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Connecticut College Alumnae News, March 1954

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President Park and Alumnae speakers at Freshman-Sophomore IV eele

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March 1954 SPRING CALENDAR OF EVENTS, 1953-54

JUNE MAY Class Reunions ...... june 4, 5, 6 Student recital, Holmes Hall ..... May 5 Annual meeting of Alumnae Association, Class Day Dance performance ...May 7 Exercises, Reunion Class Dinners Iune

Student recital ..May 11 Baccalaureate Sermon (broadcast for alumnae In Palmer Auditorium); Commencement Exercises .Iune 6 fathers' Day ..May 15

Outdoor Vespers . May 16 See pege 26 for Re u nion notices .

Executive Board of the Alumnae Association

President Chairman of Finance Committee M1SS JULIA WARNER '23 MRS. BURTON L. HOW (Janet Crawford '24) Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts 35 Clifton Avenue, West Hartford First Vice-President Directors MRS. JOHN NUVEEN (Grace Bennet '25) MISS NATALIE MAAS '40 5 Indian Hill Road, Winnetka, Illinois III Broadway, New York 6, New York Second Vice-President MRS. EDWIN B. HINCK (Margaret Royall '33) l\ms. WILLIAM H. DINSMORE (Gertrude Allen '36) 270 North Mountain Avenue, Upper Montclair, New Jersey 7 B Washington Square North, New York 3, New York M1SS M1LDRED HOWARD '20 Sycamore Knolls, South Hadley, Massachusetts Recerdmg Secretary (To be appointed) Alumnae 'I'rusteea MRS. H. RICHARD HEllMAN (Eleanor Jones '33) Treasurer Aldwyn Lane, Villanova, Pennsylvania MISS CAROL CHAPPELL '41 Box 263, New London MRS. OLIVER BUTTERWORTH (Miriam Brooks "40) Sunset Farm, West Hartford Chairman of Nominating Committee MISS CATHARINE GREER '29 MRS. JOSEPH S. SUDARSKY (Edith Gaberman '43) Old Hunting Ridge Stable, New Hackensack Road, 30 Foxcroft Road, West Hartford Poughkeepsie, New York Chairman of Alumnae Fund Executive Secretary MISS RUTH FERGUSON '30 Niantic River Road, Waterford MISS KATHRYN MOSS '24 Alumnae Office, Connecticut College, New London Editorial Staff of Alumnae News Editor Associate Editors MISS KATHRYN MOSS '24 Alumnae Office, Connecticut College, New London MISS GERTRUDE NOYES '25 Business Manager MRS. HUBER CLARK (Marion vibert '24) MISS CAROL CHAPPELL '41 East Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

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Cover: Alumnae speakers at Freshman-Sophomore Week: President Park- Hel F ' '''9 social work. Standing, left, Sally Church '44, banking' Ninki Hart '39, en erguson . k' 25 On m e di rcrne . as a career;Pri nscnm '11 (J ar k -, " magazlOe war ; Corinne Manning Black, teaching. Connecticut College Alumnae News OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCiATION

NUMBER 2 VOLUMEXXXII MARCH, 1954 College to Supervise Secondary School Land on South Side of Campus Sold to Williams Memorial Institute

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By a recent vote of the Trustees, Connecticut College In the meantime the Board of W. M. L suggested to will have an opportunity to direct and develop an inter- the Board of Trustees of Connecticut College that it might be mutually advantageous to locate the new school building esting program in secondary education. Alumnae will remember that New London, like some other on the College campus and give to the College the manage- towns, had until two years ago no public high school. ment of the school. In the recent past of the school, a There were three schools in the town providing high study of the curriculum had been made by a committee school education, all private foundations with their own from the University of Chicago headed by Clarence Faust, board of trustees. To each of these the City contributed now Director of the Ford Foundation Fund for the Ad- funds in order to make up the difference between the cost vancement of Education. This curriculum proposed a strict of educating the City children and the income from the emphasis on college preparation and a concentration on small endowments. Two years ago two of these schools, substantial subject matter, and the W. M. 1. Board believed that a day school with this emphasis, though of smaller Chapman Technical High School and Bulkeley High proportions than when originally planned, might continue School, sold their plants to the City of New London, which has now integrated them into the public education system. to be useful to this locality. By constructing a substantial addition to one of these The Board of Trustees of Connecticut College ex- plants, the City now has its own high school directly under amined carefully the proposal for cooperation, and after the Board of Education of New London. considerable discussion agreed to accept the management of the school and sell approximately two acres of land at The third of the original schools, which had a some- the southeast end of the parking lot near the Auditorium what larger endowment, decided through its Board to to the Board of W. M. L for the construction of a new continue to furnish education at the high school level, modern school building. The agreement provides that asking the parents of students to make up the difference should either side wish to discontinue the school, the between endowment and the minimum cost of education, building and property will revert to the College after or $300 a year. This school, Williams Memorial Institute, proper reimbursement and notice. The College will there- was founded in 1879 as a school for girls, and the Trustees fore not lose control of this land and will moreover have planned to continue to operate in its original plant if there the right to make reasonable use of the building as long was demand. as this does not interfere with the conduct of the school. After two years of operation it became clear that a The Board of W. M. L will turn Over to the College plant like W. M. L with a capacity of close to 1000 could all its income from its funds for the management of the not be economically managed with a reduced student en- school, and the College is not expected, nor does it intend, rollment of 250. The Trustees of the school were there- to contribute from its own funds. The school will be fore obliged to decide whether to discontinue the school, financed by its income from endowment, and by student as had the two other Boards, or whether to move or con- struct a smaller building for reduced enrollment. The fees-$300 a year at present. Board decided in favor of the last alternative, and at the The College Board of Trustees in its discussions saw present time has put its property on the market and is two distinct advantages to the College, both educational. requesting the Superior Court of the State for permission The proximity of a secondary school will make practice to carry out in another location the terms of the will which teaching and observation easier for college students. Stu- established the school. There is no reason to doubt that dents, however, should continue to do practice teaching in this permission will be granted. the large public high school as at present, but for begin-

3 the Court decision as possible and that the school will be ning practice teaching and for observation the closeness of open in late September. Its management will be through an opportunity would make it easier for girls to elect this the President of the College, and particularly through the work. In the second place, the College has been interested head of the College Education program, Professor Vernon for many years in the problems of transition from school to college. In several conferences between college faculty Smith. Dr. Smith joined the faculty this year, after many and secondary school teachers held on campus, aspects of years as Superintendent of Schools in Scarsdale, New York. this program have been explored. By controlling the edu- He has had wide educational experience and is keenly cational policy of a secondary school, continued study and, interested in the place of the liberal arts college in the we hope, eventually a clear contribution in this area can preparation of teachers for our schools. Dr. Smith is en- be made by the College. thusiastic about the opportunity which this new manage- The proposed new building has been designed by ment will give Connecticut College to make a contribution Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Associates, College architects. to an important field of education. It contains besides classrooms and laboratories, its own gymnasium with regulation size basketball court, a library, As the program of the school develops, alumnae of small auditorium with stage, and cafeteria arrangements. the College will be kept informed, and the College believes It is expected that construction will begin as soon after they will see it as a challenging part of the College's work.

Point of arrow shows (Irea between Auditorium. ,. parking lot and Moheg an A venue where construct/on. has been started 011 If:Y.M.l. bnilding. Palmer Auditorium is shown' rnf oregroand of picture.

4 ON CAMPUS James Foundation Gives $50,000 for Chemistry Building Grants Received from National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society

Announcement was made recently by President Park's Miss Blunt, president emeritus of the College, was office of a gift of fifty thousand dollars to the College among 26 chemists and chemical engineers who were hon- from the James Foundation of New York. The gift was ored as fifty year members of the American Chemical made for use in the construction of the Chemistry building. Society in Kansas City. Miss Blunt, who is considered an The James Foundation was established in 1941 under authority on the chemistry of food and nutrition, is also a the terms of the will of the late Arthur Curtiss James for fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of the purpose of assisting charitable, religious, and educa- Science and a member of the American Biochemical Society. tional institutions and organizations. Me. James, formerly Active in the civic affairs of New London and the a trustee of and of the New York Public state of Connecticut, Miss Blunt is held in great affection Library, was also president of the Phelps-Dodge corpora- and admiration by many groups. It recent years she has tion and president of the Board of Directors of the West- been the recipient of the Distinguished Citizen's Award ern Pacific railroad. of the Men's Club of Congregation Beth EI, New London, and also of the Good Citizen Award of Connecticut Grand * * * Lodge, Order Sons of Italy in America. Her outstanding interest in the civic affairs of New London is in slum Construction on the Chemistry Building is proceeding clearance and the provision of adequate low-cost housing. rapidly. All steel work has been erected, stone work com- pleted, and windows are being set. Concrete floors are * * * being poured, and the roof was poured shortly after the middle of April. The building will be completed and Modern and Baroque Art Discussed all equipment installed by the middle of September. Some On Campus, At Museum equipment will be moved from New London Hall soon after Commencement, and new equipment will arrive for James Johnson Sweeney, author and lecturer, and installation early in July. director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, gave the address at the convocation held in honor * * * of the newly elected members of .

News has been received by President Park of a grant Another eminent scholar and critic in the field of fine of $20,520 from the National Cancer Institute to Mr. arts, Agnes Mongan, spoke recently to members of the Richard Goodwin, chairman of the Botany Department, town and campus communities. Miss Mongan, who is for work on the effect of growth-regulating substances on curator of drawing and assistant director of the Fogg the growth and differentiation of roots. The National Can- Museum, , gave a lecture on Baroque cer Institute, which is one of the national institutes of Drawings at the Lyman Allyn Museum. health of the United States Public Health Service, has given Later Mr. Edgar Mayhew, member of the Col!ege de- the grant, which is a new one, for a three-year study, start- partment of fine arts, conducted a gallery tour through the ing September 1, 1954. exhibition then being shown in the museum, The Art of the Baroque Period. Most of the work shown in the ex- * * * hibition was loaned by the Museum of Art, , the Worcester Art Museum, the Wads~ The grant made by the American Cancer Society to worth Atheneum (Hartford), and M. Knoedler & Com- Mr. Christiansen of the Chemistry Department to extend pany of New York. from June 1952 to June 1953, was renewed last Fall to The third and final' event in the Baroque series was extend to June 1954. Mr. Christiansen is working on a a concert of Baroque music given by Mr. Donald Currier study of the relationships of cellular metabolism to cell of the School of Music, and formerly a growth and cell division. member of the Connecticut College department of music.

5 On Campus President Park on Board of New England Colleges Fund

College School of the Dance for the six years it has func- President Park, at a meeting of the New England tioned. He will arrive in New London July l l th to start Colleges Fund held in Boston on March 17, was re-elected his seventh summer of teaching and performance on the First Vice President of the 23-college organization. Presi- dent Charles F. Phillips of , Lewiston, Maine, Connecticut campus. The seventh American Dance Festi- val with Jose Limon and Dance Company, Valerie Bettis was elected President. and Dance Company, and Guest Artists, will come the The New England Colleges Fund, which began opera- week of August 16th, the final week of the six-week tions last year, was organized by 23 non-tax-supported New School of the Dance session. England liberal arts colleges to encourage business support of liberal arts education. Allerton F. Brooks, President, Also on the faculty and administrative staff of the Southern New England Telephone Company, and a mem- School of the Dance (July 12 to August 22) are Miss ber of the Connecticut College Board of Trustees, and Her- Park; Valerie Bettis, teacher and dancer and choreographer mao W. Steinkraus, president of the Bridgeport Brass Com- for stage and screen; Margaret Dietz, instructor in the pany, are Connecticut members of the Fund's Business and Mary Wigman School, Berlin, Germany, and in the Uni- Industry Advisory Committee. At the annual meeting the versity of Illinois; , Doris Humphrey, Hazel Treasurer of the Fund announced that $53,505 received Johnson, musician and member of the faculty of the dance in gifts from business and industry during the last three division of the Julliard School of Music; Pauline Kaner; months of 1953 would be distributed to the colleges in Yuriko, soloist with the Company, leading April. dancer in The King and I, teacher; Martha Graham, and The sponsoring colleges are Amherst, Bates, Boston other able and eminent authorities in the various fields of College, Brown, Clark, Colby, Connecticut College, Dart- dance. Co-directors of the school are Ruth Bloomer, of our mouth, Emmanuel, Fairfield, Holy Cross, Middlebury, own Connecticut College physical education department, Providence, Radcliffe, Regis, St. Anselm's, St. Michael's, and , director of the dance division of the Smith, Tufts, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Wheaton and Williams. Julliard School of Music. Also on the faculty is Ruth Fer- guson of the Connecticut physical education department.

* * * A new dance work for men by Jose Limon has been commissioned by Connecticut College, New Lonndon, for its seventh this August. The Student representatives, some 132 of them, of modern announcement was made by Miss Park. Mr. Limon is dance groups of ten schools attended the Connecticut Col- planning the work for seven men with major roles for lege dance symposium in March. Schools represented were Lucas Hoving and himself. The composer has not been Bradford Junior College, Connecticut Teachers' College of named as yet. This is the first all-male dance to be choreo- New Britain, Jackson College of Boston, Mt. Holyoke, graphed by Mr. Limon. It is also the first work to be Simmons, Smith, and Radcliffe colleges, the Steff Nessen commissioned by Connecticut College, although the col1ege School of Scarsdale; St. Joseph's College, the Oxford has been host to thirty-six premieres by major contempo- School of Music. rary dance companies in its six previous American Dance Festivals. Each school group was divided into two sections, the first retiring to Knowlton salon to be taught technique by Among the thirty-six first performances presented by Ella Lukk, formerly of the Estonian ballet and nOW of Connecticut College have been Limon's Moor's Pavane Humphrey's Ruins and Visions, Graham's Diversion of Bradford Junior College. In the gym the other section Angels, Maslow's Village I Knew, Bettis' Domino Furioso. heard June Dunbar of the Jose Limon School of the Dance. and many others which are now part of the standard rep- La.te.r the group assembled in the Auditorium to present ertory of . original dances for audition. Several dances were chosen ~or the evening program, open to the public, by Walter Jose Limon has appeared in all the festivals and has erry of the New York Herald Tribune and Louis Horst, been a member of the teaching faculty of the Connecticut tea I . . ' c ter, musician, and editor of Dance Observer magazine. 6 Beliefs Which Unite Theme of Religious Fellowship Group

By MILDRED LEE CATLEDGE '54

At Alumnae Council Claire Levine '55 spoke 0/1 Chapel programs and Mildred Lee Catledge '54 011 the work on campUJ of Religions Fellowship. At onr nq1lest lYIildred Lee bas smnmarized her remarks for alnsnnae readers.

Every student at Connecticut College is a member of have the privilege of planning a varied program of activi- the Religious Fellowship Organization, and no distinctions ties of a religious nature, in accordance with the wishes on the basis of race, color, nationality or creed are ever of the student body. Daily chapel services, Sunday evening made. Ministers who are forming church youth groups in vespers services and four Services of Holy Communion the downtown area of New London may ask for an indi- throughout the year remain a part of the plan under each cation of preference, on the part of the students, as to new president, as do such special programs as outdoor which church they choose to attend, but this is done chapel on the Library steps on May Day and vespers in the through Religious Fellowship and is in no way compulsory. on Fathers' Week End. This year, the special activities of the organization have included a series of During the summer, each prospective student at the after-dinner talks and a number of Bible Study sessions. college receives a letter from the president of the organi- Speakers at the informal evening groups have included zation, informing her of her membership in the group and Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer, of Rockville Center, New York; encouraging her active participation. During freshman the Reverend Shelton Hale Bishop, of the Harlem district, Week, a coffee is held for the new students, at which time New York; and Father John C. Knott, of the Can a Con- they are informed more specificalJy as to the program ference, New Haven. Bible Study leaders have included which Religious Fellowship is planning for the year. members- of the various faiths represented in and around The president of Religious Fellowship sits as a mem- New London, one of the most popular being the Reverend ber on the Student Government Cabinet, and presides over John R. de Sousa, of the First Congregational Church, the Religious Fellowship Cabinet. This body is composed New London. of eight members, all officers of the organization. The The fact that our Religious Fellowship Organization Council is made up of an elected representative from each is seeking to stress those beliefs and principles which unite dormitory on campus and the day studenr group, and it is all faiths, rather than tending to emphasize those creeds the members of this group who are direct intermediaries and tenets which differentiate them, is a source of great between the administration of the Religious Fellowship Or- inspiration and pride to us. It is through the eager and ganization and the student body as a whole. cooperative participation of each member of the student Each year, the president of the group and her Cabinet body in the work of the group that our goal is attained.

Now Ihul Spring has come-facult)· luke tbeir MJe 011 campus, ill gardens. Left 10 right: Air. [ones mapped between classes, Miss Biaggi reads her Soutb American mail while sunning ill

the Caroline Black Garde,,; MfS. Ray, cheerful, afler rearbing Streecb classes, juggling radio pro-

grallls; Dean Burdick culnoates her garden ill her OWII back yard.

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7 Music in the Church Yesterday and Today Good Music, High Standards of Performance the Rule Today

By ROBERTA BlTGOOD '28

ROBERTA B1TGOOD WIERSMA is a composer at churches in Bloomfield, New Jersey, New York City, and organist of note. She is a graduate of the Guilmant and Buffalo, New York and also the Director of Music Organ School, has an M.A. in Music Education from at Bloomfield College and Seminary, Since September 19i2 Columbia University, and holds the degree of Doctor of she has been Organist-Director of Music at Calvary Presby- Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary. She has terian Church, Riverside, California, a church of 2,000 long been a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists. members, where two identical services are conducted each Best known among her more than twenty published pieces Sunday morning. There Roberta directs six choirs for of sacred music are The Greatest! of These is Love, The people of all ages. For relaxation she also directs the Riv- Christmas Candle, Prayer is the Soul's Sincere Desire, Be erside Mothersingers, and plays the viola in the Redlands Still and Know That I Am God, Her Cantata "Job", pub- Symphony. Her husband is Gjisberr Wiersma, a physical lished in 1948 has been widely performed in churches all therapist, and her daughter, headed straight for Connecti- over the United States. She has been Organist-Director cut (we hope) is Grace Clare, 11.

Probably no field in America has seen greater improve- Old Hebrew hymn. We also find ancient music being used ments in the last generation than that of church music. along with the more modern in the Russian or Eastern Fifty years ago churches with noteworthy music were rare, Orthodox church. Some of this finds its way into the and with a few exceptions were confined to the large metro- Protestant church not only in the hymnals but in new politan centers. Improved standards in choral music in our English editions of anthems hundreds of years old. high schools, colleges, and communities have helped to For years the Plainsong or Gregorian Chant was con- bring about a change for the better. In addition the train- sidered the official music of the Roman Catholic church,and ing program for leaders in church music is far more ex- the beauties of this music were well known to the few tensive and outreaching than ever before. Also there has been a great renaissance in organ building. Craftsmen are priests who had studied to perform it. Later on, when conscious of new trends which combine the best features proper care was not given to training choirs in singing of the modern organ, with its fine materials and mechanical Plainsong, it became stilted and angular instead of smooth aids, with tonal schemes which are hundreds of years old. and flowing. When Papal edicts concerning music became Many authorities, including the noted Albert Schweitzer, less frequent and less strict, the poorly sung Plainsong was lamented the trends in the earlier part of this century to- replaced by music that was much less ecclesiastical. Within ward organs with a series of pretty orchestral stops, with the past fifty years, however, there has been a remarkable an ensemble far removed from the classic organ still found revival of the Plainsong. in many of the great European cathedrals. The Plainsong Society of America numbers among its Music has always been closely associated with worship. members the greatest authorities on this lTlusic-organists, In primitive times the beating of drums went hand in hand choirmasters, clergymen, and musicologists. Many of our with religious ceremonials. Solomon's temple was famous b~st composers of church music base anthems and organ for its antiphonal choirs and orchestras, and we read of pieces on traditional Plainsong melodies, carrying them other music in Biblical times-David with his harp-the fat beyond the services of the Roman Catholic church- large number of instruments mentioned in Psalm lSD-the among these are Healy Willan of Toronto Alfred White- singing of a hymn at the Last Supper. Much of the tradi- head of Montreal, Everett Titcomb of Bost~n Richard Pur- tional music of the ancient Hebrew temples has been vis of San FranciOC1SCO. S c hi"00 s of Sacred MUSICreqmre' a handed down, by word of mouth, and in documents of study of Plainsong by students, and even the short term various kinds. We hear this music not only in the modern summer schools sponsored by various Catholic institutions synagogues, but on the concert stage and in our Protestant find in their stu d en t b a di res Protestant oroamsts'I and rnorr- ' ch~rches. There .is hardly an up-to-date Protestant hymnal masters anxious to Iearn t h e true traditions" b of performance ~h1Ch does. not Include somewhere one Or more of these of the Plainsong S I bli h d rich, haunting, Hebrew melodies and a translation of an . . carce y a Protestant hymnal P" IS e SInce 1930 is Without new revivals of ancient Plainsong 8 ROBERTA BITGOOD, Organist-Director melodies for congregational use, even beyond the already Each new branch of the Protestant church had its o«vn familiar "0 Come Emanuel" and "Of the Father's Love ideas about music. John Calvin believed that much of the Begotten." church music he had known was frivolous and too gay, and When the Protestant church was born, congregational under his tutelage the Metrical Psalm was born. Calvin and singing came into its own. The Bible was in the hands of his followers would sing nothing which was not in the the people in their own language, and they sang hymns in Bible, hence the Psalms in verse form, many of which their own tongue. One of the earliest Protestant groups, strike our ears as quaint. Our Doxology, originally com- the Moravians have done much to preserve fine traditions posed for the metrical setting of the 100th Psalm, "All in Protestant music. They published the first hymnal in People That On Earth Do Dwell," came from this period. 1502, and brought to this country much of the old world The name "Old Hundredth" still persists for that tune. culture that was far beyond the seventeenth century Amer- It was this movement which influenced Isaac Watts to ican music. The Moravians have done as much as the write his hundreds of hymns, the earlier ones following Lutherans to help preserve the great German chorales that the strict rules, the later ones being more original and have long been familiar to students of Bach and Mendels- therefore less stiff. Among these we find some of our sohn. We find in all hymnals many of these great Chorales greatest treasures, "Our God Our Help In Ages Past," -Ein' Feste Burg, Wacht Auf, Liebster Jesu, Frankfort. "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," "Come Holy Spirit, Newmark, Ebeling, Vom Himmel Hoch, Nun Danket. Heavenly Dove," "Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun." The Moravians organized the first great Bach Festival in A long list of Watts' hymns are still included in most America in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Today this festival hymnals. attracts people from a widespread area and is repeated on two successive weekends in May. Right now Dr. Thor As evidenced in the newer trends in church architecture, Johnson, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, and the particularly church interiors, there is today an indication of son of a Moravian minister, is making plans for great festi- a leaning toward more formal worship. We find chancels vals of Moravian music in 1956 in celebration of the 500th in most new non-liturgical churches. The services are more anniversary of the church. And already he has enlisted the formal, the music has become more objective, and many help of Dr. and Mrs. Clarence Dickinson of New York in fine old traditions are present which have crossed denom- preparing some of this material for publication. inational boundaries, if there be such.

9 as Sunday School departments. Boy~' choirs. app.earin every We often find the unified service with sermon, scripture, kind of church, even as they are disappearing In the Epis- hymns, anthems, and organ pieces beautifully integrated copal churches in many places. Some of the experts in these into a complete whole. Seminaries are adding c?urses 111 worship, and many have required courses in mustc for all matters feel that a healthy church should keep at least ten ministerial candidates. These courses represent a bIg step per cent of its members busily engaged in church music. in bringing about increased understanding between .minis- In addition to the vocal music some churches sponsor ters and church musicians. Colleges and conservatories are string orchestras, brass choirs, small symphony orchestras, adding Departments of Sacred Music, to train mus.icians to and children's orchestras and bands, using them also on be more than performers-true Ministers of MusIC. At a special occasions. The stunning literature now avail~blefor few seminaries, schools of Sacred Music have been added the brass choir would be an asset to any Easter service. where musicians and ministers are trained side by side for their great tasks. None of these schools can fill the demand The organ builders of America are busier than ever be- for their graduates. fore building fine instruments for churches, chapels, and schools on which all types of music sound well-the clas- The full time Ministry of Music was not unknown a sic organ literature, oratorio and anthem accompaniments, generation ago, but the numbers of churches prepared to hymns, background music. The builders are also rebuilding pay a trained musician a living salary were limited. Today older instruments in need of attention, which, however, many communities have full-time church musicians in their midst. This state of affairs often has a good influence on have in them materials worth saving. the smaller churches, which necessarily employ part-time Concert organists are making nation-wide tours, bringing music directors with perhaps less training in this specialized the finest organ music to increasingly wider audiences. field. Many of the workers of these smaller churches look These organists are grateful for the splendid instruments to the full-time directors for guidance on materials, they find in many unexpected places. The recording indus- methods, contacts and even study. It is interesting to note try has done much to bring excellent organ playing and the that many college trained women, who have had experience sound of magnificent instruments into the homes, often in a fine choir and some courses in music, turn up at sum- along with fine choral works of major proportions in flaw- mer training institutes for briefing in this specialized field. less performances. It has been said that such works as the Housewives who are former concert artists or public school Mozart Requiem and the Bach B Minor Mass are better music teachers, are enriching the church music of many known today, through the fine LP recordings, than they communities-as organists, directors of junior, youth, or were during and soon after the times in which they were adult choirs, or as soloists. These women have taken the written. trouble to find out that to a greater extent than at any pre- vious time, there is good music, properly graded for every For more than fifty years the American Guild of Organ· kind of choir, easily available. ists has been striving to improve standards in compositions and performance of church music in this country. Today The Presbyterian Board of Christian Education in Phila- the Guild boasts chapters in all forty-eight states as well delphia has seen the needs in many of its churches, and in as in Hawaii and the Panama Canal Zone. Its more than the past ten years has undertaken the publishing of some ten thousand members are trying to do their part also. As very fine collections of anthems, carefully screened for groups they sponsor great choir festivals, workshops, master junior, youth, and adult choirs, and this program is con- classes in organ and choral work, and conventions, both tinuing. Already the Presbyterians had a fine set of graded national and regional. hymnals in circulation among many denominations. Some of us are genuinely concerned about the poor music The Lutheran church, Missouri Synod, has added a music which we know still persists in some churches. Young department to their Concordia Publication House in St. people will respond to the best, in music, as in the other Louis. Thus fine additions have been made to the available arts. More trained leadership and good materials are avail- music literature-new English editions of older works, able than ever before. Good music is being presented on original anthems, churchly organ pieces. Church musicians the concert stage; schools and colleges are building dis- all over the country look to these two publishing houses for criminating listeners. Therefore, let those of us who arc new materials, because from them they are sure of high musical quality. musical, indeed those who have any connections with churches, do all we can to raise the musical standards of The Multiple Choir System is rather new. There is Our churches. Let us never forget that the purpose of music scarcely a church of any size today that does not have some in the church is to aid in the worship of God. The great kind of regular musical activity as a part of its educational reformer Martin Luther once said "To love God is to program. We find choirs graded in much the same manner worship Him." ,

10 turies ago, the recent launching of the Nautilus at the Base brings back memories Class Notes and nostalgia""-with which we all agree. Feta attended the launching and said it Editor of Class Notes: Mrs. Huber Clark (Marion Vibert '24), East l....fainStreet, was thrilling. Fanchon Hartman Tille keeps busy doing Stockbridge, Mass. community work. She is on the executive boards of the Chest and Community Coun- cil and is working in Girl Scout work both he is temporarily attached to the Air Corps. locally and nationally. Her Samuel has 1919 Jean Sawin Hawley flew to Florida last been in Korea since August. MRS. ENOS B. WARNER October to welcome her Janice's new Maud Carpenter, with only one daughter (Juline Warner ' 19), Correspondent daughter, Georgianna. M!I1·ion Rogers Nel- left at home, has time now for church 176 Highwood Ave, Leonia, N. J. son's twin grandsons will be in kinder- work, D.A.R., Girl Scouts and Playground. garten next year. Their father, Lloyd, is Her son, Bob, is at the Univ. of Penn. Miss Nye, from Oklahoma, writes: "It research chemist for G. E. in Schenectady. Dental College and an older son is in the seemed too long a trip (to reunion) for Marion herself is active in church and army. me to undertake at the time, though I wish community work in Norwich. Edith Lindholm Baldwill and Ray are J might have seen you all I was with "I have much more substituting this hoping to get into the new home they are my sister in Nebraska for two weeks last year," writes Ruth Avery French, and adds, building in Glastonbury by April I. Their April. That trip was the only travel in "and in June it will be moving time son, Tyler, having earned his Lt. j.g. bars, which I have indulged for four or five agalO. is on his way home from the Mediter- years," Just before leaving for Florida with her ranean and Ray Jr. is at the Univ. of Conn. The next week after reunion, Helen husband, Alison Hastings Thomson had Law School, having been discharged from GONgb, now established in Florida about time to type an original poem to go with the service last August. seven miles north of Clearwater, "started her Christmas greeting. Leah Pick Silber had Dean Burdick as out to find a new home with the back of A holiday treat for me was the unex- her house guest during the Dean's Chicago the little Crosley loaded to the windows. pected privilege of visiting back-stage at visit last November. Leah says, "It was No one thought I would make it, but Mike 'In RCA television studio, where Virginia's wonderful hearing of the tremendous prog- (the dog) and I travelled 1585.5 miles brother, Rufus Rose, was operating his ress made at c.c. since our days on cam- from Upper Black Eddy and found a cute puppets for the Howdy Doody show. pus. a new world and our Alma Mater one room apartment, all-electric kitchen It's Of ex-members of 1919, we learn that is certainly meeting the challenge realistic- and bath. Out of both my east and west Norma Regal! has retired from teaching; windows are small lakes. Good fishing-- ally, faithfully and wisely." Virginia Morgall has been doing wonder- Eunice Gates Wood ex '20 is on a Med- although I havent tried it yet Flor- ful work with handicapped children and iterranean cruise and Agnes Mae Clark and ence (Lennon Romaine) is flying down has given over forty lectures on her Euro- Charlie are visiting Lake Louise and Banff. here Feb. 20 to be here about a week pean trip; LUNa Ackley Colver and her Helen Collins Miner writes from St. She will be my first guest from home." husband are well along in their project of Petersburg where she and Waldo are vaca- Helen also wrote that Lucy Marsh Haskell restoring the fine old 1771 house which tioning that Marjorie Viets Windsor has w as in the hospital for eight weeks before is their home. consented to be our Class Agent. Christmas with a spine injury caused by a My Jim was transferred from the Navy fall and, in .January, was still wearing a 1920 to the Marine Corps last fall and is back brace. MRS. J. BENNETT COOPER in Korea this winter. Beatrice Boyd Maciel, a teacher of Liver- (Margaret Davies), Correspondent more, Cal., was badly injured in September P. O. Box 135, West Lawn, Pa. 1921 in an auto smash but was making "re- MRS. RUTH M. BASSETT Did you hear Feta Perley Reiche on Ed markable progress" in January, though still (Ruth McCollum), Correspondent R. Murrow's radio program "This I Be- in a body cast. She has two daughters, Mansfield Depot, Conn. lieve" in December? She participated as both married and a son. president of the Girls' Club of America To the sixteen of us who returned for On her way back from reunion, Ruth and her talk was splendid. Her picture our "Sznd" it is an unforgetable glorious Trail McClellan and her husband stopped was in the papers last fall with Mrs. Ei- event of our lives. We all marvelled how in Illinois to visit son Stanley, who was senhower and a young Girls' Club award little physically we had changed since the ordered to Korea shortly afterward, On his winner and now she has been invited by gathering in '46. Quartered in beautiful way to the Orient, he, his wife and baby President Eisenhower to attend a three-day East House along with '19, with '20 and returned the visit. Ruth has three new meeting in Washington on Safety. '22 in attached Grace Smith, we enjoyed grandchildren. Margaret's and John's fam- Dorothy Quilltard Mix has a grandson, real fellowship, especially during break- ilies live near her in Oregon. She has been fasts together in the spacious dining room active in her church, especially with the Gregory Niel Mix, born in May. Dot was hospitalized twice this past year-c-botb Cradle Roll and has been writing some of the two dorms. times for surgery. Weaving, gardening Only a dissertation could do justice to religious poetry. Another proud grandmother is Frances and some studying keep her busy. the weekend. Olive and Anna Mae were Saunders Tarbell of New Haven, with Marion Gammons was sorry that busl- on hand to greet us in the lobby of East; three boys and a girl in her son's family ness had to take precedence over pleasure and a delicious tuna fish casserole supper in Washington. Her younger son, Frank, so she couldn't attend the reunion. She arranged by Marion Bedell Kelsey was and his wife are still in England, where writes, 'Though college days seem cen- greatly relished in East House Snack Bar

11 August, Deborah Gene Yale, Julius' first Slocum, Ethel Mason Dempsey, Olive Friday evening. Highlights included leis- child. Harriet is a Junior at U. Conn. in Littlehales Corbin, Abby Gallup, Marion urely campus walks; visits to new dorms the School of Physical Therapy. and infirmary; Association meeting Satur- Bedell Kelsey, Ruth McCollum Bassett, day morning with news of the Fund's goal Anna Brazos Chalmers, Barbara Ashenden, 1923 nearly reached and Kay Moss' twenty years Rachel Smith, Louise Avery Favorite, Ag- MRS. HAROLD C. BAILEY nes Leahy, Mildred Fenelon, Dorothy of splendid service; the trustees' picnic in- (Helen B. Avery), Correspondem Pryde, Matilda Allyn. cluding pleasant chats with faculty mem- 274 Steele Road, West Hartford 5, Conn. bers and greetings of reuning classes with Marion Bedell Kelsey commutes daily to presentation of class gifts and responses teach English at New London High. She Mm'gm'et North is married to Lewis C. by Mr. Putnam and President Park; and and her husband have built a home in Spangler of Peterstown, West Virginia. Saturday's class day exercises in the pic- Hamburg, Conn. Abby Gal/up has her own The Spanglers have recently bought a turesque Arboretum. We shall not forget gift shop in Norwich. Anna Mae Chal- house In Falls Church, Va., which they the group gatherings in the dorm rooms. mers and husband have retired to North hope eventually to furnish completely with Many were the "do-you-remembers" and Carolina where Anna Mae has developed antiques. Since Margaret's hobby is collect- healthy haw-haws over cherished snaps pre- a wonderful tan hoeing "raters" and corn. ing antiques, she is having a field day in served for posterity and resurrected from Edna Bille Tonks, who still lives near Virginia where shops are bulging with attic trunks for the occasion. As always, Syracuse, N. Y., has a hobby of pottery collectors' items. Margaret is also working Bobby Newton Blanchard entertained us making with clay from her farm. Agnes for the U. S. Air Force at the Pentagon, with songs from musical comedy days. Leahy, National Personnel Director, Girl Washington, D. C. The highlight of all highlights, however, Scouts of America, was appointed one of Mary Birch Timberman enjoyed a lovely was the memorable dinner with '19, '20 the official U. S. delegates to the Tenth trip with friends on a sixty foot cruiser and '22 at Skippers' Dock, Noank. Shall International Congress held in Sao Paulo, on the inland water ways to the west we ever forget the entertainment with the Brazil, February 19-24th. Along with other coast of Florida. On board for a week American and foreign delegates, she was ever capable Prent as toastmistress; 19's were R.achel Ti/fan)' Into with her daugh- officially received by Brazilian officials and skit supervised by Juline; '20's songs inter- ter, Pat. Golf and Westchester Club ac- dignitaries and regaled with a series of woven with fashion models of pioneer tivities are a few of Mary's varied interests, entertainment and sightseeing activities. years; choice tidbits of humor from Miss but the most exciting at the moment is a From California, Charlotte Holton Blue, Dr. Morris, Dr. Cary (only present u-u new and first granddaughter, Karen Lee, reports the marriage of son Ray (Pomona member of original faculty); remarks from born to the junior Ellsworth Tlmbermans College, '51) to Suzanne Kork (Pomona, Mrs. and Mary Marshall; and letter greet- on October 12, at Hastings-an-Hudson, '54). Both are continuing their studies at ings from Dean Nye. Other faculty guest New York the University of Michigan. The other son members included Dr. Todd, who has a Helen Barkerding Nesberg reports that David, Phi Beta Kappa, graduated fron~ home at Quaker Hill; Dr. McKee, Dr. her two nieces and one nephew keep her Pomona last June and, engaged, is taking Dederer, Dr. and Mrs. Daghlian, all re- busy and entertained as does also the golf tired and living near the college; Beryl graduate work at Stanford University. The which she loves as much as ever. She Sawyer Appleton, now house mother, Uni- "old folks at home" are as much involved complains that her score is suffering, how- versity of Connecticut; and Miss Sherer. in the town's goings-on as ever. In Jan- ever, because of time spent in a real estate Returning to East at midnight, we were uary Ella up from New Jersey, Dr. Imo- business which she started in February, sorry to learn we weren't campused. gene Manning, '31, now a pediatrician in 1953. Helen visited Rachel Into last fall Norwich, and I had a little alumnae get- A class meeting elected the following: at her home in Lyme where Rae keeps together here in Mansfield. Olive Littlehales Corbin, President; Ethel open house at all times except when win- Mason Dempsey, Vice President; Louise 1922 tering in Florida. Other frequent guests at Avery Favorite, Secretary; Dorothy Pryde, MRS. DAVID YALE the Into home are lHary Timberman, DOI'()' Treasurer; Ruth McCollum Bassett News (Amy Peck), Correspondem th)' Dean Gerdenier and Ethel Ayers. Correspondent. Telegrams of g~eetings Box 146, Station A, Meriden, Conn. Helen also tells us that she and Dot Gard- were received from ElIa McCollum Vahl- enier entertained Alice Ramsay on her trip reich, unable to attend because of a . RlIth Bacon l/Pickwire spent Christmas to New Jersey last fall when she gave a wrenched back; and Helen Rich Baldwin 10 East Berlin, Conn., with her daughter's wonderfully interesting talk before the our ever faithful ex-member who included family, which means two grandchildren. Bergen County C. C. Club. Dot spent the a class gift contribution. Also a letter was A note from Gertrnde Trallrig invites Christmas holidays in San Antonio, Texas, read from Loretta Roche. Resolutions of anyone of '22 going through Waterbury visiting her two married sons and their sympathy were voted sent to the families to. stop and see her-she teaches at Crosb families, including two adorable grand- of members deceased since last reunion: Hlg~l and "keeps busy" with school an~ children, Kim, aged 3, and Susan, IV2' Marguerite Paul, Jeanette Lettney Skinner, f~~I.ly and the usual extra-curricular ac- A trip by car last fall took Alina Buell and Hattie Goldman Rosoff. The secretary tivitres. to Williamsburg, Va., where she browsed was authorized to send a letter to the I met k Mollie Kenig Silversmith in a among the relics of the past. For hobbies, Alumnae Association requesting a reunion ~upermar in Hartford recently. She had et Anna enjoys knitting afghans, playing again soon with the other three classes. Just sold her house in West Hartford d bridge or just "ordinary sociability." Oc- All agreed that much of the reunion's was looking for a small place to li an A f rve. casionally she turns to politics for diversion success was due to the hard work and note rom Olioe Perry Hahn tells ~hen there are some especially interesting efforts of the Reunion Alumnae Committee that her father passed away dur i I t unng t re Issues Or personalities involved. and the office staff. pas year and she has gone back to Eliza- A "first and very special" grandson is Class members attending included Ro- beth, N. J., to live. top news from Louise LindemaN Landses- berta Newton Blanchard, Dorothy Gregson My second granddaughter was born in A daughter, Harriet, Home Economics 12 den. Her son, S:1In, was married june 27, major at Buffalo Teachers' College, will in the British Isles and saw as much as 1 1953, to Virginia Sayles of Jackson, Mich- graduate this June. Lots of chatter, good could crowd into 18 days." food and swimming highlighted a week- Minna Gardner Thompson reports that igan. In February Ka)' Moss went to Syracuse end last fall for Louise and Rheta Clark. the "old folks" are now alone in their to help organize a new alumnae club for Minna Kreyeenbobm Elman successfully ten room ark of a house. Shirley and Tony combines a career with homemaking. Last are in Cambridge while he gets his Mas- central New York. June she and her husband celebrated their ter's in engineering. Garner got his 2nd Kay Hardwick Latimer's mother, quite twenty-fifth anniversary and they are plan- Lt. wings last October and is stationed in ill last year in New London, is much better ning to build a modern house this year. Puerto Rico. Don, just discharged from and is with Kay. Tom Jr. is at the Uni- In September Minna sold her business the Air Force (rheumatic fever), is enter- versity of Arizona, and after graduation in and is now trying to get caught up and ing Miami University. Gail is at Boston June will go to work for Walt Disney rested before embarking on another career. University. Minna is in her third year of studios 3S a cartoonist. The other boy, In the meantime she is maintaining an ac- working at the Mt. Holyoke bookstore-c-an Fred, is in the Army, which he loves, and tive interest in the field of contemporary interesting job, if tough on the feet. She he also is "cartooning all over the place." design, doing market research, lecturing describes herself as "shorter, fatter and and writing. This winter she attended a greyer but too busy or too lazy to do much 1925 conference in Chicago of the Contemporary about it." MRS. ROY CARROLL Furniture Retailers and the furniture market. Gladys Forster Shdhdall has left Phila- (Charlotte Lang), Correspondent delphia for Montgomery, W. Va., where Doris Padeljord Smith and husband are 73 Locust Road" Winnetka, Illinois her husband is Assistant Professor of Math- kept more than busy, early and late, with ematics at W. Va. Tech. They still hope For those in the class who have not their restaurant. When not helping her sometime to return to their home in Raleigh. heard of the elections held at reunion, the husband, Doris manages her home and new officers are: President, Charlotte Frisch family of three-Wayne 15, Bradlee 13, Amy Hilker Biggs, having only a few years to go for retirement, has kept her Garlock; Vice President, Dr. A. Parks and Donna 12, all in high and junior high McCombs; Secretary, Catherine Calhoun; schools. Doris adds an interesting post- job in guidance at Garden City High. He, script; "The large number of chemicals husband has greenhouses where they raise Treasurer, Dr. Gertrude Noyes; Reunion mainly mums for the wholesale market. Chairman and Class delegate to the Alum- and preservatives being used in our foods is appalling-one of my pet peeves-for They have a cruiser and, though summer nae Council, Elsa Deckelman Mathews; Nominating Committee, Winifred Smith such food is not conducive to a healthy is a busy time, get off for a few days at blood stream." (Note: Doris majored in a time to explore, fish and swim. Passmore. Olivia [obnson reports that it was largely Home Economics at c.c.) Helen Hewitt l/Yebb, her husband who Do!ha White's leadership as head librarian was a captain in the Navy until his retire- Helen Aoery Bailey belatedly announces at the New Britain Library that brought the arrival of her second grandchild, James ment this past spring, and their three chil- big improvements to the looks and con- dren have become farmers in the pleasant Edward Finley II, on April 14, 1953. venience of the Institute building as well countryside of Maryland. To restore 3 We are saddened to learn of the death as new and improved services to the city. farm is a challenging project, a new life on January 28 of Ralph E. Knup, husband Ann Preuer Loiacono says, "When my that has meant considerable adjustment for of Helene lVulf Knup and extend to Hel- rheumatic knee creaks, it seems more than each one, but they are all meeting the new ene our deepest sympathy. 30 years ago since we were important sen- problems and demands with humor, energy 1924 iors but when I start hunting for floor and long hours of work, study and experi- MRS. HUBER A. CLARK coverings and furniture for that new ranch mental research. Jack is studying agronomy at the University of Maryland near-by and (Marion Vibert ) , Correspondent house we are finally building, my enthusi- asm exceeds that of our c.c. days. Other the twins are working on the farm and in Stockbridge, Mass. than that the L.W.V. and the Medical school. Her oldest son Rufus, after gradu- ating with high honors from Harvard, has Elizabeth Holmes is married to Thomas Auxiliary plus church, Community Chest been in the Navy. This past summer he Tileston Baldwin (as of March). They drive, etc., keep me fairly flexible." was in South American and European have bought a modern house in Medfield, Virginia Hays Fisher, President of the waters. When he is released from service about 20 miles from Boston, and will both Conn. Federation of Garden Clubs, last this fall, he will enter Cornell for post commute. Betty is keeping on at both spring attended a national meeting in San graduate study in anthropology. Helen the Judge Baker Foundation and the Bos- Francisco and this April will trek to South writes that she would like to have the ton College School of Social Work. The: Carolina. She says they could not function author of "Front Porch Farming" dealt house is set in nearly two acres of pines successfully without the cooperation of the with drastically. She knows from bitter with a brook nearby-just the thing for c.c. Department of Botany and the personal experience that it is "absolutely the five grandchildren ranging in age from Arboretum. impossible." But they are well, happy and 13 to 3. On January 22, Foster Conklin, son of enjoying many aspects of the farm. Marie Jester IVa/fOus sent a copy of a Madeleille Foster Conklin, was married to Christmas card from Grace Church who Carol Wedum '51. Maddie and her hus- Marjorie Riker Howe, her husband and has been in Germany for two years with band are on a trip to the Pacific coast children, will soon move into a new home the American Red Cross. "As my job is where they hope to see Virginia Eggleston that they are building here in Winnetka. a travelling one, part of the time there is Smith. Her son, Murray, graduated from North- opportunity to see new places. Our head- Ellen McCandleJS Briuon's daughter was western, spent two years as a radio opera- quarters are in Stuttgart. It was badly married in November to Lt. Newton C. Cox. tor at Fort Belvoir, and is now working bombed but rebuilding is going right along. Louise Hall Spring keeps busy trying to for Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati. Berlin is still really bad. I spent my leave improve and keep up their house and gar- Peggy is a senior at .

13 which means that Lyda and Alilry Storer sota In.J une an d wil l be in prep school Betsy Allen has seen Miss Orie Sherer, Brooks (husband Bob is Dean at Wil. here next year. Durbie, aged 11, is here who is vigorously pursuing her career in Iiams ) have had several reunions; George, at St. Louis Country Day School. W~at the field of merchandising. Sorry not to a junior in high school; Sue, who is "lots do I do for excitement? I made three tnps have seen Connie Parker on her trip west of fun and also very domestic and sur- to South America within a year and a h:l~. to visit her sister at Christmas. Charlotte prisingly good looking"; and husband Nort, This winter I hope to fly to Rome to VISIt Beckwith Crane and her family have ac- recently ordained an Elder in the First quired an old house in New Hampshire my brother." Presbyterian Church of Watertown. and are engaged in its restoration. Orpha Harriet Gillette Re)',wlds reports from Sally Pithonse Becker urges us all to Brown Robinson's son has returned from San Gabriel, suburb of Los Angeles: "~e support Lyda Chatfield Sudduth in her Korea in time for the holidays. Grace lead a regular California sort of a life With plea for funds for the Alumnae Fund. Bennet Nuoeen has joined the Grand- the accent on informal pleasures. Sally To Lois Bridge Ellis we extend our mothers! On May yi sr, her daughter, Jean is ten and a half and lots of fu.n. Our warm sympathy on the death of her mother Margie, had a son, Jean-Jacques Beguin, main interest this ycar is Girl Scouting and on November 17. in Geneva, Switzerland. Dorothy Kilbourn I am the troop leader. For our family sent greetings from Hartford where she vacations we usually go to the mountains 1928 says that life is pleasant but not eventful but this summer we hope to go to Canada MRS. W. EDWARD FRAZER at this time. -the western part, of course. Sally Jean (Eleanor Wood), Correspondent Charlotte Tracy Browning invites those square dances, but Homer and I have given 734 Clarendon Road driving near Euclid, Ohio, to stop and see it up in favor of something less strenuous. Penn Valley, Narberth, Pa. her. Her husband is an engineer and man- We all enjoy badminton and have a court ufactures machinery. Her daughter, Anne, in our yard. I love living in California Betty Gordon Vall Law inclosed a news- is a sophomore at c.c. Son Tim will leave but I certainly feel terribly far away from paper article from the New York Herald for college next fall and a younger son, myoid friends and classmates. I would so Tribune, Sunday, May 3, headed, "Couple Ned, will enter high school at the same love to see some of my Conn. College Both Blind to Go on Duty as Plane Spot- time. The family has done some fast and friends. If any of them get near Los Ange- ters." Of course it's our classmate lillie extensive traveling in what they term the les, I hope they will look me up or at Hall Virgulto and her husband who "Browning Five Day Specials." Additional least phone." Harriet also says that Jean "proved their adequacy in a test at the activities are gardening and church work. Gillette Smith's older boy expects to be observation station, their unusually keen married in March. He is in the Air Force. hearing taking the place of vision." Betty's 1926 The younger boy is at the University of daughter has been accepted at McGill FRANCES GREEN Illinois. Jean visited us last May. It was University in Montreal. Her second child, Correspondent the first time we'd been together for five Judy, is still "full of ballet." years. Peg Bell Bee is enjoying the easy life in 55 Holman St., Shrewsbury, Mass. Florida. Her son, Scotty, is engaged. Dot 1927 Congratulations to Peg Smith Hall and Ayers BlIckley's daughter Jan is entering EDITH T. CLARK Barbara Bell Crouch, who both became Conn. College this Fall and has been Correspondent grandmothers in December. Barbara wrote awarded the Alumnae Scholarship. Her 182 Valley Road, Montclair, N. J. of the New Year's Eve arrival of Calvin record in high school is one to be proud Ellis Crouch, Jr., a thrill to the entire Avery and Edna Liez Barnes have had a of, her talents covering the fields of drama, family since this is the first Crouch baby gay vacation, flying first to Texas to see sports, and government. Dot and Bill now in 18 years. Peg says: "Arthur and I have Edna's sister and then on to Arizona to live in a Marblehead apartment with the joined the 'S.O.G.'s'-Silly Old Grand- spend Christmas with daughter, Averell, harbor as their front yard. Her son, John, parents. Graham has a son in Honolulu- and their new grand-daughter, Tamison. is a "Whiz at swimming and small boat born in December. I can hardly refrain Florence Hop p e- Leuic e and John were handling." [ovce Preston If/heaJley has a myself from going out. Rick is a Senior in Washington for two weeks in earlv son going to the . at Andover and engrossed in the business DE-cember. They saw son Bob who had Joyce works in a Snack Shop for her bos- of College entrance." Peg added, "The just returned from six months in Africa pital auxiliary. Elizabeib Douglas Afa/u'oJ! launching of the Nautilus was completely with the Navy. They also saw Arthur and planned to leave June 17th for several thrilling. The staging was perfect and the Peg lJ7oodiooab ShaUl just before the weeks trip on pack horse through the Si- fog lifted at exactly the right moment. We Shaws left for a two weeks' trip to the erras to visit Grand Canyon, Yosemite, were most fortunate in sitting rather near west coast. Tahoe and Yellowstone. Mrs. Eisenhower at the luncheon-s-close Margaret lFheeler, although still with Mary Dunning McConnell's daughter, a' eonugh to see her graciously accept her the California State Library, is now doing sophomore at U. of Wyoming, was mar- shower of gifts and mementos. We love reference work for the people in state ried to Marlin E. Lowry on June 22. being here at the Academy in New Lon- agencies and the legislature. Betty Gal/lip Ridley sent word that Mamie don. We have enjoyed so much being near Lucy Barker Keddie reports from Wel- Howard Ballantyne's daughter, Sally, w~s the college with its many and wonderful lesley, Mass., that she and her family are accepted at Conn. College and her twiTI activities busy, well, and happy. Daughter Ann is a sister, Nancy at Sargent. Nancy had a Elise Dnrbrow Curlee says: "My oldest, junior at Bridgewater Teachers College, heart defect corrected by a serious opera' Shelby, is in the Air Force studying Me- majoring in English and Library. tion and is now perfectly fine. teorology here in St. Louis, after getting Lyda Chatfield Sudduth sends news of Mabel Fm"1', last June 18th, wrote she his Master's in Civil Engineering at U. of her family; Bill, a junior in the College had been in Honolulu over five years. Two Illinois. My Bill, age 13, will graduate of Wooster, pledged to the Presbyterian years ago she and a friend bought a house from St. James Military School in Mione- ministry; John, a freshman at Williams, where they garden and take pictures. The 14 Sandy, 17, is off to college next year. The puppies she said her boxer was "expect- mers. She teaches 3rd Grade at Highland Grays celebrate 25 years in April and Pril ing" in June are now almost a year old. Mills, part of the Monroe-Woodbury Cen- says she is a very happy mother and house- Mabel works for the Department of Public tral School District. Her seven year old Welfare as Assistant County Administra- son is in second grade in Cornwall-on- wife. Julie [obnston Parrish, ex '29, writes tor for Honolulu County, where the case- Hudson. that her daughter, Joanne, 23, has been a work and supervising staff is over one Glad)'s Spear Albrecht and family, con- secretary in the Navy Department in Wash- hundred. sisting of three children, one horse, one ington since 1950 and was married in June, I took a trip to Colorado last summer cow, one dog and one bunny, have lived 1952; Peter, 19, graduated from the Man- with Ed and my youngest daughter, Gail. in Vermont for three years. Ronald, 18, is lius School in June and is in the Navy Our son, Ted, is in Flight Training in a freshman at University of Vermont; at Bainbridge, Md.; John, 12, is in the Marianna, Florida. Joan, a junior at the Marilyn, 15, a freshman in high school; 7th grade at Port Leyden Central School. University of Delaware, is planning a trip and Eugene, 11, in sixth grade. Gladys Ginlly She/11k Anderson, ex '29, has two to Europe this summer. writes that Arlene Brown Stone and her husband are building a home in Orange, six-foot sons, one a junior at University of 1929 Conn. Washington and the other entering next MRS. ROBERT B. KOHR Mari/Ill Simonds Sutherland is delighted year. Jean Hamlet Dudley and Ginny are (Peg Burroughs), Correspondent with climate, scenery, everything about equally enthusiastic about their visit last 309 Woodland Road, Madison, N. J. Boulder, Colo., where' they have lived for summer at Ginny's. three years. Si is teaching, has a 13 year Carolyn Terry Boeer's 14 year old Don- We are nearing 25th reunion, as you old son and would welcome anyone travel- ny went to the National Boy Scout Jambo- have already been reminded by the wonder- ling out Colorado way. ree in California in July, and son Terry ful cards done by Helen Reynolds Smyth. Mitchell TWheeler lives with made the Dean's list freshman year at Yale. Isn't everyone inspired to go to reunion? Ernestine Terry's husband went to Holland, Sweden, Pat Hine Myel'S, her mother, Gail and her husband and four sons on a farm ten and England on a business trip. Linda drove West last summer, covering miles west of Concord, N. H. The oldest Betty Williams Morton and husband Bill 11,000 miles, south as far as Albuquerque, boy is at New England College, two others in high school, and the youngest in are both real estate brokers and are again north to Lake Louise and west to San building a house which they hope to be Francisco. Suzie was in camp on Cape fifth grade. Dr. Wheeler is State Health Commissioner and his name has appeared in by February. Cod. Pat saw Becky Rau who looks and acts as sweet as ever except for "silver continuously in "Who's Who in America" 1930 since the 1948-49 edition. Ernestine's ac- strands among the black." Pat also saw MARJORIE RITCHIE tivities since teaching days have consisted Mary Slayter Solenberger and her children, Correspondent of holding office in N. H. Medical Auxil- Peter and Susan. Pondville Hospital, Walpole, Mass. iary, YW.C.A" D.A.R., P.T.A., and Helen Reynolds Smyth, whose children, N. H. Federation of Women's Clubs. Barbara and Sally are now 11 and 10, has Marion Ransom with two friends climbed Mackie (Mary Matthews) Shuff, ex '29, been doing architectural Christmas cards into her new Ford last October and drove spent the Christmas holidays at West point and decorating and purchasing for New nine thousand miles to California, seeing where her son is a Plebe. Her life is filled York Hospital, Westchester. the National Parks and everything of note with various types of volunteer work, 1250 Ruth Petrofsky is busy being P.T.A. along the way. Constance Smith Langtry hours having been given to date on Vet- president, being in AAUW, teaching Sun- and family have moved into a new ranch erans Hospital projects. day School and running the usual taxi style house with redwood front on Staten Pat Early Clime)' writes that her hus- service for choir, music lessons and Scouts Island. band died very suddenly last February for two daughters, Bette Jean and Joan Last June Mar)' Cary, in Public Health while they were in Cuba on a fishing trip. (11 and 9 respectively). Service, was transferred from Cleveland to Pat's son was married in August and he Smudge Gooe Studley lives in Milwau- Kentucky and thence to Staten Island. She and his wife are both attending Beloit kee but they have kept their property in attended an alumnae meeting at which College. Fletch is in the Naval Air Corps Louisa Kent was hostess. Besides working, Washington, Conn., to use some day, and they also hope to have a future home in Reserve. Mary is taking a course in Motion and Ken Kendrick. is head of the English Scotland. Smudge has seen Phyl Barchard Time study at Columbia 'Teachers College. Department at the Concord, N. H., High Smythe and they both hope to make re- Victoria Seliceman Robins' husband is School and a member of the executive Director of the United Cerebral Palsy As- union. board of the N. H. Education Association. We are sorry to learn of the recent sociation of Pennsylvania. Their three She writes "Last summer, Main coast- death of Jean Hamlet Dudley's father. year old Patty, at the "why" stage, enjoys next summer, Oregon." Sonme Smith Haldy expects her husband the benefits of a garden type apartment in Frankie Tillinghast is Publications Libra- to retire from dentistry in three or four Harrisburg. rian for the Joint Committee on the Eco- years when they will move to the citrus Isobel Gilbert Greenwood's fifth child nomic Report, U. S. Congress. She lives and third daughter, Anne, is well adjusted ranch in Indio, Calif., which they are now in her own apartment house in George- developing. Sonnie says it will be quite to family life. David, the older son, town, went to Europe in 1950 and spent a change from their city life but they will worked at a garage in Whitehorse during two summers at the Princeton summer love it as will their two Wiemaraner hunt- his vacation from school in Toronto last ing dogs who need wide open spaces. school. summer. Once more the whole family Terry Homs Cameron will get her Mas- r.n Rothwell Gray's son, Peter, 24, a is planning a trip to the States and hoping ters Degree in Education this summer at Lt. in the Marine Corps, has just an- that it will materialize this time. Plattsburg State Teachers College where nounced his engagement; Bill, 23, is home Peg Cook CUlT)', after nine months in she has studied for the past three sum- and has a wonderful job in business. California, is back in Georgia. Herman is

15 Betty Mille1' Landis' older son Ted en- Sis Bartlett Hogue's husband, Rod, is with Lockheed Aircraft, johnny is three, tered Dartmouth this fall. He, too, will Regional Manager for Youngstown Kitch- Frances is teaching second grade in a local take engineering. It seems we 33'ers are ens, with headquarters in Louisville. Their school, and Peggy, a senior in high school, getting to the age of having children old son, Steven, 15, is a sophomore at Ken- is busy with ballet and acrobatic dancing enough to go to college. Wasn't it only tucky Military Institute where he is doing in Atlanta. yesterday we ourselves graduated? well athletical1y and scholastically; their Afarioll Nichols Arnold '32, sent a Your correspondent was lucky enough daughter, Pat, 13, plays field hockey at the clipping that says Bianca Ryley Bradbury to attend Alumnae Council Weekend. I girls' day school she attends, won the Jun- has been writing about twelve years, has spent one night with Royall ior Women's Golf championship at their Peger Hillck published one novel, several children's club last summer, and the two young in Montclair, and then we drove to New books, short stories and a quantity of Hogues are on the club's swimming team. London together. Peger is the same in- verse. Bianca, her husband, two teen-age spiring, stimulating person. She does 50 Sis is still very active in Scouting as a sons, four cats, a beagle, and a golden troop leader, Chairman of Organization many jobs, all with such ease and capabil- retriever live in a big old house on a farm of the Girl Scout Board, and a region.'l.! ity. Her best one, however, was producing in Connecticut. Her time is divided among a son after three darling daughters ("Built- gardening; stocking a freezer with vege- committee member. According to our hard working class in baby sitters," she says). He is a "jun- tables; caring for a doll's house filled with ior", but is called "Dink", has red hair, tiny Colonial furniture; and of course, agent, Phil Dennett Willard, Eleanor Sber- black eyes, pink cheeks, and is a living ad writing. I thoroughly enjoyed Bianca's mall Vincent has not gone back to Illinois for baby food. He learned to sit up while "Picnic" in Woman's Day. as previously reported, but is still living in Dedham, Mass. Jean Stimson IVilfOx has I was there, and enjoys performing for 1931 moved from Oklahoma to Wellesley, his doting audience. MRS, KARL D. WARNER Mass. and Mm-;01'ie Bradshaw Adams from Nancy Smedley, of Philadelphia, was our (Jane Moore) Correspondent pro tem Milwaukee to Schenectady. We are pleased class representative. It was so nice to see 167 Hermitage Rd., Rochester 12, N. Y. to have addresses once again for Melicell! her again. She has a top-notch job with Wilcox Buckingham in Fairfield, Conn. the Fleer Bubble Gum Co. and my children Marguerite \X/allace '57, daughter of and Louise Cbandler, ex '32, in North are glad I know her. We just received a Caroline BMdley Wallace, is living in Abington, Mass. box of their latest product, chocolate bub Knowlton. Ann Henderson '55, daughter Don and I enjoyed seeing Alan and ble gum. We are now the most popular of Ruth Griswold Ferguson, is majoring in Cbarloue Nixon Prigge when they came to family in the neighborhood. History, and lives in Jane Adams. Amherst to enter their son, Chuck, as ::l Betty Mille,' Landis was kind enough to C. B. Rice was co-chairman of the an- freshman. Gert Yoerg Doran is secretary share with me a letter from Gillll)' 5111<111 nual theatre benefit of the Conn. College of our Springfield alumnae club. The five Parrish, who lives in Club of New York, which successfully Baranquilla, Cclorn- young Dorans keep her hopping, and she sponsored T. S. Eliot's "The Confidential bia, South America. Ginny, Karl, and their can't quite believe the fact that Bill and two children, David, 10, and Sandy (girl), Clerk." Diane are old enough to be interested in Isabel Colby, a member of the faculty 7, spent three months in the States last dates. My outside activities consist of of the , is greatly summer. They flew first to Colorado working at our new hospital gift shop, enjoying the teaching of reading skills. (where Karl spent his boyhood), spent two bridge groups, Scouting, sky-watching, Bobby Bump lives in New London, and six weeks there, and then went by train Junior League, and now that I have fin- works in child placement for the Connec- to Fairfield, Conn., to be with twin "sis- ished lining up our Springfield area for ticut Department of Public Welfare. tuh" [anet Swan Eveleth. While in the the Alumnae Fund campaign Student- Lois 7(1)'lor is living in Washington, east they visited both Connecticut and Alumnae Center, I shall start on our local Yale, with an eye to the future. The Par- where, having had two promotions during Scout drive. the past year, she is city editor of the rish's have lived in their new home for Afro-American. 1933 almost a year. It is modern, a "U" shape, MRS. ROBERT DALZELL with a cabana and play house on the fourth 1932 (Lucile Cain) Correspondent side, a swimming pool and beautiful gar· MRS. DONALD P. COOKE 2475 Wellington Road dens in the center. This architectural plan (Hortense Alderman), Correspondent Cleveland Heights 18, Ohio adapts beautifully to both indoor and aut- 130 Woodbridge Street door living. Ginny is busy with many of A long letter from Alice Kell y McKee, South Hadley, Mass. our same activities, Brownies, Boy Scouts, who lives in Detroit, put me "up to date" and P.T.A. She plays lots of tennis and Peg Salter Ferris forwarded two letters on her life. She has three boys and a girl golf, and had just won a cup in the Carri· to me, one from Mcnion Nichols Arnold, w~o always seem to be taking wonderful bean Open Golf Tournament, played in the other from Mabel Barnes Knauff· When tnps. Miles, the youngest, 8 years old, Baranquilla. Marion was in Ann Arbor last summer, flew to Ptru~ South America, and was gone she and Jean Williams Smith spent a day for about SIX weeks. Before David her 1934 with their four children at the Detroit o.ldest boy, entered Northwestern U~iver. MRS. WILUAM S. BIDLE Zoo. In the fall Brad and Marion flew to slty to take engineering, he and five other (Marjorie Thayer), COl'reJpolldeut Moosenee and Moose Factory in northern b~ys drove to the west coast, up into the 2699 Rochester Rd., Shaker Hts. 22, Ohio Ontario. Mabel's son, Phil, is a sopho- Wilds of. the Canadian Rockies and back more at Brown; her daughter, Virginia, a to ~etrolt. The McKee family will make The news this time is 100% quotes senior at New London High School; and a tnp e~st in the spring to look over from Andy Crocker IVheeler, to whom I her son, Donald, a sophomore at the same c.olleges 10 the east, particularly Connec- am MOST grateful. Alice Miller Tooker is ticut. school. busy with two boys, two Boxers, one cat

16 end a hundred small outside activities. TV course at Western Reserve Univ., this 1935 Julie j\1,Vey Rolle says her status in life one on the theatre. After much effort, J MRS. RUDOLPH FINK has changed from baby sitter to chaperone, finally elicited a response from EB Bates. (Martha Hickam), Correspondent thinks baby sitting easier but chaperoning Her salutation was, "Dear, dear long-neg- Rt. 4, Box 185, Mobile, Ala. more interesting. Ernie Herman Katz gave lected Marty," and she said they were liv- ing very happily in the country near a talk at the Chicago Alumnae meeting on Married: Teddy Bear Crystal, ex '35, to Woodbridge, Conn. and had three sons "Overcoming the Handicaps in Raising Joseph E. Longo, Jr. on Jan. 2, 1954. Blind Twins." Ernie and her husband Belatedly I have some new additions to who were perfect when absolutely quiet! have accomplished miracles with their rep 0 r t. Kurt and Dorothea Schaub Ham Harburger Stern's news was mul- babies. Edith Richman Stolzenberg is busy Schwa,.zkopf have a third son, August Ger- tiple and diversified. She spoke of a family as a member of the Citizens' Club for Pub· hart, born on Dec. 16, 1951; Bob and trip to Nassau last Easter; the fact that lic Schools, and president of the Hartford Esther Ma,./;n Johnson have a second son, her Debbie, now a high school sophomore, Division of American-Jewish Congress, Richard, now a year old. From Dot is aiming for c.c.; a recent operation; a besides caring for her boys, 5 and 7, and Schwarzkopf's letter: "Spent four wonder- typewriting course she is taking; and her assorted pets. ful days at c.c. the early part of June many volunteer activities. The one which Jean Berger IVhitelaw is practically a attending the June Conference of the Serv- is currently engaging her is the chairman- Canadian by now. With her doctor hus- ice Bureau for Women's Organizations. ship of Cheltenham High Day which in- band and 3 sons, she has been living in Took a course in Parliamentary Law and cludes a bazaar, a dinner, games and a Vancouver, B. C. for some years. They found it most interesting. Saw several of dance for 700 people. have a cabin way up in the wilds and myoId teachers and had a nice talk with Rudy Fink went off active duty with the spend wonderful summers about as far Miss Ramsay. The campus was simply Air Force on Jan. 31st. We have rented a from civilization as it is handy to get. beautiful. More than 50 women's organi- house on Dog River at Mobile while we zations represented-ll different coun- decide whether to make our home here. Barbara Townsend If/illiams would surely tries." appreciate hearing from c.c. friends. She Ida Schaub Huntress brought her five 1936 is completely paralyzed and is still in the children to Connecticut this summer, the MRS. JAMES D. MclEAN nursing home in Washington (3720 Up- first time Ida has been east from Iowa in (Margery Harris), Correspondent Pro T em ton St., N.W. Washington, D. C.). Jean 6 years. Beth Sawyer is teaching chemistry Rydal Road, Rydal, Pennsylvania Stanley Dise and Mary McCloskey LaPrelle and physics at the Weaver High School in sec her once in a while. Hartford. Mary Blatchford, Academic Dean Due to the resignation of our class Dotty Sisson is kept occupied taking at Lasell, writes that they have 560 stu- correspondent, your president takes over care of her parents, is quite a gardener dents. Wasn't c.c. about that size when temporarily. janet Randolph is married and has more hobbies than anyone you we were freshmen? Jimmy Francis Toye's and lives in Montreal but will be back for know. Elma Kennel Varley and Grace social service council is arranging for her reunion. Maggie 117aterman is now Mrs. Nichols Rhodes have started a Toy & Fur- to do six months of research during 1954. Eric Perkins. Her husband's grandfather niture Exchange shop in Grace's barn in Madlyn Hughes If/«sley sent me a charm- gave Blackstone to C. C. Amherst, Mass. to earn money for the ing picture of the 5 Wasleys aboard their A card from Doris Lippincott Brink told Alumnae Fund. cruiser which Hugs says they thoroughly of her vacation in Tokyo with Fred and And about Andy - "living in a small enjoyed during the summer. Hugs and the children. They have about another town surely bogs one down with activity. Fran are planning a vacation at Key Largo year to spend in Japan. 1 am Supt. of the Primary Dept. in the in February.. Vera JP arbasse Spooner's Capty Deming Crane is the original Sunday School with 75 little dears to edu- husband has severed his connection with "active worker" and I have yet to figure cate. P.T.A. has been added to my list the University of Michigan and is working out when she stops to breathe. Wonderfu.l this year .. Am a director of the East Lyme for a shipbuilding company in Detroit. pictures of [anet Hadsell Hall, Steve, and Nursing Association (with a paper on The Spooners will continue to live in Ann their fine son and big daughter. Jody "Preparing Nurses for Tomorrow" due in Arbor. MtIl-jorie W ol]e Gagnon writes writes that her daughters plan to go to that dept.): Last summer I directed the that they are leaving Long Island for Al- reunion as do my two. kindergarten of the daily Vacation Bible ton, HI. between school semesters. Dickie Edith T bornton has been building a School (60 children to keep from boiling lWonnelle Patten and GillI2y Golden Kent beautiful YW. in Boston and must give over). I am taking a one night a week each wrote that she had no particular news, up her class treasurer's job. course in "Plays" at c.c. Come spring, J was simply leading the usual full life of 1937 will be grimy and happy out in my two- mother, wife, and everything else that we by-four garden-s-eamed some money from do. MRS. HENRY F. B. HIGGINS gardening articles in Home Garden Mega- Some unreported last summer news in- (Dorothy Fuller) zme. And am still class agent." She end, eludes a lot of golf for Virginia Whitney 309 Highland Ave., South Norwalk, Conn. her lengthy letter with "can you make McKee, ex '35, (at the time she wrote she MRS. WILLIAM E. MEANEY anything out of this garble-company com- planned a trip east before Christmas to (Bernice Parker) ing for dinner tonight; my house a mess see some c.c. friends); visits at Squam Birdseye Road, R D 1, Shelton, Conn. and the children trying to get me to help Lake, N. H. and Isleboto, an island off Correspondents them make valentines. You will think 1 the Maine coast, for Jim and Ruth U7orth- am headed for the nut house, and at times ington Henderson; and an August vacation Eliza Bissell Carroll writes that she and there are brief thoughts of a quiet padded for Dora Steinfeld Todd, ex '35, and her her family are about to move from Denver cell in the back of me mind." family at their place at Mushoha, Ont. In to Cheyenne, Wyo. This will be their sev- SEE YOU ALL AT REUNION. the fall, Dora registered for her second enteenth move. Eliza has a son in fifth

17 Ia, 6, and Chris, 5, and community activi- Clark. Ruth has been reelected to a six grade and a daughter 16 months old. Eliza ties relating to them to keep her busy be- year term on the Branford Board of Edu- will not be able to make reunion this June sides being the president of the Library cation. Liz, who recently moved to Falls because of the distance. Association in Accokeek, Md. She says she Church, Va., has left the Republican Na- asked for this job and loves it. Their Emma Moore Manning writes Eliza oc- tional Committee to become assistant to library is small, but being a branch of the casionally. Emmy lives in California and Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wise.), hand- County system gives it advantages in the has a son, Robert, born July, 1953. Mar- ling legislative matters and public relation garet Bennett Hires continues to live in way of better books and a librarian, It activities for him. This is a terrific chal- South Orange, N. Marge and her hus- is attached to the new grade school and J. lenge for Liz, as the senator is such a band Dick have two sons, Byard, 9 years therefore is used a lot by the children and prominent individual and there are so few old, and Jeffery, one year old last Novem- has become a popular meeting place. The women serving in this capacity. ber. One can see that Marge is busy Kenahs, along with so many of us, are Ted and I (Mintz) recently returned keeping up with everything from P,T.A, to builders-only instead of starting with an from a wonderful week in Chicago where toddler's pranks. old house and pulling it down around we visited with Louis and Jane Bull KlIP- Bernice Parker Areaney who lives in their ears, they are building a new one up penbeimer. ex '38, in their beautiful home, Shelton, Conn. writes that her two school from scratch. and with Barton and Dolly Klink Ca-neroe age daughters keep her very busy. Bonnie, Anne lJYeidman Bsrnbnm writes that and their two adorable sons, Barrie, 8, and 12, has to feed and water her horse before San Diego is far from New London but Douglas, 41;1. Jane is really quite a re- leaving for school at 7: 15 a, m. The day "we have the same old familiar fog," The markable girl, has her own studio where begins early in the Meaney household, As she does some interesting sculpture and Burnharns, with Madelyn, 6, and Denny, they live in the country, there is constant her own hothouses which she cares for 4, live high in the hills overlooking the chauffering for Bunny to get the girls to primarily by herself. She and Louis built bay. Sally Huston Prins and her husband, school, dancing class, choir practice, 4H their beautiful outdoor terrace and she is Paul '37, at the Academy and now a com- club meetings and parties, Laurie, 7, is a as much at home with her latest Christmas mander in the Coast Guard, have lived all Brownie along with Susan Foster, daughter gift, a Rota Saw, as she is with a sewing over the U. S. and Puerto Rico in the last of Beatrice Dodd Foster '39, Bunny is the machine. Spoke with lVillllie Frank Haoell 16 years. They have Karen, 11., and Peter, Brownie Troop Leader and is active in on the phone, but unfortunately illness at S. Marge Abrahams visited England and P.T.A. activities. her home prevented us from getting to- Scotland this past summer and hopes to Much the same routine holds for the gether. Winnie's three young ones are see more of this country on her vacation Higgins' household. P.T.A., the Norwalk Fred, 10, Nancy, 3, and Bruce, 7. She this year. Harriet Ernst Veale saw Gil/IIY Safety Council, church, and politics are gave me the following news. Stentz Smirb last August and Jane de 01· our chief outside interests. In the past loqu i Harris and family visited with her years, I have spent many an interesting The Verduins live on an island in Put-in over the Christmas holidays in Cleveland. and sometimes discouraging hour helping Bay, Ohio, where their children have Harriet has three children, Harriet, 11, to set up a P.T.A. sponsored cafeteria in ponies to ride and lots of opportunity for Tinkham III, 6, and Helen, 1V2' [aue our new elementary school. The children ice skating and ice fishing, Billy Foster GOJJ Cortes came all the way from Texas love it-200 of them. Our daughter, Me- Reynolds and her husband bought a house to Cape Cod this past summer and she lissa, 8, is in third grade, Deborah, 3, is near Philadelphia and moved in last Au- says that, although it is a long haul, she at home in all grades, as she has spent so gust. Duncan and Gertvu de Backes Little- hopes to do it each year. She, Sue ,vlcLeod much time in school with me. fair recently vacationed in Bermuda. The youngest of their brood of five are twin Adriance, Stelle Taylor WalSoll, various 1938 boys born a year ago last Thanksgiving. husbands -and 8 children had a small ',9 MRS. THEODORE DEITZ reunion there, Our heartfelt sympathy goes to John (Marjorie Mintz) and lr'illl1ie Nies Northcott who lost their jinny W'altoll Mdgee and her Marine 9 Chiltern Hill Drive, Worcester, Mass. six month old daughter on Nov. 1. Hal, Corps husband have two children, Vir' :MRS. \XfJLLIAM B. DOLAN 4~/2'and Heather, 20 mos., are helping to ginia, 10, and Jimmie, 8V2, and have at (Mary Caroline Jenks) gIve them back their pep and cheer. A long last bought a house in Chevy Chase 72 High Street, Uxbridge, Mass. year ago October they spent a wonderful which they intend to keep as "home" even Correspondents month in Bermuda. though they move around a lot on Marine orders. Born: to Jacob and Beth Anderson Ver- 1939 Madeline King Congdon's postcard said: duin, a daughter, on Dee. 28, 19S3. MRS. STANLEY R. M1LLARD "Family: 31 Black Aberdeen Angus, 15 Bob and ji/1I1)' Wilsoll Hart are excited (Eunice Cocks), Corres ponde.n pheasants, 1 Springer Spaniel, 1 Basset, about their new beach house at Nantucket. Powerville Rd., Boonton, N. J. 1 husband. Travel: Too much commuting For years they have been house hunting to Washington, Baltimore, N, Y., and there, but it wasn't easy to find a place Eleanor Sturges Papwo1"lh Minnesota - hope to vary it this spring d' spent a year adequate to hold them and their six chil- an ~ h~lf In Japan when her husband, a with something a bit more glamorous! The dren. Next summer Jinny hopes to get to- capta.1n m the USAF, WI;lS stationed there. 'peaceful dull country life' is a bunch of gether with Margie Ames Cookman, ex '38 Sh.e is now buying a house here and set- hooey-we have our daily crisis minor or who also vacations at Nantucket. Jinny thing,K down while her husbandIS . ond uty otherwise-but still love it and our place." mentioned that Helen (Pete) Pearson is m. ansas but hopes to return to the Incidentally, Pinky lives on a farm in back from East Africa and is now a Mrs. Orient Soon. She loved it there say·' Hampstead, Md. Fowler, residing in Evanston. was bea tif 1 d's, u 1 u an everyone was so polit A note from Mmg Abell enclosed a Our two political figures at the moment Eleanor has a daughter 9 d 1 e. "E" F ', an a son 3 V2 clipping from The Star a London paper, are Liz Fielding and Ruth Hollingshead -essenden Kenah has Karen, "9' C ar- . telling all about Cour~esy Associates, a

18 business that Marg and her associate, Jane suffered a heart attack in June, 1952, and Roy and Mary Farrell Morse and three Marilley, started in Washington in 1947, passed away last July. Her son Latham children moved to Glenview, IlL, last Sep- a service organization designed to main- was hit by a truck in November, 1952, tember and see a great deal of Fred and tain Washington contacts for national and received a serious compound skull DOIlNa Ed Reynolds. Fred is in radio, writ- concerns and to act as additional members fracture. His final operation was last No- ing and producing, plus his own show of the staff of local business and profes- vember and he is doing well. I believe once a week. They have three children, sional people. Marg says it is "terrifically that Barbara is still managing the beach Joan, 14, Ward, 9, and Jean, 5. Donna interesting and time consuming." She and apartment at Cocoa Beach, Fla., which has a Girl Scout troop; Fred is a den dad; Jane met while parcelling out dolls to Clevelanders report a wonderful place to and she reports that Joan, all dressed up needy children at Christmas time. Their vacation. in silk stockings and lipstick for a recent first joint venture was handling all the Kacki Arnstein H einemen (ex.40).IS part, gave them quite a jolt. Carla Eakin details for the round the world flight in a working on her Master's Degree in Eng- If/hite writes that she and her husband, Tiger Cub of two U. S. pilots. Now they lish. Fran Bsratz MOllser is working in two children, two cats and one dog moved have a five room office, eight switchboards the Alumnae Office on campus. to Northbrook, Ill., about a year ago where she has a 5th grade Girl Scout troop of 27. and 20 employees, all college graduates. Constance Harvey If/hi/e, well-known Last summer Jane and Marg went to Lon- and popular member of the class, died We welcome news from Lois Altschul don for some more efficiency ideas. suddenly on January 7 in Summit, N. J. Aaron after twelve years of silence. Lois and Chuck have two daughters, Carol, 7, Connie attended high school in Bloom- 1940 and Amy, 4, and have just bought a house field, and after graduation from college, MRS. HARVEY J. DWORKEN in Shaker Heights, Ohio, previously owned worked with Life magazine. From 1943- by Betsy Parcell Arms '39. Lois is active (Natalie Klivans}, Correspolldent 45 she was an officer in the Waves, sta- in the League of 'VC'omen Voters and does 16901 Shaker Blvd. tioned in Washington, D. C. On July 8, recreational work with disturbed children Shaker Heights 20, Ohio 1944, she was married to Graham White. through the Big Sister organization. From She was prominent in college affairs in Born: to Edmund and MarilYIl (Perky) the same territory we hear from Alleyne New Jersey, serving as the secretary of the M.1xted Higgins, their fourth child, first Emst Wick who keeps busy with the Jun- alumnae club of New Jersey at the time son, Edmund Safford, on Dec. 4, 1953. ior League, Hospital board, volunteer of her death. She had attended the reunion work and garden club and at the time of Sam and Aimee HUNnicutt hJason's proj- last June, as well as her husband's l yth her writing was preparing to entertain 24 ect last year was a beach-house near Day- reunion at Dartmouth later that month. tona Beach, Fla., which they enjoyed so small fry for dinner in honor of her daugh- She is survived by her husband; three much that they are considering moving ter Mary's sixth birthday. children, Alan, 8, and Charles, 5, and from Atlanta. Liz Gilbe,·t Wild's traveling Sue Fleisher sends a tantalizing bit of Elizabeth, 3; her mother, Mrs. Hamilton days are over, now that she and Candee news to the effect that she is enjoying 25 Harvey (also of 164 Learned Rd., Sum' have their own apartment in Houston. degrees below zero temperatures at her mit), and her brother Robert, to whom go They vacationed in California in August: winter headquarters in Putney, Vt., and the most sincere sympathies of the class. Liz represented c.c. at the Univ. of Texas is looking forward to Paris in the Spring. in October and spent New Year's in New 1941 Powell and Betsy Boschen Holbein and Orleans. Henry and Petty lJ7amer Doerr, MRS. THEODORE R. WILLS two children, Bruce, 6, and Tina, 4, moved still in Minneapolis, have moved to Ar- (Ethel Moore) to Syracuse, N. Y. last April. She reports cola, Lake Minnetonka. Other changes of 17356 Beechwood, Birmingham, Mich. that fifteen alumnae have just formed a address find In Selden Spruallce at New- BARBARA TWOMEY c.c. club and we wish them success. port, Debbie Curtis Henry at Cheboygan, 2500 Que St. NW, Washington, ,D. C. Beebe Berman Leoy has very little to say Mich., Liz Pieiffer lJ7ilburn in Dayton, Correspondents about herself, but writes that Mar)' Reis- and [een Keitb Shahal! at Randolph Field, inger Tobey is living in Golf, Ill. and has Texas. Born: to Laurence and Ruth De Yoe two children, a boy and a girl; and that On White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Jack Barrett, a second son, Laurence Michael, Mttrge To)' Milo has a new baby boy. John and Polly frank Shanks are living the full on Sept. 3, 1953. and Bell)' BUfford Graham have a boy, 8, life. Johnny, 10, and Larry, 8, have many Sis Cock en Dillon, ex '41, responded and a girl, 3, and are active community- projects: pet rabbits, a hound, football, from Santa Fe, New Mexico with the en- wise in Hartford, Conn. archery, tree-house, swimming and sailing. thusiasm- of a chamber of commerce. Sis In addition to keeping up with Janet, 8, The Shanks spent a month last summer and John have purchased some land and and Gary, 3, Margaret Kerr Miller spends camping out West, having their tent plan to build this year. The skiing is ter- two days a month as secretary to the medi- chewed by porcupines in the Tetons. being rific 11,000 feet in the mountains, just an cal staff meetings of St. Barnabas Hospital awakened by the bears at Yellowstone, hour from their door. Sis manages to keep in Newark, is on the camp committee of swimming in mountain streams near As- busy with her son, 4, and two daughters, the District Girl Scouts and writes a pen. Polly, busy with Cub Scouts, Jr. 3 and 16 months, but plans to start paint- monthly column for the League magazine. League and the like, is also village Coun- ing again soon. DOfly Cusbisg Redington [one Men'itt Bentley is a delegate to the cilman in Birchwood. Husband Jack's is living in Dallas, Texas where Ted is convention of the New York State Fed- automatic-pilot project is now in full pro- Insurance Manager and Buyer for Dresser eration of Women's Clubs, recently exhib- duction at Minneapolis-Honeywell, and he Industries, Inc. They have three boys, ited oil paintings in an art show, edits the is with the Donaldson Co., St. Paul, in Rick, 7, Teddy, 5, and Jackie, 21 months. Women's Club magazine, is a booth chair- charge of new production development. She is a Sunday School teacher, a P.T.A. man at the hospital auxiliary bazaar and Sad news from Barbara Brasher John- worker, and would like to know if there an elementary school class mother. JtOIl (ex '40). Her husband MacLellan are any other c.c. alumnae in Dallas. Lorrie Lewis Derioan, husband and

19 Mardi said Maine was a welcome relief rating and landscaping are two ~f their children, and Peter and He/en Henderson from the heat of Valdosta, Georgia! Marge interests now. Peter wrote of a tnp from Tuttle and their two children lunched to- Manlling, Martha Boyle MorriSJoll, Belly Vancouver to Los Angeles. gether this summer and on other occasions Hamrnin]s Carey and Edith Gabeftnall A letter from Barry Beach and Jim Alter the Dunvans got together with J ett1we Sudt"mky played golf together all last sum- reveals their busy life in India. Barry has Tumee Creed and family, All the Creeds mer. "Quite a foursome" according to Gay. been attending language school for further went down to a Turner family reunion in Gar also wrote that julie Rich Kurtz has study in Hindi and teaching illiterat,e North Carolina this fall where Jeanne's moved back east to Lancaster. uncle has a hotel high in the mountains, women three days a week, her first expert- Also north from Georgia last summer At present, 1 am trying to teach eight ence in Adult Literacy work. Jim's work were Mary Suvgenor Baker and her family. men a dance routine for a P.T.A, show and with the Study Department of the World She visited with Katherine [obnson Allder! finding them less cooperative than the Council of Churches involves much travel eight Cub Scouts I dealt with last year. for him. and Barbara Murphy Brewster, Surg de- On Aug. 8, 1953, Carol Chappell, who serves a special accolade for being the first had the distinction of being the first wo- 1943 10 our class with five little ones-at least MRS. WILLIAM M. YEAGER man to be sworn into the Waves in New as far as I know. (Betsy Hodgson), Co)"respolldelll London County, received her commission Congratulations to Alicia Henderson 1923 Fourth St., Bremerton, Wash. as Lieutenant Commander in the U. S, Speaker, Ruby Zagoreu Siloevstem, and Naval Reserve. Carol is presently treas- Born: to Samuel and Ruby Zegoren Sil- Bobbie Brengle WristON for the fine job urer of the Alumnae Association and c.c. verstein, a second child, first son, Grant they are doing raising money for the a partner in the Yankee Pedlar gift shop, Merlin, on March 1, 1953; to Ben and Alumnae fund. If you haven't ordered a We extend our sympathy to Catherine Marion Butte1·fietd Hinman, their first copy of Bobbie's cartoons, a note to Alicia Elias Bullou.a whose husband, David M. child, a son, Joel Dyer, on May 4, 1953; at 67 Ramsdell St., Groton, Conn., will Bullowe passed away Sept, 12, 1953, Cathy to Dan and Rttlh Remsen Robel·t.r, a third bring the book your way and help the and David were married May 3, 1952. She child, second son, Stephen Barnes, on May Alumnae fund in the bargain. is hoping to continue her husband's coin 22, 1953; to Frederick and Barbara Mllrphy shop. Brewster, a third daughter, Abigail Davies, 1944 on Oct. 8, 1952; to David and Mm] Suv- 1942 MRS. ROGER KLEINSCHMIDT MRS. JOHN STARR genor Baker, their fifth child, second son, (Margaret C. Ramsay), COITes/JOlldeut Paul William, on Christmas day. (Jeanne Jacques), Correspondent 1780 San Marco Blvd., Jackson 7, Florida Farnum and Carolyn Thomson Spicer 525 E. 14 St., Bartlesville, Okla. have an airplane and for their spring va- Born: to Lou and Audrey Nordquist cation last year flew to Fort Myers and O'Neill, a son, Gary Sean, May 9, 1953; Born: a third son, Peter Charles, to Bill then on out west. Lyn says they think to Richard and Frtt1ICeS Hyde Forde, a son, and FrtlllllY Smith 111illshall on Dec. 16, nothing of spending a Saturday in Wash- Richard Hyde, May 12, 1953; to Paul and 1952; a second girl, Nancy Jean, to Ted ington. D. C. and the next day in Mont- [ane Wodey Peak, a daughter, Martha and Mt"II'ge Alexander Harrison on June 1, real. Lyn and Farnum have two daughters, Hollingsworth, August 18, 1953; to John 1953; a fourth child, third son, Frank Por- Stephanie, 4, and Melissa, 2. and Emily Park Powers, whose other chil- tel', jr., to Frank and [eanue Estes Sweent dren are David 9, Cathy 6, and Jay 4, a The same week Ruby's baby was born, on June 14, 1953; a third daughter, Eliza- son, November 25, 1953. the third of her poems published in the beth to Tom and Sue Balderston Sellrl in John Powers became mayor of Poland, New York Times appeared in print. Her July, 1953; a third child, first son, Wil· Ohio, January 1st. poems and articles appear regularly in a liam Lewis III, to Bill and [ane Bridge. Connie Hughes McBrien, who has three variety of publications, Mormon, Catholic, water Hewes on Aug, 5, 1953; a first boys five and under, and who is choir di- Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist and Jew- daughter, Meredith Anne, to Bob and rector for three choirs in Portland, Conn., ish periodicals as well as secular ones- Edie Mille,. MONtgomery on Sept. 3, 1953 found time to bake and sell eight fruit recently the New York Herald Tribune (their first child, Tom Robert, was born cakes before Christmas, the proceeds going and the Times. Besides their new son on May 26, 1952); a second son, Stephen to the Alumnae Fund. Samuel and Ruby have a little girl, Zona, 3: Pike to Nat and Norma Pike Taft on Sept. [ean StMtS Lorisb and husband, Robert, Barbara Ho gat e Ferrill is President of 23, 1953; another son, third child, Jona- are in Delaware, Ohio, where Bob is an the Scarsdale Junior League and attended than Bard, to Ralph and Bett)' Rabillwitz associate professor at Ohio Wesleyan Uni- a League conference last May where she Sheffef' on Oct, 19, 1953; a third child, versity. was surprised to meet Franny Adams first daughter, Anne Grosvenor, to (bet Susan Schaap Gottlieb wrote of a trip Crane who was representing the Elizabeth, and Rusty Grosvenor Engl isb on Oct. 29, through Massachusetts visiting with Boots N, ]. Junior League. Barbara and Allan 1953. Hingsburg Young, Harriet lJVheeler Patter- and their two children, Bonnie and Lan- Alln Hoag Pierce writes from Water' SOH and Eileen Bilodeau Kersey. Schaapie's nie, see quite a bit of Staff and BUllllY ville, Me. that they are enjoying their new husband, William, is an engineer. Schaap- [.;villgstoJl Campbell who are now living home in the city. Ann has been active in ie's activities include the League of Women in Mt. Kisco. church work, the community chest and a Voters, Red Cross, Community Chest and Mardi Cteverie Barner and her two chil- music club. Newie and [ane Da)' Garfield her family, Elizabeth 9, and John 6, dren, Charli~, 7, and Margery, 5, spent are living in Puerto Rico with their three Virginia "Peter" Fn;y Linscott and hus- the summer in Maine with Mardi's fa ·1 . ,01\ y, children. Walt and Marialla Parcell W'ag· band, Rolliston, a textile manufacturer, are Charlie Sr. joined them for three weeks Oller, ex '44, are living in Evanston, Ill. in Scarsdale, N, Y. They have two sons, a~d they did manage to have a short visit Mariana writes that she had :t fine time Lincoln 6 and Wayland 4, Interior deco- WIth Marge Fee Manning in Hartford. at a c.c. luncheon where Dean Burdick

20 was the speaker. During the summer and continued touring in a square little English of her extra-curricular activities consist of fall, Sid and Virginia Passavam H enderson car they bought. (Triumph Mayflower was helping her husband, an insurance agent. visited with Nallcy Hotcbeiss Donooans, the make! ) Saw everything this side of After six years in Mexico City, Jimmy the [eenne EJteJ SweelJ)'J and the Ginny the Iron Curtain from Scandinavia to Tan- and June Sawhill Heineman, Marilyn, 5, Weber MariOni. The Hendersons met the giers and loved every minute. Shirley says and jeanie, 3, have moved back to the Sweenys and Marions in Baltimore at the she is now a walking travel bureau and States and are esconced in their own home Army-Navy game and Pass said it was encyclopaedia combined, and also claims in Greenwich, Conn. Though she misses worth the drive in the snow to get there. to be bi-lingual- English and sign lan- Mexico, June says she is glad to be hack. Bill and fane Bridgewater Hewes and guage. Her girls are gradually learning to speak Barbara Pilling Tifft spent a weekend with Bev Bonfig Cody is living on a piece of English. Jimmy is now working for Sul- the Hendersons too. estate near Winnetka, Ill., which boasts a ectra, an electrical engineering comp:iOy. Rogo Grosvenor Englisb writes that she lake, stables and a turkey farm, much to 1946 and Chet are moving to Stamford, Conn, the delight of the Cody daughters, Betsy in March, Chet having been transferred to and Barbara. Bev sees Libby W" oodmlJ MRS. RICHARD H. RUDOLPH New York. They bought a new house SteveliJOn occasionally, reports that Ginlly (Marilyn Coughlin), Correspondent after only a very brief look, so they can Bou/m au Corkran, husband Sewell and two 499 Rutgers Ave., Kingston, Pa. hardly wait to see what it's really like. children have just moved to Winnetka Born: a daughter, Cynthia Burton, on We Kleinschmidts are building a new also. [ene Bm'ksdale, a busy interne at the July 22, 1953, to Lee Carr Freeman and home which we hope to occupy sometime University of Chicago Hosptial this year, John; a daughter, Melinda Nairn, Jan. 28, this spring. Between the job of trying to whose main concern is the pediatric floor, 1954 to Mar)'-Naim Hayssen Hartman and keep my eldest, Linda, who had rheumatic still manages to visit the Codys now and Jack; twin daughters, Ann and Gay on fever, from overdoing; the ballet cavort- then. When she does, Bev says that Jane Feb. 1, 1954 to [anet Cmikshank McMul- ings of Gail; and the inquisitiveness of has eyes only for the children. According len and Herb, who have three other chil- my little Marcia plus League, AAUW, to Jane, she's glad to study "the normal dren, Bruce, Susan, and Scott. duplicate bridge and a few thousand other child", an observation Bev found very things, I manage to keep busy. heartening. Bev does her bit for the local Pussy IVright Pratt and Charlie had a stimulating trip abroad last summer and I know the class joins me in extending nursery school, the alumnae club and the fall. They spent four months driving our deepest sympathy to Ethel Sproul Felts League of Women Voters. Husband Dick around France, Holland and Italy in a on the death of her husband, Lt. Comdr. is a product designer for Raymond Loewy Volkswagen which they brought back with Le Wayne N. Felts, USCG, who was Associates, does some sketching and illus- them. After their return in November, killed in a plane crash on July 6, while trating-when he has the strength. they moved to a new apartment in Jack- taking a course in aeronautical engineering lf7ilda Peck Bennett's note from Ken- son Heights where they are enjoying and at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Ethel sington, Md., comments on third baby putting to practical use the colored photo- and her children, Barbara, 8, Janet, 6, Jimmy's convenient arrival in time to go graphs and memories of their trip. Elsie Stephen, 4, are living in Miami, Fla. home for Christmas. Husband Ed is out of the Air Corps and the Bennetts are Willitl171J Kehaya, ex '46, Ery and son, 1945 now in business for themselves building Whit, have been living in Hamburg, Ger- MRS. DORSEY WHITESTONE, JR. very modern houses. Wilda is secretary many for four months while Ery nego- (Patricia Feldman), Co-respondenc and general handyman of the Bennett Con- tiated business in the tobacco market. They 222 A Rye Colony, Rye, N. Y. struction Co., and, what with everything spent the Christmas holidays on a cruise to Lisbon, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands Born: to David and Mardi Miller else, is really on the go. and Madeira. The Kehayas expect to re- Bloomfield, a daughter and first child, A very newsy letter from Kaki Gender turn to Connecticut early in February. Lindsay Hayes, Jan. 28; to Bill and Toni Ruiter reports that in October Charlotte The good old Navy has transferred Corson Rothfuss, ex '45, a third child and Kavanagb Om/ally came back from Okin- Ellis Kitchell Bliss and Harry to Phila- second son, David Weaver, Jan. 20; to awa where she and daughter Anne, 4, had delphia for 18 months. Harry is at the Monte and [an e Breck woldt Harris. ex joined Jerry (back in the Army) in April, Phila. Naval Hospital. Kitch finds life a '45, a son and first child, Kenneth George, 1952, Jerry is now stationed at Devens bit easier since she is not working four Jan. 2; to Ed and lVilda Peck Bennett, a and Chari is temporarily with her mother hours a day in Harry's office. However, third child and second son, James, on Dec. in Wellesley Hills, Mass. The Rutters with Ellis, 3, and Jane, 1, volunteer work 15; to John and Barbara Avery [ubell, a themselves are back in Flushing, N. Y. and six hours a week school bus operation, second child and first son, Peter, on Sept. after a year and a half in Barberton, Ohio. 21; to Walter and Penny Gil/Jin Griffin, a Jack is a service engineer with Babcock she is well occupied. Bryna Samuels Spero has returned to her third daughter, Elizabeth Lynn, in Septem- and Wilcox. Ann, 7, is in second grade former position with a New York adver- ber; to Phil and Ann Lel.ieore Hermann, and very busy with Brownies, dancing, a fourth child and second son, Richard, school, etc. Janie, 3V2, goes to nursery tising agency after the untimely death of her husband, Morton, two years ago in an on April 14; to Fred and Ruth Blanchard school. The Rutters' youngest is Johnny, Walker, a second child, first son, Stephen born May 30, 1952, a real clown, who is airplane accident. Her son, Mark, is almost Bryant, on June 30. at the "into-everything" stage. Kaki finds two years old. Betty Fast Hopper and Dave bad a visit Shirley Armstrong returned to Kansas time for P.T.A., AAVW, and church aux- with fo Eggers Wilkinson and Howdy last City, Mo., Dec. 18 after seven months in iliary work. summer when the Wilkinsons were in Europe. She started off as a member of a Ruthie Blanchard IValker and husband New York. The Hoppers have two chil- Coronation Tour but, when the group Fred are busy house hunting. Daughter sailed for home, Shirley decided to stay,- Judy is 21/2. Except for her work for the dren, Debbie" 5, and Doug. After How- dy's discharge from the Army, the Wilkin- left the ship at Lisbon with a friend and Children's Village, Ruthie says that most

21 boys-another girL Bogie says it has been Ernst, on Dec. 4, 1953 to Herman and sons and their two daughters bade fare- Fran Sharp Barkman/l, whose daughter their policy to have a baby in every new well to Idaho and the west and came back Gretchen; is two; a son, William Alison to Van \'Vert, Ohio. Howdy's new job is place to which they are sent. on Dec. 23, 1953 to Bob and Gil/II)' Bn: with a company that makes connecting Sally Marks 1l'7ood wrote that over the mall Slaughter; a son, Mark Murdock, on hoses and couplings for military and in- Christmas holidays she saw Don and Nan );10. 16, 1954 to Dr. and Mrs. E. Murdock dustrial use. Harriet Kuhn McGreevey and Powers Thomson, who are busy redecorat- Head (Jane Gordner) whose daughter, John are going to Warren, Ohio where ing a new home in Chatham, N. J. Kath- Kim, is two. (Dock is pursuing further John has accepted a new position in the anue Il'7ile spent three weeks at Christmas training in medicine 10 Washington, field of radiology. Ditto Grimes Wis.? time with her family in Ann Arbor, Mich. D. C.); a daughter, Lisbeth Ward on wrote that, at a party given by Ann Muir She hadn't had a vacation in just short June 2, 1953 to John and Mim Ward K;ng in New York, she saw Barbie Smith of two years. Kitty is still working for Fowler who are living in Acton, Mass. Peck, ex '46, who is very active in the Standard Oil in San Francisco and loves where John is an organic chemist; a son CC club of N. J. and with Ray is busy the city and her cute little apartment as last summer to jodie Mon;soll Sloddm remodelling their house in Ramsey; that much as ever. and husband, who live in Westwood with Bobby Miller Gusrai so» is back in New Ralph and [u ne lViJliams Weber still London and Nallcy Lent Peterson has live in Mountain Lakes, N. J. Web's job daughter, Sandy, 3; a son, John Stephen, moved to Santa Ana, Cal. Ditto is very is keeping him in New Jersey more of the on Nov. 30, 1953 to Jack and Maril)'1/ active in the A.A.V.W., radio and TV time now so that it looks as though they Sullivan Mahoney. (Since Jack has become monitoring and as editor of her Junior will stay where they are for quite a while. a flight surgeon in the Air Corps at League newssheet. [oanie lPieJima/l Bur- They love it there and June is up to her Mitchell Field, it is now It. and Mrs. ness and Sid are off for a vacation in neck in clubs-mainly the League of Wo- Mahoney.) Florida in March. jeanie is happy to have men Voters. Their son, Eric, is now in Luke and Barb lVitte Kauth, a three her busy physician husband to herself and kindergarten and their daughter, Cristina year old son, Chris, and a nine month old to have some sunshine for Jimmy, 5, and (Christie) is over 2 years old. daughter, Sara, are living in West Bend, Patty, 3. Along with the exciting news Gil and Lucia (Ce.) Hollerith Lefferts Wis., where Luke is practicing law. Phyl of their twins, Jan Cruikshank McMullen have a 13/4 year old daughter whom they Huge Rose tells me that she and husband and Herb told of their lovely new home call Boo. c.c. says that she is very much John and young son Mead are planning to on the shore in Old Greenwich, Conn. of a little girl. Leonard and Jane Muse summer in Europe and return next fall to Matteson are still working on their old Madison, Wis. Phyl is busy with two ba- 1947 house outside of Binghamton, N. Y., and bies, Mead and her PhD thesis on "Yeats DORIS A. LANE they love doing it. Besides this job and and the Dramatization of Form", which is Correspol/dent taking care of their two fast growing boys, just in its infancy. 1310 Stout Street, Denver 4, Colo. Jane keeps busy in local doings, Sunday John and MdriOI! Stern Kafka are living school, etc. in Chicago at present, but will move to Married: /Wldred Solomon to Melvin Morgan and Ann Bett Riley Browne are New Haven in July when John starts psy- Le Boff on Nov. 20, 1953. now in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, chiatric residency at Yale. Jack and Pal Born: to John and Elizabeth Bogert where they are the proud owners of a Patterson Law have left Philadelphia and Hayes, their fourth child, a second daugh- house bought in October. Gerard and will be located soon in New Jersey or ter, Virginia Bogert, on Dec. 1, 1953; to Aletta ll'7enthold Pontei n, accelerated '47, Howell and Sally Marks Wood, a daugh- Rhode Island, depending upon the whim still live in Rotterdam but moved to a ter, Lindsay Howell, on Dec. 31, 1953; to of Jack's insurance company. Bob and Skip new location Feb. 1, probably because of Trygve and Am! McBride Tbotisen, their Coleman Armstrong have a new house in the new addition to their family-a son, second child, another daughter, Barbara, Pittsburgh, and they are deeply enmeshed who, according to Aletta, is a handful. in paint, wallpaper, furniture, etc.-to use on Jan. 26, 1954. Jim and Laura Lee Wiley Burbank are Skip's phrase, "wallowing in domesticity- As Mildred Solomon Le Bolf lost her still in Stonington, Conn. but moved last bliss or rut, as you wish." Skip saw mother in September, her father is living May when their second son, Scott, was Frannie Farn s-urortb IFe.rtb!'ook and bus- with her, her husband (who is from born, to a seven room apartment which band George last fall. They are ver)' Brooklyn and associated with Keystone they like very much. Leland, their first, is pleased with their young daughter whom Nut and Bolt of N. Y. C) and her 5Vz almost 4 and is enjoying himself at nurs- vear old daughter, Carol Ann. Mildred, ery school. they adopted this year. who is still showing horses, won a first Ginny Keifer [obnson reports that she at N. Y. C's Madison Square Garden 1948 and Dick are living with two sons, Steve, Horse Show this year-the first to be won NANCY MORROW 3Vz, and Mike, 11/z, in West Yarmouth by a New England stable. Correspondent where Dick is in the building busines:;. Jack and Elizabeth Bogert Hayes have 289 W. 12 St., New York, N. Y. Ginny finds life on the Cape just fine, been in Key \X'est, Fla. for a year, ever especially from May to October. since Jack got back from Japan. Bogie Married: Ce-ol Conant to AIda Clement Mim lWt/rd Fowler says that Vince and says, "The southern tropics are fine, but Podesta on Jan. 2, 1954 in Pelham, N. Y. Pall)' Tumer LePore, daughter Leslie, age being here makes you feel as though ~ertha Mayer to Allan Romanov last Fall 3, and son Jimmy, age 10 months, are you're at the jumping off place on earth." 10 Newton, Mass. Shirley Nicholson to settled in their new home in San Marino, Their oldest child, Christie, will be ready Caspar Roos. J Mil Di mnut. to Ed d L.I wac Calif. Bob and Sallie lW"ard Lutz are hv- for first grade next year. The newest ewis est spring Born' a d ht . . aug er ing in Scarsdale, N. Y., the proud parents turned out to be what they hoped for to Nancy Bo~nell, on Nov. 12, 1953 to Ma~ of a daughter, Karen, age 14 months whom even up the score of one girl and two and PhyllIs Barnhill Thelen' asp " on, eter they adopted last June.

22 Ginny Bevans Bray, husband Bill, and "Home" Estelle and writer Richard Geh- Stephen are now in Portsmouth, N. H., their two sons, age 2 and 4, are living in man were married in December and are assigned to the Submarine U.S.S Torsk. They expect to be assigned to New london Bridgeport, Conn. Nallcy Richards !HmlSon now living in lancaster, Pa. sent a picture of her two very cute daugh- Dorothy A, Drescher, M.A. '52 from later in the spring. James and Anne Rm- ters, Cynthia (Cyndy) 2¥2, and Priscilla Columbia, has joined Eli Lilly and Com- sillo Griffin and their two sons are on the (Polly), 1. Dickie's husband, James, is a pany, Indianapolis, as an associate bio- west coast while Jim is taking ROTC physicist working for the Air Force Re- chemist. Before joining Lilly's she was training at the Univ. of Southern Califor- search lab in Cambridge, Mass. They employed as a cytogeneticist by the A. M. nia. The whole family loves that Califor- have a modern house "with an acre of Toad Co. of Kalamazoo and previously as nia sunshine. Allen and Elizabeth BM- woodsy land in a lovely country develop- a technical assistant to the cytogeneticist at rough Perry are back in Marblehead, Mass. ment" in Concord where Dickie belongs Boyce Thompson Institute of Yonkers, after living for some time in a small apart- to the Chorus and the "local garden and N. Y. ment in New Jersey, Betty says they sewing (mostly mending) clubs." couldn't get back to the sailing city fast 1950 Paul and Jeanie Mueller Bernard and enough. Dorothy Globus spent a fabulous RUTH L KAPLAN their three young daughters live in Welles- summer on the French Riviera-in a villa Correspondent ley, Mass. where they have built a house, -as a companion to three small children, 82 Halcyon Road, Newton Center, Mass. John and Mary Louise Flanagan Coffin She returned 10 September and now and family are in Lawrenceville, N. J. Married: Priscilla Harris to Stewart C. works as a secretary to Allistair Cooke, where John is teaching. Dalrymple, Feb. 6 in Harmon, N. Y. TV's omnibus man. Beryl Smith to William R. Bradshaw, Jr., 1951 1949 Feb. 6 in Chatham, N. J. Born: to James PEGGY PARK MRS. ROBERT A. DUIN and Julia [ac eson Long, ex '50, a daughter COY/'es/wlident (Phyllis Hammer), Correspondelll in October; to Joseph and Elizabeth Steene 302 West 12th St., New York 14, N. Y. 252 Lincoln St., Lexington, Mass. Curl, a son, Stephen, November 4; to Alan and Nancy Scboenbrod KuUer, ex '50, a Married: Judy Adoskin to Nathan David Born: to Hal and Mary Stecher Dombit, daughter, Deborah, Dec. 15; to Arnold Barry on Dec. 25; Rhoda Levy to Jack a second son, Evan Benjamin, Nov. 26; to and Josephine Shenk Leeds, a daughter in Schlein on May 3; JO(II/ Andrew to Henry Donald and Janet Callaghan Blattller, a January; to Allen and Elizabeth Burrough Martin White, Jr. on May 9; Helen Pao- daughter, Lindsay, Oct. 27. Perry, a son, Allen Mitchell, January 26; lovicb to Neil Francis Twomey on May 30; Betty Leslie Hahn's husband, Phil, after to Ira and Margaret McDermid Deois, a Mary Alartha Suckliug to William M. nine months in Germany, is now with son, Douglas, Feb. 2. Sherts on June 6; Anile WiebensoJl to Al- Sikorsky Helicopter Co, Their second son, From Lexington, Mass., Ella Lou Hoyt bert Holmes, Jr. on June 6; Ann McCreery Eric Webster, was born June 8. Carol Dill/mock describes her full life, of teach- to William Turner, Jr. on June 13; Jo Young Pomeroy wrote while en route to ing the recorder to a class of about 30 Apple)'dI'd to John W. Schelpert III on Germany with Bobby, 2, and Diane, 8 youngsters, teaching music at the Cam- July 11; Barbara Wiegand to Robert l. months, to join Bob who will be at the bridge School, singing in her church, and Pillote on July 25; Phyllis McCarthy to Sembach AFB in Kaisers-lantern. Carol keeping up with her own music and voice Howard S, Crosby on Aug. 1; Veegban wants anyone in the class going to Europe lessons. Alice Hess Brandt has returned Groner to Walter Spilsbury on Jan. 2; in the next three years to stop to see them. to Albany, Georgia with her husband who Nancy Barnerd, ex '51, to Jules Seidman Many of the class are on the move like was in Japan for three months. While he on Feb, 1. Born: a son, Karl, on Sept. Carol. Roger and Lee Garrison Lors are was away, Al lived at home in Cynwyd, 24, 1952 to lons and [ane Sweet LOllS- now in the Barbados. Waddy and Sally Pa. with her nine-month old baby girl. Al dale, whose daughter Darcy will be three How StOHl' have moved to Des Plaines, had a small scale c.c. reunion in January on March 14; a daughter, Alison Elizabeth, Ill. from Cleveland where they saw a lot with Dorothy Holinger, Anl/ McLear FUJ- on Sept, 24, 1952 to Jim and Louise Ste- of Woody and [eanne McMille!! McAnl)', sell, Janet Baker Tenney, Mal')' Jo Mason, oens If/heatley; a son, John Edward, on ex '49. Jeanne now has two children, and Emily Birdsall [obnson. Lee reports Feb. 12, 1953 to Richard and Janice Ser- Sally and Billy. Jeanne Webber Clark that her husband will be in Japan for an- go)' Rosenberg; a son, Gary Alan, on Mar, says she and Jack who resigned from the other year. Barbara Biddle gave a pre- 12 to Jack and Soliy Bettendorf, ex '51; Coast Guard in December are also On the bridal shower for Priscilla Harris in Pris' a daughter, Catherine Gage, on Mar. 21 move with their two little girls, Carol, New York apartment Jan, 9· Other c.c. to Frank and Phebe Mason; a daughter, 2Vl, and Sally, 5 months. Jeanne said that ites attending were Dorothea Jones and Karen louise, on Apr. 20 to Bob and Betty Gottschling's wedding in October Ruth Kaplan, Anyone wishing to contact Harriet Bassett MacGregor; a son, David was the occasion for a big '49 reunion Barbie between now and springtime will Alden, on Apr. 29 to Nick and Joy An- including Andy CO)'l1e Planangan, Barry have to head north to ski country to do so. derson Nicholson, ex '51; a daughter, and Jackie Brengle Emmert, Edie Barnes, There's always snow at Stowe, you know! Wendy Lynn, on May 15 to Melvin and Jack and SIIe Starr Bscbenel, Bob and [ean [osepbine Frank 2elu11 was in Rosemont, Paula Meltzer Nelson; a daughter, Mary Hurlbut Compton, Louise Brown, Dick Pa., during the Christmas holidays and Martha, on May 28 to William and Jane and [obnnie [ossen Bivin, and the Clarks. saw Alice Hess Brandt, [anet Baker Ten- Lent Baldau; a son, David Ogden, Jr. on Moving in another direction, namely ney and Dorothy j17arren 117hite, who now Oct. 15 to Dave and Jeanne Tucker towards fame and fortune, is Estelle Par- has two offspring. Josie and Randy are Zenker, a son, William Thomas, on Nov. SOliS Gehman who rated a writeup in a settled in Boston for three years while 7 to Bill and Marianne Edwards Stimson; Boston paper recently. After working on Randy takes a postgraduate course in Na- a son, George Bain, on Nov, 21 to Jim Dave Garroway's "Today", she is now a val construction and design at M.LT. Jo- and Iris Bain Hntcbi nson, special projects editor on the new program, seph and Elizabeth Sreane Curl and small Roving and rooted: last reports had

2:1 and Anile Katz Lindner, ex '52, were part joan Truscott heading for Europe in Sep- Noling, April 11; Francine La Pointe to of her bridal party. Francine La Pointe tember, 1953; Nancy If/irtemburg MoriS Warren D. Buchanan, Jr., August 1; Le- Buchanan and husband Warren were back in Stamford after seeing Steel off nore Tresenield to Dr. Samuel M. Singer, among the guests. After a Bermuda honey- overseas from California; Rhoda and Jack Nov i : He/en Elizabeth Fricke to Andrew moon, Lynn and Sam settled down in an Schlein living in East Orange, N. J.; Chuck Wra~ 'Mathieson, Ens. USNR, Dec. 12; apartment in Fair Lawn, N. J, Until Oc- and [o Pelky Shepard moved to Bethany, Elizabeth AmI Cedar to Vaughn K. Dar- tober, Lynn was an assistant buyer of Conn., convenient to Yale where Chuck is nell, in January; Nancy josephille [ac ees Fashion Fabrics at Bloomingdale's-c-a de- attending graduate school; Ronnie Wil- to Thomas Oliver Mulvehill, Jan. 23; lightful position involving running innu- liams managing a Bermuda guest house, Leila Larson to Stewart Klein, Jan. 23; merable fashion shows and publicity sailing like mad, and excited over having Am! Lorenz Ball to Donald Lewis Rose, stunts, branch store buying as well as buy- seen Queen Elizabeth on her visit to the USNR, Feb. 13. ing for the main store. Colonies; joan and Henry IVhite located Born: to Tom and Barbara Frye Leco, in Stuyvesant Town, N. Y., Hank with ex '52, a daughter, Susan, March 15, 1953; Jane Gerbards, Mar}' Lay Hadden, Alln the Bank of New York; and Fe George to Ned and Diane Blank Taylor, a daugh- Flemming and Beoie Bower, were al1 Mason living in Weston, Conn. in their ter, Diane Priscilla, June IS; to George bridesmaids for the inimitable Francine Fe-designed house; Dorie Cramer Olmstead and Susie Longley Ragen, a daughter, when she married Warren D, Buchanan. in Arlington, Va., working with the Mu- Elizabeth Page, Sept. 10; to Bruce and They are in Washington, D. C. until War· tual Security Agency; Sari Buchner and Bette Snow Knowlton, a son, David Whit- ren is out of the Air Force in June. Fran- Peggy Park having a gD at a Greenwich more, Nov. 23; to Ned and Molly Hunt cine is working for the Dept. of the Navy, Village apartment; Betsey Colgan, jo Wil- Heizer, a daughter, Linda Bradley, in Jan- and wrote me a letter while on the job lard and justine Shepherd out in the wide uary; to Bill and Curly Patterson Mana- using at least seven different colors of ink, open spaces of the west for the summer; han, a son, William Palmer, Jr.; to Alln "to confuse the NKVD". Ellie Tuttle back from her Europe vaca- Katz Linder, ex '52, a son, Benjamin. Robbie Jf/ alter is a LTJG in the Waves, tion; Lauraiee Lutz, an occasional visitor Since July Julia Enyart Bain has been working in Communications and sharing to New York, the proud possessor of an about thirty miles east of Frankfurt, in an apartment in Georgetown with Sue article, with by-line, in The Merchandiser; Budingeo, Germany, where Bruce is sta- Crowe, Esther Hammaker's job as secre- The Albert Holmes jrs. (Anile If/iebenson) tioned. They have done some travelling, tary in a psychological warfare research settled in Birmingham, Mich.; the William to Paris, Munich and Garmish. She met project is "absolutely fascinating." Salt)' Turner Irs. (Ann McCreery) in Toledo, [ane wu.;» Kerr, whose husband is also Diesrotb and Ann Flemnung still have Ohio; Mel and Paula Meltzer Nelson stationed in Germany. Mary Sheldon Rob- their cute Georgetown house and are deep spending time at Florida beaches in Febru- bins is in Tacoma, Wash., while Knox is in Nurses' aid work in addition to their ary (Paula terms daughter Wendy a fe- a jet pilot with the 465th Fighter Inter- regular jobs. Katie O'Toole and BIII/II)' male "Dennis the Menace"); joy Ander- cepter Squadron at McChord Field. She Newbold are working for their Master's son Nicholson and jane Ford Parker in says that J oan Strachan Zacharias has been degrees at night school. B, f. lWest took Worcester and Norwell, Mass.; Janie, living in Hawaii where Zach's Navy orders a month's vacation and went to Nassau Dave and two children, Hilardy and Wen- have taken them. with Becky Richtmyer. Betty Lee Patterson dy, enjoying their Cape Cod house; Helen Nancy Laidley is so enthusiastic about Manahan is living outside Washington in Pavlovich Twomey doing occupational her teaching job in Denver, Col. that she Arlington, Va., while Bill works with therapy at New Jersey State Psychiatric has decided to give up her plans for teach- Military Intelligence. Peg Anderson, who Hospital while Neil is stationed at ing in a Hawaiian school next year. Mml- has been doing Cancer Research in Mem- Fort Monmouth; Nancy Bernard Seid. rca Lennox Noting is also pleased with phis, visited her at Christmas time, mall in Hollywood with husband, Jules, Colorado where she and Larry are living Margie Ohl is ver}' happy in her work who at present is musical director of the while Larry is stationed at Camp Carson as Field Director for the Camp Fire Girls Sarah Churchill Hall of Fame TV show, with the Army. while among his past credits are directing in Youngstown, Ohio. She's been at it now Barham Frye Laco, ex '52, is staying stints with WNYC and Dumont and be- for a year and a half. Betty Blaustein has with her parents in Hamburg, N. Y, while ing musical director of Maurice Evans' been doing graduate work in Music Ther- Tom is overseas, Their daughter, Susie, productions of" Hamlet" and "Richard II"; apy and Music Education while living at was born last March in Corona, Cal. Her Elizabeth Babbott, Master's Degree, re- home in Baltimore. Laura Wheelwright daddy left soon after for several months in search at Wellesley, and Hawaii behind spends her weeks working in Boston and Japan followed by a world cruise. He will her, now teaching at Westbrook Junior weekends skiing in New Hampshire. Ph)'l return to Norfolk, Va., in early April, and College in Maine - her hours instructing lY/ eldstreicber is still glorying in her last Barb and Susie will be there with him in Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, and summer's trip to Europe with [oen Black· until the big day in June when he be- Hygiene seeming to total more than twen- llldll~a SITA tour. Phyl has been working comes a civilian. George and Susie Long- ty-four per day; Marialllle Edwards Stim- for a publishing company. Belie Dur)'ea, ley Roberts, ex '52, and their new daugh- SOil doing program planning for the who was also in Europe last summer, has ter, Page, are in Kansas City, George cov- League of Women Voters in addition to begun a new job with Equitable Life In- ers the territories of Missouri, Kansas, Ne- keeping busy with her two children. surance Co. in New York. Barbara Group braska and Arkansas as a salesman for the teaches physical education and health at 1 1952 International Silver Co. Ruth Lorber Mell- high school in Tarrytown, N. Y. Ros COil' MRS. MELVIN G. MARCUS delsohn, ex '52, and husband Bob are in nelly Barber is working in Providence, St. louis where Bob is in his last year at (Mary Ann Allen), Correspondent R. I., while her husband, Don, finishes his Washington University Medical School 8251 S.W. 52 Ave., South Miami 43, Fla, studies at Brown. Bobby Katz is a social Lynn ni el d Singer is an optorn- worker for the Child Welfare Dept. in Married: Monica Lennox to Lawrence etrist's wife. B, J. IVest, Becky Richtmyer, Mineola. 24 Nancy Alderman Kramer and Bob live Larsen Klein's wedding in Mamaroneck, jean AnJl Hallows is in Honolulu where in Woodbridge, Conn. She is with the N. Y. After a trip to the British West hubby Wendall is stationed. Freddie Hines State Welfare Dept., while Bob is at Yale Indies" Lee and Stewart settled in New is studying at Katherine Gibbs School in Medical School. Bev Quinn is with Fox's York City. New York. Ann Hutchison is a research in Hartford and lives at home. Betty Cedar Ruth Manecke Gruber is having an in- assistant at the New York Life Insurance Darnell met her husband, Vaughn, while teresting and busy time in New York. She Company. Marian Hyde is an assistant they were both working for the Aetna Life has her own TV show, called "Animal with Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, archi- Insurance Co. in West Hartford. jan Wei! Funtime", every night at 5:45 to 6:00 on tects. Mm-y Ireland was recently married. is back in Lincoln, Neb., after almost a WABC-TV channel 7. She is also contin- Ellen Israel is working for a Master's de- year in San Francisco with Liz Hamilton uing to lecture at the Bronx Zoo and keep- gree in psychology at Iowa State Univer- and Libby M)'erJ. She was working in the ing house. She has finished a book called sity. Diana Jackson was last seen walking International Banking Department of the "The Zoo Comes to You" which is being down the main street in Paris with Dom- Bank of America. Slim Lattner is still in published in April by E. P. Dutton. inique Louis Dreyfus. Anne Marcus is San Francisco, sharing a dreamy Nob Hill Betty Gosselin and I stayed with Gloria doing proof reading for a Columbus pub- apartment with one Vassar and one Cali- Jones in New York while we were job lication. Mar)' Ann AfcClemelits MasOl1 is fomia girl and working for a small ad- hunting, and the three of us had dinner married and living in Pittsburgh. SaJJy vertising agency. with C01'dy Ettl and Barbara Ackroyd. Metzger is getting a Master's degree at Barb is a researcher at Young and Rubicam Carnegie Tech. Pat Mottram is working lPillJlall Meyer, who has been taking and Cordy is working as secretary for her for Aetna Life Insurance Company in the Junior League provisional course in father. Hartford. Allie O'Brien is living in New Peoria, headed to Sun Valley for a few York. jiJJ Orndorff is married. Barbie weeks of skiing early in February. Mary 1953 Perdun Robinson is living in Hanover Harrison Beggs lived in Groton while Jim MRS. RICHARD B. MINDLIN while Kent finishes business school. Lydia was stationed at the Sub Base. He is now (Sue Weinberg), Correspondent Ricbards is married and living in the south- out of the Navy and they have settled in 320 West 46 Terrace, Apt. 2W lands. Marlelle Roth is at law school in an apartment in Boston where Jim is be- Kansas City, Mo. Boston. Peggy Sarte is working for an ginning classes at the Harvard Business Sidney Coles Allen is attending Colum- international concern in New York. Belty School. They find that they are only a bia University. Anne Becker is studying Ann Schneider Ottinger, married and liv- few doors away from Pat Presi, ex '52, music in New York and working part ing in Dayton, Ohio, is a part time social who is teaching in Boston. time at Steuben glass. Alice Bronson is worker. The wedding of Nancy SchoefJel Nicki Sperry Meyer and Bob lived in working in New York. Sue Brown is 01ierjJeck was a small reunion, with Fran- Charleston, S. C. for a year until Bob got working for the Charter party in Cincin- nie T oro, J oanie Churchward, Nancy out of the Navy. During that time he was nati. Mary Lee Cantwell is on the editorial Crouch, and Slt1l1lle MacQuarrie all there. away on sea duty seven months out of the staff of Mademoiselle magazine in New Frannie, Sunnie, and joyce lVeller Lash- twelve, and Nicki filled in the time work- York. Susie Carver, working in Boston, is way are all in Boston. Dell Stone Martin ing for a small dress shop. They are now living with Deoe Brennen, Pat Cb«se and is married and living in New Jersey. Leta living in Middlebury, Conn. and Bob is Laurie Kunkel. julia Clinger is teaching Weiss Mal'kJ is in Hartford. Cynthia working for the American Brass Company grade school in Washington while Bill fin- lVormsley is working in the designing de- in Waterbury. Nicki's so glad to be back ishes naval career. Hildie Drexl and Loel partment of a major mai l order house. in New England that she has decided she Kaiser are in Germany, studying under joyce Ho'[beisner Sterliiz is living in Nor- must be a dyed-in-the-wool Yankee. Fulbright grants. Connie Duane is teach- folk, Va. Barbie Wei! Grant is in Boston while Bob is at law school. Snooky Rosen- julie Alln Hovey was maid of honor in ing school in Providence. Anellen Pine is stock is fashion assistant of Charm Mag- Helen Fricke Mathieson's wedding. Helen research assistant at Prentice Hall Publish- and Andrew honeymooned at Sea Island, ing Company in New York. [oan Fluegel- azine. Sue IFeinberg Mindlin has been running to Europe, helping run Bloom- Ga. and are now living in Haddonfield, mal! lVexler is teaching part time in nurs- ingdale's, getting engaged and married - N. J. Betsy McLaile McKinl1ey and Mary ery school in Scarsdale. Ann Gordon is Harrison Beggs were attendants in Lee doing Junior League work in Pittsburgh. all in six months.

2S Clubs of the Connecticut College Alumnae Association, Presidents and Secretaries

MINNESOTA CALIFORNIA Twill Cities: Northern: Mrs. LeRoy Hanscom (Anne Delano '28) Mrs. William S. Norton (Jean Merrill ex '48) 66 Domingo Avenue, Berkeley 5 2917 -- 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis Miss Shirley MacKenzie '48 Mr.~. John Reid (Elizabeth Me~rill ex '~3) 901 Lake Street, San Francisco 7136 First Avenue South, Minneapolis COLORADO Mrssounr Denver, Mrs. John T. Webb (Ruth Jackson '30) St. Louis: Mrs. John Hilmer (Alice Adams '44) 1914 Leyden Street, Denver 7334 Pershing, University City 5 Miss Lucia Boyle '52 Mrs. John Friedman (Ellen Cron~ach '37) 99 South Downing Street, Denver 46 Washington Terrace, St. Louis CONNECTiCUT NEW JERSEY IIVeJtern F:/irfield Coumy, New [ersey: Mrs. Robert Areson (Lois Ryman '36) Mrs. Alfred Street (Ruth Harrison '30) 153 Bellevue Avenue, Upper Montclair . Five Mile River Road, Darien Mrs. Charles Forbes, Jr. (Gladys Bachman '40) Miss Elizabeth Rockwell '52 141 Berckrnan Street, Plainfield Longshore Avenue, Harbor View, South Norwalk Bergen County: ., Hortiord: Mrs, Reeves Morrisson (Martha Boyle '43) Mrs. Richard Blackburn (Barbara Ann Geib ex 45) 1745 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford Hillcrest Avenue, Montvale Miss Letitia Williams '35 Miss Mary Louise Cutts '41 3 Arnoldale Road, West Hartford 16 Grandview Terrace, Tenafly Meriden-l17 alJiJlgjord: NEW YORK Mrs. Howell Wood Jr. (Sarah Marks '47) New York: 23 Glen Place, Meriden Mrs. Edward Mertz (Jane Coulter '47) Mrs. David Evans (Eunice Morse '38) 327 West 76th Street, New York 23 7.58 Yale Avenue, Meriden Mrs. Edward Blitzer (Nancy Mayer '45) New Hewell: Mrs, John Booth (Bernice Neumann '49) 91 Central Park West, New York Orchard Road, Orange Rochester: Miss Emily Warner '25 Miss Anne Cobey '49 175 Clinton Avenue North, Rochester 2 99 Howe Street, New Haven Miss Barbara Bohman '49 New London, Mrs. John Burnham (Ann Small '42) 393 Bonnie Brae Avenue, Rochester 18 Lloyd Road, Waterford IVeJtcheJtef: Miss Augusta O'Sullivan '22 Mrs. Robert Garlock (Charlotte Frisch '25) P. 0, Box 158, Waterford 6 East Drive, Larchmont Jl7aterbury: Miss Katherine Colgrove '26 Mrs. C. James Greenleaf (Alida Reinhardt '41) 901 Watertown Avenue, Waterbury 9 Devon Road, Larchmont Miss Esther Stone '29 Central New York: 380 West Main Street, Waterbury Mrs. Walter Attridge (Virginia Rusterholtz '48) DELAWARE 212 Mains Avenue, Syracuse Wilmington: Mrs, Nelson Daly (E~elyn Silvers '43) Mrs. Powell Holbein (Dorothy Boschen '41) 326 Delaware Avenue, McDamel Crest, 100 Sherbourne Road, Syracuse Wilmington 3 OHIO Miss Joan Underwood '49 Akron: Mrs. Richard Staiger (Charlotte Enyart '50) 732 Nottingham Road, Wilmington 224 Lownsdale Avenue, Akron 13 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mrs. Alex Smith (Merle Hawley '28) 905 Hereford Drive, Akron J/7asbi ngton : Mrs, Frederick B. Wiener (Doris Merchant '35) Cincinnati: 2500 Wisconsin Avenue N.W., Washington Mrs. Thomas Price (Dorothy Ann Wood '52) Miss Esther M. Barlow '33 ] 2 Garden Place, Cincinnati 8 200 F Street N.W., Washington Mrs. John Burgevin (Clarissa Weekes '40) 1139 Fehl Lane, Cincinnati 30 ILLINOIS Cleveland: Mrs. Robert Dalzell (Lucile Cain '33) Chicago: Mrs, James Woodbury (Ethel Lawrence '46) 2475 Wellington Road, Cleveland Heights 18 103.5 Pleasant Lane, Glen Oak Acres, Glenview Mrs. Ralph Tyler, .II. (Mary Brillbard '45) Mrs, Bruce Thayer (Nancy Noyes '47) 3767 Princeton Boulevard, Cleveland 21 319 Greenwood Boulevard, Evanston PENNSYLVANIA KENTUCKY Philadelphia: KI!J.'tllcky: Mrs. Monroe Heumann, Jr. (Lucy Block '46) Mrs. Elwyn Seelye II (Elizabeth Hollingshead '41) Colonial Hill Road, Buechel 106 Debaran Lane, Rosemont

MASSACHUSETTS Miss Mary A. Clark '48 101 Maple Avenue, Wyncote Boston: Miss Amy Wakefield '26 50 Greenough Street, Brookline 46 PittJburgh: Miss Cynthia Terry '46 Mrs. Robert Armstrong (Mary Coleman '48) 57 Marlboro Street, Boston 210 Rockingham Road, Pittsburgh 15 Springfield: Mrs. George Langrerh (Faith Grant '29) Mrs. Donald Cooke (Hortense Alderman '32) 1024 Martha Avenue, Pittsburgh 28 13 Woodbridge Street, South Hadley WISCONSIN Mrs. Robert Doran (Gertrude Yoerg '32) Milwallku: 149 Central Park Drive, Holyoke Mrs. Robert Winkler (Margaret Gregory ex '46) JPorc~ster: 4100 North Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee Mrs. Harold Constantian (Anahid Berberian '40) Mrs. William Hartz, Jr. (Bennette Freeman ex '44) 435 Salisbury Street, Worcester 2923 North Marietta Avenue, Milwaukee 11