MEMBERSHIP CARD PARTY PRESIDENT SHUSTER TO RnlRE Hunter College will be ninety years Formal announcement of Dr. Shus· old on February 14, 1960. Can you ter's retirement was made February 17 think of a better birthday tribute than by the Board of Higher Education. He an Alumni Association that has doubled or tripled itself by that time? This is MNI the goal the Card Party Committee and the Membership Committee have set for themselves. We need your active NEWS support to make the dream come tme. The Membership Card Party will be VOL LXIV Ne.4 held at Roosevelt House, 49 East 65th A..... 19&9 Street at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 18, 1959. Tickets are $1.50 each; $5 per table. Sponsors, who contribute $10 or more, are entitled to one table and will GARDEN DEDICATION be listed as such in our .program. If The garden in memory of Helen you bring a Hunter graduate, a new Gray Cone, Hunter's loved teacher and member, who pays her dues that day, President Shuster poet, has been planted after five years your guest will be admitted free. will go on leave the end of next se· of effort and delay, and will be dedi 1£ you cannot attend, please send us mester, after serving our College with cated on May the first, at 4 P.M. at a contribution - large or small, or a distinction for twenty years. the Hunter Bronx campus. It is a door prize- of any kind, just to swell Next month the NEWS will carry an curious and fitting coincidence that the fund and encourage our efforts. article of appreciation of our president this year happens to be the hundredth We are limited by the size of Roose by Dean Mina Rees. Announcement anniversary of Professor Cone's birth. velt House and may have to turn down will also be made of the plans which Mayday was chosen for the dedication late reservations. Please fill out the are being formulated to honor him. because her birthday, March 8th, is blank below and mail it promptly. The alumni will be pleased to know too early to see the garden in spring that they will have the opportunity to bloom. It is to be hoped that the Your committee had hoped that every chapter would be represented at the participate in several ways. daffodils, narcissus, azaleas and rhodo Meanwhile, one of our number has dendron will do their part in making Card Party. We had hoped to present a door prize from each chapter. Brook been moved to celebrate President the dedication day a festive one. A Shuster in rhyme and we print an prize is being offered for the best son lyn chapter has donated an electric hair acrostic in sonnet form written by net by an undergraduate, and the prize dryer and Bronx is sponsoring a table. Liboria E. Romano '55. winning poem as well as some of Miss We look to the other chapters for their Cone's flower poems will be read as support in making this an all·Hunter HAIL AND FAREWELL part of the dedicatory program. Tea success. God sped Aeneas, when he launched his sail, Endeavoring to chart the course most wise will be served. Everyone is invited to SIBYLLA A. MELLOR Over the storm-tossed sea in southern gale' (Continlled on page 2) Card Party Chairman Resourcefully, he faced Italian skies. ' George N. Shuster, our hero in his turn Educator, scholar, pious and kind ' Navigated calmly that all might I~arn Sane arts, developing the searching mind. Hunter College, beloved of New York Unmatched in this expanding universe ' Selected him, schoolman with three- ' pronged fork : Teacher of English, author, poet terse. Egregious president, resigning, read: Respectfully, alumni say, "Godspeed."
Miss Sibylla A. M.llor 49 E.st 65th Str ••t N.w York 21, N.w York o I will t.k...... tick.ts to the C.rd P.rty .t $1.50 •• ch Ch.ck .nclos.d. o I will t.k ...... t.bl.s .t $5 a t.bl•• o I will b. • sponsor. I .nclos. my ch.ck for $10. o will s.nd .. ; door prize before April S. o c.nno~ .!;t~d but 1 am .nclosing a contributrOff. .s my share in making CARD PARTY COMMITTEE the .v.nt • succ.ss. Seated: Mi. E. Adelaide Hahn, Miss Sibylla Mellor. Stlandin,: Mrs. Helen .TsJleJ N.m ...... CI.n ...... MrsR . Carmen M LoRusso, . Mrs. Beatrice. Weinber,' Mi_ Lillian ~r_:,ht , M' M ar,aret' ooney, I. rs. rralne Costello, M,ss Ruth Ulman, Miss B. Eli.abeth Kallman. Addr.ss ...... HELEN GRAY CONE of English poetry. Love of nature, of NORTHROP MEMORIAL CAMP country, of her fellow men informed A Valediction Forbidding Mourning This year is for girls between the all her writing. She had gone to school We rejoiced that we knew her all ages of 12 and 15. to .th: masters of English poetry, and the generations who were sruden;s at . To become a Northrop Camper, it theIr mfluence. prevailed .. And her many Hunter more than a quarter century IS necessary for the applicant to be essays and pIeces of hterary criticism ago. This month of March marked the recommended by her teacher and have revealed her devotion to the whole of hundredth anniversary of her birth. Of the following qualifications: English literature, to all the best that this poet and teacher - and Associate 1. A real interest in Nature Study. had been thought and said. AI~nae . preside?t - there are many 2. Attend a Public School located in No one who heard Helen Gray Cone chen shed memones, and the desire to New York City. read poetry could ever forget her voice. share them must move all who did 3. Satisfactory Scholarship and Con Shakespeare in class, Wordsworth in know her. duct. public lecture - the memories crowd. Helen Gray Cone was born on March 4. Be a member of a family of small This little lady had a great voice, and 8, 1859, the daughter of John Carpen or moderate income. a great personality. And we remember ter and Julia Gray Cone. She died on Northrop camp is located in Mt. to.o the gr~atness of her vision, and pay January 31, 1934. She was herself ':"ashington, Massachusetts. When pos tnbute to It. In 1915 she founded her Hunter-bred, a member of the Class SIble, successful applicants are requested of 1876, of old Normal. There fol Fello:,s~i~ of Goodwill, "to deepen in to make a contribution of $25.00 the mdlVldual and to spread in the lowed a long period of private srudv towards the cost of a four weeks' stay community the spirit of goodwill", and writing and in 1885 Houghto~ at camp. A certain nllhlber of scholar a foreshadowing of the hopes of all Mifflin published her first volume of ships are available to those who cannot men today, united in spirit, who are, ve~se, Oberon and Puck. She was ap contribute this sum. as she said, of one blood, and live un pomted temporary tutor in the College Application forms and additional in der one sky. Our present Alumni presi m 1889, then tutor in the following fo~mation ~ay be had by writing to dent, Adelaide Hahn, served as secretary year. By 1899 she h~d become profes MISS B. ElIzabeth Kallman, 102 West of the Fellowship throughout its history. sor of English and chairman of the 85th Street, New York 24, N. Y. Her own words speak best for Helen department. She continued to develop . We are searching for a competent Gray Cone, the words of the sonnet the program of studies in English and dIrector and an athletic counselor. If she chose to place first in the volume American literature, and in the teaching you have any recommendations I w.ill of her selected verse, in 1930. of language and composition, through be delighted to receive them. . out the years of her service, until her THE COMMON STREET B. ELIZABETH KALLMAN, Director retirement in 1926. She was founda The common street climbed up against the sky, GARDEN DEDICATION tion member of the Phi Beta Kappa Gray meeting gray; and wearily to and fro (Continued from page 1) chapter at Hunter. By special act of I saw t~e p~tient , ~ommon people go. Each WIth hIS sordId burden trudging by attend, particularly those students and the State Legislature Hunter bestowed And. the rain dropped; there was not an~ friends of Prof. Cone's whose devotion the D. Litt. degree upon her in 1920. SIgh keeps her memory fresh and green. But the teacher and the scholar did Or stir .of a live wind; dull, dull and slow All motion; as a tale told long ago The garden is just outside Gillet not wholly absorb the poet. She pub The .faded world; and creeping night drew Hall, and the campus is on Bedford lished four other volumes of poems, mgh. Park Boulevard West, Bronx. In case The Ride to the Lady in 1891, Soldiers Then b?rst the sunset, flooding far and fleet of rain (horrid thought) the dedication of the Light in 1911, A Chant of Love Leavenmg the whole of life with magic ' leaven. will be held indoors. for England in 1915, and The Coat Suddenly down the long wet glistening hill Anyone with H .G.C. books to donate withollt a Seam in 1919. In 1930 there Pure splendor poured - and lo! the common street, to the College library please send them appeared a volume of her selected verse A .golden highway into golden heaven, to Mrs. Alfred H . Guttmann, 10 May Harvest Home. ' Vltth. the dark shapes of men ascending hew Avenue, Larchmont, N. Y. Seventy-five years ago she was the stili. (A.M.T.) first graduate to bring some renown to the College by her pen. In the first two decades of this century, in Scrib ner's Magazine, in Harper's, in St. Nicholas, in the At/dillie, in the Se I ...J..NITED lI.'anee Review, in volume after volume of anthologies of American verse col ~RTIST -o!iI__ -~ lections by Stedman, by Jessie Ritten KILN house, Mar,garet Wilkinson, Carolyn ARTIST I I MATERIALS CO. Wells, Raymond Alden, many of her DRAFTING DISPLAY 32 WEST 53RD STREE.I NEW YORK 19, N . Y . poems appeared, to spread the knowl edge of her name, and the joy her PICTURE FRAMING verse gave. .' DISTIUIIUTO". O~ UHA"CO ~"ODUCTS JUDSON 2 -6470-1-2 This is a body of verse grav;' and gay, witty, humorous, deft, clea~ and OPPOSITE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART musical, verse in the romantic tradition
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