resources By AURA KEPLER '24 Today is an exciting era for nursing, for we have the Because of this serious situation, the National Nursing opportunity of seeing this service break away from the Council with financial support from the Carnegie Corpo- apprenticeship school to enter the truly professional level ration of New York, sponsored a study under the Direc- of work following much the same pattern of development torship of Esther Lucille Brown.t Ph.D. Conditions of as other professions. The surgeons of today have evolved nursing schools and community needs throughout the from the days when they were barber surgeons. Lawyers country were considered in relation to the present status have developed through an era of apprenticeship. of nursing. As a result of this study, it was. found that Why has this come about? Is it going to interfere with nursing education should be based on "what is best for so-called good care to the sick? What is being done for society-not on what is best for the profession of nursing the present nurses? And what are the future opportuni- as a possibly 'vested interest'." ties in this new and highly technical profession of such There have been significant changes in our society in the humanitarian origin? These are some of the questions past century which merit careful consideration. Scientific which no doubt occur to you. information has increased. Not only are more preventive As we all know, organized nursing started out under a measures available, but basic knowledge in the field at rigid militaristic regime under the leadership of Florence body physiology, chemistry and human relations have Nightingale, following the Crimean War. Due to the changed our way of life. Infant death rates have decreased. dramatic and intense needs of the critically ill, the strict Our illness rates are prevalent in the later years. Illness forms of discipline as well as apprentice service to hospi- from many diseases has decreased. But most outstanding of all, is that as yet people are still not motivated to take tals have continued for about 100 years. Nurses were idolized and were extolled by the general public while advantage of the newer knowledge; they still have little at the same time they worked long hours, received very understanding of the interplay of human emotions; they still know little of child growth and development; they little money and gained only mediocre education from such still do not know how to band together to gain the best overworked physicians as were good enough to lecture to protection for their own individual and community health; them. they have little knowledge of resources to help them and During the past few years, the hours of work have been above all seem 'to maintain considerable lethargy except in shortened, remuneration has been improved, but the type of training has changed very little. Meanwhile we all are individual instances. Mary Ella Chayer in her book on "Nursing in Modern aware of the great dearth of nurses and the high cost of service as well as the seeming indifference to their profes- ] Brown, Esther Lucille, Ph.D. Nursing lor the Future. sion on the part of many nurses. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1948. NINFTEEN Society"2 defines nursing care as follows: "Nursing care is first of all an attempt to help persons apply the basic principles of healthfulliving to a situation complicated by a greater or lesser degree of deviation from normal health." To this end more education for nurses is needed, in order that nurses may have a better understanding of the society of which nursing is a part and take their place on a par with physicians, lawyers, teachers, and the clergy. Indeed, the sick need bedside care and nurses are scarce. But is it simply bedside care that is required? It is total care,-that is, an appreciation of the patient's physical, emotional, mental needs as well as his relationship to his personal and environmental setting. Through the course of the recent survey it was found that there were many skills which could be performed by women who had a minimum of scientific knowledge. Under the careful supervision of the newly trained "professional nurse" much better service could be rendered. There would be more thoughtful con- sideration of the total care necessary in all its many aspects. The professional nurse would give the complicated treat- ments, medications, etc., but the less highly trained nurse, who might be called a "practical nurse", would carry many of the services now rendered by the graduate registered nurse. In order to meet the increasing demands for total nurs- ing care created by scientific discoveries by our changing society, by the rapidly advancing fields of social science, Aura Kepler J 24 medical science, mental health, and public health, Dr. Es- these local public health nurses with the method of writing ther Lucille Brown and her affiliated committees have rec- records, emphasizing their statistical value, but above all ommended that there be ultimately two distinct groups ot their use as a guide to further planning. Often it becomes nurses with certified basic training for their own group,- my function to act as interpreter between the nurse and the one group with probably two years of hospital training, employing agency. This includes a review of the nurse's and one group with four full years of training in a univer- efforts and how they relate to the modern concepts of sity closely allied with a Health Center Hospital. Possibly public health nursing. Through refresher courses, on va- the two groups would have much the same training in all rious topics, in-service training is provided for the nurses the fundamental nursing skills, but there would be the working alone in the field, or those on the staff of small opportunity for those who showed unusual leadership and agencies. Many times I am called upon to talk before ability to acquire further study leading to a degree. At the parent-teacher groups, service clubs or nursing organiza- end of the second year period one group would be certified tions to bring before them topics such as "Plans for Com- as practical nurses, and the other as "professional nurses". munity Protection", "Living With Children", or "A Dis- From this point professional nurses who wanted to enter cussion of Local Health Units". The most satisfying ex- the fields of teaching, public health, psychiatric nursing, or perience of all, is to share ideas with the nurses, help them any other specialized field of nursing would probably take to build upon their assets, and develop their professional work on an advanced degree level. lives to the full. As a public health nursing supervisor in the Massachu- Nursing is speeding ahead into a new but well charted setts Department of Public Health my chief aim is to help sea, based on weJ] recognized needs. The present grad- the many graduate nurses who are employed by school uate registered nurse will be needed for many years to departments, health departments and visiting nursing asso- come, but gradually the new concepts will materialize and ciations, to develop gradually toward the status of a "pro- a very real contribution will be made to our families, our fessional nurse". communities, our nation and our world by the professional This involves individual conferences with nurses to nurse of tomorrow. demonstrate "the interview," and to help them in prograrl"l 2 Chayer, Mary Ella, R.N., A. M. NUrJillg in Modem Society. planning based on local community needs. I also assist New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. cl947. TWENTY and Rome. They are planning a new home to be built soon. CLASS NOTES Dora Sturges is working at the S1. Chris- topher Mission to the Navajo at Bluff, Editors: Thelma Gilkes, '39, May Nelson, '38 Utah. Dora Schwartz Gross's daughter, Naomi, is on the staff of Time Magazine Editors: For Classes of '19 through '36, Thelma Gilkes '39, Palmer Library, in New York. Connecticut College. New London, Connecticut. We extend our sympathy to Arvilla For Classes of '37 through '48, May Nelson '38, Admissions Office, Con- Hotchkiss Titterington who lost her father necticut College, New London, Connecticut. in June. to be transferred from the Univ. of Buffalo to Washington and Lee. He is now a 1923 freshman. 1919 MRS. GEORGE A. BUNYAN MRS. ENOS B. COMSTOCK Two wedding announcements: Frances (Helen Higgins) Correspondent Saunders Tarbell's son, Frank, in East Ha- (Juline Warner) Correspondent 9 Watkins Place ven in ]dy, and Sadie Coit Benjamin's 176 Highland Avenue daughter, Joyce, to Irving Gloman, in Nor- New Rochelle, New York Leonia, New Jersey wich, in October, at Park Congregational Church. Married: Norma Lee Into and William Reports from several reunion absentees The four Warner sisters enjoyed a re- Allen Erwin IlIon August 20, 1949, at bring our class news somewhat more up union this summer. Marion fiew home to the Lyme Congregational Church in Old to date. Esther Batchelder, who was in Beacon Falls from Richland, Washington, Lyme, Conn. Norma is the younger daugh- Nebraska in June on government business where she is doing lab work; Wrey and ter of Rachael Tiffany Into. Patricia Into, concerned with regional research, writes Bob came east during a pause in house- who is a senior at Connecticut College, from Washington, "My job is very absorb- building in Perrysburg, Ohio, and visited was maid of honor. The young couple ing-it's been taking me to many parts of with mother, Harriet, and me, in New Jer- went to Europe. the U. S. and overseas. In my off hours sey. With Harriet now on campus at e.e., Helena Wulf Knup is chairman of the I'm still a sailing enthusiast. Worked my- I hope to keep in closer touch with college Friends of the Library of Connecticut Col- self exhausted for two weeks before and news. lege. The organization enjoyed a most suc- during the sailing races of the President's cessful year under Helena's guidance. The Regatta. Have just bought a house being 1920 outstanding event of the season was the built near here and will move in Novem- lecture by Mr. John 1. Sweeney of the ber. My housemate, Jane Ebes, and I plan MRS. JOAN M. ODELL Lamont Library, Harvard University, on to call it 'The Mooring'." (Joan Munro) Correspondent Modern Poetry and the Listening Reader. Gertrude Espenscheid writes from Brook- 104 South Broadway Jane Timberman, daughter of Mary lyn, where she lives with her mother, that Tarrytown, New York Birch Timberman, is a freshman at e.e.; she regrets missing the reunion. She spent she lives in Knowlton House. Jane was two weeks at Lake Buell near Great Bar- introduced to society at the Westchester rington early this summer. Gertrude is Mary Coughlin is teaching English in the Cotillion, September 9th. still interested in children's museums, li- Commercial Department of the Norwich braries, and in old people's homes. Back at Free Academy. Karl and Feta Reiche re- 1924 cently spent a week-end with Jessie and her Caldwell High School library desk, AMY HILKER Phil Luce and the Stones. The Luce and Mildred White reports on her summer va- (Correspondent) cation in Vermont with trips to Quebec Stone families attended the graduation of 223 Seventh Street and to Maine. She has been working on their daughters from e.e. an old house, attending barbecues and auc- Emma Wippert Pease motored to Seattle Garden City, N. Y. tions and "showing off the murals an ar- and Vancouver during the summer. She tist friend painted on our living room walls reports that her son and his wife are study- Marriages: Marie- Jester to Judge Harold for us.' ing for their Ph.D. degrees at M.LT. K. \\fatrous of West Hartford on Novem- Helen Cannon Cronin of Hamden, Betty Poteat's daughter attends LaSalle ber 9. Conn., regrets she could be on campus for Junior College; her son is a junior at commencement only, but she visited with Loomis. Eleanor Seaver Massonneau's son, 1925 Bob, has received his M.D. degree and is us all via the reunion letter, which she MISS THELMA BURNHAM at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, took to the shore to share with Marjorie (Correspondent) D. e. Agnes Mae Clark and her husband Doyle Sullivan, '20. 137 Woodland Street, Apt. 4A Dorothy Gray Manion has moved from have returned to their home in Rockville Hartford 5, Conn. Buffalo to Richmond, Va., where her hus- Center, 1. I. band has been transferred to the Spruance As a 25th wedding anniversary celebra- Plant by duPont. There were crowded tion Fanchon and Melvin Title flew to The members of the class wish to extend weeks of moving into a new red brick Europe, where they visited London, Brus- their sympathy to Sally Crawford Maschal bungalow. Son Bob's registration had also sels, Antwerp, Versailles, Zurich, Florence, who recently lost her mother. TWENTY-ONE sand students present a great challenge. 1928 She has also been continuing her study of 1926 psychology at Columbia and at California. MRS. C. STUART WHEATLEY During the second semester Tommy teaches MRS. CLIFFORD F. RYDER (Joyce Preston) CorreJpol1dent (Gertrude Koetter) Correspondent a course in dance history and the related 186 Marshall Terrace arts. Four days after her arrival in Los 218 Old King's Highway, North Danville, Virginia Angeles in September 1947 found her the Darien, Connecticut owner of a house. Life would be perfect MRS. RICHARD C. BROOKS if there were room for a tennis court and (Jeanette Bradley) Correspondent a swimming pool, plus the time to use A long newsy letter came from Peg Ster- 1836 Runnymeade Road them. ling Norcross just after I had sent my class Winston-Salem, North Carolina notes for August; so I'm reporting on Peg Iso Gilbert Greenwood says that May now. She writes, "We are in a lovely new and June in Yellowknife were very cold Betty Douglas Manross has left Japan modern house designed by my husband- but that in July, the summer month, they and is living in Chicago, where her. hus- at long last. A modern functional house were able to swim in the little lake oppo- band is stationed. This summer she vis- is certainly the answer:' Her son, the first site their house. Yellowknife seems at- ited ee, her first visit in eight years. She class baby, is a marine, stationed at Paris tractive with its tennis court and Hand- found many changes. Keeping house, Isle, South Carolina. Her daughter, Peggy, craft Guild which does exquisite work. walking the dog, and lecturing on life in is interested in writing, and she conducted There are also at Yellowknife a dentist, Japan kept Betty busy. a column, "Peggy's Patter" in a local news- two doctors, a modern forty bed hospital paper during the summer. Peggy is attend- A letter from Jill Barrett, one of our well staffed with nurses, and an excellent ing Colby Junior College. Peggy is a career women, brings us up-to-date on the school. The Community Library is located worker with the Cleveland Society for the years since she left ec. Mter graduating on the top floor of the school, and 1so Blind, and she relates that one of the girls from Cornell University in 1928, she volunteers Saturday afternoons for service to whom she reads attends Cleveland Col- earned two degrees from the New York there. Every ten days people may watch lege and is on the Dean's list. Until re- University Law School and was admitted gold bricks being poured at one of the cently Peg has also acted as president of to the bar in 1933. Except for two war mines which sends out about six of these the Colony Garden Club. years spent in the W.A.c. overseas in sixty-two pound bricks per month. Frankfort and Berlin Jill has been practic- Kay Colgrove attended the Spring meet- Dottie Feltner Davis and family are sta- ing law. ing of the Connecticut State Library Asso- tioned in Honolulu. In August 1 spent a ciation in New London. She visited Bar- Because this is our last column your delightful week-end in Maine with Eliza- bara Bell Crouch and her family in Groton. correspondents will bring you up-to-date on beth Perkins. Barbara's son, Calvin, is at the Coast Guard themselves. Jean Bradley Brooks enjoys Academy, and her daughter, Judy, is a living in Winston-Salem, but because her freshman in high school. husband commutes thirty miles each day 1931 Harriet Stone Warner and her husband to Greensboro they may eventually be MISS ALICE E. KINDLER forced to move there. Though Jean likes had a delightful trip to Florida last win- [Correspondent) tee. Oscar is a landscape architect, and he living in the South, she does wish she attended a conference. The trip back was were a little closer to her old friends. 27 Prospect Street White Plains, New York leisurely, including visits to the magnolia I have been in Virginia fifteen years. gardens in South Carolina and to Williams- Like many Virginians who live in cities we burg. The three Warner daughters, Nancy, own a farm, a pleasant but expensive hob- Summer notes: Ginny Yancey Stephens Anne, and Margery, are, like their mother, by. My husband, an attorney spends his and C. B. Rice visited Viv Noble Wake- very musical-singing in the choir, play- spare time building and running a tractor. man at Sparta, New Jersey. Ginny has ing the piano and the violin. The children and I spend our time on the moved into a new house ll1 Rochester. Leo Oakes Rogers, ex '26, and her hus- horses or in the pool. Tobacco is our prin- Tommy Larson Sperry, our traveler, was in band also visited Florida, where they took cipal crop, but we also have some cattle. Denver, Colorado, on business; she would some colored movies. Derrie Barton and Thank you all who have helped us write liked to have remained longer on pleas- Dorothy Kilbourne, '25, spent the month this column. It's been fun! To the next ure. Mockie Fitzmaurice Co11oty and her of June in England, Scotland, and the correspondent - "Good Hunting." daughters, •Susan and Beth, summered at Lake Country. Derrie took some fine pic- Mason's Island, Mystic. Lorna McGuire tures of lakes, castles, and of her aunt's 1930 also spent the summer at Mason's Island. gardens in Devonshire. They returned on the Mauretania. MISS MARJORlE RITCHIE Toot Holley Spangler writes, "My chil- (CorreJpondent) dren are Rilla, 12, Rachel, 10, Holly, 6, My husband and I took our first vaca- and John, 3. Rilla was awarded the DAR Pondville Hospital tion in eight years this summer. We vis- Good Citizenship medal by the faculty and Walpole, Mass. ited Susie at a camp in Maine and Koko students at school, and needless to say we in New Hampshire. We were amazed at are very proud of her. She enters junior their growth in stature and in independ- As Assistant Dean of Students at the high this fall. We expect to move early ence. We then rounded out our trip by University of California at Los Angeles next summer to Wilmington, Delaware, motoring into the White Mountains. Tommy Hartshorn finds that fifteen thou- where the new duPont Research Labora- TWENTY-TWO tories are being buil t. Ross is a research in the local c.c. chapter. Her husband, Fran and Madlyn Hughes Wasley, Diane, physicist in the plastics department." Ben, is practicing internal medicine. While on April 26, 1949. To Joseph and Rose Billie Coy Schwenk is living in Darien, the children, Pamela, 16, and Bengie, 11, Camassar Kushner, Jean, on May 30, 1948. Conn. Gus is vice-president of Yale & were at camp this summer, Jimmie spent To Eugene and Catherine Cartwright Towne Manufacturing Co. and has his of- the time redecorating the entire house. Backus, David Edward, on April 6, 1949. fice in Nl:W York. Billie's seventeen-year- To Milton and Ceil Silverman Grodner, Jean Williams Smith was our only c.c. old daughter enjoyed a gay social whirl Richard Jay, on December 13, 1948. To visitor this summer; she and her family before entering college. Billie writes, "I"ll Willett and Vera Warbasse Spooner, Vera, came for a short visit while returning to have a long respite this fall before the on February 14, 1949. Rochester from the Cape. In Cheshire she New Year's ball at the Waldorf when she met Julia Slater Ferris' husband who re- Peg Baylis Hrones and Marge Wolfe and others will come out in New York." ported that Peg is planning to return for Gagnon were back with us for reunion Winnie Beach Bearce has been studying reunion in June. week-end. They and Jane Cox Cosgrove voice for the last five or six years, and This summer I ventured into a new field and Betty Ann Corbly Farrell have four last winter she taught voice and piano. She -reviewing plays for the Skaneateles Sum- children each; there are seventeen in our is soloist at Christ Church in Tarrytown mer Theatre. By the time I finished each class who have three. and one of the original members of the review I felt I had given my all in com- Ruth Lambert Bromberg sounds busy Matinee Opera Company of New York. pliments, cliches, and commas. with her varied jobs - instructor in psy- "In August 1947 we played Humperdinck's chiatry clinics at the Univ. of Chicago Hansel and Gretel in the summer theaters From ex '32'ers: Patricia Hawkins Sills' Medical School, psychologist at Sheil in Maine, and we have given numerous daughter, Deborah, is 8. Patty does sub- Guidance Center C.Y.O., consultant to si~ performances in the vicinity of New York stitute teaching and directs three troops of social agencies. She also tests babies for City. Our new manager is arranging for Brownies in addition to managing a large adoption. All this with three children at performances all over the country. In the house and two apartments in the annex. home! past year we added The Medium and The' Julia Kaufholz Morley's oldest graduated from high school last June. Judy and Buzz Old Maid and the Thief by Menotti to our M. T. Watson O'Neill writes from Al- are building a home near Saginaw. repertoire." Winnie and her husband keep buquerque, New Mexico, "We moved out We are sorry to learn that Margaret a small farm for their own enjoyment and here December 1st; my husband is working Chalker Maddocks lost her husband three that of their four sons, three of whom are at Sandia Base. We have moved twice years ago. Brownie, who works for the in high school. Val teaches in New York since we have been here, but are now set- Visiting Nurse Association in Milford, has City and farms vigorously in his spare tled in a darling little house with a won- moments. a son, Hugh, 61/z. derful yard around it. I don't expect to be back east for another year or two. We 1932 1934 love the climate and are just thriving on MISS ANNE G. SHEWELL it." MRS. H. BRADFORD ARNOLD (Correspondent) (Marion Nichols) Correspondent Our reunion scrap book questionnaires 230 Canton Avenue brought word of the death of Marty Funk- 48 East Lake Road Milton 87, Massachusetts houser Adamson's, ex '35, husband in Sep- Skaneateles, New York tember, 1948, Our deepest sympathy to Marty. She has three children; the young- Born to Daniel and Dorothy Merrill est, her only boy, has cerebral palsy. Be- Married: Ruth Baylis to Robert Dunlop Dorman, a daughter, Priscilla Bliss, on cause of him she has become interested in Toaz, September 10th. July 9, 1949. They also have two sons, work with crippled children and has filled Natalie Clunet Fitzgerald is director of 7% to 2. her husband's place on a number of boards radio advertising for a large department Emily Benedict Halverson and family helping handicapped children. She brought store in Dayton, doing the script writing are living in Topsfield, Mass., where they both her daughters to New London last and planning the broadcasts for eleven ra- have bought a house in the country with summer; they are interested in c.c. Jill dio shows per week. Priscilla Moore seven acres of woods. Elsie Hofman Bangs Albree Child is "trying desperately to keep Brown enjoys her new work as director of is living in Hagaman, New York. The up with my husband's hobbies-gardens, the Social Center for Older People in Wor- AI umnae Office reports that Elizabeth Keep chickens, pigs, always building something cester. Charlotte Nixon Prigge's son, is now Mrs. Richard B. Wilkinson, and or doing over the furniture. We've just Chuck, is a freshman in high school, and she is living in Rockville, Maryland. moved to the country and are settled in a Nick is in the fourth grade. Alan is con- partially finished house. Our biggest proj- nected with the Metal Boats Sales Division ect now is to finish it:' Olive Birch Lil- of Grumman Aircraft. Nick herself is ac- 1935 lich and her husband are restoring their tive in the PTA, Red Cross, Northport MISS BARBARA HERVEY. pre-Revolutionary home. Olive is also col- (Long Island) Players, and she enjoys ( Correspondent) lecting luxuries for friends in Etlrope and boating and swimming. 12 May Street the Far East and for a "foster daughter" Eleanor Roe Merrill is our reunion chair- Needham 92, Massachusetts in Czechoslovakia. man for June 1950 when we return to the Mary Blatchford is Academic Dean at campus with the classes of 1931, 1933 and Lasell Junior College in Auburndale, Mass. 1934. Mary Elizabeth Wyeth Jones writes Births: To Dick and Kay Jenks Morton, Betty Lou Bozell Forrest writes, "Up to that it is painful being one of the ancients Robert William, on May 13, 1949. To TWENTY-THREE my ears in Scouts, as usual-Cub Scouts are two girls, Kathleen, 10, and Virginia, 5. class banners, some carried by offspring of on my own account, and Boy Scouts with Evelyn is interested in Scouts and A.A.U.W. alumnae, took us back through the years Jock and Johnnie. Have been doing some work. and brought a catch to our throats. Dinner interesting volunteer work at the Guidance Sandy Stark Huepper is living in Larch- at Edgemere was highlighted by the rare Center in New Rochelle. One of the mont keeping house for her husband, Fran- heads is a Connecticut '25 girl." wit of Ginny Deuel as M.e. awarding cis, who is a copywriter for the Kelly- More reunion scrap book news next prizes for outstanding accomplishments. Nason advertising agency, and for son Ste- issue, Fay Irving Squibb had come the greatest ven, 6Y2, and daughter, Nancy, 5Y2' distance, from Michigan; Shirley Cohen Harriet Kelly Dowling has moved from 1936 .Omaba to Bronxville. Dan is chief cartoon- Schrager had the youngest baby, 6 weeks old; Fay and Millie Garnett Metz divided MRS. ANDREW T. ROLFE ist for the N. Y. Herald Tribune. They have two children, Richard, 4, and Blair, honors on the greatest number of children (lady Bygate) Correspondent 8 months. The Dowlings joined your cor- each with four. Liza was presented with a Woodside Avenue respondent and family for a beach and e.e. scrapbook as a token of appreciation Westport, Connecticut charcoal picnic one day last summer. for her superb execution in the monument- al task of organizing the entire reunion of our class. We all say thanks to Liza for a Married: Janet S. Hadsell to Stephen 1. 1937 glorious weekend. Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. MRS. HENRY B. HIGGINS Bunny \Vheeler writes that she is an in- Jean Rothschild Cole says her children are "old news," but we're so far behind (Dorothy Fuller) Corres pondent structor in Zoology at Connecticut after reo ceiving her M.A. at Smith in '39 and her that it may be news to some of our read- 309 Highland Ave., So. Norwalk, Conn. Ph.D. from Yale in '48. Betty Schlesinger ers. David is 12 and Judith 10. Her hus- band, Lewis, is a photo finisher in Louis- MRS. WILLlAM E. MEANEY \' TWENTY~FOUR two small daughters. Mary had graduate study at Western Reserve, Kentucky State 1939 1940 University, and Cleveland Art School. MRS. LOUIS W. NIE MRS. HARRY L. GOFF Dorothy Richardson received her Master of (Eldreda Lowe) Correspondent (Mary Giese) Correspondent Education degree at Boston University. 4305 Central Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 36 Boulderbrook Rd., Wellesley, Mass. Dottie is a commercial teacher at Howe High School, Billerica, Mass., and is a After a busy summer, looking for, find- Marriages: Barbara Homer to William E. member of the Honorary Fraternity of Bus- ing, and moving into, a new home, I have Beckham, jr., July 9 in Kennebunkport, Maine. They are living in Miami, Fla. iness Teachers, and National Honor Society also been able to report a bit of news about Constance Buckley to Albert E. Cookson for Women in Education. Her hobbies are "the girls', thanks to the welcomed post- on Sept. 10 in Boston, Mass. They are liv- traveling and collecting figurines. Corres- card response. ing in Newton Highlands, Mass. pondent Bunny Meaney has been convalesc- Louise Newman Greengard has a y-year- Births: To Orrin and Martha Young ing after two operations within as many old daughter. She and Doris Houghton Ott, Youngquist, a son on Jan. 13. They are weeks and is trying to restore order after whose two children are keeping her busy, living in \' TWENTY-FIVE town with breath-taking views all over the ward, The Haywards, who have two small place (foothills of the Smokies, 1 think). boys, and the Lovings vacationed together 1943 From Peg Lafore in Menlo Park, Calif., in Michigan last summer. Rilla had a re- MRS. SAMUEL SILVERSTEIN (Mrs. Allen Moltzen ) a long letter an- union with Hooker Daoust Glendinning (Ruby Zagoren ) CorreJpolldent nouncing, among other things, two sons, Allan, Jr., 4Yl, and Bobby, 15 months. and Evelyn De Puy Peterson when the Pe- Bozrah Road, Norwichtown, Conn. When they lived in Berkeley, Peg saw tersons were on a vacation trip to the east. much of Dottie Cushing Redington, who Rilla joined them for a weekend at Hook- Marriages: Janet Corey to Morton Hamp- also has two sons. At present, Peg is ac- er's home in Cleveland. ton In Providence on July 9. Among the tive in the newly initiated c.c. chapter. '43ers present were Ginny King Stevens, Justine Clark phoned me from southern Charles and Mary Lou Sharpless Swift have Nan Christensen Carmon, Priscilla Barley, two children, Hugh, 6%, and Elizabeth, 2. Ohio, the western end of an automobile Alicia Henderson Speaker, Helen Borer Dick and Margaret Hanna Caulfield have a trip with her parents, They traveled nearly Jackson and Jean Nelson Steele. son, Rick, 3Y2, and a year old daughter, 3,000 miles through the Smoky Mountains Tibby. Bobby Yohe Williams has two sons, Births: To James and Florence Urban and Kentucky. Justine is back at the high BiH (Frank, jr.}, 5, and Jimmy, 4. Cathy \Xlyper, a daughter, Roberta, in July, named Elias tells me Jessie Ashley Scofield had school in West Hartford, Conn" where she after the late Roberta Bosworth Counsel- her second son, Ruppert Wallace, on July has taught physical education since 1942. man of our class. To Lawrence and Bet- 25, And we have another, too, Don Dun- She saw Sylvia Hansling recently; Sylvia sey Pease Marshall, a second daughter, Karen Day, Sept. 16; to T. B. and Louise van, born July 28. went on a windjammer cruise last summer. Bette Smith writes from Paris that she Radford Denegre, a second son, John, Sept. is returning to the states in December. Barry Beach Alter's annual letter ar- 11; to John and Nancy Stecher Brown, a Marjorie Toy is M. A.-ing in psychology rived from Allahabad, lndia ,where Jim is second daughter in July; to Elbert and at Pitt; Gene Mercer is working tor B.B.D. religious director and history teacher at Barbara Batchelor Hamlin, a daughter, & O. (advertising, not a railroad). Mar- Ewing Christian College, Besides caring for spring '49; to Donald and Jean Nelson garet Stoecker Moseley attended a film con- Marty, 5, and John, 2, Barry's activities Steele, a second daughter, Ellen, January ference f01 Sarah Lawrence at Stephens include church work, visiting the wives of '49; to David and Mary Surgenor Baker, a College in April, then on out to Los Ange- professors, entertaining most of the visitors daughter, Susan, fall '48; to Charles and les to join Mose who was on a business to Ewing College, and an hour a day of Nan Thompson Wells, a second child in trip. In St. Louis a chat with Ann Ruben- Hindi. This summer Jim and Barry had the the spring of '49. unusual opportunity of making a tnp into stein Husch, ex '41; and in Chicago one Martha Boyle Morrison's daughter, Lydia, the mountains, "Our two-week hike was with Donna Ed, Reynolds, ex '41, divulged will be 2 in May and particularly enjoys to Jamnotri (the source of the Jamna) the news, a daughter, Jean, as of last Nov. romping with Marion Butterfield Hinman's which lies at the foot of the snow peaks Vacationing with Janet fletcher and Tony dog, Terry. Butterball is doing volunteer 95 miles from Landour, which is situated Ellrodt in Chatham, Steck saw Barb Two- work for the League of Women Voters. between the Jamna and Ganges Rivers, mey and Dale and Barbara Hickey Metzler Betty Hammink Carey visited Harriet Both these rivers are sacred to the Hindus and their three offspring. Back home, Steck Squires Heizer and two children in New and thousands make the pilgrimage to their has begun putting any excess energy into a Hampshire this summer, and later visited sources each year. We went with four new project which sounds great, the West- Julie Rich Kurtz in Philadelphia. Marjorie others and took two mules to carry our chester Film Society, which will show 16 Fee Manning and son are living in a brand mm films at six different performances food and bedding, For nearly the entire distance we followed the main pilgrim new West Hartford, Conn., home built by during the winter. husband Ray and his father and brother. I saw Mark and Jeanne Turner Creed trail, . along which there are pilgrim shel- Martie Morrison entertained Flo Urban early in August just as they were about to ters nearly every ten miles. The pilgrims Wyper and Katrina Mitchell McConnell embark on a Dayton vacation, and in late were almost as interesting as the scenery. this summer. Martie sees Connie Haaren August stumbled happily upon lee Rein- Some were quite poor and included old Wells frequently when Connie brings her hardt in Grand Central, ordering vacation men and women (many widows with little girl to the kindergarten nearby. Con- transportation, but it proved to be just a shaven heads) who stumbled along with nie has a little boy of 2 also. Martie is merrily brief and un-illuminating encount- considerable difficulty. They would greet wondering what happened to the round er. us with shcuts of 'Jamna Mai ki jai' (Vic- tory to Mother Jamna). These shouts were robin Jetter that nine Jane Addams gals had started. Martie saw Mary Lou Walsh 1942 evidently an excellent tonic for sore muscles and blistered feet. The pilgrims Thackrey :3.0d daughter Ann in Hartford MRS. PAUL R. PEAK, JR. were friendly and curious as to why we briefly before Mary Lou moved to Califor- (Jane Worley) Correspondent had come so far when we obviously did nia, When Thelma Gustafson Wyland vis- 3225Y2 North High St., Columbus 2, Ohio not believe in their gods. We in tum ited in Hertford, Betty Carey Hammink could not but marvel at the religious faith entertained several classmates at dinner. Births: To Baird and Pat King Helfrich, which spurred them on. At Jamnotri we While at the Springfield Exposition, a son, Stuart George, on March 28. To Ray found a small temple and some huts. The your correspondent phoned Jean Nelson and Eleanor King Miller, a son, John Ray- Hindus believe that a pilgrimage of this Steele who is living with her two daugh- mond, on July 30. type will help reduce the burden of sin ters in a new home in West Springfield. Fellow residents of Columbus are Rilla which .an individual soul carries over to Jean said that Janet Corey's wedding was Loomis Loving and Mary Newmyer Hay- the next incarnation." like a reunion for '43ers; also that Margo TWENTY-SIX Harrington Walker lives in town and they Anne Davis Heaton, ex '44, writes that thanks to Caryl I am able to include the have frequent telephone visits. Margo has Paul and Jean Lienbach Breitinger and son Lipsey name for the first time in this col- a son nearly 3 years old; her husband, Eu- Billy paid them a visit at their Levittown umn. I had heard nothing from or about gene, is a captain in the Air Corps and home. Anne and Gordon have an older son Clara Sinnott Lipsey until Caryl's letter, served with the airlift in Germany for Gordon Davis, "Davey," age 5¥2. ' but she volunteered that Clara spent some quite a while. Recently, while Betty Rabinowitz Sheffer time recently with her family in New Ha- After visiting Dr. Jensen, who retired in was wheeling her daughter Ann, she met ven while Elmer was Coast Guarding off June, your correspondent stopped at How- Betty Hassell Stiles, who has a new son, Alaska. You might be interested to know too that there is a third member of the ard Johnson's, New London, and who Craig, age 4 months. Lipsey family, young Chris, age 2V2' should be having dinner there, enroute to Boston was the scene of a reunion for New Jersey, but Jeanne Corby Bell, charm- Libby DeMerritt Cobb, ex '44, Nancy Carol Another missing name has come to light ing little Karen and husband Kenneth. The Pierce. Vacation time found Sid and Vir- this issue thanks to some inquiries of and Bells are living in Providence and frequent- ginia Passavant Henderson visiting Frank about Flo Murphy Gorman. Flo responded ly see Lois Webster Ricklin, '44~ whose and jeanne Estes Swee-ny, and Jim and to my postcard request for information with husband Saul is an associate professor at Virginia \X'eber Marion, and having a get- an entertaining and informative letter that Brown University, together with George and Barbara Pilling announced her marriage in December and Smith Lesure, ex '44, and Ann Hoag told of the Gorman's' doings. Larry is a 1944 T;fft. student at Brown, and Flo, to keep busy, is continuing with occupational therapy MRS. ROGER F. KLEINSCHMIDT work in a small mental hospital in Provi- (Jeanne Jacques), Correspondent 1945 dence. 16 Parker St., Belvidere, N. ]. MRS. DONALD S. TUTTLE, JR. From the midwest comes news of Kitty (Lois Fenton) Correspondent Willia.ms Flannery and husband Dick. Pat Births: A daughter, Christina Ruddell, to Witsend Farm, Bethlehem, Conn. Wells Caulkins wrote to say that she had Richard and Peggy Davidson Pharr on May been to Birmingham this summer and had 27; a third daughter, Deborah Lee, to Ar- seen the Flannery's new house, an early Marriages: Florence Murphy to Larry mand and Mary Melville Zildjian, ex '44, American type that from all accounts is Gorman last Dec. 28; Almy Scudder Whar- on July 11, a second son, Richard Morgan, perfection. Kitty, she announced, is busy ton to Richard Bierregaard in February; to Paul and Mary White Rix, ex '44, on finding bargains and Dick even busier re- Eleanor Koenig to Frederick Arthur Carle- July 19; a second daughter, Gail Ann, to finishing and rebuilding them. ton on June 17, Roger and Jeanne Jacques Kleinschmidt on Another communique from the midwest Births: A second child and first daugh- July 29; a second daughter, Vicki, to Paul comes from Jinny Bowman Corkran. Jinny ter, Carol Joan, to Bob and Joan McCarty and Margaret Nash Manchester, ex '44, on wrote to announce the arrival of young McNulty on June 26. A son, Federick Steele, Aug, 1; a third child, Stephen, to Lewayne Leslie and also to tell of her move to IV, to Steele and Patty Hancock Blackall and Ethel Sproul Felts on Aug, 8; a second, Wisconsin in July. son, Thomas Lienbach, to Bill and jean in July. A second child and first daughter, Limbach Breitinger, ex '44, in August; a Leslie Charters, to Sewell and Jinny Bow- Of all people to have moved, however, second daughter, Margaret Hamilton, to man Corkran on September 22. you might well surmise that the Jordans have been at it again. Zanney Steffen Jor- Tum and Sue Balderston Sears on Sept. 1; A recent Jetter from Patty Hancock dan, AI, Skip, and Jennifer have switched a second ISOn,Roger Lawrence, to Gordon Blackall brought forth news of the Black" houses for the tenth time and are settled and Anne Davis Heaton, ex '44, on Sept. all's aforementiOned son and heir, but also in Falls Village, Va. AI was asked to re- 18. provided some interesting information on turn to Washington to work for the Bureau what she and Steele have been doing these This summer yielded some welcome news of Standards and so Washington it is. past few years. Steele graduated from Har- from previously silent classmates. The Rixes, Their house is practically brand new with vard Business School in June, Patty in the Paul and Mary White, ex '44, son Paul all the new-fangled gadgets, and by wav meantime continuing with lab work at and newcomer Richard, are living in Mil- of impressing me and the rest of you with M.I.T. They are settled in Manville, R. I.. waukee where Mary is an active member the fact that they are due to stay a while. with some very pleasant memories of a of the Alumnae group. Mary attended the Zanney stated that they've bought some good part of the world. Their honeymoon, Alumnae Council at New London in Feb- trees. ruary and on her trip east visited Libby as you may remember, was a cruise through One final move, that of Hank and Jean Wallace Sharts, ex '44; Libby is kept very the Carribean, but they have now added to Patton Crawford. I know none of the de- busy with her family of three: Wallace, 4, their travels an European trip last summer. tails but can safely say that the Crawfords Melinda, 2, and Jeffrey, 6 months. To quote Patty. "It will be a long while before we take off again, but it's been fas- are settled in Detroit. Peggy Davidson Pharr writes that she cinating and we loved it." Finally comes news that I'm sure should has seen Ben and Barbara Pfohl Byrnside I learned via the grapevine that Caryl make the headlines of this issue. Perhaps and their daughter. The Byrnsides are in Maesel Kaercher was living in Garden City some of you have seen the movie "The California where Ben is going to school. Cleveland Story." If not, do, for you're The Pharrs visited John and Margaret and so wrote to request some information on her activities. Caryl promptly replied going to find none other than Jerry Han- Johnson Bayer, ex '44, and their children, ning appearing in it. She plays the role of Benjie and Susie, in Harrisburg, where that the Kaerchers have a brand new home there and a year old daughter, Kathie. And nursemaid to George Brent's children, he John is stationed with the Navy, TWENTY-SEVEN being co-starred with Lynn Marti. Jerry York Life Insurance Development, "Fresh Brandt's second son, James Zahn Brandt, has had her finger in a number of pies . Meadows." Roger has a fine position as was born this spring. Danny Danforth, son since college days. To enumerate a few, engineer coordinator at the Hazeltine Elec- of Judy Mandell Danforth, was born on Sept. 15. Joyce Kappel Sumberg had a son, she is a member of the Cleveland 500, :l tronics Corporation in Little Neck, N. Y., group organized to encourage theatrical which handles government contracts for Johnny, on April 15. the Navy, and "Ditto" herself keeps very talent. She has starred at the Cleveland Sue Johnson Walters is living in a farm- busy at Hofstra College working on edu- playhouse and with the Shaker Players, house in Missouri and loving it, while cational, vocational and socio-emotional Candlelight Theatre, Eldred Players, and Walt attends the University of Missouri. the Heights Community Theatre. 1n addi- guidance. Nancy Newey Farris writes that chasing tion she has made numerous radio and tele- Nathalie Needham Ellis came all the way her year old daughter, Stacy, around, at- vision appearances. She has also received from Baton Rouge, La., to visit her family tending meetings of the Alpha Phi Alumni her M. A. at Western Reserve, and some- in Newton, Mass., during the last two Assoc., and being on the board of the how has managed to find time to teach weeks in September. With her she brought Highland Park Branch of Infant Welfare dramatics and study voice. her husband and their little lY2 year old keeps her life quite busy. Barbara Camp- daughter. It was grand to see her again bell Temple's husband, Bill, is studying 1946 even if it could be for just a little while; citrus and avocado production at California for at that' very same time I was making Polytechnic. They have an apartment on the MRS. JOHN NORRIS FULHAM, JR. those necessary last minute preparations for campus and six acres in Fallbrook of two (Margery Watson) Correspondent a two-week trip across the country with year avocados which they care for on week- 103 Gerry Rd., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Jack. One must travel the country to ap- ends. Eftima Velles Triffon has been living preciate its actual size and beauty, the acres in New London since her marriage in '48. upon acres of farmland, the glorious rises Virginia Stauffer has been working for Marriages: Margery Ann Muir to Thom- of mountains, the endless stretches of Trans World Airline in Washington, D. C, as King on August 5 in New York City. plains interrupted only occasionally by :1 since the middle of last April as a reser- Jean Clinchy to Joseph S. Vila, Jr., on cluster of grazing cows or a barbed wire vations agent. Dotty Dismukes and Pet July 2 in Hartford. fence. Although the trip was made for Robinson visited Stuff this summer. Barbeur Lee "Ditto" Grimes Wise's let- business reasons and the price of fish fil- ter was just full of news. She wrote that lets was never really forgotten, we managed Ginny Pond is working at Brookhaven on June 25 she and Joanne Ferry Gates, to spend happy hours together viewing the National Laboratory. Peg Stirton has also Cynthia Terry, Barbara Smith Peck, Lygie many points of interest along the way. been workmg at Brookhaven since August de Freitas Johnson, Lee Carr Freeman, Ann 1947, being employed as an employment Muir King, Jane Montague Wood, and interviewer. Sue Studner spent a year after Barbara Miller Gustafson had a get-togeth- 1947 graduation working in television. She has been doing production for, taking part in er in New York. Jean Mount Russard and MRS. R. KEENE REED and narrating on a children'S 15 minute Anne Williamson Miller, in the vicinity (Jean Stannard) Correspondent two weeks before, just missed the fun. radio program. This takes several evenings Jean, with her baby, Stephen, was just 285 E. So. Central Ave., Hartsdale, N. Y. a week so from 9 to 5 Sue is a case worker passing through New York on her way to in White Plains with the Foster Child Di- vision of the Family and Child Welfare visit her parents in Springfield, Mass., Marriages: Lorraine Pimm to Richard Department. Sue finds the work interesting, whereas, Anne Williamson Miller came to Simpson on Saturday, October 1. Marge New York for a little longer time in order Farrel to Richard Cheetham on Sept. 17 meaningful and quite a challenge. to attend the American Management Asso- Patsy Goldman to Edward Stanley Corwin From Pnscella Crim Leidholdt I've heard ciation dinner with her father. She was on June 18. Norma Olsen to George Con- that she and her husband, John, returned only a bystander, but she enjoyed it all im- sentino in May. Frommie (Anne Fromm), from China in February and March, res- mensely and met many fabulous people. was married to Frank McGurr in June. pectively. Putty was evacuated with the last "Ditto" included in her nice letter that Liz Marlowe to Lt. William S. De Vaughn group from Tsingtao and had a wonderful "Gus" and Barbara Miller Gustafson and of the Navy Air Corps on September 28. trip back via Japan and Hawaii. The Leid- their family are living at Duke University Births: Jean Dockendorff Finch tops the holdts were in Oceanside, Calif., until July where Gus is teaching in the Naval list with twin sons, Steven and Bradley, 1, after which they said farewell to the R.O.T.e.; that Ruth Seal kept her many born on August 26. Joe and Jinx Carlisle Navy and returned to Rochester. I've heard friends at home informed about her ex- Williams have had the latest arrival I've that Judge Service Forker is in Tulsa, citing travels through Europe this past heard of,.a baby girl, Patricia Vermette, on Okla., with her husband and 8 month old summer. October 4. Lu and Sandy Morse Baldwin daughter. Maren Burmester Elderkin writes "Ditto" went on to say that she and are the proud parents of a boy, Raymond that she graduated from NcjC. in '47 while Roger in their former apartment in Rock- Earl Baldwin, II, born August 30. Hugh her husband, Pat, graduated from Prince- ville Center, N. Y., had lots of fun enter- and Jackie Everts Bancroft had a boy, ton. They have bought a house in Prince- taining this past summer. Both Brooks and Hugh Bancroft, III, on July 25. Katherine ton and are settled there with their year Jane Montague Wood and Ray and Bar- Byrd Walters, Sue Johnson Walters' sec old son, Wick. bara Smith Peck spent many happy hours ond child, was born on May 12 The Patsy Goldman Corwin is housekeeping with them playing tennis and seeing Jones \'{Talters' son, David, is 2 years old. Eugene in New Jersey and teaching nursery school. Beach. But just recently "Ditto" and Roger and Jane Sapinslcy Nelson had a daughter, Sue Hannock Stern is combining a career moved to a larger apartment in the New Pamela Kay, on June 2. Ruth Zahn and a housewife's job, too. She is handling TWENTY-EIGHT the financial end of an advertising firm. Com. project. Last summer she led a group and herself got together for a weekend in After leaving Connecticut, Lois Cavanaugh of 10 to France with the Experiment in South Lyme. On Sept. 20, Marie, Joan went to business school and has been work- International Living. They lived with fam- Roberts, and Elaine saw Marge Barrie off ing for the past two years as a private ilies for 3 weeks, then biked and camped to Europe where she will study for her secretary in Hartford. Wally and Mary out in Brittany and the Loire Valley. At master's at the Sorbcnne. Spencer Close with their two sons, David present Corinne is in New York studying and Peter, are living in Princeton, where for her M.A. in English at Columbia. Wally is getting his Ph.D. C. C. Hollerith 1948 is hard at work in medical photography Sally Marks Wood and her husband have MRS. EUGENE ST. CLAIR lNeE, JR. and art. She writes that she has dined with locked up their Levittown abode and arc (Jean Gregory) Correspondent Mrs. Peter A. Brown {Shieldsie ) , Mrs. living in Meriden, Conn. Bot and Mel Luff Alonzo Parsons (Joanny Albrecht), and Jeavons are back in Cleveland with their 741 Fair Oaks, Oak Park, lII. Mrs. S. M. Babson' (Milly Ogdon ), all of year and a half son, Billy, where Bob is whom are very good cooks. C. C. has just attending Western Reserve Law School. Marriages: Pat Hemphill to John Gor- been in New York staying with Jean Aber- Jean \Vitman Gilpatrick is in Denmark for don Rix Leppingwell on Sept. 24, in Akron, nethy for the purpose of hanging an ex- the year. Tryg and Ann McBride Tholfsen Ohio. Janey Evans McBride, ex '48, was hibit at the Academy of Science. Dorothy are living in a quonset hut in New Haven matron of honor, and reports that after a Dismukes has been secretary to the dean while Tryg goes to Yale graduate school. honeymoon in Canada, Pat and John will of graduate studies of Carnegie Institute of Ann is Walking on virus research connect- make their home in Akron. Technology. After graduating, Jean Gum- ed with cancer. Randy Mead is teaching port Black spent six weeks learning speed kindergarten at the Junior School in Wesr Births: To Van and Angela Rubin De- writing. Later she worked for the N. Y. Hartford. She also works as a volunteer at Celis Van Acker, a daughter, Angela Telephone Co. as business office represen- the Juvenile Court. Louise, on Aug. 21. To Bob and Janet Scott Ricker, a daughter, Margaret Martin, tative. The Blacks were married Sept. 14, Nickie Yeager writes that she recently on Sept. 12. George and Annie Romig 1948, and honeymooned in Bermuda. Jean spent a weekend with Frank and Ann Lenning announce the birth of their second is still keeping at the books, taking night Fromm McGurr at their home in Port child, a daughter, Kristen, on July 3. courses at the New School. Washington, L. I. At Lorraine Pimrn's For Connie Nichols Prout, June of '49 wedding, Nickie saw Babs Giraud Gibson, Janey Evans McBride is working part- was a very important month inasmuch as who had just returned from Switzerland, time for an insurance company in Spring- her husband was graduated from Rutgers Jane Cope Pence, Nancy Leech Kidder, field, Mass., and looking forward to Jan- University. Parker, their son, celebrated his Joan Rosen, Betsy McKey, Bobbie Otis, uary, when her husband, Pete, will be transferred to Princeton, N. Pat Parrott third birthday, and the Prouts celebrated Jane Coulter, and Anchie Wetherald. who J. is working as a bridal counselor in Har- their fourth anniversary. Helen Vinal went was a bridesmaid. Nickie spent a week with aenfeld's in Kansas City. Pat Sloan is liv- to work at Harvard Business School after Jackie Dorrance enroute to Los Angeles ing in Hollywood, Calif., where she hopes graduating from Katherine Gibbs. Vin and this summer. Jackie has a cute apartment to .find a job in radio or television produc- Betty Dutton bad a terrific time this sum- and is secretary at r. department store called tion and in the meantime is getting an mer vacationing for a few weeks in Ber- The \Xlhite House. Bobbie Otis is working interesting view of behind-the-scenes in muda. Marilyn Griffin was made head of for Sterling Advertising Agency as secre- Hollywood. Ellie Roberts is still with the the statistical department of the Life In- tary to an account executive. Pril Baird is Simmons Travel Agency in New York. surance Agency Managers Association, the working in Putney, Vermont, with the Ex- Janey Gardner and Marjorie Jacobs are only insurance analyzing company of its periment in International Living. Jane Coulter and Bobbie Otis share an apart- also heading New York way, and in Oc- kind in the country. Jean Fay started off ment with June Williams Weber's sister tober were looking for an apartment there. writing advertising copy for G. Fox and in New York. Jane is working for the Co. and was recently offered the position Bobbie Kite, secretary to the director of Milbank Memorial Fund as a research as- as their bridal consultant. Pat Robinson is research of Madg1P.oiselle, spent her vaca- sistant in the field of public health. Marian still teaching at Bates and loving it. Doris tion last summer with Curly Wilmarth and Petersen writes that she recently took a Davies Wagner is working for the Ameri- a friend from Larchmont in Bermuda. leave of absence from her job for a Cali- can Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology Their reports are glorious, and you should fornia trip. She saw Jean Whitmore in La while her husband attends his second year see Bobbie's Bermuda pictures. Shirley Gona Beach. Whit has a job with a sta- of medicine at the University of Pittsburg MacKenzie has returned from Scotland, tionery store and loves California. Wally Blades is now in her junior year of where she has been studying since grad- medical school at the Univ. of Maryland. Elaine Kleinschmidt recently started uation, and Scotland, it seems, is without She writes that the practical work started work on polio at the School of Public peer. Paul and Helene Sulzer Guarneccia this year and that she has delivered some Health at the University of Michigan. spent the summer at Middlebury, where babies recently. Last summer Wally was Marie Hickey is still underwriting at Conn- "Bromo" had a job as secretary to the di- dramatics counsellor at a small girls camp. ecticut General. Last year Ree was an ad- rector of the Spanish School and Paul, as viser for a local Junior Achievement group assistant to the dean. Ralph and Janet Corinne Manning has been busy since Mellen Shearer and their new daughter, '47. She taught English, music, French. and and spent one night a week helping the kids manufacture a window cleanser, pre- Ban Anne, spent a large part of the sum- Latin at the Holmquist School for 2 years. mer at the Jersey Shore, and are now back The summer of '48 Corinne worked with pare sales talks, and make profits. Ree writes that last June, Weeze Odell came in their apartment in Verona, N. J. David small Neapolitan children in an Italian vil- and lbby Stuart Kruidenier have settled in lage south of Naples in a Unitarian Service east and Elaine Kleinschmidt, Peter Smith TWENTY~NINE Minneapolis, Minn , where they have just Ahearn (back from Europe) were there and Johnson and Norma Gabianelli are both on built a new home. My husband, Bud, and it really was reunion. Joyce and Irv are the training squad at G. Fox & Co. in I spent the summer in Annapolis, Md., living in Cleveland, have a three-room Hartford. Lee Garrison .is in Oxford, Eng- where we were surprised to find Van and apartment five minutes walk from Joyce's land, at the School of Fine Arts. She spent Angela Rubin DeCelis Van Aacker, and Al job. Francie Lockhart was married to Air the summer in Greece and Italy with her and Dotty Inglis Pritchard as our neigh- Force Lieutenant Eugene Hustad on June family and plans to head for home next bors. Angela and Van, with their new 25. Sally Whitehead married Clarke Mur- June. Na Gabermen is in New York work- baby, puppy, and black cat will remain in phy, Jr. on June 25. They are living in ing for Time, Life and Fortune. She's one Annapolis for a year or two while Van Baltimore. E. Ann Wilson was married to of the fortunate ones with an apartment completes his post graduate work at the Sam Carman in the college chapel on June and is living with two girls from Hartford. Naval Academy. Dotty's husband is an 13. They are living in Ithaca. Jane Smith is also working for Time, Life instructor at the Academy, so Annapolis and Fortune in New York. Births: Andy Coyne Flanigan has a little will be their horne for some time to come. boy. Nancy Noyes and Jeff Judge have an Bud and I are now enroute to Pensacola, apartment together in Greenwich Village. Fla., looking forward to a winter in the Lee Berlin is teaching Iour-year-olds and Nan is working in the nursery school at studying as well at Bank Street School for sunny South. the Leavittown Housing project on Long Nursery School Teachers. Sarah Blaisdell Island, and Jeff Is studying nursery school is pounding a typewriter at Katherine 1949 work in New York. Sally How is work- Gibbs' in New York. Lynn Boylan can be ing for an educational psychologist in found on the eighth floor of Bonwit Tel- SYBIL WYZAN, Correspondent Hartford administering I.Q. tests to 12-16 ler's in New York She shares a darling year aids. Andy Anderson is in Wasbing- 150 Magnolia Street, Hartford, Conn. apartment on 23rd Street with Bibs Fincke, ton in the training course at LB.M. Ronnie secretary for an advertising firm, and Bobby Jasch and Sybil \'\'\,zan are both teaching Miller, assistant service girl at I. B. M. kindergarten, Ronnie in Windsor Locks Alice Fletcher sends the following news: Sandy Carter is at work at The Yale School After a general exodus to Europe, the class and Sybil in Glastonbury. Jan Simmons of Nursing and Agnes Cornell is working has a job with the Norcross Greeting Card of 1949 IS gradually returning to home in a bookstore in her home town of Wash- Co. in New York and is living in a girls' shores and settling down. Four groups ington, Conn.-biding time until June. went from Connecticut College this last residence club. Undy is teaching kinder- summer under the leadership of Skip Cole- Mary Lee Gardner is also making pre- garten in Germantown, Pa. and sees Phyl man ('48), Jean Sherman, Bobby Jones. parations for he: wedding day. Mimi Has- Hammer often and Sunny Spivey. Gretchen Mr. Kasem-Beg was to lead the fourth kell is engaged to Mackie McDowell's Schaefer is in New London teaching speech group but he became ill so the girls went brother. Ruth Hauser is right across the at WI. M. 1. Jeannie Harris is studying without a leader. On the home front: street from Grand Central working with at the New York School of Social Work. American Airlines. Jeannie Hurlbut is Marriages: Frannie Adams was married bard at work on a New Rochelle newspa- Marilyn Watson is in radio work in on July 9 in Chatham, Mass. to Arthur B. per and is heading up publicity for the New York and Mildie Weber is a secre- Nichols III. Lee Garrison and Sally How Westchester alumnae benefit concert in tary with The Young and Rubican Adver- were bridesmaids and it was a gay time Bronxville, December 3. Irma Klein is back tising Co. there. with Dallas, Phyl Hammer, Phyl Nectow, at the books-now at Radcliffe. Mary Mac- Sally How helps out with more news: joie Ginzbcrg Burroughs, Mildie and Lurt Donald is teaching physics at Hunter Col- Dallas is home in Texas and is taking a all there. Frannie and Nick are now living lege in New York and Martie Portlock is business course with the hope of getting a in Washington, D. C. Joyce Benjamin was putting her sociology to work in Norfolk, job in january. Phyl Hammer has a job married October 8 in Norwich to Irving S. v«. Gloman, Jr. of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Dottie with the research laboratory at Valley Forge Evans, Sandy Carter, and Ann Perryman Phyl Nectow is taking a business course in General Hospital. She and Bobby Duin, were among the attendants. Joffe and Julie Boston along with Dottie Evans. Helen e.G.A., '48, plan to be married in May. THIRTY Clubs of the Connecticut College Alumnae Association Presidents and Secretaries BOSTON BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY Mrs. L. B. Barnard (Janet Boomer '29) Mrs. Ruth B. Von Arx (Ruth Brooks '34) 30 Standish Road, Wellesley Hills 82 134 West End Avenue, Englewood Miss June Morse' 42 Mrs, Edgar A. DeYoe, Jr. (Mary M, Topping '46) 7 Millett Road, Swampscott 34 Harding Road, Glen Rock CHICAGO Mrs. John Kranz (Eleanor Hine '34) Mrs. Frederick Reynolds (Donna Ed ex '41) 150 South Highwood Avenue, Glen Rock 214 Fifth Street, Wilmette NEW LONDON Mrs. Frederic T. Brandt, JI. (Dorothy Kitchell '421 Mrs, L. A. Renshaw (Doris Kaske '42) 1426 Hinman Street, Evanston 35 Fitch Avenue, New London CLEVELAND Mrs. John De Gange (Mary Crofoot '27) Mrs. Robert]. Slobey (Mary E. Lamprecht '40) 95 Oneco Avenue, New London 2516 Marlboro Road, Cleveland Heights 18 Natalie ]. Klivans '40 NEW YORK 16901 Shaker Boulevard, Shaker Heights Mrs. Roger W. Wise, Jr. (Barbeur Grimes '46) DELAWARE Hofstra College, Hempstead, Long Island Mrs. Willard 1. Johns (Jeannette Rothensies '38) Miss Ruth]. Baylis '32 2 Bedford Court, Wilmington 35 Sammis Street, Huntington, Long Island Miss Mary E. Power '45 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 2735 West Sixth Street, Wilmington Mrs, John E. North (Betty Devlin '34) DENVER 1520 Greenwich St., Apt. 5, San Francisco 23 Mrs. Ralph Rickenbaugh (Hilda Van Horn '28) Miss Emma T. G. Moore '37 361 Ash Street, Denver 7 28 B, Lower Crescent, Sausalito Mrs. Clyde S. Rioe, Jr. (Eleanor Clarkson ex '39) PI-lILADELP}-lIA 1216 forest Avenue, Denver 7 Mrs. James L Dearnley (Mary Lou Elliott '43) FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECT:CUT 410 Waverly Road, Wyncote Mrs. Albert Garofalo (Harriet Leib '41) Mrs, Davis P, Smith, Jr. (Janet Weiss '46) 218 Verna Hill Road, Fairfield Country House, Huntingdon Valley Mrs. Richmond L. White, Jr. (Carla Eakin ex '41) North Wilton Road, New Canaan PITTSBURGH HARTFORD Miss Dorothy Dismukes '47 1422 Browning Road, Pittsburgh 6 Mrs. Kenneth E. W'ard (Lois Hanlon '44) 73 Milton Street, West Hartford Miss Mary Coleman '48 "1129 Wightman Street, Pittsburgh 17 Miss Mary Mead' 47 155 Broad Street, Hartford SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD Mrs. Joseph Mahon (Mary Jane Benson ex '29) Mrs. Kirtland Decherd (Elmo Ashton '28) The Mahon School, Claremont 161 Curtis Street, Meriden Mrs. G, Rex Shields (Susan S. Vaughn '40) Mrs. Carmelo Greco (Alice Galante '34) 11168 Acama Street, North Hollywood 18 Lincoln Street, Meriden SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS MICHIGAN Mrs. Edmund T. Manley (Nathalie Benson '27) Mrs. John E. Parrott (Ch.erj~ Noble '44) 49 Greenacre Avenue, Longmeadow 691 Colonial Court, Birmingham Mrs. Allen C. Tindall (Barbara Brackett ex '44) Mrs. Warren Kendall (Shirley Devereaux '40) 116 South Park Avenue, Longmeadow 18464 Manor Avenue, Detroit 21 WASHINGTON, D, C. MILWAUKEE Miss Marilyn Sworayn '43 Mrs. Paul A. Rix (Mary White ex '45) 4701 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington 8 2230 East Bradford Avenue, Milwaukee Miss Anne M, Drake '42 M". Robe" Winkler (Margaret Gregory ex '461 4004 Beecher Street, N. W., Washington 7 2711 East Bradford Avenue, Milwaukee WATERBURY NEW HAVEN Mrs, Walter D. France (Ellen Grant ex '38) Mrs. John Bininger (Virginia Clerk '40) 49 Kenilworth Street, Waterbury 1 Anderson Avenue, Woodmont Mrs. Joseph Swirsky (Jeanne M. Feinn '44) Mrs. Theodore Lynch (Betty Kenna ex '36) 133 Pine Street, Waterbury 400 Livingston Street, New Haven WESTCHESTER NEW JERSEY Mrs Alexander W. Mackenzie (Harriet Leach ex '23) Mrs. Earle Chase, Jr. (Madelyn Wheeler '28) 255 Highbrook Avenue, Pelham 65 14 Chester Road, Upper Montclair Mrs. William V. Applegate (Constance Smith '41) Miss Nancy Swift '48 341 Pelhamdale Avenue, Pelham 65 347 Essex Avenue, Bloom.field I CLASS REUNIONS - 1950 JUNE 10, 11, 12 1925 1931 1932 1933 1934 1949 NEW LONDON PRINTING CD., INC.