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ContentsHalf a Century, being a chronicle commemorating the goldethe Alumnae Association from 1919-1969, 2

-1919 Juline Warner Comstock '19

-1920s Elizabeth Damerel Gongaware '26

-19308 Eleanor Hine Kranz '34-19408 Corinne Manning Black '47-1950s Joan Michaels Denny '58 and Carol Reeves Parke '58

-19608 Margaret Ann Werner '68

Commencement 33Reunion: 1919-1969 34

Fiftieth Reunion Poem Juline Warner Comstock '19 35

Alumnae College 36

Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award Winners 37Classnotes 40

EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATIONPresident, Roldah Northup Cameron '51 I First Vice-Presidenfjjane Muddle Funk-houser '53 I Second Vice-President, Ruth Worthington Henderson '35 ! Secretary,Lyda Chatfield Sudduth '27 I Treasurer, Helen L. Brogan '52 / Directors-at-Large, Cyn-th~a H. ,Enloe '60, Jane Smith Moody '49, Eloise Stumm Brusfi '42, EI~zabeth rr~oaWilson 60/ Alumnae Trustees, Eleanor Hine Kranz '34, Mar(YAnna Lemon Mey\er 42,Martha Boyle Morrison '43 / Ghairmon of Alumnae Annual Giving Program,'\MaryFarrell Morse '41 L Chairman of Nominating Committee, Mary Elizabeth FranklinGehrig '42 / Chairman of Finance Committee, Barbara Berman Levy '41 / Cha.trmon ofScholarship Committee, Martha Boyle Morrison '43 / Chairman of Personnel Commit-tee, Emily Warner '25 / Executive Director, Eleanor W. Tyler '30. --

Communications to any of the above may be addressed in care of the Alumnae Office,Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut 06320.

PUblishe.d by the Connecticut College Alumnae Association at Sykes Alumnae Center,Connecticut College, New London, Conn., four times a year in December, March, Mayand August. Second-class postage paid at Hartford, Conn. 06101. Send Form 3579 toSykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut 06320. AACMember.

Connecticut College Alumnae News. Aug st 1969.

1919Fifty-four years ago, on a shining September dayin 1915, academic history was made when a "Col-lege on the Hill by the Sea" opened its doors to125 eager young freshmen and special students,and Connecticut's long-awaited institution for thehigher education of women was born. Conceivedand organized in 1911 by several alumnae ofWesleyan when their alma mater closed its doorsto women, Connecticut College in four years hadbecome a reality by dint of state-wide enthusiasm;tireless devotion of educators, trustees and cit-izenry; and generous gifts of land, buildings andendowments.Morton F. Plant gave a million dollars and the

first two dormitories, Plant and Blackstone. Andfive thousand citizens of New London, in a ten-day whirlwind campaign, contributed $135,000 forNew London Hall. With a campus of over 329acres, 5 buildings, and a distinguished faculty ofover 20 full and part-time teachers, ConnecticutCollege offered a unique experience in a fresh andforward-looking curriculum unhampered by tra-dition and guided by the inspiring leadership ofPresident Frederick Henry Sykes, nationallyknown scholar and educator.Although American women did not yet have the

vote, they were already released from much con-fining domestic routine and free to devote theirtime and native ability to causes outside the home.In his opening address that glorious Septembermorning, Dr. Sykes outlined his ideal for eachstudent - an education to equip her not only forhomemaking and motherhood, but for service toher community and country with discernment todistinguish between the false and transitory, andthe true and permanent. In this dedication of thefirst Kaine, 1919 paid this tribute to Dr. Sykes:

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rPresident Frederick H. Sykes

His was the vision great and goodUnbounded faith in womanhood:A hand well skilled in every art,A noble sympathetic heart;A mind, cultured unselfishlyFor service to humanity-No task too hard, nor problem greatFor woman, man's full equal mate.'Vision and service' were to beHer motto - challenge ceaselessly,

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With such a goal, the first courses included (inaddition to the traditional liberal arts offerings),four years of physical education, dietetics, ceram-ics, and artistic photography. Library economyand typing were offered without credit. Not pos-sessing the vision of Dr. Sykes, some conservativeeducators frowned upon this "vocational" curric-ulum with its plan to make use of a woman'stalent for service as well as for her enrichment.To an entering freshman, that first memorable

morning gave a wonderful sense of adventure andchallenge. Everything was new. Even the facultywere strangers to one another. Because there wasno grass, wooden planks made paths over therough, muddy grounds of the Quad. Electricityand hot water were still lacking in the dorms. Thefloor and paneling of Thames Hall - the refectoryfor the whole college - were not completed, andthe first meals were eaten to the rhythm of thecarpenter's hammer. Faculty and students dinedtogether on the terra firma area while Dr. Sykesmoved buoyantly among them, pouring cocoa froma silver pot. The smell of paint and fresh plasterwas everywhere.But inconveniences were temporary, and "lux-

uries" permanent. Each campus student found herPlant or Blackstone dormitory room completelyfurnished not only with bed, dresser, desk andchair, but with rugs, cretonne drapes with match-ing couch cover, linens and bedding, and desklamp. There was running water in every room,and all but two or three were single rooms.

Those first 125 students were unusual in severalways. Many from the New London area who hadshared the city's excitement over the fund-raisingcampaign, waited willingly two or three years forConnecticut to open rather than start college else-where; they spent this interlude in teaching or inbusiness. Not a few came as special students fromthe community to share the inspiration of aShakespeare course with Dr. Sykes, or music with

Dr. Coerne (fresh from the European triumph ofhaving his opera produced in Germany), art withMr. Selden, voice with Mr. Weld, or piano withthe talented Mr. William Bauer. All of the stu-dents were freshmen together with no upperclassmen and no restricting traditions. And in asense, all were seniors for four years. During thistime they had the responsibility of organizingStudent Government (left in their hands by thefacuIty) as well as a variety of other clubs andassociations.Marenda Prentis (known as "Prent"], first class

president, recalls one great advantage of the one-class college: "We could have three meetings atone sitting. After Student Government, its presi-dent, Winona Young, would relinquish the chairto me for a class meeting, and when class businesswas completed, I would give up the chair to Made-line Rowe who would conclude with a session ofthe Athletic Association," Prent remembers thatit was also a year of writing constitutions. Pi-oneering with Student Government and class or-ganization, '19 was responsible, in addition, forwriting house rules and club constitutions. Newobligations awaited even after commencementexercises and the trustees' luncheon, when, as onespeaker reminded them, they were for the firstand only time the entire alumnae association with100% attendance. That afternoon was spent by'19 in the New London Hall organizing the Alum-nae Association, and also the class of 1919 as thefirst graduates within the Association.Of the original 125 students, 67 were graduated

in 1919. They had shared in the excitement of theHughes-Wilson political campaign, they had wit-nessed the arrival in New London harbor of theDeutschland [first submarine to cross the Atlan-tic), they had seen the entrance of the UnitedStates into World War I in 1917, and they hadparticipated finally in the victory celebration inNew London in November, 1918. On campus theyhad experienced two college presidents with twoinaugurations, and had welcomed three succeed-ing classes to complete the four-year quota. Thegym (now the bookstore and post-office], Win-throp House and North Cottage (pronounced "cot-tahze") were completed.Also in these years the girls underwent sixcampus quarantines: three during the national fluepidemic, one for scarlet fever, and two for pos-sible diphtheria - all without benefit of an infirm-ary. By devoted care of physicians and nurses, bylimiting day students to the use of a specialfumigated trolley car, and by moving those with apositive diphtheria culture to Winthrop House andthe evacuated Winthrop girls to the gym, seriousepidemics were averted. An array of potted palms,sent to the college by a New London resident whocould not obtain coal for his conservatory, arrived

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at the gym just in time to furnish the refugeeswith a convenient substitute for clothes racks andbedside tables; these were soon decorated withtoothbrushes and other personal belongings. Thegreat casualty of the last diphtheria quarantinewas the cancellation of the Sophomore-Seniordance the night before it was to take place. Asthis occurred too late to warn escorts comingfrom a distance, some young men were turnedback at the very gate of heaven [the trolley shed)by a maiden with a negative culture.Since the goal for every Connecticut College

student was mens sana in corpore sana, physicaleducation directed by the talented Miss HazelWoodhull was required for four years, and onecould also major in the field. Even before the gymwas completed in the fall of 1917, "phys. ed." wasan important part of every girl's life. The widepastures, bordered by stone walls, were naturalareas for hockey, soccer, baseball, lacrosse,cricket, archery, cross-country and track. Tenniscourts were ready for the first faculty and stu-dents. Before the gym was built, dormitory base-ments and New London Hall classrooms wereavailable for gymnastics, fencing, and both folkand interpretive dancing. In the fall of '17 swim-ming and rowing were added to the curriculum,the latter in grateful recognition of the generousfarewell gift of two boats from President Sykes tothe first two classes. These boats, called "Loyalty'19" and "Loyalty '20," were housed in a smallboathouse on the Thames. In the spring after thelawn of New London turned green, a band ofbarefooted nymphs in flowing draperies could beseen at sunrise interpreting their joie de vivre tothe strains of Kreisler's Caprice issuing throughthe open window of a first floor room. What aprophetic beginning for Connecticut's School ofthe Dance!

Dr. "Uncle Abe" Osborne of the science department

Dietetic Laboratory

As Dr. Sykes enjoyed faculty-student picnics,and Dr. Marshall, the second president, loved toparticipate in faculty-student sports, the out-of-doors loomed large in life on campus those firstyears. During days of quarantine, the open fieldsinvited extra athletic contests for students andfaculty. One quarantine, a week after the openingof college, prompted a vesper service amid therocks and majestic evergreens of Bolleswood.Long hikes and short walks were very popular,especially to Bolleswood (the arboretum) wherecampus girls loved to take a basket of picnicbreakfast on Sunday mornings long before BuckLodge was built. Picnics on Mamacoke "Island"were also popular. As cars were almost non-existent for student use, walking was accepted aspart of the fun. Girls thought nothing of walkingto church in the heart of the city. This distancewas far enough away to require an early startfrom campus, but it enabled one to save the nickeltrolley car fare (an economy to be considered inthose days when student waitresses were paidthe going wage of fifteen cents an hour the firstyear).Nearly all the dormitory students spent their

weekends on campus. It was news when anyonewent home or visiting. Perhaps the "full house"explains the student-made house rules in the Cbook stating that all day Sunday there should be"Sunday quiet" and that "Only sacred and clas-sical music may be played on .any musical instru-ment on Sunday."Vespers, until the gym was finished, were held

in the all-purpose open space in Thames Hall(only the central section existed at the time}.Here, after Sunday dinner, the student waitressesprepared the room for the service by folding thewhite linen tablecloths and the druggets, andthen pushing the tables to the walls. Napkin rings

From top to bottom. 1 - Cleaninghouse during diphtheria quaran-tine. 2 - Gymnasium under con-struction. 3 - Cricket. 4 - MayDay. 5 - "Pinkey."

were placed accessibly on trays where they couldbe claimed by each owner as she returned laterfor supper. The rare assortment of designs seemednot to confuse identification, except for the over-size horse blanket safety pins which differed littlein size or design,Thames Hall was also theatre and concert au-

ditorium, ballroom and banquet hall, and was thesetting for historic moments. The Sykes family,living in the south end, stepped through their kit-chen door to join faculty and students for meals.It was in Thames, too, that the first inaugurationluncheon was served (though the newly varnishedfloor was still tacky). Presidents of New Englandcolleges brought greetings, and Morton F. Plantwas given an honorary LL.D, And it was inThames that World War I first became real to thestudent body when Harold Crandell ("Pinky," ahandsome and romantic blonde bachelor in thehistory department) returned from volunteer armyinduction in officer's uniform. With leather put-tees and Sam Brown belt, he strode the length ofthe dinng room to the tinkle of tapped glasses totake his place for the last time at the faculty table.In addition, it was in Thames Hall that weekend

after-dinner programs became a pattern withmusicals by gifted faculty or students, and im-promptu student "stunts" or talent shows. One-act language club plays were presented, and theFrench Club with Miss Ernst maintained a Frenchconversation table. Newly-created college songswere often tried out at lunch or dinner, and hereit was that guests of faculty or students made theacquaintance of the entire college body. A lonemale guest was sure to be greeted by the tappingof glasses.Probably the most memorable of all activities in

the first year was the ambitious Shakespeare Ter-centenary Week marking the 300th anniversary ofShakespeare's death. With Dr. Sykes' absorbinginterest in the Bard, the plans were extensive.Starting on May first with the sunrise singing ofthe old Magdalen College hymn on the balcony ofNew London Hall (led by Dr. Coerne and hisminiature organ), each day of that week paidhomage to Shakespeare. There were scholarly lec-tures, and student essays and performances,Physical education classes presented period folkand court dances in costume - from "GatheringPeasecods," and the Morris dances, to the statelyGalliard by Miss Woodhull and "Pinky" in im-pressive court costume, Friday night saw the firstambitious theatrical production on campus, thepresentation of As You Like It with an all-girl castin costumes designed by artist Henry Bill Selden,and coached by Miss Josephine Sutton, PresidentSykes' secretary,The final evening was unforgettable - an Eliz-

abethan banquet on long, bare, candle-lighted

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tables, each costumed guest being seated above orbelow the salt according to his rank. Mistress ofthe feast was tiny dietician Miss Dickinson in capand apron, nearly unbalanced by the huge bunchof keys dangling at her waist. All the viands weredishes described in Elizabethan cookbooks andinterpreted by Dr. Helen Bishop Thompson, pro-fessor of dietetics: among them, "Pyes. of Paris"and "Hennes in Grave." From the scholars whopresented learned papers (Dr. Sykes, Alice 1.Perry Wood of the English Department, and Dr.Herbert Z. Kip of the German Department amongothers), to the gym classes and the cooks in thekitchen, all the college personnel were involvedthat spring in Shakespeare and Elizabethan re-search. Even the mothers spent hours of theirdaughters' Easter vacation translating Mr. Sel-den's watercolor designs into "authentic" periodcostumes. Quite happily, parts of the Shakespeareprogram were shared with people of Norwich atwhose invitation Connecticut College dancers andactors repeated part of their program for thatcity's celebration.

The autumn of 1917 saw a second ambitiousdramatic undertaking - the presentation of Euri-pides' Trojan Women in Gilbert Murray's transla-tion. But this time, the Walls of Troy, unlike theForest of Arden, were built on the stage of thenew gymnasium. Again the art department's tal-ents and time were devoted to stage set and cos-

tumes, including ancient shields, spears and hel-mets. The coach was a faculty wife, Mrs. JohnEdwin Wells, who had had professional theatricalexperience. Most of the cast were students in theclassics departments. The play was presentedtwice, once for the college and once for a stateclassical convention.

Before graduation the first classes were also toshare in the first student musical comedy, Halt,Cecelia!, words by Miriam Pomeroy '19 andRachel Smith '21, music by Roberta Newton '21.The large cast included Miss Edna Blue of thephysical education department who made a veryattractive hero. The gay, singable tunes of theproduction are still the all-time favorite songs forthe reunions of the first four classes, especially if"Bobby" Newton Blanchard is there to accom-pany.

But even the gaiety of Halt, Cecelia! had a seri-ous side - the proceeds went to the Belgian Be-lief Fund, for these were the years of World WarI and the tragic aftermath. The girls at C.C., werefar from isolated in an Ivory Tower. Convincedby President Wilson's appeal that this was "a warto make the world safe for democracy," and in-spired by the earnest eloquence of PresidentMarshall and other speakers, the students foundendless ways of helping the war effort. In town,they participated in the New London Red Crossprogram; on campus, they knitted socks. And

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they supported drives for funds in many ways:by raising money through entertainments of stu-dent talent, by earning extra funds in dorms ordining halls, or by contributing their cherishedspending money and going without. Some girlsspent the summer vacation as "Farmerettes," as-sisting in the land army program.The war was ever present even without the

benefit of radio or television. Overseas mail ar-rived in service men's brown envelopes; uniformswere commonplace on the streets, at dances, inthe reception rooms; daily papers were filled withlong casualty lists, military maps and war-relatedcartoons; music and even humor echoed thetheme; and Sunday sermons and history classesattempted to analyze, advise, prognosticate. Dr,Frank Morris brought to his psychology classes aclearer understanding of techniques and purposesof measuring the IQ devised to help screen in-ductees, One evening in a lecture hall downtown,New London first met MIle, Carola Ernst, recentlyarrived from Belgium and soon to join the facultyof the college, Dressed in pale blue silk and long,white kid gloves, she sat in a chair on the plat-form and described, among other experiences,how she had aided a hlinded Allied soldier toescape from the Germans and find safety amongfriendly forces.

It was this Miss Ernst who read aloud to usfrom Ibsen after dinner in the Plant living roomand stretched the minds of eager young listeners,President Marshall and other faculty also cameto the dorms to read aloud favorite passages, foron a small campus there was a rich opportunityto share informally, en famille. Townspeople, too,

gave of their talents: poetess Anna HempsteadBranch was a devoted friend to the college as wasMrs. Richard Mansfield, widow of the noted actor,who gave a dramatic reading one evening of Armsand the Man.Reminiscences are heartwarming and endless,

each recalling further memories. They are toonumerous to elaborate upon, but a few may beworthy of being listed:

Our clothes: -long dark skirts, middy blouses,high laced shoes, inevitable black headbands tocontrol long locks, and the full and all-conceal-ing bathing suits complete with black stockingsand canvas footwear.The 1919 mascot, a grey model of a sub-

marine, and its disappearance one day, leadingto the tradition of the annual Mascot Hunt.The Stone Wall Sing, another tradition, once

a month at the full of the moon.The day in 1919 when the boathouse was

camouflaged because of the war.Student delivery of mail to each dormitory

room, twice a day and once on Sunday,The dance card for the Prom, listing the other

partners for one's escort.The lectures of William Lyon Phelps, Presi-

dent Hadley, and Wilbur Cross all of Yale, andthe program of poet Alfred Noyes.Participation in Yale's pageant in New Haven.Courses under Yale professor Paul Baur,

archeologist, and Professor Hendrickson, Clas-sics, who came to campus weekly from NewHaven to supplement "the curriculum.The devotion of '19's sister class, 1921, and

the good fellowship among all four classes asC.G, rounded out its quota, and seniors werereally seniors at last.

And so 1919 came to the time for parting. Ittook five days to complete all the observances asthe following program shows:

June 14 D,A.R. reception at the Shaw Mansionwith hostesses in authentic early Amer-ican dress.

15 Baccalaureate, Second CongregationalChurch, President Marshall preaching,

16 President's reception in the gymnasium(hung with an exhibition of ProfessorSelden's paintings).Senior Prom in the evening at theMohican Hotel.

17 Class Day, the planting of the ClassTree, exercises in the Quadrangle (in-cluding the class history, prophecy,poems, songs, speeches, and barefoot,interpretive dance).A second presentation of the SeniorPlay, Green Stockings, in the evening.

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18 Commencement in the gym with pre-sentation of diplomas and awards, anda closing announcement of a gift of$100,000 from Mr. and Mrs. GeorgePalmer for a library or chapel.

Fifty years have passed since those last days oncampus. Fifty-three of the sixty-seven graduatesare still living, and three of the first faculty stillhave homes near the college. Miss Cary, professoremeritus of French, lives in New London and is afamiliar figure at campus concerts and other col-lege functions; Miss Mary Davis, of Quaker Hill,was the first librarian and teacher of LibraryEconomy; and Mrs. E. E. Spicer (Aida Watrous],former instructor in Fine Arts, including ceramics,resides in Groton. 1919 will remember with deepaffection their three honorary members: Mrs.Sykes, Dean Nye, and Miss Louise Howe, trustee.Few college graduates have known the rare ex-perience of such a four years as was 1919's-seniors from the first day, sharers in the buildingof a great institution, personal friends as well asdevoted students of an outstanding faculty underthe leadership of two dedicated presidents. Wellmight ihe College say to these first alumnae (tomisquote Ulysses), "1 am a part of all that youhave met."

Juline Warner Comstock '19

Picnics - From top to bottom, Dr.Sykes, Dean Nye, Dr. Co erne.

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In 1926 the student council revised the constitution andproposed a plan for better representation. Thisconstitution was accepted and served the college throughthe next three decades. Occasionally events made itnecessary for the president of Student Government toadmonish the student body. "Connecticut College

believes that 'the desirable kind of discipline is the kind thatcomes from within, - from one's own will, not from outsideauthority.' Believing also that individual responsibility, initiative,sound judgment, and ability to deal with people and situations, aredesirable qualities to develop in college students, and that se1f-restraint tor the sake of the common good is a reflex result ofgroup responsibility through self-government, at the outset theauthorities of the College granted to the students full self-government in all non-academic matters. The Faculty are,however, by no means merely acquiescent. They should be, andare, as active in explaining and advising, as they might be underother circumstances in enacting laws and devising penalties."

Convocation, although attendance was voluntary, drewappreciative audiences with speakers such as WilliamStarr Meyers, Joseph Lindon Smith, Professor Hockingof Harvard, and Dean Brown of the Yale Divinity School.Rachmaninoff played at one truly memorable occasion.The crystal-clear perfection of his technique, his

personality, his aloofness, and the majesty of his music thrilledthe audience in the rafter-filled gymnasium.

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(with apologies to A. A. Milne).

Dot DotBayley BayleyPresident of Stu G.Took greatCare of the Freshmen,And issued a decree.Dot DotSaid to the Freshmen,"Freshmen," she said, said she:"You must never go down to the end of the

town in groups of less than three."

One of DotBayley's FreshmenWas a terrible flirt.One of DotBayley's FreshmenPut on a knee-length skirt.One of DotBayley's FreshmenSaid to herself, said she:"I will go down to the end of the town and

pick up a date for tea."

Dot BayleyPut up a notice,"Lost or Stolen or Strayed IOne of myFavorite FreshmenSeems to have been mislaid.Last seenWandering vaguely,With a backward glance or twa.She didn't agree with the rules of the "C"

- report to Honey Lou."

Dorothy DorothyBayley Bayley(Commonly known as Dot)Said to theCabinet members,"Business is getting hot I"Dorothy DorothySaid to the members,"Members," she said, said she;"A Freshman went down to the end of the

town alone with a man for tea."

Dot DotBayley's FreshmanTurned up late that night;Dot DotBayley's FreshmanPaid for her day's delight.Dot DotSaid to the Freshman,In spite of her pleas and shrieks:"Because you went down to the end of the

town, you're campussed for six weeks."

(Softly) D. D.B. B.Pres. of Stu G.Took greatc/o the F*"'*And issued a decree.D. D.Said to the F"'**"F"'**," she said, said she:"You-must-never-go-down-to-the-end-of·the-

town-in-groups-of-Iess-than-threel"

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3 The noble troIley, postman-like thraugh storm and heatand darkest gloom of night, trained and detrained itspassengers from town and back to town.

Physical education [offered also as a major) was required

4 to the extent of one point each of four years. As a result,~here was much enthusiasm tor team games andmterc1ass rivalry was high and games were wellattended. In every class an honorary varsity was chosenat the end of each season with a sheepskin being

cwcrded by the Athletic Association to the air1who had attainedt~e ,highest number of athletic points. The s~stem encouragedhl~mg as ~hree and a half points were given for walking sixty~l1es du~mg a season, and ten points for hiking one hundred andeighty mIles during the entire year. Many were the miles covered,and great were the discussions on those walking tours. lust asHazlett, Coleridge, Keats and Wordsworth walked the English hillsand dales, we walked our countryside.

We, too, were involved. Through Service League, an

5 organization engaged in social service, studentcommittees worked at Charter House and the YM.C.A.,and at Thanksgiving sent food to needy families. Theirother activities included the Student Friendship Drive,sending toys to Caney Creek and Christa dora House,

promoting conferences such as "Silver Bay," and for some, doingvolunteer work at "Felicia," a summer camp for children run bythe Hudson Guild Settlement House. On campus, Service Leaguearranged dances, supplied the infirmary with fruit and flowers,saw that the maids received gifts at Christmas, and performedcountless other tasks of kindness.

We were flappers - fIaming youth in cloche and raccoon

6 coat - free souls in changing times. Social customs wereshattered as women began to smoke in public and thecocktail party emerged. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic;Fitzgerald and Hemingway challenged tradition with newideas. We danced the Charleston, adored the Astaires,

thrilled at Walter Hampden's "Cyrano," and were entranced bythe voice of Rudy Vallee coming over the new radio. Time and theNew Yorker saw the light of day, and we wrote poetry.

Weekends: <t ••• the college has reached an unsurpassed

7 peak of superiority and prosperity. In June last yearthere were more students with an average of three pointsor more, than there were with the more customaryaverage of two points or under. This condition ofacademic wealth was of utmost importance to those

involved, for this fall saw the beginning of a weekend systembased on the grade points of the preceding semester. Thus themajority of the student body was able to represent the college atthe annual football contests. However, it is much more difficultthan ever before, for if a girl leaves New London before Friday attwelve-thirty her absence must count as a Prom Week-End, whichis the equivalent of two other weekends; and only two of theseare allowed per person - per semester. This seemed a bitstringent at first and there were many rumors to the effect that analias-Maisie Map of the class of 1902 had left ane million dollarsto be expended for the construction of a spiked stone wall, so highand with spikes so sharp that not even the three-point personcould successfully scale it. However, this feeling has more or lesssubsided, particularly since weekend programs are being plannedwhich will add greatly to the attractiveness of the campus. It isalso thought that succeeding college generations will arrive at theblessed state of taking this jurisdiction for granted; which isundoubtedly true. There is much discussion as to the Saturdayevening dancing in the Gym, many feel that if the music could beimproved the function would prove to be a big drawing card."

Hazel Osborne, 1926

(Apologies to Sara Teasdale].

"April found me lonely,Raindrops in my eyes.

May came swiftly after,Radiont with surprise.

June found me in a raptureThe world 0 glorious song.

'Neath drowsy, pearly starlightYou smd you'd love me long.

But then in cool SeptemberYou fJew south like a bird;

You kissed my startled, trembling mouth;But never spoke Q word.

Dh, I can smile quite sweetly now;I do not mind the rain.

But yet, amid next April showers,I hope you'll come cgcm.

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Ours was a singing college. When Martinelli sang at the

8 College series, the end of the concert found a wildlyenthusiastic audience applauding and crying, "VivaMartinelli." We listened to music with joy, but alsofound great pleasure in participating. Many musicalplays were written and produced; a few of the most

popular songs may be found in the Connecticut College SongBook: "My Pirate Pierrot," "Pierrot and Pierette," "China Love,""0, Aladdin," "Roaming Romeo," and "This Side of Paradise."Song leaders diligently coached their classes for Moonlight sings.New songs were written and parodies on old ones. May Day atseven in the morning, seniors in cap and gown gathered to sing theLatin Hymn to welcome in the spring. The volunteer choir sangdoily at B:55 Chapel and at Sunday vespers, bath well-attended. Tosing in the choir, one had to pass satisfactorily the musicdepartment's tests, and agree to attend an hour of rehearsal eachweek. President Marshall presided ordinarily at Vespers, and withother members of the faculty at the daily Chapel service.

Plays in foreign languages were produced each year: one

9 always in French, and in alternate years in German,Spanish, Latin or Greek. Miss Ernst, writing under thepseudonym of "Alphonse," criticized them satiricallywith Gallic wit, and there was intense rivalry forcommendation from her caustic pen.

Dr. Benjamin T. Marshall

It would be impossible to disassociate the college at

10 this period from the inspiring presence of Dr.Marshall. In addition to his administrative duties,he found time to greet each incoming freshman. Hevigorously entered into faculty-student games, andsponsored the early programs of the Connecticut

College Outing Club. Memorable were the Columbus Day outingswith Dr. and Mrs. Marshall, interested faculty members, andinvited students. All would be people who loved nature, who werestimulated by the beauty of on incandescent autumn day, and whosavored good conversation around a friendly picnic fire.Among the faculty surrounding Dr. Marshall, one remembers in

particular Dr. Lawrence, a great liberal in the true sense of theword; Henry Bill Selden capturing on canvas the indescribableblue of the river; Dr. Leib with his warmth, his friendliness, hispenetrating glance; and finally Dean Irene Nye who so aptlysummed up the spirit of this decade. "Some of the first teachersare gone; others are getting old, but the College does not grow old.Life is change and change is life, and by continual change andgrowth on institution finds the secret of eternal youth, it is alwaysbeing made. And it is the entire group, workmen, students, faculty,administration, trustees, standing shoulder to shoulder that mustdo the making."

Elizabeth Damerel Gongaware '26

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The Sobering. Struggling, Seething '30s

Fear and gravity are perhaps the best words todescribe the mood of the United States at the out-set of the thirties. Although President Hooverissued a steady stream of assurances from theWhite House, nothing, it seemed, could restorethe country's economic self-confidence, so pro-foundly had it been shattered by the Great Crashand the black days following. Later on wouldcome FDR and the New Deal, deficit spending andthe idea that the government has responsibility forits citizens' individual needs, recognition of theSoviet Union along with a great ferment of argu-ment over socialistic theories, then the rise of theAxis powers, the disintegration of the League ofNations, Munich, and the Second World War.These ten years were the time of Breadlines, of

the Dust Bowl and TVA, of the end of Prohibition,of Edward VIII's abdication, of the Lindberghbaby kidnapping, and marathon dancing. Skirtswent down, great zeppelins went up. Hollywood,in its heyday, created Frankenstein, Tarzan, Shir-ley Temple, and the Marx brothers-Garbo, Gable,Grable, the Barrymores, and Snow White. It wasthe time of the Big Bands and swing music, Dixie-land jazz, and jitterbugging, of Glen Gray, ColePorter, and a riot of songs such as "StormyWeather," "Body and Soul," and 'The Flat FootFloogie," - and of a "crooner" named BingCrosby. Radio's finest hours starred Amos 'nAndy, Fred Allen, H. V. Kaltenborn, a v'entril-oquist's dummy named Charlie McCarthy, andthe Lone Ranger. American authors wrote StudsLanigan. The Grapes of Wrath, and Gone withthe Wind. How to Win Friends and InfluencePeople was a runaway best seller, and Joyce'sUlysses was finally relieved of censorship. OnBroadway, Jeeter Lester and De Lawd played foryears alongside Victoria Regina, Lite With Fatherand Ziegfield's Follies. Bill Tilden, Jesse Owens,Joe Louis and Joe DiMaggio starred in the sportsworld, along with miniature golf. The Culbertsonsplayed bridge, college boys swallowed goldfish,nudist camps and bingo became popular, and Mrs.Dionne gave birth to five daughters all at once. In1938 Orson Welles scared everyone half to deathwith the War of the Worlds, a radio play aboutMartians, and the first great tropical hurricanehit New England.

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Growth of the CollegeMeanwhile, back at Connecticut College a new

president was inaugurated in May 1930, Dr. Katha-rine Blunt, and in the fall of 1931, Mr. Harrison B.Freeman took over from Mr. George S, Palmer,donor of the Palmer Library and early sponsor ofthe young college, as chairman of the Board ofTrustees. These two people, throughout the dec-ade, were to continue the difficult task of keepingthe institution operative and, in fact, progressingin spite of the Depression, Their aim was solid-to establish the intellectual foundation of the col-lege through increase in faculty, faculty salaries,and physical facilities. Scholarship funds, sudden-ly important, were somehow found. New buildingswent up with regularity - Fanning in 1930, Wind-ham in 1933, Mary Harkness in 1934, Jane Addamsin 1936, "1937" House (now Freeman) in 1937,Buck Lodge in 1938, and Bill Hall, Palmer Audito-rium and Emily Abbey co-operative in 1939, toname the most important. As a result, by 1940 thesize of the faculty and its salaries had increasedby more than half, and all students were beinghoused on campus. Of primary importance, Con-necticut College had gained a reputation for seri-ousness of scholastic purpose and widespread re-spect as an institution of uncompromising quality.Today's parents, battered and bowed and con-

fused, will surely look upon this dedication in theKaine of 1930 with envy and disbelief.To Our Parents - With inexpressible appreciationfor this experience of col1ege, and for their steady-ing trust and understanding during these fouryears, and 011 the years that have gone before, dowe, the Class of 1930, dedicate our book.

But these were the good old days of the IvoryTower. Students were shielded from the pressuresand agonies of the "real" world and they knew it.To them, four years in college was a gift for whichthey were humbly grateful. It was a gift of time-time to study, to write, to read, time to developclose friendships, to play hockey and golf, todance, to play bridge, to put on plays, time towalk, talk and listen, time to think. They used thetime to soak up knowledge and ideas; there wouldbe plenty of time later for making judgments andfor taking action. But still they were not apathetic.Most of them felt, as do young people today, thatthe world was being victimized by poverty, preju-dice, ignorance and greed. They recognized thedangers of foreign militance, felt the imminenceof war, and marched for peace and for the Leagueof Nations. Their long, late bull sessions arguedpolitics and social theories, questioned the statusquo, and earnestly discussed whether communismor socialism might be preferable to a seeminglyineffectual captalism. But in the end, of course,Hitler and his blitzkrieg swept all questioningaside.Freshmen and RulesIn the fall of 1930 an entering freshman found

herself one of 563 students. She had been admit-ted by "certificate" (College Boards were requiredif her record was questionable, and "looked at" iftaken for another college.) Her room, board, andtuition cost $1020, and she lived in an off-campusdormitory. (By 1940 she would he one of 748,would have passed the SAT's, her charges wouldstill be $1020, and she would live on campus.I Shecame with an Empress Eugenie hat, probably a

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raccoon coat, and surely a pair of white kidgloves. The first person she became acquainted

with after housemates, house junior, and juniorsister, was Mr. Barry, the postman, who wouldsomehow know, from that day forward, not onlyher name, but which postmarks on her mail causedher face to light up (or fall by their absence), andwould enthuse or commiserate accordingly. Sheunderwent initiation by the sophomores whichlasted a week. (By 1939 it had been mercifullyshortened to one evening.)

We all go tearing in the north doorway of Fanning,for it conveniently opens off the parking space;though of late our headlong way has often beenblocked by crimson-netted, black-stockinged Fresh-men kneeling in outward humility, but, we fear,with inward blasphemy to the Purple and Yellowmajesty of the Sophomore banner waving over thecarved cornices.

Melicent Wilcox '31Alumnae News, November 1930

These same hapless freshmen were ordered tocarry a raw egg with them constantly and have itsigned each day by a sophomore; to carry a blackumbrella raised (not to mention an armful ofbookst): and to bow low in respect to the trolleycar if it happened to pass by on Mohegan Avenueon their way up the hill to class.

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From the C book, which was their Bible, came aconfusing jumble of complicated rules regulatingdress, "decorum," morals, places to dine, signingout, visitors, chapel attendance (twice a week),fire drills, library, boating and swimming (dis-couraged), the "point system" (regulating thenumber of extra-curricular offices of class or cluba student might hold) and ending with this ego-deflating admonition (still there in the 1939 Cbook):

Connecticut College expects the best you have togive - the best is none too good for your almamater.

Here is a random sampling of rules of the times:Smoking is not permitted (among other places} atthe fence at foot of Deshon Street.A student may not go to an unapproved place evenwith an approved chaperone.A student must have a chaperone when showingher room to men guests other than her father.Hats and stockings shall be worn on trolley carsand in town below Bullards Corners ... Bloomersmay be worn going to and from a class in physicaleducation, but shaH not be worn on any publichighway, in New London HaII, in the Library, or inthe dining room.When you arrive in New London, you will be metat the train and your baggage will be taken to yourhouse. The expressman's fee for delivering yourtrunk is seventy-five cents. (Same in 1939 C book.)

By 1939 "trolley" is changed to "bus" and thereare a few additional quaintnesses, such as:

No one may knit in Vespers, Convocation, Musicals,or other activities open to the public.

Under "Miscellaneous Rules" is found: "Parkingis not allowed on campus, or on campus bound-aries." [Should the word have been sparking?)

Students taking sun baths must take great care notto make themselves conspicuous.Students going to the beach in autos may wearbeach pajamas, shorts, and slacks, provided thatthey do not get out of their cars between campusand the beach.

By 1939 there were 28 clubs to choose from,and significantly, an organization called the "Stu-dent-Faculty Forum."

Student-Faculty Forum is a closed forum of facultyand students who meet monthly to gather up un-dercurrents of opinion concerning campus activ-ities. Its scope of interest includes discussion of allextra-curricular activities as well as of the currie-ulum and comprehensive examinations. It has nopower to vote proposals into law - it merely givesdirection and impetus to the attitudes of facultyand students toward campus problems. (This seedhas finally flowered with a vengeancel)

Connecticut College Alumnae News. August 1969.

The Mascot Hunt

Connecticut College traditions most belovedduring the thirties were Freshman Pageant, Christ-mas Pageant, Moonlight Sings and CompetitiveSing, and above all, the Mascot Hunt. There are asmany stories about the latter as there are alumnaewho participated, but it is hard to explain thistradition to those who didn't. Such complete ab-sorption in a wild Sophomore search for clues(anywhere from the catacombs under the Quadto the fireplace flue in the President's office), andin a diabolical Junior-planting of decoys, all cul-minating in a telegram read at Junior Banquet,may seem ludicrous or at least corny today, butthose who knew the Mascot Hunt will foreverrelish something wonderfully zany in retrospect.From the 1940 Kaine:The search for the Juniors' Mascot, their gift to theschool, began shortly before Easter vacation, at thefirst basketball game. Enthusiastically we houndedthe Juniors. A Sophomore lurked under every bedin "37." Many interesting incidental discoverieswere made, but the mascot remained a secret. Wefound each one of the decoys, and missed all of theclues. The day of Junior Banquet, when the replicawas hidden in Fanning, we spent hours hunting forit. Each room was methodically pulled apart; wecleaned the dusty attic beams with our skirts; threedifferent sleuths went up the flue of the fireplace.The telegram that we sent to the Juniors at theBanquet read, "Flag-pole." The Junior presidentsmiled calmly and unveiled a miniature fireplace(for Buck Lodge].

Another tradition, to this author's knowledge,never got off the ground. From the Alumnae Newsof June, 1931:And 10, the seniors have started a new tradition.One night late in May the venerable class war-whooped to the reservoir and there in a sacrificialflame, burned - their gym stockings!

Smoothies and Swooners

In those days dances were really dances. Every-one went, with or without dates. The sloppyclothes of the workaday week were left in heapson the floor and out came the prettiest dresses;hair was shampooed and set. Those girls withoutdates went "stag" to the Service League dances.(Each class had an annual prom which was for-mal, and for these, programs were filled out.) The"stags" kept partners changing by cutting in onthe men, and any girl who had brought a reallygood dancer [a "smoothie") could not hope formore than a few steps with him at the outset, andthe last dance, with luck It was considered adelight that for once girls could do the choosing.Dancing was cheek to cheek, with intricate stepsled by the man and followed by the girl; "dip-

ping" was in favor; and no evening was completewithout the crashing crescendo and wild accelera-tion of "Tiger Rag." [He-old that tig-er!) Girlswould save money for weeks to collect enough tohire a "name" band.

In fact then, as now, music was a huge part oflife, both at parties and every day. Almost everyroom boasted a portable victrola, and lucky wasthe girl with a large collection of records, for herroom would be a gathering place of "swooners."In the early thirties Ernie Herman could be foundalmost any night after dinner pounding the oldupright in Thames Hall while other girls sang ordanced with each other (boning up on the lateststeps).

The roads to New Haven, Middletown, andHanover were well-traveled on house-party week-ends, and Wesleyan boys in particular would in-vade New London by the carload for whatamounted often to mass blind dates. (Any manwho was lucky enough to have a car had it made.)Uniforms appeared more frequently at campusfunctions after 1932 when construction began onthe U. S. Coast Guard Academy at its present siteon Mohegan Avenue. The place to go on a datewas usually "Izzy's" at Ocean Beach, and cokewas the drink (after Repeal, "3.2" beer in coffeecups - rash as it may seem!)

The Hurricane

The great Hurricane of 1938 blew in on openingday in the fall. The rising walls of Palmer Audito-rium, then a-building, fell in a heap; down camethe smokestack on the heating plant; doors andwindows blew in; and of course, many trees camedown - most deplored, the age-old BolleswoodHemlocks. Recorded in the 1940 Kaine:That night we sat in darkened rooms watching thefire in New London (a concurrent disaster). Candlesand sunshine supplied the only light for a week.Drinking water was boiled in Knowlton and ra-tioned. No one could leave Campus. But classescontinued as usual, and we sat together in theliving rooms at night. Catastrophe as it was, theresultant excitement, and those companionableevenings, completely overshadowed the Inconven-

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Front - Henry A. Wallace,Vice-President of the UnitedStates, with CC President Blunt.

Rear - Rheinhold Niebuhr ofUnion Theological Seminary, Mr.Laubenstein, and Miss Dederer.Although this picture was octuo1Jytaken at commencement in 1943when the Vice-President'sdaughter, Jean, received herdegree, it stands as the thirtiesincarnate. Henry Wallace was amember of Roosevelt's cabinetfrom the beginning in 1933, andwas one of the main architects ofthe New Deal.

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fences. It fostered a feeling of comradeship we hadseldom sensed heretofore. Town and Campus even-tua11y resumed a normal aspect, except for theconspicuous absence of many costly and proudlyplanted trees. But Ocean Beach was a crazy sham-bles, and we held a moment of silence for thedemolished lazy's.

Faculty, Stanchions of the Young CollegeCertainly the element most deserving of empha-

sis in any consideration of Connecticut College'spast is the faculty. The heart and pulse of Con-necticut College in the thirties were, as today, inher teachers. Each alumna remembers her favor-ites, some for inspiration, some for personality,and even some for peculiarity. But none woulddeny that five in particular - Miss Nye, MissErnst, Dr. Lefb, Dr. Lawrence, and Dr. Wells-were the main stanchions of the young college.One had to work up to them, because with thesingle exception of Dr. Lawrence's course in Mod-ern European History, none of them taught fresh-men.

Miss Nye, precise and neat in appearance, quietand cultured, and Miss Ernst, with her hair flying,

Dr. Lawrence Dr. Wells Dr. Lieb

were the "salon intellectuals." The sweep ofWestern civilization was made vividly clear bythe latter who could sweep up a thousand yearsin one class period of "Continental Lit." Dr. Leibseemed to be everywhere as registrar, director ofadmissions, and head of the Mathematics Depart-ment. Dr. Wells, immaculate in appearance fromhis precisely trimmed beard to his shiny blackshoes, seemed the apotheosis of the Shakespear-ean scholar, and was just as precise in his dailydemands for line-reference evidence. DiminutiveDr. Lawrence, all spectacles, presided over Tues-day chapel current events with such incisive goodhumor that attendance (required twice a week) onthat day far outstripped the others. The light inhis office, alone in the wide expanse of the eastwall of Fanning, could be seen almost any nightuntil ten o'clock or so, to the wonderment of stu-dents, especially those guilty of procrastination.

One of his favorite subjects was patriotism, aword out of favor these days, but the kind ofpatriotism he wrote about in the Spring 1936Alumnae News would be useful now indeed:

To Citizens: (1] Love your own country, withoutignorantly despising or stupidly hating foreigncountries (a non-provocative kind of patriotism).(2) Be proud of your country, without being blindto its faults or unaware of other countries' virtues(a de-prcvincichzed patriotism). [3} Fight for yourcountry's improvement at home rather than for herconquests abroad [a non-conflicting patriotism}.

Does all this mean that we should be less pa-triotic? Most certainly not. But it means that weshould make our patriotism constructive ratherthan destructive.

Eleanor Hine Kranz '34

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A War Committee was formed on campus withhundreds of students registered for service. Fac-ulty and students learned map reading, first aid,plane outlines. Aircraft spotters watched nightlyfrom the top of Bill Hall. During the northeastblack-out, black curtains were drawn over allwindows at dusk. Some students began to accel-erate, others to study in special war-related pro-grams. Most students spent the summer workingin shipyards, on farms, in defense plants, in tex-tile mills, hospitals, laboratories.1943: The Allies invaded Sicily and SouthernItaly.From a window seat in a 3rd floor Fanning historyclass: "Tell Peggy her hoy friend's shipping out. Isaw the number on his sub as it passed." Whis-pers down the rows. Waiting for APO mail inthe old gym. Send me a pin-up for the cockpit ofmy B-17. Do you remember the great times weused to have?"Don't sit under the apple treeWith anyone else but me,Till I come marching home."

Write to me. Wait for me. You're the only one.Will you marry me on my next leave?1944: D-Day. Guam. The liberation of Paris. Leyte.The Battle of the Bulge.Daily casualty lists. Hushed listening to the radio.Rumors. Heroic films: our boys in glorious battle."Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer." "Praise theLord and Pass the Ammunition." At the CollegeGerman civilization students marched into theirfinal exam singing the Marseillaise.1945: Luzon. Iwo lima. Okinawa.The death toll mounts.Unending, intolerable tension.April 12: President Roosevelt dies suddenly.The entire College gathers in Palmer Auditorium.V-E DayAugust 6: the first atomic bomb.August 8: the second atomic bomb.V-J Day

* * *Progress and change at the College during thewar. Russian was introduced by Mme. Wolkonsky(and her little dog, Joy), the English Departmentunder the leadership of Miss Bethurum changedand grew, a Latin American Institute marked thebeginning of area studies, the summer school ex-panded, Auerbach majors were introduced andthe College began its own radio station.

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Left - Student-FacultyForum, 1947-48. Above L. toR. - Kaine Board, 1941:student's room in Harkness,1943; Bill Hall, 1949.

During the pressures of the war, faculty mem-bers worked to keep the values of the liberal artstradition alive. President Blunt retired after 13years amidst tributes: "A woman of judgment, ofsocial instinct, of snap and vigor; sometimes im-perious, sometimes flashing fire, the true daughterof any army colonel ... "In 1943 Dorothy Schaffter was made President

and the College had its largest enrollment everwith 759 students. In 1945 Miss Schaffter resignedand Miss Blunt became acting president.

THE POST-WAR YEARSDemobilization.Johnny marching home, a rosy boy turned man.Reunions at the airport, the dock, the station.The shocks: wheelchairs, stretchers.Everyone was different.Robert Sherwood's "The Best Years of Our Lives"told it all.

"Kiss me once and kiss me twiceAnd kiss me once again,It's been a long, long time ... "

The GI Bill, beginning of meritocracy. The Collegeadmitted 70 veterans to its summer school. Psy-chology was made a separate department. TheCollege sponsored the School of Dance and theFestival of American Dance. In 1946 KatherineBlunt House was erected. In 1947 the College in-augurated a new President: Rosemary Park, aprofessor at the College since 1935, a Dean since1941. She began a brilliant 14-year administration.She possessed "an unerring sense of intellectualand spiritual values" that revitalized the educa-tional policies of the College.The U.N. The Truman Doctrine, The MarshallPlan, NATO. The Berlin Blockade.Student bull sessions on our post-war responsibil-

Hies, A generalized reaction: I'll find my nicheand stay there. No more chaos, no more tragedy.Graduation, 1949: ceremonious passage from theregularities of College to confusion outside.

"Just a poor old senior,Out lookin' for a man,"

Have you seen Nancy's new engagement ring?Exhortations to use our intelligence, help makethe world a better place, work for peace,How? What are our goals?Marriage and four tow-headed kids. Be a busyMom and leave careers to the spinsters. Enlight-ened domesticity.This was the fulfillment we chose.

EPILOGUEBest memories of the decade: long talks over milk-shakes in the basement Snack Bar, plaid skirtsbelow the knee and Braemar sweaters, sneakersheld together by safety pins, jeans and uncombedhair at 8:00 a.m. browsing in the old BlackstoneBookstore, Miss Ramsay's beaming face, houseparties at Yale, long dresses and corsages, after-noon field hockey in the sun, Long Island Soundin the distance, a mug of beer at Danny Shea's,Ocean Beach off-season, the excitement of Dr.Morris' History of Philosophy course, twin god-desses Bethurum and Tuve, Miss Dilley's devotedfollowing, Hartley Cross inspiring the uninspir-able, treking to Holmes Hall for Mr. Quimby'smusic class, Five Arts Weekend, Senior Melo-drama, Capie Cole at the piano, the French House,the birth of the Schwiffs, the indomitable MissErnst, Dr. Logan, Miss Hafkesbrink, the all-know-ing Dean E. Alverna Burdick. President Park'sInauguration, her stirring talks, chapel bells in themorning, the warmth of the place.

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Connecticut College in the fifties was certainlynot a hotbed of innovation. Students - self-cen-tered as always - were conservative, even moreconservative than faculty who could hardly betermed radical. We came not to make large scalechanges, but rather because we knew that someacademic departments were distinguished andmany others very good. Unquestionably, we spentfar more time worrying about our needs than inmeeting the needs of others. The vigorous build-ing program left no doubt in our minds that ad-ministration was firmly committed to providing uswith the best affordable facilities: the infirmary,begun in 1950; Hale Laboratory, built pre-Sputnik;Williams Memorial Institute; Larrabee House; andat long last, the start of Crozier-Williams.

President Park's administration sat squarely inour decade, extending from 1947-1962, and manyof her strengths became the strengths of the col-lege. We were lucky to have had such a president.While we inclined toward thinking that faculty-student relations could be closer, and spent muchtime and heat discussing the matter, no problemexisted in communication between Rosemary Parkand the student body when it came to the philos-ophy of the college and what was expected of us.

The emphasis concentrated upon a well-con-ceived program taught by first-rate people; onoffering the best possible atmosphere for free in-quiry; and on providing the finest materials to

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facilitate this educational process. Miss Park be-lieved firmly in students accepting the ultimateresponsibility for the learning process, and forwhatever reason many of us in that decade didnot appear to accept her challenge, we alone mustbear the blame.

Although we were not docile in accepting cer-tain requirements, it did not occur to us to suggestnew courses. If we were partners in good stand-ing of an academic community, we were definitelyjunior partners, and in general gave the seniormembers the respect they - and we - felt wasdue them. In a 1957 address to the students ("YourCollege Education: Our Mutual Responsibility,"reprinted in the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration:Connecticut College, 1911-1961), President Parksummed up the college's educational philosophy.In defending the curriculum with its spectrum ofrequired and occasionally dull courses, she re-minded us that the goal of education is to free onefrom the provincialism of time, of space, and oflack of scope. And implicit is not only the respon-sibility of faculty to plan and teach, but also theobligation of the student to fit the pieces into acoherent and individual philosophy of life.

Were she repeating this address today, MissPark would probably choose to omit a delightfulanalogy (the delicate balance between studentand - his betters? - being as it is). She quotedher veterinarian whom she had asked about train- on. "'hlob gove R.

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ing a dog. "The first thing," said the vet, "is to hesure that you are smarter than the dog," MissPark then said to us, "Now in this kennel we havegone to a great deal of trouble to be assured thatall the trainers are smarter than the dogs. Theremay be one or two very smart dogs we have notcome across yet, but by and large you had betterassume it is the other way around." Today's SDSwould not approve, but we did. Our "trainers" atConnecticut were very good, and complain as wedid about Hygiene and Nutrition, Logic and Phys-ical Science, out criticism seldom extended be-yond the subject matter to the principals,

In those days, if we did not like the academicprogram or the atmosphere, we got out or gotmarried. We were the "silent generation" ourelders were so worried about. We minded ourstudies, got our degrees, our jobs and/or our hus-bands, and retired, most of us, to a fulfilling lifein Evanston, Allentown, OT San Francisco, Chil-dren, perhaps a bit of substitute teaching, PTA,and Planned Parenthood became our major con-cerns. When President Park complained about a"retreat to the suburb, actually and metaphor-ically, in the hope of calmness, simplicity andpeace, which in reality may prove to be only an-other illusion," she voiced the prevailing fear forour generation.

But in fact, this fear has not been entirely justi-fied. People and institutions respond to the majorforces of their time, and so did we. When theEisenhower years were swept away, our genera-tion, still young and excited, become aides to menand women scarcely older than ourselves whowere setting forth new ideas of participation inthe affairs of the country. In increasing numbers,we are extending our concept of responsibilitybeyond the Garden Club to forums on drugs; be-yond crewel work to courses in Urban Studies;beyond the usual Junior League programs to re-structuring community organizations and estab-lishing contact between suburban ghetto andinner city slum. The great satisfactions of homeand motherhood no longer dominate all of ourlives; with maturity, our good education is turningus into thinking individuals, and we do not intendto be caught short at the age of fifty or sixty.

But what do we remember now of the Connecti-cut College of the fifties? College weekends, a fateworse than death unless there was a paper towrite. The New London station, old and dirty,especially on Sunday night. The rain, always therain, with Fanning cold against a dripping Novem-ber sky. Eight o'clock classes for the unlucky.The Arboretum, laurel blooming in late May,Flowering trees, so unexpectedly beautiful inspring, so lifting to the spirit that prospects of

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late papers and exams faded briefly into the mid-dle distance. Arguments about which was thegreatest, Wind in the Willows or Winnie the Pooh.Snack bar and post office, tucked in the basementunder the gym - and what a gym! - made a per~feet triangle with whatever class we had just left,and we touched all points almost every day. TheBookstore in Blackstone basement. Holmes Hall,to our eyes, a thoroughly inadequate piece of realestate with a practice room that seemed scarcelysix by six.We looked forward to Soph. Quad., with its

creaky old rooms, but a year later were glad toleave its undeniable atmosphere for such dormsas Freeman, Windham or Katherine Blunt. In 1951we could at last be sick in comfort, for the newinfirmary was finished and in the capable handsof Dr. Warnshuis. Remember the gym uniforms?Remember the posture Pictures? Did anyone everget better than a B-? Thames, North and Wind-ham had their own charms. "Shades down infront, please, orders of the Dean," for the SubBase bus waited on Mohegan right below. Break-fast at Thames (grumpy sophs) featuring rolled-uppajamas under trench coats, and our maitre d',the incomparable Grendel.Among adversities. Snowplows at dawn, and

watermains breaking every fall - remember trip-ping over hoses from the Arboretum? Standing inline at gym with a wastebasket? "Don't forget thewastebasket"! The departure of daily maidserv-ice, the arrival of the Work Program with bellduty (skirts, please), and mind your mannerswhen answering the phone, orders of the Dean.We had our problems adjusting - "no wastebas-kets to be emptied down the Ideal Lineu Chute,please." "White meals," featuring pork and cauli-flower, mashed potatoes and vanilla ice cream (ora substitute meal at the Sub Base), Social pro.Midnight fire drills. Breakfast duty at E.A. Butthen, there were compensations.Miss Ramsay serving her famous meringues,

Chippy's Model A, and eating oranges on MissBiaggi's llama rug. A quick visit to Dean Oakes'"pet shop" after dance class in Knowlton. Mr.Strider, leading the faculty through their cos-tumed paces at the pep rally. Spring Fling - ourescape for a day. Miss Tuve and her bike, dittoMr. Cranz. St. Paddy's Day special: green beer onGolden Street. Bill's Star Dairy and the CrockerHouse, not to mention cocktails at the Lighthouse,The comfort of his old shirt and her old jeans inthe early fifties, button downs and bermudas later.Strawberries on May Day. The Coasties! Remem-ber the East House snowball fight? The indom-itable Coast Guard "went right through the sleep-ing quarters to the roof"! said Miss Brett in alarm.We watched the 21/2 minute sprint from the last

Connecticut College Alumnae News. August 1969.

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English department 1952

'Faculty show 1952

kiss to the C.G.A. gate. Robert's Rules of Ordersuspended at Amalgo to announce that PrincessGrace had given birth to a daughter. Dean Bur-dick's immortal words, "If you have to cough,don't"! Dean Noyes' wonderful quips on Englishpapers, "You're on the right train, but on thewrong track" We were lucky to have deans sowise and so witty.Connecticut was much smaller then, less than a

thousand students, and we knew by name, sightor reputation a greater percentage of the studentbody than it is possible to know today. Certainlywe knew most of our class by name, and if wewere freshmen, we knew some sophomores, andmany juniors who guided their sister class throughthe complexities entailed in being a freshman,Seniors were a race apart always talking aboutcamps.Many of us were ill-conditioned by background

and previous education to draw parallels betweenourselves and changes taking place with increasedfrequency. Sometimes a teacher such as MissDilley could force us into greater awareness of therelevance of these changes to our own lives, Wewere, in turn, discouraged and enthusiastic aboutour honor system, idealistic enough to want it towork and hurt when it did not. We were hauntedby the question of apathy, Buckets of ink werespent editorializing about properly supportingforms of government from Amalgo to HonorCourt. Amalgo was required so we went, but wewere often bored; we knitted, dropped our nee-dles, and then felt guilty.What did we talk about? The weekend at Wes-

leyan, of course, not to mention Yale, and SenatorJoe McCarthy. Compulsory chapel, always a bonein our throat, and whether we would rather beRed than dead. How to stop '57 from winning fourCompet Sings, and the Hungarian Revolution.Cars for seniors on campus, and Mr. Kasem-Begwho slipped from Switzerland to Russia in thefifties. What Deau Burdick would look like in theFaculty Show, and the Korean War. And don'tforget the Pig Push.Sex at this time was not the pleasantly neutral

subject of discussion we are led to believe it istoday. As always, we either did or we didn't, butin that last decade before the pill, we didn't morethan we did. Not that we were not interested! Itwas just that in the context of our lives, influencedmore heavily by traditional concepts of morality,fear, and the State of Connecticut's laws on birthcontrol, we were only being prudent.As students we talked enough, but seldom

acted. Few worked at Learned House, spoke inchapel, or attended special lectures. Yet therewere marvellous speakers on campus: Eleanor

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Pres. Park with Madame Pandit Dean Burdick Anna Lord Strauss and Dr. Ralph Bunche

Roosevelt, Henry Steele Commanger, Anna LordStrauss, Arthur Schlessinger, Sr., to name a few.Practical politics were for folks like Eisenhowerwho paid a visit to New London, if not to the Col-lege. Adlai Stevenson touched many of us, butNixon and Checkers just were not our bag. Manyof us had no conception of the importance of theSupreme Court's civil rights decision in 1954. Twoevents did touch. us; one was the 1953 congres-sional investigation concerning academic freedom;the other was the Hungarian Revolution. Trustees,faculty, and students made official statementsregarding the first, and concern for the second ledto a drive for funds with which to help therefugees.When we think about college, it probably is not

so much events that we remember with affection,but names: Haines, Thuve, Evans, Bethurum, Dil-ley, Hafkesbrink, Cranz, Burdick, Chadourne,Baird, Noyes, and Strider, Suzanne Langer, Mul-vey, Goodwin, Meredith, Dr, Laubenstein and hisPalestrina singers. In 1951, Miss Hafkesbrinkand Mr. Cranz first taught "Forms of ChristianThought," a great course, as was Mr. Haines' cul-tural history. In 1955, the A.A.V.W. gave MissTuve an award as a "teacher of rare power," rec-ognition which her students applauded. Also in1955, Mr. Goodwin arranged for the preservationof Mamacoke Island, a natural area in the ThamesRiver, 40 rocky acres for $15,000. There are manymore names that surely made a difference tosomeone.Tuition escalated in five steps throughout the

fifties from $1,300 in 1946, to $2,550 in 1950. In1951, only one student borrowed money from thecollege for her education; in 1959, the number in-creased to 107. The median faculty salary in 1958-1959 was $6,500. How many of us would havebeen at Connecticut that year if our fathers earned

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$6,500? The approaching Fiftieth Anniversary ofthe founding of Connecticut College with its auda-cious $3,100,000 fund drive, fortunately provideda much needed impetus for planning ahead.Traditions sometimes had a hard time of it in

the fifties, and from the vantage point of the six-ties, it is easy enough to see why. For years onevery campus, the "collegiate business" has beendisappearing as students found other outlets fortheir interests, and colleges engaged more in di-alogue with the non-academic world. Connecticut,coming to the collegiate scene later than her well-known sisters, made a rather self-conscious effortto catch up in the matter of traditions at the verytime when that kind of activity began to waneelsewhere. Frequently, there was inordinate grum-bling, a dragging of feet, so that the enthusiasmand good work of a few was undermined by theapathy of the majority. Still, we remember theworthy Compet Plays, the lively Mascots Hunts,and Five-Arts Weekend - one of the best. Un-official traditions were "Trying to persuade HonorCourt you did leave New Haven in time," and"After hours sneak-in," not to mention "Beer oncampus and honor-court-justice down the hall."But the best tradition of all, and the most difficultto maintain, was the honor system.In her introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary

Celebration Publication in 1961, Dorothy Bethu-rum suggested that the only significant outwardrepresentation of a college could be "by the mindswhich have been touched by it." No matter howhard we try to recall campus, students, faculty,courses, or traditions, each of us must agree thatthe reality of Connecticut College is a private andindividual thing, inextricably bound up with whateach of us has become.

Carol Reeves Parke '58 and Joan Michaels Denney '58

Connecticut College Alumnae News. August 1969.

CONN CENSUSCONNECTICUT COUB

~. 25, No. 34 Tuesday, December 1NEW LONDON, CONNEGnCUT

Students Favor Co-edWith Exception of Cia

'Connecticut College studentsith distinct correlations be-;een class and responses) re-onded favorably to the pro-kl of admitting undergradu-e men to the student body in, recent questionnaire on co-'ucation.Results indicated that the'iger a student had been atjon the more likely she was topport co-education. The larg-t percentage of girls voting forceducaticn (80%) were rnem-Irs of the class of 1969. Sixty-

fie percent of the j<mior~%[the sophomores. and only 0%,I, the freshmen responded j.

Iely to co-educating Conn.; Class Trend.Fortv-two per cent of thejsbmen answered a definite;0" to the idea of admittingen as compared to 26%, 15%.'d 9% of the girls from theasses of 1971, 1970, and 1969spectively.:The greatest percentage of1pondents were from the class,,1972, 80% or 334 of 420 stu-~flts.Seventy-seven percent (285- 370) completed the question-ire from the class of 1971, 74%~l 0< 324) Irom the class 01'70. end 62% (180 01 288)em the class of 1969.• Favor 1 to 1 Ratio:rrhe majority of students from[ four classes favored the ratio~ 1,000 women to 1,000 men,:hough again the smaller per-'Iltages of girls favoring this:0.0 are found in the youngerdSSes. Seventy-four per cent ofIe seniors favor the 1 to 1 ratio•compared to 57% of the fresh·

"'-'Girls next favored the ratio of.;0 women to 1,250 men with'c senioc class voting 13% intor of this ratio and the fresh->in class voting 20%.:; Upper Classes Favor• Com>ecting Donns;'over half of the senior anduor classes (54% and 59%)me connected dorms with'ared living and dining rooms,.the kind of living arrangementty preferred. However, 48%:;the sophomores and only 36%:;the freshmen chose these liv·t a~moclati~m.

porters of coed dorms (but sep-arate floors, while 24% of thejuniors, 14% of the sophomores.and 12% of the freshmen favoredtills proposal.

Want Coed ActivitiesStudents voted overwhelmingly

against separated student gov-ernment, newspapers and otherextracurricular activities if menwere admitted; however asmaller percentage of studentsthought that women would notdefer to men in the leadershipof such activities.Thirty-seven per cent, 35%,

41 '7e-, and 43% fmm the classesof 1969. 1970. 1971, and 1972respectively indicated that worn-en.would defer tu men in extra-curricular nett vities.A smaller percentage of girls

from each of the classes re-sponded that women would de-fer to men in classroom discus-sions.

Differ On Necessity ofCo-education

The final question on the pollasked the student if she agreedwith the following statement:"Bringing men completely and

naturally into the academic andsocial life of the campus is fun-damental to the improvement ofundergraduate life and studiesat Connecticut College."

Afro-Am SO(Pembroke BI.For New Reel

by Dom

Black women on campus havfvoted to give their active supportto the members of the PembrokfCollege Afro-American Society inPembroke's demand for intensi-fied recruitment of Blade: stu·dents.Six months ago, PembrokE

Afro·Am presented a six-pointpolicy for recroitment, but be-cause of the "lackadaisical atti·tude" of the Admissions Office,Afro-Am confronted the admfnis~tration to reiterate their demands.The Pembroke Black women

1960Dear Abby:

Twelve years ago, my oldest sisterwrote you for some advice. Herboyfriend purchased a second-hand1951 Ford, added a supercharger, andwas given to drag racing on Saturdaynights. My father had encouraged herto look elsewhere for boyfriends--mainly because of the large blackrubber marks that scarred the drive-way. You agreed with father andadded that it might be unwise toplan on long term relationships withdrag racers.

The advice proved sound. Twelveyears later, Sis is now happilymarried to an electrical engineer,has three children and is expectinga fourth soon. Your wise solution tothe problem prompts this letter •

I am now a Senior at a fineliberal arts college in New England(which I shall refer to as C.ColI.). My first two years atcollege were rather uneventful. Ispent my first year trying to find aboyfriend, and my second year tryingto get rid of a boyfriend, while atthe same time enduring the usualtraumas that accompany the so-called"adjustment to college.ll For-tunately, Junior year was a differ-ent bag. Cherly, (that's my roommate) popped in one day with a bookthat she claimed was being read byall the REALLY great men at Yale.The book, The One Dimensional Man byMarcuse, opened my eyes to alf()fthe concessions that I had beenmaking to society. After furtherintensive study, I realized that thevery institutions I had been taughtto cherish were basically inhuman--that their very institutions werenot by the people, of the people, oreven for the people, but were essen-tially against the people. Now don't

ships, and endorsement ot transi··tional-year and/or Up war d •Bound programs,Further, they demanded ae·

ceptance of students from theabove programs and the settingup of a more realistic guideline

taJ(lng a single course at t..A>OIl,

including three in the new Blade:literature COl.lne and three in theGovernment seminar on the lawof civil rights.Eighty·three Com> girls will

be ?"aveling to ';VesleYan for a

:BATES:::TIVESsert Marcuse. ideological» the New Left at a symHl "RadiC'JI Perspectives:n New York Thursday r

"'A Bad Cat"Presupposing the inher

.ecnity of the Right ("Wwhat Nixon is, right, he'rcat. "), Oglesby traced Ivelopment of the NC\Y L.mluattng in the confidenthe Movement willAmerica.Criticizing the "Fortl

Nixonian Empire" as "tQoand predictable," 0 gstressed that "any man b.the affluent society cann,marching into the affludety with a martial beet

System Buries MalHe can anticipate ever

of his life from the morhis first job, first promotfirst ulcer until the day"The American system

hew to bury a man bet!any other," claimed Ogle

Youth Turns OnThe Movement coelesc

increasing number ofidentified the epproechiand one day "turned on tkind of politics."In this beginning, the !

ing Radicals "didn't knowas pushing them outThey had been poise

being voluntary exiles £1cultural system around tBut as youth discov~

same alienation amongthe Movement assumedcreased sense of its iroI='

A New ConfidencThis nC\Y confidence

strength of toclay's Mea movement unfolcentered. on youth dimwith the affluent ArneI'dety.These are "the peot:

cording to Oglesby "thaJsurvive as the system idon't want to wait for al"We're in this bec<i

don't have ariy choicethe main bearing of wha"to make the high hopes I

civilization rome true."We're Here"

"There's nothing to 1We're here. We are theconcluded Oglesby.

Tn " ........h-"" .. to- n.i£ 00';"

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misunderstand these strong words.I'm not saying that the people whorun these institutions are inhuman.It's just that they have lost oon-trol of the system. Our leadersdon't shape the system; the systemshapes them. The end produots arenumerous faceless, little people whoare organized, directed, programmed,and all that rot.Take our jocular manager down at

the supermarket. He wouldn't harm aflea. He just doesn't realize thatthe system which feeds his customersand pays his salary is the same sys-tem that starves its grapepickers.Well, I realize it and I told himso. And do you know what this in-sipid creature said? "Lady, thatain't my department." Imagine that.So I went home and laid this wholething out on the table one nightafter dinner. I asked my father towrite to the president of the chainand request that something be doneto change this situation. And do youknow what my father said? liMy dear,poverty is an economic fact of life--and besides, the company to whichyou refer is one of our largestclients. II

This example should give you apretty good idea of the problems Iface. I feel beset on every side bya combination of ignorance andavarice. At this point I can see noimprovement. The more I think aboutall my other problems, the more de-pressed I become. My hope is thatyou will be able to point out apossible solution.For starters, my parents (as pre-

viously mentioned) are intellectualpunching bags. Every time I hit themwith a left, they bounce every whichway to avoid coming straight back.If I were a more skilled debater, Icould really put them in a corner.But no, it's always, "There's nosuch thing as black and white," or"There's always two sides to everycoin"--words to live by, at thedinner table at least.As a lawyer, my father has become

quite skilled at the song-and-danceroutine. For instance, he always

oalls my boyfriend "buddy" or "son,"thus refusing to officially recog-nize that Harry'S name has legallybeen changed to Che. For thatmatter, Dad won't even accept thefact that Che is soon to become an"Old Blue." For years Dad hashappily financed my excursions toNew Haven in the hopes of addinganother Yalie to the family. Now heseems to have second thoughts aboutmy frequent road trips. He keepsdropping hints allover the placeabout the merits of our excellentlibrary at C. Coll., and the rewardsto be reaped from academic en-deavors. Naturally I countered thisapproach by setting the recordstraight. I told him matter-of-factly that I was not idling awaymy time drinking beer at the oldfrat house, that Che and I diddevote our weekends to matters of anacademic nature. Dad just has noidea of the planning and organiza-tion that goes into the simplestconfrontation. For example, it tookus over six months to convince theYale food service that such items asgrits, chittlin's, black-eyed peasand so on were a "must" on theirmenus. For some inexplicable reasonDad didn't buy my explanation.In spite of all these short-

comings, my father does have a fewplus points on his side. He deservesa little credit for occasional dis-plays of restraint and rationality.Never once has he urged Che to cuthis hair or trim his beard. My sus-picion is that one of his golf part-ners sold him on the mild-manneredapproaoh--"After all, if you ignoresomething long enough, it will goaway. II

Che's not likely to go away oreven shave off his beard for thatmatter, unless Uncle Sam and GeneralCandy Bar get their grubby hands onhim. If that is the case, which itvery well may be, we've got addi-tional troubles in store for us. Cheis by no means convinced that twoyears in the armed forces will "makea man out of him." The idea ofjoining the "action armyll leaves himcold. He would much rather pass up

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the opportunity to kill little, oldVietnamese ladies and stay alive.

I'm not as pessimistic about Chefslikely military career. I've triedmy best to keep his spirits up bypointing out that, if worst comes toworst, he could devise ways to makethe army work for him, instead ofvice versa. I suggested that heconsider setting up an undergroundpaper the likes of which the armyhad never seen. Che really liked theidea at first, but wondered how muchtime he would have for writing outon maneuvers. I suppose a portabletypewriter would not be an accept-able substitution for an M-14. Chejust must make use of his imagina-tion and not let the possibility ofkilling and being killed get to him.Let's face it, when you get rightdown to the nitty-gritty, if youhave to go, you have to go. In theservice your soul might belong toGod, but for three long years yourbody belongs to the post commander.That's the way it is.

All of this indicates a very un-certain future for the two of us.The position of the planets andcelestial bodies in our backgroundshas cast doubt on the possibility ofa successful, permanent relation-ship. As recent and loyal convertsto the cult of astrology, we believein these signs and have agreed that,in light of these circumstances,marriage plans are Qut.

Beyond the stars we both feel thateach must follow his own dream andwork out his own destiny for a fewyears. It had never occurred to methat I would have to make my ownarrangements for the future. I guessI always thought the future wouldarrange itself for me. ConsequentlyI've been in a race against time tocome up with a plan for next year. Ihad one real brainstorm a few weeksago and excitedly telephoned Mr.Bundy (who happens to be our nextdoor neighbor). He politely turnedme down for a Ford Foundation grantin the amount of$500,OOO. I wantedthe funds to set up a neighborhoodschool that would teach deprived

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children the theory of revolutionarysynthesis. Mr. Bundy denied myrequest because I couldn't definerevolutionary synthesis. Then, toadd insult to injury, he suggestedthat I visit our campus placementoffice. How can I possibly go overto the placement office when I wasone of the leaders in a movement toshut them down last fall?

To sum up my current mental state,I am really up tight. Abby, I'mcounting on you for some help.Please do not let my plea go un-heeded.

"Bewildered"

Margaret Ann Werner '68

Connecticut College Alumnae News. August 1969,

COMMENCEMENT: June the eighthAbove, l. to r. - President Charles E. Shain whoannounced the establishment of a new award,paying tribute to those graduates and friends ofthe college who have brought honor to her name.A three-inch bronze medal designed by Dr.William Ashby McCloy, chairman of the artdepartment, with bas-relief symbols ofknowledge, creativity, and achievement, will bepresented to those upon whom the honor isconferred.At Princeton this June, his own alma mater

honored President Shain with an LL.D., degree:"In a time of painful tension for private collegesand universities, he has nourished the tradition ofdistinction at the institution of which he is head,supported by the gaiety and wit that once led himto say of coeducation, 'After all, it's God's plan.'He is surely the only American college presidentever to hold a license as a Maine lobsterman andto paint his floats orange and black. With theknowledge born of experience as a teacher andscholar, and with affectionate confidence in thehigh promise of young people, he has said that 'astudent's line of work involves both the rhetoricof public learning and the poetry of privateself-creation.' "Dr. Whitney M. Young, [r., executive director ofNational Urban League, Inc., who gave thecommencement address. Graduates today are aunique generation, he said, for they are the first tohave within their power the destruction of

mankind, the first to take material things forgranted, and the first to view with cynicalcontempt a society that spends four times asmuch on a defense budget as on health, education,and welfare.Mr. William E. S. Griswold, Jr., newly electedchairman of the board of trustees,Below, L to r. - Cummings Art Center, newlocation for assembling the commencementprocession, Three of four alumnae honored by thecollege: Estelle Parsons '49, for "distinction as anactress ... at a time when the theatre and moviesare a greater force than ever before in ournational life. ": Gertrude E. Noyes '25, " .. , foryour versatility and quick conscience as a teacherand administrator; for your patience, compassionand cunning as a dean of students; for your readylaughter, your human vitality and your friendshipto all of us,"; Esther Lord Batchelder '19, seniormember in point of service on the board oftrustees, director before retiring of clothing andhousing research for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture,". , . for her scientific contribution to our nation'swelfare and for her devoted service to thiscollege."; a fourth medal was presented "inabsentia to Charlotte Keefe Durham '19, retiredheadmistress of The Dalton Schools in New YorkCity, and a trustee of the college since 1941.Matrix from which the bronze ConnecticutCollege Medal will be cast. The white armband fnrpeace, worn by many in the procession. Class day.

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Reunion: 1919·1969_ 50th anniversary of the alumnae association

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,IWhen class president Mirenda Prentis '19 burstforth with a startling "You've come a long way,Baby" at the reunion banquet in June, the capacityaudience cheered with all their might and main.They applauded the College, yes-but they rootedequally in honor of the forty-two returning mem-bers of the class of '19, for the 50th anniversaryof the Alumnae Association unquestionably be-longed to them. From the nostalgic display ofmemorabilia in the library arranged by MildredWhite '19, chairman, assisted by Pauline Christie'19 and Esther Barnes Cottrell '19; to WinonaYoung's reading of the 1935 reunion poem writtenby the late Miriam Pomeroy Rogers '19; to hearingRoberta Newton Blanchard '21 singing one ofher original tunes from that first musical, Halt!Cecelia; the success of plans made many monthsbefore by co-chairmen Virginia Rose '19 andEsther Batcbelder '19 probably never will besurpassed.

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With President Roldah Northup Cameron '51officiating, the evening moved from one surpriseto another, but two were outstanding. The firstwas Juline Warner Comstock's reading of her de-lightful tongue-in-cheek poem which brings '19right up to date with hippies. The second camewith the announcement that '19 was bestowingupon President and Mrs. Shain honorary member-ship in that class. This distinction, judging fromthe beaming expressions of the recipients, appar-ently exceeds or at least equals an LL.D., fromPrinceton.

The class of '19 was acclaimed once more whenthe news of their gift to the College was released$40,295! Other class gifts were: from '20, a Henr;Bill Selden etching; from '21, Andrew Wyeth'sbook, Andrew Wyeth; from '22, a ConnecticutCollege chair. Gifts of another nature were pre-sented to two members of the class of '25.A hand-some lei of fresh flowers arrived by air for Ger-trude Noyes from the Hawaii Club, and CharlotteBeckwith Crane received an elegant silver trayfrom Alumnae Association board of trustees rnem-bers with whom she had worked in the past. Forstill more news, see class notes.

34 Connecticut College Alumnae News. August1969.

Reunion: 1919-1969- on looking back and forward

Juline Warner Comstock '19, class historian

Just four and fifty years agoOne bright September morn,'19 arrived on campusAnd a wondrous dream was born.

We walked to town to shop - or pray,When skies above were fine,And saved the five cent carfareOn the Norwich trolley line.

Five buildings stood upon the hillBeside a chimney ta11-The boiler-house, New London,Plant, Blackstone and Thames Hall,

In World War I we strove to helpTo set all nations free:We knitted, farmed, bought bonds and tookNo sugar in our tea.

Fresh mortar-boards were strewn about(To lend a college air);Planks led across the muddy grounds,The winds tore at our hair.

With Shakespeare and EuripidesWe trod the boards with joy,And never asked, "Was Dr. Wells"A Hippie, when a boy?"

The paint was wet, the plaster tooWe had not light, nor heat;The hammers rang throughout Thames HallWhen we sat down to eat.

We played the faculty in sportsWith Prexy in the van;We had the Flu, we had a Gym!When Junior year began.

But Dr, Sykes was at the helmTo set our vision high,With famous colleagues Drs. Barr,Kip, Cary and Dean Nye.

Dr. Morris came to campusWhen Intelligence was new,And taught us how the ScientistsCould measure our 1. Q.

We Freshmen knew no upper class,And Seniors all were we,To pioneer in startingSome traditions at C. C.

Antartica was unexplored,The atom still was whole;Charles Lindbergh was a name unknownUpon our windy knoll.

Our mascot was a submarine,To plumb the sea of knowledge -The stonewall sing and mascot huntWere among our gifts to college.

No Coast Guard School across the roadSpread to the Thame's stream;The radio was dot-dash code,TV, an unborn dream.

For Shakespeare Week, 1916,Our thoughts with softness turn-To sunrise May Day madrigalsWitb Louis Adolphe Coeme.

Sound movies were twelve years away,But some of us had seenSheik Rudolph ValentinoStar on the silent screen.

Our hearts were innocent and gay-We had no suffrage then-But the universe was soon to change:Our world was ruled by men!

We soon learned Woman's destined roleIn that first magic year:Marriage was incidentalTo a purposeful career.

We ron to see an airplane-[Not one of us had flown];We baby-sat for facultyBefore the term was known.

Since then we've been allowed to vote;We've known a second war;It's only hours to Europe now-The world is at our door!

No lady smoked a cigarette,Bohbed hair was yet to be;We shocked our elders when we rolledOur hose below the knee.

The Seniors of those earliest daysAre 70, and grey;We're grandmothers, and most of usAre on retirement pay.

We waited table in Thames Hall,Our income to enlarge;[One hundred fifty dollarsWas the first tuition charge.)

But with geriatrics on our side,There's more work coming soon-They'll want educated womenWhen we populate the moon!

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Reunion: 1919-1969- alumnae college

Left~Patric:ia Wertheim Abrams'60 peering through Antoine Pen-cet's biomorphic abstraction inCummings Art Center. Pat, retir-ing general reunion chairman, isthe catalyst who by means ofrtrre assiduity, insight, and charmcrowned reunion '69 with a rec-ord attendance of 532.

Below-The lively discussion pe-riod at close of Alumnae College.Faculty who participated in "Con-necticut College: ChalIenge of the70's" are: Mr. Philip A Goldberg,associate professor of psychology;Mr. Philip H. Jordon, lr., associatedean of academic affairs and asso-ciate professor of history; MissHelen F. Mulvey, professor of his-tory.

36 Connecticut College Alumnae News. August 1969.

Reunion: 1919-1969- unforgettable

Right-Charlotte Beckwith Crane'25: ". in recognition of youroutstanding contribution to theConnecticut College Alumnae As-sociation. Together with yourexperience as class, club andAlumnae Association President,you brought to the post of Execu-tive Director your unique abilityto build and strengthen relation-ships. With unceasing dili·genes. good humor, charm endtact, you strengthened the bondof mutual interest between alum-nae and the college administra-tion, creating new opportunitiesfor alumnae cooperation and ser-vice. For eleven years, through asuccession of officers, directors,committees and club and classleaders, you provided the conti-nuity of wise planning which isnow reflected in a mature, re-sponsible Connecticut CollegeAlumnae Association. "Left-To Elizabeth J. Dutton '47:" in grateful appreciation ofher devotion to the College andher vital and continuing participa-tion in alumnae affairs. Capableexecutive and tireless worker, shehas given long and exceptionalservice in many capacities. TheClass of 1947, the Connecticut Col-lege Club of Boston and theAlumnae Association hove allbenefited from her talented leader-ship .... Those who have workedwith Liz have volued ond enjoyedher quick intelligence, her sereneapproach, her gift for the mostprecise and expressive phrase, andher distinctive sense of humor. JJ

Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award winners with Pres. Shain.

Solution to the doubte-crcsnc in the May issue:"I call upon all of our alumnae, parents, and friends to help us complete our Quest inthe years ahead, which will be momentous years for this College and for all Americanhigher education."

Author: Charles K ShainSource: Quest Bulletin of Connecticut College, October 1966, p.t.

~Top 1. to R. - Mr. Christopher Sykes, son of cC's first president, with Mrs. Sykes at '19's luncheon. Closs of '51picnic at the home of Phyllis McCarthy Crosby in Mystic. Audience at Alumnae College. Botton 1. to R. - '19sarriving from far ond near. A group of '44s who came to celebrate their 25th. Cheers/-lunch on the Quad. 37

for alumnae and prospective studentsSaturday, October 18

You are cordially invited to come back tocollege on Campus Day (formerly AlumnaeDay) and to bring adult guests and prospec-tive students. This will be the only announce-ment of this special October event. Pleasereturn the reservation form by October 8,with payment for luncheon.

One of the groups of high school seniors and juniors touring campus with astudent guide last October. This year there will be young men in the picture, too.

Please return this form with payment for luncheontickets by October 8 to:Sykes Alumnae Center.Connecticut CollegeNew London, Connecticut 06320

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Name --;:-::---:-c:- _(Married)

Address, _

(Zip Code)

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Make checks payable to Connecticut College.

Adults $3.00 per personStudents $1.50 per person

I shall attend Alumnae Luncheon _

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Connecticut College Alumnae News. August 1969.

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

Alumnae and Adult Guests Program

11 :00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Registration - Alumnae Office, Crozier-WilliamsIf bringing students, please register by10:00 a.m. Luncheon tickets at Registration Desk.

Guided Tour of Joanne and Nathan Cummings Arts Center

Luncheon - Elizabeth Harris Refectory

Luncheon Program: "The College Through the Eyes of Four Deans"

Jewel P. Cobbnew Dean of the Collegeand Professor of Zoology

Joan C. Kingnew Dean of Freshmen

Alice E. JohnsonAssoc. Dean of the CollegeAssoc. Professor of English

Margaret Watson '61Dean of Student Affairs

Lyman Allyn MuseumPalmer Library

BookshopSwimming Pool

Arts Center 11 :00 a.m. -12:00 noon2:30 - 4:00 p.m.1:00 - 5:00 p.m.all day8:30 a.m. -12:00 noon2:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Prospective Students Program9:00 a.m. -10:00 a.m. Registration: Alumnae Office, Crozier-Williams

(Picnic Lunch tickets at Registration Desk)

10:30 a.m. -11 :30 a.m.

11 :45 a.m. -12:15 p.m.

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

1 :15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Participation in a typical college classLecture and discussion: Arts Center Lecture Hall

Group Meetings with Admissions Staff and Student Guides

Picnic - Location to be announced

Tour of Campus with Student Guides

Students are on their own, to see more of campus,visit Lyman Allyn Museum, play tennis: swim:• Bring racquets, bafls, sneakers, bathing suits and caps

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Class NotesEditor of Class Notes:Mrs. Huber Clark(Marion Vibert '24)

East Main StreetStockbridge, Mass. 01262

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1919 Correspondent:Mrs. Enos D. Comstock (Juline Warner)176 Highwood Ave., leonia, N.J. 07605

ec's first Fiftieth is now incredibly a matterof history and 1919 has again had part in apioneering venture. 42 of the 72 now on theclass mailing list returned to campus plus 7'husbands. Briefly on campus also were 01daughters: Jessie Wells Laweence's MarjorieWeidig '45; Mary Chipman Morris's MarilynLee '42; Alison Hastings Thomson's Sally Por-ritt; Evelyn Bitgood Coulter's Jane Mertz '47and her 2 daughters. Christopher Sykes andhis wife Carita; Miss Cary of New London(still driving her own car); and Miss MaryDavis of Quaker Hill, the first CC librarian,were with us for the Saturday picnic. Mrs.Aida Watrous Spicer, first teacher of ceramics,had to send regrets, though she lives inGroton near Pauline Christie. From the ar-rival of the gold etchings (gifts of the book-store), to the final beautiful musical memorialin the chapel Sunday morning, the wholeweekend moved smoothly and impressivelyon schedule. Even the weather was not toouncooperative. A more detailed account ofthe weekend will appear in the class letter,but we must mention the especially movingtribute of our three "sister" classes who sentrepresentatives and gifts to 1919. From '20,represented by 15 members and 5 husbands,came an etching by Henry Bill Selden; from'21 Richard Meryman's handsome tome, An-drew Wyeth; from '22 a CC chair. All 3gifts will be used in strategic position oncampus. A special citation for achievement intheir chosen fields was awarded at Com-mencement to Esther Batchelder and CharlotteKeefe. This honor, first granterl by the Collegein June, is in lieu of honorary degrees be-stowed by other colleges and universities.Among those returning for the 50th were

Esther Batchelder from Rome, Italy; MaryRobinson from Seattle, Wash.; Ruth TrailMcClellan from Klamath Falls, Ore.: MargaretMaher Ruby from Long Beach, Calif.; AlisonHastings Thomson from Melbourne Beach, Fla.;Katharine Holway Goodwin from Augusta,Me.: Dorothy Lufkin Sampson from Greens-boro, N.C.; Emetta Weed Seeley and husbandfrom Durham, N.C.; Ruth Avery French fromGrantham, N.H.; Julia Hatch from S. Burling-ton, Vt. From Massachusetts came MarendaPrentis, Boston; Mildred White and JeanSawin Hawley and husband, Amherst; MayBackley Sadowski, Longmeadow; ElizabethHannon Corliss, Brewster; Margaret Ives,Worcester; Clementine Jordan Goulart, NewBedford: from Rhode Island, Amy Kugler,Wadsworth: from Connecticut Marion KofskyHarris, Florence Lennon Romaine, DorotheaPeck and Winona Young, Hartford; Sadie CoitBenjamin, Marion Shea Kirby and husband,Rosa Wilcox, Norwich; Beatrice Ashe Maher,Mildred Keefe Smiddy, Roberta Morgan Tro-land and husband, New London: Luna AckleyColver, Pauline Christie, Groton; EstherBarnes Cottrell, Mystic; Virginia Rose, Water-ford; Florence Carns, East Berlin; PriscillaFord Schenke and husband, Hamden; SueWilcox, New Haven; Gladys Stanton, Milford:Edith Harris Ward and husband, New Milford;Ethel Isbell Hubbard, Short Beach: from theNew York area, Evelyn Bitgood Coulter, PortWashington; Gertrude Espenscheid, Brooklyn;Charlotte Keefe Durham and husband, NYC:and from New Jersey, Juline Warner com,stock, Leonia.Questionnaires brought news of some who

could not come. Beatrice Boyd Maciel ofLivermore, Cal. lists 2 married daughtersand a son, Dr. Gary E. Maciel, ass't. prof. ofchemistry, U.C. Davis, who has traveled Widelyabroad holding seminars in chemistry. Beatricehas 8 grandchildren and enjoyed a trip east2 years ago, stopping briefly on campus. HelenCannon Cronin of Petersburg, Va. writes ofdaughter Catherine Fiser of Williamsburg and3 grandchildren. Before retiring, Helen for 10years had charge of the Whitneyville Libraryin Hamden, Conn. Dorothy Dart in Washing-ton, D.C. had hoped to attend reunion inspite of a fall some time ago. Madeleine DrayKepes, the new class secy. appointed to carryon Irma Hutzler's duties, was detained at

IN MEMORIAMURENA BRODERICK COLLINSHELEN CLARKE MACKINTOSHMARY McCROSKEY STEVENSERNESTA COPEMARTORIE GRIESE HICKOXJEAN GRANT JONESSUSANNE INGRAM RYANBARBARA RICH CHACECONSTANCE CLARKANNE CORBETT DeVILLE

home in Laconia, N.H. recuperating fromsurgery. Her 2 sons, plastic surgeon Dr.Joseph, and assoc. prof. Richard (St. Law-rence Univ.), are the fathers of her 8 grand-children. Dr. Josephine Emerson Stiles ofMartinez, Calif., retired physician, moth~r of2 sons and grandmother of 10, sent greetmgs.After losing her husband in January, DorcasGallup Bennett of Monte Sereno, Cal. had togive up plans to return to CC. She has 2 sons,John on the history faculty of Univ. of Pa.,and Dr. Stephen of World Health Organiza-tion in Geneva; a daughter, Helen Luctne, ofMonte Sereno; and 8 grandchildren. MildredProvost McElroy of Stamford, mother of 2daughters. grandmother of 9 and great-grand-mother of baby James DePaulis, and RuthStevens Symington of Hamden, mother of 3and grandmother of 7, also sent greetings.Reunion '69 was highlighted for the whole

college by Mildred White's vivid and variedexhibit in the library, set up in May and con-tinuing through the summer: photographs,programs, costumes, student handwork of1915. even early textbooks and Dr. Coerne'slittle May Day harmonium and some of hisoriginal manuscripts.Word has come of the passing in December

of Dr. Helen Bishop Thompson, first teacherof dietetics. The sympathy of her classmatesgoes to the family of Urena Broderick Collinsof New Rochelle, N.Y. who died in May.

1920 Co-correspondenls:Mrs. Philip Luce (Jessie Menzies)Apt. B- 902, 1715 Bellevue Ave.Richmond, Va. 23227Mrs. King Windsor (Marjorie Viets)350 Prospect St.Wethersfield, Conn. 06109

1921 Correspondent:Mrs. Alfred J. Chalmers (Anna M. Brazos)Boy.313, Rte 4Hendersonville, N.C. 28739.

Mary Agostini Bruni expects to spend thesummer in a new location in Florida, comingnorth for a short visit. Laura Dickinson Swifthas been to Williamsburg, Va. again and toCleveland for a few days with her daughter'sfamily who will vacation with Laura and Rayin New Hampshire this summer. CharlotteHall Holton and her husband are on a tripto the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Theyvisited with their son David and family inPalo Alto and with Charlotte's brother in ElCerrito. On their return they will visit Edmon-ton, Jasper, Banff and wherever the spiritmoves them. They spent last spring in Hawaii.Charlotte is "pointing toward 1971." DeborahJackson, retired in 1961, keeps busy withchurch work and 2 hobbies: collecting oldbuttons and old glass paperweights. She at-tended the paperweight collectors' conventionin NYC in May. Ruth McCollum Bassett visitedElla and together they enjoyed seeing MaryLouise Weikert Tuttle '23, and Gladys BeebeMillard in .New Canaan. Ruth lives with herdaughter Harriet '51. Ella McCollum Vahlteichwill be in Vermont from June to October. Shedevotes much time to helping friends in nurs-ing homes. Esther Pedrick Eliot enjoys hersmall town of Ovid, keeping busy in variousorganizations. Helen Rich Baldwin and Irvingplanned to return for reunion this June. Theirgrandson is in the National Episcopal Cathe-dral Boys Choir; Tommy and granddaughterCaroline will go on another trip to Canadawith them. Republicans, Mayflower, Washing-ton Hasp. Center, church, family activities,and Baldwin Assoc., keep her life full. Harri-ette Johnson Lynn planned to be at reunionthis June. Last December she had a train tripto Cal., and enjoyed a day with Edith shert,dan Brady and her husband Joe in L.A. Nowthat weather permits, Harriette plays golf 2and 3 times a week, walking the 18 holes. Onher return trip she stopped to see her sisterLouise and husband, the former dean ofNorthwestern Univ. Dorothy Wulf Weather-h~ad is enjoying her new home in LagunaHills, Cal. Dot plans trips to New MexicoUtah and Oklahoma this summer. Olive Little~hales Corbin and husband Emory are off toEurope in July to visit Amsterdam, Paris,

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London, Dublin and Edinburgh and attendtheatre festivals. Olive took the mother's rolein You Can't Toke It With You in May andnow says she will retire from the theatre forat least a year. A catalogue of her summerschool and camp, "Waya-Awi," in Me., camefrom Laura Bachelder Sharp. Batch is busyall year teaching and directing the teachingof students; she concentrates in the field ofdyslexics. For 4 successive spring vacationsshe visited Big Batch '19 and friend Jane Ebbsin Rome. After 7 years as chmn. of the Eng.Dept. in Forman School in Litchfield, Batchnow heads the Special Eng. Dept. at RectorySchool in Pomfret, Conn. Roberta NewtonBlanchard, class president, presented to theCollege at reunion a first edition AndrewWyeth book of color plates, many never hav-ing been reproduced before. Certainly a wel-come gift to the Art Center in honor of '19'$sctn reunion. Bobby's 12 grandchildren arethriving. Eleanor Haasis is busy with GirlScouts, directing a day camp for girls, asCancer Soc. VP, and as Garden Club his-torian; she saw Kathryn Moss '24 while shewas in Aiken. Al and 1 (Anna Mae BrazosChalmers] seem to be on the move most ofthis year. We were in Florida from Fehruaryto April. After a short time at home we wentto Vermont to welcome another grandchild,Alec. Does anyone have the address of MarthaHouston Allen? Mail to her Charleston, S.C.address has been returned.Dorothy Pryde wrote after reunion that ten

members of our class returned: Louise AveryFavorite, Dorothy Gregson Slocum, Doris Pat·terson German, Marion Bedell Kelsey, HelenRich Baldwin, Marion Adams Taylor, HarrietteJohnson Lynn, Roberta Newton Blanchard,Olive Littlehales Corbin and Lydia MarvinMoody. '19, '20, '21 had a box lunch togetheron the quadrangle between Blackstone andPlant and, true to form, had to dash intoBlackstone to avoid the rain.

1922 Co-correspondents:Mrs. David H. Yale (Amy Peck)579 Yale Ave., Meriden, Conn. 06450Miss Marjorie E. Smilh181 Irving Ave., Providence, R.1. 02950

1923 Correspondent:Alice P. Holcombe59 Scotch Cap Rd.Quaker Hill, Conn. 06375

Mary Langenbacher Clark writes of a busyyear with local activities in Montclair, partlcu-larly the "mobile meals" project. This springshe was on a committee to allocate moneyraised by the Montclair AAUW-College wom-ens Club for scholarships to top-rankinghigh school seniors. Leora Peabody Cunning-ham is Hvtng in New London after being inWashington for 17 years with NSA. This sum-mer she plans to return to Athens where theyhave an apartment, and from there visit Greekislands which are of special interest becauseof her specialization in the classics in college.Marion Page French lives in Belmont, Mass.with 3 children and 11 grandchildren nearby.She and her husband go to Florida during win-ters, and last March had a fascinating tripthrough Big Bend National Park in Texas.Elizabeth Moyle Gould writes that her great.granddaughter Deborah enters CC kindergartenin September and adds "ho-hum." MarcillLangley says she has a humdrum Hle, but Imet her in the Concord, N.H. Arts & CraftsCenter where she is volunteer salesgirl, and Iknow she is associated with a fascinating shop.Elizabeth Dickinson Clary is building a housein Peterboro, N.H. where they plan to live afterher husband retires in September. Jean Pegramhas not completely recovered from a brokenhip suffered a year ago. She has been Jivingwith her sister in Short Hills, N.J. for a yearbut expects to return to her home in SouthOrange this summer. Dorothy Randle was dis-appointed that she could not make reunion lastJune, but hasn't yet worked out a magic formu-la for being in two places at once; she sendsgreetings to all our ciassmates. Tennis still in-terests her and keeps her well occupied. Mil·dred Seeley Trotman is caught up in activitiesother than being class agent. Finishing andsettling the "chalet" in Brookside, N.T. takesmuch time and energy. Seeley continues herinterest in music as president of the MornsCounty Community Concert Assn. and lay ad-visor to a student music committee at a newcounty college in her area. As class agent, shereports enthusiastically of this year's contribu-tions and is pleased that 1923 remains in thetop 10% category, but looks for better responseby the end of the fiscal year. Adelaide SatterlyTuthill plans to move near her daughter, butuntil that can be arranged, she is in real estate

in Mattituck, L.I. Julia Warner keeps involvedin civic and church activities in Dennis, Mass.She had a beautiful trip to Arizona this winter,and in January returned to Smith College tosubstitute temporarily in a new senior dormi-tory. There was no president's report to '23 ofAlumnae Council because a howling snowstormon the Cape prevented Judy from even startingout, and no last-minute substitute was avail-able.

Although the death of Gwyneth Rees Gregorywas noted in our May issue, I want to callspecial attention in our own column to thisloss of our classmate.

1924 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Bernard Bent (Eugenia Walsh)Washington Grove, Md. 20880Kathryn MossP.O. 80x 1334, New london, Conn. 06320

Our 45th reunion in June was a standout ac-cording to the 29 of us who were on hand, andour appreciation goes to our fine Reunion Com-mittee: Janet Crawford How, chmn.; HelenDouglass North, Peg Dunham Cornwell, Vir-ginia Eggleston Smith, Katherine Hamblet,Gloria Hollister Anable, Kathryn Moss, andMarion Sanford. On campus, in addition to thecommittee, were Grace Church, Dorothy Claw-son, Merial Cornelius Carton, Eileen Fitzgerald,Helen Forst, Madeleine Foster Conklin, MinnaGardner Thompson, Virginia Hays Fisher, AmyHilker Biggs, Elinor Hunken Torpey, OliviaJohnson, Margaret Kendall Yarnell, Aura Kep-ler, Emily Mehaffey Lowe and husband Jack,Ava Mulholland Owen, Marion Vibert Clark,Eugenia Walsh Bent, Harriet Warner, GladysWesterman Greene, Dotha White and LucilleWittke Morgan,

All of us app recrated the care with whichthe College and the Alumnae Associationhoused us so comfortably and conveniently.We were in Wright, named for Miss ElizabethWright (Big Bear, whose sister, Miss Mary,was Little Bear). There we had the use of acomfortable lounge where we foregathered andbrought each other up to date on families,friends, travels, and received messages ofgreeting from classmates.

Glo brought with her many photographs, andidentifying ourselves brought screams of recog-nition and disbelief. Since Glo gave the pic-tures to the College, our likenesses will godown in history. Regarding history, the attrac-tive buff and blue flowers carried during theweekend were made for us by Cynthia Stone,daughter of Sally How Stone '48, and grand-daughter of Janet Crawford How, and of Doro-thy Stelle Stone '20, Members of the early CCfaculty at the Friday dinner were Miss Cary ofthe French Dept. and Dr. Jensen of Amer. Lit.fame.

Our own Big Occasion classwjse, was un-questionably the luncheon-picnic held at theinvitation of Ginnie Eggleston Smith and herhusband, Joe, in Old Lyme. There we wereserved highly superior food and drink by theSmiths, assisted by Luke Wittke Morgan andher husband, Dick. A welcome visit was paidus by Mr. William Griswold, Chmn. of theBoard of Trustees, who also lives in Old Lyme.Too soon the rain forced us inside, but themove gave us the opportunity to enjoy atcloser range Ginnie and Joe's lovely home.

The class meeting was held before and dur-ing the luncheon. Katy Hamblet reported thatour treasury was in danger of depletion, andexplained that '24 operates not on an annualclass dues system, but on voluntary contribu-tions made at reunions and at other times asthe spirit moves us. The spirit moved most ofus to make contributions then and there, andKaty was pleased that we were once moresolvent. Douggie, our phenomenally ableA.A.G.P. chairman, informed us that resultsof our contribution for 1968-69 would be an-nounced at the banquet and emphasized thatcontributions would be welcome through June30.

Wearing another hat, as chairman pro tern ofthe Nominating Committee, Katy Hamblet pre-sented the slate of officers for 1969-1974, whichwas unanimously approved: Pres. Mrs. DavidCornwell (Peg Dunham), 135 Highland St.,Wethersfield; v-pres. and Reunion Chmn. Mrs.J. Colin Smith (Virginia Eggleston), Old Lyme;Treas. and Chmn. of Nominating Comm. MissKatherine Hamblet, 506 Lowell Bt., Lawrence,Mass.; Secy. Miss Marion Sanford, 114 Vaux-hall St., New London; A.A.G.P. Chmn. Mrs,David North (Helen Douglass), 242 Orange St.,Box 1718, New Haven; Class Corres.: Mrs, Ber-nard Bent (Eugenia Walsh), Washington Grove,

Md., and Miss Kathryn Moss, P. O. Box 1334,New London.

Our next move was from Old Lyme to thebanquet on campus. It was '19's evening, andenthusiastically recognized as such by every-one present. High points were the recountalof the college days of the class, marvelouslywritten and delivered in light verse by JulineWarner Comstock, and the address by Ma-renda Prentis, '19'5 permanent pres. In herwonderful compound of Yankee humor andmovingly expressed sentiments, Prent talkedabout how and why some _of the members of1919 came to CC. Never has there been such asuccessful reunion, and all because of '19'swonderful spirit, wit, astuteness, and theirsense of mission of still leading the way. To'19 from '24: Our gratitude, our admiration,affection and cheers! And to Douggie and Katyour thanks for acting on their thought.

The money rolled in at the banquet; neverbefore have class gifts been in such generousamounts; Pres. Shain beamed with pleasureand expressed his appreciation. The AAGPgift of '24, announced by Kay Moss, classpres., was $5,851.65 which represented 77.60f0of the class. The total of the gift will be in-creased by the close of the fiscal year, June30. Our thanks to Douggle, our AAGP chmn.who has taught us how to give and like it.We're proud she's ours.

On Sunday some of '24 went to the Chapelservice. We also visited the new Joanne andNathan Cummings Art Center (feeling pridethat an alumna is co-donor), went to the Ar-boretum including Bolleswood, drove downtown in New London, to the beach, visitedfriends, and finally said goodbye. The week-end was a wonderful lift, and a great dealmore. Send news items to either Genie or Kay,at addresses above.

1925 Correspondent:Dorothy Kilbourn84 Forest St., Hartford, Conn. 06105

On returning home from the hospital aftera short bout with pneumonia, Ellen McGrathfound valuables missing, but luckily she re-covered two mink coats, jewelry and someantiques. Margery Field Winch spent 6 monthsin her new mobile home in Briny Breezes,Fla., but is now at Cape Cod for the summer.After 4 years, she finished her Famous WritersCourse recently, and was thrilled to sell amagazine article on radiesthesia. She alsoenjoys painting and has sold one picture. Arecent article in the Hartford Times on his-torical signs in Connecticut quotes CatherineCalhoun, executive director of the TorringtonHistorical Society as saying, "If we markedeverything of historical significance, there'dbe a sign on every hitching post." The His-torical Society of Westfield, Mass. will besupported in its 300th anniversary celebrationby Lowell and Marie Barker Williams. Theyhope to find time also for the usual Cape Carlinterlude since sons Ronald and Roger arebuilding near the old Barker home. Theyvisited son Douglas near London this springand enjoyed the historical spots throughoutWales. Mullie saw Isabet Bullis Montague atthe 250th anniversary of her home town, Sun-derland, and again when she visited theMontagues' sugar camp. She was a surpriseguest at the 40th wedding anniversary of Allenand Janet Goodrich Dresser, for whom shehad been matron of honor. [ane t has 5grandchildren, daughter Joan living nearby inRockville and Grace in Vermont. Janet writesof retirement this summer, she from churchactivities and Allen as superintendent ofschools. Ethel Smith Brown has recently beento C.C. for a scholarship fund bridge andfashion show. As she lives in New London.she keeps in touch with Gertrude Noyes andHelen Ferguson. Charlotte Frisch Garlock andBob had a winter vacation in Puerto Ricoafter a bout with the Hong Kong flu. Bob Jr.and his family of 2 children are moving 10Recine. wfsc. where he will be productmanager of the juvenile division of WesternPublishing Co. Son Peter is working on hisPh.D. dissertation. Marion Walp Bisbee is en-joying the leisurely life in Florida, painting(flowers preferably] in oil and water colors.Your correspondent avoided the snows ofNew England with a month in Mexico. Adozen camera buffs made excellent com-panions and I learned some of the jargon butnone of the expertise. I have better memoriesthan pictures.

The In Memoriam list in May gave thename of Olga Gennert Greene. Her daughter,Joanne Greene Baker, wrote that her motherhad been in poor health for two years andhad never recovered from the death of [n-

anne's brother.Constance Parker reports (from reunion

weekend) that one of the honors bestowedon Gertrude Noyes, retiring as Dean of theCollege, was the Senior gift - a music studioin the new Arts Center, presented to the Col-lege in her name. Charlotte Beckwith Cranereceived an Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award and,in addition, was given a silver tray repletewith the engraved signatures of the 58alumnae who served on the Executive Boardwhile she was Exec. Dir. of the AlumnaeAssn.

1926 Co-correspondents:Miss Hazel M. Osborn152 East 94th St..New York, N.Y. 10028Miss Marjorie E. Thompson162 East BOthSt., New York, N.Y. 10021

1927 Correspondent:Mrs. L. Bartlett Gatchell(Constance Noble)6 The FairwayUpper Montclair, N.j. 07043

The Quest Party in New Jersey, a cham-pagne reception, highlighted the year for theAlumnae clubs here. Pres. and Mrs. Shainwere warmly feted and after Dr. Shain's talkon co-education plans, more men than wo-men asked questions. Among the '27s wereyour correspondent, in charge of publicity,

~ c~'" and Eleanor Vernon. Nubs is-~W)it-:. section chief, histology, at~""':JJ Mountainside Hasp. An expert.\.~ nature photographer, she pho-

~ togmpbed the wild flower thatEmily Koehler Hammond discovered; it re-sembles the pale pink Spring Beauty but isbright yellow. The Bklyn. Botanical Gardenverified it as a new species of Clay tome, andit may even be named for her. Barbara TracyCoogan says that if anyone wants to add pix ortext to the Class Book, please contact her,otherwise she'H save it for Reunion 71. Coo"gan Summer '69 is a busy one starting withMatthew's graduation from Harvard College,Peter's from Harvard Law School, and Eleanorarriving from Seattle for the double event.When she and her 4 return West next fall,they will go to Cal. where her husband ishead of the Pomona College Art Dept. Rosa-line and her 2 are spending the summer withcousins on a Vermont farm. Esther vars duBusc writes, "Book 27 compiled by Bob isintriguing and wonderfully well planned."Last winter Esther fell on the ice and brokeher hip. After 7 weeks in the hosp., she wasstill on crutches. She is a member of the CCCentral N. J. Club. The duBuscs have 2 sons:Richard, a Columbia grad works for Pan Am,and David graduated in Tune from AlfredVniv. Louise McLeod Shute refers to the sadoccasion when she and Ethel Woodruff Pulsi-fer, Ruth Stevens Thornton and Ruth Hlfch-cock Walcott attended the funeral of NathalieBenson Manley, and writes that the rest of thegroup are fine and enjoying grandchildren.This year Ethel's daughter and son gave her2 more to love. In March Louise visited Wini-fred Maynard Wright in Florida. Helen JordanDuffy was ill in the hosp. for 2 mos. but is~. )c;1~ feeling fine again. Cora E, Lutz,.VJ\,~W!J one of the country's outstanding

I\?I.. ~ medieval scholars, is leaving her.\.,;.,,; post as head of the classics

dept. at Wilson College, Cham-bersburg, Pa., to go to the Beineke Rare BookLibrary at Yale as paleologist. Cora is re-cipient of 2 Guggenheim fellowships anda Kellogg Research Award, and has re-searched manuscripts in famous libraries inEngland and on the continent. On a Bol'lin-gen Foundation fellowship, she recently gath-ered material at 51. Gall Library, Switzerland,for her forthcoming book, The Schoolmastersof the Tenth Century. She has also givenpapers before such learned societies as PhiBeta Kappa and the American PhilologicalAssn. Eleanor Richmond Smith went to a teafor prospective CC students. "They looked soyoung"! Ritchie says the Cincinnati Club isvery active. Esther Chandler Taylor has apleasant job at the Univ. of Vermont. "But myMary's assignment is exciting. She is at the 41

NATO base in Izmtr, T.urkey, and gets freemilitary hops to explore the area. She is nownurse Captain Taylor and will stay at the baseuntil Jan. 1970 when he.r enl.istmen! ,~s up.Susan flew to visit her Sister In Aprfl. Tesssees Gwendolen Lewis HoiU quite often. Gwensaid they'd like to form a '27 group in thevicinity "and have a lunch-together in Bostononce or twice a year." Elizabeth Leeds ~atso.nwelcomes the idea. "Boston U," she said, :'lSbusy as ever. Semester exams come early wh.lchis good for students but rough on secretaries.Boston Symphony and B.U. productions helpto make life worthwhile, but a gang reum~nwould be FUN." Annise (Azee) Clark Htilwent to the wedding of Carl's brother in !heBoston Univ. chapel. Her Crissie is teachingfor a year in Australia and Norman is taking. agrad course in business in New Haven. Whilemotoring in Florida in May, we called onclassmates Florence Hopper Levick and Flor-ence Surpless Miller, both happy with newgrandchildren. We found Laura Drake Goddardmoving into a condominium on Sarasota Bay.Bart and I were on our way to Island-hoppingthe Caribbean Sea from Trinidad to the GrandCayman. In June we drove north to ceteb~ateBart's 45th reunion at Amherst College. Hitchand Lyda Chatfield Taylor sent the names ofNathalie Benson Manley's two daughters whoare CC grads. We extend to them our sym-pathy.

1928 Correspondent:Mrs. Alexander C. Mitchell(louise Towne)15 Spruce St., Cranford, N.J. 07016

1929 Correspondent:Mrs. Thomas L Stevens(Adeline McMiller)287Overwood Road, Akron, Ohio 44313

Phyllis Hein1z Malone, our class treasurer,represented us at Alumnae Council in Mar-chin place of Catharine (Speedro) Greer who wasill.Winifred Link Stewart is suggesting a memo-rial fund from friends of Helen Hergert Kings-bury who died 6/22/68 in Seattle. Winnie sug-gests that hooks for the CC library be pur-chased in the fields of child and adult develop-mental psychology or in music, both fiE;ldswere Helen's especial interest. Anyone WIsh-ing to contribute, send check to Mrs. GilmanStewart, 321 Lakeview Ave., Rockville Center,L.l., N.Y. 11570.

1930 Correspondent:Mrs. Paul T. Carroll (Ruth Cooper)6017N. 16th St., Arlington, Va. 22205

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1931 Correspondent:Mrs. Richard M. Jones(Constance Ganoe)25 8100dy Brook Road, Box 728Amherst, N.H. 03031 ,Mrs. Fred Hariff (Mary More)22 Redbrook Road .Great Neck, N.Y. 11024

Thirty-siX memhers of the class ·gathered forour 38th reunion; 12 hushands were present(8 over last year) and judging by their smilingfaces, they will all be back again.At our class picnic on Saturday, presided

over by Melicent Wilcox Buckingham, thisslate of officers was accepted: Pres. ConstanceGanoe Jones; VP and Reunion Chmn. JaneMoore Warner; Secy. Thursa Barnum; Treas.Alice Hangen; Class Agent C. B. Rice; NewsCorrespondents Marie-Louise Holley Spanglerand Wilhelmina Brown Seyfried. BiIlie Wilcoxalso announced the change in reunion sched-ules from Dix to anniversary years; thereforewe must wait until our 45th in 1976. Havinghad such a wonderful time, many felt 6 yearswere too long between reunions, so a move isafoot to return in about 3 years under theaegis of Class of 1911. This suggestion wasroundly encouraged by the husbands.We were housed in Hamilton House, and

had the house fellow's lounge for our meetingplace. This made for gay times, but did keepC.B. up until 2 :30 since her room was part ofthe suite, and there was no point in going tobed whilst festivities were going on.We were especially proud Saturday night at

the banquet to present to the College the sec-ond largest gift of the classes reunioning_over $35,000. Our grateful thanks to all of ourclassmates for their generosity.

If we had a long distance trophy, BeatriceWhitcomh would have won it, coming fromClearwater, Fla. We could include with hertwo part-time Floridians, Ruth Griswold Lauch.heim and Jane Williams Howell.

From all of us _ the warmes~ thanks to our. h n Elizabeth Hendrickson Matlack,

:~~lf:rgCotmn;t one detail, from bulletin b?a~dfor notes and telegrams, to thed.besj PIC~~Cs ot on campus, to the tasty goo res or ~l -n1ght get-togethers, and for the most /~~lblename tags on campus for the benefit a o.sein the bt- or tri-focal stage. And very .speclalthanks to Bob Matlack and Clyde uucktngbamwho abiy assisted their officer-Wives In a mil-lion ways. dTo classmates who could not atten. - you

don't know what a grand time you missed.

1932 Correspondent:Mrs. Edward T. Clapp (Ruth Caswell)5 Brainerd Drive, Portland, Conn. 06480

Dear Class: You missed it! We had a superti e back on campus because after one gets;~r the initial shock of seeing the age pro~essat work, everyone comes into focus, the I.Inesfade away and youth is reborn. 545 rntlledaround, 112 of them husbands. S?san W. Com-fort, chmn., and Mercia Ma~ RlCh~ds, pres.,held down '32 headquarters m J:familton, partof the great new complex. In spite of enervat-ing heat, we buzzed away as, one by one, thelittle band arrived: Mabel Barnes Kna?ff, Syl-via Hendel Irwin, Margaret Leland wen, M~ryMaxon Pearson, Priscil1a Moore Brown, MartenNichols Arnold, Dorothea Petersen So.uth-wortb, Elynore Schneide~ Welsh, S?san wtstarComforf, Mercia May Richards, Mildren Solo-mon Savin and I, Ruth Caswell Clapp. Threehusbands, Savin. Irwin and Southworth bravedit. With 1931'5 35 class and 13 husbands, plusother class delegations near us, there werelenty of familiar faces. The buffet, breakfasts~nd banquet were catered with perfection.Having read 2 of the homework books, I wasprepared for Alumnae College and. found thediscussion stimulating and ravealtng of thecurrent trends. We were quite awed by thenew Arts Center which was available for thesesessions. The patio picnic at Mabel BarnesKnauff's home was rained out but we relaxedin her family room and transacted business.Those elected are: pres .. Susan Wistar Com-fort; vtce-prea., and reunion chmn., MildredSolomon Savin; secy., and class correspondent,Priscilla Moore Brown; treas., Cecelia StandishRichardson· nominating chmn., Mercia MayRichards. Sue appointed Elynore SchneiderWelsh class fund agent. Appreciation was ex-pressed for the 30 who forwarded class dues.the only source of income to run our alumnaeaffairs. Saturday afternoon, while some wereat officers briefing meeting, Mary Maxon Pear-son, Marion Arnold, Elynore Schneider Welshand I had a nostalgic time down by the oldHugenot and took a gUided tour of the fasci-nating 1672 Hempstead House nearby. Havingrecently visited Mary and Dr. Pearson at theirold stage coach tavern, "Clayville Museum"(full of their pioneer Americana) out nearSpringfield, Ill., I could appreciate her interestin New England antiquity. All too soon it wastime for the banquet which turned out to bea choice affair. The response in reminiscentverse and speech by the class of '19 to honorsgiven them as the first 50th reunion class wasdelightful. President Shain's remarks showedhis pride in and concern for our college. Allthis led up to the moment when Mercia Rich-ards announced our class gift which had beenraised by Mildred Savin. class fund agent.42.90/0 of the class contributed $3,515. $1000 ofit was the gift of Carryl Simonson Wasserman,who has thus become a "Laurel Giver". Whatwe felt in the banquet hall. the Harris refec-tory, was the joy of women of all ages sharingpride in their Alma Mater. Gone were the get-ups, the skits, the singing (this last to be re-gretted); instead a grown-up though foreveryoung fellowship of educated women whocould bring husbands along to share it. Sundaymorning weather was enough to make anyoneroll over and forget it, but 10 hardy womenand 2 young men were piloted by Prof. Good-win and his wife on an arboretum nature walk.Who really cared about breakfast? Nonethe-less, Barbara Mundy Groves and I skidded intothe last of the line. Following Alumnae Assn.meeting came the final and fitting close to itall- the commemoration service in HarknessChapel for 158 who have died over the years.The comfortably filled chapel was a pleasureto be in after last reunion when so few at-tended. Mildred Savin's daughter Nancy, hav-ing her 10th reunion, sang with exquisite toneand feeling, Eleanor Tyler '30, Alumnae Assn.director, can be well satisfied with the effortsshe made to help execute a perfectly splendidweekend. Since the Dix plan is going out andMilestones are gradually coming in, the next

opportunity for us will be in 1973. See youthen! Ruth Caswell Clapp, retiring secretary.

1933 Correspondent:Mrs. Thomas C. Gillmer(Anna May Dergel1 Shipwright HarborAnnapolis, Md. 21401

In February Eleanor Husted Hendry's daugh-ter Susan married Preston Edward Van FleetHenley. Martha Johnson Hoagland's son Erikmarried in January; he is in the Army teach.Ing in helicopter school in Alabama. Son Vin-cent Jr. teaches at Sonoma State College, Cal.Marty took a week's leave from teaching andflew to Seattle where she welcomed her firstgrandchild, Erika, born to daughter Johanna.Dorothy Hamilton Algire's son Don marriedin April and lives in Colorado. Bank secre-tary Judith Epstein Rontman reports fromPhoenix 2 grandchildren and the graduationfrom the Unlv. of Arizona of #3 daughter.This winter Harriet Kistler Browne and hus-band cruised the Caribbean and visited theirold home on Water Island in the Virgins; elderson teaches in Abington, pa. and 2nd sonis a naval pilot stationed at Patuxent NAB.Harrie and Beatrice Whitcomh '31 enjoyedmeeting at the newly formed alumnae group inthe Florida area. Eleanor Jones Heilman reoports a new granddaughter. the child of sonDick Jr., a radiologist er the med. center inBurlington. Vt. Beano enjoys her work in Phila.as admissions aide chmn. The Heilmans andDorothy Wheeler Spaulding and husband spentan evening together last winter. The Heilmanaspent part of March in Hilton Head. ElizahethCarver McKay remarried last year and nowhas 9 children and 6 grandchildren; husbandWalter is a professor in the Dept. of Aero-Astronautics at MIT. Last winter Ruth FerreeWessels and husband were in Cal. whereRuthie and Winifred DeForest Coffin spent a"giddy" day in Hollywood, then dinner withhusbands at the Coffin apt. En route East theWessels got together in Detroit with AliceKelly McKee and husband. Watch for WinifredDeForest Coffin who just starred on the TVshow Lancer, episode "The Lorelei" due forrelease in the fall. Winnie and husband Deanhave 7 grandchildren, among them twin boys.Marjorie Fleming Brown and husband. cruisedthe Caribbean last winter and vacatIOned atFlorida resorts. They feel fortunate to havetheir children and grandchildren living nearbyin the Atlanta. Ga. area. Elsie DeFlong Smithenjoys her work at The Travelers Insurancein Hartford. At the Gallery House in PaloAlto, Cal. Joanna Eakin Despres had a verysuccessful art show, selling a number ofworks; other shows are planned. Jo's husbandEmile is recovering from a stroke suffered lastDecember. The Despres' 3 children are allmarried and have added 4 grandchildren tothe family circle. Helen Peasley ~omb~r andhusband love their new home lD WlDston-Salem, N.C.; Son Jim visits from D.C. DaughterNancy lives in Texas {her husban.d is a lawyerin JAG] and Helen visited them lD June whenher first grandchild, John Jr .• was .bor.n. J?~eGriswold Holmes reports a busy hfe 10 CIVIC

affairs and happy reunions with .classmat.esMary Eaton LeFevre, Dorothy Tomkmson Fair-bank, Elizabeth Miller Landis, all of whomlive in the Cleveland area. It was good to se.eGrace Stephens and Victoria Stearns th.lsspring when we lunched together ?ere 1DAnnapolis. Vicki has bought a house in Poto-mac, Md. horse country and was busy ga~den~ing and sewing curtains. Gay was planmngsummer of travel.

1934 Corresponden/;Mrs. J. Arthur Wheeler(Ann D. Crocker)Box 454, Niantic, Conn. 06357

A detailed leUer with all news availableabout our classmates was sent out shortlyafter the 35th reunion in June.In Memoriam _ Mary McCroskey LaPrelle

Stephens and Ernesta Cope.

1935 Co-corresponden!s:Mrs. Thomas S. McKeown(Ruth A. Fordyce)2141 Ridge Ave., Apt-3-AEvanston, III. 60201Mrs. Eugene S. Backus(Catherine A. Cartwright)27 Halsey DriveOld Greenwich, Conn. 06670 d

Margaret {Peg) Baylis Hrones' first gran -son, Jared Roach, is getting swimming lessons)at the age of 3 months. Dorothy (PeteyBoomer Karr and Neal spent 6 weeks in

Florida and then went to Cambridge, Mass.to the wedding of daughter Judy '60 on May24. Hazel Depew Holden and Hap visited Peteybefore they left for a month in Hawaii. Eliza-beth [Betty) Bronk is busy in community workin Greenwich. Corinne (Rene) Dewey Walsh, alicensed insurance broker, is active as pres. ofthe Women's Club in Arlington, Va. Herdaughter Diane with her doctor-husband and2 children live nearby while her older son isin Puerto Rico. Virginia (Ginny) Diehl Moor-head for the 9th year is teaching educablementally retarded children. Ginny's son Samwas recently released from the Service. RitaDriscoll Marzucco helps her husband in hisbusiness, track and field sports equipment.Elizabeth (Betty) Farnum Guibord's daughterBarbara wiII be a CC student in the fall.Merion (Joey) Ferris Ritter, fully recoveredfrom major surgery, is busy with church workand the Red Cross. She and her husband wereat CC (for Father's Weekend) where daughterRuth is completing her first year. Margaret(Peg) Fields is doing social work in Greenwichschools. Adele (Jimmie) Francis Toye writesfrom England that she works 2 days a weekat her old office and studies art and Russianfor the balance of the week at Barnet College,and has just been to Italy with her art class.Jimmie's daughter Mary, with her 2 sons,stayed with the Toyes while the father at-tended a course in London. Jimmie's son Johnis married and working toward his master'sdegree in economics. Her husband is nowsemi-retired. M. Elizabeth (Betty) GerhartRil:hards' daughter is a student at Drew Univ.Virginia (Ginny) Golden Kent had a write-upin the newspaper of the Women's Aux. ofOverlook Hasp. in Summit, N.J., of which sheis historian. Mary A. Goldwater Abrons is aboard member of the Martha Graham Centerof Contemporary Dance. She works twiceweekly as a volunteer under the NYC Bd. ofEd. teaching conversational English to youngchildren for whom this is a second language.Charlotte (Ham) Harburger Stern bravelywrites of her illness during the past 4 years.Ham's daughter Debbie is married and lives inFlorida: her daughter Bon is with AmericanAirlines. Martha Hickam Fink is luncheon hos-tess at Trilby's in Ocean Springs, Miss. whereRudy is running for mayor on the first Repub-lican slate in the town. Martha's older sontakes commercial pilot's training while Albert,her youngest, is in Vietnam as a first It.Madlyn Hughes Wasley's daughter Pamela wasmarried on June 14 to Rikk Larsen, a Williamsgraduate, and after a European honeymoon,will live in Farmington for a year. MaryBlatchford Van Etten is completing her 30thyear at Lasell Junior College in Auburndale.Mary and John enjoy week-ending at theircamp in Bridgeton, Me. Barbara (Bobbie)Hervey Reussow has returned from their win-ter home in Boca Raton, Fla. Catherine (Kaye)Cartwright Bal:kus' son Stephen graduatedfrom Boston College and received an Armycommission. Irene Larson Gearing and Lesannounce the marriage of their daughter, AnnGriswold, to Gary Allan Heckmann in Bristol,Conn. on Apr. 26. Ann graduated with honorsfrom Hood College. Audrey LaCourse Parsons'son Jay will be a freshman at Univ. of R.I. inthe fall. Audrey expects to live in Plymouthand get a job. Marjory Loeser Koblilz is exec.asst. to a human relations agency. Doris Mer-chant Wiener writes that her step-son, Sgt.Frederick Robertson Wiener, is home on leavewith 4 medals and a Purple Heart for valor inaction in Viet Nam. Doris' husband is receiv-ing an Honorary LL.D. from Cleveland-Mar-shall Law School in Ohio: Doris is active inher church. Rebecca (Becky) Nims Troland islooking forward to a relaxed summer with hergranddaughter 2. Son Tom will be a senior atAmherst; this summer he will work on a spe-ctet astronomy project at the Univ. of Mass.Lois Pond is busy "being a one-man workgang" on her new house. Prisdlla SawtelleEhrlich resigned from Shedy Hill, where shetaught for 12 years, to become a member ofthe American advfsnry team for elementaryschools in 5 states. Daughter Sally has a 6-year-old daughter. Priscilla has done someprofessional modeling and finds it most amus-ing. Mary Savage Collins' son Bill graduatedfrom Western Reserve Academy and will enterN.Y. Univ. this fall; Tom will be a senior atB.U., and Tara in her second year at NYU.Grad. School. Elizabeth (Beth) Sawyer is happyteaching at the Un iv, High School at Storrsafter the tensions of 16 years in the "innercity school" in Hartford. To celebrate their25th wedding anniversary, Dorothea (Dottie)Schaub Schwarzkopf and Kurt flew to Germanyto visit friends and relatives, They visited Aus-

tria and Italy before returning in March totheir .; children. Ceil Silverman Grodner isstill active with her baby sitter service "whichhas grown geometrically rather than arithmet-ically, am ed. chmn. and vice-pres. in Hadas-sah, take a Bible study course, give book re-views to various groups." Lois Smith Mal:Gie-han's daughter Judy's husband, Dr. Charles R.Wood, veterinarian, is now in practice forhimself south of Pittsburgh. Mabel SpencerHajek is a part-time eecy. for a law firm: sheis busy with her garden and plans a trip toMartha's Vineyard. Mary (Polly) Spooner Haysis in her 6th year as exec. dir. of the BigWaters Girl Scout Council covering 6 countiesin Michigan. Polly visited her son [chn andhis Argentine wife and 2 babies in Asuncion,Paraguay. John is with Standard Oil. Polly andJohnny covered 20,000 miles traveling in SouthAmerica. Daughter Emily '64 is married to aHarvard graduate student in Sch. of Design.Emily works for a shop which imports Scan-dinavian furniture. Daughter Barbara is asenior at Michigan State. Nand Walker Collinshas had to give up work connected with ar-chaeology since the Junta took over in Greece.She contents herself with an old hobby, deal-ing in antiques, and is busy lecturing and ex-hibiting. Mary (Skippy) Wall Mct.eud's chil-dren are all married and she has 4 grand-children. One son is asst. VP of a Bostonbank; other son and daughter live in Cal.Mildred (Millie) Wanner Wilson's daughterand granddaughter live in Dallas: son has an-other year at Albright College in Reading, Pa.Millie is taking a college course to become aschool librarian. Vera Warbasse Spooner isbusy as city councilman and racing their newCal-36. Marion (Marty) Warren Rankin'sdaughter Jean completed her first year at BeloitCollege. Marty, Doug and Jean last summervisited Scotland, England and Switzerland.Doug just attended his 35th reunion at TrinityCollege, Hartford. They anticipate a sailingsummer. Margaret (M.T.) Watson O'Neill andBill are going to Australia in August for the6th World Orchid Conf. Bill Jr. is in 3rd yearmed school at Duke and will be working in ahospital in Portland, Ore. this summer. Daugh-ter Marcia was married Feb. 7 to Lawrence J.Olsen and lives in Tarzana, Clif. Steve, a highschool senior and his band The Trademarquesare going to L.A. to produce an album thissummer. Marion White Van der Leur's hus-band Rene is still at Research Lab of UnitedAircraft doing his crystallography. Son Johnis in 1st year high, and went to Spain duringspring vacation. Marion does volunteer workat church homes and rings handbells with anadult group. She and the "Hartford group"will be celebraing the 25th wedding anniver-saries of Neal and Lois Smith MacGiehan, andKurt and Dorothea Schaub Schwarzkopf. Mar-jorie Wolfe Gagnon visited Spain and Moroccolast summer. In December she broke her hipthe day after she was voted by the board ofHomerfca to be asst. secy. Ruth WormellePatten's son Charles is now a junior engineerat Hollingsworth & Vase; she has 1 grandson.Daughter Midge will be a freshman at Univ.of N.H. in September. They will spend partof the summer on the Cape, part in Maine.Rufh Worthington Henderson and Jim, head-master of the Blake School in Minneapolis,"plod happily along with too much to dowe must now persuade Jim to send some ofhis 550 boys to CC." As 2nd VP of the Alum-nae Assn. (club relations) she is in close con-tact with 44 clubs in the U.S.A. including the2 newest, Hawaii and Rhode Island. Ruth re-turns to campus 5 times a year for meetings,and also works 3 days a week at B. DaltonBookseller. The Hendersons this summer willbe in Great Britain visiting schools and Jimwill give talks by request on student unrest inAmerica. Agatha (Gotha) Zimmerman Schmid'sdaughter Susan '64, married 1/16/66 to JamesCalderwood, now lives in Vinalhaven, Me.Gotha was in Seattle with son Charles and herdaughter-in-law, Linda Dexter Schmid '64"chasing Andy 2 when Jenny was born May3." Gotha is still active with Red Cross volun-teer service and military families.Our deepest sympathy to Maude Rademan

Hickey whose daughter-in-law 26 died recently

leaving 2 small children. Esther (Marty) MartinJohnson's husband Bob died Apr. 20 after avery long Illness. Our deepest sympathy toher and her family. In August '66 Harriette(Webbie) Webster Kyndberg lost her husbandJohn. She lives alone now in Tucson. Our deep-est sympathy to Webbie and family.

1936 Co-correspondents-Mrs. Alys G. Haman (Alys E. Griswold)Ferry Road, Old Lyme, Conn. 06371Mrs. Elmer Pierson (Elizabeth Davis)9 Riverview Street, Essex, Conn. 06426

1937 Correspondenl:Mrs. Emma Moore Manning(Emma Moore)304 Santa Clara WaySan Mateo, Calif. 94403

Leonore Gilson Williams' older son Eddiehas married. All the family attended the wed-ding in Tucson, Ariz. Debbie, a science major,is transferring to Syracuse Univ. from Cen-tenary Junior College: Mary enters CC thisfall. John 7 is "a delight - good company!"Adelyne Gitlin Wilson has 2 married daugh-ters - both social workers. She and her hus-band are teachers in elementary and juniorhigh schools. They anticipate a world toursoon. Virginia Peterson Sarles stilI teaches 3rdgrade in Meriden and enjoys it. She is plan-ning a Hawaiian trip in August with onedaughter to visit the second daughter and ag-year-old grandson. Katherine Kirchner Grubbreports on her first grandchild, offspring ofBarbara Grubb Lumb '65. She and JosephinePratt Lumb '36 thus are mutual grandmothers.Fay Irving gqufbb'a oldest son sailed in Juneon a 54' ketch for a two-year round-the-worldcruise. She has 3 married daughters and 2children still at home. Margaret Ross Stephanhas 3 sons, 2 married. "II's great to be agrandmother"! Jim Jr. is an Air Force captain:WaH a Ph.D. candidate at Univ. of Minne-sota; and Gordon is serving with VISTA.Peggy is on her second two-year term as presi-dent of the Twin City Alumnae Club. She andher husband are headed for Europe this sum-mer. Dorothy Wadhams Cleaveland is off toAustria to be with her daughter who is ex-pecting II baby. Son Robert is in the Air Force.Dot works part-time, does church work, andsupports the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. Herhusband died in 1967. Elise Thompson Bailenis active developing a Theater Arts Center inHarlem where they have set up a sound re-cording studio and are seeking funds for jobtraining. She's also on the board of Settle-ment Houses Employment Development, seek-ing contracts for supportive and remedialtraining for hard-core uri-or under-employed.Her oldest girl, Ann, enters Smith this fall:Emily is a junior at Spence; Tom is in 3rdgrade. Mary Reynolds Lemmon is in Anchor-age, Alaska, where her army husband is sta-tioned. She has four children: Kellyn a sopho-more at the Univ. of Syracuse; Marya fresh-man at Alaska Methodist; Michael at The HillSchool; and a Little Leaguer "anxiously await-ing the salmon runs." Barbara Fawcett Schrei-ber has one married daughter. Her son Ralphreceived his Jurist Doctorate from Akron Univ.this June. Barbara and daughter Susan are offfor Europe this summer while the youngest,Linda, is in camp. Barbara serves on the Can-ton Bd. of Ed., boards of the Canton Symphonyand Girl Scouts, and is in her 15th year as'I'reas , of the Blind. Theodora Hobson visitedHawaii last summer with 2 nieces and visitedthe oldest niece at Univ. of Virginia. In hermany travels Tippy manages to see many'37ers: among them Cornelia Tillotson, Mar-garet Coulter, Estelle Campbell Leetch, Gret-chen Kemmer wheelock, Rebecca HolmesHazeltine, Norma Bloom Hauserman, PearlMyland Kaufman has 3 sons: Davis an internat Montefiore Hospital in NYC, Michael inmed school at Univ. of Chicago, and John at-tending trniv. of N.C. Pearl and her husbandare traveling to the Orient and Hawaii thissummer. She is presently working on a mas-ter's degree in student personnel administra-tion at Teacher's College at Columbia Univ.

1938 Correspondent:Mrs. William B. Dolan (M. C. Jenks)755 Great Plain Ave.Needham, Mass. 02192

~)'',.CJ '" Elizabeth M. Fielding has been'~l'W ',J appointed special and confiden-

1i/!"- ..li9 tial assistant to the assistant\...~! Posmaster General, the first we-- man to hold such a position in

the 194-year history of the P.O. Dept. Thishonor suitably caps a career which beganwhen Elizabeth worked her way through CC 43

�s postmaster of sub-station No.1, New Lon-don. In addition to research and public re-lations posts, she has worked on capitol hillas legislative aide and exec. ese't.. and asconsultant and writer for several congressmen.

1939 Cnrrespontlent-Mrs. Major B. Ott (Doris Houghton)172 Marylyn Ave., lansdowne, Pa. 19050

Virginia Taber McCamey and husband leftin May on a trip to study conservation devel-opments in the national parks of the South-west and West, ending with a month in Ha-waii. Upon returning Frank will becomedirector of Seven Ponds Nature Center inDryden, Mich. Imogene Bliss Williamson hasbeen acting in NYC since December, 1966, firstin Maro/-Sade, then in the musical Your OwnThing; she has also done TV work. Our 30threunion was a great success. Aside from theusual activities the '39 class picnic was heldat the summer home of Beatrice Dodd Foster'sparents at Groton Long Point. Those returningwith husbands were Catherine Ake Bronson,Eunice Cocks Millard, Martha Dautrich Price,Elaine DeWolfe Cardillo, Beatrice Dodd Foster,Henrietta Farnum Gatchell, Doris HoughtonOtt, Barbara Meyers Haldt, Carol Prince Allenand Nancy Weston Lincoln. Also returningwere Glady!! Alexander Mallove, Hannah An-dersen Gri!!wold, Dorothy Clements Downing,Grace Hecht Block, Helena Jenks Rafferty,Gwen Knight Nevin, Mary Ellen (Polly) SalamStevens, Maryhannah Slingerland Barberi andMargaret Robison Loehr. Elaine DeWolfe Car-dillo's husband, now a Navy captain, is sta-tioned in Washington; they have moved toAlexandria, Va. Barbara Myers Haldt decidedto give up volunteer work and become secre-tary to the principal of Chappaqua MiddleSchool. Her son. a Navy ensign, is at C.LC.School in Georgia. Carol Prince Allen's sonDouglas just graduated from the Univ. of NewHampshire and is to be married in July. GraceHecht Block received her M.A. in libraryscience from Pratt Institute. Nini CocksMillard recently became the grandmother ofStanley Millard 3rd, while Nancy Weston Lin-coln is boasting of a new granddaughterNancy.It is with regret that I announce the death

of Ann Lawson Downing. We extend our sym-pathy to her family.

1940 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Charles I. Forbes Jr.(Gladys Bachman)Five Brook lane, Plainfield, N.J. 07060Mrs. William J. Small(Elizabeth lundberg)131Sewall Ave., Brookline, Mass. 02146

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1941 Correspondent:Mrs. Ernest 1. Shaw (Jane Whipple)521Altavista Ave., Larshmere ManorHarrisburg, Penna. 17109

Sybil Ward Smith's older daughter Gill wasmarried last Nov. to E. Ellis Noe in Boulder,Colo. Both are graduates of the Univ. ofColorado. Can Peter is a senior at Colby Col-lege and Martha is in high school. ElizabethButler Cordelli works as a case worker withthe Dept. of Social Services. Ebie's son Glennis a sophomore at Am. Intern'l. College inSpringfield, Mass. and her daughter Sue isbusy applying to colleges. Elizabeth Kirk-patrick Gray is an ardent worker for the GOPin R.l. Dorothy Gardner Downs is now agrandmother, her son Tommy the proud father.Margaret Jane Kerr Miller and Thea DutcherCoburn (classmates in high school and in col-lege) have both been elected now to boardsof education, Kerry in Glen Ridge, N.J. andThea, chr. of the regional organization of sch.bds., to the board of the State Ass'n. of SchoolBoards in Conn. Thea is auditing a course fordocents who are museum guides at the Wads-worth Atheneum. Kerry's son Gary enteredDelaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa.Daughter Janet graduated from Radford Col-lege in Virginia and teaches science at OrangeHigh School. The Millers celebrated their 25thanniversary with a great surprise party. Doro-thy Cushing Redington's son Rick graduated

from Austin College and is in medical sc?~olin Galveston, Texas. Teddy attends. Tr~mtyCollege and plans to work in the all fiel~sthis summer. Jackie makes the honor roll III

high school. Dotty is a counselor of ThomasJefferson High School. Edythe Van Rees con-Ion is the proud mother of a daughter accep~edat CC on the early decision plan. C~l~Svisited Henrietta Dearborn Watson at Min ssummer home in Kitty Hawk, N.C. last sum-mer and they had an endless gabfest. TheConlons enjoyed a trip to Ireland, Englandand Holland. Lorraine Lewis Durivan tooklime from her interior decorating shop inEssex to visit Mexico with her mother anddaughter Nan. Son Tom graduated from Tulaneand on to law school. Son Don is at Colgate.Mary Anne Smith Schmidt's daughter Susantransferred to CC last fall from Sweet Briarand will graduate on our 30th reunion .. She isinvolved on campus in sports and hterarywork and will spend her junior year at St.Clare's, Oxford, in an English h~nors pr.o-gram. Son Jeff graduated from trntv. of Vl.r-ginia and now attends Univ. of Richmond LawSchool. Mary Anne finds time for golf and theCouncil of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Ourson Michael graduated from high school andis a lifeguard for the summer. He plans toenter our community college.Sincere sympathy to the family of Marjorie

Griese Hickox who died in April. She was arecent past president of the Cleveland CCClub. Her daughter Linda was in the class of'69.

1942 Correspondent:Mrs. Douglas O. Nystedt (Susan Smifh)Rte 302, GJen, N.H. 03838

1943 Co-correspondents:Barbara Hellmann52 Woodruff Rd.Farmington, Conn. 06032Mrs. John S. Morton (Mary Jane Dole)15 Bay Vista Dr., Mill Valley, Calif. 94941

Our class prexy, Hildegard Meili Maynard,is back at work as editorial researcher for amagazine with offices very near home. Afterattending Alumnae Council, she stopped atElizabeth Goodrich Barnes' in Pine Orchard,Conn. the day after Liz's son Jonathan hadbeen married. Liz currently holds the classrecord with 6 children. Daughter Alison startsher senior year at Baldwin-Wallace College.The Maynards enjoy every fall on MonheganIsland, Me. where Art paints and studies theeternal sea. Class treasurer Barbara MurphyBrewster works full time as a PS librarian. "Iseem to have to keep going to school toplease some idiot in the State Ed. Dept. andthis is a great bore. I've rather outgrown thestudent bit and I never was a scholar. On topof everything else I'm a registered Democrat" rElizabeth Roth Lewis is now in her new houseon Rumsey Island, Joppa, Md. "It's really mar-velous to be able to swim, fish and boat rightin your own front yard." Frances YeamesPrickitt's son Chris is entering Colby on earlydecision in September. Jane Audrey BakkenBeeta announces a new addition, a GermanShepherd, and says another 25 years is toolong to wait for reunion. Jean Nelson Steele'seldest daughter is now married, Ellen is inthe nurses' training program at N.Y. State,while Cindy and Bill keep their home jumping.Nan Christensen Carmon's "son John gradu-ated from McAllister Institute of FuneralService last September, cum laude, first in hisclass and winner of the Dr. McAllister scholas-tic award. He is serving a 2 yr. apprentice-ship with us and it's wonderful to have himin business with us, and engaged to LindaSmith of Windsor, a junior at Middlebury.Next son Bill is a junior at Windsor High,plays football, is VP of the Student Council,and also intends to go into funeral service.3r~ son Richard is a soph at Windsor High,WIth scouting his main interest, having at-tained the rank of Life, with Eagle withinsight. Daughter Margie enters 7th grade inSeptember, a horse and pony enthusiast, shehas worked several years on a pony farm."Nan does the bookkeeping for Frank, takesorgan lessons, bowls and was chairman of theParsonage Furnishings Committee of the Wind-sor Methodist Church. Ruth Wilson Cain tooktime off from her job as admissions aide inBuffalo, N.Y. to attend Alumnae Council. InAugust, daughter Claudia presented Ruthwith a grandchild, Marcy Stephens. DaughterSusan is dedicated to and enjoying CornellUniv. 's School of Nursing. Mary Lou ElliottDearnley writes of a family trip a cinq toEurope last summer before daughter Kimentered CC class of 1972. Daughter Cynthia is

in her senior year while son Christopher is a4th grader at Germantown Academy. HusbandJim continues his studies at Philladelphia Col-lege of Bible. Ruby Zagoren Silverstein's ac-tivities include lectures on slavery, Israel, anda new pubication, Venture for Freedom: TheTrue Adventures of an African Yankee, herfirst prose book which is a biography of aslave in colonial Conn. Chuck Beers, husbandof the late June Wood, says Sue's marriage onJune 14 to Capt. Michael Hester, USMC(USNA '65) followed her graduation from HoodCollege. Son Skip just finished 6 months train-ing for the "Nukes" at Sub School in NewLondon. Our champion golfer. Kathryn (TA)Hadley Inskeep, won the Women's ClubChampionship in Richmond, Va.Evelyn [Fltv] Silvers Daly's only son, Nelson,

[r., was killed May 28 in an auto accidentwhile returning home from his sophomoreyear at Davis & Elkins College. Her husbandNelson died in July 1967. We send our loveand extend our sincere sympathy to Fliv. Oursympathy also goes to the sister and familyof Ruth J. Wood, who died Jan. 31 in Chicagoand to Helen Borer Jackson on the loss of herbeloved father.

1944 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Neil D. Josephson (EliseAbrahams)7 lantern LaneWethersfield, Conn. 06109Mrs. Orin C. Willer (Marion Kane)7 Ledyard RoadWest Hartford, Conn. 06117

1945 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Walter Griffith (BettyJane Gilpin)8704 Hartsdale Ave.Bethesda, Md. 20034Mrs. Norman Barlow (Natalie Bigelow)20 Strawberry Hill, Natick, Mass. 01760

1946 Correspondent:Mrs. Sidney H. Burness {JoanWeissman)280 Steele RoadWest Hartford, Conn. 06117

1947 Correspondent:Mrs. Philip Welti (Janet Pinks)5309 N. Brookwood Dr.Fort Wayne, Ind. 46805

Joining the growing contingent of '47 in theWashington, D. C. area are Barbara Otis andMary Eleanor Frenning Kovach. Oates was ap-pointed confidential asst. to George Shultz,newly appointed Secy. of Labor in Pres. Nix-on's cabinet. For the past 6 years Oates livedin Chicago where she was exec. eecy. forShultz while he was dean of the Grad. Sch.of Business of the Univ. of Chicago. MaryEleanor's husband George is dir., Off. of Gen.Scientific Affairs, InU. Science and Techno-logical Affairs in the Dept. of State. Heroldest son enters college this fall. Mary Edithis in high school, while twins 10 and Peter 8complete the family circle. Margaret SlirtonMiller earned her M.A. in education 4 yrs.ago and continues to teach in Niantic, Conn.Last year she had a student-teacher from CCunder her supervision. Her oldest daughter isa soph. at Boston Univ., son Leeds a sr. inhigh school, and Gordon in jr. high. TheMillers purchased a ski camp in Vermontwhere Peg, to escape k.p. duty, is learning toski. Following her remarriage in 1959, EftimaVelles Troupakis moved with daughter Made-line to Athens, Greece, where her husband isa captain and skipper of a destroyer in theRoyal Hellenic Navy. Madeline is a snph. atMarymount International School in Rome with95.5 average and is a member of the Nat'1.Honor Soc. The family is settled in a newhome outside of Athens with a breathtakingview of the city. Eleanor (Terry) FarnswortbSlimmon volunteers with Planned Parenthood,Women's Exch., Family Service; teaches Sun-day Sch. and serves on her church Guild bd.as treas. Daughter Betsey is a sr. at RogersHall in Lowell. Mass.; Rob is a sr. at Prince-ton. Husband Bob continues as general agentfor A::tna Life in Fairfield County. LucindaHoadley Brashares is the wife of the lead min-ister of the United Methodist Church of LaHabra, ·Cal. Her 4 children attend differentschools from high school down to churchnursery school. A main interest is serving asoc-chmn. of the elementary school librarywhere she works directly with the students andteachers. Patricia Hendrix Metropolis lives inNew Mexico where Nick, one of 50 scientistswith the Manhattan Project, designs computersat the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Patand her 3 children enjoy the magnificent COUD'

tryside. Marie Hickey Wallace reports fromLitchfield, Conn. that her children range inage from pre-nursery sch. through jr. high.She is involved in many youth-oriented ac-tivities - Y Board, Arner, Field Servo andScouts.

Our class president, Lorraine Pimm Simpson,asked that I report that our 25th reunion willbe celebrated on the actual 25th year -1972.Let make plans NOW to attend.

1948 Correspondent:Mrs. Peter Roland (Ashley Davidson)7 Margaret Place, Lake Placid, N.Y. 12946

1949 Co-correspondents:Mrs_Robert A. Duin (Phyllis Hammer)106 Quinn Rd., Severna Park, Md. 21146Mrs. B. Milton Garfinkle Jr. (Sylvia Joffe)22 Vista Drive, Great Neck, N.Y. 11021

1950 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Joseph Mersereau (Mary BUlldy)3738 Chain Bridge Rd., Fairfax, Va. 22030Mrs. Richard T. Hall (Polly Hedlund)34 Glen Avon DriveRiverside, Conn. 06878

1951 Corresponden/:Mrs. Lester P. Jones Jr. (Chloe Bissel!)1125 Cambridge Blvd" 5.E.Grand Rapids, Mich. 49506

1952 Correspondent:Mrs. Virgil Grace (Margaret OM!201 W. Lally sr., Des Moines, Iowa 50315

1953 Correspondent:Mrs. Frank R. Pahland (Dorothy Bomer)4900 34th Road N, Arlington, Va. 22207

We had a reunion turnout of about 30 gals.Highlights for us were Miss Mulvey's contri-bution to Alumnae College and the reminis-cences of the Class of '19 at the banquet.Meals were delicious. Many thanks go toKatharine Gardner Bryant and Ann HutchisonBrewsler for the fine job they did in makingarrangements for our class. Loretta BerryWalker is living in East Lyme with her hus-band and 2 young sons. She invited us to herbeach house for our picnic Saturday, andsince it rained the entire afternoon, we madeuse of the house rather than the beach. EvaBluman Marchiony lives in Montclair, N.J. Herhusband is an account exec with the Point ofPurchase Advertising Agency; they have 3boys: David 11, Bill 10 and John 5. Eva ispres. of PTA and works with the curriculumcommittee for the Montclair Adult Schoolserving 5000 students a year and providingcourses from liberal arts lectures to chaircaning. Alic:;e Bronson Hogan lives in Green-wich, Conn.; husband Frank is an actuary inNYC. They have 4 boys: John 9, Jude 7, Fran-cis 4 and Patrick 10 mos. Patricia Browne Hun-ter Jives in Springfield, Mass. where she isa kindergarten teacher; her 3 children arePamela 13, Bradford 10, Martha 7. Nancy Camp,our new class pres. lives in Georgetown,Washington, D.C. and teaches at PotomacSchool in McLean, Va. She is spending thesummer at her family's homes in Middlebury,Conn. and Weekapaug, R.I. Phyllis CoffinHodgins is moving from N.Y. to Bethany,Conn. where her husband will be with Uni-ro~ al Co.: their son is now 13 and Phyl contin-ues her teaching career. Elaine Fridlund Lesterlives in Waban, Mass. with daughter Nancyin 8th grade and son Peter in 5th; her husbanddoes med. teaching and research at B.U. whereElaine also works as secretary. Joyce Helasen-butteI Neill lives in Wellesley, Mass. whereher husband manages product analysis forElectronic Data Processing Div. of Honeywell;they have a son, Jonathan 211:. C. J. HirschGinder lives in Silver Springs, Md. and hus-band Sam works for IBM; their children areJanie 13 and Nancy 101/r. C. J. is pres. of PTAand active in politics. Patricia Kohl Hadlowlives in Kensington, Conn.: her husband iswith the Stanley Works, New Britain. Daugh-ter Jessica is 511r and son Frederick Williamwas born Nov. 30. Susan Manly Price lives inGeorgetown, Mass. Husband Gordon owns afrozen food business and Sue is general help-mate. Their children are Alec 13, Martha 11,Tommy 8 and Catherine 7. They vacationed inBermuda last February. Jane Muddle Funk-houser lives in Weston, Mass. Her husband isanalytical chemist with Arthur D. Little; theirchildren are Eddie 10, Tommy 8 and Susie 6.Janie is the new chairman of reunions for theAlumnae Ass'n., and also chairman for theSkills Bank, a clearing center for volunteersfrom the suburbs to work in Boston. Kit Gard·

ner Bryant lives in Cohasset, Mass. Her hus-band is in advertising and their daughterSusan is now 31h; they all enjoy sailing. Theyhave hopes for a trip this year to visit John'ssister in Spain and old friends in Denmark.Jeanne Garrett Miller lives in Port Washing-ton, L.I. with husband Harry and four chil-dren: Jim 11, Sue 9. Linda 8, and Gail 6. Harryis an officer with [ens Risom Design, Inc. ofNYC, producers of quality Danish furniture.Jeanne is VP of her PTA. The family leftshortly after reunion for an extended vacationin South America. Ann Gordon Steele lives inPittsburgh where her husband is an orthope-dic surgeon; her children are Allison 111/"

Paul 10 and Gordon 8. Ann is VP of St. Mar-garet Memorial Hospital Dispensary Board.Ann Hutchison Brewster lives in Ardmore,Pa. and husband Bill commutes to his bankingjob in NYC. Hutch keeps busy taking care oftheir large house and making many of her ownclothes. Diana Jackson Mather lives in Villa-nova, Pa.: her husband is a paper merchant.They and their 3 children, Lindsey 12, Tracy11 and Tori 7 enjoy swimming and skiing.Diana also works with the AA. Barbara Lam-mert Shaw lives in N. Stonington, Conn. whereher husband is superintendent of schools. Theyhave 5 children, 3 boys, 2 gitrls, 15-5. JudithMorse Liltlefield lives in West Boxford, Mass.where her husband remodels houses; sheworks for Bell Labs as a digital programmer.They have a daughter Barrie 7. Patricia Mott-ram Anderson lives in Amherst, Mase.: herhusband is a prof. at the Vniv. of Mass. Patrecently received her M.A. in economics fromth Vniv. of Delaware. Their 2 children areCarol Ruth 2';' and Russell 7 mos. BarbaraPainton Doyle lives in New Bedford, Mass.where her husband is with the N. E. PetroleumCo. Her three children are Patricia 11, Michael10 and Jennifer 6. Barbie directs child carecenters for the Supportive Communities ofNew Bedford. Joan Rudberg Lavin lives inNeedham, Mass. Her husband is pres. of theRobert C. Lavin Corp., a company concernedwith air pollution control. Joan has 3 children,Janet 10, Debbie 9 and Nancy 4, and is activein Camp Fire Girls activities. The wholefamily is looking forward to a summer at theshore at their house in Duxbury. ChristinaSchmIdt Stevens lives in Jenkintown, Pa.where her husband is in charge of steward-ship for the Episcopal Diocese of pa. Their 4children are Mary 14'12, John 131/!, Bill 11 andKate 9. Marion Skerker Sader lives in Briar-cliff Manor. N.Y. Her husband commutes toNYC where he is TV producer for an adagency; their children are Luke 10, Emily 7and Ward 4. Marion does volunteer work forthe Ossining Day Care Center. Lois WaiteTownsend lives in Swampscott, Mass. with 3children, Terry 11112, David 10 and Stephen 7,and husband who is a civil engineer. They areactive in Little League and have just built acamp in Maine. Sally Zellers Wallace lives inFairfield, Conn. where her husband is a loanofficer with the Conn. National Bank. Their 2boys are John 10 and Geoffrey 31/z. Sally is amember of the Jr. League and works withhearing-impaired children. Patricia Chase Her-bage lives in Annapolis, has 3 boys, andteaches 1st grade. Her husband is with theNaval Engineering Lab there.

1954 Co-correspondents:Mrs. John A. Brady (Ann Dygert)2248 School Circle, Sarasota, Fla 33579Mrs. C. Robert Jennings(Mary Alice Robertson)277 Bronwood Ave.LosAngeles, Calif. 90049

1955 Correspondent:Mrs. Elmer A_Branch (Alicia Allen)26 Scenery Hill DriveChatham, N.J. 07928

Married: Barbara Schutt Thompson to RichardL. Howell on Apr. 16; Claire Levine Harrisonto Edward Reed.

Virginia {Nini) Rogers Fear has moved fromKodiak, Alaska to London. Her husband Jamesis now a CDR in the U.S. Coast Guard. Theirchildren 5, 8 and 11, are in English schools.Joyce Adams Gamblin, who lives in Vestal,N.Y. is busy with skiing, dogs and babiesAmanda 7 months, Sarah 2, and girls by aprevious marriage, Julie 11 and Jennifer 10.Husband Rodger is a physicist with IBM. Theycelebrated Joyce's birthday with a cruise. JoanFrank Meyer and family moved to Rye inMarch. Joan works part-time as a psychiatricsocial worker at St. Luke's Hospital. CarolHiUon Reynold's husband Marvin has beentransferred to Wellesley, Mass. to Honeywell'sregional office of Computer Control Div. as a

regional mgr. They moved to a new home inSherborn with son Hugh 1, daughter Elizabeth41h, a dog and a cat. Ruth Parker See is busywith a 5-year-old in kindergarten, doing vol-unteer work in the PTA library, bicycling andgardening and beaching in Del Mar, Cal. JoanWalsh Asker, husband and 4 children are busywith 4H, a pony, piano lessons and girls' club.They visited Jane Dornan Smith and her 3children who have moved from Cal. to NewHamp. where Jane's Coast Guard husband hasa ship. Rita Giese Harrah's escapes from mid-marriage mire are recorder playing and tripsto mts. and deserts where the boys 10 and12 collect rocks and fossils. Husband Dave willhave sabbatical leave from the Vniv. of Cali-fornia, Riverside, next year. A trip to LyfordCay, Bahamas, was enjoyed last March byCynthia Rippey Calron. In January she metCarolyn Diefendorf Smith in a Denver hospitalcafeteria. Her youngest had eye surgery andnter's husband had fractured a vertebra skiing.Rip has been taking modern dance classes thispast year. Dief thoroughly enjoyed being onthe Alumnae Board the past three years. TheSmith children, Mark 11, Gordie 8, Allison 7and Gretchen 4 are in school. Catherine MyersBusher and Herb were off for a month in Eu-rope in April. Cathy was active in St. PaulJr. League this year as tour gutde chmn., train-ing and staffing guides for a historical house.As of April. she is 2nd vice-pres. of theLeague. Carol Kinsley Murchie and familyDouglas 7, Alan 6, Stewart 4, and Alison 11/!,have moved from Conn. to Indian Orchard,Mass. where husband George is pastor ofthe First Congo Church. Grace Helen Quinlanis dept. chmn. of the high school history dept.in Guilford, Conn. and subject coordinator forthe social sciences K-12. She spent a sabbaticalleave studying at Berkeley and visiting schoolsin the Chicago area, Boston and Washington,D.C. Helen is s ecy. of the Guilford Rep. towncommittee, delegate to local area conventions,member of the LWV and AAUW, churchworker, and home counselor for teen-agers.Vacation time finds her at Nantucket, Mass.Judith Stein Walker and family, Chris 1-,Bruce 8 and Anne 4, just moved from Va. toCal. Husband Bill is an operations officer forSub Squad. 3 in San Diego. In the last 14years, Ellen Rosenberg Schwamm has had agirl 12, boys 11 and 7, settled into a quadru-plex apt. in NYC, and worked in Washington,D.C. for Humphrey's election. She is currentlyemployed as special asst. to the dir. of the co-ordinating council of literary magazines. Herhusband Jay was a spec. asst. 10 VP Humphreyfrom March to November 1968, a job involvingmuch travel with Ellen included. Nancy Hub-bard Benton and family (Anne 8 and Margaret21/:) live in Hawaii where husband Hugh com-mands a nuclear sub often at sea. They ren-dezvoused last winter in Hong Kong. BetsyGregory Campbell is another islander. MaidaAlexander Rahn with husband Joel (in the mili-tary export business) has been to Europe,Panama, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. At homeshe is busy with Jeff 12 and Eric gIl:, does sub-stitute teaching, is a volunteer at the hospitaland is VP of the CC Western Mass. Club.Gladys Ryan Flanagan has completely redeco-rated her home in Bethesda, Md. where shemoved to last July. Her husband Dave is acommander and proj ect officer for the designof a new Coast Guard oceanographic vessel.Both are choir members of their church andserve on its educational commission. DaughterRuth 4'1: attends a co-op nursery school whereGladys is a teacher assistant. Mary LouiseMoore Reilly has lived in Branford, Conn. forthe past 5 years. Her energies are devoted toJohn 51/!, Mama 71/:, David 4 and Eileen 6months and church work. Husband John iswith the Hartford Insurance Group. Living inHaight-Ashbury, Cal. is Claire Levine HarrisonReed and her new groom, Edward Reed, anAustrian-born industrial angineer. Their twochildren are Stephen 13, a member of the Nat'lHonor Society, and Martha 12, valedictorian ofher class. In 1964-65 Claire and the childrenlived in Spain and Morocco. Upon her returnClaire went into theatrical public relations forUnited Artists Theatres. She now has her ownfirm, Claire Harrison Associates, in San Fran-cisco and handles many famous clients, amongthem The Committee, Grove Press, BuddhaRecords and Columbia Pictures. Marta Lind-seth Jack is moving to a larger house inShaker Heights, Ohio and is kept busy by twoboys, one dog, the Jr. League, the women'sboard of the Lake Erie Opera Theater, Chil-dren's Guild, and being treas. of the CC Clubof Cleveland. Frances Steane Baldwin andfamily, Tipper 11, Susan 8 and David 6 spentan enjoyable spring vacation touring Washing- 45

ton and Williamsburg and skiied in Vermontthis winter. Husband Tyler was made a VP ofthe Conn. Nat'l Bank. Our class president,Cassandra Goss Simonds is back home againafter a long winter of rebuilding and remodel-ing their burned-out diggings. She and Charlesplan to build a new home on a seven-acrepiece of land in Nw Canaan, a 2 year project.a-year-old Chris spent 2 months on crutcheswith a knee injury and broken ankle after aski accident but is active now in Little Leagueand Cub Scouts. Cassie is PTA officer for NewCanaan Country School, chairs the bd. of thenew church school, and is on the executivebd. of the Homemaker Service of the Chil-dren's Aid Society in N.Y.

Our sympathy goes to Gail Anderson Myers,husband Bob and daughters Abigail and Me-lissa because of the death of a-year-old Johnin March after a long illness.

1956 Correspondent:Mrs. Norris W. Ford (Eleanor Erickson)Branchbrook Road, Wilton, Conn. 06897

1957 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Roberl Friedman (Elaine Manasevit)185 Stoneleigh SquareFairfield, Conn. 06604Mrs. James L. Daigle III(Beverly M. valtelch)3201 Whitethorn RoadCleveland Heights, Ohio 44118

1958 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Richard A. Bilotti (Philippa Iorio)77 Fairmount Ave.Morristown, N.j. 07960Mrs. John S, Stokes (Margaret Morss)232 Seneca Place, Westfield, N.J, 07090

1959 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Arthur G. VonThaden(Ann Entrekin)44 Nottingham Rd.Short Hills, N.j. 07078Mrs. James A. Robinson (Ann Frankel)RFD #1, Keene, N.H. 03431

Born: to Roger and Jean Alexander Gilcrest athird child, Anne McDowell, on 4/14; toCharles and Gail Glidden Goodell a secondchild, Edward Blair, on 4/7; to Ira and BarbaraRich Chase a third child, Susan Lorene, on 3/3;to James and Mary Langacber Robertson athird child, Bonnie Carol, on 5/1; to Peter andCordelia Dahlberg Benedict a second child,Elisabeth, on 6/22/68; to Noel and ElliottAdams ChateUn a second son, Julien, on 7/4188;to Richard and Gilda Radin Stern a secondson, Jonathan Roger, on 6/2.I [Carolyn Keefe Oakes) have just returned

from a fabulous 3 days at reunion, breathless,hearse, exhilarated. 57 classmates returned,about 21 of them with their husbands. ElliottAdams Chatelin came the furthest - fromI

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CC mothers and daughters. Left-Morjorie Griese Hickox '41 whodied on April 12th. 1- LyndaHickox, Evelyn Cooper, MarjorieWicoff Cooper '41, Nancy Brush,Eloise Stumm Brush '42, JudithRopp, Dorothy Rowand Happ '40.2 - Elizabeth Mulford de Groff'39, Judith de Groff, KimberlyWarner. Elizabeth Patton Warner'39, Arline Brown Stone '29, BetsyStone. 3 - Margaret WoodburyThomas '36, Louise Thomas, JaniceSomoch Schwalm '47, CatherineSchwalm, Susan Scharlotte. Bar-bara Wieser Scharlotte '44:

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Paris, looking much the same except for lon?~rhair. Elliott's doctor hush and is an arthrlt~sspecialist. Elliott is not modeling now but IS

spending her time with 2 small sons. ~u~anCampb Van Trees and husband, and Mlrla~(Mimsy) Matthews Munro came from Cah-fornia; Mimsy's husband picked her uP. at t~eend and they plan to travel with thetr c.hrl-dren. They favor salling, with Mimsy crewmg.The first contingent came from Clev~land-Judith Petrequin Rice who is servmg onthe educ. committee of the Jr. League a:ndwill be tied up for 2 weeks after reumon Withthe pr-nvfsion als ' course, and Emily .HodgeBrasfield who brought incredible frosh picturesover which we laughed. Em is taking that pro-visional course and later this summer expectsto go with her husband to Washington andWilliamsburg. Margaret Sebring Southerland,with husband Tom from N.J., proudly pre-sented our $5005 gift to the college Saturdaynight. She, and Barbara Quinn Flynn who at-tended with her husband Dan, thank everyonefor her contnbutton which made this possible.Margot presented ali her officers with a smallgift on hehalf of the class before turning thegavel over to Carol Bayfield Garbutt, our dy-namic new president (Carol has not let her 10months old twin girls slow her down]. Herhusband teaches at the med school of Dukeand captains a winning soccer team. Thefamily travels while he plays soccer andCarol plays hockey. Carol stili plays the pianoand had us singing Jr. Show and compet singsongs. In charge of our reunion was Mar-guerite (Torrey) Gamage Fenlon. AlthoughTorrey couldn't keep the rain away from thepicnic, she did everything else, first havingthe picnic in her beautiful garden which shedesigned herself, and then in her home, abeautifully renovated - by - Fentons clapboardfarmhouse. She also duplicated yearbook pic-tures to go with our nametags for the banquetSaturday night; consensus - we look bettertoday. Torrey is back in social work as amarriage counsellor in New London. Torreyturned over her job as VP and reunion chmn.to Marcia Fortin Sherman, who arrived fromher hushand's Brown reunion. Marcia is incharge of organizing materials for a tutorialprogram for underprivileged children as wellas substituting at church kindergarten. Our in-defatigable treasurer, Lucy Allen Separk, wasthere collecting for the reunion booklet whichwe urge you to order at once by mailing $4 toMrs. Charles Separk, Box 172, Hadlyme, Conn.06439. Lucy's husband was there and antici-pating the big weekend when he is to be or-dained. Besides her own Conn. work and 2daughters, Lucy substitute teaches 6th grademath, music, and kindergarten. She broughtthe Scrap Book with her and what fun it wasto see past pictures. Mary Elsbree Hoffmaninherits Janet Blackwell Bent's job as nomi-nating cbmn. Jan came with her husband; theyplan a July vacation to Point-of-Woods, L.1.

with their 3 sons. Flying herself to reunionwas Katharine Lloyd-Rees Miller who besidesworking on her license is treas., of the Jr.League Thrift Shop. Gail Glidden Goodelltraveled from Ill., with her 2 month old sonand 21/~ year old daughter whom she left withher family during reunion. Her husband willjoin her for a vacation in New Hampshire.She said that Barbara (Bobi Jo) Fisher Frank-coburg, just moved to Tahoe City, Cal., livesin the country with their 2 children, a puppy,and no TV. Before going to Holland, AnnSeidel Craig and her family were in Washing-ton. D.C., while both attended a 2 week courseat American Univ. They saw John and MarciaFortin Sherman and Elizabeth Regan Montaguewho lives within walking distance of the Capi-tol. Betsy attended reunion as did Ann BurdickHartman and Mary Byrnes who flew from D,C.together Saturday morning. Ann, an interiordecorator, has had work featured in manymagazines [see May issue of House andGorden) as has her architect husband. Mary,a systems analyst, designs educ. programs andmanagement information systems for SystemDevelopment Corp. She travels ali overUSA providing exec. training to Dept. ofLabor personnel. Hailing from Conn., at re-union were Harriett Good Swenson, a co-memhership chmn. of Hartford Alumnaegroup; Susan Brink Butash and husbandwho are redoing a home and barn studio[Sue is also VP of her local LWV); AndreaThelin Parker, who is an amateur radio opera-tor, ed., of a New England publication forwomen radio operators, a member of manyradio clubs including internat'l ones, and in-terested in antique automobiles, a Siamese catand most important her 3-year-old daughter;Anne German Dobbs and husband; Sara Kel-logg Goodrich and Virginia (Ginger) Reed Le-vick. Traveling from Maine were JacquelineFrost Mahaney and her husband; Jackie has 2sons and keeps busy on the Penobscot HeritageMuseum Bd., in hospital work, and currentlyas pres., of the Jr. League of Bangor. JoyJohnson Nevin, also in Maine, is serving a 3-year term as director of the local sch. bd.,and is an ass-t. girl scout leader and a mem-ber of a women's Rep. group. Diane MillerKelly, now working for the chmn. of the bd.of an insurance co., came. Living in NYC isMargit Rowell Noel who works in the curator'sdept. at the Guggenheim. Also there wasDiane Williams of Merrill Lynch, she startedas a securities research trainee, moved toportfolio analyst and supervisor, and finallyto manager of the Portfolio Analysis Dept.She has come to Conn. to recruit for her com-pany and plans to return to speak for theStudent Career Counseling Committee. Alsoin finance is Sara Withington who worked inmutual funds in Boston and is now an admin.ass't. and registered representative in oil andgas investment programs. She has been toEurope and lived on a Greek island. Coming

from NYC also were Olivia Hallowell Hunting-ton who is again working for Lindsay, help-ing in the Montessori school she and herhusband founded, and renovating a brown-stone: Marion Friedman Adler; Jill DavidsonKrueger who also brought her sister; PatriciaKaffeman Reisch; Judith Leverich Carberry;Jane Till DanUek who has 4 children; MarnaLeerburger Biederman and her husband whoboth enjoyed the Alumnae College discussions.Coming from Maryland were Winona ClintonBarker and her husband who took pictures;Sandra Sidman Larson who has 3 sons, a doc-tor husband, and too many moves to hercredit, including the last from Helgium;Marjory Wasserstrom Gross and husband(Margie has finished a dissertation for herfine arts M.A. at Catholic Uruv.}; and SusanJonas Emerling whose husband joined her forSaturday dinner. From Pittsburgh drove Mary(Mimi) Adams Bitzer, Sara Flannery Hardonand Melinda Brown Beard, Reminiscent of Jr.Show, Sally and Mimi are in the Jr. League'sChildren's Theater production, "Witch's Lull-aby" - Mimi as Constable and Sally as Mrs.Fitch. Traveling in her Mustang from Lake-wood, Ohio, and picking up Constance Snell-ing McCreery en route was Patricia (Paddy]Chambers Moore. Paddy dropped her childrenoff in Utica where she plans to visit on herreturn trip. A Swedish girl lived with themrecently in Ohio lor 2 weeks as part of anintern'l program. From N.J., came SusanMeyers Allman who has 2 sons and a daughter,who has traveled to Spain, England, Cal., andFlorida, and who is on the hd. of directorsof the Community Service Council and of theJr. League: Karen Fort Van Wynen and hus-band; Margaret Henderson Whitmore, a vol-unteer in social work, and her husband; andAnn Entrekin Von Thaden who will now beK.B.'s correspondent. From va., came EllenKenney Glennon and Holly WrampelmeierWhite who is about to move to the WestCoast, as is [cella Werlin Zivin who camefrom Shaker Heights via Boston, picking upOlga Santos Garick too, and who then left tomake a stop in N.J. before packing in Ohio forthe trip to Oregon. Elizabeth Peck Foot camewith her husband from Minnesota and stoppedin Conn. to visit. Mass., sent representatives inElizabeth Poghe King and Roth Dixon Stein-melz and her husband. Helain Shoag Green-berg and husband came from Phila. At Sun-day morning chapel (a memorial servicefor deceased members of reunion classes),Nancy Savin Willheim sang as only she can.Nancy will teach singing at Wesleyan nextyear. Coming from New Hampshire was AnnFrankel Robinson, our other new correspon-dent, who will cover Mary Harkness. Herhusband is an internist; they enjoy biking,swimming, skiing and, of course, their 3daughters. They plan a vacation on a NewHampshire lake which can only be reached byboat, has no phone, but does have a baby-sitter.

Moving to Milwaukee at reunion time wasAnne Lamborn Baker, While in Morgans-town, W.Va., Anne did part-time work incomputer programming and full-time workwith her 2 youngsters. Also on the move wasCarlene Newburg Phillips who leaves NewYork lor Acton, Mass. and Corrine GentileliaRayburn who is now in Hingham, Mass. Car·latta (Lolly) Espy Parkhurst is having fun inAmsterdam in a rented place with "leakyfaucet, set of 4 dishes, a stove 3 feet highwith an oven that Hill's shoe will not fit insideways - obviously casseroles don't fit ineither-, a washing machine that takes 1hour and 45 min. for one load." She goes tomarket daily because the fridg. is the samesize as THAT stove. She rode Kley to schoolon a bike, picking him up for lunch and bring-ing him back before she learned he couldstay for lunch. TV starts at 7 P.M. with 1Dutch cartoon lasting 5 minutes. She enjoysthe dissimilarities and has taken trips to Switz-erland, Paris, and London.

The Class of 1959 was deeply saddened tohear that Barbara Rich Chace died on Apr. 21as the result of an automobile accident. Sheleaves her husband, a minister who is stillhospitalized, a son also in a hospital, and 2daughters. At reunion our class donated $10to the library for a history book inscribedwith her name, and $200 to the Ira ChaceFamily Fund set up by the deacons in hisWestmoreland church to cover hospital ex-penses incurred by Ira and his son, and forsubsequent recovery and amalgamation as afamily again. Another fund, the Barbara RichChace Memorial Fund, will probably be usedas a permanent memorial for Barbie in theUnited Church of Westmoreland. Contributions

may be sent to Mrs. George Putnam, West-moreland, N.H. 03167. We have dedicated ourreunion booklet to Barbara Rich Chace witha copy ol the very moving memorial letterof Anne's inserted. Sale of these books willhelp finance our contribution to the fund.

1960 Correspondent:Mrs. Peter t. Cashman (Susan Green)Joshuatown Road, lyme, Conn. 06371

1961 Correspondent:Mrs. James F. Iung (Barbara Frick)268 Bentleyville RoadChagrin Falls, Ohio 44022

Married: Frances Bertelsen to Robert ChaplinMcWhorter on Apr. 7.Born: to Kenneth and Judith Novik Lyons asecond child, Edward, on 11/25/66; to Richardand Julia Emerson Pew a second daughter,Amy Reid, on 9/22/67; to Bennett and JoanGoldstein Cooper a third son, Evan, on 6/29/68;to John and Marilyn Squibb Bell a daughter,Elizabeth, on 10/5; to Adolph and Judith War-ner Edwards a son, Robert Andrew, on 10/10:to David and Benita Hebald Gurland a secondchild, janice Lynn, on 1/23; to Joel and Mar-garet Scott Black a second son, John Blymyer,on 3/8; to Charles and Elizabeth Earle Hudackoa third son, Jonathan Crane, on 3/14: to Jamesand Barbara Frick Jung a second son, DouglasCarlton, on 4/23; to Roger and Deborah NobleBurbridge a second child, Lerryn Margretta, on5/7; to William and Penelope Saunders Peat-man a third son, Thomas, on 5/14: to Helmuthand Dorothy Cleaveland Svoboda a daughter,Katrina Anne, on 5/26 in Vienna, Austria.- Suzanne Tucker Brierton is working in an

insurance agent's office in Cobleskill, N.Y. andrecently passed the N.Y. state insurancebrokers exam. New residents of Chevy Chase,Md. are Beale and Linn Whitelaw Ong. Linnoccupied with home, children, garden and Jr.League volunteer work and Beale busy withhis pediatric practice and teaching. In Febru-ary Andrew and Mary Wofford Amend va-cationed in Amsterdam and Paris. AnitaCharest Moquin is busy with lour children,Girl Scouts and Little League. Husband Alan isstationed at Rota, Spain, lor 2 years. Thefamily will join him for the summer. In addi-lion to peace-work, Deborah Noble Burbridgefinished her course at the Univ. of Conn. forher Ph.D. in English just 2 weeks before herdaughter's arrival. Margaret Scott Black ispres. of the Mansfield (Ohio] Fine Arts Guild.On weekends she, Joel and 2 sons go to theirfarm where they watch Daddy mend fences,mow fields, and repair barns while "we feedcorn to pigs, grain to sheep and sugar tohorses." Since Bob's return from Viet Narnlast August, he and Randal Whitman Smithhave been llvtng in Hampton, Va. Bob is anArmy major at Ft. Monroe. Randy is attend-ing Wm. and Mary grad. school in English.Marcia Coury Hasemann is studying modernBritish poetry at the Univ. of Hartford. Tonyand Miriam (Mimi) Moulton Tyler moved toPotsdam, N.Y. where Tony is an ass't. prof.in English at the State Univ. College, and isfinishing work on his doctoral thesis. Theyand the 3 children enjoyed skating and skiingthis winter and plan to spend the summer ona Maine island with plenty of sailing. In JulyDavid and Benita Hebald Gurland will moveto Tucson, Ariz. where David will be sta-tioned at Davis Monthan Air Force Base for2 years. Cornelia Manuel Ford and family havemoved to Gates Mills, Ohio. Last year Corneliavolunteered as tutor to 2 retarded children.~ c,"). Margaret Watson is now the-~W) it -s, Dean of Student Affairs at Conn.I;»;~- as well as chrrm. of the bd. of

--: -_. Housefellows. Abigail Clementu-<,: LePage is with the recreation

program at th N.Y. State Mental Hosp., pres.of the week-day nursery school parents'group, and will be Jr. League admissionschmn. Susan Kimberly Braun's interests in-clude tutoring jr. high girls in English andraising money for the Guidance Clinic at theChildren's Hospital in San Francisco. JoanKnudsen Perkins, Ken, and 3 daughters havebought a house in Gordon, Australia whereKen practices as an internist .. Since last No-vember Ayshe Manyas has been public rela-tions director of Mademoiselle Magazine. Shehas been to Europe twice for pleasure andleaves soon on a business trip to Israel with20 guest editors. Also on the staff ofMademoiselle is Martine Lalour, ess't. to theentertainment ed. Dwight and Lydia ColemanHutchinson live in Charleston, S.C. whereDwight is design superintendent at the Charles-ton Naval shipyard. Lydia is chmn, of theworship evaluation committee at St. Michael'sEpiscopal Church, provisional member of the

Jr. League, and Red Cross volunteer at theNaval shipyard. Dog show judging takes herto many different states. Barbara Negri Opperworks at the Federal Reserve Board in Wash-ington. She saw Bill and Barbara Carson Bachat a party at Bennett and Joan GoldsteinCooper's. Joan keeps busy with a new homeand three sons. Penny Saunders Peatman'shusband Hill has his Ph.D. in physical chemis-try and is research associate at the Univ. ofChicago. They plan to introduce their newson to camping this summer. In SeptemberSheila Scranton Childs: will be teaching artand possibly a course in dramatic lit. atEaglebrook School where husband Bill isdirector of development. At present Sheila isdoing some acting and helping to convert anold barn into a theatre. George and DuaneJohnson Peck are settled in a new home inEast Granby, Conn. where daughter Traceyis a 1st grader and son Chris will begin inthe fall. Duane is a member of Jaycee Wives.George is getting a master's in computerscience at RPI. Laurie Patronn Ransom retiredas a media buyer for an ad agency and plansto spend her summer enjoying L.1. Sound. InJune John and Marilyn Squibb Bell moved toBloomfield Hills, Mich. where they boughttheir first home. John will be sales managerfor Automotive Conversion Corp. Patricia~ C;'1...... Siegel will complete a diseerta-'~W)1,l - tion for her Ph.D. for Yale be-

/i('\~~ fore spending the summer in.\.:.,;"" Europe. In the fall she will be

an ass-t. prof. at Carleton Col-lege and advisor to Black students. After ahoneymoon on Sanibel Island, Florida, Robertand Frances Bertelsen McWhorter moved toDallas. Judith Burgess Tarpgaard works atSimmons College as ass't. to the director offinancial aid while husband Peter finishes hisPh.D. thesis. Judy Warner Edwards has anew house and a new son in Penfield, N.J.Judith Novik Lyons is learning to play golfand is on the bd. of directors of the JewishFamily Service of Albany and the NortheasternN.Y. State Speech Center. Steve and SandraKass Simensky live in Hewlett, N.Y. whereSandy, a substitute elementary school teacher,is active in local school affairs. Ron andCarol Reardon Akialis are settled in Middle-town, N.J. where Carol is occupied with homeand chHdren. Colleen Dougherty Lund is treas.and public relations chmn. of the Teak BranchChildren's Hasp. Med. Center of N. Cal., andis a CC admissions aide. Dick and Julie Emer-son Pew are in Yarmouth, Me. where Dickworks for C.H. Robertson and Julie is gettingtheir sailboat ready for the summer. Withher children in school, Sheila Keating Lambenrolled last year in the return to collegeprogram at CC and was VP of the local gardenclub. Husband Jerry got his Ph.D. in '66 andis vts ttng lecturer in psychology at Conn. Heis also chief of human factors at E.B. InFebruary they spent 2 wks. in Hawaii, NanaJessen Rinehart is working on a dissertationfor her Ph.D. in English at the Univ. of Mary-land and in January will return as instructorin the Eng. dept. at Trinity College in Wash·ington, D.C. after a year's leave. HusbandRobert is ass-t. prof. of history at GeorgeMason College in Fairfax, Va. Nana as usualwill spend the summer with her family inDenmark.

Our class extends sincere sympathy to thefamily of Constance Clark who died last year,

1962 Co-correspondents:Mrs. E. Benjamin loring (Ann Morris)27 Old Meadow Plains RoadSimsbury, Conn. 06070Mrs. Charles E. Wolff II(Barbara MacMaster)128 Tulip St., Summit, N.J. 07901

1963 Correspondent:Mrs, A, P. Mclaughlin III(Milbrey Wallin)23 Clatremont RoadBelmont, Mass. 02178

Married: Nancy Spencer to Richard Leonardin May.Born: to John and Nancy Schoepfer Sanders asecond child, Karen Elizabeth, on 5/22; to Jimand Diane Lewis Gately a second son, ThomasCharles, on 2/28; to David and Carolyn JonesScharer, Scott William on 9/26; to Jay andCarolyn Boyan Torok, Gregory Thomas, on3/17; to Keith and Eunice Schriner Barnes,twins, Kimberly Ann and Kathleen Alyce, on10/27; to Richard and Susan Schiffman Bass,Jennifer Lynn, on 8/8; to Jim and Susan HallVeccia, James Edward Jr. on 3/5.

Elana Brown Anderson lives in Sullivan'sIsland, S.C. Her household consists of two 47

baby chicks, a Labrador, a cat, Eliza 6. Jake8 and husband Bill. After Bill finishes as aIt. in the Sub service, he will begin law~ <:;1- school at Harvard in the fall..P\\\WWJ!J ~ Elaine Cohen received an M.D.

ftM. ~ degree from the Women's Col-,,;.., lege of Pennsylvania on June <I~ and starts internship at the Chil-

dren's Hospital of Los Angeles in July. LonnieJones Schorer's son was born during mon-soon season in Bangkok while streets weresubmerged in water and Lonnie and Davedonned ponchos in order to reach the hospi-tal by jeep. Dave's contract with the Thaigovernment expired in June and they will re-turn home via cross country drive. Sue SchiR-man Bass and husband live in San Francisco;prior to this, Sue received a master's degreein English from NYU in '64 and taught highech. English in N.]. for a year. Until thebirth of her daughter, Sue taught in theBerkeley school system. Now she is learninghow to cook Chinese food. Richard is com-pleting training in psychiatry at the LangleyPorter Neuropsychiatric Institute and will fin-ish his residency in June before entering theNavy for 2 yrs. Chick Schriner Barnes' twinswere the talk of the hasp. when they wereborn, almost 8 lbs. each! Chick now belongsto the Mother of Twins Croup and also servesas secy. for the local CC alumnae group. Keithstill attends the Un.iv. of Rochester evenings,working for his M.B.A. He recently joinedR.F. Communications as design engineer, Timand Deborah Scou Kelley Jive in Germanywhere Tim is principal of the Army Depen-dent Schools in Schweinfurt; with a house ina Cerman neighborhood, Deborah gets muchpractice in the language. The Kelleys travela great deal, sightseeing and skiing, Their twinboys, Matthew and Scott 3'h, enjoy the localchildren. Madeline Siegfried Lesnick and hus-band Steve are living in Rockville, Mr. andhave 2 children, a son and a daughter. Bllza-beth Savell Barker and husband live inCharleston, S.C. where Edward is an officerstationed aboard the Sam Rayburn, a nuclearsub. He is in port for 3 months and out for3 months. Tina keeps busy working for theCharleston Historical Soc., and Edward 2demands time. Lily Russell Heiliger's husbandKlaus changed jobs; his new position takeshim away from home a great deal. Lily reportsshe is busy with daughter Alice, her Belgiangarden, and chickens.

1964 Correspondent:Mrs. William M. Senske (Kirk Palmer)11 Peabody Terrace, Apt. #1603Cambridge. Mass, 0213£1

1965 Correspondent:Elizabeth Ann Murphy19 Everett St., Apt. 43Cambridge. Mass. 02138

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Married: Susan Ann Foley to Michael J. [amie-son on 11/16; Katherine Garcia to RichardWolff in September; Diana Randall to HughMcKean Jones IlIon 8/3/68; Judith Spicer toJohn Knutson on 12128.Born: to Dick and Elizabeth Overbeck BalkiteKira Elizabeth on 11/18; to Philip and Patrici~Olson Hodges, Tiffany Noel on 7/30/68' toChuck and Katherine Cory DeGrace, Laur-aBeth on 7/16/68; to Jay and Rose Abel DeutschEllen Ruth on 12/30/68; to Keith and Clair~Sidelman Bronitt, March David on 5/2; toDoug .and Deborah Camp Baldwin, TraceyBaldwm on 3/13/69.Debbie Camp Baldwin, her husband and

daughter are liVing in Madison, Wise. whereher husband is teaching at the Univ. of Wis-consin. Claire Sidelman Bronin has moved toScarsdale. Rose Abel Deutsch's husband is aIt. in the Army [Med. Service Corps) and sta-tioned in Washington, D.C. Rose, since thebirth of her daughter, has retired as a finan-cial analyst with the U.S. SEC. Mark, Frankand Catherine Ziobro Galiato and Chuck andKathy Cory DeGrace with their baby visitedBarbara Dunlap Gallo and her husband inTroy, N.Y. Cathie Galiato is teaching Englishin Palisades Park, N.J. Husband Frank re-ceived his M.D. from N.Y. Med. College in '69and now is currently doing a pediatric intern.ship there. Chuck and Kathy DeGrace have ahome in North Syracuse, N.Y. where Chuckis an electrical engineer for the N.Y. Tele-phone Co. Barb Gallo and Jim are movingback to Torrington, Conn. now that Jim hashis M.A. from R.P.I. Last February Barb re-ceived a master's degree from Southern ConnPatricia Olson Hodges reports that Lesli~SeUerholm Fo" and husband recently boughtan old house and are enjoying remodeling it;

Linda Norton worked in London with JudySpicer Knutson and had an exciting job atLondon's Commonwealth Secretariat. Linda isliving in NYC and working as ess't. to thefund director at Nat'I. Urban League. Eliza-beth Overbeck Balkite's husband completedColumbia Business Sch. and works with ScottPeper co.. sales division. Patricia Antell An-drews wrote to Beth from San Salvador whereshe and her husband are living for a yearwhile he completes archaeological work for adoctoral dissertation. Marcia Finkelstein, teach-ing modern dance in Mass., is studying at theCC School of Dance. Christina Metcalfe worksfor a TV station in San Francisco and lovesthe west coast. Elizabeth Parsons Petrowteaches and lives in Cambridge, Mass. DonnaMaulsby Sitterson completed graduate schoolin Chapel Hill, N.C. Diana Lee Randall Jonesand husband live in Ann Arbor, Mich., whereHugh is in his last year of law school. Diana,who has been working as an interior designerfor 3 years, has been accepted by the Am.Institute of Interior Designers as an affiliatemember. Susan Heller works at the Smith-sonian developing a filmstrip series on marinebiology for jr. high school kids. SusanBuckenham became a partner in the CricketCorner Dress Shop in East Haddam, Conn.Judith Gaffga works in Vietnam for the usaClub as assoc. director in charge of program-ming. Laurie P. Maxon completed a yearteaching at Weston Jr. High School in Masa.,and is studying this summer at Michigan Stateto complete her M.A. Steve and Emily Litt-man Eisen spent 2 months traveling aroundEurope and have returned to NYC where Emilyis completing doctoral work in psychology.Juanita Campo Simmons finished the coursework for the MAT degree at Harvard andlooks forward to a summer in Europe withhusband Don.

1966 Correspondent:Mrs. Patrick K.S.L. Yim(Joan M. Bucciarelli)1082 !lima Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817

1967 Correspondent·Mrs. Michael Britton(Wendy Thompson)32 Mountain View Ave.Avon, Conn, 06001

Married: M. Elizabeth Brahler to J. R. Wil-liams; Susan Cohn to William Doran; DanaFreedman to Barry Liebman; Jane Harman toEdward Slocum Brewer Jr.; Jill Hegleman toPaul J. Sanders; Mary Hyde to George J.Munkenbeck Jr.; Susan Leahy to Jerry Ca-touaee : Kathleen J. McLaughlin to RobertFranklin Dwyer II; Janice Robinson to PhillipRatner; Georgia Whidden to J. Penton HultonLewis; Robin Gorton to Ruben Velarde San-chez.Born: to Craig and Lynn Buchanan Heim ason, Craig Jr.; to Peter and Elsa Allyn Soder-berg a son, Jon; to Penton and Georgia Whid-den. Lewis a son, Evan; to Felipe and InezMunllo Calderon a baby in March (sex un-known].Elizab~th Brahler Williams, nursery school

~eacher III NYC prior to marriage, is teachingIll. Brookfield, Conn. where her husband isWIth Taft School. Summer plans include atrav~l-stud~ tour of Europe to note Americanfore.Ign pohcy change under the new admtnia-tra.tlOn. In August '68, Robin Fromme Hinesfim.shed her M.A. in English lit. at IndianaUillV: and was married. She teaches j.r-. high~nghsh v.:hile husband Jay does grad. workm the hlstory and philosophy of science.Dave and Francec Rakatansky Sicher lived inSt. Louis for 2110 years where Francee taught1st grade in a private school with ElizabethLodge Bremer. The Sichers have since movedto NYC; Francee teaching 2nd grade at theDalton School while Dave is in Ft. Polk Lfor basic training as a medic in the rese~ve:'D~a Freedman Liebman received an M.A. i~gU1da~lCe from Columbia in Aug. '68 and isteach;ng 5th grade in a NYC ghetto school.~ana s .husband Barry is studying for a Ph.D.lD SOVIet affairs at Columbia. George andMary Hyde Munkenbeck live in Garden GroveC:al. where .George, a USCG It. (j.g.) is sta~honed. While he was in Antarctica for 7~onths last winter, Mary worked in the clos-mg dept. of a local mortgage banking firm and~ook adult education courses. Summer planslDclude a transfer to Governor's Island NYin July. Susanna Terrell Saunders is bUs~ withresearch, guiding and cataloguing 4 days awe,ek at the. Rosenbach Foundation Museum inP~lla. She IS decorating their house, involved:th Jr. League, gardening and sports. Chris_

e Carlson spent a year after graduation inAmsterdam working for a publfshing firm,

living in a canal house, and traveling arou dEurope. She is now working towards an M,~.10 elementary education at U. of Penn., andwill teach 4 th grade at a Friends Day Schoolnext fall. After lIt! years at the U. of Michi-gan, . Debor~~ Gre.enstein earned an M.A. inpublic admints tratton and a certificate in ger-ontology. Debby works now in the HUD Olticof Budget in Washington as an analyst. Ed an~Jane Harman Brewer live in Boston where Edis a senior at Harvard Law and Jane teaches inDorchester. Nancy Stone works as a computerprogrammer for a broker in NYC. She, SidneyDavidson and Susan Mclinette went to Aspenlast winter, after which Sidney began workingfor Sports Illustrated. Jill Hegleman Sandersgoes to the Museum School of Fine Arts inBoston ~~ere she occasion.ally sees Lindleyaeeta. JIll s husband Paul 18 working as anengineer and also towards his Ph.D. at Har-vard. Marjorie Lipshutz Simon teaches sect-ology at Cardinal Cushing College in Boston;her husband Kevan is working on a Ph.D. inanthropology at Brandeis. Mary Miller is inthe office of graduate and career plans atHarvard and Kathleen McLaughlin Dwyer is astudent at Harvard Divinity School. RobinGorton de Velarde's husband Ruben is Mexi-can and they live in Mexico City. She studiesand works at the Un.iv. of the Americas andhopes for a B.A. in Spanish lit. in December.Susan Cohn Doran is at Ft. Leonard WoodMo., where husband Bill is applying his {year of Yale Law School as an MP in theArmy. After receiving her M.A. in urban edu-calion from South. Conn. State College andteaching in an urban school, Sue feels quali-fied to assume her new job as a coffeeshopwaitress in St. Robert, a roaring tewn of BOOright outside the army gates. Nancy Newcombreceived her M.A. in economics from BostonCollege and is in economic research at FirstNat'l. City Bank in NYC. Susan Leahy ca-tousse is working at the Beth Israel Hasp. inBoston after a year spent teaching in theAmer. Sch. in Guatemala. Elsa Allyn Soder-berg lives in New Brunswick, N.J. where Peterworks for Johnson & Johnson. Georgia Whid-den Lewis' husband Penton also works there;his job as an Int'L auditor takes him all overthe world. This summer Georgia and son Evanwill join him in Europe for a combined busi-ness-vacation trip including a visit with hisparents on the island of Jersey. Georgia isworking towards an M.A. in philosophy at theNew School in NYC. Lynn Buchanan Heimkeeps busy with Jr. League and Tupperwareparties while husband Craig finishes his lastyear at N.Y. Med. College. Jack and LaurenLevinson Pohn are in Glencoe, Ill. Laurieworked at the Israeli consulate in Chicagofor the economic consul but will soon bewith Scott, Foresman, educational publishers,as an ed. ass't. in the college division of Eng-lish and speech. Jack, a math teacher, expectshis M.A. in education admin. in July. InezMurillo Calderon, husband Felipe and newbaby are Hvtng in Bogota, Colombia. BelseyNadler and Elizabeth Lennox were at theChicago Quest Program. Betsey is getting anM.A. in French at U. of Chicago and Liz isworking in Chicago. Christine Miller gave upher Pan Am wings in Oct. and now works iiiWashington for a congressman from Ihe 10thdistrict in Ohio (an Appalachia designatedarea) as legislative aecy. Janice RobinsonRatner gave up her job with Pan Am tomarry; she and husband Phil live in Memphis,Tenn. where Phil is a sales consultant forHoliday Inns, Inc. and Jan works as an ass't.to the salesmen at the same company. Chris·tine Batley works in the group contract areaof Conn. General Life Insurance Co. in Hart-ford and Alexandra Gray Creed is a memberof the personnel dept. as ass't. 10 the collegerecruiters. PreViously, Alex taught English andFrench at a girls' school in New Britain, Conn.and was in the training dept. at the TravelersInsurance Co. She and husband Sandy, anagen for C.G. bought a house in Canton,Conn. I have been working in the reinsurancedept. at C.G. for a year but am terminatingshortly as Mike and I plan to join the Junerush to Europe.

1968 Correspondent:Mrs. Jeffrey Talmadge(Katherine Spendlove)Peddie School, Hightstown, N.J. 08520

1969 (o-correspondents:Alice F. Reid118 The Riverway, Apt. 18Boston, Mass. 02215Mrs. Ronald E. Walker (LindaMcGilvray)15 McGrady StreetGlen Cove, N.Y. 11542

ALUMNAE ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAM1968-69

35.04% of usincluding 97 Alumnae Laurelscan be proud ...

Our goal was . . . . • . . • • $320,000.003,626 of us gave. $346,404.30Of this amount, 97 Laurels gave $233,014.96

Individual Contributions $322,956.58Matching Gifts 7,777.19Class, Club, Special Gifts 15,670.53

YOUR CLASS Class Donors Percentage Amount Class Donors Percentage AmountIN REVIEW 1919 50 71.43 $39,274.50 1945 86 38.56 $4,388.50

1920 42 64.62 1,163.00 1946 78 33.19 3,391.501921 25 47.17 2,320.00 1947 61 27.23 3,732.701922 23 47.92 2,275.78 1948 70 31.25 5,384.001923 51 58.62 11,686.00 1949 66 28.82 3,223.631924 75 81.52 5,947.65 1950 93 37.05 8,840.651925 39 44.32 2,852.00 1951 93 46.27 8,430.501926 42 51.21 2,457.13 1952 93 37.65 7,069.181927 54 45.00 7,288.22 1953 84 34.71 9,402.001928 74 50.68 8,332.81 1954 82 36.12 3,455.001929 66 53.66 2,076.00 1955 75 30.99 9,363.001930 50 41.32 9,245.91 1956 83 29.12 2,158.751931 78 55.71 36,251.00 1957 100 38.91 4,859.601932 62 45.26 3,640.00 1958 75 28.20 1,251.501933 56 48.28 2,980.75 1959 128 47.41 5,035.001934 66 46.81 2,437.00 1960 99 38.37 23,061.251935 46 32.86 4,732.25 1961 72 27.17 1,054.501936 59 36.88 4,312.13 1962 89 28.25 1,783.001937 47 28.66 7,382.05 1963 90 23.14 1,657.001938 45 25.57 4,170.00 1964 91 26.53 1,589.001939 70 38.89 15,159.83 1965 101 26.37 1,191.001940 55 26.32 6,034.00 1966 108 24.66 1,531.001941 81 38.94 12,028.25 1967 106 26.24 1,792.001942 73 32.44 11,645.19 1968 93 20.67 829.501943 76 40.21 4,764.16 1969 2 10.001944 103 51.24 7,549.00

TOP TEN CLASSES 1924 81.52 1929 53.66IN PERCENTAGE 1919 71.43 1944 51.24

1920 64.62 1926 51.211923 58.62 1928 50.681931 55.71 1933 48.28

TOP TEN CLASSES 1919 $39,274.50 1923 $11,686.00IN AMOUNT 1931 36,251.00 1942 11,645.19

1960 23,061.25 1953 9,402.001939 15,159.83 1955 9,363.001941 12,028.25 1930 9,245.91

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CLASS OF 1919