Connecticut College Alumnae News Vol. 9 No. 4

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Marion Hendrie Milligan '20 Re-elected Association President

MILDRED HOWARD '20 IS The money is to be turned over to t'.e NEW ALUMNA TRUSTEE college in trust, the interest only will be used as a scholarship. In this way the prtn- Marion Hendrie Milligan was re-elected ciple will continue to grow so that in years to the office of President of the Connecticut to come not one but several girls will re- College Alumnae Association at the annual ceive alumnae scholarships. The interest on business meeting held during commence- the principle shall be used as one scholar- ment week-end. During Mrs. Milligan's in- ship until it shall have reached the sum of cumbency many advances have been roade- $200. Wheu a larger sum is available, it mainly the developing of. the office of the shall be divided at the discretion of the executive secretary, the consolidation of the committee on left as one scholarship not to many funds to which alumnae are asked to exceed the sum of' $400. contribute into ODefund, and the formation of the new alumnae scholarship fund. The The candidates for the scholarshIp will other newly elected officers of the associa- be passed on by the college and then recom- tion may be found on the next page. mended to a committee composed of one alumna trustee, the president of the asso- Mildred Howard '20 has been elected ciation and one other member of the execu- alumnae trustee to fill the place of Dr. tive board, who will make the final decision. Esther Lord Batchelder '19 whose term has As time goes on, preference will be given expired. Miss Howard is at present the Di- to daughters of alumnae. rector of Physical Education at Mt. Holyoke College and has her Master's degree in that subject from Teachers College, Columbia. MINIATURE ARBORETUM While in college she was a class officer. a prominent athlete and officer of the athletic SHOWN AT FLOWER SHOW association and since that time she has At the National Flower Show in Hartford, taught at the University of Colorado sum- a miniature of our new Arboretum, built by mer school, the University of Wisconsin, and Elsie DeFlong '33, and Dorothy Hamilton, several preparatory schools. Her familiarity '33, drew much attention. As Elsie DeFlong with colleges and their policies will make is a Botany major, taking art, and Dorothy her a valuable representative on the board Hamilton is an art major, the work was a of trustees. The other alumnae trustees are project of both departments. The model is Jeannette Sperry Slocum '22 whose term ex- correct to the smallest detail, and is a pires next year, and Janet Crawford Howe praiseworthy example of student work. '24 who will serve twa years longer. -C. C. News.

ALUMNAE START GENERAL 1932 CH09SES OFFICERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND The following girls were elected to fill The Alumnae Association at this time is offices in the class of 1932 as it joins the taking a very important step toward stress- alumnae group: ing the scholastic side of college life by establishing a general scholarship fund. The President-Julia Salter. original gift for this fund comes from the Vice-President-Mary Butler. commencement gift of $1,000 from the grad- Secretary-Isabel Bartlett. uating class of 1932 and is being materially Treasurer-Mary Sturdevant. added to by the tenth reunion gift of tbe class of 1922. It is to be hoped that other Chairman of Entertainment - Marion graduating and reuning classes will add to Nichols. it to a considerable extent in the future. News Correspondent-Gertrude Butler. [ 2 1 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS

Classes Hold Gay Reunion At 14th Commencement

Commencement, the fourteenth for Conn- 1922 ecucut College, saw a large number of re- TENTH REUNION turning Alumnae in spite of a year of de- flated personal finances. The little class of It seemed strange to the seventeen re- '22 mustered together nearly one-half of its uning members of 1922 to be quartered in forty-tour members for the tenth reunion Thames Hall with its memories of sprains and along with '27 and '29, '31 and the odd and mumps and sore throats, but it proved fellows of 1911 made an imposing Alumnae an ideal place for headquarters. There were parade on Saturday afternoon. two or three early arrivals on Friday evening but full strength was not reached until Assoclallon business got more intelligent we appeared for parade, dressed in white Interest than usual this year. The quorum with shoulder bouquets of red roses to say at the Saturday morning meeting discussed nothing of innumerable red bangles. thoroughly the proposed changes, such as We modestly thought that our pony cart adding a Recording festooned with red Secretary to the per- ribbons and smoth- sonnel of the Execu- ered with balloons tive Board, and per- MEMBERS OF THE EXECUT~ was the high light manently carrying BOARD I VI:. I of the parade. Cer- advertising' in News. tainly its passengers Many valuable sug- thought so - the gestions for future President: Marion Hendrie Milligan- three husky boys be- administration were 1920. longing to Elinor made. 1st Vice-President: Rosamond Beebe- Thielen Wunch and Bright weather 1926. Amy Peck Yale's made. the President's 2nd Vice-President: Dorothy Bayley- four attractive young Garden Party a hap- 1928. hopefuls. py meeting place for everyone and class Recording Secretary: Jane Moore- 1931. At our class meet- dinners provided the ing, Johnny Peale, oppcrtunttytoramatl- Treasurer: Floreuce Hopper Levick- acting for the unhap- er groups to renew 1927. pily absent Maggie college moods. The Editor of the News: Jennie Copeland Baxter, finally curbed play, "Holiday" is -1929. our tongues and got said to be one of the Councillors: us down to business. finest ever done by 1. Agnes Leahy-I921. Mindful of our iso- a Connecticut Col- lated loneliness we lege cast. 2. Miriam P. Taylol'-1922. 3. Elinor Hunken Torpey-1924. passed the motion to suggest to the classes The Sunday Trus- Nominating Chairman: Julia Warner of '19, '20 and '21 that tee Luncheon was -1923. really fun and the we reune together in speeches were more 1935. Election of of- than a matter ot ficers installed Helen Peale Sumner as course. Marion Hendrie Milligan talked to President, Gay Powell Slayton as Vice Prest- us as women who have a position to uphold dent; Mary Damerel as Secretary and Doro- in the education of our era and Dr. Morris's thy Wheeler as Treasurer (ad nauseam). scholarly address on the same important We voted to contribute our Class Gift to the topic, education, will probably be published new Alumnae Scholarship Fund. in a serious periodical before long. Our banquet was held at Lighthouse Inn Monday, Commencement, made us thank- with Gay Powell Slayton as informal toast- ful for the great canvas roof over the Quad- mistress, and each member of the class said rangle because there was a persistent drizzle. a few words about events and accomplish- The high light of this year's graduation ex- ments of the last five years. We learned ercises was the address by Judge Forence tbat Marj Wells had come all the way from E. Allen, of the Supreme Court of Ohio. San Francisco to attend reunion - more Those of us who were- in her Commence- power to her! Connie Hill Hathaway read ment audience highly recommend that those messages from absent members and then we not so fortunate write for a copy of her sang, delighted to find both the volume and highly worthwhile talk. Copies may be ob- Quality highly satisfactory in spite of lack tained at the Alumnae Office. (Continued on Page 7)

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Connecticut College Alumnae New, nae chapter meetings I feel a little like a spirit because I am so much at home in Vol. IX. June, 1932 No.4 two such different groups. "The difference in the groups is in their Published four times a year, November, different views of college. As students, we February, April and June, at 219 S. Fourth saw college generally just in its relation to St., Springfield, Illinois, by the Connecticut ourselves. We signed petitions with our College Alumnae Association. Subscription own immediate need or desire in mind. price, $1.00 a year. From the minute we are Alumnae, however, Entered as second class matter at the we begin to see the whole long perspective post office, Springfield, Ill., under the Act of college-s-trom its brave beginning and of August 24, 1912. the many little details of its growing, in EDITORIAL STAFF which we may have had a hand, on to what is more important, its future. We become Editor-in-Chief .... .Barbara Tracy Coogan '27 alive to its greater possibilities and we have State Museum, Springfield, Ill. the privilege of helping to direct its course Managing Editor ...__...Jean Gillette Smith '26 along those first ideals. Assistant Editors: "My job is to carry out your suggestions Loretta Roche '21; Helen Douglass North '24; in helping our college grow, and sometimes Alice Taylor Dugan '25; Phyllis Heintz '29; to make suggestions wherein your support Melicent W. Buckingham '31. is most needed. The Alumnae Secretary is the means that you have chosen to keep CONGRATULATIONSl your contacts with Connecticut College and with one another-to keep continuity in The graduates of Connecticut College act- the organization. Your chapters send in ed wisely when they re-elected Marion Hen- combined opinions, suggestions and friendly drie Milligan '20 as president of their asso- expressions of support. You, as individuals, ciation. She has spent two busy years work- have written me new ideas and hopes for ing out the policies of the association, star-t- college. You can't do this to excess being the executive secretary's office, raising cause it is always your active interest and the finances to pay for this added expense, loyalty that will keep your college growing. " increasing the co-operation of alumnae with the aeeoctation, and adding to the things IN MEMORIAM worthwhile that the association has to offer the alumnae. The changing plans are not Martha Bolles Ramus '24 yet completely stabilized and it is fortunate It is with great regret that we write of the that the association will have her to act for tragic death of Martha Bolles Ramus '24 them through two more years of the forma- (Mrs. Charles F.) who was killed in an auto- tive period. We extend our thanks to Mrs. mobile accident in Exeter, Nebraska, late in Milligan and our best wishes for the future June. Mr. and Mrs. Ramus had left their development of her plans. home in Cleveland and were touring in their new car to Denver, Colorado and thence to DOROTHY FELTNER TO the southwest when a nail punctured the CONTINUE AS SECRETARY rear tire and the machine overturned. Dorothy Feltner has been reappointed as Since her graduation in 1924, Martha Executive Secretary for the coming year. worked in the educational departments of Besides the work that she has been doing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New this year, Miss Feltner will act as manag- York City and then in the Newark Art Mu- ing editor of the NEWS in the future. In seum. For three years she has been living the following, paragraphs she summarizes in in Cleveland where she taught art at Laurel an interesting manner her impressions of School, a private school for girls, and had the position which she holds. Saturday classes in art appreciation at the "But before I'd been here a month last Cleveland Museum of Art where Mr. Ramus fall I realized that this is in many respects is the curator of primitive art. They were an even nicer estate than undergraduate. In married in August, 1930. the first place renewing old acquaintances With the passing of Martha Ramus, the among the faculty was in itself a reward. alumnae lose a sincere and steadfast friend. And the co-operattors and friendliness of all She was a girl of varied intellectual inter- the faculty and administration has contin- ests-being much awake while in college to ued to make my job happy and effective. the three fields of art, literature and science. "Then, before long I had the further Since then she had developed especially her realization that undergraduates are really keenness for art appreciation as a teacher looking up to our Association. They want and as her husband's companion in his work to know about us and they want to do defi- and travels. She wrote verse while in col- nite things to help us right now. You know lege and continued to do so afterwards-a about the substantial .gift from the class of poem, "Asclo," which was published in the 1932 for an Alumnae Scholarship Fund. I April issue of the Alumnae News. was writ- have been invited to be your representative ten during her trip to Italy last summer. at Student Council meetings, and in this The alumnae and especially the class of way as well as in daily informal contacts 1924 extend their most sincere sympathy to I know student attitudes and aspirations. her husband and her family in their great In between when I go from campus to Alum- loss. •

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS [ 4 1 The Modern Portia

Women Lawyers Can Be Feminine Says Lucy C. McDannel, C.C. '22

The letterhead or O'Crowley & McDannel, "But forensic display in the court room counsellors at law, New York City, bearing is only a small part of the dramatic inci- the names of I. R. O'Orowley and L. C. Mc- dents in which a lawyer participates. Often, Dannel, springs to meet the eye wlth excit- more drama is unfolded in the seclusion of ing interest upon reading the signature of his office than in the court room itself. Ex- one member of the firm as Lucy C. McDan- perience with clients provides rich material nel C. C. '22. for retrospection. We asked her to set down a few of her "The high-spot of my own practice took ideas about the legal profession and wom- me abroad for six months, with expenses an's place in tt-c-baaed particularly on her paid and a substantial fee besides. Matters own experiences in practice at home and on which our firm was retained required overseas. data and records to be obtained, interroga- tories to be taken, Attorney McDan- and a· settlement of nel shows how the some foreign contro- thread of drama is Pithy statements by which Miss Mc- versies. It was pre- interwoven into her Dannel substantiates the appearance of cautionary, for the profession, with herself and other women before the purpose of admission these views: bar follow: in evidence in New "The court room is "Having always been interested in York, that these be the scene for a. per- drama and human relations. I chose done in the New formance to which the practice of law as offering ample York manner. orten months of reo experience and a more reliable source search and prepara- of income. "Probably the tion have been given. "Among persons of consequence, I sur est cross-section The suspense, which have found little prejudice against of a people is fur- is such an important women attorneys. nished by the law element in dramatic "My experience has been that, re- court. The things production, is pres- gardless of sex, a client retains and that people fight for ent to a high degree recommends a lawyer if the services are the things that in a jury trial. The have been satisfactory. they desire. It is denouement is al- "Being a lawyer does not require a therefore p er t t ne n t ways speculative, for woman to lose her femininity nor her to include among counsel may produce individuality. sight-seeing jaunts a a series or rabbi t s "From every standpoint I have en- visit to the courts." from his hat. More- joyed my occupation, entirely apart Miss McDannel at- over, nothing can be from that fact that it is the way I tended court ses~ so uncertain as the make my living." sions in Bermuda conclusions of a this year that helped jury. her gain an insight "Theatrical producers have appreciated into Bermudian customs and environment the potential dramatics of the law. The box- which otherwise might not have been ob- office successes of 'The Trial of Mary Dugan' tainable. Women are not admitted before and 'Counsellor-at-Law' attest public in- the bar of Bermuda to practice law. terest. As to the standing of women in the legal "Unquestionably, the hearings before the profession in this country, she writes: Hofstadter Committee (with Mayor Walker "Among persons of consequence I have as principal and most colorful witness) were found little prejudice against women attor- the most dramatic exhibitions of the day in neys. My experience has been that, regard- New York. The serious revelations of a less of sex, a client retains and recommends civic sore, the relentlessness of the Com- a lawyer if the services have been satis- mittee's counsel, the wearing down of wit- factory. We share our office with some men nesses, the forensic wise-cracking of its practitioners, and if we deem their qualifi- Foremost Witness, the spectacular ramifica- cations superior for handling a certain case, tions, combined to make it so. The audience we have a working agreement for their -politicians, ward-heelers, civic crusaders, assistance. Similarly, they refer to my part- debutantes and the unemployed-jammed all ner and me, work which they believe us to seats beyond the legal footlights. be better qualified to do than they. The "Throughout its proceedings the Massey more experienced woman lawyer of today trial at Honolulu held the headlines of news- does not regard her practice as anything papers. If an historical record, including unique. the stenographic minutes of that trial and "Women lawyers do sometimes, however, the preceding criminal trial were published, go off on tangenta-c-juet the same as their I predict that it would be a best seller. (Continued on Page 7)

It CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS [ 5] Editor Resigns Post

RICHARD ROBERT SMITH Master Buddy Smith, editor ex-officio of will miss the grave advice given by this the Connecticut College Alumnae News, twinkling gentleman. with this issue severs his connections with the magazine. It is expected that Master Smith will go far in the newspaper world since his mother, Since his arrival in July 1931 he has con- Jean Gillette Smith, is a former newspaper trolled the editorial policy of the News woman and managing editor of the C. C. which has always attempted to wait upon Alumnae News and his father, George R. bis convenience. At meetings of the editors Smith, is a political reporter for a Spring- he has looked on from his high chair with field paper. serene approval or has raised his voice in loud protest if apparently left out ot the Smith was caught by a photographer as discussion. The new staff in New London he was perusing a recent issue of the News.

Here Is a Letter for Travelers

New London, Conn., June 18, 1932. arets in Paris and are willing to arrange any independent trip you suggest. If you like Dear Alumnae: their service, or just find their suggestions Your Alumnae Office has just formed an worth-while, we can pass the word along, agreement with The American Express In- and the first thing we know we may be tercollegiate Travel Extension Service- building an Alumnae House on profits. (what a title)-to co-operate in booking You can either write to us to gather up Alumnae who plan trips, cruises and other information for you, or get it direct from forms of roaming. The agreement is very the American Express Service. In the sec- much to our advantage because we will have ond case please let us know that you are ar- generous commissions turned into the ranging through them so that we can keep Ahimnae Fund. track of how much this service is being So, this summer, or in the fall when you used by· Alumnae. plan your vacation trip, at least inquire I hope you will seriously consider this as through the office with the long name above, a new and promising enterprise and one in located at 65 Broadway, New York City, for which you can easily co-operate, to your information, to show that we Alumnae have own advantage. an interest in their service. They have made Very sincerely, an exhaustive study of world travel from DOROTHY M. FELTNER, explorations through African jungles to cab- Executive Secretary. [6 J ~C~O.:.:N~N::E:::C"_T_'_'_'IC:::U:cT_'__'C:c0"_L:::L:::E=G.::Ec..:..:A.::L.::U,-,M=Nc-A.::E:....cN.::EO'W,-,-"S Greetings!

Card Industry Holds Pleniy of Human Interest

By Elizabeth Allen, '25. Then there was the woman who knew It'a a tar cry from editing greeting card exactly what to write-for hadn't she verses in New York City to curing Tuber- achieved The New Yorker, written songs for culosis for sixteen months up here in the all occasions and become pretty well known Adirondacks! However, I guess business throughout the country? She was- a charm- hasn't changed so much but what my re- ing person to meet but simply couldn't un- marks will still be up to date. derstand greeting card technique, "But your The Greeting Card Industry, whatever verses are so banal, my dear!" opinions one may have about the Quality And the men! I must have been an easy of the verses printed, is an enormous and mark because I simply couldn't turn people fascinating one. Norcross. with whom I away without giving them more than a have been associated for four years, employs fair trial. One of my "problems" was an a considerable staff of artists, letterers, col- enthusiastic "sweet little mother of mine" orers, salesmen and of course office wo.rko era. As there were only two of us doing boy. He simply loved to rhyme "alloy" and tbe actual writing it was necessary to buy "joy," "strife" and "life" or any others many verses from our contributors. And having uplifting if not popular messages. I what a job! The idea of get- revised his things until my ting fifty cents a line seemed assistant gave up in despair. to inspire hundreds of people Twenty dollars a week would into frenzy of writing, most of have been a god-send to him them having no idea of rhyme but he finally became "just a or metre and a decidedly low memory" with a high water sense of humor. For those mark of six dollars. with a greeting card instinct To sell verses successfully, this form of free lancing is it is wise to know your sea~ very profitable-and we really sons. For example, Christmas became very fond of some of cards are done a year ahead. our better perennials without Thus next year's samples knowing a thing about them. were shown to the trade last all the other hand there January. The same is true were always a few coutrtbu- of the Valentine, Easter, St. tors who preferred to deliver Patrick, Mother's Day, Fath- their verses in person. Then er's Day and Graduation lines. [would be called on ant to the In this way the dealer can showroom wondering Which Order and exhibit his cards at type would conlron t me. the earliest possible date and Sometimes it would be a nice perhaps do some pre-season old lady, rather shabbily selling. dressed, who was sure she The above applies only to had a "message" to give. One special seasons. With the glance at her verses would "Everyays" such as Birthday, convince me that they were Betsy Allen '25 Convalescent, Vacation, Bon hopeless and it was awfully Voyage, Baby, Friendship, bard to have to send her at Lake Kushaqua, N. Y. Sympathy, etc., etc., there is away. such a steady demand for One frequent visitor was an over-bearing, new cards that these lines are released trc- large, middle-aged woman who had known quently throughout the year. So you can decidedly better days. Her verses showed readily see that there is little monotony and promise and so she was so obviously down leisure in work where quotas are being con- and out I did my best to help her. One stantly changed and new cards constantly week she made twenty dollars, a huge sum released. for a novice, after I had revised many of And to those of you who have read this her verses. She was so ungrateful and so far, the following may be of value. Greet- convinced that her style of writing was going cards verses should always have an easy ing to be our salvation that I finally had to rhythm, a definite rhyme scheme (not "time, ask her to send her verses instead of bring- mine:" "come, fun" and other near rhymes) ing them in. It was nothing for her to take simple everyday words (not "thou," "alloy," over an hour of my time. I have often won- "yesteryear" etc.) and should all contain a dered about her as her only other occupa- SINCERE message. tion was addressing invitations. Why not try your hand at a few? CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS [ 7 ]

(Continued from Page 2) maine, Nathalie Benson Manley, Mig Addis of song practise in Blackstone basement.. Wooding, Ruth Hitchcock Walcott, Ruth We enjoyed "Holiday," the Senior play Stevens, Betty Cade Simons, Sally Pithouse which was extremely well done, and, after Mathias, Franny Jones, Eleanor Richmond, listening to the Senior Sing, the ageing and Eleanor Chamberlin. members of our class sought bed. Not so three, however, whom the passing years 1929 have left untouched. They found it neces- THIRD REUNiON sary to explore the lighted streets and eat- Three years out! And after three years, ing joints of New London, unhampered by back with the same loyalty and enthusiasm rules and regulations, and acted as com- '29 has always evinced. Dressed in white missariat for others less venturesome, but with yellow ribbons around our hair and nevertheless wakeful and hungry. purple and gold balloons floating above us, An eight o'clock Sunday breakfast (mtr- we marched in the Alumnae Parade behtud abile dictu) in Tbames-a walk through our banner (miraculously rescued from the beautiful Bolleswood-Trustee's Luncbeon- Lost and Found Room). After the class day Baccalaureate Exercises-Commencement- ceremonies we loosed our balloons into the and home after a grand week-end very ably blue sky. They floated gallantly each .with managed by Constance Hill Hathaway. a thought of the '29's not there. Class din- Those who returned were: Ruby Tracy, ner was at Norwich Inn, with the usual good Mineola Miller, Marjorie Wells, Catherine time exchanging news and experiences. May McCarthy, Augusta O'Sullivan, Ann Graham, our fifth bring back many more classmates Constance Hill Hathaway, Dorothy Wheeler, to join in the similar happy times. Helen Peale Sumner, Gertrude Avery, Mar- jorie Smith, Elinor Thielen Wunch, Evelyn Gray Talmage, Amy Peck Yale, Helen Tryon THE MODERN PORTIA and Gay Powell Slayton. (Continued from Page 4)

1927 good men friends. For example, at last FIFTH REUNiON year's American Bar association convention Tbose of us that were able to get back at Atlantic City, the women lawyers, in sol- for Reunion wished only that more might emn conclave, debated during the good have enjoyed it with us. Twelve of us, part of a morning session, the ethics of dressed in white, wearing broad brimmed using lipstick and rouge. Because she was green hats. and carrying canes tied with on the welcoming committee, my partner green ribbon, marched in the Alumnae had to sit through the entire discussion, but Parade to Knowlton where the Class of 1932 I was not so Spartan. planted their ivy and presented their class "Between drinks I asked a judge for his gift of $1,000 for the Scholarship Fund, and opinion. He said that whatever enhances where the Class of 1933 dedicated their mas- one's personality is in good form and good cot, a painting by Henry Bill Selden. . taste. I agree. It is just as natural to one The high spot of the week-end came Sat- woman to use cosmetics as it is to another ut-day night at the Banquet at the Norwich type of woman not to use them. Because Inn when the Honorary Members of our she is a lawyer does not require a woman class, Dr. and Mrs. Marshall, Dr. and Mrs. to lose her femininity nor her individuality, Jensen, and Miss Stanwood, were our nor should the fact that she is a woman guests. It was quite like old times to see detract from her efficiency as a worker. them sitting at the table and to hear their "For myself, I have a lot of fun out of voices in words of greeting. Dr. Marshall the practice of law. Aside from its many had a special message for us, and, I think, interesting and dramatic incidents I have made each one of us stop and take stock found it stimulating and intriguing." of what these five years have brought in the way of accomplishment and growth. When JENNIE COPELAND '29 IS he closed by reading "The River," by Ellis MADE EDITOR.IN·CHIEF M. Potter, we all had very pleasant memories of Sunday evenings in Knowlton living Jennie Copeland '29 of New London has room. been elected Editor-in-Chief of the Connecti- Sunday morning we had a very informa' cut College Alumnae~:;News. Her proximity breakfast in Bolleswood, and after it, elected to the alumnae office on campus will make officers for the next five years. Loie Penny it possible for complete co-operation with the Storer is to continue as President, with executive secretary, Dorothy Feltner who Gravy 'I'rappan as the new Secretary and will act as managing editor. Miss Copeland, Ruth Stevens, Treasurer. Pat Clark is to who teaches in the Groton High School, has manage our next reunion, the Tenth! always been interested in newspaper work The number of people there varied each having been active in Press Board while in day, but there were twenty-two members of college. Louisa Kent '30 will act as busi- the class at Banquet. They were Loie Penny ness manager and will take charge of the Storer, who was our Toastmistress, Mary advertising. She is located in New York Storer Brooks, Pat Clark, Harriet Taylor, City where advertising contracts are num- Mary Crofoot, Nubs Vernon. Kay Foster, erous. The other members of the board Alice Gaertner, Frances Joseph, Janet Paine, will be Loretta Roche '21, Alice Taylor Sue Chittenden, Mildred Dunham, Betty Tre- Dugan '25, and Henrietta Owens '28. CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS [ 8] Dr. Morris Compares Student of Today and Yesterday

always hopeful. I wonder what the mind of Is the college student of today, as rep- the college student will be like in 1940 or resented by the C. C. undergraduate. any different from the college student of ten 1950?-C. C. News. years ago; and if so, how is she different? I will begin as Sir Roger and the Wick- CHAPTERS CONTRIBUTE TO FUND I ersham Committee would end, by saying EdIth Clark '27, Vice President of the that tbe college student of today is in some Alumnae Association, announced at Com- ways the same student that she was ten mencement that each of the ten chapters years ago, and in some ways different, and had contributed or were planning to con- that there is much to be said on both sides. tribute materially to the fund this year al- Young women students are, J believe, char- though none of them were able to reach acterized as a class by the rather unmascu- line traits of conscientiousness, considera- their last year's records. tion, and an amazing patience. Young men The Boston Chapter raised $45 for the sometimes display some of these qualities Alumnae Fund during the spring when they in some of their academic work. So far as took a section of seats for "Cloudy with I can see, nearly all young women students Showers" and had a very enjoyable theatre possess these Qualities, even as did their party. older sisters a decade ago. If tbis seems too The Meriden Chapter held a benefit bridge large a generalization, we may find reason in April and raised $65, fifty dollars of for giving it a second thought by reflecting which has been turned over to the general on the maxim: "All generalizations are lies, Alumnae Fund. Marion Rohan Boehle ex including this one." '21 was chairman of the affair. On the other hand there are differences, The Hartford Chapter recently raised a changes, in college students; and these are contribution to the Alumnae Fund by hold- in the main reflections of the changing ing a two-day rummage sale. world at large since 1920. Selecting the trait that has most to do with education, I should SOPHOMORES TAKE say that the student of today is more open- minded on matters that pertain to conven- NEW STYLE EXAMS tional beliefs, practices, and usages. gener- All members of the Sophomore class were ally. Where this open-mtudednesa is also excused from classes for two days this interest-mindedness, where it is genuine spring in order to take part in a nation- willingness' to think, and to think in the wide experiment in comprehensive examtna- light of assimilated knowledge, and unwill- ttons. About 150 colleges participated with ingness merely to accept, it is a change in the purpose of discovering a better system the right direction. Where, as is the case of examinations than the present one. The not infrequently in college and out, open- faculty committee in charge included Dean mindedness is merely a euphemism for Nye, Mr. Kinsey, Mr. Morris and Miss Clark. bored indifference, it is of course bad. The student world and "the great world outside" GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK had more convictions, of a sort, and set With this issue of NEWS, the Springfield, greater store by them ten years ago than is the case now. The mind of the student to- Illinois headquarters of the Alumnae News day is more plastic, possessing therefore is closed and the scene changes to New Lou- less form and less immediate effectiveness don. Two of the assistant editors, Loretta but greater future promise. As reflected in Roche '21 and Alice Taylor Dugan '25 will my own department, I find that we can remain on the board while the rest have today .discuss freely important questions been newly elected. that have to do with morals, religion, poli- The retiring editors extend to Jennie tics, customs, in short, vital belief of all Copeland '29 and her board their best wishes kinds, in a fasbion that would not have for an interesting adventure in editing and been possible to the same degree ten years all success in their plans. ago. If the .comparteon were with the student of twenty, and still more thirty, years ago, the change in the respect indicated Write to Executive Secretary would be much more marked. for copy of The change I have had space to suggest Commencement Address by is the chief one, as I see it. fnside and outside college walls we are in a transition Judge Florence Allen stage; and our minds are pliable, often Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio confused but true to our human nature CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS [ 9 1

PRIZE COMPETITION of identification on the tace of the design. FOR A CAMPUS PLAN 5. Each plan shall be unmounted and A prize of fifty dollars is offered by Mr. drawn in the scale of 100 feet to one inch Harrison B. Freeman, Chairman of the on 22x30 size Whatman's watercolor paper. Board of Trustees, for the best plan for the 6. All buildings should appear on the future development of the Connecticut Col- plan which are listed in the pamphlet "Con- lege campus. necticut College in the Years Ahead," copies Conditions of which may be obtained from the Prest- 1. The competition is open to all student's office. Competitors may insert addi- dents, and to alumnae of five years' stand- tional buildings as they deem expedient. Maps of the campus showing the present ing or less. buildings are available at the Business Man- 2. The prize of fifty dollars and two hon- ager's Office. orable mentions will be awarded on the basis of the following points: 7. The prize winning design will become a. Originality of design, including the the properly of the college. best development and utilization of the 8. Designs will be received at the Office natural beauty of the campus. of the President, Connecticut College, April b. Practicability of design, including the 1·15 inclusive, 1933. Designs sent by mail best relative location of academic will be returned at the owner's expenae. buildings, dormitories. playing fields, 9. Announcement of the award will be roads, groves, shrubbery, etc. made at Commencement, 1933. c. Economy' of design. Le., the most effi- cient and economical general lay-out, GRADUATE RETURNS TO including architectural style of build- C. C. FACUL TV IN FALL ings, and suggested ground plans, it Evelyn Utley, a graduate in the class of any. 1930, has been appointed assistant in the 3. Each competitor may submit only one Chemistry department for next year. Last design. year she received her M.A. in Chemistry at 4. The maker's signature must appear on Columbia University where she has been an the back of the drawing only, with no mark assistant in laboratory research. Away from the Hilltop

1919 We are glad to include this snapshot of Correspondent: Grace Cockings Sadie Coit Benjamin's fine son and daughter. Donald is thirteen and Joyce is just five. 82 Bellevue Ave., Bristol, Conn. Florence Carn'a father, who has been failing for some time, died recently at her sister's in New Britain. 1919 sends sympathy to Florence and her family. Dr. and Mrs. Harold Haskell, (Lucy Marsh), spent a week in Atlantic City, in ApriL Ruth Trail McClellan sent me a snapshot of her three nice children. Her "Alaska" baby, Margaret, will soon be six years old. Ruth has two boys also. Margaret Mitchell Goodrich wrote that Ruth Avery French has moved to Windsor Locks, Conn., where her husband has charge of the Methodist church. Herbert, Mar- garet's older boy, will be nine the last of June and Bobby was two last October. Polly Christie had a slight set-back, but is hoping to feel better soon when she can get out of doors. Polly's father and mother have been seriously ill this past winter, but are recovering now. Dot Gray Manion said in a recent letter that Bobbie now weighs 14 pounds, 6 ounces. Sue Wilcox and Anna Flaherty were at Dot's one week-end. Dot sees Peg Pease Loder occasionally as Peg lives in Upper Mont- clair, too. Esther Barnes is working toward her M. Children of Sadie Coit Benjamin A. at Columbia and hopes to go there to [10J CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS

summer school, but as she has been suffer- J. P. Brockett is living at Tuckahoe, and ing from anemia, may not be able to enter. is glad to be near her friends again. She Irma and Marion R. Nelson spent a night and Jessie had luncheon with me and we in New Bedford in March where they saw had a grand time talking. Ev Bttgood Coulter and Clem Jordan Goul- Ruth McGarry, the secretary to the presi- art. Ev was having her- entire house reo dent in our day, is living in New Jersey decorated. Irma attended the State Social with a happy family. We all remember her Worker's Conference in New Britain and ex- sweet gracious manner. pects to go to the national conference in 1920 is proud of its representation in im- Philadelphia. Prent is to be there and Irma portant alumnae affairs. Mildred Howard hopes to see Julie Hatch, also. Later Irma is the newly elected alumnae trustee. She plans to visit relatives in Richmond. is now director of Physical Education at Mt. Juline is leading a busy life. She writes Holyoke College. And Marion Hendrie that Mr. Comstock has an evening sketch Milligan has been re-elected as President class and a children's art class, so there is of the Association to carr-y on her fine something interesting going on all the while. work. Congratulations to you both. Juline. herself. has been tutoring and substi- This picture of cunning little Elaine Title, tuting, Those activities. together with do- daughter of Fanchon Hartman Title, was mestic duties and community affairs, fill her taken last summer. No doubt her legs are time. She also writes that Wrev Warner much longer hy now. is busy in Montevideo, which she finds "disappointingly up-to-date." Marion is at the University of Minnesota and Harr-iet teaches nursery school. Margaret Maher had a fall and hurt her knee badly. We hope it has recovered now. She saw Frank Otten when she went to New York. Frank has had a hard year as she came near having pernicious anemia. The subways were too much for her, so she and a friend have taken a small apartment in Greenwich Village. Margaret saw Helen Cannon Cronin's baby a short time ago, for Margaret and Helen live close to each other. The baby is a "tiny, dear little thing with iovely blue eyes." Amy Kugler Wadsworth called me on the telephone one noon while passing through Bristol on her way home from a vacation in Washington. I was most awfully disap- pointed not to see her and her family, hut she felt they must speed on the way as the drive to Providence was a long one. On Pequot avenue, in New London, the old club house which had been a fellow laud- mark to the lighthouse has been partly re- moved, and on one-half of the site a new white house is almost complete. It is to be occupied by Mildred Keefe after her mar- Elaine, Daughter of Fanchon Hartman riage in August to Charles L. Smiddy. Title 1921 1920 Correspondent: Abby C. Gallup Correspondent: Joan Munro Odell 23 Grove St., Norwich, Conn. 166 Farrington Ave., N, Tarrytown, N, Y. Two good letters have come in from 1921 While rushing to the ninth floor of Lord for this issue. Dorothy Pryde writes "I'm and Taylor's one day last week, just before going to be home all summer and p~rhaps closing time. to get my young son a cowboy take short auto jaunts. I'm driving mother suit for his birthday, I saw the familiar face up to Bethlehem, N. H., the last week in of Margaret Noon. She didn't recognize June. We are going to house clean our me because I have lost twenty pounds of my place up there preparatory to renting it if avoirdupois and her one question was possible. "Where is fat Joan 1" I tried to persuade "Have been trying to get the precious her to accompany me on my mission to have lambs ready for College entrance Board a little chat but she was in a hurry and was Examinations. I have two pupils who in- laden with bundles. But it was nice to tend to go to Connecticut this September, get just a glimpse of an old classmate. a former pupil graduated in 1930 and two Agnes Mae Clark is still out in Kansas more are graduating this June. It makes having a peachy time as usual. I never one feel old. knew any couple to enjoy life more than she "Have had quite a musical winter this and Charlie do. She has an apartment hut year singing in the New Haven Woman's from all accounts, with her riding and Choral Society. Like Lydia I've deserted parties, she hasn't much time to be at home. soprano for alto." CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS [11)

Mildred Pierpont from Bradenton, Fla., to make a fat person look slim in these sends us a well written if depressing picture present-day styles. Then occasionally I of economic conditions in Florida. She give a violin lesson to one of the school says: children. . "Yes. I'm still in Florida, the land of rain, "We really have lots of good times here. sun and flowers. There is an abundance of The different churches have many social the rain and sun, but I have failed to see the and young people's meetings. And then we many flowers. It has been ten years since go swimming in the Gulf where the water is we came here, and what changes have taken always warm and the beaches smooth and place! Bradenton was a quiet little place white." of 5,000 people. Everybody was pleasant, 1922 sociable and easy-going. They made their Correspondent: Ann Slade Frey living from the tourists in the winter and 35 School St., Hanover, N. H, ate guavas and cow peas in the summer. Here is the long promised picture of Eve- There was a little money in fruit and in lyn Gray Talmage's two boys, Philip, three, the early spring crops-tomatoes, celery and strawberries. The stores were good and not too many of oue variety. They all made a fair living. When we gave up fram- ing and started our jewelry store there were only two other jewelry stores. We had many of the 'old timers' for our customers and we were able to make a living until after the boom. "This boom surely raised havoc in our little city. Some fortunate few made some real money but most everyone lost what they made when the crash came. Our population which had grown to about 13,000 began dwindling away. Many of the old resi- dents were forced to move away. Many of the new places of business closed up one by one. We were fortunate to be able to sell out when we saw how things were going. "Finally in 1928 when we thought business had reached the bottom, we opened a store again. Business began to pick up a little just when one of our largest banks failed and the Mediterranean Fruit Fly was dis- Sons of Evelyn Gray Talmage covered. This last proved the most fatal and Jeremy, one. How much Jeremy looks because it cut off the market for the fruit like his mother. and wegetables. Consequently when the The news of our tenth reunion will be general depression came it found Florida found on page of issue of the News. and Manatee County especially, in a worse 2 thts condition than most of the other parts of 1923 the country. Correspondent: Virginia P. Eddy "Business has been growing steadily 35 Otis St., Newtonville, Mass. worse. The population is about what it was ten years ago. There are too many stores Another wedding! On a Saturday after- all trying to eke out a living from such a noon of April, in the Rectory of' St Patrick's small number of people who have no money. Cathedral in Willimantic, Claire Caluen The taxes are extremely high and only was married to Dr. Kenneth K. Kinney. about one-half of them are paid up so far. Alice Purtill was Claire's only attendant. We are all wondering what is to become of Since Claire is teaching in the high school, us! we guess the wedding was perpetuated dur- "We generally have very delightful win- ing spring vacation. Dr. Kinney is a grad- ters. The weather is mild and sunny with uate of the University of Iowa and a prac- one or two light frosts during the season. ticing physician in Willimantic. This past winter was ideal but the winter A passenger for Germany on the July 9th before last was snappy and cold. I enjoyed sailing of the Bremen is Alice Ramsay. For this very much for it was more like good a week in Berlin she will attend the Seminar old Connecticut. The summers, however, Contemporary Germany at the Institute of are quite different. They are very damp and Politics. Leaving on July 27th for Czecho- hot, from June to October. If we get the Slovakia, Ramsay is to be one of the fifteen daily rains through June and July it is more American delegates at the 11th annual con- comfortable. ference on the International Students Serv- "You ask if I do any art work. Well, I ice at Bmo. can't say that I do unless it would be trim- It is a joy to know that one of our pro- ming our store windows so that people will fessional classmates has had a prosperous, be tempted to stop as they pass by. I do undepreased season. I refer to Vivienne love to sew and have great fun doing a "Haupala" Mader who is one-half of the little dress-making. And it's rather an art Melehuapala Dancers. (The other half is ['21 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS

Miss Japsy Melekea.) Vivienne is more than sibility that she would some day be a a dancer; she is an authority on Hawaiian teacher, but she is hard at it teaching De- dances, chants, musical instruments and cos- sign (House Planning and Interior Decora- tumes. And the costumes, by tbe way, are tion) and Art Appreciation to the young not ordinary weedy grass skirts. Hula danc- hopefuls of the University of Texas. She ing is the poetry of motion, requiring ardu- is also chairman of the furnishings commit- ous training in both song and dance. Among tee which means meetings every night until her season's engagements have been recit- ten or eleven o'clock to complete the inter- als sponsored by the Roerich Society and ior plans for a new Home Ec building and the Three Arts Club. All this to be followed a Student Union building. Edie says, "Thank by summer school teaching. But all my goodness I have only two of the nine large news of Vivienne is not from the press. She buildings of our present building program! writes. "I met Wrey Warner at Columbia Four millions for buildings! What if old last summer, and finding ber interested in C. C. could have a similar sum? Oil wells dancing I took her up to Denishawn House do help, and they say that we are richer to watch ODe of my classes of Hawaiian even than Yale and Harvard. Why. I ask, dances I was teaching for Ruth St. Denis, don't they put some of those millions into and later to show her how Miss Ruth re- salaries?" On June 7, Edie sailed for hearses her stadium programs." Which Europe where she will make her headquar- throws more light on Vivienne. ters at Paris. Your correspondent, with an insatiable Since leaving college, many types of nurs- avidity for news. attended the bridge given ing have been indulged in by Aura Kepler by the Boston Chapter of alumnae. Jt was who used to think nothing of juggling babies successful and well managed, and she had a on the pediatric service of New Haven; hos- good time, but-alack-she was her only pital; of teaching student nurses the whys classmate. No news. and wherefore of caring for infants; of ---- teaching parents, children, relatives and 1924 friends the slogan of public health while Correspondent: Helen Douglass North district nursing; who now juggles the Maple Ave., North Haven, Conn. Ideas, theories and suggestions of Boards of Health, School Committees, Visiting Nurse We are stunned to read of the sudden Associations, and other interested persons death of our classmate, Martha Bolles in the offiicial capacity of State Consultant Ramus, who was killed in an auto accident Nurse for Massachusetts. "It's a great life." the last of June in Nebraska. We send all says she, "full of pep, vim and vigor, work- our sympathy to her husband and to her mg out new programs. staging demonstra- family. Following is part of a happy letter tions, teaching public health nursing to stu- from Martha, written as she was planning dent groups, keeping right up to minute on the trip which ended so disastrously. She health projects." wrote: Amy Hilker is thoroughly enjoying her "Last summer: Charles (Marty called him work getting her master's at Teachers Col- 'Mr. Ramus,' but I have taken editorial lib- lege, N. Y. ertv and forbade such formality) and I bad Hunkv writes me that "Athletic Evelyn" three gorgeous months in Europe-Spain, Ryan Benton, whose husband is studying Italy. Germany, Belgium and France. While and teaching at Columbia, was at a party at visiting the Cluny Museum we had stepped Marge Thompson's, '26, recently and beat into a room half cast in shadow-for Paris everyone at Ping Pong, including "Athletic was not showing her best face to tourists Bub" Forst. Marge leads an envious life, when suddenly I stopped short and stared at just going here and there, the latest "there" -yes it was-c-Dr. John Edwin Wells. I was being a trip to New Orleans where she duly thrilled to think that after eight years looked over the banana situation and found he, too, recognized me. it "rotten." "We expect to visit Mexico this summer- Bib Brazos Oviatt has an adorable home only those who live in a climate such as at 22 Knollwood avenue, Mamaroneck, and Cleveland offers know how acceptable heat a perfect young son. Last fall, Kay Finney and. sunshine can be. Virginia Eggleston Carp visited her for a week, having come Smith and her husband spent an evening East for a visit away from her twins and with us recently. She has been engaged to other son. head the Little Shop in one of our large Ellen McCandless Britton celebrated Ten- department stores here. I am still teaching nessee's football victory over N. Y. U. by III a private school and assist in the large taking Hunky and Mad Conklin to lunch at Saturday morning art classes at the mu- the Junior League room in the Waldorf. seum. Even being domestic has its pleasur- (Ellen's husband is one of the football able side too, which I had not conceived nos- coaches.) Mad's year old son Charles Hill etbte a few years ago." Conklin, is a very sweet baby with black Marty had found such happiness in her curls and dark eyes. married life and had so much to give to Now that Hunky has a young son who others that her death, the sixth in our class, has twice as much pep as she has she has seems unusually tragic. decided that a four-year course on :'How To Manage a Baby," instead of four years at Edith Kirkland specifically denied the pes- Soch, Math, etc., would have stood her in CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS [13] good stead. and then, as she puts it. "to History to Seniors at the same institution make matters woree-c-when I told the baby's in spite of the fact that she majored in doctor that I was brushing up on the Child Mathematics and English. Psych I had in college, he told me to forget Grace Church, who won a fellowship at it. that it was all passe and I would have to the Smith School of Social Work, is now in begin all over again. I haven't time now to New York doing practice work at the Child do so, so my child is just out of luck!" Guidance Clinic and is living at the Y. W. Mary Snodgrass McCutcheon and Betsy C. A. at 600 Lexington avenue. Wrenshall heard GIo Hollister lecture last Myrtice Tryon attended the Columbia March and had a grand visit with her when School ot Library Science last year, but has Mary entertained her at tea. Mary writes, returned to Willimantic where she is the "Whenever I hear her lecture or see her High School Librarian. picture in the Times or in the Geographic, Catts Holmes Brandow assures me that I tell you I'm proud to say, 'She's one of us if we will go out to Southern California for and belongs to our class.' She is surely the Olympics this summer, she will feed my having a career of adventure and thrills. sons on avocados, her first crop. As she "1 have busied myself and my grand- makes no mention of feeding me anything, I mother (mostly my grandmother) this win- think I prefer to starve at home-e-ft's ter by making two quilts! Doesn't that cheaper! sound domestic and about 1850-ish? I am Bobby Kent Kepner stopped at the bouse very proud of them and can hardly wait to one day in late summer before she had to see them when they are quilted. I can't tell return to Utah, and it surely was great to you how many thousand pieces are in them." see her and Janet, who is a very sweet Aside from having a good job in N. Y. youngster. where "business is going on as usual, though Gladys Barnes became Mrs. John Gum- not quite as usual," Ginie Hays is connected mere a year ago January 16 and lives in with the Tide Mill Tavern at Southport, Lansdowne, Penn. Glad writes: "The C. C. just off the Post Road which her chief owns Philadelphia chapter met here several weeks and which they had great fun remodelling ago and we had a very nice time. Most of several years ago. Ginie spends week-ends the members are long after our day and all there whenever she can and she has found are married with growing families. As we a number of C. CAtes listed in the guest ourselves were married in the midst of the book. Occasionally she is able to arrange a school term we only went away for a week- meeting there with Cooper and Harty Lyon. end, but last summer we had a marvelous Since dining with Glo,.who was in N. Y. this trip abroad, to the North Cape, Sweden, Den- winter, Ginie has become quite imbued with mark, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Rome, Venice, the spirit of Piscatorial Research. Florence, Switzerland, Paris and London. I Lola Marin Matthews spends most of her am still revelling in memories of it." time being a busy doctor's wife and mother Anchored at the Chapelle boatyards below to young Bill; Edie Langenbacher dotes on Oneco avenue a beautiful yacht attracted undergraduate attention. Curiosity was later 0. fascinating niece and nephew in Elmira and visits them frequently; Cooper is busy satisfied by an article in the New London shopkeeping in Stamford and taking care Day with the heading: Noted Scientist Buys of her young son; while Luke MacDonald the Illyria. Mr. William Beebe is the new Anderson is similarly occupied in Norwalk, owner and we are wondering if Gloria Hol- keeping up with her young daughter. lister and others of the Beebe research staff will make future trips to Bermuda board the T was in Holyoke, on Bunker Hill Day, brigatine Illyrta. and stopped to see Eileen Fitzgerald who is teaching Biology and Physiology in Cen- tral High, Springfield, which among alum- 1925. nae of Central is known as the best high Correspondent: Constance Parker school in the solar system. Eileen, too, 50 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. thinks it a fine school for after seven years Betsy Allen, who has not yet left the san- of teaching, she is still enthusiastic about atorium, writes: "Imagine my surprise a few the job. She has been studying German days ago to look up and see Emily Warner and reading Restoration Drama this win- in the doorway! She was doing unemploy- ter. ment work in the neighborhood so decided I tried in vain to "contact" Mary Courtney to look me up. It was simply great to see whom I understood had recently returned her and to catch up on news of the outside from a trip to Havana. Mary teaches in world. Now that I have to stay in the Ad- Holyoke but on the day in question she was irondacks till the end of August I certainly out golfing, or so it was rumored. hope others will follow her example. For I dashed up to Minna's and we covered their enlighte.nment~I'm. at Btony ~old about five years in a little over five minutes. Sanatorium, Lake Kushaqua, N..Y., which is Her two cherubs, Shirley and Gardner, are 18 miles northwest of Saranac Lake. Tele- sweet young things and I judge manage to phone Lake 975 if in doubt. It may be in- keep Min stepping. Her address is now 35 teresting to you to know that Ruth New- Coit St., Holyoke, Mass. comb's aunt founded Stony Wold. Mrs. Kay Doherty is teaching French at the Newcomb has a very attractive camp on the West Haven, Conn., high school and also lake and is now here for the summer." Don't has the distinction of being chairman of miss Betsy's excellently interesting article dramatics. Helen Dodd is teaching American in the front of the magazine that she wrote a r [ 14] CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS

a bit at a time this spring in order to get ration Day and we just decided 'why wait' '25 represented in its columns. Good luck. so didn't. Peter is Peter Francis Coogan Pete. and no more set-backs. of the W. F. Quarrie Co. of Chicago-pub- A most unusual baby announcement told lishers of the World Book. He attended of the arrival of Anne Ridgeway Nuveen, Marquette Untverstty. It was a small morn- daughter of Grace Bennet Nuveen, on April ing wedding at St Christopher's-by-the-River, 16 at Kenilworth, lIlinois. She sounds like the loveliest of little white colonial churches a most patriotic youngster, to say nothing in Gates Mills, a beautiful town near Cleve- of platinum blond, being described as hav- land. Chick was my attendant. It was a tng a red complexion, white hair and blue perfect place to be married; Peter is a per- eyes! fect man to marry; and if I had given my Peg Hoag and her two little girls have out-of-town friends time to get there nothing left for the summer at Peg's attractive Inn could have been improved upon. We are at Saybrook. back in Illinois where I am still at the When visiting in New York recently I bad Museum." a grand talk fest with Eleanor Harriman Mary Crofoot announced her engagement Baker. She often sees Emmy Warner, who to John DeGange, News and Sports Editor has a fine new job working for the state, of the New London Day. They will be mar- and spoke of Charlott Lang Caroll as being ried on the 13th of August and plan to live in Arizona. If you want to feel young and in New Landau. John is a brother of Mary as if you had just graduated from college, by De Gange, an ex-member of the class of all means go and see Eleanor. She hasn't 1930. changed an atom, not even a split one, since Constance Delagrange Raux, who now graduation, and is just as full of pep as ever. lives in Shawsheen Village, Andover, Mass., Gld Locke also reports a recent trip to tells us about her wedding which took place New York when she spent one night at the in Stonington, Couu., on September 19th, to home of Olga Gennert Greene. Gid said it Maurice N. Raux. Connie says, "He is a was quite a unique sensation to have Olga's graduate of Philadelphia Textile School, oldest little boy, Jimmy, come dashing home class of 1926. Beryl Niely was one of my from school to show her what he had done bridesmaids. She has been one of my room- there. mates for the past four years. Hazel Pen- Although she is not a member of '25, she dleton Purcell and Barbara Chesebro Cowan Is near enough so that I feel justified in '28 were at the wedding:' Connie further taking up a little space to extend congra- tells us that Amy Ferguson Crouch has a tulations of the class to Barbara Tracy who very sweet baby girl born sometime last has accomplished so much as editor-in-chief fali. of the News for so many years. We cer- Marion Warden Bell sent a picture of her tainly appreciate all she has done with a cute three-year-old son which we unfortun- very difficult job, and it is with regret that ately have no room to print in this issue. we see her retire. She says, "I have been laid up in a plaster Barbara was recently married to Peter cast for the last six months-said cast being Francis Coogan and Chick was her attend- on my leg. Marie Barker Eastman lives ant. only a block away and we see a good deal of each other. And I discovered Marjorie 1927 Smith Sites '31 only a few doors from me! Correspondent: Esther Chandler That's a coincidence in a small town like 14 Worcester St., Boston, Mass. this." We are sorry to hear of your hard luck, Marton. On the 21st day of May, Winifred Maynard "It's a girl," says Bobbie Wall Little. was married to Gordon Rice Wright. The "Mary Lee was born May 9th last. My child ceremony was performed at the Shaker is swell, less red daily and weighed 6 pounds Tavern in Cleveland. They are living at 5 ounces at birth." 2988 East 132nd Street, Cleveland. June the fourth was a big day in '27's an- A nice note was received from Connie nals for three of its members chose it for Noble Gatchell, ex '27, who is now living their wedding day. Midge Halsted became in Syracuse, N. Y. Her husband is an Am- the bride of Raymond Wadsworth Heffron herst graduate and they have a little daugh- at 4:30 on that day. Gravy Trappan, Peg ter, Connie. She has been interested in A. Woodworth and Bony Hopper Levick were A. U. W. work since her marriage and is at three of her bridesmaids. present Social Chairman of the Syracuse The second bride was Edith Schupner who Branch. says, "it is quite a C. C. wedding. To begin It is too bad that '27's baby picture quota with, the very lucky man is a cousin of Lib is full for the year for we would like to Higgins Capen, Willis M. Lester by name, print the cute picture of little Edith Mary and a Clarke University graduate. And Lib, Raley, daughter of Peggy Rich Raley to Kitty Bembrada Couse and Isabel Grinnel show you how a three-pound baby can grow. Simons were my bridesmaids. My kid sis- Peggy says, "You surely would have been ter was the maid of honor and Billy's sister amused at me in my maternal Tole had you the other bridesmaid." arrived last January. How that baby did Bob Tracy surprised her friends (and her- keep us running. She had to be fed ten self a little) by being the third to be mar- times a day and we scarcely had time to ried on that day. She says "Peter went eat-much less sleep. We're thoroughly home with me to be introduced over Deco- accustomed to each other now and get along CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS [15)

together very happily. And we all sleep all night every night." And now our traveller, Peggy Battles, who is a student at the Ecole Nor-male d'Instttu- trices, Laval Mayenne, tells us of her life on French soil. "I love France and the French people. I get along beautifully with my French friends now that I've learned to smile pleasantly, and say nothing, when they blame America for every evil in France, from the high cost of living to the corrup- tion of the young people, and when they shake their heads over a country where there are such things as prohibition, gang- sters, lynching, Sacco and Vanzetti, and now (horror of horrors: to the French mind) the Lindbergh baby case. At the school I live- a hermit's life. Perhaps you know what French schools are like. However, I have time to study and then study some more. Probably fetching water and building fires is good for the soul. Aside from the fact MARY ANN WURTH that it rains all the time (see "Pecheur Ruth Shultis Wurth, who lives in Orange, d'Islande") I like the country. Just now N. obliges us with this cunning picture it's a pleasant, if slightly melancholy, har- J., mony of green and grey. I break away once of her lovely, blonde, blue-eyed Mary Ann who was born in September. Shult tells too in a while to Paris (oh, Paris) or take a of seeing Helen Willus Dillingham, of Cleve- shorter jaunt. At Easter time I traveled land, who was visiting this spring in Short through Southern France, Italy and Switzer- land. Needless to say, I was positively Hills. thrilled by everything except that Venice was not a bit romantic in the rain, and the 1929 Lakes were grey instead of blue, and I didn't see Mussolini. I expect to go home Correspondent: Muriel Kendrick about the first of August; schools close here 15 Bellevue St., Newton, Mass. the 14th of July. I shall think of '27's fifth Helen "Sonny" Smith was married on and be sorry I can't get back to see every June fourth to Dr. Hugh Henderson Hald y one." at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Paducah Wheeler, another traveler, sees Cleveland. America first and holds many unofficial 5th Frances Wells is to be married early in reunions along the coast from Durham, New the fall to Robert Clarkson Vroom, of Ma- Hampshire, where she witnessed Gwen's plewood, N. J. The wedding will take place wedding to Philadelphia where she visited at Fran's summer home, at Southold, L. I. Faff Williams Wood. Frances Tillinghast is to be married in September in New York. Frankie at present is working in New Haven. Her fiancee is a graduate student at Yale. 1928 Florence Moxon Tomlinson has a son, L. Correspondent: Henrietta Owens born sometime during the winter. 10 East 16th St. New York City Frances McElfresh has been teaching at Mary Dunning was married on June the Ward-Belmont, in Nashville, Tenn. We as- first to Rev. John P. McConnell. The wed- sume it has been French-c-but, knowing Fish, ding took place in the Lampman Memorial it may have been most anything. Chapel of Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, D. D., Lois Latimer is chief dietitian at a hospi- president of the Seminary and Dr. Benjamin tal in Brookline, Mass. Nellie Fuller has a T. Marshall officiated. Mr. McConnell was similar position somewhere in Boston. graduated from Monmouth College in 1926 Normah Kennedy has a secretarial job in and was for three years an instructor at the Cleveland. Inno Utley has cue in Hartford. American University at Cairo, Egypt. He is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary Ann Heilpern Randall is still taking an and has been appointed student pastor at interest in dramatics although she has mar- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where they ried and consequently become domestic. She recently was one of the directors of the will make their home, "Comics of 1932" the annual show spon- Elizabeth Gallup, who has spent the last sored by the Sisterhood of the Emmanuel six months in California visiting her sister, Synagogue in Hartford. flew back to New York-c-Ieavlng San Diego on the 6th of June and arriving in New York Here is Billy Kingsbury looking a little cooler perhaps than he is this June. He is on the 7th. a

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the SOD or Helen Hergert Kingsbury. or Rye, Sunny). Anyway the man is Dean Hilde- N. Y. The picture was taken when he was brandt. (Sounds familiar doesn't it?) I met eleven months old. Sunn y one day in New York and she's just as sweet and sunshiny as ever. Ruth Cooper will be the maid of honor. Mr. and Mrs. Hildebrandt will live in an apartment in Lansdowne, a suburb or Philadelphia. Allison Durkee was married on June 2, to Orville Zelotes Tyler, Jr., a lieutenant in the U. S. Army and "0. Z." to C. C. friends. They were married at Empire Point, Jack- sonvtlte, Florida, out in the garden under the trees at five o'clock. Her two atetera were in the bridal party. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler will live in Savannah, Ga. Helen Oakley bas a "simply swell job in a most attractive gift shop and a boss that Is almost too good to be true." She writes that after a year under the Macy-Bamberger regime she appreciates her present position. Tommy Tomlinson and I visited Adelaide Finch recently and were greatly impressed Son of Helen Hergert Kingsbury by her sudden ambition. She has had char- acter parts in several successful plays ann 1930 is very interested in dramatics. She has Correspondent: Jane Murphy just been elected president of the Junior 89 West St, Danbury. Conn. Women's Club in Ramsey and does a great deal or work in connection with it. She re- Happiness and best wishes to the brides! cently appeared as "Miss Ramsey" in a his- OUf class president, Gwendolyn 'I'homen, torical pageant depicting scenes from the became Mrs. Roger Fowler Sherman on history of New Jersey. April 22 and had a lovely wedding. Gwen We have never mentioned the little had eight attendants including three Win- daughter born to Mercer Camp Stone in throp young ladles-Helen Oakley. Dorothy Rochester, N. Y., in the early spring. Send Feltner and Elizabeth Behney. Helen in us her name and picture, Mercer. writing of the event says, "Marriage may Tn July, Edith Allen MacDairmid and her be a grand tneutuuou, but it certainly ap- husband with their two months' old son, pears to cramp one's ability to go places. Allen, will drive across the continent to Our three married ladles, Dottie Harner California where Lieutenant MacDairmid, Saunders, Helen Burhans Bishop and Babe U. S. C. G" will be stationed. Barrett Bertlne missed out on the wedding Evelyn Utley who last year received her while most ot the single gals made the M. A. at Columbia will assist in the C. C. grade." Atter all we must have our compen- Chemistry department next year. sation! Isabel Gilbert, third year medical student Ruth Barry was married on May 27 (ac- at McGill in Montreal, will take her first cording to Uffie) and May 28 (according to national board exams this summer.

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