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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Alumni News Archives 3-1967 Connecticut College Alumnae News, March 1967 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College Alumnae News, March 1967" (1967). Alumni News. Paper 164. http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/164 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. I I ~- ~~ <?,. ~- Connecticut College Alumnae News OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 2 MARCH 1967 Executive Board of the The Cover was designed by Sarah Hargrove Sullivan '57 Alumnae Association using a photo by Philip Biscuri. Contents President: PRISCILLA DUXBURY WESCOTT' 41 4 Homecoming, a short story / anonymous '68 8 Student poetry and arc First Vice-President: 15 Philosophy paper / by Peggy Cohen '70 PATRICIA WERTHEIM ABRAMS '60 17 Two term projects in Modern Architecture 22 Faith and the Underwater Sound Lab / Second Vice-President: by Mary Rita Powers '42 ELIZABETH GORDON VAN LAW '28 24 Alice Ramsay Retires Secretary: PATRICIA ROTH lOEB '51 25 It's What's Happening / student column Treasurer: PRISCILLA PASCO '39 28 "Firenze Resurgens!" / Letters from Eleanor Kempsmith N ocentini '46 Directors-at-Large: 34 Books ELIZABETH PARCELLS ARMS' 39 36 Class Notes MARY ELIZABETH FRANKLIN Photos by Philip Biscuu. Photos of Florence sent by Eleanor GEHRIG '42 Kemosmab Nocentini '46; USNS Mizar by U.S. Navy SARAH WILSON LOVEJOY '58 editor: CAROLYN DIEFENDORF SMITH '55 ELEANOR HINE KRANZ '34 (MRS. JOHN R.) 755 West Saddle River Road, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey 07423 Trustees.' SARAH PITHOUSE BECKER '27 Editorial Board: MARY ANNA LEMON MEYER '42 MARION VIBERT CLARK '24, Class Notes Editor MARTHA BOYLE MORRISSON '43 PRISCILLA PASCO '39, Business Manager EUZABETH DAMEREL GONGAWARE '26, Assistant Editor Chairman of Alumnae Annual Giving RHODA MELTZER GILINSKY '49, Book Review Editor Program: RUBY ZAGOREN SILVERSTEIN '43 ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51 BARBARA GAHM WALEN '44 MARGARET ROYALL HINCK '33 Chairman of Nominating Committee: Advisory Board: HILDEGARD MElLI MAYNARD '43, Editorial ALICE HESS CROWELL '50 SARAH HARGROVE SULLIVAN '57, Graphic Arts Chairman of Finance Committee: Statement of ownership, management and circulation required by Act of October 23, 1962; Section 4369, Title 39, United States LOUISE DURFEE '52 Code. Chairman of Scholarship Committee: 1. Date of filing: Sept. 30, 1966. 2. Title of publication: Con' necticut College Alumnae News. 3. Frequency of issue' 4 rimes SARAH PITHOUSE BECKER '27 a year, December, March, May, and August. 4. Location of known Chairman of Personnel Committee: office of publication: Princeton Printing Co., 176 Alexander Sr., Princeton, Mercer Co., N. J. 0854Q. 5. Location of headquarters EMILY WARNER '25 of the publishers: Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut College, New London, Conn. 06320. 6. Names and addresses of Publisher, Execraioe Director: Editor, and Managing Editor: Publisher, Connecticut College CHARLOlTE BECKWITH CRANE '25 Alumnae Association, Inc., Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecnou Connecticut College College, New London, Conn. 06320; Editor, Eleanor Hine Kranz (Mrs. John R.), 775 West Saddle River Rd., Ho-Ho·Kus, N. ]. Published by the Connecticut College Alumnae Asso- 07423; Business Manager, Miss Priscilla Pasco, 17 So. Main s., VII· cranon at Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut College, Hanford, Conn. 06107. 7. Owner: (If owned by a corporattOn,Its New London, Conn., four times a year in December, name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder March, May and August. Subscription price $2 per the names and address of stockholders owning or holding 1 per- year. Second-class postage paid at Princeton N J cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corpora- (08540) Send Form 3579 to Sykes Alumnae 'Ce~ter' tion, the names and addresses of the individual owners must ~e Connecticut College, New London, Ccnnecticur given: If owned by a partnership or other unincorporated firm, its 06320. AAC Member. name and address, as well as that of each individual must be given.) Membership corporation, no stock holders. 8. Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or orher securities: None. Toward a Bachelor of Arts This issue of the Alum- nae News features the work of a few Connec- ticut College students whose efforts were se- lected for their high calibre and general in- terest. The assignments on the following pages were completed for courses in creative writ- ing, art, sculpture, phil- osophy and architecture. homecoming a short story EBECCA HAD NOT SEEN HER BROTHER since he had and had been home a week before. She had begun an R gotten married. In fact, no DOE had, except her father argument just before she was ready to leave and left who was at the ceremony. Rebecca thought of him as Rebecca and her parents in the middle of it. She had she sat alone in the living room. She sat, dwarfed by the had to take a cab to the airport. She had nor called home couch where she sat in the corner, curled up in a ball. since then. Rebecca felt obligated ro bear the respon- This had been her place every afternoon for nearly two sibility of her sister's belligerence, but she didn't know weeks while she waited for her father to come home. Her how. She stood in the center of the living room, a sound- mother had spent most of the time in her bedroom, ex- ing board for all that was being said around her and said, cept when she carne out for one meal a day, or to tell "We all love each Other. Doesn't anyone care about that?" Rebecca that her brother was crazy, "absolutely mad," was That was the last she had spoken to both her parents at how she put it, to marry "that woman.." Sometimes she the same time. She hadn't realized, then, that Peter meant came Out to break some kitchen china, or to slam a door. so much more to her mother than anyone else did. She Rebecca shivered, and tucked the afghan more tightly had learned. She blushed as she rhought of her lack of around her. If she did things around the house, her mother perceptivity. would follow her, talking about Peter; if she kept still, This thought was interrupted when Rebecca heard the she became aware of her mother's silence, and frightened. door of her mother's room open and the bathroom door For the past rwo weeks, Rebecca had either tried to for- close. She shivered again. get that her mother was upstairs, or tried to think of "Damn it," she said out loud. She thought about bring- things to say to her. She failed in both. Often, on these ing her mother a cup of tea, and decided she would. afternoons she would call her father in his office; nor Keeping her shoulders hunched and her hands and feet hearing any sounds for hours at a time from her mother's as curled as possible, Rebecca made a cup of tea, and bedroom, her imagination frightened her. She waited for found a small tray and a napkin and a hunk of her the familiar sound of her father's car in the driveway. mother's favorite sharp cheese and went upstairs. Now, she wondered what comfort she found in this. The door was open and Rebecca felt a little easier. He would come in, ask where her mother was, and then Her mother pretended to sleep. She had covered herself not go up to see her. He had explained to Rebecca with the mohair throw that Peter had given her for a several times that both her mother and Peter could suffer birthday present a few years before. She held a Saturday a breakdown. For thirty years, he would say, he had tried Review flat across her chest. The room was dark because to reason with her mother's immutability and now he the sun had set about an hour before, and the colors in was letting her reason with herself. He thought Peter the room were muted and dull. Rebecca's mother opened needed him more. "Whar shall I do," he had said ro her eyes, and then closed them. Rebecca, "reject him because he married a woman nine "I'm freezing," she said. Rebecca turned on the light years older than himself?" beside the bed and started to make room for the tray Rebecca was stiff from sitting so long in such a tight on rhe bedside table. ball, but she was too cold to move. She reached for the "I don't want anything," her mother said. Rebecca pile of mail that was on the table beside the couch and was reminded of a baby and of a bed-ridden old person. reread the card from Peter and his wife. "Canada is "You might be warmer if you had some. It's nice and lovely. Will be driving home on Tuesday." His wife had hot." She looked at her mother who still kept her eyes written it. It was Tuesday and Rebecca wondered if closed. She saw again that she looked like her grand- Peter would call when he got home. She wasn't sure if mother. There was no color in her face and the soft she wanted him to or not.