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Promise .._._...... _...... '.... 1 A City Campus ...... 8 Dear Mother ...'.. ,\. 15 A New Campos ...... 19 Academic Program, 22 Presidents . 28

Faculty v;...:,,yi.-.v>;..v-..-w. 30 Beyond the Classroom Walls ...... 34 Goucher and the Community 40 Achievement 44 The Second Century —A New Agenda? 48

The Goucher Quarterly/Summer 1984 Volume LXII/Number 4

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ecause of the widespread belief in the o provide the future college with its T first home, Dr. Goucher deeded to the inferiority of woman's intellect, higher Conference an abandoned cornfield — two- thirds of an acre of land valued at $25,000 education for women was almost non- near the First Methodist Church (now B Lovely Lane Church) where he served as IHH existent in early 19th-century America. pastor. Nowhere in Maryland could a woman receive For the next five years Dr. Goucher devoted himself to the establishment of a a college education (though there were seven college that would treat women as the equals of men, with a curriculum that would exclusively male colleges and universities in prepare them for a lifetime of learning and achievement. His wife, Mary Cecelia the state), for women were considered phys­ Fisher, shared his vision. As heiress to the ically and mentally incapable of the rigors of Fisher fortune, she provided the money for their many gifts to the college. a college curriculum. John Franklin Goucher proposed to reverse this prejudice. In 1883 he urged the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in celebration of its own centenary, to establish a first-class institution of higher education for "the daugh­ ters of Christian parents." he new Methodist college, which was formally dedicated last night, is an T institution that promises splendid re- HflB suits for education, and for Baltimore. It is founded on modern ideas, constructed with thorough taste and convenience, and officered by wide-awake, accomplished men who will make its success substantial and permanent. It will educate the physical as well as the mental being, and its results will be a great benefit to all who come within its influences. Baltimore News, 1888

he Methodist congregants shared Dr. tember 1888 the college opened its doors to T Goucher's hope for women's higher students, who registered with $100 tuition. education by reaching deep into their Despite its Methodist origins, the college pockets for funds to show "not that we love was not to be managed in a sectarian spirit. our sons less or our daughters more," but to "The Christian type of womanly character is give women "equal advantages in the busi­ upheld," stated Dr. Van Meter, "although no ness of life." Methodist women rallied. Mrs. effort is made to influence denominational Mary Bangs, a woman of humble means, preferences." Eventually, the Methodist in­ donated a five-dollar gold piece, the first fluence waned, and the college became cash for what became the Woman's College independent of its founding organization. of Baltimore. "For years I have been hoping At the first commencement address in and praying for some such movement as 1892, Dr. Goucher set an early standard of this," she said. Meanwhile, Methodist min­ excellence for the new college: "We offer as ister John Blackford Van Meter championed testimony that the aim of the college is the Goucher educational philosophy of "the quality, not quantity, the fact that with formation of womanly character for womanly nearly 400 students and four years of ends" as he, too, fervently worked to make decided success, we admit today but five to Mary Fisher Goucher the daring concept of a women's college a the degree of A.B." When Dr. Fisher suggested that Dr. Goucher reality. Through the years, high standards proved wanted his daughter Mary Fisher for her On January 26, 1885, the fledgling more than their own reward. As early as money, Dr. Goucher replied, "I want her for college obtained a charter of incorporation, 1905 Goucher was granted the second her own sake, but I think I could do a great and the Woman's College of Baltimore City chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the state of deal of good with her money too. ..." He came into legal existence. (The word "City" Maryland. The college established the first did. Many say that the college was founded was dropped in 1890.) By March 5th the department of physiology and hygiene in with his vision—but with her money. Methodists had secured the required funds, any women's college in the country and saw and by the close of their memorable con­ its graduates enroll in the first classes of the ference on March 12, 1885, the college had Johns Hopkins Medical School. Even today its official founding and the nation had a the remarkable tradition continues with promise for one of its first women's colleges. nearly 70 percent of Goucher applicants It took another three years to erect accepted to medical school over the last Goucher Hall, to find a president, recruit a ten years. faculty, and design a curriculum. In Sep­ Anna Miles The Blue Line horse car Kirk I remember that it was on the 14th of September 1888 that I journeyed north on St. Paul Street on the Blue Line horse car, and getting off at 22nd Street, walked west. When I entered the ladies' parlor of the First Methodist Church for entrance to the Woman's College, I had no idea I was beginning on one of the best experiences of my life. A few over 50 students registered in those two days. ... I remember that nobody knew who would be in the first graduating class until toward the end of their third year. Then it was announced that Her father sold a cow for tuition. five students who had entered the first year When Anna Miles registered at the would form, if all went well, the class of Woman's College of Baltimore in 1888, her 1892. That was an exciting time for us. father Abram Miles made his first contribu­ Anna Heubeck Knipp '92 tion to the cause of women's higher educa­ First class president tion through the sale of a cow from his farm. (Later, when Goucher was at a low ebb financially, he sold a mule.) Although Anna Miles attended the college only two years, she impressed her daughters with the im­ portance of going to Goucher. Anna Miles' enthusiasm for the college was rewarded: Anna Heubeck Knipp her daughter, Elisabeth Kirk Weller, gradu­ ated in 1926 and her granddaughter, Ann Weller Dahl, graduated in 1960.

Somewhat unwillingly, the first students escaped from their long skirts and hourglass waists to gym bloomers. The gymnasium had a swimming pool, a running track, and 37 Zander machines. The college imported Swedish instructors to oversee the Stockholm- designed Zander machines in the highly advanced physical education program.

Committed to educating the body as well basically unchanging mission of the institu­ as the mind, Goucher pioneered the con­ tion: the pursuit of excellence through the cept of physical education as a regular part finest of traditional and innovative of the college curriculum. Bennett Hall education. gymnasium, with the first women's college John Franklin Goucher chose well when The Swedish Zander machines in Bennett Hall gymnasium. swimming pool and the daringly "modern" he chose the college motto from I. Thessalo- Swedish Zander machines, was considered nians: "Prove all things; hold fast that which to be the finest in the country. Highly is good." As we will see in this Centennial controversial in the Victorian era, physical reminiscence, the first hundred years of training is still an integral part of Goucher's Goucher College have both tested and "wellness" program for physical and mental proved the basic premises of a liberal arts health. education. In such an education there has The vocational guidance services begun been change within the continuity of the in 1897 have evolved into the present career founders' vision. In such an education we development services. Combining the best hold fast to what we value as we perfect the of traditional liberal arts with the best of promise of the future. contemporary fields of study, Goucher is now among the first women's colleges to require computer literacy and to teach freshman English through an extensive computer network. To train students for the world of work, the college developed one of the first political science internships in the country and later extended the internship program to all disciplines. Perhaps most important is the ability to adapt to the needs of the times while adhering to the principles upon which the college stands. The college has moved far from the Victorian "womanly character for womanly ends," but it has not allowed the requirements and aspirations of contempo­ rary society to alter the primary and r " ^ ~

The Girls' Latin School (WCB's little sister) The original requirements for the Woman's College were so stringent that few secondary schools adequately prepared young women for entrance. The college consequently founded its own prep school in 1890 to give women further sub-collegiate training be­ fore matriculation. The Girls' Latin School quickly made a name of its own. In 1906 the U.S. Commissioner of Education reported: Catherine Hooper Hall "Of all the private schools for girls in the Catherine Hooper Hall housed the Girls' United States which prepare exclusively or Latin School until 1909. Designed by the largely for the leading colleges for women, flamboyant Stanford White of McKim, the Girls' Latin School of Baltimore repre­ Mead and White, it was built by college sents the largest resources devoted to that benefactor Benjamin Bennett. Bennett also purpose, enrolls the largest number who are built Goucher Hall, Bennett Hall, the preparing for college, and graduates each Gouchers' residence, and four original resi­ year the largest number who enter college." dence halls. Inadvertently, the college had founded one of the best girls' prep schools in the country! Moving from promise to achievement, the women's college on the list south of the Woman's College rapidly received recogni­ Mason-Dixon Line. In only 23 years, with­ tion for its high standards. In 1890-91, after out a penny of endowment, Goucher had only two years of operation, the college was attained the nation's highest educational classified by the U.S. Commissioner of ranking. Education among the 14 top Division A Since then, the college has received women's colleges in the country; after only recognition for its commitment to a superior nine years of operation, the college, in an education for women of ability, intellectual unprecedented leap, ranked among the top promise, and motivation. As recently as 14 in the nation — a group including 1982, The New York Times Selective Guide Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and ten others. to Colleges judged 265 schools on every­ By 1911, out of 581 colleges and universities thing from equipment in the biology in the country, 59 were placed in class I. Of department to the ambiance of the dorms. these top 59, only six were women's col­ Goucher rated among the top 35 and leges: Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, joined Harvard, Yale, and Smith in the Vassar, Wellesley — and Goucher, the only 12-star category. Carrie Mae Probst '04, Registrar, 1904-48

Xhe day has passed when the college woman was looked upon with horror; but she is still in some parts of our country looked upon with curiosity, and the time- worn word 'strong-minded' has not ceased to be applied to her. Kalends, 1905

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A turn-of-the-century tennis trophy. In addition to assembling one of the best A City Campus faculties in the country, Hopkins set up the original degree requirements and the first A lthough John Franklin Goucher initially curriculum of the college with the help of Professor (and soon Dean) Van Meter. But to /% refused the presidency of the Hopkins the presidency was a burden "very near to crushing me." Finding himself more XJL Woman's College because of other suited to teaching classics than to traveling and raising money, he retired to the class­ •M commitments, he finally accepted the room after shepherding through the first office in 1890 after the four-year administra­ classes. As professor of classics, he taught at the college for over 20 years — without tion of William Hersey Hopkins, former ever interfering in subsequent administrations! acting president of St. John's College. Then in 1890, in a remarkable moment in the life of the college, Dr. Goucher The first president's regime was a crucial accepted the unanimous nomination of the one. Hopkins spent a year in Europe while Board of Trustees to become the college's second president. During his 18 years as Goucher Hall was being constructed, study­ president, he never took any salary for his work. ing the latest educational methods and re­ What John Franklin Goucher gave to the college that now bears his name was much cruiting distinguished faculty. more than the nearly SI million in total lifetime gifts. He gave by his example and his commitment a model for women's edu­ cation so promising that no price tag can be placed on it. He nurtured an idea into reality and then extended his vision with inspirational leadership. He began with two-thirds of an acre of land and ended with six acres, eight buildings, 350 students, 32 faculty, I ML •* $104,000 endowment —and best of all, academic ranking among the finest colleges ~* of the nation. r^^Lft. i ^B

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The family of President William Hersey Hopkins, and Goucher Hall under construction. John Franklin Goucher donated his time and money not just to the college that carries his name, but to world-wide Christian edu­ cation, especially in Japan, Korea, China, and India. In 1919 the Emperor of Japan awarded him the third degree of the order of the Rising Sun—the nations highest distinc­ tion for a civilian, either foreign or native — and in 1917 the President of China conferred a similarly high degree. Yet Dr. Goucher ministered to the needs of those at home as well. He was president of the Board of Trustees of Morgan College for 39 years and when he resigned his 16-year Woman s College presidency to pursue missionary work, there was lavish praise for his accomplishments: In the annals of our Baltimore Conference no man has done so much for Methodism as has John Franklin Goucher. Besides a number of churches, the chief of which is First Church, Baltimore, two colleges owe their origin to him —Morgan College and Woman s College. Across the seas in India, China and Japan, multitudes have been brought to Christ through his munificence. The Goucher Hall of the Aoyama Gakuin, at Tokyo, is a testimony to his world-wide interest in humanity! But his greatest and lasting foundation is Woman s College, whose creator he is . . . and to its establish­ ment and development he devoted himself and his means unstintingly. As a denomina­ tion and community we cannot repay him. Each generation will but increase the debt. Editorial, Baltimore Methodist, 1907

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X/ic City of Baltimore possesses advantages (aggregating, with the University Library, espite his personal wealth and his as the seat of an institution for the higher over 300,000 volumes), supply facilities for D charismatic fund-raising abilities, education of women which are worthy of either general reading or special investiga­ Dr. Goucher was never able to steer the consideration. The mildness of its winters tion; while the proximity of the City of college clear of debt. The cost of running contrasts greatly with the severe climates of Washington practically adds to the foregoing the college was far greater than receipts the North and West, the remarkable health- a still longer list of libraries, museums, from tuition and board, forcing Goucher to fulness of the entire Western Shore of Mary­ galleries of art and other institutions of turn to loyal Methodist benefactors like land is conceded, while the low death rate in national importance and interest. William and Alcaeus Hooper, Summerfield the City indicates an excellent sanitary Goucher Catalogue, 1890-91 and Charles Baldwin, Benjamin Bennett, condition. The prevailing tone of cultivated Henry S. Dulaney, and Lyttleton Frye Mor­ society and its general attitude towards gan in frequent moments of crisis. Often on morality and religion compare very favorably the brink of financial extinction, the college with those of other large cities. It is a city of was repeatedly saved by the heroic meas­ churches, which, representing all the leading ures of these men. Ironically, at the same denominations, furnish all needful means time that the Woman's College received the for religious culture and open doors for highest standing in the educational world, it Christian work. It is a city in which the could not meet its interest payments. Lord's Day is respected and observed to an The next president, Eugene Allen Noble extent and in a manner indicative of well- (1908-11) performed the most memorable executed laws and a healthy public senti­ act of his short administration by changing ment. One of the great Universities of the the name from the Woman's College of land, the Johns Hopkins Foundation, affords Baltimore to Goucher College. Noble also rare opportunities, through attendance upon saw the separation of the Girls' Latin School its courses of lectures, for acquiring the from the college and the change of control matured views of the most eminent specialists of the college from the Baltimore Con­ in every department of learning. The excel­ ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church lent libraries of the Peabody Institute and the to the Methodist Board of Education — a Maryland Historical Society, the Mercantile, step toward complete separation from the Bar, Medical and Chirurgical, and the Church. However, he inherited finances recently opened Pratt Free Public Libraries that were not in good shape — and left them in even worse condition. 11

Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre '08 read The White House her father's, President Wilson's, plea March 27,1913 for Goucher at a mass rally: My Dear Friends: I wish sincerely that it were possible for me to be with you this evening, to aid in calling the attention of public spirited men everywhere to the needs of Goucher College. I have in the past shown my confidence in the college in the most conclusive way and I shall be very glad indeed if any word of mine could fix the attention of liberal men upon the necessity of seeing that this institution shall not pass out of existence. It would indeed be an evidence that our great educational public does not fully under­ stand its own interests if an institution which has served not only with such faithfulness, but with such distinction, in the cause of women's education, should be allowed to break up for lack of money. It gives me pleasure to join in uttering a very earnest call of liberal support in the hope that the funds may be forthcoming and forthcoming in liberal quantity. Cordially and faithfully yours, Woodrow Wilson

To help save the floundering college, Throughout this period of indebtedness In the 4-2-1 campaign each Goucher Dean John Van Meter became acting presi­ the college maintained scholastic excel­ woman was to give or get $421, a dollar for dent for two years and began a campaign to lence. When William Westley Guth as­ each of the 421 acres of the new Towson raise $1 million to pay off the debt and sumed the presidential reins in 1913, he campus. (There were 3,600 students, alum­ increase the endowment. The trustees made turned the financial situation around by nae, and non-graduates at the time.) News­ a dramatic public announcement that the raising tuition and boosting enrollment: 369 papers of the early twenties featured college would close its doors if the needed students in 1913 increased to 985 by 1929, Goucher women innovatively working for "a $1 million were not pledged by April 4, his final year; 32 faculty in 1913 increased Greater Goucher." Despite the heroic efforts 1913. to 102; and just over 10,000 volumes in the of the alumnae, the campaign never went To reverse these desperate financial con­ library increased to nearly 50,000. He also beyond the college family. Unfortunately, ditions, Lilian Welsh, professor of phys­ built Alumnae Lodge and a new 1,000-seat Dr. Guth died before reaching the goal iology and hygiene, led a series of rallies "to auditorium, purchased and remodeled vari­ needed to make the move. save Goucher College for the girls of ous buildings, moved the library and biol­ Guth's presidency was a controversial Baltimore." Speakers waxed eloquent on ogy labs to more spacious quarters in one. He was a man who enjoyed power the subject of Goucher, attempting to Alfheim Hall, and enlarged the infirmary. immensely and was never loath to exercise broaden its support. In the most famous Guth worked marvelous financial magic, it. While he remained popular with stu­ rally, two thousand high school girls filled placing the college, finally, on sound fiscal dents, he was considered dictatorial by an overflowing Ford's Opera House on footing. Then, because the city campus had some faculty because of his inability to March 27, 1913, to hear Jessie Woodrow expanded as far as possible in a changing tolerate differences of opinion. "He may Wilson '08 read a letter from her father, neighborhood, he acquired the Chew-Green have kept power too much in his hands," then President of the United States, and tell estate in Towson for a pastoral new campus said Bishop Francis J. McConnell at Guth's "What Goucher College Means to Me." away from the residential and commercial memorial service, but "Dr. Guth came into At the very last minute, on April 4, the encroachments of the city. Since there was contact with scores of students and teachers campaign was able to count just over $1 no money left for building, he began a $6 who will remember his genuineness and million — and citywide, 10,000 contribut­ million "4-2-1" campaign for campus con­ sincerity in friendship as among their price­ ing Baltimoreans in its ranks. When the struction and endowment revitalization. less spiritual possessions." general Conference of Methodists heard that the college had survived, it "leaped to its feet and sang the doxology!" 12

Alto Dale Day As seniors, our class was invited to the Goucher estate of Alto Dale. . . . This was one of the happiest gatherings of the year. Special cars took us to the beautiful Goucher home near Pikesville. Dr. Goucher beaming at the gate to greet us, then the lovely shaded walk to the big, sprawling house and Mrs. Goucher, the perfect, beloved hostess with her warm welcome, a lazy afternoon wandering from group to group and finally the delicious supper served to us seated on the lawn. Wril you ever forget Alto Dale Day! Desiree Branch Clark '00

President William Westley Guth stopped Guth and Academic Freedom As recorded by Ray Stannard Baker in the ongoing deficit of the college by When I arrived at Goucher in 1932, Presi­ his Life and Letters of Woodrow Wilson, measures such as the following: dent W. W Guth had recently died, leaving some Goucher students wrote to Jessie Dear Parents and Guardians: a strong college in possession of a new Woodrow Wlson, a member of the class of I regret exceedingly the necessity of inform­ campus in Towson and a distinguished 1908, asking her to urge her father to write ing you that the trustees of Goucher College faculty that was sharply divided between Guth on behalf of their beloved Professor at their recent meeting voted to increase the those who thought he could do no wrong and Froelicher. This he did in a letter from the White House. Guth withdrew his demand, charges of the college as follows: Tuition those who saw only a harsh dictator. During and after his death, Froelicher became from $175 to $200, room from $100 to $110, World War I, when anti-German feeling ran acting president of the college. board from $240 to $290, making a total high, Guth demanded the resignation of After Wriliam Jennings Bryan had at­ charge of $600 for board, room, and tuition, Hans Froelicher, professor of art history and tacked the theory of evolution at a large and $200 for tuition alone. This increase one of the most respected, popular pro­ public meeting in the Lyric, the instructor was inevitable. Other colleges of the first fessors in the college. Of German-speaking in biblical studies at Goucher, the Rev. C. rank found it necessary as long as two years Swiss origin, Froelicher had expressed Sturges Ball, replied to Bryan in The Sun. ago to increase their charges appreciably to sympathy for the German people while The chairman of trustees, who had objected meet the increased cost of living. ... It affirming his complete loyalty to the to the endorsement of evolution in religion would be hazardous to continue on the old United States. courses, resigned after Guth defended the basis another year. instructor. Clearly, academic freedom William Westley Guth, President comes at a price. June 27, 1919 Gairdner B. Moment Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences The Evening Sun, 1983 13

Goucher House When he resigned the presidency in The first campus's greatest building expan­ 1906, Dr. Goucher deeded his residence to sion occurred during Dr. Goucher's tenure. the college. This moved The Sun to com­ When he became president, there were only pare the Goucher benefactions with those of three buildings: Goucher Hall, Bennett Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, George Pea- Hall, and Alfheim (a residence hall, named body, and Wlliam and Henry Walters in like all subsequent downtown residence improving the educational and cultural halls for the abodes of the Norse gods). opportunities of Baltimore. The Goucher Between 1890 and 1895, five new buildings residence and the old Goucher College were constructed: Catherine Hooper Hall, campus were entered into the National three new residences (Glitner, Fensal, and Register of Historic Places in 1978. Vingolf), and Bennett Annex. Before Dr. Goucher retired, the college also purchased two homes on Calvert Street (Vanaheim Hall) and built the power plant and the laundry.

Ijast spring the college acquired 421 acres Senior Step Song of high rolling land just outside of Baltimore We're going to build a greater Goucher at Towson, Maryland. There are 95 acres of Baltimore — Baltimore woodland with a stream winding through it. We're going to build a greater Goucher There are seven springs, one of which is Than before — than before sufficient to care for all of the needs of the We're going to build a greater Goucher college community. There is to be a lake, But she'll be the same old college and in the spring-time there are fields of For we will not — cannot — daisies for the making of daisy chains. ever love her more Slide show, 1922 Love her more. 14

Dear Mother thel Stiffler Carpenter '22 attended Goucher through the war, the peace, E the flu epidemic, the first women's vote ••• — and the acquisition of land for a new college campus. Her letters to her mother chronicle this period. Mrs. Carpenter now lives in Tucson, Arizona.

October 3, 1918 Well, here I am in Vingolf, room 78, the last one on the fifth floor. . . . Food is not as good as at home. After dinner we all went down to the big first floor parlor, where they rolled back the rugs and danced while someone played the piano or victrola and everybody met everybody else all over again.

October 7, 1918 When you do come in, please bring me a box of crackers and some apples. Every­ body down here is hungry all the time. . . . I went over to see Sally after dinner. She was wiping her scissors on her face towel after using them to cut peach pie. Everybody is getting scared about the "flu." The infirmary on the top floor of Fensal is full so they are moving girls out of the rest of the building. All the hospitals in the city are quarantined against it. Dr. Guth wants us to stay out here in North Bal­ timore, not go downtown toward North Avenue, nor to department stores, movies, in trains or streetcars, or any place where we will get in a crowd.

November 9, 1918 Hazing began Tuesday. . . . We all had to march up the aisle, single file. They wouldn't let us talk, and if we smiled they said "Wipe that smile off!" We had to go out the back way and down the steps to the balcony around the gym. At the door were the ten commandments. There was a line of sophs all along on each side of the aisle and steps. Down in the balcony they made us hold up right legs while they tied green strips to our ankles. No smiling. Then we went down the street to classes. Naturally everybody stared at us. At noon, Sally said she and some others had had to race trolley cars and automobiles. 15

November 15, 1918 When whistles began blowing early in the The Woman s College morning here, we learned that the college of Baltimore monogram was going to parade downtown. . . . We used on informal cards. started at the Washington Monument and sang, as did many others, then proceeded downtown where we met other parades going in all directions. They all beat tin lids and rang bells and sang and waved posters. February 22,1919 The posters carried all sorts of pictures and Friday a suffragette named Schuler spoke inscriptions. Many showed Uncle Sam in chapel. One of the safe and sane kind, shoving the Kaiser into hell. Others had "To however. H- with the Kaiser," while still another This was a holiday and I went downtown glaring banner informed us that the Kaiser and celebrated. I went to Stewart's and got had already gone to the aforesaid place. some real chicken soup with two hot rolls The whole town seemed to have gone mad. and butter and a piece of real lemon pie. It We were showered with feathers, confetti, cost 30 cents but was well worth it. It's and paper which people threw out of high certainly good to get away from Vingolf buildings. cooking once in a while. We hoped we'd have a regular celebration February 27,1919 dinner but we didn't. It wasn't even ice cream night. Tonight they're having a party over at Katy Hooper. They are to have refreshments for November 26, 1918 sale. Admission 150. We were permitted to In gym today we had to lie flat on the floor take boys there, sit with them during the face downward and bend our arms up and entertainment, but when it comes to the down as directed. When we had scrubbed dancing, the girls go down to the gym and our clean white middies on the floor until dance all by themselves while their escorts sufficiently dirty in front, she made us turn stand in the balcony and look on. I suppose over and wipe up the floor with the backs. it would be a violation of one of the old Then she explained that we could see why moss-covered traditions for a girl to dance we were required to have at least three plain with a man at a Goucher function. Oh, well, white middies. We marched and ran around they may change their minds some day. the room a number of times, climbed Four years ago Goucher students were not ladders on the side of the wall, and hung allowed to dance, play cards, or go to backward from the third rung from the top. theatres.

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April 29, 1919 April 11,1920 December 5, 1920 Baltimore is pretty tonight to celebrate the The Hopkins-Goucher concert was very About 100 Goucher girls went out to the return of the soldiers. The Bromo-Seltzer nice. The Hopkins men sat on one side, we football game at Hopkins Saturday for about tower is lighted up all around. Over at on the other. They looked very nice — all two hours. We went around with boxes with Druid Hill Park is the most beautiful dressed up in their dress suits with their slits in the top asking people to contribute searchlight I've ever seen. The big light on hair neatly plastered down. We didn't meet to Serbian relief. . . . Fanny is working at top of the Gas and Electric Company's any of them, but believe me, we all stared Hutzler's Saturday afternoons and during building circles around as usual. The girls holes in each other. I suspect they had a lot the Christmas holidays. She gets $1.15 for who saw the parade today said it was rather of fun out of us. As we went past them to the her afternoon's work from 1 o'clock on. sad. The horses of the men who had been stage one time they seemed to be discussing killed were there in the parade with no us. I heard one say "Oh, I'm going to take February 28,1921 riders. Of course, I couldn't see it because this one here!" Maryland Avenue is to be paved! I had lab. October 29, 1920 May 29, 1921 February 15,1920 We don't get holiday for election day. Those What do you think of our new campus? — Dr. Welsh is back. She came back Tuesday living outside Baltimore will be excused largest woman's college campus in the a.m. in a taxi, wearing a brown fur coat. We from class long enough to go to and from U.S., I hear. Quite a change from what we all heard that she'd been seen downtown in home to vote. I'll be home on the 7:35 have. Everybody's been going out this one, but we didn't believe it. Monday night and return on the 12 noon week. We're having a lovely time making Tuesday. plans for it, even though we'll not be there March 24, 1920 to see. ... Dr. Guth hopes to be out there Tomorrow at 10 is the Phi Beta Kappa in three years. address. The members of the faculty who October 25, 1921 are PBK will march in all their gorgeous robes and have front seats. I hadn't known This afternoon we went out to the campus. much about PBK. Dr. Guth said they were It's a long way. At Towson you turn down the allowed to take in 10 percent but Goucher road right beside the engine house and go had always been conservative and taken back almost parallel with York Road. It's only 6 percent. Wish I'd studied more. the concrete road we can see from York Road. There's a sign on the right side as you go down — the sign pictured in The Sun. Then you turn in a road and go on and on and on 'til you reach the highest point where we were this afternoon. The view is wonderful from there. The Ridgely estate must be a beautiful place. Everybody is trying to do something to earn her 421. 17

Lilian Welsh on hair Dress, manners, and customs change with the passing years, but bobbed hair and vanity boxes are no more incompatible with honesty and courage and high purpose than were the constricted waists and the elabo­ rate coiffure of an earlier generation. Donnybrook Fair, 1925

March 5, 1922 Isn't this a lovely day! The "campus" is full of groups of girls taking each other's Hazing pictures, among them some of the newly bobbed "heads." About ten more have cut In 1916 freshman hazing began, replete their hair in the past ten days. The Seniors with the ten commandments given by the were leery about bobbing their hair because sophomores to the freshmen, who suffered they hoped to get jobs for the next year, and indignities throughout their first year. By some employers disapprove of bobbed hair. 1926 hazing was outlawed and freshmen The Sun had an item about bobbed hair in were welcomed instead. which it quoted Dr. Guth as saying bobbed Among the commandments given to the hair was of no concern, but bobbed brains Class of 1922 were: were, and Goucher girls did not suffer from You Freshmen shall remember continuously the latter. that you are insignificant, that you know nothing of the ways of the world and must April 25,1922 therefore trust in the guidance of those Got one of the Woods Hole scholarships. above you. Remember always to have an attitude of obeisance toward all Soph­ June 3, 1922 omores, Juniors and Seniors. Smile and If you can come to commencement, meet obey. me on the right hand side of the Lyric entrance Monday at 3:25 daylight time. Always be on the go. The world will never wait for you, so trot. Whenever possible race street cars, automobiles and professors.

On Friday wear your hair screwed up in a tight knot on the top of your head without any ruffing, in order to give your growing brain room to develop.

Enter all class rooms walking backwards with both eyes gazing into your mirror, which you shall carry at such moments just in front, and above your left shoulder.

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A New Campus he purchase of the Towson campus in 1921 was one of President Guth's Tgreatest services to the college," said •••Clinton Ivan Winslow, professor of political science and chairman of the faculty committee on planning for the new campus. "The mere task of dealing with so many owners in itself was a major undertaking. But by receiving signatures to 40 deeds, a compact area of 421 acres came into posses­ sion of the college on May 25, 1921." The move to the new campus did not come as quickly as Guth had hoped. It was not until 1938 under the leadership of the next elected president, David Allan Robertson, that architectural plans for the campus were finally accepted. And it was another two years before construction began on the first building, Mary Fisher Hall.

On the Move: The Towson Campus Judge Emory H. Niles, former chairman of the Board of Trustees, Rhodes Scholar, and chief judge of the Baltimore Supreme Bench, was instrumental in helping Robertson plan the Towson campus. In an oral history interview, he named the "arch­ angels" of the college: "Now then, arch­ angel number one, David Robertson, had all the qualities necessary to make him the first-class head of a college. . . . He knew To find an architect for the new campus what was good, and he persisted in fighting (and to generate favorable publicity as for or promoting what was good . . . The well), Goucher sponsored a nation-wide next person I would name in the rank of architectural competition. Wnners of the archangels is Dorothy Stimson. . . . (Then) competition were announced at the Lyric Miss Julia Rogers who was the fairy god­ Theatre with much fanfare on the occasion mother. . . . Now the next archangel, Jim of the college's 50th anniversary; the com­ Wnslow: It was Jim knowing all the details, peting plans were displayed at the Bal­ knowing the faculty, having the confidence timore Museum of Art. The New York firm of the faculty and trustees. He was the of Moore and Hutchins won first place with person who supervised the actual move from its design of the Julia Rogers Library and downtown to Towson." general development plan, which later be­ Oral history interview, 1971 came the master plan for the new campus. 20

Students often visited the Towson campus during the construction process of the '40s and 950s. Until the move to the new campus was completed students were bused back and forth between campuses.

fter the acting presidencies of Pro­ student's very being. In his 18-year admin­ A fessor Hans Froelicher and Dean istration, he brought a needed breath of Dorothy Stimson, David Allan Robertson fresh air to both academic and student life. was formally inaugurated in 1930 with It was not until after Dr. Robertson's representatives of over 200 educational retirement, though, that the second Towson institutions in attendance. Dr. Robert An­ building, Van Meter Hall, was completed, drews Millikan, winner of the Nobel Prize and the move to the new wooded campus in physics, came from California to deliver took place. (Construction was interrupted the address in honor of his former pupil, during the war years.) Throughout the and Dr. Florence R. Sabin and Mrs. building process of the '40s and '50s, Herbert Hoover were among honorary students were bused back and forth between degree recipients. During his tenure campuses. Yet despite the busing and the (1930-48), Dr. Robertson not only set up the hardships of a divided campus, Goucher's architectural framework of the Towson cam­ sixth elected president, Otto F. Kraushaar pus, but also revised the curriculum as (1948-67), recalled the years of the move as well. In his major curricular reform, he a time of overwhelming college spirit. It was introduced the 3-3-3 calendar (three a happy time, said Dr. Kraushaar, for stu­ courses meeting four times a week for ten dents "felt they were on the way to some­ weeks with Wednesdays free for laborato­ thing . . . something big was coming." In ries, field trips, and study). He divided the this transitional period, he continued, "We curriculum into two divisions: the lower moved, and in the process of moving, we division, in which progress toward eight jettisoned a great many old ideas and went educational objectives culminated in soph­ through a process of self-refreshment. . . ." omore general examinations, and the upper The completed move to the new campus division, in which progress in the major brought with it a period of mushrooming culminated in six hours of comprehensive growth in applications for admission. "The examinations. Golden Age in this respect," said Dr. Dr. Robertson encouraged faculty in­ Kraushaar, "was from about 1955 to about volvement in the governance of the college, 1965. . . . Student applications were run­ a radical switch from the dictatorship, ning very high . . . and we became quite however benevolent, of his predecessor Dr. selective." By 1962, under Director of Guth. He preached an educational philoso­ Admissions Mary Ross Flowers, enrollment phy that extolled not mere grades, but the reached 853, the largest number since notion of making learning a part of the 1930. Since then enrollment has fluctuated between 850 and 1,025 students, with early admissions as a standard policy. The first signs of the oncoming student President Marvin Perry assembled the revolution began to be seen during the final Committee on the Future of the College, years of Dr. Kraushaar's administration. In which recommended sweeping changes in 1965-66, for example, students admin­ the requirements and in the academic istered the first unofficial course evalua­ calendar. The College Assembly replaced tions. The next year the students succeeded the faculty as the principal legislative body, in both abolishing the sophomore general the 4-1-4 calendar was instituted, the sa­ exams and instituting a pass-fail option in cred scripture requirement was eliminated, the grading system. and soon after, the residence halls were But the real effects of the revolution were given full autonomy, including 24-hour felt primarily in the six-year presidency of parietal rules. Dr. Marvin Banks Perry (1967-73). The spirit of activism characterized by the movements for racial equality and against the war in Vietnam, together with the famous French student revolt of'68, had worldwide repercussions that necessarily included Goucher. One year later, Goucher seniors boycotted (and other students walked out of) Honors Convocation to hold their own ceremonies in Haebler Memorial Chapel — having first called in TV coverage of the event. Students demanded the imme­ diate abolition of comprehensive exams, which were held anyway but eliminated in 1970. 22

Academic Program The first faculty set up 11 different depart­ ments in 1888-89: ancient languages (Latin and Greek); modern languages (French and nlike the finishing schools of the early German); mathematics and astronomy; Eng­ lish; natural sciences (biology, chemistry 19th century, Goucher was founded as and physics); history and political science; a school for beginning —for beginning ethics, psychology, and logic; physical U culture; fine arts; elocution; and music. One HHHa lifetime of learning. The original would assume that many of these subjects would have long since withered and died of college entrance requirements were stringent: old age, replaced by a whole bundle of new courses of study. This is not the case. four years of Latin, two years of Greek, two Today, Goucher has 17 departments and years of French or German, math, English, 5 interdisciplinary areas, compared with 12 departments 95 years ago. But some of history of the United States and England those departments were umbrella-depart­ ments, like natural sciences, which in­ as well as an outline of Greek or Roman cluded chemistry, biology, and physics. As it turns out, the only subject taught in 1888 history, physical and ancient geography, and that is not taught today is ancient lan­ elements of physiology. No wonder only ten guages. And the only current majors that cannot be traced directly back to a pro­ of the original students met these require­ genitor in the 1888 curriculum are educa­ tion (which became a major in 1917) and ments and more than 100 other students business management (which became a needed more than four years to graduate. major in 1981). In short, Goucher is today a liberal arts college for women with a curriculum basically unchanged in terms of disciplines. The college has degree requirements of 120 semester hours with five courses a semester and a strong set of academic requirements — all as in 1888. Is this not a vindication of the French aphorism, "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose"? Frederic 0. Musser, Jr. Professor of French

What Has Changed? "The absolute thing is the now. Change is the only constant." Martha Graham * The New York Times, 1984

Small colleges cannot afford to survive by letting faculty teach to empty classrooms. Recently, Goucher was forced to eliminate courses with low enrollment (i.e., the clas­ sics major) to meet student demand for other subjects. Now the college offers majors in communication, management, computer science, and dance within the context of the liberal arts curriculum, plus a Master of Arts in dance-movement therapy and in art therapy. With these offerings, Goucher maintains the strength of the traditional liberal arts while adapting to the changing needs of students and society. 23

Liberal Arts in the Context of As Goucher enters its second century, it Balancing Classroom Theory with Professional Preparation reasserts its commitment to the liberal arts Real-World Problems One hundred years ago the college proved in the context of professional preparation. Interspersed with traditional requirements women the intellectual equals of men (de­ In 1982 it reinstated general distribution in reading, writing, and thinking is an off- spite wasp-waists and whalebone) and requirements to ensure student exposure to campus experience (required since 1978), maintained that a liberal arts education broad areas of a liberal arts education. To which relates the liberal arts to the world should prepare women for an equal place in meet the core requirements, students now outside Goucher. By thrusting students into the working world. Since then Goucher has choose one course from each of the eight the working world, the internship helps been on the cutting edge, teaching women basic areas: abstract reasoning, fine and them gain maturity and confidence, as well to cope with an ever-changing world, to performing arts, history, literature, natural as valuable work experience for their re­ fulfill new roles, and to move into occupa­ sciences, philosophy, social sciences, and, sumes. Goucher's location between Bal­ tions created by modern technology. yes, the computer. timore and Washington is ideal for a wide For while the core of the curriculum is choice of internships in such areas as the liberal arts, Goucher now requires legislative assistance, environmental man­ graduates to be literate not only in English agement, economic forecasting, social serv­ and a foreign language, but also in the ice, newspaper reporting, scientific computer. This three-part literacy means research, or children's theater. Study that a student must add a working knowl­ abroad and independent work are other edge of the computer to her traditional valuable opportunities for off-campus skills of writing and speaking. After all, experience. said President Rhoda Dorsey, "These women are going out to work, some all their lives, most off and on during their lives. We have to give them the tools to make it possible. The basic tools are a well-honed mind and the ability to live with change." 24

For the great majority of young women, it is held that the chief aim of their undergraduate training should be to secure for them integral education, rather than to lay the foundations of a specialist's knowledge, except insofar as this can be done without neglecting, during the brief period allotted to purely collegiate work, any branch of study essential to liberal education. Goucher Prospectus, 1888

1 transferred to Goucher because I wanted to combine dance and fine arts in a major. The facilities were excellent and the faculty gave me a lot of freedom to experiment. Also, the environment was great for friend­ ships. It was at Goucher that I met the three other women with whom I founded Naked Feet. Robin Williams '78 Co-founder Naked Feet Dance Company; Dance teacher, Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University

Xhe most helpful courses were those I took history went about identifying the problems with Rhoda Dorsey and Ken talker. Ken of their societies and how they attempted to Walker made me take economics against my solve those problems. But it was actually initial interest — a subject that proved my Goucher off-campus experience that surprisingly helpful. All of these classes focused my interests on a career in public stressed not memorization but evaluation — policy. The summer between my junior and how policy makers at different points in senior years, I had an internship as a research analyst in the legislative division at Social Security, and I was invited to return after graduation. That's how I found Dance at Goucher offers the best of two out I wanted to work in public policy, worlds: intensive dance training and supe­ especially to influence the legislative proc­ rior liberal arts education. I think our ess to reflect consumer interests. graduates end up with such interesting jobs Joan Buckler Clay brook '59 because of their dual talents. We help President, Public Citizen prepare them for new career opportunities by exploring dance as it relates to other I feel strongly that Goucher academic disciplines. women should be able to gradu­ Chrystelle Trump Bond ate with a degree that allows them Professor of Dance to go to work immediately, if they choose. We put communication stu­ Goucher is very competitive, but so is the dents in applied situations from the real world. The internship programs are start. They do internships and attend eye-opening. Through an internship a stu­ : professional meetings where they dent sees what it's really like to work in the make contacts, so that most have profession she's chosen. She can determine jobs in hand before they graduate. whether her choice is the right one. What I Brownlee Sands Corrin enjoy most about teaching here is the Professor of Communication opportunity to know students on a personal level — to watch them make discoveries about themselves and grow. Katherine Henneberger Shouldice '67 Assistant Professor of Economics 25

Xhe most obvious and oft recurring phase Goucher Reaches Out: "Howard E Long of Goucher life is the intellectual. To the has become the first man in history to crash mind of the student it forms a background through the chintz curtain of Goucher for all other activities and is the ground College. He is a 31-year-old graduate stu­ plan on which she builds her structure . . . dent in the M.Ed, program. Goucher has "Goucher" is almost synonomous with 851 women and Howard Long." 'work.' If a standard, if a vision, can be The Evening Sun, 1962 reduced to its simplest form and expression, Goucher College may be said to stand for In 1967 Mrs. Mary Harrison Hooker glorified work as furthering the highest graduated from the college as a member of development of the individual. Phi Beta Kappa — the first grandmother Sara Haardt '20 to do so. (Mrs. H. L. Mencken) As a product of the fifties, I learned at Bulletin of Goucher College, 1920 Goucher that a woman didn't have to be afraid to achieve. The standards were high, Goucher Quiz Kids: Goucher women score the classes were small, and we felt free to well in the intellectual clout department. By really explore ideas with professors. Today 1932 the Goucher debate team had beaten Goucher would be even better for me, since Princeton for the fifth consecutive year. . . . it now offers management and computer In 1959 the Goucher College Bowl team, courses I could have taken to prepare for a coached by Rhoda Dorsey, won three times career in industrial psychology. on the national television program. ... In Ann Howard'60, Ph.D. 1969 the team, coached by Cecile Gold, Division Manager of Basic Human Resources Lincoln Johnson, Otto Ortmann, Elliot Galkin, won five times, retiring undefeated, and Research, AT&T and S her rod Albritton. received a silver bowl and a scholarship. What I value most about teaching at Under the leadership of past department Goucher is the variety and diversity of chairmen Otto Ortmann, Elliot Galkin, and students. In the theatre department the Robert Hall Lewis, the Goucher music leading role in our fall production was program served students who viewed music played by a biology major. As a teacher, my not just as a career, but as an avocation as principal role is to arm students with the well. Today applied music study ranges questions and sensitivities that will con­ from the harpsichord to electronic and tinue to form tastes throughout their lives. computer music. Solid foundation is given Barry Knower in theory and composition, music history, Goucher Quiz Kids Professor of Theatre and arts administration. 26

Goucher Guide '84 To attend Goucher you must be a self- motivated, determined, and hardworking student. Four years at Goucher are not an academic hayride, the academic overload beginning the day classes debut. Professors at Goucher maintain high standards, and though the majority of them may be accessi­ ble, adaptable, and amiable, they can also be demanding, harsh, and rigorous. De­ pending on one's major, of course, students are expected to do much studying, re­ searching, and writing. Goucher definitely A loving cup presented to Dr. deserves her reputation for being a "paper Van Meter, "our true and loving school." friend " by the Class of1904. An archery club was formed in 1893. Since Goucher is still highly academic, its atmosphere favors the intellectually ven­ turesome, free-spirited individual who won't miss the traditional hoopla and "rah- rah" collegiate partying that Goucher lacks. Keeping academics in the center ring, Goucher's faculty, here to teach, have not only made significant contributions to their field of study but have also made significant impressions in the classroom. Just as the Insider s Guide to Colleges 1980-1981 edition asserted that Goucher takes women seriously and seeks to help the Softball at the downtown campus. "brave new woman" in each of her students, I believe that statement is just as powerful and veracious for the Goucher of 1984. Marlene Strick '84, National Dean's Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa, Excerpted from The Goucher Weekly

Tuition In 1888 the yearly tuition at the Woman's College was $100. The first increase came in 1894 (to $125). In 1969 annual tuition had risen to $1,800, a total increase of Goucher s riding team $1,700 over a period of 81 years. In the past entered their first intercollegiate two years, tuition has risen $1,600: from riding championship in the $5,400 in 1981-82 to $7,000 in 1983-84. spring of 1983 and placed third among nine colleges. Incidentally, the full fee for room, board, and tuition was $375 per year in 1894; in 1984-85 it is $11,600.

Goucher Facts 1983-84 Enrollment: 1,000 undergraduates, 41 graduate students Degrees granted: B.A., M.A. in dance- movement therapy and art therapy Departments: 17 Individual courses offered: 447 Students on Goucher College Scholarships: 430 ($200-$7,500; average award $3,600) Faculty: 151 full and part-time Graduates: 13,151 Endowment: $33,472,464 Library: 233,539 volumes Student-faculty ratio: 9 to 1 In 1892 students who portrayed men in plays were allowed to wear gym suits, but Campus: 287 acres only women were permitted in the audience. 27

Horseback riding was introduced in 1923.

Hockey and golf were introduced in 1897.

1892

The Class Banner for the first graduating class.

The first tennis courts were built at St. Paul and 24th Streets in 1890. The Class of 1897 won the college's first tennis tournament in 1893. In 1898 the Class of 1901 presented Sophie More to the freshman class as a peace offering at the end of hazing. The tradition of presenting the doll to incoming classes continued for more than 30 years.

Goucher Ring

Basketball was introduced at the Woman s College in 1894. The first inter­ collegiate game was played against Bryn Mawr in 1915. 28

Presidents

Xhe object for ages has been to broaden Xo train young women so that they may man, but woman has been deprived of the have a clear and comprehensive knowledge facilities to prepare herself to go hand in of things, persons, and events; to train them hand with him in his development. ... To so that they may have a sympathy with and help woman become an aid to man the appreciation for all that is fine and beautiful Woman's College of Baltimore was de­ and lovable, and to pursue their course of signed. Provision has been made for her training in full view of current life, so that mind. The curriculum is on a par with that they may later be called into the high and of the highest college in this or any other worthy and needful social service which land. only a trained woman can give — this is the John Franklin Goucher, 1890-1908 ideal of the Woman's College. Dedication speech, June 1888 Eugene Allen Noble, 1908-1911

While distinctly a Christian foundation . . . and while evermore rejoining to gather the best inspiration for its work from the heart and brain of Methodism, it is most gratifying to proclaim that no narrowing sectarianism is to mould its teaching, re­ strict its labors, or direct its policy. William Hersey Hopkins, 1886-1890 29

Education does not consist in the preserva­ American society has developed the liberal If history tells us anything, it is that our tion of the past, but in equipment of the arts college not to create a privileged class times, while different, are not unique, that future; it should furnish wings, not weights. of intellectual aristocrats, but because it all times in human history have been times John Blackford Van Meter, acting 1911-1913 has faith that those who have had this of change. . . . Our problem today is the educational experience will ultimately be of universal one of the common human situa­ greater service to that society of which they tion — to maintain a balance between are an integral part. change and order and to adapt to the need Dorothy Stimson, acting 1930 for change without disaster. Quarterly, 1955 Marvin Banks Perry, Jr., 1967-1973 Convocation speech, 1967

You may not have thought of college in this Some persons enter college with the spirit light, as a place where you will have the of tourists: others with that of explorers. It is In 1885, Goucher was founded on the then- privilege of giving as well as the right of the latter which prevails at Goucher College uncommon notion that women are the getting. You may not have much to give, but among members of the faculty, busy in intellectual equals of men — and that a you can give what you have; and giving what research as well as in teaching, and among liberal arts college should prepare women you have will enable you to receive what you students, who are constantly demonstrating for an equal place in the working world. The ought to get. their intellectual initiative in many fields. times may have changed, but the case for Goucher — and its 116 sister institutions — William Westley Guth, 1913-1929 David Allan Robertson, 1930-1948 Handbook, 1920 Handbook, 1939 is, in our estimation, stronger than ever. Rhoda Mary Dorsey, 1974 — The Evening Sun, 1982

Goucher has been deliberately kept a The world needs trained, liberal minds: liberal arts college, and will doubtless but it needs even more the spirit of under­ remain so, even though a new interpretation standing and sympathy which intelligent may have to be made of the meaning of the women can bring to the solution of our term "liberal arts college." problems. Hans Froelicher, acting 1929-1930 Otto Frederick Kraushaar, 1948-1967 Board of Instruction Minutes, 1929 Handbook, 1950 30

One of the great sources of Goucher's Faculty continuing achievement is the strength and leadership of the faculty. The original n a world full of shoddy effort with faculty of eight men and women was "the most earnest, ambitious, and idealistic approval for the quick and the lazy, group of pioneers a new enterprise ever Goucher has fought to reward the excel- had," reported Dr. Hans Froelicher in I Goucher's 1908 Kalends magazine. "They •I lent. Depending on your college genera­ were open to new views and tolerant of each others' views. There was truly a vital tion, can you imagine doing a slipshod interest in the welfare of the college and a strong feeling of solidarity among the scholarly task for Clara Bacon, Mary faculty." In 1930, according to President David Wilhelmine Williams, Annette Hopkins, Ola Allan Robertson, the faculty was of "very Winslow, Dorothy Stimson, Marian Torrey, high quality." The physiology department was thought to be the best in the country. Rhoda Dorsey, or an endless roster of faculty The college boasted of the research, teach­ ing, and publications of Dr. Jessie King who demanded best effort? (and also of the contribution of its under­ graduates to journals). The achievements in Martha Arnold Nichols '38, Dean of Students, 1942-76, Quarterly, 1976 biology of Drs. William Longley and Ralph Cleland were world-renowned. Dr. Thad- deus P. Thomas's pioneering work in so­ ciology was chronicled in records of the White House Conference. Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh even flew to the campus before their trip to South America to confer with Dr. Mary Williams, author of the first history in English of the South American countries. H. L. Mencken talked each year to English classes on campus. And Ola Elizabeth Winslow later won a Pulitzer Prize for her biography of theologian and philosopher Jonathan Edwards. That same faculty voted itself a ten percent salary reduction from 1933 to 1937 in view of the college's financial deficit. Today, the Goucher faculty still reflects the same emphasis on excellence. They are working scholars with impressive creden­ tials; their list of publications, papers, exhibits, and performances is long. But they are also warm, available and interested individuals who thrive on academic interac­ tion with college students. Faculty office doors are traditionally open; faculty, in­ deed, spend far more of their hours in informal exchange with students than in class. Students, teachers, and staff sit side by side in the College Assembly and on many college committees, as well as in the snack bar. Ties of mutual respect and real friendship bind Goucher's faculty and gen­ erations of students and alumnae. 31

Faculty Photo Album Lilian Welsh, Professor of Physiology and mmh • Hygiene, 1894-1924. Her pioneer program unified physical training with scientific training in anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. She was recognized as a leader in the movement to obtain educational oppor­ tunities for women and to alleviate preju­ dice against female physicians. She strongly advocated suffrage as a means for women to exercise their full civic responsibilities.

Josephine Fiske, Professor Emeritus of Physical Education, 1929-69, and Eline von Borries.

Eline von Borries '15, Professor of Physical Education, 1931-63. As chairman of the physical education department for 42 years, Miss von B. introduced individual sports, modern dance, and camp counselor and recreation courses. A skilled equestrian herself, she was a master teacher.

Gertrude Carman Bussey, Professor of Phi­ losophy, 1915-53, national president of the Woman's International League for Peace Sara Haardt Mencken '20 and Freedom. It is the relation of faculty and students that Harry T. Baker, Professor of English, the Goucher girl holds most dear. . . . She 1919-39, a former editor of Smart Set, the is personally proud of the achievements of foreruner of The New Yorker. her faculty; their books, their lectures, their experiments and discoveries in the field of Ella Lonn, Professor of History, 1918-45, science are a source of intense pride and historian of the American Civil War and inspiration for her. ..." darling of the ultra-conservative lecture Sara Haardt '20 (Mrs. H. L. Mencken) circuit.

Rae Blanchard, Professor of English, 1929-54, and distinguished author of books on Richard Steele.

Eleanor Patterson Spencer, Professor of Fine Arts, 1930-62, and authority on the Elizabeth Geen, Dean, Vice President, architecture of Baltimore. Professor of English, 1950-68. "I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'She was a hard Richard Lahey, Professor of Fine Arts, worker,' and then add what I worked for: the 1936-60, principal of the Corcoran School humanistic sense of order." of Fine Arts and personal friend of many Quarterly, 1961 great modern artists. 32

Why Teach at Goucher?

What do I like about teaching at Goucher? Is it the delight of encountering a maturing student receptive to new ideas and of observing her growth in the use of analytic and critical skills? Is it the satisfaction of helping a future teacher learn the theories, methods and tools that will enhance her success in the classroom? Is it the sense of A transfer student, after one semester at pride of supervising her student teaching Goucher, put her finger on the essence of and watching her development from a the place when she told me, 'Goucher fearful novice to a polished teacher? It is all students seem to work, live, and study, in this — and more. anticipation of success.' After two decades Eli Velder at Goucher, I can say that their anticipation Professor of Education, 1958— is justified. One of my greatest pleasures is being a small part of so many success For me the most exciting part of being at stories. Goucher is to carry on the traditions of its earlier faculty like Lilian Welsh and Barton L. Houseman Gertrude Bussey; that is, to contribute to Professor of Chemistry, 1961 — the students' awareness of the world around them and the role that they as women may play in shaping the future of their society.

Marianne Githens Professor of Political Science, 1965—

As a Goucher history major my intellectual inheritance included the faculty's close attention to my particular academic devel­ opment (and this not so easy at a time when matrons were considered better off learning about apple pies than the Enlightenment), an appreciation of the complexity of human events, and a passionate attachment to remembering the past. Now as we begin a second century, the history department in­ tends to transmit to a new generation the essential meanings of our past. In so doing we follow a deeply entrenched college tradition of concern for students as individ­ uals and enthusiasm for history as human experience. Jean Harvey Baker '61 Professor of History, 1970— 33

We make a tremendous effort to produce well-rounded biologists; women who know something about every area of biology — who can design and carry out experiments and analyze data — not just recite facts. Because we're small, and because our faculty is involved in both research and teaching, our students get to work closely with faculty on current research projects. They gain a great deal of laboratory experience.

Ann Mathews Lacy Professor of Biological Sciences, 1959—

Sara de Ford, Professor Emeritus of English, 1946-81

In my thirty years at Goucher the one constant has been the arrival each fall of a new class, with its fresh ideas, its vigorous language, its expectations, its potential for commitment, its challenge to my love of tradition and to my faith in literary classics. Virginia Canfield, Professor of English, 1948-64 And when in the spring an old class has graduated, I have felt that somehow a learning has taken place, that at least my own motives and questions have been reexamined, that I have participated in one more episode of that continuing process called a liberal education.

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Beyond the Classroom Walls Over the years students have auditioned for chairs in the Goucher-Hopkins Community Symphony Orchestra, developed writer's n any college worthy of the name, cramp on Weekly or Donnybrook Fair, tried out for a prize-winning tennis team, and intellectual rigor is primary, yet at learned how to play Baltimore's hometown Goucher it has never overshadowed the sport, lacrosse. They have traveled to the I Naval Academy for mixers, to the Kennedy HI sense of the college as community, nor Center for dance concerts, to the halls of Congress in the service of key legislators. has it preempted a lively concern for this Whether quaking under the dress and behavior codes of the feared Tone Commit­ complex world from which Goucher draws its tee in the 1920s or witnessing panty raids and streaking in the 1970s, Goucher stu­ life. From the start Goucher students have dents recall with pleasure the college en­ made much merriment and been part of many vironment beyond the classroom walls. joyous occasions from commencements to boat rides. In the early years there were gala lawn parties at Alto Dale, Mary Fisher Goucher's country home. In the years since there have been May courts, daisy chains, horse shows, poetry contests, and GIG (Get into Goucher) days. There have been dances, Hopkins mixers, campus days, athletic and singing contests, all-night rap sessions, and all- night vigils from the top of the Goucher obser­ vatory to help track Sputnik. 35

Traditions Boatride: The boatride is the big lark of the year, many of the students coming from riverless sections where this form of outing is unknown, and even natives of this section feeling this 'may be the last ride,' since so many of the steamboat lines have gone out of existence. The Sun, 1932

Funeral Pyre: One by one, graduating seniors dumped their most hated class books and notes into a bonfire. The class of 1915 sang this song as they marched around A get-together picnic on the new Towson campus in 1925. the senior funeral pyre: Did you ever hear of a funeral pyre Where you burn your books to your heart's desire? The leaves fly in and the flames out From the things you never knew much about.

Daisy chain, carried by sophomores the last night of step-singing.

Step-Singing: Beginning in 1899, seniors sang on the steps of Goucher Hall during the week before commencement.

Lantern chain, given by freshmen for seniors.

The Intellectual Country Fair began in 1959. Over 1,000 attended in 1967.

Parties: Lawn parties gave way to parking lot parties, so popular in the late '60s. Parties took place in the Heubeck parking lot outside the "magic circle" and at the Hopkins Rathskeller (better known as "the Rat") on Thursday nights.

May Queen Coronation "Every year I took the May Court out to Mr. Sherwood's garden to have their picture taken two weeks before May Day so that it could get in the brown pages of the Sunday Sun," said Mary Thomas McCurley '10, first assistant (1923-26) and then director (1926-54) of vocational guidance service. 36

Infractions: Five students attending a Update: In 1912 Goucher students were matinee in January 1895 were not allowed to allowed to attend theatre if they had their remain in the home for the rest of the year. parents' permission, despite the stern dis­ . . . Two students who received confection­ approval of faculty and trustees. ery from visitors in the alley adjoining the Baltimore News Post, 1938 home and two others for the same offense and for walking with young men were called Update: Walking with gentlemen is allowed before the Board of Control for reproof; they near the college and in Wyman Park were denied the privilege of making and anytime during daylight hours. All students receiving visits for the remainder of the except freshmen may go to Hutzler's, term, and their parents were informed of Doebereiner's, Ditch's, and other drug their conduct. stores in the vicinity of North Avenue and Knipp and Thomas 25th Street with gentlemen not later than The History of Goucher College 9:30 p.m. No student may go riding, The Way It Was: driving, or motoring with gentlemen not Rules Are Made To Be Broken Update: Freshmen, sophomores, and members of the family without special juniors may receive gentlemen callers in the permission from home. The early administration made every hall parlors until 10 o'clock on Friday Handbook, 1919 effort to protect students from contact evenings only. In exceptional cases the with young men: Lady in Charge may grant permission to receive at other times. Gentlemen callers Rule: Occasional calls from lady friends shall not be received on Sunday. Students may be received. . . . Gentlemen, not near shall not be absent from the dormitories relatives, are not permitted to call. It will accompanied by gentlemen without permis­ not be conceded that any relation is sion from the Executive Board except to a possible between young ladies in the home college function. This rule does not apply to and young gentlemen of the city that would near relatives. bring calls from the latter within the limits Handbook, 1910-11 of propriety. Conditions of Admission to the College Homes, 1892 37

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Commentary: I dated Goucher girls for ten rmssM 1 years or so until the latter part of the 1920s and was particularly horrified in the early KA| IT- j» tfsjif^ ^^^K days by the strictness and rules in the dormitories and the devices the girls used to circumvent them. I thought then that when I grew a little older, I would like to be a trustee of Goucher in order to correct those rules. Judge Roszel Thomsen, Former Chairman, Board of Trustees, and husband and father of Goucher graduates 1 1 Oral history interview, 1973 _,. ... «*\]

Warnings about proper attire, curfews J i - and automobiles were ubiquitous: 1 Rule: Students regularly appear in cap and Rule: At dinner time in the dining room, no Update: Seniors granted 6 a.m. curfew. gown on Fridays and at all college lectures. riding clothes, bandannas,or hair pom­ Goucher Weekly, 1967 Caps and gowns are worn at a distance of poms, or shirts worn outskide of skirts. not more than four blocks from Goucher Dress for sunbathing is left to the discretion Update: Sophomores, juniors and seniors Hall. Students go without hats at a distance of the students. Off campus, no shorts at with a C average or better may keep a car on of not more than four blocks from Goucher any time, no slacks or jeans except when campus. A student may entertain a male Hall. Students not wearing caps and gowns riding a bicycle. No smoking on the streets guest and/or date in her room only between to chapel on Friday sit in the gallery. of Towson. 2:00 and 5:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. Handbook, 1916 Goucher Weekly, 1945 Handbook, 1968-69

Commentary: We may value our uniform Update: Residence halls given full auton­ now chiefly because it is so chic and omy, including 24-hour parietal rules, becoming, but we know there is in it a deep 1972. signification; that the very wearing of it impresses upon us a high standard which Final: Every house has its own government we must not fall below. . . . Our cap and and sets and enforces its own living agree­ gown will become more and more dear to us ment. All have 24-hour male visitation as the companions of our daily work, until (except third floor Dulaney) and varying at last we shall lay them away when we have quiet hours. (Only Wagner Quiet House has finished our college life, with the feeling 24-hour quiet hours.) that there is something sacred. Kalends, 1893 Addendum: Two important overall consid­ erations govern in permitting visitors and Rule: Skirts and long coats should be worn guests in halls and rooms. One is the need over gym suits. Riding habits should be to provide for the rights of roommates and worn only when one is actually going riding. neighbors not having company, and the Habits should not be put on before it is other is the need to protect residents from absolutely necessary. When leaving cam­ access by unauthorized individuals to the pus, all students are expected to wear halls and rooms. appropriate dress, which includes hats and Handbook, 1983-84 stockings. Goucher Weekly, 1936 38

Do's and Don'ts Please do not think we are trying to be too didactic in the following list, but we find that the list of do's and don'ts is much the easiest way to explain certain important things to you.

DO'S Bring a white dress. You will find it necessary to wear one on many college occasions and will be decidedly out of luck if you don't have one. List of Approved Places, 1922 Moving Picture Theaters: Turn out your lights upon leaving your room. Tea Rooms and Restaurants: Parkway New We have no light rules. Therefore show your The College Inn Rivoli (only in afternoon unless with a appreciation by turning them off when you The Chimney Corner Tea-room gentleman escort) are not using them and help cut the college The Dutch Tea-room Strand electricity bill. The Peggy Stuart Wizard The Box-Tree Inn Observe Quiet Hours well and you will find Century The Green Door that you do not have to spend your recrea­ The Y.WC.A. Cafeteria Handbook tion time for studying. The Woman's Exchange To avoid the danger of cars racing down Department Store Lunchrooms Charles Street, wait for the green light Union Station Restaurant before crossing the street. . . . The Oyster Shop "Remember that you represent Goucher Quimby Inn College on all occasions." Because of our Childs location in the city, we have to be particular The Arcade not to let our conduct be too conspicuous at any time. The city streets are not a college Theaters: campus, and until we move to our own New Lyceum campus we can not enjoy as much freedom Auditorium as we should like to have. Loud talking and Ford's laughing on the streets and too conspicuous dress are particularly to be avoided.

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DON'TS Don't cut classes. It is a bad way to begin. It is easier to keep up than to catch up.

Don't come to college with the idea of getting all but come with the idea of giving something of yourself, your time and your talents.

Don't gather up your books as soon as the bell rings at the end of the period. Wait until the instructor has completed what he has to say. Don't study or talk during chapel exercises. You are not required to attend. If you go, be courteous. Don't be a "Joiner." It is better to belong to a few clubs and take an active part in them than to be a non-active member.

The Freshman Handbook, 1936-37

College Girls in a Plight What Wattage? Two of them may be expelled today by In 1934 the students asked permission to directors. They are charged with having have radios in their rooms. With its usual transgressed the rules by attending a circumspection, the college replied that it matinee performance at one of the theaters. would first have to study the problem of The Baltimore American, 1898 electrical overload on the powerhouse. At the Table At meals the Freshmen sit at the foot of the table, where it is their privilege to pour the water. The Seniors serve at the table's head 190/ and it is to them that everything is passed *°JBOO first. We usually dress, but not formally, for dinner. And — oh yes — we never wear hats or wraps in the dining-room.

De-co-rum Did you ever know that there was such a thing as "decorum"? Neither did we till we came to Goucher, but we're going to tell you ahead of time that it means "how to be a good girl." You'll receive all sorts of helpful hints on the subject, but the particular one that we are passing on is this: Goucher territory extends to North Ave. on the south, to 25th St. on the north, to Calvert St. on the east, and to Oak St. on the west. Outside of these boundaries, all well-behaved little girls always wear hats. It's one of our oldest Goucher customs. The Freshman Primer, 1930-31 40

Goucher and the Community A Social Response Whether it is students and faculty marching in the Baltimore prohibition parade of 1916, ocially, educationally, and culturally, a Red Cross unit in France in 1918, or a peace demonstration in Washington protest­ the college has always responded to the ing President Kennedy's Cuban policy in broader community. According to Walter 1962, Goucher women have responded to S the social demands of the times. Hi Sondheim, Jr., former chairman of the Official consciousness-raising began as early as 1916 when Goucher formed a Board of Trustees, "Goucher is a shining chapter of the College Equal Suffrage League and then held a mass meeting for example of the way an institution of higher suffrage in Catherine Hooper Hall in 1917. education can relate to the community. The World War I elicited a particularly pa­ triotic response from the college. Goucher college has consistently tried to avoid an rallied to raise money for the Liberty Loans, cooperated with the YMCA and YWCA to ivory tower approach by providing an at­ provide schools in military camps in Eu­ rope, and sent a Red Cross Unit to work in mosphere that encourages the students' intel­ France. Among college wartime activities lectual pursuits to have real meaning in the were non-credit courses in preparedness, the formation of a Goucher War Council, community beyond the immediate campus." and the suspension of many extra-curricular activities. Sugarless meals and 2,500 calo- rie-a-day diet contributed to wartime conservation.

Students entered into the spirit of sacri­ fice by pledging more than $1,600 for relief work in the prison camps of Europe. They raised funds to send two alumnae to Europe as social workers. They sold subscriptions for $109,000 in the Goucher booth at the Emerson Hotel for the fourth Liberty Loan. And they worked on farms in the summer as farmerettes, doing "men's work" such as hoeing (in "turkish overalls" which "do not break young plants as skirts do"). The Evening Sun reported a bit of comic relief in the wartime story. Hundreds gathered in alarm near Goucher, a June 1918 article recounts, for they had seen lights on the roof. The police were called and they led a charge up to the roof, only to find nothing. The crowd, certain that some­ one was sending signals to U-Boats in the harbor, was finally dispersed. The next day they discovered that it was a couple of faculty members trying to observe a new star! 41

The college attracted media attention as Goucher students demonstrated, sat-in, a result of Chaplain Frederic Wood's "dar­ taught-in, and peace-marched their way ing" sermon, "Sex in the Created Order" in through the '60s and early '70s. Four 1964. In an explanatory letter to 11,000 students were arrested at a Baltimore res­ supporters of Goucher, Dr. Kraushaar pro­ taurant in 1961 for an anti-segregation sit- claimed: "Neither Dr. Wood nor the college in. The next year students joined a Wash­ stands for, or preaches, license or immo­ ington peace demonstration, and many rality. ..." The next year the News Amer­ faculty signed an open letter to President World War II showed Goucher women at ican reported "Goucher Girl Allegedly Kennedy decrying his emphasis on civil their patriotic best. In the "Say It With Grows Marijuana in Her Dorm Room," defense shelters. Students marched on Service" campaign, students knitted, resulting in a great flap, which, when Washington for peace in 1963 and again in nursed, learned occupational therapy, col­ combined with the sex sermon, led some in 1969-70. They wrote to The New York Times lected tin foil and scrap metal, and spon­ the community to view Goucher as a den of protesting the draft system, noting that "Jail sored dances for hundreds of young men iniquity. is preferred to Vietnam." In 1968 they held from Fort Meade. The college offered night a massive memorial service for Martin courses in defense training and appointed Luther King, Jr., and collected food and air raid wardens in the dorms. Students clothing for riot victims. enrolled in non-curricular courses in me­ Before passing the presidential gavel to chanical drawing and air navigation, their Marvin Perry, Otto Kraushaar handled the "voluntary response ... to the present unrest and questioning diplomatically: "We situation." should feel fortunate that our college stu­ The college cancelled its order for three dents are not apathetic . . . but are serious new buses to get students between the two and community minded." (News American, campuses, because the government needed 1965) them. Some students rode bikes so that war workers could use the street cars. Meanwhile, in 1942 Goucher established a memorial collection of chemistry books to honor Dr. Edith Ford Sollers '31, who died the year before from the explosion of an anesthetic she was compounding for possi­ ble military use. Presumably she was Sex is good. We might start with that last Goucher's first war casualty. point as the first thing which the Bible has to say about sexuality. It is good. From the structure of the human organism as male and female to every conceivable act of sexual self-expression, sexuality itself is good. There is nothing bad or dirty or perverted about it. It is simply good. . . . Excerpt from a sermon entitled "Sex Within the Created Order" preached by the Rev. Frederic C. Wood, Jr., at Goucher College, October 25, 1964.

In 1943 the college offered its first summer term "to forward general education to provide opportunity for the acquisition of some of the skills needed by college-trained women in wartime." That same year, the Liberty ship S.S. John F. Goucher was launched at Fairfield, Maryland, and in 1945 the Victory ship Goucher Victory was launched. But by the opening of the school year in 1945, the Goucher community ended its war work and directed its full attention to academic pursuits. 42

An Educational Response The educational response to the broader community began as early as 1904 when the Goucher College Christian Association, a branch of the YWCA, made contributions to Isabella Thoburn College in India to start the sister college movement. At least three presidents of Isabella Thoburn were alum­ nae of Goucher. Between World Wars I and II the college reached out to the community by offering evening classes in economics, history, and English to women in industry (1932). Two years later the Alumnae Association's con­ tributing education committee presented its first series of lectures. The aim of the alumnae-enrichment courses, according to The Sun (1934), was to enable graduates to "make fruitful use of their leisure and derive purpose and understanding and sat­ isfaction from life instead of groping in chaos." (Is that what happened to our alums?) The college next responded to a growing number of older women seeking education. The Alumnae Association officially began the Adult Education Program in 1949 by offering two courses. In 1963 the college In 1977, Goucher initiated another pro­ A Cultural Response established the Wednesday Program for gram to help women prepare for a place in Goucher has been for years a mainstay of women hesitant to return to college — "to the working world. The Women's Manage­ the cultural life of Baltimore. From the ease married women back into full aca­ ment Development Program addresses the 1950s through the present, concerts, lec­ demic work," according to The Evening professional career aspirations of college- tures, films, and convocations have brought Sun. educated women who are either returning to the public flocking to the 1,000-seat Then, in 1976, the college opened the work or changing careers. Kraushaar Auditorium to welcome celebri­ Goucher Center for Educational Resources The Women's Program in Information ties in music, drama, poetry, dance, na­ to meet the special needs of non-traditional Systems, begun in 1981, trains college- tional affairs, and literature. students and of the community at large. The educated women to enter the computer field College Center visitors include the Alvin Center now offers non-credit continuing in entry level positions. As of last year, 90 Ailey Dance Theater, American Jazz En­ education courses to the public, coordi­ percent of the graduates were offered per­ semble, Belgrade Chamber Orchestra, nates the Teachers' Institute and the Post- manent positions with their internship com­ Juilliard String Quartet, Elisabeth Sch- Baccalaureate Premedical Program, and panies; the other ten percent secured wartzkopf, Marilyn Home, Paul Tillich, runs a summer computer science program programming positions almost immediately. Buckminster Fuller, Beverly Sills, Ravi for high school girls. Shankar, Hannah Arendt, Barbara In response to the growing number of Tuchman, Northrop Frye, Dustin Hoffman, women beyond traditional college age who Coretta Scott King, R.D. Laing, Susan are looking for college opportunities at an Sontag, Hans Morgenthau, John Barth, and institute of high academic standards, the Ralph Nader. Center developed Goucher II in 1980. Since In the last three years alone, luminaries then, over 100 women with little or no such as John Kenneth Galbraith, Judith college experience have worked toward a Crist, Edward Teller, Bill Mauldin, Jessica bachelor's degree. Savitch, Edwin Newman, Bella Abzug, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, and Patricia Goucher II students listening to a marketing McBride have lectured or performed at the lecture, 1984. Kraushaar Auditorium. 43

Xhe remarkable professional achievements of Goucher women are well documented. Less easily measured is the significant impact made by generations of Goucher alumnae who actively support the institu­ tions which enrich and serve our com­ munity. It is my firm belief that the educational experience at Goucher fosters this sort of dedication. The small, women's college environment nurtures, trains, and guides students in a very special way to become women of outstanding ability and commitment — women who make signifi­ cant contributions to society. Janet Jeffery Harris '30 First Woman Chairman, Board of Trustees CASE Volunteer of the Year, Honorable Mention, 1983

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Xhe girls who married early . . . 'fell by the wayside.' They were supposed to give Dustin Hoffman some years of service to society, to the needy situation to justify their college education, and I think that was not too bad an idea. Elsie Clark Krug '09 Oral history interview, 1974

Xhe interest in community affairs was not instilled overtly — one just came to feel this education was to be put to some valid use, not just shoved off into some drawer some place and closed up. Mary House Wiehe '34 Past President, Alumnae Association Former Member, Board of Trustees Oral history interview, 1972

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And what of actress Mildred Dunnock Urmy Achievement '22, well known for her starring role in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman? Or oucher women are achievers, combin- astronomer Helen Dodson Prince '27, a world authority on solar terrestrial rela­ , ing their special talents and interests tionships? Or Nancy Larrick Crosby '30, author of myriad children's books and to make significant contributions in former head of the children's section of G Random House? Or Martha Bob Lucas '33, HHH government, education, the arts, busi­ former president of Sweet Briar College? ness, social work, science and politics. Then there is Nancy Goldman Claster '37, creator, star, and producer of national Consider the contributions of Florence TV program "Romper Room." And there is PBS's Jean Reese Worthley '44, the "Miss Peebles '95, a pioneer in the study of the Jean" of children's national TV show "Hodge-Podge Lodge"; Margo Reppert Long earliest stages of chick and mammalian '59, vice president of Avon Products; Ann development. Or zoologist Ethel Browne Galperin Leibowitz '60, senior corporate attorney for Polaroid Corporation; and Pa­ Harvey '06, famous for her work on animal tricia Goldman '64, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. grafting and chromosomes. Or Florence The list goes on and on. But at least as important as these achievements are the Seibert '18, a pioneer in the study, treatment, contributions of thousands of other alumnae and prevention of tuberculosis. Or Dallas in cities and towns across the United States. Through both success in their chosen pur­ Federal Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes '17, suits and service in their communities, Goucher women help improve the quality of who swore in Lyndon Johnson as President life around them. after the Kennedy assassination. 45

A Woman's Place is a Woman's College Sarah Tilghman In a world that saw more than a hundred Hughes '17 single-sex institutions become coeduca­ tional between 1970 and 1980, Goucher has upheld its founders' ideal of the college as a place where women can achieve their per­ sonal and academic promise. "Women's colleges are places where women are taken seriously," said President Rhoda Dorsey. "No one tells them 'Women dont do chemistry, or women dont do math, or women do English.' " Goucher has chosen not to board the coeducational bandwagon, and continues to offer a strong support system for young women. Fields considered nontraditional for women, such as the sciences, are especially strong at Goucher, with the percentage of women majoring and teaching in these fields far above the national coeducational averages. According to phys­ iologist Elizabeth Tidball, graduates of women's colleges are approximately twice as likely to be listed in registries of professional organizations as are women graduates of coed institutions, and highly selective women's colleges are twice as productive of achievers as are highly selec­ tive coed colleges. Women who once flocked to formerly all-male colleges are seeing that coeducation does not neces­ sarily mean equal education.

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I didn't know the term 4role model' until my twenties, but I was surrounded by excellent f 9 ones in my Goucher girlhood. I grew up ; virtually ignorant of prejudice against L % \ women, incredible as that may sound. Not IB t'.-'"' * ! *W only because of the encouragement I got at jfe | \ •' home, but because I never saw it in action. il I mean, would you think women were wk- M' inferior if you grew up around Miss Geen? ^m iflS 1 , -''9^4 And Helen Habermann, Rhoda Dorsey, Ann Lacy, Miss Flowers, Miss von B. and truly countless others? -1 Jane Moment Jordan '74 1J1 Quarterly, 1983

Mildred Dunnock Urmy '22 Florence Siebert '18 and a medal of achievement presented to her by the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania in 1950. 46

Back in the 1930s, when I went to At Goucher I learned to do research and to Goucher taught us that there are no career Goucher, not many women aspired to medi­ search for the truth. I had fantastic science limits, only challenges. The college encour­ cal school. But Goucher encouraged us to professors who made me very inquisitive. aged all my expeditions — my internship on use our brains. Two women in my class My research skills have helped me in every the Hill, my research assistantship at a became physicians: Dr. Emma Boyle and I. aspect of my life — from investigating D.C. magazine, and my junior year in We've kept in touch throughout our profes­ insurance policies to doing good science. Israel. I really believe in the mentorship sional lives. We never thought we were Frieda Galindo Rudo '44, Ph.D. program; I've had fine Goucher students unique. We were just doing what we were Professor of Pharmacology work in my office. supposed to do. University of Maryland Paula Stern'67, Ph.D. Georgeanna Seegar Jones '32, M.D. Chairwoman Co-director, In-Vitro Fertilization Clinic, U.S. International Trade Commission Eastern Virginia Medical School Professor Emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University 47

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano Fiscally, from Mary Fisher Goucher's dowry through William Westley Guth's 4-2-1 cam­ paign, to the recent $14.5 million capital campaign and the $3.5 million Towson land sale, Goucher College has weathered the great fire of Baltimore, the depression, and nearly a half-dozen wars to emerge finan­ cially healthy and ready to face its second century.

Structurally, from early architect Stanford White to College Center designer Pietro Belluschi, Goucher even now continues to upgrade its campus facilities with an addi­ tion to Hoffberger, the new Pearlstone Student Center, and extensive renovations of Hoffberger and Van Meter Halls and the Julia Rogers Library. Currently underway is a three-year plan to modernize and upgrade all campus residential and dining facilities.

Intellectually, from physiology to classics to management, Goucher continues to pre­ pare women for an ever-changing world while reaffirming the role of the liberal arts in producing a well-educated human being.

A recent study of the baccalaureate origins of scientists and scholars ranks Goucher Badminton among the top 20 U.S. colleges and univer­ sities in the productivity of graduates who Acnampioiftway attain doctoral degrees, and another study |udy Devlin Hasnman finds the medical school admission rate of Goucher graduates to be approximately twice the national average.

Called "the greatest female player in the history of badminton," Judy Devlin Hashman '58 was ten-time world singles champion as well as winner of 56 national championships. Five of her doubles titles were won with sister Susan Devlin Peard '53. In 1976 Judy—who was also a five-time member of the U.S. women s lacrosse team and a member of the U.S. women s badmin­ ton team —was inducted into the Maryland Sports Hall of Fame. 48

The Second Century—A New Agenda? Ooucher enters her second century with confidence derived from the achieve­ ments recorded in this Centennial book­ let. The determination of the founders of the college to offer a challenging educa­ tion to women continues to inspire the ef­ forts of all the Goucher community. Programs, facilities, even location may change, but our goal remains se­ cure. The importance of a woman's college continues to be great for those young women who value the academic demands, the leadership opportuni­ ties, the role models it supplies. Xhe next decade will not be an easy one for small, private liberal arts col­ leges, but it can be no more difficult than Goucher's first decade. The col­ lege is resilient and imaginative. It •H • •••:• / < • •• 'V '•••' • /' has always been blessed with loyal and generous alumnae and trus­ tees and friends. The faculty has never been afraid to develop new dimensions within its offerings to meet the changing needs and aspirations of women — young and old. Although it is impossible now, given the rapid pace of technological and so­ cietal change, to predict what Goucher and its programs will look like in the next century, it is safe to say that they will reflect the college's traditional determination to educate competent, confident, and concerned women.

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Editor Joan S. Abelson

Historical Research and Publications Committee Evelyn Dyke Schroedl '62, Chairman and Registrar Emeritus Beatrice Betancourt '83 Ann Byerly '83 Jean Horrigan, Special Projects Coordinator Sarah Dowlin Jones, Librarian Emeritus Andrea King '68, Associate Professor of Philosophy Betty Ruth Kondayan, Librarian Kent Lancaster, Professor of History Gail Markley, Assistant Director for Publications Genevieve Miller '35 Gairdner B. Moment, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences Frederic 0. Musser, Professor of French

Photography Cover and three dimensional subjects, Michael Agelopas; pages 18 & 19, A. Aubrey Bodine; page 21, Linda Kairys; pages 24 & 46, Doug Barber; page 31, Imogene Cunningham; page 42, Craig Terkowitz, Baltimore Jewish Times; page 48, Peggy Fox. Other photos from the News American archives; photos and memorabilia from the Goucher College archives. Politi­ cal campaign buttons from the Clinton I. Winslow collection of political memorabilia.

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