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Connecticut College Alumnae News, December 1959 Connecticut College Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Alumni News Archives 12-1959 Connecticut College Alumnae News, December 1959 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College Alumnae News, December 1959" (1959). Alumni News. Paper 130. http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/130 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. ":"':. ''''',; ...~ . ~"W:~:~:"...; ~"_.·7'''''·-·;'~ ....... THE FIRST FACULTY Connecticut College Through the Years Psychological Factors in Academic Success Admissions: Mid-Century Style Connecticut College for Men Can We Walk a little Faster? Connecticut College Alumnae News OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT (OLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION NUMBER VOLUME XXVII DECEMBER, 1959 9 CAMPUS CALENDAR DECEMBER MARCH 17 Christmas recess begins 25 Spring recess begins JANUARY APRIL 3 Christmas recess ends 6 Spring recess ends FEBRUARY 4 Mid-year exams end JUNE 8 Second semester begins 12 Commencement 26-28 ALUMNAE COUNCIL 17-19 REUNION ON THE COVER: THE FIRST FACULTY, 1915-1916, From left to right: Mathurin Marius Dando, Asst. Prof. of Romance languages; Miss Hazel Woodhull, Instructor in Hygiene and Physical Education; Dr. Louis Adolph Coerne, Professor of Music; Dr. Frederick H. Sykes (seated), President of the College and Professor of English; Annina C. Rondinella, M. D., College Physician and Professor of Hygiene; Dr. Alice I. P. Wood, Professor of English; Dr. Ray- mond C Osburn, Professor of Biology; Dr. Esther C. Cary, Instructor in Romance Languages; Mr. Harold W. Crandall, Instructor in History; Mrs. Francesca Stone Bostwich, Instructor in Fine Arts; Dr. Irene Nye (Dean), Asst. Professor of Greek and Latin; Dr. Nann Clark Barr, Instructor in English and Philosophy; Miss Josephine D. Sutton, Secretary to the President and Clerk of the Faculty; Dr. Herbert Z. Kip, Professor of German; Mr. Henry Bill Selden, Instructor in Fine Arts. Executive Board of the Alumnae Association Executive Sen'etary: CHARLOTIE BECKWITH CRANE '25, Connecticut College First Vice President: JANE WILLIAMS HOWELL '31,65 Tyler Road, Stamford, Conn. Second Vice President: VIRGINIA EGGLESTON SMITH '24, 10 Colony Road, Darien, Conn, Secretary: WINIFRED NIES NORTHCOTT '38, 1823 Edgewood Ave., St. Louis Park, Minn. Treasurer: MARJORIE LAWRENCE \'qElDIG '45, 17 Oakdale Rd., Glenbrook, Conn. Directors: SUSAN CHITTENDEN CUNINGHAM '27, Rectory Lane, Scarsdale, N. Y. MARGARET An-rAR CLARK '37, Glen Road, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey ELIZABETH DUTTON '47, 262 Harvard St., Apt. 9, Cambridge, Mass. ALICE HESS CROWELL '50, 402 Pembroke Rd., Bala Cynwyd, Pa. Alumnae Trustees: JANET M, PAINE '27, 242 East nnd St., New York 21, N, Y. NATALiE R, MAAs '40, 111 Broadway, New York, N.Y. MARION NICHOLS ARNOLD '32, 48 East Lake Road, Skaneateles, N, Y. Chairman of Alumnae FUNd: CHARLOTTE FRISCH GARLOCH '25, 6 East Drive, Larchmont, N. Y. Chairman of Nominating Conuninee. LUCILLE CAIN DALZELL '33, 2475 Wellington Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Chairman of Finance Committee: NANCY MAYERS BLITZER '45, 91 Central Park W" N. Y. Chairman of Scholarship Committee: MARION NICHOLS ARNOLD '32, 48 East Lake Road, Skaneateles, N. Y. Executioe Secretery: CHARLOTIE BECKWITH CRANE '25, Connecticut College Editorial Board of the Alumnae News MARION VIBERT CLARK '24, elms Notes Editor MARJORIE LAWRENCE WEIDIG '45, BlIsil1eJS Manager ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51 CONSTANCE I3RAGAWC."'RNEY '41 MARY CLARK SHADE '50 CORINNE MANNING BLACK '47, Editor 182 Western Way, Princeton, N. J, Published by.the Connect:.cut College Alumnae Association at Sykes Alu~nn.ae Ce~ter, Connecticut College, New London, Conn., four times a year In December, March. May and August. Subscription pnce $2 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, New London, Conn., under the act of March 3, 1879. ' THE NEW LONDON PRINT:NG CO., INC. An after-dinner talk to new students Connecticut College Through the Years GERTRUDE NOYES, Dealt of the College A S President Park has said, my part of its future history if that is not tive way, it originated at Wesleyan assignment from the College for too paradoxical a term. Yesterday and University, which had originally ac- tonight is to give you some notion of today you have been making friends, cepted women but later for some in- the history and ideals of Connecticut but you cannot know a person without scrutable reason decided to abandon College in its forty-eight busy years discovering something of his past. them. Three Hartford women, mem- of existence. My unspoken assignment Similarly, I am trying to make Con- bers of the College Club, then became from you is obviously to perform this necticut College known to you through greatly concerned that there was no task in a mood acceptable to an audi- its past. Secondly, the history of a college for women in Connecticut and ence already weary from the many college is in one respect harder than organized to found one-an undertak- speeches and events of this day. My that of a country, since the latter is a ing of heroic proportions, as I am sure treatment therefore will be fragmen- specific entity. What exactly is Con- you realize. The leader of the group, tary and dilletantish: it is obviously necticut College-a place? a collection an alumna of Wesleyan, was Miss Eliza- not the type of history you may ex- of people? a concept? I shall explore beth Wright, who later became chair- pect to encounter in the classrooms each of these approaches. No doubt man of the General Site Committee, here. any orthodox historian lurking in our to which over 20 sites were offered. About history I have two general midst would think it odd that I have This campus was unanimously select- introductory remarks. First, the only no category for events; but I shall ed, consisting in those days of mea- reason that history ever strikes any- treat events as emanating from the dows and farm land marked off by one as uninteresting is that it some- place, the people, and the ideas. stone walls with a panoramic view of times deals with a remote country or As to places, then, we may say that the river and the Sound. There were, period, But Connecticut College's his- in a positive way Connecticut College of course, no Coast Guard Academy tory is now yours; on identifying your- originated as an idea in the minds of or Museum to the south, and there self with the College, you take over some very capable and idealistic peo- was a considerable space between col- its history, and you also become a ple in Hartford in 1910. In a nega- Lege and town. The site having been settled, Miss Wright was made secre- tary of the original Board of Trustees, was the first Registrar of the College, and then for many years Bursar. Vig- orous and imaginative as ever, she lives ~?the" big white house just be- yond K.B. The drive in Hartford was paral- leled by a New London group headed by Colin S. Buell, principal of Wil- liams Memorial Institute and later member of the College Board of Trus- tees for many years. It was he who organized the local drive, which was Katharine Blunt, third president of Connecticut College, breaks ground for one of the thirteen buildings con- structed during her administration. A woman of great character, she was known fOT her "drive and complete devotion to the College." Judge Chris- topher Avery is on the right. 3 -'.--~ "Would it hell) lUll <lily if I gave you it -nillicn dollurs for endowment 1" Morton Plant's g't'Herons offer helped to bring about the original set of build- ings - Plant, Blackstone, New London Hall (shown here), and Thames Refec- t.ory. conducted with high fervor and ex- international reputation gave their over the uncertain ground In a kil.ld hilarating success. In ten days five hun- best to capacity audiences. Then came of dignified snake-dance "~I the site dred people from newsboy~on up co.o" the Palmer Library and the famous of the new Auditorium Opened Il1 tributed $135,000, to which the CIty saga of the moving of the books by 1939, the Auditorium offered its am- Council added a gift of $50,000, with the students themselves. One librarian ple stage and radio facil les. to the which New london Hall was built as directed proceedings from the two students and immediately uticed the the first administrative and classroom rooms in New London Hall, where Boston Symphony and othc- renowned building. Aside from the great in- the books had been previously housed, spiration of the founding and the musicians for the benefit qt the com- each girl picked up an armful of munity and the College. tvow Croz- choice of site, the big moment came books and marched in order, and the at the second Board meeting. Morton ier-Williams completes th,' cycle. I other librarian received the long line have, of course, referred ("Idy to the Plant was then a civic-minded mem- of girls in the new library and direct- ber of the Board who was not at all outstanding public buildim . Mean- ed the placement of books on the while many others were etc-ted, and the academic type. His ruddy sports- shelves there. Rumor hath it that Miss man's face can still be seen in the the last President's report lists more Ramsay was entrusted with the Ency- President's Office beaming down some- than fifty buildings at a tcr.tl value of clopedia Brittanica on this occasion; what incongruously on endless Ad- over $9,000,000.
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