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BRYN MAWR
ALUMNAE
BULLETIN
THE COUNCIL IN BOSTON
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January, 1934
Vol. XIV
No. I
Entered as S€£ond-class matter, January 15, 1921, at the Post Office, Phi'ta., Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879
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ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895
Vice-President Serena Hand Savage, 1922
Secretary Josephine Young Case, 1928
Treasurer Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909
Chairman of the Finance Committee Lois Kellogg Jessup, 1920
rk- -4. - „* T„, « /Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins, 1905
Directors at Large i Alice Sachs Plaut, 1908
ALUMNAE SECRETARY AND BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE BULLETIN
Alice M. Hawkins, 1907
EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN
Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912
DISTRICT COUNCILLORS
District I MARGUERrrE Mellen Dewet, 1913
District II Harriet Price Phipps, 1923
District III Vinton Liddbll Pickens, 1922
District IV Adeline Werner Vorys, 1916
District V Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912
District VI Erna Rice, 1930
District VII Jer]6 Bensberg Johnson, 1924
ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
Elizabeth Lewis Otey, 1901 Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 1918
Virginia McKennby Claiborne, 1908 Florance Waterbury, 1905
Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906
CHAIRMAN OF THE ALUMNAE FUND
Lois Kellogg Jessup, 1920
CHAIRMAN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Ellen Faulkner, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS AND LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Y. Maguire, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Dr. Marjorie Strauss Knauth, 1918
CHAIRMAN OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, 1898
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Vol. XIV JANUARY, 1934 No. 1
It is significant in a number of ways that some report, either on the Graduate
School or from a representative of the School, has become an intrinsic part of the
Council, and often arouses the most lively discussion. Dean Schenck, in her report
which is carried in this number of the Bulletin, touched on a number of points,
any one of which was interesting enough to deserve a whole article to itself. One
has the picture of the gracious life that has been created as a focus for the graduate
interests. This plays its part in fostering, by its charm and ease of intercourse, all
sorts of intellectual interests, aside from a student's own particular field. There is
in the Graduate School that richness and diversity of background for which we all,
alumnae and college authorities alike, work in the Undergraduate College. No one
can read over the list of colleges which for the last five years have sent the 98
students who have won their M.A.'s at Bryn Mawr, without feeling that here is a
cross-section of the academic life of the whole country. And the quality of the
intellectual background is even more diversified by the fact that at the present
time there are in Radnor fifteen students out of fifty-nine who have had some
European experience. The present writer is in a seminar of four students, one of
whom is a Canadian and Oxford trained, and another of whom is French, with
consequently a quite different method of approach, from either the English or the
American. This diversity of previous training has always been true in some degree
of the graduate students. The really new thing is the diversity in teaching as a
result of cooperation on the part of the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford,
Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr. Bryn Mawr is giving a seminar at Pennsylvania,
and Pennsylvania is giving a Seminar at Bryn Mawr, both in the Department of
Mathematics. The possibilities of such academic inter-relationships are endless. It
was pleasant to have some one with the detached point of view of Dean Morriss
say what Bryn Mawr alumnae increasingly feel: "The reputation and standing of
the Bryn Mawr Graduate School is high enough to continue indefinitely to draw to
it a full quota of the ablest women students in the country."
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THE COUNCIL MEETING IN BOSTON
NOVEMBER 16th, 17th and 18th, 1933
New England's tradition of government by Town Meeting stood the Associa-
tion in good stead throughout the three days' Council meetings in Boston^ resulting
in splendid attendance and clear-headed discussion. In last month's Bulletin
Mrs. Otey called attention to the large numbers at the Winsor School meeting and at
the dinner in honor of President Park^ but it is perhaps even more remarkable that
about one hundred alumnae came to one or more of the three business sessions,
held at the hospitable homes of Elizabeth Townsend Torbert, 1906, and Eleanor
Little Aldrich, 1905. More than eighty-five were actually present at one time during
Friday's meetings. Of the regular twenty-five members of the Council proper (see
inside front cover of Bulletin) only four were absent: Virginia Kneeland Frantz,
1918, Alumnae Director; Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912, Editor of the Alumnae
Bulletin; Jere Bensberg Johnson, 1924, Councillor for District VII., and Vinton
Liddell Pickens, 1922, Councillor for District III. Mary Hardy, 1920, acted as
alternate and read the report sent by Mrs. Pickens, who is abroad. Mrs. Johnson
and Miss Thompson also submitted written reports. This year's Council had as
specially invited guests Helen Evans Lewis, 1913, Councillor-at-large ; Ellinor H.
Collins, representing the Class of 1933; Mary B. Nichols, the Class of 1934;
Eunice Morgan Schenck, 1907, the Faculty; Dean Margaret Morriss, of Pembroke
College, Brown University, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr, 1911, representing the Graduate
School; Caroline McCormick Slade, 1896, and Frances Fincke Hand, 1897, Direc-
tors-at-large of the College.
This very much abridged summary of the proceedings is meant to give only
the barest outline of the busy three days. As the Council is a deliberative and not
a legislative body, all important decisions affecting the Association will be referred
to the Annual Meeting. Full minutes of the discussions, however, are on file at the
Alumnae Office and may be consulted when desired.
The first session of the Council opened promptly at 1.30 p. m., on Thursday,
November 16th, 1933. After a cordial welcome by Marguerite Mellen Dewey, 1913,
Councillor for District I., Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895, President of the Alumnae
Association, introduced Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909, Treasurer, and Lois Kellogg Jessup,
1920, Chairman of the Finance Committee, who each reported briefly on the finances
of the Association. Miss Ehlers exhibited two charts showing the income and the
expenditure of the last two years, calling attention to the fact that the expenditures
for each item correspond so closely as a result of careful management of expenses.
In presenting the tentative budget for 1934 she spoke of the plan of having the
Association books audited by a committee of members instead of having a profes-
sional audit, which is expensive. She suggested dividing the budget into two parts,
one having to do with genuine expenses and one with gifts, such as the President's
Fund and the Rhoads Scholarships, and added that it would then seem more logical
to include in this second part the $7,000 pledge to the College, if the Finance Com-
mittee recommends this to the vote of the Association. Mrs. Jessup spoke of the
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problem which confronted the Association: "Without any nestegg, how to raise
$1,000 more than we raised in 1932, when it seemed as if every Class Collector
had done her utmost." The committee had decided to cut down expenses by omitting
printed reports and publicity material, and had concentrated on personal letters,
enclosing a message from President Park on the value of the Alumnae Fund to the
College, together with some comparative statistics of. class contributions. The results
have been most encouraging, as up to November 15th, 1933, the number of con-
tributors exceeds by 40 last year's record for the same period and the amount
received is $600 greater. Thanks to one particularly generous contribution of $1,000
and to the profit which has already been made from the sale of Bryn Mawr plates,
the prospects are bright for meeting all obligations by the end of the year. She
closed by saying: "We are not down-hearted, for the first two weeks of November
are running well ahead of the first two weeks of last November (and many pre-
cincts not yet heard from!). We feel that there are some voters who must have
forgotten to go to the polls; but at least we know that the machines are never
tampered with, even though there may be some intimidating on the part of the
faithful workers. And we are hopeful that the results will be, if not a landslide,
at least a comfortable majority in favor of Bryn Mawr and its academic needs."
Following an animated discussion about the Alumnae Register, three resolu-
tions were passed.
Moved, seconded and carried that the Council recommends that a Register he
published before the end of lOSJf^.
Moved, seconded and carried that the Executive Board instruct the Alumnae
Directors to ask the Board of Directors of the College for their share of the appro-
priation necessary to publish the Register.
Moved, seconded and carried that the proposed budget for 193 Jf. be approved
with the figure allowed for the Register left open.
Before the close of this first session considerable difference of opinion was
expressed on the policy of saving toward another year's pledge anj^ surplus whicTu
might be on hand at the end of the fiscal year. Arguments for both sides were
heard, but no formal recommendation was made. The matter will come up in the
routine business of the Annual Meeting in February.
That evening, at the home of Mary Richardson Walcott, 1906, the District
Councillors and a few others actively connected with scholarships met with Elizabeth
Maguire, 1913, Chairman of the Scholarships and Loan Fund Committee, to discuss
some specific problems. Next morning, after the reports of the Councillors (see
pages 7 to 18), Miss Maguire reported on the general situation at the College and
gave a summary of the decisions of the evening conference. She will report formally
at the Annual Meeting. Miss Maguire told of the large number of students now
receiving help, and of the excellent standing of the scholarship holders. It was
mentioned that Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, and Mount Holyoke, at a recent meeting
of the Five College Conference, held at Bryn Mawr, had agreed not to award any
Freshman Scholarships until after the results of the College Board Examinations
is known, and Regional Scholarships Committees were urged to cooperate in this
policy. As a natural result of the nation-wide depression, repayments to the Loan
Fund have been seriously reduced. The Councillors had agreed to help the com-
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mittee to make collections in their respective neighborhoods. It was again requested
that, to help the Loan Fund tide over this crisis^ alumnae might make loans to the
Loan Fund, which will be a first charge on the Loan Fund resources and will be
repaid without fail in two years.
The morning's discussion centered around two points. The first of these was
brought out in the report for District III., where Mrs. Pickens emphasized the
importance of using the Regional Scholarships to secure variety in the student
body, whicli she believes can be best done by sending promising girls from rural
communities to Bryn Mawr. It was the sense of the meeting that this policy is
a good one, and that it can be furthered by encouraging also the girl who will be
an addition to the college community and who can at the same time pay her own
way. Both these ideas, it was believed, will be accepted by the districts gradually
as tliey are carefully explained by the Councillors. The second point, specially
stressed by Mrs. Lewis in her report as Councillor-at-large (page 19) — the need
for closer contact between the College and the alumnae — seemed to strike a respon-
sive chord in every heart. Mrs. Chadwick-Collins said that a new "movie" of the
College would shortly be ready for distribution. It was the sense of the meeting
that this should be shown at the Annual Meeting. A number of people expressed
the wish that the time of Annual Meeting be changed, either to Commencement
Week or to some time when College is in session. A formal recommendation was
made to the Executive Board asking them to consider this matter. It seemed to be
the general opinion, however, that since comparatively few can return to Bryn Mawr
\'ery often, what is most needed is to have news of the College brouglit at frequent
intervals to groups of alumnae and to schools. It was agreed that speakers must
be chosen with great care, and the discussion closed with the acceptance of the
following resolution:
Moved, seconded arid carried that the Executive Board appoint a coinmittee
to consider meaiis of establishing closer contact between the College and the alumnae,
and that this committee report at the Annual Meeting if possible, or at the next
Council.
After luncheon short reports were made for the Academic Committee, for the
Committee on Health and Physical Education, and for tlie Nominating Committee
by their respective chairmen, Ellen Faulkner, 1913, Marjorie Strauss Knauth, 1918,
and Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, 1898; and Alice Hawkins, 1907, Alumnae Secretary,
read a report on the Alumnae Bulletin sent by Miss Thompson, who was ill. All
will report formally at the Annual Meeting. Mrs. Bancroft said that the committee
would welcome suggestions for an Alumnae Director to be nominated this spring.
She reminded tlie Council of the plan to ask the Councillors to secure suggestions
from their districts each year by means of a plan worked out by the special committee
last year. She asked for an expression of opinion as to the desirability of nominating
some one who had served some time previously. The sense of the meeting seemed
to be in favor of using new material, but no action was recorded.
Each Council has its high spots, and there is no doubt that this was reached
in Boston in Mrs. Slade's report on the Deanery. Not many of those present had
been able to attend the opening of tlie Deanery, and all listened breathlessly to every
syllable of t?\e account of tlie committee's untiring labors to transform the building
from Miss Thomas' home — so full of memories for the alumnae in general — into a
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practical Alumnae House^ whicli can be of constant service to College with its
many entertainments^ and yet be always a dignified and delightful hostel for the
alumnae from far and near. The many personal and historical touches that Mrs.
Slade was able to give^ added to the wealth of detail^ helped materially to answer
many questions which had been in the minds of the hearers^ and heightened the
interest of the occasion. In the discussion that followed^ Mrs. Slade said that the
committee expects gradually to be more flexible than in its original regulations, and
thatj while they wish to safeguard the prior rights of tlie alumnae^, they will be glad
to make arrangements to offer hospitality to such groups as girls from the secondary
schools and parents of undergraduates. With great enthusiasm a resolution of
thanks was proposed.
Moved, seconded and carried that a formal expression of appreciation he sent
to Preside?it-Emeritus Thomas from the Council.
At end of the afternoon session, Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906, Alumnae
Director, spoke briefly for her committee on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Found-
ing of the College. She said that the committee had met recently with Mr. Cram,
consulting architect of the College, and had found his ideas very stimulating. The
committee has made no new plan, but hopes to follow the one outlined several years
ago, according to which it desires to secure, from one of the large foundations, funds
for a new Science Building, while the College would undertake to build a new dor-
mitory from unrestricted funds, and the alumnae would endeavor to raise the money
necessary for a wing of the Library in honor of Miss Thomas. Mention was made
of the recent Haverford Centenary Celebration, which seems to have been extremeh^
satisfactory, and to have established new contacts between the alumni and the college.
Mrs. Maclay reminded the Council that the date to be commemorated is less than
two years off, October, 1935, and that suggestions for an appropriate form of
celebration are in order. Accordingly it was
Moved, sec07ided and carried that a committee of five he appointed to make a
special recommendation as to the proposed gift to he made in honor of the Fiftieth
Anriiversart/ of the Founding of the College, and on the forin of celehration desired;
and that this committee report at the next Council ineeting.
At the concluding session of the Council, held on Saturday morning, November
18th, the Council had the pleasure of hearing about the undergraduate point of
view from Ellinor Collins, President of the Class of 1933, and from Mary Nichols,
1934, President of the Undergraduate Association. They will be printed in the
January Bulletin.
The addition to the Council of representatives from the Faculty and from tlie
Graduate School has proved to be a great success, and this jxar's members con-
tributed greatly to the importance of the discussions, while their papers upheld
the fine record established by their forerunners of the past two Councils (pages
20 to 24).
The last two events of tlie program completed the picture of the many groups
concerned with the College. In the enforced absence of Mrs. Frantz, the Senior
Alumnae Director, who will report formally at the Annual Meeting, Virginia
McKenney Claiborne, 1908, spoke briefly for that group, mentioning interesting
features of its make-up, its activities, and some of its plans. She alluded to the
question of Honorary Degrees which has recently been under discussion, and said
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that the Directors would welcome alumnae opinion on this and other subjects.
Mrs. Hand gave a spirited account of the work of the Seven Colleges Committee,
saying that all Seven were convinced that it is desirable and important to continue
their annual appropriation of $1,000 each, and to maintain the excellent organiza-
tion and liaison work established by their Executive Secretary, Mrs. Maude White
Stewart. They believe that some tangible results of their efforts have already been
achieved in the form of gifts and bequests received by several of the Seven, where
no actual connection had previously existed.
During the morning there was a short discussion of the idea of holding an
"Alumnae College." Josephine Young Case, 1928, Secretary of the Association,
said that she had been impressed with the account given of the successful one held
at Smith last June, and Miss Hawkins read a letter from Esther Lowenthal, 1905,
Professor of Economics at Smith, expressing her approval of the project. It seemed
the sense of the meeting that the alumnae would prefer to this some plan which
would bring them in contact with the College in its ordinary functioning, and a
recommendation was again made that the Association change the time of the Annual
Meeting in order that those attending might have an opportunity to see the College
in action.
Miss Rice, in her Councillor's report, had extended a most cordial invitation
to the Council to meet next 3^ear in St. Louis, and Mrs. Slade had concluded her
report on the Deanery with an enthusiastic offer of the Deanery as a meeting place.
After a discussion of the relative advantages of the two places at this particular
time, and expressing the hope that St. Louis would repeat the invitation for another
year, it was
Moved, seconded and canned that the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Council accepts
with pleasure the invitation of the Deanery Committee to meet at the Deanery
in 193Jf,
Before the motion for adjournment was made, Mrs. Clark, on behalf of the
Council, expressed to Mrs. Dewey, Mrs. Walcott, Mrs. Aldrich, and all their com-
mittee, appreciation of the great efficiency, combined with charming hospitality,
which had all added to the enjoyment and success of the meetings.
The Council then adjourned at 12.30 p. m.
NEWS FROM THE CLUBS
The Bryn Mawr Club of New York will hold its annual dinner in honour
of President Park on Tuesday, January 16th, at half-past seven, at the Park Lane.
All alumnae and former students are invited to come, but should make their
reservations early through the club. After dinner. President Park will talk about
the College and recent happenings.
Tlie Bryn Mawr Club of Washington announces that on Monday night, Decem-
ber 18th, at the National Theatre, it was sponsor for the first performance of
Katharine Hepburn, 1929, in The Lake, for the benefit of its Scholarship Fund.
The President of the club is Mrs. G. S. Jamieson, 3914 McKinley Street, Chevy
Chase, D. C.
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COUNCILLORS' REPORTS
The Reports are for the most part carried in full except for some omissions of names
and specific personal information about the holders of the Regional Scholarships.
REPORT OF DISTRICT I.
(Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island)
District I. is very fortunate in the compactness of its geography^, and even its
far corners are not very far apart. We still hope that in time^ as Bryn Mawr
College graduates more daughters of Maine and Vermont^ these two states will
become as alert in Bryn Mawr activities as the other four states.
District I. is also fortunate in the quality and quantity of its schools. They
are a fertile field for the development of Regional Scholars^ thus making the problem
of the Regional Scholarship Committee one of choosing rather than of seeking for
promising students. Here the competency and understanding of our Regional
Scholarship Chairman^ Mrs. Talbot Aldrich^ is unfailing^ and^, with her committee,
untiring in the spending of time and effort.
New England has eleven Regional Scholars in College today: three Seniors,
one Junior, three Sophomores, four Freshmen. Of these girls, seven are from
public schools and four from private schools (all held scholarships in school) ;
nine from Massachusetts and two from Connecticut.
For the future we have eight applications for Regional Scholarships. Seven
are for 1934-35 and one for 1935-36. Of these, four are from Massachusetts, three
from Connecticut, one from Rhode Island; five are from private schools and three
from public.
We have in District I. our three same centers of interest, for, try as we may,
we cannot change the centers of Bryn Mawr population in New England. The
New Haven Club reports a successful year and is well represented here today by
Helen Evans Lewis, 1913, former Councillor of District I. and Councillor-at-Large
for this meeting. Mrs. Lewis and Jeannette Peabody Cannon, 1919, often come
from New Haven for the Boston meetings of the Regional Scholarship Committee.
The New Haven Club (President, Mabel Smith Cowles, 1921) has held five meet-
ings during the year, at which President Park, Mrs. Learned Hand, Louise
Dillingham, 1916, Head of Westover; Helen Evans Lewis, 1913, and Marguerite
Mellen Dewey, 1913, were the speakers.
The Providence Club (President, Emily Noyes Knight, 1915) met only last
Monday to try to dig up some problems for us, but report that they have none.
Two of their members, Elizabeth Matteson Farnsworth, 1921, and Barbara Clarke,
1922, are members of the Regional Scholarship Committee, and one or the other is
always on hand for the meetings. While there is no club in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Anna Stearns, 1911, tries valiantly to keep interest alive, and herself consistently
comes to all Scholarship meetings. The Boston Club met four times last winter, and
this fall is concentrating its energy and enthusiasm on these Council meetings,
planned under the able leadership of Mrs. Robert Walcott, our President this year.
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Our money for scholarships in District I. is secured from an appeal to alumnae
sent out in the spring, and special alumnae gifts for special girls, from outside
donors, and gifts for special girls from the Boston, the Providence, and the
New Haven clubs.
In 1929 the appeal brought in $885 from seventy-four alumnae; in 1933 the
appeal sent out last March brought in $899 from one hundred and eight alumnae.
It is interesting to note an increase of thirty-four subscribers for an increase also
of $14. In 1929, five alumnae contributed special gifts totaling $375; in 1933,
three alumnae contributed $155. In 1929, thirty outside donors contributed $2,185;
in 1933, twenty-three outside donors contributed $1,185. Adding the club contri-
butions to the figures already given for 1929, our total sum collected was $4,570,
with an additional sum of $78.56 interest money. I add this, as our Treasurer pays
for all expenses from her interest sum each year. The number of our students
having scholarships awarded to them in 1929 was nine. In 1933, adding to the sums
already given in my contrasting figures, the club gifts of $1,100 (which are made
up annually: $100 from Providence Club, $200 from the New Haven Club, $800
from the Boston Club), our total sum was $3,339, with an additional sum of $64.70
interest money. We have awarded this year eleven scholarships, to the amount of
$3,505. We have in College, as I have said previously, seven upper classmen and
four Freshmen. We hear and read much today about the "Road to Recovery," but,
as I look back over these contrasting data of 1929 and 1933, and over the complete
record of Regional Scholarships in New England for the past twelve years, I should
say that we have proof here that there is always a place for a worth-while activity.
To be sure, it is true that the funds are now much harder to secure, but so also is
the individual need of the applicant more compelling this year than ever before.
One of our leading automobile engineers remarked recently, "There is nothing
wrong with this country, only the bookkeepers have got all balled up." We are
humbly thankful in New England that we have Susan Walker Fitz Gerald at our
financial helm.
For those who wonder whether there is room in the ranks of the employed for
the Regional Scholars who graduate from College, the five Seniors who graduated
last June are faring better than many of their brothers. All are doing something.
One is a graduate student at Radcliffe, another sells books for an educators' associa-
tion, another is teaching. The fourth is working in the translation department of
the Christian Science Publishing Society, and the fifth is a medical student at
Johns Hopkins. The last mentioned is carrying out the plan she had mapped out
for herself before going to College. All efforts to bring four years at Bryn Mawr
within the reach of these and other girls is worth while when we realize such sus-
tained determination in a chosen field, together with a broadening mental perspective.
Marguerite Mellen Dewey, 1913.
REPORT OF DISTRICT II.
(New York, Southern Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware)
District II. covers so varied a territory that, as a new Councillor, I cannot be
in personal touch with all of the alumnae, but must rely on such information as is
included in the reports of the committees in the district. These reports come from
the four sections of the district, as follows:
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Beatrice Sorchan Binger^ 1919^ of the New York and Southern Connecticut
Scholarship Committee^ reports a most interesting year. She says: "We had nine
candidates for our freshman scholarsliip^ which we finally gave to a high school
girl with an unusually excellent record;, who entered college as the eighth out of
187 candidates. Three of the other applicants were fortunately able to go to
Bryn Mawr without help.
"Our four other scholars in College^, two Seniors^, one Junior and one Sopho-
morc;, have also done extremely well in their studies^ receiving many high credits
and credits.
"This' year^, unfortunately, we were able to raise only $1,800, so that we could
not give our scholars as much as usual. Through a special arrangement with the
College they are receiving $300 each, while we have given the Freshman $500. We
hope to be able to give them more help next year, however, as our two Seniors will
graduate in the spring."
Jean Clark Fouilhoux, 1899, of the Northern New Jersey Committee, reports
that her committee has four students now in College. The Junior also holds a
scholarship from the Colonial Dames. Of the two Sophomores, one has won two
scholarships for herself. There is also a Freshman in College at present. Mrs.
Fouilhoux says that the total sum raised this year was $1,000, which is less than
last year. She, however, gives us one hint which may be useful to people in other
parts of the country, for she says that book sales have been most helpful in raising
the money. In other words, everyone contributes those used books which fill up
our spare shelves all too fast, and they are resold for small sums which mount up
most pleasantly to benefit our scholars.
Martha Sheldon Nuttall, 1912, of the Western Pennsylvania Committee,
reports that her committee is seeing through its scholar, who is now a Senior, and
that they hope to have enough money to send a Freshman next year.
Marjorie Canby Taylor, 1920, Chairman of Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware,
and Southern New Jersey, reports that her committee had fifteen applications for
the freshman scholarship, which was finally awarded to a Bryn Mawr Alumnae
Daughter. They have two Seniors, both with splendid records, and one Junior with
very high marks in all her subjects. Unfortunately, the Sophomore was unable to
return for financial reasons. Mrs. Taylor adds a cheerful note to her report,
saying, "Our financial problems have cleared up." They have been able to meet
their pledge to the College to repay part of a loan made to cover last year's deficit.
They raised money by their annual pansy and delphinium sales, bridge parties
during the winter, and pledges covering a three-year period. Some of these methods
may suggest ideas to you elsewhere.
It seems obvious that in all parts of the district. Chairmen have found it
difficult to collect the money needed. I do not believe that there is any lack of
interest, but that even our most loyal friends are hard pressed to help us, and I
feel that I should like to thank everyone who has given of her time and effort to
keep the torch of Scholarship burning at Bryn Mawr.
Before I close this account of District II., I should like to quote from the
report of Helen Riegel Oliver, 1916, the President of the Bryn Mawr Club in
New York: "The New York Bryn Mawr Club is well pleased with its move to an
attractive apartment in the Park Lane. The club's very existence tends to arouse
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and maintain interest in the College^, and, in a manner of speaking, it represents
the College in New York, making contacts with the other women's college clubs,
participating in various allied enterprises, as well as serving as headquarters for
Bryn Mawr activities. The Bryn Mawr Summer School has found there a willing-
ness to cooperate in furthering its interests. The great annual event is the dinner
for the President of Bryn Mawr. Upon this occasion, last January, when President
Park brought a special message to an eager audience, old college loyalties had a
great revival.
"This past October the club assisted with the dinner planned by and for the
Affiliated Schools for Workers in honor of President-Emeritus Thomas. The radio
broadcasting, newspaper publicity, and photographs at this delightful dinner in the
Park Lane ballroom certainly brought out the light of Bryn Mawr from under the
bushel for a time."
It seems to me that, with the exception of Bryn Mawr itself, more Bryn Mawr
interests in this district can be cleared through the club in New York than in any
other one place, and I hope that old friendships and new interests may be cemented
there.
Again I thank all alumnae for their suggestions and cooperation, and I wish
them all success next year in their efforts to enlist the help of an ever-widening
circle of friends and students worthy to carry on the scholarship and traditions of
Bryn Mawr.
Harriet Price Phipps, 1923.
REPORT OF DISTRICT III.
(Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee)
District III. is proud to report that its 1932-33 scholar, from Cocoa, Florida,
received the Longstreth Scholarship of $500 for her sophomore year. As a Fresh-
man she made only one grade under 80, and that was a 79. The regional award of
$500 went this year to a daughter of a professor at Duke University, who ranked
among the first twenty Freshmen admitted. The girls now or formerly supported
by the Baltimore and Washington clubs have also done well. Washington is help-
ing one Junior, and Baltimore one Sophomore and two Freshmen who also rank
among the first twenty.
The organization of the district into state groups proceeds satisfactorily. We
have local Chairmen everywhere but in Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina.
As there were last year only fifteen Bryn Mawr women in the three combined, it is
not strange that all of those who have been asked to serve have reported that they
were already too much involved in local affairs to undertake anything new.
Margaret Scribner Grant, '06, is the new Chairman of the Scholarships Committee
for the Washington Club, and Julia Cochran Buck, '20, for the Baltimore Club.
Jeannie Howard, '01, continues tlie Richmond work.
When every contribution means, as it does in these days, a genuine sacrifice
on the part of the contributor, we, who handle other people's money, should think
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very carefully about what we do with it. Councillors and Scholarships Chairmen
everywhere must ask themselves plainly whether their work is really carrying out
the idea back of the regional awards. The Regional Scholarships were founded to
bring to Bryn Mawr girls from less-well-to-do families and from sections of the
country not already heavily represented. The scholarships benefit only incidentally
the girls who receive them. Their purpose is to benefit the College by diversifying it.
This purpose is a good one and should always be kept in mind. It is more
important than details of organization, local interests or sympathy for girls who,
however deserving, merely repeat the type to which we are supposed to provide a
contrast. I should like all alumnae in District III. to consider very carefully
whether their scholarships really do supply variety for spicing college life.
The district is composed of the ten southeastern states and the District of
Columbia. Within it exist the Bryn Mawr Clubs of Washington and Baltimore, and
also what is generally referred to as the "Richmond group." The clubs of the two
larger cities work only to serve the financially handicapped girl, for Washington
and Baltimore are always so well represented by students able to pay their own
way that the geographical aspect of scholarship work need not there be considered.
Must not the city clubs keep more clearly in mind than ever the purpose of the
scholarships which they award .^ Must they not ask of every candidate not only,
"Is she a good student and a valuable member of society.^" but "Will this girl
contribute to college life something that the other girls from this city cannot give.'^"
In the South the geographical, rather than the financial, aspect of the work
has always been more important. District III.'s duty and ambition has always
been to see that the viewpoint of the agricultural southern states should be repre-
sented in what will always remain a preponderantly northern college. This ambition
within the years of my experience in this work has always been fulfilled. The
scholars of the last two years are southern born and southern prepared; this year's
scholar, while not southern born, is southern prepared and closely affiliated with
the South through her father's professorship in a North Carolina college.
District III. Regional Scholarships really help in adjusting the geographical balance
of the student body.
District III. is heavily handicapped. Exclusive of former graduate students,
who rarely contribute interest, work or dollars, and the members of the Washington.
Baltimore, and Richmond organizations, it numbers scarcely more than a hundred
alumnae. In practice this means that every year about a hundred letters are written
and that an average response of $5 must be received in reply to each one if our
goal is to be reached. I need not explain to women grown sad, if not old. in
money-raising experience, that such response is unheard of in any work in any
community.
Now it seems to me wrong for District III. to abandon or heavily reduce its
scholarship while Baltimore and Washington, alwaj'^s largely represented, send
more and more girls to College. Since the two cities are part of District III. it
seems to me fair for their clubs to help the district fund. I have been told that the
interest of the club members was purely local and that there would be no attempts
to raise money were every penny not to be used at home. This I cannot believe.
A Bryn Mawr club is, after all, not a chamber of commerce, and Bryn Mawr
education would not be wortli working for if its graduates held such narrow views.
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I do not suggest that the Baltimore and Washington scholarships be given up.
I propose only that they be either combined or offered in alternate years, or handled
in some other way that will release surplus funds for the district at large. In
prosperous years each city might send its scholar and still help the district. In the
lean ones, one of the two cities might be unrepresented by scholarship students, but
the geographical balance of undergraduate life would be maintained because the
district would still send its scholar.
I urge the Scholarships Chairmen in Washington and Baltimore to consider the
problem of District III. as a whole and to give me suggestions in regard to it.
I should like them to consider also the fact that by offering one scholarship for the
two cities they would necessarily raise the standard of the winners. A girl receiving
such an award would have to be of exceptional intellectual capacity, and a wholesale
rivalry between the clubs to provide the winner might, therefore, bring better
results to the College than either the present system or the one of alternating the
years for the award. Please do not think that as Councillor I am less interested in
Washington and Baltimore than in the South as a whole. Ideally, all three units
should send students, but as financial conditions in the country are far from ideal
I am suggesting what I believe to be the best way to do what the regional scholar-
ships are intended to do. As Baltimore and Washington are always represented by
students able to pay all their own expenses, it seems to me that of the three scholar-
ships that of District III. can least well be spared. Perhaps a percentage system
would work in Washington and Baltimore and Richmond, leaving each city's own
plan undisturbed, but each bearing its fair share of the district's burden.
Vinton Liddell Pickens, 1922.
REPORT OF DISTRICT IV.
(Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia)
Our two senior scholars finished their college years with much credit to them-
selves. Our Indianapolis scholar graduated cum laude with distinction in Archeology,
and following her special field of interest, she is acting as secretary to Dr. Swindler
in Bryn Mawr this winter. Our Cleveland scholar spent last year in Germany,
completing her work there for her degree. It is with regret that the district can no
longer report on the undergraduate fortunes of these two students, whose college
achievements promise so fair for future days. The certain knowledge that they will
fill their respective places as citizens of the world with judgment and intelligence,
made surer and keener because of their Bryn Mawr experience, is tremendously
satisfying to those of us who have watched them and helped them come through
to a successful conclusion.
Another scholar from District IV., from Cleveland, is now in her junior year.
Her final examination record in June would be a joy to give, but I must content
myself with saying tliat it is a report that would make any Councillor purr with
satisfaction. In addition, she has received a college scholarship, and a special grant.
Tliere were tliree good applicants for our one freshman Regional Scholarship,
and after much deliberation a girl from Huntington, West Virginia, received this
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scholarship. From our district, too, goes the first student to receive the Louise
Hyman Pollak Scholarship, to be awarded every second year to a girl entering
from the Middle West.
Last March you will recall that Mrs. Clark sent a letter to the Councillors
asking us to widen the scope of our activity by endeavoring to interest girls of
ability, who were able to pay, to go to Bryn Mawr. I cannot refrain from men-
tioning what I feel to be the direct result of such activity by stating that two
students have entered Bryn Mawr from Columbus and vicinity this fall. For the
past three years we have given a tea to which we have invited all girls expecting to
go East to college. At these meetings we have shown pictures of the campus,
class books, song books, and last year we showed the May Day movies. In addition
to these informal meetings we have spoken to the pupils of the Columbus School
for Girls at morning chapel on several occasions. I feel that our efforts had much
to do with the decision made by these two students. And what is even more encour-
aging, there is a fine group considering Bryn Mawr for the next few years. Before
this activity on our part there had been a lapse of almost ten years since the last
Central Ohio student entered Bryn Mawr. I speak of this to show what I believe
can be done in luke-warm districts with just a very little effort.
I belong to a study group which has as the subject of its winter program
"Sore Spots of the World." Narrowing the area down, I might well transfer the
forbidding title .to ''Sore Spots in District IV" and write volumes. As the matter
is carefully analyzed, however, in this year 1933, I am more and more convinced
that the sore spots are imposed from without and not due to any inner disinclination
or unwillingness to cooperate. The chaos of the world has made our middle-western
alumnae unable to take part in or to organize enthusiastically and whole-heartedly
Bryn Mawr projects. We have been sorely tried in places such as Detroit, Toledo,
Cleveland, Akron, Louisville.
Take Detroit, for example; a good organization exists there today and all one
might wish for in interest, but economically so deeply touched. Louisville and
Toledo are victims of tragic bank failures. Individual alumnae in the district have
written to me that it is not unwillingness on their part to help, but inability to help.
It is this at present that is creating the sore spots of our district. And because of
this situation we are not able as yet to meet our pledge in full to the College. When
bread-lines are the order of the day an appeal for scholarships falls largely on
deaf ears.
This I do know, that the awareness of our plans and purposes of scholarships
is filtering through to more and more alumnae, and the district is more interested.
more alert, more ready to help with each passing year, because each year our
contacts with alumnae in the district increase. Last spring a sample copy of the
Bulletin went out, suggesting that all non-members of the Alumnae Association
join. Again this September our News Sheet informed every alumna in the district
of our scholarships and our obligations. In addition to this, Mrs. Farrar, our district
Scholarship Chairman, and I have carried on a large volume of correspondence with
candidates, mothers of candidates, principals of schools, and alumnae. Our letters,
our News Sheet, our personal contacts, visits such as Mrs. Manning made last
spring to our district, the newspaper publicity that occurs from time to time, is
keeping the name of Bryn Mawr more and more before the middle-western eye. All
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this must have its results^, and when times are favorable again we must reap the
harvest of this present planning.
The candidates are here — the loyal alumnae are here — the enthusiasm is here —
and when the ability to give and give generously returns^, District IV. will stand
ready to match the results of its devotion with any district.
With sincere regret I am reading my last report of District IV. I cannot
bring it to a close without an expression of gratitude and appreciation for having
been able to serve as Councillor. It has given me great joy and I have deemed it
a great privilege.
Adeline Werner Vorys^ 1916.
REPORT OF DISTRICT V.
(Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Wyoming, Montana)
Madam Chairman, Members of the Council:
I present the report of District V., comprising eight states, including Wyoming,
with a question mark. I was informed by one authority that Wyoming was within
our fold and by another that it belonged elsewhere, but as the population for our
purposes is just two I will not fight for possession of the state.
As to our Regional Scholars; last year's two Seniors graduated with honors.
This year we have a Sophomore, who entered as a Matriculation Scholar and has
made a satisfactory record so far, and our freshman scholar is from Dubuque,
Iowa. We had two other applicants ; one, the daughter of an alumna, had excel-
lent entrance marks and was given a special scholarship offered by the Directors
of the College.
We had no benefit this year, and though we fine-combed the district for contri-
butions we have still not quite completed paying the necessary $800. We are now
in the throes of trying to plan some sort of big push for next year's funds, as we
must be able to take on a Freshman. We are already overwhelmed with good
applicants.
The most novel event in the district this year was the participation by
Bryn Mawr with seventeen other colleges in the organization called the Woman's
College Board for a Century of Progress. The movement was started by Mrs.
Howells, President of the Chicago Vassar Club. A board was formed, composed
of two members from each college. Caroline Daniels Moore, '01, served with
Grace Wooldridge Dewes, '09, who was the President of the Chicago Bryn Mawr
Club.
Space in the Hall of Social Science was first considered. The rent for the
summer would have amounted to $2,000. When, therefore, Time-Fortune generously
offered to give a corner of their big reading room for the booth free of charge or
obligation, their offer was gratefully accepted. The women's colleges had a corner
at one end near the entrance, with space for a desk where alumnae registered and
could examine tlie files for locating fellow alumnae, a wall rack displaying photo-
graphs of tlie different colleges, a book of pictures of each college, and other
information.
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Two paid secretaries alternated days and were on duty from 10 to 10. Tlie
college groups provided in rotation four assistant hostesses per day^, two for tlie
time from 10 to '%, and two from 4 to 10. They supplemented the work of the
secretary and took charge of the booth while she was out for meals.
Mrs. Dewes was General Chairman of Hostesses for all the colleges and
Mrs. Moore was on the committee which sent questionnaires to the colleges, the
answers to which were bound in two volumes (arranged by college and by subject
matter);, which could be consulted by prospective students.
The secretaries made a final report to the board, from which I quote: "As
secretaries we have kept the registration of visitors, which has been a source of
much interest and will constitute a valuable record for the alumnae associations.
The day of highest registration was August 21st, with 82, and the total of all
colleges was 5,210. Of these, 179 were from Bryn Mawr. Giving information about
the colleges has been a major service. In many cases we have suggested sending
for catalogues, thus giving the college the names of interested students. But the
number of catalogue requests does not represent the whole of our consultation
service. Of a total of 538 such requests 32 were sent to Bryn Mawr. It is difficult
to interpret figures, but we know that the service has been of definite value to
each college."
For purposes of comparison, Mrs. Dewes gave me the figures on requests for
catalogues from some of the other colleges: Bryn Mawr 32, Smith 40, Vassar 58,
and Wellesley 70.
Now that the Century of Progress is to be reopened next summer, the board
is not going to disband but will hold itself in readiness, pending a decision by the
colleges whether or not to continue the booth another year.
The Chicago alumnae have hoped that the representation of Bryn Mawr at the
Century of Progress would in some measure fulfill President Park's request that
the scope of the Scholarship Committees be broadened to include the finding of
students able to pay their way at Bryn Mawr. Now we are anxious to know how
best under ordinary circumstances a district remote from Bryn Mawr can help the
College in this way. A year ago, when the Council meeting brought President Park
to Chicago, she spoke in several schools in the district, which, of course, is just
what is needed to inspire girls to go to Bryn Mawr, but there are many lean years
when we cannot hope for her or for any visitor from the College. If we attempt to
get permission from schools to have alumnae speak to their high school girls on tlie
advantages of a Bryn Mawr education, is not the recent graduate, who can best
answer questions on the College as it is constituted today, the most effective speaker ?
If recent graduates are needed for our publicity work, how can the older alumnae
who are more or less in charge of affairs in the districts know which returning A.B.'s
are really good speakers? Could the College prime the districts as to prospective
speakers.^ Many qf them might be too busy with their first jobs, but some might
have the time and the inclination to help the College in this way. Could the Colle2:e
or the Alumnae Association have a suggested list of points to be made in any talk
to prospective students? One of our alumnae at a recent committee meeting in
Chicago suggested that we try entertaining groups of high school girls at teas
where good food and talk about the College could be judiciously mixed.
Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912.
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REPORT OF DISTRICT VI.
(Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico)
I have recently reread the past few reports from District VI.;, and have decided
that enough pessimism is enough. The Council lias heard annually such detailed and
emphatically reiterated accounts of our difficulties, that a map which colors the
Middle West anything but blue must seem to you intrinsically incorrect! This year
I have the dubious pleasure of announcing that we have reached a new all-time
record shade of deepest blue! District VI. has not even done its usual meager bit;
we have sent wo scholar to College this fall. I use the word pleasure, however,
advisedly; the situation cannot be worse, so any change must be for the better. We
have allowed this year to pass without visible result, but there are changes. So, if
you will bear with my new-found, sanguine philosophy, this year's report from
District VI. will be, for variety, optimistic!
First of all, a wave of enthusiasm for the higher education of women spread
over St. Louis when the austere heads of the seven women's colleges met there two
weeks ago. This is not for widespread publicity, but I suspect that the local
Bryn Mawr brain-trust (of which I don't claim membership!) had a great deal to
do with bringing them there. It is common knowledge, however, that our Mrs.
Gellhorn ran the dinner, turned the town out in its finest feathers, and made all the
arrangements behind the scenes that such an outpouring of brilliance demands.
The highest compliment I can pay Miss Park's contribution to that evening is to
tell what happened the following day. Emily Lewis, ex-'31. President of the
St. Louis Bryn Mawr Club, invited the local alumnae to meet Miss Park at break-
fast. The club had hitherto never boasted more than fifteen active members; that
morning avowed Bryn Mawrters appeared from the most unexpected corners, and
Emily served up eggs and bacon to twenty-five of them ! That afternoon Miss Park
listened with the patience of an experienced saint to the questions of ten mothers
and their Bryn Mawr-bound daughters, when she met them at a tea. So I'm con-
fident that the situation in St. Louis is well under control; that city has always
been the greatest source of income for our scholarship fund, and I think I'm not
being too optimistic in believing that its support of next year's fund will be just as
generous. We have also a very promising candidate from one of the St. Louis
schools for our scholarship in 1934, so St. Louis, aided by Sedalia, which has sent
us an applicant for 1935, can shed its glow over the rest of Missouri to lighten
that blue blot on the alumnae map !
One of my earlier and more practical sources of optimism arrived by mail last
summer — the first and only unsolicited check, as well as the largest, that I have
ever received for the scholarship fund. It came from Oklahoma, a state which I
now hold near and very dear. Dorothy Deneen Blow, 1916, has just resigned as
its Scholarship Chairman, but I am hoping that Stanley Gordon Edwards, European
Fellow in 1930, will take over the job.
Arkansas, too, brightened up considerably on my mental map when the State
Chairman, Marnette Wood Chesnutt, of the Class of 1909, wrote this fall about a
possible candidate for the scholarship in 1935, and promised to contact the other
six alumnae in her state to see what interest and help she can stimulate in order to
send the girl to College. Lucy Harris Clarke, 1917, State Chairman for Kansas,
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put her situation very graphically when she wrote "the general run of Kansans
think Bryn Mawr an educational realm apart^ reserved for the very rich. They
won't even attempt to pronounce its name^ and I fear many think I am sweetly
lying about having been there." But Mrs. Clarke goes on with the good news of a
bright hope in Kansas — the daughter of an ex-Bryn Mawrter who wants to apply
for the scholarship in 1935. The thrill of these applications may seem paradoxical
to you^ who know that we haven't sent a single scholar to College this fall from our
district, but you must remember from the years of pessimism that the difficulty of
rousing interest in applicants for the scholarship outside of St. Louis has always
been one of the most disheartening parts of the Councillor's job.
The frontier of optimism has not yet been pushed back into Texas, Colorado,
or New Mexico, but Nebraska now ranks among the brightest states of them all.
Last winter Exilona Hamilton, ex-'30, went all the way home to Omaha from a
vacation in California to get things under way in the formation of a Bryn Mawr
Club. She left it in the very capable hands of Laura Richardson, also of the Class
of 1930, who reports as follows: "At our first meeting, last March, everyone was
most enthusiastic about organizing a Bryn Mawr Club, which should meet at regular
intervals, try to build up a scholarship fund, and create interest in the College
among the Nebraska schools. There are now eleven active members in the Omaha
group, five non-resident members, and several Lincoln alumnae who have agreed to
cooperate with iis as associate members. At a second meeting last spring we dis-
cussed the new plans for entrance into Bryn Mawr, and subsequently interviewed
the dean of girls at the public high school most likely to provide Bryn Mawr
material. She was interested in the new plan of entrance requirements, and talked
to the girls about it, as well as about the future possibility of a scholarship. Our
most fertile ground is, I believe, Brownell Hall, a private school which has prepared
two girls who are now at Bryn Mawr. I gave a talk and showed May Day films
there shortly before our club was organized, and found there several girls who have
Bryn Mawr in mind. This fall we are holding regular monthly meetings; we are
establishing a connection with the Omaha College Club, giving Bryn Mawr some
publicity in the newspapers, and planning to give a benefit movie performance this
winter to raise money for the scholarship fund."
So, with Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska out of the
blue blot that District VI. has always made on the alumnae map, my sources of
new-found optimism have been summarized.
Erna Rice, 1930.
REPORT OF DISTRICT VII.
(California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona)
Things have been very quiet all during the summer. We hear cheering rumors
that the eastern part of the country is enjoying rejuvenated business, and the con-
sequent return of enthusiasm and interest. On the coast we were fortunate enougli
to withstand the panic for a couple of years. But apparently it works both ways,
for we are unfortunate in that the tide of prosperity is slow in penetrating our
district.
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As a consequence tlie Brvn Mawr Club of Southern California has found it
difficult to keep up its scholarship fund, and when our scholar graduated last year
it was decided at that time that in all probability we would not attempt to send
another scholar this year. It seemed that it was too much to ask the few members
who always carry the burden to contribute again. This state of quiescence is, we
hope, temporary.
The Bryn Mawr Club of Northern California has fared a little better and has
been successful in raising the necessary money for its scholar's senior year. Also^
there is a daughter of an alumna who expects to be ready to go to Bryn Mawr the
fall of 1935. She is a most bright and attractive girl^ and the northern club has
decided to send her as its next scholar.
It will probably be quite some time before another section of our district can
be sufficiently populated with Bryn Mawr enthusiasts to develop a third nucleus of
a club. We keep looking toward the northwest^ namely;, Portland and Seattle^ but
I believe that so far our expectations have been slightly anticipatory and have had
no real chance of consummation. I am sure that it would give any Councillor great
pleasure to report that a flourishing club had been organized in the northwest. It is
bound to come, and I hope that my successor may have that pleasure.
Jere Bensberg Johnson, 1924.
EVENTS AT THE DEANERY
The Deanery has so immediately become a part of the life not only of the
alumnae and of the College itself, but also of that pleasant but rather nebulous
group known as the Friends of the College, that every one wonders what we all did
before President Thomas made it possible for us to gather in that gracious setting.
In a later number of the Bulletin there will appear some concrete figure from
the report to be submitted to the Directors. These figures, however, immensely
significant as they are, can not suggest the feeling of gaiety and charm that has
characterized the two events that have already taken place, setting the standard.
For the first event, on Sunday, November 26th, the Entertainment Committee
of the Deanery brought Mr. Lawrence Binyon, Curator of Oriental Prints at the
British Museum and Exchange Professor at Harvard, to give an illustrated talk on
"Chinese Painting." Tea was served before the lecture to a large and interesting
group, of both men and women, members of the faculty. Directors of the College,
alumnae and their husbands and sons, and invited guests from Philadelphia and
the neighborhood. Afterwards chairs were put in the great room which even under
those circumstances does not lose its mellow warmth. One could see and hear
admirably, and the setting definitely enhanced as delightful and distinguished a
lecture as has been given in the College for a long time.
On Sunday afternoon, December 10th, the second event took place. Opening
the programme, the choir and all the audience sang with gusto Adeste Fidelisj
then Katherine Garrison Chapin (Mrs. Francis Biddle) gave, in costume, her one-
act Christmas play, "The Lady of the Inn." The play, or poem, is of amazing and
beautiful simplicity. She gave it in the manner in which she wrote it, tenderly,
poignantly, and very quietly. Following the play, the choir gave a programme of
Christmas Carols interestingly chosen and beautifully sung.
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REPORT OF THE COUNCILLOR-AT-LARGE
It may sound to you as if I had picked a most unsuitable and unseasonable
subject when I tell you that I am about to talk on "Cultivating Our Garden." Let
no one think that I am a horticulturist. I can tell a dandelion from a rose and I
know that bone meal is a food for flowers and not for children, but there my
knowledge ends. What may some day be my garden is now a well-worn, grassy
baseball field, with a border of velocipedes and swings.
It is not of that type of garden that I want to speak, but of our corporate
garden — that group of hardy perennials to which are added each year new annuals. —
the alumnae of Bryn Mawr College. And I wish to suggest that that garden, like
our own real ones, needs a good deal of cultivation, and, like our real ones, will
produce results in proportion to the amount of watering, weeding and fertilizing
that we give it.
This corporate garden has one great advantage. It sows itself. And it has
one great disadvantage. After the plants have been transplanted they have to be
kept attached to the parent stem. This requires considerable long-distance fertiliz-
ing, and I am of the opinion that we do not do as much as we might to help along
this operation.
I am continually impressed by the amount of care that Yale — and I think the
same is undoubtedly true of Harvard and Princeton — takes to keep their alumnae
informed and interested. . . , They are continually sending to their groups all over
the country men who can give first-hand accounts of present-day happenings, and
of plans for the future. Now I realize, of course, that our funds for any such
arrangement are limited. But I realize also that from a purety mercenary point of
view we are much more likely to get good financial returns from a well-informed
and interested alumnae group than from one that has been allowed to bloom unseen
in its own corner. Have we any system whereby our groups are watched and suit-
able fertilizer provided even if not requested?
Another type of fertilizing that interests me is one that our sisters at Vassar
and Smith use. I do not know the details of their systems, but they have some
arrangement whereby elected representatives from each class go en masse to the
College once or twice a year and return, full of information and with renewed
interest. I do not feel that our Alumnae Meeting fills that bill at all. In the first
place, any one can go to it. And though it may be a sad commentary on human
nature, it is true that if A and B have been elected or officially asked to attend
anything to which C, D, and E are not eligible, A and B will go rejoicing. If not,
they will probably stay home.
I am casting no aspersions on that glorious band, the chosen few, the alumnae
of Bryn Mawr College. But I think that they would be a more valuable group to the
College if they were exposed to the direct sun of the Bryn !Mawr Campus, or if its
rays were more often refracted officially on them.
Helen Evans Lewis. 191.'1.
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THE INCREASING SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Extracts from Speech Made at the Alumnae Council by Eunice Morgan Schenck, 1907,
as a Member of the Faculty of Bryn Mawr College
It is particularly gratifying to have an opportunity here in Boston to give
some account of the Graduate School_, as it was the Boston Bryn Mawr Club that
gave me my first chance to speak before a group of alumnae about the plans to
make Radnor a Graduate Hall. That was in the spring of 1929;, and now that we
are in our fifth year of residence in Radnor a generation is in college for which
any other arrangement for graduate students is lost in the depths of the past.
I believe that the consensus of opinion is that the establishment of the Graduate
Hall has made a more profitable and agreeable life on the Bryn Mawr campus for
the graduate students. It has certainly helped to make a delightful life for the
dean who was fortunate enough to be placed in residence with them. I can testify
to the unending interplay of interests^, points of vieW;, and ideas that goes on under
Radnor's roof.
The subdivision of the Bryn Mawr Self-Government Association into graduate
and undergraduate branches has enabled the graduate students to make their own
regulations and the Graduate Hall gives them a background for the organization of
whatever social life they want and have time for. I cannot speak^ in this connec-
tion, too highly of the skill, tact, and wisdom of the Bryn Mawr alumna who
has been, since the opening of the Graduate Hall, its Senior Resident, Catherine
Robinson, 1920.
The Wednesday Hall Teas bring to Radnor faculty, undergraduates, alumnae
of the neighborhood and the lions of the day who may be lecturing at Goodhart
in the evening or sojourning at the Deanery. An hour of music is arranged on
Sunday evenings from nine to ten. The programmes are announced in the halls
and the College is invited. The music is really good because of the generosity of
the Music Department in lending its records and because Radnor has a Victrola,
unmatched on the campus, the gift of a group of our neighbors. Last week, the
first of a series of dinners, to be followed by informal speeches, took place. Profes-
sors William Roy Smith and Marion Parris Smith were the guests of honor, Marion
Smith giving an account of her glorious defeat at the polls the week before and
of political conditions generally in Lower Merion Township. This series, so bril-
liantly launched, is expected to include other speakers from the Bryn Mawr faculty
and from the faculties of neighboring institutions.
One of the most interesting developments in connection with the Graduate
School this year has been the start made in a movement of cooperation by the
University of Pennsylvania, Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr. The initia-
tive came from President Gates, the new President of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, who presented a proposal for cooperation to the Board of Graduate Education
and Research of the University, of which President Park and the Presidents of
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Swarthmore and Haverford are members. The working out of the plan has been
in the hands of a joint committee under the chairmanship of Dean Crosby^ of the
Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania^ to which I had the honor to
be appointed by President Park as the representative of the Bryn Mawr Graduate
School. Already agreements have been reached among the libraries of the cooperat-
ing institutions which will, we hope, lead to economies in book-buying and increased
facilities in book-lending. Departmental cooperation has also made a beginning,
and we believe that it is difficult to estimate the help that in the end we may give
to one another.
One of the first calls was by the University of Pennsylvania to Professor Anna
Pell Wheeler, the head of our Department of Mathematics, to give a seminary in
Linear Functional Equations at the University of Pennsylvania. This seminary
has a registration of 12 students, which Dean Crosby considers remarkable because
of the advanced character of the work. Four are from Bryn Mawr and eight (men
and women) from the University of Pennsylvania. In exchange for Professor
Wheeler's seminary, Bryn Mawr has asked Professor Howard H. Mitchell, of the
University of Pennsylvania, to come out and give a seminary at Bryn Mawr in
Theory of Numbers. Six Bryn Mawr students are enrolled. This course, so Profes-
sor Wheeler tells me, is proving to be a very useful introduction to the graduate
work that Dr. Kmmy Noether, of Gottingen, will offer this year and next at Bryn
Mawr College. We are very fortunate in having on the campus, thanks to the
Rockefeller Foundation and the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German
Scholars, this outstanding mathematician, one of the group that made Gottingen so
great a center for mathematical activity. Dr. Noether, whose English is excellent,
contrary to first reports, will work informally with students during the first semester
of this year and begin her course in February. Next year she will lecture through-
out the year. We shall hope to place about her a particularly well equipped group
of young scholars.
The Graduate School of 1933-34 numbers 112 students, of whom 59 are in
Radnor Hall, 7 in Low Buildings, and 11 others have some appointment at the
College, as instructors, demonstrators, wardens, etc. Seventy-four are giving their
full time to graduate work.
Thirty-two are Bachelors of Arts of Bryn Mawr College. The others, as usual,
came from a very large number of different institutions and form a most interesting-
cross section of American education. One hundred five hold their first degrees
from 41 different colleges and universities in the United States. Five Canadians
represent 4 different Canadian universities (Dalhousie, McGill, New Brunswick,
Saskatchewan), and one English university (Oxford). Two foreign students, both
French, one in Radnor Hall and one a teacher at The Shiplc}^ School, come from
the Universities of Paris and Lille.
For the first time in many years we have in Radnor only one European holding
a Bryn Mawr scholarship. Under the financial stress, it seemed to the Directors
unwise to load the College budget with the item of $5,000 needed for the five
scholarships that we usually offer to foreign women, but it is, I understand, their
intention to restore the fund at the first possible moment. Our one foreign Scholar,
a French agregee d' anglais, Jeanne Laumain, was awarded her scholarship in 1932,
but was unable to use it last j^ear because of illness.
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There are^ however^ in Radnor 15 students, Americans and Canadians, who
have already studied in Europe and bring training from Oxford, Glasgow, Paris,
Lyons, Florence, Rome, Athens, Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt a/Main, and Freiburg.
Some specific examples among our present students of academic experience
outside the United States are:
Constance Brock, A.B. McGill University, 1928, M.A. Somerville College,
Oxford, 1930.
Dorothy Burwash, also a Canadian student, A.B. Somerville College, Oxford,
1931.
Virginia Grace, Bryn Mawr, 1922, just returned from Athens, has been work-
ing for two years in connection with the excavations in the Agora, Miss
Hetty Goldman's excavations in Boetia and the University of Pennsyl-
vania's expedition in Cyprus.
Agnes Lake, Bryn Mawr, 1930, was Fellow at the American Academy in
Rome, 1931-33.
Eleanor O'Kane, A.B. Trinity College, 1927, M.A. University of Pennsylvania,
1933, the present President of the Graduate Club and Scholar in Spanish,
taught for three years in the schools of Porto Rico.
Another gratifying element in the makeup of the Graduate School of this year
is the unusually large number of students- who have come to study at Bryn Mawr
on scholarships awarded to them from outside sources : These are :
Elizabeth Armstrong— The Caroline Duror Memorial Fellowship from Barnard,
Geology.
Adelaide Davidson — Arnold Archaeological Fellowship from Brown University.
Dorothy Schierer — The Joseph A. Skinner Fellowship in Art and Archaeology
from Mount Holyoke College.
Elizabeth Marshall — Wilson College Fellowship (awarded to their alumnae).
Physics.
Maurine Boie — Non-resident Fellowship from the Family Society of Philadel-
phia for use in the Department of Social Economy.
Mildred Moore — Ella Sachs Plotz Fellowship awarded by the National Urban
League for use in the Department of Social Economy.
Vesta Sonne — Y. W. C. A. Fellowship in Social Economy.
Helene Coogan — Y. W. C. A. non-resident Scholarship in Social Economy.
A still more significant picture of the varied elements that make up the Bryn
Mawr Graduate School can be had from the list of colleges sending the 98 students
to whom we have awarded the degree of Master of Arts in the last five years.
They are:
Bryn Mawr College, 26; Mount Holyoke College, 11; Hunter College, 6;
Smith College, 5; Barnard College, Oberlin College, 4 each; University of Pennsyl-
vania, Swarthmore College, 3 each; University of California, Mills College, North-
western University, Wellesley College, University of Wisconsin, 2 each.
Twenty-six colleges sending 1 each: Boston University, Butler University,
University of Delaware, Duke University, Earlham College, Goucher College,
University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Kansas, University of
Nebraska, New York University, Pembroke College in Brown University, Penn
College, Pennsylvania College for Women, Radcliffe College, Randolph-Macon
Woman's College, Vassar College, University of Vermont, University of British
Columbia, University of Manitoba, University of Toronto, University of Budapest,
Universiity of Bonn, University of Cologne, London School of Economics (student
also held B.A. from Girton), University of Zurich.
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Many of these Bryn Mawr Masters^ like Masters of Arts everywhere, will go
into teaching or other work and not continue their graduate studies. The Master's
degree is another terminus like the Bachelor's degree. Of those who go on to the
doctorate, some will present themselves at Bryn Mawr, some elsewhere. This is a
normal and proper Graduate School pattern. It is important, to my way of think-
ing, that no one should do all the work for the doctorate at any one institution,
be it Bryn Mawr or the largest university in the world. If possible, the work should
not be done in any one country. Not to go beyond academic considerations, the
stimulation of foreign methods of work and teaching is invaluable. It is our habit
at Bryn Mawr to send our own students off for some part of their work and we are
happy, in return, to have students from other places sojourn for a time with us.
It has been said of late that too many Doctors of Philosophy are being made
in this country. With the economic pressure of today, the output must be, and is,
carefully watched. All our candidates of June, 1932, and June, 1983, are placed:
Degree Conferred June, 1932:
Aline Abaecherli, A.B. University of Cincinnati, 1927 — Fellow at the American
Academy in Rome.
Belle Beard, A.B. Lynchburg College, 1923 — Head of the Department of
Economics and Sociology, Sweet Briar College.
Josephine Fisher, A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1922 — Warden of Pembroke Hall
and Instructor in History, Bryn Mawr College.
Katharine Jeffers, A.B. University of Missouri, 1927 — National Research
Fellow studying with Professor Collip at McGill University.
Myra Richards Jessen, A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1915 — Associate in German,
Bryn Mawr College.
Katharine McBride, A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1925 — Research in Psychology
carried on in Philadelphia hospitals under grant from the Commonwealth
Fund.
Anne Morrison, A.B. University of Missouri, 1914 — Supervisor of Case Work
in Northumberland, Union and Snyder Counties, under Pennsylvania
County Relief.
Dorothy Wyckoft', A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1921 — Associate in Geology,
Bryn Mawr College.
Helen Young, A.B. Boston University, 1919 — Head of the English Department,
The Shipley School.
Degree Conferred June, 1933:
Edith Fishtine, A.B. Boston University, 1925 — Assistant Professor of Spanish,
Simmons College.
Edna Fredrick, A.B. Mount Holyoke College, 1927 — Part-time Instructor in
French, Mount Holyoke College and at the Hartford Branch for Freshmen
of Mount Holyoke College.
Margaret Jeffrey, A.B. Wellesley College, 1927 — Instructor in German,
Wellesley College.
Mary Pease, A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1927 — Research Fellow, American
School of Classical Studies, Athens.
Grace Rhoads, A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1922 — Part-time Assistant to the
Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee.
Irene Rosenzweig, A.B. W^ashington University, 1921 — Teacher of Latin,
The Bennett School.
Mary Woodwortli, A.B. Bryn INIawr College, 192 1 — Instructor in English.
Bryn Mawr College.
Jean Wright, A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1919 — Associate Professor of French.
Westhampton College, University of Richmond.
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And thiS;, Madam President^ brings me to my last point. In recent years the
number of excellent applications for our graduate fellowships and scholarships has
increased so markedly that the choice is one of very great difficulty. It is impos-
sible to arrange, in the large majority of cases, the meeting between departments
and candidates that would so often be desirable. My office, which carries on the
correspondence with candidates, is going to ask certain Doctors of Philosophy of
the College who are in active academic life to serve as correspondents who will be
willing, at our request, to give interviews to candidates and report to us. We believe
these interviews may be as useful to candidates as to the College itself. The work
of our correspondents would be analogous to much of the work of the Regional
Scholarship Committees, and I ask that the Alumnae Board consider inviting them
to form in each region a sub-committee for graduate fellowships and scholarships.
In this way, the work that we are asking these distinguished academic women to
do for the College will be accredited, as is due, to alumnae activity, and a new link
between Alumnae Bachelors, Masters, and Doctors will be established.
POINTS FROM DEAN MORRISS' SPEECH ON THE
GRADUATE SCHOOL
The three Deans of Pembroke College, Mrs. Allinson, Miss King, Miss Morriss,
all studied in the Bryn Mawr Graduate School; Mrs. Allinson, a Bachelor of Arts
and a Doctor of Philosophy of Bryn Mawr; Miss Morriss, a Bachelor of Goucher
and a Doctor of Bryn Mawr; Miss King, holder of one year of the Bryn Mawr
Resident Fellowship in Latin. Miss Morriss paid a warm tribute to the training-
she herself received and said emphatically that she knew no place where one gets
a better sense of what constitutes a scholar.
Basing her knowledge of the school today on the experience of recent Pembroke
graduates, she rejoiced in the warmth of the welcome given to graduates of other
colleges, and signified academically by the opening of the M.A. degree to the alumnae
of all accredited institutions. In the Bryn Mawr requirements for the M.A., how-
ever, she deplored the insistence upon a Latin prerequisite for all candidates,
believing that Bryn Mawr thereby loses more than it gains, because scientific students
who have come to their graduate years without Latin are deterred by what seems
to them an unreasonable demand. She approved, however, all the more flexible pro-
visions of the new requirements for the Ph.D. degree.
Among Miss Morriss' students there have been some who chafed at the limits
of the Bryn Mawr horizon, but as one with another point of view put it, "It is
not a huge mill grinding out an education," and still another said, "If you enlarge
the school, you take away its special advantage and you cannot have it both ways."
In conclusion Miss Morriss said that she believed that the point of view of the
Pembroke students could be summarized as follows: "The reputation and standing
of the Bryn Mawr Graduate School is high enough to continue indefinitely to draw
to it a full quota of the ablest women students in the country."
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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE
In November the new building of the Philadelphia High Schools for Girls at
17th and Spring Garden Streets was dedicated. On such an occasion it would be^
I suppose^ almost a matter of course to ask the Provost of the University of
Pennsylvania and the President of Bryn Mawr to speak; they have an inborn
interest in a college preparatory high school in Philadelphia. But if I had not
been invited on this occasion I should have been inclined to force my way in^, for
the actual record of the alliance between the Girls' High School and Bryn Mawr
College is so remarkable that not only the audience gathered to take part in the
dedication^ but all Bryn Mawr graduates should, I think, be made aware of it.
Each year we are faced with the fact that the great majority of Bryn Mawr
students enter from private schools. It is worth our attention to realize what the
graduates of a single public high scliool have done at Bryn Mawr College.
First, as a matter of numbers, the Philadelphia High School for Girls has sent
237 of its graduates to Br^m Mawr, 6% of the whole number of undergraduate
students who have entered the College. Only two schools in the country have sent
a larger number of girls than this — the Baldwin School and the Shipley School in
Bryn Mawr itself, and the number from the latter exceeds the number from the
Girls' High Scliool only by two. Again, the record of the Philadelphia High School
for Girls is unique in the city. Eight Trustee Scholarships are available each year
to students prepared in the Philadelphia high schools, and seventy of these scholar-
ships have been awarded in all, fifty-seven to graduates of the Girls' High School.
Of the students entering Bryn Mawr from the Girls' High School, some in the
natural course of things have dropped out without completing the work for a
degree, a few to take the A.B. elsewhere, and others to marry or to go directly into
work. One hundred and eighty-six graduates of the school have, however, taken the
A.B. degree at Bryn Mawr, and done it with a remarkable record.
*Eighty-one of these 186 have taken the degree with distinction — cum laude,
magna cu7n laude, or summa cum laude; further, of the 19 degrees given by the
College summa cum laude, three of the holders (Helen Lowengrund, Clara Wade,
and Marguerite Darkow) are graduates of the Girls' High School. Of the 16
Bryn Mawr European Fellowships given from 1889 to 1933, nine have been given
to Girls' High School graduates (Ellen Ellis, Helen Lowengrund, Clara Wade,
Mayone Lewis, Helen Bley, Marguerite Darkow, Marion Kleps, Ernestine ]\Iercer,
Eleanore Boswell). At the present moment there are at Bryn Mawr five graduates
of the school, and three of them have at this time inagna cum laude ratings.
The later record of these 186 joint graduates of the school and College has
been equally notable. Many of them have gone on into graduate work, 61 to win
the degree of Master of Arts, and 20 that of Doctor of Philosophy or its equivalent.
Fifty-one are teaching in schools, for the most part in public high schools, but in
three instances as heads of flourishing private scluiols. Others like Gertrude Hartman
and Nellie Seeds have done conspicuous work in tlie field of progressive education.
*Total number of degrees with distinction conferred by B. M. C. = 719.
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Fifteen are at the moment on college faculties — at Bryn Mawr, Goucher^ Hunter,
Mount Holyoke, Smith, Brooklyn, and the State Teachers Colleges at Stroudsburg
and Shippensburg.
The cooperation between the school and the College has always been main-
tained. The two recent principals, Miss Jessie Allen and Dr. Olive Hart, have been
keen to send able girls to Bryn Mawr, and in several cases a special fund has been
called upon to provide tuition for more girls than the college scholarships could
cover, while the teachers in the school have in several instances given additional
scholarship aid to make residence at the College possible for the Trustee Scholars.
CAMPUS NOTES
By J. Elizabeth Hannan, 1934
Varsity Dramatics Club, the group which sponsors more innovations than any
other in College, thought up something new and different for the dull period
between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when football games and quizzes are over
and all minds are focussed on the day vacation starts. Their full-length play this
fall is to be given by a cast of Bryn Mawr undergraduates, with no aid and com-
fort from Princeton, Haverford, or the faculty. An all-female cast in a Bryn Mawr
play may seem neither new nor startling to many alumnae, but for the present
college generation it is a departure from well-established custom. After some dis-
cussion the board decided that the doubtful benefit of playing with rather inferior
men actors could be dispensed with, at least for the present, and that there were
enough deep voices on campus to provide "men" for a period play. At the time this
goes to press the play has not yet been given, but The Knight of the Burning Pestle,
an Elizabethan comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, has been selected as giving most
scope to our peculiar talents.
After the Saturday night performance of the play there will be a dance, as
usual, and so the audience will include men, as well as Bryn Mawr undergraduates
and bevies from the surrounding schools. We think we can prophesy that the team
of Beaumont and Fletcher will get as enthusiastic a reception as Gilbert and
Sullivan, also staged with an all-female cast, have been accorded by similar audi-
ences. The advantage of having a mixed audience is really something to be
reckoned with, especially since the entertainment to follow makes everyone more
receptive to the mood of the play. Indeed, the dances, formerly a novelty in our
cloistered life, have become a very pleasant accompaniment to the drama; and tlie
crowded condition of the gym in times past has amply proved how popular they are.
The Playwriting class continues to be one of the most vocal groups in College,
carrying, as it does, the gospel of the theater to every nook and corner of the
campus and beyond, and also one of the most prolific. A "play" is written by each
member of the class about every other week and a certain number produced with
little rehearsal or ceremony at each meeting. Since about half the class are taking
Playwriting for a second year, there is a chance that some regular plays may be
written and produced at College, or perhaps published.
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Another grouj) wliicli ministers to this desire to do practical work in aesthetics
is the Art Club. According to its write-up in the News, "It is trying to make
possible real work and practice in the essentials of art . . . (but) is not trying to
fill the place of a full-time and many-sided art school. That sums up the attitude
of such undergraduate activities — and perhaps of the academic wing of College,
too — a calm invitation to 'take it or leave it.' It seems to us an eminently practical
point of view, and refreshing to anyone who has lived through a Progressive
Education Conference made up of undergraduates who apparently demanded every-
thing from college but a continuous pension for the rest of their natural lives. We
congratulate ourselves in a pharisaical way on the fact that at Bryn Mawr a prep-
aration for 'Life' is not the dominating feature in the schedule, nor does anyone try
to stuff down our throats the makings for a good citizen, a happy wife, or a success-
ful artist. One is allowed to acquire one's knowledge quietly with a few un-
chaperoned excursions into the practical side of a Liberal Arts Education."
However, we do not wish to give the impression that the College is immersed
in a study of drawing and playwriting, for that would be quite false. The Anna
Howard Shaw lectures have caused an orientation to international affairs which
would probably no less amaze than please the League of Nations. Under the stim-
ulating instruction of Mrs. Dean, Mrs. Slade, and Miss Jane Addams, the College
has shown a surprising desire to untangle the mysteries of foreign policy, inter-
national alignments, and the past and future of peace. In fact, the interest has been
so widespread that there is a very good chance that a course in International
Relations may appear on next year's curriculum.
Although we have said a great deal about the curriculum, we might as wxll
continue until we have disburdened ourselves of every scrap of academic informa-
tion. The quizzes this fall brought more than the usual number of complaints, so
the News, that faithful oracle of public opinion, immediately vented several edi-
torials on the subject. The first one was called "College Humor" and dealt with
the iniquity of professors who set "amusing" quizzes, "At present, " the indignant
editor cries, "the only possible advantage in attending classes and doing the
assigned reading is to find out what we will not be asked on the quiz. . . . The
questions which are evolved for our pleasure are those which the professor considers
'amusing,' and they have very strange senses of humor for people otherwise so
normal. What they consider 'amusing' is to give a course in Botany" (Ed.: a purely
mythical course, we assure you) "and then ask the students what they know about
philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and life, thereby ignoring the material in
six weeks' notes and as much reading." We are pleased to report that the editorial
penetrated to the minds and hearts of the faculty, to one especially, who killed a
quiz that was tainted with the "amusing" and substituted one more suited to our
comprehension. Not till we get to Heaven, though, shall we ever find quizzes that
cover the material we have covered, and until then the only help the undergraduate
will have is her own rusty wits.
The second editorial was concerned with the rules of hours of work required
for unit and half-unit courses, and protested the infringement of the rule by many
professors. It pointed out quite sensibly that "If the professors would ask only a
standard amount of work, they would get much better results, and a good deal of
bluffing and 'chiselling' so current in a community where the motto is sauve qui pent
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would disappear." This j)rotest also received sympathetic attention from certain of
the faculty, and manna, in the form of books cut from reading lists, fell.
Another recognition of the undergraduate urge — to be treated with fairness and
liberality by the authorities — came this month from the Self-Government Association.
In the future the rules of this association, which are supposed to be of mutual
benefit to College and administration, will be somewhat relaxed. Under the former
regulations only a stated list of places were recognized by the Self-government
Board as places of entertainment or lodging. Under the new rules, 2 o'clock per-
mission may be obtained for informal dancing at "any reputable place," and over-
night permission to spend the night at "any reputable hotel or boarding house."
This, in the words of the President of Self-government at the meeting to pass the
new rules, "will allow students to go to the place they sign out for and sign out
for the place they go." There are other small changes which will obviate the
necessity to break rules and which present a clear restatement of the Association's
stand on the matter of drinking. The rule on drinking is as follows: "No fermented
beverages shall be allowed on campus. Cases of intoxication shall be severely dealt
with." The board feels that this should "take care of Repeal." The changes are
all, on the whole, made with the intention of placing more emphasis on the exercise
of good judgment by the individual, and they will undoubtedly make for more
complete observance of Self-government regulations.
In the midst of the flood of Anna Howard Shaw Foundation lectures, rehearsals
for the Varsity play, and preparation for Thanksgiving vacation, James Stephens,
the Irish critic, poet, and novelist, paid Bryn Mawr a visit. He spoke in
Goodhart on a subject sufficiently detached from the matters we had been hearing
from our other lecturers as to be very stimulating in an entirely different way. His
subject, Our Overdue Renaissance, was welcomed by his hearers as explaining
the literary and artistic trends of the time, which do not get much attention from
speakers on world affairs; in fact, these trends are disregarded for the most part as
being rather frivolous results of world-stirring problems, such as the death of
commerce in certain European countries, the resurgence of nationalism in others,
and the acquisition of wealth by still others. Mr. Stephens connected the two
forces, economic and artistic, in his lecture, predicting the transfer of artistic energy
to Russia and America, and the fulfillment of a renaissance in these two countries.
Not only did he please the undergraduates by his talk in Goodhart, but by his
interest and approval he encouraged a small group of Bryn Mawr poets who read
their verses to him in Mrs. Hortense Flexner King's poetry class. When the
conversation at tea veered around to ghosts and spirits, Mr. Stephens announced
that he believed in reincarnation and that "He has a definite feeling that in his
next reincarnation he will be a female and will in that case be able to come to
Bryn Mawr. The prospect pleases because he considers this campus, with its
atmosphere of quiet seclusion, one of the most beautiful campuses he has ever
visited." We can only say that Mr. Stephens, in view of the excellent speech he
gave, scarcely needed to ingratiate himself by compliments ; we are, however, always
ready to be told our good points, so we wait for the return of Mr. Stephens with
some eagerness.
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ALUMNAE BOOKSHELF
Within This Present, by Margaret Ayer Barnes. Houghton Mifflin. $2.50.
Although certain of us may have specialized interest in novels of particular
periods^ or about particular sorts of people, by far the largest human taste is for
stories about people like ourselves, living in our own time. It is the natural desire
for books of this kind that Margaret Ayer Barnes fulfills to the most satisfactory
extent in such novels as Years of Grace and — her latest piece of work — Within
This Present.
It is almost impossible not to compare the two, for they deal with the same
variety of people in the same surroundings. In spite of this similarity, however,
and in spite of the broad plan and large number of characters, the author has not
repeated herself in the slightest degree. We have here a veritable throng of new
friends and acquaintances, Sally Sewall, the heroine; Alan MacLeod, whom she
marries; Sally's intense and elusive mother, so unlike the other members of the
family clan. Sally's mother is, indeed, one of the notable achievements of the book.
Another is Tim O'Hara and Bee, his wife, whom Sally and Alan came to know
in those utterly' democratic days of the war, when young wives hung about the
outskirts of the army training camps, snatching such moments of companionship
with their husbands as military routine would allow. The record of that friendship,
begun at Camp Grant, continuing through Tim's cheery career as a bootlegger, torn
with tragedy when he is riddled by gangster bullets, rallying to the aid of his
young widow, is an amazing yet perfectly natural bit of contemporary story-telling.
Sally herself is a more volatile heroine than Jane Carver and rather more self-
centered as, perhaps, is appropriate to her upbringing in an age of quicker tempo
than the years of grace. She can, nevertheless, at the crucial moments of her life,
summon strength of spirit and intrepid good sense to meet the problems before her.
The background of the book covers the World War, the years of spending
thereafter, and the lean years coming in their wake. Nothing could be better char-
acterized than that period of wild prosperity when the men of the family were so
frantically overworked making money that they could think of nothing else, when
the women were strained and on edge, conscious that they were not happy, but not
understanding in the least what was wrong. True worth of character comes forward
after the final crash, so that we find the family circle united and courageous, facing-
reconstruction when the book closes on March fourth, 1933, with Franklin Roosevelt's
inaugural address giving its message to each one of them. That the M'hole dizzy
course of our recent spectacular history is compassed by an extraordinarily small
number of years is made evident by the fact that Sally's spirited grandmother, an
old woman at the beginning of the book, telling of Chicago's great fire and of how
the city rose boldly from its ruins, is still alive at the end, and has the last word,
in fact, as they all turn each in his or her own fashion, to face the future.
The characters in this book maj^ be, in a certain degree, less likable than those
in Years of Grace. Yet there is, without question, an advance of power in this novel.
There is stronger and more compact handling of plot, there is greater concentration
upon the central figures making a far more united and steadily moving narrative.
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Margaret Barnes has shown great ability in giving so graphic a picture of our own
times, but she has done something more. Her peculiar talent is for making minor
details absorbingly interesting^ so that the everyday things of life, housekeeping,
settling the children's problems, contacts with relatives and friends, are all of
significant value in themselves. She makes us feel, after we have put the book aside,
that not only are the routines of living of her characters of vital interest, but that,
somehow, our own are as well, and that life, as she describes it, is always exciting,
be its complications great or small.
Cornelia Meigs, 1907.
PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT PARK
President Park has chosen Mr. Charles Hopkinson to paint the portrait of her
to be presented to the College by the Class of 1898. Mr. Hopkinson will come to
Bryn Mawr in January or February for the work, and the portrait, when finished,
will hang in the Library Reading Room near the Sargent portrait of President
Thomas. Chief Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme Court, President
Neilson of Smith College, President Lowell of Harvard, Colonel Edward M. House,
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt have been painted by him. Of interest to Bryn Mawr
alumnae is the fact that Mr. Hopkinson is the father of four Bryn Mawr daughters.
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, January 1 0th — 8.20 p. nn., Goodhart Hall
Dorothy Sands In theatrical innpersonations, "Our Stage and Stars," under the auspices of
the Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia.
Reserved seats, $1.50 and $2.00; Unreserved, $1.00.
Sunday, January I4fh — 4 p. m., The Deanery
Third of the series of entertainments: Talk on the Eskimoes of Prince William Sound,
with slides, by Frederica de Laguna, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr European Fellow, 1927;
now assistant in the American Section of the University Museum, Philadelphia.
Tea will be served at 25 cents a person.
Sunday, January 14th — 7.30 p. nn., Music Room
Sunday Evening Service
conducted by the Reverend W. Russell Bowie, D.D., Rector of Grace Church, New York City.
Thursday, January 18th — 8 p. nn., Goodhart Hall
Concert by the hiampton Quartet.
The Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association will be held in the Deanery
on Saturday, February 3rd, 1934, at 9.45 a. m. An informal buffet supper
will be served in the Deanery on Friday, February 2nd, at 6.45 p. m., and
President Park's luncheon will be held in Pembroke on Saturday, at 1.30 p. m.
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CLASS NOTES
Ph.D. and Graduate Notes
Edik)r: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)
Vandalia, Missouri.
1889
No Editor Appointed.
1890
No Editor Appointed.
Marian Macintosh had an exhibition — "The
Feast of St. Peter and Other Gloucester Paint-
ings"— at the Present Day Club in Princeton
during November.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
1435 Lexington Ave., New York.
1893
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
c/o The Brearley School
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
1896
Class Editor: Abigail Camp Dimon
1411 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.
Katharine Cook did, it seems, go to Germany
this summer, and sends me the following ac-
count of her impressions on her brief visit:
";I did go to Berlin for nine days, but my
'impressions' would be more highly colored if
Hitler and his cohorts had not been at Nurem-
burg for their Partei Tag. I only once saw
troops marching, and that was also the only
time I saw anyone give the Nazi salute, and no
one paid any attention to my failure to do so.
People struck me as shabbily dressed and pale,
and all the children looked undernourished. I
saw literally hundreds, and not one with good
color and most of them painfully thin. No
sign of hatred of Americans. I took a twelve-
hour motor bus and boat trip to the lovely
Spree Wald with a lot of Germans, all of whom
were very friendly, and the courteous consid-
eration of the passport, customs, and money-
counting officials at the border both ways was
marked. When I crossed back, the man re-
fused to look at my money, taking my count.
However, I do not think our newspapers have
at all exaggerated the Nazi point of view, as
shown in the German papers. I read at least
a dozen different papers, all, of course, Nazi
organs, and all just alike, and I had to rub
my eyes to realize that they were written in
the twentieth century. How many Germans
disapprove, there is no way of knowing, as they
are frightened into silence. A German woman
on the steamer, now living in America, who
had been spending six months in Germany with
her parents, told me that they were fiercely
anti-Nazi, and that the Nazis were as cruel to
any non-Nazi as to Jews and Communists."
Katharine also says that as she has no school
classes she has seized the chance to take a
course at New York University in Washington
Square in Elementary Spanish, four mornings
a week. She is also tutoring in Greek and
Latin.
Elizabeth Kirkbride could not resist the
Deanery reception, so was one of repre-
sentatives of '96 at that time. She writes:
"Anna Hoag and I went together to the College
and found many old friends. '96 was repre-
sented by Caroline Slade, Emma Tobin, Clara
Farr, Elizabeth Jones, Mary Mullin, Cora
Jeanes, Mary Swope, and I think I saw
Charlotte McLean in the distance. Estimates
of the number there ran from 750 to 900. yet
the house never seemed crowded. It looked
delightful and I long to go and stay there."
1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
104 Lake Shore Drive, East Dunkirk. N. Y.
Frances Hand, who went to Boston for the
November meeting of the B. M. Council, was
the guest of Elizabeth Higginson Jackson and
her family at their home on Pegan Hill, Dover.
In October, Edith Edwards attended a meet-
ing of the National Board of the U. S. Daugh-
ters of 1812 at Chicago. Sessions were held at
Fort Dearborn on the grounds of the "Century
of Progress," and in the Trustees' Lounge in
the Administration Building. The banquet was
at the Palmer House.
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Marion Taber, writing from the office of the
New York City Visiting Committee, a part of
the State Charities Aid Association, where she
has been secretary for a number of years, says:
"The '97 Reunion was most reviving, but
the constant work here among people sunk in
the depression made things seem rather gray
again, until all of a sudden I rented my house
and joined Katharine Cook, '96, for a trip in
Norway and Sweden.
"Scandinavia may have lost money, but her
people do not show it much, and were busy
harvesting their grain and hay in large red
barns or helping the tourist see some of the
marvelous beauty of their country.
"Forgetting the depreciated dollar, we put
all our faith in the solid little kroner. We
didn't take a cruise on a liner. Instead of that
we sat for hours on delightful little boats with
red smoke stacks which take you along narrow
waterways among high mountains to glaciers,
which form blue ice caves at the ends of the
fjords. We shivered with cold and also with
delight, and stayed at least a week at several
nice pensions, which only charge you 6 to 9
kroner per day, 'complete.'
"It was to me a bit like Berkeley Square as
well, since I carried in my handbag some letters
which my Quaker grandmother had written to
her daughters in England when she traveled in
Norway in 1866. Grandmother and her friends
were rowed up the fjords by eight good oars-
men, or slid up and down the passes on moun-
tain ponies 'to carry the message of Friends to
the Norwegians.'
"When I went to Stockholm and Copenhagen
later on I felt that we could learn a lot from
Scandinavia. They seemed so courageous, honest
and self sustaining. One enjoys their genius
for color, too, and the imagination which light-
ens all their art and architecture. I brought
home some interesting plans of their hospitals."
1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
Edith Schoff Boericke has rented her home
and is at present with her eldest son at 22
Hampstead Circle, Wynnewood. She writes
enthusiastically of her summer in Nevada and
her visits, first to her son Fred and her new
granddaughter, and then to her daughter Edith.
Later she and her younger son went to Cali-
fornia and he was enrolled as a student in the
Boering School of Aviation at Alameda, Cali-
fornia, where he is to take the transport pilot
course, followed by the master mechanics
course. Edith had a delightful trip East by
way of the Panama Canal.
1899
Editor: Carolyn Trowbridge Brown Lewis
(Mrs. H. Radnor Lewis)
451 Milton Road, Rye, N. Y.
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
1901
Class Editor: Helen Converse Thorpe
(Mrs. Warren Thorpe)
15 East 64th St., New York City.
1902
Class Editor: Anne Rotan Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike D. Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
It is, alas! a feast or a famine for 1902.
We hope that those who have written will not
take it amiss if their news has been curtailed.
First, our President, Grace Douglas Johnston,
apologizes for not having discovered a new
star or a new germ or even run for Congress,
and then leaps lightly over what she has done
to write this message to the class: "Our next
reunion is in 1935, and what with one thing
and another, I suggest that we all begin saving
for it now — ^^though why we should save when
what we save grows less valuable every day! —
however, prepare for it anyway."
Helen Stewart Huyler's only daughter is des-
tined for Bryn Mawr in 1935. She writes from
Honolulu that the one drawback about living
in that beautiful place is the distance from old
friends, and begs any members of 1902 who
come that way please to let her know. Her
address is 2330 Beckwith Street, Honolulu.
Harriet Vaille Bouck's husband, having been
elected a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
for ten years, she has moved to Denver, where
her address is now 1401 Franklin Street.
Marion Balch put in last summer at work in
a painting class at Goose Rocks Beach, Maine.
Her niece, Ellen Stone, is a Sophomore at
Bryn Mawr.
Josephine Kieffer Foltz is painting portraits,
but says the proceeds wouldn't exactly fill the
larder to repletion. Her son, Charles, Jr., was
married last May. He is with the Associated
Press and his wife is research librarian at the
Fifth Avenue-42nd Street Library, New York.
Her husband, Charles S. Foltz, recently pub-
lished a biography of his father, who was
Surgeon-General of the Navy under Farragut,
called Surgeon of the Seas.
Mary Ingham put in some intensive weeks
at the Wellesley Institute last summer, studying
the N. R. A. and the New Social Order. She
has worked for several years on the Philadelphia
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Conference on Government, the object of which
is to make certain fundamental changes in city
and state government through revision of the
ancient and outworn Constitution of Pennsyl-
vania. Her main interests continue to be
government and politics. She has gone to live
in Bryn Mawr, where her address is F-2,
Bryn Mawr Court.
Emily Dungan Moore writes most cheerfully
that she is on top in -spite of depression, has
two children in high school, is active in Cyn-
wyd Woman's Club, continues her music lessons,
and has sung in her church quartets for years.
Mabel Wright is teaching French in the
Olney High School, Philadelphia.
Lucile Porter Weaver is marrying off a daugh-
ter at time of writing. She refers to herself
as a "very busy widow with six children at
home," and few among us would have the
temerity to argue the adjective.
Helen Trimble, A.B. and A.M., Bryn Mawr,
and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, is head
of the Department of Social Studies in the
State Teachers' College at East Stroudsburg,
Pennsylvania. She -also teaches in the regular
six weeks' summer session there, except in
seasons off, when she goes abroad — in 1930
she studied at the tsummer session in Cam-
bridge University, England. She has also taken
an active part in the evolution of State Normal
Schools into State Teachers' Colleges.
Fanny Cochran parked her two adopted chil-
dren in Miss Kingsbury's Camp in Maine last
summer and took a five weeks' trip to the
Coast, including a riding trip through Glacier
Park, Montana.
Virginia Willets Burton, whose son Paul is
an ensign in the Navy, has moved permanently
to 2844 Wisconsin Avenue, N. W., Washington.
Elizabeth Corson Gallagher splits her inter-
ests between Boston and New Haven. She
dwells officially in Brookline, but her older son
is an instructor, her younger son a Freshman,
at Yale; and her daughter, whose husband is a
Master in the Taft School, is, therefore, also
near New Haven.
Frances Morris Orr has an evening life class
of men and women, which meets in her studio
once a week. Her own canvases have been
well hung lately. Her daughter Charlotte is
Secretary of the Knickerbocker Democrats,
fighting Tammany, and writing a novel. Her
son John married last June and has a job in
a tool steel works outside Pittsburgh, com-
fortably near the parental home.
Frances Seth goes right on farming. She
confesses, however, to "many trying vicissi-
tudes" in that undertaking last summer. Her
main jobs for the winter are Treasurer of the
College Club and President of the Board of
Managers of the Presbyterian Hospital
of Baltimore.
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
320 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Michi Kawai has published a book entitled
Japanese Women Speak. Michi's address is
1090 Funabashi, Chitosemura, Tokyo-Fuka.
Bertha Brown Lambert spoke at the Meeting
House, 12th Street below Market, Philadelphia,
on Tuesday afternoon, December 5th.
Phyllis Green Anderson writes:
"This fall I became involved as usual in a big
job — this time the Woman's Crusade and I had
charge of sending speakers to all women's clubs
and societies in a five weeks' campaign just
prior to our Golden Rule Drive. I had 75
speakers to send out to over 100 meetings. I'm
now thinking of taking a 25-year Sabbatical
and indulging in wine, women and song. I
haven't tried that yet, and have a feeling that
the next 25 years might hold more of the
things I want to do.
Attention: 1904 — I've sacrificed some of
Thanksgiving Day in your cause. Won't you
sit down and send in your life history, so I'll
know what you're doing these busy but inter-
esting days? I realize that I've hardly men-
tioned the rest of my family. Well, I still have
a husband and the same one I started with in
1908; our boy is a Junior at Amherst, not too
long on studies, but a beautiful dancer."
The Class wishes to extend its sympathy to
Peggy Reynolds Hulse, whose father died this
fall.
1905
Class Editor: Eleanor Little Aldrich
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
59 Mount Vernon St., Boston, ]\Iass.
Members of the Class who attended the
recent Alumnae Council meetings in Boston
were: Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins,
Florance Waterbury, Rosamond Danielson,
Marcia Bready Jacobs, Margaret Thayer
Sulloway and Eleanor Little Aldrich.
1906
Class Editor: Helen Hauhgwout Putnam
(Mrs. William E. Putnam)
126 Adams St., Milton, Mass.
It is a pleasant thing to record that we have
not only a pedigreed class baby, but a proper
class dog, as well. His name is Jeff. He is a
(usually) white bull terrier, given as a wedding
present by Jessie Thomas to Molly Walcott.
Jeff Keyes, the Class greets you!
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The Council meeting in Boston was a great
success. Elizabeth Torbert and Eleanor Aldrich
gave large and interesting luncheons, much to
the delectation of the foregatherers.
Beth and Mary lunched with Marion Coffin
Canaday and her husband, who were in Boston
for the Harvard-Yale game. Marion's daughter,
Doreen, gave up coming on for the occasion
because of an untimely quiz imposed by
Bryn Mawr, where she is a Sophomore. She is,
incidentally. President of her class.
1907
Class Editor: Alice Hawkins
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa,
The Council meeting in Boston afforded an
opportunity for a small reunion of 1907 and
contemporaries. Eunice Schenck and Alice
Hawkins were attending in official capacities,
and had the great good fortune to be staying
with Elizabeth Townsend Torbert, 1906, who
fed them gossip and breakfast in bed, and so
renewed their youth that they found it impossi-
ble to waste any time sleeping for fear they
might miss something. The meetings and en-
tertainments were all run off in fine style by
such old friends as Eleanor Little Aldrich, 1905,
Mary Richardson Walcott and Beth Harrington
Brooks, of 1906. At odd moments they were
able to foregather with Esther Williams Apthorp,
Margaret Augur and Margaret Blodgett. Tea
at Miggy's bookbindery and bookshop (The
Margaret Blodgett Corporation, 31A Mount
Vernon Place), with all its fascinating wares
was a delightful interlude, and a 1907 luncheon,
at the lovely house of the Women's City Club
after the Council was over, proved to be a most
hilarious occasion. 1 doubt if any of the five
had heard so many frank comments on her
clothes or table manners or her opinions in
general, for the last quarter of a century.
Throughout the crowded days of the Council,
we never lost an opportunity to urge every
one to read Peggy Barnes' new book, Within
This Present, which Tink Meigs has reviewed
on page 29. It was a beautiful sight to see Eunice
and Alice board the train and establish them-
selves, without previous collaboration, each with
a copy of the book in its gay yellow jacket.
Barbara Cary, daughter of Margaret Reeve,
has been elected Vice-President and Treasurer
of the Sophomore Class.
The Class extends its affectionate sympathy
to Blanche Hecht, whose mother died last
August. Blanche is still doing volunteer work
at the Polyclinic Hospital and Neurological
Clinic in New York, as well as taking some
work at the New School for Social Research
and keeping up her music.
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
1909
Class Editor: Helen B. Crane
70 Willett St., Albany, N. Y.
A recent letter from Lacy Van Wagenen is
full of her work and travels. She spent the
summer in Norway with her cousin, Kathrina
Van Wagenen Bugge (1904), between a month
in the Dolomites and a visit with friends in the
Hague. Then she studied in Switzerland and at
the moment of writing was in Paris; en route
she heard Hitler over the radio and has tried
"to pry into the complex German emotions."
She is now on her way back to Rome for her
fourth season of work, but her address is still
c/o Morgan & Cie, Paris. "My locks of youth
are untinged, but the weight of years is heavy
and my back is bent with something ... I
imagine that some day I shall have to leave my
comfortable physical level and mount higher,
perhaps to mental exercise!"
1909 points with pride to William Rose
Benet's Fifty Poets, sub-titled an "auto-
anthology" because it is made up of the favorite
poems of the contributors. "H. D." (Hilda
Doolittle) chose The Islands, and Marianne
Moore A Grave. Both are interesting and
characteristic of the writer's moods and forms.
Gene Miltenberger Ustick has just had a
fine trip to San Francisco, Carmel, Asilomar
and other lovely spots. Back in Pasadena now,
she is going in vigorously for gardening, "which
I find I adore. They say it is a middle-aged
pursuit; well, in spite of having such a good
time, I do feel very middle-aged."
Sally Jacobs was married last summer to
Howard Holmes Barton, a graduate of Harvard.
They are living at present at 13 Rue Franklin,
Paris, XVI.
1910
Class Editor: Katherine Rotan Drinker
(Mrs. Cecil K. Drinker)
71 Rawson Road, Brookline, Mass.
1911
Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
(Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
1085 Park Ave., New York City
Ruth Tanner Vellis has become so enthusi-
astic about Greece that she and her husband
plan to stay there another year. Their address
until further notice is 31 Banc Populaire, Athens.
Harriet Couch Coombs, besides teaching her
youngest boy at home, has classes in the visual
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arts at the Art Guild in New York, Inci-
dentally, all the pet snakes are hibernating in
the cellar. Harriet gives a good deal of time
to Girl Scout work, and with Margaret Dulles
Edwards finished the captain's training course
last spring. The latter has a son in the Fresh-
man class at Princeton this year.
Willa Alexander Browning's children won
several prizes in fancy diving exhibitions this
summer, Willa continues to knit most intricate
and effective dresses, to the envy and despair
of her friends.
Isobel Rogers Kruesi has written us volun-
tarily to give her new address, which is 1804
West Division Street, Grand Island, Nebraska.
She describes the town as a "kindly, friendly
place, right out on the prairie," conveniently
reached by the Lincoln Highway, Union Pacific
Railway and the United Airways, and hopes
to see any traveling 191L
Dottie Coffin Greeley and Margaret Copeland
Blatchford, 1908, motored from Chicago in two
days to see the Yale-Harvard game. Their sons
are room-mates at Harvard.
Kate Chambers Seelye made a flying trip to
New York to speak at the Y. W. C. A.
1912
Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaton Augur)
820 Camino Atalaya, Sante Fe, N. M.
1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn.
From Ruth Coe Manchester, in Lucknow,
India, a letter to Katherine Page, too late for
Reunion:
"May I, through you, convey my greetings to
1913? I am sorry I cannot be present for the
Reunion. Though this letter is headed Lucknow,
I'm actually at Lashio in Upper Burma. Soon
a bus will come to take me fifty- miles further
inland to Kutkai, where I shall visit a former
student whose husband is in the Geological
Survey Department. I must confess I never felt
quite so far removed from everywhere. Lucknow
seems the hub of the' universe in comparison
with this.
"These years have been full of interests of
all sorts, I'm quite surfeited with weddings of
present and former students. There were of all
lengths from that of the Hindu student which
began at nine a. m. on one day and ended at
noon the next, to the Muslim one which lasted
for less than two minutes. But it has been a
joy to see the happy comradeship of these
young couples — Hindu and Muslim, as well as
Christian."
From Lucile Shadburn Yow, in Haverford:
The year 1933 is almost over and since its
significance to me is somewhat comprehensive,
based on events economic, academic, romantic
and domestic, I am tempted to mention them
briefly for the Bulletin. (I do not know how
I have the courage to break the long silence
of 1913.)
The first six months of the year passed very
much as the months of the preceding five years
for I was still on the Executive Staff of The
Harcum School in Bryn Mawr, but when Com-
mencement was over I resigned — a daring step
when the world seemed at its lowest economic
level. However, I had worked pretty much the
year 'round, so I consoled myself with virtue's
doubtful reward and with gay spirits hurried
off to see my Katharine graduate at Smith — an
honor student, winner of the music prize offered
to the most outstanding music student in the
college, soloist with the College Symphony,
leader of the Glee and Madrigal Clubs and
wholly satisfactory to her mother, who fairly tip-
toed about for fear of upsetting her own pride
and appreciation. That happy experience soon
passed, and as Katharine was music director
at a Y. W. C. A. camp in New York and as
my two sons had automatically disappeared to
Georgia for their vacations and, as my new
leisure did not fit in with the methodical work-
ing hours of my husband, I agreed to travel
alone in a Ford over Pennsylvania and New
York seeking students for a near-by college.
Of course, I became absorbed and vitally inter-
ested and did very well for myself and the
college, but in the background stalked
Romance. Katharine wished to marry — and in
September! 1 clucked and fluttered like that
same foolish old hen, but my arguments against
marrying so soon fell like tenpins. Romance
took the center of the stage and still commands
it! The young married couple live in
Magnolia, Mass., and I am gradually growing
accustomed to having a married daughter. This
I have ample time for, as domestic burdens sit
lightly on my shoulders. Two sons — 14 and 16
— in Senior High School daily test my knowl-
edge of Latin and French, but I will have none
of their Physics and Geometry.
1914
Class Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs. Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, M;
1915
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. James Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
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1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave.
Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio.
This month we have the third and almost the
last installment of notes contributed by those
lucky members of the Class who were near
enough or opulent enough to attend reunion.
Gail, Nannie — looked handsome. Reported
four children and a husband out of a job, but
said they were happy anyway. The Class baby
is fifteen.
Garfield, Lucretia — her husband teaches at
Williamstown. Has one son.
Goodnow, Lois — Ad Werner visited her and
told of her charming house furnished com-
pletely in Chinese style. There are three
children, the oldest a daughter almost ready for
Bryn Mawr.
Greenewald, Jeanette — lives in New York
City with same husband and children.
Heydemann, Clara — teaches in California.
Hill, Eleanor— left Greece last spring as pre-
viously reported.
Hitchcock, Florence — Investment business
with occasional trips to Europe to visit her
brother in Paris.
Holliday, Elizabeth — Has two children. Is
busy with Junior League and Bryn Mawr work
in Indianapolis.
Jaggard, Anne — Has six children, according
to Chase.
Kellen, Constance — Has two very charming
daughters. Her husband is very much inter-
ested in town affairs and Boy Scouts. Con is a
Girl Scout captain and is busy helping at the
school where her girls go.
Kellogg, Fredrika — Sent a letter to the Class
on the back of pictures from Hankow, China.
They showed her, her son and her new house.
Her husband is connected with aviation work
there and they are to stay for three years.
Kirk, Buckner — Nannie sees her and told of
rather recently acquired house in Connecticut
with charming low ceilings that keep you
stooping, surrounded by birches and command-
ing a marvelous view.
Klein, Larie — Neither Ad nor Chase felt they
could do Larie justice.
Kleps, Marion — Teaches math at the Holme-
quist School at New Hope, Pa.
Polly Branson, now Sister Augustine, has
been made Sub-Prioress of her order, and is
now living at the Carmelite Convent, Oak Lane,
Penna.
1917
Class Editor: Bertha C. Greenough
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, R. I.
Dr. Louise Wagner Szulaski and her husband
are both practicing physicians in Pasadena,
Cal. She is a prominent nose and throat
specialist.
Caroline Stevens Rogers and her family spent
the summer at North Chatham at a place which
they bought on Pleasant Bay. It is called
"Far End," and there is wonderful sailing and
swimming, with a grand sandy beach. There
they would be glad to welcome any '17ers who
chance that way next summer.
Gladys Bryant is very much interested in the
work of the Vital Interests. In fact, she can
probably be found at the Vital Foods Restau-
rant in New York this winter. Last summer
she was doing a great deal of the cooking and
preparing of food for the Child and Dragon
Tea Room, which they ran in South Kent,
Connecticut. The house way up on the hill in
which the workers lived and where tea was
served, in addition to a tea house down below
on the level of the main road, was a perfectly
charming place with a fascinating view of those
lovely Connecticut hills. Giddle looked very
well and seemed to be enjoying herself despite
difficulties connected with cooking over oil
stoves. The food, incidentally, was excellent!
Your Class Editor took an extremely interest-
ing vacation in October, with a day and a half
at the Century of Progress. The next move was
flying to the coast, leaving Chicago at 9 p. m.
and arriving at Los Angeles at noon the next
day. Two weeks later I flew back to New York,
stopping at Omaha over night on the way.
While in California I went out to Scripps
College to see the Dean, Isabel Smith, '15.
She took m6 all over the place, which I found
most charming. The architecture is interesting,
the grounds delightful, and the interiors of the
buildings with their furnishings beautiful. We
had lunch in the little dining room in Padua
Hills and saw the studio Virginia Litchfield
Clark had before her marriage. There is at the
college an extremely interesting exhibition of
the various types of work which she did. I
shall quote from an October issue of the
Scripture, the student publication of the college:
"As a permanent memorial to a former and
much loved member of the Scripps art faculty,
Mrs. Virginia Litchfield Clark, examples of her
most beautiful work are now hanging in the
Common Rooms. The exhibit was contributed
by her family, and presented to the college
during the commencement memorial hour last
spring. The mountings were arranged for by
her many friends at Scripps.
"In selecting the pieces for this memorial,
an effort was made to obtain an illustration of
each of the many types of art work in which
Mrs. Clark was proficient. As a result, the
college now has a vivid and living inspiration
of this very human artist to serve as incentive
both for the students who worked with her and
for those who will study art here in the future.
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"Among the pictures which will illustrate the
remarkable versatility of the artist are copies
of the Madonna by Duccio, executed on tooled
gold leaf, and of another picture, done in
black and gold lacquer on wood. Two water
colors of the Grand Canyon (one of which
particularly impressed me) and a country
scene, a wood engraving to illustrate Paid in
Full, by Bret Harte, block prints of Mount
Whitney and an English scene, a pencil draw-
ing of the Grand Canyon country, and an
enamel interpretation on wood of the Tower
of London complete the exhibit.
"But it is not for her reputation as an artist
alone that Mrs. Clark is remembered. She was
a jolly, unaffected good sport, who often ac-
companied students on camping trips and out-
door excursions. Her love of beauty and eye
for design were reproduced in all her life work.
"Mrs. Clark was an instructor in Applied
Design for two years at Scripps until June,
1932, when she left the college to marry Owen
Clark, a hydraulic engineer in the Grand
Canyon. She died the following November."
Eleanor Dulles has just published a short
book, meant for tKe elucidation of the general
public, entitled The Dollar, the Franc, and
Inflation. This is a remarkable feat, as she did
not decide to write it until October 25th, and
then did not get started immediately. The
manuscript was accepted by Macmillan and the
contract signed on the morning of November
27th; it was set up in type that same day.
Dooles sat up all night to correct the proof,
and the book was bound and ready for distri-
bution on December 6th. All this was done
while she is doing full-time work at the
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
as well as giving one course for some of her
old Bryn Mawr students, who were not willing
to give her up. Incidentally, she runs two
housekeeping apartments, one in Philadelphia,
and another, for herself and her husband, in
Baltimore, where she spends week-ends. She
is a wonderful woman and there probably is
truth in the rumor that President Roosevelt is
planning to send for her to ask her why she
is against inflation.
I9I8
67a55 Editor: Margaret Bacon Carey
(Mrs. H. R. Carey)
3115 Queen Lane, East Falls P. 0., Phila.
1919
Class Editor: Marjorie Remington Twitchell
(Mrs. P. E. Twitchell)
Setauket, L. I., N. Y.
1920
Class Editor: Mary Porritt Green
(Mrs. Valentine J. Green)
430 E. 57th St., New York City
Josephine Herrick — "I have just returned
from Cleveland, where I spent the summer, and
this year am living at the Mayfair House, 610
Park Avenue, New York. We are just starting
our sixth year of our studio, de Braganga and
Herrick, at 25 East 63rd Street, where we do
Portrait Photography."
Madelaine Brown — "We are full of good in-
tentions as far as our 1920 luncheons go this
year, and I think the Bostonese will meet as
usual. I just returned from visiting friends at
a camp in Northern Wisconsin and spending
a few days with Virginia Anderton Lee, '18,
at her farm in Central Wisconsin. Wish I
could send you a scoop, but the only tangible
evidence of my last year's work is an article
in the American Journal of Medical Sciences
last November and one in the American Journal
of Physiology in August.
Dorothy Griggs Murray — "I haven't any
startling news for you, but will at least send
your card with what I have — am teaching every
morning at a small private school here — ^history,
geography and spelling in the fourth and fifth
grades (and an occasional sideline of arith-
metic in grade three!). My children number
three and are Mary Lin aged 11, Carol aged
9I/2 and Douglas aged 5^/2 . All thriving in
health and average in intelligence."
Doris Pitkin Buck — "We have a new address
— 2627 Adams Street, Columbus, Ohio. Abso-
lutely no other news except that babies are a
lot of work."
Evelyn Wight Dickson — "No news. Married
life agrees with me and so does work, I'm
still on the job, though Carroll doesn't approve.
Also keeping occupied on the outside with the
business of being the part owner and manager
of our house, which we have made over into
apartments. I am up to the teeth in plumbing,
decorating and the general mess that goes with
it."
Elizabeth Williams Sikes — "Was away in the
back woods when this came, then mislaid it.
Have two daughters, eight and eleven years old.
Am nothing but a housewife with a few outside
activities. Working on the Scholarship Fund
and Women's Club, etc."
Jule Conklin — "Absolutely nothing happens
in my life. I'm still Society Editor of Town
and Country, and live at 10 Park Avenue. I
went to Havana this vacation and stayed with
some Cubans who were mixed up in the Revo-
lution, but I didn't get shot at."
Mary Hardy attended the Alumnae Council in
Boston, as an alternate for District III.'s Council-
lor, Vinton Liddell Pickens, 1922, who is abroad.
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Jule Cochran Buck — "The news of other
people always sounds so dramatic that I am
aiiashed to report myself the regulation matron
of thirty-five, with two big boys and a medium-
sized girl. We are distinctly modern in regi-
men. In addition to their school routine, all
the children are having their teeth straight-
ened, all go to dancing classes (three different! )
and all belong to a Saturday morning ice-
skating club in the winter. The picture of
them is completed by a sprinkling of ear-
aches, sprained ankles and warts on the bottom
of the feet. Not content with getting the chil-
dren there and back, I fill in my time with all
the drives and campaigns in the city and do
a good deal of work with the Girl Scouts. This
year I am also taking piano lessons. My
patient husband gets what is left of me.
Katherine Cauldwell Scott — "I really haven't
any news, but I do like to go down as one of
those who oblige, so here goes. A few tennis
tournaments, some won, some not, a little golf,
a lot of swimming and two gorgeous weeks in
the wilds .of Nova Scotia constitute our sum-
mer. We got- a couple of canoes, a couple of
guides and a little food, and went back to
nature in the raw. All over the inland lakes
of Nova Scotia we paddled, fished, swam, shot
rapids, portaged, and stalked deer and moose."
Helene Zinsser Loening has just been visit-
ing her father in New York. She and her two
children — Helen, aged four or so, and Jurgen,
aged about three — and their nurse came over
in a small German boat which went through
a hurricane. However, the latter made slight
impression on the youngest, for when coming
down the gangplank in New York he asked
where was the boat he was going to America
on, as he thought he had been in a hotel for
the past ten days. Zin promises us an account
of her life in Bremen, which, judging from
her conversation about skiing in the Tyrol and
week-ending in Heligoland, will be of interest.
Helen Humphreys — "Am still teaching Span-
ish in a large high school here (Cleveland).
Spent the summer of 1932 in Spain at the
University of Madrid and that of Granada.
Life, except for the simple pleasures of driving
and seeing friends, isn't very eventful."
1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelley Erdman
(Mrs. C. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemont Ave., Pasadena, Calif.
Jean Spurney Jory, known on the stage as
Jean Inness, is living at 1309 N, Michigan
Avenue, Pasadena. Though I saw her in the
lead in a very good play at the Pasadena
Community Playhouse last spring, she writes:
"I play very little nowadays, as I have a regu-
lar job at the Playhouse this season answering
to the high-sounding title of Supervising Di-
rector of the Workshop, and we put on plays
every two weeks. It is the truly 'community'
part of the Playhouse, open to one and all,
experienced or amateur. I am crazy about it
and enjoy the directing end of the theatre
almost as well as I ever did the acting." Her
husband, Victor Jory, just took time out from
his movie contract to do the lead in "The
Spider" at the local theatre, because "all the
movie people who came from the speaking
stage love to get behind the footlights again.
His next picture to be released is Smoky, Will
James' cowboy horse story, and he starts at
once on one called Disillusion, with John Boles
and a new Fox discovery, Rosemary Ames. It's
the first time he's ever had a part written for
him — that of a bold, not-too-sincere anarchist."
The Jorys have one daughter, about four years
old. They have not yet looked for any his-
trionic ability in her, but hope she'll want to
act — as they have had such fun in the business.
Dorothy Walter Baruch has the most awe-
inspiring record of accomplishments— all I can
do is list them. She is Director of the Nursery
School, and Assistant Professor of Education,
Broadoaks School of Education, Whittier
College. Mother of Bert (Herbert M. Baruch,
Jr.), age 12; Nancy, age 9. She is also
Director and Supervisor of the two nursery
school groups at Broadoaks (about thirty- five
children between the ages of twenty months to
almost five years). Also Supervisor of the
Alhambra Parents' Cooperative Nursery School
and the Whittier Extension Unit of Broadoaks
Nursery School. In addition she is professor
of such courses as Parental Education, Child
Psychology, Children'-s Literature, Creative
Writing for Children, and Nursery Education.
Author of the following books:
A Day With Betty Anne (1927), Harper &
Brothers.
In and Out With Betty Anne (1928), Harper
& Brothers.
Big Fellow (1929), Harper & Brothers.
Big Fellow at Work (1930), Harper &
Brothers.
Blimps and Such (1932), Harper & Brothers.
/ Like Animals (1933), Harper & Brothers.
/ Like Machinery (1933), Harper & Brothers,
The Two Bobbies (1930), John Day.
/ Like Automobiles (1931), John Day.
Author also of any number of magazine
articles.
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
106 E. 85th St., New York City.
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1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Abbott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York City
The class extends its sincere sympathy to
Marion Lawrence, whose mother died during
the summer.
Helen Hoyt Stookey has a third son, Byron
Stookey, Junior, born last July.
An editorial blessing upon Nancy Fitzgerald
for the following letter: "I won't say that
I haven't been doing anything interesting, but
I am afraid there is very little new since my
last. I spent the Fourth of July with Lucy
Kate Blanchard and played baseball with the
twins.
"Dorothy Burr was at home for a few weeks
this summer and spent a couple of days with
me. She has now gone back to Greece for
another two years. She sailed from New York
but touched at Boston, so I saw her off and
had a line from Gibraltar saying they had had
a good trip thus far. While Dorothy was stay-
ing with me we drove down to Ipswich for a
picnic and stopped to see Ann Fraser Brewer,
but she was away, so we did water colors of
the landscape instead.
"Delphine Fitz Darby and her husband turned
up in Boston about August. They are now in
a junior college in Greenwich, Conn., where
they are both teaching this winter.
"I am still working at the Brookline Public
Library and see Margaret Hussey occasionally.
At present the Girl Scouts, of which she is
head, are rehearsing a play in our basement.
My other principal activity is being Secretary
of the American Miniature Schnauzer Club.
... I write breed notes for three dog papers,
a weekly and two monthlies. We have just
staged our first specialty show at Chicago in
connection with the Century of Progress. In
connection with Dog Week this month we had
a special display of books, for which I made
a poster. The Children's Room also had a
show of toy dogs, for which they had 110
entries, and I was asked to judge."
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Butterworth
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
The opening of the Deanery was a gala event
for everyone. Felice Begg, Mary Woodworth,
Betty Howe, Bess Pearson Horrocks and I were
on hand to represent '24. Soon after that
occasion Martha Cooke Steadman, looking as
beautiful as ever, arrived with her husband
and spent one night with us before going on
to New York. There she was feted by Jean
Palmer and many others.
The exodus from New York is tremendous.
Estelle and Cyprian Bridges have already left
for England, and Kitty and Bob Holt may
follow to spend the winter. Kay Elston Ruggles
is moving to the West Coast, first for a visit
with her mother in Mexico, then to live in
Oregon or perhaps in Honolulu.
Bee Constant Dorsey has an apartment in
New York at 37 East 66th Street.
Bryn Mawr is well represented at Wheaton
College. Kay Neilson, as Instructor in Art, is
teaching a beginners' course in Cave Paintings
and Romanesque Cathedrals, also two advanced
courses — one in Spanish Art and the other in
Post-Renaissance Sculpture and Architecture
Mitzie Faries is Director of Physical Education,
and Henrietta Jennings, '22, is head of the
Economics and Sociology Department.
Although she now has three daughters,
Bobby Murray Fansler is still connected with
the Instructors' Department of the Metropolitan
Museum, and also finds time for important
work with the Carnegie Corporation.
Ruth Allen has had a job at Harvard for
five years.
Mary Lou White has a new apartment in
Boston, where she is being indispensable to the
Atlantic Monthly.
According to a letter from Betty Hale
Laidlaw, a second son, David, was born to
Margaret Dunham Edsall on September 30th.
Betty is going in for portrait painting, tropical
fish and bulbs.
Congratulations are also in order for Pamela
Coyne Taylor — her son was born November
18th.
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallett Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
1926
Class Editor: Harriot Hopkinson
18 East Elm St., Chicago, 111.
1927
Class Editor: Ellenor Morris
Berwyn, Pa.
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr.
57 Christopher St., New York City
Apologies are inserted here for the omission
in the December Bulletin of Maud Hupfel
Flexner's name as a member of the Democratic
Committee for West Bryn Mawr. She and her
husband contributed a splendid ham to the sup-
per, and were both zealous workers.
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Cay Field Cherry's daughter Joanna was born
on November 7th, a great bouncing lass, so we
hear. Our scouts promise us news of other
arrivals soon.
Frances Bethel Rowan writes that Germany
has been very exciting this year, but that she
is at a loss as to what to report on it for two
reasons: "I am quite confused myself, and,
censorship. One thing seems clear, however,
and that is that Hitler is showing signs of
growing with the job and profiting by early
mistakes. . . . To summarize in as few words
as possible — I would say that I am pro-Nazi
because I think it is Germany's only hope of
keeping Germany intact for the Germans and
of preventing racial strangulation by the Jews.
The bad points are the individual cases, such
as Bruno Walter and Daniel Prenn, and, of
course, the outside world makes a lot of these
things." Frances took two trips this summer:
one by train and boat to Sweden and Denmark,
where they found Stockholm and Copenhagen
and the surrounding country fascinating.
"Those countries are certainly restful and
peaceful as compared to Central Europe!" The
second trip was by motor through East Prussia,
Poland, and Czechoslovakia. "Danzig is a fas-
cinating old Hansa town, and Gydnia, the new
Polish port just ten miles west, is also very
interesting. Although it is small as yet, every-
thing is very new and it appears to be flourish-
ing; but it is all very futile because Germany
is sure to get the Corridor back, and since
there is not enough trade for both Gydnia and
Danzig, Gydnia will probably be ruined. In
Poland we stayed in both Warsaw and Cracow,
and found Cracow very nice because of the
interesting old buildings — but Warsaw was dis-
appointing, to say the least. No romantic old
Russian atmosphere, as I had expected, but
just a big, flat, gray middle-western town. . . .
The Carpathian Mountains between Poland and
Czechoslovakia include some of the loveliest
scenery I have seen in Europe, and Czecho-
slovakia, on the whole, certainly seemed to be
a flourishing and industrious country after
Poland. The people in Prague are pretty
mongrel, however, and in the last analysis, I
suppose, a country must be judged by its
people."
Evelyn Brooks has taken an apartment at
183 East 64th Street with her brother, and has
had a temporary job with the Conde Nast
publishing house. She reveals that Puggie
Moore is working at William B. Nichols, a
brokerage house on Wall Street. Eleanor Jones
is at present the associate of Mr. E. E. Furlong,
landscape architect, at 15 Washington Street,
Newark, N. J.
Margaret Coss Flower has continued her
research and reviewing, and has just edited
Shakespeare's sonnets, published this autumn
by Cassells. Maud Hupfel Flexner has taken
over the task of running the bookshop at
College.
Elizabeth Chesnut writes: "The past five
years have been full of good times, not to
mention a little work. I studied at Johns
Hopkins for three years in the Romance Lan-
guages Department, concentrating on Italian,
and at the Peabody taking vocal, History of
Music, and taking part in the shows put on
by the operetta class. I've been serving on
the Girl Reserve Committee at the Y. W., too,,
teaching Sunday School, keeping house, etc.
This summer I've been reading law books, for
I've signed up to start work at the University
of Maryland Law School this fall, with the hope
some day of being somebody's legal secretary."'
Station Cosy Chit Chat Hour signing off^.
1929
Class Editor: Mary L. Williams
210 East 68th St., New York City.
Mary Gessner Park has a son, Howard
Franklin Park, III, born July 6th. She and
her husband have moved back to Philadelphia
from the Oranges; her address is now 8 Over-
brook Parkway, Overbrook Hills, Pennsylvania.
Grace DeRoo Sterne's husband has a fellow-
ship this winter working at the Harvard
Observatory.
Ruth Rosenberg Ehrlich graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania after leaving
Bryn Mawr. She married Mr. Ehrlich soon
after graduation, and aside from a little teach-
ing and tutoring has been busy housekeeping.
She has one son, Paul Ralph, now aged seven-
teen months.
Sally Bradley Schwab has a second child, a
daughter named Edith, born this summer. She
and her husband are still living in Asheville,
N. C, but have moved to 14 Ridgefield Place.
Frances Hand was married last month to
Robert Munro Ferguson, of Williams, Arizona.
Bobs Mercer is now in New Haven as a
first-year medical student and is living at 17
Howe Street. She spent last summer going
across the continent: to Denver by car, then to
British Columbia by rail, south to San Fran-
cisco by car, and by rail back to Denver,
where she picked up her car and drove home,
taking in the World's Fair at Chicago.
1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa-.
1931
Class Editor: Evelyn Waples Bayless
(Mrs. Robert N. Bayless)
301 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn.
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1932
Class Editor: Josephine Graton
182 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.
Hat Moore, since leaving the Institute of
Pacific Relations Conference in Banff, has been
staying at home in Winnetka, brushing up on
her German and tackling Russian in prepara-
tion for a couple years' study abroad. At pres-
ent her plans are to study at the London School
of Economics from January until summer, and
then go to Germany, studying at the university
which has the professors she most wants.
Kate Mitchell has taken over Hat's position
with the Institute of Pacific Relations. Dolly
Tyler is specializing on Basic English. Dolly
is living in an apartment with Amelie Alex-
ander, Polly Huger, and Winnie McCully, all
of whom are teaching at the Brearley School.
Lucy Sanborn is teaching English in the
high school in Haverhill, Mass. A card from
Jane Oppenheimer says ;that Ruth Milliken's
address in Oxford, where she is studying
Philosophy, is 17 Banbury Road, and that she
would love to hear from her classmates ; but
Jane modestly neglected to mention what she
herself is doing.
K. Kranz was married on the 7th of October
to Carl Louis Breithaupt, She and her hus-
band have moved to Cambridge, Mass.
Molly Atmore married Edward H. Ten Broeck
on the 4th of November and is living in
Berwyn, Pennsylvania.
We wish to congratulate Mr. and Mrs, F.
Murray Forbes, Jr. (Elizabeth Livermore) on
the birth of their second daughter in October.
1933
Class Editor: Janet Marshall
112 Green Bay Road, Hubbard Woods, 111.
After our first effort as Alumnae Editor, we
were chagrined to receive sundry communica-
tions informing us that after all we didn't know
so much about our classmates' activities. Alice
Brues, accused by us of graduate work in
Philosophy, writes that her time is divided be-
tween Classical Archaeology, Psychology, and
Anthropology. Instead of holding it against
us, however, she included in her protest lots
more information about other members of the
class. '
Lots more people seem to be doing graduate
work at Bryn Mawr. Mabel Meehan is doing
more Latin and combining Education, and Sue
Savage, also a Latin major, is taking a minor
in Classical Archaeology. Jeanette LeSaulnier
is acting as secretary for Miss Swindler and
also working, as we said, in Archaeology. Boots
Grassi is doing graduate work, and our guess
is History, and Anne Funkhouser, who is also
back, is probably working in French. VAtanor
Yeakel is living at Bryn Mawr Gables, and
doing graduate work in Biology and Chemistry.
The other graduate student from the ranks of
1933 for whose school we have been sleuthing
all fall is Jane Crumrine, and the school is
Columbia.
Next to graduate work, teaching stands high
as 1933's most popular occupation. We said
last time that Carolyn Lloyd-Jones was teaching
at Baldwin and nobody contradicted us. Bunty
Robert is also teaching there, in the Math
Department. Louise Esterley is teaching
French at a school in Wayne, and Eileen
Mullen at Springside School in Chestnut Hill.
Margaret Carson, who deserves something or
other for a purely spontaneous letter full of
news, is tutoring some Penn students in
German and living at home.
Maizie-Louise Cohen, who also contributed
her share of news, is working for the head of
the Neuro-Psychiatric Clinic of the Philadel-
phia Municipal Courts, and finds it very inter-
esting. It ought to be. Jane Bradley is work-
ing in the psychiatric clinic of a Buffalo hos-
pital. Amd Ruth Prugh, who should have
gone in the paragraph before, is teaching music
at the Rye Country Day School.
Fritzie Oldach is working for an insurance
company and had just taken (and passed, we
hope) her examination on the day of the Dean-
ery tea. Jo Bronson has joined the growing
Bryn Mawr colony in Macy's. Elizabeth Sixt
is doing social work in Cleveland.
Fay deVaron is doing some translating —
Spanish, we take it. And down here on this
page of our notes come two more graduate
students and another teacher. Anne Burnett
is teaching at Shady Hill, a progressive school
in Cambridge, and taking care of two children
and a dog in her spare moments. The dog is
reported to have a mania for garbage, and
especially the Graton's garbage, so perhaps this
is 1932 news. Beth Busser is studying in
Munich and living at the Studentenheim on
Kaulbachstrasse, all of which proves that any
Bryn Mawr girl who can pass her German oral
need not be afraid of the big bad wolf, and
can live in safety under any roof no matter
how terrifying its name. Eleanor Chalfant is
working at the School of Occupational Therapy
in Philadelphia, studying, we take it, although
she may be teaching. You never can tell.
The only marital news we have is that Sylvia
Cornish's marriage to Mr. Robert Allen was
announced this summer and took place some
time last fall. Ruth Crossett, now Mrs. Edward
French, is the mother of a boy, but he's almost
a year old now and it is hardly news.
The class wishes to extend its deepest svm-
pathy to Martha Tipton, who lost her father a
short while ago.
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^ SCHOOL DIEECTQRY
Miss Beard's School
Prepares girls for College
Board examinations. General
courses include Household,
Fine and Applied Arts, and
Music. Trained teachers,
small classes. Ample grounds
near Orange Mountain. Ex-
cellent health record; varied
sports program. Established
1894. Write for booklet.
LUCIE C. BEARD
Headmistress
Berkeley Avenue
Orange New Jersey
THE
SHIPLEY SCHOOL
BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA
Preparatory to
Bryn Mawr College
ALICE G. ROWLAND
ELEANOR O. BROWNELL
Principals
The Agnes Irwin School
Lancaster Road
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ETHEL WALKER SMITH, A.M.,
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small classes. Informal home life.
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ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895
Vice-President Serena Hand Savage, 1922
Secretary Josephine Young Case, 1928
Treasurer Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909
Chairman of the Finance Committee Lois Kellogg Jessup, 1920
T^- „* - „4. T - „ /Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins, 1905
Directors at Large \alice Sachs Plaut, 1908
ALUMNAE SECRETARY AND BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE BULLETIN
Alice M. Hawkins, 1907
EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN
Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912
DISTRICT COUNCILLORS
District I Marguerite Mellen Dewey, 1913
District II Harriet Price Phipps, 1923
District III Vinton Liddell Pickens, 1922
District IV Adeline Werner Vorts, 1916
District V Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912
District VI Erna Rice, 1930
District VII JeriS Bensberg Johnson, 1924
ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
Elizabeth Lewis Otey, 1901 Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 1918
Virginia McKenney Claiborne, 1908 Florance Waterbury, 1905
Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906
CHAIRMAN OF THE ALUMNAE FUND
Lois Kellogg Jessup, 1920
CHAIRMAN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Ellen Faulkner, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS AND LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Y. Maguire, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Dr. Marjorie Strauss Knauth, 1918
CHAIRMAN OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, 1898
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Vol. XIV FEBRUARY, 1934 No. 2
More and more the Class Notes have come into their own. They are read and
discussed long after more significant things have been read and forgotten. The
College announces a change in policy that we think is going to be a bomb-shell
in the midst of the alumnae, and in a bare month or so every one is taking the
change for granted. The Undergraduate Editor, who is extraordinarily good this
year, gives a picture of the ever-changing pageant of the campus, and tries to bring
to us some comprehension of the discussions pro and con that shake the under-
graduate body to its foundations; again all of this is quickly taken for granted.
The one thing, it seems to me, that the alumnae never take for granted is them-
selves. They want to have the Bulletin keep them in touch as closely as possible
with the College — there is no question about that, although some one is always
turning up to ask why we do not have an article about such and such a thing that
was dealt with, exhaustively, six months earlier; but what they demand with rising
excitement is that the Bulletin shall keep them in touch with each other. Were
the question of doing away with the Class Notes brought up now as it has been
once or twice in the past, there would not be any discussion; there would be a riot.
Certainly they seem to me to grow more interesting and significant. The Editorial
Board has tried to formulate a rather definite policy about life, death, and casual
contacts, but the real credit must go to the Class Editors, who more and more choose
what is significant. If the Class Notes are considered in conjunction with the
special articles that appear from time to time, the variety and scope of activities
on the part of the alumnae are extraordinary. They dig gold in Sierre Leone, they
paint miniatures, they write best sellers, or put on plays, they are movie stars or
magazine editors, they manage their own communities or run important Federal
departments, they climb mountains or make significant archaeological finds, or go
in for medicine and research, they are decorated with the White Lion of Czecho-
slovakia, or start to sail around the Horn. There is almost no profession in which
they are not represented, and then they end up by marrying all of the eminent men.
It is really an amazing record for a group that is as small as is our alumnae group.
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REPORT OF THE DEANERY COMMITTEE
(Presented to the Council by the Chairman, Caroline McCormick Blade, 1896)
At the meeting of the Alumnae Association held at Bryn Mawr in February,
1933, Mrs. Clark, President of the Association, announced to the Alumnae
Miss Thomas's proposed gift to make possible the use of the Deanery as an
Alumnae Center on the Bryn Mawr Campus. To understand what this gift means,
we must recall the position the Deanery holds in the history of Bryn Mawr.
The young M. Carey Thomas, just back from her years of study in Europe,
where she had been the first woman to win a Ph.D., summa cum laude, at Zurich,
was called by the Trustees of Bryn Mawr in 1884 to help plan the new College
about to be opened. The Trustees had chosen Dr. James E. Rhoads as President
of the College, and Miss Thomas was invited to outline its educational policy, to
nominate to the President the members of the faculty, and to plan the entrance
requirements and the curriculum for the students who were to come. The position
was one of such great responsibility that the Trustees were at a loss to give it a
name, and Miss Thomas, with the approval of President Oilman, of Johns Hopkins
University, proposed that she be called Dean — an academic title up to that time
unknown in this country. Now that the many Deans in our educational system play
such an important part, it is of particular interest for us to remember that
Miss Thomas was the first Dean to take her place in any American college or
university.
Three little wooden cottages were on the college grounds, and one of these
which she made her home she christened "The Deanery." In 1896 the Deanery
was enlarged by the Trustees, and in 1907 Miss Mary Garrett, her life-long friend,
came from Baltimore to live with her, and at that time rebuilt the Deanery, adding
the great room that we know and the beautiful garden. The furnishings and equip-
ment of the Deanery were Miss Garrett's special care and delight. Through the
years that followed. Miss Thomas and Miss Garrett traveled widely, and always
brought back treasures of beauty for the Deanery and the Deanery garden.
The house is, of course, with every other building on the Campus, the property
of the College, but Miss Thomas has the right to keep it for her lifetime upon
payment of an annual maintenance charge. It had long been Miss Thomas's inten-
tion to leave in her will a request to the Trustees of Bryn Mawr College that the
house be used as an Alumnae Center, on the same terms on which she held it, and
a bequest of all of the wonderful contents of the house and garden and an endow-
ment for its support. Miss Thomas's decision, last January, to make this gift
immediate, came to us all as a great surprise, with which was joined a keen sense
of loss because she intended no longer to use the Deanery as her home.
Her first proposal was to make the gift to the Alumnae Association, and, in
announcing it, Mrs. Clark appointed a Ways and Means Committee to consider how
the Association could accept this most generous gift and assume the responsibility
for its management. This committee consisted of Elizabeth Bent Clark, President
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of the Alumnae Association^ ex-officio ; with two other members from the Executi\c
Board of the Alumnae Association: Caroline Chadwick-Collins^ Director-at-large
and also Chairman of Publicity of the College; and Lois Kellogg Jessup^ Chairman
of its Finance Committee ; Martha G. Thomas^ for many years Warden of Pembrok('
^nd formerly member of tlie Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr College; and from
the present Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr College: Louise Fleischmann Maclay,
formerly President of the Alumnae Association ; Millicent Carey Mcintosh ; Frances
Fincke Hand; and Caroline McCormick Slade, who was also appointed Chairman.
After a careful study of the situation, the committee decided that a guarantee fund
of $20,000 should be in hand before the Deanery could be opened. While they
were considering how such a fund could be raised in these difficult times, Miss
Thomas added to her very generous gift the $20,000 required.
The Executive Board of the Alumnae Association had, from the beginning,
impressed upon the committee that the finances of the Alumnae Association could
not be drawn upon to meet deficits and that the Association must not assume any
responsibility for future development in the Deanery that might cripple its contri-
bution to the essential work of the College. The Ways and Means Committee were
called to meet with them to consider how this could be assured. This meeting was
held on May 5th, 1933, when the Ways and Means Committee reported their con-
clusion that the only way to meet the situation was to ask Miss Thomas to make
her gift to Bryn Mawr College, to be held in trust for the alumnae, rather than
to the Alumnae Association, and they also suggested that a Deanery Committee,
consisting of the alumnae members of the Board of Directors of the College and the
President of the Alumnae Association, be appointed with full responsibility for its
management. The Executive Board of the Alumnae Association were unanimous in
their acceptance of this suggestion, and voted to adopt it and to propose it to
Miss Thomas as the most effective way of accomplishing the purposes she had in
mind. Miss Thomas received the plan with unqualified approval. She believed that
the way had been found to accomplish her purpose and that, logically, the furnish-
ings of the Deanery should belong with the building itself, making a unit to be held
by the College for the benefit of the alumnae, and, at the same time, giving the
management to a continuing group of alumnae chosen in large part by the Alumnae
Association.
This plan was submitted to the Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr College at
their regular meeting on May 18th, 1933, and, to quote from their Minutes: "The
report was favorably received and it was voted that a special committee be appointed
to draft the agreement of gift in consultation with Miss Thomas, and that the said
agreement and plan of management be then submitted for approval to the Executive
Committee, which was given power to act. As the special committee to draft the
agreement of gift, Mr. Jones appointed Mr. White, Mr. Scattergood, INIr. Emlen,
and Mrs. Slade.** Meantime, the Deanery Committee was appointed by Dr. Rufus
M. Jones, President of the Board of Trustees and of the Board of Directors of
Bryn Mawr College, and empowered to proceed.
The alumnae members of the board at present are the President of the College,
one Trustee, three members-at-large elected by the Trustees of Bryn Mawr College,
and the five Alumnae Directors elected by the Alumnae Association, one of these
going out every year and a new one taking her place.
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The Deanery Committee for 1933-34 consists of the following members:
President Marion -Edwards Park, Millicent Carey Mcintosh, Frances Fincke Hand,
Susan Follansbee Hibbard, Caroline McCormick Slade, Elizabeth Lewis Otey (until
D-ecember), Virginia Kneeland Frantz, Virginia McKenney Claiborne, Florance
Waterbury, Louise Fleischmann Maclay, Gertrude Dietrich Smith (after December),
and Elizabeth Bent Clark, President of the Alumnae Association. The five Alumnae
Directors^ with the President of the Alumnae Association, make six members elected
by the Alumnae Association, which means that, out of the Board of eleven, six are
elected by and directly responsible to the Alumnae Association.
The Deanery Committee held a preliminary meeting to prepare for the opening
of the Deanery as an Alumnae Center in the autumn and Caroline McCormick Slade
was made Temporary Chairman, and, in accordance with instructions then given,
appointed Millicent Carey Mcintosh, Acting Vice-Chairman; Elizabeth Bent Clark,
Acting Treasurer ; Louise Fleischmann Maclay, Acting Secretary ; Alice G. Rowland,
Chairman of the House Committee; and Caroline Chadwick-Collins, Chairman of
the Entertainment Committee. The first regular meeting of the Deanery Committee
was held at the Deanery on October 19th, 1933, and it was voted that their meet-
ings should coincide with the meetings of the Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr
College, in October, December, March, and May, that the annual meeting and the
election of officers be held in May, and that the fiscal year be that of the College,
July 1st to June 30th. The temporary officers were elected to hold office until
July 1st, 1934, and the chairmen of the House Committee and the Entertainment
Committee were reappointed.
The Deanery Committee realize that their work, to the limit of their resources,
must be to make the Deanery of the greatest possible value to the Alumnae and to
provide a center for college entertaining, in cooperation with the President of the
College, the Board of Trustees, the Board of Directors, and the Faculty of the
College, as well as with the Alumnae Association. This first year is necessarily
experimental and the committee feel that they must take time to find out how these
ends can best be accomplished. To give the faculty immediate facilities for the use
of the house, the committee have sent guest cards, with full privileges for 1933-34,
to the non-alumnae women members of the faculty, and have offered the privileges
of the Deanery for entertaining to the men of the faculty.
Through the spring and summer. Miss Thomas worked untiringly to put her
house in order, so that the accumulations of a lifetime could be adequately disposed
of. The furniture and furnishings she had given to the Deanery, and she herself
superintended the laying of every rug and the placing of every piece of furniture.
Alice G. Howland, Chairman of the House Committee, with Elizabeth Bent Clark,
Caroline Chadwick-Collins, and Constance Cameron Ludington, have borne the
labor and heat of the day, and no words are adequate to express the gratitude due
them for the magnificent way in which they made it possible to have the Deanery
ready for use on the 1st of October. Caroline Chadwick-Collins, Chairman of the
Entertainment Committee, undertook single-handed to bring out the Deanery
pamphlet (which is appended to this report), and there is no higher praise than to
say it is worthy of her best efforts. The other members of this committee are:
Elizabeth Bent Clark and Alice G. Howland, ex-officio; Lysbeth Boyd Boric,
Mary Hopkinson Gibbon, Virginia Newbold Gibbon, Dorothy Lee Haslam, Sophie
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Yarnall Jacobs, Anne Linn, Ellenor Morris, Martha G. Thomas, and Emily
Kimbrough Wrench. Their plans for the year began when the Deanery was
formally opened with a reception in honor of Miss Thomas on October 2Lst. It is
not too much to say that Miss Thomas rejoiced in this opportunity to greet and be
greeted by her own Alumnae, and those of the years since her retirement, and the
undergraduates.
The Entertainment Committee are now planning to open the house for interest-
ing meetings throughout the college year. There are many ways in wliich the
Deanery can be effectively used. Already a meeting of the Garden Club has been
held there, on October 19th, by invitation of Sophie Yarnall Jacobs, when
Gertrude Ely told the story of the garden as it was told to her by Miss Thomas.
On October 27th and 28th, President Park held there the annual meeting of the
Five College Conference of Presidents, Deans, and faculty representatives of Bryn
Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley. The Anna Howard Shaw
lectures are now being given at Bryn Mawr, from October 30th to December 5th,
and the lecturers are the guests of the College, living at the Deanery and holding
student conferences there. President Park has invited the Board of Trustees and
the Board of Directors of the College to hold their December meeting at the
Deanery and to be her guests at dinner. The Bryn Mawr representative of the
Seven Women's Colleges Committee is asking President Park to invite the Presidents
of these colleges and the college representatives to meet at the Deanery during the
spring. Bryn Mawr looks forward to the Flexner lectures, which will be held again
next year, when the Deanery will provide hospitality for the Flexner lecturer.
These distinguished lectures have added notably to Bryn Mawr's prestige, and it is
a great pleasure to know that the Deanery can offer them comfortable quarters and
a suitable place in which to meet with the students. With President Park's approval,
Dr. Tennent has invited the National Academy of Sciences to meet at Bryn Mawr
next year, and the Deanery has made this possible. If this invitation is accepted.
the Deanery will be headquarters for a meeting of the most distinguished scientists
in this country, including such an eminent former Bryn Mawr faculty member as
Dr. Morgan, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize.
The Deanery Committee look forward eagerly to the time when the Council
of the Alumnae Association will meet in Philadelphia and make their home at the
Deanery. May it be in 1934 !
ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association will be held in the
Deanery on Saturday, February 3rd, 1934, at 9.45 a. m. At half past one
o'clock the meeting will adjourn for luncheon in Pembroke Hall, wliere the
alumnae will be the guests of President Park, who will speak on college affairs
of current interest.
There will be an informal buffet supper for $1.00 in the Deanery on
Friday, February 2nd, 1934, at 7 p. m. The Deanery Committee invites the
Alumnae to meet the Faculty at the Deanery at 8.30 p. m.
Mr. Horace Alwyne will plav
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THE UNDERGRADUATE POINT OF VIEW
{Reports presented at the Council by the present President of the Undergraduate Association
and by the President of the Class of 1933)
A very good friend of mine, of the older generation, always approaches me
with the statement that it takes at least ten years to get over a Bryn Mawr educa-
tion. I wish he were here this morning to defend himself, because I hope to dispel
every illusion on which the remark is based. The undergraduate point of view
today is practical at all costs, and although we may have lost something in casting
aside the role of the carefree collegian, it is certainly more in keeping with the
times that we should be serious-minded. Speaking this way is taking the attitude
of the senior class especially, because we are the ones who are looking back on the
greater part of our four-year plan, and, like the Soviets, realizing our mistakes or
gleaning encouragement for the much longer plan of action that we shall start
next June.
Freshman year we all started as rugged individualists, thinking that if we had
passed those college boards with a Bryn Mawr average we must have something
that very few other people were fortunate enough to possess. Consequently we got
into a lot of trouble neglecting traditions to which we were then conscientious
objectors, but for which we would fight now, tooth and nail. For instance, on
Lantern Night, marching out of the Cloisters we burst into a snake dance, which
may have expressed our own mood, but which was decidedly incompatible with that
of the other three classes. Today, as Seniors, we are more inclined to understand
their righteous indignation, and, I think, realize that there is no golden mean and
it is better to be a little sentimental than too hard boiled and callous.
At the beginning of sophomore year feeling ran high when Latin was given as an
alternative on the list of required subjects and a large number of us had struggled
through it the year before. Then when Bryn Mawr started accepting girls on
New Plan College Board examinations and encouraging the progressive schools, the
Sophomores murmured that they were letting down the bars and it was all over.
This year we applaud those policies of the administration because they externalize
our own feeling that a college career should not be made merely a difficult feat
entirely removed from the slipshod remainder of life, but should complete and
crystallize an education and training that we can use later. I don't mean to say that
the modern practical undergraduate meets every issue saying, "No, it's depression
time, I can't buy a sandwich," or "Why should I go to the movies, that won't help
me after college.^", but as a whole we are genuinely more enthusiastic about Mrs.
Dean's lectures than the latest movie star, and after the first poignant moment,
ten cents in the pocket is more satisfactory than the tomato-and-lettuce sandwich.
Junior year, however, we showed tliat we are not quite all conscientiousness
when we voted unanimously in favor of the absolute success of big May Day the
year before and advised our successors to continue it without question. Also, last
spring we gave a dance in the gymnasium and there were enough tickets sold to
provide for a special undergraduate scholarship over and above our expensesi
As Seniors we are too busy to spend time developing the philosophy of our
behavior, and still, this year, the general trend of extra-curricular activities has
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been toward creating our own diversions rather than purchasing those that Hollywood
or the tea rooms sell ready made. The members of choir practice at least twice a
week, and sing at morning and Sunday evening chapel. They are planning to sing
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Mr. Stokowski next spring, and on December
10th they gave a concert in the Deanery. The Players' Club has adopted a policy of
producing a one-act play each month. Anyone is allowed to produce any play, and it
is hoped that there will be some original ones offered soon as a result of the Play-
writing class. The Varsity Dramatics Association produced The Knight of the
Burning Pestle on December 9th, followed by another undergraduate association
dance in the gymnasium. I think it is particularly interesting that the Varsity
Dramat of its own accord gave the play without the Haverford or Princeton men
whose aid they have enlisted for the last four years.
The Bryn Mawr Lantern still prints the best literary efforts of the campus
and the College News invites letters of indignation. The business board of the
News has organized several fashion shows given by Best, Wanamaker, and Saks
Fifth Avenue, in connection with their advertising. This introduction of fashion to
the campus and the excellent examples of dress set to us by the Freshmen are
driving out the traditional sloppy haberdashery of the last few college generations.
Although I am still a little afraid of encroaching on the premises of the
Dean's office, I would like to express a feeling of satisfaction with the advanced
courses. The majors in almost every department are enthusiastic about their work,
and there are twenty-six of us — out of a class of eighty-eight — taking honors. The
administration has been very broad-minded in one case especially that I think of,
where three Economics Major students wanted a course not in the catalogue, by a
professor not on the faculty. For a short period they went to the University of
Pennsylvania for the lectures, and then Miss Dulles was reelected to the faculty,
and now she comes out to Bryn Mawr. This, to me, shows a great advancement in
Bryn Mawr's academic attitude. The undergraduates know what they want, and
the administration makes it possible for them to get it without lowering the high
standards that we are all proud of.
I have really given you more of undergraduate activity than of our point of
view, but under it all is the increasing consciousness that college is not four years
of marking time, but rather a strong boost toward whatever goal we are seeking.
In details the undergraduate point of view may change from year to year, but on
the whole we still think we have an unusually superior undergraduate body, as it
was when we entered and undoubtedly always has been since Miss Thomas gave
the first examinations for matriculation.
Mary B. Nichols, 1934.
RELIGION AT BRYN MAWR
One phase of the undergraduates' point of view is seen in the interest taken in
the activities of the Bryn Mawr League. This organization took the place of the
Christian Association five years ago and provides an opportunity for religions
expression and social service work.
One so often hears that there is no religion at Bryn Mawr — -that most of the
students are agnostics or even atheists. I believe that this statement is not true.
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There are at Bryn Mawr, as there are in other colleges, as well as in the younger
generation as a whole, those to whom religion apparently means very little. Per-
haps religion means more to them than they are willing to admit, or perhaps they
find that the usual forms of expressing religion do not meet their needs. However,
there are also at College those who are interested in religion and who show this
interest by attending the Sunday Evening Services.
The services this year have been very well attended. I think one of the reasons
for this is that outstanding speakers have come to College. Another reason is that
for the first time the subjects of their talks have been announced before the services.
These talks have been on such problems as "India," "The Oxford Movement,*'
"The Problems of the Church in Facing the Attitude of the Modern Generation,"
and "Psychiatry and Religion." These topics appeal because they are tangible,
practical and helpful in their application to the bewildering situations that sur-
round us all. A service devoted entirely to music is held about once a month and is
most popular.
An important part of the social service work of the League is the work of
running Bates House, a seashore home for children. The undergraduates not only
go to Bates House during the summer to take care of these children, but they have
the full responsibility of raising the money and managing the whole undertaking.
They would appreciate any suggestions from alumnae about a house at the sea-
shore which could be used for this purpose.
Although Bates House is one of the major interests of the League, it is by
no means the only one. Classes are arranged by the League for Americanization of
foreigners at the Bryn Mawr Community Center, and instruction in handicrafts,
gymnasium, dancing, singing, cooking, sewing, etc., is given at the Haverford
Community Center. Every evening during the week two or three students go to
the Blind School at Overbrook to read to the boys and girls who, in spite of their
great handicap, are trying to go to college.
The League is also interested in arranging educational and social activities for
the college maids. Undergraduates tutor the maids in any subject they may want
to study. This often proves to be anything or everything, from Physics and French
to Arithmetic and Spelling, or even, as this year. Bridge! This year the activities
of the Summer School Committee and the Industrial Group have been combined.
Speakers prominent in some field of social work were invited to come to
Bryn Mawr to tell about their work. Mrs. Mary Breckenridge spoke on the
"Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky," and Antoinette Cannon, 1907, spoke of the
"Training Necessary for Social Work." Visits were made to a settlement house, a
recreation center, and a prison. These talks and field trips, I think, make the
college work in sociology more vivid because it brings the subject down to imme-
diate present-day problems.
The Bryn Mawr League carries on such a variety of projects that it is able to
interest a large number of the undergraduates in at least one of its activities. The
League not only gives the students an opportunity for religious thought and dis-
cussion and for social work, but it also gives them at least some idea what is going
on outside of College in these fields.
Ellinor H. Collins, 1933.
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MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY AT MEETINGS
OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
Reprinted from the College News
At the Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science^ Miss Gardiner read a paper entitled "The Origin and Nature of the
Nucleolus/' and Dr. Blanchard read one on "The Relation of Adrenal Cortical
Function to Certain Aspects of Resistance." Dr. Tennent also attended.
Dr. Wheeler and Dr. Noether were present at the meetings of the mathematics
division. Illness prevented Dr. Flexner from reading his study of "The Intersection
of Chains on a Topological Manifold." Dr. Richtmyer attended the biannual
Organic Symposium at Cornell, and Dr. MacKinnon was one of a group of Gestalt
psychologists who conferred at Northampton.
The Geological Society of America, meeting in Chicago, heard Dr. Watson
read a paper on "Differentiation in Teschenite Sills at El Mulato, Mexico."
Dr. Dryden read an article on "Statistical Correlation of Heavy Mineral Suites."
At the Amherst gathering of the American Philosophic Association, Mrs.
de Laguna read a paper on "Appearance and Orientation." Dr. Weiss and Dr.
Nahm also attended. Dr. Weiss has recently been appointed to the advisory board
of the new quarterly magazine. Philosophy of Science, which is interested in the
"unification and clarification of the program, methods, and results of the disciplines
of philosophy and of science." The magazine is in the library periodical room.
The chief address at the joint dinner of the Archeological Association of
America and the American Philological Association, which both convened in
Washington during the holidays, was delivered by Dr. Carpenter. He discussed
"Homer and the Archeologists." Dr. Muller read a paper before the former
organization, on "The Beginnings of Monumental Greek Sculpture," and Miss
Swindler presided at one of the sessions. Mrs. Holland read a paper before the
Philological Association, entitled "Virgil's Three Maps of Italy." Miss Taylor
also attended as a member of the Executive Committee of that Association.
Although unable to attend the sessions of the Modern Language Association in
St. Louis, Dr. Lograsso was elected councilor of the affiliated organization, the
American Association of Teachers of Italian, for the year 1934. Two articles by
Dr. Lograsso have appeared recently in the A. A. T. I. publication, Italica.
Dr. Max Diez read a paper before the M. L. A. entitled "The Principle of the
Dominant Metaphor in Goethe's Werther." Mr. Canu read one on "Arnaud
Dandieu (1897-1933) et VOrdre Nouveau." The secretary of the Spanish Language
and Medieval Literature Section of the M. L. A. is Miss Florence Whyte. Mrs.
Frank is head of the Old French Division. Miss Kohler also attended the convention.
At the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held this
year in Philadelphia, Dr. Wells conducted a round table on comparative govern-
ment. Other organizations interested in the social sciences convened at the same
time, and their sessions were attended by members of the Bryn Mawr faculty,
including Dr. Miller, who is on the Executive Committee of the American Sociolog-
ical Society, Dr. Kingsbury, Miss Fairchild, Dr. and Mrs. Smith, and Miss Dulles.
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THE PRESIDENTS PAGE
As the members of the Alumnae Council know_, but as other alumnae may not
know, I see and hear only the social sessions of the Council. My foot stays at the
threshold of all discussions of college business. Consequently it is only with the
coming of the January Alumnae Bulletin and the full reports of the councilors
that I know how often the talk in Boston turned on ways and means toward a closer
connection between Bryn Mawr and its graduates. The alumna and the official in me
devoutly wish this consummation not because Myself, the Official, plans to crystallize
and use for base purposes the sentiment or sentimentality of Myself, the Alumna,
but because on one hand I think Bryn Mawr needs more eyes, ears and brains in
its affairs; and oil the other, because the questions of policy and of principle which
harass us here, are so like the questions of policy and principle in every kind of
education, that they are worth the objective attention of the alumna who is Living
in Eeal Life, as she would probably say. I am ready to give to this concern of the
Alumnae Council enthusiasm, hard work, and what Mr. Laski calls the distasteful
process of thought.
I shall venture to put down for all the alumnae my half of an Imaginary
Conversation on the subject. The closer connection which we wish must rest, I
agree, on flesh and blood. Moving pictures need more than their captions, and
pages and print leave the writer warm from exertion but the reader cold. Either
the College or the alumnae must travel.
The first obvious device is that Mahomet come to the mountain! I am
convinced that the College must encourage alumna-visiting in every way, and, short
of clogging the wheels of the college machinery, be keen to try any plans proposed.
But Mahomet should realize (1) that brief and unannounced visits are intellectual
potluck; our dinner of yesterday or tomorrow may be better or worse; (2) that if
a sample lecture or a sample day is arranged by the College it ceases to be a sample.
In neither case can an average be struck in the appraisal of a year course, by one,
two, or even three hours of observation. I have seen two pairs of disorganized
pyjamas wipe out the impression of a hundred trim skirts.
Suppose the eight directors who are alumnae carry out their proposal of
spending twenty- four hours or more at the College on the occasion of each meeting,
and as time goes on will both formally and informally discuss their impressions with
each other and with us, the natives. A pool of information and criticism can be
started. It will be information and not gossip. To such a pool other alumnae can
add either formally or informally their impressions. I think an observation service,
immensely valuable to the College, can be built up.
The second obvious device sends the mountain to Mahomet! Mahomet in his
own home rightly makes a varied demand on a spokesman for his alma mater. He
wants facts — how about the Japanese cherries, the new microscopes, the freshman
class; inside information on the college policies behind the facts; admission and
curriculum information of a detailed and exact kind for local schools or scholarship
committees, and propaganda for hesitating parents or girls; more majestic orches-
tration based on the Bryn Mawr theme: women's colleges, liberal arts colleges,
progressive and old-line schools, women in politics. The modest individuals who
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have some (no one has all) of this knowledge have usually got it by hard work in
Bryn Mawr offices^ whither they must^ alas ! soon and precipitately return, for with
the present staff absences can not be long. On the other hand the traveler can not
be hurried; school visits, teas and speeches must fit into the schedules of schools
and of hostesses, and slie licrsclf must be fresh and quick-witted, for disaster lies
in the path of fatigue.
And difficult as the practical arrangements of official traveling are, it is
repaying to the official traveler. Those ticklish problems of the College which are
and stay far from the campus, she sees from nearby. She realizes genuine dissatis-
faction, false starts which the College is taking, its misunderstanding or apparent
disregard of students' needs. Visits to Mahomet in his own home are as valuable
to Bryn Mawr as his visits to the campus.
To sum up my half of this conversation: there must be, I think, genuine
meetings of interested parties — College and alumna — and in the domain of each.
The information which . each gets must be recorded, corrected, enlarged, used.
Council meetings, alumnae meetings, will serve admirably to tie up such discussion
and to spread such information, and slowly to build up a united college policy on it.
It remains for the committee appointed at the council meeting to work out
the plan.
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday. February 7th — 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hali
Lecture on "The Conquest of Everest," with movies, by
Air-Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes, leader of the British expedition.
Reserved seats, $1.65; Balcony unreserved, $1.10,
Auspices of the Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia.
Sunday, February I Ith — 5 p. m., The Deanery. Fourth of the Series*
Mr. Barton Currie, editor, author, and book collector, will talk on "Collecting the Jolly Old
Classics" and will show valuable old manuscripts and early editions of really beloved books.
Tuesday, February 13th — 2.30 p. nn., The Deanery
Bridge for the benefit of the Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and Southern New Jersey
Regional Scholarship Fund. Tables, $4.00, including tea and prize, may be purchased from
Mrs. W. C. Byers, Villanova.
Saturday, February 17th — 10.30 a. m. and 3 p. nn., The Deanery
Red Gate Shadow Puppets. Auspices of the Chinese Scholarship Committee.
Adults, $1.00; Children under 12 years, $.65.
Saturday, February 17th — 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hall
Concert by the Princeton Glee Club. Tickets, $1.00.
Thursday, February 22nd — 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hall
Concert by the Vienna Choir Boys. Auspices of the Bryn Mawr War Memorial and Community
hlouse Association. Reserved seats, $1.50 and $1.25; Balcony unreserved, $1.10.
Saturday, February 24th — 8,20 p. m,, Goodhart Hall
Freshman Show. Tickets, $1.00,
Sunday, February 25th — 5 p. m., The Deanery. Fifth of the Series*
Lecture, "The Artist in the World Today," by Mr, Edward M. M, Warburg,
of the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
*Tea and cookies will be served informally without charge at 4.30.
An informal hujfet supper will be served every Sunday evening at 7 o'cloc\, price 75 cents.
Reservations should he made in advance if possible to the Manager of the Deanery.
Alumnae may bring guests to the Deanery parties,
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CAMPUS NOTES
By J. Elizabeth Hannan, 1934
There has probably been more traffic in and out Goodhart and the Deanery
during the past month than at any time in the history of either place. The week
after Thanksgiving was filled with rehearsals and presentations of the Varsity Play;
Alexander Woollcott swept in on the following Tuesday to give The Dying Confes-
sions of a Newspaperman; and Edna St. Vincent Millay dragged us away from
our books on the Monday after that.
The Varsity Dramat play, the first event after Thanksgiving, was a Jacobean
farce, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, by Beaumont and Fletcher. Although
director and cast expressed some doubt beforehand as to its success, the play received
unqualified praise from its audiences. To quote Dr. Enid Glen's review in the News:
"Some of the audience was heard to say that it was the finest production Bryn
Mawr had done for years; others could not remember anything so good." And
more of the same from an enthusiastic letter written by Dr. Leslie Hotson, Profes-
sor of English at Haverford and well known Shakespearean scholar: *'Its thumping
success marks an undeniable step forward in undergraduate producing at college."
On the strength of these paeans of praise, I think we may say that the first
round goes to the "literary" group in Varsity Dramat. They have been waiting
more or less patiently for a long time to put across their point — that Bryn Mawr
is better fitted to give period plays than modern productions, which require profes-
sional acting from everyone in the cast; and now they seem to have proved it.
Although the experience acquired in such a production would scarcely be classified
as useful for anyone aiming at the professional stage, it has a very definite value
for the people who take part in the staging, costuming, and acting. To put on
The Knight of the Burning Pestle and keep it faithful to the traditions of the
period, everyone concerned had to know something of the Jacobean world. Most
of the cast projected themselves quite successfully, both in gesture and tone, back
to Jacobean times. Although the audiences were too small to give The Knight
the financial success it deserved, the recent triumph will probably weigh heavily
in future choice of plays. The rather scant attendance may seem a reflection on
the Bryn Mawr undergraduate, but we hasten to say that the forbidding title of the
play and unfavourable publicity probably repelled many who had guests down for
the dance Saturday night. No doubt Philadelphia seemed to offer more light and
gaiety than a Beaumont and Fletcher revival. We think that next time, with a
little encouraging publicity and the aura of success lent by this play, Varsity
Dramat will achieve financial security as well as a succes d^estime.
It was demonstrated to our unbelieving eyes on the following Tuesday by none
other than Mr. Alexander Woollcott that the great spaces of Goodhart can be
packed almost to the last seat. Rapid calculation of the number of people in the
audience forced us to the conclusion that every Main Line homestead and school
must have been drained to the last man to hear the witty columnist. None of them
regretted coming if one can judge from the almost continuous laughter and frequent
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bursts of applause. Mr. Woollcott not only supplied his hearers with a number
of good stories — both amusing and sentimental — but he also left behind him a few
constructive hints for the uncertain undergraduate. His chief advice to the job-
hunters-to-be was not to model their ambitions on the achievements of some glitter-
ing success of the generation before^ but to look around with eager eye to discover
the new fields being opened up. We don't think his advice will be hard to follow ;
next year will undoubtedly find ninety-nine percent of the Senior Class inventing
new occupations that no one has ever heard of before^ just to preserve an appear-
ance of activity.
Our second celebrity of the month was Edna St. Vincent Millay who again
convinced us that no one can read poetry with half the charm and lucidity that
the person can who wrote it. The practice of inviting poets to Bryn Mawr to
deliver their poetry at first hand has brought to Goodhart in the last few years
such authors as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Stephens, James Weldon
Johnson. We feel that it must be a great inspiration to the poets of Bryn Mawr
to get their poet-lore from the purest source, and also to be able to grill the visitor
at the reception usually held afterwards. Miss Millay, brought to bay at this
function, answered the stock request for a definition of poetry with a sentence she
had once used on a Vassar examination paper: "Poetry is something reverently
written by great men and blasphemously defined by undergraduates in female
institutions." No doubt this succinct definition will relieve poets speaking here in
the future of the thankless job of defining poetry to a hypercritical Bryn Mawr
audience. A satisfying exception to the rule that poetry should be read by its
author, if possible, was a reading by Mrs. Hope Woods Hunt at the Deanery the
Thursday before Miss Millay came. She selected verse by modern poets, but
omitted Miss Millay's because she was scheduled to speak so soon afterwards.
Although this careful omission prevents comparison of the two, Mrs. Hunt's tech-
nique would probably not have suffered by it.
The prevalent interest on campus in the muse of poetry may be bearing a sort
of mushroom fruit underground but as yet none of the poetry group has published
in any form except The Lantern, and there not very profusely. Miss G. G. King,
in her review of the fall issue of The Lantern, practically accused the undergraduate
body as a whole of having little energy and fewer ideas than any generation to
date. This judgment is correct, if one can draw sweeping conclusions from a
survey of campus publications and not from a thorough canvass of each student —
body and soul; yet we still think that there is a modicum of creative power hidden
behind our indifferent masks. Our theory is that the present generation is neither
so generous as former ones, nor so anxious to see its brain-children in print in a
college paper. Some day we intend to offer a large premium for all contributions
just to find out whether the literary light has failed or is merely being hoarded
for the royalties of after-life.
When our famous visitors and Varsity Play are both forgotten, the month of
December, 1933, will be remembered by every undergraduate as the month when
the plan for a comprehensive system first emerged from a faculty committee into
the hot glare of publicity in the News columns. Although the plan of having com-
prehensive examinations for the whole Senior Class in the major subject has not
been finally adopted, it has been thoroughly discussed and reported upon by the
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Faculty Curriculum Committee. In the December 20th issue of the News, Dean
Manning explained the system, presenting a clear analysis of what its adoption
would mean to the students. It if works out as the report indicates that it will/
it should result in giving every student a more mature view of what she has been
concentrating on for three or four years.
The objection will probably be made that comprehensives will make for too
much emphasis on one course and that this over-specialization will be harmful.
That objection can, I think, be disproved by people who take honours and the
comprehensive under the present system. Intensive work — ''specialization" — para-
doxically enough, forces one to broaden one's view of a course and to apply infor-
mation gleaned from other branches of learning as well as the major. To quote
from Dean Manning's article: *'The examinations, to be successful, must test the
power of the students to use and apply the information which they have gathered
from courses and reading. A wider familiarity with what has been written from
different points of view on the subject matter of the major courses might be one
essential part of the preparation." Under the present system, or lack of system,
different departments have widely differing requirements for the comprehensives;
the English Department, for example, requires every student to take Junior and
Senior comprehensives, a requirement which warns off the wary and the timid from
majoring in English. All that will be changed under the new plan, which, when
and if adopted, will enforce uniformity in every department. The question of com-
prehensives will probably start a small uproar pro and con when College reassembles
after the holidays, so we promise to continue the story in next month's issue.
PROPOSED NEW POLICY OF COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATIONS
(Reprinted from the article written for the College News by Dean Manning)
A plan for an important change in the curriculum is at present under discussion
by the Faculty Curriculum Committee and the various major departments. This
plan, of which copies have been given to all members of the Undergraduate Curricu-
lum Committee, would introduce an examination on certain general fields of the
major subjects to be taken by all candidates for the A.B. degree in the final
examination period of their senior year. The examination would probably consist
of three papers of approximately three hours each, to be scheduled in the first week
of the examination period. Seniors not passing it would not receive the degree in
that year, but would be permitted to attempt the examination again in the fall or
later.
The plan for the Comprehensive Examination, which might perhaps better be
called the final examination in the major subject, has been prepared with the object
of strengthening and unifying the work of the senior year and, to a lesser degree,
the work of the other three years by giving to the major work a more definite final
objective. The examinations to be successful must test the power of the students to
use and apply the information which they have gathered from courses and reading.
A wider familiarity with what has been written from different points of view on
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the subject matter of the major courses might be one essential part of the
preparation.
The plan makes allowance for a considerable amount of time in the senior
year to be devoted to such reading or to other reading on special topics. A Senior
would carry only three unit courses and she would have, moreover, two full weeks
during the mid-year examination period for intensive reading and study and probably
a certain amount of extra time in May for a general review. It is also to be hoped
that many students will find it possible to do a good deal of general reading in the
summer before the senior year.
Every effort has been made in the plan to minimize such interruptions as would
be caused by course examinations, but there is no intention of encouraging students
to concentrate entirely on their major subject in the senior year. It is the hope
of the Curriculum Committee that Seniors would feel well able to carry at least
one elective course, whether it be in a subject totally unrelated to the major or in
one in which interest has been aroused through the study of some branch of the
major. In the majority' of cases students would probably also be carrying work
in a closely allied subject.
It is taken for granted that in those courses which are not tested by the Com-
prehensive, Seniors would cover the same ground and do approximately the same
amount of work as the other students, but special schedules would be arranged in
order that the review periods and the written tests would not conflict with the periods
of intensive work for the Comprehensive.
The junior year would, generally speaking, be the period in which students
would complete Second Year work in the major and would carry essential allied
work and one or two elective courses. At the end of the junior year departments
would hold conferences with all their major students to ensure that the plan of
reading for the Comprehensive Examination was fully understood and that students
had every opportunity to read sucli books as especially appealed to them during the
summer.
There seems no reason at all to suppose that the change of the major subject
would be any more difficult under the plan proposed than it is at present. On the
contrary, since there would be more deliberate effort to concentrate most of the work
of the major subject into the last two years, the possibility of making a change
in the middle or at the end of the junior year would be increased rather than
otherwise. Undoubtedly, a student who tried to change at the begiiming of her
senior year would be somewhat handicapped unless she chose a subject in which
she had already done a great deal of work. But that is true at present.
For the first two years the effort would be to make students diversify their
courses rather more than they do under our present requirements. It would be very
important for students to complete their required work early and also be prepared
to pass their language examinations at the beginning of their junior year. In many
cases, of course, tlie German could be passed at the beginning of the sophomore
year or even at tlie end of tlie freslnnan year. Students would on the whole be
discouraged from taking Second Year work in tlie sophomore year when they
wished to spend their junior year abroatl. The accunuilation of credits towards the
degree would not be possible in the same sense tliat it is at present, and every one
would be expected to carry full work for the last two years. Exceptions might
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possibly be made for students who lost time through illness in the junior or senior
year, if they had completed an unusual amount of work by the end of the sophomore
year, but some procedure on this point would have to be worked out on the basis
of experience.
The passing mark for the Comprehensive would be sixty, and, since the students
attempting it would in all cases have completed two years of work in the major
subject with marks of seventy or above, there seems no reason at all to suppose
that the examination would be a more difficult test than the course examinations.
That it ought to be a different kind of test is sufficiently obvious, and unless exami-
nations are set which call for a broad view of the subject and for the power to
reason about the facts and not merely to memorize them, the whole experiment
will be a failure.
It seems to many members of the faculty worth while to make a change which
holds promise of greater unity and meaning for the college course as a whole,
especially since it would introduce a type of work in the senior year of which the
majority of undergraduates at present have but little experience and which has
been found in other colleges to develop maturity and independence.
THE ALUMNAE BOOKSHELF
Peddler's Pack, hy Mary Owen Lewis. David McKay Co,, Philadelphia. $1.60.
Peddler's Pack is the third slim book of verse that Miss Lewis has brought out.
The Phantom Bow and Tower Window being her two earlier ones. It shows a
growing maturity in her art^ although it follows the same lines of interest, for the
most part, that were indicated in the other two volumes. She writes of birds and
flowers, of the changing seasons, of storms, of the sea, of the places and pictures
she has seen on her wanderings through France and Germany. In one of the poems
she says that she "glories in the freedom of maturity." That is the undercurrent
that one feels in all of the poems, especially in those that are specific social
comment. The meters with which she experiments, while they, for the most part,
follow old patterns, with the exception of the septet, which is an original form with
her, show this same sense of pleasure in variety, in release from constraint. One
feels in all the poems, even when it is not stated as explicitly as in the following
quotation, that life itself is her preoccupation:
"Art is the drop and life the river flowing.
Who puts the cistern high above the stream.''
. Or slakes a thirst with art, in scorn of knowing
That life is water fresh with sunlight's gleam.?"
Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912.
Tourist Third, hy Ruth Wright (Kauffman). Penn Publishing Co., 1933. $2.00.
Of Mrs. Kauffman's two novels presented to the Alumnae Bookshelf, Dancing
Dollars and Tourist Third, the latter is the most recent and should prove refresh-
ing reading to those who revolt against the relentless realism of the day and long
for Victorian romances when heroines were beautiful, heroes faithful, and coinci-
dence befriended both.
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Jacqueline Olmsted meets her hero on a deserted island in Maine when she
had sought solitude there to consider another man's offer of marriage. Even the
tides are kind and prevent the landing of a rescue boat until the mysterious Alike
(who has been camping here with his great Dane for reasons known only to them
both) has found and feasted his lady. One likes to imagine that this scene inspired
the book, for it possesses an atmosphere worthy of a summer night in Maine, and
the light humor of the dialogue would make a charming scene on the stage.
The reader cannot help hoping during the following pages which seem, perhaps
because of his impatience, rather too long, that Jacqueline will decide to keep her
assignation with Mike and book passage on the same ship. It is a little hard to
understand how a modern American girl, portrayed as the belle of a sophisticated
society, could be so much under the influence of her mother and so reverent to the
conventions that she would need any encouragement from her stepfather to embark
upon such an adventure.
Up to this point, the author has chosen a savory and not too familiar recipe
for romance to which her touches of humor give a certain flavor. But from now on
there is a disappointing drop as if she had seen no farther than the meeting on
the ship, and had been abandoned there by her imagination high and dry. One feels
the mistake whereby Jacqueline reads Mike's telegram merely hauled in to prolong
the tale, and knows beforehand that the suspicious female name will soon be
ingeniously explained away. The explanation, however, is almost too ingenious.
Pamela Burr, 1928.
To Paris with Aunt Prue, hy Ruth (Wright) Kauffman. Penn Publishing Co.,
$2.00.
In To Paris with Aunt Prue Mrs. Kauffman has given us a guide book in disguise
as a child's story which should prove equally entertaining to children and helpful
to parents unfortunate enough to find themselves stranded in Paris with the very
young. This book happily fills in a blank in Guide Book literature which so far
offered little reading palatable to a child. The adventures of the twins in Paris
(though it takes, perhaps, a shade too long to get them there) have been prepared
with care, knowledge, and common sense, most indispensable quality of all from
the traveller's point of" view. The chapters, with their slight thread of story, should
give a child a clear picture of the city and just enough information to clarify rather
than confuse. The suggestions at the end of each chapter should answer the ques-
tions of even the most curious child who is ignorant of how to telephone, count
money or eat breakfast in French, at the same time that they solve the problems
of his mother who does not know where to take him when the sun shines or where
to leave him when it rains. Pamela Burr, 1928.
Among other recent alumnae publications are:
The Dollar, The Franc, and Inflation, hi/ Eleanor Lansing Dulles. The
Macmillan Company. $1.25.
British Colonial Government After the American Revolution, hy Helen
Taft Manning. Yale University Press. $4.00.
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CLASS NOTES
Ph.D. and Graduate Notes
Editor: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)
Vandalia, Missouri.
Those who knew Anna Weusthoff Mosher
(Mrs. J. A. Mosher) will regret exceedingly
to hear that she passed away last September.
Mrs. Mosher was a graduate student in 1906-07
and 1909-12, and was the Ottendorfer
Memorial Research Fellow in Teutonic Phil-
ology from 1907 to 1909. For the last few
years she has been on the faculty of Hunter
College, New York City, where she not only
did very fine work in her classes, but also won
a high place in the regard and affection of
her fellow-teachers and her pupils. Her hus-
band. Professor J. A. Mosher, of City College,
New York, and her mother, Mrs, H. S.
Weusthoff, survive her.
1889
No Editor Appointed.
1890
No Editor Appointed.
In the exhibition of the National Association
of Women Painters and Sculptors on view now
at the American Fine Arts Building in New
York, are what the New York Times character-
ized as "interesting, sometimes really arresting"
pictures by Marian Macintosh. It reproduced,
giving it the most important place on the page,
her "imaginative study in contrast," The Lute
Player.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
1435 Lexington Ave., New York.
1893
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Evangeline Walker Andrews has given me a
retrospect of her career in recent years to
"bring us up to date." In 1926-27 she and
Dr. Andrews made a trip around the world,
frequently getting off the beaten paths. Their
most interesting experience was crossing the
desert from Damascus to Bagdhad. Here, there,
and everywhere, they ran into revolutions of
sorts; in Syria, Damascus, Indo-China, and
China. Letters of introduction offered unusual
opportunities for visiting the interior of
Sumatra, Java, and Bali, with a day in the
Sultan's palace at Djokjakarta, witnessing the
routine life and the dancing. Then a three-day
trip to the Dieng Plateau, rarely visited, where
are the oldest Buddhist remains in Java. Let-
ters to people in Kandy, Ceylon, enabled them
to see some of the native dancing, life in the
Temple of the Tooth, the elephants at work,
and the ruined cities of the North. Another
high-water mark was a 350-mile drive to
Angkor from Saigon. In Japan they were,
inter alia, entertained in a Buddhist monastery
and saw the pearl fishing as well as cormorant
fishing, and pushed into some quiet, unspoiled
back country.
Since their return. Dr. Andrews — ^honorary
member of '93 — ^has retired and is devoting
himself to his Magnum Opus, a six- volume
History of the American Colonies. Evangeline
has completed a four-year term as President of
the Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames.
During her term of office great stress was laid
on collecting Colonial manuscripts, and sav-
ing, recording, and restoring Colonial houses.
The restoration and opening of an old tavern,
Marlborough Tavern, on the main highway
from Hartford to New London at the intersec-
tion of the Willimantic-Middletown road, will
be of interest to motoring members of '93,
who will see there a fine old ball-room and
tap-room.
And now the Andrews family has "gone
rural"; they have bought a farm at East Dover,
Vermont, and made over the barn into a de-
lightful "home and workshop," where they
expect to write, rest, and play for six months
of the year. John Andrews has temporarily
given up his law work to try out writing. He,
too, has a little house at East Dover, and,
though Evangeline states that his chief interests
are law, aviation, and literature, I know that
last spring he was energetically selling most
excellent maple syrup. Ethel Andrews Harlan
has a charming daughter, Evangeline, now
nearly 2 years old, described as a "grand" baby
in more ways than one.
Jane Brownell did not get to Hancock Point
last summer. Her sister Harriet had pneu-
monia, and their departure from Hartford was
so long delayed that it was finally given up
entirely.
Helen Thomas Flexner spent the summer at
Chocorua, N. H., where your Editor almost saw
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her and did see her attractive son, who is, I
believe, also trying his hand at writing.
Lucy Donnelly was with Helen at Chocorua
for a time. This I know, not from any news
sent by Lucy, but from my daughter Susan,
who spent the summer nearby as chauffeur and
errand boy for Professor and Mrs. George
Baker, erstwhile of Workshop 47 and of Yale,
and kept an eye on "mother's friends." Lucy
please note and send her own news next time.
Bertha Putnam is in London working on her
book on Early Proceedings Before Justices of
the Peace, crouched over a gas-log and nearly
freezing in this unexpected weather. She had
planned to join Corinna and her husband in
Egypt for part of the winter, but gave it up
on account of the dropping exchange. With
the thermometer also dropping, she may well
be regretting her decision.
Gertrude Taylor Slaughter was asked a year
ago to select, arrange and edit some of Nan
Emery Allinson's essays for the volume that has
recently been published by Harcourt, Brace
and Co., and is entitled Selected Essays. When
the material was accepted by the publishers
they asked Gertrude to write the biographical
introduction, which she did, thus adding much
to the interest of the volume of which she
writes, "I think the collection (of essays) on
many different subjects will represent Nan and
make her personality felt." Gertrude continues
to spend her winters in Madison, Wis., where
she has many interests, and goes for the sum-
mer to her lovely home at Hancock Point, Me.,
with Jane Brownell as a near neighbor.
Susan Walker FitzGerald married off her
daughter Rebecca, Bryn Mawr '26, in late
June and spent several days in Lebanon, N. H.,
unpacking and settling the aforesaid daugh-
ter's possessions in "The Parsonage" before
her arrival. Daughter Susan, Bryn Mawr '29,
is in Munich as "Adviser to the Junior Year
Students" under the direction of the Univer-
sity of Delaware. She is herself taking three
courses at the university, and hopes some day
to count them in towards an M.A.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
c/o The Brearley School
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
1896
Class Editor: Abigail Camp Dimon
1411 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.
1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
104 Lake Shore Drive, East, Dunkirk, N. Y.
The Class Editor regrets exceedingly her slip
— one hundred city blocks — in writing down
Mary Fay's New York address for the Decem-
ber Bulletin. The correct address is 520 West
114th Street. She regrets also that her per-
sonal New Year's Greeting which she meant to
have in the January issue, was edited out,
probably because the notes came in so late
that there wasn't room for everything. She is
especially sorry because the greeting had, con-
cealed among its evergreen sentiments, an
S. 0. S. call for news items that she hoped
would come pouring in for this issue. How-
ever, there are Christmas cards to fall back
upon, though it is surprising to find on them
so little that is "fit to print."
Anne Lawther is always a comfort. In a
clear, bold hand she writes, on the back of the
Jungfrau, I think it is, of the glorious July
days in Switzerland and of delightful walks
around Miirren. She adds, "Since I came back
early in September, I have been away two or
more days each week on Board of Education
work and it keeps piling up." Thank you.
Miss Lawther.
Sue Blake spent the holidays with her mother
and sister in Merion and went out to
Bryn Mawr for tea in the Deanery and dinner
in Low Buildings. She had intended going to
Boston for the Science Meetings at Cambridge,
but the zero weather made her decide not to
go farther north. She writes with enthusiasm
of her life at Hollins College, Virginia.
Emma Cadbury's greeting card was from
Vienna I, Singerstrasse 16. (If she had written
on the card all that we should like to know
about conditions in Austria it might never
have come through.)
1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
1899
Editor: Carolyn Trowbridge Brown Lewis
(Mrs. H. Radnor Lewis)
451 Milton Road, Rye, N. Y.
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
1901
Class Editor: Helen Converse Thorpe
(Mrs. Warren Tliorpe)
15 East 64th St., New York City.
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1902
Class Editor: Anne Rotan Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike D. Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
May Yeatts Howson (on demand by the
Editor), neatly penned the following skeleton-
ized account of her family:
Charles, Jr. — Yale, '30, Senior in Law School.
Married June, '33.
John Y.— Princeton, '3L Medical Student.
Engaged.
Elizabeth — Two years Bryn Mawr. Gradu-
ated Drexel, '3L
James — Williams, '32. Law Student.
George — In Drexel & Co. (Philadelphia J. P.
Morgan Office).
Walter — University of Pennsylvania, '37.
May — Baldwin '33. Boston-Bouve Freshman.
Margaret — Baldwin '34. Headed for Bryn
Mawr next fall.
She added a brief note to say she feared her
data was like that of other classmates, and we
needn't use it if we didn't want to — and that
for herself (besides these maternal responsi-
bilities— the parenthesis, the Editor's) she is
interested in the usual clubs, garden and music,
President of the local library and a Trustee of
the Mothers' Assistance Fund of Delaware
County (appointed by the Governor). "But
these are the things everyone is doing" . . .
Read this, 0 ye mothers of one child or none,
who don't even write to your Editor when she
sends a stamp for the reply!
May Brown has been teaching at the Mt.
Vernon School in Washington for several years.
Nan Shearer Lafore is President of her
Garden Club and doing welfare work. Her
oldest son, John, Jr., was married in October.
Her daughter Helen is M. F. H. of the Gladwyn
Hunt, the youngest master in the U. S. A.
Robert is in business with his father and does
a great deal of flying. Lawrence goes to
Princeton next year.
Jane Cragin Kay dropped out of the unknown
into Boston in October with a very pretty
daughter in tow. She says they live in London,
but are never there — that they own a house
somewhere else but don't stay there either,
and that on the whole the Guaranty Trust
Company, Brussels, Belgium, is as likely to
reach her as any other address, but she thinks
she'll spend next winter in Boston. By these
bits of quotation, her classmates will note Jane
is still hitting high spots, and your Editor is
prepared to state that she is prettier and livelier
than ever, and that we should do well to lure
her back to America.
Elinor Dodge Miller is again at No. 2540
Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C, for
the winter, after a summer vacation in Ontario.
After a summer abroad looking after an ill
sister, Eleanor Wood Whitehead is back in
New York for the winter.
Elizabeth Lyon Belknap is spending the fall
and early winter in her new and beautiful
country place at Island Creek, Massachusetts.
Her second son, Robert, Jr., is a Sophomore at
Yale rowing on the Crew; her second daughter,
Rhoda, a first year student at Shipley.
Maude Sperry Turner is working with the
Delineator as Celia Caroline Cole. She has
published several short stories in the magazine,
and has written a play which has been bought
by Jane Cowl.
Elizabeth Bodine teaches in the Trenton High
School. She spent last summer in Munich and
the Bavarian Alps.
Elizabeth Plunkett Paddock's son is a first-
year student in the Harvard Medical School;
her daughter is at home this winter.
Frances Adams Johnson has one son at the
Yale Medical School and another a Freshman
at Brown. Her daughter graduated from
Mt. Holyoke last June and is now attending
the New York School of Social Work. Her
distinguished husband, who was Chairman of
the Traveling Commission to investigate traffic
in women and children for the League of
Nations, has returned after two years in the
Near and Far East. Frances herself has some
dignified entitlements, such as Secretary of the
Pleasantville Woman's Club, but what she really
does is play golf.
Violet Foster has been with the United States
Tariff Commission in Washington ever since it
was organized in 1917. She is Foreign Tariffs
Expert in the Division of International Rela-
tions. She is a motor enthusiast, and when not
in her office is out in her car — an expert on
roads as well as on tariffs.
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
320 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Alice Boring sent me a delightful Christmas
letter from Yenching:
"It is fun to be part of a going concern,
and Yenching is a thrilling place to work in.
We are always on the brink of some kind of
a precipice — if it is not the Japanese it is
Depression.
"Last summer Mary James and I had a little
reunion all of our own. I visited her in her
summer camp at a beautiful mountain resort
in Central China, and we hiked everywhere.
"My living arrangements are as romantic as
ever, since I still live in the Prince's Garden—
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the Prince, by the way, being the uncle of
Pu Yi, the present factotum in Manchokuo.
My old housemate, Grace Boynton, a Wellesley
woman who teaches English at Yenching, has
returned to me again after two years in
America. It is, of course, delightful to have
her with me again. The Prince, by the way,
is coming tomorrow for tea. Grace has been
making a study of Chinese gardens, and wants
to ask him more about the history of ours."
Christmas Greetings came from one of our
busiest classmates. Dr. Mary James, who is
carrying on most successfully with her hospital
work.
Alice Schiedt Clark's daughter Eunice is a
Senior at Radcliffe; Arnold is a Freshman at
Swarthmore; and Rebecca is a Freshman at
Wisconsin.
Hope Woods Hunt gave a delightful reading
at the Deanery on December 14th.
Marjorie Sellers has been elected Vice-Presi-
dent of the School Board of Lower Merion.
Clara Wade visited in Philadelphia during
the Christmas holidays.
Eleanor Bliss Knopf attended the meetings
of the Economic Geologists' Society, held at
Princeton last July. She went as a leader on
the excursion of the International Geological
Congress, guiding about thirty people of differ-
ent nationalities. Her daughter Tess is at
Wellesley; her son George is studying for his
Doctor's degree at Yale.
1905
Class Editor: Eleanor Little Aldrich
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
59 Mount Vernon St., Boston, Mass.
After the Bulletin was on the press word
was received of the death of Helen Kempton.
The Class extends sympathy to Clara Porter
Yarnelle and Gladys Seligman Heukolom,
whose respective fathers died recently.
Louise Marshall Mallery's stepson, Otto Tod
Mallery, Jr., was married in New York City,
on December 20th to Elizabeth Stuart Barstow,
and Florence Craig Whitney's son Craig was
married in New Haven on January 6th to
Anne Van Duzer Ward.
Anne Greene Bates writes from 1105 North
Fremont Avenue, Tucson, Arizona: "Betsey had
sinus trouble, missed a year of college because
of an operation, and is now out here recover-
ing on the desert. She is studying at the
University of Arizona and hopes to go back to
Bryn Mawr. We have met some delightful
people and are enjoying the country. I found
Ruth Jones Huddleston, who has her entire
family here and is working for the Red Cross."
Esther Lowenthal has been in New Haven
recently, where she lectured on The Gold
Standard before the Smith College Club. Those
who were at the meeting said it was the clear-
est exposition of the subject they had heard.
Margaret Fulton Spencer writes from 10 rue
Oudinot, Paris VII, France: "We had a mar-
velous year, living in Paris and then motoring
through Switzerland, Germany, and France, and
at the seashore in Brittany. Now we have this
apartment for the winter and expect to put
the car into dead storage. What a pest money
matters are! My younger daughter is in board-
ing-school outside of Paris, acquiring French,
and the older, who is 19, is studying piano and
voice here. I have been doing some archi-
tectural work in collaboration with a French
architect — one thing, a residence club of thirty-
eight apartments, and another, a scheme for
sixty houses and a club and two apartments
at St. Cloud. Whether they will be built de-
pends upon the financial situation, which un-
fortunately is none too good here, though,
compared to America, France is flourishing. At
any rate, it is intensely interesting work and I
have met all sorts of persons and had a vast
amount of practice in speaking French, as I
am on a committee with seven French persons
who are active in these developments. I have
been painting, also, and exhibiting here and in
Holland, so that I find life very full and very
thrilling."
1906
Class Editor: Helen Haughwout Putnam
(Mrs. William E. Putnam)
126 Adams St., Milton, Mass.
1907
Class Editor: Alice Hawkins
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
For years we have been hearing about Ruth
Hammitt Kauffman's literary achievements, but
somehow our letters to her, addressed usually
to Geneva, had a way of returning unopened.
We had been told also that she and her hus-
band knew everyone interesting in Europe, and
we mean to pursue that rumor further, now
that we have actually run her to earth in
Sebasco, Maine, and she has obligingly given
us three of her books for the Alumnae Book
Shelves. (See pages 16-17.) Not satisfied with
that, we asked for more, to which she politely
replied :
"You are not greedy, but Stars for Sale, my
publishers write me, is out of print. There
was a reprint by another firm, but I have even
forgotten their name. If I ever run across a
second-hand copy, I will see that it comes to
you.
"Several years ago we bought an acre or so
of shore frontage, rocks and woodland here on
Casco Bay, half a dozen miles west of its
northern point. I had great fun designing a
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cottage — unassiuning except for an interior
balcony — and went so far as to have the four
outer walls of clapboard built, with a beautiful
chimney to hold them solidly on their rock.
Thirty windows were inserted to keep pic-
nickers away, and then we were obliged to
restrain operations. This summer, practically
driven back from Switzerland because of our
dollar, we installed ourselves in our camp,
much to the horror and amusement of the
summer-folk. But with the aid of occasional
workmen and, more, with our own hands, we
managed beautifully — building paper for floors
and partitions, and ruffled crepe paper for
window-curtains. With winter, it was sug-
gested— and insisted — that I inhabit a stolidly
built farmhouse, empty until spring. Just now,
for a few weeks, I am alone, with a lovely
view across the snow-covered golf links to the
sea on the one hand, and, on the other, dotted
summer cottages that do not twinkle at night.
But I am glad for the temporary solitude,
which is giving me a chance to finish a little
book on narcotics — not a novel! — that I am
writing.
"From the length of this, it looks as if this
solitude had driven me to considerable self-
expression! I have just counted: it must be
seventeen years since I visited the campus!"
Rene Christy is still working with her
brother. Earl Christy, and sometimes writes
articles for the movie magazines, especially
Photoplay, to accompany his portraits of reign-
ing stars.
Elizabeth Pope Behr is planning to bring
her daughter Elizabeth, aged 14, on a visit to
the campus in the spring. Why not collect all
the 1907 daughters some week-end? We hear
(not from Popie) that each one of her three
children (Edward is 15 and John 7) is at the
head of his or her class. Not that this will
startle anyone.
ness and light in order to be near her school.
On the first day of her arrival here, however,
she struck up an acquaintance with a little
Italian and a little coolie with whom, I have
since discovered, all the nice children of the
neighborhood are not allowed to play. May
the friendship thrive! As for myself, just two
years ago I published what I regarded as my
Magnum Opus up to that time in two con-
secutive numbers of the scientific journal, and
it has apparently turned out to be, bacterio-
logically speaking, my last will and testament."
Terry Helburn was in Washington for the
opening of the Theatre Guild Play, Mary of
Scotland, which she personally directed.
Margaret Copeland writes: "While Fan
Passmore was in Chicago last fall, visiting the
Century of Progress, she had an experience
with one of Chicago's criminals. Fan, staying
at the Blackstone Hotel, was awakened one
morning at 10 o'clock by sounds in her room.
Thinking her husband had come for break-
fast, she raised her head and said, 'Hullo,
dear!' at which a burglar, who had been
rummaging in her bureau drawers, beat a
hurried retreat. In spite of this. Fan saw the
fair thoroughly! I drove East just before
Thanksgiving with Dorothy Coffin. We planned
to spend a night at the Deanery, but missed
our way by one hundred miles, and ended up
in New York. Louise Carey Rosett is writing
a book and articles on some very deep subject
of French Philosophy. Her husband is also
about to publish a book. Adelaide Case is
very busy running Teachers College and lec-
turing all over Philadelphia and New York."
Josephine Proudfit's son Andrew was mar-
ried to Julia Filers Bobbins on December 27th
in Austin, Texas.
Helen Greeley's son won the junior singles
championship in Canada last summer. Louise
Foley's son is at the University of Virginia.
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
The opening of the Deanery brought several
1908 back to Bryn Mawr. Virginia McKenney,
as Alumnae Director, received. I found
Margaret Franklin reclining on the Mme.
Recamier sofa on the third-floor landing. She
tells me her country house is being used by
Margaret Bontecou for a progressive school for
little girls. Louise Roberts, Eleanor Rambo
and Elizabeth Crawford were there. Rumors
came to me of Rosie Marsh. I did not see
Rose, and, what is more, neither did I hear
her, so the rumor was probably false.
Agnes Goldman writes from Cambridge:
"Having sworn lustily that I would not bring
up my daughter in a university town, I have
promptly transferred her to this haven of sweet-
1909
Class Editor: Helen B. Crane
70 Willett St., Albany, N. Y.
Christmas time fortunately brings news
flashes from various points of the compass.
Caroline Kamm McKinnon had a brief vaca-
tion this fall in California. "I tried to see
Gene Ustick, but found they were in
San Francisco the one week-end that I was in
Pasadena; isn't that too disgusting? . . . We
took a plane home; it was Jim's first ride and
my first long one; fortunately it was perfect
flying weather, with only a few bumps, little
ones. The mountains were very lovely. . . .
one river valley was a mass of billowy white
clouds, like a lake, with the surrounding hills
standing out above it. The airport here in
Portland is on an island, and as we started
for the landing it was covered with fog; we
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held our breath, but. did land safely. ... It
would have taken us twenty-three hours to get
home by train, and it was three and a half by
plane» We think now we would not mind
flying, but we want to know what the weather
is going to be before we start; no blind flying
for me!"
Marnette "Wood Chesnutt is still working
hard for the Fellowship Committee of the
A. A. U. W. and attending the national meeting
in Minneapolis last spring. After a bad illness
in June she is now well and busy with her
usual tasks: "I have had an interesting time
recently serving as the consumer member of
our county's N. R. A. Compliance Board and
helping plan C. W. A. projects for women.
. . . My town has learned more about the
importance of planned social work recently
than in all the years of effort on the part of
some of us who might be considered as at
least partially trained social workers."
Marnette's son Jimmy is a Senior at Lawrence-
ville this year. Dorothy North is still enjoying
her menage at Deerfield, 111., and urges us to
improve our summer by a visit to the fair.
"Last year I helped make an exhibit of
Creative Arts of Childhood (again from"
Vienna) in the Hall of Science, along with
many a worth-while organization."
Margaret Ames Wright acknowledges the
Saturday Evening Post production which we
mentioned some time ago: "It was just a
fluke — not enough to go to my head. . . . My
husband has been writing for the last seven
or eight years and has had short stories in
several magazines. It is uphill work, but he
enjoys it, after years of being in business. It
gives us a wonderful excuse for traveling, but
since a year abroad some time ago we haven't
done much of it; as the children grow older
it is more difficult to break up the school
regime. I saw Mary Herr in September, when
I took the three children to the fair; she seems
to love Chicago, and vice versa."
1910
Chss Editor: Katherine Rotan Drinker
(Mrs. Cecil K. Drinker)
71 Rawson Road, Brookline, Mass.
Jane Smith: "I have been appointed under
the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
as 'Supervisor of Work Relief in the Field of
Education.' The title at present (November)
is about all I know of the possibilities of this
new job, as I have been in Washington only a
month. The new funds are to be used to give
work relief to unemployed teachers in five
fields of education: (1) rural elementary
schools; (2) vocational education; (3) teach-
ing adults to read and write English; (4) edu-
cation of the physically handicapped; (5) gen-
eral education of adults with little previous
schooling. Under number 5 it would be pos-
sible for our program of workers' education to
come in, if there is enough local demand, and
if teachers who are qualified by experience in
this kind of teaching can be found.
"There are many difficult problems to be
faced: how to build up a program of adult
education on the work relief basis, using many
teachers whose experience has been in differ-
ent fields; how to train some of these teachers
for a new type of teaching, closely related to
the daily lives of the students in their classes;
how to supervise such a program throughout
the country. If a demonstration can be made
during this emergency period, it is possible
that a permanent program may be established
by some states later. For the present, the best
that can be done is probably to select a few
cities where conditions are favorable and work
with the school authorities in making such
experiments. I have asked for a leave of
absence from the Affiliated Schools for Workers
for the present."
Constance Deming Lewis: "My family con-
sists of a son of 18 who is a Junior at
Harvard, a daughter in her Senior year at the
Madeira School, where she is hovering between
Bryn Mawr and Vassar, and a small boy of 10,
still at home. My husband is Vice-President
of a large waste and bagging mill, and, like
all mill officials, of late months has been 'com-
muting' to Washington. My days are kept
very full, as I spend every morning in writing
and have had increasing success in placing my
verse. In addition, I am editing Shards, a
small poetry quarterly, which is a surprisingly
arduous but most intensely interesting occu-
pation because of its delightful contacts with
writers, established and would-be. Mayonne
Lewis, '08, has been a frequent contributor.
"My summer was starred by a very happy
morning spent at St. Mary's Episcopal Convent
in Peekskill, New York, with Elizabeth Tappan,
now Sister Mary Bede, and as happy and as
full of droll humor as in her college days."
Dorothy Nearing Van Dyne: "The most in-
teresting thing that I have done lately was to
visit the World's Fair, which I enjoyed very
much. Edward, my son, and I drove out and
stayed there a week, taking in all the sights.
Then Edward, who seems to have a wandering
foot, went on to San Francisco and took ship
for a trip around the world. He would like
to work his way as far as possible, so if any
of you meet him, I hope you will help him
out. Mary is at Miss Madeira's School, and
at last accounts was signed up for Bryn Mawr."
Gertrude Kingsbacher Sunstein: "My oldest
child, Ann, is 18 years old and is a Sophomore
at Cornell. My two boys are in various stages
of preparing for college at country day schools,
and my youngest daughter is still in grade
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school. Her main interest is in dancing, for writer this time, there is no more news about
which she seems to liave some talent. For the
past three years I have been the Chairman of
the Pittsburgh Committee of the Affiliated
Schools for Workers, a job into which Jane
Smith inveigled me."
Marion Wildman McLaughlin: "At the pres-
ent time I am kept busy with three daughters
of school age. Betty, aged 16, is a Senior at
Baldwin's, and Janet, aged 10, is in the sixth
grade there. Nancy Lee, 7, goes to school here
at home. I am sure that you knew that I lost
my husband year before last. Since then re-
sponsibilities have come to me heavier than
ever. I am trying to be father and mother
both to my children, and find it at times pretty
hard.
"This fall I had a pleasant trip down to
Virginia with Henrietta Sharp. She is kept
pretty busy with committees, etc., besides keep-
ing house for her father."
Peggy James Porter: "We have just returned
from a year in Europe. Five of us, our girls
and boy and a 19-year-old nephew, packed into
a Chevrolet with our luggage, and, with the
exception of a three-months stay in Rome and
two weeks in Paris, we traveled joyously the
rest of the time. We saw Italy and Sicily
rather thoroughly and admire greatly the sys-
tem and order that Mussolini is achieving with
his people. It was interesting to be in France
afterwards and feel the greater independence.
After that we visited England and Scotland,
and then came home. The changed conditions
have finally reached California, and everybody
is trying to help where they can, and trying to
understand what is happening and where we
are going."
1911
Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
(Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
1085 Park Ave., New York City.
1912
Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaton Augur)
820 Camino Atalaya, Santa Fe, N. M.
Margaret Corwin has just been appointed
Dean of the New Jersey College for Women.
She will begin her job in February, with the
opening of the second semester. And that is
all we know from a newspaper clipping.
Maysie Morgan Lee and her family spent
the Christmas vacation at Oneonta, and in
spite of, or because of, the zero weather,
Maysie wrote enthusiastically of snowshoeing
up mountains.
The Editor and her husband motored to
Chicago for the Christmas holidays, but be-
cause the column is being done by a ghost-
that. Chicago is the Editor's scoop.
Helen Barber Matteson, Jean Stirling Gregory
and Carmelita Chase Hinton were the only
members of 1912 to foregather at the Council.
The poor ghost can't tell anything about them
except two meager fashion notes; Jean wore
rose satin and Carmelita a flowered print.
Why don't the members of 1912 rush into
print and tell about sons in college and daugh-
ters in Bryn Mawr, new houses or good works,
or, in fact, anything that can be put on a
postcard?
1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn.
I am sure that any member of 1913 who has
not fainted at the sight of so many class notes
will join me in thanking all those whose return
postcards are responsible for the following
items:
Lydia Stetson Stone — ^^"I had every intention
of going to Reunion, but somehow got switched
on to the Harvard- Yale race instead. My life
is very unexciting. I have four children, two
in the Ethel Walker School, one in the Provi-
dence Country Day, and one in the Mary C.
Wheeler School here in Providence. One of
them will be a debutante next winter."
Mary Sheldon McArthur — "Just so you won't
be too discouraged and because I love reading
other people's letters, here goes: I haven't been
doing anything interesting at all — living on a
farm with my husband and children and cows
and ducks and dogs and chickens — stewing in
a vat of domesticity. In the winter I live
(really live) in a Mexican house in Cuerna-
vaca, which is about forty miles from Mexico
City, and life there is perfect and so simple.
I wish we could stay there all the time. Love
to 1913."
Marguerite Bartlett Hamer — "Assistant Pro-
fessor of History, University of Tennessee.
Summer of 1933 — toured in Caribbean and
South America. December, 1933, spent a won-
derful week in Bermuda, cycling about and
swimming."
Dorothea Baldwin McCollester: "Your ener-
gy and executive ability demand an answer,
even if I have nothing of the least interest to
report. (Will those who have not returned
their postcard please note. — H. E. L.) A dull
— to others — domestic routine largely occupies
my days. My two boys — Roger, 10 years old,
and Duncan, 8 years old — are at school all day,
and even my youngest, Ann, although only 4^/4,
is already a Brearley School girl in the morn-
ings. But someone always seems to have a
cold or to have been exposed to whooping-
cough or something or other, and the days
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when the house is deserted are very few. We
spend most week-ends at our little place at
Southport, Connecticut. My husband and I
still play string quartets a lot and go to many
concerts."
Agnes O'Conner Rossell — "My husband be-
ing on the faculty of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, I find myself involved in
the wives' activities to the extent of being the
production manager for all the plays presented
by the Drama Club of Technology. I'm read-
ing plays by the hundreds and trying to give
an occasional book review on anything but
plays. A continuous excitement is finding my
classmates' children at dances or school with
my two boys."
Agathe Deming — "For two years I have been
half owner of the '7 Ranch' in New Mexico,
a real cattle ranch which my partner and I
hope some day will be worth something, if the
cattle man ceases to be the forgotten man. I
spend about eight months of the year there,
gardening, riding, reading, not forgetting the
canning of my garden produce, about 300
quarts this year. On the side I write some
poetry. In the winter I am with my mother
in New York City. I belong to the Poetry
Society of America, the Craftsman Group of
Poets, and the Women Poets, all of which
groups are interesting and stimulating."
Zelma Corning Brandt — "Have traveled a lot
in the past years. At present can only report
that I am doing nothing but enjoying myself."
Martha Warren Branham — "Doing: Raising
five children, four of them girls. Reading:
Anything which doesn't demand too much of
my enfeebled mind. Interested: In almost any
form of human activity except puzzles, bridge
and the children's so-called home work. What
I intend: Some day to rest, and faith, I shall
need it."
Maud Holmes Young — "My plan of retiring
to the country for a quiet life worked for
about a year. Then I got restless, so now I
have a job with the Federal Relief. Social
work in the Ozarks is anything but monoton-
ous and cannot be carried out in the conven-
tional manner. Transportation is a problem.
My technique at 'packing the ruts' is improv-
ing, but wading is still my most reliable means
of traveling creek roads, where the creek is
literally the road."
Katherine Schmidt Eisenhart — "My husband
is the Dean of the Graduate College and we
shall be delighted to see any 1913's who come
to Princeton. In the summer we go to
Greensboro, Vermont. We have three children,
a Senior in Princeton, and two girls, 14 and 12.
I am very much interested in studying Russian
and have done a little translating for some
men here, though I know very little as yet."
Yvonne Stoddard Hayes — "Life and Works
of Y. S. H. Work — Plain: Part-time unpaid
chambermaid and nursemaid. Works — Good:
Treasurer, N. Y. State League of Women
Voters. Member at Large, Municipal Affairs
Committee, N. Y. City League of Women
Voters. Works of Art (?): Painting two
afternoons a week, with Camilo Egas, New
School for Social Research, portraits of
pumpkins, radishes, limes, lanterns, bottles,
etc., etc.; very lovely. Works of Supereroga-
tion: 1st Alto, Adesti Chorus (and it is work
to conceal the fact that one has never had a
singing lesson). Work — Physical. Exercise
class with Dorothea McCollester, calculated
not only to increase beauty, but to make us
strong enough to take in each other's washing
when the New Deal deals us that card."
(To be continued. Have ten more postcards
in hand. Will the other ninety-nine please
return theirs if they have enjoyed Install-
ment I?)
1914
Class Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs. Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
1915
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. James Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale
Cincinnati, Ohio.
We are nearing the end of Larie's Reunion
notes. Only the T's and the W's are left.
Who has some more news?
Lautz, Ruth — Ad saw her in Chicago looking
the same as ever and very happy. She has an
adopted daughter (a niece) who is a Freshman
at Bryn Mawr. She wrote urging us all to
come to the fair.
Lee, Anna — Teaches English at Frankford
High School in Philadelphia, and as an extra
job, just for the love of it, does tutoring in
English for College Entrance Board examina-
tions. She keeps house for her father and has
a garden.
Loudon, Margaret — A letter from her re-
vealed that she is now married to the man
with whom she hopes to spend the rest of her
life. "Live first and learn afterwards" is her
amusing philosophy, or that is her philosophy
and she is perpetually amusing people and
much amused at herself.
Mabon, Margaret — Her husband is head of
the Psychiatric Department of n large hospital
in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Maxwell, Helen — Is doing social work.
Moses, Georgette — Has two children. Eleanor
Hill saw her in Austria and Helen Robertson
in London. Each year she and her husband
publish an account of their experiences in
Europe.
Packard, Dorothy — Ad sees her once a year.
She has two very attractive daughters.
Porter, Elizabeth — Is head of social work in
New Orleans.
Riegel, Helen — Lives in an attractive old
house on the Hudson. (We have heard that
she is spending the winter in town at the
Park Lane.)
Robertson, Helen — Has charge of a church
school. Recently took a year off to garden.
Russell, Margaret — Lives in Plymouth by the
sea all winter and goes to her New Hampshire
farm in the summer. Has three children.
Sandison, Lois — Is married to Harold
Howland, living in New York and teaching at
Miss Spence's School.
Savage, Willie — Has a nice, big family.
Sears, Anna — Is active in Junior League
work. Has two sons and looks very young.
Sippel, Dorothy — Is teaching. Has one boy.
Smith, Agnes — Has been teaching for eleven
years at St. Timothy's, Catonsville, Md. Is
College Board reader in algebra.
Stokley, Dorothy — Moved west for her health.
Strauss, Emilie — Is social worker in
New York and teacher in social work school.
1917
Class Editor: Bertha C. Greenough
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, R. I.
1918
Class Editor: Margaret Bacon Carey
(Mrs. H. R. Carey)
3115 Queen Lane, East Falls P. 0., Phila.
1919
Class Editor: Marjorie Remington Twitchell
(Mrs. P. E. Twitchell)
Setauket, L. I., N. Y.
1920
Class Editor: Mary Porritt Green
(Mrs. Valentine J. Green)
430 East 57th St., New York City
Monica Healea — "I am now an instructor in
Physics at Vassar College."
Martha Chase — "I have just returned from
a summer of motoring in Germany, Austria,
and Czecho-Slovakia, with my family. Then I
had two weeks alone in London, where I
studied at the British Museum and the Victoria
and Albert on my special subjects— old silver
and glass and porcelain. For two years I have
lectured on these subjects at Miss Sacker's
School of Interior Decoration and Design in
Boston — and I shall do so this coming winter.
I am also booked for five lectures before clubs
and hope for more."
Isabel Arnold Blodgett — "I have two little
girls, Margaret, who is 4^/2, and Katharine,
who is 1 — and no outside activities that you
can count as such! Can you believe it?"
Margaret Kinard — 'T gave up my job in
Jackson Heights and am going to be at home
in Lancaster this winter."
Margaret Ballon Hitchcock — "I spent seven
weeks at Sunapee, New Hampshire, with my
family in a small cottage with a glorious view.
We bathed and climbed mountains and had a
wonderful summer. Now I am back at
New Haven getting ready to teach again. Both
children are in school. As for committee work,
I am Chairman of the B, M. Summer School
Committee."
Beatrice Bromell Hersey, whose address is
now 26 Grove Street, Madison, New Jersey. —
"We and the four bratlings (all boys) have
just returned from a 3,700-mile jaunt."
Marjorie Canby Taylor, re. our Class Baby —
'There is nothing very exciting to report about
Edie except that she was 12 years old on the
18th of September and is 5 ft. 4 in. tall. She
starts seventh grade and has done very good
work so far, usually rates in the upper quar-
ter of the class. She is very fond of swimming
and won a Culver 'C for a 350-yard swim this
summer at Culver Military Academy, where we
visited for six weeks with my cousins. We
motored out and went to the fair several times.
Had lunch with Nat Gookin, who was just
planning a trip to Estes Park, then a tea party
at Belinda's, when she displayed her two-weeks-
old daughter and brand-new house. Her older
daughter, Isabel, is a most beautiful child.
Virginia Park was there, looking younger and
prettier than ever, with her three-year-old son.
My other two daughters are flourishing in
public school."
Cornelia Keeble Ewing — "There really is
very little news about me. I am just a plain
housekeeper, no children, still Junior Leaguing
to a certain extent, one of the Business Man-
agers this season for the Children's Plays.
Have held a paid position for the last two
summers (and will this summer). Platform
Manager for the Monteagle Chautauqua, Mont-
eagle, Tennessee (a summer resort)."
Alice Harrison Scott and family are return-
ing from Japan in March for a vacation. Alice
intends to sail straight from Japan to New York
by way of the Canal.
Dot Rogers Lyman writes: "Sandy (Alex-
ander Victor Lyman, Jr.) was born March 11,
1930. He is the darlingest little tow-headed
hoy, with enormous brown eyes." Dot recently
enquired about enrolling her daughter Sally,
now in Class B of the Brearley School, for the
Class of 1948, Bryn Mawr.
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1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelley Erdman
(Mrs. C. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemont Ave., Pasadena, Calif.
While her husband was in California teach-
ing at summer school, Ellen Jay Garrison
motored with her 10-year-old Clarinda from
Madison, Wis., to Black Point, Conn. Clarinda
read the maps and Ellen did the driving, but
they arrived safely any way, in time to meet
the other two children and the nurse at the
train.
Clarinda Garrison Binger, in spite of a recent
siege in the hospital, is carrying on her job
and is in charge of all the admissions at the
Dalton School.
Jimmy James Rogers took her family to the
Cape this summer and then went on various
boating trips to Georgian Bay, in between
which she seems to have taken in the Chicago
Fair and seen all the Lake Forest classmates.
She reports that Mary Gushing Howard Niles
appeared in Toronto last winter and again this
fall. She is married to Henry Niles, of
Baltimore, and they are in business together
as Business Consultants. They move to one
city after another about every three months,
working chiefly with insurance companies.
They have two girls, 7 and 3 years old.
Chick Parson Storms is a designer of Charles
Walnut knitted suits, located in Philadelphia
in the winter and on Cape Cod in the summer.
Kat Walker Bradford finally carried out her
threat and paid her first visit to Little Rock.
She motored down with Luz Taylor the 1st of
November, forgot her husband and three chil-
dren, and went flying and hunting and had a
grand time. Luz is the Secretary of the
Junior League of America, Inc., which seems
to involve a good deal of traveling. She was
in New York for a meeting 'in October, goes
to Oklahoma City in January and back to
New York the 1st of February. The Director
job she had last year has now been divided
into three jobs, which speaks well for her
ability, or maybe it's the N. R. A.
Mag Taylor Macintosh has a son, Charles
Archibald, born August 15th.
Lydia Beckwith Lee motored East before
Christmas, primarily on a shopping trip for
her shop in Lake Forest, but she managed to
get in a good deal of visiting en route.
An item from the New York Times gives the
following exciting information: The Rose Mary
Crawshay Prize of the Britisli Academy for a
historical or critical work in Englisli literature
by a woman of any nationality was awarded
for 1933 to Eleanore Boswell Murrie for The
Restoration Court and Stage, published by the
Harvard University Press in 1932.
Helen Bennett was married in Oci()h<'r to
Mr. King R. H. Nelson, of Pittsburgh.
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
106 E. 85th St., New York City.
1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Abbott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York City
Frances S. Childs has been awarded a Schiff
Fellowship at Columbia University and has
been given a leave of absence from Brooklyn
College. The subject of the dissertation on
which she is working is "The French Emigre
Group of the Eastern Seaboard in the late
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries."
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Butterworth
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallett Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Nancy Hough Smith and her husband sail
on February 6th. Baldwin has half a year's
sabbatical leave from Princeton. He and Nan
have rented their house and are feeling very
festive as they start off on a long trip. We
know they are going to Egypt, and hope for
more details next month.
Dorry Fiske has had a broken leg and is
spending the greater part of January at home,
on leave from Harper's, receiving friends
gladly.
Doro Shipley and Betty Smith Thompson are
fine, upstanding girls, excellent models for the
whole class. We are indebted to them for all
the rest of this column:
Betty Smith Thompson writes:
"Marian Bradley Holbrook arrived November
18th, and is said to have dark hair and skin
like a rose — that was long ago, though. She
may be well sun-tanned by now.
"Allegra Woodworth reports that she can be
found at the Shipley School 'in Room G, sur-
rounded by piles of history report?.'
"Mathilde Hansen Smith (Mrs. William W.
Smith) is now living at 65 Humboldt Avenue,
Providence. When I heard from her just be-
fore Christmas she was about to help run a
new shop at the Providence-Biltniore, carrying
'all of Fortnum and Mason groceries and all
kinds of trick new glasses and trays, shakers,
etc. My children are fine.'
"A grand, newsy letter from Doro Shipley:
'Of course, I am keeping on with History of
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Art, and am finding greater joy in the work
all the time. I usually land up in Spain some
time during the summers — last summer was an
exception. Not the most superlative adjectives
or the purplest passages can convey one atom
of the hold that country takes upon one. I
must tell you what fun I have had with my
dissertation. In Santiago de Compostila there
is a certain portal which is covered with in-
numerable bas-reliefs. They are Romanesque
and strangely beautiful. Well, I am attempt-
ing to place them, according to school and
date. To do this I simply had to have many
and excellent photographs, so a scaffolding
was erected, and the photographer and I spent
two blissful but hectic weeks upon it. Never
shall I have such notoriety again. A lady, from
America, doing all that to study those busted
old things, and climbing the ladder, too! Now,
I am doing some reading and a little teaching
at Bryn Mawr, It is great fun, but my sculp-
tures don't progress very fast just now.
" 'Bryn Mawr is always the same, and al-
ways different. Taylor bell hasn't missed a
stroke, the grass continues to get green in the
spring — in most places — and the library still
rings to the hectic hush of pre-exam workers.
*' 'My real news is that I have grown hope-
lessly domestic. I have an apartment with
Dorothy Wyckoff, Bryn Mawr '21, and it is
lots and lots of fun.'
"Also a grand and welcome letter from Helen
Potts Clarke (Mrs. Eugene Vincent Clarke),
who is living at 604 Drexel Avenue, Glencoe,
Illinois. It's hard to realize that it must be
at least ten years since she left us, so news of
her is all the more interesting. 'I married
five years ago (a lawyer, Yale, now here in
business with Dad), after taking some English
at Oxford. Our first baby, Suzanne Borden
Clarke, arrived March 22nd, is the most jovial
and sociable child, and so bright the pediatri-
cian is worried about her. She has pep enough
for six. I've given up most of my outside
interests except some church work with the
Cradle Roll Department and the Old People's
Home — two extremes — and being Program
Chairman and on the Board of the Woman's
Club. I believe that this gives a picture of my
life since we've had to give up our annual treks
to Florida and New York these past two years.'
"I've been very remiss in reporting a lengthy
telephone conversation with Mary Mutch
Knowlton last spring, when she was here for
her brother's installation as minister of the
First Presbyterian Church. Mutchie's husband
has a church in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Her
voice and enthusiasm haven't changed at all."
And from Doro we hear:
"H. D. Potts had a very lovely wedding and
her husband is terribly nice. Her account of
her engagement would, I suppose, have been
in poor taste had she written a eulogy, but I
should like to do so."
1926
Class Editor: Harriot Hopkinson
18 East Elm St., Chicago, 111.
1927
Class Editor: Ellenor Morris
Berwyn, Pa.
This column has been non-existent for so
many months that we think everyone must have
decided to hibernate for an indefinite period.
All that we can say in our defense is no news,
no notes, and very definitely we have had no
news.
E. Norton Potter is still in the Art Depart-
ment under Miss King, and she and her hus-
band have a charming apartment in the Mer-
mont, Bryn Mawr's most fashionable apartment
house.
Val Hill DuBose is state chairman for North
Carolina under the District III. Councilor of
the Alumnae Association. We hear she is build-
ing one of the finer houses in the South in a
lovely situation outside Durham.
Your Editor is having one of her busier
winters. She is City Editor for the Junior
League Magazine, a member of the Players
Committee which is this month very busy put-
ting on a children's play, and has various other
minor activities, mostly as a committee member
for this and that. We might also mention that
we are on the Entertainment Committee for the
Deanery, and that in spare moments we still
pursue the fox and dash about the country
with the merry beaglers.
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr.
57 Christopher St., New York City
The Class wishes to extend its sympathy to
Peggy Hess de Graaff and Eleanor Hess
Kurzman, '26, whose father died last month.
Dr. Hess has made many valuable contribu-
tions to medical science, and his sudden and
untimely death has deprived not only his fam-
ily, but all those with whom he had come in
contact in his busy life, of a good and helpful
friend. At the time of her father's death,
Peggy was abroad with her husband on their
annual trip. She had left her son with his
grandmother and planned to spend several
months visiting her husband's family in The
Hague, and motoring to Italy, with a stop for
some winter sports in Switzerland.
Betty Brown Field is another who has de-
serted these shores, this time for a winter in
London, where she planned to study anthro-
pology. This summer, Betty attended the
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Institute of Pacific Relations meeting in Banff,
and the rest of the time was at her charming
home in New Hartford, Conn. (To date, this
is the only address we have for her.)
Barby Loines Dreier is at Black Mountain
College, Black Mountain, N, C, which some
of you may know is an experimental college
which grew out of Rollins. Barby writes: "We
have several educational ideas which we hope
can be worked out with the most congenial
group, which now totals seventy-five people.
Besides the standard curriculum subjects, there
will be special emphasis on the arts; dramatics
and music and dancing will be produced by
the group as a whole, including faculty wives
and children. . . . We want more students. If
you have any pioneering young friends who
might be interested in building up something
like this, we can offer them good company and
lots of responsibility, beside room, board and
tuition for $1,000. ... All Dreiers thrive in
the midst of these glorious mountains."
Elizabeth Bethel is secretary to Professor
Whitbridge, Master of Calhoun College, Yale
University, and is living once more at 100
Howe Street, New Haven. Peggy Perry
Bruton is in Durham, N. C, where her address
is R. D, 4, Box 171 A. From the time of
graduation until her marriage, Peggy con-
tinued to lead an academic life, having been a
graduate student at Newnham College, Cam-
bridge University, from 1928-29, at Yale,
1930-31, and having taught History at Choate
School, Brookline, 1930-31.
Lenore Hollander has sent us a long account
of her activities, which in summary have been:
Scholar at University of Illinois, 1928-9; de-
gree of M.S., 1929. Assistant in Chemistry,
1929-30; degree of Ph.D., 1931. Since 1931
she has been research associate in Biochem-
istry, at the Cancer Research . Laboratories of
the Graduate School of Medicine of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, doing independent
work on the properties of amylases (to relieve
our bewilderment she kindly explains that these
are the physiological compounds which digest
starch in plants and animals). Also, she did
a study under Professor Ernst Waldschmidt-
Leitz, o£ Prague, of the liver amylase system
designed to prepare for a study on cancer
tissue. In October she went abroad to continue
her work in Prague. Her address will be:
Institut fiir Biochemie der Deutschen Tech-
nischen Hochschule, Prague, Cz. Lenny sup-
plied us with the subjects of her theses, which
sound highly esoteric to us.
1929
Class Editor: Mary L. Williams
210 East 68th St., New York City.
Barbara Humphreys Richardson has another
daughter, bom in August.
Ella Poe Cotton spent the summer in Spain
with her husband.
Nancy Woodward says she is still raising
minks and what is more remarkable, she still
likes them. She has moved into Old Lyme
(Conn.) for the winter.
Jane Barth Sloss has no news of her own,
so she writes, but wishes to remind us that
she has two daughters: Janet, now aged seven
months, and Harriet, who is three. She says
that our two other classmates in San Francisco,
Kit Collins Hayes and Eccleston Moran, are
running the Bryn Mawr Club and dancing in
the Opera Ballet, respectively.
Lysbet Lefferts was married on June 24th to
Philip Golden Bartlett, of New York, Yale '27,
and the New York Architectural School.
1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
The class will be grieved and shocked by the
news of the sudden death of Elizabeth Bigelow,
on January 14th at Lincoln, Mass. She was
examining a colt which suddenly swung its
head and struck her on the head in such a
way that cerebral hemorrhage resulted.
The Class extends its deepest sympathy to
Charlotte Farquhar Wing on the death of her
brother.
We take great pleasure in announcing the
engagement of Hazel Seligman to Dr. Carl
Goldmark, Jr., of New York. He graduated
in 1929 from Cornell, took his medical degree
at Long Island Medical College, and is now
in New York at the Lenox Hill Hospital.
Stanley Gordon Edwards has a second daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, born on December 1st.
Erna Rice was married on January 7th to
Mr. William N. Eisendrath, Jr., and expects to
live in Chicago.
1931
Class Editor: Janet Waples Bayless
(Mrs. Robert N. Bayless)
301 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn.
1932
Class Editor: Josephine Graton
182 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.
Denise Gallaudet was married to Carleton
Shurtleff Francis, Jr., on January 20th in the
Dwight Memorial Chapel in New Haven. Her
address will be 423 S. Carlisle Street,
Philadelphia.
1933
Class Editor: Janet Marshall
112 Green Bay Road, Hubbard Woods, 111.
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courses include Household,
Fine and Applied Arts, and
Music. Trained teachers,
small classes. Ample grounds
near Orange Mountain. Ex-
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sports program. Established
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LUCIE C. BEARD
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Orange New Jersey
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BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA
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SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT
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ETHEL WALKER SMITH, A.M.,
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Head Miatreea
JESSIE GERMAIN HEWITT, A.B.,
Bryn Mawr College
Wykeham Rise
WASHINGTON, CONNECTICUT
A COUNTRY SCHOOL
FOR GIRLS
FANNY E. DA VIES, Headmistress
Prepares for Bryn Mawr and Other Colleges
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Greenwich, Conn.
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Preparatory to the Leading Colleges for Women.
Also General Course.
Art and Music.
Separate Junior School.
Outdoor Sports.
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Box Y, Stamford, Conn.
The Kirk School
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Boarding and day school established
1899. Preparation for leading women's
colleges. Four-year high school course ;
intensive review courses for College
Board examinations throughout year
or during second semester; general
courses. Resident enrollment limited
to twenty-five. Individual attention in
small classes. Informal home life.
Outdoor sports.
MARY B. THOMPSON, Principal
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Junior College: Two years of college work.
Special courses in Music, Art, and Dramatics.
Preparatory Department: Prepares for
colleges requiring entrance examinations, also,
for certificating colleges and universities.
General and Special Courses.
Campus on Lake Front — Outdoor Sports —
Indoor Swimming: Pool — Riding:.
For catalog address
ELOISE R. TREMAIN
LAKE FOREST ILLINOIS
Cathedral School of St. Mary
GARDEN CITY, LONG ISLAND, N. Y.
A school for Girls 19 miles from New York. College
preparatory and general courses. Music. Art and
Domestic Science. Catalogue on requeest. Box B.
MIRIAM A. BYTEL, A.B., Radcliffe. Principal
BERTHA GORDON WOOD. A. B., Bryn Mawr,
Assistant Principal
The Baldwin School
A Country School for Girls
BRYN MAWR PENNSYLVANIA
Preparation for Bryn Mawr, Mount
Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley
Collies. Abundant Outdoor Life.
Hod^ey, Basketball, Tennis,
Indoor Swimming Pool.
ELIZABETH FORREST JOHNSON. A.B.
HEAD
Miss Wright's School
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
College Preparatory and
General Courses
Mr. and Mrs. Guier Scott Wright
Directors
The Katharme Branson School
ROSS. CALIFORNIA Across the Bay from San Francisco
A Country School College Preparatory
Heads
Katharine Fleming Branson, A.B., Bryn Mawr
La Loma Feliz
HAPPY HILLSIDE
Residential School for Children
handicapped by Heart Disease,
Asthma, and kindred conditions
INA M. RICHTER, M.D.— Director
Mission Canyon Road Santa Barbara, California
The Madeira School
Greenway, Fairfax County, Virginia
A resident and country day school
for girls on the Potomac River
near Washington, D. C.
150 acres 10 fireproof buildings
LUCY MADEIRA WING, Headmistress
Springside School
CHESTNUT HILL PHILADELPHIA, PA.
College Preparatory
and General Courses
SUB-PRIMARY GRADES I-VI
at Junior School, St. Martin's
MARY F. ELLIS, Head Mistress
A. B. Bryn Mawr
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ACADEMY FOR GIRLS
105th year. Modern in equip-
ment and methods; strong fac-
ulty ; delightfully located. Gen-
eral and preparatory courses
prepare for responsibility and
leadership. In past five years
97% of students taking C.E.B.
examinations were successful.
Writes president of Br.\n Mawr:
"Every college would like more
students of the kind Abbot
Academy has sent us." Art,
music, dramatics, household
science. Art gallery. Observ-
atory. All sports — skating, ski-
ing, riding. 23 miles from
iFrite for catalog.
Bertha Bailey, Principal
Box P, Andover, Mass.
Abbot Hall
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LowTHORPE School
of Landscape Architecture
GROTON, MASS.
Courses in Landscape Architecture, in'
eluding Horticuhure and Garden Design,
given to a Hmited number of students
in residence. Anne Baker, Director.
Spring Term Starts April 2, 1934
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Dinners 85c - $L25
Meals a la carte and table d'hote
Daily and Sunday 8:30 A. M. to 7:30 P. M.
AFTERNOON TEAS
Bridge. Dinner Parties and Teas may be arranged.
Meals served on the Terrace when weather permits.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
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Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386
The Pennsylvania Company
For Insurance on Lives and
Granting Annuities
Trust and Safe Deposit
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1934
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For the Less Strenuous
By no means are all of our campers strenuous hikers, swimmers, fishermen, or canoeists.
There is always a certain amount of a stationary or infrequently moving element, made up
of several sorts of people. First of all are the men and women, with or without relatives,
who, while in no sense invalids, are yet beyond the age of vigorous activity. Though these
do not take in all the trips, they greatly enjoy the food, the society, and the open air
life which Back Log Camp affords. Again there are men and women in active health who
find the Camp a highly desirable place to write or to carry out a course of reading.
Finally there are those who, exhausted by the winter's work or by recent illness, find at
Back Log just the combination of good food, good air, good sleep, and good company
which sets them on their feet again in a remarkably short time.
Some of our campers go on all the trips; some go on many of them; some go infre-
quently; and some never go. This more stationary group forms a sort of Greek chorus
of Athenian elders, always ready with sympathetic appreciation of the tragedies and
comedies of the energetic populace.
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ALUMNAE
BULLETIN
W^^^<>'
ANNUAL MEETING
March, 1934
Vol. XIV
No. 3
Entered as second-class matter, January 15, 1921, at the Post Office, Phila., Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879
COPYRIGHT, 1933
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895
Vice-President Serena Hand Savage, 1922
Secretary Josephine Young Case, 1928
Treasurer Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909
Chairman of the Finance Committee Virginia Atmore, 1928
_,. ^ ^ , /Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins, 1905
Directors at Large ^ ^lice Sachs Plaut, 1908
ALUMNAE SECRETARY AND BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE BULLETIN
Alice M. Hawkins, 1907
EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN
Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912
DISTRICT COUNCILLORS
District I Mary C. Parker, 1926
District II Harriet Price Phipps, 1923
District III Vinton Liddell Pickens, 1922
District IV .Elizabeth Smith Russell, 1915
District V .- Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912
District VI
District VII - Leslie Farwell Hill, 1905
ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
Elizabeth Lewis Otet, 1901 Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 1918
Virginia McKbnnet Claiborne, 1908 Florance Waterburt, 1905
Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906
CHAIRMAN OF THE ALUMNAE FUND
Virginia Atmore, 1928
CHAIRMAN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Ellen Faulkner, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS AND LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Y. Maquire, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Dr. Marjorie Strauss Knauth, 1918
CHAIRMAN OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Niblds Bancroft, 1898
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Vol. XIV MARCH, 1934 No. 3
At this time of the year no new enterprise seems particularly appealing^ but
there are various and unmistakable signs scattered through this number of the
Bulletin, that with the coming of spring we shall have to consider once more plans
for the Crusade in which every alumna of every woman's college finds herself a
part. The general situation is really given in a nut-shell in the letter from
Miss Thomas, which Mrs. Frantz quotes in her Report. Miss Thomas was writing
not to the alumnae, but to Mr. Scattergood, and discussing the benefit that she
felt an Alumnae Centre would be to the College itself. "I want to say in closing
that I am convinced that privately supported colleges like Bryn Mawr must depend
for the future on the generous support of their alumnae and not on large gifts from
rich men and women and rich foundations." On President Park's Page is given
in full the letter from the General Education Board, making clear that we cannot.
in view of their revised program, count on them for help. In the Condensed
Minutes of the Annual Meeting is a motion that a special meeting of the Association
be held during Commencement Week, 1934, to consider recommendations to be
presented by the Committee on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the College. What the
k recommendations will be, naturally, is entirely in the hands of the committee, but
these three items placed together are very significant. We like to think that women
need no longer wage campaigns as women, but merely as human beings, but that
time is not yet. They still have to depend on themselves for the things that they
want, that lie outside of the traditional things that they have always been given.
The fight for an opportunity for an education is over, but the fight to maintain
the separate liberal arts colleges that they feel have something more to give a
certain type of girl than have the great universities, is in a sense only just begin-
ning, and no one but women themselves, the alumnae of a woman's college, take the
situation really seriously. The great danger, because woman after all is a practical
creature, is lest in her zeal to give buildings and grounds she lose sight of those
spiritual values that were part of the early conception of woman's education and
themselves are the reason she feels the necessity once more, but certainly not for
the last time, of again taking up the battle.
BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE BULLETIN
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934
(There is on file in the Alumnae Ojflce a full stenographic report of the Annual Meeting.
The following minutes are much condensed.)
The meeting was called to order in the Deanery at 10.10 a. m., with Elizabeth
Bent Clark^ 1895, President of the Association, presiding. Although at first the
necessary quorum of fifty was lacking, about one hundred members attended the
meeting, and more than a hundred others were present at President Park's luncheon
in Pembroke.
It was voted to omit the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting and
to proceed immediately to the reading of the reports of Association activities during
the past year. The reports of the Executive Board, of the Treasurer including the
presentation of the budget, and of the Chairman of the Finance Committee and of
the Alumnae Fund were presented and approved, and are printed in full in this
issue (pages 7 to 15), together with charts showing the receipts and disbursements
of the Association for the fiscal year. The Association accepted formally the recom-
mendations offered.
M. S. C. that the Alumnae Association pledge to the College for 1934 « 9^ft
of $7,000 for academic needs.
M. S. C. that the Treasurer of the Association he authorized to pay over to the
College the amount of $7,000 raised during 1983 for the academic needs of the
College.
It was also
M. S. C. that the budget for 1934 he accepted as a whole.
Miss Ehlers had previously explained that the budget (see page 12) had been
drawn up to include the $7,000 pledge, and that for clarity the budget had
been divided in two parts, one of $14,465, which includes all the regular business
expenses of the Association, and one of $8,500, which is made up entirely of sums
pledged to the College, a total of $22,965.
M. S. C. that a vote of thanks he given to the retiring Chairman of the
Finance Committee and of the Alumnae Fund.
Following the reports on the Association finances, Ellen Faulkner, 1913,
Chairman of the Academic Committee, spoke briefly, referring to the article pre-
pared last year on the work of Bryn Mawr graduates in science and published in
the Alumnae Bulletin for April, 1933, and telling of the present project, a
similar study of the careers of alumnae working in the fields of Art and of Classical
Archaeology. Miss Faulkner said that her committee hopes to publish an article
in one of the spring issues of the Bulletin, and she added later in the meeting
that, if it could possibly be arranged, it would be very desirable also to publish the
material in some other magazine with a wider general circulation. Miss Faulkner
took this opportunity to thank the Class Editors for their assistance in giving her
committee information about individual members of their classes who are working
in the field now being studied, and asked for further cooperation of this sort.
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In Dr. Knauth's absence^ her report for the Committee on Health and Physical
Education was read by Josephine Young Case, 1928, Secretary of the Association.
(See page 16.) Marjorie Thompson, 1912, Editor of the Alumnae Bulletin, next
gave a short report, expressing the satisfaction of the Bulletin Board on the
increasing significance of the Class Notes, and asking for criticisms and suggestions
from the Association.
Miss Thompson was followed by Serena Hand Savage, 1922, Vice-President
of the Association, who gave a spirited account of her impressions of the Council in
Boston in November. Mrs. Savage asked to be allowed "to describe the proceed-
ings from the point of view of a novice to whom it was a maiden experience. It
was a fine adventure, for there is a certain arrogance in leaving home alone; to be
for a few days neither somebody's wife nor mother; not the head of a school nor
the partner in a business, but a complete and independent entity once more. By a
quick metamorphosis I became an irresponsible egocentric undergraduate again, who
attended the sessions of the Alumnae Council very much as I had attended class
meetings, self-government meetings and Undergraduate Association meetings in the
days of my youth." After giving a resume of all the Council activities, which have
been fully reported in earlier Bulletins, Mrs. Savage concluded:
"As I sat through these sessions I could not help wondering what made them
so absorbing; why people came again and again to listen to statistics and reports
about matters with which they had no real or vital concern. " Had we all come to
Boston because most of us would go anywhere when our traveling expenses are
paid? Were all these people busying themselves on behalf of Bryn Mawr merely
because it seems the choice of the modern female to involve herself in as many
causes outside of home and family as is feasible or reasonable?
"My several conclusions to these questions are perhaps sentimental, and I shall
no doubt be accused of a certain resemblance to that execrable creature known as
the Professional Alumna. Nevertheless, I believe this to be a fairly accurate and
rationalized statement of the case.
"In the first place, we come to a Council frankly to enjo}^ seeing old friends and
to renew long-neglected friendships with them. We indulge in happy reminiscences
of experiences shared, and meditate together on our hopes and fears for the future.
All this which may appear a slightly frivolous evaluation is in reality of no
inconsequential importance because the focus of it all is Bryn Mawr. It is a most
effective method of publicity, for we all return to our respective cities alert to the
problems and thrilled by the record of the College today.
"In the second place, it is very evident that the eager workers in this service
are giving of their time and ability, whether it be for scholarships, fiftieth anni-
versaries, or what you will, because they believe that the training which the}^
received cannot be overestimated in its significance in their lives. For this reason
it is an education worth giving to the children of a new generation — an institution
worth assisting to the best of one's powers because of its essential value in a world
sadly in need of wisdom which can only come forth from the halls of true learning.
"I should like to conclude with a definition in the words of a progressive school
^headmistress, who asked a five-year-old boy to come and join a group that she was
[going to organize, during the Christmas vacation. 'I wish to teach the children,'
'she said, *a respect for effort in purposeful play.* Although these terms seemed
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extravagant for the case in pointy they nevertheless are most appropriate for the
Bryn Mawr Alumnae Council. Its meetings are certainly 'purposeful play/ where
we learn 'a respect for effort' which is so convincing that we are all persuaded to
go and do likewise."
With the report on behalf of the Alumnae Directors^ presented by the Senior
Director^ Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 1918 (page 17), and that for the Nominating
Committee, given by the Chairman, Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, 1898, the regular
scheduled business was completed. Mrs. Bancroft referred to the ballot for officers
of the Association, which had been printed in the November Bulletin, and since
mailed to all the members with the notices of the Annual Meeting. She said that
she wished to thank the Councillors for cooperating in the plan to secure in a
more systematic manner suggestions for Alumnae Director, adding that through
their efforts the Nominating Committee now had before them forty names from
whom they might make their choice to present this spring to the Association as
candidates for Alumnae Director. She reminded the Association that the ballot for
this might contain one or more names; that the single ballot is not mandatory upon
the Nominating Committee.
Following Mrs. Frantz's report, Mrs. Clark asked Alice Rowland, 1905,
Chairman of the House Committee of the Deanery, and Caroline Morrow Chadwick-
Collins, 1905, Chairman of the Entertainment Committee, to tell the Association
something of the actual happenings in the Deanery since its opening in October.
Miss Rowland gave a brief report, telling of the necessary expenditures which had
been made in order to adapt the Deanery more nearly to the purposes for which it
is being used — a new bathroom has been added, and certain household supplies had
to be supplemented, etc., in spite of the generous stores Miss Thomas left. She
then read some very interesting figures for these first few months that the Deanery
has been open, showing how surprisingly much it has been used, but stressed the
fact that more people coming and staying for longer periods would be very helpful
to the treasury. In closing she said that she would be very glad if people would
volunteer to assist in some of the routine tasks which are always necessary.
Mrs. Collins gave an interesting account of the many entertainments held
already, and told something of those planned for the future. She explained that
it had been necessary to experiment in order to find out whether it is more desirable
and practical to have parties on weekdays or Sundays, and whether refreshments
should be served to every one free or only when ordered. She said that alumnae
are urged to bring their husbands to these parties, and may also bring guests. The
present plan is to serve a very simple tea free of charge before the entertainments
begin, and that on Sunday evenings a buffet supper will be served for $.75. A
rising vote of thanks was offered to Miss Rowland and Mrs. Collins for their
indefatigable efforts in making the Deanery a useful and delightful Alumnae Rouse.
Under New Business, Mrs. Clark asked Relen Lewis Evans, 1913, who has
consented to act as Chairman of the committee requested by the Council to consider
means of establishing closer contact between the College and the alumnae, to tell
something of her plans. Mrs. Lewis said that the committee had not yet started its
work, but that she had already made some inquiries about what is done at some of
the other colleges, and had been especially interested in the plans at Vassar and
Smith, where elected representatives from classes and from clubs attend meetings
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of their alumnae councils which are held on the campus while college is in session,
and at the time of certain undergraduate activities. The expenses of these delegates
are paid either by the Association or by the classes, and the delegates are required
to report in writing within a week to their "constituencies."
Professor Mary Hamilton Swindler was then asked to speak about tlie joint
project of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Bryn Mawr Department
of Classical Archaeology. (See page 22.)
The meeting closed with a discussion of the advisability of changing the date
of the Annual Meeting. The objections have been raised that the weather is apt to
be disagreeable and that the deserted atmosphere of the campus then makes the
time of the midsemester recess undesirable. Some arguments were advanced in
favor of holding the meeting at a time when College is actually in session, when
the alumnae might visit classes, but it was pointed out that if the students are all
in residence it is impossible for many alumnae to be accommodated on the campus.
It was in the end agreed that a larger and more varied group of alumnae could be
counted on to be present if it is held during Commencement Week, when the^
reuning classes can attend the meeting. Although it was the sense of the meeting
that the largest attendance could be secured if the meeting is held on Sunday, it
was felt that the establishment -of this as a regular practice might give offense to
some people. No final decision about the day was made, but it was
M. S. C. that the Annual Meeting of the Association should he held during
Commencement Week.
Mrs. Slade raised the question of the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Founding of the College, and said that Mrs. Maclay, who had been obliged
to leave the meeting early, had urged that a meeting be held this spring to talk
over plans.
M. S. C. that a special meeting of the Association be held during Commence-
ment Week, 1934, to consider recommendations to he presented hy the Committee
on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the College.
Before the close of the meeting, Mrs. Clark asked Mrs. Case, as Secretary,
to read the result of the elections, as follows:
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF THE ASSOCIATION, 1931-36
President Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895
Vice-President Serena Hand Savage, 1922
Secretary Josephine Young Case, 1928
Treasurer Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909
Director-at-Large Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins, 1905
Director-at-Large Alice Sachs Plant, 1908
DISTRICT COUNCILLORS, 1934-37
Councillor for District I. Mary C. Parker, 1926
Councillor for District IV. Elizabeth Smith Wilson, 1915
Councillor for District VII. Leslie Farwell Hill, 1905
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MAKING HISTORY
This year is the first time that the alumnae have met in their own Alumnae
House^ but it had been made so welcoming and gay with open fires and flowers and
lights that we all felt, as we looked about us, that it would seem strange ever again
to meet anywhere else. One of the delightful touches was that Miss Thomas had
sent word that she wished the Whistler etchings in the blue study to hang again
in their accustomed places to do us honour. Upstairs the House Committee had
arranged some of the brocades, which are like stuffs out of the Arabian Nights, so
that they could be seen more easily than in the cupboards where they have been
stored. There seemed to be more people than usual for the supper, but there was
no sense of crowding with the various groups that formed instinctively.
It was a very happy idea of the Deanery Committee to ask the faculty to come
to hear Mr. Alwyne play in the evening. It was rather on the principle of having
outside people at a family party. It makes the party. There was a stir and
gaiety that was delightful before we settled in enchanted silence to listen to an
unusual and interestingly chosen program.
The meeting next morning was held in the great room, which proved surpris-
ingly easy to speak in. Yet in spite of the fact that one could make one's self heard
without effort, there was very little general discussion, and the business moved swiftly
and smoothly, as you will read in the condensed minutes. Perhaps the most inter-
esting single announcement was that made by Miss Swindler of the proposed
Bryn Mawr Expedition in connection with the American Institute of Archaeology.
It is the first time that a group of women have been invited to undertake anything
of the kind, and we all feel a vicarious pride that it is the Bryn Mawr group of
women archaeologists that have been chosen.
President Park's luncheon took place, as usual, in Pembroke, and, as usual,
was crowded. Everyone is always eager to hear what President Park has to say
to us as a group. The specific announcements she is making again on the President's
Page, so that the alumna half across the world is kept as closely in touch with her
hopes and fears for the College as is the alumna who is able to come each year to
hear her speak and to enjoy her hospitality. In her formal address, President Park
tried to make us see the College dispassionately and with fresh eyes. She reviewed
the history of the College and stated what its aims had been in those early days,
when it was the real experimental college, as no college has been before or since.
In the light of this, she went on to discuss the place that Bryn Mawr will and
ought to take in the future, and expressed the" hope that its alumnae can add some-
thing to the economic balance of life in America.
The last event of the day took place with the Deanery again as the setting.
Mr. Willoughby showed the moving pictures which he had made of the College and
of student activities, to be used for college publicity. As we wandered, talking,
out on the snowy campus afterwards, we all agreed that it had been a very pleasant
week-end, and there was no one, I think, who failed to express her appreciation of
the part that the Deanery had played in making it so. We were at home on the
campus as we had not been since undergraduate days.
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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
Another year has passed in the history of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association
and we have come together again for our Annual Meeting — always an occasion not
only of great interest to all, but also of happiness in the renewing of old friendships
and in the making of new ones. It is interesting and stimulating at such a time to
review the achievements of the past year and^ at the same time, to discuss the
future plans and policies of the Association.
As so often happens towards the end of the fiscal year in the autumn, your
Executive Board began to wonder whether it would be possible to meet the financial
obligations of the Association; and yet, realizing the difficulty of raising money for
any purpose whatsoever, it hesitated to make a special appeal to the ever loyal and
generous members of the Association. However, in great part due to one particularly
generous contribution of $1,000 from- an alumna and to the profit from the sale of
Bryn Mawr plates, we finished the year 1933 with the great satisfaction of having
met all the budgeted expenses and of having made the usual gifts: our share of the
Rhoads Scholarships Fund, $1,000 to the President of the College, and $7,000 to
the College for academic purposes. To the very able Treasurer of the Association,
and to the equally able Chairman and members of the Finance Committee are due
our sincere appreciation and thanks for their indefatigable efforts which have
brought about this happy result.
Never before have there been more numerous demands upon the Scholarships
and Loan Fund than during the year that has passed. Whereas several years ago
one student in seven received financial help, for the past few years it has been one
in three. Had it not been that the Scholarships Committee had worked unceasingly
on the problem, even to the extent of cooperating with Dean Manning in raising a
special fund to supplement the resources of the committee, the result would have
been that many a brilliant and valuable student would have been deprived of the
education which was preparing lier for her means of livelihood.
The Committee on Health and Physical Education, ever ready to give the
benefit of their valuable advice, is to meet at the College in the early spring to
confer with the President iand the Dean in regard to matters pertaining to the
physical education and training of the students.
Last year the Academic Committee made a most interesting and exhaustive
survey and analysis of the accomplishment and discoveries of Bryn Mawr women
in the world of science. To the great edification of the alumnae, the results of this
study were incorporated in two articles published in the Bulletin. This year the
committee is doing the same thing in the departments of Art and Archaeology. With
a committee composed of women so distinguished in the academic world, we may
well anticipate the pleasure that these articles will afford.
Of the actual results of the faithful and unremitting work of the Nominating
Committee the Chairman will later give a detailed report. However, it should be
mentioned that the scheme for securing suggestions for Alumnae Directors from
organized groups of alumnae throughout the country has worked surprisingly well
and that the District Councillors have acted promptly and enthusiastically, so that
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they have greatly facilitated the work of the Nominating Committee. In accord-
ance with the amendment to the by-laws passed at the last Annual Meeting — which
states that the Alumnae Directors shall be elected at a separate election to be held
in the spring instead of being elected at the Annual Meeting in February — no
nominations for Alumnae Directors will be published until the April issue of the
Bulletin.
Our Association now numbers 2^788^ of whom 488 are life members. There
have been only 20 resignations^ a matter^ I think^ in view of present conditions, of
congratulation. 100 were dropped for non-payment of dues, 10 members have
died, and 134 new members were added to our list. Of these new members, 78 are
from the Class of 1933, 6 were graduate students, 13 former members of the Class
of 1933, 12 members of two other classes who received their degrees in 1933, 18
who have resumed their membership in the Association, and 7 from older classes
who had never before been members.
I shall now read the list of changes during the year in the officers and members
of the various committees:
CHANGES IN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS
ISlew Succeeding
Alumnae Director
Gertrude Dietrich Smith, 1903 Elizabeth Lewis Otey, 1901
Councillors
Harriet Price Phipps, 1923 (District II.) Jeanne Kerr Fleischmann, 1910
Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912 (District V.) Anna Dunham* Reilly, 1908
Appointment to he made (District VI.) Erna Rice Eisendrath, 1930
Finance Committee (resigned)
Virginia Atmore, 1928, Chairman Lois Kellogg Jessup, 1920
Ida Lauer Darrow, 1921 Lilian Davis Philip, 1920
Appointment to he made Josephine Stetson, 1928
Academic Committee
Ellen Faulkner, 1913, Chairman, reappointed
Elizabeth Mallett Conger, 1925 Pauline Goldmark, 1896
Edna Shearer, 1904 Helen Sandison, 1906
Scholarships and Loan Fund Comjnittee
Edith Rice, 1907 Margaret Reeve Cary, 1907
Esther Willits Thomas, 1898 Anne Todd, 1902
Committee on Health and Physical Education
Katharine Townsend, 1920 Gertrude Emery, 1916
Dr. M. Elizabeth Howe, 1924 Mary Hardy, 1920
Nominating Committee
Evelyn Holt Lowry, 1909 Eleanor Little Aldrich, 1905
Olga Kelly, 1913 Nathalie Swift, 1913
Bulletin Board
Denise Gallaudet Francis, 1932 Ellenor Morris, 1927
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The Commemoration of the Founding of the College is less than two years
distant. A committee of five is to be appointed to make special recommendation as
to the form of the proposed gift to the College in honour of its Fiftieth Anniversary,
and to make plans for the celebration of this event. A report with these recom-
mendations will be presented at the next Council Meeting. The committee asks the
cooperation of every member of the Alumnae Association in offering suggestions.
In striking contrast to the zero weather without during the three days of our
Council Meeting in Boston in November was the warm welcome within, and the
unbounded hospitality extended by the wonderfully efficient Boston Committee.
One of the important results of the Council this year was the forming of a special
committee. This developed from the great interest aroused by the report of
Helen Evans Lewis, 1913, Councillor-at-Large, who especially stressed the need
for closer contact between the College and the alumnae, and in so doing seemed
to strike a responsive chord in every one present, for a motion was immediately
made and carried that the Executive Board should appoint a committee to bring
about means of establishing closer contact between the College and the alumnae,
and that this committee should report at the Annual, Meeting, if possible, or at the
next Council Meeting. We are happy to report that Mrs. Lewis has accepted the
chairmanship of this committee of five, but the committee is not able to report at
the present meeting, as it has not as yet had time to develop its plans.
Undoubtedly nothing could possibly bring about this happy contact of the
alumnae with the College as perfectly as Miss Thomas's wonderful gift of the
furnishings and contents of the Deanery to the Trustees in trust for the alumnae,
in addition to a $20,000 fund to be used during the first years of its establishment.
To all the alumnae these beautiful surroundings offer a meeting place pervaded by
happy memories of the past and by the inspiration of Miss Thomas's distinguished,
sympathetic and brilliant personality. At the same time it is a practical alumnae
house which can be of constant service to the College for its many entertainments,
and yet always a dignified and delightful home to the alumnae from far and near.
Again we wish to offer to the Deanery Committee, under the chairmanship of
Caroline McCormick Slade, our heartfelt thanks for their untiring work.
To all officers of the Association, to the Chairman and members of all com-
mittees, to the Alumnae Secretary, to the District Councillors, and to the many
individual alumnae throughout the country, who consistently and faithfully develop
and carry on the work of the Association, we cannot sufficiently express our thanks
for the assistance so cheerfully given at all times.
I shall now ask you to rise and remain standing while I read the names of
those members of the Alumnae Association who have died during the year.
Margaret Dudley Walker, 1893 Alberta Warner Aiken, 1905
Leonie Gilmour, 1895 Helen Kempton, 1905
Etta Davis, 1899 Alice Baird Roesler, 1907
Edith Crane Lanham, 1900 Anna Pratt Abbott, 1924
Edith McCarthy, 1901 Elizabeth Bigelow, 1930
Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895, President.
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933 RECEIPTS
S 43.00
D CURRENT INCOME
PERMANENT TRUST FUNDS
ALUMN/E FUND Undesignated
KX^ ALUMN/E FUND Designated
♦INCLUDES $500 PROFIT FROM BRYN MAWR PLATES
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1933 DISBURSEMENTS
141,954
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'-FUND $»,240
TO BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE FOR
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PURPOSES
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ALUMN/t FUND Undesignated
ALUMN£ FUND Designated
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FINANCIAL COMPARISONS
Income
Budget
Dues $6,000.00
Bulletin 1,000.00
Income, Life Membership Fund Invest 900.00
Income, Rhoads Scholarships Invest 50.00
Bank Interest 400.00
$8,350.00
Appropriation Undesignated C A 6,345.00
Alumnae Fund { B 8,500.00
TOTAL $23,195.00
Disbursements
(A)
Salaries , $6,950.00
Pensions 325.00
Operation
Postage $400.00 $482.66
Printing and 500.00| 330.30
Supplies 125.00) 189.66
Telephone and Telegraph 75.00 48.35
Auditors 200.00 185.00
Office Equipment 150.00 102.50
Miscellaneous 75.00 89.61
$1,525.00
Bulletin
Salary of Editor
($600 included above).
Printing $2,500.00 $2,328.25
Mailing and Miscellaneous 500.00 477.79
$3,000.00
Other Expenditures
Executives and Committees 600.00 325.82
Council 600.00 805.69
Alumnae Festivities 100.00 79.19
Dues in other Associations 95.00 95.00
Questionnaire 300.00 127.00
Alumnae Register 700.0D 196.83
Emergency Fund 500.00
■ $2,895.00 — —
$14,695.00
(B)
Rhoads Scholarships $500.00 $250.00
President's Fund 1,000.00 1,000.00
Pledge to College for
Academic Purposes 7,000.00 7,000.00
8,500.00
TOTAL $23,195.00
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Actual
for
1933
Proposed
Budget,
1934
$5,994.80
1,524.26
861.86
24.50
$6,000.00
1,000.00
900.00
325.82
Appro. Bal.
Office Equip. ... 79.66
Prof. Plates 500.00
Ad. Book 25.50
300.00
$9,336.40
A 3,794.75
B 8,250.00
$8,200.00
A 6,265.00
B 8,500.00
$21,381.15
$22,965.00
),950.00
317.50
$7,070.00
325.00
$1,428.08
$2,806.04
$500.00
600.00
75.00
100.00
100.00
$2,300.00
500.00
500.00
700.00
100.00
95.00
300.00
700.00
500.00
,375.00
52,800.00
$1,629.53
$13,131.15
8,250.00
$21,381.15
$2,895.00
$14,465.00
$500.00
1,000.00
7,000.00
8,500.00
$22,965.00
BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE BULLETIN
REPORT OF THE TREASURER
Madam President, Members of the Alumnae Association:
With your approval I should like again to submit today — in place of the
detailed financial statement for the year 1933 — two charts which^ while they omit
the technical intricacies of the audited report, still include in summarized form
every portion of our financial operations. These charts are .accurately made to
show the relationship and the comparative size of our various classes of receipts
and disbursements.
The details of our income and expense account will be further itemized today
in the printed budget which we have to present to you, and in which we have listed
1933's budget and actual results, as well as the estimated figures for 1934.
The complete audited report of the Treasurer will be be filed in the Alumnae
Office, where it may be seen by any member of the Association who so wishes. In
accordance with the recommendation of the Finance Committee and the approval
of the Executive Board, the report for 1933 has been audited not by the usual
public accountants, but by an Auditing Committee appointed by the Executive
Board. This procedure is one frequently followed by organizations like our own,
and it was adopted for the year 1933 as a means of reducing by about $200 our
budget for 1934. The committee consisted of Louise Congdon Francis, 1900;
Marguerite Lehr, Ph.D. 1925, now Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College,
and Virginia Atmore, 1928. The committee verified all checks, bills, and vouchers,
cash on hand and at the various banks; examined securities in the custody of the
Pennsylvania Company; checked and verified the accounts and balance sheets of
the Association.
In presenting these diagrams, I wish to explain that the apparent discrepancy
between total income and total disbursements is due to the fact that some balances
belonging to special funds may be carried over from one fiscal year to another^ — as
illustrated in the Loan Fund account, in which approximately $1,000 more was
received than was disbursed during the year — the balance being correspondingly
greater at the end of 1933 than at the end of 1932.
Our money, as we have tried to indicate in these diagrams, falls into four — or
we might say three — classes, for certain annual gifts to the College have become
so essential to Bryn Mawr that they have become as fundamental a part of our
activity as the maintenance of our organization, and are submitted to you in our
budget, together with operation items. We have, then: first — our permanent trust
funds — the Loan Fund and the Life Membership Fund ; second — the General Fund,
whose income comes from two sources — dues, the investment income. Bulletin
advertising and miscellaneous income, which pays about 72 per cent of the operation
or maintenance of our organization and its activities — including the sending of the
Bulletin to 2,800 members; and the other source, that very vital and moving
testimony of the devotion of Bryn Mawr Alumnae, the undesignated Alumnae Fund,
with its proud record of $12,096 in that trying year 1932, and of $12,044 in this
still more trying year, 1933. It is this achievement which not only supplies the
remaining 28 per cent of our operation expenses, but makes it possible for us to
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complete annually the Rhoads Scholarships, to give President Park the much-
cherished annual President's Fund of $1,000, and to pay to Bryn Mawr College our
pledge of $7,000 for academic purposes. And thirdly, our finances include this
very substantial segment — over $20,000 in 1932, but even in this lean year about
$14,500 — the Designated Alumnae Fund — primarily Regional and Special Scholar-
ships— but including also other gifts for special designated purposes. These funds
are in most cases transferred practically at once to the College.
In presenting the budget for your approval today we have included not only
the expense account of the Association and the two regular annual gifts — the $500
for Rhoads Scholarships and the $1,000 for the President's Fund — which it has
been our practice to include in previous years, but also the $7,000 gift to Bryn Mawr
for Academic purposes which has been recommended to you by the Finance Com-
mittee and the Executive Board. We have made this change in the form of the
budget because we believe that it gives a much clearer picture of our undertaking.
The statement before you shows an estimate of 1934 expenses somewhat below
the estimate for 1933, though somewhat above the actual disbursements for 1933.
It is important to note that, aside from the economies which reduced most of the
items in the Expense Account below the estimate or approved budget, two reduc-
tions in 1933's record must not be counted on in 1934. The appropriation of $196.83
instead of $700 to the Register Sinking Fund was necessitated because we had not
sufficient balance at the end of the fiscal year to set aside the entire $700 provided
by the budget. The other substantial reduction, i. e., the payment of $250 instead
of $500 for the Rhoads Scholarship was due to a fortunate gift which provided the
money for one Rhoads Scholarship and so relieved us of half of our obligation in
this item. For both these items the figure of the 1933 budget must be assumed for
the 1934 budget.
Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909, Treasurer.
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
A year ago, at our Annual Meeting in Goodhart Hall, your Finance Committee
was able to announce with great relief that we had managed to complete, without
any special, last-minute appeal, the collection of our $7,000 pledge to the College.
This was with the help, you will remember, of a handsome thousand-dollar nest-egg
bequeathed to us from the preceding year. At that time, without a dissenting voice
you voted to pledge yourselves to raise $7,000 again during the year 1933.
Like the three little pigs, we cried, "Who's afraid?" But it remained to be
seen whether or not our kouse was to be built of straw !
From many sides came rumors of wolves at the door, and there were those
who wondered if our house would stand. This year we had no nest-egg, or, lest
we mix our metaphors, let us say we had no thousand-dollar foundation to our house.
In my story it was the pig builders who did the huffing and puffing ; the ever-
faitliful Class Collectors made a special effort to reach every member of their class
with a personal appeal. And, to make a long story short, on the last of December,
when the books were closed for the year, they had collected, again without any
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special appeal, enough money to complete all our running expenses and to give to
the College $1,000 for the President's Fund, $250 toward the Rhoads Scholarship,
and our $7,000 pledge toward the academic needs of the College.
Our house proved not to be built of straw, but of good, firm masonry — the best
of which a house could boast: rocks of loyalty, cemented with generosity.
Actually, in round figures, the alumnae contributed this year to the Undesig-
nated Fund $52 less than in 1932. But tlie Undesignated Fund was not called
upon in as large a measure as it was the year before to complete the running
expenses of the Association : a larger percentage of our contributions could there-
fore be applied directly to the alumnae gifts to the College.
In analyzing the year's results, there seem to me to be one or two very
encouraging aspects:
Twenty out of .the 47 classes (and in "classes" I include the ever-generous
Ph.D.'s, M.A.'s and Graduate Students) increased the total amounts of their gifts
this year to the Undesignated Fund.
Twenty-one classes increased their number of contributors. Indeed, the most
heartening thing to me about the whole year's work is that during this difficult
financial year 1,007 alumnae contributed to the Alumnae Fund, as against 948
last year.
Another gratifying fact is that of the 20 classes which increased their gifts this
year, only 8 were classes holding reunions last spring.
Does this mean that there was a more strenuous huffing and puffing by our
faithful pig-builders? Or does it perhaps mean that the very bricks and mortar of
our alumnae structure rose by common consent and fitted themselves into place .'^
Wherever the credit lies for having brought the year's task to a successful end,
it is with renewed hope for the future of the Alumnae Fund that I bring you.
Madam President, this recommendation from the Finance Committee, which has
been approved by the Executive Board, namely: that the Alumnae Association
pledge to the College for 193^ a gift of $7,000 for academic needs.
Since last year's pledge of $7,000 to the College was not incorporated in the
budget for 1933, I believe it is in order to move that the Treasurer of the Associa-
tion he authorized to pay over to the Treasurer of the College the amount of $7,000
raised during 1933 for the academic needs of the College. I so move, Madam
President.
Lois Kellogg Jessup, 1920, Chairman.
ALUMNAE COMMITTEE OF SEVEN COLLEGES
The committee wishes to call the attention of all alumnae to the article in the
magazine section of the New York Times for February 4th — Dean Gildersleeve's
Portrait of the College Girl.
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
There have been several changes in the organization of the Health Department
this year. In the past the first responsibility for medical care of the students has
rested with the Physician-in-Chief. The College Physician has worked under his
supervision. The new arrangement involves calling on consultants by the physician,
a general consultant in the neighborhood for the more serious cases, and a long list-
of special consultants in Philadelphia. This gives the College Physician more direct
responsibility and at the same time provides for a wider range of consulting spe-
cialists when necessary, which should be satisfactory to both patient and physician.
An Associate College Physician and Consultant Cardiologist has been appointed
to help carry the increased load which has fallen on the College Physician.
Dr. Marjorie Jeffries Wagoner is College Physician for the ninth consecutive
year.
Dr. Frederick Sharpless is the present General Consultant.
Dr. Mary Easby is the new Associate Physician and Cardiologist.
The past year brought a number of difficult medical problems. Four cases of
clinical scarlet fever with a number of immune carriers lasted nearly three months.
The infantile paralysis scare in the fall necessitated quarantine and a late opening.
A short grippe epidemic occurred after Christmas.
. This year for reasons of economy there is no night nurse.
The Hygiene course has been reduced to Apphid Anatomy and Physiology, and
according to Dr. Wagoner is going much better as such.
Dr. Wagoner writes that they are "trying constantly to improve the spirit and
atmosphere of the Infirmary. Books, magazines and periodicals would be most
welcome. The sole subscription is to the Nezv York Times." The committee would
like to respond. One subscription has been received, for the National Geographic.
Would anyone who would like to add to this communicate with the Chairman or
Miss Hawkins?
The Department of Physical Education has completed five years under a
system which is different from that of the other colleges. There is no formal
gymnastic work and in its place is a course known as Body Mechanics, which gives
the theory of good movement, together with a very large amount of demonstration
and practice. For further correction in movement and posture there is instruction
swimming, dancing, and the various sports, with a certain amount of individual
correction work.
Miss Josephine Petts, Director of Physical Education for the past five years,
says in the Alumnae Bulletin of June, 1933: "Our problem is to teach everyone
in College to move well, to walk with the minimum of fatigue being held more
important than to run with the maximum of speed." She asks us to "think of
dancing as the most austere of discipline, strict and simple, but capable of awaken-
ing from the human being a power and energy which have slept for centuries."
Dean Manning has asked this committee to study the working of this system
and to comment upon it. We plan to begin our investigation in February. The
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committee would welcome questions, suggestions and comments from alumnae, stu-
dents and parents, addressed to the Chairman or Miss Hawkins.
And finally, it is a pleasure to quote from an article in the August Good House-
keeping by Henrietta Sperry Ripperger on "When You Choose Your Daughter's
College." "I shall first of all inspect the conditions under which my daughter
would live," she begins, "with special reference to the liousing and the food." And
having done so, the author reports: "Let me give some examples of successful
handling of food. The first is the University of Michigan . . . the second is
Bryn Mawr." After explaining the planning and control of food at Bryn Mawr,
she concludes: "The food is excellent, plentiful, and is passed twice, which, strange
as it may seem, is not the common practice at many institutions of learning."
Marjorie Strauss Knauth, 1918, Chairman.
REPORT ON BEHALF OF THE ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
It is with some diffidence that I come before this meeting to report for the
Alumnae Directors. The reason is that I have always felt that the alumnae wlio
attend this mid-year meeting are those who, because of vicinity or interest, are in
extremely close touch with the College and that there is little I can tell you that
you do not perhaps already know better than I. For those of you, however, who are
not intimately connected with the business of the College, and for the pages of the
Alumnae Bulletin in which this report may find a place, I would like first to
outline very briefly the work of the Board of Directors as a whole, and then to
tell you what the activities of an Alumna Director can be.
Boards of Directors are at best unwieldy organizations and, except for final
decisions on controversial points, the board as a whole only ratifies the decisions
which have been made by the standing committees. These are, as you know, the
Executive Committee, the Finance Committee, the Buildings and Grounds Com-
mittee, the Library Committee, and the Religious Life Committee. The membership
of these committees is an indication of how active a part the alumnae take in the
affairs of the College.
It is an enormous privilege and pleasure to me to have been on the Executive
Committee since I have been in office. Academic problems are, of course, first
handled by the faculty and the President, and much of the work of the Executive
Committee is to hear and approve their plans for appointments and curriculum.
These plans are always full of interest for the members of the committee, but they
come to us rather mature.
Another large part of the work is the administrative side of the College, and
even the Executive Committee is too large an organization to manage mucli of this
in meetings. The President and the Chairman of tlie committee work together con-
stantly during the year, and the rest of us applaud their labors. I imagine that
the work of the other committees is done in much tlie same way: by small sub-
committees and by constant collaboration between the President and the Chairman
of the committee.
There are only four Board iNIeetings a year and an indefinite number of
committee meetings preceding the Board Meetings. I have felt that the practice of
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having the Executive Committee meetings immediately precede the Board Meetings
has had its disadvantages from the standpoint of the work of the Executive Com-
mittee. Matters often come up which require longer discussion than is possible in
the time allotted, and upon which some action might be taken before they were
presented to the Board of Directors. It is, of course, a great saving in time,
especially to the out-of-town members of the committee, to have two meetings in
immediate succession, but it means more work for the Chairman of the committee
and less for the members.
These, then, are our duties as members of the Board: attendance at the meet-
ings and the meetings of those committees to which we belong. This should be an
easy task and is a delightful one, but it seems to. me hardly a useful service. An
opinion given after a few moments of thought on a subject of which one has heard
no discussion beforehand can hardly be valuable to the College. The members of
the Board who really contribute to the work of the College are those who are
constantly in touch with the affairs of the College and of the Alumnae Association.
This is made possible in several ways: first by the invitation extended to the
Alumnae Directors to attend the Council Meetings of the Alumnae Association.
Another opportunity is the delightful lunch which Miss Park holds before the
Directors' meeting for the alumnae members of the Board. A third opportunity,
of which I greatly regret I have not been able to avail myself, is the very wise
decision of the Alumnae Association to make the Alumnae Directors act with the
President of the Association as the Alumnae Committee of the Deanery. This very
dramatic task has probably colored the year for all of us, and, while it will be
reported in greater detail at another time in this meeting, I feel sure that the
practice of having the committee meet after the Board Meeting and spend the night
at the Deanery has brought us all in much closer touch with the College. I would
like to quote from a letter of Miss Thomas's which she wrote to Mr. Scattergood
in July of last year:
''I want to say in closing that I am convinced that privately supported
colleges like Bryn Mawr must depend for the future on the generous sup-
port of their alumnae and not on large gifts from rich men and women
and rich foundations, and that I believe that a beautiful and unique
Alumnae Centre like the Deanery can not fail to strengthen and inspire
the love and loyalty to it by 4,000 or more alumnae. Even if the College
had to contribute to its maintenance, I am confident that any expenditure
made by the College for this purpose would be returned financially a
thousand-fold — quite apart from the added loyalty and devotion such an
Alumnae Centre will foster and, I hope, create."
Certainly the Deanery Committee, under the able direction of Mrs. Slade, is
carrying out Miss Thomas's hopeful prophecy.
But I feel that these opportunities are not enough and that, if one is really
qualified to be an Alumnae Director, one should be able to spend time at the
College and also to have contact with people who are interested in Bryn Mawr,
the alumnae, and friends of the College. Two members of the Board of Directors
who do this outstandingly, so outstandingly that there can be no invidiousness in
comparison, are Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Hand. Their long familiarity with the affairs
of the College, their enormous interest, and their indefatigability make them abso-
lutely invaluable members of the Board. I feel that the Alumnae Association
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should look forward long into the future and groom now two new members who,
many years hence, can carry on the race which these two have so nobly begun.
I feel also that in choosing candidates for Alumnae Directors the Association should
take pains to select those who can give the time and the interest to the work
which it needs.
I cannot close without a word about the actual accomplishments of the College
during the past year, though most of these are already known to you, especially
through the Alumnae Bulletin. An outstanding feature, it seems to me, is that
a year ago it was necessary to cut salaries in the administrative force of the College
because we feared a deficit at the close of the year. Through the extraordinarily
able work of the various executives whose salaries had been cut, such a deficit did
not occur. There was, in fact, a surplus, and it was a great happiness on the part
of the President of the College, the Executive Committee, and the Board of
Directors, to be able to refund to these loyal members of the college staff the salary
cuts which they had so gallantly accepted.
It has been a very great pleasure to hold this office for the last five years, and
I want now to thank the Alumnae Association for having given me the privilege.
Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 1918,
Senior Alumnae Director.
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Sunday, March 4th — 7.30 p. m., Music Room of Goodhart Hall
Service conducted by the Reverend John W. Suter, Jr., D.D., Rector of the Church of the
Epiphany, New York.
Monday, March 5th — 5 p. nn., The Deanery
Sixth of the Series.*
Mr. Reginald Pole, graduate and prize-man of Cambridge University, founder with
Rupert Brooke of the Marlowe Dramatic Society of Cambridge University; poet, composer,
dramatist, actor; producer and director, will talk on "The Theatre of the Future; and the
Signposts of Today."
Monday, March 5th — 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hall
Pianoforte Recital by Horace Alwyne,
Sunday, March I Ith — 7.30 p. m., Music Room of Goodhart Hall
Service conducted by the Reverend Malcolm E. Peabody, D.D., Rector of St. Paul's Church,
Chestnut Hill. Pa.
Tuesday, March 13th — 4 p. m., The Deanery (Tea at 5 p. m.)
Seventh of the Series.
An afternoon of poetry with some Bryn Mawr poets, Hortense Flexner King, 1907, Lysbeth
Boyd Borle, 1925, and members of the undergraduate poetry group.
Saturday, March 17th— 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hall
"Le Barbler de Seville," by Beaumarchais, presented by the French Club.
Reserved seats 85 cents, special price to students and teachers 50 cents.
Sunday, March 1 8th — 5 p. m., The Deanery
Eighth of the Series.* Violin Recital by Abe Berg
through the courtesy of Sophia Yarnall Jacobs, 1923.
*Tea and cookies will be served informally without charge at half pastfour o'clock.
An informal buffet supper at seventy-five cents will be served at seven o'clock every Sunday
evening. Reservations should be made in advance. If possible, to the Manager of the Deanery.
Alumnae may bring guests to the Deanery parties.
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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE
Most of the events of the college winter are important only to those of us who
help bring them about, attempt to counteract them, or merely record them, but in
the past weeks there have been two which I should like to broadcast to every
graduate of the College.
1. When in March, 1932, the budget for the winter of 1932-33 was made up
by the Board of Directors, the general financial condition looked so uncertain that
the Finance Committee advised expenditures be lopped to meet a probable large
decrease in income. After the insertion in the list of all possible economies, it seemed
necessary to the regretful President and Board to make a 10 per cent cut in all
non-teaching salaries of over $2,500 a year, and a 5 per cent cut in lower salaries
of the same kind. This was announced and carried out.
At the end of the fiscal year, July, 1933, caution was rewarded. It proved, on
the one hand, that the decrease in the college income was less than our March guess,
and, on the other, that our difficult economies had been carried out faithfully in
every department. There was neither the deficit we had feared, nor an even break —
the best we had hoped — but a small surplus. The Directors of the College con-
sequently voted, at their meeting in December last, to return to each member of the
staff affected by the cut of 1932-33, the amount deducted from the salary of
that year. As the alumnae have been informed, cuts in both teaching and non-
teaching salaries are in force this year.
2. The alumnae will remember that in accordance with The Plan for the
Academic and Financial Future of the College worked out by a joint committee of
the Directors of the College and of the alumnae during the spring of 1931, a letter
was sent to the General Education Board, in April of that year, describing the plan
and asking that the Board take under consideration the gift of a sum of money,
sufficient to construct and equip a new science building to be used for the Depart-
ments of Chemistry and Physics. A communication was received from the officers
of the Board a month later, notifying us that the Board was unable at the moment to
go further than an expression of general interest in the plan. The President of
the College and several members of the committee later met and talked with mem-
bers of the staff of the General Education Board, and, acting on the advice of several
friends of the College who were themselves interested not only in Bryn Mawr but
in the possibilities of scientific work for women, sent a' second letter to the General
Education Board in December of the same year. This second statement included a
plan proposed by the science departments to increase their advanced undergraduate
work and their graduate work by doubling the number of scholarships and fellow-
ships now offered, and by adding a research fund available both for faculty and
students. It enlarged on the advantage of such opportunities, offered in a college
for women, to science work in America, and it was accompanied by a striking
statement of the scientific work carried on in Dalton Hall and published in scien-
tific journals, and a list of the professional positions of Bryn Mawr women, grad-
uate and undergraduate students, who had gone into pure or applied science. At
the same time, Dr. Simon Flexner, Dr. William H. Welch, Professor Robert
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Millikan, President Karl Compton^ Dr. E. P. Kohler and Dr. Edmund Wilson
wrote to the Board a series of remarkable recommendations of the scientific work
done by the College and of approval iji general of its request. An answer was duly
received from the Board;, saying that;, though no change was to be made in the
present routine under which the Board intended to make a general study of educa-
tional needs during the year 1932^ the material presented by Bryn Mawr would be
given careful study. A number of conversations with men connected with the
General Education Board have been held following this last letter.
In early December of 1933^ however^ a letter from Mr. Brierley^ Secretary of
the Board;, was received, containing the following statement:
Action on your request for a contribution for the construction of a
building for the Departments of Chemistry and Physics, submitted by you
on April 13, 1931, was deferred pending completion of the educational
survey being made by the officers for use by the Board. I am writing you
at this time to inform you of the disposition of your request.
The findings of the survey were presented to the Board at a recent
meeting, and as a result a revised program was adopted which does not
provide for assistance to colleges and universities for general purposes. I
regret, therefore, to inform you that your request falls outside the revised
program.
I do not need to enlarge on that urgent need of a new building for Chemistry
and Physics and a rebuilt Dalton for Biology and Geology. Science at Bryn Mawr,
one of the fields of instruction of which we have been most proud, is not only ter-
ribly overcrowded in its present quarters, but is using a fast deteriorating building
and old apparatus and equipment. Whether from the point of view of the present
gallant struggle against odds in this work which is being waged by all the science
faculty and students, or from the angle of the future development of science as a
field at Bryn Mawr and for women in general, a development in which useful and
far-reaching plans are crying for a chance to be put into action — from either point
of view, new quarters for its science department are without question the need of
the College which must first be met.
AN ALUMNA VISITS THE DEANERY
It was a genuine homecoming to find myself once more in those spacious,
hospitable rooms with glowing fireplaces and mellow lights; rooms filled witli
Whistler etchings, Venetian glass and small bronzes, and with daffodils in vases.
Here was a house lived in, so pervaded by the personality of its former owner
that momentarily one expected to see Miss Thomas appearing around a corner, or
advancing down the hallway, mistress of her realm. Memories, associations came
to mind through all the lower rooms. One felt pride of possession, of coming, through
no merit of one's own, into a rich heritage. No alumnae liouse has been like this.
For this benefit to myself and to other alumnae, for this opportunity given
Bryn Mawr to entertain her friends in fitting manner, may we all honor Miss
Thomas, who proves again how much she has our good at heart.
Gladys Jones Markle, 1912.
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THE JOINT EXPEDITION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
OF AMERICA
The long-cherished plan for a Bryn Mawr Excavation is apparently shortly
to be fulfilled. At the invitation of the Archaeological Institute of America, Bryn
Mawr will cooperate in an excavation in Cilicia on the southeastern coast of Asia
Minor. The Director of the Excavation will be Hetty Goldman, Bryn Mawr 1903,
Field Director of the Fogg Museum in Cambridge. Miss Goldman has excavated
for the Fogg Museum at Halae and Eutresis in Boeotia and also at Colophon, near
Smyrna. She has published monographs and books embodying the results of her
work, which have been received with enthusiastic commendation by scholars. Bryn
Mawr is fortunate in having an excavator who is highly acceptable to the Institute
as the Director of this Expedition, and who will conduct a scientific excavation
which will bring credit to the College.
We are hoping to excavate the ancient Hittite city of Puranda which has been
located by Dr. Emil Forrer, Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins, who will accom-
pany the expedition as adviser and will read Hittite texts that may be found.
We expect to find a Hittite, a Mycenaean and an early Greek city on this site. We
shall also test out some Mycenaean sites in Northern Syria and hope to arrange for
future excavating in Turkey and Northern Syria. If our plans are successful, we
anticipate no difficulty in future financing.
Recent discoveries have shown that there are important Mycenaean remains
in Cilicia and in Northern Syria. The British under Sir Arthur Evans have just
chosen a site near Tarsus for excavation. The Swedes have written of their dis-
coveries of Mycenaean pottery in Cilicia. Bryn Mawr may well have the opportunity
to assist in writing a new historical chapter on the Mycenaean Empire on the coast
of Asia Minor. We believe that this expedition is an important step for the College
and one that may bring discoveries of significance for Bryn Mawr and for American
scholarship.
The sum of $7,500 is needed as Bryn Mawr's share for the financing of the
expedition. $3,625 has been raised and the remainder must be obtained quickly if
the expedition is to go out this spring. It is important for future financing of the
work that a beginning be made this year. Neither the opportunity nor the honor
which has come to the College should be disregarded.
Mary Hamilton Swindler,
Professor of Classical Archaeology.
For the rest of this year the Deanery may be used by the families of
alumnae. Alumnae may also introduce guests, but must give any guest a personal
letter of introduction, and in addition must notify the manager of the Deanery
that such a letter has been given. Families of undergraduates may also avail
themselves of the use of the Deanery but such arrangements must be made by
the undergraduate personally through the Chairman of the Entertaining Com-
mittee. An additional charge of fifteen per cent will be made to non-alumnae.
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CAMPUS NOTES
As usual during the period from Christmas to midyears, not to speak of tlie
midyear weeks, there was a dearth of activity on campus. This was made up for
by the few but excellent attractions in Goodhart and the Deanery. Two Bryn Mawr
alumnae, Mrs. E. B. White (Katharine Sergeant, '14) and Frederica de Laguna, '27,
returned to give us interesting talks about their work; Dr. Fritz M. Marx (husband
of Barbara Spackman, '27), an exile from Hitler-land, and Dorothy Sands, the
well-known monologuist, completed the calendar of events.
Mrs. White, who spoke at a vocational tea as editor of the New YorJxer,
dispensed, along with a list of the openings for those who want writing jobs, a good
deal of encouragement as to the prospects of actually getting a position on a
magazine. Her constructive advice was refreshing to an audience accustomed to the
old story that there is really not much a college graduate can do, a story that
leaves the ambitious undergraduate feeling like one against a very cold world.
Although we don't wish to harbour any delusions about the value of an A.B. degree,
we think it would be nice for Mrs. White to blow through Bryn Mawr once a year,
letting light and sunshine into the post-college outlook.
Our other alumna-speaker, Miss de Laguna, told us about The Eskimos of
Prince William Sound, a subject not quite so near home, but equally fascinating in
its own way. These people had never been studied before by anthropologists, so
the Burket-Smith expedition, of which Miss de Laguna was a member, made a
survey in an entirely new field. Besides telling us about the life and history of this
tribe of primitive Eskimos, she brought a reminder that unexplored fields still lie
about us — only waiting to be discovered by the hardy daughters of Bryn ]\Liwr.
Our other speaker during January, Regierungsrat Dr. Fritz M. INIarx, formerly
a professor at the University of Hamburg and an expert on political problems.
surprised many of his audience out of their preconceived notions about the Brown
Shirts by his unexpected attitude on Hitlerism. When he was announced as an
exile from Germany, everyone at once leaped to the conclusion that the talk would
be a virulent expose of Nazi policies. Instead, his audience was treated to a well-
reasoned lecture on Hitler's desire for peace and disarmament; and, by the way, to
a denial of most of the atrocity stories circulated about the Nazi Revolution. We
must admit that not everyone was willing to believe that Hitler wants only peace
and security, even from a declared opponent of his national policies ; yet the interest
of the audience was proved by the fact that Dr. Marx was kept answering questions
in the Common Room long after 11 o'clock and our curfew. It is impossible to say
how many converts he made, but at least certain seeds of doubt were spread in our
minds as to whether all that is printed in the newspapers is to be trusted. That,
probably, is enough for any one lecturer to accomplish.
Our drama for the month of January was supplied by Dorothy Sands, who
gave a program called Our Stage and Stars under the auspices of the Cosmopolitan
Club of Philadelphia. She dealt very faithfully and intelligently with American
styles in acting from 1787 to Mae West, and succeeded in instructing and amusing
her audience at one and the same time. Although we compared her unfa>'ourably
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with Euth Draper and Cornelia Otis Skinner^ the fact remained that she did know
a great deal about the technique of the theatre^ and more than that about its history.
The usual drama-bitten group attended the reception and listened with all ears to
Miss Sands's gossip of the theatre world. We have a premonition that Bryn Mawr
may be in the process of producing another Theresa Helburn or Katherine Hepburn,
and if it isn't, it should be; the campus has overpassed the number of dilettantes
required to produce one genius, and we look for one soon — be she actress, play-
wright, producer or whatnot.
One of our less noisy groups, the Bryn Mawr League, has been doing things
lately in its quiet, determined manner, and now it has an innovation to make public.
Bates House, the summer camp for poor children which the League has been run-
ning with some help from another charity organization, has been given a new lease
on life and henceforth is to be a strictly Bryn Mawr institution, called the
Bryn Mawr Camp. A great many practical details will have to be arranged before
the camp can become the thriving establishment that its backers hope to make it;
a long list of household equipment — cot-beds, sheets, towels, kitchen china, etc. — is
needed for the new house, and the Bryn Mawr Camp Committee is planning to
make its drive for these necessaries in February. Later on in the spring they will
give a Puppet Show in the Deanery Garden to swell the Bryn Mawr Camp Fund,
and wish it to be known that the alumnae around Philadelphia will be thrice
welcome.
In the last issue of the Bulletin we promised to report the undergraduate
reaction to the new plan for comprehensives ; it has been rather negative so far,
probably becatise of midyears, and there has been little discussion. The News will
offer the best agency for raising and answering questions about the proposed
change, and it has, as yet, had no editorials or letters on the subject. Dean
Manning, following up her article in the News on comprehensives, gave a talk in
chapel explaining the plan in further detail, but the campus has yet to answer the
administration. We renew our promise to let you know when and if it does — and
whether the mob reaction has any effect on the plan.
NEW YORK BRYN MAWR CLUB ENTERTAINS
PRESIDENT PARK
The club dinner for President Park was given at the Park Lane on January
16th. Helen Riegel Oliver, 1916, President of the club, was toastmaster. Serena
Hand Savage, 1922, spoke about the Council; Beatrice Sorchan Binger, 1919,
outlined the work of the New York Scholarship Committee, and Hetty Goldman,
1903, discussed the plan for the Bryn Mawr Excavation. President Park, the guest
of honour, brought news of the College. She told of the large enrollment, discussed
the ever-present problem of the Science building, and told of the great things in
prospect for next year in the Department of Mathematics. In closing she praised
warmly the present student attitude, with its more mature point of view and
widening interests.
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THE ALUMNAE BOOK-SHELF
DiNA Ferri's Notebook of Nothing^ The Lyrical Diary of a Sienese Shepherdess,
Translated from the Italian by Helen J. Robins and Harriet Reid. Published
by Bruce Hopkins^ Inc. Boston. Price $2.00.
Any piece of writing, especially poetry, is changed in translation; one wonders
how much of the charm of Dina Ferri's delicate little Notebook of Nothing is owing
to the kindly skill of Miss Robins and Miss Reid, who put it into English. For
charm, unquestionably, the notebook has. Love of the changing year, of the birds
and flowers and fragrant vineyards that gladden Tuscany, of the country folk whom
the gentle shepherdess must daily have seen, of the religion that formed so great
and expanding a part of her few years, fill the poems.
Two fragments, one composed early in her literary life, one written in the
Siena Hospital, where she died in May, 1930, give a slight idea of a work whicli
must be read through if it is to be properly savoured.
Si Avvicina Primavera
(Spring Is Coming)
O Queen so fair
From Winter's Lair
girdled with flowers
of many Imed bowers,
thou comest delaying,
lingering, staying,
Scattering showers
of song and sweet air.
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All thou awakest to fresh-springing green,
all thou trans formest, O gentle Queen !
Hospital of Siena, May 6, 1930.
In the abyss of heaven there shone one luminous star. It made one tliink of a
dew drop quivering on the petal of a flower, or the piteous tear of a tired angel
astray in azure paths . . . The little star . . . trembled as if terrified by its loneliness,
and as it trembled it seemed to put out its own light and light it again.
These and other passages are so fragrant that they make one regret there are
to be no more of them.
Beatrice INIcGeorge, 1901.
The College has two sets of the moving-picture reels shown at the close
of the Annual Meeting. They are available, free of charge, to any alumnae
group for publicity purposes, and may be obtained by applying to
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, Oflice of Publications, Taylor Hall.
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HELEN KEMPTON: AN APPRECIATION
Helen Kempton came to the New York School of Social Work in 1924, pre-
pared for teaching by long experience which included training in the Boston Asso-
ciated Charities, four years as District Secretary in the same organization, four
years as General Secretary of the New Bedford Family Welfare Society, and five
years as an Associate Director of the American Association for Organizing Family
Social Work, now called the Family Welfare Association of America.
The teaching of social work was, and still is, more or less on the frontiers of
knowledge. One might say that its task is to take the raw experience of the social
worker and make it yield material for thought. By classroom discussion the teacher
must try to add to the young worker's capacity to understand social life and to be
useful in this troubled world. Helen Kempton's temperament was suited to such
an endeavor. It challenged her interest in social philosophy as well as her academic
conscience, and she threw herself into the work with all that almost panther-like
force and concentration which always characterized her in study, in conversation^
and in athletics. I think that those who knew her best in college must remember this
driving energy of hers and the intensity with which she focussed upon her objective.
She taught first the courses in technical social case work. After a time she
became interested in developing and teaching another course, which she called
"Some Ethical Considerations in Social Case Work." She described this as "a round-
table discussion course focusing on some of the ethical implications of the social case
worker's professional relationships. Responsibilities involved in the attempt to
influence personality. Apparently conflicting loyalties. Group responsibilities. Spir-
itual values in relation to ethical concepts." This was the first and only course of
its kind to be given at the New York School of Social Work. Helen Kempton made
a great success of it and many students found in this course an opportunity to bring
up and work through some of their own conflicts, getting help from the way the
discussion was conducted and, I am sure, often getting inspiration from her own
intense appreciation of spiritual values.
After she had been teaching for some time she began writing the series of
articles called "The Class Teaches Itself," which were published in The Family
from time to time and which have been helpful not only to teachers, but also to
social case workers in general. In these and her other short papers her own phil-
osophy of life and her attitude to life were as apparent as in her actual teaching.
Besides these scattered articles Helen Kempton contributed to the literature
of social case work teaching a chapter of the School's recent book, "Social Case
Work, An Outline for Teaching." In this chapter her course on "The Content of
Social Case Work" is described in full with illustrative material which she used
and a discussion of her method. She was one of the committee of teachers which,
through several years, worked to assemble the material for this book and to construct
the framework of thought in which it is presented. At one time she was for several
months Associate Editor of The Family.
It is needless to say that so marked a personality as hers is greatly missed
and cannot be replaced. Her life was the strongest possible demonstration of the
power of that individuality about which her own philosophy and belief centered.
Antoinette Cannon, 1907.
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CLASS NOTES
Ph.D. and Graduate Notes
Editor: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)
Vandaha, Missouri.
Emma Dietz, Ph.D., 1929, has just been
awarded by the American Association of
University Women the Sarah Berliner Research
Fellowship of $1,200 for research only, or a
docentship of $1,500 if the holder arranges to
continue research and give one or more lectures
at the university at which she will reside. At
present she is engaged in chemical research on
the structure of chlorophyll at Harvard Uni-
versity. Miss Dietz will spend the fellowship
year at the University of Munich, working in
the laboratory of Professor H. Wieland on the
use of porphyrin-iron complexes as catalysts in
oxidation processes in connection with the gen-
eral problem of the function of catalysts in the
animal body.
Appointed as alternate to the Margaret E.
Maltby Fellowship of $1,500, also offered by
the A. A. U. W., Agnes Katharine Hannay, of
Washington, D. C, A.B., Bryn Mawr College,
1930. Research fellow. Smith College. Her
project lies in the field of economic history
in the Southern states in the determination of
factors of location of southern manufacturies.
1889
No Editor Appointed.
Ella Riegel, who went as a delegate to the
Pan-American Conference at Montevideo, writes:
"Indeed, I have not forgotten my promise to
send you notes on the work of the Inter-
American Commission of Women at the Pan-
American Conference.
"The Inter-American Commission of Women
submitted to the conference two conventions.
The first, guaranteeing equal rights in nation-
ality to men and women, was passed unani-
mously and was signed by all twenty-one re-
publics; the second, guaranteeing equal civil
and political rights to men and women, was
converted by the committee that reported on
them into a recommendation that the nations
grant equal civil and political rights to them
as soon as possible, which recommendation
was passed unanimously. Four progressive re-
publics— Cuba, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uru-
guay— however, signed an Equal Rights Con-
vention, which precious document is safely
signed, sealed and deposited in the archives of
Uruguay, later to be sent to the Pan-American
Union in Washington. The conference also
voted unanimously to continue the work of the
Inter-American Commission of Women. These
three points were not achieved without hard
work on our part, the greatest opposition com-
ing from the United States delegation.
"It was a pleasant surprise to find that the
wife of the United States Minister to Uruguay,
Mr. J. Butler Wright, is Harriet Southerland,
Bryn Mawr, 1904. Mr. Wright has been here
for three years helping to prepare for the
Pan-American Conference.
"I am about to start on a tour through the
Straits of Magellan, the fjords of Chile,
Robinson Crusoe's Island, and the Panama
Canal on my way home."
1890
No Editor Appointed.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
1435 Lexington Ave., N. Y.
1893
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, IVIass.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
c/o Brearley School
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
Julia Langdon Loomis' second daughter.
Virginia (B. M. 1930), is engaged to be
married to Bayard Schieffelin. And Elizabeth
Bent Clark's daughter Elizabeth was married
in January to Arthur Brock Sinkler. The wed-
ding took place in the Deanery.
Starling Hoffman, Mary James HoffniaTi's
only child, received his A.B. degree in June,
1933, at the Pennsylvania State College, spe-
cializing in English, Avith Journalism and
Mathematics. He lives in Carmel, New York.
The Class will be grieved to learn of the
death of Leonie Gilmour in New York on
December 31st.
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1896
Class Editor: Abigail Camp Dimon
1411 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.
Elsa Bowman has adopted a little girl of
11 years and is staying with her this winter
at New London, New Hampshire.
On January 20th Charlotte McLean gave a
tea for '96 in her home on South 4th Street,
Philadelphia. Though only twelve guests were
able to come, they thoroughly enjoyed seeing
one another and were delightfully entertained
by Charlotte and her sister. Those present
were: Lydia Boring, Tirzah Nichols, Mary
Mendinhall Mullin, Emma Linburg Tobin,
Lucy Baird, Elizabeth Cadbury Jones, Helen
Haines Greening, Anna Scattergood Hoag,
Clara Farr, Elizabeth Kirkbride (on her way
back from the Conference on the Cause and
Cure of War, in Washington), Hilda Justice
(who left at home Laura Heermance, who had
come from New Haven for the tea, but became
ill and was not able to go), and Helen
Saunders Holmes, who came from Yonkers
especially to be with '96 that afternoon.
Elizabeth Kirkbride and Charlotte's sister
Sarah (who was the only outsider)' poured tea
and coffee.
Charlotte writes that her guests were "ex-
uberantly glad to see each other. ... I had
some evergreen in a vase in the parlor and
also on the dining room table. But the one or
two that I spoke to about it seemed never to
have heard of our symbol or motto or class
ring." The editor is proud to be able to
respond to the implied challenge by giving
our emblem — the evergreen tree — our motto —
Ora e sempre (the motto of Young Italy) —
and saying that our class ring is' a dark green
jade seal engraved with the emblem and motto,
and set in a greenish gold design of pine
cones and needles.
Anna Hoag writes of the tea: "It was in the
house in which Charlotte was born, and where
she, a sister and a brother still live. The front
lower room is a lawyer's office, but the rest of
the handsome, spacious -house is theirs. Lovely
old furniture and no end of fine old steel
engravings. Elizabeth Kirkbride and I felt at
home, for its plan was just like all the old
Philadelphia houses. My grandmother lived
till she died in 1895 just around the corner on
Spruce Street, so I know, or knew, the neigh-
borhood well. We had a rather unusual and
a very pleasant gathering."
From the notes of regret could be gleaned a
few items about the Class. Mary Gleim, from
California, pleads not only distance, but two
sick sisters, who are requiring her attention at
present. May Jewett wrote from Pleasantville,
New York, that she is very busy "trying to sell
property to the numerous people who seem to
have money to invest in land, but are very
fussy about getting a lot for their cash." Clara
Colton Worthington wrote: "1 am to be in
Washington from Tuesday to Friday of next
week as a delegate to the National Birth Con-
trol Conference, and it may be more than I
should undertake, for I still must take great
care not to overdo. It seems as if a miracle
had happened to my eyes, as they are better
than in years, but if I get over-tired they and
my nerves go back on me and 1 am out of the
picture for a few days."
The Class extends its sympathy to Edith'
Wyatt, whose mother died on January 29th,
after a short illness.
1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
104 Lake Shore Drive, East Dunkirk, N. Y.
Elizabeth Seymour Angel (Mrs. John Angel,
468 Riverside Drive) is most generous to give
us this intimate glimpse of her own life and
incidentally a glimpse into the studio and the
work of a famous sculptor: "I reply at once.
My importance is entirely vicarious, but all
the more interesting to me from having three
centres instead of only one.
"You asked about John's work at present.
He has finished, all but two small panels, the
sculpture for the North Tower portal of the
Cathedral here — St. John the Divine. This
means a group, with smaller figures above and
below, thirty-two angels around the archivolt,
eight sibyls with other angels between them,
and nine martyr saints. It has all been a
tremendously interesting piece of work, and
hunting up stories to giv^ clues to the various
personalities, whether of saints or sibyls, takes
one into a surprising variety of paths. Sibyls
connect with ancient times; one refers to
Pausanias and Vergil and legends about the
Ara Coeli in Rome. Saints carry one to many
countries of Europe, for the group includes
St. Peter, on the trumeau of the doorway;
St. Stephen, the first martyr of the church;
St. Alban, the first English martyr; St. Denis
of France (connecting curiously though mis-
takenly with a legend of St. Paul in Athens) ;
St. Vincent of Spain. John has a fondness
for character, expressed in face and figure and
pose, and has enjoyed the problem of bringing
this out for others to see, while keeping to
the Gothic severity which the architect de-
mands. Bases under each large mirtyr saint
have given him a chance to model events in
the life of each saint — from three to four in
each case. They become the books of the
words, to illustrate the saint above — but one
must know a little how to read the language
in order to enjoy them. There are four scenes
under Joan of Arc — Joan in the fields seeing
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her vision, leading the soldiers, Joan before
the crowned Dauphin, and Joan being burned.
Others have more chance for humor — the little
demons trying to get the soul of the bishop,
under St. Lawrence, the various knights at-
tacking Thomas Becket; one of them is nearly
the White Knight. If you could be in
New York now, you would see what I think is
the finest thing John has ever done — a 'Last
Supper' panel for the Mellons' church in
East Liberty, Pa. He has always hoped he
might some time have a chance to model this
subject. He was recognized as fit to do it
from a panel he did a few years ago of the
young Christ in the Temple, among the doc-
tors, for St. Paul's School, and also by his
studies of character in the Four and Twenty
Elders in the great Tympanum of the Princeton
University Chapel. But the opportunity in this
new panel is the greatest, for the heads are
not of imaginary characters, as were most in
the other reliefs, but are of men of whose
story we know more or less, and about whom
every one has fairly definite conceptions. Each
figure has been a thrilling problem to him; he
has steeped himself in legend as well as the
New Testament story, and tries to show in
each face the character that would fit it.
St. Thomas is not only the doubter, but the
thinker; St. Philip is more of an aristocrat
than the others, not a shepherd or fisherman.
And so on. He has never used a model for
one of these heads — or, indeed, for any head
at all. The composition has a balance and
swing that delights one. I wish you could see
it. If you are in New York, ever, do let me
know, and I will take you over to the studio.
But this will be finished by Easter, he hopes,
and then away — as always with his work.
"Our boys are well and busy; the elder a
Sophomore at Harvard — scorning all family
tradition. He won 'high distinction' for his
work last year, is on the Harvard Advocate,
the J. V. wrestling team, and the Glee Club,
and goes to too many dances — so he is fairly
well rounded. The happiest hours I had dur-
ing Christmas vacation were reading Theocritus
with him for a comparison he is making for
his tutor, comparing Theocritus and Vergil and
the English poets, I read Greek fairly regu-
larly and with intense pleasure to myself, with
intenser pleasure when the boys come to me
for help in it. The younger boy, a Fifth
Former at Choate, now just 15, teases me
about it and delights in trying to trip me up,
but has some pride in it, nevertheless — his
mother's one accomplishment.
"We have acquired in the last eighteen
months an old house, 1785, with sixty-two
acres of farm land and woods, between Barre
and Petersham, Mass., and look forward to
having it. as a permanent home, as a New York
apartment can not be. I am delightfully in
touch with Bryn Mawr there through Becky
Chickering, who is in Petersham in the sum-
mer, and Mrs. Higginson and Ruth Furness
Porter's aunts. We see Bessie once or twice
a summer at least, and sometimes Ruth or one
of her sons. That kind of country life means
hard work for the housekeeper, with no one
to deliver even the milk at our doors, and my
skill in driving is so lately acquired that it is
wearing. But it is real living, and we had a
most happy summer there, last year. John and
I drove up this last week-end and explored
through the snow over a new trail we have
cut, almost half a mile, through woods and
scrubby fields. It will be a summer job to
keep down the undergrowth and make it com-
fortable walking,
"I do nothing in New York worthy of men-
tion, but do enjoy life there immensely. The
only office I hold is the chairmanship of the
'Ladies' Board' (a name descending from the
foundation seventy-five years ago) of 'Shelter-
ing Arms,' a home for homeless children not
far from our apartment, so that I can easily
walk there. My original interest in it came
through a little Greek boy, now just 8, whom
we much enjoy having at our house some-
times or taking to the zoo, museums or movies.
Then, through this, I am on the Board of the
Federation of Protestant Welfare — simply to
represent 'The Sheltering Arms.'
"■I am so glad you like John's statue for
Edith Lawrence. I love it. He has the orig-
inal in the studio and I always enjoy it."
Frances Arnold, although snowed in up at
Cornish, New Hampshire, writes that she feels
all warmed up by the nice letters that come
to her in reply to her letters asking for con-
tributions to the Class fund. Class collecting
is a mean job, and I move and second a vote
of sincere thanks to F, A. It takes a very
real spark of genius to write a letter that will
strike fire and bring forth a heartwarming
response while asking for cold cash I
1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
1899
Editor: Carolyn Trowbridge Brown Lewis
(Mrs. H. Radnor Lewis)
451 Milton Road, Rye, N. Y.
What '99ers would do without Emma Guffey
Miller we are sure we can't fathom. Your
Editor has fallen down completely on the job,
with the same worn-thin excuse, "so busy try-
ing to keep her head above the waters of
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depression." Thanks to Guffey and the ac-
tivities of the New Deal, this month a few
items will take the place of that too pathetic
blankness below our classification.
First — and by far the most vital news— is
that we can look forward to a Reunion in
June. For a few hours we can revisit the
scenes which the years have made all the
dearer and indulge in talk fests with class-
mates who, unfortunately, live for most of us
in memories rather than in the companionship
we had anticipated. We know we are sound-
ing Guffey's sentiments when we implore every
'99er to begin this very minute and make her
plans to be in Pembroke West on June 4th
and 5th. Wouldn't it be just too glorious to
have a 100 per cent Reunion? Let's make k
one.
The baccalaureate sermon is on the 3rd of
June and Commencement on the 6th. While
we shall be welcome to stay throughout the
week, the '99 festivities will be confined to
Monday the 4th and Tuesday the 5th. So
red circle these dates.
Guffey is living in Washington, her husband,
Carroll Miller, having been appointed by
President Roosevelt to an important post with
the Department of Commerce. We who know
Guffey know that she is making the most of
every minute and getting lots of fun out of it.
Mollie Thurber Dennison is also spending
much of her time in the Nation's capital, for
her husband, Harry Dennison, is actively in-
terested in the C. W. A.
Anne Boyer is spending the winter in
Florida. Lucky Anne.
Elsie Andrews severed her connection with
Miss Wright's School last fall and is now
doing private tutoring.
The star performer at the Birth Control
hearings before the Judiciary Committee in
Washington was — of course, you will say —
Kate Houghton Hepburn. And her far-famed
Katherine has nothing on her mother when it
comes to holding successfully the center of
the stage.
We were amused to note that Katherine
Hepburn in a newspaper interview expressed
her appreciation of the kind and encouraging
comments of John Mason Brown, the Dramatic
Editor of the New York Post, on her per-
formance as the star of The Lake, adding "and
I don't know him." But we know that he is
the husband of Dorothy Fronheiser Meredith's
Catherine.
Your Editor hopes that every '99er who
visits the Bryn Mawr Club in the Park Lane
in New York will give the Publicity Depart-
ment of the hotel a buzz, because her organi-
zation is doing the publicity, and while she is
not always there they can reach her, and Oh!
how she would love to see you.
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
1901
Class Editor: Helen Converse Thorpe
(Mrs. Warren Thorpe)
15 East 64th St., New York City.
Grace Mitchell writes:
"Last summer I went again to California,
going both ways by boat, and stopping at
South America, Panama, most of the Central
American countries, and Mexico. We were
three weeks going, about the same time in
California, and three weeks returning. We
arrived in Havana just after Machado had
left, and De Cespedes had just been made the
new President. We walked about Havana, as
no taxis were allowed to operate, saw stores,
etc., that had been broken into and looted.
All spare room on our boat was filled with
families of friends of Machado leaving Cuba
for the United States.
"Since my return all my spare time has
been given to my work as Treasurer of the
Bellefonte Chapter, D. A. R., as the chapter,
which is an old one, is quite large."
Fanny Sinclair Woods writes:
"My children are scattered to far distant
places, the twins doing graduate work at
Radcliffe, and my youngest son a Junior at
Yale. We have comforted ourselves by having
Buffy's daughter, Mary Hill, live with us while
she is doing graduate work at the University
of Iowa."
1902
Class Editor: Anne Rot an Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
The Class extends its most sincere sympathy
to Elizabeth Corson Gallagher, who lost her
husband, Percival Gallagher, in January.
Edith Orlady spends her winters in Phila-
delphia and her summers in Huntingdon, Pa.
She is much occupied in both places with
public education, welfare work and gardening.
Elizabeth Chandlee Forman says her news
is her family, and sends these details. Her
son Henry, who was the first child born to a
member of 1902, but rejected as class baby
because he wasn't a girl (and don't we know
he's glad he isn't class baby in a woman's
college ! ) , Bachelor of Arts, Princeton 1926,
Master of Architecture, U. of P. 1931, had his
first job on Goodhart Hall, He is married
and has one child, Elizabeth Chandlee Forman,
2nd. Her daughter Elizabeth goes in for music,
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and skiing, hockey and kindred sports. She
and her mother — our Elizabeth — spent last win-
ter at the Lake Placid Club and wound up at
the unique skiing school at Pecketts-on-Sugar
Hill, where they took medals.
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
Constance Leupp Todd writes:
Dear 1903:
Someone — probably somebody young — has
said that middle age is best, it being the only
time in one's life with both a past and a
future. And, indeed, as we part reluctantly
with our teeth and watch our hair grow daily
whiter, there is at least a solace in watching
the children of our generation, now grown to
years of achievement.
Thus in the summer of 1932, as the bonus
army marched on Washington, and the Hoover
administration shook with terror, while citizens
who believe in the right of petitioners to be
met with something other than tear gas shook
with indignation, 1 began to hear of a young
couple from St. Louis active among the peti-
tioners' sympathizers; and when, one evening,
a tall, fair young man walked in with his
slight, pretty brunette wife, and I heard the
name was Gellhorn — reader, you have guessed
it — it proved to be the son and daughter-in-
law of Edna Fischel.
Then one day last summer, at Woods Hole,
someone brought young Christine Gibbons to
tea with me; and in this competent young
woman with a brand-new and reasonable
theory of how to teach French to young chil-
dren, I discovered the daughter of Helen
Brown, of 1906.
As for our own class baby, Nancy Wilson
Nathan, anyone who has never heard her play
the cello should do so at the earliest possible
moment. She had a recital at Woods Hole
shortly after her return from studying in Spain
with Casals. And even to an uneducated
musical ear, her unusual combination of native
ability and superb training are apparent. Nor,
in this review of two generations, should one
miss Nannie, her copper-colored hair still un-
touched with gray, her figure still that of a
16-year-old girl, appearing as mother-in-law on
the beach in a boy's striped bathing suit. Nor,
since the Kidders are a gifted race and mark-
edly prone to marry intellectual distinction,
need one be surprised to learn that the fresh-
man play at Bryn Mawr last year was written
by Margy Kidder, Nannie's niece, who also
demonstrated the family ability to act.
Cruising around Cape Cod last summer, whom
should I discover in a cosy little house among
the pines outside of Orleans (a house equipped
for winter living, which she wants to sell, be
it noted), but our own Margaret Field. Here
her husband, Charles Buck, writes adventure
novels; and my son, browsing in the book-
cases, was awed indeed when he came upon
one of them translated in Czech. Margaret's
son, Jack deMotte, lives with them when he is
not off somewhere as camp counsellor; and
Margaret remains the same spirited person in
spite of vicissitudes.
Probably the most interesting study of
mother and child that we present as a college
is that of the two Katharine Hepburns. First
young Kate spell-bound us here in Washington
in The Lake, of which the Bryn Mawr Club
bought the first night, thus earning a goodly
sum for the Scholarship Fund. Then, a few
weeks later, came the Birth Control Confer-
ence, at which Kate senior was a star per-
former as Chairman of the Legislative Com-
mittee, ably handling the two days of con-
gressional hearings following the conference.
And then last fall along came Helen Amy
Macan as the new principal of St. Agnes'
School, across the Potomac from Washington.
Anything so refreshingly unhidebound in
the way of a school head has seldom been
seen. Her way of handling the petty vices of
the young, such as the make-up habit, is orig-
inal but effective. Nevertheless, be it recorded
that when she and her pretty daughter Lynette
came to dinner, my boys the next day found
a lipstick which Lynette joyously retrieved.
So much for the two generations.
For contemporaries, 1 had a glimpse of
Helen Robinson after many years when she
came to Woods Hole to hold a sale of attrac-
tive French colonial textiles. She is the same
distinguished-looking Helen. And Anne Sher-
win reports that she has embarked upon a
summer tea-room venture in the White Moun-
tains, where she serves very good meals.
Among our latest political acquisitions here
in Washington are Madeleine Palmer Bakewell
(Mrs. Charles Bakewell), whose husband was
elected to Congress from Ne-\\" Haven on tlie
Republican ticket.
Emma Guffey Miller (Mrs. Carroll Miller)
is also a recent Washington acquisition, her
husband being a new memlier of tlie Federal
Trade Commission. And of ihc younger gen-
eration there is Nina Perera, of 1928, who
has recently married Charles Collier (son of
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs).
For myself, I have chosen this inausiticious
moment when the dollar is ^vorlh sixty cents
in Europe to begin to gather the material for
an information service for American parents
on European schools. When the dollar rights
itself relatively there should be once more
a demand for such information.
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1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
320 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Marjorie Sellers' son, James Townsend
Sellers, was married on January 13th to
Gertrude Ethelwyn 31igh, of New York City.
They will be in their new home, 2491 North
50th Street, Philadelphia, after February 15th.
Hope Woods Hunt has been very successful
in her poetry readings and returned in Feb-
ruary to Bryn Mawr to read at Rosemont
College and also at the Baldwin School.
Marguerite Gribi Kreutzberg is spending her
second winter on her "claim" in Tucson,
Arizona. She is doing a great deal of painting.
Hilda Vauclain has been having Beatrice
McGeorge's series of art lectures at her house
every Tuesday morning.
Clara Woodruff Hull visited her sister Lelia
in Germantown in early February, and attended
the Annual Alumnae Meeting and luncheon.
Leda White, Rebecca Ball, Emma Fries, Amy
Clapp, Gertrude Buffum Barrows, Hilda Canan
Vauclain and your Editor all enjoyed the day
together.
1905
Class Editor: Eleanor Little Aldrich
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
59 Mount Vernon St., Boston, Mass.
Release from a long illness came to Helen
Payson Kempton in a Boston hospital on Jan-
uary 10th, and thus was brought to its close
a life of real importance and value to the out-
side world, as well as to the Bryn Mawr
circles where she was a well-known and loved
member. She had lived with all the energy
and enthusiasm which those who knew her in
undergraduate days were prepared to expect.
Long after her health had begun to suffer, she
insisted upon "carrying on"; and when her
resignation became inevitable, she regarded her
retirement as purely a temporary one. Even
from her sick-bed she continued her writing
under great difficulties and handicaps. We
who remember her fighting spirit on the hockey
and basketball field, can get some idea of the
wholehearted fight which she put up to win
back her health.
A keen sense of humor was one of her out-
standing characteristics, and all through her
illness, doctors, nurses and visitors were amazed
and cheered by her quick tongue and ready
laugh. It really seemed as if anyone who
wrote such humorous letters as she wrote to
her friends up to the very end must be grow-
ing better. It was not fear of death, but
desire to live and work, which made Helen
fight with such grit and courage. Her life
was very rich spiritually, and she had a faith
that knew no doubt nor wavering.
On behalf of the Class of 1905 we herewith
record our appreciation of all Helen Kempton
will mean to us always, and our sorrow that
we can no more see her among us. We wish
her family to know of our pride in her and
our love for her, and we extend to them our
heart-felt sympathy.
The Class extends sympathy to Alice Day
McLaren, whose mother died very suddenly in
Santa Barbara the day before Christmas. Alice
and her husband are once more spending the
winter there.
Hope Allen writes from the University of
Michigan: "Here I am since October, beginning
'a new life,' which is so far interesting and
pleasant. The depression meant a storm in ♦
my world at home (now fortunately abating),
and I was lucky in being able to take refuge
in my research as a profession, so to speak.
In March, 1932, I had a grant for that from
the American Council of Learned Societies,
with which I spent six months in England that
year and three, last summer. Now I am an
assistant editor on the Early Modern English
Dictionary, done with surplus material left after
the Oxford Dictionary was finished — and other
similar sources—for the period 1475-1700. I
work only a half day for the academic year
and thus have much time for my research in
the library here, and elsewhere in vacations.
I am just back from Chicago. I now study
the history and influence of the Ancren Riwle
— a delightful work for very devout women.
To do it I do so much work on court circles
I feel as if preparing for an historical novel."
1906
Class Editor: Helen Haughwout Putnam
(Mrs. William E. Putnam)
126 Adams St., Milton, Mass.
Members of 1906 will learn with sorrow of
the death of Mrs. Francis B. Harrington,
mother of Beth Brooks. The Class extends
deepest sympathy to Beth.
1907
Class Editor: Alice Hawkins
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
The Alumnae Meeting on February 3rd was
the occasion for an informal reunion. Elsa
Norton Ashbrook, Athalia Crawford Jamieson,
Katharine Harley, Edith Rice, Lelia Woodruff
Stokes, Dorothy Forster Miller, Mabel
O'Sullivan, Tink Meigs, Eunice Schenck, and
Alice Hawkins, all foregathered at some time
during the day and exchanged gossip.
Dorothy is now a full-fledged real estate
broker — she actually has a license won by
taking an examination. She manages the
apartment house where she lives (680 Madison
Avenue, near 62nd Street), and has a full and
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contented house, and is now ready to extend
her sphere of. influence, and will be glad to
find any friend just the right place to live.
She plans to bring her daughter down to the
campus at the time of the Glee Club in May,
and hopes other 1907 mothers will join her.
The State of Maine is evidently the favorite
hiding place for lost 1907, who, unlike the
bears, seem to be galvanized into action by
really cold weather. Last month we discovered
Ruth Hammitt Kauffman for you, now Laura
Pollock Bushnell writes us from Whitefield,
Maine: "Since New Year's we have been snowed
in for a week at a time, with the thermometer
40° below zero, and it is colder in the village
than here on our hill. It gives us confidence
to have snowshoes — so it is rather fun."
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
1909
Class Editor: Helen B. Crane
70 Willett St., Albany, N. Y.
The Editor's only news is that she has spent
a month in a hospital and cordially invites
anyone in the Class to take over the job.
1910
Class Editor: Katherine Rotan Drinker
(Mrs. Cecil K. Drinker)
71 Rawson Road, Brookline, Mass.
Josephine Ross Miller: "If you hadn't chal-
lenged my honesty with the stamped envelope,
I doubt if you would have gotten an answer!
I have no professional status and no imme-
diate past or present activities that would
interest the class, but I have an excellent
domestic status and an enchanting family: viz.,
the same husband that I have had for twenty-
one years; a 20-year-old son, a Junior at
Haverford College; an 18-year-old daughter, a
Freshman at Wellesley; a 16-year-old daughter,
a Junior at Baldwin; a 9-year-old daughter and
a 6-year-old son, both at school at home."
Millicent Pond: "I have been with the
Scovill Manufacturing Company, in Waterbury,
Conn., for ten years now, having gone there
in the first instance to do some research in
psychological tests for hiring and transfer of
employees. In 1928 I was put in charge of
the employment office and have continued the
research work as well. Last summer I was
asked by the United States Employment Serv-
ice to take the temporary task of State Re-
employment Director for Connecticut and was
given a leave of absence from the Scovill
Manufacturing Company for this purpose.
"In the research work with the Scovill
Company I have had a very interesting time,
though the work has not yielded as many short
cuts for the selection of employees as may
have been expected. The present work is very
stimulating, but very difficult on account of
political tension and all the problems that
arise under the administration of the new fed-
eral policies with regard to selection of workers
and hours of work. When stated without re-
gard to these factors, the problem seems simple
enough, namely, that of establishing active pub-
lic employment offices in the towns and counties
of the state which are not covered by the state
employment offices.
"Outside of my work, I have always until
this summer been a good deal of a gadabout,
am active in the Business and Professional
Women's Club, and in both personnel organi-
zations and psychological groups, and am in-
terested in various social service movements,
although not much of a participator in them.
I do the psychological testing for the
Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, and
until the past year have done a good deal of
the same kind of work for the Child Welfare
Bureau of the State."
Julie Thompson Turner: "A suburban life
with three children, two in the country day
school and the youngest at home, because I
believe in putting off socialization as long as
possible, gives almost all the needed informa-
tion about me. I belong to the Woman's Club,
etc., but they seem always to meet on the days
when I paint. I have a studio in the barn,
where I work and have a couple of classes."
1911
Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
(Mrs. John F. Russell)
1085 Park Ave., New York City.
The Class extends its deep sympathy to
Beulah Mitchell Hailey on the recent death of
her mother.
Elsie Funkhouser is taking a course in
"Social Adjustment," and Norvelle Browne is
studying "Roman Archaeology" at Columbia.
Mary Case Pevear recently gave a most de-
lightful supper in New York for Kate Seelyp.
who was making a speaking trip in New "^ork
and Philadelphia. Among those present were
Willa Browning, Elsie Funkhouser, Louise
Russell, Norvelle Brown, Helen Parkhurst. and
Betty Russell. Helen reported progress on her
hook, and Kate's account of the ease with
which housekeeping may be done in Syria
made us decide to go there as soon as we
can raise the fare.
Marion Scott Soames is spending the winter
in Arizona. Her address is 125 West Franklin
Street, Tucson.
Margaret Prussing LeVino's 10-year-old son
Ted flew alone from Los Angeles to Washing-
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ton, D, C, this fall. Pruss also reports a
merry time behind the scenes of Little Women
last summer.
Marion Carroll's oldest boy is at Phillips
Exeter Academy this year and is enjoying his
first contact with an American school since
he was a small boy.
Ruth Wells was in New York at Thanksgiv-
ing and finds her job as engrossing as ever.
Catherine Delano Grant writes that getting
her children settled in foreign schools was
quite a job, but now that is accomplished she
has time to be enthusiastic about Mussolini
and all he has done in Italy.
Margery Smith Goodnow has a picture in
the annual exhibition of the National Asso-
ciation of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Betty Russell is helping to direct the forth-
coming production of the New York Junior
League Players.
1912
Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaten Augur)
820 Camino Atalaya, Santa Fe, N. M.
After years of silence, Lucie Kenison
Bornefeld writes: 'T am just a plain old mar-
ried woman with two children — Barbara, 15,
and Herman, Junior, 14, and a husband in
the foreign shipping business. Barbara is five
feet 1^2 inches and blond, and the boy tall
and slender and dark. Since I left Bryn Mawr
I haven't had the pleasure of seeing many of
our Class friends. . . . One of my favorite
pastimes lately is studying Latin. I help many
of my children's friends and struggle along
with it. Also, I have been trying to make
dresses, and have lots of fun sewing for
Barbara. I have been considering sending
Barbara to a college of industrial arts. Herman,
Junior, seems mechanical, but hasn't decided
what he will do so far. ... In 1926 I passed
through Philadelphia on our way to Norway,
where we had a grand time. . . . But what
did thrill me was the spaciousness and breadth
of our own country and the quantity and
richness of the crops. ... If you ever happen
to come this far southwest, don't fail to let
me know."
Dorothy Dale Chase writes that her little
girl continues to improve. "She is full of
good spirits and fun, and you could not tell
from her appearance that she was other than
perfectly normal."
A Christmas card from Edgerton Grant
labeled "My Second Year" with six illustra-
tions suggests that his mother has gone largely
domestic, though she doesn't say so herself.
Incidentally, Edgerton looks worth knowing.
Florence Leopold Wolf's new address in
New York is 161 East 79th Street.
She writes: "Would you and 1912 like to
know a few facts about me and mine? We
moved here October 1st, and I think it is
permanent. Dick is a Junior at Harvard,
pre-medical. Jim is a Freshman at Columbia,
planning to take Engineering. Tom, the son
of my old age (he's 10), is at school here.
No daughters for B. M., alas!
"Van Weems, Margaret Thackray's husband,
was here last week. He's retired and they are
back in Annapolis."
The Class Editor's budget of news, gleaned
in Chicago, is as follows. Maysie Morgan
Lee ' said she and Isabel Vincent meet every
Friday and take in new art exhibits. This
item has appeared before, but it is still re-
garded as news. Mary Brown, Jean Gregory,
and Gertrude Stone have a French class once
a week.
Isabel Vincent Harper is now in Florida
visiting her mother.
Mary Lane wrote at Christmas that her
husband had been ill this fall. I understand
from people who live in Phoenix that he is
more and more taking a great place in the
life of Phoenix, and has a remarkable spir-
itual influence.
For my own part, Chicago seemed just as
wonderful to me as ever, in spite of terrible
weather, but it was nice to see the sun in
Santa Fe again. My husband expects to prac-
tice law here very soon. He is going slowly
yet, but looks so well.
Carmelita Chase Hinton sent the following
characteristic communication:
"Well, Christmas has come and gone, and
we've gone to the North Pole and back.
Eighteen of us finally got together for a ski-
ing holiday at Lac Nasson, near Ste. Mar-
guerite, in Canada, and what a time we had!
We really over-exercised, because we skiied
every day for ten days from morning until
night, once even making a twenty-two-mile run
with the thermometer 36° below.
"Do you know how cold it got? 54° degrees
below zero. When anyone opened the door,
the cold air rushed in in a mist blanket. It
was frightening to see. But it really wasn't
so cold out-of-doors — that is, for one's comfort.
Only — we were always having some part of
our anatomy frost-bitten. I had my nostrils
and under my chin quite mischievously nipped.
The results did not improve my appearance,
but it is all wearing off now. We drove up
and down, and it was adventurous work, in
blizzards, over ice roads, in roads of snow
unbroken by anyone else.
"My sister-in-law drove all the way from
Philadelphia with her three children to join
us. Wasn't that sporting? The snow there
was almost three feet deep and not one day
of rain. Here it does nothing but rain,"
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Gladys Jones, looking very handsome in
black velvet, came down to stay at the Deanery
at the time of the Annual Meeting. She,
Louise Watson, also looking very, very hand-
some and full of pleasant spice, Mary Peirce,
and Marjorie Thompson, Anne Catharine
Arthurs and Beatie Howson all had supper
together by the fire in Miss Thomas' blue
study on the Friday evening before. Gertrude
Elcock t ame out for Miss Park's luncheon on
Saturday.
1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn,
Thirty-seven welcome return postcards have
come back. Sixty-seven have not. Verbum
sapienti. We are still hopeful.
From Eleanor Bontecou; "Most of your
questions are unanswerable. Learning to
weave and to transcend the limitations of space
seem my principal occupations. I was deeply
moved by The Testament of Youth. It's the
best of the war books yet, I think, and I am
glad that Ernest Hemingway is not to have
the last word about our generation. Ludwig
Lewisohn's Expression in America I think very
fine but uneven. I resent the theory that only
the cruel things of life are its realities, but I
find it the first significant piece of writing on
American literature that I've encountered. It
is a good antidote to Clive Bell's Civilization,
which I've just read and found intensely irri-
tating, but challenging."
From Clara Crocker: "Opened Y. W. C. A.
to men, for which feat in Boston I should not,
though probably shall, remain unhonored and
unsung. Take a certain mournful pleasure in
watching the deterioration of America. Whether
in increased leisure I have more time to be
appreciative or whether they really are more
vital, I am not sure, but I have read more
stirring books in the past year than ever be-
fore— not Anthony Adverse, but Poor Splendid
Wings, Peter Abelard, The Fountain, etc., etc.
Have great faith in the future of the movies,
which seem in many cases to be a real form
of artistic expression." Jane Crocker is at the
University of Chicago.
From Cecile Goldsmith Simsohn: "I was
present at Reunion only for Class Supper be-
cause of the serious illness of my mother, who
passed away last July. Late in the summer
I went to Bermuda with my father and also
visited my two daughters at their camp in the
Adirondacks. My time at home is fully occu-
pied with running a large house, superintend-
ing the lives and lessons of three children,
two of whom are in senior high school, and
acting as President, since 1931, of the sister-
hood of Temple Keneseth Israel."
From Emma Bell Ewing: "I have been very
much at home for the last three years nursing
my husband, who has been ill, but who has
been much, much better since Thanksgiving,
I am reading Middleton Murray's Keats and
Shakespeare, along with the plays, and am
very much interested in that and in poetry
for children. Has everybody seen The Open
Door to Poetry, by Anne Stokes? I mean to
do those things 1 have left undone so long.
From Gertrude Hinrichs King: "At present
I'm working in the public library. It's fun
and it's interesting (and tiring), but leaves
very little time to see one's children. Now
that real estate is getting healthy again, I'll
give my main attention to that. The library
job is temporary. Losing my partner because
her husband has a new job in Washington is
a blow. If anyone wants to rent, buy or sell
a house in the vicinity of Glen Ridge or
Montclair, don't fail to get in touch with me,
I'll work my head off to see they are perfectly
suited, and it's an especially nice vicinity to
live in. I have fun in between jobs, but no
time to loaf, so I'm a poor prospect for the
devil. Hope you all write juicier histories than
this, but, juicy or not, I like reading them all,"
From Katherine Stout Armstrong: "Young
Katherine, age 17, is at Mt, Vernon Seminary
in Washington, D. C; young Julian, age 15,
is at Culver Military Academy; Andrew (14)
and Priscilla (12) are at the local Bell School,
I expect to take K. over to Mile, Boissier's, at
Neuilly, in the fall. Four very vigorous chil-
dren, a garden, and a sailing husband account
for my time. Have one more trip to Monmouth
Cave, one more to Yellowstone, etc, to take,
but, on the whole, am pretty well up to sched-
ule on 'See America First' for the young. Read
Anthony Adverse and seed catalogues,"
From Helen Barrett Speers: "'I have spent
a very concentrated fall on family ailments, a
part of it in Baltimore, where my husband
had an operation. All of them are well now.
(We presume she refers to her children, too.)
I ran on to Grace Turner in New York and
asked for her address, which is The Carroll
Club, 120 Madison Avenue. New York,
Gertrude King is the lady with news. She
has added being a librarian to her other jobs,"
1914
Class Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs, Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass,
A cheerful Christmas card from Lib Br^^ant
discloses the fact that she is spending the
winter in Vienna being psychoanal>'zed.
Mad Fleisher Ellinger has a son in the
freshman class at Princeton. Her new address
is 180 East 79th Street, New York City.
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Mary Shipley Allinson's daughter is a Fresh-
man at Bryn Mawr.
Lib Inches has just returned from Jamaica,
which she considers a most beautiful and inter-
esting place. She is disappointed not to find
some news, but hopes for some very soon.
1915 * •
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. James Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Anna Brown sailed for Spain on January
23rd, to be gone for six weeks, part of which
will be spent with Catherine Simpson Andrews.
Mildred Jacobs Coward and her family are
living in Haverford this winter.
Our deep sympathy is extended to Cleora
Sutch, whose mother died unexpectedly on
January 7. Cleora herself had not been well
this fall, and secured leave of absence from
the Scarsdale High School for the first semes-
ter. She took a short Mediterranean cruise
and was on the way back when her mother, at
home, was stricken with a heart attack.
Kitty McCollin Arnett has a part-time job
with the Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom.
Frances Boyer is going to study at Columbia
for her Ph.D. this term, beginning February
7th, and will live in one of the graduate halls
on the campus.
Peggy Free Stone lost her aunt, Mrs. John
Scott Craig, in January. This was the aunt
with whom Peggy had made her home in
Pittsburgh.
The results of the class elections, which
were carried out by mail, are as follows:
President — Adrienne Kenyon Franklin,
1st Vice-President — Elizabeth Smith Wilson.
2nd Vice-President — Florence Hatton Kelton.
Secretary — Katherine McCollin Arnett.
Treasurer — Dorothea May Moore.
Florence Hatton Kelton writes: "I have
again joined the Bryn Mawr Club of Washing-
ton and am living at 3905 Morrison Street,
N. W., Chevy Chase, Washington, D. C. Edwin
is attending the Army War College, all three
children are happily established in school,
while 1, after five years of teaching in a pro-
gressive school in Memphis, am once more a
lady of leisure and enjoying it fully. Our
family circle has been increased by the addi-
tion of one small and lively coal-black Cocker
Spaniel with the proud name of Lady Penelope
of Debonair, whom we hope to rear success-
fully to render a service to her race and to
our exchequer. Meanwhile, to hear our fatu-
ous prattle, you would think that we had a
new baby at the fireside.
"We love it here in Washington as always,
but have no idea whether or not we shall be
here after June, when the course at the War
College, and consequently this detail, end. My
mother has been very ill for months, so I
spent November in Columbus and may return
in February. While there 1 saw Harriet
Sheldon at her school and talked to Adeline
Werner Vorys, who had returned from the
East just as I was leaving.
""I feel honored to hear from Jake (Mildred
Jacobs Coward) that I am 2nd Vice-President
of 1915 — fancy achieving class office at last,
after all these years ! and I am only sorry that 1
cannot help represent the class at the Alumnae
Meeting this time. I hope that if you or any-
one else in 1915 ever find a moment of leisure,
you will come out to see me. . . ."
1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale
Cincinnati, Ohio.
This brings to an end the Reunion notes.
Who knows something about the many not
mentioned therein? And who has some recent
news about those included? Much can happen
between June and February. Isn't that really
the time during which one's status quo is
most likely to undergo a change?
Thompson, Frances — Has five children. One,
a 10-year-old girl, was with her at Reunion.
Thomson, Annis — Is bacteriologist in Depart-
ment of Health, New York City.
Tinker, Elizabeth — Eleanor Hill has seen her.
She has two children.
Wagner, Emilie — Is teaching at Miss Wilson's
School and is very busy socially. Ask Flo
Hitchcock who waited until three to be taken
home from Reunion.
Washburn, Betty — Was on the way to Paris
at Christmas (1932). Has been to Dr. Gren-
fell's the second time.
Werner, Adeline — Is living in a new house.
(Editor's query: What's the address?) Has
three children — two boys, 131/2 and 10, and a
little girl of 4. She is Alumnae Councillor,
which she thinks a great job because it takes
her traveling. (Term expired February, 1934.)
Westheimer, Charlotte — Is the same as ever
and looking marvelous, according to Ad.
Wilson, Edith — Is now Class Collector. Has
one son. Her husband is teaching at New York
University. They have a delightful triplex
apartment on the Hudson opposite the Pali-
sades. Lois Sandison, Anna Lee and Edith
had a private reunion at Edith's last spring.
Wolff, Helene — Flo Hitchcock sees her occa-
sionally.
Worthington, Lilla — Nannie Gail saw her in
New York some time ago. She's as thin as a
rail.
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1917
Class Editor: Bertha C. Greenough
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, R. 1.
Constance Hall Proctor's husband is now at
Muscle Shoals. Con spent Christmas there,
returning to Baltimore in January for their
car. In February she is going back to "the
tiny ^ouse we have rented in Rogersville,
Alabama — thirty miles from any railroad."
Margaret Scattergood has resigned as Class
Collector and Martha Willett has agreed to
serve.
A delightful Christmas card came to your
Class Editor from Ryu Oyaizu in Tokyo. She
sent love and greetings from Japan to all the
members of 1917.
Anna Wildman was married recently to
A. Murray Dyer, and is now living at
27 Federal Street, Springfield, Mass.
1918
Class Editor: Margaret Bacon Carey
(Mrs. H. R. Carey)
3115 Queen Lane, East Falls P. 0., Phila.
NOTICE
I have had a number of replies to the
circular letter which 1 sent out last December
to all the members of the Class, and my
hearty thanks go out to those who replied so
promptly.
The Honor Roll is as follows:
Those who fully expect to attend the Re-
union are: Marjorie Strauss Knauth, Mary
Safford Mumford Hoogewerff, Henrietta Huff,
Lucy Evans Chew, Helen C. Schwartz,
Margaret Bacon Carey, Marjorie Jeffries
Wagoner, Ruth Cheney Streeter, Louise Hodges
Crenshaw, Elsbeth Merck Henry, Rebecca
Rhoads, Margaret Timpson. Others who are
uncertain about their plans, but still hope-
ful are: Alice Newlin, Helen Whitcomb Barss,
Virginia Kneeland Frantz, Marjorie Mackenzie
King, Charlotte Dodge, Katherine Holliday
Daniels.
Jessie Mebane and Gladys Barnett don't ex-
pect to get to Reunion, but were good enough
to answer my letter and send me some news
of themselves. A total of $211 has been prom-
ised toward our Reunion Gift by the people
who have already replied.
I hope that all of you who have not yet
sent word to me will read this notice and at
once take your pens in hand and send me
word. The truth of the matter is that every-
body is so over-worked these days that I doubt
if any of us can devote as much time as they
would like to give to preparations for Reunion.
I, myself, expect to be busily engaged in a
primary campaign until the middle of May,
not that I am running for office for myself,
but merely working for those who are.
It will not be difficult to make arrangements
for Reunion, for everyone in the Class will do
her share promptly by replying to the various
communications which are sent to her, but it
makes our work much more difficult if we
have to send out five or six letters before get-
ting word from you. I know that Marjorie
Strauss feels even more strongly than I do
about this, because it is a long and fussy job
to edit a Class Book, and she can't even begin
on it until you have all sent her your lives.
It is very good of her to take on this job, and
I hope you will all help us as much as possible
by sending a description of your doings as
soon as possible to Mrs. Victor W. Knauth,
37 Washington Square, New York City.
Looking forward to seeing you all this spring.
Cordially yours,
Ruth Cheney Streeter.
The following interesting letter has been
received from Virginia Anderton Lee: "You
asked for news of me for the Class Notes, and
because I do so miss the good old bits that
once did appear in the Bulletin (the Editor
refuses to see the implied sarcasm) I modestly
blush and recount to you my past. In 1931
my husband became one of the jobless, and
still is, for that matter. We had a chance
to rent our house in Connecticut, and early in
1932 I came out here to Milwaukee, where a
friend had given me the opportunity to repre-
sent her in behalf of her summer camp for
girls. That summer I went to the camp as a
member of the" staff, in charge of the more-
or-less domestic side of the organization, and
Jane (now aged 10) went as a camper. It
was a marvelous thing for me, for it took me
back to the kind of life I love best, in the
beloved woods which were the favorite stamp-
ing grounds of my very early youth. That
summer my father was very ill, and the follow-
ing winter and spring, while he was in the
South, I took care of his office and learned a
lot about the farm-land business, which I sup-
pose I should have picked up all through my
life. There is no market for farm lands now,
so our activities are confined to operating
about half a dozen farms with tenant farmers
on a percentage basis, and to wondering where
the next taxes are going to come from. In the
winter months that can be done in an office
in the city, and so Jane can go to the excel-
lent schools in this village where my father
and mother still keep the old home. In the
spring and autumn I spend some time at the
home-farm, and in the summer I am at camp.
(The Joy Camps, Hazelhurst, Wisconsin;
owned and directed by Barbara E. Joy, of
Bar Harbor, ISIaine.) My future seems des-
tined to follow along the same schedule in-
definitely, unless I am lucky enough to find
another job — any kind — for which I am con-
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stantly on the lookout. At my present rate
of income, Jane will never get to Bryn Mawr,
and sadly enough she is no more of the
student than her fond mama, so she 'will
never win herself any scholarships, so I must
earn the filthy lucre! During the first week
of September I had a jolly surprise in the
form of a good visit with Mad Brown (1920).
She is a friend of both the girls who run the
camp. While she was there we had for a
visit Josephine Proudfit Montgomery (1908) —
and the three of us had one grand round of
B. M. songs in front of the camp-fire, much
to the amusement of our post-season group —
all adults and from half a dozen other insti-
tutions of learning. B. M. certainly held its
own on that occasion!"
The Editor has stopped soliciting news from
the Class — partly because it seems to be a
fairly useless proceeding, and partly so that
there will be no competition with Marjorie
Strauss' requests for the Reunion booklet. Any
items received will, of course, be received joy-
fully and handed on promptly for publication.
If you want news in the Bulletin, it's up
to you!
1919
Class Editor: Marjorie Remington Twitchell
(Mrs. Remington Twitchell)
Setauket, N. Y.
Is everyone making plans to return to the
Grand Fifteenth in June? Can't you feel
that irresistible longing calling you back to
campus in the spring? There is nothing can
take the place of old friends in old scenes.
Marguerite Krantz Iwerson has moved from
Scarsdale, N. Y., to 119 Longvue Terrace,
Tuckahoe, N. J.
A little bird has whispered that Mary Ewen
Simpson has taken her family, bag and bag-
gage, to Washington, D. C, to live.
Augusta Blue Randolph is living in
Charlottesville, Va., now.
Hazel Collins Hainsworth writes that they
have moved to Swan Island, Crosse lie, Mich.
"We are at the southwestern end of the island,
where we can look out on Lake Erie, as well
as the Detroit River. We have an ideal loca-
tion."
Edith Howes is teaching school in Rochester,
N. Y., this winter. The museum handbook on
which she has been working in collaboration
with the Metropolitan Museum in New York
for three summers, is now completed.
Peggy Rhoads has gone South for the win-
ter, having resigned her position as Secretary
of the Mission Board after more than nine
years' service.
The Editor had a most delightful luncheon
recently with Winifred Kaufmann Whitehead,
Catherine Everett Noyes, and Harriet Hobbs
Haines, 1918. Having not seen Catherine for
thirteen years, I was thrilled to find her look-
ing just as she did in College — such a dis-
covery is so comforting, especially when look-
ing forward to a Fifteenth Reunion. Cath-
erine's 9-year-old boy already shows artistic
interests. Her husband has been ill for a
long time.
Henry Stambaugh Richner is always the
same. She is a good cook and a weekly
attendant at the matinee.
The Editor has completed her three-year
term as First Reader in church; she is looking
forward also to completing her five-year term
as Editor for 1919 in June. So be thinking
of whom to have as her successor!
1920
Class Editor: Mary Porritt Green
(Mrs. Valentine J. Green)
430 East 57th St., New York City
Millicent Carey Mcintosh has twin sons,
born on Sunday, February 4th. James Henry
Mcintosh weighed 4 lbs. 11 oz., and Rustin
Carey Mcintosh, 5 lbs. 2 oz.
1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelly Erdman
(Mrs. C. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemont Ave., Pasadena, Calif.
The Class extends its sincere sympathy to
Maimie Southall Hall, who lost her mother
last summer after a long illness. Maimie is
back in Hoosick Falls in her old job of relief
worker with the Red Cross, and has even
gotten involved to the point of attending con-
ferences, which, however, she asserts are very
business-like and not at all like women's club
meetings.
Jimmy James Rogers sailed the middle of
January for Montego Bay, Jamaica. She saw
Kat Bradford before she sailed.
Henrietta Baldwin Sperry has a son,
Pierrepont Sperry, Jr., born August 20th.
A nice long letter from Marion Fette pro-
poses a crusade for bigger and better letters
to Class Editors. (May it have many fol-
lowers ! ) She suggests that "maybe some of
the unwilling classmates would write in much
more readily if they realized how eagerly some
of their isolated 'sistern' scan the columns for
news of them." She started as a teacher of
English and Arithmetic in the junior high
school in Hannibal, Mo., then she went on to
senior high school, where she taught English
and Spanish. Last summer she obtained her
M.A. in Spanish from the University of
Chicago, and she is now back in Hannibal as
the whole Romance department, teaching
French and Spanish. In November she was a
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delegate at the convention of the Missouri
State Teachers' Association in St. Louis, and
she is Chairman of many committees in her
local association.
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
106 E. 85th St., New York City.
1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Abbott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York City
By January everyone has her activities well
in hand and can just relax and abandon her-
self to colds and other seasonable ailments and
not bother to make any news. But bits of
information about what you were doing drift
in, and here are four, two first-hand and two
hearsay.
Ruth Beardsley Hufif way back last Novem-
ber was in the midst of a hectic political cam-
paign. "We are just in the eleventh hour,"
she writes, "and if you have ever experienced
a real campaign in headquarters you know it
is no 'pink tea.' I have charge of the wom-
en's division, which, as you know, is the back-
bone of any campaign. The men talk and
the women do the work. The Citizens' League,
which is sponsoring this campaign and for
which 1 am organizer, is made up of the
leading public-spirited citizens of Pittsburgh.
Our Pittsburgh Bryn Mawr Club is a centre
of political discussion. The Citizens' League
is a permanent organization for better govern-
ment, and I have a great deal of satisfaction
in feeling that the work is really constructive."
In addition to her outside interest Ruth has
a husband and son.
Lois Bennett, so we hear, gave up her
apartment in New York and went abroad for
about a year, where she spent her time visiting
and traveling. In December she was back in
America, spending the winter in Brewster,
New York.
Virginia Corse von Eckstadt works in the
mornings in the American Consulate in Port
au Prince. And her small son is thriving, we
are also told.
Katherine Shumway Freas' letter left West
Africa in November and arrived to wish us a
Merry Christmas. After an absence of four
years she and her husband plan to return
home in May. They have had an unusually
busy year, having been left with the entire
responsibility of their station, in addition to
all the medical work. They hope to have
performed, before leaving, the first operation
in part of their new hospital at the new
station. Reviewing the year, Katherine writes:
"In May we had an adventurous trip in our
Ford truck to Leopoldville, where our first
mission conference in three years was held.
Following our return we have spent almost the
entire summer itinerating in the villages. In-
stead of making hurried trips, we planned to
spend one night at least in each of the thirty-
six villages for the semi-annual examination,
for which we are responsible to the govern-
ment. In each of the villages my husband
examined the people and checked up on the
hygienic conditions. I would confer with the
village teacher-preacher in regard to the school
work." On the following morning Katherine
helped the teacher, while her husband dis-
pensed medicine and explained better care of
the children. "Then our seventeen carriers
would pick up their loads, consisting of all
our household and medical equipment, and oflF
we would start for the next village."
Katherine ends with a postscript, "When
do we have Reunion?" which is something
we'd like to know ourself.
The Private Schools Committee in New York
invited Helen Dunbar to talk to the members
of the Junior League and their friends about
the factors in health and disease, based on
observations made at Lourdes, at a meeting
held on Tuesday evening, February 6th.
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Butterworth
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
4fter visiting Portland, Kay Elston Ruggles
has arrived at her mother's ranch in Mexico,
where she will stay indefinitely.
Doris Hawkins Baldwin is tasting the joys
of country life at East Rochester, New York.
After several years in the hotel business, Doris
and her husband are delighted to be settled
in a home.
Instead of visiting England, Kitty Gallwey
Holt has taken a house in Morristown, N. J.
Her daughters, most attractive young ladies,
are becoming experts at ice skating.
Betzie Crowell Kalthenthaler has just
emerged from quarantine for scarlet fever.
Fortunately her child had a light case — and
she is eager to resume her many activities,
such as gym, rhythmic dancing, presiding over
a large Sunday School class, and ha\dng a
good time with her children.
A letter from Plum Fountain says she is
not engaged, rumor to the contrary, but still
working, in New York, with the architectural
firm of Rossiter and Muller. She writes that
Betty Hale Laidlaw is working part time at the
Medical Center, and that Connie Lewis Gibson
will be home from the Philippines the end
of next summer.
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In response to a plea, Pam (Coyne Taylor)
sent the following information: Ailing Arm-
strong Arnold returned from California in
November and is living in Cambridge. Her
daughter Mary is being brought up according
to the most scientific methods.
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallett Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
On the eve of sailing for Egypt and the
Near East for our husband's sabbatical leave,
we are pinch-hitting for the Editor.
We are overcome by the activities of Rachel
Foster Manierre, who is doing ten different
things every other Tuesday and every second
Friday, including presiding at meetings of the
League of Women Voters and singing, besides
the more ordinary activities like bridge and
taxi-ing children to nursery school.
Crit Coney (Mrs. Edward F. D'Arms) is
now at 124 Fulton Avenue, Poughkeepsie.
Write this in pencil, as we are late and she
may move again.
Peggy Pierce (Mrs. Frederick Milholland)
is now living at 3 Greenholm Extension,
Princeton, N. J. Her husband commutes to
Philadelphia and decorates the interiors of
Princeton in his spare time.
Peggy Stewardson Blake and her husband
have left Washington for a two-months' trip to
Ohio. Peggy made us literally gnash our
teeth by announcing that she had rented her
house and moved out of it in 23 hours. We
have done the same in 23 days.
Helen Chisolm Tomkinsi is at the New York
Hospital, having a sudden appendicitis opera-
tion, but is getting on very well.
The Editor will be back next month, so
cheer up!
Nancy Hough Smith.
1926
Class Editor: Harriot Hopkinson
18 East Elm St., Chicago, 111.
Anne Tierney Anderson writes a charming
letter from her husband's present station, 37
Bungalow, Abbottabad, N. W. F. P., India.
She tells of travels and gardens and views,
and of her small daughter, Sara Elizabeth,
born last June at Dalhousie, 6,000 feet above
sea-level. Now they are living at a mere 4,000,
surrounded by English roses and American
zinnias, and Anne, who claims to have been
a mute, sings Bryn Mawr songs to her child
to wake her when she falls asleep over her
meals.
Sophie Sturm Brown is living at Glendale
Road, Park Ridge, N. J. She got a Columbia
M.A. degree last June in French.
Grove Hanschka has a new address — 680
Parker Street, Newark — and a comparatively
new, at least to these columns, child. His
name is Mark, and he was born last July 7th.
Ibby Bostock Bennett's children are grow-
ing up; Edgar is almost 2, and Jane Elizabeth
about four months. From Ibby, indirectly, we
hear that Esther Silveus is a full-fledged
M.D., and in December was looking for a
place to hang out her shingle.
Marjorie Falk Maulbourguet has eluded
these pages for some time. She lives in Paris,
but comes to this country every summer. Last
summer she was at Lake Placid with her
little boy.
Molly Parker has left her job at the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts (her decision, unneces-
sary to say) and is at present a lady of
leisure, keeping her apartment in Boston.
Folly von Erffa has gone abroad for the
rest of the winter. At present she is living
with a German family in Munich, and very
soon we may expect some views on Hitlerism,
which interests her particularly. Her husband,
meanwhile, is pursuing his studies of Islamic
art in Cairo, and Folly will later join him.
Charis Denison, our great Radcliffe anthro-
pologist, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa;
but these laurels are no couch to her, appar-
ently, for still her work goes on.
1927
Class Editor: Ellen or Morris
Berwyn, Pa.
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr.
57 Christopher St., New York City
This is the time for all good classmates to
come to the aid of their editor. What we
mean to say is that our lines of communication
seem to have broken down and we have not a
single bit of gossip to retail. We therefore
seize the opportunity to present some of the
vital statistics of our class, as our records
show them.
We have on our lis^ 114 names of those
who entered with the Class of 1928. Of this
number, so far as we know, 54 are married,
and their children number 35, 18 girls and 17
boys. Seven families have more than one
child, and one has three. During our steward-
ship of these notes, all but six of the people
on our list have received one or more mention
and report of their doings. Remember that,
if you like to read about others, they may
like to hear about you, and the best and most
accurate source of information about you is
yourself. Let's have lots of news next month.
P. S. The response to our plea was prac-
tically instantaneous! The next mail brought
us news for which we have been waiting. We
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take pleasure in announcing the arrival on
January 31 of Ailing Christian Brown, son of
Bertha Ailing and Charles Brown, weighing
seven pounds. We now have 18 girls and 18
boys; who is going to break the deadlock?
1929
Class Editor: Mary L. Williams
210 East 68th St., New York City.
We should be very glad if any one could
send us the addresses of the following:
Catherine Rea, Mary Grace Menaker, Candis
Hall, Elsie Bryant Jack, Elvira de la Vega.
In spite of not knowing her address we
have heard that Mary Grace Menaker is work-
ing on the staff of Fortune.
Elizabeth Ufford has returned to Bryn Mawr
this winter where she is studying for a Ph.D.
in biology.
Susan FitzGerald is in Munich, Germany,
chaperoning the students of the Delaware
Group.
Bips Linn Allen writes: "I am sorry I have
nothing very exciting to report. My baby
daughter, whose birth on March 15th was duly
announced in the Bulletin has become, in the
ordinary course of things, eleven months old,
a beautiful blue-eyed, brown-haired babe, with
a cheery disposition, a ravishing smile and no
talents except the ability to sit up, roll all the
way over, and pull grandpa's glasses, usual in
such infants. The Century of Progress brought
fewer familiar faces than I had hoped, but
Pussy Lambert was here for a few days chap-
eroning a young sister, and announcing the
acquisition of a grand new job as field worker
for the Welfare Division of the Junior League.
There are only three or four of these workers
in all, and Pussy has the responsibility of put-
ting the screws on all the Junior Leagues in
the West and Middle West, so the job is a big
one and will require a lot of travelling about.
I am able to report that the Chicago Junior
League, at least, breathes her name with awe,
and all difficult problems are referred to the
time when 'Miss Lambert will be here.' As far
as I can remember, that is the only sight of a
member of '29 for which I have to thank the
Fair, though friends from other classes, Benjy
Linn, Elinor Amram Nahm (who lunched with
my husband while I was out of town) did turn
up. Betty Fry tantalized me all summer with a
prospective visit, but first an appendix, and
then one thing and another kept her away.
After studying at Columbia Summer School in
the summer, she is back now at a school in
Pittsburgh, teaching history to the 4th, 5th, 6th
and 7th grades in, I firmly believe, a very stim-
ulating manner. To give the Century of Prog-
ress its due, I also have it to thank for a sec-
retarial job which takes from two to three
hours a day, can be done at home, and pays
a living wage."
Ella Poe Cotton informs us that the name of
Barbara Humphreys Richardson's second daugh-
ter is Jennifer, that Peggy Patterson spent the
summer in England, and that Dole Purcell was
at Virginia Beach during that terrific storm on
the coast and in which her brand new car was
washed out of the garage into the sea. As for
herself Ella says that she and her husband
returned from a long trip abroad in October;
they spent a good deal of the summer in Spain,
going to bullfights, and two months in Northern
Africa and Turkey and Asia Minor. They will
be in Washington (D. C.) this winter because
her husband is in the NRA.
1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
The general dearth of 1930 notes in recent
months had two good results in the form of
two unsolicited letters from members of the
class. Some of their items have already ap-
peared in these pages but many were fresh news
for us.
Betsie Baker Smith writes: ". . . since acquir-
ing a Ph.D. from Yale last June and passing
unscathed through two major motor smashes, I
am putting in a fourth winter in New Haven,
this time working in general physiology, with
the title of Research Fellow in Physiology.
That means I have laboratory space and re-
search materials furnished me, but there is no
salary attached so I eat or not as I can borrow
the money. My husband will get his Ph.D. in
June; then we will be faced with the alterna-
tives of finding jobs or joining one of the better
bread lines." She also informs us that Louise
Littlehale has reached her third year at Yale
Law School, and that Lorine Sears Stein and
Charlotte Farquhar Wing's husband are both
working in the Yale library. We congratulate
Betsie on being the first member of the class
to get her Ph.D. If anyone else has one hidden
away she will please correct us.
Connie Cole writes that she and another
person conducted a group of thirty high school
girls and boys through France and Germany
last summer. Next summer they intend to in-
clude Czecho-Slovakia, Switzerland and Austria.
They guarantee lots of fun for a low cost. This
winter, Connie says, she is teaching IMath. at
a high school in Niagara Falls and studying
German.
Nancy Nicholson is studying physics at the
University of Virginia.
1931
Class Editor: Evelyn Waples Bayless
(Mrs. Robert N. Bayless)
301 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn.
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1932
Class Editor: Josephine Graton
182 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.
Priscilla Rawson is studying music at the
Brearley School in New York. Betty Young
is also in New York; she has a part in a play
which will open on Broadway soon. Dodo
Brown is studying at Katherine Gibbs Secre-
tarial School; Betty Knapp is also studying
there. Tuger (Grace) Holden has a steno-
graphic position with a law firm in New York.
Lee Bernheimer has moved her silvercraft
studio from Philadelphia to 241 West 108th
St., New York.
Yvonne Cameron is soon to take two young
children abroad, teaching them French on the
way.
Emma Paxson writes: "I have changed my
plans considerably since I saw you. 1 have
just finished my first term at business college.
I shine some in all but typing, where I have
more or less consistently kept at the end of
the class. My address from now on will be
40 Highgate Road, Berkeley, Calif. I'll be glad
to see any classmates and friends."
Mary Maccoun has announced her engage-
ment to James Francis Graves from Atlanta,
Georgia. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech,
and works for Lanborn and Company, sugar
brokers.
Lucille Shuttleworth has announced her en-
gagement to Theodore Moss, a medical student
in Virginia.
Greta Swenson was married in New York on
December thirtieth to Mr. Kimberly Cheney.
They are living in New Haven. Greta, Dolly
Tyler and Alice Bemis attended Denise
Gallaudet's wedding to Carleton Shurlett
Francis, Jr.
Josephine Gratan has announced her engage-
ment to Philip Chase, and expects to be mar-
ried in April.
Up to date no details are available about the
bridegroom-to-be. He is said to be living in
Texas, and it is known that last summer, when
on that famous Western motor trip, Jo left the
party for some days to go to Texas, ostensibly
for archeological purposes.
By the way, there is supposed to be a
Reunion this year.
1933
Class Editor: Janet Marshall
112 Green Bay Road, Hubbard Woods, 111.
This is a little late for our most important
piece of news, but last month we just missed.
Martha Tipton has announced her engagement
to Joseph Lemuel Johnson, of Nashville, Ten-
nessee. Mr. Johnson is a senior at West Point
and he and Tippy plan to be married June 13
under crossed swords in the West Point Chapel.
We're not quite clear about the swords. Per-
haps that comes after the ceremony, but it all
sounds pretty martial and romantic. Tippy will
give up a magnificent job with Pictorial Pat-
terns to start training herself for the life of
domesticity sometime in March.
We had a Christmas card from Kag Berg,
who says she is not recuperating at home, but
living a life of ennui and irritation in a
"beastly sanitarium," in which she has been
incarcerated since August. Maybe she's out
now, but from the sound of her note, if she
ever escapes it will be only through her own
ingenuity.
Being definitely short of news this month,
we take advantage of our exalted office, and
pad your notes with an account of what goes
on in Chicago. Writing for a magazine isn't
really enough to keep one busy except in
spurts, and about New Year's the habit of four
years won out over a life of ease and sloth,
and the first day of the year found us signing
our soul away in exchange for a few courses
at the University of Chicago. Rose Hatfield
and Anna Martin Findlay turned up here too.
Rose and I (we) live in International House
and are bandied about from communism to
stout republicanism, alternately filled with in-
ternational amity and race prejudice. (This
is really not our province, but Rose is doing
work in Education.) We (I) are trying to
learn how to write plays.
Mary Chase is being flighty about a course
in stenography, and relief work, and French
lessons. She doesn't seem to take naturally to
short-hand and typing, and all she knows about
her classmates is that Anne Funkhouser is not
doing her graduate work in French. It's
German.
We have saved this for the last because it
represents a pretty amazing bit of sleuthing
on our part. One day a few weeks ago, a
Chicago newspaper carried a story about the
ten best-dressed women in America, selected
by Orry-Kelly, a Hollywood dress designer.
Kay Francis and Bette Davis and the former
Irene Castle had their pictures all over the
place, and we read the story to find out the
whys of it all. Down toward the middle of the
list was the name Betty Edwards, Dallas, Texas.
We haven't confirmed this scandal by writing
Betty because it's too good to spoil. We prefer
to go on the assumption that there is only one
Betty Edwards in Dallas and that at last Bryn
Mawr has graduated from the blue stocking
class. We go around telling people we knew
one of the ten best-dressed women in America
when she wore overalls backstage. It's better
than Kate Hepburn.
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ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATIOIN
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895
Vice-President Serena Hand Savage, 1922
Secretary Josephine Young Case, 1928
Treasurer Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909
Chairman of the Finance Committee Virginia Atmore, 1928
T^. . i. T - « /Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins. 1905
Directors at Large •••• \ Alice Sachs Plaut, 1908
ALUMNAE SECRETARY AND BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE BULLETIN
Alice M. Hawkins, 1907
EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN
Marjorib L. Thompson, 1912
DISTRICT COUNCILLORS
District I Mary C. Parker, 1926
District II '. Harriet Price Phipps, 1923
District III Vinton Liddell Pickens, 1922
District IV .Elizabeth Smith Russell, 1915
District V Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912
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District VII Leslie Farwell Hill, 1905
ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
Virginia McKennet Claiborne, 1908 Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 1918
Louise Fleischmann Maclat, 1906 Florance Waterbury, 1905
Gertrude Dietrich Smith, 1903
CHAIRMAN OF THE ALUMNAE FUND
Virginia Atmore, 1928
CHAIRMAN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Ellen FAUiiSNEB, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS AND LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Y. Maguibe, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Dr. Marjorib Strauss Knauth, 1918
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Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, 1898
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Vol. XIV APRIL, 1934 No. 4
The Scholarships Report, which appears in this issue, is always one of the
most interesting of the reports that is presented to the Association. It gives,
expressed in terms of individuals, a graphic picture of what is, perhaps, the most
valuable contribution that we or any other alumnae group can make to a college.
But gifts can sometimes present problems and be a burden. One of the great safe-
guards against embarrassing the College with our generosity is the Loan Fund.
Twenty years ago the majority of the students hardly knew of its existence, and
the alumnae as a whole certainly felt no sense of responsibility about it. With the
development of the scheme of Regional Scholarships, however, the whole situation
has changed. We have come to realize that when it is necessary to lend as much as
$5,561, as the Fund did in 1931, and that many of the applicants are recommended
by the Dean's office, we have as genuine a responsibility toward the Fund as toward
the sending of new scholars to the College each year. In these past years of
financial strain, a fund for emergencies has had to be raised with which the Dean
could help students not of scholarship grade. As Miss Maguire points out in her
report, college and endowed and Regional Scholarships can take care of only the
highest third of the applicants, and yet 140 students now in College are being
helped in some way. Grants and remissions and special scholarships all play their
part. It may not be possible this next year to have as large an emergency fund
as usual, and students, instead of receiving grants, may ratlier have to take out
loans. The Loan Fund is the only thing within the College to which they can turn
to do that. There is no question but that it must be made adequate to meet the calls
upon it. Every alumna should take seriously the request for suggestions how to
augment the Fund; and the financial report submitted by the Committee, if read
understandingly, makes a case that needs no words to strengthen it.
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARSHIPS
AND LOAN FUND
In making the report of the activities of the Committee on Scholarships and
Loan Fund it has generally been the custom for the Chairman to speak first of
Scholarships and secondly of the Loan Fund. This year I want to reverse the
procedure, and change the emphasis, for though the Scholarships situation is as
satisfactory as usual, the Loan Fund has come to a sort of crisis in its existence.
I know that most of the alumnae are definitely and warmly interested in Scholar-
ships; may I commend to your attention the condition of the Loan Fund, which is,
after all, almost as important as Scholarships in our plan for the financial aid of
the students of Bryn Mawr?
As you may remember, the Loan Fund had been lending about $3,000 a year
in 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1929. In 1930, the first year of depression, it increased
its loans to $5,443, and in 1931 to $5,561. In 1932 it lent $4,150, and in 1933 it
has lent $4,110. The repayments in the years between 1926 and 1932 brought in
approximately $2,000 a year. The remainder which was lent in those years was
made up of gifts, of loans to the Loan Fund from alumnae, and of a gift of $1,000
annually from the Parents' Fund. In this way the Loan Fund was just able to take
care of the people who applied, though there was practically no margin, and the
Committee always was haunted by the thought of unexpected demands which could
not be met. However, the Loan Fund did function satisfactorily enough during
those years. We felt that students were repaying their loans with encouraging
promptness, and congratulated ourselves on the fact that very few people were
behind with their repayments. Of course, there was always a small group of people
who owed money, and who apparently had no intention of paying it back, but that
group was the exception and not the rule. This year we must report that the
situation has changed for the worse. Instead of the $2,000 we had expected in
repayments, we had, by the middle of November, only $958 — less than half as much
as usual. Of the 100 people with whom we were doing business at that time, 27
were still in college, and tbere were 17 more whose interest and principal were not
yet due; but there were only 15 people who had kept up on their payments, or who
liad paid in advance, and there were 41 who were behind in payment of both prin-
cipal and interest. Some of these people, we know, are not to blame for their remiss-
ness; tliere are those whose salaries are so small that they need every penny for
their own living expenses, and there are those who are earning nothing. We feel
sure that many of them will make an honest effort to pay their debts when it is
possible for them to do so. But we also know that there are some people who are
earning good salaries who prefer to spend their money in other ways, and therefore
cannot repay their Loan Fund obligations. There is due at this moment $5,674 of
principal and $1,184 of interest, of which perhaps $3,300 may be considered hope-
less of collection and $3,500 should be collectable.
At the Council meeting in November the whole question of collecting these
debts was discussed, and it was suggested that the Councillors or other interested
alumnae might find out what they could about the circumstances of the Loan Fund
delinquents in their Districts, and, if it seemed indicated, might by letters, telephone
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calls, or interviews urge them to continue their payments. We felt that this personal
appeal might carry more weight than the letters sent out with the bills from the
Alumnae Office. This has proved to be the case. The Councillors went at their
rather difficult task with a will, and so successful have they been that since
November more than $800 has been sent in to the fund. There have been several
payments in full of debts which seemed hopeless of collection, and there have been
small payments from people who have promised to continue them. We are extremely
grateful to the Councillors and to the other alumnae who have helped and are
helping the Loan Fund in this way.
This year the Committee decided that it would be of interest to the alumnae to
mimeograph and to distribute at this meeting the Financial Report of the Loan
Fund. You will notice that the report is for the calendar year 1933, and that the
item called Donations is rather remarkably large. The explanation for this is that
the gifts from the Helen Lovell Million Fund, $433.38, and from the Mary Helen
Ritchie Fund, $1,284.09, which were promised in 1932, were actually not turned
over to the Loan Fund until January, 1933. The other donations were from indi-
viduals, $625; from the Class of 1933, $400; from the Undergraduate Association,
$58.80; and from the Parents' Fund, $1,000.
I should like to report that since January 1st, 1934, we have made loans
totaling $205 to three students, and that repayments and interest to the sum of
$613.43 have come in. Therefore today there is a balance on hand in the Loan Fund
of $1,733.14. There are two loans from alumnae which must be repaid during 1934,
and the needs for this year may easily total $4,500, and probably more. We do our
utmost to check up on the requests for loans ; many of them are recommended by the
Dean's office, and no loan is made when there is doubt in any of our minds as to
the student's real financial need.
As you can see, however, in spite of the efforts of all of us, the discrepancy is
still great between what has been repaid to the Loan Fund and what is still owed.
This discrepancy must be made up somehow, by continued stimulation of repay-
ments, by loans to the Loan Fund, and, if possible, by gifts. Suggestions on all
three of these points will be received gladly by the Committee, especially suggestions
of names of alumnae who might be interested in loaning money to tlie Loan Fund
for two years.
If the first part of this report is discouraging, the other side of the picture is
the part having to do with scholarships. In spite of all difficulties, and in the face
of a completely uncertain financial situation, we feel that scholarships are in an
extremely satisfactory state. As you will see in the scholarships statement, the
College has awarded Endowed, Budget, and Special Scholarships, Grants, and
Remissions, for the year 1933-34, to the amount of $41,855. Regional Scholarships
to the amount of $11,555 have been awarded. The grand total of scholarship help
for 1933-34 is, therefore, $53,410. 120 students were given this help. In addition
there are 18 other students who have been given the $100 rooms usually reserved for
scholarship students, and 2 who have been given loans but who are not on tlie
scholarship list. Thus, 140 students out of the 385 undergraduates now in College
are being helped in some way.
Last spring we went through the usual procedure with the 96 applications for
college scholarships for the three upper classes, and again it was evident tliat
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college and Endowed and Regional scholarships could take care of only approxi-
mately the highest third of the applicants. It was felt that something must be done
not only to supplement regular scholarships^ but also to help the less brilliant but
nevertheless perfectly worthy students who needed some financial aid. Dean
Manning set out, as she did last year, to engineer the raising of an Emergency Fund.
This she succeeded so admirably in doing that the sum of $9,450 was raised, $2,000
more than the year before. This money was given by the parents of students, by
the undergraduates themselves, by faculty, by alumnae, and by friends of the
College and of the students in question. The emergency was met once more, and
it is again our proud boast that no really worthy student had to leave College
because of lack of financial help.
The question which will need careful thought this spring is whether or not
there will be the necessity for such a large Emergency Fund to be raised in
addition to the college budget for 1934-35. Probably there must always be a fund
upon which the Dean may draw for help for students not of scholarship grade, or
to supplement scholarships; and generous parents and friends will always be given
the opportunity to contribute to that fund if they like. There was no doubt of the
necessity for helping non-scholarship students to pay college fees in 1932 and 1933,
from the standpoint of the College as well as for the sake of the students. No one
can tell as yet what 1934 will bring in the way of prosperity, but we hope,
earnestly, that by this spring conditions will have improved to such an extent that
there will be less need for financial help to families which have been hard hit for
the last two years.
One heartening sign pointing to less financial strain even now is that only 25
of this year's Freshmen are on scholarships, and 8 more are given $100 rooms, out
of a class of 124, while of last year's Freshman Class 30 were on scholarships, and
10 were given $100 rooms, out of a class of 111. It would seem that this year's
class is going to need 10% less help on its way through College.
It is my own personal belief that if it were known that a large Emergency
Fund is not going to be raised for 1934-35, many students who have hitherto
depended on such help would make an effort to find the money for their own college
fees, instead of leaving Bryn Mawr. In that case the Loan Fund would probably
be called on more heavily than ever — another argument for having a strong Loan
Fund. It is less pleasant and less easy for students to take out loans than to
receive grants from the College, but perhaps it might serve to inculcate a sense of
responsibility. Another point is that students might try to find money in some
other way when they understand that the choice is between borrowing and going
without.
Let me make it perfectly clear that it is only the large Emergency Fund about
which there is the slightest doubt. Of course, scholarships themselves are an integral
part of the college financial plan. If this needs justification, one glance at the
record of the present Senior Class would reassure us. Of the first 10 of the
Class of 1934, 9 are on scholarships, and numbers 11 to 14 are also scholarship
students. It is staggering to think of what the Senior Class would be if these
distinguished students had not been helped to stay in College.
Of all scholarships those most interesting to the alumnae are their own
Regionals. Approximately $12,000 has been awarded this year, a splendid total, in
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spite of the fact that it is somewhat less than last year's amount ($15,050). It
was not surprising to find that in nearly every District the committees felt that
they were unable to raise the amount of money usually awarded. Southern California
and District VI. for the first time in some years are sending no scholars, District V.
is sending 2 instead of 4, District IV. 2 instead of S, Western Pennsylvania is
sending 1 instead of last year's S, Eastern Pennsylvania is being responsible for 4
instead of 5, and even New York and New Jersey have had to cut down somewhat
on their scholarships both in number and amount. Baltimore, on the other hand,
deserves praise for being responsible for one more scholar than last year, and
New England is giving $3,505, only $200 less than the splendid sum it raised last
year.
There is no need for me to go into details about the Regional Scholars them-
selves, except to say that there are 36 this year. Most of them are as usual doing
excellent work, and many are taking their parts in the various extra-curricular
activities which interest them, such as the News Board, Players' Club, or Varsity
Hockey. There are 12 Freshman Regional Scholars this year, some extremely bril-
liant, and 7 of them in the first 20 of the class. We have high hopes that they will
add more distinction than ever to the Regional group.
A contribution which the College itself is making to the community during
these difficult times is the awarding of several Tuition Scholarships to girls living
in the neighborhood, who could not come to College even as non-residents without
some financial help. Four $500 scholarships of this kind were given from the college
budget, and several (5) of $250 and $200. The Directors themselves also gave a
$500 scholarship. In making these awards Bryn Mawr is taking its place with
many other colleges which have adopted a like policy.
To students of the college catalogue it may be of interest to know that the
Mary E. Stevens Scholarship, which used to be of the value of $160 yearly, is now
to be a Tuition Scholarship. A friend of Miss Stevens inherited her estate; the
friend died last year, and the estate now comes to the College, and should bring in
an income of $500 a year. There is a new named scholarship, the Professor James
H. Leuba, raised last year for the first time by the faculty and administration in
honor of Dr. Leuba upon his retirement. This scholarship is not yet completely
funded, but it is hoped to raise enough money to make it a Tuition Scholarship
yearly. The Faculty Show, that high point of college entertainment, was given last
spring for the benefit of this scholarship. It is pleasant to see that year by year a
few more scholarships are being added to the number already existing.
Elizabeth Yarnall Maguire, 1913,
Chairman.
As this number of the Bulletin goes to press, the Scholarships Committee is
engaged in considering the applications for assistance for the year 1934-35. It is
encouraging to note that whereas at this time last year 36.79% of the Freshman
class were among the list of applicants, only 25% of this year's Freshman class
are now asking for financial help.
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LOAN FUND REPORT
Balance, January 1, 1933 : $279.97
Receipts for year 1933:
Repayments of loans by students $1,227.97
Interest on loans 319.39
Interest on bank balances 6.87
Donations 3,801.27
Loans to the Loan Fund 600.00 5,955.50
$6,235.47
Disbursements for year 1933:
Loans to students $4,110.00
Repayments of loans to Loan Fund 800.00
Tax on cheques .76 4,910.76
Balance December 31, 1933 $1,324.71
LOANS TO STUDENTS
Year Repayments on loans
1930 $5,443.50 (loaned to 30 students) $2,466.58
1931 5,561.08 (loaned to 30 students) 2,204.97
1932 4,150.00 (loaned to 29 students) 2,501.89
1933 4,110.00 (loaned to 30 students) 1,227.97
AMOUNTS GIVEN IN SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
1926-27 1927-28 1932-33 1933-34
Undergraduate Scholarships.
Regional $6,500 $7,300 $15,050 $11,555
Endowed 6,130 6,695 8,865 10,785
Given by College
From budget 7,085 7,160 9,380 11,720
From special donations 7,165 8,257 12,480 12,950
Special Grants 3,395 4,200
Remission of $100 of tuition fee 3,100 700 4,900 2,200
$29,980 $30,112 $54,070 $53,410
NUMBER OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
RECEIVING SCHOLARSHIPS OR GRANTS
as Compared with Total Number of Undergraduates
1926-27 1927-28 1932-33 1933-34
Number of undergraduates receiving scholar-
ships or grants or remission of fees 64 65 124 120*
Total number of undergraduate students in
College 381 387 375 385
*In addition to this figure of 120 there are two students receiving; loans who are not on
the scholarship list and 18 additional students have been given the special $100 room rate
which is usually reserved for scholarship students.
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A STUDY OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF ART AND
ARCHAEOLOGY AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE CAREERS OF WOMEN STUDENTS
Courses in art were first organized at Bryn Mawr College thirty-eight 5^ears ago,
although a few lectures on art were given by non-resident Lecturers in the opening-
years of the College. The first courses^ dealing with Greek art and Italian painting,
were established by Professor Richard Norton^, who was later in charge of the
American excavations at Cyrene and Director of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens.
From these original courses have grown the two independent but closely related
departments of the History of Art and of Classical Archaeology. The work begun
by a single professor is now carried on by three full professors, two associate pro-
fessorS; one instructor, one reader, and one demonstrator. The College Calendar
for 1933 lists twenty-two courses for undergraduates and six graduate seminaries.
These courses include not only Classical, Mediaeval, Renaissance and Modern art,
but also introduce the student to the art of the Far East, of Egypt and Mesopotamia.
For some years American Archaeology was also included. The Art Club, a student
organization carried on under the auspices of the Department of the History of Art,
ofi'ers an extra-curricular course in drawing and painting and for some time
Architectural Drawing was offered as an extra-curricular course by the Department
of Archaeology.
The roster of the professors who have given courses in these departments
has included:
^Joseph Clark Hoppin, author of A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases;
Euthymides; A Handbook of Black-Figured Vases, etc.
Caroline Ransom Williams, formerly Associate Curator of the Egyptian Depart-
ment of the Metropolitan Museum, and Honorary Curator of the Egyptian Collection
of the New York Historical Society; author of The Decoration of the Tomb of
Perneb, Studies in Ancient Furniture and a Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in
the New York Historical Society ; ^Corresponding Member of the German Archaeo-
logical Institute in Berlin.
C. Leonard Woolley, Excavator at Carchemish and Ur, Director of the Joint
Expedition to Mesopotamia of the British Museum and University of Pennsylvania
Museum, and author of books on Ur and Sumerian Antiquities.
Lily Ross Taylor, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1912, Professor of Latin at
Bryn Mawr College and Acting Professor in Charge of the School of Classical
Studies at the American Academy in Rome for the year 1931-35, Fellow at the
American Academy in Rome (1917-18; 1919-20); author of The Cults of Ostiaj
Local Cults in Etruria; and The Divinity of the Roman Emperor.
Prentice Duell, of the Oriental Institute in Chicago, author of the Tomba del
Triclinio (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome).
t Deceased.
* Only four American women have been awarded this honor and three of these have been
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Charles H. Morgan, II., of Amherst College^ Annual Professor of the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens (1933-1934).
David M. Robinson, Vickers Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity^ Excavator at Pisidian Antioch and Olynthos; author of volumes on Olynthos,
on Greek Vases, Inscriptions and Sculpture.
William B. Dinsmoor, Professor of Classical Archaeology at Columbia Univer-
sity and Head of the Department of Art; author of the Archons of Athens, and
various books on Architecture.
Helen Huss Parkhurst, A.B. Bryn Mawr 1911; A.M., 1913; Ph.D., 1917;
Lecturer in Art, Bryn Mawr College, 1916-17 ;' Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Barnard College, Columbia University; John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1931-32;
author of Beauty: An Interpretation of Art and the Imaginative Life, New York,
1930.
Helen Fernald, Curator of Far Eastern Art, University of Pennsylvania
Museum, author of many articles on Far Eastern Art, and reviews in Easterfi Art,
Asia, The Illustrated London News, Art and Archaeology, The Journal of the
American Oriental Society, The Museum Journal, etc.
The present members of the department include:
Georgiana Goddard King, Head of the Department of the History of Art since
1912 when it was organized independently, pioneer in the field of Spanish Art;
author of Pre-Romanesque Churches in Spain, Sardinian Painting, The Way of
St. James, Mudejar, and many other works; a Member of the Hispanic Society and
Chairman of the Managing Committee on Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies of the
Archaeological Institute of America.
Ernst Diez, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art,
formerly Assistant in the Department of Mohammedan Art, Kaiser Friedrich
Museum, Berlin, Professor of Oriental Art in the University of Vienna, and author
of Byzantine Mosaics in Greece, Die Kunst der islamischen Volker, Die Kunst
Indiens, Churasanische Baudenhmdler, and other books.
Rhys Carpenter, Head of the Department of Archaeology, Annual Professor at
the American Academy at Rome in 1926-1927 and from 1927 to 1932 Director of
the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; author of The Aesthetic Basis
of Greek Art, The Greeks in Spain, The Sculpture of the Nike Parapet, and the
Humanistic Value of Archaeology ; best known for having discoved "U," one of
the figures of the Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon (Hesperia, II, 1933), also dis-
coverer of the signature of Apollonios, son of Nestor, on the Bronze Boxer, National
Museum of Rome, published in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome;
Martin Classical Lecturer at Oberlin College, 1933, and Charles Eliot Norton
Lecturer of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1933-34, an Honorary Member
of the Greek Archaeological Society, a Member of the German Archaeological
Institute, and Corresponding Member of the Hispanic Society of America.
Mary H. Swindler, member of the Department of Classical Archaeology since
1912, Acting Head of the Department from 1926-1932; author of Ancient Painting,
Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, Corresponding Member
of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, Organizer of the Joint Expedition
of Bryn Mawr College and the Archaeological Institute of America to Cilicia in 1934.
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Valentin Mueller, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, formerly
Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Archaeology in the University of
Berlin, and in 1921-1923 Fellow Traveller of the German Archaeological Institute
at Rome. His best known book is Fruhgriechische Plastik in Griechenland und
Vorderasien. He is a frequent contributor to the Jahrhuch, Athenische Mitteilungen,
Gnomon and the American Journal of Archaeology.
When we turn from the faculty to the careers of former students, we find
their achievements convincing evidence of the effective and stimulating teaching
in these departments. The data^ obtained, though incomplete, give us information
on 196 former students who since leaving Bryn Mawr have been actively engaged
in some work allied with art or archaeology. They have become staff members of
museums, professors and teachers of art, excavators, research students, art critics,
architects, painters, sculptors, commercial artists and workers in arts and crafts.
Twenty-six have held positions in colleges or universities. Of these nine were
students at Bryn Mawr within the last ten years. Among them were:
9 full professors (4 in Classical Departments).
2 assistant professors (1 in Classical Department).
11 authors of monographs or articles in journals such as The Classical
Journal, Classical Philology, The Art Bulletin, Art Studies, etc.
1 Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology.
1 Associate Editor of Latin Notes.
Nineteen are teaching in schools or private classes. Of these seven were students
at Bryn Mawr within the last ten years.
Twenty-five Bryn Mawr women have been connected with important Museums
such as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, University of Pennsylvania Museum;
Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge; Brooklyn
Museum of Art ; Lyman- Allyn Museum at New London ; Mesa Verde National Park
Museum in Colorado.
In this museum group fifteen studied at Bryn Mawr within the last ten years.
Among their interesting activities might be mentioned:
Excavation.
Publication of articles in Museum Journals, Art Magazines, and
popular magazines.
Serving as a Contributing Editor of Parnassus, and winning second
prize of the Intercollegiate Contest of the College Art Association.
Serving as Art Advisor of the Carnegie Corporation.
Nineteen are or have been Excavators. Of these ten were students at Bryn
Mawr within the last ten years. Among them have been:
9 Fellows at the American School of Classical Studies at Atliens.^
4 Fellows at the American Academy in Rome ^ (Latin Majors).
4 Holders of Carnegie Scholarships.^
2 Holders of John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships.^
1 Fellow and 3 Assistants at the Agora excavations at Athens.^
4 Authors of Articles in Hesperia, and the American Journal of
Archaeology.
5 Doctors of Philosophy.
8 Research workers studying for the Ph.D., all students at
Bryn Mawr within the last 10 years.
1 The information was obtained from the College files, the files of the Alumnae Office,
the Class Editors, and from questionnaires sent to former students in the Department of the
History of Art and the Department of Classical Archaeology.
2 These competitive fellowships and scholarships are open to both men and women.
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Two Bryn Mawr students have become librarians of art photographs and
three have been on the staffs of art magazines: The International Studio and The
Arts.
To convey a more vivid impression of the standing of some of these women
we append below a few individual records and quote extracts from authoritative
sources. Space permits us to give this evidence of achievement for a few only^
but it should be indicative of the recognition which Bryn Mawr women have won
in these fields.
Georgiana Goddard King, A.B. Bryn Mawr 1896, A.M. 1897. Extract of
review of her book, Sardinian Painting, Vol. I, The Painters of the Gold Back-
grounds:
"She was one of the first Americans to turn to Spain and to study the art of
the country when it was no easy task to travel to search out the monuments in
their remote hiding places. She was also one of those who blazed the trail among
the artistic discoveries of the Way of St. James. And now she leads us from
Catalonia across the sea to a new province of aesthetic study and delight, Sardinia.
Surely none was better prepared to be our guide. Thoroughly conversant not only
with Spanish but also with Italian Painting (by a constant intercourse of twelve
and twenty-four years respectively, as she tells us in her preface), she possessed
just the proper qualifications of erudition for examining and describing the art
of an island that looked for its inspiration to both countries. . . . The value of
the work is further enhanced by that linking of the artistic development with the
political and cultural history which must today be demanded of any serious study
of painting, sculpture, or architecture." — Chandler R. Post (The Art Bulletin,
June, 1924).
Extract from review of her book Mudejar:
"Those who are familiar with the earlier work of Miss King — which is to say
all students of the history of art — will find in the present volume those same admir-
able qualities which have distinguished its predecessors. In the present book, the
reader will find Miss King at her best — her knowledge of her loved Spain, which
no one knows so well, even broader and mellower, her intellectual curiosity stimu-
latingly omnivorous, and her style showing a marked gain in clarity and force." —
Arthur Kingsley Porter, Saturday Review of Literature, September 29, 1933.
Mary Hamilton Swindler, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr, 1912. Extracts of reviews of
her book. Ancient Painting:
"The work as it stands, is an admirable performance with little to parallel it
in the way of scope and comprehensiveness elsewhere in the publications of American
classical scholars." — (Parnassus, February, 1930.)
"It is impossible to offer anything but the highest praise to the author who
has written and the University that has published, this admirable volume. It is a
veritable treasury of the highest artistic, aesthetic and historical value, and the wide
range of its subject matter will assure for it an honorable place in the libraries
of scholars and institutions whose activities are concerned with the history of art,
of culture and of the specific civilizations with which it deals." — (Journal of
Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. CVI, November, 1930, London.)
"Her book is a marvel both of evocation and of exposition, a highroad into
knowledge." — (Illustrated London News, May 3, 1930.)
In Scrihner's, May, 1930, her book is listed as one of the achievements of
the decade.
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Edith Hall Dohan, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1908, Agnes Hoppin Memorial
Fellow, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 1903-05, Excavator in
Eastern Crete, and Assistant Curator in the Classical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania Museum; Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College, 1923-24; 1926-27; Sem.
II, 1929-30; author of Sphoimgaros, of Vrokastro, and other works on Aegean
Archaeology; Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute in
Berlin. For review of Vrokastro, see Journal of Hellenic Studies, 37, 1917, pp.
130-131; cf. 54, 1934— (article by Miss Lorimer).
Louise Adams Holland, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1920; Lecturer in Latin,
Bryn Mawr College, Sem. II, 1928-30, 1931-32, and 1933-34, Fellow at the
American Academy in Rome, 1922-23; author of The Faliscans in Prehistoric
Times (Papers and monographs of The American Academy in Rome, Vol. V) ;
A Study of the Commerce of Latium^ from the Early Iron Age through the Sixth
Century B.C. Cf. Berliner Philol. Woch. 1925, pp. 1229-32; 1926, pp. 928-32;
A. J. P. 1924.
Marion Lawrence, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1923, Ph.D. Radcliffe, 1932, Fellow of the
Carnegie Institute, 1926-1927, Instructor in Fine Arts, Barnard College, 1929 to
date, author of articles in the Art Bulletin, American Journal of Archaeology, and
Art Studies. Dr. Gerhart Rodenwaldt, in his study "Der Klinensarkophag von
S. Lorenzo" in Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archdologischen Instituts, Vol. 45, 1930,
pp. 116 if., refers to several of Dr. Lawrence's articles on sarcophagi, and com-
mends the value and quality of her work by basing part of his discussion upon
her conclusions. Translation of excerpts from the review by George Stuhlfauth in
Repertorium fur Kunstwissenschaft, Vol. 52, 1931, pp. 165-166, of "Maria Regina,"
in Art Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 4, 1925, pp. 149-161:
"... a short article, but as charming as it is exhaustive. ... It is an excellent
contribution to the Early Christian and Mediaeval iconography of the Virgin Mary.
Although further examples (of this type of Virgin) will inevitably turn up, the
author may rest assured that they will not alter anything of significance in her
conclusions."
Other reviews may be found by:
Weigand, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 28, 1928, p. 467, on "City-Gate
Sarcophagi."
Deshoulieres, in Bulletin Monumental, 89, 1930, p. 392, on "The Mantua
Sarcophagus."
Helen Burwell Chapin, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1915, Assistant in the Department
of Chinese and Japanese Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1917-1924, now
Assistant in the Japanese Collection, Columbia University Library, author of sev-
eral articles published in The Art Bulletin, Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, Journal of
the American Oriental Society and the American Magazine of Art; she spent
several years of study in the Orient, traveling extensively in China, Japan and
Korea. On her return she was able to decipher characters at the British ^luseum
and to identify divinities not previously recognized. Mr. Waley, of the British
Museum, in his catalogue of Paintings Recovered from Tun-huang by Sir Aurel
Stein, K. C. I. E., has acknowledged her help.
Agnes Mongan, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1927, A. M. Smith College, 1929, Research
Assistant to Professor Paul J. Sachs at the Fogg Art Museum since 1928 and in
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charge of the drawing collection; author of articles published in Fogg Art Museum
Bulletins^ in old Master Drawings and the American Magazine of Art, now assist-
ing Professor Sachs in preparing a Catalogue Raisonne of Old Master Drawings
at Harvard. Professor Sachs has written of her:
"Agnes Mongan is by far the ablest graduate student with whom I have ever
come in contact. She combines a wealth of factual information with powers of
discrimination that are rare^ indeed. I am quite satisfied that she knows more
about Old Master Drawings than anyone else in this country, and I predict for
her a brilliant career as a scholar.
■\Lida Shaw King, g. 1899-1900; co-author of Corinth, Vol. I, Pt. 1, Decorated
Architectural Terracottas, 1929.
Dorothy Cox, u. Bryn Mawr, 1910-1913, Assistant to the Curator of the Numis-
matic Museum, New York, author of the studies. The Caparelli Hoard and The
Tripolis Hoard of French Seignorial and Crusader's Coins, published as Monographs
of the American Numismatic Society, 1933; architect of the following excavations:
at the Argive Heraeum, three years ; at Eutresis in Boeotia, three years ; at Colophon,
near Smyrna, one year; at Cyprus, one year; at Troy, one year.
Agnes Newhall Stillwell, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1927, Fellow of the Carnegie
Corporation, 1927-28; Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens,
1928-29; writer on her excavations in the Kerameikos at Corinth in the American
Journal of Archaeology, now preparing to publish a volume on Corinthian pottery.
Her work is widely recognized and quoted by both European and American scholars.
Dorothy Burr, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1923, Fellow of the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens, 1924-25; Agora Fellow, 1931-34; author of "A Geo-
metric House and a Proto- Attic Votive Deposit," Hesperia, II, 1933, and of other
articles in Hesperia and the American Journal of Archaeology. Credited by Swedish
archaeologists with the discovery of the Tombs at Dendra, A. Persson, The Royal
Tombs at Dendra near Midea, 1931, p. 8.
Lucy T. Shoe, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1927, A.M., 1928, Special Fellow of the
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1930; author of A Box of Antiqui-
ties from Corinth, Hesperia, I, pp. 56 ff; studying in Greece from 1929 to 1934
on Greek Mouldings.
Mary Zelia Pease, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1927; Ph.D., 1933, Fellow of the
Archaeological Institute of America, 1928-29; Martin Kellogg Fellow in Classics,
Yale University, 1929-30, Research Fellow, American School of Classical Studies,
Athens, 1932-33, has prepared for publication, Greek Vases in the Collection of
Albert Gallatin, New York City.
Agnes Kirsopp Lake, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1930, Fellow of the American Academy
in Rome, 1931-33, Excavated at Minturnae, Spring, 1933.
In the realm of creative and applied art, the College can take no credit for
direct training, but who can tell how much inspiration may have come from the
Bryn Mawr class rooms? In any case the information on Bryn Mawr women
engaged in creative art or in handicraft is interesting to Bryn Mawr Alumnae.
In commercial arts and handicraft our range of talent is wide. There are ten
professional photographers, twelve landscape gardeners, seven interior decorators,
one shop-window dresser, one designer of model doll houses, two stage costume
designers, one designer of textiles, one of fancy paper, one designer of Christmas
t Deceased.
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cards, one maker of jewelry, one silversmith, one maker of furniture, and three
who restore antiques.
There are thirty-three painters, several of real eminence, who have held one-
man shows and have won prizes at general exhibitions, five teachers of painting,
eight architects, six students of architecture, six sculptors, two etchers, and two
illustrators.
Well known among these artists are:
Dorothy Ochtman, painter, A.B. Smith College, 1914; graduate student Bryn
Mawr College, 1916-18; Guggenheim Fellow, European study, 1927-28; awarded
Julia A. Shaw prize, Nat. Acad, of Design, 1921; 3rd Hallgarten prize, Nat.
Acad. Design, 1924, 1st prize, Expn. Women's Arts and Industries, 1927; 3rd prize
Greenwich Soc. of Artists, 1930; A. N. A. 1929; member Nat. Ass'n Women
Painters and Sculptors, Allied Artists America, Grand Central Art Galleries, New
York Soc. Painters, Greenwich Soc. Artists.
Rhys Ca'parn, u. Bryn Mawr, 1927-1929, studied in Paris under Edouard
Navellier and later at the Ecole d'Art in New York. She had a torso on exhibit
last summer at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and last November had a one-man
exhibit at the Delphic Studios in New York. A. Archipenko has written of her
work as follows:
"The idealism of Rhys Caparn and her love for the spiritual permit her to
create a new form in sculpture, without losing her ability to sculp in naturalistic
form when she so desires.
**She passed through careful and profound academical studies, but her inventive
mind guides her to a new conception of sculpture. . . .
"Rhys Caparn is the first woman in America who had enough courage to use
the new combinations of form and line for self-expression. And in this combination
it is easy to recognize the feeling which we often find in the music of Chopin."
In order that a more comprehensive view may be gained of what Bryn Mawr
women have accomplished in Art, Archaeology, and related subjects, the following
women who did not study in the Departments of Art and Archaeology but who
have gained distinction in their own fields, are cited.
In the field of Creative Art:
Florance Waterhury, A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1905; student of painting
with Charles Hawthorne in New York City, 1911-12, and in Paris, 1913-14; student
of drawing with the late Georges Noel in Rome, 1913; student of portrait painting
with Cecilia Beaux, 1919-20; student of the Chinese method of painting with the
late Kung Pah King in Peking, 1922-23; has held exhibitions in New York City,
1922, 1924, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1932, in Peking, 1923; Bryn Mawr, 1924;
Denver and Terre Haute, 1930; Princeton, 1932; many summer exhibitions at
Provincetown.
Isabel Cooper Mahaffie, u. Bryn Mawr, 1909-10, sometime artist of the Beebe
Expeditions, illustrator of Galapagos.
Marian Macintosh, A.B. 1890, paintings exhibited by such organizations as
the Chicago Art Institute, the New York Academy of Design, the Cincinnati
Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy.
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Edith Longstreth Wood, A.B. Bryn Mawi*^ 1905, studied at the Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia, at the Breckenridge School, Gloucester, Massachusetts;
in 1927 held a Cresson Travelling Scholarship in Europe; in 1928 studied at the
Academie Scandinave in Paris; worked with Hans Hoffman of Munich; exhibited
oils, watercolors, lithographs and other black and white media at the Philadelphia
Academy, the National Academy in New York, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington
and the La Jolla Gallery and San Diego Art Museum in California, the North
Shore Exhibition at Gloucester and various Philadelphia art clubs; received a silver
medal for oils, an honorable mention for oils and a silver medal for watercolors
at the Plastic Club.
In the field of Anthropology:
Mrs. Carl Aheley {Mary L. Johe) g. 1901-03, Explorer, Advisor, Akeley
African Hall, American Museum of Natural History, New York City; author of
Lions, Gorillas and Their Neighbors and Carl Akeley' s Africa.
Frederica de Laguna, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1927; Ph.D. Columbia, 1933;
Excavator, Assistant in the American Department of the University Museum of
Pennsylvania; one of the Directors of the Joint Danish National Museum and
University Museum expedition to Alaska, 1933, and Leader of expeditions to
Alaska in 1930, 1931 and 1932 for the University Museum; author of articles in
the Illustrated London News, Museum Journal, American Journal of Archaeology,
American Anthropologist and on Eskimo Cave-Paintings in the Journal de la
Societe des Americanistes.
In the field of Archaeological Excavation:
Hetty Goldman, Director of Bryn Mawr's first excavation which begins work
this spring, under the joint auspices of Bryn Mawr College and the Archaeological
Institute of America, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1903, Ph.D. Radcliffe, 1916, Holder of the
Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship for Greece, 1910-12, Field Director of the Fogg Art
Museum, excavated with Alice Leslie Walker Kosmopoulous the site of Halae in
Locris; excavated both the site of Colphon in Asia Minor and the site of Eutresis in
Boeotia under the auspices of the Fogg Art Museum in cooperation with the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens, represented the Fogg Art Museum at the
excavations at Starcevo on the Danube under the joint auspices of the Fogg Art
Museum, the Peabody Museum and the American School of Prehistoric Research;
author of Excavations at Eutresis, Boeotia and The Oresteia of Aeschylus as
Illustrated by Greek Vase Paintings, as well as many articles contributed to the
American Journal of Archaeology, The Bulletin of the American School of Pre-
historic Research, and other publications. Extract of review of her book on
Eutresis:
"The book might well serve as a model for the publication of excavations of
this kind. Eutresis is the first prehistoric site in Boeotia to be adequately excavated
and adequately published, and Miss Goldman's book closes a gap of long standing
in our knowledge of the Bronze Age in Central Greece. We owe her hearty thanks
and congratulations." — (Carl Blegen, American Journal of Archaeology, April- June,
1932.)
Compiled by the Academic Committee.
Ellen Faulkner, Chairman.
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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE
President Park sends the following message to the alumnae in regard to the
Alumnae Fund:
"In these two lean years of dismal economies and cut salaries^ what have the
gifts of the graduates of Bryn Mawr to the College done?
"They have made it possible for many able girls to get a solid and I hope
useful education; they have built up reduced salaries of the faculty and staff; they
have through the President's Fund opened a purse from which a hundred small
services making for efficiency and contentment at the College can be paid for.
Indirectly they have injected courage and confidence in us all. The thread which
the alumnae contribute to the College loom is woven into every campus pattern.
I am sometimes sorry it is not recognizable in one clear figure — this is not possible
because it is even more important — a part of all the figures of the pattern."
ANNOUNCEMENT OF GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
On March 16th President Park announced awards of two European fellowships
to members of the present Graduate School. The Fanny Bullock Workman Fellow-
ship was awarded to Maude M. Frame, A.B. University of Pennsylvania, 1927,
now working at Bryn Mawr in the Departments of Philosophy and History of Art;
and the Mary E. Garrett Fellowship to Hope Broome, A.B. Mount Holyoke, 1927;
A.M. Bryn Mawr, 1931; now Fellow in Biblical Literature at Bryn Mawr.
Among the other announcements which were made, the following will be of
special interest to readers of the Bulletin. Resident Fellowships at Bryn Mawr
for the year 1934-35 were awarded in Biology to Elizabeth Ufford, 1929; in
Archaeology to Jeannette Le Saulnier, 1933; in Education to Joyce Ilott, 1933; in
English to Dorothy Buchanan, A.M. Bryn Mawr, 1931; in Greek to Emily Grace,
1933; in History of Art (for the second time) to Marianna Jenkins, 1931 ; in Latin
to Susan Savage, 1933; in Psychology to Charlotte Balough, 1933.
President Park read a list of the students who so far have maintained a
cum laude average. The Class of 1934 has 41% of its members on this Honor Roll;
the Class of 1935 has 32%; the Class of 1936 has 23%; the Class of 1937 has
19%. Twenty-two of the present Regional Scholars and six others who entered
as Regional Scholars are represented in this group. The following daughters of
alumnae are included:
Daughter Mother
Janet Barber, 1934 Lucy Lombardi, 1904
Margaret Dannenbaum, 1931 Gertrude Gimbel, 1911
Eva Levin, 1934 Bertha Szold, 1895
Evelyn Patterson, 1934 EveljTi Holliday, 1904
Margaret Righter, 1934 Ren^e Mitchell,* 1900
Phyllis Goodhart, 1935 Marjorie Walter, 1912
Frederica Bellamy, 1936 Frederica Le Fevre, 1905
Betty Bock, 1936 Stella Nathan, 1908
Caroline Brown, 1936 .. Anna Hartshorne, 1912
Barbara Gary, 1936 Margaret Reeve, 1907
Eleanor Fabyan, 1936 .. Eleanor McCormick, 1904
Louise Dickey, 1937 Louise Atherton, 1903
Sylvia Evans, 1937 Sylvia Hathaway, 1913
Esther Hardenbergh, 1937 Margaret Nichols, 1905
Margaret Jackson, 1937 Elizabeth Jackson, 1897
Kathryn Jacoby, 1937 .. Helen Lowengrund, 1906
Eleanore Tobin, 1937 Helen Roche, 1907
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SUMMARY OF ALUMNAE FUND FOR 1933
No. in
No. of
Percentage
Undesignated
Designated
Contributions
Total
Class
Class
Contributors
of Class
Contributions
Contributed
Ph.D.'s
116
32
27.5
$191.50
$50:00
$241.50
M.A.'s
122
15
12.2
154.00
154.00
Grad. Students
(A. A. members) .
57
15
26.3
47.00
47.00
1889
28
8
28.5
60.00
300.66
360.00
1890
8
7
87.5
40.00
40.00
1891
15
3
20.
60.00
60.00
1892
22
8
36.3
71.00
5.00
76.00
1893
35
10
28.5
112.00
112.00
1894
39
10
25.6
75.50
75.50
1895
30
16
53.3
292.50
292.50
1896
62
32
51.6
- 327.50
327.50
1897
70
28
40.
418.50
315.85
734.35
1898
55
10
18.1
440.00
440.00
1899
59
17
28.8
217.00
217.00
1900
63
23
36.5
305.00
305.00
1901
83
18
21.6
261.50
261.50
1902
74
29
39.1
383.00
383.00
1903
110
20
18.1
299.50
100.00
399.50
1904
91
27
29.6
280.79
280.79
1905
114
27
23.6
338.00
232.48
570.48
1906
72
29
40.2
1,429.00
300.00
1,729.00
1907
113
37
32.7
301.00
301.00
1908
97
24
24.7
357.00
357.00
1909
100
19
19.
145.25
145.25
1910
85
23
27.
208.30
208.30
1911.
85
30
35.2
214.00
214.00
1912
94
21
22.3
154.00
154.00
1913
104
35
33.6
405.93
200.00
605.93
1914
106
48
45.2
557.00
557.00
1915
125
33
26.4
283.50
283.50
1916
104
32
30.7
237.00
10.00
247.00
1917
112
18
16.
134.00
134.00
1918
95
17
17.8
259.00
259.00
1919
117
26
22.2
246.00
246.00
1920
106
28
26.4
325.50
325.50
1921
134
28
20.8
276.00
276.00
1922
97
23
23.7
313.00
313.00
1923
103
13
12.6
189.00
200.66
389.00
1924
115
17
14.7
199.00
199.00
1925
111
10
9.
60.00
60.00
1926
125
21
16.8
120.00
120.00
1927
125
17
13.6
113.00
113.00
1928
115
8
6.9
119.00
119.00
1929
106
16
15.
87.00
87.00
1930
125
19
15.2
172.00
172.00
1931
116
22
18.9
293.98
100.00
393.98
1932
128
31
24.2
443.00
443.00
1933
123
7
5.6
29.00
29.00
4,291
1,007
....
$12,044.75
$1,813.33
$13,858.08
Total Class Collections for 1933
Group Contributions for Scholarships
Special Scholarships (donations from outsiders)
Miscellaneous (including $500 profit on Bryn Mawr Plates)
Total Contributions through Alumnae Fund
Donations to Loan Fund
Total Contributed in 1933
$13,858.08
11,656.50
902.71
632.15
$27,049.44
1,025.00
$28,074.44
ANALYSIS OF ALUMNAE FUND FOR 1933
Payments on Music Endowment and Auditorium pledges $32.48
Furnishings for Goodhart Hall (payments on pledges) 10.00
Interest on 1898 Portrait Fund 132.15
Microscope Fund, Class 1931 100.00
Books for Library:
Archaeology Department $300.00
Margaret Nichols Smith Memorial Fund, 1897. . . 265.85
• 565.85
Special Scholarships 2,007.71
Regional Scholarships 1 1,656.50
District I. ($500.00 additional sent direct to College) . . $3,005.00
District II. :
New York $1,700.00
New Jersey 1,000.00
Eastern Pennsylvania
payment for 1932-33 $400.
" 1933-34 1,400.
1,800.00
Western Pennsylvania 200.00
4,700.00
District III.:
Baltimore $850.00
Washington 400.00
South 500.00
1,750.00
District IV 751.50
District V 800.00
District VI. (payment for 1932-33) 100.00
District VII. :
Northern California $3CX).00
Southern California (payment for
1932-33) 250.00
550.00
President Park's Fund 1,000.00
Rhoads Scholarship 250.00
Alumnae Association Expenses (of this $500 came from profit on
Bryn Mawr Plates) 4,097.92
Surplus :
Appropriated for Register or Address Book $196.83
Appropriated for Academic Purposes 7,000.00
7,196.83
$27,049.44
Donations to Loan Fund 1 ,025.00
Total Contributed in 1933 $28,074.44
COMPARISON OF ALUMNAE FUND RECEIPTS
*No. of Contributions to Contributions to Other Designated
Year Contributors Undesignated Fund Scholarship & Loan Fund Contributions TOTAL
1933 1007 $12,044.75 $14,639.21 $1,340.48 $28,074.44
1932 948 12,096.13 18,548.20 2,230.53 32,874.86
* Contributors to Regional Scholarships not included, although amount contributed is
incorporated in figures given.
BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE BULLEXIN
BALLOT
[The Nominating Committee has prepared the following ballot, which is here
presented for the consideration of the Association. According to the By-laws,
additional nominations may be filed with the Alumnae Secretary before May 1st.]
ALUMNAE DIRECTOR
(For term of office 1934-39)
Bachrach
ELEANOR LITTLE ALDRICH, 1905
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
Boston, Massachusetts
Councillor for District I. of the Alumnae Association, 1925-28; Chairman of Nominating
Committee, 1928-32; Member of Regional Scholarships Committee since 1925, and Chairman
of this committee since 1929.
Nominated by the Nominating Committee.
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, 1898, Chairman.
Olga Kelly, 1913.
Evelyn Holt Lowry, 1909.
Katharine Walker Bradford, 1921.
Julia Lee McDill, 1927.
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POETRY ON THE CAMPUS
Reprinted in part from the College News, March l//.th
The modestly entitled Afternoon of Poetry, held at the Deanery on Tuesday,
March 13th, was in our opinion from start to finish an unqualified success. The
reading proved conclusively that creative effort is not dead or dying on the campus,
but that on the contrary fine, finished verse is being produced by our own fellow-
classmates under our very noses.
The six undergraduates who read their verses are well known to us in other
spheres of college activity on the Lantern, in Dramatics, on the News. Three of
them come from the Junior class, two from the Sophomore, and one from the Senior.
Miss Donnelly introduced the poets by recalling the wish of Miss Thomas that
there might always be a school of poets on the Bryn Mawr campus. Never has
that wish come more near fulfillment than at the present time. The conviction of
us who are naturally partial to our poets is borne out by the comment of James
Stephens, who, when he was here to lecture, read poems produced by students and
gave them high praise, both here and in other places. The proportion of poetry to
prose in the Lantern has always been remarkably high; the popularity of the
Poetry Club and the prospect of a larger Poetry-Speaking Society in the near
future promise well for the development on the campus of an increasing interest in
poetry and the modern poets.
The most striking thing about the undergraduate verse as a whole was its
restraint, the conscious discipline of form to which it was submitted. Verily free
verse has had its day and is no more. The present generation seems particularly
devoted to the sonnet-form, with the precise checks and balances which it requires.
Stanzas of short rhyming lines appeared also popular, to judge by the reading.
Elizabeth Wyckoff, '36, opened the reading with a sonnet, Jeanne d'Arc,
smooth in form and with striking pictorial effects.
Following Miss Wyckoff, Evelyn Thompson, '35, read three poems. My Prince,
Wish, and The Orb. The delicacy of feeling and the sway of the rhythm in these
was very good. Geraldine Rhoads, '35, read one piece, Jacob's Ladder, which in
idea and expression was more strongly rendered than the poems which came before.
Clara Frances Grant, '34, read her verses. Idol and Nocturne. The mood of
these was complex and somewhat difficult. The imagery in the first was particularly
fine. Gerta Franchot, '35, showed more versatility of tone in the poems she read
than any of the other undergraduate poets. Her protest against being reproached
with flippancy, A Cautionary Tale for a Humorist and His Airs, was cleverly
satirical, using unexpected rhymes to great effect.
Margaret Kidder, '36, closed the undergraduate reading Avith her Song at
Sixteen, really written at that age. The atmosphere of critical maturity which she
created in the poem was delightful. She confirmed the conviction which had been
growing on us as we listened to the reading, that the undergraduates, who feel
themselves at lall endowed with the poetic instinct, are working very hard for
clear, restrained expression and mastery of form.
Following the undergraduates, Hortense Flexner King, of the English Depart-
ment, and Lysbeth Boyd Borie, of the Class of 1925, read numerous selections from
their published and unpublished verse. Both were enthusiastically enchored.
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CAMPUS NOTES
By J. S. Hannan
During the snowy month of February^ Bryn Mawr came the closest it ever will
to having a winter sports carnival^ ice-hockey team, and all the attractions of a
winter sports resort. Skis and sleds lay around the halls in a marvelous profusion,
and ski-boots became the popular footwear, one outsize pair appearing at Pembroke
Hall tea. The intramural activity was not, however, wholly confined to sleigh-
riding, for an unusual number of singers, lecturers and miscellaneous visitors man-
aged to fight their way through the snow walls and into Goodhart and the Deanery.
To the Princeton Glee Club and the Vienna Choir Boys must go the prize for
being the largest groups to get through from civilization — and with scarcely a man
missing. The college at large seemed more enthusiastic about the Choir Boys than
the Glee Club. Although the dance after Glee Club was well attended, we heard
louder cooing over the ten-year-olds of the Vienna Choir than over their slightly
older rivals. A comparison of the headlines of the News reviews, as good a summary
of either group as one could find, may cast a revealing light on the object of our
preferences. The Choir Boys: "Passionless Clarity, Sweetness, Precision, and Flex-
ibility Mark Singing." The Princeton Glee Club: "Concert Was Punctuated by
Unsophisticated Farce of Underclassmen; Virility is Emphasized." Yet, as we said,
the attendance at the dance was large and everyone looked quite happy.
Our literary celebrity of the month was Shane Leslie, an authority on Swift,
and an authority with a great deal of charm as well as the usual quota of learning.
Not content with hearing him in Goodhart only, the English classes dragged him
into the classroom and made him tell more of Swift and Stella. Apparently eager
listeners were hanging from the rafters in Room F, for most of the 12 o'clock
classes were made up of rows of empty seats, vacated by those who thirsted after
Swiftiana. Our other literary celebrity was Margaret Ayer Barnes, who, in the
words of the News, directed "a sort of symposium for the members of the College
interested in writing." The story of her own initiation into writing novels served
as a means of giving advice to the undergraduate who "wants to write something."
Her theory that playwriting is valuable to the novel writer as discipline in a
stylized form came as encouraging news to the playwriting class; if they cannot
write the famous and non-existent Great American Play, they may be able to fall
back on the novel form.
Three lectures during the month of February that attracted a large attendance
were those given by Miss G. G. King, head of the History of Art Department;
Dr. Herben, of the English Department, and Mr. Edward M. M. Warburg, for-
merly of the History of Art Department. Miss King spoke on Gertrude Stein,
whom she knows personally, and on her work, which she also knows very well.
Parallels drawn from French painting were used to explain Gertrude Stein's work
to a rather baffled audience; and a denial that Miss Stein uses, or ever used auto-
matic writing was made by Miss King in answer to the article in the Atlantic
Monthly which labeled her as an automatic writer. Following Miss King's talk on
Gertrude Stein, there seemed to be a sudden renewal of interest in her rather
esoteric work, for, as we know from experience, all the library copies of Gertrude
Stein's books were removed for weeks on end by seekers after more Stein.
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Mr. Warburg^ whom most of the College remembers as Ed Wynn in the
Faculty Show last spring, returned to our midst to give a very serious talk on
"The Artist in the World Today." As he is now working in the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, he possesses an unequaled opportunity of diagnosing
the troubles that afflict the modern artist, and one in particular, the lack of connec-
tion between good art and the living wage. He emphasized the need of propaganda
by the scholar in art to make the public conscious of really great work. "The
purpose of art education," said Mr. Warburg, "must be to establish a class that is
not dependent on personal opinion alone, but can also recognize the opinion of the
scholar, and acquire a vision of real art." He pointed out that the graduate of
Bryn Mawr who is "interested in modern art" could not do better than to lend
herself to such work of propaganda, thus putting to use what she has learned as
an undergraduate and helping the poor artist at one and tlie same time. Mr.
Warburg did a very efficient bit of propaganda himself and it will be interesting to
see whether his suggestion will bear fruit.
The lecture given by Dr. Herben as an introduction to an exhibit of Oxford
printing in the Deanery also concerned the dissemination of scholarship. The inter-
esting and careful lecture which Dr. Herben gave proved again that after all, most
of the best lectures in Bryn Mawr are given by our own professors, with, of course,
a few brilliant exceptions. If the professors of Bryn Mawr emerged from their
classrooms more often, the campus, as indicated by the large attendance at the
above three lectures, would be only too willing to hear them ; more willing, perhaps,
than to attend a lecture given by an unknown quantity.
The Freshmen, after scrapping one show which promised to have a succes de
scandale, finally pulled themselves together and gave a melodious melodrama called
Never Darken My Doors Again. The Little Nell of the show was a Bryn Mawr
girl, and the villain a "sneak from the Greeks." The plot was laid in some inde-
terminate period when everyone wore bustles and when, supposedly. President Park
and Dean Manning were in college together; for they appeared in the show as
denizens of the campus at that time. The Freshmen not only had the distinction
of putting on a funny show which everyone talked about, but also succeeded in
concealing the identity of their animal — a green turtle. We onlj'^ hope that they can
control themselves in the face of such dazzling success.
DOINGS OF ALUMNAE
SYLVIA BOWDITCH, 1933, TELLS OF HER WORK AS COURIER WITH
THE FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE
Reprinted in part from the Boston Sundaj/ Herald.
A courier is really a sort of general errand boy. We do all sorts of jobs, from
getting the horses saddled to taking children to the hospital. The Frontier Nursing
Service covers 700 square miles of that country, and since there are only 30 nurses
you can see that we were all pretty busy. Some time at the end of the day we'd
literally flop into bed, we were so tired. But the next morning with so much to be
done we'd all be just as eager as ever.
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Just imagine a heavily wooded country where the cabins are sometimes miles
apart — where radios and telephones don't exist and where the natives would look
at you with blank expressions if you asked them who Greta Garbo was. It's almost
like going to a foreign country. But all the people are very friendly and nice.
As you ride along one trail you may go for miles before you meet a single person^
but when you do^ there is one universal greeting — Howdee! They all know the
frontier nurses and what they do. In the morning the courier and I cleaned the
horses and got them all ready for anyone who might be making a trip that day.
There are several dogs at our place^, and when they see the horses being saddled
they start right out all ready for a long trip. I don't see why they don't get
exhausted, but apparently there's something in that mountain country that gives
them very great energy. They would trot along beside the horses for miles and
miles. Sometimes we'd lose them as they darted after a squirrel, but they'd soon
turn up again. One day the nurse and I were visiting a woman who had a bad case
of influenza. We had a hard time making her stay in bed to begin with. The women
are terribly energetic, and unless we actually force them to go to bed they want to
be up working. When you realize that hundreds of families have six or seven
children and more, j^ou can see why the mother knows that she has to get things
done. This woman's oldest girl was 12, so we convinced the mother that she could
take care of the house for a while. The little girl looked quite amenable, and I
think that this idea gradually spread into other cabins, because later on I visited
several where young children were washing, dressing and cooking for their younger
brothers and sisters while the mother was ill.
The place is overrun with children. Most of the people just keep right on
having them. The mothers and fathers have grown up in large families themselves
and it seems to be the thing to do. Family feeling is very strong, and it's quite
nice to see the way the brothers and sisters stay together and help each other.
One day I was taking a woman home from the hospital. We were miles away from
her cabin when suddenly in the path before us I saw something that! looked at first
like a little white pig. Gradually the form came nearer and through the trees we
discovered that it was her small son who had come a long way to welcome his
mother. "Paw" had told him his "Mom" was coming home, he said, and he wanted
to be the first to see her.
You can't imagine how rough the little cabins are, — just one big room, with
two beds usually, and a little stove. Many of them haven't even oil lamps, so, when
it gets dark, the people go to bed. They have no clocks or watches because they
just don't need them. When I was there they told me a funny story about one man
who, after he had been in bed some time, was awakened by a cock crowing. Though
he still felt a little sleepy he got up, dressed and went on the front porch to watch
the sun rise. Then he fell asleep. When he woke up again he was extremely stiff
and wondered why. It was still dark, but getting lighter all the time. That morning
one of his neighbors asked him if he had heard the cock crow the night before. The
neighbor explained that it was frightened by a gun, and when the two men com-
pared notes they found that it must have been around 10 o'clock when he had
gotten up.
For Christmas celebration the people collect armfuls of holly, and it's lovely.
But as for presents, they just didn't know anything about it until the Frontier
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nurses came in there some years ago. Then^ when people from outside were so
nice about sending down gifts or money, the children and grown-ups had a wonder-
ful time. We were quite busy before Christmas sorting these presents and finding
out what districts wanted more boys' presents and which ones needed dolls, and so
on. You should have seen the expressions on the children's faces when they opened
their parcels. The little girls, some of them, had never even heard of a doll before,
and when they found out that the eyes would close — well, it was nothing short of
miraculous. Then it's interesting when the bundles of clothing come in. We don't
give these away, because one of the foremost ideas is to make these people feel that
they are not objects of charity. So we sell them. Well, this day I was in charge of
the store. Of course, we don't charge very mucli. For instance, a good coat might
be a dollar and a pair of shoes perhaps 25 cents.
I remember a sweater suit that turned up at one of these sales. The top was
captured by one woman and the skirt by another. I tried to persuade them that the
whole thing should really go to one person, but it was of no use. They were both
perfectly happy.
The most thrilling thing to realize is that in over 1700 maternity cases super-
vised by the Frontier nurses not one mother's life has been lost. This is especially
significant when we realize that the United States maternity death rate is disgrace-
fully high. The nurses usually charge $5 for a maternity case, but of course
they'd do it for nothing if the patient couldn't pay. The way the patients
do pay is extremely interesting. After the baby is born the chances are the father
will appear at the nursing centre with some potatoes, dried apples, preserves or a
cut of pork. Very rarely do we get the fee in cash. As a matter of fact, there is
very little cash there at all. You might think you were living in some medieval
time when you see one exchanging an old hat for eggs or a hen for a worn saddle.
One day the nurse and I were visiting a woman who had had a baby a few months
before, but who had not paid all of the fee. We'd never spoken to her about it
because they were desperately poor like all the others. Then we saw her fishing
around in a jar full of senna leaves. We couldn't imagine what she was after.
Finally she brought out triumphantly a 50-cent piece which she had somehow gotten
hold of. She gave this to us, with some eggs and potatoes, and said she felt
immensely relieved. If we made the cases charity cases you'd never find this sort
of self-respect.
One might wonder how word travels in such a sparsely settled country. Once
we planned to hold a clinic on a certain cabin porch the following day. The other
courier and I were dispatched to let the people know all along the line. We started
out a few hours later, and every one said he knew about it anyway. It was the big
news of the day and it had been passed on by word of mouth much faster than it
could have been by a backwoods telephone. Every one arrived for the clinic the
next day as jf it were a Broadway show — mother and father and children.
And so the work goes on. Hours and hours on the saddle in all sorts of
weather; visits to dilapidated and sometimes dirty cabins; gingerly footsteps down
an incline as a stretcher with an appendicitis case is carried in. Gauze and iodine
wanted down Possum Creek; a warm coat needed desperately on Carter's Ledge.
Night calls, day calls, endless calls!
It's all expected when you work with the Frontier nurses.
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Sunday, April 8th — 5 p. in., The Deanery*
Talk on "The Reading of Poetry" by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Sunday, April 8fh — 7.30 p. m., Music Roonn of Goodhart Hall
Service conducted by Dr. Rufus M. Jones, Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College and
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr College.
Friday, April 13th, and Saturday, April 14th — 8.30 p. m., Goodhart Hall
Varsity Play, "Pygmalion," by Bernard Shaw, presented by the Varsity Players of
Bryn Mawr College.
Reserved seats: Friday, $1.25 and $.75; Saturday, $1.75 and $1.25; Unreserved seats in the
Balcony, $.75.
Sunday, April 15th — 7.30 p. nn.. Music Room of Goodhart Hall
Service conducted by the Reverend George A. Buttrick, D.D., Rector of the Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York City.
Wednesday, April 18th— 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hall
Dance Recital by Jacques Cartier, Reserved seats $1.50 and $1.25.
Sunday, April 22nd — 5 p. m., The Deanery*
A group of Madrigals by Leslie Hotson, Francis B. Gummere Professor of English at
Haverford College, Elizabethan Scholar, Author of the "Death of Christopher Marlowe" and
"Shakespeare vs. Shallow," and Mrs. Hotson, Singer of Elizabethan Songs to the Virginals.
Sunday, April 22nd — 7.30 p. nn., Music Roonn of Goodhart Hall
Service conducted by the Reverend Alexander C. Zabriskie, of the Theological Seminary,
Alexandria, Virginia.
NOTE: The Glee Club will give "The Gondoliers" in Goodhart Hall on Friday and Saturday,
May I Ith and 12th, at 8.30 p. m.
*Tea and cookies will be served informally without charge at half past four o'clock.
An informal hujfet supper at 75 cents will he served at seven o'cloc\ every Sunday evening.
Reservations should he made in advance, if possihle, to the Manager of the Deanery.
Alumnae may bring guests to the Deanery parties.
RECENT BOOKS WANTED FOR DEANERY
A number of alumnae have called the attention of the Deanery Library
Committee to the need for recent books in the Lounges to provide reading matter
for visitors. The Deanery Library at present possesses few books published after
the year 1928. If any member of the Alumnae Association^ therefore, cares to
send to the Deanery any interesting or amusing books for the benefit of visiting
alumnae or guests of the College, the Deanery Library Committee will be most
grateful. Library Committee of the Deanery.
COUNCILLOR FOR DISTRICT VI.
The Executive Board is happy to announce that Emily Lewis, 1931, now
President of the St. Louis Bryn Mawr Club, has consented to act as Councillor for
District VI. to fill the unexpired term (1932-35) of Erna Rice Eisendrath, 1930,
whose change of residence to Chicago necessitated her resignation.
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CLASS NOTES
Ph.D. and Graduate Notes
Editor: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)
Vandalia, Missouri.
1889
No Editor Appointed.
1890
No Editor Appointed.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
1435 Lexington Ave., New York City
Early in January, Helen Clements Kirk sailed
with her daughter, Marcella Homire, to spend
a month with her youngest daughter, Barbara
Foster, whose husband is completing his diplo-
matic studies in Geneva.
The following extract from a letter from
Edith Hall was not written from Switzerland,
but from New Canaan, Connecticut, where she
lives with her sister. It was dated February
28th: "We went to bed with a gentle snow
fall which turned the trees and shrubs into a
fairyland. We woke to a howling gale which
had stripped the white from the trees and was
busy piling drifts feet high around the house
and up and down the road as far as we could
see. When we went down stairs we found the
electric current off, which in these days of fool
proof luxury means no heat, nothing to cook
by, no light, no telephone. Fortunately, we had
some food and supplies and plenty of wood,
which we kept piling on the open fire, thereby
keeping the thermometer up to 45° till 9 o'clock
that night, when the current came on and
started our furnace again. In the meantime,
clad like Eskimos, we cooked what sketchy
meals we could over the wood fire, and scanned
the billowing white horizon for any sign of
other humans. It took about three days for the
combined efforts of the town plow, the C. W. A.
and our own husky sinews to get us (and
others) dug out to normal connection with the
outside world. But now that is accomplished
and we have nothing further to do but to wait
and watch the piles of snow melt, and to feed
the bewildered birds cut off from their custom-
ary bugs and berries. Of course our slight dis-
comfort and anxiety was nothing compared
with the real suffering of many in regions
harder hit than ours — families with children or
invalids, marooned without food or fuel behind
drifts ten and fifteen feet high! The most spec-
tacular of these rescues have to do with the
man who brought his pack of racing huskies up
from Buck Hill Falls and delivered supplies by
sledge in a large area around Westport."
1893
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
c/o Brearley School
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
Louise Davis Brooks has sent to the editor
a pamphlet entitled "Patriotic Service of the
Hon. John Dudley of Raymond." She prepared
it last summer to commemorate a ceremony
which she arranged and carried out at the
house in Raymond, New Hampshire, where her
mother was born in 1834; a succession of
Dudleys have owned land in Raymond since
1718. A bronze tablet was erected bearing an
inscription and relief portraits of Louise's
grandparents, which are very interesting; the
tablet is the work of Louise's daughter, Ruth
Walker Brooks. The pict\ires of the old house
shows a place that is the quintessence of New
England; it is no wonder that Louise loves it.
She is the present owner, and has restored much
of the old interior, finding fine selected pine
woodwork under coats of paint, a 90-year old
wall paper, and, in two rooms, stencilled walls.
The pamphlet abounds in delightful anecdotes
and reminiscences, and has a luimber of illus-
trations. One of these shows Ruth at work on
her group of Mother and Child wliirh she
erected in 1932 in the Church of the Ascension
in New York, a memorial to her sister Nancy.
It is a lovely thing. Ruth is at present work-
ing on a commission given to her by the Ameri-
can Bison Society, a tablet to commemorate
the great herds of buffalo or earlier times; two
copies are to be put up on the Oregon trail,
in Nebraska and in Wyoming. In 1932 her
design of Joan of Arc was chosen by the
American Woman's Association for a medal
that is awarded annually. All this is but a
small part of the work which this gifted and
industrious young artist of ours has produced.
She has a studio in Ninth Street in New York,
opposite to her home; she is studying relief
work with Adolph Weinmann, and Mahonri
Young criticizes her other work. She has also
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worked at the National Academy under Charles
Keck.
Esther Steele teaches at the Baldwin School;
her home is in Wayne, with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. John D. Steele. Her Ford car takes her
to Bryn Mawr to the school. In summer she
goes to Nova Scotia, and has visited the
Grenfell hospitals in Newfoundland and
Labrador.
Mary Flexner is at home in New York this
winter, where she lives with her brother
Bernard. Last summer -she was in the White
Mountains.
Edith Ames Stevens writes from Ormond,
Florida; she and her husband have had a
winter home there for several years. Mrs.
Ames lives nearby; General Ames died last
April. Edith and her mother have many joint
interests, including "carving and painting, con-
struction work about our places, aviation, and
birth-control," her letter said. Edith plays golf,
experiments with gardening in Florida, super-
vises the farm and garden in Massachusetts in
summer and autumn, and has four children,
all married, and fourteen grandchildren. Her
two daughters are Bryn Mawr alumnae, Edith
Stevens Stevens, 1920, and Harriet Stevens
Robey, 1922.
Ella Malott Evans lives in Indianapolis. She
writes: "As to how I deport myself, most of the
year I lead an active city life in clubs, societies,
boards, and committees, with family and friends
sandwiched in between, on top, and underneath.
By family, I mean, a busy business man in-
terested actively in all sorts of civic and phil-
anthropic enterprises; two daughters, each with
a husband; Eleanor has one wee daughter,
Mary, two boys and a girl. Our summers are
mostly spent in our cottage in Northern
Michigan, overlooking Little Traverse Bay,
Last summer, however, Mr. Evans and I were
in the Canadian Rockies and on our Pacific
Coast. Our annual winter trip this year is to
take us to Florida and the Carolinas. Mr.
Evans is called to Washington occasionally; last
month (January) it was the Millers' Code that
drew him there, and Mary and I went along."
Harriet Shreve is living in Plainfield, New
Jersey, with her sister, in the house where they
were born. Harriet is teaching Latin at the
Hartridge School, with zest, and in the summer
tutors a good deal, her pupils then being
chiefly boys. One of the sentences in her letter
it will please many of us to read: "Surely Dr.
Lodge laid a good foundation for us; I so often
realize I am using what he taught us." Be-
yond her work, she says, "We have time for
many pleasures, for visiting and entertaining;
and although all this sounds very uneventful,
we love it and wish for no great changes. Fay
Stockwell is to spend tomorrow night with us;
she is to address a meeting of Vassar alumnae.
Anna West invited me to spend last week-end
with her and take in the alumnae activities at
college (i.e. the Annual Meeting) but our
exams came then and I had to decline."
1896
Class Editor: Abigail Camp Dimon
1411 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.
1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
104 Lake Shore Drive, East, Dunkirk, N. Y.
Elizabeth Towle, valued teacher of Science
at the Baldwin School, is looking forward to her
sabbatical next year. She plans to spend it
in Europe if existing conditions at that time
make it possible.
Marion Taber is managing a gala perform-
ance of Richard of Bordeaux for the benefit
of the New York City Visiting Committee of
the State Charities Aid Association.
Frances Hand spent ten days of February
in the frigid north of New Hampshire. Her
second daughter Frances, who was married
last fall to Robert Ferguson, son of Mrs.
Greenway, the representative in Washington
from Arizona, is continuing her medical work
in New York at the P. and S.
Mary Converse is making her annual tour
visiting friends and relatives in the sunny
south.
From her charming home, "Shady Steps,"
Westfield, New Jersey, Molly Peckham Tubby
writes: "My garden talks and tutoring go on
and are fun and fodder but not news for the
Bulletin. My job of Chairman of the New
Jersey State Committee for Protection of
Roadside Beauty (the committee works for bill-
board advertising restriction, roadside planting,
parkways, etc.) has led to some weird experi-
ence of politics and politicians at Trenton, and
I am a much interested member of the Land
Use Committee.
"As chairman of the Bill-board and Roadside
Committee of the New Jersey Federated Garden
Clubs, 1 am staging a joint exhibit with the
New York ditto at the International Flower
Show in New York, March 19-25. Laura has
modelled a village in duplicate (school-house,
bank, pond, residences, etc.) and we show one
with, the other without bill-boards. We are
also selling licenses which read, 'Bill-boards
Offend Tourists Who Spend,' and we hope to
spot the U. S. A. with cars wearing same. The
models are crated to travel and will go on the
road after the New York show.
"Ruth is going strong. She has just been
made a member of the International Committee
for Library work with Children and she is in-
creasingly interested in her job."
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1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
Reunion Headquarters this spring will be in
Pembroke East, with Betty Nields Bancroft as
Manager. The class will be the guests of
President Park and Miss Margaret Lord at
dinner on the evening of Saturday, June 2nd.
1899
Editor: Carolyn Trowbridge Brown Lewis
(Mrs. H. Radnor Lewis)
451 Milton Road, Rye, N. Y.
Reunion Headquarters will be in Pembroke
West with Emma Guffey Miller as Manager.
The Class Dinner will be held in the Common
Room, Goodhart Hall, on Monday evening,
June 5th. Other plans include luncheon on
Monday with the classes of '98, 1900 and 1901;
tea with May Schoneman Saxe and dinner with
Gertrude Ely.
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard S. Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
Once more we are fortunate in having
Wyndham for our headquarters during our re-
union in June. We are also fortunate in having
Helen MacCoy to manage and take care of us.
Our class supper will be Monday evening,
June 4th, and Edna has promised to be toast-
mistress. On Sunday there will be an alumnae
meeting so you must all come in time for that.
And sometime on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday
there will be a joint picnic with '98, '99 and
1901. Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, Emma Guffey
Miller and Beatrice McGeorge are negotiating
with our Mac.
1901
Class Editor: Helen Converse Thorpe
(Mrs. Warren Thorpe)
15 East 64th St., New York City.
Reunion Notice
"Ladies, what is your pleasure?"
According to the complicated Reunion Plan,
our next reunion should take place in June,
1934. We cannot put it off for a year, as
changing our date would destroy the balance
of the entire schedule. We can miss a reunion,
and forego the pleasure of seeing each other
until 1939. We can have our class supper on
either Saturday, the second, or Monday, the
fourth, of June; attend the alumnae meeting
and luncheon on Sunday; have a joint picnic
with the members of the three distinguished
classes immediately preceding ours, on Mon-
day; and in the intervals enjoy the benefits
of each other's society.
Rockefeller is being reserved for our head-
quarters. Please send a postcard as soon as
possible to
Mrs. Andrew H. Woods
1100 North Dubuque Street
Iowa City, Iowa
stating whether you want the supper on Satur-
day or Monday, and what other activities you
would like.
We assume that you want to come as much
as we want to see you.
Beatrice McGeorge.
1902
Class Editor: Anne Rotan Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
Ethel Clinton Russell is President of the
Board of Managers of the Church Home in
Buffalo, a director in the Garret Club and active
in church work. Her eldest son, Nelson Jr.,
graduates from McGill Medical this spring
and expects to enter the Buffalo General Hos-
pital in July. Her second son, Clinton, is in
insurance. Her daughter, Nancy, graduates
from Sweet Briar this spring. Ethel writes she
herself is knitting a boucle suit and reading
Anthony Adverse, which seems to our light
mind a life work for any woman.
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
320 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. Anna Jonas delivered a paper entitled
"Hyperstheme Granodiorite in Virginia, its
change to Anakite and its Age," at the 513th
Meeting of the Geological Society of Washington
in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, on
Wednesday evening, February 28, 1934.
Marjorie Sellers writes a letter full of inter-
esting facts; she says: "I don't know who will
be interested but here is the family up to date,
at least — the older ones. My son Townsend
was married on January 13th to Gertrude Sligh,
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Vassar, '29. She
is a Social Service Worker and he is a copy-
writer. They are living in Bala. My oldest
daughter, Marjorie, is engaged to Henry Brunt
Riepe, of Baltimore. Elizabeth is engaged to
Marcel Peck, of Charleston, West Virginia, in
the class of 1934, Lehigh. He belongs to the
same fraternity my husband does — Kappa
Alpha; and is also the nephew of Jim's room-
mate at Lehigh. My daughter Helen is a
Senior at Lower Merion High School. That is
the extent of my news at present. Quite a
record isn't it?"
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Hilda Canan Vauclain has announced the
engagement of her daughter Patricia Vauclain,
to Mr. Thomas Hollingsworth Andrews, 3rd,
of "Rose Tree Farm," Media.
Harriet Southerland Wright's husband, Butler
Wright, was nominated on February 10th, by
President Roosevelt as minister to Czecho-
slovakia. He is at present Minister to
Uruguay, and was a member of the Delegation
to the Tenth Pan-American Conference in
Montevideo. He was earlier Minister to
Hungary.
1905
Class Editor: Eleanor Little Aldrich
(Mrs, Talbot Aldrich)
59 Mount Vernon St., Boston Mass.
Bess Goodrich Reckitt writes: "I do like to
know what other 1905ers are doing, so here
goes for whatever of interest I can contribute.
Last April, my husband having been obliged
to go to England on business, I took the car
and the faithful chauffeur and a young lady
going to Hollywood to her young man, and
drove from Geneva to Los Angeles. It was
a never-to-be-forgotten experience. We stayed
at camps every night and fared exceedingly
well. One heavenly day we had the joy of
going through miles and miles of the Arizona
desert in full bloom. While in California 1
had a month in Carmel-by-the-Sea and rejoiced
once more in the inconsequent gaiety of an
artists' colony after the troubles of the Middle
West. I found myself far more relaxed and
philosophical at the end of my visit than when
I went out. . . . Just now my husband and I
are at Santa Fe for a little change. We loved
it when we! were here five years ago. ... I am
sure you won't want to use all I have jotted
down but as I don't report often I will send it
along. Anyway, I have spared you descriptions
of scenery!"
Gladys Seligman van Heukelom writes from
her home in Paris, "I have just received the
Bulletin and read the kind expression of
sympathy. Now I have lost my mother as well,
she died five weeks after my father. . . . My
elder girl, Katherine, married five years ago,
has just had her first child, a son, Michael
Peter Anthony Winn, four months old now,
and of course the most remarkably intelligent
baby! My younger girl, Constance, the trained
nurse, spends all her time among the poor at
the City Hospital at Boucicault and doing
social service in the homes. ... I am very in-
terested in spiritual work and am in close
contact with the Sun Centre at Akron, Ohio,
which teaches the meaning and purpose of life
and the methods of evolution through soul
growth."
Helen Read Fox says that they are still farm-
ing and struggling vainly to keep a Jersey herd
that will pay for its keep. She herself is much
occupied trying to catch up with much younger
mothers in the business of steering a six year
old along the way of living intelligently.
1906
Class Editor: Helen Haughwout Putnam
(Mrs. William E. Putnam)
126 Adams St., Milton, Mass.
From Fall River, Mass., comes the announce-
ment of the death, on February 17, of Mr. V.
W. Haughwout, father of Helen Haughwout
Putnam.
1907
Class Editor: Alice Hawkins
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Alice Sussman Arnstein paid a brief visit to
the campus early in March to see her Fresh-
man niece, Louise Steinhardt, daughter of her
sister Amy, 1902. She thinks nothing of leaping
lightly from continent to continent — a trip to
Paris to buy for her shop in San Francisco,
where her daughter is helping her; a dash to
New York to give some pre-grandmotherly ad-
vice to her eldest son and his wife; a flight
from there to Oregon to attend the wedding of
her second son; a return to take up the cud-
gels for better conditions in the Juvenile Court,
with an eye on the School system in which she
still has a personal interest because of her
youngest son — all these she takes in her stride
during a year. We suppose that being married
as she escaped from the ruins of San Francisco,
just a week after the great Earthquake, has
made her consider as all in the day's work
happenings that seem epoch-making to most of
the rest of us.
Another California dweller, Eleanor Ecob
Sawyer, writes: "The last few years have been
given up to a struggle with poor health, inter-
spersed with a few (quite a few!) good times.
The trouble has at last been diagnosed as the
fashionable ameba, so now I am hoping for a
■speedy cure."
Eleanor enclosed a clipping showing a picture
of Genevieve Thompson's distinguished looking
husband, now Rear Admiral Norman Murray
Smith, who has just been made chief of the
Naval Bureau of Yards and Docks, with head-
quarters in Washington.
A big 1907 social event was held on the
campus at the end of February, when Eunice
Schenck collected a party of eight in honor of
Peggy Ayer Barnes. She was making a tour,
and sandwiched speaking to the Freshman
English class between talks to various schools
and women's clubs. Anne Vauclain, Mabel
O'Sullivan, Hortense Flexner King, Tink Meigs,
Alice Hawkins, and Mary Swindler, an hon-
orary member of 1907, had supper together in
Eunice's living room, all talking at once, ac-
tually drowning out the guest of honor, and
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engaging in a violent discussion of the merits
of the movie, Little Women. Eunice and
Hortense thought it dripping with sentimental-
ity; Peg and Mabel thought it perfect, with no
sob stuff added which was not in the book
already. We endeavored to have Tink as the
authority on Louisa Alcott, decide the matter,
but, when she was able to make her voice heard
above the -shouting, she said that she had not
seen it, but that her sympathy on the whole was
with the sentimentalists. After supper we at-
tended the Freshman Show, where two features
in particular made us feel natural. Peg sat on
the front row and made audible comments
throughout the evening, and the class animal
turned out to be a turtle. As 1937 is a red
class, this was surprising, but no more startling
than some of the other innovations since the
Ladies'' Home Learnall. As noted elsewhere in
this number, the date seemed a trifle hazy. The
costumes and hair dressing, however, had un-
doubtedly been copied from the class pictures
which used to hang above the Trophy club
cases in Pembroke East, and made 1907 feel
at home.
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
Margaret Lewis MacVeagh writes: "I re-
proach myself considerably for the time I've
let go by since you asked me for some news
from Athens. I am really pretty busy, what
with a larger household and more obligations
of one sort and another than I ever dreamed
of having before, and the mania for continuing
to dabble in archaeology and Greek as I used
to do when Greece meant just a playground
for my husband and me. We were here three
times on vacations, you know — in between
rather strenuous sessions in London, and our
return to work-a-day occupations at home — and
I got a habit I can't seem to drop of spending
a lot of time on my own very incomplete
education.
"I can't go into any general statements about
this country, the people, or the politics, be-
cause whatever one says today about Greece,
on the best of authority, will be completely out
of date tomorrow. Industries are developing
by leaps and bounds, experiments in social or-
ganization, in agriculture, in education, even in
the language the people speak, are being
tried out, and discarded or adopted and de-
veloped week by week, and the habit of mind
of this highly intelligent, hardworking and
adaptable people is changing with their out-
look and their opportunities, more rapidly than
one can follow it. They are amazingly inde-
pendent and individualistic, these modern
Greeks, just like their ancient forefathers, and
they are doing new things with breath-taking
speed.
"We are living happily in the Legation, a
large stucco house on one of the main busi-
ness streets of the city, which our Government
has leased for the past twenty years to house
the Minister and the offices of the Secretaries
and clerks. The address is 14 University Street,
and if any of 1908 chance to come this way
they have only to ring the door bell to find a
warm welcome waiting. 'Warm' is what I
mean, though metaphorically. The Legation
has no central heating, and though we think of
Athens as in a sunny, southern clime, it does
not feel so southern when the mountains all
about us are capped with snow and the north
wind blows straight from them through the
chinks to us.
"We almost lost house and home last week,
as a matter of fact, in our efforts to keep
warm though unheated. We had a fine log
fire in our drawing room hearth for the lunch-
eon hour when we expected some presumably
shivery guests, and that evening I smelled the
ominous odor of smoke. I went all over the
house in my search for its source, and, finding
nothing wrong, came to the conclusion that the
maids must have burned up some more linen
on the laundry stove. My maids are pleasantly
irresponsible in some respects, be it said. The
next morning I had breakfast alone in perfect
tranquility and only when I was all through
was I approached by our beaming little house-
boy, who said vivaciously: 'Madame veut voir
dans le salon fumee.' Madame did, in haste.
(I am learning to speak Greek, rather well,
as I fancy, but I notice that if the servants
really want me to understand what they say,
they continue to say it in French. Not flatter-
ing!)
"Sure enough, the smoke was coming up thick
all around the baseboard, which was thoroughly
blackened. The boy, Nikko, was excited
enough to enjoy himself immensely. He sug-
gested that he might send for the carpenter,
and when I frowned on that notion he had
the bright idea that perhaps I'd like him to
telephone for the plumber. However, my hus-
band arrived on the scene and asked for the
fire department in no uncertain terms, and
presently they were with us. Four polite little
Greeks in immaculate uniforms came stepping
gingerly into our drawing room, apologized for
the damage they felt called upon to inflict,
neatly removed the baseboard, disclosing a lot
of harmless looking plaster, and found the
edge of the hardwood floor smouldering just
behind where the panelling of the wall came
down. They put it out with a glass full of
water or so, and took their leave with smiles
and bows.
"All that day I smelled charred wood and
wondered why the odor ivould persist. Nothing
moves very fast in Greece, and though we noti-
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fied the landlord and expected the Insurance
Company to send someone sometime, we were
not at all surprised that nothing happened right
away, and left the salon alone until something
did. The next morning about 4.30 I was
awakened by my mother who stood beside my
bed and announced that she wanted to show
me something. In spite of the odd hour, I got
up at once to see what there was to see, and
she took me down to the same old salon. This
time there was a fire! Crackling and fuming,
and all around the edge of the baseboard, as
we watched, it began to lick up hungrily for
the panelling of the wall, which in another few
minutes it would certainly have reached. That
time we got the fire department in earnest, some
twenty of it. In handsome boots and helmets,
with pink faces, bright eyes and magnificent
black mustaches, they marched through our
front door. At the precise moment they en-
tered, the lights went out — not because a wire
was burned, as we assumed at the time, but
just because, by coincidence, a fuse blew out!
It would, of course. I retreated to the landing
of the stairs, and watched the little army ma-
neuvering below, in our enormous high-ceil-
inged hall, weaving in and out from the draw-
ing room, with electric torches and a flare
playing on their shiny black accoutrements, and
I half expected them to burst into song. It
looked so exactly like a 'Firemen's Chorus' on
the opera stage! However, instead of singing,
they went to work in very orderly fashion,
hewed up our nice floor and hewed out our
panelled wall, and poured buckets of chemical
into the ditches they dug, and really put out
the fire. A perfectly immense wooden beam,
the kind of thing one sees in old-fashioned
hay lofts at home, starting under the fireplace,
had been happily smouldering for 36 hours,
and being quite hidden by the loose plaster in
the wall and floor, had had things all its own
way. It would certainly have broken cover
very shortly if my mother had not chanced to
be prowling just when she was."
1909
Class Editor: Ellen Shippen
14 East 8th St., New York City.
1909 will hold its 25th Reunion on June 2nd.
Informal supper in the Deanery, Headquarters
in Denbigh.
Frances Browne, Manager.
1910
Class Editor: Katherine Rotan Drinker
(Mrs. Cecil K. Drinker)
71 Rawson Road, Brookline, Mass.
Margaret Shearer Kellogg-Smith: "We are
doing about what we have done for some years.
We live on an arm of the Chesapeake Bay
on a farm. We have four children of our
own and several others who live with us all
the time — children whose parents are abroad
or dead or otherwise occupied. We have sev-
eral horses, five ponies, colts, kittens and pup-
pies. This winter there are twelve children
here studying with two tutors. Our oldest
child, Joan, is 14, has been away at boarding
school since she was 8, and is now at home
preparing for Bennington. We are interested
in Music and have a string quartet; we dance
square dances and English country and Morris
dances; we read anything we can, and go to
New York as often as we can get away from
home. We hope to go further this year if the
school is calm enough. My husband builds
houses, does some iron work, teaches, paints.
At present my absorbing interest is education."
Marion Kirk: "The practice of law is very
exciting, and keeps me happy though poor. The
family say it is interesting to me because it
satisfies the gossipy side of my nature. And,
in fact, I recommend it for that very reason."
Frances Hearne Brown : "Antoinette is at Bryn
Mawr, a Sophomore, and Harry is a Freshman
at Kenyon College. Bob, Jr., is a Sophomore
in High School; Frances, Jr., a sixth grader.
Last summer we had six peaceful weeks at our
camp in Canada — but that seems long ago, and
now we are involved in our usual activities.
My husband is on the Winnetka Public School
Board. We had a fight last spring to retain
our 'progressiveness,' but won out."
Lillie James is still in Middleburg, Virginia,
headmistress of a three-year-old "Buckley"
School for the hunting set. From Monday un-
til Friday she jingles three keys, cottage,
school, and car, but week-ends find her in
Washington. She spent Christmas before last
in Florida and last summer cruised the
Mediterranean and Black Seas, enjoying espe-
cially the African cities, the Levant, Russia,
and the Mediterranean Islands. "Perhaps my
biggest thrill was the ascent to Delphi from
the Corinthian Gulf, and lunching in the
shadow of Parnassus under the plane trees
at the Castalian Spring."
Lucie Reichenbach Sayler: "My principal oc-
cupation consists in trying to keep up with a
lively ten-year-old daughter and her school
career. She has been very well ever since we
came out here three years ago, is getting on
splendidly in the local public school, and has
become a loyal and ardent Californian. I am
very much at home here now, and enjoy rais-
ing a garden full of flowers all the year round,
and motoring over all the country within reach.
I have had a little class of French pupils this
summer, including my own child, also some in-
termittent tutoring among High School students.
I still continue to be an active and enthusiastic
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member of the Women's Overseas Service
League, of which we have a fine unit in Los
Angeles, and review war books for the quar-
terly magazine published by this group of
veterans. We still do a little service work in
the veterans' hospitals and through the Red
Cross. At tlie last meeting of the Southern
California Bryn Mawr Club, I had the good
luck to meet Ruth George. She is teaching
English in Scripps College at Claremont some
thirty miles from Los Angeles. She looks just
as she did in 1910,"
Betty Tenney Cheney reports two bouts with
the surgeons in the last year, and two daughters,
Eleanor, a Junior at Bryn Mawr, and Jane, a
Freshman at the North Shore Country Day
School.
Susanne Allinson Wulsin, writing from
Providence, Rhode Island: "After we came
back from Persia, where we did do an inter-
esting dig, we spent some months working up
our notes and then wasted more time trying to
raise money to go back. Like everyone else
we are feeling the pinch of hard times. My
father died while I was in Persia and my step-
mother was killed by a motor the summer after
we got home. ... I am sending you the report
of our Persian dig which may amuse you,"
Mary Boyd Shipley Mills writes from
Switzerland: "We sailed from Shanghai July
1st, and made our way slowly, via Hongkong,
Manila, Singapore, Sumatra, East Africa, the
Red Sea and Cairo, finally to Genoa. We had
a very rushed eight days in Northern Italy,
visiting — it seems a sacrilege to write it — Pisa,
Florence, Siena (for the Palio), Venice, and
Milan; came through the Simplon to Vevey
where I had expected to stay for the winter.
The place was ideal on a hill with a magnifi-
cent view over Lake Geneva, with high moun-
tains right across the water, and I loved it.
My husband was with, us there for a week be-
fore he left to go on to America to his new
job in the Haverford School. Then the
American dollar slid downhill so fast that I had
to hunt some other place or else go straight
home. Now we are settled in Morges, a very
small town west of Lausanne right on the
lake with a fine view of the Savoy Alps and
Mont Blanc when its clear, but it mostly isn't.
The children go to day schools in the town
and are beginning to get a little French, though
it is a slow process. In May we shall begin
to move northward for short visits in France
and England, and I hope to be in America
by the 10th of June."
Florence Wilbur Wyckoff: "We are still liv-
ing in Niagara Falls — for the sixteenth year —
and find it a very desirable home town. But
we are expecting to move to West Virginia
sometime within the next six months, as soon
as my husband's company opens its new metal-
lurgical plant there. I am having a pleasant,
busy winter, being on the advisory board of a
local chapter of the Delphinian Literary So-
ciety, vice-chairman of the social committee of
our Niagara Falls College Club, and president
of the Mothers' Forum."
Charlotte Simonds Sage (now living in
Weston, Mass.): "Polly, is back taking her
second year in the Swain School of Design in
New Bedford and living with some neighbors.
Betsey is finishing at the Winsor School and
living with my brother and his family in
Brookline. Nat, Jr., is at Pomfret School and
the two youngest are with me. ... I have no
professional status. Domestically, I am ten
times as efficient as I was B. C, and we seem
to flourish happily with graying hair and 'com-
fortable' figures for the elders and great energy
and ambition for the youngers. Thanks to
Bennington College, I have seen Izette Taber
whose daughter has just started there."
Your Editor, her health greatly bettered and
on her way to Bermuda for six weeks, reports
a husband, still Professor of Physiology at the
Harvard School of Public Health; a 16-year-old
daughter, Nancy, at the Winsor School and
Vassar bound after another year; and a son,
Cecil, Jr,, aged 11. Her activities at present
are entirely domestic and, after a lapse of
twenty years, she has resumed golf as a
pastime.
1911
Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
(Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
1085 Park Ave., New York City.
1912
Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaton Augur)
820 Camino Atalaya, Santa Fe, N. M.
The class send their sympathy to Jane
Beardwood, whose mother died in February.
Elizabeth Pinney Hunt reports that her boys
are flourishing and that she herself lias been
reading hard in philosophy, Spengler and
Santayana, From the drift of her letter one
gathers that she is not in favor of Mr.
Roosevelt.
The report, always indirect in her case, is
that Mary Gertrude Fendall is much of the
time in Washington, looking very stylish, and
happily finding new causes to espouse, as the
old ones die out, or should one say, off?
1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven. Conn.
From Rose Mabon Davis:
"Doing — Remedial work at the Brearley
School. Studying for an M.A. degree at
Teachers College,
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"Reading — The New Yorker and Saturday
Evening Post. Books and books on Educa-
tional Psychology.
"Family — The same husband, neurologist;
one son, 14, at Millbrook School."
From Louisa Henderson Pierce: "Anything
like this surely shows me up. Am just back
from two weeks in Maryland. You ask what
we read. I try to read the best as they come
out, but you know the difficulties of getting
new ones from libraries. I also review books
for a church library. Play some bad bridge
and worse golf. Built a camp on Winnegance
Bay, near Bath, Maine, and hope all 1913ers
going that way will come see us. No elec-
tricity, but lots of hot water."
From Katherine Williams Hodgdon: "In re-
sponse to your very worthy effort to extract
information, I am: (1) functioning more or
less successfully as a housewife, less rather
than more at the moment, trying to cope with
the results of sub-zero weather; dabbling in
town politics and holding down the job of
school committee member for Westwood and
members of various other inevitable boards.
(2) Reading the newspapers with an eye to
Anthony, when he has made the rounds of the
family. (3) Interested in keeping the house-
hold warm and happy, and the car from
freezing solid. (4)' Intending to hoW my po-
litical job against odds at the March election
and to visit New York again as soon as pos-
sible, for the memory of my last four days
there, thanks to my very blooming classmates,
is still a stimulating one. Laudable ambitions!"
From Gwendolyn Rawson: "I have nothing
astonishing to report about my present exist-
ence, but feel I want to reward your effort to
glean news of 1913, so I hereby acknowledge
your postcard."
From Isabel Cooper Mahaffie: "Am very
busy and happy raising a small son. I find
very little time for any of my ancient pursuits,
but I take a whirl with pen, brush or type-
writer from time to time. I see Eleanor
Bontecou as often as I can get across the
Potomac River to her retreat. She is putting
up a very fine fight for the recovery of her
health. We have an energetic B. M. C. Club
in this town (Washington), of which I am
perhaps the most languid member."
1914
C7a55 Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs. Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
A letter from Marian Camp Newberry has
just been received from Lincoln, England, with
the following interesting information:
"The very different improvement in business
conditions over here has been encouraging.
Roger and I have been to several Balls or
dances during the holidays and what a different
atmosphere from last year; a forced gaiety
changed into a real one, an exuberance that
has comd from reviving hope and the feeling
that happy days are coming, if not quite here.
Tickets for the Hunt Ball were much more ex-
pensive, but in spite of the price there were
many more people than last year and everyone
was on the crest of the wave. There was the
same atmosphere at the company dance that
we always attend and usually enjoy more than
the smarter Balls. The joyous atmosphere may
have been due partly to the fact that the cut
on all salaries has recently been restored, but
there is certainly a general feeling of hope all
over England. Of course, there have been no
radical changes in England except the new
tariff, but there are two movements that we are
told are growing rapidly here, the Fascist and
the strength of the Co-operative Stores. Just
what may be the result remains to be seen.
I felt very ancient recently when I went with
Mary and Nancy to supper to an old Hall after
which we all went to a village barndance. The
girls' dancing partners were between 17 and
20, very good dancers and tall, luckily. The
girls had a whirl while Mother sat by the wall
and selected the prize winners which the Lady
of the Hall presented. Finally her aged butler,
who was a sort of Master of Ceremonies, took
pity on me and we did a barndance together.
"We read that interest in Bridge is dying out
in America, but we play a lot, and since
"Contract" has just arrived in Lincoln, I hope
that it will last for awhile. We play especially
in the dark months of the year. In summer,
when it is dry enough, tennis is always the
rage.
"All the married ladies here and a number
that are 'not so young' have joined a class
promoted by the 'League of Health and
Beauty.' We do it in black satine shorts and
white blouses. Several look blue with the cold,
but it is all great fun.
"We are hoping that Mary may go to Bryn
Mawr and it seems to be looming rather near."
1915
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. James Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale
Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Class extends its deepest sympathy to
Adeline Werner Vorys, whose mother died in
February.
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Helen Riegel Oliver has sent news of herself
and Lois Goodnow MacMurray. Of herself,
she says that she and her husband are spending
the winter at the Park Lane. She is president
of the New York Bryn Mawr Club and is on
the Finance Committee of the Alumnae Associa-
tion. She is also serving on a number of
boards and committees of the Y. W. C. A. and
finds the work interesting and stimulating. She
had a pleasant meeting with Louise Dillingham
m in October and hears Dilly's praises as head-
V mistress at Westover sung on all sides.
Lois Goodnow MacMurray's husband is min-
ister to Latvia, Lithuania and Esthonia with
headquarters in Riga. The whole family sailed
most eagerly in the fall, Mr. MacMurray is a
member of a grain commission which kept
them in London for three weeks when they
first landed and was to take them to Italy
in February.
Larie Klein Boas recently completed a two
months' good will tour to points east and
middle west casting her light about in a way
as yet unequaled. A small reunion in New
York, in the way of a luncheon with Juliet
Branham Williams, Lilla Worthington
Kirkpatrick and Monica O'Shea Muray (1917)
was worthy of note. Larie found Juliet looking
as young and blonde as in her freshman year,
and amusing, gay and witty. In being the
wife of one and the mother of four very satis-
factory individuals, Larie sees the secret of all
this charm. She was equally enthusiastic over
the way Lilla is holding her own. Besides her
\: job of play broker Lilla has two sons, one
town house and two country estates (spring on
Long Island and mid-summer in Jersey) to fill
in the odd moments. One son is president
of his class.
Margaret Chase Locke went to New York to
see Larie and lo! Larie found another of us
unchanged. Is it her point of view or can it
be that some of us have been blessed with
eternal youth? Chaso's husband has an im-
portant job with the N. R. A. which keeps him
dashing around and she dashes with him. By
way of relaxation she is studying Greek.
Of her own family Larie reports favorably.
On her return to San Francisco she found her
son, Roger, sturdier than ever and the newly
elected president of the student body of his
school.
1917
Class Editor: Bertha C. Greenouch
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, R. I.
'17 is at last coming to life! Yes, we're
going to be reborn in June, for it is reunion
year along with '18 and '19. It is seventeen
years since the College got rid of us, and its
the last reunion we'll have before the gray
hairs predominate. Anyone who doesn't come
back will never dare to show her head again.
Don't forget that "Life Begins at Forty," and
that the Bryn Mawr campus in June is a sure
cure for the depression blues. Caroline (Stevens
Rogers) and Nats (McFaden Blanton) will
surely bei there, and by next Bulletin we will
have a much longer list. Plan now to shake
your jobs and families for three care-free days.
Word has just been received of the sudden
death on March 19th of Eleanor Dulles' distin-
guished husband, Professor David Blondheim.
1918
Class Editor: Margaret Bacon Carey
(Mrs. H. R. Carey)
3115 Queen Lane, East Falls P. O., Phila.
1919
Class Editor: Marjorie Remington Twitchell
(Mrs. Pierrepont Twitchell)
Setauket, L. L, N. Y.
Fran Fuller Savage writes: "For the notes,
tell them I am still alive and flourishing, have
still two children, girls (ages 5 and 7) and
send my love to the Class. (1 am still as lazy
as ever, so I have no conquests or other achieve-
ments). Cordelia is seven and a half and in
the third grade at school. The teacher told me a
while ago that she was 'good college material.'
Just what that indicates at her tender years,
I do not know. . . . She loves music and is
taking piano lessons and doing well at them.
Maud, my baby, is just five and starting school
this month. So far, her character is aflfection-
ate, perverse, humorous and very dramatic."
The Class extends its sympathy to Marj Ewen
Simpson for the loss of her father just before
Christmas. Marj is now living at 3708 Oliver
Street, Chevy Chase, Washington, D. C. Her
husband was sent to Washington in October.
"We are living in the most enormous house
in Chevy Chase that you ever saw. We have
lived in tiny apartments for so long that we feel
absolutely lost in this mansion, and we have
a lovely yard for the children to play in and
we are only a block away from the school
where two of them are now going."
In February the Twitchells went back to
the blizzard of '88. For four days we could
get to the stores only on horesback or by
sleigh. Drifts, many five feet or more in depth,
had to be slowly dug through to bring us back
to the automobile age.
Reunion Headquarters will be in Pembroke
West, with Mary Ramsay Phelps as Manager.
The Class Supper will be held at Wyndham on
Saturday evening, June 2nd.
The Class will be grieved to hear that
Margaret Rhoads died in Aiken, South Caro-
lina, on March 13th. We wish to express to
her family our deepest sympathy.
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1920
Class Editor: Mary Porritt Green
(Mrs. Valentine J. Green)
430 East 57th St., New York City
Lois Kellogg Jessup: "I can't think of any
news. We are as ever, except for a few more
grey hairs. My husband is taking a half a
sabbatical this year and we are going to Europe
in June where he will finish writing his biog-
raphy of 'Elihu Root.' "
Anna Sanford Werner: "One child, Ann
(Nancy), aged seven; jobs — College Club Com-
mittees occasionally, tutoring, when and if;
teachers' training class at Church School. My
child says I am a landlady. I guess literally I
am, as the house is huge, I rent out two of the
rooms and baths to the world's most perfect
roomers. Other jobs, parental and housewifely."
Miriam O'Brien Underbill: "Still living with
the same husband. Occupation: domestic
drudge. Summer at Chocorua and doing rock
climbing all over the White Mountains. First
two weeks in September went on back trip
to explore rock climbing possibilities at
Katahdin in Maine. Found two streams and
a pond not on U. S. G. S. map; visited trail-
less regions never before seen by woman (and
only a few men) ; and were practically eaten up
by black flies."
Millicent Carey Mcintosh's sons were seen
by Kay Townsend, who passed through New
York recently and inspected the young of '20.
Kay says that these two young lads have some
fifty-odd sweaters between them, giving their
mother a good many notes to write. Kay went
on to Bryn Mawr to a meeting or inspection
tour or something of the alumnae health com-
mittee. She wasn't very explicit. Nor were we
able to worm out of her any news of Boston.
Natalie Gookin, speaking of Alice Q. Rood,
writes to say: "She has two girls. Isabel
will be three next month ; she's a darling and a
real beauty. The younger is seven months old,
and so far rejoices only in the name of Baby
Sister! I have been trying to persuade her
mamma that she owes it to the Class to call
her Belinda. Our Belinda is living in a very
charming little house which she and her hus-
band designed themselves and moved into not
quite a year ago."
Phoebe Helmer Wadsworth and her daughters
have been in Florida the last three months.
Reunion Notice
Dear 1920:
In the strange calendar which brings us back
with classes whom we know, we are destined
to have a Reunion this spring. The Committee
has not yet started to work, but you will re-
ceive notices soon. In the meantime, make
your plans to come for Saturday and Sunday
at least, the 2nd and 3rd of June. The Reunion
will probably be informal, and should be the
more pleasant because of that fact.
Millicent Carey McIntosh.
1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelly Erdman
(Mrs. C. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemont Ave., Pasadena, Calif.
Helen Parsons Storms was married on Jan-
uary 8th to William Edward Parker. Chick
and her groom and their car took a boat
through the canal to California. (Your Editor
hoped to hear from her when she landed, but
nary a word so far.) They plan to motor back
East and settle at 97 Montvale Road, Newton
Center, Massachusetts.
Kitty Barton is at present cataloguing Miss
Susan Bliss' library in New York, so '20's class
editor wrote me. She also passed on the news
that Helen Farrell has taken up commercial
photography in a big way.
Frances Jones Tytus — who deserves several
gold stars as the only one of two dozen who
returned a news postal this month — writes that
three children, John, 12, who goes to St. Paul's
next year, Joan, 9, and Bill, 6, keep her
busy and are her "job," her "position" and her
"future plans." They have spent the past few
summers in France, but do not expect to return
this year. Jonesey's sister Sallie graduates from
Bryn Mawr this spring.
Marion Piatt Jacob wrote from Manitowoc,
Wisconsin. She has been living half the time
there and half the timd in Chicago for the last
four years, but she hopes to get a permanent
home in Chicago in the near future and has
promised to send the new address as soon as
she knows it. She enclosed a clipping of a
most entrancing looking two-year-old daughter,
Alida Marion Jacob. Marion is working again
at her piano, has joined a sketching class and
is active in two literary groups.
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
106 E. 85th St., New York City.
Custis Bennett McGrory has a second son,
Joseph Bennett, born on February 23rd.
Barbara Clarke is living in Boston for a few
months, and is working on her thesis for her
degree in Landscape Architecture.
Ikey Coleman Cutler has a daughter, Patricia,
born last November. She is living in New
York at 430 East 57th Street.
Peggy Kennard is going abroad next month
for two years,
Conty La Boiteaux Buttrick has just had
her fifth child. She now has four boys and a
girl, and is living in Bryn Mawr.
Josie Fisher is teaching a course in American
History at Bryn Mawr.
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Katherine Peek is warden of Wyndham this
year. She hopes to get her doctor's degree in
June.
Cornelia Skinner Blodget has been most
successful with her new historical sketch,
The Loves of Charles II. She had an engage-
ment at a New York theatre, and is now on
tour.
Prue Smith Rockwell is once more in
America. Her address is 142 Hillside Street,
Asheville, N. C.
Evelyn Rogers has announced her engagement
to Dr. Henry Inkston,
1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Abbott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York City
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Butterworth
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallett Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Blit Mallett Conger has a second son, born
March 1st. His name is George Mallett Conger.
Maybe some girls would have ferreted out some
real news, but we have felt sort of oblivious.
1926
Class Editor: Harriot Hopkinson
18 East Elm St., Chicago, 111.
1927
Class Editor: Ellenor Morris
Berwyn, Pa.
Jessie Hendrick Hardie writes a most inter-
esting letter from the Riviera. She and her
husband left this country last fall, and after
motoring through Sicily and Italy finally set-
tled down at Cannes where they are now prac-
ticing law for Americans living abroad. The
address, girls, when you get into difficulties, is
Beau Soleil, Boulevard Alexandre III, Cannes.
Jessie says, "It is a delightful place to be this
cold winter." We venture to remark that she
doesn't know the half of it.
Kitty Harris Phillips gets a gold medal and
our heartfelt thanks. She answered our poor
little plea for news with one of the grandest,
longest letters we have had for years.
Kitty, as you may remember, was married last
summer to Mr. Henry Phillips and is now living
at 14 Elm Street, Exeter, New Hampshire, as
her husband has a job at Exeter Academy. Be-
fore her marriage, Kitty was studying for her
Ph.D. at Radcliffe and had charge of one of
the dormitories there. Here she encountered
Harriet Parker in a splendid job as secretar)
to the assistant dean, just as efficient as ever,
and just as much fun.
Kitty also reports that Dot Pearce Gustafson
now has three children, Bobl)y the eldest, and
twins, a boy and a girl born last year.
Ruth Rickaby Darmstadt is still in New
York, and very active in the Bryn Mawr Club
there.
Maria Chamberlain Swearingen and hf-r
husband have returned from their naval wan-
derings in the Pacific and are now stationed
at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Nancie Benoist Ravenel has a son, Henry, Jr.,
born on January 7th. As this item was gleaned
from the Washington notes in the Junior
League Magazine we imagine Nancie is living
in that city.
Ginny Newbold Gibbon has a little daughter,
Virginia, but we are ashamed to admit that we
have lost the date of her birth, and can only
say that she is new this winter.
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr.
401 23rd St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
The score now reads, 18 girls and 20 boys,
Edith Morgan Whitaker and Mailie Hopkinson
Gibbon each having had a son born in
February. Names, dates and further details
are unknown.
The engagement of Jo Stetson to Mr. Robert
Plant Hatcher, of Hartford, Connecticut, has
been announced. Mr. Hatcher is the son of
Judge Marshall Felton Hatcher and Mrs.
Hatcher of Macon, Georgia, went to Phillips-
Exeter Academy and was in the Class of '26 at
Yale University. In 1924 he played on the
varsity baseball team and that year was chosen
All-America third baseman. When the -wedding
will take place was not stated in the newspaper
announcements. Later report: April 7th.
As you will notice from the heading, your
editor has picked up her skirts and fled again.
Our friends are beginning to think that we
don't pay the rent. The cause of our removal
this time was the acquisition of a new job, in
the Treasury, which came to us very suddenly.
At the time of writing, we have not yet started
on it and so will have to defer more detailed
information until a later issue.
1929
Class Editor: Mary L. Williams
210 East 68th St., New York City.
Hilda Wright is teaching at tlie Madeira
School doing, she says, "exactly what I did
last year with perhaps a few less mistakes."
She gives a vivid account of her stay in San
Francisco with Kit Collins Hayes: "On the
way from Portland to Washington this fall, I
stopped two days with Kit Collins Hayes in
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San Francisco, and as we nosed terrifyingly
down one dizzy hill after another or rode on
the windy ferries across the Bay, I heard about
the delights of living in California. The week-
ends in the Sierras sounded particularly jolly.
Kit is more vigorous than ever and the spon-
taneous combustion I always expect seems more
and more imminent. She is president of the
Bryn Mawr Club in San Francisco and spends
several days a week in some kind of clinic.
I had lunch with Eccie Moran, who has dedi-
cated herself body and soul to the ballet, and
was anticipating taking part in (the ballet)
the Coq d'Or this winter. She looked very
happy and very blooming. She may come East
next spring unless she has a chance to go
down to Mexico with the Ballet School."
Elisabeth Packard sailed for Greece on
February 20th, where she will do archeological
work at Olynthus with Dr. Robinson of Johns
Hopkins.
Jane Bradley is at Westover this winter
teaching, we believe, French.
Bobs Mercer was married to Mr. Dunham
Kirkham, on February 18th, at the Church
of the Transfiguration, New York City. Mr.
Kirkham is a graduate of Dartmouth and is
now studying medicine at Yale, as is also
Bobs. They will live at 17 Howe Street, New
Haven for the rest of the winter and then plan
to motor West for their vacation.
Beatrice Shipley writes: "Since my interest-
ing year's study at Pendle Hill two years ago,
» I have become increasingly interested and busy
in leading study groups on the life and teach-
ings of Jesus. I also find interesting committee
work in the Y. W. C. A. and the Society of
Friends. I am one of those rare specimens,
the voluntarily unemployed, as I find it possible
to live at home, and impossible not to do the
many things that do occupy me."
Bettie Freeman has received a Sc.D. from
Johns Hopkins and is now starting a new de-
partment in Statistics at Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Becky Wills Hetzel's husband, Theodore
Hetzel, is now beginning experiments in prep-
aration for his thesis at Penn State. He and
Becky with their two children and several
animals are living at 602 North Allen Street,
State College, Pa.
1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr College.
Violet Whelen was married in Omaha,
Nebraska, last summer, to William Glasgow
Bowling, instructor in English at Washington
University in St. Louis.
Frances Lee was married in Washington,
D. C, on December 27, to Myres S. McDougal,
and is now living at 506 S. Matthews Street,
Urbana, Illinois. Mr. McDougal is assistant
professor of law at the University of Illinois.
Kathleen Richardson was married in South
Orange, New Jersey, on February 16th, to
Arthur Paul Burch, of New York. They are
taking a two months' wedding trip to Honolulu.
Kitty Bowler is in Stuttgart for the winter.
We presume she is studying, but have no cer-
tain information.
Allis Brown has her hands full teaching the
young at the Friends School in Haverford.
Ellen Douglas is secretary to the Rev, Dr.
Snowden, of Overbrook, Pa.
Julia Keasby is in the "progressive school
business" in the country near Morristown, with
pottery as a side issue.
Sally Turner is taking a course in typing
and shorthand in Philadelphia.
1931
Class Editor: Janet Grant Bayless
(Mrs. Robert N. Bayless)
301 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn.
On October 2Ist Kakine Thurber was married
to Mr. Robert McLaughlin. Marion Turner
was her maid of honor and Peggy Nuckols Bell,
Denise Gallaudet and Cecilia Candee were three
of her six bridesmaids. Kakine's address is 15
East 77th Street, New York City.
Mary Oakford is studying architecture at
Cambridge, Mass.
Alice Thalman's family has taken over a
1715 inn, between Albany and Schenectady.
Her address is Altamont, N. Y. Doubtless
the inn's is too, but I am hazy.
Polly Parker Carey is in Reno getting her
divorce.
Marion Turner has a position as secretary
for Mr. Galloway, attorney for the Fidelity
and Deposit Co. of Maryland, in Baltimore.
This news was ferreted for me by Peggy
Nuckols Bell. She herself is now living at
50 Eileen Str,eet, Albany, N. Y., and owns an
eight-month-old son and no maid and is busy.
But not too busy to write it all down. Happily
I found her letter when I got around to writing
the class notes of the century. Other letters
I haven't found which is worse than not getting
them at all. One I lost from Libby Blanchard
who is fine and can be reached at Haverford
Mansions, Haverford, Pa. Libby wants her
Year-book because she never got it. If any-
one has an extra copy or even a copy and
wants to send it to her, I think it would be
a lovely thing to do. Hers was left in Rock
on the day of graduation, 1931, and it might
still be there. She went on to say that she'd
seen Libby Baer and that she was looking
very well and others saw her picture in the
paper holding up a hat-box of documents for
the library for the press.
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BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE BULLETIN
Libby also saw Sydney Sullivan Parker with
whom Mimi Dodge was staying. Sydney is
living in Baltimore in a domestic fashion and
a letter from her asked us why they wanted to
change our name to Janet. It has been so
long now I guess they just forget. New times,
new titles.
Mary Drake Hoeffel was with her family in
Miami at Christmas and I believe was quite
ill. She is now with Commander Hoeffel again
in Chicago.
1932
Class Editor: Josephine Graton
182 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.
The Class will be shocked and grieved to
hear of the death of Quita Woodward, who
died in Switzerland, on March 5th. Our heart-
felt sympathy goes to her family. A memorial
service was held in Goodhart Hall on Sunday,
March Ilth.
A note received from the Class Editor after
the announcement of her engagement appeared
in the March Bulletin says in part: "My only
comment would be that it might sound as
though the editor didn't know much about the
'bridegroom-to-be,' which, strange as it may
seem, is not the case! Phil graduated from
Harvard in 1925 and has been doing mining
geology in one form or another ever since.
For the past year he has been working in
Durango, Mexico. Our wedding plans are
terribly indefinite since they depend almost
entirely on when and whether the Mexican
government renews his visa. I don't know how
the Texas idea got started at College, unless
it was because I saw Phil in El Paso last
summer. ... I am sorry to say it, but I am
resigning as Class Editor because Mexico is
too far away and mails are too uncertain to
depend on getting news as I should."
At the present moment we are scheduled
to have Reunion Headquarters in Rockefeller,
and to have a picnic on Saturday evening,
June 2nd. Molly Atmore Ten Broeck will be
Reunion Manager. Watch this column for
more news.
1933
Class Editor: Janet Marshall
112 Green Bay Road, Hubbard Woods, 111.
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Writes president of Brjn Mawr:
"Every college would like more
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Courses in Landscape Architecture, in'
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Meals served on the Terrace when weather permits.
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Over a Century of Service
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Miss Beard's School
Prepares girls for College
Board examinations. General
courses include Household,
Fine and Applied Arts, and
Music. Trained teachers,
small classes. Ample grounds
near Orange Mountain. Ex-
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Headmistress
Berkeley Avenue
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THE
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Preparatory to
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COLLEGE PREPARATORY
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
BERTHA M. LAWS, A.B., Headmistress
The Ethel Walker School
SIMSBURY. CONNECTICUT
Head of School
ETHEL WALKER SMITH, A.M..
Bryn Mawr College
Head Mimtreaa
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Wykeham Rise
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IN THE LITCHFIELD HILLS
College Preparatory and General Courses
Special Courses in Art and Music
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Box Y, Stamford, Gonn.
The Kirk School
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Boarding and day school established
1899. Preparation for leading women's
colleges. Four-year high school course;
intensive review courses for College
Board examinations throughout year
or during second semester; general
courses. Resident enrollment limited
to twenty-five. Individual attention in
small classes. Informal home life.
Outdoor sports.
MARY B. THOMPSON. Principal
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Junior College: Two years of college work.
Special courses in Music, Art, and Dramatics.
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A school for Girls 19 miles from New York. College
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Domestic Science. Catalogue on request. Box B.
MIRIAM A. BYTEL, A.B., Radcliffe, Principal
BERTHA GORDON WOOD, A. B., Bryn Mawr,
Assistant Principal
The Baldwin School
A Country School for Girls
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Preparation for Bryn Mawr, Mount
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CoU^es. Abundant Outdoor Life.
Hodcey, Basketball, Tennis,
Indoor Swimming Pool.
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Miss Wright's School
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
College Preparatory and
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Mr. and Mrs. Guier Scott Wright
Directors
The Katharine Branson School
ROSS, CALIFORNIA Across the Bay from San Francisco
A Country School College Preparatory
Head:
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150 acres 10 fireproof buildings
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Springside School
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College Preparatory
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SUB-PRIMARY GRADES I-VI
at Junior School, St. Martin's
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medallions of Bryn Mawr daisies. The background in true
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BACK LOG CAMP
(A CAMP FOR ADULTS AND FAMILIES)
SABAEL. P. O.. NEW YORK
On Indian Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains
THE FLEET
T) ACK LOG CAMP prides itself particularly on the fleet of boats and canoes which,
^-^ without any extra charge, are always at the service of its guests. At the bottom
end of the list are the "water babies," tiny 30 pound canoes used on beaver dams and
small adjacent lakes. Next come a do2,en or so ordinary canoes; above them a few
canoes specially fitted for four paddlers and a passenger. King of all is the huge
Polypody (ask your classical or botanical friends what that means), carrying its load
of ten paddlers and the steersman.
In addition is a fine fleet of rowboats, made by the family — not heavy mill-pond
tubs, but built on the Adirondack model, for lightness and speed. Some have one pair
of oars, some have two pairs, and the great Tupper carries three oarsmen and six
passengers.
It's a gteat sight when ten or fifteen of these boats pull out from Camp for a
day's trip.
Letters of inquiry should he addressed to
MRS. BERTHA BROWN LAMBERT (Bryn Mawr, 1904) , 272 Park Avenue, Takoma Park. D. C.
00 & 1 CELEBRATED HANDS
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MISS KING DISCUSSES GERTRUDE STEIN
May, 1934
Vol. XIV
No. 5
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For those whose memory goes back to the gallant^ and for many years losing
battle, waged by Miss Thomas to have Bryn Mawr ranked by virtue of its graduate
school, not as a college but as a university, the article which appeared in the
New York Times on April 2nd marked an epoch. The article was based on the
Report of the American Council of Education, to be printed in the Educational
Record. As a result of this year's nation-wide survey of the graduate schools
throughout the country offering work for the doctorate, thirty-five new names have
been added to the twenty-eight which made up the list of the members of the Asso-
ciation of American Universities. Third in this new official list of "institutions having
facilities and staff satisfactory in one or more fields" to offer graduate work, stands
the name of Bryn Mawr. Such recognition is no empty honour but may very
definitely influence able students from abroad to come to take work in the various
fields that are cited, and a very large majority of the departments are cited, —
Classics, English, German, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance
Languages, Sociology, Zoology. The Report further lists certain departments as not
only "qualified" but "distinguished." The stars indicating this are sparsely scattered
and for the most part go to the big universities. Under "Fine Arts" are listed
Bryn Mawr, Harvard (Radcliffe), Johns Hopkins, New York, Princeton, Chicago.
Of these only Bryn Mawr, Harvard, and Princeton are starred. It is true it is our
only star, but it is a particularly bright one, and is a rather dramatic climax to the
survey of the Departments of Art and Archaeology that was published in the
April Bulletin. The study last year of the Science Departments, with stress on
the admirable quality of the work and tributes from some of the most eminent men
in the country, but with equal stress on the lack of facilities, taken with this Report
of the American Council makes one realize more keenly than ever the need of a
new Science building, but one realizes it with renewed pride in the Graduate school
as a whole. Too often we forget that Bryn Mawr is the only separate woman's
college with a status that entitles it to give the Doctor's degree.
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GERTRUDE STEIN AND FRENCH PAINTING
From The College News of February 21 and amended by Miss King for the Bulletin
In the Common Room^ Thursday afternoon^ Miss King gave an illuminating
talk on Gertrude Stein and French Painting, which was based on her personal
recollections o£ Miss Stein and on wide reading in her works.
Miss King met Miss Stein first in New York through Mabel Weeks,<and Estelle
Rumboldt, the sculptor, who married the architect Robert Kohn. Miss Stein used
to visit Miss King in her roof-top apartment, built chiefly out of packing boxes
and tar-paper, on 57th Street, cram herself out of the window to admire the vista
of the river and the buildings, and finally settle down to talking at length about
anything from art to psychology. It was about this time that Gertrude Stein began
to be less and less in New York; she and her brother Leo Stein were a good deal
abroad. Miss King saw them one summer in Siena, and told an interesting story
of Miss Stein's falling asleep on the steps of S. John Lateran because the day
was hot, and she was tired; and another of a dinner in Florence when the party
of four all escorted each other to their respective lodgings, and then back again,
up and down the Lung'Arno talking, for the better part of the night. From there
the scene shifts after a lapse of several years to Paris, where the two had taken a
studio. Mr. Stein was selling his fine collection of Japanese prints in order to buy
paintings by the modern French — Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso. Miss King
did not see Miss Stein again until just before the War, when she enjoyed for
long evenings sitting in the studio staring at a picture and presently moving around
to the other side of the table and staring some more. But once she had a hint how
to look, and also an introduction to Kahnweiler, Picasso's dealer, and so used to go
and look at the pictures he had. One year they met at odd times in Madrid, where
Miss King was working at the Bihlioteca Nacional, and Miss Stein was writing
late at night, and sleeping well into the morning. She lent Miss King her manu-
scripts of the volumes of portraits. Earlier was the Portrait of Mabel Dodge, which
had such circulation and imitation at Bryn Mawr: Barbara Ling wrote a good deal,
very well, in the style, for the course in Modern Art, but she would not make a
present of the best pieces because she said they were serious and too personal. But
it was in Spain that Miss King formed that habit of continuous reading which she
considers necessary to get a full understanding of Miss Stein's writing. Today
when Miss King is in Paris, she always goes over to Rue Fleurus, sits and stares
at paintings, and talks with Gertrude Stein.
In turning to Gertrude Stein's relation to French painting, Miss King said,
"My own students, present and past, know all I am going to say. They understand
painting and it does not worry them. They are used to taking a picture for what
it is, — and so why not take a page for what it is.^ They are used to the all-over
pattern of Spanish plateresque, without relief, without centralization, where begin-
ning and middle and end are interchangeable more or less, and right could be left
and top row could be bottom row. They do not resent this, nor think that the artist
was a 'thimble-rigger.' They can certainly carry over the same attitude in them-
selves and the same postulate in tlie designer, when examining a pattern of words
on a printed page." To illustrate lier point IMiss King read a paragrapli from
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Henry James' Wings of the Dove, chosen at random. A further illustration may
be found by examining the development of dialogue in English novelists, from
Trollope and George Eliot to James and then Hemingway. In the dialogue of the
earlier^ the sentences have beginnings, middles, and ends, and the characters involved
answer each other in logical sequence. In the dialogue of the moderns, however,
the sentences often begin with the middle, and the characters answer, for example,
the thing before the last, or the next to the last question due to be asked. The
exponents of this new form point out that so things happen in life, — not necessarily
in sequence. Gertrude Stein thinks that these repetitions and castings-back are the
manner in which one thinks, but in which one does not talk, because people mostly
do not. For this reason thoughts are not usually written down until they have been
worked over into a logical order.
A mare's nest was in the last Atlantic Monthly about the question of automatic
writing, to which type of writing none of Miss Stein's work belongs, nor to that
of free association. ''Automatic writing gives what the person is not aware of
feeling, whereas this is what the writer and reader are equally aware of." When
Geography and' Plays came out the friends in New York discussed the likeness to
free association and knew that she had denied that it was the same. The Sur-
Realistes had tried that sort of thing in painting, when under hypnosis or while
telephoning in Paris, in their struggle for pure spontaneity. Miss Stein's work is
not like this, for it is deliberate in structure and direction. In fact, it is just as
conscious as Pater's style, though at the opposite extreme from this. "Frankly, it
seems to me much more like The Dark Night of the Soul, except that is poetry,
and this is pure prose; that is emotion, and this is a mirror-image of something
mental going on." Miss King read a selection from Lucy Church Amiably in
illustration of her point, and showed how what was actually there to be read, was
merely a sort of libretto, requiring an orchestration in the mind of the reader.
There is one question which Miss King is often asked: "Is Miss Stein's work
a joke?" The answer. is "No, it is absolutely in good faith; only one must allow
for irony, where glance and tone would give it in talk. But how about Swift?"
Another question, whether or not it is easier to read and understand when one is
used to it, must also be answered in the negative. One must always work over any
fine bit of literature in order to get the most out of it. Indeed, one might have a
horrible doubt, in reading classics, whether one is not missing just as much, because
it is no work. One should start to understand Gertrude Stein by parallels. Living
in Paris, in the midst of painting, she could not help being affected by tlie successive
influences which affected painting. The first parallel lies in her affinity to impres-
sionism, with its all-over, flat patterns, its lack of relief and centralization, and its
passion for the momentary image. The Pointillistes offer even more of a flat pattern.
The work of Cezanne affords a second parallel. The canvas is a plenum, and the
composition an adjustment of tensions which are three-dimensional, and there are
no interstices. "Trying to make excerpts from Gertrude Stein, is like trying to
pick those plants which run a long root underground with stems coming up here
and there. If you give a tug, the whole comes up, and the roots dangle." Miss
King read some short pieces, "Dinner," "Celery" and "Pheasants," from Tender
Buttons, and one or two from Geography and Plays, to show how mutilated such
fragments become when removed from their content.
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The third parallel is to be found in the work of the Cubists, who were always
her closest friends, especially Picasso and Braque, and Matisse — although he is not
properly one of them. The interpenetration of masses in Cubism has become either
interpenetration of a) time, and b) thoughts, in Gertrude Stein's prose; or else
a design in which the object is used only as a point of departure. The essay on
Braque in Geography and Plays is a story with the events left out, but the rela-
tions of the characters and their dialogue left in. It is like the work of Braque
in one of his later periods. Miss Stein's use of concrete details appliqued to the
main structure resembles the work of the Dada-ists or of that group of Cubists
who actually pasted bits of cork or newspaper on their canvases. By the Sur-
Realistes, she was influenced toward spontaneity, freshness and whimsicality, and
toward the use of orchestration. "Just as in Operas and Plays the text gives you
only the libretto, which is completed by what proceeds on the stage, so here, the
orchestration lies in the suggestions and overtones and connotations. When you
have read and reread, listening, you know what it is about. So in Geography and
Plays, you recognize bits of that long living in the South of France, snatches
of dialogue about the day's incident. And the realism of it is of a fragment of
actuality." During the War, Miss Stein drove an ambulance in the south of France,
and "worked like a dog," as she, herself, expressed it. And the war-time experi-
ences reverberate in her work.
Gertrude Stein should be read aloud, for the greatest understanding and pleas-
ure can only be procured if one lets oneself go and follows the rhythm. Like the
rhythm of train wheels or machinery, the ear picks up a tune. "One cannot take
the word as a unit, nor the phrase, nor the sentence. There are no units. It is a
whole long rhythm." There is more to words than the definition, just as there is
more to the sentence than the syntax. It is precisely out of the rest of it that the
meaning is borne in on us, the implications and associations: to take a nursery
instance, "The Palm and the Pine." And the interlace and repetitions are drum-
ming out the pattern of the music, as in Ravel's Bolero.
But we have to recognize something actual in the way words feel: "over" feels
different from "under," "unalterable" from "flexible," voici from 'voila, awakening
faint kinaesthetic responses which persist in another language, and that is how one
learns a foreign language really. There are plenty of instances : e. g. "Up with me,
up with me into the clouds" — vs. "Down went McGinty to the bottom of the sea."
Or, to demonstrate by thus and not —
"The phoenix builds the phoenix' nest,
Love's architecture is his own":
that is pure concept, with almost no reverberations, and, in the only word that
carries them, minimized. But compare:
"Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave
I was a king in Babylon
And you were a Christian slave."
The use of repetitions and participial constructions of becoming, is partly to
get the long wave rhythm, which is not the rhythm of the suspended sentence and
the involved and inverted clause, and the balanced and parallel construction, nor
the "if" and "whether" and "how" and "on the one part" which make the monu-
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mental style. Yet after reading enough, one does know what it is all about: and
even more, these words and sentences may seem dry as a tray full of newly-washed
dishes, arid as a handful of sand that slips through one's fingers, yet with the sand
she makes patterns like the diviner at the city gate, when you see what he sees as
you hear his pipe.
"It is the technique of dry realism with the irony and the poignancy; and for
substance it is right American in the tradition from Mark Twain through Sherwood
Anderson and Ring Lardner. Yet note, for sheer mastery of the craft of style, the
effect, in the reader's mirror-image of the studio, of Alice Toklas' chairs embroid-
ered in petit-point after designs by Picasso. It is a sort of pioneer style, and with
pioneer thrift. Miss Stein wastes nothing. She employs all the implications, the
half-recognized, the long-f orgotten ; the rhythm and creak of the nursery rocking-
chair, the intermittently-remembered experience of thought and feeling, the divaga-
tions of the questing reason, the infinitesimal realities that are the stuff of experience.
"Any language with enclitics or many particles or conjunctions or adverbs of
sorts, or double negatives, lends itself to the long swingijig rhythms; not so an
inflected language or one with sharp differentiation of synonyms and few homonyms.
A Russian once said he liked writing in English because there were so many words
that meant about the same thing." "Certainly in writing one wants to write a
sentence about something," said Miss King, "and it does not much matter what
words go on, only they must be enough and make a rhythm or the page will rattle.
Only, I personally like to inlay the sentence with a few handsome words like
Byzantine or crystalline or inimitably or intermediary. And Miss Stein has no
inlays: she keeps a level surface, a Muster ohne Ende, just alike at both ends
and in the middle. It is the oriental pattern, as distinguished from the Gothic
pattern of supremacy and subordination."
Miss King ended by reading something both beautiful and moving. For there
is plenty of feeling in this oeuvre, only you must dig for it, as men dig for water
where the divining-rod has led. She read The Life and Death of Juan Gris. She
had read, at one time or another, from nearly all of Gertrude Stein's books.
COUNCILLOR FOR DISTRICT VL
Mary Taussig, 1933, has been appointed District Councillor to fill the re-
mainder of the term of Erna Rice Eisendrath, 1930, which will expire in 1935.
It was announced last month that Emily Lewis, 1931, would serve in this capacity,
but Miss Lewis is planning to go to Europe and Miss Taussig has consented to
take on the duties of the office. Miss Lewis continues as President of the Bryn ^lawr
Club of St. Louis.
NEXT COUNCIL MEETING
The next meeting of the Alumnae Council will be held at the Deanery on
November 8th, 9th, and 10th.
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AN APPRECIATION OF THE BRYN MAWR GIFT
OF BOOKS TO THE SORBONNE
The Alumnae will be much interested in the following statement in a recent
letter from Professor Cestre to Dean Schenck:
"J'ai obtenu qu'on recherche dans la reserve de la Bibliotheque de la
Sorbonne des exemplaires en trop des theses des dix dernieres annees. On
en prepare une caisse qui sera envoyee a Bryn Mawr vers le milieu
d'avril, j'espere. Vous recevrez done I'envoi au commencement de mai.
II n'y a pas toutes les theses, mais un certain nombre qui seront
interessantes.
"C'est un faible temoignage de notre grande reconnaissance a I'egard
de Bryn Mawr et de vous."
I am indebted to Dr. Eunice M. Schenck for my recent knowledge that there
is a Bulletin of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae. I have great pleasure in using this organ
to make the Bryn Mawr Alumnae acquainted with some of the work done at the
University of Paris with the American books provided by the fund so generously
raised after the war by the Society of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae to supply the want
of American books in the Library of the Sorbonne, due to lack of funds. I should
like to give today a short review of a remarkable dissertation for the Doctorat-es-
Lettres, recently presented at the Sorbonne and received maxima cum laude. It is a
book on L'Esthetique de Baudelaire,"^ and it contains a first rate chapter on the
literary relations of Baudelaire with Edgar Allan Poe.
Those two men offer a unique case in the history of literature of two minds
developing independently on the same line. When one (the French poet) met the
work of the other, he welcomed it with enthusiastic recognition and underwent its
unmistakable influence. This parallelism can be explained, in part, by resemblances
of temperament between the two writers, and by similar literary affiliations. Their
minds were formed, on either side of the Atlantic, by the surviving prestige of
romanticism. Poe began with imitating Byron and Shelley; Baudelaire with
imitating Chenier, Lamartine and Hugo. Both were mystics, whose mysticism can
be traced back to the neo-platonists, in the case of Poe through Coleridge, in the
case of Baudelaire through Swedenborg. Both were attracted towards the dismal
and the gruesome by weariness of the sentimental, dissatisfaction with cliches (set
themes and set modes of expression), and a desire for passionate sincerity. It does
not mean that they were normal. On the contrary, both had morbid constitutions;
their imagination was attracted by the gloomy or the horrible. Baudelaire intro-
duced, for the first time in literature, ruthless depiction of sensuality (mostly
sexual), mixed with harrowing and pathetic remorse. Both were worshippers of
the beautiful.
On this latter point, they were perfectly at one. When Baudelaire read
The Poetic Principle for the first time, he exclaimed: "This is what I have always
thought. Poe's doctrine is even worded in 'the very terms that have come to my
mind." It was a great encouragement for the young French poet to find the con-
firmation of his own meditations in an older poet and critic, whom he admired
and who had begun (towards 1846) to acquire reputation. Baudelaire made a
*Andr6 Ferran: L'Esthetique de Baudelaire, Hachette, XII— 736 p. 8° 60 francs.
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larger use than Poe of the ground-rules of his aesthetics: not only did he extol
Poe (after having translated him), but, applying his views to painting, he defended
Delacroix against the onslaught of the classics, and in the realm of music, he dis-
covered Wagner. All his life he struggled, along the same lines as Poe, for Poetry
absolute, poetry which has nothing to do with the search of truth or the teaching
of morals. The two men, through their mystic tendencies, saw in Nature, the con-
crete representation of the divine. They found analogies (Poe) or correspondence
(Baudelaire) between matter and spirit, so that the splendors of the visible world
could be used as symbols of the invisible world, and material beauty became the
embodiment of spiritual beauty. For them, there was, in spite of gross appearances,
an affinity between all the senses and between all the arts. Poetry belonged to the
same essence as music; verbal description was painting by means of imaginative
coloring; a sculptor, a landscape-gardener were poets, as rightfully as a writer of
odes and lyric stanzas. The creation of the Beautiful proceeded from quasi-divine
inspiration. A poem ought to be short, because the ecstasy that gives it birth is
fleeting and rare. The poet was a being apart from the crowd, marked with the
sacred sign that severs the elect from the mass of humanity. Both were aristocrats,
draping themselves, though poor, in their pride and self-sufficiency, having nothing
but disdain for what Whitman was to call "the equal brood," and recoiling with
horror from mechanical, industrialized civilization. Baudelaire poured his com-
passion in the Prefaces to his translations of Poe, on the unhappy victim of
"la barbaric eclairee au gaz."
Baudelaire, as a poet and a critic, stands on a higher rank than Poe; but he
owes to the American poet and theorist of aesthetics to have taken faith in his own
conception of poetry and confidence in his own genius. Monsieur Andre Ferran has
emphasized this important indebtedness of the French writer to his American
predecessor in an illuminating chapter.
C. Cestre.
THE BRYN MAWR ROOM AT THE CITE UNIVERSITAIRE
Applications for the Bryn Mawr room at the Cite Universitaire in Paris for
the French academic year, November 15th, 1934- July 1st, 1935, should be made
before June 1st to President Park. The following classes of applicants will be
considered: (1) Holders of Bryn Mawr degrees (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.). (2) Other
present and former students of the Bryn Mawr Graduate School. (3) Members
of the Senior Class.
During the academic year the cost of a room per month, including service
amounts to approximately fifteen to eighteen dollars at the present rates of exchange.
Meals are served in the building on the cafeteria plan. The minimum expenditure
for food is fifteen francs daily, and the average less than twenty.
A careful plan for the year's work should be submitted, and if the candidate is
not at the time of application a student at Bryn Mawr College, at least three people
competent to estimate her work should be referred to. Application may also be
made before June 1st to President Park for the use of the Bryn Mawr room for a
period of not less than two months during the summer. This application should be
accompanied by a plan of work and academic references.
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DANCING AS AN EDUCATIONAL FACTOR
IN CHILDREN'S LIVES
Josephine Petts, Director of Physical Education at Bryn Mawr
I shall begin this paper with the words of Isadora Duncan, who, with her
sister Elizabeth, has created from her genius the only kind of dancing which seems
to me to have anything of importance to do with children's lives. I am quoting from
her book The Art of the Dance: . . . "The dance is the most natural and beautiful
aid to the development of the growing child in its constant movement. And only
that education is right which includes' the dance. . . . For every child that is born
in civilization has the right to a heritage of beauty. . . . Within two years my
school has transformed sickly and badly formed children into frescoes that out-
rivaled the loveliness of Donatello or Luca della Robia. There is no more simple
and direct means to give art to the people — to give a conception of art to the
working man — than to transform his own children into living works of art. The
children of my school at an early age learned to sing the chorals of Mendelssohn,
Mozart, Bach and the songs of Schubert; for every child, no matter of what class,
if he sings and moves to this music, will penetrate the spiritual message of the
great Masters.
"And so the first great aim of my school was social and educational. But I
succeeded so well in giving this expression to the children that the bourgeois hailed
them as phenomena, and were willing to pay large sums to put them on the stage and
stare at them through opera glasses. How many times have I come out after a
performance and explained: 'These dancing children whom I have formed in my
school are not performing as theatre artists. I bring them before you simply to
show you what can be accomplished with every child. Now give me the means to
work this experiment in a greater field and I will further prove that the beauty
which you applaud tonight can be the natural expression of every child in the
world.'"
And it is because I know that this is true, because I have seen the children
in her school change from just ordinary children into lovely, shining human beings
that I speak to you with such conviction.
It seems to me that dancing as an educational factor concerns the whole field
of physical instruction. In our homes, in our class-rooms, we strive to invest our
children with graceful, cultured, sensitive minds; in our gymnasia and on our
playing fields we turn them into what D. H. Lawrence has aptly termed police-
women, and may I add police-men too. Why have we done this ? We have done it,
I believe, because we have tried to develop the body and the spirit as two separate
entities. We have not applied to Physical Education what seem to me to be the
two fundamental factors in this field, namely that the movement of the body is
governed by definite scientific laws which if obeyed or disobeyed in the end deter-
mine its structure, and second that the body and spirit are an indivisible unit, and
that one cannot possibly be developed to its highest point without the other. To
attain any real stability, physical strength must develop from an inner, spiritual
power, which in turn is advanced by beautiful movement.
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The way one moves is far more expressive than the way one speaks, and at
the moment the manner in which our young people move is immeasurably cheap.
We look about us for a medium which shall prevent this catastrophe in the
rising generation, and which shall lift the rest of us to a higher plane of living.
We find it in dancing.
If, however, dancing is to be the very essence and core of Physical Education,
with games and sports used for recreation of a physical type, we must choose it
with care.
1. For example, it will not be the ballet, because the ballet tortures the pliable
bodies of children into shoes and dresses that deform them, and teaches unnatural
and forced movement, and because it comes from France at the time of the most
polluted and false and shallow of courts and does not find itself at home in our
generation, or in the land of Walt Whitman.
2. It will not be dancing of any sort that does not coincide with the stage
of maturity which the child has reached.
3. It will not be dancing to music in such a way that one cannot listen to
the lovely, simple melody above the push, push and the shove, shove of the beat.
4. Or dancing to music such as that of most of the Moderns which has
no cosmic quality, makes for angularity of movement and which speaks only of
skepticism, depression and sterility.
5. It will not be dancing done to percussion instruments, which mistakes time
for rhythm, which uses only the brain and tends to make people rough and common
because it ignores all the elements of the spirit.
6. It will not be the sort of dancing in which children imitate animals or the
opening and closing of flowers. To quote Isadora again: "Nature must be the
source of all art, and the dance must make use of nature's forces in harmony and
rhythm, but the dancers' movement will always be separate from any movement
in nature."
7. The dance is not made up of gestures which are of this world, but of
rhythms which are of all worlds.
8. The dance which we must choose has nothing to do with pirouettes. It is
not movement of a conventional and mechanical conception of life imposed from
without. But it is dancing which is in harmony with the laws of the child's own
body, so that it will grow more beautiful with dancing and so that its latent energies
will be released, and it must also be an expression of serenity.
It must be quieting and expanding enough in its effect to increase the child's
powers of concentration, and to make him more sensitive and responsive to the
other things he is learning. It should be of the sort to teach him to look on all
great art with understanding and to hear great music in all its beauty and subtlety.
And, finally, the dancing of which I speak has not as its purpose to develop
a star, one person who outdoes all the others, but rather, must it be done in groups
where children will learn that in movement, never resting is life itself and that
while the movement of each is separate, and individual, and independent, it must
also be in harmony with that of the others, for dancing is not only living, it is
a way of life as well.
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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE
With the retirement of Professor Leuba, Professor Crandall and Professor
Wright last year, the changes in the Faculty announced in the spring were striking.
The changes of this year cut less deeply into the old Bryn Mawr. They seem to
me interesting in their connection with courses definitely called for by students.
The first are a group of temporary variations. As usual, instructors absent on
Sabbatical leaves are returning, and others going. Professor Agnes Rogers comes
back after two years away. Her year began with lectures in London and in
Cambridge, and she worked later at her own university, St. Andrews. A serious
illness has made her second year a less pleasant form of absence, but she is now
entirely on her feet again and returns to do full time work in the fall. Her
colleague. Professor Use Forest, has received an appointment as Sterling Fellow
in Education at Yale and will spend the Sabbatical year, which now falls to her,
at work in New Haven in Education and in Philosophy.
Professor Anna Pell Wheeler is away from full time teaching work next year
on leave, but her present plans keep her in this neighborhood and within reach of
the increased group of graduate students who are arriving, one from Europe, and
several from American universities to work under Dr. Emmy Noether. Dr. Hedlund
returns from his year's work as National Research Fellow at Princeton and will
give next year in Mrs. Wheeler's place a Seminary at the University of Pennsylvania
to which both Bryn Mawr and University students are admitted.
Professor Oilman returns from a semester's absence, the greater part of which
she is spending in Paris, carrying on research for a book on Baudelaire as a critic.
Professor Lily Ross Taylor spends the coming year as Acting-Professor in
charge of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome,
where she was earlier herself Fellow. Her place will be taken by Dr. Louise Adams
Holland, a graduate of Barnard, and like Miss Taylor, herself a Ph.D. under
Professor Tenney Frank at Bryn Mawr. Mrs. Holland has in several past years
given courses at Bryn Mawr, and she comes into the Department as an old friend,
as well as an interesting and stimulating scholar.
A year ago Professor Henry Cadbury accepted the Hollingsworth Professorship
of Divinity at Harvard and resigned the chair of Biblical Literature at Bryn Mawr,
his resignation to take effect in 1934. His loss from the Faculty at Bryn Mawr is a
grave and indeed irreparable one. He has not only brought honor to Bryn Mawr
by his work and publications in his own department, but he has made possible
excursions into his field on the part of students in Latin, and he has connected
himself with the whole graduate school by his admirable work as Secretary of the
Committee on Graduate Students. For the time being, at least, the College is not
attempting to replace him and graduate students who wish work in his field will be
sent in to courses at the University of Pennsylvania. His undergraduate courses
in Biblical Literature, however, will be supplied, and alumnae who remember
Professor Chew's course in The Bible as Literature, given in 1925-26 and several
times earlier, will be glad to know that he has consented to give the course again
next year. Mr. Chew has in the meantime given it three times in the Department of
Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago Summer School. A second
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course in The History of Religions will also be arranged for, but the instructor
has not yet been appointed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Norton Potter has to my great regret resigned her position in
the Department of Art and in her place Mr. Harold Wethey, who takes his
Doctorate at Harvard this summer, has been appointed. For the past year
Mr. Wethey has been Assistant in the Department of Art at the University and he
comes to Bryn Mawr with warm recommendations from the members of the
Harvard Department. The connections between these two departments of Art at
Harvard and Bryn Mawr have been unusually close, and Professor King and I are
glad to cement them by an appointment direct from Cambridge to Bryn Mawr.
Mr. Wethey's field is Gothic and Renaissance Sculpture and he is set down for a
Seminary as well as for undergraduate courses.
I said to the Alumnae at the February luncheon that the increasing registration
in Economics would make necessary the appointment of an additional instructor in
that Department, and that it was almost as clear a necessity to increase, even if by
a little, the fields of Economics which the college oifers. With this in view, Dr. Karl
Anderson has been appointed Associate in Economics. Like Mr. Wethey, he comes
directly from Harvard, where he took his Doctor's degree two years ago. He has
been Instructor in Economics for four years and comes with an excellent name for
his work in teaching, as well as for his interest in research. The freshman work in
Economics will be divided between Professor Wells and Dr. Anderson, and the
latter will give a Second Year undergraduate course and a Seminary in Money
and Banking.
Dr. Richtmyer, in the Department of Chemistry, is resigning, and his place
will be taken by another of the long line of instructors whom Professor Kohler has
sent down to Bryn Mawr. The new appointee is Dr. Arthur Clay Cope, a Ph.D.
of the University of Wisconsin, and for the past two years National Research
Fellow at Harvard.
Miss Agnes Kirsopp Lake, A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1930, and A.M. 1931,
and Fellow in the American Academy in Rome, 1931-33, who is taking her Doctor's
degree this year, has been appointed Instructor in Latin; and Miss Margaret Palfrey,
A.B., Smith College, 1930, and a teacher since her graduation at the Katherine
Branson School, Ross, California, has been appointed Instructor in English.
At the request of the English Department I have invited Professor John
Livingston Lowes to give the Mary Flexner Lectures next year and suggested that
he use Keats on whom he is working this yeal* as subject matter for his public
lectures. It is not certain that Mr. Lowes can rearrange his work at Harvard and
make a six week visit to Bryn Mawr possible. We are waiting eagerly for his
answer.
Dr. Minor Latham has consented to resume lier Tuesday journeys from New
York next year in order to give her course in Play Writing.
The alumnae will be interested in tlie latest news of the Bryn INIawr Dig.
A radiogram which was sent on April 18th from Adana by Miss Hetty Goldman,
Director of the Excavation, gives the following encouraging report: "Excellent
Arrangements. Government Permission. Preliminary Soundings. Sites Promising."
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CAMPUS NOTES
By J. Elizabeth Hannan, 1934
The month of March started off very treacherously with halcyon weather and
a lull in academic activity. Neither lasted out the first week and we found our-
selves faced with the usual unbelievable quota of quizzes and reports, done to the
accompaniment of howling wind and rain, with a mixture of dirty snow. Bad
weather and books did not, however, prevent the campus from buzzing with extra-
curricular activity — mental and physical. The mental activity was, we are pleased
to report, on the very highest level; and the physical activity indicated what
Bryn Mawr athletes can do if they really use their muscles.
Our aesthetic events included two poetry teas, a recital by Mr. Alwyne, a
lecture by Mr. Eeginald Pole of the theatre world, and one by Mr. Charles
Hopkinson, well-known artist. It seems obvious that someone has the future of
poetry at Bryn Mawr very much at heart; for at a tea given by Miss Ely, March
11th, a poetry-speaking society was discussed and two days after that an "After-
noon of Poetry" was held at the Deanery, where Bryn Mawr poets, alumnae and
undergraduates read their own poetry. The idea of forming a poetry-speaking
society seems to have developed into a reality, as a meeting has been announced for
April 10th for which "prospective members will undertake to learn a favourite
poem, which they will recite at the meeting.'* It seems to be a useful and painless
method of encouraging good diction, and we intend to be at the first meeting to
collect statistics on the delivery of the contestants, whether modeled upon Graduated
Exercises in Articulation or natural. For all our belittling of Bryn Mawr poets in
this column, we were impressed by the quality and quantity of poets and poetry at
the second event, the "Afternoon of Poetry." The opinion has several times been
stated here that creative writing, especially poetry, is not to be met with on the
Bryn Mawr campus. In contradiction to that theory, stands the undeniably good
poetry read at that meeting, an account of which has already been given in the
Bulletin.
As a supplement to our afternoons of poetry we heard Dr. Dhan Ghopal
Mukerji rehearse his oft-given lecture on the need to meditate. Even those who
had many times heard the Indian sage deliver his message that "silence within man
outweighs all things and measures the universe," said that they never tire of being
told to go off somewhere and contemplate. No cases of contemplation have been
noticed on the campus, but we suppose Dr. Mukerji's hearers take a certain aca-
demic pleasure in being advised to climb a Himalayan precipice and sit. Perhaps
more applicable to our present surroundings and situation was the talk given on
art appreciation by Mr. Hopkinson, who is at present engaged in painting Miss
Park's portrait. His advice, addressed to the layman as well as the Art Major,
was to analyze a picture not only for its subject, but also for the formal elements
of composition, form and colour; and to improve our technique of art criticism, he
described what the artist looks for in a painting, and incidentally how he composes
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his own paintings. It was all very fascinating and the audience looked even more
attentive than usual.
We were led through the intricacies of another department of the arts by
Mr. Reginald Pole, who spoke on The Theatre of the Future and its Signposts.
Mr. Pole, as actor, playwright, and producer, was especially well-fitted to speak
on the subject of the future of the theatre, and a large audience assembled in the
Deanery to be given a look into the future. Although Mr. Pole began his lecture
by describing the origin of the theatre in the Greek religious festivals, an intro-
duction peculiarly irritating to a Bryn Mawr audience thrice-dipped in the "Birth
of the Drama," he soon repaired that slip by his inspired comment on modern
dramatists and readings from their plays. Mr. Pole's theory that the theatre of
the future will be the meeting-place of all the arts was received with enthusiasm
by a group predominantly interested in the stage, and we may say that he had a
great success. Since speakers on the drama, at least those as excellent as was
Mr. Pole, are always well-attended, it is to be hoped that the Players' Club will
carry out its often-threatened plan of having a series of talks given by people
prominent in the theatre. That body has, by the way, elected itself a president,
B. Lord, '35, and now promises to be more active than it has been in its uneventful
past.
The Varsity Dramat Board is presenting Pygmalion this year. The Board
very wisely decided not to attempt a repetition of its success of last fall in the
period drama. The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and in a somewhat distracted
canvass of modern plays finally came back to that old standby, George Bernard
Shaw. He is not popular with the present generation of undergraduates, many of
whom recall The DeviVs Disciple, Too Good to Be True, and Heartbreak House,
not without a shudder of horror, but the moving spirits in Dramat — M. Kidder,
J. Barber and H. Bruere — should be able to confound his unkind critics and
produce a success. In their Shaw revival they are assisted by a male cast all of
whom are members of the Philadelphia Plays and Players' Club, and by the first
professional director that our stage has seen in a long while.
The divers accomplishments and plans of the aesthetes are well-matched by
those of the athletes of the campus. In basketball, fencing, and swimming, the
month of March was one long triumph for Bryn Mawr. Swarthmore, our rival in
athletics, was defeated in both swimming and basketball. Although the swimming
meet was for the first time held off campus and the members of the team had to
cope with unfamiliar surroundings, they overcame their handicaps and came home
victorious. That there was some interest on campus regarding the meet is proved
by the fact that enough people to fill a large bus roused themselves from Friday
lethargy and went along to cheer the team. We have no way of accounting for
sudden enthusiasms that sweep the campus, yet there should be some good reason
for the interest shown in sports this year. All the class basketball games, as well
as those with outside teams, were attended by cheering parties whose bellows rocked
the campus and made the library quite uninhabitable. The energy promises to be
duplicated in tennis this spring and we look forward to an overwhelming victory
over Vassar.
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FURTHER CAMPUS NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE NEWS
Dr. Miller, Lecturer in Social Economy, spoke at the Foreign Policy luncheon
in Columbus, Ohio, on The Relation of Czechoslovakia to the Present Austrian
Situation. Dr. Miller emphasized the point that the support of Austria and Hungary
by Mussolini and the proposed revision of boundaries is creating a very tense feeling
and that the Czechoslovakians are likely to resist any attempt at revision.
At the spring meeting of the New York branch of the American Psychological
Association on April 11, Dr. Turner, Instructor in Psychology, read a paper on
Early Non-Tropistic Visual Orientation in the White Rat.
Dr. Theodore de Laguna*s article on The Problem of the Laches is in the
April issue of Mind.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism, the fifth volume of the collected papers of
Charles Saunders Peirce, will be published this month by the Harvard University
Press. Dr. Weiss, Associate Professor in Philosophy, is editing it in collaboration
with Charles Hartshorne, of the University of Chicago. Volume V should be of
the greatest interest to the general public, according to Dr. Weiss, since it contains
all Peirce's published papers and many of his unpublished ones on Pragmatism.
Dr. Weiss also has an article appearing this month as one of a number of
credos of academic and non-academic philosophers in American Philosophy Today
and Tomorrow.
RADICAL UNDERGRADUATES DEMAND RHETORIC
It has always been our belief that Freshman English was supposed to be a
course in English Composition, but we are rapidly becoming convinced that it fails
to give as good an English training as is either possible or necessary. We feel that
there is not one of us who would not be grateful for a really stiff training in
construction and style, and it is unfortunate that Freshman English gives us too
little of either. They seem to assume that our schools will have provided us with
a training in the fundamental characteristics of good writing so thorough that the
college needs merely to elaborate upon our foundational knowledge.
For the majority of us this assumption is unfounded, and we are enabled to go
through college never feeling quite sure of the proper treatment of participial
sentences, of infinitives used as subjects, of clausal constructions, and of the proper
usage of "shall" and "will," of "only" and "merely" and of "due to." It is "never
drilled into most of us that sentences should not end with prepositions, that dashes
can be used only in certain specific cases, that dangling participles may make
intensely amusing reading, and that there is a distinction of meaning between
'The man, who was walking,' and 'The man who was walking.' "
We believe that lectures on style should be given as the most important part
of the Freshman English course, and that instruction in writing should not be
confined entirely to interviews. It is possible that while we are taking Freshman
English, we may never make the mistakes or run up against the problems which
will turn up to bother us later so that individual instruction does not necessarily
cover all the possible needs of each person in the class. The writing of reports in
later years would be considerably simplified if we had been so thoroughly drilled
in English construction that the usual problems never turned up to trouble us.
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ALUMNAE BOOKSHELF
British Colonial Government After the American Revolution, 1782-1820,
bi/ Helen Taft Manning. 580 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press. $4.00.
Reprinted from Review by William MacDonald in New York Herald-Tribune, April 8th
The dean of Bryn Mawr College has here explored a historical field in which
comparatively little work has been done. It is true that the loss of the American
colonies was followed in England by tlie appearance of a considerable body of
anti-imperialist sentiment, and that notliing happened after 1782 in the Colonial
field that equaled in dramatic interest the events of the twenty years preceding, but
the anti-imperialist opposition was probably due, as Dean Manning points out, not
so much to the defeat at Yorktown as to the "sudden and unexampled prosperity"
which followed the peace and made the occupation and development of overseas
possessions seem less attractive or profitable. What the intellectuals thought, how-
ever, made little impression upon the government, and ministers busied themselves
"staking out claims to the dominant political power on two Continents, rounding out
British rule in India, and acquiring new outposts in other parts of the world."
There was no particular theory of colonization or empire about it; the colonies were
governed "with a minimum of explanation or justification," and "as far as the older
provinces were concerned" the ministers "continued to pen dispatches which might
have been written between 1715 and 1750."
The field is a large one, and Dean Manning does not try to cover the whole
of it. The first half of the book is occupied with a description of government and
administration in the West India colonies that remained after the Continental
United States had broken away, the particular topics being the Colonial Constitu-
tions, the powers, duties and relations of Governors, Assemblies and courts, the
financial problems of the civil and military establishments and the machinery in
England for Colonial administration and the regulation of Colonial trade. The
second half deals with the Constitutional problems of Canada, the administration
of the West India possessions taken from France between 1793 and 1799 and the
Cape Colony, Ceylon and Mauritius. Such obvious lack of unity as the presentation
shows is the fault of the subject, not of Dean Manning, but wherever the narrative
admits of a summary or an observation tliat can interpret events in terms of
Colonial policy advantage is taken of it. It is not often that a learned monograph,
based in large part upon manuscript material and assembling printed data, much of
which has not before been brought together in any one place, is so admirably
balanced or so interestingly written.
Women Who Work, by Grace Hutchins. International Publishers, N. Y. $2.00.
The employment of women, the conditions of their work, their wages and
opportunities for life and liberty, make an excellent topic if one wants to look at
modern industrial civilization in this country without adornment. This book pre-
sents the picture with stark reality, but, in the reviewer's opinion, with a realism
that calls loudly for public attention and understanding. The glimpse of insecurity,
meager living and fear of pauperism that is presented here as the typical fate of
working women in industry, in much of agriculture, in the so-called migratory
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trades, even in offices and some professions, is taken from cold and factual govern-
ment reports. Their authority can be questioned no more than that of other
government census figures. The book is an excellent collection of available material
regarding working women. It is carefully annotated, in most parts ; its sources may
be verified readily. If the picture is appalling to the lay reader, and it will be so,
it is a picture which any student of industrial workers, especially of women in
industry, will recognize probably as bleakly familiar. American industry is at its
worst in dealing with women, as in dealing with Negroes, old people, and the
unemployed.
The book, nevertheless, is not written for the middle class or bourgeois reader.
It is written for working women themselves. It assumes little or no knowledge of
history, economics or politics on the part of the reader and it is written obviously
and honestly with propaganda intent. The writer is frankly Communist and recog-
nizes only the left wing Communist organizations of workers as qualified to deliver
American workers, especially wtnnen workers, from their present conditions of life
and labour. Her references to Marx and Engels, Lenin and Stalin, are given in the
tone of the oracle. In places, generalization in her conclusions tempts her to
sweeping statements that are in sharp contrast to her more careful and disciplined
collection of data. From the point of view of scholarship and of carefully sub-
stantiated scientific statement, the reviewer cannot approve or recommend without
qualification the phraseology, style or technique of interpretation. As a vivid pic-
ture of the life and struggles of a large and growing part of the American people,
not only now but for the most of our industrial history, it is probably accurate,
however. It could be read with profit by everyone.
The small section on the Soviet Union is good and in spirit correct in the
reviewer's judgment. It assumes a higher degree of universality than may be
justified, but not more than may be allowable within comparatively few years.
Mildred Fairchild, Ph.D., 1929,
Associate in Social Economy, Bryn Mawr College.
The Rural Community and Social Case Work, by Josephine Brown. Family
Welfare Association of America. $1.00.
This book is very pertinent at a time when, to quote the preface, "in most
states the complete absence of any form of social service in rural and small town
communities has been brought forcibly to the attention of state and Federal relief
administrations.'* The scheme of the book is frankly that of a text book, and deals,
with a wealth of specific and practical detail, with problems of family life and
social case work in the rural community. Miss Brown writes with an authority
based on her own broad experience, and her book should be invaluable not only
for the worker in the field, but for those in the community who wish to organize
such work.
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PLANS FOR COMMENCEMENT WEEK
Saturday, June 2nd, to Wednesday, June 6th
Class
Headquarters
Class Supper
Reunion Managers
1898
Pembroke East
The President's House
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
1899
Pembroke West
Common Room
Emma Guffey Miller
1900
Wyndham
Wyndham
Helen MacCoy
1901
Rockefeller
College Inn
Beatrice McGeorge
1909
Denbigh
Common Room
Frances Browne
1917
Merion
Merion
Bertha Greenough
1918
Denbigh
Denbigh
Ruth Cheney Streeter
1919
Pembroke West
Wyndham
Mary Ramsay Phelps
1920
Pembroke East
Rockefeller
Catherine Robinson
1932
Rockefeller
Picnic
Molly Atmore Ten Broeck
1933
Rockefeller
Picnic
Margaret Collier
The Class Suppers or Class Picnics will all be held Saturday evening, June 2nd,
except those for 1899 and 1900, which will take place Monday evening. President
Park has invited the Classes of 1932 and 1933 to breakfast with her at her house
on Sunday morning.
At noon on Sunday there will be a special meeting of the Alumnae Association
in Goodhart Hall. This will be followed by the Alumnae Luncheon in the Deanery
at 1.30, at which President Park and representatives of the reuning classes will
speak. At 5 o'clock in the Reading Room of the Library there will be a short
ceremony in connection with the unveiling of the portrait of President Park. This
portrait, painted by Mr. Charles Hopkinson, of Boston, is the gift of the Class of
1898. On Sunday evening, June 3rd, the Baccalaureate Sermon will be preached by
the Reverend Donald Mackenzie, of Princeton Theological Seminary.
On Monday two picnic luncheons have been planned for the classes of 1898-
1901 and for 1917-1920. The Alumnae Association will give a Tea to the Senior
Class in the Deanery at 4.30 on Monday. There will be an Alumnae- Varsity Tennis
Tournament on Monday or Tuesday, and the Senior Garden Party will be held
on the campus, Tuesday afternoon, June 5th.
Dr. Karl T. Compton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
will deliver the Commencement Address in the Auditorium of Goodhart Hall on
Wednesday morning, June 6th.
WOMAN'S COLLEGE BOARD— A CENTURY OF PROGRESS
Bryn Mawr is again cooperating in maintaining the Woman's College Board
K for a Century of Progress. This year the Board has been able to secure space in
W the Hall of Social Sciences. A paid secretary will be on hand, and on May 27th,
K June 18th, July 9th, July 27th, August 15th, September 2nd, September 22nd,
K October 15th, and November 1st, which will be known as Bryn Mawr Days, a
K number of Bryn Mawr students, past and present, will serve as hostesses. Repre-
B senting Bryn Mawr on the Executive Board is Mrs. John F. Manierre (Rachel
K- Foster, 1925).
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Friday and Saturday, May I Ith and 12th — 8.20 p. nn., Goodhart Hall
The Bryn Mawr College Glee Club presents "The Gondoliers" for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Sunnmer School. Tickets: Friday, $1.75 and $1.50; Saturday, $2.00 and $1.75.
Sunday, May 13th — 8.30 p. nn., Goodhart Hall
First of three progranns of Chamber Music symbolizing a "Century of Progress" in Music
by the Pro Arte String Quartet of Brussels, tendered by the Library of Congress,
"Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation." The program will consist of quartets by
Beethoven, Chadwick, Brahms.
Tuesday, May 15th — 5 p. m., The Deanery (Tea at 4.30)
A talk on "Mohammedan Life in Damascus," by Dr. Christine Adamson Essenberg, head of
the American School for Girls at Damascus.
Wednesday, May 16th — 8.30 p. nn., Goodhart Hall
Second of three programs of Chamber Music by the Pro Arte String Quartet of Brussels.
The program will consist of quartets by Franck, Carpenter, Debussy.
Thursday, May 17th — 8.15 p. m.. The Deanery Garden
An informal demonstration of the work done by the College Dancing Classes under the
auspices of the Entertainment Committee of the Deanery.
Saturday, May 19th— 8.30 p. m., Goodhart Hall
Last of three programs of Chamber Music by the Pro Arte String Quartet of Brussels.
The program will consist of quartets by Schonberg, Harris, Hindemith.
Sunday, May 20th — 7.30 p. m.. Out of doors, below the Music Walk
(The Music Roonn in case of rain)
Service conducted by the Reverend W, Brooke Stabler, Chaplain of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Sunday. June 3rd — 8 p. m., Goodhart Hall
Baccalaureate Sermon by Reverend Donald Mackenzie, D.D.,
of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Tuesday, June 5th — 4 to 7 p. nn.
Senior Garden Party. ^
Wednesday, June 6th — I I a. m., Goodhart Hall
Conferring of Degrees. Address by Dr. Karl L Compton, President of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
All events scheduled on Daylight Saving Time
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DOINGS OF ALUMNAE
Helen Chapin^ 19 15^ has had such a picturesque trainings as well as a thorough
and unique one^ that the Bulletin cannot refrain from taking some items from her
vita sent to the Academic Committee and by them very kindly forwarded to the
Editor. At the time that she lectured in Bryn Mawr two or three years ago spe-
cific mention was made of her achievements in research^ and again in the last
number of the Bulletin, in the study by the Academic Committee. This is merely
an attempt to give some details of her experience, not of her work accomplislied,
which consisted both of research and of making a collection of Chinese books, of
Lamaist paintings, and of various and sundry other objects, illustrating phases of
Chinese culture from the Han Dynasty down to the 20th Century.
After studying both Chinese and Japanese in this country for seven years
while she was working at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, in 1924 she went to
China as a clerk in the American Consulate General in Shanghai.
"There I spent two years, during which I used my leisure hours in the study
of Mandarin with a teacher from Peking and in the study of the classical written
language with a member of the staff of the Chinese section of the Editorial Depart-
ment of the Commercial Press. I also visited all the Buddhist and Taoist temples
in the vicinity, saw a number of private collections, and used the library of tlie
North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. During my vacations I took
trips in the interior, visiting Soochow, Hangchow (Western Lake), where I stayed
in a Buddhist temple, Nanking, Ihsing, Shushan and Tingshan, where there are
interesting pottery kilns in continuous operation since Ming times, P'u-t'o Shan
and other places, taking especial care to see all the archaeological and historical
sites in the territory I covered. During my stay in Shanghai I also found time to
go twice a week to the Japanese movies, where there is an explainer, and to be a
member of the Shobukai, or (Japanese) Military Arts Club. In this way I learned
something about jujutsu, increased my powers of endurance and practiced using
and understanding spoken Japanese.
"At the end of my two years' contract, in April, 1926, I resigned to accept a
temporary position with the Japanese Government in connection with the meeting
of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress held in Tokyo in October-November, 1926. I
spent eight months in Tokyo, living with a Japanese family; and while there I
found the time outside of my official duties to go once a Meek to the Komazawa
Daigaku, a Zen Buddhist university, where, with tlie help of a priest, I read a
portion (two out of eight volumes) of the Vimalahirti Nirdesa — Chinese text. I
also once a week took a lesson in calligraphy. A delegate to the Congress from the
Museum of Fine Arts, I accompanied the other delegates, as a guest of the
Japanese Government, on excursions to historic sites and old temples in different
parts of Japan. In November of this year, 1926, I saw for the first time tlie
world-famous collection in the Shos5in, so important for the study of Oriental art.
Before returning to America, I spent several months studying in the famous temple
of Yakushiji, near Nara.
*'I have made three separate visits to Korea, the first of which was at this
time. I have visited all, or nearly all, of the historic and archaeological sites in
Korea, from Rakuro (colonized by Chinese of the Han dynasty, 2nd century B. C.
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to 2nd century A. D.) and the tombs containing paintings of the 6th century near
Heijo, and the remains at Bukkokuji and Sekkutsuan near Keishu^ to the modern
city of Keijo (Seoul), where I saw the Chosen Exposition in 1929. After my visit
to Korea in 1927, I started on my way to America, via India and England. I spent
six weeks in India and Ceylon, in order to visit as many as possible of the
archaeological sites and museums. I saw many famous sculptures and paintings,
including those in the cave-pockets of the great rock at Sigiriya, Ceylon, and the
sculptures and frescoes at Ajanta, in the state of the Nizam of Hyderabad, which
are of the greatest importance for the study of Buddhist art."
From India she went to London to work at the British Museum. Her work
there with Mr. Waley is well known, and her help is acknowledged by him in his
preface to the catalogue of the Stein Collection. After her return to America, she
was again at the Boston Museum for a year before she made use of a traveling
fellowship to return to the Orient. The account is continued in her own words.
*'In April, 1929, I left Boston for the Orient, proceeding to the temple of
Yakushiji, near Nara, where I had previously studied. There I continued to learn
to use the Japanese language and to absorb a knowledge of Buddhist art. I
attended the session of the Nara Summer School for the study of the history and
art of the Nara period (8th century) — from the study of which much may be
learned of the Chinese civilization of early T'ang times. I was accorded special
privileges for repeated examination of the treasures in the Shdsoin, the famous
collection of objects used by the household of the Emperor Shomu (who ruled Japan
from 724) to 749), which contains, besides much that is Japanese, fine specimens of
different kinds of Chinese art. Beautiful inlaid tables for the Chinese form of
chess, lacquer musical instruments of exquisite workmanship, bronze mirrors, tex-
tiles and other articles too numerous to mention are treasured in the original 8th
century building. Among these works are many which, without stretching the
meaning of the word, may be said to be unique or to be duplicated only within this
collection. The Shosoin is opened to a chosen few once a year only, on the first
fifteen days of November ; and there can be no question that the privilege of coming
back day after day all day long which was granted to me is unusual.
**In December, 1929, I reached Peking, where I settled down to study the
Chinese language — continuing at the same time instruction and practice in written
and spoken Japanese — and to see what I could of examples of Chinese art.
"Besides visiting the temples in the vicinity, which, though they can boast
nothing earlier than Ming (1368-1644), have yet interesting examples of archi-
tecture and sculpture dating from this dynasty, I took trips in the interior in order
to see archaeological sites. I visited Yiin-kang, where there are stone sculptures
representing the Tartar Buddhist art of North Wei (5th-6th century), as well as
the Buddhist art of T'ang (7th and 8th centuries), and T'ien-lung Shan, where
there are stone sculptures, also Buddhist, made under the Northern Ch'i and T'ang
dynasties (6th, 7th and 8th centuries). I saw the excavations being carried out by
Dr. Li Chi at Anyang on the site of the old Shang capital and examined many
specimens of pottery, oracle bones, bronze, etc., thus recovered, both on the spot
and in Peking. I went to Kaifeng, where I saw the famous Hsin-ch'eng bronzes.
I visited the cave-temples at Kung Hsien and at Lung-men, which are so important
in the history of Chinese Buddhist art — ^Wei and T'ang sculptures. I may add
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that^ on account of fear of bandits^ the expedition from Yenching University,
which preceded me by several weeks on my trip to Hsi-an Fu, did not get to
Lung-men. I, however, by means of a letter from Monsieur Fleury, an engineer
working on the westward extension of the Lunghai Railway, to a Chinese in
Loyang, was able to go — in a military car and accompanied by fourteen soldiers.
each armed with a bayoneted gun. I went on from Loyang to Hsi-an Fu, where I
saw many interesting and important examples of Chinese architecture and sculpture.
"From the beginning of 1931, I was accorded the highly valuable privilege of
attending the weekly meetings of the Committee on Paintings of the Palace Museum,
at which the paintings formerly in the Imperial Collection are examined, discussed
and judged. This collection, besides an overwhelmingly large number of paintings,
good, bad, and indifferent, of the Ch'ing dynasty, and besides an unfortunately
large number of forgeries, contains as well a number of excellent paintings of the
best periods far greater than most Western students of Chinese art suspect. At one
of these meetings in November, 1931, a long roll of Buddhist images was brought
out from the hidden closets of the Palace, probably for the first time since the fall
of the Empire. As I was the only foreigner present, with the exception of
Dr. John C. Ferguson, whose lack of interest in Buddhist works of art is well
known and who took but a passing interest in the scroll, I think I may justly lay
claim to the discovery of this important painting, at least so far as we of the West
are concerned. I have since been able, from the Nan Chao Yeh Shih, a chronicle
dealing with the history and legends of the kingdoms once flourishing in what is
now Yiinnan, to find the date of the Emperor Li Chen, for whom the painting was
made. Li Chen is, strictly speaking, the period which lasted from 1173 to 1176
(and during these years the roll was painted) included in the reign of the Emperor
Chih Hsing (Tuan family) of the Later Li Kingdom, who reigned 1172-1200.
"After my return to America, I found in the possession of Messrs. Yamanaka
and Company, New York, a copy (made, I believe, in the 13th century) of a
painting executed in 899, the second year of the reign of Chung Hsing, King of
Nan Chao, the name of the kingdom then in power in what is now Yunnan. The
name Chung Hsing, though applied to the Emperor, is, like Li Chen and Ch'ien
Lung, strictly speaking, the name of a period; in this case, the period beginning in
A. D. 898, during the reign of Shun-hua-chen, the last of the Meng family. The
second year of Chung Hsing, I found thus from the Nan Chao Yeh Shih to corre-
spond to the year 899 (the Yamanaka people had wrongly given the date as
corresponding to A. D. 947). Through the kind offices of Dr. Duyvendak, I was
asked to come to Columbia University temporarily to take charge of the Japanese
Collection of the Library, in the absence of the Curator. This was in April, 1933,
and I have been here ever since — after the return of the Curator, in the capacity
of Assistant. It is since I came to Columbia that I have been able to transfer, first
to Chinese reign dates and from these to Western dating, the reign dates of Nan
Chao and the Later Li kingdoms, and have thus been able to date definitely the
Palace Museum painting and the original of the copy formerly in the possession
of Messrs. Yamanaka and Company (now in a private collection in Japan).
"Recently I have made some translations of Chinese poems from a collection
of T*ang poems made by the Sung scholar Wang Anshih (chiefly known for his
economic reforms) and from the Ku Shih Hsien, made by Yiian Ting."
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CLASS NOTES
Ph.D. and Graduate Notes
Editor: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)^
Vandalia, Missouri.
Dr. Louise Dudley is very interested in a
class in "Humanities," an orientation course in
the Fine Arts, which she is conducting at
Stephen's College, Columbia, Mo. She prom-
ises to let us know more about the course at
another time.
Dr. Edith Frances Claflin is doing research
work at Columbia University this year. In
February she read a paper before the Linguis-
tic Society on "The East Caucausian r-Forms
and the Indo-European Medio-passive r."
Quoting from her letter telling about the
paper: "This paper had the excitement of an
adventure for me, since it marked the first
occasion on which I had gone outside the
limits of Indo-European linguistics (or com-
parative philology, as we used to call it). The
paper was very well received, I am glad to
say, and led to a lively discussion, in which the
President of the society, Professor Edward Sapir
(one of the most distinguished of our American
linguists, especially in the field of American
Indian languages) joined, leaving for a few
minutes for the purpose. So I feel encouraged
to hope that I have succeeded in obeying the
difficult Spenserian admonition, "Be bold, be
bold, be not too bold!"
"These r-forms, which are none other than
our old friends, sequor, sequitur, etcetera, of
Latin grammar days, and their cognates in
Old Irish and other languages, have become a
kind of storm center in linguistics. Formerly it
was thought that they were a peculiarity of the
Italic and Celtic languages. But with the epoch-
making discovery of two new Indo-European
languages, Tocharian, in Chinese Turkestan,
and Hittite, in Asia Minor, both of which sur-
prised us by possessing a well-developed passive
and deponent system with r-endings similar to
those of Latin and Celtic, pre-conceived no-
tions on the subject have suffered a bouleverse-
ment. The r-endings are important because on
our interpretation of them depends our whole
theory of the interrelationships among the
Indo-European languages.
"It happens that I had been interested in the
r-forms for a long time, in fact, since my
student days in the Bryn Mawr Latin Seminar.
So it is as if my little private garden plot had
suddenly come into the spotlight! The fact
I have been cultivating it diligently so long
give me a certain advantage in approaching
a problem which has been called by Thurneysen
(an eminent Danish scholar) 'the riddle of
the Sphinx.'
"Now it appears that there are also r-endings
in certain dialects among the Caucasian lan-
guages, a fascinating little group of non-Indo-
European languages that have survived in the
deep valleys of the Caucasus. The question is,
'Is there any connection between these r-forms
and those of Indo-European?' I venture to
answer, 'Yes — -perhaps.' "
Dr. Claflin also attended the meeting of the
American Philological Association and the
Archaeological Institute, both of which met in
Washington at the same time that the Linguistic
Society of America held its meeting. Her ad-
dress at present is 417 West 118th Street,
New York City.
Dr. Leona Gabel writes: "I am embarking
upon my first sabbatical, which is to be devoted
to the investigation of Englishmen at the papal
court in the early fifteenth century. The enter-
prise will take me to Rome and later to
England.
"This is my eleventh year at Smith, where I
have been teaching Renaissance and Reforma-
tion, French Revolution, and assisting in the
•survey course in European History. Next year
I shall take my turn in directing the last-named
course — it has around 350 students and is
'manned' by a staflf of eight instructors. A
three-year taste of administrative work as Dean
of the Class of 1932 constitutes my only side-
stepping from the academic path."
1889
No Editor Appointed.
1890
No Editor Appointed.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
1435 Lexington Ave., New York City.
1B93
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
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1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
c/o Brearley School
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
Linda Neville will not answer the Editor's
letters, but through the kindness of Rosalie
Furman Collins an article in a Lexington
(Kentucky) newspaper was sent in, giving an
account of Linda's work and of an honour
recently conferred on her. The trophy of the
Lexington Optimist Club was presented to her
"for the most outstanding service to the com-
munity during the first year," her work for the
blind. Before a distinguished company the
presentation was made by the Commonwealth's
attorney, who spoke of Linda's "great spiritual
contribution to the community." He made it
clear that her contribution has been material,
too, for he said that more than 700 persons
owe to her work restored or improved sight.
He recalled also her leadership in the fight
against tuberculosis, and her important work in
civic and welfare organization in public educa-
tion as a member of the city board, and in the
Red Cross during the World War. She has
received awards of merit' before this, the
Sullivan award from the University of Kentucky
and a medal for distinguished services. It is
more than twenty-five years since she went into
the Kentucky mountains, saw the suflfering from
trachoma, and organized the Kentucky Moun-
tain Club, through which hundreds of persons
have had medical treatment. She was instru-
mental in the establishment of hospitals for
trachoma by the United States Public Health
Service, as well as in the organization of the
Kentucky Society for the Prevention of Blind-
ness. To quote again from the newspaper:
"She has served as a clearing house or medium
through which contact could be made between
the afflicted and the best physicians. She pro-
cured railroad passes and reduced hospital rates,
and personally conducted the afflicted to larger
centers for treatment." In her own home she
has recently converted some rooms to the use
of blind children, who need treatment while
on the way from their homes to hospital, and
she has also provided there a meeting-place
for a troop of Boy Scouts; her yard is a play-
ground for the neighborhood children! In ac-
cepting the trophy, Linda quoted from an ad-
dress made by her father, when he was eighty
years old, to a group of university students:
"If a man work for himself, the fruit of his
work will turn to ashes on his lips." Clearly
Linda has the best chances to enjoy a sweet
savor in her life-work.
Annette Hall Phillips has written from Paris.
She is living at the Paris centre of the Asso-
ciation of University Women (4, rue de
Chevreuse), and is going to lectures at the
Sorbonne. Her fundamental purpose in her
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travels appears to have been to transmute the
depression to happiness. She spent a summer
•studying at Grenoble and exploring the moun-
tains; was in Rome for a winter, and in spring
drove north, visiting many of those towns
whose dear names connote joys of association,
scenery and art. A very original idea was her
trip from Genoa to England on a Dutch East
Indies boat, a most satisfactory route, she says.
She traversed the British Isles and found
Ireland to possess "surprising charm"; and,
for contrast, while spending a winter in Egypt,
she went as far south as Khartoum and
Omdurman. She has now been traveling for
three years, and expects to return to Philadel-
phia in June.
1896
Class Editor: Abigail Camp Dimon
1411 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.
1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
104 Lake Shore Drive, East, Dunkirk, N. Y.
In March, Elizabeth Higginson Jackson and
her husband took a silver wedding journey to
Mexico. The following is snatched from a
personal letter: "We spent a week in Yucatan
fascinated by the ruins at Chichenitza and
Uxmal, and by the Indians in the city of
Merida; such a clean, beautiful, small race!
The little baskets I got in Taxco (pronounced
Tasco) from a little Indian girl with a squeal-
ing baby slung on her back in a reboso, a big
scarf that they use for many things. We had
only eight days in Mexico, but we saw a great
many beautiful places. Then we had to hurry
home by rail to be in time for all our Easter
vacations."
Wouldn't you all like to hit the trail with
E. 0. B. and go West, young women? "Five
years ago," she writes, "Alice Howland and I
went to Santa Fe under orders from the doctor.
We had never been West and didn't want to
go because we were provincial and rejoiced in
the fact. However, with Sylvia Ann and Mary
Shipley — our two small daughters — we arrived
at the Bishop's Lodge and had hardly been
there twenty-four hours before we decided that
was the country where we should like to own
land and build. We clambered onto horses
and rode up and down through the mountains
on the tiny narrow trails. (I don't know
whether it was more praiseworthy for the two
who were elderly or the two who were only
four and five years old!) By dint of wander-
ing back and forth through the pinyon on the
sides of the mountain we found a most heaven-
ly view — 'the world's most wonderful view,' we
think it — and there we built a simili-adobe
house.
"We adore the life out there for many rea-
sons. In the first place, the beauty of the color
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is almost intoxicating, the air makes one feel
like accomplishing everything in the world, and
in addition there is such a delightful and
interesting group of people. I also love the
standards of simplicity and really genuine qual-
ities. A typical remark was made to me by a
woman at a luncheon when she said, 'Money
doesn't count at all out here; it doesn't even
count against you if you have it!' The romantic
background of all the Spanish and Indian life
there, as well as the excitement of the archeo-
logical discoveries keeps one constantly on the
qui-vive. If you want a life of unusual interest,
which includes ancient cliff dwellers, primitive
Indians, 17th century Spaniards, and very mod-
ern artists and writers, I recommend to you
Santa Fe, and then again — last as well as
first — there is its marvelous color."
"What is my news that might interest the
great Class of '97?" asks Julia Duke Henning,
the never-to-be-forgotten Trilby of our sopho-
more days. "First and very foremost is Joan
Henning, ten weeks old, a mutual grand-
daughter of mine and Elizabeth Hosford
Yandell's — a joy to both and from present indi-
cations a candidate for a B. M. future as well
as a past. My youngest child and son is in
the Yale Graduate School, digging away at
17th Century English History. My daughters
are keen on the possibilities of art encourage-
ment about to be developed by national
patronage.
"Last summer I re-uned with Emma Cadbury
in Vienna. We had tea together after true
B. M. C. fashion in Emma's rooms, which
might have harbored Schubert — so late 18th
century or early 19th were they — whatever the
correct date should be. She is coping with
Nazi-Heimwehr-Christian Socialist in a peaceful
way that should furnish an example to Dolfuss.
"The Bryn Mawr student days, in spite of
absence, years and fortune, are a golden mem-
ory, and those friends the most delightful peo-
ple in the world." J. D. H.'s present address
is Willow Terrace Apartments, Louisville,
Kentucky.
1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
1899
Editor: Carolyn Trowbridge Brown Lewis
(Mrs. H. Radnor Lewis)
451 Milton Road, Rye, N. Y.
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard S. Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
1901
Class Editor: Helen Converse Thorpe
(Mrs. Warren Thorpe)
15 East 64th St., New York City.
1902
Class Editor: Anne Rotan Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
Elizabeth Allen Hackett writes she is doing
nothing in particular. What follows is edi-
torially speaking. In an idle period in an
unusually busy life, she is qualifying as wife
of the headmaster of a boys' school, a girls'
■school, and a music school, with the "usual
church work, hospital and social service,
Shakespeare Club, etc." Her children are func-
tioning as follows: Stephen, aged nine, in the
boys' school; Betty, aged ten, in the girls';
Fred, a Sophomore at Dartmouth; Dan, a first-
year student in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons; Bob, finished at Princeton, has a job
with du Pont; Allen, Jr., is pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Fulton, New York,
and has a daughter two years old. What'll you
bet Elizabeth plays a corking game of bridge,
too?
Helen Billmeyer writes that she gave up her
work at the Baldwin School in 1927 in order
to be at home with her mother, and since then
has led "a quiet, domestic life interspersed
with the usual outside activities."
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
320 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
1905
Class Editor: Eleanor Little Aldrich
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
58 Mount Vernon St., Boston, Mass.
1906
Class Editor: Helen Haughwout Putnam
(Mrs. William E. Putnam)
126 Adams St., Milton, Mass.
The Class Editor hates to curtail any of the
news which has suddenly begun to pour in.
Louise Maclay writes that she goes to
Bryn Mawr at intervals. She is just starting,
you remember, her second year as Alumnae
Director. She is serving on the Buildings and
Grounds Committee, and is Secretary of the
new Deanery Committee. Louise goes about
beautifying the country. In Millbrook she is
Chairman of Roadside and Conservation of that
garden club. Incidentally, the Maclays have
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been making war on termites, the presence of
which, she writes, is not newspaper talk, but
sad fact. They would have caused the collapse
of Louise's house but for the Maclays' timely
and successful interference.
Helen Brown Gibbons' daughter, Christine
Este Gibbons, is to marry on June- 12th
Alpheus Thomas Mason, of the Department of
Politics at Princeton University. Dr. Mason
is a writer of note and the young bride is also
a writer as well as a musician.
From Shanghai comes a fascinating letter
from Louise Cruice Sturdevant. She is junk
sailing along the China coast, teaching the
Chinese new ways to ride in rickshas, and
peering into volcanoes. The Sturdevants have
a house on Tunsin Road, which is almost coun-
try, living like plutocrats. Her husband is in
command of the First Battalion. Mary Alice
attends the Shanghai American School, expect-
ing to take her preliminaries next spring.
Mariam Coffin Canaday's daughter, Doreen,
is President of 1936 at Bryn Mawr.
Alice Ropes Kellogg's husband has returned
from China and is now pastor in a Congrega-
tional Church in Forest Grove, Oregon, where
they are living, Alice helping in the church
work. Their oldest daughter attends the Con-
gregational College in Forest Grove, the second
is at the Oregon State Normal School. There
are two younger daughters at home.
1907
Class Editor: Alice Hawkins
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Edna Brown Wherry punctuates her year
nicely by pleasant vacations with her husband.
In March they took a southern cruise; in May
they always take a long week-end at Cape Cod
to open their house at West Falmouth; they
spend July there themselves, and have always
been fortunate enough to rent it for the rest
of the summer, and then take another holiday
over Labor Day, with a few extra days to see
about closing the place for the winter. She is
planning, to abandon her husband to golf for
a few days in May while she and May Ballin
try out the Deanery. In justice to the Wherry
household I should say that Fred is one of the
hardest working, as well as one of the most
prominent lawyers of Newark, and that Edna's
name is connected with every worthy cause in
the city. She has just concluded her term as
a member of the School Board.
Grace Hutchins has just published a new
book, Women Who Work. This is reviewed on
page 15 of this issue.
Mabel Foster Spinney's daughter, Johanna,
is a Freshman at Leland Stanford, and her big
boy is at Middlebury College, Vermont.
Peggy Barnes, after toying with the idea of
goilig to Hollywood to write dialogue for the
movies, decided against it in favor of returning
to the home circle in time to give a party for
her mother-in-law in honour of her eightieth
birthday, and shortly after that entertained her
three sons, home from Harvard and Milton for
spring vacation, by driving with them to
Washington. As material for an interview on
the home life of some of our illustrious writers
this is pretty good.
Don't forget that we have three 1907 children
graduating this June, daughters of Helen
Smitheman Baldwin, Brooke Peters Church and
Grace Brownell Saunders.
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
1909
Class Editor: Ellen Shippen
14 East 8th St., New York City.
1910
Class Editor: Katherine Rot an Drinker
(Mrs. Cecil K. Drinker)
71 Rawson Road. Brookline, Mass.
1911
Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
(Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
1085 Park Ave., New York City.
1912
Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaton Augur)
820 Camino Atalaya, Santa Fe, N. M.
Carlotta Welles Briggs writes from 31 his
Boulevard Suchet, Paris: "If Florence Leopold'?
son Tom, aged ten, is, according to the last
Bulletin, the son of her old age, then Jimmy,
aged four and a half years, and Tommy, ten
months, are the sons of my dotage. But I wish
to state that one's dotage thus enlivened is a
delightful time, and I urge all 1912, married or
single, to do likewise. Please do not expurgate
this.
"I find the Bulletin interesting reading and
sometimes take it to bed wnth me. Then
Tommy comes in early in the morning and
chews up the pages, so nothing is wasted.
"While having strong opinions on the subject
of recent events here, I should not like to print
them, and they are probably wrong anyway.
It is all so very complicated and confused one
cannot know what is going on. At any rate,
France is still a free country. People can and
do say and write what they please and nobody
comes to arrest them."
Phyllis Goodhart, the Class Baby, has won a
position on the Editorial Board of the News.
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1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn.
My humble apologies to the class for the
lack of news in the last issue. By the time
this one arrives you will be getting into your
summer clothes and delighted to cool yourselves
off with this news of New England in February.
Katherine Page Loring has spent her second
winter in Chocorua, N. H., and writes from
there on February 6th: "I am absolutely sold
to the remote and lovely (or it may be 'lonely,'
Ed.) life in the depths of a New England
winter, thermometer ranging from 42° below
to 42° above. Doing lots of housework, of
which I like the washing best. Teaching
7-year-old son. Standing by for invasions of
young from school or college, which give me
an excuse for plenty of skiing, snowshoeing,
coasting and skating. Reading Life of
Beveridge, Letters of D. H. Lawrence, On
Reading Shakespeare, Adventures of Ideas.
Music: Struggling with Beethoven and Bach."
Alice Page and Kate Loring are both in board-
ing school.
Clara Pond Richards lives on a farm 45
miles southwest of Rochester and 50 miles
southeast of Buffalo, on Route 245, near Perry,
New York. She writes: "I am still house-
keeping in a little brown farm bungalow, still
caring for my two sons, a dog, a cat, a hus-
band and some goldfish. I read Time, The
Literary Digest, New Yorker, Parents, farm
journals, and occasional books on child guid-
ance, schools, travel, etc. My elder son, Teddy,
is at home this winter on special permission
for home study. My mother is spending the
winter with us and is teaching Teddy Latin,
French, German, and Literature. I am giving
him a sort of general course in Science and
Algebra. We thought him too young for high
school last fall and couldn't swing boarding
school. The other son, Gilbert, is still in the
district school, of which I have been Trustee
for the last few years and out of which I get
quite a kick. Guernsey cows are the big
interest of the farm."
From Marjorie Murray: "I am living a very
busy and interesting life in Cooperstown, N. Y.,
running the pediatrics at the Bassett Hospital.
The medical group are most congenial, there is
plenty to do, and it seems unbelievable that
these professional opportunities should be set
in a beautiful country village with a lake and
hills to make winter and summer sports and
pleasures possible."
From Clara Belle Thompson Powell: "I am
a garden variety of advertising copy writer and
love it. I can get thrilled over beetles, or
fountain pens, or steamships, depending on the
client. In a staff composed exclusively of men
I am supposed to supply the feminine touch.
My outside life is fairly normal, theatres, music,
books, a little contract."
From Edna Potter Marks: "I am keeping
house and raising three children on a much
curtailed budget, 1934 style. I am reading
daily papers and the cook-book, magazines and
borrowed books when time permits. I intend
to stick at it until my two and a half-year-old
daughter is ready for Bryn Mawr!
From Alice Ames Crothers: "My life is most-
ly a pleasant daily routine which I find inter-
esting, but which is not interesting reading,
even to classmates. For the moment I am
•staying out of many committees while Charlie
is at the beguiling age of two and a half. I
am on the Difficult Case Committee of the
Cambridge Family Welfare Society."
From Alice Hearne Rockwell: "I would not
dare to write anything for publication after
reading about the exciting lives which most
Bryn Mawr graduates seem to live. I never
travel except to Boston or Pittsfield. My trips
on the water consist of paddling around the
pond on our place. My winter sports are driv-
ing a car on icy roads and shoveling snow.
I have two sons at Phillips Academy and one
in the fifth grade of the public schools. They
are neither especially athletic nor especially
studious, but I enjoy them. We have a great
time."
From Laura Kennedy Gridley: "In November
there was a great ECONOMY shake-up in
New York City, so I found myself from Friday
to Monday transferred from the boys' high
school on the East Side, in which I had been
teaching, to a large girls' high school in
Brooklyn. Boys and girls are undoubtedly both
human beings, but taken en masse are cer-
tainly very different. The teachers here are
mostly women, also, and such an atmosphere
of sweetness and light prevails that I am still
gasping for breath in the highly rarefied
atmosphere."
1914
Class Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs. Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
We are glad to have two addresses from
classmates long unheard from:
Mrs. Hesser C. Ruhl (Sophie Foster),
Northfield, Mass.
Eleanor Gale,
1715 Oakland Avenue, Piedmont,
Alameda County, Calif.
On March 21st many members of the
Bryn Mawr Club of Boston met to hear Betty
Lord speak about her work in psychology at
the Children's Hospital. Betty was in fine
form and gave a most interesting talk and
answered innumerable questions afterwards.
She spends much time giving tests, taking pic-
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tures, consulting about difficult cases and fol-
lowing up cases in the wards and outpatient
departments. All under the guidance of a
Bryn Mawr husband, Dr. Bronson Crothers.
Dorothea Bechtel Marshall served two weeks
in January on the jury in the Federal Court,
under Kirkie's husband. Judge Welsh. She
said it was most interesting.
Margaret Sears Bigelow is Chairman of the
Junior Red Cross in Framingham. She spoke
at the conference at the Hotel Statler in Feb-
ruary, and from her youthful appearance it
seems fully to agree with her.
Dorothy Weston has a job in New York that
has to do with the paper manufacturers' codes.
She has already been advanced and is in the
publicity department. She is living at the
Parkside Hotel in Gramercy Park.
1915
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. James Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Constance Dowd Grant is the new Scholarship
Chairman for District IV. On March 2nd she
and Elizabeth Smith Wilson, 1915, the new
Councillor, drove up to Columbus to confer
with Adeline Werner Vorys and Antoinette
Hearne Farrar, 1909, who are retiring from
these offices. They all had luncheon at Ad's
house and tea at the Columbus School for
Girls. The rumor that Ad had moved is un-
founded. She is still in her attractive and
spacious home at 43 Hamilton Avenue. Early
in April Cedy drove to New York on business
pertaining to Camp Runoia's coming season.
Helen Riegel Oliver had an early spring trip
to Georgia. On a bleak March day when a
savage wind tore off our hat at every corner
and shook our home to its very roots, we re-
ceived from Helen a postcard all covered over
with the green grass and leafy trees and sunny
skies of Augusta, and we thought that some
people had all the luck. She said that she
attended the Alumnae meetings in February
and saw Eleanor Hill Carpenter, Eva Bryne
and Louise Dillingham. Dilly is on the Aca-
demic Committee.
Dorothy Turner Tegtmeier is enjoying her
four lively children so much that she refuses
to be daunted by these lean times when it
takes the maximum of stretching to make ends
meet around a family of six. Dora, the oldest,
is headed for a school of design, since she has
marked artistic ability. Fred, a Freshman in
high school, hopes to go to the University of
Pennsylvania and then teach mathematics. Bill,
aged 11, aspires to be an airplane pilot, though
as yet his mother is not very air-minded.
Dorothy, who is 8, wants to go to a school
where they teach you to be a mother. With
■such a variety of interests and talents about
her we don't wonder that Dot finds life any-
thing but dull.
1917
Class Editor: Bertha Clark Greenough
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, R. I.
The class extends its deep sympathy to
Eleanor Dulles, whose husband died suddenly
on March 19th in Baltimore, as was noted in
the last Bulletin, just as it went to press.
Dr. Blondheim was a Professor of Romance
Philology at Johns Hopkins University, and
was regarded as the "outstanding man in the
field of mediaeval French and French linguis-
tics."
Our sympathy is extended also to Natalie
McFaden Blanton, whose father died suddenly
last summer, and to Constance Morss Fiske,
whose father died last fall.
Elizabeth Granger Brown, who has been
spending some time abroad, has just returned
to her home in New York.
Constance Hall Proctor is now living at the
Washington Terrace Apartments in Sheffield,
Alabama. Her husband is building a town for
the Wheeler Dam at Muscle Shoals.
REUNION. Can you believe it? '17 is
coming back for its 17th, June 2nd to 6th.
There is all kinds of excitement in the air, but
just what it is, you will have to come and see
for yourself. (Betty Faulkner, Carrie Shaw
and Caroline Stevens are back of some of it,
you may be sure.) S\0 IF you have not already
sent in your card to Greenie to say you'll be
there, don't hesitate another minute. We need
YOU to make this our biggest and best reunion.
i9ia.
Class Editor: Margaret Bacon Carey
(Mrs. H. R. Carey)
3115 Queen Lane, East Falls P. 0., Phila.
Last call for Reunion! 1 hope all members
who are still undecided will obey that impulse
and come back to Bryn Mawr on June 2nd
and 3rd. You will find a warm welcome and
a good time. Ruth Cheney Streeter.
1919
Class Editor: Marjorie Remington Twitchell
(Mrs. Pierrepont Twitchell)^
Setauket, Long Island.
It was with great sorrow that we learned of
the death of our beloved classmate, Margaret
Rhoads, on March 13th. Peggy had not been
well for at least two years. Her family had
taken her South for the winter, hoping the
warmth would mean her recovery, but about
the beginning of the year she had to go to the
hospital, remaining there until her death. For
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more than nine years Peggy was connected
with the Mission Board of Friends as Secretary.
Twice she was in Japan for extended periods
in this work. Peggy endeared herself to us all
by her lovely nature, her deep spirituality, and
by the fineness of her life. She was to us all
a Quaker girl who beautifully expressed the
beauty and friendliness of her faith. Her pass-
ing leaves us with tender memories and a deep
respect and gratitude for her splendid example
and for her sweet gentleness.
1920
Class Editor: Mary Porritt Green
(Mrs. Valentine J. Green)
430 East 57th St., New York Gity
1920 is to have its fourteenth reunion next
month. Full details will be sent out as soon
as Milly can get the committee together.
From the April Spur we learn that William
Piatt (Margaret Littell's husband) with two
other architects has won the "award of fifteen
thousand kroner for a replanning scheme for
the Lower Norrmalm section of the Swedish
capital."
From Zella Boynton Selden: "My silence is
due to lack of news. We spent the summer
on an island in the Muskoka Lake District in
Ganada. Still have three boys and no more
and no less. Like everyone else, we are broke,
so I do much mophandling and caring for
children. P. T. would disapprove, but then
she never tried it. The school is still surviv-
ing. It is my major interest, and, with a
class in Botany, my winter intellectual pursuit.
Peg Hutchins is in Westport, according to a
Ghristmas card."
Lillian Davis Philip also reports that she
has three sons, aged eight and a half, four
and a half, and almost two. And Edith S.
Stevens has four children, two boys and two
girls. We suspect that Mary Hardy has been
visiting Lillian, as she was seen on her way
to the Staten Island Ferry.
1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelly Erdman
(Mrs. G. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemont Ave., Pasadena, Galif.
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
106 E. 85th St., New York Gity.
1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Abbott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York Gity
Personally we find this column very interest-
ing. But not on account of the things that we
write in it. We appear to have an unknown
collaborator. Three times we have read over
our notes in the Bulletin (it's so fascinating
to see oneself in print) to discover an item
appended of which we'd never even heard.
We're not complaining. We're delighted with
the element of surprise that it brings into our
editorial life, and we piously thank heaven
that someone knows something about 1923,
bless its little heart. We're just disclaiming
responsibility!
We have some addenda to the note on Helen
Dunbar in the March issue. Her lecture on
The Relation of. Emotion to Health, given at
the Junior League was also delivered at sev-
eral other clubs in New York. She is Execu-
tive Director of the Federal Gouncil of
Ghurches of Ghrist in America and the
New York Academy of Medicine. On the per-
sonal side, she is married, lives, and has her
office! at 935 Park Avenue.
We have held over this note for a couple of
months, hoping for more detail. Esther Rhoads
Houghton had a daughter, born some time in
December. Name unknown. The Houghtons
live at 35 Ash Street, Gambridge, Mass.
Isabelle Beaudrias Murray has been doing
work in the clinic at Roosevelt Hospital two
afternoons a week. She has moved to another
apartment in Yonkers and thereby acquired a
telephone exchange brand new in that city.
Marion Lawrence is teaching in the Fine
Arts Department at Golumbia University and
living with an aunt in New York.
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Butterworth
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Ghestnut Hill, Pa.
The latest scheme for assisting the weary
mother struggling with young children is being
tried out in Gambridge. Ailing Armstrong
Arnold writes very enthusiastically: "The Gam-
bridge Home Information Genter is backing
one of my pet schemes for the training of
high school graduates, who specialized in home
economics, to give adequate household service.
A group of employers, who keep house and
raise families with the services of one maid,
have joined together to enlist the interest of
the high school girls and give them training
in child and home psychology. This includes
the subtleties of gracious telephone answering,
door-bell service, and correct table service.
Two girls, graduates of the Foxbury High
School of Practical Arts, are supposedly taking
a six months' course in my home. The other
day I dressed up in the uniform and went over
to Pamela Coyne Taylor's to give a demon-
stration of household assistant's service, but,
due to a record-breaking New England blizzard,
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her maid couldn't go out as planned, neither
did anyone drop in for tea, so I had to confine
my demonstration to the telephone."
In reply to many requests, the next reunion
of '24 will be held in 1935 with the Classes of
1922, 1923 and 1925.
The class extends its deepest sympathy to
Alice Little Nelson, whose husband, Dr. Curtis
Nelson, died March 3rd.
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallett Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Alas, alas — back from the glorious luxury
of hospital life to the grim realities of house-
keeping: stalking dust, feeding the tropical fish,
hunting a spring costume and wondering in
our urbane fashion what the little green things
coming up expect us to do about them.
Far oflf in Manhattan, we hear, Via Saunders
Agee has been doing a piece of work in
The Common Sense office. Edith Walton Jones,
who imparted the news, seemed to think it
useless to attempt explaining the job. She said
it was too complicated for us. But Via is
working hard.
Edith, herself, goes a merry pace. Besides
being the good hostess, the bright spot in the
home and all that, she writes all the book
reviews for The Forum and the reviews for
several newspapers — ^all signed work.
Chisy (Helen Chisolm Tomkins) made a
sensational entry in the New York Hospital
in a lovely orchid ambulance (appendicitis in
February), and now she and her husband are
traipsing through art museums in Washington
by way of recuperating.
Jean Gregory has been working this winter
in Providence in a Hospital.
From Algy Linn, our Philadelphia reporter,
we hear: "The only victim of the storms that
I know of is poor Carrie (Remak), who, after
skiing intrepidly all over Chestnut Hill, slipped
on the ice in town and broke her leg. She
broke it just above the ankle in a perfectly
straightforward way, and has it in a cast and
can hobble around on crutches. The Linns are
very conservative with ice, taking it practically
on all fours, and so far have managed to pre-
serve their brittle bones!"
1926
Class Editor: Harriot Hopkinson
18 East Elm St., Chicago, 111.
1927
Class Editor: Ellen or Morris
Berwyn, Pa.
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr.
401 23rd St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Maly Hopkinson writes to claim the honor
of breaking the deadlock in babies for her son
John, who was born on February 12th. She tells
us that Cal Crosby Field's daughter Margaret
did her best to re-establish the tie by arriving
on February 18th, but the boys still have the
lead by virtue of Edith Morgan Whitaker's son,
whose name, we hear, is to be Douglas Hunt
Whitaker. This still has to be confirmed from
official sources.
The engagement of Jean Fenner to Davidge
Harrison Rowland, of Baltimore, has been an-
nounced. Mr. Rowland is a graduate of Johns
Hopkins University.
Jo Stetson was married on April 5th to
Robert Hatcher, of East Hartford, Conn., at
St. James' Church in New York. Her sister
lola was her maid of honor, and among the
attendants were Elly Morris, '27, and Rosalie
Humphrey, '29.
1929
Class Editor: Mary L. Williams
210 East 68th St., New York City.
1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Mary Durfee was married on the 7th of
April to Mr. Charles Bennett Brown. They
will live in New York.
Olivia Stokes is doing volunteer secretarial
work at the National Red Cross headquarters
in Washington.
Mary Elizabeth Edwards has a job in Okla-
homa City under the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration, investigating the cases that
come up for relief.
Henrietta Wickes is working for the N. R. A.
in the Compliance Division at Washington.
It is rumored that Celeste Page and Betty
Zalesky have also been seen in the corridors of
the Commerce Building, but whether they were
there as workers for the N. R. A. or in some
other capacity is not known to us.
1931
Class Editor: Evelyn Waples Bayless
(Mrs. Robert N. Bayless)
301 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn.
1932
Class Editor: Josephine Graton
182 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.
1933
Class Editor: Janet Marshall
112 Green Bay Road, Hubbard Woods, 111.
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Miss Beard's School
Prepares girls for College
Board examinations. Gen ral
courses include Household,
Fine and Applied Arts, and
Music. Trained teachers,
small classes. Ample grounds
near Orange Mountain. Ex-
cellent health record; varied
sports program. Write for
booklet.
LUCIE C. BEARD
Headmistress
Berkeley Avenue
Orange New Jersey
THE
SHIPLEY SCHOOL
BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA
Preparatory to
Bryn Mawr College
ALICE G. ROWLAND
ELEANOR O. BROWNELL
Principals
The Agnes Irwin School
Lancaster Road
WYNNEWOOD, PENNA.
COLLEGE PREPARATORY
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
BERTHA M. LAWS, A.B., Headmistress
The Ethel Walker School
SIMSBURY. CONNECTICUT
Head of School
ETHEL WALKER SMITH, A.M.,
Bryn Mawr College
Head Mimtream
JESSIE GERMAIN HEWITT, A.B.,
Bryn Mawr College
Wykeham Rise
WASHINGTON, CONNECTICUT
IN THE LITCHFIELD HILLS
College Preparatory and General Courses
Special Courses in Art and Music
Riding, Basketball, and Outdoor Sports
FANNY E. DAVIES, Headmistress
Rosemary Hall
Greenwich, Conn.
COLLEGE PREPARATORY
Caroline Buutz-Rees, Ph.D. \ Head
Mary E. J^owndes, M. A., Litt.D. J Mistresses
Katherine P. Debevoise* Assistant to the Heads
TOW-HEYWOOn
\ J On theSound^At Shippan Pointy | /
ESTABLISHED 1865
Preparatory to the Leading Colleges for Women.
Also General Course.
Art and Music.
Separate Junior School.
Outdoor Sports.
On$ hour from New York
Address
MARY ROGERS ROPER, HeadmUtrem*
Box Y, Stamford, Conn.
The Kirk School
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Boarding and day school. Prepares
for Bryn Mawr and other colleges.
Four-year high school course. In-
tensive one-year course for high school
graduates. Resident enrollment lim-
ited to twenty-five. Individual instruc-
tion. Informal home life. Outdoor
sports including riding.
MARY B, THOMPSON, Principal
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FERRY HALL
Junior College: Two years of college work.
Special courses in Music, Art, and Dramatics,
Preparatory Department: Prepares for
colleges requiring entrance examinations, also,
for certificating colleges and universities.
General and Special Courses.
Campus on Lake Front— Outdoor Sports —
Indoor Swimming: Pool— Riding:.
For catalog address
ELOISE R. TREMAIN
LAKE FOREST
ILLINOIS
Cathedral School of St. Mary
GARDEN CITY, LONG ISLAND, N. Y.
A school for Girls 19 miles from New York. College
preparatory and general courses. Music. Art and
Domestic Science. Catalogue on reauest. Box B.
MIRIAM A. BYTEL, A.B., Radcllffe. Principal
BERTHA GORDON WOOD, A. B., Bryn Mawr,
Assistant Principal
The Baldwin School
A Country School for Girls
BRYN MAWR PENNSYLVANIA
Preparation for Bryn Mawr» Motint
Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley
Colleges. Abundant Outdoor Life.
Hockey, Basketball, Tennis,
Indoor Swimming Pool.
ELIZABETH FORREST JOHNSON. A.B.
HEAD
Miss Wright's School
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
College Preparatory and
General Courses
Mr. and Mrs. Guier Scott Wright
Directors
The Katharine Branson School
ROSS, CALIFORNIA Across the Bay from San Francisco
A Country School College Preparatory
Head:
Katharine Fleming Branson, A.B., Bryn Mawr
La Loma Feliz
HAPPY HILLSIDE
Residential School for Children
handicapped by Heart Disease,
Asthma, and kindred conditions
INA M. RICHTER, M.D.— Director
Mission Canyon Road Santa Barbara, California
The Madeira School
Greenway, Fairfax County, Virginia
A resident and country day school
for girls on the Potomac River
near Washington, D. C.
150 acres 10 fireproof buildings
LUCY MADEIRA WING, Headmistress
Springside School
CHESTNUT HILL PHILADELPHIA, PA.
College Preparatory
and General Courses
SUB-PRIMARY GRADES I-VI
at Junior School, St. Martinis
MARY F. ELLIS, Head Mistress
A. B. Bryn Mawr
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Philadelphia School of
Occupational Therapy
Professional training for women — accred-
ited two and three year courses include
study of medical subjects,' handcrafts,
courses at University of Pennsylvania and
Hospital Practice in Occupational Therapy.
Pre-requisite High School education.
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MARGARET TYLER PAUL. A.B.. Director
419 South 19th Street
Philadelphia
LowTHORPE School
of Landscape Architecture
GROTON, MASS.
Courses in Landscape Architecture, in'
eluding Horticulture and Garden Design,
given to a limited number of students
in residence. Anne Baker, Director.
Summer School Starts June 25, 1934
Write for Catalogue
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN
TEA ROOM
Luncheons 40c - 50c - 75c
Dinners 85c - $1.25
Meals a la carte and table d'hote
Daily and Sunday 8:30 A. M. to 7:30 P. M.
AFTERNOON TEAS
Bridge. Dinner Parties and Teas may be arranged.
Meals served on tlie Terrace when weather permits.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
MISS SARA DAVIS. Manager
Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386
The Pennsylvania Company
For Insurances on Lives and
Granting Annuities
Trust and Safe Deposit
Company
Over a Century of Service
C. S. W. PACKARD. President
Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets
R
eady now for delivery
A
SERIES of twelve Staffordshire
dinner plates hy "Wedgwood . . .
^^' prpn ifWalur ^Mt^
Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Please reserve for me ;, sets of Bryn MaWr plates at $1? per set.
I enclose $5 deposit on each set and will pay balance when notified that the plates
are ready for shipment.
Color choice Q Blue Q Rose [] Green []] Mulberry
Signed...,
Address.,
MaXe chec\s payahle and address all inquiries to Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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1896 1934
BACK LOG CAMP
A Camp for Adults and Families
SABAEL P. O., NEW YORK
ON INDIAN LAKE. IN THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS
The Toung People in the Family
At a certain age boys and girls outgrow the regular camjis they have been going to, anr]
the question arises: Where shall they spend the summer? They are not quite grown up and on
their own and yet they are no longer kids needing looking after.
Back Log is not a young persons' camp in the sense that it is chiefly populated by boys
and girls. But we do have a good many whole families each summer. Many of the young
people like it for two reasons: There is always something going on in the way of a wilderness trip;
and there are none of those regulations that are so necessary in the regular boys' and girls' camps.
We are not making a bid for unaccompanied young people, although we do occasionally
consent to take such (but not always). We suggest that you consider a holiday en famillc;
and we prophecy that the whole family will be enthusiastic. Or if you have no family of your
own, how about your nieces and nephews?
For illustrated hoo\let address
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June, 1934
Vol. XIV
No. 6
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COPYRIGHT. 193''
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895
Vice-President Serena Hand Savage, 1922
Secretary Josephine Young Case, 1928
Treasurer Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909
rk;,^«*^« of To„„.> /Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins. 1905
Directors at Large ^j^^p^. g^^^^ p^^^^^^ jgog
ALUMNAE SECRETARY AND BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE BULLETIN
Alice M. Hawkins, 1907
EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN
Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912
DISTRICT COUNCILLORS
District I Mary C. Parker, 1926
District II Harriet Price Phipps, 1923
District III Vinton Liddell Pickens, 1922
District IV Elizabeth Smith Wilson, 1915
District V Jean Stirling Gbegort, 1912
District VI Mary Taussig, 1933
District VII Leslie Farwell Hill, 1905
ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
Virginia McKennbt Claiborne, 1908 Virginia. Kneeland Frantz, 1918
Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906 Florance Watbrbury, 1905
Gertrude Dietrich Smith, 1903
CHAIRMAN OF THE ALUMNAE FUND
Virginia Atmore, 1928
CHAIRMAN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Ellen FAm.KNBB, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS AND LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Y. Maguirb, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Dr. Marjorie Strauss Knauth, 1918
CHAIRMAN OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Niblds Bancroft, 1898
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I give and bequeath to the Alumnae Association
OP Brtn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,
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Vol. XIV JUNE, 1934 No. 6
All phenomena now are explained by the Depression, just as in an earlier
period C'est la guerre accounted for everything. One of the things, however,
that the depression may really account for is the increased intellectual interest and
curiosity that is being shown by students, everywhere, in the schools and colleges.
One need only pick up the paper to see the thing stated again and again in different
terms. Miss Corwin's article on Pre-College Guidance in this number, telling of
the nine hundred girls from what was after all a limited area, all of whom the
Conference could not care for, is simply more evidence. Some of the educators
in the middle west feel that this interest will ultimately express itself in insistent
demands that may revolutionize all the methods of college training. A recent
article, discussing the Undergraduate of 1934, says of him, and with equal justice
could say of her: "A new undergraduate is now in college. . . . He is worth
listening to . . . and even if he were not, he is insistent on making himself heard.
And he has something to say." President Park in her Page in the May issue of
the Bulletin speaks of the changes in the Faculty for next year being interesting
in their connection with the courses definitely called for by the students themselves.
She cites again the increasing registration in Economics, which makes necessary
the appointment of an additional instructor who will give a Second Year under-
graduate course and a Seminary in Money and Banking. Professor Edman, in the
article from which I have already quoted, says of the Undergraduate in general:
"He is seriously concerned in a way hardly precedented in any college generation
with the current economic and political situation." The undergraduate's preoccu-
pation, however, is something more fundamental than that. "... he is much
exercised by what conception of the good life may be framed for a society created
by machinery and its economic invokements." Some of the elements in this good
life, as the Bryn Mawr Undergraduates see it, to drop generalizations, are indi-
cated by the interest with which they are looking forward to such courses as
Dr. Chew's "Literary History of the Bible," a course in History of Religions, in
English Composition, and in French Diction, and Modern History, as well as the
courses in economics. What they desire are resources within themselves.
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A WINTER UNDER THE NEW DEAL AT WASHINGTON
By Emma Guffey Miller, 1899
It will be some time before any of us forget March 4th, 1933, whether we
voted in 1932 for Hoover, Thomas or Roosevelt. It was quite definite from
President Roosevelt's inaugural address that we were entering a New Era. This
changed Era has been very evident to anyone living in Washington during the past
winter. Outwardly life goes on here much the same as a few years ago, but there
are changes which are hard to define. There is gaiety, but less jazz; costly enter-
tainments, but not such elaborate ones as in former years ; many expensive establish-
ments, but they are becoming rather the exception than the rule. The capital city
is filled with huge houses for rent or sale; ornate left-overs of the Gay 90's, hand-
some Colonial or Georgian reproductions, modified Spanish and Italian villas, stand-
ing with drawn blinds waiting for another boom period, or hoping to be taken over
by some enterprising Night Club enthusiast.
It is curious how little some of the Washingtonians realize how far behind is
the Coolidge-Hoover type of prosperity, and how definitely we have turned our
faces away from the blatancy and shallowness of what were termed our most
prosperous years. It is amusing for anyone accustomed to viewing Washington
from the outside to see it for the first time from within. It is like coming from
the great open spaces to a narrow village street. Somehow the people who are
boastful of being real Washingtonians impress one as being similar to isolated
villagers. Many of my friends know that my opinion of the political intelligence
of the average citizen is not very high, but when it comes to Washington it shrinks
appreciably. Rarely have I met so many women who rank as cultured who are so
ignorant, or indifferent, to the momentous affairs which surround them. One day
I heard a very simple and direct talk by a woman who told how women might help
with and almost control NRA. When discussing it in the hallway with an enthusi-
astic friend we were interrupted by a woman who said "Such things should be left
to the men. Women should not soil their hands with such affairs." I asked the
lady if she considered voting, "soiling one's hands," and she replied, "Certainly I
do. I live in the District and do not vote and do not want to vote. I could vote
in Maryland because I own property there, but no member of my family has voted
for five generations." Mirahile diciu! We had encountered a member of that
rapidly vanishing race, "Washington Cave Dwellers." Amusement kept me dumb,
but not so the wife of a Western Congressman, who spoke up sharply and said,
"Why have you never taken out your naturalization papers?" This non-voting
woman represents a type common throughout the country, among both men and
women, whose political philosophy is based upon pure materialism, and whose
preferences for public office when expressed are on the side of high finance. They
scarcely ever study policies per se, but are content to gain enlightenment through
some talkative man who expresses his disgust for new ideas by such remarks as
"Everything on the Hill is at 6's and 7's," or "The Constitution is being torn
apart," or "The President is a moron," etc., etc., etc. Such women have lived so
very complacently for years that now when an administration enters which roughens
their smugness, they are not merely upset but highly resentful. What a place for a
Bryn Mawr graduate trained by the dynamic and onward-marching Miss Thomas !
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Imagine my going into a room full of women who are left-overs from previous
Republican administrations^ from the Hayes period down^ being welcomed cour-
teously and with curiosity as a newcomer from Pennsylvania. Immediately the talk
turns to the Reed-Pinchot Senatorial primary and I am asked to declare my
allegiance. When I do and it is to the Democratic Party^ the air immediately grows
chill. There is a sudden withdrawal into shells and the silence becomes significant.
Then the conversation is changed to something personal among the ladies. So polite
farewells are said and out goes the lone Democrat like an untouchable. Evidently
to many Washingtonians it is still worse to be a Democrat tlian any type of
Republican. That attitude^ of course^, does not apply to a large number of inter-
esting people of whom one never reads in the society columns^ whose interests are
intellectual and who endeavor to keep up with world affairs. Henceforth^ however,
many of this type may seal their lips since Dr. Wirt did all the talking at a simple
dinner, now become famous. Little but entertainment came out of the Wirt investi-
gation as far as discovering any dire plot to ruin the country, but one cannot read
or hear many of the opposition utterances without realizing that, according to some
members of Congress, it has become a disgrace to be educated and a crime to be
an expert.
No one should object in the least to constructive criticism of Government
policies or administrative experiments, but when members of Congress, some of
them college trained, level their complaints against educational qualifications, one
wonders if Congress and the country wouldn't be better off without some of its
present antagonistic membership. Isn't it about time we were ready to acknowledge
that many of our present-day ills are due to the fact that after the War we followed
the philanderings of a "man from the ranks" instead of the carefully drawn plans
of a trained thinker .^
Poor Professor Tugwell! What crime has he committed! When you meet or
hear Professor Tugwell you are almost disappointed by his gentleness and soft-
spoken but perfectly phrased utterances in regard to the so-called newer economics.
His talk before a Woman's Club last winter on "Wine, Women and Drinking" was
one of the finest things I have ever heard. It had to do with the art of drinking,
the right use of liquor, how women might influence the Nation to a return to a sane
and balanced life in which the proper use of wines, including our own excellent
American brands, should have its part as it has had in the best civilizations. His
talk was something both the intolerant Dry and the militant Wet might well profit
by. I suppose this whole controversy over the Brain Trust resolves itself into
what is education, or how many educated people use the facts they have learned
in college, and how few of them think through to a conclusion.
For the last few years I have been interested in talking to the sons and
daughters of parents, at least one of whom was college trained, who are now being
educated in our best-known schools and colleges along the Atlantic sea coast. The
majority of these young people make remarks similar to the indifferent and non-
voting group of whom I have spoken. Pat expressions about the Tariff, the League
of Nations, Government Control of Utilities, Recognition of Russia ; trite remarks
which apparently come from parents who, despite their educational advantages, have
taken their political opinions from men who have succeeded in making a lot of
money. I sometimes wonder if all intelligence is left behind when the student
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closes the classroom door and leaves the professor on the other side. However,
there are many signs throughout the country that youth is on the mental move.
I get that from questions, from letters and bffers of young people to help, which
shows that youth is no longer satisfied with a quiescent attitude.
Then there is the White House! Surely it sets a mental pace. Never in our
history, in that historic home have there been so many forward strides, so many
precedents broken, or so much hospitality coupled with true dignity, as is the
rule now. Our country is accustomed to observing the wife of a President with
intense interest, but never has any First Lady aroused so much interest as
Mrs. Roosevelt. People are interested in her not merely because of her activity,
but they have come to realize that her many comings and goings arise from a
motive of helpfulness and general interest in the betterment of human relations.
She has an active and brilliant mind and one notably free from prejudice. For
example, conflicting reports were brought to Washington in regard to conditions in
Porto Rico. Mrs. Roosevelt flew down, made a quick but thorough survey, and
came back with definite opinions and practical plans for improvement. Her eager,
fervent personality pervades everything that sponsors human improvement, whether
it be selecting paintings from the exhibitions of unemployed artists, speaking to a
Nurses' Convention, attending a "zodiac" fashion show for the benefit of charity,
or inspecting the House of the Girl Scouts. All is done with an unselfish ideal of
service, which cannot but make for a wider and more useful day for the women
of America.
This past Winter has seen many changes in Washington, but none more startling
than the acceptance of our recognition of Soviet Russia. A number of years ago
I presided over a meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, held in Washington, at which Nevin Sayre made a very scholarly plea
for the recognition of Soviet Russia. The audience was small, not over one hundred
fifty people. It was very quiet, as if it dared scarcely lift its voice for fear
of an interruption by the police looking for communists. Nevertheless it was brave
and ahead of its time, for it voted with but one dissenting voice to petition the
Government to recognize this new Russia. At that time we were considered so
radical as to be tagged as Reds, but only a few weeks ago how everyone who
thought he was anybody in Washington crowded into the renovated and elegant
Russian Embassy to shake the hand of the Ambassador with the kindly face and
brilliant eyes, Alexander Troyanovsky, and be greeted by his hospitable and charm-
ing wife ! Peace people may be scoffed at for being too idealistic, but here is one
case where they were far more practical than the militarists.
That word "militarist" naturally makes one think of the D. A. R.'s. Now no
one denies that many of its women do an excellent work in trying to help the
children of the foreign born, in preserving historical shrines and in marking ancient
graves. However, when you study the long list of resolutions passed at their recent
convention you are forced to agree with the man who termed the Daughters "the
most unintelligent group which comes to Washington." For the most part these
resolutions had to do with the crime situation, immigration, naturalization and the
lieavy increase of armaments both on land and sea. They were passed without a
dissenting voice, or even a question as to their advisability. It is almost unbe-
lievable that so many women (3,000 or more in attendance) could come together
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and not disagree on anything except who should be elected to wear the insignia of
rank. It never seems to occur to these patriotic ladies that it might be well to
make a study of what causes crime, why some immigrants prefer to remain unnat-
uralized, what are the causes of war, and who besides the munition makers ever
profit by wars. In speaking recently in this regard before a group of business
and professional women, I was informed by a D. A. R. who was present that the
reason for the military display at the annual convention was due to the fact there
was once a good deal of gossip about some officer being somewhat pacifistic, there-
fore they felt obliged to pass strong resolutions to the contrary.
This reminds one of much that goes on along similar lines at the Capitol.
Sometimes I think that gossip is the twin brother of half of Washington. I often
wonder if all capital cities are so infested with scandal mongers and gossip as is
our own. Much of it is harmless, but frequently one hears something so outrageous
and so libelous about public persons that I often think the good old Puritan system
of making the gossips spend a few hours daily in the stocks should be revived. No
one minds amusing stories, even the prominent persons wlio are supposed to figure
in them. For instance, I am sure both the President and a certain far-off relative
would enjoy this tale which doubtless some wag manufactured out of the whole
cloth. It is said that one night at a White House dinner the near-sighted wife of
a distinguished jurist said to the President, "Who is that woman in the red dress
on the other side of the table?" The President replied, "Oh, it is some relative of
my wife's. I have forgotten her name." It was Alice Roosevelt Longworth! The
following one I can vouch for. Sitting in the House Gallery one day during that
period when the House was getting into a snarl over the Independent OfBces Bill
and when the Republicans were particularly active in getting the Democrats all
tangled up, I heard a small, tired-looking boy say to his sight-seeing mother, "Who
are those cross old men way over there?" The mother replied, "Hush, dear, that is
the Republican minority." Somehow the Republicans do look older than the
Democrats, but this minority has done its best to keep itself before the public and
its ablest members have added considerably to the legislative program. There are
times, however, when one is forced to conclude that its leadership "couldn't say
less unless it says more." One thing which impresses itself on the listener is the
fact that as a general rule the men members of Congress are much more apt to
talk for talk's sake than the women.
Of course, the woman most in the limelight, aside from Mrs. Roosevelt, is
Secretary Perkins, whose ability cannot be questioned, although she is anatliema
to a certain type of old timer. One night at dinner I was seated next to an enter-
taining white-haired senator whose opinion of Secretary Perkins isn't fit to print;
he seemed to feel I would naturally agree, but when I insisted on knowing his
reasons, he replied, "Why, that woman wants an amendment to the Constitution to
do away with child labor, instead of having it abolished through the due processes
of law in the various states." The Senator was more than startled when he found
that I, too, approved of this amendment. Then he said, "That's just like women;
you use emotion instead of reason." I told him I had worked twenty years to end
child labor and had come to the conclusion the amendment was the only sure way,
because when a Northern state did pass a good law half their manufacturers moved
South to get cheap child labor. His answer was, "What's twenty years in the life
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of a nation?" I replied^ "Well;, it's practically two generations of children." After
that the Senator found the lady on his left more attractive and I was reduced to a
young naval officer on my other side. This nice boy kept telling me that the way
to keep the peace was to build the biggest navy in the world. I asked him if either
experience or history proved his statement and he replied irritably, "I bet you
are a college woman." I confessed the crime as he added, "It's funny how hard
it is to make educated women see things right."
Twice during the past Winter we have been treated to an exhibition of the
new stream-line trains in Washington. People waited in line for hours in order to
walk through this new type of rail transportation. The one train was made of
glistering aluminum. The other of polished steel. Both constructed on the same
lines and for the purpose of great speed. Both arranged with comfort and luxury,
but both lacking certain small details which make for the travelers' content and
satisfaction. For instance, neither contained a hook on which to hang a coat or a
shelf overhead on which to place a parcel. No doubt these details will be added
later, and then will come the completed idea of the railway train of the future.
It seems to me that the New Deal is much the same as this train. Old theories
and plans have been scrapped. Old economic fetishes have been discarded in favor
of new outlines and quicker methods. Many details may still be lacking, but in the
language of a noted New England manufacturer who has worked for years to better
the social conditions of labor and to improve welfare legislation, 'Tn one year I
have seen more of my ideals fulfilled under the New Deal than I had dared hope
would come to pass in thirty years." It seems to me that we are actually On the
Way to a more just and complete life for all. If you do not agree with the
methods, send helpful criticism. If you have nothing better to offer than the old
order and the leadership which plunged us into panic, then better keep still.
45- ■X- *
REID HALL
4 RUE DE Chevreuse, Paris VI^
If you arc to be in Paris this summer we hope that you will plan to stay at
Reid Hall, a charming residence for university women, situated in the Latin
Quarter near the beautiful Luxembourg Gardens and not far from the Sorbonne.
The resident director is Miss Dorothy F. Leet, whose work in promoting Franco-
American understanding has resulted in the French Government's granting a sub
sidy to Reid Hall and the Carnegie Corporation awarding $10,000.
Reid Hall combines American comfort with old French charm. There is hot
and cold running water in each bedroom; there are many bathrooms; the rates are
reasonable. The quiet, shady garden is delightful for afternoon tea or for after-
dinner coffee. Here is the perfect opportunity for meeting interesting women from
many different countries and for gaining knowledge of international points of view.
Reid Hall is open in summer to all university women and their friends.
Helen Annan Scribner, 1891
Caroline McCormick Slade, 1896
Eunice Morgan Schenck, 1907
Katharine Strauss Mali, 1923
Bryn Mawr Members of the Board of Directors of Reid Hall.
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE
SCHOLARSHIPS
Little May Day was celebrated fittingly this year on May first. There was not
a dull moment anywhere on the campus between seven and ten a. m.^ when, except
during the singing of an unfamiliar hymn substituted for "Ancient of Days/' events
followed the usual course and the interest and the enthusiasm remained at a liigli
pitch. President Park made the announcements of tlie undergraduate scholarships
in slightly diflt'erent order^ working up to a climax with the Seniors, ending witli
the award to Vung-Yuin Ting, the Chinese Scholar, of the Maria L. Eastman
Brooke Hall Memorial Scholarship, given annually to the member of the Junior
Class with the highest academic record. The Charles S. Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship, awarded to the student whose record shows the greatest ability in her
major subject^, was divided this year between Miss Ting, in Chemistry, and
Elizabeth Monroe in Mathematics.
Among the awards in which the alumnae will be especially interested are those
won by some of the Regional Scholars in addition to those given by the respective
Regional Committees. In the Junior Class, Mary Pauline Jones from Scranton
has won also a State scholarship and one of the Evelyn Hunt scholarships ;
Catherine Bill from Cleveland, the Elizabeth Wilson White Memorial Scliolarship
and the Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarship, awarded for excellence of work in
foreign languages. In the Sophomore Class, Barbara Merchant of Gloucester,
Mass., won one of the two Amelia Richards Memorial Scholarships; SojDhie Hunt,
of Kendal Green, Mass., daughter of Hope Woods, 1904, was given the Constance
Lewis Memorial Scholarship; Margaret Honour of East Orange, New Jersey, won
also one of the Evelyn Hunt Scholarships, as well as one of the Sheelah Kilroy
Memorial Scholarships for excellence in English; Alice Raynor of Yonkers, N. Y.,
has been given again the Alice Ferree Hayt Memorial Scholarship. Of the Freshmen
Regional Scholars, Elizabeth Lyle of Massachusetts, was awarded the Kilroy
Scholarship for the best work in the Required English Composition; Louise Dickey
of Oxford, Penna., daughter of Louise Atherton, 1903, one of the Maria Hopper
Scholarships; Anne Edwards of Maryland, the James E. Rhoads Sophomore Schol-
arship; Marcia Anderson of North Carolina, the Mary Anna Longstreth Memorial
Scholarship; and Margaret Lacy of Iowa, one of the Maria Hopper Scliolarships.
In addition to the two "Alumnae Daughters" mentioned above, four others
appear on the roll of honor. Frederica Bellamy, 1936, daughter of Frederica
Le Fevre, 1905, was awarded a Special Directors' Scholarsliip ; Caroline Brown,
1936, daughter of Anna Hartshorne, 1912, is to hold again a State Scholarsliip and
a Foundation Scholarship; Kathryn Jacoby, 1937, daughter of Helen Lowengrund,
1906, was given one of the Maria Hopper Scholarships; Eleanore Tobin, 1937,
daughter of Helen Roche, 1907, the first Mary E. Stevens Scholarsliip.
Scholarships were also awarded to the following students who entered as
Regional Scholars: Jeannette Morrison, the Abby Brayton Durfee Scholarship;
Evelyn Thompson, the Leila Houghteling Scholarship; Diana Tate-Smith, the
Anna Powers Memorial Scholarship; Frances Porcher, one of the Evelyn Hunt
Scholarships. Elizabeth Wyckoff is to hold the Junior Rhoads Scholarship and
Ethel Glancy, the James H. Leuba Scholarship.
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MEDIAEVAL DRAMA IN THE CUMBERLANDS
By Margaret Hobart Myers, 1911
It is a hot Sunday morning in May. The air is clear and the flat outlines of
the tablelands are sharp against the dazzling sky. Nowhere else do the wooded
mountain tops stretch so straight and sheer as in the Tennessee Cumberlands. It
is warmer and very still as we descend the steep and winding grade that leads from
the height of Sewanee, "Mother Mountain/' into the valley below. Late roses and
sweet shrubs scent the gentle breeze that stirs the gay banners with which our car
is laden. We turn off the white highway into the welcome shade of trees surround-
ing the district school. Opposite is the little church, built a few years ago by the
farmer folk under the leadership of the priest-in-charge of the seventeen far-flung
missions that comprise Sewanee parish. The men can tell us which part of the
flooring each laid, wielding hammer and saw side by side with the rector.
In a moment we are surrounded by the children. The students who have
accompanied us to the mission and who are, for the period of their three years in
the theological school at Sewanee, in charge of this work, help me to unpack the
folded costumes on the rear seats of the car, and unfurl the banners, stacking them
in due order under the trees. It isn't very long before I am able to parcel out
tunics and veils, cassocks and cottas, robes and girdles, and in half an hour's time
we have the cast for the liturgical drama which is to be the feature of the Sunday
morning service, vested in proper fashion. The girls are delighted with their soft
colored veils. The boys have never worn cassocks before, and these cassocks are
no sombre black affairs, but of red, gold, blue and green sateen, matching the
banners which we now assign to the participants in the play. To the unsophisticated
city dweller the bare feet that protrude from the church vestments might seem
unusual. To us they merely recall the barefoot friars of the age when liturgical
drama was the order of the day, and the festivals of the Dark Ages were illumined
by drama enacted in the church. Now we lead our little troupe of players across
the highway and the bridge that spans a tiny stream to the side of the church,
where they await their part in the morning service. My husband and one of the
students are already vested. The service begins with a baptism, a number of
children wh6 have been awaiting the Sunday when a clergyman should visit the
mission in the valley. There is a short sermon, and then, after a hymn, the play
begins. It is a modern mystery play, Lady Catechism and the Child. Lady
Catechism bids the child leave his play for a season, and come and learn his
Christian duty. At her bidding, one by one, each player with his banner held
proudly aloft, steps forward to explain his part. It is all done with deepest rev-
erence, with complete sincerity, and with such clarity of diction that the congrega-
tion loses not a word. The central part is played with dignity by a young mountain
woman. The service is concluded by the Holy Communion, and then, just as the
congregation is filing out-of-doors again, a hurrying mother with a little tot appears
down the road, and we all return for a second baptism.
While the players remove their costumes in the grove, they are insistent in
their demands for another play. Accordingly, at Christmas time there is a nativity
play, written by a modern author, but based on the old plays of the Mediaeval
Church. Again we bring the costumes down the mountain and assist the players in
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many ways. Again the dignity and reverence of the drama makes the mysteries of
the Christian faith more real_, and the beauty of the costumes, the music and the
words of the text invest the somewhat bare lives of these valley farming folk witli
a richness which abides with them and ennobles the trivialities of their daily round.
A new play is toward as I write, but this time the young women of the mission
want me, instead of lending costumes, to help them design and make costumes,
which are to be the beginning of a costume chest of their own, and to help them to
plan not only more liturgical plays, but plays that can express other phases of
their lives and develop new possibilities in the routine of the countryside.
This play which I have described represents only one part of the play move-
ment which we at Sewanee are fostering. The University of the South is dramatic-
ally minded. The students of the theological department find their chief diversion
from their studies in presenting Shakespeare. They have recently played quite
admirably Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night. There are numerous play
groups among the faculty and students. At St. Mary's in the Mountain, a school
for mountain girls three miles distant from the university (maintained, by the
way, by a sisterhood which numbers more than one Bryn Mawrtyr in its ranks),
plays are the usual order of the day. At the present writing. Midsummer Night's
Dream is in rehearsal. But the group in which I am chiefly interested is a band
of some sixty children known as the Otey Players. This includes the children both
of the faculty and of the village, as well as some children who live farther out
upon the mountain.
The University of the South is an unusual institution. It is situated in the
midst of its own domain of ten thousand acres of mountain and forest land, more
than sixty miles from the nearest city, on a high plateau of the Cumberlands, in
the midst of great natural beauty. Over this territory the vice-chancellor of the
university rules, a beneficent tyrant. In Sewanee is the parish church from which
a string of missions extending over a radius of twenty-five miles is administered.
A mission hospital under the aegis of the university cares for the mountain folk
from the coves and valleys and mountainside.
It was among the university children that I first began to give plays. We
began with a little out-of-door allegory played in my own garden. Then followed
at Christmas a nativity play given in our library. The community carol singers
furnished the music, and after singing for us, went out into the village and to the
hospital to sing their usual Christmas round of carols. So moving was this nativity
play that it was repeated in the chancel of the theological school chapel during
the Epiphany season after the students had returned from their vacation, this time
with a student choir. Few of the students had ever seen anything like it. The
crucifer was a rosy-cheeked Freshman, an awkward lad still in his 'teens. He stood
by the organ, cross in hand, his face transfigured, drinking in the tender beauty of
the manger scene pictured with such utter simplicity by the children, against a
background of tall cedar, in the soft glow of the altar lights, the single star gleam-
ing aloft in the rafters. The old story, told in the old manner of the ^lediaeval
Church, was to him a revelation, flooding his being with a new perception of the
grace and wonder of the Christmas story.
The second stage in the development of our mystery play movement began
here. My husband, whose course in the philosophy of religion includes each year
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lectures on the psychology of worship;, decided to use our play group as demon-
stration for his students. This gave the work a double value. Here was an oppor-
tunity to train the clergy-to-be in the possibilities and methods of drama as a means
of education and as a method of worship.
In the five years that have since elapsed, a well-rounded course in liturgical
drama has been inserted into the theological curriculum. Each year in May, when
our garden is full of sweet-smelling shrubs, and the very setting of the lectures
helps to emphasize the value of a method based onl aesthetic appreciation of the
gospel, the senior students adjourn to our wide porch and there, gathered around
a long table, I lecture to them on the religious basis of all drama from the
Prometheus of Aeschylus onwards.
But this is not all. The students have charge of various missions. The rector
of the parish is keen about the use of dramatic method. There is a parish drama
council, consisting of the rector, of students from the theological school, members
of the faculty, and other interested persons. This council is able to furnish the
students with plays suitable for their missions and with such help as they may need
in order to produce them. The council holds up a high standard of excellence, both
as regards the literary and the spiritual value of the plays used and the staging,
costuming and production of the plays themselves. If the rector is not satisfied
with a projected performance, he either calls it off, or defers it until it has
attained the standard set by the council.
A year ago we projected a play needing a large cast and I set to work to
train a group of village children so that their constrained and difficult enunciation
might be made clear enough and pleasing enough to act as vehicles for the sacred
text. One little lad had no remote acquaintance with the value of punctuation.
I could make no impression on him. He ran his words into one solid mass. At last
I hit upon a scheme which worked. At stated intervals he counted two, at others
four, under his breath. After weeks of this laborious process, he learned to speak
his "piece" so well that not a syllable of it was lost upon his hearers. Sometimes
it is a matter of carriage that has to be developed and improved in order to make
the player sufficiently at ease to appear in the chancel clothed in the significant and
beautiful vestments which we provide. Or it is a sense of dignity and reverence
which must be infused into a raucous nature. More often it is self-consciousness or
diffidence which can be met by teaching the player to sink his own personality in
that of the character which he assumes.
When the time came for the presentation of the play {The Little Pilgrims and
the Book Beloved, a modern classic written years ago by my mother and given
since then from Zululand to Hawaii and from England to China), the dignity and
poise not only of my seasoned players, but of the recruits was remarkable. After
our Sewanee performance, we put the play on wheels and took it first to a little
mining town up in the mountains and then to a typical southern county seat, the
old town of Winchester, in the valley. The next autumn the banners and costumes
for this play went to one of the students who had helped in the Sewanee production,
for use in his newly acquired parish in North Carolina.
Poise and dignity, reverence and a sense of responsibility, grace of carriage
and of speech, a sense of intimacy with the church, and an appreciation of beauty
and color and line and of dramatic values, mark the boys and girls who, some of*
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them from the age of three or four^ have been members of my band of Otey plaj^ers.
They are able now to help me conduct rehearsals, make properties, plot the action
of a play, dress the stage. They now, rather than older helpers, are the assistants
upon whom I rely. Criticism of each other, usually constructive and always inter-
esting, gives zest to the rehearsals.
My chief difficulty is in finding enough parts for all the children who wish to
take part. Last summer an epidemic of whooping cough decimated our ranks on
the eve of an important performance. I opened the dress rehearsal by assigning
new parts to half a dozen of the players, and promoting some of the always
numerous group of banner-bearers, acolytes and silent angels. With some appre-
hension of difficulties to be met, we began the rehearsal. But everything went
through smoothly. I found that what I hoped for was true — from constant observa-
tion the substitutes knew practically the whole of the new parts assigned to them,
and few people at the performance next day realized that the cast had been
reorganized over night.
In the New York Times for last December 24, Mr. Brooks Atkinson makes *a
plea for what he terms ''an honest observance of Christmas . . . the ancient mystery
plays that were given in the cathedral and public squares of Old England" and
which seem to "communicate the divine and human aspects of Christmas with more
adoration than any other kind of observance." He then proceeded to describe with
numerous quotations from the text, the eleventh century liturgical play presented
in York and still extant in all the rude simplicity of its original form. Now it
happened that just at the moment that Mr. Atkinson's readers were perusing his
article, our Otey players were presenting after the old manner of the Middle Ages
the nativity cycle of the York mysteries. "Stations" or platforms were set at con-
venient places in the church and labeled according to tradition "Bethleem," "Feeldes
nere Bethleem." The centre aisle was entitled "Roade to Jerusaleme," and the
chancel steps "Nazarethe." (We heard afterwards that our spelling was somewhat
impugned by certain of the uninitiated.) At the traditional place in the Com-
munion service the play began. Three vested priests as the triune "Voice of God"
read the prologue from the altar steps. Then the Angelus appeared to Mary with
his message, and so followed the other episodes or "plays"- — tlie Nativity, the
Shepherds, the Meeting of the Three Kings and the Adoration of tlie Three Kings,
done so far as possible in traditional manner even to the star, which was a lantern
pulled by Gabriel along a wire strung in the roof, from the back of the churcli to
the sanctuary steps, while the three Kings followed the light of the star down the
Roade to Jerusaleme to the manger in the stable. The music consisted chiefly of
old Latin hymns and chants. Two weeks later the mysteries were repeated in the
college chapel, where the English department turned out its students in full force.
The lofty arches and deep beauty of the Gothic chapel, tlie tall cedars and the dim
lighting, the student choir chanting the old Latin hymns and plainsong, seemed to
bridge the thousand years between Sewanee and Y^'ork, and to unite in a mystical
union this twentieth century band of youtliful players witli the workmen of
Mediaeval England. "These are such moving little fragments of faith and aspira-
tion"— (I quote a letter from Mr. Brooks Atkinson) — "tliat I know they must lift
your entire community. The churches are the place for them. The theatre is no
longer the proper background for simple and reverent themes."
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AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT
When an Ambassador from a foreign country visits a college it is an event;
when the Ambassador of the Soviet Union makes the visit it is a great event, and
when he fits into a garden party at the Deanery as though he were born to it, it is
an event with a climax. It proves, after all, that Russians are quite normal human
beings, however strange their ideas are thought to be. Oddly enough, none of
Mr. Troyanovsky's ideas, as he expressed them, either publicly or privately, sounded
strange even to American ears.
The Ambassador and Mrs. Troyanovsky and the Charge d' Affaires and Mrs.
Skvirsky came as informal week-end guests of Professor Kingsbury and Dr.
Fairchild, whose interest in Russia is well known. President Park collaborated
by giving a reception for them at the Deanery to which a large number of guests
were invited.
Because the leading news in the morning papers was about a decision regarding
Russian debts, Mr. Troyanovsky's presence was especially intriguing to a horde of
reporters who invaded the Sabbath peace of the Bryn Mawr campus. It was an
opportunity for big news which usually falls to the Washington correspondents.
The Ambassador is no novice at the business of being a diplomat and could manage
even American reporters in a masterly fashion, as was shown in the papers the
following day.
The high point of the visit was the reception and brief talk at the Deanery
Sunday afternoon. It may be confessed that some wondered what the Ambassador
could talk about. Everyone knows that there are many controversial opinions
about Soviet Russia, and that anyway diplomats are supposed to be noncommittal,
so there was some sympathy for his difficult position of having to be interesting and
illuminating without arousing antagonisms or overstepping the traditional limita-
tions. It was wasted sympathy. Mr. Troyanovsky captivated his audience.
President Park presented him in a happy introduction as they stood on the
steps in the garden. She quoted from something he had previously written to
the effect that internationalism is a plant of slow growth, and its earlier friends, not
realizing this, became discouraged. It is something which must be waited for with
patience while the warmth of friendship nourishes it. She added that it was
gatherings like this one in which such international understanding and friendship
could grow.
Mr. Troyanovsky acknowledged the introduction with a smile and a chuckle,
and stepped down to the level of the audience. The smile and the chuckle recurred
several times and increased the entente. Unfortunately his speech may not be
quoted by agreement with his request.
After the reception there was a buffet supper at Miss Kingsbury's, and then
Mr. Troyanovsky, who had intended to spend another night here, felt that he must
hurry back to Washington to be ready to begin the task of solving the problem of
debts and trade relations between his country and ours. We were thus brought out
of an idyllic situation into juxtaposition with one of the most realistic of inter-
national problems.
Herbert A. Miller, Lecturer in Social Economy.
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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE
My gaze is so often focused on Bryn Mawr and Bryn Mawr interests alone
that I enjoy particularly an escape into a wider landscape. Two such have I made
this year — a journey to St. Louis in early November in company with the Presidents
of the six other colleges with which Bryn Mawr is leagued^ to put jointly before an
audience collected for us by the St. Louis Alumnae something of the history and the
hopes of the colleges for women; and a drive to New Brunswick in late April to see
400 High School girls still one or even two years away from college, from New
Jersey, Southern New York, and Connecticut, who had been invited to spend a
three-day week-end at the New Jersey College for Women in order that they might
learn something not of that college and this spring only, but of all college days
and ways.
No two journeys could have been more dissimilar — the first through long hours
of Pullman cars and the autumn landscapes of Ohio and Indiana, the second along
a country road through spring rain to the open green of the New Jersey College
set high above the horse-shoe curve of the Raritan. The first audience, a thousand
men and women, listened with good humour and interest to brief words from each
president, with longer speeches from Mr. Neilson and the guest of the occasion,
Mr. Walter Lippman, on the stirring history of colleges for women and the present
anxiety and alarm of these colleges over the danger of not being able to meet as
wisely and as fully as they wish the demands that many young women, some of
them the ablest of the next generation, are making of them. In New Brunswick
on the other hand I found the next generation itself, a delightful great roomful
of girls, very young and very serious, writing down earnestly in their note-books
the facts they had come to hear. As nearly as possible it seemed to me they were
given a genuine look-in at college: nights in the college houses, classes and lab-
oratory sessions, chapel, music, games, plays, all these saw not once only, but
twice or three times. Several women from outside and inside the college were pro-
duced at different moments to say something about what each girl might hope to
get out of college discipline: something which would help her to find her place in
the world which her generation is to make or mar. They were told how they
might understand that world, might enjoy it and might find for themselves an
intelligent way of living in it. Though they will not remember our cataracts of
abstract words and will carry off only an impression of our great age and, I hope,
of our kindly disposition toward them, I shall not forget them !
My two unlike expeditions brought me to the same point; they have stirred
me to a new ardor. I hope Bryn Mawr will throw itself more vigorously than ever
into its attempts to solve the problems of sound and timely training, and to accumu-
late those endowments on which that training must be in part built, no matter what
other factors of learning and of good will are put into it. And I came away from
both expeditions cheerful, in part because I had seen in action in both places
women who had long ago or lately gone through Bryn Mawr training and were
using it as one would pray the next generation would use it : with intelligence, energy
and generosity toward others. Edna Fischel Gellhorn in St. Louis and Margaret
Corwin in New Brunswick, can perhaps be named without prejudice to anyone else,
but there are many more in my mind.
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AN EXPERIMENT IN PRE-COLLEGE GUIDANCE
By Margaret T. Corwin, 1912
When I arrived at New Jersey College for Women in mid-February, I found
a college which had grown from nothing in 1918 to approximately a thousand
students at the present time. I could only guess then how such a rapid growth had
been effected. Now, after the completion of an experiment in which we have all
worked together — staff, faculty and students — I can understand the spirit which
made it possible.
I found my colleagues interested in the problems of our Freshmen, problems
to which they seem to have no prior rights, but which they share with their sisters
on campuses the world over. Clearly, some of our students were coming to college
without a clear conception of what college is. It occurred to us that it might help
a girl who was thinking vaguely about college, if she could get a true picture of it
with all its various phases. We wondered whether it would be possible to show
girls a cross-section of college life, six months or more before they were ready to
take their places on a campus. Up to this point we had discussed colleges in
general, but as we considered the possibilities of such a project more seriously, we
decided that New Jersey College for Women more specifically might attempt such
an experiment.
The more we thought of what we could do for a group of potential college
students, the more the plan appealed to us. Such a meeting should be during the
college year, we thought, so that the pre-college group would see the campus really
in action, inhabited by students who would continue their classes, sports, club
meetings and activities without interruption, and who would also guide the high
school group as it explored a strange country.
The visitors would live in student dormitories, eat in the college dining room,
visit classes, laboratories, language houses, and art studios, explore the social life
of the campus, and know the thrill or anguish of a first roommate.
We decided to turn to school principals to see whether the idea seemed to
them to be worth considering further. We wrote to the principals of the important
schools within a radius of about one hundred miles of New Brunswick, telling them
that it had occurred to some of us that high school students could be prepared for
the problems they will meet without warning at the beginning of the freshman year
by means of a foretaste of college, showing the ways it differs most from high school.
We proposed to arrange a four-day program of pre-college guidance, not alone for
future students of this college, but for all girls interested in higher education,
regardless of where they might wish to get it. Speakers, we said boldly, would be
recruited from the faculties of various colleges. All this, of course, before we had
invited a single speaker! If you favor the plan, we asked the principals, what
suggestions have you for the program?
The letter was sent out without too much optimism. Replies began to come in
two days later, and came in increasing numbers as the days went by. Of approxi-
mately 300 principals, 7 wrote that they were not interested, 40-odd thought the
plan a good one but could not cooperate because of distance, expense, or other
reasons. The remaining 250 answered with enthusiasm that the plan had their
wholehearted endorsement, and that they would gladly excuse their students to take
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part in it. Many of the principals had suggestions for the program. They told us
to teach the girls to budget their time^, to give them vocational help^ to tell them
frankly what college costs^ to tell them something of study habits^, to tell them not
to be discouraged during their freshman year if they did not receive the same high
grades they had been accustomed to getting in high school. One principal wrote:
"If your conference could point out that^ irrespective of what the girls might do
later, a broad liberal arts education is the background of any vocation, I think a
great many would be helped."
At this time a professor who was interested in the plan asked one of her
sophomore classes whether they felt that girls entered college with definite miscon-
ceptions. There were 85 girls in the class. To the question as to whether tlie
average girl enters college with misconceptions as to academic life, 40 answers were
negative, 45 affirmative. As to social life, 25 answers were negative, 59 affirmative
and 1 blank. As to misconceptions in ethics and ideals, 31 answers were negative.
49 affirmative and 5 blank. The girls were asked for suggestions as to points whicli
should be clarified for the girl who is considering college. Vocational help and
advice, and emphasis of the need of responsibility for one's self, led the needs, as
the sophomore group saw them. Help as to study methods and an explanation of
the amount of work expected of a college student were suggested. Better guidance
as to courses and emphasis as to the importance of academic life over social were
also named by the sophomores.
With the assurance of high school principals that they favored the project,
and with proof from a cross-section of our own students that there are definite
misconceptions, the work of the committee actually began.
When a tentative program had been drawn up, we wrote a second letter to the
principals who had answered our first favorably, enclosing the tentative program
and a few registration forms, and asked them to present the plan to their students.
One principal had copies of the program mimeographed and sent to the parents of
Seniors and Juniors, the eligible classes. Another suggested that we send one of our
students who was a graduate of his high school to talk with the girls of tlie plan.
This suggestion we followed out in 40 cases where Seniors spoke in their home town
high schools during the spring recess.
We had been told that since the idea had never been tried before and since
there was expense involved for the girls who came, we could count on only a very
small group this year. We had thought the program might be considered successful
if 60 girls joined us for this first attempt. With accommodations for 300, we felt
quite justified in being extremely generous with our invitations. With April 15th
set as the closing date for registration, we accepted applications as they arrived at
first, and sent girls acknowledgments and directions. On April 12th registration
reached 200, and we decided that all received from that time on would be held and
apportioned. All schools represented before the 12th were given no more represen-
tation. Only one girl was accepted from each of the schools from which applications
arrived after that date. In many cases we asked the principal to designate the girl
he wished to represent his school. To the unlucky ones we returned fees and invited
them to the sessions of the closing day.- By the opening of the conference we had
received applications from well over 900 girls. We were able to accept 314, repre-
senting 134 high and preparatory schools.
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The program was planned to fill four needs. First, we wished to give the girls
some broad understanding of what college means and how it can help them make
the best possible adjustment to this modern world. Second, we wished them to be
given a true picture of the relation of college to one's vocation, with special empha-
sis on the fact that college cannot guarantee a job. Third, we wished to give them
an opportunity to gather specific information regarding colleges; and finally, we
wanted them to sample college life— its classes, its dormitory life, its parties, teas,
plays, sports — to have a complete picture of what college is like.
We demanded the impossible of our speakers, for we wanted real wisdom com-
bined with an ability to speak to a young group. But we were lucky enough to
secure it. Miss Park was good enough to find time in her heavy spring program to
come on to talk on "Enjoying the Modern World." She acted on our request to tell
what paths lay open via the arts and literature, but in a way so completely and
delightfully her own that it exceeded our fondest dreams. Mrs. Laura W. L. Scales,
Warden of Smith College, spoke on "Adjusting Yourself to the Modern World,"
from her full experience with extra-curricular activities on that campus. Her
suggestions of what should be included under good taste were excellent. Dr. Emily
Hickman, professor of History here at our own college, showed what marvels
science and the social sciences have to offer — under the heading "Understanding
the Modern World."
For the vocational aspect of the program we had Miss Helen MacM. Voorhees,
Director of the Appointment Bureau at Mount Holyoke College, whose topic was
"College and Your Vocation in the Modern World." In order that the girls might
see that what one learns at college is definitely helpful in one's work, though it may
have seemed to have little connection at the time, we selected three college alumni,
Miss Kita de Lodyguine, '26, of Barnard, Miss Cornelia Ernst, '32, of Vassar, and
Miss Violet Sieder, '30, of New Jersey College for Women, who are doing interest-
ing things in the fields of international banking, library work and social service
work, and asked them to talk about their jobs in relation to college.
To help the girls from th^ vocational point of view, we asked a number of
members of our faculty to serve as professional advisers, and conferences were
arranged for girls in the fields of Art, Dramatic Arts, Education, English, Languages,
Home Economics, Journalism, Library Work, Music, Psychology, Physical Educa-
tion, Science, and the Social Sciences.
To answer specific questions regarding colleges, we asked a number of colleges
to send representatives who would meet with the girls and who would give them
definite information regarding their institutions. Three sessions on "Choosing Your
College" were scheduled during the conference, when girls met with representatives
of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Connecticut College, University of Delaware, Goucher,
Mount Holyoke, New Jersey College for Women, New York University, Radcliffe,
Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley.
To help with the social end of the program we called upon both our students
and our faculty. There were 18 small dormitories available on the campus in which
we housed the delegates. A faculty member was chosen to be hostess in each of the
houses, to advise the girls as to their programs and to help them in general. Our
students brought pictures, lamps and flowers to make the dormitory rooms of the
strangers attractive, met them when they registered on the opening day of the
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conference and took them to their dormitories, entertained them at the opening
session and later in the conference had a tea and a party, loaned them sports equip-
ment, and helped them find their way about the campus. They took part in a
performance at our practice theatre, presented for them a most alive forum — "Peace
through Preparedness?" — and, in short, proved invaluable to us, and were cer-
tainly a determining factor in the success of the conference.
Our pre-coUege guidance program began Thursday, April 26th, and ended
Sunday, April 29th. We had invited parents to join their daughters at the final
session on Sunday, and for the speaker at that closing session we asked President
Ada Comstock, of Radcliffe College, to tell why she believes in college. Her descrip-
tion of the real things that college offers made us all more sensible of the privileges
and opportunities offered on our campus. President Comstock's speech was heard
not only by the 300 girls who had attended the sessions, but by their parents and
by many of the girls whom we had been unable to accept for the whole period but
who came down on Sunday to talk with the college representatives and to attend
that session.
Throughout the four days in which we presented the various programs I have
described, we were all watching very carefully to see the reactions of our high school
guests. We had been warned that we might give them "mental indigestion" by
plunging them so suddenly into the whirl of activity that is college. We had pre-
pared our speakers for the fact that theirs was to be a young audience, and we had
worded our program so that there could be no question as to its intelligibility. We
had been warned also that it was more than possible that we were being inundated
with applications perhaps a little less because of intellectual interest than because
of the appeal of a sort of spree on a college campus. It seemed likely that the offer
of a round of tennis, parties, teas and even an intercollegiate lacrosse game would
bring to our campus some light-hearted maidens who were not perhaps very much
interested in pre-college guidance. Because we had been so thoroughly warned we
watched the reactions of our girls very carefully and the hostesses had frank talks
with the girls as to the features of the program that they enjoyed. We were amazed
and pleased to see how earnestly they listened to the speakers, how diligently they
took notes on what they were told, how active was their interest in classes and
laboratories, and how seriously they took part in discussions both in classes and at
the forum. We know now that we need have had no fears of talking "over their
heads." They were alive and curious in mind, and they had come to our campus
definitely to learn about college. They participated in the social features of the
program, but their real interest was in its serious aspects.
There seemed so much fresh thinking in the talks by Miss Park, Mrs. Scales,
Miss Voorhees and Miss Comstock that we are arranging to print them in a small
pamphlet for the benefit of the 600 and more girls who applied to come to the
conference after our facilities had been stretched to the limit.
Special Meeting of the Alumnae Association in Goodhart Hall on Sunday.
June 3rd at 12 Noon, followed by Alumnae Luncheon in the Deanery at 1.30
(Tickets $1.26).
Commencement in Goodhart Hall on Wednesday, June 6th at 11.00 a. m.
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A BRYN MAWR MEETING IN TENNESSEE
The first meeting on record of the Bryn Mawr women in the State of Tennessee
was held on the 24th of April at Sewanee^ the seat of the University of the South.
There are some twenty-four Bryn Mawr women listed in Tennessee. Of these almost
a third are graduate students whose loyalties are divided between Bryn Mawr and
their original alma mater. Of the others^ several are teaching out of the State of
Tennessee during the winter; one or two have young families which cannot be left;
and others are teaching and unable to get away for a whole day at a time. Sewanee
is the geographical centre of Bryn Mawr influence in Tennessee, and Tennesseeans
are used to coming to Sewanee and its neighboring town of Monteagle for gather-
ings of all kinds. It proved, therefore, not a difficult matter to persuade eleven
Bryn Mawr people to gather at "Bairnwick," the home of Margaret Hobart Myers,
1911, present chairman of District III. Regional Scholarship for Tennessee, on
Tuesday, April 24th. The special inducement to those who climbed the Mountain
to enjoy this Bryn Mawr reunion for a day, was that Dean Manning, after her
visit to Nashville on April 23rd, stopped off with Margaret Myers for a flying visit
of twenty-four hours en route for Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr.
On Monday night, the 23rd, Dean Manning had an opportunity to meet socially
and informally some members of the Sewanee faculty and their wives. Especial
interest attaches to Dean Manning's visit because of the fact that her father visited
Sewanee during his presidency, having been led to do this by the enthusiasm of his
aide. Major Archie Butt, who was an old Sewanee alumnus. On Tuesday morning
Mrs. Manning addressed the students and faculty of the University on Dilemmas of
Education. Her dignity of presence and her charming voice, as well as the interest
of her address, and the similarity of the ideals which she elucidated to those pre-
vailing at Sewanee, captured her audience, and faculty and students talked for days
with approval and enthusiasm of her address.
The Bryn Mawr women who gathered at Sewanee on the morning of the
24th of April in time to hear Mrs. Manning's address were: from Nashville —
K. Dodd, 1914; M. Dodd Sangree, 1916; M. Brown Hibbits, 1920; and Elizabeth
Estes Kirkman, 1920-21; from Chattanooga — I. Bixler Poste, 1910; B. Mitchell
Hailey, 1911, and Thelma Williams Kleinau, 1921; from Memphis — Agnes Grabau,
1916; from South Pittsburgh — Edith Lodge Kellerman, 1903; and from Sewanee —
Winifred Kirkland, graduate scholar in English, 1898-1900, and M. Hobart Myers,
1911.
After chapel, and a visit to some of the buildings and the beautiful views on
the edges of the 10,000 acre domain of the University of the South, the twelve
Bryn Mawr representatives foregathered at a hilarious luncheon. After luncheon,
the Bryn Mawr group met with the twenty-odd college women drawn from institu-
tions all over the country, and now resident at Sewanee. This meeting listened to
excellent addresses from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South, Dean
Baker of the University, and Dean Manning. Dean Baker's thoughtful paper on
Education dovetailed so completely with Dean Manning's chapel address in the
morning that it rounded out the day quite perfectly. After tea, the Bryn Mawr
group set forth again in their automobiles along dogwood and azalea bordered
roads to their various homes.
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I
WILSON AT BRYN MAWR
WooDROw Wilson: The Caricature^ The Myth^ and The Man^ hy Edith Gittings
Reid. 237 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $3.50.
Mrs. Reid has given us another life of Woodrow Wilson, a brief, clear, well-
organized account which reveals Wilson as he appeared to his private friends, whose
love and admiration were never strained by political issues, but were liis, untainted,
until his death. Those who are interested in Wilson as an historical figure will find
little new material in this book, for it largely consists of a restatement in smooth
and adequate prose, of facts already known and recorded. But those who are
fascinated by the man, by the complex personality, at once the inspiration and
despair of our times, will discover certain illuminating anecdotes and interchanges
which disclose the disarming and captivating side Wilson reserved for his friends.
The title, then, is misleading. The author knew Wilson too well to sustain tlie
myth; she loved him too well to appreciate the caricature, and the man was, first
and foremost, her friend.
Their friendship extended from Wilson's youth to his death. He opened his
heart and intellect as generously to her when he was President as when he was a
college professor, and those tantalizing scraps of conversation in Princeton or in
Washington reveal him in his most becoming light, as do those flashes of "quick,
whimsical humor" kept "for a friend" and hard to reconcile with the world's con-
ception of the idealist frozen into the mould of an ideal.
The value of most reminiscences lies in just such intimate, unhampered talk,
in chance encounters and stray comments which seem insignificant at the time, but
to which the reader from his superior position down the years can look back and
give a significance pregnant with irony or tragedy.
"Unfortunately, I like my own way too much for my own and other people's
comfort."
These first words which Wilson utters in Mrs. Reid's presence strike a pro-
phetic note almost worthy of the entrance of the hero of Shakespearian tragedy.
As the drama unfolds itself, the reader often wonders how far the course of tlie
tragedy could have been averted had Wilson listened to this or tliat advice, or
heeded the warning of one of his friends:
"You, I think, too often try to put a gallon in a pint cup, and you clioosc too
rich a vintage for the quality of tlie cup."
Where Mrs. Reid considers the Friend, slie sees clearly as well as sympa-
thetically. She recognizes "that we, his friends, were quite sure he would not have
known whether our eyes were blue or brown." Slie can give an impersonal analysis
of his brief sojourn as Professor of History at Bryn :Mawr, a period in his life
which will be of peculiar interest to Bryn INIawr Alumnae even tliough "the wliole
episode must be looked upon as a detour from the main course of his life." That a
man of Wilson's traditions, who believed Woman should be "persuasive rather than
coercive" should have found Bryn Mawr antipathetic to his temperament was pre-
ordained. His biographer feels it to be so. But she also sees tlie other side, and
can say of the Dean, "We must give this dauntless, able woman the admiration
Wilson never could give her."
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The accusations of history against Wilson, however, are neither defended nor
excused. Lansing and Garfield are dismissed with a sentence. Mrs. Reid sees only
"a touch of originality in Colonel House's lack of official position/* and of Page,
pouring out his soul to a chief who did not support, a friend who did not respond,
she disposes in a paragraph. As Mrs. Reid herself states, this book is not political.
That it should be prejudiced is, perhaps, the price that must be paid for its
intimacy and interest.
Pamela Burr, 1928.
A FRENCH TRIBUTE TO A BRYN MAWR MAY DAY
One of the most distinguished visitors to the May Day of 1932 was Monsieur
Felix Gaiffe, Professeur a la Faculte des Lettres de VUniversite de Paris and
Visiting Professor at Columbia University for the second semester 1931-32.
Monsieur Gaiffe is an authority on French Dramatic Literature, was one of
the founders of the Societe des Historiens du Theatre, is the author of Le Drame
en France au Dix-Huitieme Siecle, Le Rire et la Scene Frangaise, etc., etc.
In the Revue Universitaire of July, 1933, in an article entitled Theatre et
Universite, Monsieur Gaiffe gives his impressions of the Bryn Mawr Day:
"Au cours d'un sejour d'un semestre aux Etats-Unis, I'an dernier, les plus
beaux spectacles dramatiques auxquels il m'ait ete donne d'assister eurent lieu dans
des colleges ou des universites; plus que les galas du Metropolitan Opera, ou que
les comedies, operettes ou revues nouvelles de Broadway, le May Day de
Bryn Mawr et les fetes du centenaire du Lafayette College m'ont paru representer
la reussite complete d'un effort d'art original. Les etudiants des deux sexes excellent
la-bas dans un genre de spectacle en plein air, designe par le terme difficilement
traduisible de pageant et qui tient a la fois du cortege et du drame historique.
Bryn Mawr, college de jeunes filles situe aux environs de Philadelphie, etale ses
confortables et elegants edifices pseudo-gothiques aux extremites du magnifique
pare que constitue son campus} C'est la que tous les quatre ans se donnent les
fetes du May Day, dont I'attraction centrale est constituee par le defile traditionnel
ou la reine Elisabeth, annoncee par six herauts d'armes, precedee de ses archers,
apparait au milieu de toute sa cour ; elle est suivie des personnages qui vont tout
a I'heure, aux quatre coins du campus, jouer, — et fort bien, — des fragments de
Shakespeare et d'autres anciens ecrivains anglais ou ecossais, tandis que sur le
green, des danses populaires en costumes du X^VI^ siecle finissant se derouleront au
son d'une musique de la meme epoque. La parfaite harmonic du spectacle est
obtenue non seulement par le respect d'une tradition deja longue, mais par le
concours d'un metteur en scene professionnel, — actuellement M. Arthur King,^ —
assiste dans sa direction par des eleves ou anciennes eleves du college dont plusieurs
sont entrees au theatre. Cette reconstitution feerique, inoubliable, ou Ton ne peut
relever ni une maladresse de conception, ni une erreur d'execution, attire toujours
un enorme concours de spectateurs: des trains speciaux sont organises au depart
de New York et des grandes villes voisines."
1 II est a peine besoin de rappeler que le college amerlcain correspond aux classes superi-
eures de nos lycees et aux premieres annees de nos facultes: les eleves y ont de dix-huit
a vingt-deux ans, Le campus est le terrain, generalement tres vaste, ou se trouvent les
batiments, salles de cours, chapelle, dormitories, tennis, golf, etc, du college ou de
I'universite.
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BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE BULLETIN
NEW YORK BRYN MAWR CLUB CUTS RESIDENT DUES
FOR RECENT GRADUATES
The New York Bryn Mawr Club has drastically lowered its schedule of dues
for resident members who are recent Alumnae. Heretofore^ all resident members —
those living within a radius of forty miles of New York — were charged $25.00
annually. Now the schedule has been lowered as follows:
Those out of college less than three years pay annual dues of $10.00.
Those out of college three and four years pay annual dues of $15.00.
Those out of college five years pay annual dues of $20.00.
Thereafter the annual dues are $25.00.
Seniors joining now may pay $10.00 and will not be billed again for dues
until October^ 1935. In other words^ they will receive seventeen months' privileges
for the price of twelve months' dues. Those who have stopped in at the Club at
the Park Lane Hotel understand why membership in the Club is so desirable.
Non-resident dues are still $10.00, and undergraduate $5.00 annually. Non-
resident and undergraduate members may have all club privileges except those of
voting and holding office.
All Bryn Mawr students and graduates are very w-elcome to drop in at the
Club whenever they are in New York. In fairness to members, guest cards must be
obtained before using the privileges. The secretary at the desk will be very glad
to show visitors around the rooms and the hotel, to answer questions, and to explain
the routine of obtaining guest cards.
Ruth Rickaby Darmstadt, 1927,
(Mrs. Louis Darmstadt)
Chairman of the Membership Committee.
AN OPEN LETTER
To the Editor of the Bulletin:
Last month these pages contained a letter, quoted from the College Neics, and
light-heartedly headed: "Radical Undergraduates Demand Rhetoric." I realize tliat
the Bulletin Board felt that many of its readers, particularly those who in their
time had felt themselves to be radicals when they lifted their voices against rig-
orous training in Rhetoric, would be amused by this turn in events. As was the
case with the earlier radicals, these of the present day represent only the minority
point of view. The letter, however, was unexpectedly misunderstood by one or two
people. The undergraduates have not risen in a body to demand tliat they be taught
about subjects and predicates and the mystery of participles; far from it. As a
matter of fact, they are being given, as they always have been, very genuine train-
ing in Rhetoric, but it is no longer tagged and labeled, and so they do not realize
their good fortune. The voice in the News indicated, possibly, merely a vernal
impulse toward change, an impulse that is epidemic at this season on the campus,
and that, as regularly as the spring, manifests itself in suggestions for changing
Freshman English.
Cornelia Meigs, 1907,
Associate in English.
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CAMPUS NOTES
By J. E. Hannan, 1934
Usually after vacation there is a lull in campus activity^ but no sooner had the
undergraduate body completely reassembled and settled down to study after Easter
vacation, than it found itself setting blindly forth on a scavenger hunt the like of
which the college has never seen before. This monster hunt was organized as a
charity affair to raise money for Summer School and Bryn Mawr Camp (Bates
House) ; but, as it turned out, it was not the undergraduates who made the affair
a success, but the faculty who gave and gave. They gave woolen underdrawers
and they gave themselves, dressed as the typical undergraduate or as the Funniest
Thing; and when the Hunt was over, they, together with at least one hundred
shouting and hallooing undergraduates, were herded together in Pembroke. The
hour or more during which the committee of judges, consisting of Mrs. Chadwick-
Collins, Miss Ely, Mrs. Wyncie King, and Dean Manning, decided which team
had won the lollipops was undoubtedly the high point of the evening. A circus
sideshow atmosphere prevailed and no one talked in less than a scream. In spite
of the fact that the hoydenish assembly in Pembroke showcase was the feature of
the evening, we cannot omit to mention the fact that the final event was a talk on
Russia, a very good talk, but still, on Russia and after a Scavenger Hunt. It
would not have happened anywhere else, but it was appropriate enough to us to
cause no comment.
As another contribution to the never-a-dull-moment ideal. Varsity Dramat
presented Pygmalion, April 13th and 14th. The actual production of the play,
certainly as well if not better done than usual, would have seemed to call for no
comment other than praise for the hard-working producers; but the News started
a small row by editorially pointing out that there were only four undergraduates in
the cast, three of whom had minor parts. The theory was advanced that the
exclusion of all but a few from taking part in the play was the reason for lack of
undergraduate interest in Varsity Dramat. No less than four letters turned up
in the News of the following week: one heavily sarcastic of the idea that every
student should be given a chance to tread Goodhart stage at least once; another
holding out for period plays and miracle plays as more suitable to our stage, and
again dragging in the well-worn phrase, "imitation Broadway," as applied to
Varsity Dramat's productions ; a third pointing out that the choice of the play was
unfortunate, but the casting, acting, and production excellent ; and a fourth from
Varsity Dramat itself, giving statistics of undergraduate participation in Dramat
productions for the past two years and showing that fourteen per cent of the
students had made some contribution and eight and one-half per cent a large
contribution.
There is, of course, much to be said for either side; and, we may add, it has
been said again and again in the past month. It all boils down to the fact that
part of the college look upon their Dramatic Club as an enlarged edition of school
dramatic organizations, which try to give everyone a chance to be in a play, whether
as an offstage noise or an anonymous member of a mob scene. The opposing group,
and the one that has control of Dramat at this point, sees Goodhart stage as a place
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for serious trial of talent^ a sort of pre-tlieatre incubator. It is liard to understand
why the objectors to the semi-professionalism of Varsity Dramat are not satisfied
with things as they are. They can take part in Glee Club productions or occa-
sional miracle plays or one-act plays; and in view of the fact that only thirteen
undergraduates came to tryouts for Pygmalion, it seems unfair to object to the
exclusiveness of Varsity Dramat. If they find that they cannot stay away from
the stage and haven't the voice for Glee Club^ we suggest that they pump some
life into Players' Club and make it fulfill the function for which it was intended,
that iS;, to discover and train promising actresses for Varsity Dramat. One very
lovely thing about Bryn Mawr^, and no one would wish it different, is its fondness
for conscientious objecting. It has probably been irritating to the managers of
Dramat in this instance and they doubtless feel that the objections leveled at their
very constructive efforts are unfair; but the criticisms made by the conscientious
objectors may in the end help to make Dramat a healthier organization, drawing
better quality if not greater quantity of support from the campus ; or again, the
critics may continue to deal in words and leave action to the criticized. That they
are fairly numerous is shown by the fact that their criticisms came out in the
News, the campus organ of public opinion.
The new Board of the News, which after vacation took up the onerous task of
keeping the News columns free from proof errors, started an investigation of the
curriculum in the same issue as its attack on Varsity Dramat. The questionnaire
which they set the college asked: "Does each course (a) involve mostly memory
work, originality, broad trends^ small details, too much reading; (b) cover the
material announced; (c) discourage further study in the subject." The results as
published may be gleaned from the spread-head over the article: "Questionnaire
Describes College Courses; Students Discouraged by Almost One-Half — Strikingly
Small Proportion Emphasize Originality; Detailed Memory Work Predominates —
Forty-One Have Excessive Reading Required — Most of Courses Cover Material
Announced." As the question quoted indicates, the survey was ambitious and rather
difficult to carry out. The results were, however, presented in a careful, even if
not statistically perfect form. The shortcomings of the editors, such as they were,
did not escape the gimlet eyes of certain News readers; and in the next issue no
less than twelve Bryn Mawr alumnae now studying in the Graduate School wrote
a letter pointing out the lapses from statistical perfection. They asked: "What
percentage of the students actually answered the questionnaire and what percentage
of the enrollment of each course discussed?" and added that "anyone with any
experience in the interpretation of statistics will realize that this is a vital factor
for the value of the results. . . .,If statistics are to be used as an indication of
undergraduate opinion, they should be computed and presented by someone witli an
adequate training in the statistical method." Their criticism is, of course, correct,
yet one would hate to see the News investigators supplanted by statisticians from
the Carnegie Foundation, who would pin us down and find out the exact ratio
of discouragement to originality in the Bryn jNIaM-r brain-pan. Every normal
undergraduate likes a good trend, sweeping and general, of course, and we realize
that we cannot have our lovely trends, such as "Students Discouraged by Almost
One-Half of Courses," and accurate detail at the same time. The result is that we
usually take our trends and leave the details to their own devices. We may add
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that most undergraduates take the startling generalizations about themselves with
a grain of salt; and that our mentors^ the faculty, seem to have developed the
same happy attitude.
The blitheness of our spirits was illustrated again this year at Little May Day.
There is, fortunately, nothing new about May Day and so no one ever feels called
upon to criticize it as a departure from tradition. There is also nothing tiresome
about it, so it had never degenerated into mere tradition.
As usual, scholarships and prizes were read out in Chapel and the best of
Bryn Mawr got their reward. One comment made by President Park upon the
award of the Hinchman Memorial Scholarship deserves mention in proof of the
fact that the campus is becoming more serious and scholarly every year. In an-
nouncing the winners of the Scholarship, which had to be divided between two
students equally good. President Park*said, "The list of candidates proposed by the
various departments is being given for the first time, because five of the seven
candidates would undoubtedly have won the scholarship if competing with an
ordinary class." That, we feel, is proof of a very nice trend.
DEAN SCHENCK IS GIVEN THE CROSS OF THE
CHEVALIER OF THE LEGION OF HONOR
Early in May, Dean Schenck of the Graduate School received from
M. de Laboulaye, the French Ambassador, a letter saying: "I take pleasure in
informing you that the President of the French Republic has conferred upon you the
Cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. I will bestow this high distinction
upon you during the ceremonies at the University of Delaware on May 12th."
The occasion was an impressive one, in connection with the centenary celebra-
tion of the founding of the University of Delaware, and M. de Laboulaye was him-
self the recipient of the honorary degree of LL.D. The Cross of the Chevalier of
the Legion of Honor was conferred upon! Miss Schenck, and also upon Florence
White, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr 1915, Head of the Department of French at Vassar, and
Horatio Smith, Head of the Department of French at Brown University. In
making the award the Ambassador stressed the great part played in establishing
the best kind of international relations by these three distinguished scholars, who
have all been for some years members of the Committee on Foreign Study of the
Institute of International Education, which arranges for the junior year in France.
It will be remembered that Miss Schenck spent two summers just after the
war in the devastated regions of France, as Associate Director of a Red Cross unit,
in charge of a Jardin d'Enfants. She has been from its inception Chairman of the
Alumnae Committee, which makes an annual gift of books to the Department of
American Literature at the Sorbonne, and is foreign correspondent of the Academy
at BesanQon. In 1929 she was decorated by the French Government and was made
an Officier d'Academie francaise. Bryn Mawr has another close link with France in
the Bryn Mawr room at the Cite Universitaire, endowed by Anne Vauclain, 1907,
in memory of her mother. This room is to be occupied this summer by one of two
Bryn Mawr students, Ruth Jacobson, Graduate Scholar in History of Art, or
Suzanne Halstead, candidate for B.A. 1934, both of whom have won scholarships
offered by the Institute of International Education.
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EXCERPTS FROM FURTHER CAMPUS NOTES
By Geraldine Rhoads^ 1935
Campus activity is by no means entirely confined to dramatic activity, and
those of us who are not histrionically inclined take a great deal of pleasure in the
informal lectures at the Deanery. The opening of the Deanery has given us mucli
more chance to gather informally and has made possible such events as the after-
noon of undergraduate poetry, the group singing of madrigals under Mr. and Mrs.
Hotson's direction, and the forthcoming undergraduate dance recital in the Deanery
Garden. Also in the Deanery we had the rare opportunity of hearing Stephen
Vincent Benet speak on the reading of poetry.
In the art of the dance we were brought Jacques Cartier, and the recital he
gave was really memorable to us because the dancer not only showed originality in
the arrangement and execution of his dances, but showed great ability at synthesizing
and absorbing many of the details found in thei different techniques of the many
modern schools of the dance. Within the month the program was varied with
two lectures on subjects not pertaining to letters or to arts: Professor Blanchard,
of Swarthmore, came to talk on What Is Truth? and Dr. Arthur H. Compton
spoke recently on Do We Live in a World of Chance? Both the philosophical
and the scientific lecture had a more limited appeal, however, and both lectures left
us asking more vehemently than before the questions which the lecturers pre-
sumably discussed.
With Little May Day past, the maypoles taken from the green, and only a
few futile hoop-ribbons lying around Senior Row, we are coming to a sudden and
shocking realization that the year is nearly gone, and that three-fourths of us must
decide what courses we shall take next year. It was, therefore, with interest that
the News questionnaire on courses was discussed among the undergraduates. We
were surprised to know that as a group we found that many more courses demanded
of us an ability to memorize than any capacity for doing original work; and we
were depressed to find out that almost one-half of the courses in college discouraged
a considerable number of students taking them from further study in the subject.
But we were cheered to know that almost all of the courses cover the material
announced, and with the announcement of the splendid new courses scheduled for
next year, we are optimistically trying to convince Mrs. Manning that we shall
return next year and work very hard at any number of courses. In addition to
Dr. Chew's course in the Literary History of the Bible, announced in the last
Bulletin, we are looking forward to a course in History of Religions, a composi-
tion course to be given by Miss Donnelly, a new course in Rapid Reading of Latin,
modern courses in English History, Art, Money and Banking, Contemporary Politics
and Problems in Economic Recovery, and a long-needed course in French Diction,
to be presented by Mile. Maud Rey, well known to us for her admirable work on
past French Club plays.
With all of these bright prospects, we find that not even the infirmary is
worried about our spring fever.
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CLASS NOTES
Ph.D. and Graduate Notes
Editor: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)
Vandalia, Missouri.
Edith Melcher, Ph.D. Bryn, Mawr 1928, has
been promoted to Assistant Professor at
Wellesley College.
Edith Cumings, candidate for the Ph.D. de-
gree at Bryn Mawr this June, has been pro-
moted to Assistant Professor at Lake Erie
College.
Jean Gray Wright, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr 1933,
has been made a full Professor at Westhampton
College.
Edith Fishtine, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr 1933, has
received a grant from the American Council of
Learned Societies.
Helen Bagenstose, Fellow in Education at
Bryn Mawr 1933-34, has received a University
Scholarship in the School of Education at
Harvard University for 1934-35.
Vera A. Ames, Fellow in Mathematics at
Bryn Mawr this year, has been appointed sub-
stitute instructor in Mathematics at the
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for
1934-35.
Florence White, Ph.D. 1915, has been made
a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. See
page 24.
1889
No Editor Appointed.
1890
No Editor Appointed.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
1435 Lexington Ave., New York City.
Mathilde Weil has been most successful in
her "Writer's Workshop" in New York, where
she advises writers and helps them locate their
work. She says in a letter: "Your letter ar-
rived while 1 was away on an all-too-brief
motoring trip through the Great Smokies, for
my work makes it difficult for me to get away
from my office. Except for week-ends at the
seashore I expect to be here all summer taking
occasional short trips during the fall and winter
and spring instead of a summer vacation, which
is the time when my four secretaries have
their turns. I did take a month off for a
Norway cruise a year ago, but 1 am glad to
say that I always have far more than enough
work to keep me busy."
1893
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
The Class will be grieved to hear that Adolphe
Borie, the distinguished husband of Edith Pettit
Borie, died of pneumonia on May 14th. His loss
to his family, to his many friends, to Philadel-
phia, and to American Art is an irreparable one.
1896
Class Editor: Abigail Camp Dimon
1411 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.
Ida Ogilvie is in the hospital at Mt. Kisco,
recovering from a serious operation for appen-
dicitis. The attack came on while she was on
a field trip with her students. At last reports
Ida was well out of danger.
1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
104 Lake Shore Drive, East, Dunkirk, N. Y.
Aimee Leffingwell McKenzie (can't you see
her dashing across the basketball field like a
spirited little long-maned pony — in a very long
corduroy skirt?) has been devoting some of
that same energy to preparations for the annual
sale of used books for the benefit of the Bryn
Mawr Regional Scholarship Fund held in an
empty shop on Nassau Street, Princeton, on the
second and third of May. She writes that it
is great fun being so near Bryn Mawr. In
October she went down for the opening of the
Deanery and enjoyed every minute of the two
days spent in the Deanery. In April she drove
down with Renee Mitchell Righter to hear
Stephen Vincent Benet's talk on Poetry. Re-
cently she and her husband had as luncheon
guests Mary Converse and Alice Cilley Weist
who drove over in Mary's "marvelous car.
(A. C. W. also writes with enthusiasm of this
visit to Princeton, of the charming house and
hostess, the delightful husband and the deli-
cious luncheon and of being taken to see the
Graduate School and Chapel where they saw
John Angel's inspiring sculpture). Aimee, when
she wrote, was looking forward to a visit with
Susan Follansbee Hibbard who came east for
the National League of Women Voters Con-
vention in Boston.
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Alice Cilley Weist is enjoying life and work
at the Shipley School and looks forward to
being there next winter as well as this summer.
From the Department of Art and Archaeology
at Holyoke, Caroline Gait writes: "I am by way
of being an archaeologist although I was not
listed as such in the April Bulletin, perhaps
because I had had all my training in the sub-
ject away from Bryn Mawr. (Note: The class
editor has ascertained from the chairman of the
Academic Committee that this surmise is cor-
rect. The committee does know about C. G.'s
splendid career and although she is not
mentioned by name, she is listed among the
twenty-six college professors.) I have never
supervised a "dig," but a few years ago I was
sent out to the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens as Annual Professor, the first
woman to be sent in that capacity to one of
the foreign schools. I send many of my students
on to Bryn Mawr for their graduate training,
and some of them have won such honors as
the Mary Garrett and the European fellowships.
Two of my former students are in Athens this
year on fellowships, one at the Archaeological
Institute, and the other the Drisler Fellow from
Columbia. Other former students are in muse-
um work in New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and Indianapolis.
"Teachers of Greek and Archaeology these
days cannot boast of having large numbers in
their classes, but they do have the satisfaction
of having some of the finest students in each
class elect their subjects. That is my 'lay'
at present,"
M. Miller Buckminster writing from 31
Marlborough Street, Boston, says that her feel-
ings will not be hurt if her letter goes into
the waste basket: 'I have not one scrap of
news that could interest a soul. I am the most
insignificant of human beings and take a great
deal of trouble to be just that. Nothing has
happened to me of late I am happy to say.
I live in the same house winters as above and
when it gets warmish take myself and my
household to our funny little house in Chocorua
where we greatly enjoy the lake bathing, the
woods and the garden. My niece is spending
a winter or two with me, kindly lent me by
my sister to bring much needed young life
into the household, and in the summer I bor-
row my grandchildren (without their parents),
and so I have grand summers. My husband
has had a year of invalidism but we enjoy
many things together in spite of his limited
activities. It is really my turn to read aloud.
He has done it so many years, and while I
do not do it as well as he did, I am improving.
"I keep my eyes well turned in upon my
own affairs and regard with great disfavor
nearly everything I see when I raise them from
my own concerns. What energy I have after
attending to my own personal interests, I spend
in non-cooperative effort. I am the ruggedest
of rugged individualists and mean to stay that
way. I doubt if the millenium is at hand, and
'man' and his welfare is a subject of total
indifference to me. Men and their happiness
is another matter and we cannot be weary of
well doing for them — but in a very personal
way that is nobody's business.
"I still spend my mornings at the N. E. His-
torical and Geneological Society in the com-
pany of the happily dead, and my books — four
of them — are nearing completion. (Note: The
C. E. was curious about the books and learned
that they are family histories, among them the
Millard, Millerd, Miller family and the Buck-
master, Buckminster family.)
"I live at such a distance from my child that
there is a good deal of letter writing to be
done and my husband's illness prevents my
hopping on the night train for Buffalo as 1
used to do. My son-in-law is Minister-Coun-
cillor to Germany (from Spain) and I am
thinking of going for a fifteen days' spree in
June to see what I can see in Germany, five
days over, five days in Berlin and five days
back. If my roses lived through the winter
in New Hampshire and are behaving as well
covered roses should, I can go, but if they are
all gone and there is a great lot of planting
to be looked after just at that time, I shall
not be able to get away. I have not seen a
classmate in a dog's age. I hear from Itha
Thomas — Mabel Haynes Leick's daughter — fre-
quently. She is very interesting on the sub-
ject of Austrian politics and happy at the
way things have gone in Austria up to this
point. Her husband is a government official —
Oberregierungsrath. Mabel says . little about
Austrian politics. Her grandchildren, Solveig
and Dagmar Thomas, are picture-book children
very lovely to behold.
'Tf any of you read my daughter's article
called 'They Shall Call Me Grandma,' in the
January Junior League Magazine, you will see
that I have a good deal to live up to and that
I shan't have to account to you further as to
what I do with my time. With which happiest of
thoughts I conclude. Ever affectionately yours."'
1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
1899
Editor: Carolyn Trowbridge Brown Lewis
(Mrs. H. Radnor Lewis)
451 Milton Road, Rye, N. Y.
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard S. Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
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1901
Class Editor: Helen Converse Thorpe
(Mrs. Warren Thorpe)
15 East 64th St., New York City.
1902
Class Editor: Anne Rotan Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
320 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Hilda Vauclain's daughter, Patricia Vauclain,
was( married on Saturday, April 28th, to Mr.
Thomas Hollingsworth Andrews, 3rd, of Rose
Tree Farm, Media. Amelie Vauclain Tatnall,
Hilda's oldest daughter, was maid of honor,
and Lucy Fry, Marjorie's daughter, was one
of the bridesmaids. Patricia was a very lovely
bride.
Hope Woods Hunt, with her daughters Sophie
and Martha, accompanied her husband, Merrill
Hunt, to the White House at Washington on
April 21st for the 30th Reunion of Harvard
1904, which President Roosevelt was holding.
It was a memorable occasion. Merrill Hunt is
at present associated with the Home Owners
Loan Corporation in the State of Rhode Island.
Patty Rockwell Moorhouse's husband, Wilson
Moorhouse, has returned home from the
Bryn Mawr Hospital after a very critical ill-
ness.
Adola Greely Adams visited Patty for a
couple of days and they attended the "Little
May Day Fete." Adola was delighted to see the
College again after years of absence and com-
mented upon how unfamiliar it seemed to see
the Library building instead of the stretches of
once familiar green lawn. Adola has just
recently returned from a trip to Honolulu to
visit her brother. Colonel John W. Greely, at
Schofield Barracks. She sailed on November
17th from New York, through the Panama
Canal, stopping at all the Central American
countries, and returning through the canal
stopped at Guatemala, and Cartagena in South
America. She returned to celebrate her father,
Admiral Greely's 90th birthday. She says her
father is still in excellent health. Adola herself
is sunburned and very well; she motored from
Washington to her home near Fryburg, Maine.
Katrina Van Wagenen Bugge's address is
now Jaegerveine 11, Slemdal, Oslo, Norway.
Bertha Brown Lambert has sent me a notice
of Back Log Camp on Indian Lake, Sabael,
New York. Helen and Thomas Brown are
conducting a European tour. In the Back Log
Camp greetings Bert Brown writes as follows:
"For ten months I lived with my Japanese
college friend and roommate, Michi Kawai,
herself an old Back Logger, and now one of
the foremost women leaders in Japan. She has
a girls' five-year high school in the suburbs of
Tokyo, a long, low building in two acres of
grounds, where is also her roomy, American-
style home. During the summer, Michi Kawai
and I, with her maid, settled down on a se-
cluded lake, where I helped her write a book
now published under the title Japanese Women
Speak."
1905
Class Editor: Eleanor Little Aldrich
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
59 Mount Vernon St., Boston, Mass.
Mary Underbill Hall writes from her home
in Berkeley, California: "I wish I had written
to you on my return from China three years
ago. There was more to tell then of teaching
Chinese boys English, of vacations in Buddhist
monasteries and Philippine mountains, of
Ankor, Bangkok, and an arm broken in a
Sicilian hotel. Life is pleasant in Berkeley,
but comparatively dull. I teach English to
American youngsters, study Chinese art in
memory of the Orient and Spanish in hope of
a Mexican sojourn."
Leslie Farwell Hill and her daughter came
East in March and, on the 22nd, sailed with
Gertrude Hill, '07, for England. Leslie and
Ellen plan to be over about two months and
sail back from Italy.
Nathalie Fairbank Bell and her husband
went to Germany this winter on 24 hours'
notice when the President sent him with the
Commission to investigate American securities
over, there. Nathalie is at home now after a
visit to Arizona to recuperate from her trip.
1906
Class Editor: Helen Haughwout Putnam
(Mrs. William E. Putnam)
126 Adams St., Milton, Mass.
1907
Class Editor: Alice Hawkins
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
A new honor has come to our Dean Schenck,
who has just been made a Chevalier of the
Legion of Honour. See page 24.
Dorothy Howland Leatherbee writes: "My
oldest son, John, was married last December
to Helen Ullmann, of Santa Barbara, a grad-
uate of Stanford University. Virginia at Vassar
has made the Daisy Chain for the graduation
this June. Anne is graduating from High
School this year and hopes to go to Katharine
Gibbs Secretarial School next fall. I am still
a housekeeper, and am doing a little business
of selling sport clothes in this depression."
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Grace Hutchins by request sent in some ad-
ditional information about her book, Women
Who Work: "It wasn't done, I must hasten to
explain, in addition to regular work, since the
preparation of such books is the main job of
the Labor Research Association — not all on
women in industry, of course, but all on labor
subjects. I started to gather stuff for this one
in 1929. You'll be duly horrified to know that
a Hearst paper {N. Y. Evening Journal) carried
a lurid interview with the author. Shades of
P. T.!"
Julie Benjamin Howson brought her daugh-
ter, Joan, to the campus for a weekend in April.
They stayed at the Deanery and attended
Varsity Play in Goodhart and a Miracle Play
in the Cloister, as well as calling politely on
all local members of 1907, who were overjoyed
to see them and to learn that Joan is to be a
member of the Class of 1938.
The next campus visitors were May Ballin
and Edna Brown Wherry. Edna has scrupu-
lously avoided all reunions for years, but de-
cided to make up for lost time, and in three
days took in everyone between ' Newark and
Baltimore. Among her activities were included
a visit to Lelia Woodruff Stokes' country place,
"The Mill," a dream of beauty in its spring
dress, a dash to Ruxton to call on Calvert
Myers Beasley Sunday morning; and luncheon
with Margaret Reeve Cary in Germantown, com-
bined somehow with a sight-seeing trip to the
Art Museum and the Planetarium. Just the
week before she had gone to hear Marjorie
Young Gifford read at the New York Bryn
Mawr Club. A host of contemporaries turned
up, a tribute to Dorothy Forster Miller's gen-
eralship. Among those present were Ethel
Harper, Janet Russell, Elizabeth Pope Behr, as
well as Julie, Dorothy, May and Edna.
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
Terry Helburn is the Czarina in The Czarina
of the Theatre, by Francis Rufus Bellamy, in
The Reader's Digest for May. "If a woman
were to be chosen today as dictator of the
Theatre World, Theresa Helburn would have
the job," the article begins.
Marjorie Young Gifford, who has been lec-
turing most successfully in and around Boston
on current literature gave a lecture at the New
York Bryn Mawr Club on April 24th for the
benefit of the Club Library. Her audience en-
joyed her witty and original discussion of "The
Rhyme and Reason of Current Fiction."
Linda Schaefer Castle spent February in New
York. She then started on a trip around the
world with Gwen. She got the full benefit of
the InsuU incident in Greece, but was more
interested in the Parthenon. "No disappoint-
ments!" she declares.
The Brooklyn Eagle for Sunday, March lllh,
had the following article, quoted here in part:
Brooklynites who saw Miss Tracy D. Mygatt
campaign last fall as Socialist candidate for
Register probably thought, as they heard the
weighty statistics and economic-social theories
with which her speeches bristled, that she had
prepared for the fray by months of serious
study during the summer.
She did nothing of the sort.
She passed the summer in peaceful retreat
at her cottage in Maine.
Her only interest was Miss Julia Newberry —
a young American miss who fluttered her pretty
way in the middle of the 1800's through a
world as prim and quaint as her name.
The result of this calm before the political
storm is "Julia Newberry's Sketch Book," re-
cently published by W. W. Norton & Co.
The volume, in the long elongated shape of
an old album, has a black cover embossed with
delicate gold scrolls, that look as feminine as
Julia could desire. The book is dressed up
with a bright blue paper cover, decorated with
pink posies and daguerreotypes of Miss Julia
and her cousin and bosom friend. Miss Minnie
Clapp.
Miss Julia was gathered to her aristocratic
forebears at a tender age, but the devoted
Minnie is a happy, active little old woman liv-
ing in Manhattan. She is Miss Mygatt's mother
and it was from her treasures of childhood that
the Brooklyn writer and Socialist obtained the
sketch book.
"Why, it was a relaxation," Miss IMygatt
said, surprised that anyone else should be sur-
prised because she had not devoted the pre-
liminary months to campaign preparation.
"But, then," she said, after a moment's re-
flection, "there has always been a conflict in
my life. I don't know, really" — she chuckled —
"what the publishers would think if they knew
of my radical political theories. And, frankly,
even though I've run so often for office, I'm
not interested in city politics."
"1 am, perhaps, most passionately a pacifist,"
she said after further reflection.
"Sometimes," she confessed, "when I get
tired of things, of the turmoil and noise of
today, I wish I could be like Julia. Sometimes
I have a feeling of nostalgia for that Victoria
World."
Caroline Schock Jones gave a very successful
tea at her home in Madison when Jean Stirling
Gregoi7 showed Bryn Mawr films to an inter-
ested audience of mothers and daughters.
1909
Class Editor: Ellen Shippen
14 East 8th St., New York City.
A letter has just come in from Helen Crane,
whose job as Class Editor I have taken over
for the time being: "I am slowly trekking my
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way back to enough energy to enable me to
get back to Albany; am spending a few days
with Sally Webb and relatives and shall go
on to Philadelphia next week. I'll miss reunion
by about two weeks; but probably won't stay
convalescent that long."
Marianne Moore, of whom we are justly
proud, had a paper in the April Hound & Horn
on "Henry James as a Characteristic American" ;
a review in the April Criterion of Ezra Pound's
Cantos; a review of William Carlos Williams
in Poetry. She has also written some important
new verse: The Plummet Basilisk, The Buffalo,
The Frigate Pelican, and others.
Dorothy North is in charge of the exhibit of
"Creative Arts of Childhood from Vienna," in
the Hall of Social Science at the world's fair
in Chicago. Her booth is brilliant with chil-
dren's huge and gorgeous paintings and fan-
tastic wood carvings. Mr. Brauer, an Austrian
architect and Kunstgewerber, will be there also
to give the very latest word on European art
doings.
Helen Gilroy writes Craney from Lignan Uni-
versity, Canton, China, that she is teaching a
mixture of electricity, heat, light and sound to
twenty-four Chinese freshmen and sophomores
from the civil engineering college. Helen re-
cently paid two visits to old official homes in
Canton. In the first house she saw a grand
array of ancestral portraits, so important to the
Chinese, and in the second she was fortunate
enough to discover a Chinese bride in a red
"sitting chair," receiving, for the first and only
time in her life, the respectful homage of her
father, brothers and the other men of her family.
Fan Barber Berry is getting together a long
and varied program for Reunion, and she and
Scrap Ecob have had their heads together in
magnificent collaboration.
If more 1909 people would send in word of
their doings it would be wonderful, but, on the
whole and as a class, we are as silent as clams.
1910
Class Editor: Katherine Rotan Drinker
(Mrs. Cecil K. Drinker)
71 Rawson Road, Brookline, Mass.
1911
Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
(Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
1085 Park Ave., New York City.
Margaret Hobart Myer's daughter, Alice, is
going to be married on June 7th to Olin Gordon
Beall, of Macon. They are going to live in
Sewanee for three years while he studies for
holy orders at the theological school of the
University of the South.
True to our threats to print rumors if au-
thentic news is not forthcoming, we hear that
Lois Lehman is returning to the U. S. A. after
an absence of several years, that Kate Seelye
and her family are to be in America for an-
other year, that Helen Tredway, the dog, made
a flying trip to New York at Easter to do a
bit of research which did not include seeing
any classmates. Anna Stearns, however, did
stop for a • few days on her way home from
Mexico and says she will be writing us all soon
about you know what always comes at this
time of the year to remind you about our
college days.
We congratulate Gertrude Gimbel on the fine
record her daughter, Margaret Dannenbaum,
1934, has made at College. She has maintained
a cam laude average thus far.
Changes of address are as follows: Jeannette
Allen Andrews to Selfridge Field, Michigan.
Elsie Funkhouser to the Hotel Margaret,
Brooklyn.
Word has just been received of the death on
May 8th of Kate Chambers Seelye's youngest
daughter, Katharine. The Class sends love and
sympathy.
1912
Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaton Augur)'
820 Camino Atalaya, Santa Fe, N. M.
1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn.
These are the last of the return post cards
and unless someone supplies me with gratuitous
information there will be no class notes.
From Marguerite Mellen Dewey: "I am
ashamed of my silence but at least I have kept
the card for use in the spring of the year.
I am purely domestic. One boy has just fin-
ished an emergency appendix (Davis, at Milton.
— Ed.) in time to leave me free for the other
who has measles (Bradley, Jr., Freshman at
Harvard. — Ed.). I hope that Peggy, aged 14,
will go to Bryn Mawr three years from now.
The fourth and youngest is Ann, aged 8."
From Gertrude Ziesing Kemper: "Having in-
herited three children, aged 16, 18, and 20,
when I married three years ago, and having
one of my own, age 13, my life and problems
are like everyone else's who has a growing
family. I did go, last summer, with my hus-
band to the International Association of Com-
merce Congress in Vienna. We had a glimpse
of Budapest, Paris, and London, and then home.
This was my reason for not attending reunion."
From Margaret Brown Fleming, in Pasadena:
"I am President of the Bryn Mawr Club of
Southern California and Vice-President of the
Woman's Auxiliary — the Episcopal Women's
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Missionary organization. These two jobs and
four children keep me pretty well occupied.
Every spare minute I do a little digging in the
desert (where I never found anything but
shards) and read Indian ethnology and archae-
ology. Much love to all 1913."
From Helen Lee Gilbert in Norwich, Conn.:
"I am heading the Civics Department of the
Woman's Club, Chairman of the Roll Call for
the Red Cross, interested in my active family
of three and general civic problems of Norwich.
Knitting dresses in between."
From Clara Murray Eager in Baltimore: "My
daily duties revolve around five children, rang-
ing in age from fifteen to five, clothing them
and keeping them more or less in their right
minds. Between times I am serving on hospital
boards and a school board — trying to accom-
plish cleaner movies, and directing temperate
social amusements in managing dancing classes
for all aged children. Intend to concentrate
on vocational work for cripples in Maryland
when I get a chance and the iron is hot."
From Lucile Shadburn Yow: "I am on the
staff of the Ogontz School for Girls. Since my
work for the School will send me to various
cities I hereby warn those of 1913 who may
reside therein that I shall probably call a
cheery hello to them."
From Adelaide Simpson: "Am still teaching
Latin and Greek at Hunter College. At the
moment I'm interested in 1934, i. e., the present
and the future, for myself and people like me,
but much more for the rising generation which
I teach. Hunter students must be residents of
New York City, but their background is Europe,
Asia or Africa as well as New York and their
American foreground is almost exclusively New
York. The answer is almost anything, and that
is why it interests me."
From Margaret Scruggs Carruth: "Had a suc-
cessful (both financially and otherwise) show-
ing of my latest prints, some three dozen, last
month. Have been keenly interested in starting
a Crafts School in connection with the Art
Institute of Dallas. My splendid young son is
a Sophomore and a joy to us all."
And last but not least from our very able
chairman of the Scholarships and Loan Fund
Committee, of whom 1913 may well be proud,
Elizabeth Y. Maguire: "My one real job is still
scholarships and Loan Fund, aided by a grand
central committee. The work comes to a hectic
climax in March and April. I loved going to
Boston for the Council, it was delightful to see
such a lot of 1913 gathered there and to be
entertained by hospitable classmates."
1914
Class Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs. Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
1915
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. James Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Dorothea Moore was in Washington in Feb-
ruary and spent Washington's Birthday with
Florence Kelton on her way to attend some
medical meetings in Baltimore.
The name of Susan Brandeis's law firm is
now Gilbert, Diamond and Brandeis, with offices
both in New York City and in Washington,
D. C. A clipping concerning Susan from the
New York Sun of March 26th reads: "Miss
Susan Brandeis, attorney and daughter of
United States Supreme Court Justice Brandeis,
has accepted the leadership of a movement to
bring about enactment of legislation which
would permit savings banks to issue life insur-
ance policies and old-age annuities. A bill
already is pending in the Legislature.
"Miss Brandeis's father sponsored similar
legislation in Massachusetts nearly thirty years
ago."
Dagmar Perkins and Professor Samuel Arthur
King are listed among others as members of
the faculty and advisory board of the new
speech centre of the International Committee
on American Speech. This Committee formally
opened the centre at 126 East Thirtieth Street,
New York City, on March 23rd, 1934. The
founder of the speech centre. Dr. James Sonnett
Greene, is quoted in a newspaper inter\iew as
follows :
"We aim to wipe out the chaotic and slovenly
speech habits prevalent in the United States
and then set up a standard for American speech
in keeping with the other elements of our
national character. Specially trained observers
will record thousands of specimens of the
American language as it is actually spoken
under all kinds of conditions. On the basis
of the laboratory's findings from the correlated
specimens a practical standard for good Amer-
ican speech will be established. Anyone of us
will be able to travel all over the world and
everyone will be able to understand us."
An interesting letter from Elizabeth Smith
Wilson reports that she is still living in Cin-
cinnati and still spends her summers in Mount
Desert (Soamesville), Maine. Last summer she
saw Carlotta Taber, Ruth Hubbard and Miss
Crandall, and she hopes that any members of
1915 who are in the neighborhood this summer
will drop in on her. "Liz" says that she re-
cently received a charming picture of Jean
Sattler Marmillot and her four daughters,
Jeanne, 10, Monique, 8. Anne, 5, and Maud. 3.
Jean is still living in the Near East where her
husband is serving as a major in the French
Army. Liz has two boys aged nine and four.
Her husband is still in municipal politics, hav-
ing been elected to City Council last fall on a
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non-partisan ticket and having later become
mayor. Liz says she gets very much excited
over political campaigns and was really sorry
when the campaign was over last fall.
Vashti McCreery and Ruth Tinker Morse
motored from Boston to Miami and back in
April. They made a Monday morning call on
Anne Hardon. Pearce at her home in Palatka
and stopped off in Washington on the way
back to see the cherry blossoms. Incidentally
they called on Peggy Stone, who was delighted
to see them. They looked much the same as
they used to in college days.
Adrienne says she has no news of herself,
but her description of how her days are spent
shows that she's certainly not on the "inactive"
list. Speaking of the past winter she says:
"What with the snow and the annual grippe
and the trips to the dentist and the oculist and
again to the dentist for a tooth broken in
skating (Jean's), and to the doctor to sew up
a cut and give anti-tetanus treatment (Ben),
and driving Frieda's riding club on Thursdays
to their riding school, and Alan's boys to the
trip through the sawmills (I'm one of the
chauffeuring mothers the school calls on in all
emergencies), etc., etc., the days just rip along
and months are gone before I realize it." Adie
tells me that Mil Justice "looks fine and has
taken advantage of the snow this winter to
learn to ski."
Isabel Foster has gone into politics and is
especially interested in the milk situation in
Connecticut.
Catherine Head Coleman is recuperating from
a long illness following the birth of her second
son. Reed, last September. She writes: "I am
much improved after two months in Arizona
and have a splendid boy to compensate for my
protracted incapacity. I happened to see Peggy
Shipway Matthiessen while I was gone and to
hear directly of Sarah Rozit Smith Bull from
Mrs. Bull, Sr., who was in Tucson."
If any members of the class have temporarily
lost or overlooked the appeal for money to
furnish a partial scholarship for the class baby,
here is another reminder. Quite a few members
have already contributed, but the sum of $500
has not been reached, and any contribution at
all will be most welcome. If you intend to send
something, don't delay, as the class baby is
ready to enter college this fall and will not be
able to do so without our help. Checks may be
made payable to Dorothea M. Moore, Treasurer,
and sent to her at 30 West 10th St., New York.
1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rebecca Fordyoe Gayton and two friends
drove down to Cincinnati in April for the
Northeast Conference of the A. A. U. W. For
is president of the Youngstown League of
Women Voters this year and therefore was in-
terested in visiting Cincinnati's City Hall as
well as in attending meetings. She joined the
local Bryn Mawr Club at a small luncheon
given for Dean Manning, who was one of the
speakers at the Conference, and thereby had a
brief reunion with Charlotte Westheimer Tobias
and Catherine Godley. From Cincinnati For
and her companions continued their trip on to
Virginia for a view of the gardens. They ex-
pected to be gone for a week, though they
insisted that they had no money and should
not have left their families anyway.
Constance Dowd Grant went through Youngs-
town on her trip east in April and stayed long
enough to have lunch with For, see her three
children (she reports them very well behaved)
and interview a scholarship candidate. On her
way to and from New York Cedy stopped to
see Ruth Alden Lester who is now living in
East Aurora, N. Y. Ruth seemed to have stood
the rigors of a northern winter very well.
1917
Class Editor: Bertha Clark Greenough
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, R. L
1918
Class Editor: Margaret Bacon Carey
(Mrs. H. R. Carey)
3115 Queen Lane, East Falls P. 0., Phila..
1919
Class Editor: Marjorie Remington Twitchell
(Mrs. Pierrepont Twitchell)
Setauket, N. Y.
Frances Clarke Darling has provided a new
candidate for Bryn Mawr — her little daughter
arrived on April 8th. Frannie adopted a baby
boy last September. He was a year old last
month. Good luck and congratulations!
Dotty Walton Price has moved to 251 S.
Anita Ave., Brentwood Hts., Los Angeles,
California. She says she was in Bryn Mawr
"some eighteen months ago and reminisced for
half an hour on the empty campus. ... I would
love to see any classmates or other Bryn
Mawrtyrs hereabout. I am listed in the tele-
phone book as Mrs. D. W. Price. . . . What
time I have left after the unassisted job of
keeping house for my three strenuous offsprings,
the oldest of whom (Marion) is in Junior High
School and an embryo poet, I am starting on
the ground floor of the real estate business.
So far it is amusing and highly unprofitable."
Elizabeth Fauvre Owen has moved to
616 19th Ave., N. E., St. Petersburg, Fla.
Helen Huntting Fulton is living at 4136
Aldrich Ave., So. Minneapolis, Minn.
Corinne Mendinhall Catty can be addressed
now at 40 Colgate-Palmolive Peet, S. A.
Apartado 2035, Mexico, D. F.
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Tip Thurman Fletcher is now at 6204 Three
Chopt Road, Richmond, Va.
Win Perkins Raven writes us very sad news
indeed. On April fourth, in Duluth, Vivian
Turrish Bunnell died. Her father was killed
that same night in an automobile accident and
knew nothing of her death. Vivian left a
twelve-year-old daughter. The class extends its
deepest sympathy.
1920
Class Editor: Mary Porritt Green
(Mrs. Valentine J. Green)
430 East 57th St., New York. City
1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelley Erdman
(Mrs. C. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemont Ave,, Pasadena, Calif.
Nora Newell Burry generously sent en the
news that Silvine Marbury. Harrold's third
daughter was born on Silvine's own birthday,
March 27th. Nora herself went out for a
ranching winter, but is a little off the great
southwest after spending a great part of her'
own vacation in a hospital in Jerome, Arizona,
and then arriving home with two sick sons.
Eileen Lyons Donovan writes that she has a
first and only new daughter — Catherine Mary —
but she neglected to say how "new."
Jimmy James Rogers, who collects news for
the Walker School Bulletin, passed on all of
the following items to me: Grace Hendrick
Eustis has two children — Joan Patterson, age 8,
and George Pomeroy Eustis, age 18 months.
This is her second year working on the
Washington Evening Star as a news and feature
writer, specializing in politics. She spent the
summer of 1932 getting newspaper experience
on the Sheridan Press in Sheridan, Wyoming,
where her description of social life and cos-
tumes at the Big Horn polo game tripled the
circulation of the Press.
Betsy Kales Straus, with an eight-year-old
and a two-year-old daughter and a three-year-
old son, puts us mere mothers to shame. In
her free time she runs an Infant Welfare Clinic
two days a week, teaches in the medical school
and is doing research on two different prob-
lems. She has just returned from a well- de-
served vacation spent cruising on a 65-foot,
two-masted schooner.
Frances Riker Duncombe lives on a farm in
Katonah, N. Y., where she has been snowed in
for a great part of the winter. She raises dogs
and horses, and has two sons and a three-
month-old daughter, Cynthia.
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
106 E. 85th St., New York City.
1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Abbott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York City
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Butterworth
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
We are very grateful for a letter from
Lois Coffin Lund: "For the past three years my
husband has been Dean of Boys at the North
Shore Country Day School here in Winnetka.
Recently he has accepted a position as Head-
master of the Providence Country Day School,
in Providence, R. I., beginning next fall. It is
a wrench for us to leave Winnetka, but after
a flying visit to Providence we have decided
the world is pretty much the same wherever
you go. My two daughters, aged 6i/{> and 4,
are thriving and both in school. Next year I
am to be the school secretary and am looking
forward eagerly to having a fling at it again."
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallett Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Three of our kinder-hearted classmates have
answered our postcards.
From Adelaide Eicks Stoddert we hear: "We
have spent the winter on leave in Tucson,
Arizona, with the cactus and polo players, but
are leaving now for California, where my hus-
band will join what is left of the fleet on this
coast."
Caroline Quarles Coddington has just sent a
photograph of her daughter, almost a year old
now — enormous eyes and marvelous tactile
values.
Clara Gehring Bickford writes on the eve
of departure for Bermuda that she and her
husband have gotten a house and are doing it
over. They expect to move the grand piano
and the law library in August.
Crit Coney D'Arms reports the stories of
academic life. She says die Mendells (Tibi
Lawrence) are living in palatial luxury (with
tivo of the largest size General Electric re-
frigerators) at 80 High Street, New Haven.
Tibi's husband, besides being the Dean of Yale,
is Master of Branford College, Their daughter
arrived in April.
"As for the D'Arms," writes Crit, "we lead
a quiet and pleasant life — tliis year in a house
which boasts an elegant if tning garden. The
owner, at great trouble and expense, trans-
planted from Greece a rare and exotic Greek
plant and cautioned us before he left for a
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year's leave to guard it with our lives. I
haven't seen it this spring and I'm afraid to
dig or weed, for fear of uprooting the little
darling. ... I have been doing a little volun-
teer work for the Family Welfare Society.
Otherwise I lead the decorous life of a college
professor's wife."
And a long letter from Leila Barber, also at
Vassar, completes the picture of the professor's
lot. She writes: "I must be one of the nine
individuals (according to statistics) who have
studied at Bryn Mawr within the last ten years
and are now keeping; body and soul together
by laboring in the field of art. I live in a
dormitory where I am supposed to exert a re-
fining influence upon the young. I have two
rooms, a bath, four ivies, a begonia and a
rachitic geranium which is l^/^ years old and
has never had more than three leaves. It is a
very agreeable existence. I like my colleagues
and am amiably inclined toward my little
charges except when they yelp in the middle
of the night. I see a good bit of Mrs. D'Arms
(nee Coney) and go away for as long as I
can, as often as I can. This sounds rather
bleak, but don't think I'm not Happy In My
Work — because I am — especially now when
there are only six more weeks. I've just spent
my vacation among the Magouns (Peggy
Boyden). The coming generation, if Francis
and Billy are any indication, presents a
dazzling prospect. A passion for geography
burns with a hard and gem-like flame within
the breast of each. They draw maps of
Australia, love to indicate the precise position
of Madagascar or the Malay Archipelago, and
are particularly fond of pointing out the more
obscure steamer routes, such as from Vancouver
to Vladivostock. They have an Erd-Globus and
prefer to do all this in German, although they
are glad to translate for the benefit of those
who can't understand. It's very remarkable
and extremely engaging. Their favorite song
is the Big Bad Wolf."
1926
Class Editor: Harriot Hopkinson
18 East Elm St., Chicago, 111.
1927
Class Editor: Ellenor Morris
Berwyn, Pa.
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr,
1921 Kalorama Road, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Florine Dana Kopper's third child and second
son was born on April 22nd. He will be named
William Biruce.
Jean Fenner and Davidge H. Rowland were
married in New York on April 14th. The
engagement of Ruth Holloway to Edward Tarr
Herndon, of New York, has been announced.
Mr. Herndon went to Lawrenceville, was grad-
uated from Princeton in 1921, and from the
Harvard Business School in 1923. The wed-
ding will t.ake place in the fall.
Kate Hepburn Smith has been dashing madly
about, from Paris to Yucatan, and the papers
will have it that she was seeking a divorce
and got one in Mexico. Kate won the gold
medal awarded annually to the movie actress
doing the best piece of acting, for her work in
"Morning Glory," which, according to the pa-
pers, she considers her best role, although
"Little Women" she thinks has been her best
picture to date. It seems a little superfluous
to report on Kate's activities, since it is so hard
to escape her in the paper, but we like to keep
the record complete.
We promised more about our job and then
got so absorbed in it that we forgot. It is in
the office of the Assistant to the Secretary in
Charge of Public Relations and our appoint-
ment calls us a "statistician," although that
seems to be a misnomer. Actually, we are a
glorified newspaper reader, following news of
interest to the Treasury, adverse comment, and,
particularly, from the foreign papers, the situa-
tion abroad. We are finding the work interest-
ing and the associates congenial. It is, per-
haps, a little unnecessary to ask you to note
that we have moved again. We are sure that
you would be surprised if you found the same
address given for us more than twice in suc-
cession.
One more wedding this month. On May 12th,
Babs Rose and L. Laszlo Ecker-Racz were mar-
ried at the home of Babs' mother in Golden's
Bridge, New York. Mr. Ecker-Racz is a grad-
uate of Harvard and at present with the Fed-
eral Emergency Relief Administration in
Washington. Babs plans to continue the use
of her own name.
1929
Class Editor: Mary L. Williams
210 East 68th St., New York City.
Ruth Biddle Penfield has a son, Thornton
Bancroft Penfield, III., born April 13th, and
weighing 6 lbs. 5 oz.
Doris Blumenthal has been elected to the
Columbia University chapter of Sigma Xi, a
national honorary scientific society, for her
work in biochemistry.
Louise Morganstern Feldman writes: "I'm
working at the hospital again in the mornings
on a research problem, in bacteriology. I'm
supposed to be finding a bacteriophage for-
pneumonia which, if found, should be a 'cure-
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air for that disease; so far I have made very
little progress. As for the rest of the time, I
play at keeping house in a four-room apart-
ment. I ran into Betty Fry at the Art Exhibit.
She's teaching at Miss Ellis' school this winter,
Miss Ellis being a graduate of Bryn Mawr too."
Honor Minturn Croome (Honor Scott) is
living at Pearmain, Claygate, Surrey, England,
and says she is now thoroughly domestic. She
has now one small son, John Minturn Croome,
born May 16th, 1933, "very fat, very pink, and
very full of beans."
Elizabeth Sargent Doughty has moved from
Washington, D. C, to Evanston, Illinois. She
has one son, William Howard Doughty, IV.,
who was a year old December 6th last.
We hear from Grace Quimby that Josephine
Cook is still in the Library of the University
of Pennsylvania. As to herself, she writes:
"I have an unspectacular but pleasant job, in
charge of the Reference Library of the Theo-
logical Seminary here in Princeton; am pes
tered with strange questions all day by a
variety of males, and dwell happily with female
friends by night; warble with the Westminster
Choir now and then; try to learn the new
names that are presented to me at teas and
odd functions; and dash to Philadelphia or
New York for week-end amusement. No babies,
not even a husband. All serene in this quarter."
We received a letter from Patty Speer
Barbour in December which said she was then
living in London. A month ago, however, we
got a notice from the Alumnae Office to the
effect that her address had been changed to
Pentlands, Englefield Green, Surrey, England.
For further information we quote from the
letter mentioned above: "Bob is working at the
Macaulay Hospital, doing psychiatry, and I am
getting used to English housekeeping again.
We have a lovely "converted flat" in a big
house near the Crystal Palace. We're high
enough to escape most of the London fogs, but
you never can tell if you go out in the car in
the morning or evening whether you may not
get caught in one at the foot of the hill.
Joannie is getting more and more grown up,
though she is only just over two. Her favorite
pastimes now are going to the park to find the
ducks, and painting interminably and indis-
criminately."
Ruth Biddle Penfield also wishes to remind
you that contributions from 1929 to the Alumnae
Fund will be most welcome, so send in any
amount you can, no matter how small it all
counts, if you haven't already done so this year.
1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Edith Blanche Thrush was married on
April 4th to Major Charles Meade Lorence.
Major Lorence is superintendent of the
Wenonah Military Academy at Wenonah,
New Jersey.
Celeste Page was married in Washington on
the 3rd of May to Mr. Stephen Lumpkin
Upson.
Edith Fisk is broadcasting over WBEN and
is still interested in acting.
Virginia Loomis was married on May 12th
to Bayard Schieffelin.
Hazel Seligman was married on May 11th to
Dr. Carl Goldmark, Jr.
1931
Class Editor: Evelyn Waples Bayless
(Mrs. Robert N. Bayless)
301 W. Main St., Cambridge, Mass.
1932
Temporary Class Editors: Janet and
Margaret Woods
Box 208, Iowa City, Iowa.
Philip Chase has not yet arrived on the
scene in Cambridge, and Jo Graton's wedding
plans are in consequence still uncertain. She
has, however, given up her job as Class Editor
and her classes at Radcliffe, and is spending
her time arranging her affairs and playing
tennis.
Virginia Butterworth sends the following re-
port of herself: "I have had a lowly job in the
Minimum Wage Division of the Connecticut
Department of Labor for the past few months,
and have found it most entertaining. A short
time ago we made a survey of the wages paid
industrial homeworkers in this state. That in-
volved a lot of prowling around among ill-
smelling Polish hovels on the edges of our
small industrial towns. Recently we've been
struggling to make a survey of restaurants here
for the Federal Women's Bureau, and I have
been lost among piles of filing cards, far worse
than those required by my most intricate report
at dear old B. M. The variety of one's life is
amazing; this week, for example, my activities
have included: Supplying a world champion
prize fighter with information regarding the
regulation of the sale of liquor to minors. Sur-
veying for hours in a big hotel, where 1 could
listen to the help talking professional scandals,
and in a 5 and 10, where the bookkeeper 1
was working with was all upset because she
couldn't decide which department to bill for a
shipment of squirrels! Raiding a corset factory
which was violating the N. R. A. And, as
always, hiking about the state in general hunt-
ing affidavits with a notary's seal and a type-
writer." Butter also adds that D. Perkins is
working for the Macmillan publishing house,
Pris Rawson is studying music, A. Weygandt
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is working in the English Department at Penn,
and Crissy Brown has been working as an
apprentice teacher at a school near her home.
Mary Burnam was to be married to Dr.
Howard Chandler Smith on April 26th in
Baltimore. Kate Mitchell was among her
attendants.
Mary Maccoun's wedding to James Francis
Graves, of Nashville, Tenn., is to take place in
Baltimore on May 12th. Other information is
lacking, except that Jo Graton is planning to
go down for the ceremony.
Migs Bradley spent part of the fall traveling
in the South with members of the Oxford
Group. She had to drop out for an appendi-
citis operation, from which she is now re-
covered. She writes that she is enjoying a
busy life as a teacher in a nursery school in
Washington. Her mornings are given, up to
the school, and the rest of her time to working
with the Oxford Group.
Cordy Crane was married to Willard A.
Speakman, Jr., in the fall. Grace Dewes, we
understand, was married on April 21st to
George Stickle Oram.
Adele Nichols leads a busy life as an office
slave in an advertising firm in Wilmington.
She fills her time to the limit with such mis-
cellaneous occupations as Business School
courses, teaching Sunday school, participating
in a Drama League, and doing leather work
for orders.
As for ourselves — and this is no editorial
"we"' — we have spent a busy and entertaining
year in Cambridge. Our week of Easter vaca-
tion we spent on a trip to Philadelphia and
New York, where we saw several classmates.
Dining in a 34th Street restaurant on our first
evening in Philadelphia, we ran into Laura
Hunter, who is working at Bryn Mawr and
Penn, if we remember correctly. Nan West met
us at Bryn Mawr one morning, and we spent
several hours roaming the campus and watch-
ing the undergrads returning from their vaca-
tion. In New York we met Dolly Tyler at the
Institute of Pacific Relations and had lunch
together. We spent a night with Lucille
Shuttleworth in Jamaica Plain. Shuttle has
given up her medical career, and is leading a
life of domesticity. Her brand of apricot jam
and her cakes and cookies, we can testify, are
beyond compare.
Kay Franchot has announced her engagement
to Stuart Gerry Brown, and expects to be
married in June.
Constance Ralston was married on May 8th
to Lieutenant Robert H. Booth, of the
United States Field Artillery. They will live
at Schofield Barracks, Honolulu.
We shall be in Cambridge, Mass., at
61 Garden Street, until June 6th. After that
date, please send aU communications about the
class to our Iowa City address as given above.
And don't forget that the class is having its
second reunion on June 2nd and 3rd. Molly
Atmore Ten Broeck will be reunion manager,
and headquarters are in Rock.
Our Class must reune this year without one
of its best-beloved members. On March 6th
when we lost Quita Woodward, we lost one
whom it is a rare privilege to have known. It
is no eulogy, which Quita herself would be the
last to want, but the barest truth, that she was
one of that small company of people who serve
by simply being. All of us knew her as the
gay, impulsively generous, completely charming
person on the hockey field, in the smoking
room or at a history class; some of us knew
her as a great deal more. To those in par-
ticular our second reunion must be incomplete,
tinged with an exceptionally poignant sadness.
Among the countless friends who want her with
them, we take our place, and at this time again
extend to her family all our deepest, wordless
sympathy.
Charlotte Tyler.
1933
Class Editor: Janet Marshall
112 Green Bay Road, Hubbard Woods, 111.
The spring doesn't seem to be a period of
great activity among the members of the Class,
and certainly not one of any great stir of
communications. The following tidbits have
been garnered with the greatest difficulty imag-
inable, and now that we have them, they look
pretty skimpy after all,
Anne Ghanning Porter, we learn in a very
round-about way, is the mother of a baby boy,
born some time in February.
Ruth Crossett, now Mrs. Edward French, is
living in Crossett, Arkansas, which sounds like
something more than a coincidence.
Marg UUom and Tilly MacCracken are, or
were, students at Peirce's Business College in
Philadelphia, and Marg writes that Eleanor
Eckstein was in Philadelphia this winter, stage
managing a Theatre Guild production. We
apologize for appearing so long after the event
with such vital news, but perhaps Ecky is doing
another show for the Guild by this time, and
it's almost news again.
Toody Hellmer is in North Carolina, tutoring
two girls and getting home to Philadelphia only
at rare intervals.
As for ourselves, we are setting out for
Bryn Mawr on the track of some of our former
sources of information. Any little facts we
glean en route we shall report faithfully, but
there lies deep in our heart the rooted con-
viction that most of the people who used to
write us letters telling us about other people,
have passed on or are lying paralyzed upon
beds of pain.
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COMMENCEMENT
July, 1934
Vol. XIV
No. 7
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ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
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OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President Elizabeth Bent Clabk, 1895
Vice-President Serena Hand Savage, 1922
Secretary Josephine Young Case, 1928
Treasurer Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909
Chairman of the Finance Committee Virginia Atmorb, 1928
rk: -*»„„4.T„-», /Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins, 1906
Directors at Large..., \ Alice Sachs Plaut, 1908
ALUMNAE SECRETARY AND BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE BULLETIN
Alice M. Hawkins, 1907
EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN
Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912
DISTRICT COUNCILLORS
District I Mary C. Parker, 1926
District II Harriet Price Phipps, 1923
District III Vinton Liddell Pickens, 1922
District IV Elizabeth Smith Wilson, 1915
District V Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912
District VI Mary Taussig, 1933
District VII Leslie Farwell Hill, 1905
ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
Virginia McKbnnbt Claiborne, 1908 Virginia Knbeland Frantz, 1918
Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906 Florancb Watbrbury, 1905
Gertrude Dietrich Smith, 1903
CHAIRMAN OF THE ALUMNAE FUND
Virginia Atmorb, 1928
CHAIRMAN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Ellen Faulkner, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS AND LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Y. Maguirb, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Dr. Marjorie Strauss Knauth, 1918
CHAIRMAN OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, 1898
Jform oi Peque£(t
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OP Brtn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,
the sum of dollars.
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Vol. XIV JULY, 1934 No. 7
To any one who observed the straws in the wind at the Annual fleeting in
February, the decision of the Alumnae to pledge themselves to raise a sum in some
degree commensurate with the dignity of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of Bryn Mawr College, comes with no surprise. In these years of the locust,
which for most of us still persist, the sum of $1,000^000 undoubtedly sounded
large, but one of the most interesting and significant things about the meeting was
the excited and immediate response to the challenge on the part of those women
who had already gone through the heat and dust of battle in the drive for the
1920 Endowment. It was pointed out that one of the valuable results of that pre-
vious campaign was the organization of our present Alumnae Association. Much
ground had to be cleared at that time that now is already prepared, and we hope
fruitful. The activities of the Association are focused in a smoothly running and
efficient Alumnae Office, the District Councillors and the Scholarships Chairmen have
been ambassadors of good-will in the deepest sense of a rather hackneyed phrase.
The Committee of Seven Colleges has done an extraordinary amount of work in the
way of general publicity. All of this is infinitely to the good. That the money will
be hard but not impossible to get is one of the things that must be faced honestly.
Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906, Chairman of the Fiftieth Anniversary Committee,
showed herself admirably a realist when she stated in her Report that her Com-
mittee had evaluated their plans on the basis of the present situation. The desire
of the Alumnae to increase Bryn Mawr's "financial security and to give greater
scope to scholastic development" has in no way changed, Bryn Mawr's own needs
have in no way lessened, b'ut everything lias to be considered in smaller terms. It
was the part of wisdom to put aside so definitely the Seven Year Plan. 'V\\c two
great needs are a new science building and a method of increasing in some way the
college income. If the debts, the interest on which is a constant strain on tlie
college budget, can be paid, and the new science building can be achieved, these
two great needs will have been met. "Greater scope to scholastic development," is
the phrase which still will have power to stir our imaginations as we go about the
business of doing two practical and concrete things. We shall have to work as we
have never worked before, because we are women, because we are a small Liberal
Arts College, but we shall go about our business led by a clear vision of those ideals
which Bryn Mawr herself taught us to desire her to attain, and shall strive the
more valiantly since we work not merely for bricks and mortar and a balance in
the bank.
i»W<
President Marion Edwards Park
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PRESIDENT PARK'S PORTRAIT UNVEILED
Speech of Arcephince mode hi/ Dr. Rufus Joves
It gives me great satisfaction and joy on behalf of tlie Directors of the College
to accept the portrait of President Park which her classmates of the Class of 1898
have presented. It is a gift of affection^ a striking work of art of perennial worth
and it is the "express image" of a beloved president.
"Express image" is a Platonic phrase and calls for a slight interpretation. One
does not ask of a portrait what calendar year it represents in the life of the person
painted. If it is an artistic creation it represents the person sub specie aeternitatis
as the philosophers say— "The instant made eternity." You get caught and ]n-e-
served in your immortal form, as Homer caught and preserved Ulysses, as young
at the end as he was at the beginning.
Tennyson has expressed in five lines in Idylls of the Kinrj G. F. Watts'
ideal of a true portrait painter:
"As when a painter poring on a face^
Divinely, thro' all hindrance finds the man
Behind it^ and so paints him that his face,
The shape and colour of a mind and life,
Lives for his children, ever at its best."
I believe we have here preserved for later generations "the shape and colour of
a mind and life."
My period on the Bryn Mawr Board comes between the presentation of
the portraits of the two women presidents. I was elected to the Board about the
time that Sargent's portrait of Miss Thomas was presented. And now after a
whole generation as years go I find myself accepting this one of President Park.
One of the most critical moments in the life of the College was that moment
when the choice of Miss Thomas' successor was being made. Everybody knew
that there was only one Miss Thomas. That type began and ended with her.
And everybody knew, at least dimly, that it was a matter of supreme importance
to find the right new type for the new epoch of the third administration. Nobody
ever knows what would have happened if what did happen had not happened as it
did happen. But at that crisis the right thing, the best thing. uTuloubtodly hup
pened. The right new type was found. It stands written in all tlir books lliat a
great president got chosen when Marion Park was chosen.
One feels a kind of awe in taking part in such an event as that was. I think 1
may say with humility but with confidence that the group of persons who had the
responsibility for that selection were raised above personal prejudice, preference
and bias and were loyal first and foremost to the highest interests of the College.
They spared no pains, no efforts to sift all the possibilities, to explore all sugges-
tions and proposals, and to find the ideally right person for the exalted but difficult
position.
This is "the counterfeit presentment" of the person who was chosen at that
critical time. She has won our esteem, our admiration and our affection. Now she
has entered the College to go no more out.
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A PLACE FOR THE NATURAL SCIENCES
IN NATIONAL PLANNING
Commencement Address by Karl T. Compton
President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Of all the attempts which I have heard to define civilization, the one which
seems to me the keenest and most comprehensive is that "The state of civilization of
any people is measured by the degree to which they are willing to forego their
present desires for the sake of their future welfare." It seems to me that it is this
which distinguishes the animal, or the man with primitive instinct, from the man
who can properly be described as civilized. I believe that you will find the defini-
tion to ring true if you begin to analyze it and, by it, test various actions which
you naturally think of as typical of an uncivilized or of a civilized group.
One of the most hopeful things in the world at the present time is the extent
to which national planning is occupying the attention of governments and their
people. We may not always agree with all elements in the objectives of these
plans, but they do certainly represent an advanced stage of social consciousness.
The five-year plan of Russia was remarkable, not so much because of its objectives
as because of the fact that a great people were willing to sacrifice and to work in
order to lay the foundations for a better state in the future. The same spirit,
though expressed in a different way, has been a predominant part of Italy's renais-
sance in recent years. Whatever opinion one may have of the details of policy of
the present administration in the United States, there is no doubt that national plan-
ning on a large scale is the keynote of its activities. This national planning does not
always appear a clear-cut picture, for obvious reasons. In the first place, it is mixed
up with the simultaneous effort to get out of the depression and care for upwards
of 10,000,000 people who are unemployed. In the second place, the plan must of
necessity be experimental, since national planning on a large scale is a new thing
with us. Experimenting always involves mistakes, false starts and discouragements,
and anyone who has had any practical experience, for example, as an experimental
scientist, will not be disturbed at occasional mistakes and false steps in the progress
of any great social experiment.
I think this thought may be worth dwelling on for a moment. As graduate
students have come to me for advice in regard to the choice of a subject for their
investigations looking toward a doctor's degree, I have always warned them at the
beginning that any research which is worthy of the name is a gamble in the sense
that its conclusion cannot be foreseen from the beginning. If the end could be
foreseen from the beginning it would not be a research and would not be worth
doing, because it would not represent any new contribution to knowledge. For this
reason it is certain that a considerable proportion of experiments which are well
worth trying will prove to be unsuccessful, whereas others will be successful and
some few will be really great contributions. This is well understood by the directors
of great industrial research laboratories, who are looking for practical results from
research. In their experience they know that much of the work which is done will
turn out to be unprofitable, but they realize that it is worth the effort because out
of the whole group of researches, if intelligently carried on, there will be some so
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successful as to more than justify the entire effort. This is not always realized
hy the industrialist who has no background in research, who hears research being
talked of and decides that he will try it and then quits in disgust if his first attempt
l)roves unsuccessful.
I believe that there is a very close analogy between research and development
in the natural sciences, and research and development in political and social science,
and that the President is on firm ground when he states that national planning is
an experiment in which those efforts which prove unsuccessful should be discarded.
and those which prove successful should be developed. There can be no other way
of progress, and the failure of some aspect of the plan, such, perhaps, as the plan
to impose codes on small unorganized industries, cannot be considered as damning
the entire effort. In this experiment, sometimes described as the "new deal," the
success or failure will be determined by the answer to the question, after sufficient
experience, "Is our situation on the whole better or worse than it was ?" The spirit
of the administration is suggested by the names of some of its agencies, such as the
National Planning Board, the Business Advisory and Planning Council, the Regional
Planning Board, various conservation boards, the Federal Coordinator of Trans-
portation, the Science Advisory Board, etc. To the extent to which these and other
agencies indicate that the people of the U. S. are attempting to plan more effec-
tively for their future welfare, to that extent it is justifiable to say that they are
advancing in their state of civilization.
Now I come very briefly to a particular element in the situation, nameh', the
place of the natural sciences in national planning. According to certain criteria, this
place does not loom very large in the present scheme. For example, the scientific
bureaus of the federal government all combined, account for only one-half of one
per cent, of the annual federal budget, and a large proportion of the work of these
bureaus does not go into planning or constructive work for the future, but into
testing and other work of immediate interest only. Measured by the pocketbook,
therefore, we cannot say that the natural sciences occupy a very important place in
the scheme of federal government.
Contrast this, if you will, with the expenditures for national defense or for
emergency relief and employment, both of which are essential. To me the contrast
appears rather absurd, because the development of pure and applied scienc"^. can hv
shown to be so fundamentally important for the future that its relative ncglcil
indicates, in this particular respect, what I would call a very low state of civilization,
incidentally far below that which is at present shown by the governments of a
number of the foreign nations. For example, it is the new developnunts in pure
and applied science which will control the national defense of the future, wliich will
provide the employment of the future, which will determine the so-calKiI stantln-d
of living of the future, which will determine the opportunities in the future for
leisure and cultural pursuits, as well as for health and physical prospiM-ily. ami yet
the interest of the federal government in these developments for the future is rc]n-e-
sented by some small portion of half of one per cent, of the federal budget.
Let me illustrate the kind of thing which has happened over and over again,
and which is certain to happen in the future to some degree in proportion to the
extent to which scientific progress is either stimulated or curtailed by the degree
of its financial or other encouragement. I will take this example from the electrical
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industry, although analogous examples could be found in the fields of transporta-
tion, agriculture, medicine, etc.
About three years ago there was an international celebration of the discovery
of the principles of electromagnetism. These principles were discovered by two
men, Joseph Henry in America and Michael Faraday in England. Joseph Henry
spent his early life in Albany, N. Y., and had an ardent ambition to lead the life
of an actor. He organized a local theatrical group and wrote several plays, and
was well on his way to theatrical success when he was taken sick and spent some
time in a hospital. While there, a friend loaned him a popular book on natural
science, which described some experiments which to us seem very elementary but
which greatly stirred his interest and imagination. This book raised certain ques-
tions, such as, "Why does a stone fall toward the ground? Why does the flame of
a candle point upward.^ If the candle were turned upside down, would the flame
point downward, and if not, why not?" These questions so interested Henry that
he decided to spend his life investigating them. He resigned from his theatrical
group, went to school in the Albany Academy, later became a teacher in that
academy, then Professor of Physics at Princeton, and finally Director of the
Smithsonian Institution at Washington. He was the first really to understand the
operation of an electromagnet and to discover the phenomenon of self-induced
electric current. He built perhaps the first printing telegraph and the first wire-
less set. He worked under the difficulties of a pioneer. For example, he had to
make his own insulated copper by wrapping the wire with strips from his wife's
discarded dresses and petticoats. There being no suitable high-voltage voltmeters
in existence, he had to estimate his voltages in terms of the number of members
of his class who, holding hands in a line, could be perceptibly shocked by the
voltage with which he was working.
Simultaneously and independently, Faraday in England was investigating the
mutual action of one electric current on another. It is said that the King once
visited his laboratory, and pointing to certain apparatus, asked, "What is the use
of these things?" To which Faraday replied, "Your Majesty, of what use is a
baby ?" Another time, when the Prime Minister asked the same question, he replied,
"My Lord, some day you will tax these things."
Faraday's prophetic vision is evidenced by the fact that the use of electricity
now affects our life at almost every turn. It is an essential element in a large part
of our transportation. It performs a considerable proportion of our household
work. It provides practically all of our light and is therefore basic to all of our
activities after sunset. It has found important medical applications and, as Faraday
predicted, it is taxed. At the present time it provides employment in this country
for 357,000 in the telephone industry, 94,000 people in the radio industry, 290,000
people in the motion picture industry, 1,035,000 people in the electrical manufac-
turing and public service industries, or about one and three-quarters million in
direct employment. To this might be added an even greater number of people
employed in such industries as the automobile, various metallurgical processes, etc.
Thus we see that these scientific experiments of Faraday and Henry, followed
by the practical inventions of Thomas Edison and Elihu Thomson and a host of
others, have not only created for us comforts and opportunities, but have provided
for the employment of perhaps three or four million people and the financial sup-
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port of their families^ so that it can fairly be said that as a result of this scientific
and engineering work during the past hundred years, we now have the direct support
of from ten to twelve million people in this country.
Important as this is, it would not b'e nearly so important if it were an isolated
instance. Its significance lies in the fact that it is only one of a great number of
similar stories which might be told, and they all lead conclusively to the conclusion
that it pays in the long run to encourage the progress of pure and applied science.
Had the development of the electric light, or the radio, or the automobile been
inhibited, our unemployment crisis would have come sooner and would have been
more severe. If we do not encourage progress in the natural sciences we will suffer
the consequences in the future, either through lack of advantages or of employment
which we might otherwise have enjoyed, or through unsuccessful industrial com-
petition with other nations which take a more progressive attitude and lay a strong
foundation for future welfare by an interest in the natural sciences which is not
measured by a portion of half of one per cent.
THE COMMENCEMENT WEEK-END
It is curious that each Commencement in the long series that the College can
now look back on, has so distinct a character of its own. This year was a red letter
one for the returning Alumnae by the fact that the Deanery was theirs, to be in
as much as they liked and to enjoy in a thousand ways. Miss Thomas has always
shared the garden with the Alumnae, welcoming them warmly in it; so that to every
one, the evenings in it have been part of the pleasure of Commencement time. If she
could have seen at the Deanery the groups all day long on the verandah, or down
under the great tree or talking in the cool shadowy rooms, she would have felt that
it was fulfilling abtmdantly the need that she hoped it would. It was a \cry
different thing to be able to talk with one's friends in such surroundings from
sitting in the half-dismantled rooms in the Halls, always too small for the groups
that gather. The graciousness and dignity, and, one must add, sheer comfort, of
our new environment, gives a distinctly different quality to the reunions.
On Sunday morning, in Goodhart, there was a very spirited special meeting
of the Alumnae Association, reported in more detail on page 9. After the meeting.
the Alumnae gathered two hundred and twenty-five strong at the Deanery fi)r
Luncheon, after which Emma Guffey Miller, 1899, spoke with vigor and humour
about her ideas on women in politics, and the necessity for knowing the political
game. Barbara Spofford Morgan, 1909, contrasted German and American ideals
and methods of higher education. She was followed by Natalie ^IcFaden Blanton.
1917, who talked so delightfully about the philosophy of life that Bryn Mawr
gives us as women, that her speech is quoted in full on page 19. Next came
Janet Marshall, 1933, who presented the point of view of the recent graduate from
college. The speeches were all brief and interesting. The point of special interest,
however, was President Park's discussion of what the year had meant for the
college, and her conception of the present undergraduate, and what she wants
from the college. This also is quoted in full elsewhere in the Bulletin.
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At 5 o'clock that same afternoon the portrait of President Park, painted by
Charles Hopkinson and a gift to the College from the Class of 1898, was unveiled
in the reading-room of the Library where it is to hang, on the same wall as the
Sargent picture of Miss Thomas. The reading desks had been removed at that end
and a surprisingly large group gathered for the simple but very adequate ceremony.
Esther Thomas, 1931, and Gertrude Bancroft, 1930, both 1898 daughters, unveiled
the picture, and Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, President of 1898, made the presenta-
tion speech. Dr. Rufus Jones accepted it for the Board of Directors; Josephine
Young Case, 1928, and Mary Nichols, 1934, President of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation, also spoke. A photograph of it is in the front of this issue.
The course of events followed in their usual pleasant orderly round. Classes and
individuals visited nearby class-mates, and some groups had informal supper-parties
at the Deanery. A large audience later heard the Reverend Donald Mackenzie,
Professor of Biblical Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary and father of
the winner of the European Fellowship, preach the Baccalaureate Sermon. On
Monday, after the Alumnae vs. Varsity tennis matches, some of the classes met for
a joint Buffet Luncheon, and others for a communal picnic. At 4 o'clock they all
adjourned to the Deanery for the auction of the mementoes from the Deanery, odd
bits of pottery and silver and copper, baskets and trays, some of them lovely.
Emma Guffey Miller, 1899, was the very successful and indefatigable auctioneer
and netted over $300 for the Deanery fund. Garden party, gay and charming as
always, in the cool shade of Senior Row, took place on Tuesday, more colourful
than usual in the soft, brilliant light that followed a gray morning.
The clear hot weather still held for Commencement Day itself. The charm
of the campus, with the banners flying and the long academic procession moving
slowly down toward Goodhart, is something that no custom can stale. Following
her plan for the past few years. President Park made a very brief introductory
address before the 87 seniors, 23 Masters of Arts, and 11 Doctors of Philosophy
received their degrees. The only announcement of gifts of general academic interest
was that of two scholarships; one the Mary E. Stevens scholarship, in honour of the
founder and head of the Stevens School in Germantown, for which more funds are
available, and the other the Lila M. Wright scholarship, given by the alumnae of
the Wright School in memory of its founder and head. The high point of interest
to the College is, of course, the announcement of the European Fellowship, given
this year to Elizabeth Mackenziis, with Alva Detwiler named as alternate. The
M. Carey Thomas Essay prize went to Sallie Jones, known to many of the Alumnae
as Editor of the College News. Forty-two of the Seniors graduated with Honors.
The address was delivered by Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. What he had to say of the place that pure science plays
in the whole scheme of civilization was of such especial and immediate interest to
all of the Alumnae who had on Sunday pledged themselves to raising the money
for a new science building, that we are carrying the address almost entire. With
President Park's luncheon on Dalton Green, delightful as always, another Com-
mencement was over, and for the Alumnae the end of a very happy interlude.
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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
VOTES TO RAISE A MILLION DOLLARS AS A
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY GIFT
At noon on Sunday^ June 3rd; almost two hundred alumnae gathered in
Goodhart Hall to attend the special meeting of the Alumnae Association called as
a result of the motion passed at the Annual Meeting of tlie Association held on
February 3^ 1934^ when it was
M. S. C. that a special meeting of the Alumnae Association he held during
Commencement Week, 1934, to consider recommendations to he presented hi/
the Fiftieth Anniversary Committee.
Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895, President of the Association, opened the meeting
by reading this motion, and then went on to the otlier motion passed at the same
time :
M. S. C. that the Annual Meeting of the Association should he held during
Commencement Week.
Mrs. Clark said that, since this new procedure would entail some practical
changes, she had asked Miss Ehlers to say a few words about the present situation
of the Association finances. Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909, Treasurer of the Association.
then presented the following report:
Report of the Treasurer for Alumnae Meeting, June 3rd
At the regular meeting held on February 3rd, 1934, the Alumnae Associa-
tion voted to shift the time of its annual meeting to Commencement Week —
the present one being a special meeting and the next annual meeting to be held
in June, 1935. In connection with this action, which makes a change in the
fiscal year of the Association advisable, I wish to report briefly on our finances
for the past four months and to submit to you certain recommendations of the
Finance Committee.
Prior to voting the change in the time of the annual meeting, the Asso-
ciation on February 3rd, 1934, approved a budget for the calendar year 193 1-.
Our actual figures for the first four months of this year indicate tlial this
budget is a fair and satisfactory one. The expenses of the Association h<n c
been well within the budget, and income from dues and class collections has
come in so well that we have in hand a proportionate one-third of the $8,500
gift portion of our budget (the $7,000 gift for academic expenses, the $1,000
President's Fund and the $500 for Rhoads Scholarships).
Before ffoing; on to the recommendations of the Finance Committee I wish
to express on behalf of the Committee and of its Chairman, Virginia Atmore.
our appreciation of the despatch with which the Class Collectors have sent out
the Spring Appeal, and of their personal work to which we owe the excellent
showing of this four month period.
May I submit to you the following recommendations of the Finance Com-
mittee which have been approved by the Executive Board:
I. That the fiscal year of the Association be considered hcnccfovtii to run
from May 1st through April 30th.
II. That the books of the Association be closed on April 30th. 193t. but
that the formal audit and printing of the report for this four-month
period be combined with the audit and printing of the report of tlic
new fiscal year. May 1st, 1934, to April 30th, 1935.
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III. That the Association be asked to approve for the new fiscal year,
May 1st, 1934, to April 30th, 1935, a budget on the same basis as the
budget already approved for the calendar year 1934 — i. e., that the
present budget on a proportionate basis be extended through a four-
months period — January 1st, 1935, to April 30th, 1935 — subject, how-
ever, as regards Section ''B" of the budget (the $8,500 for gifts to the
College) to possible revision in connection with Fiftieth Anniversary
plans.
IV. That the Treasurer of the Association be authorized upon the direction
of the Executive Board to pay over to Bryn Mawr College before the
next annual meeting of the Alumnae Association available funds appro-
priated in accordance with Section "B" of the budget for the calendar
year 1934 as voted in the annual meeting of February, 1934.
By formal vote, all the resolutions were accepted by the Association.
Before going on to the main business of the meeting, Caroline McCormick
Slade, 1896, and Millicent Carey Mcintosh, 1920, Chairman and Vice-Chairman,
respectively, of the Deanery Committee, spoke of the very successful first year of
the Deanery. Mrs. Slade said that at the last meeting of the committee the same
officers had been reelected, and that the financial statement showed that they are
closing the year about $1,500 ahead of the estimate made last fall when the
Deanery opened. Mrs. Mcintosh said that she had felt so enthusiastic that she had
asked to be allowed to speak on the subject. She said:
I was asked by the Committee to make a report on the first year of the
Deanery as Alumnae House, because I came in May to my first meeting since
October, and there expressed enthusiasm for what I had seen and heard of its
place in the life of the college. No one can ever express enthusiasm in a group
of Bryn Mawr alumnae without being immediately presented with a job to do;
and I was not surprised when this report fell to my lot.
All year I have heard from various sources, of ways in which the Deanery
has been used. Anyone who reads the College News must have been impressed
by the number and variety of occasions which have taken place there. These
have been the kind which the college has most missed in the past: not large
public lectures, but informal talks, reading of verse by Bryn Mawr Alumnae
and other poets, chamber music, pleasant discussions. All the small threads
which determine the delicate pattern of an intellectual life have been woven
together for the Bryn Mawr undergraduates at the Deanery. That they appre-
ciate this fact is witnessed by their individual enthusiasm and by their accounts
and editorials in the News.
From the Bryn Mawr Faculty one gets the same impression. The women
members of the Faculty can use the Deanery on the same basis as Alumnae, and
for them it has met the desperate need of a private spot in which to have
meals, and of a center in which they can entertain. "No one can imagine the
difference it makes," they say again and again. To the college authorities it
has been endlessly useful — as a lodging for distinguished guests, as a meeting
ground for conferences of all kinds, as a place for important dinners.
Its greatest importance must be, however, to the Alumnae themselves. To
them it was given, and for them it must find its chief reason for existence. To
me, its significance has been brought home this week-end, in the course of my
own reunion. It is a queer business, this coming back to college. For we come as
strangers to a place in wliich our roots are deeply planted; we live as aliens
in halls in which have been spent four important years of our lives. The
undergraduates look down their noses at us, and yet we know that Bryn Mawr
is more fundamentally ours than theirs, because they have not yet learned to
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know its meaning for them. To this spirit, wliich lias deep foundations but no
resting place, the Deanery gives a beautiful and familiar shrine. All Saturday,
groups of Alumnae wandered somewhat shyly through its garden and its cool
rooms, settling in groups to talk, greeting each other, drinking iced tea — reviv-
ing their memories^ their friendships^ and their spirits at the same time. Here
we were at home. For the Deanery has already become to us the symbol of
what we learned from Bryn Mawr; it has given to our love a local habitation
and a name.
Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906, Chairman of the Fiftieth Anniversarj^ Com-
mittee, then read the report of her committee:
Fifty years! What does that connote? To you and me approaching that
time, it means an honest acknowledgment of middle age, grey hair perhaps
and avoirdupois, but no surcease or wish for it, in the activities or responsibili-
ties of life — with a road and a goal, but no longer heart-throbs or the shining
strides of youth.
Fifty years for Bryn Mawr lie as lightly on her as on the entering Fresh-
man, well prepared and pushing on, with glowing eagerness.
Young at fifty, her growth depends as it did in the past on the concen-
trated energy and will of those who regard her as a symbol of intellectual
integrity and a path to freedom.
To foster her growth has long been the interest of the Alumnae. Four
years ago, having in viev/ her Fiftieth Anniversary, Alumnae began to say to
each other — what thing can we do in commemoration.^ We studied her needs
and decided upon a plan to increase her financial security and give greater
scope to scholastic development.
We called it a Seven Year Plan, as this period was needed to put it into
operation.
I want to remind you what this plan was:
We intended by adding a hundred students to the undergraduate body and
raising tuition fees to make the college financially capable of meeting its own
growing needs, with good salaries for its faculty and an adequate and efficient
plant. A dormitory was to be built from college funds and a science building
to be solicited by the Directors from foundations or other sources.
The Alumnae offered as their part to pay the college debt including the
purchase of Wyndham, to raise scholarship and fellowship funds and build a
wing in the Library in honor of Miss Thomas.
This plan was scarcely completed when the depression was upon us, and
it was laid aside.
Now with the anniversary only a year ahead — on the basis of the present
situation, we have again been asked to evaluate our plans in relation to her
needs.
We cannot as yet consider increasing the size of the student body or the
amount of the tuition. Our Directors, and especially our President, have so far
without success made every effort to obtain the gift of a science building.
And here lies our crying need.
Just as Wyndham was once in danger of being lost to the college and will
remain a liability till we pay for it, so our place in science is in jeopardy
without a modern building.
We beg all of you here today to go through Dalton, look for yourselves
and you will understand why we recommend that we make a supreme effort
and —
"Give to Bryn Mawr College a science building — and raise for this and
other present needs the sum of Oiie ]\Iillion Dollars as a Fiftieth Anniversarv
gift."
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Mrs. Maclay's report called forth an animated discussion. In reply to various
questions it was said that the first charge on the money to be raised, with a million
dollars as the goal, would be used for the much-needed science building, which,
according to a rough estimate, would require about $600,000 to cover the erection,
maintenance fund, and equipment. The remaining $400,000 would be used to pay off
the debt of the College, consisting principally of the purchase price of Wyndham,
thereby releasing some College income. A number of people spoke on the deplorable
state of Dalton, and Mrs. Slade urged all the Alumnae to visit Dalton in order to
convince themselves of the bad existing conditions.
Ruth Cheney Streeter, 1918, a member of the Fiftieth Anniversary Committee,
said that, although she had been unavoidably prevented from attending the meeting
of the Committee at which the recommendation was approved, she felt that she
must speak vigorously against it. She said that in the present state of the country
she believed it would be impossible to raise a million dollars because the people
who in other days had made large gifts are now so heavily taxed that they cannot
be counted on to contribute to such a project as a science building for a privately
endowed college, especially when there are heavy demands upon them for practical
relief. Several people spoke in support of this point of view, but the sense of the
meeting was overwhelmingly in favor of the recommendation. It was pointed out
that Vassar had recently raised a large sum of money for a gymnasium, and that
other colleges, both in the United States and in Canada, had been successful in their
money raising endeavors. During the discussion it was said that as a result of the
1920 Endowment Drive came the organization of the Alumnae Association. In the
intervening years the satisfactory development of this has now given us a ready
made instrument which can be easily adapted to the work necessary for raising such
a sum as a million dollars. While no definite plans have been made, several projects
are under consideration which will call on the alumnae themselves for a great deal
of work rather than for outright contributions. Finally, after a good many speeches
had been made on both sides of the question, it was
M. S. C. that the Alumnae give to Bryn Mawr College a science building,
and that they raise for this and other present needs the sum of one million
dollars as a Fiftieth Anniversary Gift.
Before the end of the meeting, Mrs. Clark brought up the question of the best
time to hold the Annual Meeting hereafter. A good deal of opposition was expressed
to the idea of having the regular business meeting on Sunday, as had been pro-
posed. After considerable discussion it was
M. S. C. that the matter of the date of the Annual Meeting of the Alumnae
Association be left to the discretion of the Executive Board.
The meeting then adjourned for the Alumnae Luncheon in the Deanery.
President Park has been able to accept the cordial invitation which has
been given her for several years past by the Alumnae on the Pacific Coast.
She plans to start West after Christmas.
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PRESIDENT PARK'S SPEECH AT THE
ALUMNAE LUNCHEON
The historian of a happy people is traditionally gravelled for matter, and
melodrama which is inconvenient to the last degree in tlie president's office is price-
less when she makes her speech to the alumnae. I can neither record nor invent
any front page publicity for the Bryn Mawr of this winter. I once asked a small
cousin of mine who was visiting on her grandfather's farm whether it was lonely.
"Oh^ no/' she said. "The cow moves round a great deal." Now I am in an equally
good frame of mind; I have placidly enjoyed the cow and her movements have
been well calculated and full of content; but I am at a momentary disadvantage
in making a picture of her for you today. Yet perhaps you will listen indulgently
to me while I praise our quiet rounds for 1933-34, although it has been uneventful,
has been perhaps more satisfactory than any of my previous years at Bryn ]\Iawr,
and as sound as any in its contribution to Bryn Mawr history.
First of all, like a snail in its shell, we have lived inside our budget. Sometimes
I have felt like the old woman shut in a closet for two hours who said she survived
although she had no ventilation except her own breath. This is a disheartening
way to put efficiency to work. In one out of every hundred crises a bright thouglit
gave us what we needed without the money, but in the other ninety-nine the college
has either stolidly or with yells of anguish or anger gone without — whether its
economy was paint, books, research funds or science buildings. May I interpolate
a sentence of feverishly warm gratitude? For the paint and book type of need my
hoarded President's Fund, the thousand dollars given me by the Alumnae, has
occasionally sufficed. It put trees back in Senior Row blown down in last year's
tornado, it paid half the cost of transportation for the casts which the Boston
Museum of Art has given us, it painted the dingy offices of the Denbigh and ]\Ierion
wardens, it paid a tiny pension for a retired maid, it allowed the Biology and the
Physics Departments to carry one inch further their mile-long desires for research,
it paid — or shared — infirmary fees for scholarship students, graduate and under-
graduate, and completed one or two last-minute scholarsliip funds. Of my thousand
I have spent $984.40 and I have a use for the remaining $15.60.
But we succeeded. A year ago the budget was made to meet a probable drop
in the income from investments and the income from students' fees; wide margin
was allowed by the omission of every expenditure wliich couUl he iein})orarily dis-
continued and by a holding back of 10 per cent, of the total salary item. We were
all — bos'n-tight, midshipmite, crew of captain's gig — paid 90 per cent, of wliat we
earned. Now the college income did not drop as we feared, the coHege economies
were all carried out, and the reserved 10 per cent, of his salary is being returned
to everyone. Laus deo!
Now for next year! For the past two years the budgets made in the s]-)ring to
meet conditions six months later have been anxious pieces of work. And no less
so this May. Put in another form, our experience in the last two years has been
that our present reduced income will just carry us without reduction of salaries if
no expensive emergencies in the carrying on of the college — an epidemic, for in-
stance— or in the upkeep of its property need be met and if our ordinary main-
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tenance fund is kept at a subnormal activity. All of you with experience in the
care of property know that even barring accidents such a condition can't go on
long — in fact^ not a third year. Next winter certain work on fifty-year-old roofs
and plumbing must be donC;, and at the same time we can not as yet venture to
count on any increase in our income. It will^ therefore^ be necessary again to reduce
all salaries. This reduction will be smaller than last- year's^ and I believe better
adjusted. There iS;, on the other hand;, less possibility that it can be repaid^ for
only a markedly increased income would make that possible.
I have gone into these details because the Alumnae of Bryn Mawr have always
interested themselves in the salaries which the College pays. They have realized
more clearly than any other group connected with Bryn Mawr that on those
salaries depends more than an increased or decreased comfort of material living,
that they are important factors in the choice of the teacher and in his retention,
and that on its teaching Bryn Mawr hangs or falls; that lack of anxiety about the
present and the future underlies good teaching and loyal service. The Bryn Mawr
faculty itself, I believe, understands this feeling on the part of the Alumnae and
will accept a third year of irregularity, with regret certainly, but not with a lack
of confidence in our good will.
I have said that our arithmetic this year has been (a) good, and (b) successful.
Our academic work has been as sound. It is easy to speak of what in it is tangible.
Forty-two out of eighty-seven members of the Senior Class are graduating with
Honours, and twenty-three with distinctions in their major subject. Announce-
ments of the high figures of recent years have met with typical reactions from a
Bryn Mawr faculty, which suspects that there is something wrong with the marking
or estimating apparatus and that we of earlier days were all just as clever, although
a bushel of Merits hid our light. On the other hand, each department asserts that
a fine flavour of excellence is represented in the honour with which its particular
student's name will appear in the Commencement list Wednesday. Two of the
Seniors have won scholarships for next year at Radcliffe, and one a scholarship
of the Institute of International Education to be held in Paris this summer. Two
are to study for a further degree at Cambridge. One is entering the Johns Hopkins
Medical School. One is to be Miss Latham's assistant in her course in Playwriting
at Barnard and one Miss Ely's in her course toward Harrisburg.
Even though I speak a year before their time I can not forbear a mention of
the present junior class — like Sappho's flowers "few but roses." Their quality was
clear in the seven candidates presented by proud departments for the Hinchman
Prize, given to the student whose work in her department at the end of her junior
year promises most. Both the records, the encomiums, and the papers presented as
proof to the perplexed committee of choice were, as college things go, excellent, and
the difficult decision finally divided the award between two, one of whom was the
holder of the Chinese Scholarship. And fortunately, other honours in English, in
Language, in Science and Philosophy fell naturally and rightly to the others.
So much for tangible signs of an intangible thing. But to everyone, I think,
the temper of the work throughout the College this year has seemed serious and
satisfactory. By and large, the estimate of the students as to what was important
and what was unimportant has been based on sensible and mature standards, and
neither the cynic nor the little child has led them. This has been true in the daily
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routine and in the single occasion. The students have detected dullness in popular
favorites of the campus and off it, and they have stuck to stiff' courses and to majors
which made really difficult demands and listened eagerly to lecturers with no asides
and a complicated argument to develop. They have thouglit it worth while to do
well either the college work or the music, acting or dancing wJiicli they put on
themselves, and where they have neglected the work or play set before them to do
I have usually thought they were right.
It is not to this audience that I need to say that work at Bryn Mawr is con-
tinuous. Even thirty-five years ago I was told in the second week of my study of
German that if I made such elementary mistakes I could never pass the examination.
The statistics for the week-end absences and for the cuts of classes are not yet
completed for the year. At the close of the first semester, however, they pointed to
a decrease in both. I am far from underestimating the effect of lessened pocket-
money on the travels abroad of the students, but, side by side with that cause, can
be set a somewhat clearer insight into what our whole business here is about, a
somewhat diminished impatience with college routine, and a somewhat more mature
point of view on the use and the abuse of routine-breaking.
I have found it more interesting than before to discuss policies and plans with
the students, especially with the undergraduates of the College Council. And they
have been interested and on the whole, I believe, pleased with the important decision
of the year, the vote of the faculty at its last meeting to introduce in 1936 the
general examination as a requirement in every department for the degree. The
details are many and intricate, and the plan itself, prepared in large part by a
committee of three — Lucy Donnelly, Helen Manning and Dr. Caroline Robbins, of
the Department of History — and in many places showing the fine hand of Mary
Gardiner, the secretary of the Curriculum Committee, which presented the report,
must be somewhat re-worded before it is published. The plan and a commentary on
it will appear in course of time in the Bulletin.
My personal opinion is yours at once. Bryn Mawr stood for tlie value of
advanced work when she stood almost alone. In the last years the single major
has, we believe, given that work the strength of concentration and a coveted cliance
to take a few steps alone. The new proposal does not extend advanced work at the
expense of the fundamental courses set by the College or of the electives. It is
rather a spur to each student to make solid her findings, to integrate and inter-
relate what she knows. It gives her more time to read and to think, more chance
to show her own gifts and likings. I believe she will add in many cases to lier
present pedestrian knowledge, got by trudging along the higli roads of her field, by
poking in its lanes, the sudden illumination of the far airplane view.
So far I have, as I said, made to you a report of the business of the year —
I, a working Director, to you, interested stockholders. We are, and must be, under-
standing of the College as a going concern, with a good faculty, good students, and
if not a fat bank account, at least few liabilities. But along with tliis reiiort \\ hich
I am bound to give, and you to hear, I should like to set something wliicli is less
rotarian, and perhaps when it falls into your mind and begins to work there, more
fruitful. I want to turn to another way of thinking of the College: What can we
learn from the role it plays, not to us wdio think of it portentously, with a capital
C, but to the girl who arrives, lives and studies here and leaves. Her honest esti-
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mate of our value to her is important;, for however long we may talk of Bryn Mawr's
place in the educational system of America or her high post as a pre-professional
school^ the undergraduate is^ after all^, the reason why Bryn Mawr exists.
Far too often in our anxious one-track way we see the four college years only
as a neat whole^ organized and finished, into which a newcomer can settle cosily
and in a leisurely way turn her mind on her mind's good. If our academic con-
struction is skilfully dovetailed into the school on one side and the university on
the other, conscience is satisfied. Not so, if I remember myself rightly, did I, the
freshman, think. Rather that the college was a station stop on a journey from a
Broad Street of early infancy to a Paoli of final settling into life, whereas the
important fact was the progress of me, Marion Park, on my line of life. This view
was not affected by my acknowledgment that I caught up something from
Bryn Mawr's stock of wares to carry on with me, — not entirely what in my own
judgment I needed or wanted, but for my needs and wants I still light-heartedly
believed there would be other chances later on. Underneath the talk of under-
graduates of this generation some such subordinating, station stop attitude toward
what we think august and important is disclosed. I should like to talk about it
briefly and first of its possessor.
A girl comes over from the Bryn Mawr station to the campus next October.
She is already a result of the generations that lie behind her, of childhood in her
own home; to herself at least a definite person. She has also definite hopes and
expectations. Various things have happened to her in which she is interested, and
she believes that in the offing wait other things probably more interesting still.
These have probably little to do in her mind with the school of the past or the
college of the future; they are connected with the relations to her family, to her
friends, to boys or girls whom she has met or may meet, to the accident which may
give this or that turn to her own progress, to her chance for happiness or excite-
ment or success. I mean to emphasize chance. It is more real to her than to her
mother. She was born herself at a time of irregularity and she has never lived
through the continuity of outward experience which most Americans knew up to
1914. Each year she has probably been aware of fluctuations of income and of the
ways of life which income controls. Her own family life has perhaps changed
and reorganized itself and if not at home she has certainly had opportunity to see
such change and reorganization in families in her town and her street. If she is
observant she has noticed fluctuations in political opinion, in attitudes toward
religion, law, toward a moral code. In short, the experience she has stowed away
to be drawn on in making her own decisions and establishing her own standards
has been selected consciously or unconsciously by her in an atmosphere of unrest
and insecurity. Her conclusions are that success is no certainty and that she will
come through stormy weather better if she has her own hand on the rudder, for no
one else is as much concerned with her success as she herself.
So she comes to Bryn Mawr, to herself a definite person, bringing definite
hopes for herself. She doesn't necessarily tell you this; it often hides under a
surface of family and school habits ; she has the easy adaptation of her sex and her
years to an emphasis more generally intellectual than she herself would believe,
shall I say, quite wise ! And of course, mixed with curiosity about and interest in
her future there are genuine and keen moments when she likes to use her head for
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her head's sake — mens pro mente, if I may invent in Latin. But in general she
rightly thinks that the main current of her experience;, past and future^ is not now
and is not to be purely intellectual and that she won't travel always on the way of
continuous preoccupation with libraries and laboratories, with courses and reports
and academic routine. She builds up, therefore, a set of ways to keep herself in
touch with "reality." I don't mean only letters and week-ends, visits and telephone
calls. She uses her free time for theatres, movies and music. She works to get
or to keep the skills which she admires, acting, tennis, dancing, costume or scenery
making, singing, whatever it may be. She tries to know as many men as possible.
She has many other devices. The important thing for us to notice is that these
casual interests which we are prone to think of as floaters on the surface of the
serious routine we impose upon her, are, to her, agents keeping her in trim.
Passivity on the part of the student is a disadvantage to the college which is
teaching her. On the other hand, that she should see meaning in the four years
of her work and that her attitude to the work should consequently be active, not
passive, is of the greatest possible advantage to the college. Pre-medical work, any
work done in obedience to an early choice of professional interest proves this yearly.
Can we add to the resources of the past a new one, can we more frequently tap the
reservoir of the young woman's purpose for her own future existing consistently and
continuously through the four important years 18-22 which she spends here.^
If we can make her see the value to her, as a person, of verj^ considerable
objective information and the value to her, as a person, of the ability to use some-
thing beyond elementary method, then in the second place we can perhaps also take
more pains than we have done in the past to connect possible intellectual interests
here with those which have already come to her inner attention and which are
fresh and stirring in her experience. She herself, and her school can direct us here.
And lastly, we can give her more and better opportunities at Bryn Mawr for
maintaining the connection with her life before and after her years here, the life
whose continuity she so rarely wishes to break. The stage in Goodhart, the course
in Playwriting, Miss Petts' work in dancing are for example already in action :
comfortable and even enough public space for hospitality in the halls, a good place
for winter exercise with squash courts, a modern swimming pool, a workshop for
painting and drawing, another for music, float in the far future.
This inclusion of the student's point of view in our professional plans for tlie
college I have spoken of as in the future. It has already appeared in the present.
You have seen it and you will see it here and there in changes in admissions and in
curriculum, in increased opportunities for courses of certain types, in recommenda-
tions for the use of space in future buildings.
If I am right in regarding it as in general a new resource, I have also, I hope,
made it clear that I do not regard it as displacing any of the ordinary resources
for building the college into the ideal we all imagine. It could never displace or
change the foundation of the college, its continued emphasis on an honest and intel-
ligent standard in all the college intellectual work. We could let down the modern
generation in no more cruel way than in making it believe that the individual's own
life was not profoundly enriched by knowledge or that independence and wise
power of choice were easy or easily attained. I say only in the hard words of tlie
New Testament, 'This ought ye to have done and not left the other undone."
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MARJORIE JEFFERIES WAGONER: A TRIBUTE
Today^ twenty-four hours after her death^ it is quite possible for me to write
objectively of Marjorie Wagoner the physician. My judgment of her professional
work is crystallized^ for in the first years of her term here we realized quietly and
gradually but decisively her great ability. We shall realize her loss in the same
way, gradually but in the end completely. For it is irreparable.
Dr. Wagoner brought to her work excellent training which she used as a
scientist should, never letting it alone, always comparing, throwing aside or con-
firming. And to what she retained she constantly added. Although she had a
full-time job at Bryn Mawr and during the whole time was the head of her own
household, she read incessantly, she worked during several busy winters a day a
week at the Gynecological Clinic of the Woman's Hospital, and she took six months
off to study under Dr. Earl Bond's direction at the Pennsylvania Hospital and at
Stockbridge. And to this fund of constantly sifted knowledge which she maintained
she added her own 'experience ; she had unusual ability in interrelating the two so
that each threw light on the other. The result was a solidity of professional re-
sources which produced a quite extraordinary confidence in those who depended on
her for advice. She gave us another ground for this confidence: with her increasing
professional equipment, she never lost her power to review and to change, her
singular honesty. In a relatively short time she had become known and respected
not only at Bryn Mawr but among Philadelphia physicians and in all the college
health associations.
Something like this I have said to many friends of the college about
Dr. Wagoner, and I can say it readily today. What I can not yet set down
objectively is the character of Marjorie Wagoner herself. Yet she was all of one
piece, integrated more than most women, as honest, definite,, open minded in her
personal as in her professional life. The basis she offered for personal relations
was as solid, as much subject to growth, as little to caprice. She has become to
everyone who had a chance to know her a trusted friend. Ten years' absence would
not change such a solid relation; her death will not end it.
She had besides most endearing qualities ; loveliness of face, quick sympathy and
kindness,- affections soberly expressed but warm and strong, fortitude. Above all,
her insight as much as her psychology made her recognize and respect the person-
ality of everyone she had to do with; she was never careless with people, whether
she dealt with a famous consultant, a new and frightened maid, or the whole range
of students, the industrial women of the Summer School as well as Bryn Mawr
graduates and undergraduates.
Her life was one of the fullest I have ever known, for her responsibilities to
her own family were met as scrupulously and as generously as those of her pro-
fession. And it was full to the very end. With no word to any of us of her increasing
anxiety about herself, she finished every duty of the college year, every public
appearance, every report and record. I can only hope that in some way the triumph
of her unselfishness and her fortitude gave to her a spiritual satisfaction as in these
last days she contemplated briefly what she had done.
Marion Edwards Park
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BRYN MAWR'S PHILOSOPHY
By Natalie McFaden Blanton, 1917.
From East and West and North and Soutli we liave come back to "Our
Gracious Inspiration." For old alumnae as for young, the glory of Bryn Mawr
iSjUndimmed, her power to influence unchanged.
For some of us the secret of this influence lies in a hard won legacy of scholar-
ship; others turn in grateful memory to some titan of the faculty. But for tlie major-
ity, I dare say, the secret of Bryn Mawr lies in her fundamental philosophy, a pliilos-
ophy that conceives, of women as dignified, able human beings, having a contribu-
tion to make to the world and determined to make it. We imbibed this philosophy
with every breath we drew as we walked up and down in this little woman's world,
and few women can have entered it without having their eyes opened to the pos-
sibilities of .their lives' usefulness.
Today one has but to read Miss ParTi's talks, to the undergraduates or hear
her speak, or watch the straws in the wind reported of student life by the Alumnae
Bulletin and College News to feel that that fundamentally Bryn Mawr's philos-
ophy is the same, that she believes as of old that a woman must make the most of her
life because of her ability and because of the need around her. But is there not a
more practical note in the suggestions for working out this philosophy? Has not
the undercurrent of bitterness and frustration at the world's unfairness to the sex
been lessened.^ Is there not "the tang of reality" in various phases of campus
life that used to be missing? Is, it too much to hope that the Bvjn IVIawr graduate
of the present and future may marry without that dreadful sense of turning her
back upon het training or of interpreting in a forbidden path her convictions of
woman's high calling? May she not now be convinced with entire honesty tliat
the crux of women's freedom lies in her, right to choose her career rather than in
what career she chooses? That true independence comes with discipline and accom-
plishment in human relationship rather than in ascetic withdrawal from them or
fine scorn of them? That happiness is a by-product of any work well done? Tliat
earning a salary, whether man or woman, has little to do witli one's usefulness to
the world?
The graduate of the older Bryn Mawr may have meant to resist life's com-
plicated relations, to control them and to stride on untrammelled by tliem, but she
has nine times out of ten been drawn into them as surely as her mother and grand-
mother before her. The little life stories so modestly sketched in the Bulletin
are significant. They are packed with friends and relations, witli sisters and
cousins and, aunts. There is marriage and giving in marriage. There are babies
and grandbabies. There are husbands — oh, a great many liusbands. There is
reading aloud to husb'ands, and traveling with husbands and being proud of hus-
bands. Careers are mixed with gardens, the writing of books on narcotics with
the building of houses in Maine. Research work is reported, and dotted swiss
curtains, and digs in Iraq and the neighbor's whooping cough and string quartet.
Even our prize winning novelist boasts of writing in her family living room — not
according toHoyle in "A Room of One's Own." There is gaiety and good spirits,
sometimes sadness, sometimes tragedy. It is as if these women admitted that work
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and personal success were but the frame work of their lives which they have filled
with living.
It is difficult for the expert to interpret current trends, and I from my little
corner, have no right to attempt it with any hope of correctness, but I hazard a
guess that the woman's movement has passed into a later phase — that yielding no
inch of their early conviction that they are capable of assuming, and therefore
obliged to assume, their share of the world's problems, but no longer having to be
concerned with storming the opposition, women are interpreting their desire to
make their lives count in all the new ways, and in all the old.
THOU GRACIOUS INSPIRATION—
(Reprinted from the College News for June 5th, 1934)
The annual custom of class reunions again brings us the great opportunity to
appreciate the traditions — scholarly and frivolous — that make Bryn Mawr. After
a year of bustle about our work from day to day we are quite likely to become self-
centered, and to regard our education as a matter of units to which marks are
attached at midyears and finals. We are so smug about our own education that
we forget, momentarily, that our education is the result of the work of many people
who have gradually developed the present system of courses and events. Our post-
examination reaction is, perhaps, even more unhappily egoistic than any other, and
it is our particular good fortune that just then our minds may be refreshed by the
enthusiastic response of the alumnae to all of the things that have become everyday
sights and occurrences to us.
A realization of the actual purpose and meaning of a Bryn Mawr education
is best gained by this single contact we are enabled to make with the alumnae.
They, with the wisdom of a more matured and more objective point of view, can
make us see how the college customs were actually evolved and established. We can
come to a realization of the pleasure that is afforded us by the atmosphere of
Bryn Mawr: indeed, only the alumnae, who come to us from the cruel world that
we anticipate and speculate about so much, can know the relative value and enjoy-
ment of the four years that we spend so thoughtlessly in amassing our required
number of units. They have the necessary experience, also, to tell us how helpful
their actual college courses were to them after they had left college.
It is through these alumnae reunions that we get a better and wiser perspective
regarding Bryn Mawr. Wisdom is not automatically the heritage of most under-
graduates, but we can say unreservedly that we have discovered the wisdom of our
elders within the past few days. Our greatest hope is that we shall in our turn be
as intelligently enthusiastic as the alumnae whom we are now meeting on campus,
and that future generations of Bryn Mawr undergraduates will be as glad to wel-
come us in their midst as we are glad to welcome this year's reuniting alumnae.
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CAMPUS NOTES
By J. E. Hannan, 1934
May is undoubtedly the best month in the Bryn Mawr year, but it is also the
time when the undergraduate body makes up for an ill-spent spring. The contrast
between a fairly lazy early spring and the week before and two weeks of examina-
tions is one of the most startling in our uneventful lives. In the period immediately
before and during examinations, week-ends, tennis, and pounce are all forgotten,
and the whole college goes into a coma, as far as the outside world is concerned.
The simple fact that only sports-minded faculty make use of the tennis courts, and
all the students are permanently settled in the Library, shows how seriously we
take our trials and tribulations.
But before the trials and tribulations set in, the campus had one last orgy on
the week-end of the Glee Club production, The Gondoliers. There are few things
so satisfactory to the Bryn Mawr undergraduate as a successful dance following our
extremely good Gilbert and Sullivan. The fact that we can manufacture amuse-
ment on the home campus somehow vindicates us in the eyes of the unkind critics,
who see Bryn Mawr as the essence of the mental and nothing else. We do not
mean to intimate that every undergraduate goes to the dance bent grimly upon
proving herself a well-rounded person; but the satisfaction of being able to produce
our own revelry certainly adds to the happiness of all. It is pleasant to report that
the level of men attending was high. Every one made an effort to get the very best
quality, and the result was impressive.
As usual, though the triumph always surprises us, and seems almost miraculous.
Glee Club triumphed. Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Alwyne, and J. Hopkinson, Manager
of Glee Club, presented the very light, yet very complex operetta. The Gondoliers,
with a finish which could have been attained only by arduous drudgery for weeks
beforehand. There were several numbers that proved the directors' excellent sense
of showmanship. When the Cachuca, a very fandango dance done under shifting
spotlights, brought down the house and had to be repeated again and again, tliere
was given proof positive that the directors knew how to use their stage as well as
the voices of the cast. It was gratifying to the undergraduates who went to it
before the dance in hope of entertainment. They got it — in the grand manner.
Glee Club was not, however, our only drama for the montli. Tlic Frcslmian
One-act Plays followed soon after and provided a transition to the examination
period. There were three in all — two of which were grim tragedy. Since Freshman
plays always smell strongly of the lamp and usually belong to that ty]H" of theatre
labeled "closet drama," they never fail to amuse. The lack of sympathy sliown by
the audience at the most tragic points must have been disconcerting to the play-
wrights, but even as we howled with glee, we remembered tlic batlios of our own
Freshman plays and laughed at them too.
The week before Finals also saw in Goodhart the Pro Arte Quartet in a series
of three concerts presented to the College by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.
They provided a remarkably soothing overture to the storm and stress of Finals
period and reminded us that there was still perfection somewhere in a world of
incomplete course notes. It may seem crass to mention the Pro Arte Quartet and
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our troubles in the same breath, but the mixture of the two is unavoidable. At the
time the music charmed our savage breasts very effectively.
The course questionnaire issued by the News bobbed up again this month in
two widely separated places — morning Chapel and an English final. In Chapel,
Mrs. Manning leveled certain criticisms against the News editors* statistics and
suggested that the amount of reasoning power required in each course might have
been a better subject of investigation than the quotient of Originality, Trends, and
Details in a course. But the most embarrassing result of the questionnaire was the
practical use made of it in an English final. There were three parts in the final,
one intended to test "Originality" (one and one-half hours allotted to this section) ;
one to test the ''Knowledge of Trends" (one hour to this giant subject); and the
last to test "Memory of Details" (only half an hour). According to the. class, their
professor did not intend the examination to be "amusing," so they hadn't even an
excuse to take it lightly. We do not know how well they came- through the trial
except that no one flunked. Since "Originality" seems to have occupied half the
paper, it is safe to say that no one was lacking in that — which. is as it should be.
The "Trends," another third of the paper, must have been fairly well done; but
we hesitate to guess at what may have happened to the "Details." These, you must
realize, are not statistical observations and should not under any circumstances be
taken seriously. It would be all to the good, we feel, if the professor in question
were to issue statistics of the actual results. Here we might pause to say that a
prophecy based on a trend came true this month. We said in one of the previous
numbers of the Bulletin that the athletic spirit rampant on campus led us to
believe that our tennis team might overwhelm Vassar. They did, and we now have
a new faith in trends.
COMMENCEMENT HONOURS
It must have been a great source of gratification to all those alumnae who
have worked so valiantly on the Regional Scholarship Committee to read of the
splendid record of their handpicked products. For the third time — in 1926, in 1928,
and now in 1934, the Bryn Mawr European Fellowship has been awarded to a
Regional Scholar. This year the holder is Elizabeth Mackenzie from Aberdeen,
Scotland, via Pittsburgh, who thus brings to a fitting climax her distinguished
undergraduate academic career. Miss Mackenzie received her degree magna cum
laude, with Distinction in English. Suzanne Halstead, sent originally by the New
England group, Elizabeth Hannan from New York and Marianne Gateson from
Eastern Pennsylvania also graduated magna cum laude with distinction in their
special subjects. Betti Goldwasser of New York, Anita de Varon and Frances
Pleasonton from New England, Haviland Nelson from Northern California and
Eva Levin (daughter of Bertha Szold, 1895) from Baltimore, all graduated cum
laude.
Twelve daughters of alumnae graduated with the Class of 1934. Janet
Barber, daughter of Lucy Lombardi, 1904, received her degree magna cum laude.
with Distinction in History of Art; Margaret Righter, daughter of Renee Mitchell.
1900, Margaret Dannenbaum, daughter of Gertrude Gimbel, 1911, and Evelyn
Patterson, daughter of Evelyn Holliday, 1904, all graduated cum laude, Miss
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Patterson taking her degree with Distinction in Archaeology. Tlie list of A.B.'s
also included Helen Elizabeth Baldwin^ daughter of Helen Smitheman, 1907,
Gabriel Churchy daughter of Brooke Peters^ 1907, Susan Daniels, daughter of
Grace Brownell, 1907, Anita Fouilhoux, daughter of Jean Clark, 1899, Julia
Gardner, daughter of Julia Goodall, 1900, Katharine Gribbel, daughter of Margaret
Latta, 1909, and Olivia Jarrett, daugliter of Cora Hardy, 1899.
Of the eleven new Doctors of Philosophy, eight hold a previous degree from
Bryn Mawr: Virginia Grace, A.B. 1922 and A.M. 1929, Agnes Lake, A.B. 1930
and A.M. 1931, Elizabeth Fehrer, A.B. 1930, Marion Ambruster, A.M. 1932, Edith
Cumings, A.M. 1928, Faith Baldwin, A.M. 1931, Berthe Marti, A.M. 1926, Dorothy
Shaad, A.M. 1930. Eleven of the twenty-three new Masters of Arts are Bryn
Mawr A.B.'s: Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912, Elizabeth Ufford, 1929, Rosamond
Cross, 1929, Edith Grant, 1930, Anne Cole, 1931, and Eleanor Yeakel, Susan
Savage, Mabel Meehan, Joyce Ilott, Charlotte Balough and Emily Grace, all mem-
bers of the Class of 1933.
ALUMNAE ATHLETICS
The annual tennis match between the Alumnae and the Varsity ended in a
victory for the Varsity by three matches to two. Rebecca Wood, 1933, defeated
F. Carter, 1935, 6-3, 6-2; Fanny Sinclair Woods, 1901, won her match against
Doreen Canaday, 1936, by the score of 6-2, 6-1. Mary Hopkinson Gibbon, 1928,
lost to Margaret Haskell, 1934, by 6-3, 6-1; Margaret Collier, 1933, was beaten
by Betty Faeth, 1935, 6-4, 6-3. The deciding match was lost by the Alumnae
doubles team, Mrs. Gibbon and Miss Wood, to Miss Haskell and Miss Faeth by tlie
score of 6-1, 6-2.
A NEW COMMITTEE ASKS FOR SUGGESTIONS
The Committee on Alumnae Relations with the College, appointed by the
Executive Board at the request of the last Council in Boston, has held two formal
and two informal meetings, and will be ready to report to the next Council in
November at Bryn Mawr. The members of the Committee are Helen Evans Lewis,
1913, Chairman; Frances Fincke Hand, 1897, Alice Hawkins, 1907, Louise
Dillingham, 1916, Millicent Carey Mcintosh, 1920, Elizabeth Lawrence Mcndell,
1925, Agnes Howell Mallory, 1930, and Rebecca Wood, 1933. The Committee has
already consulted with President Park and with the Executive Board, and will be
glad to receive suggestions from any alumnae on "means of establishing closer
contact between the College and the Alumnae." They will meet again early in
October to draft their final report.
At the Conference of the American Library Association held in ^Montreal
on June 26th, Cornelia L. Meigs, 1907, received the John Newberry ]\Icdal
given annually to the author of "the most significant contribution to American
literature for children." The work which won the award was Invincible Louisa,
the story of the author of Little Women. The Medal has come to mean to
writers for children what the Pulitzer Prize means to authors in the adult field.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Eleanor Little Aldrich^ 1905, has been nominated to the Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College as Alumnae Director for the term of years 1934-1939. She
succeeds Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 1918, whose term expires in December.
The Executive Board is happy to announce that May Egan Stokes, 1911, has
consented to act as Chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the
meeting of the Alumnae Council to be held at Bryn Mawr on November 8th, 9th
and 10th. Harriet Price Phipps, 1923, Councillor for District I., and Elizabeth
Bent Clark, 1895, President of the Alumnae Association, and a number of alumnae
living in and near Philadelphia will assist Mrs. Stokes. In addition to the usual
program it is planned to allow some time for the alumnae to visit classes and lab-
oratories and to see something of extra-curricular undergraduate activities. All
members of District II. are invited to attend. A detailed program will be mailed
early in the autumn.
A nation-wide broadcast sponsored by the Seven Women's Colleges Committee
has been arranged for October 22nd. Plans are on foot to have the members of the
local clubs of each of the Seven Colleges meet together on that day. Please consult
the President of your nearest Bryn Mawr Club, or ranking officer of any other
Bryn Mawr organization, about this, and watch the newspapers for announcement
of the exact time of the broadcast.
Because of the importance of large families among the more intelligent citizens
of the country, the Pennsylvania Birth Control Federation offers an award of fifty
dollars to that class of Bryn Mawr College, graduating in the years 1905-1924
(inclusive), which, ten years after graduation, had the largest number of children
per graduate. A questionnaire, which has been approved by the Executive Board
of the Alumnae Association, is being sent out with their permission. The undertaking
is in the hands of Fay MacCracken Stockwell, 1894, Field Secretary of the Institute
of Euthenics at Vassar College. Mrs. Stockwell is to be assisted by Mabel Meehan,
A.B. 1933 and A.M. 1934, who is planning to use the statistics in connection with
her thesis. The results of the study should prove valuable for the records of the
College and the Association.
FUTURE COLLEGE EVENTS, 1934-35
Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean, Research Associate of the Foreign Policy Associa-
tion, will give three lectures under the Anna Howard Shaw Foundation in Goodhart
Hall at 8.15 on Monday evenings: October 29th, November 5th and November 12th.
The Pro Arte String Quartet of Brussells, through the courtesy of Mrs. Eliza-
beth Sprague Coolidge, will give ten concerts in Goodhart Hall at 8.15 on Sunday
and Wednesday evenings during January and February.
Professor John Livingston Lowes, of Harvard, will give six lectures under the
Mary Flexner Lectureship on the "Critical Study of Keats" in Goodhart Hall during
February and March.
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CLASS NOTES
Ph.D. and Graduate Notes
Editor: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)
Vandalia, Missouri.
1889
No Editor Appointed.
1890
No Editor Appointed.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
1435 Lexington Ave., New York City.
1893
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
c/o Brearley School
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
1896
Class Editor: Abigail Camp Dimon
1411 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.
Ruth Porter, our class collector, has sent me
two letters she received this spring in answer
to her appeals, and I am glad to have some-
thing to make up for the aridity of my own
news. Ruth herself will come east for the
wedding of her youngest son, John, on June
20th, to Gertrude Olsen, who has been studying
in Geology this year at Bryn Mawr. After the
wedding, Ruth and James will go to Maine,
where they will spend the summer as usual at
Great Spruce Head Island.
Now for extracts from the letters. Clara
Colton Worthington writes: "My widening in-
terests for some time have included the birth
control movement and now I am president of
the Delaware League and am as busy as can be
doing a little reorganizing of committees and
trying to learn enough to be a helpful and
efficient officer. . . . You may guess from my
getting actively to work that my eyes are mucb
better. In fact, I can do almost anyhing I like
if I am careful not to get overtired. A year
ago at this time I was ready to slide out of
the picture and flew to Salt Lake simply be-
cause it would have been, impossible for me to
have gone by train. Then I went over to Nevada,
high up in the mountains and the medicos I
was visiting put me out in the sun to cook
every day. The result was extraordinary and
I have improved right along. I am not sure
that it was altogether the sun, but believe il
was for the most part. Perhaps the turn was
just about due. It seems it was a case of com-
plete nervous exhaustion and it hit not only
my eyes but my breathing apparatus, for my
diaphragm was tied in a knot most of the time.
The whole thing seems like a miracle. . . .1 am
not going west this summer as I had planned
to spend Christmas next winter with Jane and
Bill and Sabin and now there will be the added
inducement of the new baby, who should have
some features by that time. I shall stay here
most of the time until the first of August, when
I shall go to Nova Scotia with my one remain-
ing aunt — it should be cool."
And from Rebecca Mattson Darlington:
"Celia has had a great year in Paris, and very
profitable I am sure. Now I am going over to
join her for the summer and we'll return to-
gether early in September, I had no plan of
going to Europe this summer; had instead
looked forward to a summer here in Cambridge
with some courses at the Summer School and
much sleeping and reading. But Celia pointed
out convincingly that probably never again
would I have such a combination of attractions:
to visit her and her friends in their apartment,
high in the grenier of one of the old mansions
on the He S. Louis; and that wherever I wa?
I'd have to eat and even with tlie bad exchange
eating will cost no more in Paris than in
Cambridge. So I am going — sailing "common
third" on a Red Star Liner, June 15th, witli
ten days to Havre. That will give me time to
rest after my most intense year of teaching.
"My sons are in no hurry to marry it seems;
Sidney, our young engineer and brilliant mathe-
matician, is just emerging from the gloom and
nervous strain of nearly two years at the Bell
Laboratories, during which, fi-om week to week,
the young men did not know which one would
be dropped. Philip, tlie naturalist, is, by nature
and training, a wanderer. This summer, on a
grant from Harvard, he is going for tliree or
more months to Santo Domingo to collect
zoological specimens in his field. He returns,
of course, to the museum, ^^■lun■e he has his
position.
"As for me, I continue with my teaching at
Choate. Even with my extra heavy schedule,
since our staff is perforce reduced, and another
necessary cut in salary, I am not yet ready to
retire. I love the work, for every new girl is
like a new book — worthy an investigation at
any rate.
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1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
104 Lake Shore Drive, East, Dunkirk, N. Y.
Clara Vail Brooks has a grandson (and
Peggy '27, incidentally has a son!), John
Christopher Juhring, III, IV or V, born March
6th. She has also added to her family group
two young people of college age about whom
she writes: "Owing to the death of their father
last September, I am now the guardian of two
minors who are now living with me. The girl,
Mary Vail Hewitt, is finishing her Junior year
at Smith; the boy, Dexter Wright Hewitt, Jr.,
is a freshman at Amherst. They are nice child-
ren and fit comfortably into the space between
Gordon and Tom. I am fond of them and they
seem happy here. Their mother was my cousin."
Clara writes also of a very pleasant trip of
three weeks that she and her husband took in
March to Bermuda. They will be in Woodstock,
Vermont, this summer as usual.
A few days after the above was sent to the
Bulletin, the newspapers announced the tragic
death, on June 9th, of Dexter Wright Hewitt
in an automobile accident near Amherst. The
affectionate sympathy of the class goes out to
Clara and her family and to Mary Vail Hewitt.
Isn't it too bad that the beautiful old house
(1785) at Barre, Mass., that Elizabeth Seymour
Angel and her husband recently acquired was
burned a few weeks ago? Complete details are
lacking, but we hope that it was not destroyed.
F. Heyl and her sister, Mrs. Nichols, have
opened a gift shop — foreign gifts, mostly — in
their home in Dunkirk, N. Y., on Route 5,
running along Lake Erie between Buffalo and
Erie, Pa. "Tea and cookies will be sei-ved
informally without charge" to Bryn Mawr
friends who come this way.
1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
REUNION NOTES
The Class of 1898 convened on Saturday,
June 2, as guests of Marion Park at an in-
formal supper on the terrace of the President's
house. Twenty-three answered the roll call.
Catherine Bunnell Mitchell came from
California and Grace Clark Wright from
Minneapolis. Others from nearer points were
Isabel Andrews, Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, Mary,
Bright, Jennie Browne, Sarah Ridgway Bruce,
Rebecca Foulke Cregar, Anna Fry, Alice
Gannett, Josephine Goldmark, Anna Haas,
Alice Hammond, Alice Hood, Ullericka Oberge,
Marion Park, Mary Sheppard, Blanche Harnish
Stein, Martha Tracy, Esther Willitts Thomas,
Louise Warren, Bertha Wood and Helen
Williams Woodall. After supper a short busi-
ness meeting was followed by the showing of
slides and films taken at other reunions. These
provoked a flood of reminiscences that was
stopped only by our departure.
Sunday afternoon, the 3rd, the class gath-
ered in the Library to take part in the presen-
tation of their gift of the portrait of
Marion Park to the College.
Later we all had a delightful picnic supper
at Rebecca Cregar's, cooked by Mr. Cregar
and Mr. Woodall, assisted by Mr. Bruce, Dr.
Stein and Mr. Bancroft. Helen Woodall and
Rebecca were the perfect hostesses — as usual.
Monday we lunched under the Wyndham
trees and Tuesday twelve of us had a final
luncheon at the home of Esther Thomas.
The class wishes to extend its heartfelt sym-
pathy to the families of two members of the
class: Mary Grace Moody, who died on Feb-
ruary 20th, and Charly Mitchell Jean, who
died on May 25th.
1899
Class Editor: Mary Schoneman Sax
(Mrs. Percival M. Sax)
6429 Drexel Road, Overbrook, Phila., Pa.
reunion notes
Bryn Mawr, fount of wisdom fair.
Alma Mater strong and great,
Love and praise and glory
All we have are thine,
Never shall our voices fail
Never shall our love abate
While we sing of thee, Bryn Mawr,
And '99.
Words written in the youthful exuberance
of Freshman year, echoed many times since
then, but never voiced with greater fervor and
enthusiasm than by the fortunate eighteen
members of our class who met in the Common
Room of Goodhart Hall on Monday evening
of Commencement Week to gather around the
festice board for Class Supper.
Mary Hoyt had ushered in '99 on Friday,
and was followed on Saturday by Ellen
Kilpatrick, Jean Fouilhoux and Emma Miller,
May Blakey Ross, Katie Mid Blackwell and
Dorothy Meredith, as well as your incoming
editor, appeared in time for the Alumnae meet-
ing, which was followed by the Alumnae
luncheon on Sunday. At the luncheon, Guffey,
as our representative, had her little say. Char-
acterizing '98 as typical of the best of Scotch
virtues, she described our more volatile quali-
ties as Irish (true to our class color), and
stressed our unconventionality, our irrepressible
Gaelic youthfulness, and our delightful para-
doxes. We achieved our first Bryn Mawr A.B.
daughter ten years ago, and look forward to
Mary Sax's graduation in 1945; we have a
grandmother of seven years' standing, and a
bride of as many months. Our energies are
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directed in diverse directions, and we have
gained success in the varied fields of medicine,
law, education, art, architecture, literature,
business, and politics, as well as leadership in
such important causes as Suffrage, Peace, Birth
Control, and Anti-Prohibition. After having
told what we had done, Emma begged for a
more intelligent slant on political life, decrying
the side-line attitude "compounded of apathy,
indifference and ignorance," and counselled
entrance into politics by starting now as a
candidate for office, no matter how long the
rung of the political ladder might seem.
On Monday, '99's Reunion started officially,
and by that time Dolly Sipe Bradley, Martha
Irwin Sheddan, Molly Thurber Dennison, Kate
Houghton Hepburn, Mary Towle, Evetta Jeffers
Schock, Content Nichols Smith, and Margaret
Hall were on hand to join '98, '00, and '01 at
a most sociable buffet luncheon under the trees
at Wyndham. There we had a chance to com-
pare ourselves with our contemporaries and to
realize how kindly and lightly the passing
years had touched us. Only Ellen KiF, and
May Sax have achieved the distinction of being
"platinum blondes," and on many heads there
were astonishingly few silver threads among
the brown and gold. Dorothy and Katie Mid'
still show strong traces of their Gibson-
Girlhood, and although our shadows had not
grown less, our "style" would have gladdened
Callie's fashion sense had she been able to
see us.
Refreshed, recoiffed, and regowned, a most
distinguished-looking group of women (the
editor's husband offered this comment entirely
unsolicited) met for Class Supper with Molly
and Emma at the heads of the table. Elsie
Andrews and Gertrude Ely had joined our
ranks and once seated at the table (made most
attractive with the help of Elsie's flowers), we
immediately opened our souvenirs, which had
been selected with excellent care and skill by
Gallic, whose job unfortunately prevented her
from joining us.
Dispensing with formal toasts, one after
another we rose to our feet and told what we
considered most worth recording about our-
selves, our occupations, or our families. All
had something of interest to tell, and some
were far too modest in their recital. The
mother of our most famous daughter gave m
most enthusiastic account of her other chil-
dren; our president astonished and delighted
us by the modernity and serenity of her out-
look on life. She blames a concussion of the
brain for her change of view, proving that
even an automobile accident may have a happy
result. Bon Mots were as plentiful as hot cakes,
but even so the prize was unanimously awarded
to Jean, who confessed that her life was spent
in avoiding "the widening hips and the nar-
rowing mind." Emma then read excerpts from
the letters of the absentees which gave us a
glimpse of their interests too. Your editor's
little daughter came with her father to forge
another l)right link in her chain of Bryn Mawr
impressions which had been started so aus-
piciously last fall at Miss Thomas' reception
at the Deanery, Then, following a short class
meeting, Jean's loving cup made its customary
round, we sang our song, cheered our cheer,
and after "Thou gracious inspiration," parted
officially, until the next day.
Time goes on, but the type continues un-
changed. Kate Hepburn the elder had con-
fided to her neighbor at table that she was
about to explode a bomb which would make
us sit up. But when she threw it later on at
headquarters it turned out to be a dud; it ju'-t
didn't go off at all, for all she did was to
hand out pamphlets "On understanding Soviet
Russia!" It happens that on this important
subject there is really nothing which we do
not know. How much more popular would she
be today had she handed out passes to
daughter Kate's next picture.
On Tuesday Emma, Mary Hoyt, Content.
Dorothy, Jean, Martha, Dolly, the two Mays,
and Katie Mid' motored down to Yardley to
the last-named's beautifully remodeled colonial
house, stopping at Roscommon, in Doylestown.
to admire May's garden and view there. "Pat"
Blackwell and the younger Katherine welcomed
us at Yardley, where we enjoyed a well-chosen
deliciously prepared lunch, and which we had
to leave all too soon to get back for Garden
Party. Senior Row looked its best, and our
graduates, Anita Fouilhoux and Olivia Jarrett,
did us proud.
Gertrude was our inimitable hostess in the
evening, and though Emma left to add another
leaf to her laurel crown by giving tlie Com-
mencement Address to the Graduating Class
of St. Agnes' School for Girls at Alexandri:i.
Cora Hardy Jarrett, our newest author, who is
still better recognized abroad than at home,
had slipped in to take her place. Eleven of
us dined in Gertrude's walled garden, torn
between the enjoyment of her food, apprecia-
tion of her aesthetic surroundings, and amuse-
ment at her humorous anecdotes. The auto-
mobile accident in which she had figured dur-
ing the afternoon had fortunately not given her
a concussion, so we may hope that she will
remain unchanged.
Then, before we separated, in order to add
more color and light and shade to this picture,
which is to recreate the scene for those who
could not come, as well as to sene as a record
for the re-uners, the following "impressions"
were entrusted to the editor, ^^'hat pleased
most had been —
"The good camraderie,"
"The broad-minded modern points of view
of these w^onien of the '90"s."" "That all *99ers
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were growing older in a perfectly natural man-
ner, and becoming mellower with the years.
That there was not a bobbed head, not a
plucked eyebrow, not a red fingernail to be
found.",
"That no member of the class spoke of the
depression." "The perennial youth, distin-
guished appearance and the eternal optimism
of '99." And now comes the last comment,
which proves that even after thirty-five years
our orals were not taken in vain.
"Plus ga change, plus ga reste la meme
chose."
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
1901
Class Editor: Beatrice MacGeorge
Vaux Apartments, Gulph Road,
Bryn Mawr, Fa.
reunion notes
"To be or not to be" was the question that
faced 1901 in regard to its reunion. Thanks
to the unwavering devotion of our manager,
Beatrice MacGeorge, ten loyal souls gathered
at the College Inn to enjoy a supper that was
really delicious, and a fellowship that was fine
and true.
The ten members who celebrated the passing
of a third of a century were Mary Allis, Alice
Dillingham, Eleanor Jones, Bertha Laws, Jane
Righter, Grace Phillips Rogers, Marion Parris
Smith, Beatrice MacGeorge, Fanny Sinclair
Woods and Marion Wright Messimer. Later,
Jessie Miller, Ella Sealy Newell and Mary
Ayer Rousmaniere joined us, and filled out the
lucky number of those enjoying the reunion.
There had been no time to prepare clever
speeches. We came, we saw, we enjoyed.
Beatrice with her committee had thought of
everything that we needed to make us happy,
and only the presence of absent classmates
could have heightened our satisfaction. Letters
were read, and postal card messages, and each
contributed some information until we had a
definite picture of the activities of 1901. Life
has not been easy for many, but the courage
with which they have met their difficulties
makes us proud of the
"Spirit of Nineteen-one,
We'll never give up till the goal is won!"
Each banqueter gave a brief sketch of her
activities in the past and spoke of future plans.
Two are interested in art — Beatrice MacGeorge
gives talks illustrated by colored projections,
on various schools of painting, and Mary Allis
belongs to the Lantern and Lens Club, and
wins prizes in photography competitions.
Marion Parris Smith and Bertha Laws are
the travelers. Marion and her husband set
forth shortly on a most alluring trip to
Australia and New Zealand, the only parts of
the British domain which they have not yet
visited. Bertha is off to the Pacific on her way
to Japan, Manchuria and China.
Marion Messimer has just had a son mar-
ried. Eleanor Jones and Grace Phillips Rogers
are accredited judges of the Massachusetts
Federation of Garden Clubs, and exhibit in
flower shows. Caroline Daniels Moore, who,
by the way, has just sailed to join Harriet in
London, has also distinguished herself in
Chicago with a prize-winning rose-garden.
Jane Righter is an authority on roses, too, and
talks of them learnedly to flower clubs.
Among the letters were one from Edith
Wray Holliday, written two years ago, and one
from Gertrude Smyth Buell. Edith was mar-
ried in 1904 and had three children and five
grandchildren. Her husband died in 1925 after
a long illness. Her daughter Frances was grad-
uated with distinctioon from Penn College,
Oskaloosa, Iowa, two years ago. Edith has
taught in two colleges and various high schools.
"In 1918" (to quote from her letter) "I took
a library course at the New York State College
for Teachers in Albany . . . and in 1931 wis
invited to come here (Bacone College,
Oklahoma) and take charge of the library in
this, the first Junior College for Indians, and
the only one fully accredited, 1 believe . . .
I just love the work, and the Indian students
are so nice to work with, more respectful than
those of our own race, and hungry for educa-
tion."
Gertrude Smyth Buell writes: . . . "What an
opportunity 'the Dean' missed when in her fa-
mous statistics about the percentage of
Bryn Mawr Alumnae who were married, and
those who had children, she omitted to add the
staggering percentage of those who would have
grandchildren! As neither of my sons is mar-
ried and I am not eligible for this distinguished
group, I fear I should hang my head ignomin-
iously — though inwardly rejoicing, . . . Susan
Clarke's last beau geste was to give me a trip
around the world. We sailed the Seven Seas
together, and had a beautiful time calling our-
selves the 'Pembroke Suitemates' on the other
side of the globe. I left her in London and
came home fifteen months ago. Susan went
back to the Continent and -she is now in
Australia visiting one of her distinguished
Oxford friends and having an interesting time
meeting all of the university notables and high-
brows in that part of the world. ... I have
brought out my 1901 Class Book and have
been gazing at all of the photographs. How
the years roll back, and how the memories rush
in, when we clear our minds from current
affairs to relive our college days again!
"And among the dreams of the days that were
We find our lost youth again."
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For youth is never really lost — it is like Alice' ^
Cheshire Cat, sitting always on its branch of
our lives. It fades away; but at times reappears
as alive as ever, and always smiling at us."
Marianna Buffum Hill, after experiences that
would crush a smaller soul, writes dauntlessly:
"The title of my book shall be Life Begins at
Fifty!"
One of the best of the reunion events was a
supper given by Betty MacGeorge under the
beautiful trees at Llysyfran. Those who were
there will never forget the peace and comfort
with which our generous hostess surrounded
us. We hardly know how to express our appre-
ciation for all she has done to make the re-
union a success.
On. Monday morning, at the Alumnae-Varsity
Tennis Tournament, Fanny Woods, in spite of
her advanced years, beat the fourth member of
the Varsity team, 6-2, 6-L Following the match
was the picnic luncheon of '98, '99, 1900 and
1901, where we saw the old friends of our
Freshman year and had more delightful visits.
A few of us remained for Garden Party and
Commencement, and even then found it difficult
to tear ourselves away. Of one thing we are
convinced — ^those of you who stayed away
missed one of the experiences of life which
cannot be evaluated in life's currency.
Eleanor Jones,
Grace Phillips Rogers,
Fanny Sinclair Woods.
The resignation of Helen Converse Thorpe
as Class Editor was received with regret. In
her place, Fanny Woods, who was unanimously
reelected President, .appointed Beatrice Mac-
George, who will be glad to receive news and
announcements.
1902
Class Editor: Anne Rotan Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
320 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Sunday evening. May 21, we had an informal
reunion supper and entertained the four daugh-
ters of the class then in College, Evelyn Patter-
son and Janet Barber, both Seniors, and Sophie
Hunt and Eleanor Fabyan, Sophomores. There
were twenty-two of us who enjoyed the evening
together — Patty Rockwell and her daughter
Martha, Gertrude Buffum Barrows and her
daughter, Agnes Gillinder Carson and her two
daughters, one an alumna of Bryn Mawr,
Amy Clapp, Emma Fries, Margaret Ross
Garner and her daughter, who is entering
Bryn Mawr next year, Mary Hollar Knox,
Ruth Wood Smith and her daughter, Hilda
Vauclain and Lucy Fry, Marjorie's daughter,
Leda White and Emma Thompson. We en-
joyed the evening so much that we are hoping
to make it an annual affair.
This year the class is especially honored by
its daughters, Evelyn Patterson, daughter of
Evelyn Holliday Patterson, who graduate]
cum laude, and Janet Barber, daughter of Lucy
Lombardi Barber, who graduated magna cum
laude. Evelyn Patterson sails in the latter part
of June for France, where she plans to study
at the Sorbonne in Paris for two months.
Isabel Peters and Lucy Lombardi Barber
motored to Texas in the early spring, and Lucy
has promised to write up her trip for us.
Constance Lewis' niece, Mary Lewis, of
Winnetka, Illinois, is in the Class of 1937,
B. M. C. She came from the Country Day
School at Winnetka.
Alice Waldo and Isabel Peters both came on
from New York for Garden Party, and of
course Evelyn and Wallace Patterson were
here from Chicago, and Colonel Barber from
Washington. Other members of the class from
Philadelphia were also at the Garden Party.
The class desires to offer its sympathy to
Jane Allen Stevenson, whose mother died in
the early part of May.
1905
Class Editor: Eleanor Little Aldrich
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
59 Mount Vernon St., Boston, Mass.
A card from Marian Cuthbert Walker reads:
"Just to break the silence! At present we arv
busy educating the youngsters. The oldest son
is a Junior at Duke, our daughter a Sophomore
at Sweet Briar, while the youngest, a l)ny. is
a high school Junior. I have struck my juice
at last in writing for the magazines — l)oth fic-
tion and specialized articles. I have wruni:
checks from 'p^ilp?/ even, but am more proud
of those from The Country Gentleman. Parents.
Country Home, Better Homes and Gardens.
Chatelaine. House Beautiful, and Home and
Field. Most of us can thank Bryn Mawr for a
training in thoroughness and a certain confi-
dence in one's self which get? you there finally
after a long, long pull."
Alice Day McLaren's husliand lias a job on
Code Hearings in Porto Rico and Alice planned '
to sail on May 26 from California via the Canal
to join him.
1906
Class Editor: Helen HAicinvoiT Pitnam
(Mrs. William E. Putnam)
126 Adams St.. Milton. Mass.
Adelaide Neall recently took a three weeks*
holiday. She went to Europe by the South.?rn
Route, havinc: two davs ashore.
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Mary Walcott and her husband have recently
been in the South, near Louise Maclay's beau-
tiful place at Tallahassee. It seems that
Louise's azalias have a world's record for
beauty.
Mary's son, Robert R. Walcott, has the
Bayard Cutting Travelling fellowship and is
to study for his Ph.D. in England, writing his
thesis in History.
1907
Class Editor: Alice Hawkins
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Three 1907 daughters graduated with the
Class of 1934 — Grace Brownell Daniels, Helen
Smitheman Baldwin and Brooke Peters Church
all played the part of proud parents. Bunny's
second daughter is at Radcliffe and her son
John expects to go to Harvard in the fall.
Dorothy Forster Miller and Elizabeth Pope
Behr spent week-ends at the Deanery in the
latter part of May, showing their daughters
around the campus.
See page 23 for news of Tink Meigs.
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
1909
Class Editor: Ellen Shippen
14 East 8th St., New York City.
REUNION NOTES
"Twenty-fifth reuners we
Growing old against our will.
Twenty years hence we shall be
Twenty years more ancient still."
— From our opera "Patience" with
slight variations.
We 1909 reuners were entirely out of order
and quite alone in our generation, with 1901
our nearest class on one side and 1917 our
closest neighbors on the other. This did not
depress us, however, and the twenty-fifth was a
decided success.
There were nineteen of us at class dinner at
Goodhart on June 2: Grace Wooldridge Dewes,
Helen Irey Fletcher, Lillian Laser Strauss,
Emma White Mitchell, Florence Ballin, Kate
Ecob, Anna Harlan, Ellen Shippen, Frances
Ferris, Julia Doe Shero, D. Child, Esther
Tennent, Emily Solis-Cohen, Bertha Ehlers,
Frances Browne, Fan Barber Berry, Barbara
Spofford Morgan, Georgina Biddle, Cynthia
Wesson. Miss Mary Swindler was our guest
for dinner and spoke most interestingly on the
Bryn Mawr "Dig."
Fan Barber was a grand toast-mistress,
Georgina did "Gert," D. Child showed us some
1909 movies, I read some letters from absent
1909ers, and then Lillian reported on an im-
portant piece of 1909 research which she and
Bertha had gotten together. We had each re-
ceived a questionnaire and all of us had filled
it in and returned it. The results should really
appear in full, but I can at least report gen-
eral impressions. All 1909, judging by the
report, find travel their chief recreation — release
complex? — gardening comes second in interest.
We would all send our daughters to Bryn Mawr
if they wanted to go; our youngest child is
three, our oldest twenty-six. Our occupations
cover a most amazing list of vocations and
avocations, among which stands out in my
mind the building of stone walls — mortar and
stones complete. It was a most impressive
report.
We missed the absent members, but enjoyed
their photographs, telegrams and letters. The
photographs appeared in large number, notably
a very lovely bridal one of Grace Dewes Oram,
our class baby. The marriage was in Chicago
on April 21st, and Mr. and Mrs. Oram are
now living in Morristown. Best wishes from
all of 1909.
We sang our class song at the end and
"Thou Gracious Inspiration," and departed,
most of us, for Denbigh.
Next day we went out to Senior Row and
sang some more, visited the Deanery countless
times, wandered through Pembroke and dis-
covered Ella still there. Then came Alumnae
meeting and Alumnae luncheon, but that is
college news reported elsewhere.
Here is just a little 1909 information, picked
up at random:
Cynthia Wesson has a large black dog with
a most exciting tail (photographs).
Georgina has gone botanizing in the pine
barrens, determined to see New Jersey flora
every month in the year. She had two large
botany books in the Ford.
Emily Solis-Cohen has written several books,
notably one called Breakfast with the Birds.
The title is based on the story of the kind
birds which led the Israelites in safety to the
Red Sea. Since then the children in Palestine
give a feast to the birds every year in com-
memoration. Emily has also written Woman
in Jewish Law and Life, and is at work on a
biography of Isaac Leeser. We were disap-
pointed that we could not have seen her
puppets at reunion, but the current for lighting
was not the required kind.
D. I. Smith Chamberlin is off for Squam
Lake with all her family, traveling from
Chicago by Ford.
Emily Whitney Briggs' daughter Barbara
was presented at court on May IS.
Caroline Kamm McKinnon is living in
Portland, Oregon, and is making a collection
of dwarf rhododendron. She has some from
China and India, and reports that the small
foreigners are doing very well.
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Eleanor Bartholomew is in Pasadena, has
two interesting children, and is as generally
delightful as ever.
Craney is much better. She spent several
nights in the Hamlet room at the Deanery and
was charmed with its appurtenances. She has
had her hair bobbed.
Shirley's two children, Desmond and June,
are described thus in a letter from Shirley her-
self, so it is authentic; "Desmond is what the
French call 'Rigolo,' a rollicking soul with
endless curiosities and a vivid sense of the
dramatic. He is noted for making 'the best
faces.' June talks in rhythms and fantasies."
Desmond is nine, June is six, and the family
is at Goose Rocks Beach, Maine, for the
summer. i
Lacy Van Wagenen writes of meeting Sally
Jacobs and her husband in Paris and also of
discovering Gladys Stout and her daughter in
Rome. Lacy is at Dr. Rudolf Steiner's School
at Dornach, near Basel, and is painting and
studying eurhythmy and singing. She has been
to Greece recently, and last summer she spent
in Norway.
Pleasaunce Baker von Gaisberg writes from
Watford, Herts, England: " 'E. von' carries on
business here (financial, for private clients)
with about 10 per cent, of help from me, and
I carry on the house with about 15 per cent,
of help from him. With vacations and avoca-
tions (such as translation jobs and gardening).,
it seems to run about 50-50. Last year our
holidays were spent sailing a boat on the
Norfolk Broads, eating and sleeping on board.
Our usual summer visit to Germany was made
via Holland this time. We took our bicycles
across the Channel, mounted them at the Hook
and rode them most of the way — via Delft,
Utrecht, Arnheim, and across the German fron-
tier and up the Rhine Valley, nearly as far as
Mannheim. ... I can imagine that some people
who have found Holland small and dull for the
motorist might yet find it rewarding to them
as cyclists. Anyway, Karel Kapek's 'Letters
from Holland' give , a much better indication
than I could of what there is to see there —
both outdoors and in."
1910
Class Editor: Katherine Rotan Drinker
(Mrs. Cecil K. Drinker)
71 Rawson Road, Brookline, Mass.
1911
[ Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
\: (Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
\: 1085 Park Ave., New York City.
I 1912
*' Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaton Augur)
820 Camino Atalaya, Santa Fe, N. M.
1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn.
Keinath Storrs Davey writes from Lovell,
Maine: "I'm sorry I fell down on Class News,
but at the time your postal came I was sur-
rounded by three children with whooping cough
and was completely sunk. Can't I interest you
in a vacation at Conifer this year?"
Eleanor Bonticou has rented her house in
Alexandria for the summer and is with her
mother at Alstead Center, N. H. She is in-
finitely better and writes with equal zest of the
garden, a new puppy, and the political situa-
tion.
Alice Selig Harris writes: "I wonder if
everyone turns as eagerly to '13 news as I do?
My story: 2 girls, 19 and 16; 1 boy, 8: all
three busy. Ellen, especially interested in
Music, is at the University of Pennsylvania:
Jean, with her eye on Wellesley, is a Junior
at high school; Jimmy, a perfect example of a
naughty little brother, is in the elementary
school."
Amen and Selah.
1914
Class Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs. Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, ^Mass.
Elizabeth Braley Dewey has just taken the
position of Eastern representative of the
Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs.
She recently visited the school for a week and
reports that it is a progressive boarding school
for boys with a very exceptional record. On
the way home she stopped off in Chicago with
Anne Lindsay; saw Laura Delano and pursued
Nancy Scribner to the Field Museum. wher(>
she was busy escorting children from tho
North Shore Country Day School. She also
saw Evelyn Shaw, who had just returned from
Treasure Island, tlieir place near Nassau, ami
looking very tan and healtliy.
Ella Oppenheimer speaks frequently on the
radio in the interests of the Child "V^'t^lfare
Bureau in Washington.
While ])icycling around a Cdinn- in l^rrniuda
at Easter time. Lili Inches almost ran down
Helen Kirk Welsh. Each jumped off lirr
bicycle and a date was made for the Inches tn
take tea with the Welshes. They live on the
end of Spanish Point, witli the sea on every
side and a cliarming old Spanish house made
over to he very comfortable. Kirkie and her
hnsl)an(l line to work on the place and are
niakinii a lovely garden in the quarry, a tea-
room out of the slaughter-house hanging ov?r
tlie cliff, tennis courts and vegetable garden
amonc the rocks and limestone walls sawed
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by Judge Welsh. The three jolly children had
mine to tea in the "Fernery," a round room
under the rocks, with maidenhair in the
cracks. I do not blame them for staying there
as much as possible in winter and most of the
summer as well.
Sophie Foster Ruhl writes from Northfield
that she and her husband are farming on a
four-acre lot and providing plenty of pets for
her children. She finds life quite strenuous
with her half-time teaching job at the seminary
and four children to care for. She hopes any
classmates in the vicinity will surely look her
up.
Dorothy Hughes Herman moved to Washing-
ton in August. She is caring for her sister's
two children and her own child will be big
enough to go to school in the fall. She had a
visit from Ruth Wallerstein at Easter, who is
still teaching at Madison, Wis., and looking
"very handsome and contented."
The class is sorry to hear of the death of
Ethel Dunham's father, and sends love and
sympathy.
1915
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. James Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Grace Shafer Able and her husband and
three children now live at 725 Williams Street,
Denver, Colo. Mary Ellen, the daughter, is at
the State University at Boulder this year; one
of the sons will be ready for college in the Fall
of 1935 and the other one a year later. Grace
writes (to Ethel Robinson Hyde) that she sees
Merle Sampson Toll frequently, and that Merle
"owns and runs a very successful book shop —
'Pooh Corner' — besides a large family, and is
as jolly and peppy as ever. Her daughter
Nancy is just like Merle was at that age."
Grace admits that when spring comes she has
a nostalgia for the country around the College
" — the green, green country (it doesn't get
green out here until much later) and the vio-
lets— even the dreadful smell of fertilizer that
was wafted into Rockefeller from the place
across the street."
1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Frances Bradley Chickering and her family
are in the Philippines. Captain Chickering has
been stationed there for a year and they arc
finding it a pleasant change from Washington.
Elizabeth Rand Anderson was married sev-
eral years ago to Mr. Dana Stone and is living
in the country near Minneapolis.
Elizabeth Washburn spent the week of May
21st in Cincinnati with Constance Dowd Grant.
Betty was on her way home after three months
of travel jn Europe. Last summer she spent
two months in Kentucky in the Frontier Nurs-
ing Service, which satisfied her craving for
activity in out-of-the-way places. She was un-
certain about her plans for this summer, but
thought she would look for new fields and not
return to Kentucky or Labrador.
Helen Holmes Carothers claims she spends
all her time trying to be a model mother. She
transports her two children to school and to
riding, dancing and music lessons after school.
She also directs a Girl Scout Troop of 40 girls
from the school her daughters attend. Last
winter they made two quilts, and Nell, who
insists she never could sew, did all the quilting.
She will spend the summer at Wianno, as
usual.
1917
Class Editor: Bertha C. Greenough
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, R. I.
REUNION notes
'17 came back twenty strong for their 17th
reunion. The first arrivals were Bertha
Greenough, Betty Faulkner and Carrie Shaw,
who came Friday night to prepare the way for
the rest. Betty and Greeny had a grand
evening with Eleanora Wilson in her nice, cool
house in Cynwyd. Saturday afternoon head-
quarters were established on the third floor of
Merion and people began to drift in.
Dinner was set for 8 o'clock, and about that
time a phone call was received from Blodgie
advising that she was marooned in Philadelphia
with engine trouble, so that she didn't get
there until the salad course. Helen Zimmerman
was delayed by traffic in New York, due to the
fact that the fleet was in, and did not appear
until 8.30. The food was very good and every-
one was in high spirits. Carrie Shaw made a
grand toastmistress, and we had extremely in-
teresting speeches from Con Hall on the
Tennessee Valley activities, Scat on the NRA
from the labor point of view, and Blodgie on
fascinating problems of research at General
Electric. At this juncture 1919 appeared from
their banquet and lured us onto the Senior
Steps, where we sang ( ? ) many of the old
songs with them and 1920. When the balmy
breezes began to blow slightly chilly about
midnight, we returned to the "Showcase" at
Merion, where we read letters from absent
members, excerpts of which will follow at a
later date, and each one present told of her
activities for the last few years.
Sunday was filled with the Alumnae meeting
and luncheon, at which Nats McFaden spoke
delightfully, the unveiling of President Park's
portrait, a dinner for fourteen at the Deanery,
followed by the baccalaureate sermon. Monday
was a gray, drizzly morning, and at the picnic
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at noon with 1919 and 1920, 1917 appeared
quite picturesque in their white berets with
red salamanders and red capes. The party
broke up after luncheon, and everybody agreed
that they had had a grand time, due to the
excellent management of our Reunion Chair-
man, Greenie. Those who were back were:
Mary Andrews Booth, who has been living
in New York this winter and doing some
sketching. She is going on the North Cape
cruise with her daughter Mary, aged 14, for
the summer.
Molly Boyd Morton, looking as young as
when she was in college, and the proud mother
of a 4-months-old son.
Katherine Blodgett, accounted for above.
Doris Bird Aitken, whose family of three
keeps her quite busy, but leaves some time
for bridge.
Amy Dixon Bushman, full of pep and ener-
gy, active in the Girl Scouts and keeping her
girlish figure in spite of five children, ranging
in age from 1 to 10.
Betty Faulkner Lacey, who drove 393 miles
Friday in her station wagon and added much
to the gaiety of our party. Her oldest child,
Tom, has been at boarding school in Maryland
and drove home with her.
Marion Halle Strauss, who had been spend-
ing three delightful days in the Deanery and
unfortunately had to leave before all the secrets
were told Saturday night.
Constance Hall Proctor, also accounted for
above.
Nell Hamill Gorman, looking very well and
finding herself extremely busy looking after
her one child.
Reba Joachim, who has found a lawyer's
office in Philadelphia an extremely interesting
place to work for the last ten years.
Esther Johnson, who has been for some time
a successful actuary for an insurance company
in Philadelphia.
Janet Grace McPhedran, who is occupied
with her three children and a doctor husband.
Eleanore Dulles Blondheim, who is working
very hard on the manuscript of a book, which
will take her most of the summer.
Elizabeth Hemingway Hawkes, who is now
living in Framingham, where she has been
repainting rooms in her house, looking after
her own two sons and sometimes her sister
Judy's daughter.
Carrie Shaw Tatom, whose ready wit kept us
constantly amused.
Mary Glenn, who was only able to be here
for the picnic. She has been taking a year off
to recover her health and was looking very
well. She is quite active in a college group in
Johnstown, who have in the last five years put
six girls through college, some of the money
having been raised by puppet shows, for which
these girls made the puppets.
Nats McFaden Blanton, of whom, as always,
we were proud.
Marjory Scattergood, full of the work she is
doing with the American Federation of Labor
in Washington, and of the place in McLean,
Va., where she is living, surrounded by gardens
and dogs.
Dorothy Shipley White, looking younger and
more charming than ever, having spent the
winter with one hundred and one activities.
Helen Zimmerman, who is still enjoying her
teaching at the Low-Heywood School in
Stamford, Conn.
Mildred Willard Gardiner, just as full as
ever of psychology and mental testing, with her
jobs at the Baldwin School and elsewhere.
Mary Worley Strickland, whose stories about
farm life, the marketing of a peach crop and
the activities of her two small children were
intensely interesting.
Bertha Clark Greenough, whose foresight and
executive ability made the reunion an entire
success.
Please note: The Class Editor is not re-
sponsible for the references to herself which
were contributed by loving friends.
1918
Class Editor: Mary Safford Mlmford
HOOGEWERFF
(Mrs. Heister Hoogewerff)
37 Catherine St., Newport, R. I.
REUNION NOTES
Well, it's all over and everyone had a grand
time. It is the class which makes a reunion,
so first of all I'll tell you who came back. At
one time or another there were present: Bacon.
Belleville, Butterfield, Cassel, Cheney, Cording-
ley, Dodge, Downs, Dufourcq, Dure, Evans.
Eraser, Frazier, Gardiner, Garrigues, Hammer,
Hart, Hobbs, Hodges, Holliday, Houghton.
Huff, Jeffries, Jones, Kneeland, Lynch.
Mackenzie, Merck, Muniford, Pearson, Persh-
ing, Quimby, Rhoads, Richardson, Schwarz.
Schaffer, Stair, Timpson, and W'illianis.
Marjorie Williams from Texas, Catty Holliday
from Indianapolis, and Marjorie Mackenzie
from Halifax hold the long-distance records.
The celebration began with a picnic in
Bessie Downs' field, and Bessie took pity on
us in the hot weather and supplied us witli
ice-cream cones. Mary Gardiner hung the 1918
banner out of a Denbigh window and found
places for returning classmates to lay their
heads. Peg Bacon arranged the dinner, and
Lucy Evans was a chai-ming toastmistress. Be-
tween the coffee and the speeches, a class
meeting was called in order to provide the
class with some new officers, the mortality
among present ones having been severe. The
Constitution couldn't be found, but it was
amended anyhow to consolidate the office of
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Vice-President and Treasurer with that of Class
Collector, and Harriet Hohbs was elected to
the new position; also, the offices of Secretary
and Class Editor were consolidated and Mary
Safford Mumford was elected to that position.
Members who had previously filled these offices
spoke feelingly about the lack of cooperation
of the class in answering appeals for news or
money, and I hope everyone resolved to turn
over a new leaf. Our Reunion Gift amounts
so far to $425, and I have hopes it may grow
to $500, which I consider very good.
Varied and entertaining speeches — most of
them unprintable — were made by Lucy Evans,
Elsbeth Merck, Virginia Kneeland, Mary
Safford Mumford, Hester Quimby, Sidney
Belleville, and Ruth Hart, Leslie Richardson
was in good voice and led the singing; and
1920 serenaded us. The only people whom we
had expected and who weren't able to get
there at the last minute were Jeannette Ridlon,
who is getting ready to explore the strato-
sphere, and Marjorie Strauss, who did such a
splendid job in preparing the Class Books.
She has worked hard at it all winter, and I'm
sure she would have been pleased to hear the
admiring comments on the results. Books will
be mailed to all members not present.
On Sunday we went to the meeting of the
Alumnae Association at noon, and then to the
Alumnae luncheon, which was held at the
Deanery. It was very hot, and Louise Hodges
revived us all by giving us iced tea and sand-
wiches afterwards at her house. We are very
grateful to all our hostesses.
People began to leave Sunday afternoon, but
quite a number stayed longer and we had a
real old-fashioned pow-pow Sunday night.
Catty Halliday elucidated the mysteries of
"Anthroposophy" and Adelaide Schaffer gave
a vivid description of the Bertrand Russell's
school. Monday noon we had a joint picnic
with 1917-1919-1920 on Wyndham lawn.
Altogether it was a very jolly and satisfactory
week-end, though we missed the members who
could not be there. We hope they'll all come
back for the next "happy event" in 1939.
Ruth Cheney Streeter.
The Class will be grieved to hear of the
death of Marjorie Jefferies Wagoner on June
22nd. She had been the College Physician
for ten years. Our deep sympathy goes to her
husband and the two little daughters. (Sae
page 18.)
1919
Class Editor: Frances Clark Darling
(Mrs. Maurice Darling)
151 East 83rd St., New York City.
reunion notes
Reunion! On the way back I met an
alumna of the University of Montana who asked
me quite sincerely if we found any common
grounds for conversation at our reunion!
What did we talk about? Everything — politics,
medicine, psychology, education, birth control,
international marriages, past history, ambitions
— literally everything — and until 3 or 4 o'clock
every morning.
To begin at the beginning! Class meeting
was held Saturday afternoon with Tip in fine
form sweeping everything before her. The most
important vote was for the tuition scholarship
to the Class Baby, who later appeared in per-
son and had the time of her life. After a
short interval, thirty strong, very much titivated
and led by Frances Fuller Savage, who later
told how she tamed him, assembled on the
terrace at Wyndham for the class dinner. The
food was good, the wit unmistakable, and the
beauty unpredictable. Everyone looked more
svelte and distingue after fifteen years, and
several had become absolute knockouts. After
the parade song, which, thanks to the efforts
of Faff Branson Keller, was given with all the
old-time verve, a short skit was presented by
Mary Martin and her daughter Fifine Johnson,
using puppets to show the reunion between the
only ordinary member of the class and one of
the Gaelic fairies who live on the campus.
Prizes were distributed to the one who had
most children. Nan; to the one who came
farthest, Pete; the most newly wed, B. Hurlock;
but the most interesting event of the whole
runion were the terse but pregnant autobiog-
raphies of everyone present. In spite of mod-
esty and matter-of-factness, it is a wonderful
record, and I am sending the notes on to
Frances Clark, the new press agent, to be
written up a few at a time, for later Class
Notes. Tip made a speech telling what the
undergraduates think about us and other
things; part of this was very sad! At length,
full of the old-time pep, 1919 adjourned to
Senior Steps, where Nan tried to lead us in
song. Then, thrilled with our success, we
endeavored to corrall reluctant '17, '18, and
'20. We sang one of '20's songs, thinking it
was ours, and introduced a few anachronisms
into Pallas. We closed our eyes at some espe-
cially subtle harmony, and when we opened
them, '17, '18 and '20 had faded into the
shadows. But 1919 sat and sang and sang
and sang!
At Alumnae meeting we heard them vote
another million; at Alumnae luncheon we
heard laughter in the Deanery; at Gertie's for
tea we met more children and husbands (all
reflect credit on us) ; at baccalaureate only
Feeny and Amelia stayed, the rest retreated
to the Hollow. Around midnight B. Sorchan
and Nan had a good song practice to show
what they might have done the night before.
Monday noon we picnicked at Wyndham
with '17, '18, who again materialized for a
few minutes from wherever they were. They
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stayed. Liebe Lanier and Roberta Ray had
children to exhibit here, and received our seal
of approval. I hated to miss the auction and
the tea for the Seniors, but I got P. T.'s sitz
bath at a private sale. This made quite a hit
with the doorman in New York.
When asked, one says, "Yes, I had a swell
time!" but secretly one knows again old ideals,
old friendships, traditions. To dust these off
and bring these memories home is an experi-
ence that I, for one, hope I may never have
to forego.
Marjorie Martin Johnson.
1920
Class Editor: Lilian Davis Philip
(Mrs. Van Ness Philip)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
reunion notes
Our fourteenth reunion was a success. It
had all the spontaneity of a party given on
the spur of the moment because one wants to
see old friends.
Early Saturday afternoon several of us had
already assembled in Pembroke East. Cooling
orangeade at the Deanery was the first event.
Overawed, moving in single file past the
Venetian glass, we were half afraid that we
should not really be there. Before long, how-
ever, we were all sitting in Miss Thomas'
library, where we talked until time to dress
for dinner.
By evening, nineteen of us were enjoying the
dinner in Rockefeller. Marjorie Canby Taylor,
Margaret Ballou Hitchcock, Josephine Herrick,
Mary Hardy, Jule Cochran Buck, Alice
Harrison Scott, Dorothy Jenkins, Katherine
Clifford Howell, Catherine Robinson, Hilda
Ferris, M. K. Cary, Caroline Lynch Byers,
Margaret Littell Piatt, Mad Brown, Teresa
James Morris, Gertrude Steele, Peggy Dent
Daudon, Millicent Carey Mcintosh, Lilian
Davis Philip, and just as we were finishing
in came Phoebe Heliner Wadsworth, who had
been sitting for six hours near Trenton wait-
ing for a complicated repairing of her car.
Margie had drawn place cards for each of us,
delightful cartoons of us and our lives.
There were no speeches, so we all talked
volubly. We sang a bit, had a brief class
meeting, and then walked about on. the cam-
pus, joining 1919 on Taylor Steps. We sere-
naded 1918 as their dinner was ending, and
then some of us kept on talking through most
of the night.
Proudly, Sunday noon, at the meeting of the
Alumnae Association in Goodhart we listened
to Millicent's speech about the Deanery. Af-
terwards we lunched there with all the re-
uning classes. We were sorry only that all of
you were not with us.
1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelley Erdman
(Mrs. C. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemonl Ave., Pasadena, Calif.
By the time this goes to print our class
should be the proud possessor of the President
of the National Association of Junior League-^
of America, as Luz Taylor was the only nom-
inee for the position and was to be elected al
the conference in Toronto.
Helen Bennett Nelson, nice lady, ictutned
her half of her postal with details of her wed-
ding. She and King R, H. Nelson waited
three years for the depression to subside a bit,
but finally decided on a new deal of their own
and were married in the Bennett's music room
on October 14. Being a loyal alumna, Helen
introduced her husband to Bryn Mawr on their
motoring wedding trip. Mr. Nelson is in tht-
steel business, is a member of the Swedish
Forum of Pennsylvania, and is teaching his
wife Swedish in odd moments. Helen has
given up teaching dancing, but still appears on
programs now and then. They are living in
The Morrowfield Apartment, Pittsburgh.
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
106 E. 85th St., New York City.
Agnes Orbison, who has been teaching at
Elmira College, writes that she is going fo
India. She says: "My father, who was a mis-
sionary in India from 1887, died in January,
and I am leaving on June 16th to spend the
year with my mother and sister. My address
will be: Mission Compound, lloshiarimr.
Punjab, India.
Evelyn Rogers was married to Or. James
Henry Inkster on the 19th of April.
Prue Smith Rockwell, with her husband and
two boys, has been spending the winttM- in
Asheville, N. C.
1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Ahrott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York City
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Bihterwortif
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallett Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
1926
Class Editor: Harriot Hopkinson
18 East Elm St., Chicago, 111.
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1927
Class Editor: Ellenor MoSris
Berwyn, Pa.
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr.
1921 Kalorama Road, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Betty Stewart turned up in Washington one
warm afternoon and ferreted us out. She is
living in Towson, Md., again and studying
Mayan art and society at Johns Hopkins. She
was the same old Stew, but very thin.
Mary Johnston Colfelt's son, Brinton White
Colfelt, Jr., was born on April 18 with the
noble weight of 8 lbs. 1^/4 oz. His mother
boasts that he "wasn't the slightest bit red —
even from the first" — and has lots of black
hair. Mary asks us if we knew that Dot Miller
had announced her engagement to Jack Kyle.
We didn't, and we would like more details.
Dot is doing work in Biology for her Ph.D.
at Bryn Mawr.
Ruth Holloway, like a lamb, writes to give
details about her fiance. Among other things,
he ^5 a Phi Bet' and was the tennis champion
of Princeton and later of Harvard. They are
going to be married in the Fall and live in
New York. Ruth and her mother took a
Mediterranean cruise in February and March,
and will spend the summer at Tyringham,
Mass.
1929
Class Editor: Mary L. Williams
210 East 68th St., New York City.
The class extends its deepest sympathy to
the family of Elizabeth Betterton Forman, who
died at Taormina, Sicily, on April 28.
Catherine Rea writes: "It was sort of a
shock to read in our class notes that my
address was considered unknown. I did not
realize that fact. However, my address is at
the top of this letter. (Ed. Note: i. e., 4320
Berwick Avenue, Toledo, Ohio.) This is my
address and my only address at present. My
parents moved here a year and a half ago, but
1 did not come here until last June because
I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan,^ studying at the
University of Michigan. I took only part-time
courses last year, and therefore have only half
the credits toward my M.A. in Romance
Languages. I also worked to earn my board,
and some money, too.
"So much for last year. Now I am an
assistant in Toledo University library, where T
enjoy the work immensely, and, of course, it
seems great to have a real position once more.
The building is only a few years old, and
therefore very up-to-date and a delightful place
to work. I might add that I'm also enjoying
life socially, so to speak. I mean that the
clubs, teas, etc., take up quite a bit of time,
and what .is left (if any) goes to the boy
friend, though he thinks it isn't half enough.
He is a Michigan graduate and was there when
I was. Now he has a job here.
"By the way, I assume you know I received
my A.B.L.S. degree at Michigan in 1932. All
those letters mean Bachelor of Arts in Library
Science!"
1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
2117 Le Roy Place, Washington, D. C.
Virginia Loomis was married to Bayard
Schieffelin on May 12 at the Loomis' place, at
Holiday Farm, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Mary
Elizabeth Houck, Constance Sullivan, and
Adele Merrill MacVeagh were bridesmaids.
Although 1930 was not having a reunion
this year, it took an active part in the Com-
mencement exercises, with three representatives
at graduation — Elizabeth Fehrer and Agnes
Lake received their Ph.D. degrees and Edith
Grant received an M.A, degree.
We beg that this summer you all collect
much interesting information about the class
to publish in the fall.
1931
Class Editor: Evelyn Waples Bayless
(Mrs. Robert N. Bayless)
301 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn.
1932
Class Editors: Janet and Margaret Woods
Box 208, Iowa City, Iowa.
reunion notes
June 2 and 3 we had our second class re-
union. There were twenty-one of us, though
we were never all in the same place at once.
Miss Park's bountiful breakfast for '32 and '33
brought twenty of us together, and there were
sixteen at the picnic Saturday night. (Cathie
More went only to the Alumnae meeting, isn't
that right, Cathie?) At the picnic by the
brook were Molly Atmore Ten Broeck, Monica
Brice, Kit Colman, Betty Converse, Dolly
Davis, Charlotte Einsiedler, A. Lee Harden-
bergh, Tugor Holden, M. K. Rasch, Margot
Reinhardt Pyle, Enid Saper, Ellen Shaw,
Eleanor Stonington, Florence Taggart, Dolly
Tyler, and Betty Young. At breakfast we saw
Betty Barber, Laura Hunter, Ann Weygandt,
and Ann Willits,
Saturday at the picnic Virginia Atmore,
Chairman of the Finance Committee, talked to
us about the alumnae fund and told us what a
good Class Collector we had. Thanks to her
hard work (and your open purses!) we are
in sixth place out of the forty-six classes in
the total amount contributed for the year
1933-34.
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At the same picnic meeting we voted for a
gift to the College as a memorial to Quita
Woodward. Although we decided tentatively
on books for the History Department, this has
not yet been fully settled.
We gleaned the following bits at the picnic:
Betty Young was to marry Monte Bourjaily,
of New York, on June 12. They will go abroad
for their honeymoon. He is a publisher, and
Betty divides her time between reading Mss.
for him and rehearsing for her own career as
she plans to continue her work on the stage.
Enid Saper is engaged to Milton Kramer, of
New York. He is a graduate of Harvard
College and Harvard Law School, and is now
a practicing lawyer,
Alex Alexanderson announced her engage-
ment to John Wallace, of New York, on June 8.
He works for a New York investment house.
Jane Oppenheimer is working for her Ph.D.
at Yale in embryology.
Lynn Lombardi McCormick and M. B,
Holmes Corning both have baby girls.
Margot Reinhardt Pyle's child, Ann Mere-
dith, is a year old now — quite old enough for
reunion, we thought.
Ellen Shaw has been secretary to the Super-
intendent of Schools of Lower Merion Town-
ship during the past year,
Kate Mitchell is about to land from a six-
months trip, on which she has visited China,
Japan and Russia for the Institute for Pacific
Relations.
Hat Moore was studying Russian in Moscow
when last heard of.
Winnie McCully has a job with the New York
Labor Commission, working on the minimum
wage in restaurants in that city.
Kit Coleman is doing volunteer Family Wel-
fare work in Baltimore.
Gene Harman is working on a Washington
newspaper.
Betty Converse has just got her M.A. in
Psychology from the University of Pennsyl-
vania (how many M.A.'s can we boast of
now?), and has been tutoring in Dr. Witmer's
School this winter. She is going abroad again
this summer to pursue the dance.
Mary Foote is working in a library in
New Haven.
Dodo Brown has been taking a business
course at the Katherine Gibbs School this year.
The twins were busy taking exams in
Anthropology at Radcliffe, and to their sorrow
were unable to attend reunion.
A. Lee Hardenbergh (who will be at the
Bryn Mawr Summer School this summer) dis
tinguished herself by coming down with
chickenpox on Monday of Commencenipnl
Week.
We compiled some statistics at the picnic,
and we think we have the record for the num-
ber of wives at the end of our second year out
of college, though we'll have to admit that
some of us have had a little more time than
that. (Please tell us if we have omitted anyone.
Though sixteen of us collaborated in these
statistics, we don't pretend infallibility.) Here
they are, all thirty-three of them: Atmore,
Bauer, Bemis, Beyea, Burnam, Byerly, Comp-
ton, Coss, Crane, Dewes, Field, Gallaudet, Gill,
E. Hall, Holmes, Hughes, Kranz, Livermore,
Lombardi, Maccoun, McCaw, McClure, Peter,
Pleasants, Ralston, Reinhardt, Renner, Sickles,
Swenson, Walker, M. P., Walker, R., Waring,
Yarnelle. And here are those who have an-
nounced their engagements: Alexanderson,
Franchot, Graton (married by now), Putnam,
Saper, Shuttleworth, Young (married by now).
We couldn't possibly name all the children,
but attempted to list their parent and sex:
Field, girl (Class Baby); Peter, girl; Holmes,
girl; Livermore, 2 girls; Lombardi. girl:
McCaw, boy; Reinhardt, girl; Walker, R.. boy;
Yarnelle, boy. Hence, 27V^ per cent, of us
are married. Haven't we heard it quoted that
only 17 per cent of the Bryn Mawr alumnae
marry? We seem to be far beyond the pale
already, A. L. H.
A letter from Monica Brill contains the fol-
lowing news about Tugor and herself: "Grace
Holden left her job with the C. I. T. for the
far more interesting position of reader and
research writer for Mr. Bourjailley, so she sees
more of the couple, Betty Young and her
fiance, than I do." Of herself, Monica write;-^
that she is "doing very little — holding down a
job as secretary, part-time, for a new and
tottering promotion and publicity firm. It has
its amusing side, of course, but it leaves me
plenty of free time. I've grown so bored that
I'm quitting in June to take a vacation."
A letter and visit from Gladys Brinker brings
the information that she has the job teaching
Latin and Ancient History that Pat Stewart ha<l
last year, at Howard Seminary, \^'est Bridge-
water, Mass. "Beep" enjoys the teaching very
much, and has had a wonderful year, barring
the prolonged sub-zero weather and the neces-
sity of chaperonig at dances. Pat Stewart, she
says, loves her job at Kent Place School, in
Summit, N. J., and gets in to New York quite
a lot. Susie Graham is at home this year
again, but is taking chemistry at Furman Uni-
versity, at Greenville, S. C. Betty Hall Patton
is in Pitman. N. J., and is very Avell and has
an adorable house. Betty had a very narrow
escape at Thanksgiving, when slie was thrown
from a car just before the gas tank exploded,
and the car was burned before anything could
he done to save it.
Jo Graton was married on June Ihtli fn
Philip Wigglesworth Chase. A. Lee Harden-
bergh, Sylvia Bowditch and Betsy Jackson
were among the bridesmaids. The bride and
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groom have left for Mexico, where their address
will be: c/o San Luis Mining Co., Cordova Cia,
Estacion Dimas, Sinaboa.
1933
Class Editor: Margaret Ullom
160 Carpenter Lane, Germantown, Phila.
REUNION NOTES
Twenty of our loyal classmates turned up
for our first reunion in Wyndham Garden on
June 2, and though we were somewhat formal
and freshman-like at first, by the time we had
reached the excellent chicken salad we had
caught up on practically all the news of the
intervening year. Then, while we indulged in
ice cream, Virginia Atmore, Chairman of the
Finance Committee of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, explained the uses of and the need for
our contributions to the Alumnae fund. Follow-
ing this came our own business meeting, pre-
sided over by Eleanor Collins, during which we
voted that if at any time our bank balance of
about $45 should diminish to its S30 limit,
each member of the class should be assessed
$1. However, for the encouragement of all,
may it be known that this is not an imminent
possibility, since there seem to be no expenses
except occasional postage. The class officers
elected for the coming year are as follows:
President: Eleanor Collins.
Vice-President: Matilda McCracken,
Secretary: Ella Berkeley.
Class Collector: Margaret Carson.
Reunion Manager: Evelyn Remington.
Class Editor: Margaret Ullom.
Those present at this first reunion were:
Jeannette LeSaulnier, Fritzi Oldach, Ellen
Nichols, Marg Carson, Sue Savage, Jeannette
Markell, Mary Swenson, Boots Grassi, Tilly
McCracken, Ruth Lyman, Kay Pier, E. Collins,
Evie Remington, Yeakel, Libby Mead, Harriet
Hunter, Mabel Meehan, Mary Taussig, Mar-
jorie Trent, Emily Smyth, and ourselves.
Almost all of these and a number of others
rose early enough to attend one of Miss Park's
inimitable breakfasts given on Sunday for our
class and the Class of 1932.
Appropriate to the month are the many
engagements of which we have recently heard.
In fact, Jeane Darlington is one up on us, for
since the first of June she has been Mrs.
Charles Feld. Harriet Hunter, who came east
from Chicago to be maid of honor, tells us
that after a honeymoon in Bermuda, Jeane
and her husband will live in Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
But we don't dare to mention that Mabel
Meehan caught the bridal bouquet, since she
threatened to withhold interesting information
if we did.
Martha Tipton is to be married to Joseph
Johnson, of Nashville, Tenn., on the 13th of
June. The wedding will take place at
West Point with all due ceremony, such as
brass buttons and arches of swords.
Annamae Grant has announced her engage-
ment to Edward Cornish, the brother of Sylvia
and Mimi, and we believe is to be married
shortly. We have also heard that Alexandra
Lee is engaged to Jastrow Levin, the brother
of Eva Leah. Blanche Shapiro is engaged to
Sylvester Rothenberg, a graduate of the
Columbia School of Dentistry. Maizie-Louise
Cohen is engaged to Mitchell Rubin, of the
Department of Pediatrics at the University of
Pennsylvania, And Ceci Candee, aside from
having a job with the New York Times, is
going to marry Bob Hilton.
The other bits and pieces are: Kay Pier is
graduating from Barnard and next year intends
to do graduate work in geology at Columbia.
Nancy Hoyt is studying at the London School
of Economics, and Becky Wood, as we under-
stand it, has done so well in her work at Penn
that she has managed to cover two years in
one. Sidda Bowditch, who has been traveling
through Europe, expected to be home in time
for reunion, but most unfortunately was de-
layed in Paris by illness. And last but not
least, hearsay has it that Betty Kindleberger
has been organizing trade unions among the
garment workers.
We ourselves intend to struggle valiantly
with Business School again this summer, bur-
dened only by the thought that our right-hand
man, Tilly McCracken, is leaving us to go
abroad in July. Therefore we hopefully solicit
all and sundry news.
1934
Class Editor: Nancy Hart
214 Belleville Ave., Bloomfield, N. J.
Our permanent class officers are as follows:
President: Molly Nichols.
Vice-President, Josephine Rothermel.
Secretary-Treasurer, Lula Bowen.
Margaret Haskell is to be Class Collector,
Polly Barnitz our representative to the Alumnae
Council to be held at the Deanery next Novm-
ber, and Nancy Hart Class Editor.
The class includes two June brides: Bunny
Marsh was married last month to Sheldon
Luce, and Marjorie Lee to Jack Foster. Peggy
Dannenbaum's wedding to Edwin Wolf, II,
will take place early in July. They are going
to England for their honeymoon.
As President Park announced aft Commence-
ment, Libby Hannan has been awarded a grad-
uate scholarship in history at Radcliffe next
year, and Betti Goldwasser will hold one in
economics.
Suzanne Halstead has a Carnegie Scholar-
ship which she will use to study archaeology at
the University of Paris for six weeks this
summer. Evelyn Patterson is also going to
study there. The two of them sailed June 23.
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Ans. To the lower end of the Lake; not to the Camp.
Ques. What do the Campers live in?
Ans. Mostly in tents very comfortably eqtiipped. Theii
Ques. Who goes to the Camp?
Ans. People like yourself. Single men and women
Ques. Who runs the Camp?
Ans. A large family of Philadelphia Quakers, colle
Ques. What sort of life does the Camp offer?
Ans. Boring to those who have to have "amusemen
who love the woods.
Ques. Is the food good?
Ans. Absolutely.
Ques. Have the rates been reduced?
Ans. Yes.
Ques. When does the Camp close ?
Ans. September 8.
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liole families.
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Vol. XIV NOVEMBER, 1934 No. 8
No college occasion ever seems quite as interesting or significant as does the
first Chapel of the year to any one who is a little outside the college community
yet keenly interested in it. The college authorities have already accepted the
Freshmen and formed some opinion of them as a group and even begun to think
of them as an integral part of the college life. It is that half-mythical creature,
the interested bystander in the back of the hall, who is aware of the shock of
interest as she sees them gathered together, looking extraordinarily young and gay.
alertly appreciative of what President Park has to say to them. Very quickly she
makes them feel a part of the world of scholars which seems to be a busy as well
as a contemplative world, with a constant coming and going, on this quest or that.
The various announcements that are given, almost as a matter of routine, gain a
new significance if one thinks of them as making somehow a picture of the intel-
lectual world in which the scholar moves, a romantic figure, journeying to the
pleasant places of the earth, excavating here, following a clue there, along her
given line of research. Scholarship becomes high adventure. Yet more significant
than this is the challenge, in one term or another, that President Park always
gives the Freshmen to think straight and fearlessly; so that world, of which they
are to be a part for four years, is no quiet retreat but an integral part of the other
world in which they will later take their places. It is in the best tradition of
a Liberal Arts college like Bryn Mawr, to educate its students not only in facts
but in a habit of mind, in an attitude toward life, if one may use a rather over-
weighted phrase, that will enable them to distinguish between the good and the
meretricious, between genuine freedom of mind and spirit, and a mere semblance
of it, so that whatever the trend of civilization may be they can think and act like
adult and civilized human beings. They will, because of this training, distrust
panaceas, but they will, one hopes, in the course of the four years ahead of them,
realize that only education in its broadest sense can integrate the warring factors
with which they ultimately will have to deal.
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PRESIDENT PARK'S ADDRESS TO THE FRESHMEN
I have said before and said often^ schools and colleges have been unbelievably
slow to recognize that ways of educating must at once be devised which will pre-
pare the young woman or man to meet not a stable but an agitated and hesitating
world. Earlier educational plans moved toward valuable ends^ — training of the
mind^ accumulation of knowledge^ perfection of technique^ niceness of distinction,
aesthetic enjoyment — and bent the lines of school and college toward them. Then
a new set of conditions appeared in the American world of which the student
formed part. In too many cases^ so far as curricula and method of teaching were
concerned^ we still sat at ease in Zion^, and directed our students in accordance with
an earlier point of view. Now more experienced observers than I believe the future
may be as sharply marked off from the immediate present as the immediate present
is from the past. I am not wise enough to lay down precisely what the correspond-
ing changes in the ends of teaching everywhere must be. Two changes of emphasis,
however^ seem clearly necessary. The student who is certain to meet new and
unexpected situations should know how to test facts and to validate conclusions,
should distinguish between sand and rock as foundations for the structure. And
not only should everything be done to train her mind to be clear and logical, but
also to make her alert and inventive. And I think that at the same time the college
should do something more to make her understand the ways and causes of human
action, so that she can work effectively with other j^eople, and that where it is
possible it should try to strengthen in her and not weaken the qualities of per-
sistence and courage.
All this I have said before and emphasized it because it concerned so imme-
diately our admissions policy, our curriculum, our daily routine. But in all such
discussion the permanence of the essentials of the college has^ I believe, been
implicit. The core of its character can not be changed. That character is its
reason for existence, for its numbers are insignificant ; with all the variety of Fresh-
men we can muster the students do not represent America at large ; it is only one
of many places where women can study. Its character is its dower. I can, of
course, speak only of the essentials of Bryn Mawr as I see them. Do those who
know the College agree with me in my statement of them and in my growing belief
that they lead the College to a definite stand in the questions at issue in the world?
In its almost fifty years of existence, Bryn Mawr has consistently rested its
academic policies and its training of its students as members of society and as
citizens on two things. The first is a genuine confidence in and a respect for the
human intelligence. The second is a belief in liberty and a conviction that life
carried on in an atmosphere of liberty is fruitful, and equally that life in an
atmosphere of restraint is sterile. On these beliefs not only were the plans of
instruction of the College based and its life organized, but in its little world intelli-
gence was recognized and action was free to follow judgment. And in the far more
difficult world outsidc;, the graduates of the College kept to a high degree the same
confidence in intelligence and in freedom. They prized the way of living which was
possible in an atmosphere of intelligence and liberty, they worked for what ad-
vanced one or the other, they believed themselves in a great tradition in which
women had not long shared. Perhaps it is a kind of back-handed proof of what I
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say that Bryn Mawr and its daughters sometimes showed the faidts of these vir-
tues— some slight over-confidence in the brain and some slight over-emphasis on a
policy of non-interference with themselves !
Now in the hesitating and agitated world outside our tiny oasis tliese prin-
ciples are being attacked botli by the Right and by the Left, 'i'he reasons for tlieir
points of view are clear enough^ and books and newspapers are too full of their
assaults to make it necessary for me to do more this morning than indicate their
odd similarity;, their bitterness and their reiteration. Reactionaries and radicals,
fascists and communists alike^, declare the principles of our foundation discredited,
the way of life built on them dead, and the world about to divide into two sharply
opposed parties, botii equally denying our articles of faith. Alike they try to drag
us into their worlds of propaganda, of deliberate violence, of the autocratic rule
of the small group complemented by the obedience of tlie majority.
I have spoken of Bryn Mawr because I know that College best and because I
am speaking before its students. But the tradition of tlie American college is on
the whole one with ours, its position is ours and for all of us there is, I believe, at
the moment the same duty. As institutions and as individual persons we must show
ourselves not academic and passive believers in a pretentious creed, but active
fighters for a practical one. Political liberalism, the politicd outgrowth of belief
in human intelligence and human freedom, may be dead. Init human intelligence
itself, human freedom itself, is not dead. Neither Hitler nor Stalin can make me
believe that opinion can stay forcibly unified. Courage is not dead and action will
still follow on thought.
The doctrines of the extremists on either side are drawn in black and white.
They promise immediate punishments and rewards, and it is easy to underline them
with emotion. We of the centre are completely without melodrama and must be,
but I think we must try to see that our position is drawn in firm outline and that it
has constant and courageous repetition. Its connection with both conservative and
radical must be clear, its desire to use the past and to direct the future. If wt
can not have a party of our own, if no Republican Lincoln and no Democratic
Jefferson appears as our prophet, we can support anywhere men or policies whicli
bear the liberal mark. We can protest abuses, we can disbelieve jn-opaganda, we
can set ourselves against the growing militarism which is like a j^istol in an angry
man's hand. And most practical of all, we- — the untrained as well as tlie trained —
can aid in experiments which seem to fulfil our conditions, whether, as PrcsiiUiil
Hopkins of Dartmouth suggests, we are the great company of "provers"' or the
small company of devisers. When the use of the intelligence and the right to liberty
in America is attacked, we are attacked; when they ;\yv restricted our own ground
is narrowed. I think it is a close bet whether Mussolini or the U. S. S. R. wduld
more quickly close an endowed liberal arts college for women ! Wlu^thcr wi> can be
of service either offensive or defensive, either as a grou]) of institutions or as indi-
viduals, either in support of brains in action or in defense of freedom attacked, we
can not afford to fail to appear. And if in the end we as a generation fail, if as
Ortega asserts, Christians, liberals, idealists are already as good as dead, let us
rest assured that we shall have immediate successors. It was a wise man who long
ago put in a sentence for all generations our articles of faith: "Ye shall knmv the
truth and the truth shall make you free."
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THE ACTIVITIES OF THE EXPEDITION SENT BY
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE AND THE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA TO
CILICIA IN ASIA MINOR
(This article by Miss Ooldman embodies the Report sent to the Turkish Government,
•with a few additional comments.)
We met in Istanbul on April 8th and traveled over land by way of Ankara
and Kaisari to Adana, which was to be the headquarters of the expedition. On
reaching Ankara we called at the American Embassy, where we were assured that
the present government takes a keen interest in archaeological enterprises. The
embassy was helpful to us in many ways and immediately undertook to arrange
for our meetings with the interested authorities.
On the afternoon of the same day we met Hamit Subeyr Bey, Director General
of Antiquities for the whole of Turkey. He is a man of keen intelligence, great
energy and considerable archaeological knowledge, who understands the importance
of research not only in Cilicia but in all of the unexplored region of Southern
Anatolia. He was greatly pleased with the present I had brought of Miss Swindler's
book on Ancient Painting and my own on Eutresis. They are trying to build up
libraries in the more important cities, but have not the money to make many pur-
chases. He wanted to know precisely in what region we intended to choose a site
and I indicated the region lying between Tarsus towards the west and Missis on
the Pyramos River (Jeihan) to the east. The Tarsus Missis line is that of the
ancient highway between Cilicia and Syria, and the easiest pass through the Taurus
Mountains leading from the Hittite country to Cilicia lies directly to the north of
Tarsus. The bulk of intercourse and trade between Syria and that part of the
Hittite empire which occupied the Anatolian high plateau must have passed along
this highway. With the exception, therefore, of the coast towns the most important
sites of the Cilician plain are included in the region for which I asked. Hamit
immediately acquiesced and on the following day, when he took us to see Hikmet
Bey, the Minister of Education, he also supported my request that we be allowed
to make soundings at a number of sites before choosing one for more thorough
investigation. The only condition attached was that we make them together with
the local museum of Adana and that the finds be handed over to the museum. This
condition proved to be greatly to our advantage, as it attached to our work an
inspector who undertook all negotiations with the local people.
On April 14th we left Ankara and stopped a day at Kaisari to see the museum,
which is rich in Hittite sculpture, and also to visit the great site of Kill Tepe,
where thousands of tablets had been found. We reached Adana the next morning,
and immediately called at the museum. The director, Halil Kamil Bey, was
courteous and obliging. He was to accompany us on all of our excursions and
arrange for our soundings. By April 17th we were started on our reconnaissance.
At the request of Halil Kamil Bey I presented at the end of the season the
following brief account of the activities of the archaeological expedition to Cilicia
sent out by Bryn Mawr College and the Archaeological Institute of America (the
account of the soundings has been made more detailed for the Bulletin) :
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The staff consisted of Hetty Goldman, Ph.D., Field Director, Mr. Robert
Ehrich, A.B. and A.M. of Harvard University, Arcliaeologist and Anthropologist,
and Miss Ann Hoskin, European Fellow in Archaeology of Bryn Mawr College.
For a brief period Dr. Emil Forrer, well-known Hittite scliolar, joined the staff
while they were doing reconnaissance work, and he later took part in the sound-
ings at the mound of Tarsus.
The work of the expedition may be divided into two parts: (1), Reconnaissance
Work; (2), Soundings at Selected Mounds or Hiiyiiks. The object of the Recon-
naissance work was to study the geographical distribution of the mounds with an
eye to the ancient concentration of populations and the highways along which their
settlements lay: to determine from archaeological material picked up on the surface,
such as pottery sherds, stone and bone artifacts, etc., as far as possible the differ-
ent cultural periods represented and their extraneous connections, and to compile
a list of sites available for excavation.
The soundings, while they contributed valuable material for the studies begun
in the Reconnaissance work, had primarily the practical aim of aiding the expedi-
tion in choosing wisely a site for more prolonged and intensive work. For it is
the hope and intention of this expedition to carry on work in Cilicia for some time
to come and to make a -thorough study, on the basis of archaeological material, of
its culture and history, with special emphasis on the early periods. These are at
present practically unknown, as up to now no archaeological field work has been
carried on in this region.
I. The Reconnaissance
The expedition reached Adana on April 16th and immediately called upon the
Vali of the Vilayet, who had been apprised of their coming. He expressed his
willingness to aid the expedition in every way.
The region to be investigated lay roughly between Tarsus and Missis in an
East-West direction, and the environs of Adana and the sea from North to South.
On April 17th we studied the mounds of Zeytinli (a larger and a smaller
mound) and were immediately struck by the richness of the painted material from
the larger mound. The smaller mound, too, was of interest, as it seemed of later
date, covering the Iron Age and showing analogies in the style of pottery witli
Cyprus and Northern Syria.
On April 18th the investigation of mounds west of Adana was carried as far
as Tarsus, taking in the very interesting mound of Kabarsa, about 9 kilometers
east of the city, and the mound of Dua Tepe on the southwest edge of the city
of Tarsus itself.
On April 19th the mounds southeast of Adana were visited, and on the follow-
ing day those which lie between Adana and ^lissis. Two more days (April *20tli
and 21st) were given to the study of the Missis- Jeihan river region, and on the
24th of the month a short excursion was made 14 kilometers north of Adana, which
led to the discovery of the very interesting mound of Velicen, about 1 kilometer
east of the village of Kasli Keci. It lies in the angle of the rivers Seihan and
Cakit, and seems to correspond to the city mentioned in Hittite archives as the
first one to be conquered when the Hittite rulers marched south to subdue Cilicia.
then known as Arzawa.
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On April 23rd Dr. Forrer arrived in Adana arid we again traveled southeast-
ward as far as Ayas, where there are interesting ruins of Byzantine and Mediaeval
times. On the way to Ayas the important mound of Domuz Tepe^ on the east bank
of the river Jeihan and lying between the villages of Sadye and Kel Tepe^ was
studied. Again on the basis of Hittite texts it may, according to Dr. Forrer, be
identified as the City of Puranda, important in the annals of the second millen-
nium B. C.
In all, observations were made and pottery collected on forty-two Cilician
mounds.
II. The Soundings
After the trips made in the environs of Adana for the study of mounds, the
mound of Zeytinli was chosen as the scene of our first sounding. We determined
to dig one deep pit near the summit and a number of smaller ones at various points
on the slopes. After a short trial the excavators found that the stratification of
the mound had been greatly disturbed by the digging of military trenches and by
deep grain pits, and that it would therefore not be a good place for more pro-
longed investigation. After sounding six days the excavation was closed. It had
yielded valuable painted ceramic material, some of which was intact and much of
which could be restored and completed to make whole vases. The stratigraphy,
especially of the upper layers, was, however, hopelessly confused.
The second mound chosen for sounding was Kabarsa, near the village of
Yunus Oglou and lying directly on the road between Adana and Tarsus. Unlike
Zeytinli, which was probably not occupied after the first centuries of the first
millennium B. C, Kabarsa has traces of both Greek and Roman occupation. The
later material, however, is found on two low subsidiary elevations, and in no way
interfered with the stratification of the prehistoric town. This, fortunately, seemed
to be intact. A long trench was started on the summit of the hill, which at the
close of the sounding measured 15 meters in length. This was intended to reveal
the uppermost strata, where the painted pottery was most abundant. For the study
of the deeper strata a pit was dug on the west slope of the mound. This mound,
probably on account of its proximity to Tarsus, the ancient capital of the region,
immediately produced varied material which pointed to trade relations with other
countries. It included faience beads, worked and ornamented bone resembling
pieces both from Alisar Hiiyiik and Troy, and a very interesting cylinder seal
related to archaic Mesopotamian types. In addition there were stone house foun-
dations, some with the kerpic superstructure still partially preserved, stone arti-
facts, and simple bone utensils. In the pit, while it could not be carried down to
virgin soil, we penetrated far enough to establish the fact that a stratum contain-
ing dark and light red hand-polished pots existed under the layer in which painted
ware was abundant. On May 14th the work was interrupted by a heavy rainfall,
which lasted for a number of days and made the trenches on the Hiiyiik a sea of
mud. As enough work had been done to show that Kabarsa was a mound which
would amply repay further investigation, the excavation was closed.
Domuz Tepe, were one to judge by size alone, was evidently one of the more
important cities of ancient Cilicia. It was occupied throughout the Hellenistic and
into Roman times, but the later deposits do not appear to be particularly deep.
There are also in the immediate neighborhood tumuli burials and rock-cut chamber
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tombs which must be the graves of wealthy and important citizens^ or^ more prob-
ably, of ruling- princes. Here again two trenches were dug: a pit was carried down
to virgin soil, and a long cutting along the southwest slope of the mound. The pit
gave clear evidence that underneath the layer witli painted pottery of a type
already familiar from the soundings at Zeytin and Kabarsa, lay a second stratum
with painted pottery of a simpler style of liand-made bowls. Together with tliis
earlier style of painted ware went hand-polished wares, usually with a dark sur-
face. The long trench showed the stratification of successive building periods very
clearly. Very heavy walls were encountered at every level, even within fifty centi-
meters of virgin soil, and there can be little doubt that a more prolonged in\esti-
gation would reveal a network of important buildings. In tliis trench, too, much
pottery was found, including highly polished red sherds resembling Hittite ware
which may point to distinct northern connections. Some time after the actual
sounding operations were finished, the excavators were busy making an accurate
contour map of the site. A similar map was made of Kabarsa.
Our investigations towards the west stopped at Mersina, where there is a
mound which yielded a few Mycenaean sherds. Between Tarsus and Mersina lies
the mound of Karaduvar near the coast, probably the site of ancient Anchiale.
where the Assyrian King Setinacherib is said to have set up a stele commemorating
his conquest of Cilicia. This site, which is about half the length of the Tarsus
mound, Dua Tepe, but of almost equal height, is undoubtedly of great importance.
It is undisturbed, as far as I could see, and pottery of Mycenaean type, both
imported and of local manufacture, was found there.
On June 15th we returned to Adana, where I had rented a house. My inten-
tion was to bring our work to a close by the end of June. We had, however,
received in the meantime an invitation from Tarsus to sound Dua Tepe. It came
as a surprise, as the mound has been used as a public park and planted witli trees.
It seemed to me that this sign of interest and cooperation on the part of the people
of Tarsus ought to be met half-way, and I therefore decided to go to Tarsus despite
the lateness of the season.
The expedition moved there on June 30th, and on July 1st started soundings
on the mound of Dua Tepe, situated at the southwest corner of the city. Dua Tepe
is twice as big as any other mound in the Cilician plain, and tlic greater numbei
of the mounds are less than one-third in size. The western end of the mound liad
been cut down to provide a level space for a modern school building, and in the
cutting it is possible to see strata which date from Roman to early prehistoric
times. Tarsus, we know from records, was the capital of ancient Cilicia already
in the second millennium, and possibly much earlier. To excavate it thorougldy
would be an expensive and prolonged undertaking. But undoubtedly if tlicre were
written records and government archives, they would have been located here.
Dr. Emil Forrer joined the party for this last sounding. The trencli on the
summit was ^unk in a disturbed area, but the general succession of ceramic
styles could nevertheless be determined. For the first time we came upon
Arabic material. Part of a villa was uncovered. The pottery consisted of thin-
walled clay vessels with impressed designs and lead-glazed wares. A second trencli
was dug at the steepest point on the side of the hill, and here in a small but com-
pletely undisturbed area we were able to reach a depth of some 14 meters. Again
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as at Domuz Tepe the town of the Greek period produced pottery of the Cypriote
Iron Age and at the lowest level;, that is, at about 14 meters, we came upon red
polished ware with white-filled incision and black slipped ware both strongly
reminiscent of the early and middle Bronze Ages of Cyprus. The sherds were too
small to indicate either shapes or complete designs, but while the resemblance with
Cyprus is unmistakable, it is hardly probable that the wares are identical, as was
the case in the Iron Age. It may well be that Cyprus was first populated by
people from Cilicia. Mersina is the only harbor on the south Anatolian coast which
has a fertile hinterland and offers easy communication with north and east. Even
today many Cypriotes are found in Adana and Mersina, and in the great exchange
of populations between Greece and Turkey the Moslem inhabitants of the islands,
especially of Crete, were transferred to this same region. The Mycenaean period
was again represented by a single vase and a fragment of another, this time the
neck of a stirrup vase, but there was more sub-Mycenaean pottery than at other
sites. Here, too, we found Hittite polished ware in greater quantity, though not
particularly well preserved. Among other finds should be mentioned fragments of
Roman lamps and terra cottas ; pyramidal stamp seals of clay, dating probably
from the Ninth or Eighth Century; numerous incised whorls of a type also found
at Kabarsa and Puranda; part of a primitive idol of clay; a stone weight engraved
with geometrical designs, resembling one found at Alisar, and many artifacts of
stone. Jewelry was represented by a piece of a marble bracelet and a single
bronze earring. If it is remembered that all of this material was gathered from
a very small area (for the greater the depth the narrower the trench becomes), it
seems to me that one might expect a great variety of interesting finds at Tarsus in
addition to the solution of important archaeological problems. Mention, too, should
be made of rows of giant pithoi, which suggest analogies with the storerooms of
Cretan and other palaces. The size of the mound, about 300 meters in length,
more than triple that of any other in the Cilician plain, around Adana, the history
of Tarsus in Hittite times and its importance during the Roman epoch, point to a
site of unusual interest and importance, the thorough investigation of which would
do much to recover the early history of the region. The excavation of Dua Tepe
at Tarsus, while it would be difficult on account of the depth at which the early
material is found, would undoubtedly reward us with definite knowledge of the
connection between Cilicia and the Aegean, and Cilicia and the Hittite country to
the north. How much light it would throw upon the Achaean problem it is diffi-
cult to say, but it is not at all improbable that if there was a settlement of
Mycenaean traders at Tarsus itself they had a quarter of their own, just as the
Assyrian merchants are known to have had in many towns in Asia Minor.
The site next in importance to Tarsus is Karaduvar, covering the town knowji
as Anchiale in historic times. To judge by the height of the mound it must be as
old as Tarsus and its proximity to the sea and the harbor of Mersina makes it a
more likely location for a Mycenaean or Achaean colony. This is borne out by
the amount of Mycenaean surface material. The excavation of either of these sites
can be recommended with confidence that the results will be both interesting and
important.
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PROGRAM FOR THE ALUMNAE COUNCIL
The Deanery, Bryn Mawr, November 8th, 9th and 1 0th
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8+h
12.30 p.m. Members of the Council will be the guests at luncheon of Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895.
President of the Alumnae Association.
2.00 p. m. Opening of the Council Business Sessions.
Discussion of Financial Problems of the Association, including plans for the Fiftieth
Anniversary of the Founding of the College.
4.00 p. m. The Council will visit the Gymnasium Classes and watch a Hockey Game.
5.00 p. m. The Council will be guests of President Park at her house at Tea to meet members
of the Faculty and Instructing Staff.
6.30 p. m. The District Councillors will be guests at Dinner at the Deanery of Elizabeth Y.
Maguire, 1913, Chairman of the Scholarships and Loan Fund Committee, followed
by a Conference on Scholarships.
8.30 p. m. The Council will attend a conference of students and faculty under the auspices of
the Department of Politics, led by DR. VERA MiChHELES DEAN, of the Foreign
Policy Association, Visiting Lecturer under the Anna hloward Shaw Memorial
Foundation.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 9th
9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon.
The Council will visit classes and laboratories under the guidance of a committee of
faculty and students.
12.30 p.m. Members of the Council will be guests at luncheon of h^arriet Price Phipps, 1923,
Councillor for District II.
1.30 p.m. Business Session.
Reports from the District Councillors and the Chairman of the Scholarship and Loan
Fund Committee.
Discussion of other Association activities, led by the Chairmen of the Standing
Committees of the Association.
Report of the Special Committee on Alumnae Relations with the College, led by
Helen Evans Lewis, 1913, Chairman.
8.00 p.m. Dinner at the Acorn Club, Philadelphia (Tickets $2.00)
PRESIDENT PARK will speak on the College.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER lOth
9.30 a. m. Phases of the College:
The Undergraduate Point of View as presented by members of the Classes of
1934 and 1935.
The Graduate School, as presented by a Resident Fellow.
The Board of Directors of the College, as presented by the Senior Alumnae
Director.
The Faculty — Dean Manning, Professor Marlon Parrls Sinlth and other members of
the Faculty.
1.00 p.m. Formal adjournment of the Council.
1.15 p.m. Buffet Luncheon at the Deanery (Tickets $.75)
3.00 p. m. Unveiling of the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial Tablet In ihe Library Cloisters.
PRESIDENT-EMERITUS THOMAS will speak.
8.15 p.m. Undergraduate Play in Goodhart Hall.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Nth
5.00 p. m. Music in the Deanery.
7.30 p.m. Religious Service in the Music Room, Goodhart Hall.
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THE PRESIDENTS PAGE
SOME OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE BY PRESIDENT PARK
TO THE STUDENTS
Dr. Olga Gushing Leary has been appointed Acting Physician for the year.
Dr. Leary was graduated with honors at Smith College and received the degree of
Doctor of Medicine magna cum laude at the Tufts College Medical School in 1930.
She held a two year internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital and at its
close was asked to return for a year as Assistant Chief Resident Physician in
charge of the Nurses' Infirmary of the hospital. During the past year Dr. Leary
has been working in the Department of Pathology of the Medical School of the
University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her work as Physician of the College,
Dr. Leary will give the hygiene lectures which are required of members of the
Sophomore class.
* * *
The College is full. There are 388 undergraduate students, that is, three
more than last year, and Wyndham is open again.
* * *
The number of resident graduate students is approximately the same as last
year, 59; the number of non-resident and part-time students has decreased, an
indication, I trust, of more regular employment and less enforced leisure in the
neighborhood. The present registration of the graduate school is 89. Among them
are the Workman Fellow of '32-33, Elizabeth Foley, returning to complete her
work for the Doctor's degree, and Margaret Hastings and Irmgard Wirth Taylor,
the Garrett and Ottendorfer Fellows of last year respectively. Honor McCusker,
earlier scholar and then a fellow in English at Bryn Mawr, comes back as scholar,
an "M.A. with distinction" — an unusual achievement — from the University of
London, in her hand. Adelaide Davidson, who held the Arnold Fellowship from
Brown University last year, has been awarded it a second time, and Constance
Hyslop, Mount Holyoke, 1928, comes to Bryn Mawr on a Mount Holyoke 1905
Fellowship. On the fellowships given by Bryn Mawr itself twenty-two young and
able students will work this year at the College; as scholars, twenty-eight. Among
them the Earlham College Scholar, Etta Albrecht, is welcome doubly — not only
for the sake of the American college at which she graduated and which sends her
here as an honor student, but also because she is the daughter of Johannes Albrecht,
clerk of the German Society of Friends and honored by all members of the Society
in America. The graduate students in mathematics are a noteworthy group, for
they have been chosen because of their ability to profit by the work of Dr. Emmy
Noether, Visiting Professor in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr for her second year.
You all know that a joint award from the Committee on Displaced German Scholars
and the Rockefeller Foundation last year enabled the College to invite this dis-
tinguished German scholar to Bryn Mawr for a two-year term, and the Math-
ematical Department and the College have exerted themselves to give the prized
opportunity of her seminaries to as many advanced students in her field as possible.
At the recommendation of tlie Department of Mathematics^ and Dr. Noether herself,
tlie College has awarded fellowships or scholarships in mathematics to Dr. Olga
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Taussky, of the University of Vienna, as Foreign Scholar; Dr. Carolyn Grace
Shover, of Ohio State University, as Emmy Noether Fellow ; Miss Madeline Levin,
A.B. Hunter College and M.A. Bryn Mawr, as Fellow in Mathematics; Dr. Marie
Johanna Weiss, of Stanford University, who held a National Research Fellowship
at the University of Chicago 1928-30, as Emma Noether Scholar in Mathematics;
and to Ruth Caroline Stauffer, A.B. Swarthmore College and M.A. Bryn Mawr, as
Scholar (in mathematics) of the Society of Pennsylvania Women in New York.
Still on the Bryn Mawr books, though actually far from Bryn Mawr itself,
are the European Fellows of the College. The Workman Fellow of 1933, Ann
Hoskin, is in Cyprus studying its prehistoric pottery in relation to the pottery
fragments picked up by Miss Goldman and herself in Cilicia in the spring. The
Workman Fellow of 1934<, Maude Frame, left early in the summer to do in conti-
nental galleries and museums the informal sight-seeing necessary for her thesis on
Conceptions of Space in Italian Renaissance Painting, from there to go to Oxford
for more formal work in aesthetics this winter. Emma Hope Broome, Garrett Fel-
low, sailed recently for England and will work at Newnham College, Cambridge,
on a problem of Syriac Texts of the New Testament. Elizabeth Mackenzie, Bryn
Mawr European Fellow of the Class of 1934, also sailed for England in September
and will also work at Newnham College, Cambridge, in the field of Seventeenth
Century Literature. Mary Chalmers, Fellow in German last year, has left for
Vienna to work on an Austro-America Exchange Scholarship for the year at the
University. Harriet Moore, European Fellow of 1932, is still abroad, in Russia
at last accounts.
* * *
Three new members of the faculty come from Harvard — Dr. Arthur Cope
to the Department of Chemistry, Dr. Carl Anderson to the Department of Eco-
nomics, and Mr. Harold Wethey to the Department of History of Art. Dr. Howard
Brinton, of the Mills College Faculty and this year Acting Head of Pendle Hill,
gives the course in History of Religions. Miss Margaret Palfrey, from Smith Col-
lege, comes as Instructor in the Department of English. Professor Helson, of the
Department of Psychology, will not take his leave of absence this year. Miss Glen
will take a year in England. Her course in Seventeenth Century literature will
be taken by Mrs. Kirk, and Miss Woodworth will offer an elective course in
Aspects of Romanticism. Miss Laurence Stapleton, A.B. Smith College, 1932, and
Smith College Research Fellow at the University of London 1932-33, has been
appointed Instructor in English.
You will see that Merion has a new roof, paid for by ourselves, and that
Goodhart has several rather resplendent additions, given by a friend of tlic College
— new lanterns along the driveway, from the music room a fire escape disguised
as a romantic balcony, both the work of INIr. Samuel Ycllin. one of the best known
workers in wrought iron in this country; and a brightly hued garden set in the
little court outside the music and common room entrance. Radnor's friends and
many of its students have given its dining room a soundproof ceiling.
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BALLOT
District Councillors for Term of Office 1935-38
COUNCILLOR FOR DISTRICT III.
(Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida)
MARGARET HOBART MYERS, 1911
(Mrs. George Myers, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee) *
Librarian of the Church Missions House, 1912-14; Special Representative of the Edu-
cational Secretary of the Episcopal Board of Missions for the Panama Pacific Exposition,
1914-15; Assistant to the Educational Secretary, Church Missions House, New York City,
1911-17; former Associate Editor, The Churchman, New York City; Head of the Bairnwicke
School, small private school for the children of the Faculty of the University of the South.
COUNCILLOR FOR DISTRICT VI.
(Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico)
MARY BOLLANO TAUSSIG, 1930
St. Louis, Missouri
Chairman, St. Louis Committee of Junior Division of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra;
Chairman, Junior Grand Opera Committee; Junior League Provisional Committee; Social
Service Work.
Nominated by the Nominating Committee.
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft^ 1898, Chairman.
NATIONAL COLLEGE DAY
On October 22nd, about 250 members o£ the Alumnae Clubs of Barnard,
Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley, in and
around Philadelphia met jointly at the Deanery. Throughout the country from
Maine to San Francisco similar groups met to hear distinguished local speakers
and to listen-in to Mrs. Dwight Morrow, who discussed "The College Graduate
and the New Leisure." Mrs. Morrow said in part: "The liberal college aims to
develop a student as a person, to awaken sensibilities and develop powers which
will make her a more worth-while human being. The wisdom of the college aim
is being shown afresh today when the new leisure is making special demands upon
the spirit." She was preceded at Bryn Mawr by President Park, and by Elizabeth
Forrest Johnson, Vassar, head of the Baldwin School. It is an interesting and
significant thing that all over the country, in small towns as well as in the larger
cities, several hundred thousand college women should have assembled in what
might be termed a national meeting to think about and to discuss college education.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Executive Board is very sorry to announce that it is necessary for
Miss Hawkins to have leave of absence until the middle of the year. They will
miss her greatly in the Alumnae Office and will look forward to her return. The
routine of the office will continue as usual, however, and all communications about
alumnae business should be addressed directly to the Alumnae Office.
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CAMPUS NOTES
Geraldine E. KiioadS;, 1935
At this early date of writing in October, with the smell of fresh paint and
moth balls still in the air, there is comparatively little undergraduate activity of
note. Yet despite the all-engrossing exertions in the fields of interior decorating
and unpacking, everyone on campus has found out by very thorough investigation,
that the summer vacation was a great success. Hallways and smoking rooms were
cluttered with returning students cross-examining eacli other during the first day
or two, so that by this time common knowledge, if not statistics, have it that all
of the undergraduates spent a delightful summer. But much as all of us may have
regretted putting the shining hours of the summer behind us, we returned to find
the same Bryn Mawr that we had left last June, with the exception that the
notices about orals and quizzes, posted to remind us that the long winter nights
are ahead, bear a different date.
Most of the activity on campus at present centers about the Dean's office:
Half of the College swarms about Taylor in a vain effort to change its schedule
of courses, while the other half shrinks from the fray and Taylor altogetlier.
Definitely, the midnight communion with word lists is just beginning. The return
of the upperclassmen was much too exciting to provoke the scholarly spirit, in any
event. Their arrival, although marked by much pomp, was so noisy and enthusiastic
and their interest so great in such additions to the College as the new lamps and
fire escape on Goodhart, the new roof on Merion, and even such small changes as
new ash trays in the smoking room that they might quite easily Iiave been taken
for the "rah-rah" collegiate type that experts have declared extinct for some years
now. For the moment they contrasted extraordinarily with the Freshaien wlio had
lived in Bryn Mawr for four days and who had used their time in Fresliman Week
to such advantage that they were already feeling very mucli at liome and took for
granted such trifling matters as lamps on Goodhart and a roof on Merion. After
passing through the rigours of having their voices, eyes, ears, tliroats and noses
examined, after living through the strenuous social wliirl of teas and parties of
Freshman Week, and after the phenomenon. College Life, had become a common-
place to them, came the quiet Sunday and Monday preceding classes when no one
could find work for their idle hands to do. Consequently when the upperclassman
bustled in, she found a blase Fresliman engaged in vicious games of solitaire.
With the official opening of College the situation changed a great deal. The
first chapel of the year more or less marked the beginning of the change in the
attitude of Freshmen to upperclassmen and upperclassmen to Freslimcn. Tlie
upperclassmen, O so wise ! slipped into their familiar ways and were not minded,
for one thing, to hail all of their fellows by shouting from one end of campus to
the other. But most of all. Miss Park's opening speech this year was instrumental
in directing the spirit of the undergraduate body in regard to their college work.
She conveyed to the Freshmen a feeling for the traditions of Bryn Mawr, such
as its regard for scholarship and freedom, together with a feeling for the actual
physical constituents of the College, so that the Freshman could come to an under-
standing with the three upper classes so far as their attitude toward college was
concerned.
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Parade Night was also a big success for the same reason: It helped to acquaint
the Freshman with one of the traditions characteristic of Bryn Mawr. For the
first time in some years^ the Freshmen prevented the Sophomores from getting
their Parade Night tune^
GloriouS;, glorious^
We are the Freshmen victorious . . .
and parodying it. Freshmen tripped and jostled each other down the hill to the
hockey field. The Sophomores had their first real contact with the Freshman class
as '38 dodged and scrambled and fought its way through the circle of Sophomores
around the bonfire. The Juniors^ with sisterly kindness^ asphyxiated themselves
and all bystanders by waving about their red torches to light 38's way down Senior
Row and over the hockey field. And the Seniors — for the first time left out of
the ceremony — came back from Parade Night and^ in an excess of sentiment, took
the Freshmen unto themselves, displayed their white hairs and confessed that in
all their years of experience they had never heard such singing or seen such a
sight as the torchlight procession across campus.
The upperclassmen have thus become better acquainted with the Freshmen,
but still the situation is critical, not to say embarrassing, when the supposedly
omniscient upperclassman has occasion to call a Freshman by name. The upper-
classmen know nothing about the Freshmen individually as yet, but they have
generally observed that 1938 is a remarkable class. Furthermore, their observation
has been so well borne out by the Freshman statistics that they prophesy great
things from the new class. There are 118 Freshmen in the Class of 1938, a smaller
entering class than last year's, but we know they will make up for their smaller
number by the interesting variety of their backgrounds.
Already we are beginning to anticipate a splendid year finding mutual acquaint-
ances in the nineteen states from which they come — and from Syria, where one
member of the class was prepared. We ought to find a great many people in the
class from schools that we attended, for there is greater variety in the schools and
the types of preparation than ever. The percentage prepared entirely by private
schools has gone down to 69 per cent, and the percentage prepared by public
schools has increased to 19 per cent.; preparation by a combination of the two
sorts of schools has decreased. By far the greatest number entered on Plan B,
Plans A and C are well represented, and only three entered on Plan D, without
College Board Examinations of any sort, while we have also included on the list
two with French diplomas, several who entered on New York Regents, three on
the Pennsylvania Study Plan, and one passed on to us by the Oxford-Cambridge
Joint Board.
Of course, in our terror of the unknown Freshman, the first things we want
to know are her age and her I. Q. There is something so essentially private about
ages and I. Q.'s, and figures about them are so perennially concealed or unavail-
able, that everyone in college wants to uncover these particular secrets about 1938.
We were delighted to know that twenty-two of the entering class ranked highest
among the girls graduating from their particular schools, and were immediately
terrified of them because the number of "first girls" is larger this year than last.
As to age, the Sophomores have all taken heart because they have discovered that
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the average age of the class is the same as theirs was a year ago^ and that despite
the mature looks that the Freshmen gave us when we exhibited our cliildish glee
upon first seeing the familiar walls of Bryn IMawr in their freshly painted splendor,
they really range in age from 14 years, 9 months, to 20 years and 1 month, making
an average age of 17 years and 11 months.
Now that we know that we should like to become better acquainted with the
Freshmen, we shall undoubtedly be able to discover even more interesting facts
about them when College and all of the numerous college activities get into full
swing. The Music Room and the cloisters resound now with Sophias, and while
the Freshmen are thus occupied in preparation for Lantern Night, the rest of the
undergraduates are finding their old haunts. The upperclassmen are completing
the year's plans for the various organizations on campus, and, with a little detective
work, the Art Club, the International Relations Club, Varsity Dramatics, the
Self-Government Board, the Undergraduate Association, Varsity Hockey, the
League, the News, and the Lantern may all be tracked down in tlieir various
meeting places.
GIFTS TO GOODHART HALL
To an interested and affectionate observer, the campus always offers a pleasant
spectacle. Now it displays in the region of Goodhart many new beauties. The
entrance to the music wing and the Common Room now curves between box-borders,
behind which bloom masses of winking mary-buds and sweet petunias. Beside the
steps a cryptomeria stands smartly; at the corner droops a Meeping willow. The
garden sheltered by the great nave brings fragrant memories of planted terraces
before English country houses. There is a delightful and surprising suggestion of
informality. That these glories may never be hidden, and for the greater safety
of the passerby, three splendid great lanterns, of a design like that already hang-
ing before the door, now project from the buttressed cloister and the angle.
Mr. Samuel Yellin wrought the iron for the lanterns and for the fire-escape,
disguised as a narrow balcony, which leads from a window of the music room to
the music walk, and so they are perfectly in keeping with his noble work through-
out the building. To the unnamed friend who gave these things, the pleasure and
comfort and safety of the thousands who profit by them will testify their gratitude.
Beatrice McGeorge, 1900.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The board of the Bryn Mawr Camp wishes to thank the Alumnae wlio
responded so generously to the "Dollar Drive" last spring. Their contributions
were deeply appreciated and helped make the summer a success. Interesting plans
for the coming summer are already under way.
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REGIONAL SCHOLARS
There is no call for a New Deal in connection with Regional Scholarships.
Free competition in connection with just the right amount of regimentation seems
to result year after year in supplying the College with a great variety of students
who are in every way an addition to the College, and whose presence on the
campus is due entirely to the tireless efforts of the Regional Scholarships Com-
mittees. Ten of these committees are to be credited with raising the amazing total
of $12,000, which is used to help defray the college expenses of thirty-seven under-
graduates during the year 1934-35.
District I., New England, is assisting eleven students (1 Senior, 3 Juniors,
3 Sophomores, 4 Freshmen) ; District II., through its three committees in
New York, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware, is helping
fourteen (3 Seniors, 3 Juniors, 3 Sophomores, 5 Freshmen) ; District III.'s three
committees in Baltimore, Washington, and the South at large, are contributing
toward four, one in each class; District IV. has three Scholars (1 Senior, 1 Sopho-
more, 1 Freshmen); District V. is helping four students (1 Junior, 1 Sophomore,
2 Freshmen) ; and District VI. has one Scholar, a Freshman. This year there
are' no Scholars from Western Pennsylvania and none from California.
For the statistically minded we append the following items: Ten of the
fourteen Freshmen helped by the Regional Scholarship Committees were prepared
by private schools, and only four by public schools. Ten of them entered under
Plan B, three under Plan C, and one on the New York State Regents examina-
tions. Two of them are slightly above the average age of the entire freshman class
(17 years 11.4 months), and twelve are younger than average, including one of
the New York Scholars, who is the youngest student ever enrolled at the College.
Three of the Scholars are daughters of Alumnae: Dorothea Seelye, from North-
ampton, Mass., daughter of Kate Chambers, 1911; Jane Farrar, from Columbus.
Ohio, daughter of Antoinette Hearne, 1909; and Elizabeth Webster, from Evanston,
111., daughter of Elizabeth Fabian, 1913. All signs seem to warrant the belief
that the College has again been enriched by the addition of a group of students
who will do their part toward further enhancing the distinguished record of the
Regional Scholars who have preceded them.
NEW SERIES OF PHILOSOPHY LECTURES
The Department of Philosophy announces that Dr. Desire Veltman, of Yale
University, and instructor in. philosophy at Princeton, has been appointed Re-
search Associate in the department. Dr. Veltman is giving five informal lectures
on Ancient and Modern Materialism, in the Common Room, beginning on Thursday,
October 16th, at 4.30; all students are invited to come. Dr. Veltman is the first
member of the faculty to be engaged purely in research. During the first semester
he will give no formal course, but will continue working on his book on the philos-
ophy of science. The department has been enabled to choose Dr. Veltman to be
in residence at Bryn Mawr through a fund given "because Bryn Mawr knows how
to appreciate and encourage originality."
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THE BRYN MAWR CLUB OF NEW YORK
The New York Bryn Mawr Club at the Park Lane^ 299 Park Avenue^ an-
nounces special rates to club members for meals and rooms.
The Bryn Mawr Club has drastically reduced its schedule of dues for resident
members who are recent alumnae:
Those out of College less than three years pay $10.00
Those out of College three and four years pay 15.00
Those out of College five years pay 20.00
Thereafter the annual dues are $25.00, and the non-resident dues are $10.00
annually. The initiation fee has been waived for the current year.
Application for membership may be made in writing to the club.
Margaret Brooks Juhring, 1927,
(Mrs. John C. Juhring, Jr.),
Chairman, Puhlicity Division.
BOOK REVIEW
Miss Wylie of Vassar. Edited by Elizabeth Woodb'ridge Morris. Published by
the Laura J. Wylie Memorial Association; Yale University Press, 1934. $2.50.
This book consists of a series of papers on the life and the achievement of
one of the great teachers of America who through the vividness of her personality,
the warmth of her sympathies, and the keeness of her thinking made an indelible
impression on the most varied groups of students from her early days at Packer
Collegiate Institute through her long years at Vassar College to the three memorable
summers when she was in charge of the work in literature at the Bryn Mawr
Summer School. There are in the volume two papers by j\Iiss Wylie herself, one
entitled "A Covenanter Child" which gives a picture of her childhood in a
Pennsylvania town, and one called "What can be done about it.^" which embodies
something of Miss Wylie's conception of the scope and purpose of English studies.
On that subject there is more material in the admirable paper by Professor Alice
D. Snyder, which is reprinted here from the Vassar Alumnae Quarterly. Miss
Wylie as teacher in classroom and conference is the subject of a number of tlic
chapters written by her students — among them Beatrice Owen of the Bryn ISfawr
Summer School who shows that Miss Wylie maintained with the workers' group
the same warm relations which characterized her association witli generations of
Vassar students. In the series of appreciations at the end of tlie volume — one of
them written by Mrs. Roosevelt — there is an attempt to show tlie importance of
Miss Wylie on the college faculty in which her force and her integrity made her
a powerful member, and in the community where, as President of tlie Woman's
City Club, she led an active and effective life for some years after her retirement
from teaching. Although the real vigor tliat everyone felt in ^liss Wylie does not
come out either in her own writing or in most of the papers by Iier students and
friends, the volume is valuable as an attempt to provide a record of tlie personality
and the influence of a great woman.
Lily Ross Taylor,
Professor of Latin.
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Sunday, November 4th — 7.30 p. m., Music Room of Goodhart Hall
Service conducted by the Right Reverend C. S. Reifschneider, D.D.,
Missionary Bishop to Japan.
Monday, November 5th — 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hall
First of the lectures by Dr. Vera Micheles Dean, Research Associate of the Foreign Policy
Association, under the Anna Howard Shaw Mennorial Foundation.
Subject: "Dictatorship on Trial."
Tuesday, November 6th — 5.00 p. m., The Deanery
Second of the series of six lecture-recitals on Pianoforte Music of XVII., XVIII. and XIX.
Centuries by Mr. Guy Marriner under the auspices of the Entertainment Comnnittee of the ■]
Deanery for the benefit of a Bryn Mawr College Scholarship. "
Course subscription, $7.50; single lecture-recital subscription, $1.50. ^
j
Sunday, November I Ith — 5.00 p. m., The Deanery j
First of a series of entertainments: -^
Violin and piano sonata recital by Arthur Bennett Lipkin and Maisie Chance. ^
Sunday, November I Ith — 7.30 p. m., Music Room of Goodhart Hall i
Service conducted by the Reverend John W. Suter, Jr., D.D., Rector of 5
the Church of the Epiphany, New York City. j
1
Monday, November 12th — 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hall 1
Second of the lectures under the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial Foundation by Mrs. Dean. |
Subject: "Europe: Peace or V/ar?"
Tuesday, November 13th — 5.00 p. m., The Deanery
Third of the lecture-recitals by Mr. Marriner. (See above.)
Sunday, November 18th — 7.30 p. m.. Music Room of Goodhart Hall
Service conducted by the Reverend John W. Suter, Jr., D.D.
Monday, November 1 9th — 8.20 p. m., Goodhart Hall
Final lecture by Mrs. Dean under the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial Foundation.
Subject: "Thunder In the Far East."
Tuesday, November 20th, 5.00 p. m.. The Deanery
Fourth of the lecture-recitals by Mr. Marriner. (See above.)
Tuesday, November 27th — 5.00 p. m.. The Deanery
Fifth of the lecture-recitals by Mr. Marriner. (See above.)
ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. John Livingstone Lowes, who last spring accepted the invitation of the
College to deliver the lectures on the Mary Flexner Lectureship this year, has
been obliged to withdraw his acceptance because of illness.
ANNA HOWARD SHAW MEMORIAL
FOUNDATION LECTURES
For the second time an informal series of lectures will be given on this foun-
dation by Dr. Vera Micheles Dean, Research Associate of the Foreign Policy
Association. The subjects and dates are given in the College Calendar.
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WRECKAGE FROM THE MORRO CASTLE
(Reprinted from the Asbury Park Sunday Press, September IGth)
By Emily Kimbrough Wrench, 1921
I walked over from the car to a volunteer citizen who was directing traffic.
"Do you know whether any of those people have had liot coffee?" I asked him.
It took just 50 steps to reach him from the car. I counted them because it was
the only way I could make my knees stiff enough to keep walking. When the
scream of sirens warned us off the road, I knew the ambulances were coming, but I
had not realized they would pass so close that we could see in the grey daylight,
wet, staring-eyed humans lolling about in them, striking grotesque attitudes with
every bump in the road. I think it was because we were afraid we were going
to be ill that one of the four suggested they might use coffee, or our car — there
might be something we could do, quickly, and I volunteered to ask.
"They haven't had anything 's I know of," he told me. "Get coffee if you
can or anything, and go on down there. They're just bringin' in the first load of
them,"^ — we had gathered that — "so go right ahead, lady, do anything you can."
I counted my way back to the car and told the other three — Dot, Bessie, and
Sophy. We were in front of a little lunch room. The sign over it read "Thompson
and Hopkins Fish Market." It was just at the bridge over the ^lanasquan, at
Brielle. I parked the car and followed the others inside. It was a quarter past ten.
"Nobody's been here for coffee," the man told us, "but I've got a big pot
of fresh right here. You're welcome to it. If you don't mind coming back to
the kitchen with me, we can get some cups packed. I'm alone here," he added.
The three of them started off with a coffee pot and two fruit baskets piled
with cups. There was a tall grey house at the water's edge with a red roof, about
50 yards farther on. The pier ran out from it, and thej^ made for that house.
I stayed in the kitchen to make more coffee. The man — "Hopkins my name is," he
told me when I asked him three hours later — showed me how to make coffee in
the enormous restaurant pot like a double boiler. "Empty those coffee cans in,"
he taught me, "never mind measuring, and boil that water separate in as many
containers as you can find. It will boil quicker that way."
He had to go out in front to customers. The newspaper reporters were crowd-
ing in to get to the telephone.
Hopkins came back to pour in the boiling water from the containers I couldn't
lift, and I took his place in front and waited on some customers.
A big colored man came into the kitchen. "What's the matter, boss?" lie said.
Hopkins stopped pouring a minute to look at him. "A ship's on fire out tliere,"
he jerked his head, "and they're bringing in the passengers tlirougli tlic inlet and
landing them right here."
"Hadn't you heard anything?" I asked him vacantly.
"No ma'am," he told me. "I live in Asbury Park."
Hopkins waved Dot and me aside. "You can't carry this," he said, and got
the man to take the other handle.
Dot and I walked behind them to the house, and they set down the container
on the back porch. We went in timidly. We did not know whose house it was, nor
that we had any business there. Crowds of people were milling back and forth.
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There were perhaps four women in the kitchen. One was calling out, "Mamma,
come in and shut that screen door. You can't stand in a draught like that." Her
voice rose to a hysterical scream. "Mamma, you come in. Do you want to catch
cold.?"'
A man came hurrying in from the front. He put two boxes in my hand.
"Here," he said, "can you thread these hypodermic needles for me? And I
want these sterilized."
"I'm afraid you'll have to show me," I said. "We've wandered in here with
some coffee. If we're in the way we'll go. We'd like to help."
"For God's sake stick around," he told me. "I'll show you how to thread these
things. Can you get some whiskey?" Sophie and Bessie had come back into the
kitchen. The four of us sat at the table. The doctor showed us how to put the fine
wire through the needle and bend it down at the far end. One of the four stood up.
"I'm no good at this," she said, "my hands are shaking. I'll go after whiskey."
Mary Saunders came into the kitchen. "Can I do anything?" she said.
Nobody knew where she had come from. "Boil some water," we told her,
"the doctor wants these sterilized."
Suddenly the room was filled with men. "Is this where the coffee is ?" they asked.
We gave it to them, and they began to talk a little after the first few mouthfuls.
"I can't pick up the dead ones." He was a man about 60, and he kept shaking
his head. "I can't give them deck room when there are live ones around. But their
families want them. I declare I don't know what to do. I've got to get the live
ones first, I can't give their space to the bodies — but there's people want the bodies."
The woman who had been begging her mother to come out of the draught
came over to him.
"Captain Joe," she said, "nobody this day has done a bigger job than you.
The Paramount was the first boat out there." She threw her arms around his neck.
He took them away gently and stood up.
"That's all right, Olive," he said, "I've got to get back as quick as I can.
No, I thank you, I'll not have a drink now. Just hold it 'til I get back," he told us.
"I'm pleased with the old Paramount," he called back as he went out.
A younger man stood up on the other side of the room. "There's a bunch of
people still standing on the bow," he said. "We can't get them to jump. If we
can get back out there, maybe we can get them this time." When he went out
Olive said that was Captain John, Captain Joe's son.
A priest came into the room for coffee. He went over to the sink and turned
on the tap. "I don't know why I'm so thirsty," he said apologetically. "Probably
because you want to be sick," Bessie told him and he smiled at her gratefully.
Someone yelled in from the porch.
"Get out here, father, there's a job for you," and he hurried out.
A woman came wandering into the kitchen. She had on a black sweater over
a faded house dress.
"The bodies look so peaceful," she said pleasantly, "just as natural. Mary's
got her little girl down to see things. She's the best little thing, not making a bit
of trouble." The child came in, with long curls, her eyes big and dark, and her
face as white as the linoleum on the table. She sat on a settee in one corner of the
room. Presently her mother came in and told her to come along home to lunch now.
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Another doctor came in. His hand shook when he drank his coffee.
"That kid died/' he said^ "and his color was so good, too. I didn't think I
was going to have any trouble with him at all. Died right when I was holding him."
Mary came in and sat down suddenly. "A man died. while I was giving him
coffee/' she said stiffly.
Someone bawled in through the kitchen door, "Doctor, have you had a red-
haired boy about 12?" The doctor said he had not. Someone came back asking
about the red-haired boy about 12 every few minutes. We didn't find him.
The priest sent in word he would like to have some coffee outside. He couldn't
take time to come in. I found him on the porch. He got up from beside a figure
on the porch, and put a blanket over its face. The wind blew the blankets off some
of the others lying there, or ruffled their hair above the edge of the blanket. Tliere
were 12 or 15 of them, all men, quite young. They had shirt and trousers on.
Some had shoes. One had curly hair, and it kept blowing. It was raining in
torrents now.
The Dolphin came in and the Diana. There were four more bodies. The
ambulances came back. We got sandwiches and more coffee. We fed all the drivers
and the crews. None of them would take more than enough whiskey to cover the
bottom of the cup. They all kept saying they'd have it later. None of them had
had any breakfast, and all had been up since four. It was about two o'clock now.
We were out on the dock, pouring out coffee under a coat to keep out the rain,
when Olive yelled for the doctor. "Mamma's had a spell," she said.
Mamma, gray-haired, quiet and helpful all morning, had suddenly stiffened
out like a board and begun to scream. Then she fainted. Papa came in from his
run. An engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, he found his kitchen filled with
strangers, there was a row of dead on his front porch, and several hundred people
were trying to get close enough to the porch for a good look. Someone had tele-
phoned for protection, and the American Legion had roped off the house and were
keeping off the crowd. Papa paid no attention to any of it. He was frantic over
his wife, kept asking if she didn't know him. They got her upstairs.
The Paramount came in again. The men were stiff with exhaustion. "Get
them to call off the aeroplanes," they said, "they keep pointin' to things in the
water, and when we get to them, they're life belts or deck chairs. They just take
up our time. They can't get close enough to pick out if they're people or not."
Someone telephoned to Sea Girt.
There were no more boatloads coming in. The ambulances drove off. We went
home at half past two. We couldn't stay. At four we were back. The crowd had
gone. Mamma met us at the kitchen door, quiet and serene. "I'm all right/' she
said, "it was that little red-haired boy they kept asking for kind of took me."
The bodies had all been taken away in hearses from tlie porch and the la"svn.
We went down to Mr. Hopkins in the Thompson and Hopkins Fish Market.
He would not take a penny. "It makes me feel better," he said, "and we were all
working/*
Some reporters were around the telephone as we went out. "The Grace
brought in three survivors," one of them was saying.
"Four/' Bessie corrected, "three men, and one woman, all dead."
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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR
MARJORIE JEFFERIES WAGONER
A memorial service was held Monday afternoon^ October 15tli^ in Goodhart
Hall_, in commemoration of Marjorie Jefferies Wagoner^ 191 8, who died last June
after a decade's service as physician at the College.
The large audience of students^ friends and associates, and members of the
faculty listened to the addresses of tribute and appreciation by President Park;
Helen Taft Manning; Dr. Earl D. Bond, psychiatrist, and Dr. David Reisman,
professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
The following resolution was adopted:
"Be it resolved that we, the Faculty of Bryn Mawr College, record our appre-
ciation of Marjorie Jeff cries Wagoner as resident physician of the College and
friend to its students; and our deep sense of loss at her untimely death.
"We recognize not only her distinction as an alumna of the College, but the
value of her services as an able physician and successful organizer of its Health
Department.
"In her generosity and sympathy, her unsparing devotion, and her conception
of the relation of the physician to the community, she represented the highest ideals
of her profession."
ALUMNAE DAUGHTERS IN THE CLASS OF 1938
Daughters Mothers Class
Nancy Angell Katharine Sergeant 1914
Augusta Arnold Sophia Blum 1911
Mildred Bake well Madeline Palmer 1899
Esther Buchen Margaret Head Grad. Stud. 1911-12
Diana Church Brooke Peters 1907
Elisabeth Dewes Grace Wooldridge 1909
Ann Dill , Margaret Chambers 1908
Margaret Evans Sylvia Hathaway 1913
Jane Farrar Antoinette Hearne 1909
Sue Garner Margaret Ross 1904
Hope Gibbons Helen Brown 1906
Joan Howson Julie Benjamin 1907
Alice Low Margaret Friend 1911
Sylvia Perry ., Lydia Sharpless 1908
Alison Raymond Isabel Ashwell 1905
Gertrude Righter Renee Mitchell 1900
Louisa Russell Elizabeth Taylor 1911
Dorothea Seelye Kate Chambers - 1911
Florence Stinson Anna Workman 1905
Matilda Tyler Alice Jaynes 1905
Elizabeth Webster Elizabeth Fabian _.-.,,......„ 1913
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CLASS NOTES
Ph.D. and Graduate Notes
Class Editor: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)
VandaHa, Missouri.
1889
No Editor Appointed.
1890
No Editor Appointed.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
The class will wish to send their sympathy to
Marian Wright Walsh whose distinguished hus-
band, Timothy F. Walsh, died July 7th after a
short illness. He was well known as a church
architect and designed the buildings of Boston
College, and the Seminary and Chancery of
Cincinnati, to mention only two of his works.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
1435 Lexington Ave., New York City.
1893
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Word has been received of the death of
Henrietta Palmer. This will be a grief to many
connected with the College as well as to mem-
bers of her own class. She was Librarian of
the College for some years, and her rare witti-
ness and whimsical gayety made her a well
known figure on the campus.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
Mary Breed writes: "Just at present there is
no news about myself, for I have been living
on a curtailed income like everyone else, and
that is no news at all. 1 shall probably move
to some place near New York, but I shall let
you know later if my plan works out. It is too
vague now to put into words. My permanent
address is East Randolph, New York."
Emilie Martin tells of her happy year at Mt.
Holyoke: "As for retiring — I just cannot be-
lieve thalt any time after my next birthday 1
am eligible. This is my last year of service on
the Board of Admission."
Marie Minor writes from Beede Hill Cabin,
St. Hubert's in the Adirondacks, of the many
Bryn Mawrtyrs who spend their summers nearby.
Anna West has spent a delightful summer at
their camp in Pocono Lake Preserve.
Martha La Porte drove to New Hampshire to
spend the summer with Margaret Shearman in
New London, stopj)iiig on the way to visit
Mabe Birdsall.
1 feel sure the entire class sends love and
sympathy to Emma Bailey Speer on the sudden
death of her oldest son, Elliott Speer, who was
Headmaster of the Northfield Schools.
1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
c/o Brearley School
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
1896
Class Editor: Anna Scattergood Hoag
(Mrs. C. G. Hoag)
619 Walnut Lane, Haverford, Pa.
I have taken over Abba's job of Class Editor
for the time being. Will all of you please
send me news about yourselves and your
doings?
Abba says "It is hard for people in the
sixties to do very much of interest." This she
disproves herself, for she sailed on September
15th for a year abroad with her niece Harriet
and two of her friends, and Margaret Furness,
Ruth's sister. They are to spend the winter
in Rome, and their address is American Ex-
press Co., Rome.
"June 16, 1934: With guns booming, offi-
cers and men at rigid attention, the United
States fleet inducted its new Commander-in-
Chief, Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves." Ad-
miral Reeves is the husband of Eleanor
Watkins, ex-'96, and those of the class who
lived in Radnor (hiring our freshman and
sophomore years will recall him in his
Annapolis days. Many and strenuous years lie
between that time and this final and highest
honor.
Leonie Gilmour's son, Isamu Noguchi, has
designed "a tribute to Franklin" which may be
erected on the Parkway in Philadelphia. "It
would tower more than 100 feet in the air of
stainless steel, glass and concrete — with the
sculptor's conception of a thunderbolt connect-
ing his representation of Franklin's kite at the
top with the key near the bottom."
The September and October numbers of
the Atlantic contain "An Adirondack Friend-
ship," by Josephine Goldmark, an account of
the beautiful friendship between Pauline and
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William James. She includes a large number
of Mr. James' letters to Pauline.
Katharine Cook gathered a small and joyous
group for a few days in the lovely hilltop
home at Lakeville, Conn., which she shares
with her sister and brother-in-law, Eleanor and
Robertson Jones.
1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
104 Lake Shore Drive, East, Dunkirk, N. Y.
1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
Charles E. Knoblauch, the husband of Mary
Bookstaver Knoblauch, died October 11th. The
class send her their sympathy.
1899
Class Editor: May Schoneman Sax
(Mrs. Percival Sax)
6429 Drexel Road, Overbrook, Phila., Pa.
Here for the benefit of those who could not
come to Reunion are condensed extracts from
the letters read at Class Supper: Marion Ream
Vonsiatsky, Alice Carter Dickerman, Evelyn
Walker, Camille Erisman Bryan and Charlotte
Hubbard Goodell have all been abroad. Char-
lotte wrote from the steamer that she was on
her way to join her sister and brother-in-law
on Aran Island, where the latter, Robert T.
Flaherty, of "Nanook" and "M-oana" fame, had
been filming a "talkie" called "Man of Aran."
(This picture, which has just now reached
America, won the chief prize, the Mussolini
Cup, at the International Motion Picture Expo-
sition in Venice this summer.) Charlotte reports
two weddings in her family: Her oldest daugh-
ter, Ruth, married Gordon Washburn, Director
of the Albright Art Museum in Buffalo, and
her only son, Robert, married Lorraine Briggs,
of Highland Park, 111. Charlotte, Jr., is in the
Home Economics Department of the New York
American, and Frances is studying art.
Sylvia Scudder Bowditch had to stay at home
to welcome Sylvia, Bryn Mawr '33, back from
a short trip to Europe, which she had sand-
wiched in between acting as a courier for the
Frontier Nurses in Kentucky and as Warden
at the Bryn Mawr School. The oldest son is
a mining geologist who, after spending the last
four years in the Peruvian Andes, is now work-
ing for his Ph.D. at Harvard. The youngest
son, on the other hand, prefers outdoor life
and the management of men to an intellectual
career, and is working with a lumber company
in N. Michigan.
Lillie Loshe, whom we have not seen in many
years and not heard from in nearly as many,
writes from "Apple Garth," Middle Haddam,
Conn.: "I have no offspring to exhibit nor
achievements to relate. Three years ago I spent
a very interesting year in China seeing many
former students and teaching a few new ones.
So many of my old students were in teaching
or administrative jobs that I felt like the grand-
mother of the University. The young Chinese
whom I educated to be a doctor is now Com-
missioner of Public Health in Shanghai, very
active and efficient. Perhaps he represents my
Boy Scout good deed if one must find one to
exhibit. I came home by Ceylon, Egypt and
the Mediterranean and have trod the old path
between this old-time village and New York
ever since. I am always here from about
April 1st to December 1st, and at the Woman's
University Club in the winter. I wish 99ers
would 'Stop in to see me.
Gallic, of c.t.r. lewis, inc., merchandising and
publicity counsellors, has an office at 55 Park
Avenue, but is always at the Publicity Depart-
ment of the Park Lane Hotel at noontime,
where she will welcome any members of the
class who are so lucky as to find themselves
in New York.
Frances Keay Ballard is living in Brooklyn,
practicing her profession and giving lectures
on law on the side. Her older son is married
and living near Philadelphia, while the younger
one has a fellowship at Yale.
Lillian Palmer Fordyce and her husband
have rented their house in Hot Springs and are
living in Little Rock with their son Jack. His
wife died last year leaving a girl of five and a
boy of three whom Lillian is mothering.
Sybil Hubbard Darlington had hoped to join
us, but she and her daughter were delayed in
their trip East as they waited for her son Joe
who is working at research at California Tech.
Anne Boyer and her little ward, Jeanne, spent
the winter in Florida and most of the summer
in Pottsville.
Ethel Hooper Edwards rejoices in having her
small son at home as one of her daughters,
Anita, is at the Yale School of Nursing, and
the other, Ethel, is studying at Columbia and
living in "International House."
Margaret Stirling Thom is living at Manor
Vale Farm, Catonsville, Md., all the year round.
Her interests are divided between her sixteen-
year-old daughter, gardening, her three riding
horses and her four dogs, three Scotties and a
Dalmatian.
Madeline Palmer Bakewell could not come
as her daughter's graduation from the Ethel
Walker School conflicted with Reunion, and
Dr. BakeweU is representing Connecticut in
Congress, so they, as well as the Dennisons and
the Millers spent the winter in Washington.
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Their son was married during the summer,
as was a son of Marion Curtis Whitman's.
Later news is the arrival on August 2nd of
Katie Mid Blackwell's first grandchild, Richard
Stockton Gaines, the son of Katherine Blackwell
Gaines. Katie Mid wrote from Ogunquit,
Maine: "We have been having a Bryn Mawr
reunion here, the Kilpatricks and I, with May
Ross here last Sunday. I saw Peckham for a
minute as she was driving through, and M.
Hall stopped to see Ellen." Incidentally Ellen
had very good criticism for the paintings she
exhibited at Ogunquit this summer.
Emma Guffey Miller has been working over-
time trying to make the Keystone State safe for
Democracy, a feat which would put brother Joe
into the Senate at Washington; and Gertrude
Ely has been equally busy with her own cam-
paign for a seat in the upper house at Harris-
burg.
If all of you, especially those who have not
been mentioned as well as those who have, will
send me news of yourselves, your family and
your classmates, this column can be kept active,
interesting and up-to-date. If you will do your
share, I promise to do the rest.
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard S. Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
The class will all sympathize with Edna
Warkentin Alden in the death of her husband.
Mr. Alden had been ill for six months before
his death.
The engagement is announced of Leslie Blake,
daughter of Leslie Knowles Blake, to Walter F.
Dillingham, Harvard '34. Leslie's daughter,
Harriette, is opening a studio in Boston with a
friend where they will teach dancing of all
kinds. These two clever girls have recently
given a successful Benefit Dance Concert in
Cohasset.
Congratulations are in order for Julia Streeter
Gardner. Her brilliant young son, Frank,
president of his class at the Brookline High
School, won two prizes, the Floyd Cup for
scholarly attainment and moral influence, and
the Holtzer Prize — 1150, for his work in radio.
Frank was accepted by Massachusetts Institute
of Technology without examination because of
his school record.
Grace Campbell Babson writes that 1900 is
on the wing in the Northwest. Jessie Tatlock,
Johanna Mosenthal and Kate Williams had all
been at Avalon Orchard or were soon expected.
Kate Williams had just attended (August 6-16)
a Racial Workers' Conference in Port Angeles,
Washington.
Cornelia Halsey Kellogg has a grandson,
born July 4th (Darcy's baby).
Edna Fischel Gellhorn made a flying trip to
Europe after the reunion in June to visit her
daughter Martha and her French husband.
Reunion
We came, 29 strong — that was a lot of us,
but we missed every single one that was absent.
As I drove up in a station taxi to Wyndham
on Monday, June 4th, 'I saw Cornelia Halsey
Kellogg. She looked magnificent and wore a
most becoming white straw hat trimmed with
a gorgeous yellow rose; she had on blue ear-
rings and something blue trimmed her white
dress. "How awfully well she dresses," 1
thought as I paid off the taxi. I turned to greet
her and, behold, Johnny Kroeber Mosenthal ap-
peared on Wyndham steps in exactly the same
outfit! Then another, and another of us, and it
dawned on me that this was Nineteen Hun-
dred's official regalia imagined and executed
by our unsurpassable class secretary, Helen
MacCoy. Everyone had a hat to fit, a class
color front for her dress, with a yellow clip
ornamented with a blue "1900" to hold the
neckline in place and earrings! You can't
imagine how bewitching we were; all 29 of us
looked our very best. Here we are — you'll be
able to visualize us as you read our names,
but we missed you absentees.
Edna Floersheim Bamberger, Leslie Knowles
Blake, Evelyn Hills Davenport, Susan Dewees,
Helena Emerson, Elise Dean Findley, Louise
Congdon Francis, Ellen Baltz Fultz, Julia
Streeter Gardener, Edna Fischel Gellhorn,
Helen Hodge, Lois Farnham Horn, Maud
Lowrey Jenks, Alletta Van Reypen Korff, Mary
Kilpatrick, Cornelia Halsey Kellogg, Marie
Sichel Linburn, Helen MacCoy, Elizabeth
White Miller, Johanna Kroeber Mosenthal,
Emily Palmer, Delia Avery Perkins, Marian
Hickman Quattrone, Renee Mitchell Righter,
Margaretta Morris Scott, Clara Seymour St.
John, Jessie Tatlock, Edith Wright, and though
she was staying with friends in town, we had.
too, Frances Rush Crawford.
At luncheon on Monday the four reuning
classes, 1901, 1900, 1899 and 1898 gathered on
\Vyndham lawn for a picnic hinclieon. We
started "mingling," but kept falling back into
our own class groups because we were so ter-
ribly anxious to hear all about our "families."
Renee and Julia had daughters in the class of
1934, so they were torn between Wyndham and
us, and the affairs on the campus. Both daugh-
ters are charming and do us proud.
After luncheon we met in "headquarters" for
a very formol class meeting, squatting on beds
and floor space and thus contributing largely
to tlie solemnity of such an occasion. We did
very important things; I can't remember what,
except to re-elect the officers, because (a) no
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one wanted to be relieved, and (b) no one else
wanted to be elected. Then we spent consider-
able time discussing whether we wished flowers
sent to the family or a book to the College
library to mark our demises. The discussion
waxed from the gruesome to the grotesque and
finally we left everything to Helen MacCoy;
all discussions ended that way.
We adjourned to continue our visiting in
twos, threes, or more, and then at 7.30 we
gathered again at our class supper. The Com-
mittee— and especially Sue Dewees and Reggie
Wright — had made the table charming with
garden flowers, delphinium predominating, and
becoming candles.
Everybody was in merry mood, the class song
rang out as if we had never left the halls
whose stamp we bear, and then Elizabeth
White Miller gave us The Fashions of the Gay
Nineties. It was superb; Bess had found let-
ters she had written, while in college, to her
mother. They were delightful descriptions of
clothes which all of us remembered as she read
of them. I can't try to reproduce her speech —
it would be unfair — and then she brought forth
actual garments she had had at college in our
day; nothing was lacking, from chemise and
corset to ruffled skirt and hat with deadly hat-
pins. It was priceless.
Marie Sichel Linburn toasted our Beaux of
the Gay Nineties— those noble youths who came
to a danceless prom.
Clara Seymour St. John finished us off with
the Talk of the Gay Nineties. She stood in the
doorway, with brilliant light behind her and
our candle-lit table in the foreground, making
a lovely picture, and she turned back the clock
to our conversations round the fudgey chafing
dish of our era. How she remembered we'll
never know, but she made it all live again for
everyone of us.
You'd think this had been enough delight for
one evening, but there was more! A marvelous
"mellerdramer." Helen Hodge (John) and
Helen MacCoy (Mary) were the middle-aged
couple to whom nothing exciting ever hap-
pened; and then things did happen! The lovers
(Johanna, the hero, and Ellen Baltz Fultz, the
heroine) were thwarted in their love by the
villain — Cornelia Halsey Kellogg — and "his" ac-
complice, the Bad Man — Delia Avery Perkins.
The make-ups were worthy of a Broadway pro-
duction, the pistols shot, the flashlights flashed,
the pins tortured, the ropes cut, the gags
gagged, and most marvelous of all acrobatic
feats, Cornelia, in her make-up of a bear skin
chauffeur's coat that must have weighed a ton,
climbed out of a window twice during the play
and each time with the agility of an athlete
trained for the Olympic games. Really, the
whole college should have seen the play — it
was grandly put on — regardless of effort and
expense!! Finally we tore ourselves away and
went to bed — to sleep?
Tuesday morning was given over to visiting
— getting re-acquainted — a most satisfying time,
and then we had a picnic luncheon, just our-
selves, under the trees of Wyndham lawn.
We are a rather fine lot, let me state in pass-
ing. Many of us have moved up to the exalted
estate of grandmotherdom. We've learned about
husbands and children, and are now ready for
the next lessons in family relationships. None
of us is a star, nor yet, as far as I know, the
mother of a star, but we are safe and sound.
We are alert to the happenings of the world,
we vary in our views of men and affairs, but
through all the discussions I got the impres-
sion that the country was pretty safe in the
hands of 1900. We'd ''stand side by side to-
gether" and help as each one best could to
make the world safe for our grandchildren.
1901
Class Editor: Beatrice McGeorge
Vaux Apartments, Gulph Road,
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
1902
Class Editor: Anne Rotan Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
320 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Michi Kawai sailed from Japan last July
11th, planning to remain in the States until
December. In the Chautauqua Daily of August
22nd an article concerning Michi appeared
from which we quote : "Among the great women
leaders of Japan, whether Christian or other-
wise, 1 would point out Miss Michi Kawai,
asserted Miss Takae Sagawa, of Nagasaki,
Japan." After twenty years of outstanding work
as General Secretary of the Japanese National
Y. W. C. A. she resigned to found single-
handed the "Fountain of Blessing School." Her
book, Japanese Women Speak, has been pub-
lished. While in the States Michi's address will
be c/o Mrs. W. D. Lambert, 272 Park Ave.,
Takoma Park, D. C. On October 18th, at the
Deanery, Michi is showing her pictures under
the auspices of the Japanese Scholarship
Committee.
On Sunday evening, September 16th, Patty
Moorhouse gave a class buffet supper for Michi.
About twenty guests, the 1904 Philadelphia
group, and a few of Michi's friends enjoyed a
marvelous evening chatting with her about the
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school which aheady has an enrollment of 160
girl students and 25 teachers — those who teach
special subjects are part-time teachers. Michi's
enthusiasm, courage and faith would lead any
school to success.
Leda White reports that she is not too old
yet to get many thrjlls from the prosaic-sound-
ing profession of teaching in a Philadelphia
Junior High School. Her school, located be-
tween a mediocre neighborhood and a middle
class respectable community offers wonderful
opportunities for pupil self-government activi-
ties which are her chief delight. She is still
sufficiently naive to believe that her efforts are
baring fruit in developing future useful citizens
who may recognize the difference between honest
earning and graft.
Buz and her husband sailed last July on a
fruit steamer for Panama, enjoyed a delight-
ful cruise and returned home with treasures of
carved ivory and sandal-wood.
Amy Clapp spent the summer at Middlebury
College, in Vermont, studying French, her
favorite sport. She appears to have enjoyed
the summer almost as much as last year in
England and Scotland, perhaps, after all, the
Green Mountains are as fascinating as the
heather-covered peaks of Scotland.
Emma Fries spent two delightful months at
Nantucket, far from the maddening echoes of
depression. She returned sunburned and happy.
Anna Jonas sailed for Southampton, England,
on August 8th, to attend the meetings of the
British Association for the Advancement of
Science. She spent a short time in London,
then travelled through Scotland to Edinburgh.
Eleanor Bliss Knopf and her husband mo-
tored over eight thousand miles during the
summer, geologizing in Colorado, Montana,
Wyoming and the Dakotas, living in the Colo-
rado Rockies part of the summer and motoring
through the Yellowstone National Park with
Dr. Fenner, of the Carnegie Geological Lab-
oratory.
Clara Wade unfolds a tale of rare pleasure
and adventure. She toured England, France,
Switzerland and Italy with three Bryn Mawr
undergraduates, and enjoyed the summer abroad
more than almost any other of her numerous
foreign trips. Clara looks young and well
again and is effervescent with enthusiasm.
Ruth Wood Smith is about to publish an
interesting book on attractive inns and driving
routes in the Southern States. She spent the
summer investigating the charming highways
and byways and "tea-tasting" at the inns.
Sadie Briggs Logan's mother died about July
26th at Friendship, Maine. The class wishes
to express to Sadie its sincere sympathy and
sorrow that she has met with so severe a loss.
Sadie's present address is 152 Russell Street,
Worcester, Mass.
1905
Class EdUur: Eleanor Little Alukich
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
59 Mount Vernon St., Boston, Mass.
Theodora Bates writes that she is "still hold-
ing down the job of Director of the New Jersey
Gallery at Kresge Department Store in Newark.
We promote New Jersey artists especially, but
put on all kinds of interesting exhibitions and
have a big competitive show every spring — all
the different art clubs of New Jersey repre-
sented."
Alice Day McLaren is happily settled in
Puerto Rico where her husband has the post
of Insular Compliance Director. They are very
enthusiastic over the Island and the life there.
Alice sailed alone on a freighter from Los
Angeles, where, after frenzied preparations to
get away on short notice, she had waited 10
days beyond the sailing date on account of the
strike. She writes: "Finally, on June 4th, 1
was told that the ship would sail that after-
noon, and down I went. The docks were in
fearful confusion — strike-breakers, guards, and
rioters. After hanging around for 36 hours
amid nervous, cursing officers, green stevedores
and a general atmosphere of weariness and
snarling, we got off on the evening of the 5th.
My little car was the last piece of baggage put
on. We were 8 passengers, two oil drillers
going to Trinidad for the Shell Company, two
young children being sent to the same place to
spend the holidays with their parents, a de-
lightful Brazilian doctor and his beautiful wife,
an old maid school teacher from Los Angeles,
and myself. Curiously enough, it was a ven.'
agreeable ship's company and I enjoyed the 18
days' rest and relaxation. I had a good cabin,
nicely furnished, and the food was adequate.
I read and wrote and knitted. Also played
cribbage with the oil-drillers. We made one
stop — Sunday and part of Monday, in Panama.*"
Her address is c/o National Recovery Admin-
istration, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Clara Porter Yarnelle has a large and very
busy family which keeps her even busier,
but in her optimistic moments she refu-ses
to believe that she has exhausted all her own
capacities, so she is now trying to get engage-
ments for "book reviews, reading of inlays or
original (?) talks."
Caroline Chadwick-Collins and Iut younger
son, Dick, spent three weeks this •summer with
Alice Howland and Eleanor Brownell in their
summer home at Santa Fe. Carrie says that
the house is one of enchantment built around
a patio full of flowers. It is on top of a moun-
tain with views of over 150 miles. They were
taken to see everything of interest, including
the Indian ceremonial dances at Gallup which
completely bowled over Carrie. In fact, she
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lost her heart to that country. Dick is a Junior
at Princeton where he is specializing in art.
The elder son, Chad, graduated from Princeton
last June and now has a job in Baltimore with
the Pennsylvania Railroad. Eloise, her youngest,
took preliminaries for Bryn Mawr in June.
1906
Class Editor: Helen Haughwout Putnam
(Mrs. William E. Putnam)
126 Adams St., Milton, Mass.
1907
Class Editor: Alice Hawkins
Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
We have three 1907 children in this year's
freshman class, counting Grace Fales, niece of
Tink Meigs, with whom she has been living
for several years, as well as Joan Howson,
daughter of Julie Benjamin and Diana Church,
daughter of Brooke Peters.
Members of the class may have been aston-
ished to read on the first page of most of the
newspapers throughout the country the fan-
tastic account of Bess Wilson's arrest as a
kidnapper. We hope that the exoneration
which was printed — in a far less conspicuous
place — also caught your eye.
The Class Editor, being warned that she is
likely to fall to pieces like the one-hoss shay,
has decided to take a holiday, and sailed for
Italy the end of October. She will be home
again in February. Meantime, please send in
any interesting tidbits of news to Tink Meigs,
who will take over the job. Her address is
Pembroke Road, Bryn Mawr.
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
1909
Class Editor: Ellen Shippen
44 West 8th St., New York City.
Isabel Goodnow Gillett's daughter (Mrs.
George H. Day, 2nd) has a son, Watson Beach
Day, 2nd, born on August 14th. This is the
first 1909 grandchild!
Helen Crane has sent us a lot of news for the
Bulletin. Her shoulder has not been behaving
this summer, but she did have a fleeting week
in Maine, lunching with Sally Webb in Port-
land and catching a glimpse of Shirley at
Goose Rocks Beach. "Eliot O'Hara's school of
water colour is going very well," Craney writes,
"and he is doing delightful and interesting
pieces of work; and Shirley's gift shop is full
of lovely things."
Still quoting Craney: "A recent letter from
Mary Goodwin says that her husband is return-
ing to Shao-wu (in the interior of Fukien
province), while she and the three younger
children are going to the American School at
Kuling, a mountain resort up the Yangtse,
where Mary will do some teaching while the
children study. Kuling is only three days from
Shao-wu — a relatively short distance in China.
Peggie, Mary's oldest, graduated last spring
with honors at Friends Central School, Phila-
delphia, and is entering Mount Holyoke this
fall."
1910
Class Editor: Katherine Rotan Drinker
(Mrs. Cecil K. Drinker)
71 Rawson Road, Brookline, Mass.
1911
Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
(Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
1085 Park Ave., New York City.
There are three "grandchildren" entering
this fall as Freshmen ; they are Augusta Arnold,
daughter of Sophie Blum; Dorothea Seelye,
daughter of Kate Chambers, and Louisa Russell,
daughter of Betty Taylor. Please let us know
of any others.
Charlotte Claflin has been engaged recently
in community research and has made a study
of the work of caddies on municipal golf
courses in Buffalo. She has also just helped to
form an anti-Fascist Conference, with the ob-
ject of fighting Fascism at home and abroad.
Anne Russell Sampson Taylor's son, John, is
a Senior at Davidson College, N. C, where he
has worked his way through by managing a
boarding house and store. Her daughter, Anne,
graduated from high school last year and hopes
to be a commercial artist, and her daughter,
Margaret, is at the University of Alabama.
Virginia Jones visited in Washington this
spring and spent part of the summer in the
White Mountains.
Margaret Hobart Myers got together 11 Bryn
Mawr women, the first group ever collected in
Tennessee to hear Helen Taft Manning speak
this spring. Among them were Beulah Mitchell
Hailey, Irma Bixler Post and Katharine Dodd.
We quote from Hoby's letter, describing her
step-daughter's wedding: "The day of the wed-
ding, which took place at 7.30 a. m., was nice
and cool. Alice wore a Rennaissance dress
made in white pique with a deep collar, long
train, and veil knee length. The ushers were
in white linen. George Clifton (Hoby's oldest
boy) was the acolyte in an old English vest-
ment known as an apparelled alb. A friend
of ours was the chaplain and crucifer, and the
crucifer, acolyte and George Senior (Hoby's
husband), vested in a lovely white and gold
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cope met the bride at the church door to the
strain of Gounod's Traise Ye the Father,'
and escorted her to the choir steps where the
whole ceremony was performed by George
Senior. Then they went up to the sanctuary
steps to a prayer desk covered with an old pur-
ple cloak (the same historic cloak I wore as
Bishop of Hereford in May Day) and knelt
for the communion service which was cele-
brated by the Bishop of Atlanta. The student
choir, vested in academic gowns, sang the serv-
ice, a beautiful one, lasting over an hour. The
church was, of course, full to capacity with
everything from Bishops to Negroes." The
afternoon of the wedding Hoby's four younger
children came down with chicken-pox, which
was a great anti-climax.
Catherine Grant has had a good winter in
Rome with her four younger children and ex-
pected her two older boys for the summer, which
she spent mostly in Florence, "in a divine
villa on a hillside above the city with a garden
and a view." In July she went to Venice,
then to the Dolomites and sailed home from
England in September. Catherine is very en-
thusiastic about certain aspects of Mussolini's
regime, so we think a debate should be ar-
ranged between Catharine and Charlotte for
the benefit of classmates at our next reunion.
Mollie Kilner Wheeler and her three chil-
dren motored from Portland, Ore., to Wood-
stock, Vt., this summer to visit Mrs. Kilner.
We hear on good authority that Mollie is look-
ing just as young as ever, drat the girl.
The class will be sorry to hear of the death
in July of Betty Russell's youngest daughter,
Harriet, following an appendectomy.
1912
Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaton Augur)
P. 0. Box 884, Santa Fe, N. M.
Agnes Chambers Wylie, with her niece who
won a travelling scholarship from the Maryland
Institute of Fine Arts, is in Devonshire,
England.
Emerson Lamb was also in England this
summer. |
Mary Gertrude Fendall has an article in the
July 15th number of Town and Country.
Pearl Mitchell's Ph.D. thesis is being pub-
lished in book form by the University of
Pennsylvania.
Gladys Spry Augur has started a knitting
shop in partnership with a friend in Santa Fe,
and it is reported to be one of the busiest and
most delightful places in the town. Needless
to say, this particular note did not come from
Spry. She merely says she is busy.
Isabel Vincent Harper and her husband went
the end of the summer to England on a walk-
ing trip. Her daughter was witli Carmelita
Chase Hinton and her group in Germany and
Austria.
Marjorie Thompson and her mother were as
usual at Squam Lake in New Hampshire.
Mary Peirce was with them a short time, and
the end of August Christine Hammer turned
up for a week, rather missing the Outer
Hebrides, where she has spent the last three
or four summers. She was on her way to visit
Margaret Garrigues Lester, in Nova Scotia, and
earlier had been studying at Woods Hole.
Elisabeth Pinney Hunt was with her aunt at
Wiano on the Cape all summer. Her eldest
son, Dickson, was with Dr. Grenfell on one of
the schooners, and the second boy, George,
was with her, sailing in the Edgartown races.
Mary Peirce and her family have moved to
an apartment. The Mermont, Bryn Mawr. Mrs.
Peirce broke her hip earlier in the summer,
but is able to sit up now.
In the leading New York morning papers of
September 11th, in the lower right-hand corner
of the principal financial page, almost taking
a bite out of the large announcement about the
exchange of Liberty Loans for new Treasury
Bonds, appeared a little rectangular notice
reading: "Carl D, Montgomery of 1 Cedar
Street, New York, takes pleasure in announcing
that Miss Louise Watson is associated with his
investment management business." No explana-
tions needed — her name is sufficient. Does any
one remember that her luggage used to be
neatly and simply marked "Miss Louise Watson,
Va."? Evidently even the newspaper boys were
impressed, for the evening papers of the same
day carried the following two-column double-
head article in a prominent place:
"GIRL SELLS SIOO.000.000 BONDS.
THEN SHE ENTERS ANOTHER 1 -IKLD
"With a record of more than $100,000,000
bonds sold to iiivestors over a period of four-
teen years, Louise Watson, pioneer bond sales-
woman, today entered the field of investment
management with Carl D. Montgomery and his
associates at 1 Cedar Street, becoming one of
the few women in this highly specialized field.
Miss Watson was graduated rnapna cum laudc
from Bryn Mawr, where she majored in math-
onialics. and for six years thereafter she was
business manager of the college. Then in 1920
she decided to turn her activities to finance.
The Guaranty Trust Company told her she
might enter the bond school there at the bank's
expense, which she did. Completing a nine
months' course. Miss Watson spent the next
three years selling at the Guaranty's head office,
140 Broadway, after which she moved her head-
quarters to the bank's Fifth Avenue branch.
She was associated with the Guaranty Company
until the firm was dissolved last June under the
terms of the Securities Act. At present she is
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on the board of the Twelfth Assembly District,
New York League of Women Voters, and a
member of the Town Hall Club."
Please note that her skill in mathematics
enables her to start on her dizzy career in 1920,
six years after graduation, and that the date
of her college class is not mentioned.
1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn.
1914
Class Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs. Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
1915
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. J. Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Adrienne Kenyon lives in the same place,
but her address is different, owing to the fact
that the local postoffice has been deleted. The
new mail address is Box 127, Glenside, Pa.
Dorothea Moore has moved to 253 East 48th
Street, New York City.
Florence Kelton has our very sincere sym-
pathy, as her mother, Mrs. Charles F. Hatton,
of Columbus, Ohio, died on June 12th after a
long illness. Florence's two daughters, Frances
and Florence, were graduated from junior high
school in June and spent a month this summer
at the Girl Scout camp in the mountains of
Virginia. Edwin, Florence's husband, was grad-
uated again also in June — this time from the
Army War College. He has now assumed his
duties in the department of the Assistant
Secretary of War.
Anna Brown and Cleora Sutch had a short
trip to Bermuda together this summer.
Peggy Stone left her husband and four chil-
dren at home and made a flying trip to the
World's Fair in September. She stopped in
Pittsburgh to see her family on the way back
to Washington.
In a letter dated September 12th, from
Browning's Beach, Wakefield, R. I., Mary
Gertrude Brownell Wilson writes: "Since
August 15th my husband and son Winthrop,
aged seven and a half, and I have been here,
where we have a house so near the beach that
the ocean is easier to reach than the bathtub.
This situation greatly pleases Win, who has
become quite a swimmer and diver in conse-
quence.
"We have had a busy winter and spring in
Croton, N. Y., what with Clyde's book which
came out the end of March. It was well re-
ceived by the reviewers and considered, by
those who know, to be a very authentic study
of life in the Carolina mountains.
"Next winter promises to be even more busy,
as another book is under way, and in addition
we are moving September 18th to Belmont,
Mass., where Clyde is teaching at the Belmont
Day School.
"Our address will be 18 Blake Street,
Belmont, Mass., and I do hope that our class-
mates from that part of the world will cast me
a kind word now and then, and likewise come
to see me when near Belmont. ... I am de-
lighted to be in New England again, and think
I am very lucky that the school is there."
Emily Noyes Knight was married in May to
Joseph Warren Greene, Jr., and is living in
Wickford, Rhode Island.
1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1917
Class Editor: Bertha C. Greenough
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, R. I.
Pete Iddings Ryan sent the following infor-
mation to us at reunion: "I'm working with
the Emergency Relief over in Transylvania
County, a mountain county, some forty miles
from Asheville. I stay here during the week,
returning home each week-end.
"The chief industry here has been logging
and lumbering in the past, and that business
is practically over now. So there are dozens
and dozens of stranded families trying to farm
a little and looking to 'Welfare' for their main
support.
"The new Rural Rehabilitation plan is help-
ing these families provide a food supply for
the winter, but the cash for clothes, medicine,
etc., isn't available unless some new smaller
industries can be introduced.
"This country has magnificent scenery, and
almost every part of it can be reached by some
sort of road or trail, since in the past few
years most of the logging has been done by
trucks. So I can go almost anywhere in my
trusty Ford, allowing for such emergencies as
bridges breaking down under one, roads
blocked by fallen trees, trails that end ab-
ruptly at a jumping-off place above a falls,
washed-out roads with rocks in the middle too
high for a car to pass over, etc.
"The people here live in the most primitive
way — windowless log cabins, or new little board
shacks of one or two rooms — no sanitary con-
veniences of any kind. I feel I'm slipping back
a generation or two every Monday morning
when I ride over from Asheville, and when
reading such books as South Moon Under and
Lamb in His Bosom I feel it is contemporary
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literature. All the old superstitions are here —
money on the dead man's eyes, the woman
who is considered a witch and is the only one
who can make the butter, the family that re-
fuses to plant its seeds because the 'signs
aren't right.*
"My children stay in Asheville. They are
growing up fast. Margaret, the oldest, will be
a Senior in high school this year. Elizabeth
enters high school this fall. Richard, now ten,
will go into the sixth grade. And the youngest,
who is seven, will be in the fourth grade.
Rosanne is the best-rounded of all the children
and I'm trusting will get to B. M. some day."
Sylvia Jelliffe Stragnell writes from Harmon
on Hudson: "I've been leading the kind of
life that is the despair of the would-be writer.
Nothing ever happens to me that would make
good material. Except that strangely enough
every time I tried to do any writing the dinner
burned, or a child fell down stairs or caught
a cold. So writing has been postponed. . . .
We've all been very well, went through the
usual farming itch and had dogs, sheep, horses,
ducks, chickens and pigeons^ and outgrew, sold,
ate, or discarded these, and are . now in the
throes as to whether or not to take the goldfish
with us when we move. We have somehow
stuck in a little travelling from time to time,
to New Orleans by boat a couple of years ago,
Robert went to California for a couple of
months with his father, both children took a
peek at Canada, different parts, and last sum-
mer we all went to Germany and spent a month
in Potsdam. The children have been at
Scarborough School, and next year Barbara,
who is ready to enter high school, will go to
Kent Place in Summit, and Robert will lit-
erally cross the road from our place to go to
the Buxton Country Day School in Short Hills.
"I have not vegetated completely, for after
the writing phase I got into school health
work and did my bit in local unemployment
relief work. This winter I was interested in a
Bargain Shop, where we sold to all comers
everything salable that anyone would part with,
and the ramifications of the shop became so
hectic that I almost got myself excommunicated
from the family.
"Gregory did psychoanalytic work for a num-
ber of years and also ran a medical journal.
This journal he still has, and he is now med-
ical director of Schering Corporation, a phar-
maceutical company. The factory has just been
moved to New Jersey, which is the reason for
our tagging along too."
Eleanor Dulles Blondheim has a son born
September 29th in Philadelphia.
Of Use Knauth Dunbar, Sylvia writes: "Use
with six children and a gorgeous voice, is not
much of a correspondent, but I do hear from
her occasionally."
Margaret Hoff Zimmerman writes as follows
about herself and her family: "For eleven and
a half years we have been living here in
Chapel Hill — my husband is Professor of Eco-
nomics at the State University — and the de-
pression has hit us with full force. We are
getting only 60 per cent of our salary of three
years ago, and on this wretched pittance my
husband has to support a family of five! Once
in a while he writes an article that brings in
a few pennies. . . . We built our house just
before our youngest child was born, seven
years ago, when times were better, and now it
is an added burden. I am writing all this not
to complain, but in the hope that someone in
the class may know of some better position
for my husband, and for the sake of the class
baby, if not for mine, may be able to help us
out. My husband's book is in its second edi-
tion and as you may have seen has been well
received. His position is made more difiicult
because he was born in Germany and educated
there, so he has not got connections over here.
He came over in 1911 and has been a citizen
for about ten years. As for me, I am doing
all the housework, and care for my growing
family. Erika, the class baby, is sixteen and
has just finished her freshman year at this
university. I would love to have her at
Bryn Mawr, but it just couldn't be managed.
Even with a scholarship it would still be double
what we have to pay here. She is an excellent
student, very musical and very mature. Charles,
our only boy, is twelve. He is not as excep-
tional as Erika, but a good average student in
the sixth grade, with quite a talent for science,
and says he wants to be a doctor. Margaret
Eugenia, called Peggy, is the youngest, seven
years old. She is very bright, in the second
grade, and quite a domestic child. We would
so love to see any of you who might motor
this way. Our liouse is directly on the highway
to Florida, about eighty miles north of
Pinehurst."
Anne Davis Swift writes that "My life con-
sists chiefly in raring for children, and that
has led me into active service in the Parent-
Teachers' Association of our Elementary, where
the two oldest girls are now in the fifth and
second grades. It is a Progressive School here
in Princeton, and I am all for it. They do
such interesting things, have such a good time,
and learn a surprising lot. The eldest has just
starred as Maid Marian in a Robin Hood play
that she wrote for herself for her class to give.
N. B. — She went to Bryn Mawr May Day two
years ago."
From Bristol, England, in May. Eugenia
Holcombe Baker wrote telling of her anxiety
in the spring over her younger boy, Tom, who
had his leg crushed by an enormous rock about
Easter time. It was treated by "the \^'vnett-
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Orr (spelling in doubt) method, for the benefit
of the medically minded members of the class,
an American system by which the leg is put
right into plaster without windows of any sort
and left five or six weeks." When she wrote
the doctors were well pleased by the child's
recovery and expected him to come out of it
a quite normal person eventually.
1918
Class Editor: Mary S. Mumford Hoogerwerff
(Mrs. Heister Hoogerwerff)
37 Catherine St., Newport, R. I.
1919
Class Editor: Frances Clark Darling
(Mrs. Maurice Darling)
151 East 83rd St., New York City
1920
Class Editor: Lilian Davis Philip
(Mrs. Van Ness Philip)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Our song mistress was greatly missed at
Reunion, and this is the reason for her ab-
sence. On the 15th of May she and her hus-
band, Philip Jessup, sailed for France. "Phil
was the American delegate to the International
Studies Conference in Paris— the Institute of
Intellectual Cooperation of the League of
Nations. For four or five days we were feasted
and feted by the Sorbonne and the French
Government. The high spot of the festivities
was the evening we met Mme. Curie at dinner.
Then with business finished we visited friends
in Geneva and observed the first few dis-
couraging days of the Disarmament Confer-
ence; a few gay days and nights in London,
and, as a grand finale, a week's motor trip
through Devon and Cornwall, visiting a few
schools and enjoying the luxuriant English
countryside, ending at the gangplank in
Southampton." Lois is now back at work as
assistant headmistress of Brearley in New York.
Her new address is 544 East 86th Street,
New York City.
As the Bulletin is not published during
the summer we are forced to be very late in
offering our sympathy to Darthela Clark, whose
father died on July 30th. "Walton Clark, con-
sulting engineer and former Vice-President of
the United Gas Improvement Company, was
among the group of men responsible for the
growth of gas companies throughout the
United States. Mr. Clark was the inventor of
a process for the complete gassification of coal
and contributed to the development of proc-
esses for operating water gas sets. From 1907
to 1924 he was President of Franklin Institute
in Philadelphia."
On May 15th the First Avenue Association
of New York City named Mrs. Westmore
Willcox (Esther Jenkins) among the winners
of window-box garden awards.
So far we have received the name of only
one new baby to add to the roster of 20's
children. Please help us to keep our list up
to date. The arrival of Peter Justice Collins
on May 30th caused us to miss another of our
classmates at Reunion.
Jean Justice Collins' older son, Dickie, will
be three on Armistice Day.
Fame is coming to us through our scientists.
Mary Hardy has discovered a hitherto unknown
nerve ending in the ear. Her report of the
result of her experiments in the Johns Hopkins
Laboratory was published in the Anatomical
Record of July under the title, "Observations
on the Innervation of the Macula Sacculi in
Man."
Millicent Carey Mcintosh's new address is
514 E. 87th Street. Last spring she and her
husband bought the house in which they are
now living, after its remodeling under the
direction of the architect, Lewis G. Adams, a
brother-in-law of Lois Jessup.
1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelley Erdman
(Mrs. C. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemont Ave., Pasadena, Calif.
So far, without any effort on my part, some
news has rolled in, but I am still hoping for
some return from my many postals.
Margaret Morton Creese sent in an 8 pound,
I3I/2 ounce news item — namely, Thomas Morton
Creese, born June 19th.
During the spring and summer I have run
across helpful articles in House Beautiful by
Emily Kimbrough Wrench, such as "Revolu-
tion in the Little Room," which tells one how
to turn a "breakfast room" into a bookkeeping
and accounting room, or a "little parlor" into
a music room, a "sun room" into an aquarium,
or even an entrance hall into a carpenter shop.
Another article on what to take to the sum-
mer cottage shows the great change in Emily
since the days when it was all she could do
to get herself to the summer cottage, after
losing her baggage en route, and now she
remembers extra sofa cushions, bedside lamps,
picnic baskets, and innumerable other lux-
uries. Kat Walker Bradford and her two girls
visited Emily and the twins at Bay Head in
July and learned that Emily has been signed
up for 300 words a day on children, clothes,
etc., on the woman's page by a newspaper
syndicate.
Ellen Jay Garrison and her children, while
Lloyd was busy in Washington as Chairman
of the new labor board, spent their summer
in New England visiting relatives.
By this time you have all had notes from
Marg Archibald Kroll from Port au Prince,
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Haiti. It does help to have a class collector
who at least supplies interesting stamps for the
young. She wrote that Mary Porter Kirkland
Vandervoot had spent a month with her this
spring, and that they spent many hours singing
harmony.
A long, newsy letter from Alice Whittier
says that she is practicing pediatrics in
Portland, Maine, and is on the staff at the
Maine General Hospital and at Children's Hos-
pital. She is also Secretary of the Portland
College Club, and Secretary and Treasurer of
the Portland Medical Club. In May she went
to Augusta to the annual meeting of the Maine
League of Women Voters, at which Margaret
Wiesman (Executive Secretary of the Massa-
chusetts Consumers League) was the banquet
speaker. Her subject was "The Social Cost of
a Bargain," and she did it splendidly and made
a great hit. Alice hopes all classmates who
summer in Maine will look her up.
Helen Farrell writes: "I am doing pub-
licity for the Department of Photography of
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
We put on a series of weekly broadcasts on
photography over WOR. Another publicity
project was a snapshot contest in the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle. I recomm.end judging a news-
paper contest to anyone who wants to study
human nature."
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
Overlook Road, Spring Brook,
Morristown, N. J.
Frances Bliss Tyson died in July, three
weeks after the birth of her little boy, William
Bliss Tyson. To her husband and family the
Class of 1922 sends its deep sympathy.
Barbara Clarke was married on September
22nd to Mr. Harry Fuller.
Mary Douglass Hay was married in
Springfield, 111., on October 6th to Mr. Donald
Funk.
1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Abbott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York City
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Butterworth
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallet Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
1926
Class Editor: Hakhiot Hopkinson
Manchester, Mass.
Now that summer is over, and tlie first few
autumn leaves of class news begin to flicker —
rather too sparsely — to the ground where we
can scurry around and pick them up, we note
that the bulk of accomplishment, reported at
least, is concerned with the arrival of new
citizens to this country. Announcement of the
appearance of some, we regret very much to
say, ought to have reached this column earlier,
and we shall greatly appreciate it in the future
if news is permitted to seep out to this type-
writer a little nearer the date of the events
chronicled.
On June 2nd, in Chicago, Angela Johnston
Boyden had a daughter, both reported thriving;
then from the American Embassy in Mexico
City comes news from Katherine Slade
Newbegin of the arrival of Dorothy King
Newbegin, born June 7th. June 9th is the
birthday of Miss Katherine Ann Smith, daugh-
ter of Rummy Muckenhoupt Smith ; and
further rumored children are a daughter of
Louise Adams Metcalf, and a daughter of
Margin Wylie Sawbridge. Rumor also, no-
toriously undependable where international
matters are concerned, has led us to under-
stand that Margin's daughter goes by the name
of Mary Phillida Tudor, and that she has red
hair and flashing eyes. A future May Queen?
Charis Denison is now Mrs. Frederick
Crockett, of Boston. The wedding took place
in Williamstown, Mass., the last week in June.
This correspondent saw the happy pair sliortly
thereafter, just before they were leaving for a
trip to the west coast. Charis' plans for the
winter were a little vague, but she is still a
very enthusiastic anthropology student of
Radcliflfe.
Miriam Lewis spent her vacation at Nortli
Bay, Ontario, but has returned now to
Philadelphia, where she is working still witli
the Curtis Publishing Company.
Delia Smith spent last winter in St. Louis
with a most interesting and congenial job
teaching at the John Burroughs School, one of
the best-known progressive schools. English
and Dramatics were her particular fields, and
she will be returning there again this year.
At the expense of the usual brief and varied
notes in this column, this month it seems
well worth while to learn what Molly Parker
has been doing, and is doing still, as part of
the New Deal. Her experience in the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts was good preparation for
her present job, but must hardly have led her
to expect the fearful activity she now indulges
iu — rushing continually, as she does, from one
end of the state to tlie other.
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"The winter saw a government project estab-
lished, under the Treasury Department, for the
employment of artists in the United States;
for the decoration of public buildings, schools,
libraries, hospitals, town and city halJs, prisons
— everything. (One mayor wants to have his
fire station decorated ! ) I had a chance to
help with it, and took the job at the same
grand salary as the laborer who dug the ditches
in front of your houses last winter. That in
itself amused me; though I have been pro-
moted somewhat!
"The work we had to do at first was to weed
out the artists who applied for help, get
projects from institutions to give mural paint-
ers, portrait painters, woodcarvers, sculptors,
etchers and lithographers something to do;
then fit the artist to the job, using local people
whenever possible. Some of the artists were
well known, some totally unknown, and their
work had to be seen and classified in folders,
from which we pulled them when a job turned
up. It all had to be done quickly, for the
project, we knew, would not last long, and we
were frantic at times. When the man was
chosen for the work, we had to see and criti-
cize his sketches, make arrangements for mate-
rials, and then talk about the work with the
authorities of the institution where it was go-
ing. Some of the artists were of no use to us,
and they had to be helped to look for work
elsewhere. We learned a lot, but the men who
were given work did some of it under most
unusual circumstances, to which they were not
at all accustomed; they painted in attics, and
cellars, and one man who was assigned to
make pictures of some of the historic forts on
the islands in Boston Harbor, got left behind
by the boat, and we had to send a rescue
party to get him off!
"April ended the Public Works of Art project,
and we were absorbed, in several of the states,
under the Federal Emergency Relief Admin-
istration. This was really not much more than
a change of initials, except that the people
who had been in charge of the project had to
go back to their museums (most of them were
museum directors), and I was left to try to
carry on the work in Massachusetts. I was
promptly deluged with more applications, and
most of them were not much good, as we had
culled the cream by that time. But we were
definitely to be a relief project, and most of
them had to be taken on the payroll for that
reason. That meant reorganizing the teams,
and dividing up the artists who were really
good, and jotting them around the countryside
with new assistants, so as not to run the risk
of breaking down the artistic quality of the
work. Work goes on in the same way as it
did in the winter, the salaries coming from
Washington, and the materials being supplied
by the institutions receiving the work. I am
learning a lot more about people, and will
never stop being entertained when I hear my-
self recommending ships and not Indians in
this or that school auditorium, and no ladies
in cheesecloth! I hope my ignorance and sense
of inability is concealed under some sort of
a bold front!
"The work has proved to be a great help to
some of the artists who have gotten jobs as a
result of it. A lot of them were young and
inexperienced, but obviously had ability. We
put them on with older men, and in two cases
they developed so well that they are now
captains of teams and doing swell things. The
portraitists and others have managed to get a
little money to have shows, and we have had
several inquiries which have worked out for
work to be done later on. Some of the artists
we could not use have been directed, I hope
tactfully, to other jobs, or chances of jobs,
some to paint Christmas cards, and others to
do shoe designing.
"The reaction of the people who receive the
finished work is perhaps the most fun. I
talked with the head of the children's hos-
pitals, who told me that the business of the
first examination of the children had been made
much easier by the pictures in the examination
room, because the nurses could get all the
tenseness and trepidation, out of the children
by telling them about the pictures. All the
children in the wards at the time these pic-
tures were being painted, moreover, could
choose the subjects to decorate the wards and
over their beds, and as they are all tubercular,
they have the paintings for their own for a
long time. We are decorating the recreation
hall of one of the Reformatories in Massa-
chusetts, and the comments of the inmates are
most amusing. They cannot see why one should
paint the walls with anything but religious
subjects; they neve^ saw it done before, and
they don't like all the faces of the figures!
A school restaurant on the Cape is a grand
success because the children can tell just what
some of the places illustrated are, and there is
a birthday cake mixed up in it somewhere;
but the reason they like it best is because they
found that the artist was 'quite like Pop'!"
1927
Class Editor: Ellenor Morris
Berwyn, Pa.
Peggy Brooks Juhring is the heroine of
the class notes this month, writing a nice long
letter with the following information; She, her-
self, is leading a very busy life at Ardsley-on-
Hudson with young John Christopher, 3rd, now
six months old. Also is on a golf committee
with Sylvia Walker Dillon, and the board of
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the Bfyii Mawr Club with Ruth Rickaby
Darmstadt.
Sylvia Dillon, of whom this department had
practically lost track, has been living in Ardsley
since December, 1932, and is now Chairman
of the Women's Golf Committee, and a very
important person.
Ruth Darmstadt was very active in the
B. M. C. last winter, and has apparently been
resting in California this past summer.
Betsy Gibson Du Bois has moved to Wash-
ington, where her husband has a job; and
Sally Jay Hughes has moved from Port Chester
to Armonk and is living on a large farm.
Marion Smith (friends please supply name
and address) has a marvelous job as window
decorator for F. A. 0. Schv/artz, which seems
about the grandest combination of business
with pleasure that we have ever heard of.
Frances Chrystie is also at Schwartz's in the
book department, which sounds pretty nice too.
Lucylle Austin is one of the busiest persons
we know. Last May she was elected Second
Vice-President of the Philadelphia Junior
League, which is an honor with a great deal
of work attached to it. It is her job to place
every single volunteer worker in the League,
to keep in touch with all the social agencies,
hospitals, etc., where these workers are placed,
and to see that the wheels are running smooth-
ly. Besides this, she is on the board of the
Family Society and does a great deal of work
for the Children's Heart Hospital. In spite of
all, she remains the same old Lu.
Madeleine Pierce Lemmon has a son,
William Thomas, Jr., born June 11th, and if
he is half as cute as his twin sisters he must
be quite a boy.
Mad also gives us news of two more infants.
Eleanor Waddell Stephens has a little boy,
Hugh Waddell, born March 13th, and Elise
Nachman Alter has a daughter, Elaine
Bernice, born July 9th.
We hear that Darcy Kellogg Thomas pro-
duced a son on the Fourth of July. That "gal"
can always be counted on for some sort of
fireworks. We would like to learn further de-
tails, such as name and general disposition.
Liz Nelson Tate has a second son, Thomas
Nelson, born March 2nd, Toby, as he is known
in home circles, has a brother, you will re-
member, now 314 years old,
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr.
1745 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C,
On July 18th, Ruth Elting and Mahlon
Ogdon West were married in Chicago. Prior
to her marriage, Ruth gave up her job as
President of the Emerson House Settlement,
where she has been for several years. l\Ir.
West is a graduate of Princeton and the Nortli-
western Law School.
Ruth Holloway originally planned to be mar-
ried to Edward T. Herndon in Glencoe on
October 20lh, but the date has been shifted
to October 13th and the place to the Holloway
summer home at Tyringham, Mass. Sally
Hoeffer and Frances Cookman are among the
bridesmai'ds.
Peg Barrett and Ginny Atmore took a motor
trip through New England in August. They
promised to drop cards, but since no word has
reached us, perhaps they got lost — or it may
be that our change of address (yes, one more,
please note) has thrown the postman off our
trail. Ginny reports that Lenore Hollander was
married to Franz Kohler in Gratz, Austria, on
July 9th. She also refers to the wedding of
May Jardella, but fails to enclose the promised
clipping, so we are still in the dark. Details,
please!
Al Bruere Lounsbury spent several weeks
this summer with her family in Oregon. She
and her sister Jean, ex-'32, drove across in
eight days, stopping a day and a half at the
Fair in Chicago and a day in the Yellowstone!
She spent a day with Peggy Hess DeGraaf and
reports the young son as being "handsome,
healthy and sunburned." Al returned in August
to get her household ready for moving to
Jackson Heights, L. I., where her address is
3535 87th Street.
1929
Class Editor: ]\Iary L. Williams
210 East 68th Street, New York City
The class extends its deepest sympathy to
Katherine Collins Hayes, whose mother died in
September.
Martha Humphrey was married on September
8th to Mr. John \^ alden Myer at ChristchurcJi,
Mayfair, London, England. On their return to
this country thev will live at 2 Beeknian Place,
New York, N. Y.
Patty Speer Barbour has a son. Donald
Elliott, born June 7th and weighing 8 pounds
12 ounces. Her permanent address (for the
next year or two) is 5 Dulwich \^'(md Park,
London S. E. 19, England.
Catherine Rea was married to Mr. Alfred J.
Sawyer in September. He is a graduate of the
Engineering School of the University of Michi-
gan. He then had a job with the Pure Oil
Company in Toledo, Ohio (where they met),
but has now been transferred to Beaumont,
Texas.
Clover Henry Graham has a son, Rae Henry,
born August 25th. Her address — to judge by
the card — seems to be 25 Holland Street,
London W8, England.
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Last June we seized the opportunity to call
on Nan Woodward, who is living at South
Lyme, Conn. We found her still keeping minks
and enjoying it, and also married into the
bargain. Her husband's name is Arthur Lyle
Budlong; he is interested in raising minks,
too, but has a job in Hartford as well.
Virginia Fain Williams has a second daugh-
ter, Honor Adele, and Alexandra Dalziel
Kinloch also has a second daughter, Alexandra,
born in London August 7th.
1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
Fort DuPont, Del.
The class extends its deepest sympathy to
Connie Jones, whose father died early in the
summer.
Eleanor Smith is engaged to Mr. William S.
Gand, Jr., of Charleston, South Carolina. He
is a graduate of Yale and of the Yale Law
School.
We understand that Marie Salant Neuberger
has a child, but have no details as to name,
sex, and so forth.
Gertie Bancroft and Hilda Wright motored
out to the West Coast and back this summer,
and on their way home saw Harriet Ropes
Cabot, Stanley Gordon Edwards and Mary
Elizabeth Edwards. Mary Liz has been out at
Taos, New Mexico, this summer, learning to
card, spin and weave wool, she says. Gertie
is going on to do some more studying at the
University of Pennsylvania, where she got her
M.A. degree last June.
Nan Lake is back at Bryn Mawr, living in
Yarrow East and teaching Latin.
Elizabeth Fehrer is starting in to work for
the government in the Tennessee Valley.
1931
Class Editor: Evelyn Waples Bayless
(Mrs. Robert Nelson Bayless)
301 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn.
Peggy McKelvy was married on June 2nd
to Mr. Junius Bouton Bird in a garden in
Rye; she and her husband are spending the
summer in a tent in Labrador, Newfoundland
or Greenland.
Kitty Cone gave a luncheon for her, and
last summer went to Europe with Lois
Thurston.
Lois has been places until this winter, when
she went to school in New York doing case-
work and taking music lessons. She stopped
at Chicago on her way to California last sum-
mer to do the Flying Turns with Helen Bell
and E. Dyer at the World's Fair.
C. T. Thompson is pursuing international
activities in Washington. Last summer she
worked with the Institute of Pacific Relations
and this year is connected with the League of
Nations' goings on.
After finishing with honors at the C. 0. S.,
A. K. Lord went West for an extended sojourn
in St. Louis, Chicago, Winnetka, - Hubbard
Woods and Madison. Having checked up on
her Middle Western pals, she rushed to
England to check E. Dyer, who promptly came
home. Since then A. K. has been encouraging
the nobility on the continent, and academic
life in Cambridge. She is coming home in
September for her twin sister's wedding.
Dyer — E. Chonteau: After 18 months of
work at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
in London she was graduated with honors and
prizes, including one from the British Broad-
casting Company for excellent radio work. She
returned to this country this spring, and after
a visit in New York is now installed as a
member of the Shakespearean repertory com-
pany at Merrie En^lande at the Fair. Her
week-ends — lasting from midnight on Saturday
till noon on Sundays — are spent chez Bell
whenever Bell has anything to say about it.
Lewis, Emily: Having exhausted all the civic
organizations in St. Louis which she headed,
she has now taken to travel in the grand man-
ner. She watched the Fair open in Chicago
on her way to a Junior League Conference in
Toronto, and shortly after gave Princeton a
break. She is on her way to Honolulu right
now.
Helen Bell and Hobart have sent me all this,
so thank them as I do. Helen has been work-
ing hard. She is head of the Chicago Junior
League Children's Theatre, busily involved in
packing them into the Enchanted Island
Theatre at the Fair, having made a mad suc-
cess of Peter Pan in Chicago this winter. In
breathing spells she flits to Arizona and
New York, and her fame as a theatre executive
is nation-wide. Last summer she was produc-
tion manager for all three plays, as well as
being a dashing, spectacular Prince in
Cinderella, and a most charming and effective
Harlequin in Pinocchio.
After spending a couple years in far-reaching
travel, Hobart has come home to roost and is
searing herself to a toothpick acting in the
children's plays of the Chicago Junior League.
Last summer she was in three plays, including
Pinocchio, of which she was P. himself. Last
winter she was a lost boy in Peter Pan, and
this summer she has been at the Fair steadily
three days a week, appearing totteringly as the
grandmother in Red Riding Hood.
Molly Frothingham is chaperoning a carload
of girls to a ranch.
V. Burdick is a secretary in a girls' camp
this summer. Babs Kirk Foster and husband
are coming home from Danzig in October. Babs
has had time to work hard at sculpture.
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Paul Cooper was horn on May 21st to
Katherine Sixt Cooper in Burlington, N. J.
A letter from Becky Warfield in mid-ocean
told me she is on her way to Ireland for the
summer,
1932
Class Editors: Janet and Margaret Woods
95 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass.
Two of our classmates, according to our
present knowledge, chose the 25th of August
for their wedding day. Amelie Alexanderson
was married to John Wallace, and Lucille
Shuttleworth to Theodore Moss. Lucille will
be living at 2705 Hanover Avenue this winter
in Richmond, Va., where "Dode" is studying
medicine. Of Amelie's husband and of their
plans for the future we know nothing, and are
looking for information.
From the mining town of Eureka, Nevada,
in the late summer, came a letter from Jo
Graton Chase. We gather that she and Phil
have spent the summer there, and that they
should by now be in Mexico. Their new ad-
dress is the San Luis Mining Co.', c/o Cordova
Cia, Est. Dimas, Sinaloa, Mexico. (We find
on the map that Sinaloa is a state on the
northwestern coast of Mexico at the lower end
of the Gulf of California.) Jo wrote of an
archaeological expedition from the camp to
investigate some old Indian graves. They were
located on a mountain slope above a canyon
through which the Pony Express used to go.
Joe's skeleton that she found had a bullet
nicely planted between two ribs — perhaps the
good aim of some Pony Express rider.
Migs Bradley announced her engagement in
June to Van Buren Rickert.
J. and M. Woods spent eight weeks of the
summer excavating in the Chaco Canyon in
New Mexico. Our return trip by way of Mesa
Verde, the Ouray Mountains and Pike's Peak
was especially delightful, and we heartily rec-
ommend Colorado scenery and air. After a
week in Cambridge to set up housekeeping
with a Radcliffe friend in an apartment on
Prescott Street, we hurried down to Philadel-
phia to see a brother married. Ann Willits
was at the wedding, but time was too fleeting
to allow us to glean any information for the
class files.
This quite exhausts your editors' news for
the summer. Will those who are able to do so
please send us more information, and the
sooner the better.
1933
Class Editor: Margaret J. Ullom
160 Carpenter Lane, Germantown, Phila.
Even that famous lady. Rumor, seemed in-
capable of penetrating the humidity of a
Philadelphia suiiinicr, but the lew words which
she now and then whispered indicate a rapid
rise in the married list.
We offer our best wishes to:
Mary Harriman, who was married to Erhard
Driechsler in Albany on March 17th.
Annamae Grant, who was married to Edward
Cornish on June 8lh.
Cecelia Candee, who was married to Robert
Hilton on August 7th.
Maizie-Louise Cohen, who was married to
Dr. Mitchell Rubin on September 1st.
And to Topsy Bickell, who, on the same
date, was married to George Francis James,
of the Department of Law at Ohio State
University.
Nor have we forgotten Jinny Balough, who,
we hear from Polly Barnitz, has not only ac-
quired the title of Mrs. William Jeffers, but
also a Fellowship in Psychology at Bryn Mawr.
Polly herself is bursting with tales of a splen-
did summer spent on the Odyssey Cruise, and
is at present attending Business School in
preparation for her job as assistant to Mrs.
Chadwick-Collins.
Margie Collier also is at College again in
the capacity of hockey coach, and Grace
Dowling has been substituting in the Regis-
trar's Office ever since the illness of Miss
Stevens early in tlie summer.
Anna Walcott Hayne writes: "This is just
to let you know that Miss Sarah Bourn Hayne,
otherwise known as Sally, made an entrance
into this world at 7 p. m., August the 21st.
She tipped the scales at 9 pounds 1 ounce
(3 ounces more than Patsy)." Anna and
Bourn are living in Cambridge this year while
Bourn attends architectural school.
We hear that Sidda Bowditch, whom we saw
while she was down for Bryn Mawr Summer
School again, is returning to the Kentucky
mountains, and that Myra Little will study for
her M.A. in Romance Languages at the Uni-
versity of Chicago.
On behalf of the class we exleiul our deep-
est sympathies to Eleanor Collins, who has
lost her mother, to Evelyn Remington, wliose
father died on the West Coast in September,
and to Matilda McCracken, whose mother died
at Naples, Italy, in August.
1931
Class Editor: Nancy Hart
214 Belleville Ave., Bloomfield, N. J.
Elizabeth Mackenzie sailed September 29th
on the Bremen to use her European Fellowship
in Cambridge. Her field will probably be
seventeenth century English literature. She
spent the summer as usual with her family in
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Canada. According to the last available report,
Marianne Gateson is probably at Oxford.
Clara Frances Grant's engagement to
Frederick Earl Emmons, Jr., of Los Angeles,
California, was announced last month. Her
fiance graduated from the College of Archi-
tecture, Cornell University, in 1929, and prac-
tices architecture in Los Angeles. C. F. took
the Odyssey Cruise again this summer, along
with Marion Hope.
Maria Coxe has been at the Hedgerow
Theatre since College closed, working on stage
managing and lighting. She is busy on four
new plays of her own.
The class wishes to express its sympathy to
Louise Turner on the death of her brother,
who was killed in an airplane accident. She
iiad a successful summer at the Yale Nursery
School and will be living at home this winter.
Marjorie Lee Foster is settled now in a "nice
little house" in Phoenixville, Pa. She writes:
"Jack and I had a gorgeous time on our trip.
We went to Havana first, where I had lots of
fun exercising my Spanish, and re-seeing all
the old places that I remembered so well from
when we used to live there. . . . Then we went
through the Panama Canal and had a week in
California and toured around in a little
Chevrolet roadster that Jack hired and drove.
We went to Mexico, then up to the Yosemite
National Park to see the great Redwood trees.
... It was the grandest trip I've ever taken."
Polly Cooke also journeyed westward — ^^to
Hawaii, while Frannie Carter went to England
for the summer, and will probably stay until
November, and then spend the winter at home
in Washington. Bowie is traveling in Russia
with her brother. Sarah Eraser spent two
months in England and Scotland, and is now
teaching geography at the Brearley School in
New York. Connie Coleman was also consid-
ering a Latin apprenticeship at Brearley.
We hear from Evie Patterson that she and
Sue Halstead had a very pleasant summer in
France: "We lived at the Fondation des Etats
Unis at the Cite JJniversitaire which . . . con-
tains students from all sorts of countries. . . .
We had to take oral French examinations in
various subjects, but came through safely. On
the theory that you can understand a foreign
language better when you can hear it, we
always sat in the front row."
There is a small army of '34 at Radcliffe
this year. The group include Libby Hannan,
who has a scholarship in history and writes
that she hasn't "done one blessed (she didn't
say that) thing this summer — at least not since
July 1st, the day Bobby Smith and I departed
Granville for home"; Jean Anderegg, who
spent the summer on the family farm in Ohio,
Jbeing very domestic, and is now continuing her
French; Janet Barber, who is doing graduate
work in philosophy and living with a cousin
in Cambridge; and Elizabeth Walter, who is
in the English Department.
To continue the long roll of those who are
pursuing further knowledge: Myra Little at
the University of Chicago; Gabriel Church,
studying geology at Columbia; Nancy Steven-
son (we hear) at Barnard; Connie Robinson
at the National School of Fine and Applied
Art in Washington; Harriet Mitchell at the
Johns Hopkins Medical School; Betti Gold-
wasser using her scholarship at Columbia (we
thought it was Radcliffe) ; Jo Rothermel at
the School of Social Work in Philadelphia;
and Cora Mclver (probably) at the New York
School for Social Work after a summer at the
Little Red Schoolhouse in New York State;
Junia Culbertson in Philadelphia studying
music.
Bunny Marsh Luce is living in New York
this winter, not Cambridge, as she first plan-
ned. Louise Davis has been seen at the
New York Public Library. Jo Rothermel en-
joyed her motor trip this summer with Rosa-
mond Cross and Peggy Little around the
Gaspe. Sarah Miles had a good vacation, end-
ing up with a camping trip in Canada. Others
did not exactly loaf this summer: Ruth Berto-
let took courses in education at the University
of Pennsylvania and is now an apprentice at
the Beaver Country Day School in Boston. Sit
McCormick took a business course and hopes
to get a job this winter. Anita de Varon sup-
plemented her art with typing and stenography,
and Emmaleine Snyder took courses in educa-
tion at Bucknell.
Among the fortunate who have jobs, Anita
Fouilhoux is engaged in showing people around
Radio City. Olivia Jarrett is directing amateur
productions all over the south and east — work-
ing for the International Producing Corpora-
tion. Laura Hurd is in the office of the Gen-
eral Marketing Counsellors, doing research. She
plans to take her MA. at Columbia in either
Ec. or Psyc. Barbara Bishop is at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Museum. Lou Meneely
and Susie Daniels are in the Promotion Group
at R. H. Macy and Co., going strong. Carrie
Schwab has started her job with the New York
Times in the school circulation department.
Terry Smith had a temporary job during Sep-
tember chauffeuring Miss Hilda Smith's aunt
in West Park, N. Y. Molly Nichols is assist-
ing Miss Latham with her playwriting classes,
and Polly Barnitz has a full-time job with
Mrs. Collins.
Now a word from the editor: We want to
thank the six public-spirited collaborators who
have furnished a mine of information. Some
of the gaps in this month's news may be ex-
plained by the fact that we unexpectedly
shifted our base of operations pro tern.
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THE COUNCIL MEETS AT THE DEANERY
December, 1934
Vol. XIV
No. 9
Entered as se<^nd-class matter, January 15, 1921, at the Post Office, Phila., Pa., under Act of March 5, 1879
COPYRIGHT, 1934
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895
Vice-PreBident Serena Hand Savage, 1922
Secretary Josephine Young Case, 1928
Treasurer Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909
Chairman of the Finance Committee Virginia Atmore, 1928
rk;,«.«*^-= of T„,.„^ /Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins, 1905
Directors at Large [alict!^ Sachs Plaut, 1908
ALUMNAE SECRETARY AND BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE BULLETIN
Alice M. Hawkins, 1907
EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN
Marjorib L. Thompson, 1912
DISTRICT COUNCILLORS
District I Mary C. Parker, 1926
District II Harriet Price Phipps, 1923
District III Vinton Liddbll Pickens, 1922
District IV Elizabeth Smith Wilson, 1915
District V Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912
District VI Mary Taussig, 1933
District VII Leslie Farwell Hill, 1905
ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
Virginia McKennbt Claiborne, 1908 Virginia Knbeland Frantz, 1918
Louise Fleischmann Maclay, 1906 Florance Waterbury, 1905
Gertrude Dietrich Smith, 1903
CHAIRMAN OF THE ALUMNAE FUND
Virginia Atmore, 1928
CHAIRMAN OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Ellen Faulkner, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS AND LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Y. Maguirb, 1913
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Dr. Marjorib Strauss Knauth, 1918
CHAIRMAN OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Niblds Bancroft, 1898
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Vol. XIV DECEMBER, 1934 No. 9
The Report of the Fiftieth Anniversary Committee, presented at tlie special
meeting of the alumnae called last June, contained a phrase that seemed increasingly
significant as one listened to the reports and the discussions of the Council. The
Committee stated that they had studied the needs of the College and had finally
decided on a plan that would increase its financial security and give "greater scope
to scholastic development." At the time one wondered precisely what tliey meant
by that phrase which might mean anything or nothing, but each of us interpreted
it to suit herself because it caught her imagination. The reports and informal
speeches at the various sessions of the Council, largely by implication, gradually
defined and limited the phrase by translating it into more concrete terms and thereby
making it immediately more exciting. The mere fact that we were meeting in tlie
Deanery where for so many years discussions about education, and wliat was best in
education, had been in the very air, may have had something to do witli the definite
focus of our interest. President Park communicated, in her speech Friday morning,
her own courageous hopes and enthusiasm for the plans for Science and Art and
Archaeology that new buildings might make possible. ]\Iiss Swindler, when she
spoke of the Expedition in which Bryn Mawr is participating with the Fogg Museum
at Harvard and the Archaeological Institute of America, and wliicli lio])es to exca-
vate Tarsus, gave a glimpse of a wholly new objective. ^Nfr. Chew, in his deliglitful
discussion of The Crescent and the Rose, his forthcoming book, made us feel tliat
"scholastic development" could very adequately be translated into terms of a
research professorship, to be available for each department in turn. Dean Manning
gave it yet another definition when she discussed the curriculum changes and the
opportunities for honours work now possible at Bryn ^Sfawr and tlie new ones tliat
the College hopes to be able to offer sometime when circumstances jiermit. Mrs.
Smith, in her discussion of post-major courses, gave the once vague phrase yet
another definite content. With all this in mind we saw the hoped-for new buildings
in a true perspective, as a means to an end, and not an end in tliemselves, and
therefore, infinitely more desirable.
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THE COUNCIL MEETING AT THE DEANERY
NOVEMBER 8th, 9th, and 10th
The Deanery proved to be the most delightful and genuinely comfortable
setting possible for the Council meetings. All the sessions were full of interest,
but they never seemed overweighted or hurried, and moved each day to a pleasant
and tranquil conclusion. One cannot help regretting that more of the local alumnae
were not present at the business meetings to hear of the extraordinary work done
by the District Councillors, to learn more of the functioning of the Association
itself, and to be moved to quickened interest and enthusiasm about the College by
the picture of it that was given by President Park and by the members of the
Faculty.
Nearly all the members of the Council proper were present. Of the Executive
Board, the Vice-President, Serena Hand Savage, 1922, alone was absent. Two of
the Alumnae Directors, Louise Fleischman Maclay, 1906, and Gertrude Dietrich
Smith, 1-903, unfortunately were unable to come. All of the District Councillors
were present except Vinton Liddell Pickens, 1922, who was represented by the
Councillor-elect for District III., Margaret Hobart Myers, 1911. All of the Chair-
men of standing committees were present with the exception of Dr. Marjorie
Strauss Knauth, 1918, whose Report was read by Dr. Isolde Zeckwer, 1915, a
member of her Committee on Health and Physical Education. The Alumnae
Secretary, Alice Hawkins, 1907, was away on leave of absence.
The specially invited guests always add very much to the interest of the
meetings. This year the guests of the Council were Dorothy Sipe Bradley, 1899,
Councillor-at-Large ; Mary Anna Barnitz, speaking for the Class of 1934, and
Catherine Little, for the Class of 1935; two Directors-at-Large of the College,
Caroline McCormick Slade, 1896, and Susan Follansbee Hibbard, 1897; Marion
Parris Smith, 1901, representing the Faculty, and Dorothy Burwash, Resident
Fellow in History, representing the Graduate School.
The 14th annual meeting of the Council opened with the luncheon in the
Deanery, at which Elizabeth Bent Clark, 1895, President of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, entertained the members of the Council. The first business session followed
immediately. Mrs. Clark welcomed the members of the Council and stressed the
fact that through Miss Thomas' generosity the Deanery was now the home of the
Bryn Mawr Alumnae. Before turning to the actual business of the meeting, she
spoke of the purpose of the Council, which is a purely deliberative assembly and
whose function is to discuss problems and to make recommendations to the Annual
Alumnae Meeting, which is now held in June.
A discussion of the financial problems of the Association was then led by
Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909, Treasurer of the Association, and by Virginia Atmore, 1928,
Chairman of the Finance Committee and of the Alumnae Fund. Because no other
financial report will appear until the first of June, it seems advisable to quote in
full the Treasurer's very encouraging report:
As I read the monthly statements by which we keep check upon the financial
performance of the Alumnae Association, comparing each month the income and
expenditures for the fiscal period to date with the authorized budget and with the
actual results for the same period of the preceding year, I am struck each time —
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First: By the constancy and steadiness with vvhicli the receipts come in,
through good years and bad.
Dues received in the first ten months of li):r6 were $5,:J98, and for the
same ten months of 1934< they total $5,775.
The Alumnae Fund through class collections in the first ten months of
1933 amounted to $9,545, and in the same ten months of 1934 totalled
$9,755.
Second: By the constant economy on the expense side of the picture, by which
it has been possible to estimate our budget accurately and keep persist-
ently within it.
To illustrate this specifically:
Postage costs in the six months since the beginning of the changed
fiscal year in 1934 amounted to $132, and for the corresponding six
months of 1933 the total spent for postage was $136.
Total expenses in the first ten months of this year 1934 were $9,527,
as against $10,024 in the same ten months of 1933.
And, of course, it is a delight to the Finance Committee and will be
to you to see that at the moment we have this year a gain of about
$500 in income and a saving of about $500 in expenses over the same
period last year: we are ahead about a thousand dollars.
Then there is the magnificent constancy of tlie Association's financial activity
in the Regional Scholarship Committees, through whicli we have lielpcd tlie College
and the students through a number of years to the amount of about $14,000 or
$15,000 a year.
All this is important as indicating year by year a healthy financial condition
without deficits or last-minute panics or emergency appeals, but it seems to me to
be indicative of more than that.
First it seems to mean that the generous interest of Bryn Mawr's Alumnae is
constant and substantial — a permanent and integral part of Bryn Mawr College.
Second, it indicates that our alumnae organization, with its Chiss Collectors, its
District Councillors, and its central business office, has been efieclixc in creating
and maintaining this interest and is well worth its cost — that is, that part of our
budget which goes into the inevitable expenses of a business organization. And
third, it means that, with our business organization in good order for the conduct-
ing of our regular annual work for the College, we are in an excellent ])osition to
proceed upon the special and ambitious undertaking which will be our real job for
the next eight months.
There were no questions after the reading of the Report.
Miss Atmore's report for the Finance Committee and for llu' Aliunuac Fund
was also very encouraging, pointing out that month by nu)nlh there is a slight
increase in net balance over the preceding year. She said in part :
It is a pleasure to report that on April 30th we were able to close our books
with expenses paid, the full proportion of the $S,500 gift in hand and set ajiart,
and a small balance in bank to carry forward into the new fiscal year bciiiiuiing
May 1st.
The report for the current year is also encouraging, ^fouth by nuuitli we
again show a slight increase in our net balance over the com]")arat i^ c ]nM-io(l of the
preceding year.
The fall appeal which in the new fiscal year will rei)lace the spring letter as
the initial and major appeal of the year, is being sent out. The Class Collectors
(and we cannot estimate the debt we owe thcui for the enthusiasm and energy which
they throw into their work) have been hard at it for the past two weeks, and
Miss Franck tells me that the response which we have already received is simply
srlendid. Tf it receives 8s cordial a response as the spring letter has, I think we
have nothing to fear for the future.
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As was the case with the Treasurer's Report^ such a satisfactory statement
did not give rise to any discussion, but merely congratulations.
Mrs. Clark then announced that Caroline McCormick Slade^ 1896^ had con-
sented to act as National Chairman for the Committee for the Fiftieth Anniversary
Gift to the College. A fuller statement appears on page 8. Because Mrs. Slade
was not there, the order of the program was slightly changed, and Helen Evans
Lewis, 1913, as Chairman, was asked to present the report of the Committee on
Alumnae Relations with the College.
The Report aroused a great deal of interested discussion, and at Mrs. Clark's
suggestion the three recommendations contained in it were taken up, one by one,
to be considered in more detail.
Recommendation I. That Alumnae living at a distance from Bryn Mawr
should be kept in touch with the College by official representatives of the College.
It was the consensus of opinion, and this was again brought out later in the
Councillors' reports, that not only the President and the Dean, but all the pro-
fessors as well, by speeches and meetings, could do a great deal to promote this
sense of contact. Mrs. Lewis said that her committee was convinced that Bryn
Mawr did less along this line than any other college. .
Recommendation II. The committee recommends that an Annual Alumnae
Week-end be held at the College, to which each class shall send an official repre-
sentative, appointed yearly by its President.
In the discussion that followed, it was brought out that this has been the
practice of some of the other colleges, and has been found to work very satisfac-
torily, particularly at Smith and Vassar.
Recommendation III. That the project of establishing an Alumnae College
at Bryn Mawr be given further careful study.
In answer to questions, Mrs. Lewis said that such a college usually started
right after Commencement and lasted three days, and the cost of such an under-
taking is not large.
Moved, seconded and carried that the recommendations of the Special Com-
mittee on Alumnae Relations with the College he recommended to the Alumnae
Association for discussion and possible action at its annual meeting in June.
Miss Faulkner, Chairman of the Academic Committee, was then asked to speak,
but had no report to make for her committee. The suggestion was then made that
the Academic Committee study the question of the Alumnae Week-end and the
Alumnae College, and have information to present at the June Meeting, when the
recommendations of the Special Committee would be acted upon.
On Friday morning, because of the change in arrangements. Miss Park spoke
at 11.30. No one who heard her failed to catch her own enthusiasm for the plans
outlined by the Departments of Science and of Art and Archaeology which would be
made possible by the new building and by the addition of a wing to the library.
Her speech is carried on page 9 of this issue of the Bulletin. After the luncheon,
at which Harriet Price Phipps, 1923, Councillor for District II, was hostess, the
business meeting was called to order.
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The Reports of the District Councillors are always one of the high points of
the Council. This year was no exception, and because of tlieir great interest to
every one they are carried almost in full on pages 17-28. Dorotliy Sipe Bradley,
1899, Councillor-at-Large, spoke of her own District, Pittsburgh. The aliiinnac grouj)
there is small, but loyal and interested; there arc, however, very few recent grad-
uates in it. They have no scholar this year, but some promising candidates for
next. Their standards are high because they have had the good fortune to liave
had a European Fellow. In the discussion that followed the Reports it was clear
that all of the Councillors felt very strongly tliat non-members of tlie Association
as well as members should be brought into closer touch with the Co] lege, and felt
that this could be done in some such way as that suggested in Recommendation
No. 1 of Mrs. Lewis' Report. The Councillor for District V. asked if it could not
be a matter of routine for the Alumnae Office to notify the Council h)rs of speakers
from the College who were coming to their Districts. ]\Irs. Clark agreed that it
could be done perfectly if the College, as a definite form of procedure, would
simply notify the Alumnae Office.
The next Report was that of the Scholarships and Loan Fund Committee,
given by the Chairman, Elizabeth Y. Maguire, 1913. It is carried on page 29. It
unified the seven Councillors' Reports which preceded it. In reply to a question.
Miss Maguire said that with one exception, every one who had asked for lielp had
been able to return to College.
Caroline McCormick Slade, new Chairman of the committee to raise the gift
of $1,000,000 as a Fiftieth Anniversary Gift to the College, was then asked to
speak. She outlined her plans for raising the money voted last June at the special
meeting. Elsewhere in the Bulletin Mrs. Clark makes a statement about the com-
mittee (page 8). The organization will be based on Districts as they already
exist with the Councillors responsible for finding the local Chairmen. Each district
will be given its quota, based on the strength of the local organization and the
wealth of the District. General headquarters will be established at tlie Deanery,
under the direction of a Central Committee, which will co(')])erate as closely as pos-
sible with the Councillors. A much more detailed statement will appear in the
January Bulletin.
Various questions were raised as to the definite commitments of the Assoi-ia-
tion and what would happen to them while the drive was going on. Miss Atmore
said that she felt that everyone realized that the Association was icMuniiKed to
the $8,500 for the annual gift to the College, but she felt llial if the work for
the Alumnae Fund went on as usual, all obligations could be nut. Miss ^L-iguire
pointed out that there might be some confusion about the uionev being raisid now
and all through the winter for scholarships for next yc;\v. Sou^c furthtr general
discussion took place about the date on which work would eoiumeiue. It was
decided that preliminary organization should start at oucv. but that no formal
announcement would be made until after January 1st.
Moved, seconded and carried that Mrs. Sladr's plan for the orrjanizatuiu of
the Fiftieth Anniversary Committee he adopted.
The Report of the Committee on Health and Physical I'llucation was then
presented by Dr. Isolde Zeekwer, in the absence of the Chairman, Dr. Knaiitli.
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She said that in the spring a report had been sent to Dean Manning as head of
the College Health Department reporting conditions on the whole as very satis-
factory^ with adequate health supervision, an intelligent theoretical approach to
physical education, and a recreational program meeting the needs of a much larger
group than formerly. They felt that theory was perhaps ahead of practice, but
that the latter was steadily improving. The Committee expressed its sorrow and
sense of loss in the death of Marjorie Jeffries Wagoner, 1918, College physician.
The next Report on the program was that of the Nominating Committee. It
was presented by the Chairman, Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, 1898. The ballot
containing the two nominations for Councillors, Margaret Hobart Myers, 1911, for
District III., and Mary Taussig, 1930, for District VI., has already been printed
in the Bulletin. The Report was accepted.
The last Report for that afternoon was that on the Bulletin, presented by
Marjorie L. Thompson, 1912, the Editor. She suggested as a method of arousing
interest and giving a sense of contact with the College, the possibility of simply
sending reprints of the President's Page or of articles about the College which
appear in the Bulletin, to non-members of the Association instead of the more
costly device of sending a Bulletin.
Saturday morning marked the last formal session of the Council. It was one
of the most pleasant and leisurely as well as one of the most interesting and stimu-
lating of them all. In a way it gathered together the definite currents that had
flowed through all of the meetings. One could almost sum up this by saying that
the alumnae felt that all alumnae, without distinction, whether they were Associa-
tion members or not, should be brought into closer contact with the College because
it was so well worth their knowing in greater detail. Methods of accomplishing
this had been discussed on the two preceding days. Virginia McKenney Claiborne,
1908, Alumnae Director, speaking for the Board of Directors of the College, sug-
gested one more method; she analysed the geographical distribution of the Alumnae
Directors, past and present, and showed that they had come disproportionately from
the eastern states, indeed from the immediate vicinity of New York, and that,
therefore, one method of keeping the alumnae in different parts of the country in
close contact with tlie College had been overlooked.
The Reports on the College itself were varied and interesting. The under-
graduate point of view was presented with humorous and specific detail by Mary
Anna Barnitz, 1934, and Catherine Little, 1935, in a way that covered all College
activities, curricular and extra-curricular, and gave a delightful picture of an able
and competent and enthusiastic group, playing hard and working along their lines of
special interest with quite extraordinary vigor and independence of mind. We
could only hope that the undergraduates shared their point of view that the
Alumnae Association was an exciting organization, doing an immense amount of
work, in which they hoped to have a share. The fact that President Park sent a
very gracious note saying that she hoped that the Council would meet at the
Deanery at regular and frequent intervals, and that the Seniors might be invited
to the regular sessions, gives colour to this hope. Dorothy Burwash, Resident
Fellow in History, reported delightfully on the variety and interest of work and
contacts in the Graduate School, and expressed the wish that has frequently been in
the minds of most of us that there could be closer social contacts between the gradu-
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ate and undergraduate bodies. That there is increasingly closer intellectual contact,
Marion Parris Smithy 1901^ made clear when as the Council member from the
faculty, she discussed the work in post-majors. Helen Taft Manning, 1915, Dean
of the College, discussed that always rather esoteric subject, but perennially inter-
esting one, — changes in curriculum. The change from the double to the single
major led naturally to the introduction of honours work. The comprehensive
examination at the end of Senior year was a second logical step. The details are
not all settled and the plan has not yet been put into effect. 'I'hc ahimnac, as always,
keenly interested, asked a number of questions.
Another guest of the Council who added very much to its interest was Dr.
Samuel Chew who spoke not about the students, but about the faculty, and more
specifically about his own work, both in the classroom and in connection with his
forthcoming book. The Crescent and the Rose, a study of the influences of the
Levant in Elisabethean England. He expressed the hope that it might be possible
some time to endow a research professorship, to be used in turn by each depart-
ment. The discussion of his own book was, by indirection, a most potent argument
in the minds of his enthusiastic audience. Miss Swindler spoke briefly of the higli
prospects of the Bryn Mawr Dig, before the Council turned its mind once more to
the business in hand.
Mrs. Clark brought up the question of the meeting place of the next Council.
Mary Taussig, 1930, Councillor of District VI., extended a very cordial imitation
to meet in St. Louis. Almost without discussion it was
Moved, seconded and carried that the invitation of the St. Louis alumnae to
the Alumnae Council to meet in St. Louis nea't year he accepted.
The question of date then came up for discussion. A motion to change the date
to the first of the year was lost. Finally it was
Moved, seconded and carried that the Council meet at Bnjn Ma7cr ever!/ third
year, the actual date to he left to the Executive Board.
With that motion the Council finished the business of its fourtcinlh session
and formally adjourned, to linger, however, informally, for a buffet luncheon aiul
for the speeches and the dedication of the tablet in the cloister in honour of Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw, a vivid memory to many of us who had lieard her in nuirning
chapel at which she often spoke when she was a visitor al llic (dnegc.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Plans are being worked out for President Park's trip to the Pacific coast.
The District Councillors should send any inquiries or any rc(nusts to I'loise ReQua.
c/o The Fiftieth Anniversary Gift Committee, The Deanery. Bryn Mawr. Pcnna.
AN APOLOGY
The Bulletin sincerely regrets the omission, from the list of alumnae daugh-
ters in the Freshman class, of the name of ^largaret Howson. whose mother is
May Yeats Howson, 1902.
BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE BULLETIN
THE PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
ANNOUNCES THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE
At the special meeting of the Alumnae Association in June^ 1934^ the Associa-
tion voted to make a gift of $1^000^000 to the College to commemorate the Fiftieth
Anniversary of its founding. The time has now come to start to gather that sum.
Caroline McCormick Slade, 1896, the successful Chairman of the $2,000,000 cam-
paign in 1920, has, to the pleasure and satisfaction of everyone, consented to be
National Chairman. Working very closely with her, as Vice-Chairman, will be
Louise Fleishman Maclay, 1906, who has been Chairman of the Fiftieth Anniversary
Committee which for the past two years has reported so admirably on the needs
of the College. Associated with them on this central committee, with its head-
quarters at the Deanery, will be Caroline Chadwick-Collins, 1905; Elizabeth Bent
Clark, 1895; Bertha S. Ehlers, 1909; Frances Finck Hand, 1898; Edna Fischel
Gelhorn, 1900; Susan Follansbee Hibbard, 1897; Cora Baird Jeanes, 1896;
Harriet Price Phipps, 1923; May Egan Stokes, 1911; Mary Hill Swope, 1896;
and Lucylle Austin, 1927. The Councillors will act as chairmen in their Districts.
Because of the splendid organization of the Alumnae Association throughout
the country, the groundwork for the undertaking is already laid, and although the
actual work will not officially begin until the first of January, it is possible now
for District quotas to be assigned, as Mrs. Slade explained in her speech at the
Council. The quotas assigned are as follows:
District I $ 75,000
^ District II $800,000
District III $ 15,000
District IV $ 15,000
District V $ 75,000
District VI $ 15,000
District VII $ 15,000
The quotas are based on the degree of organization and the comparative
wealth of the Districts and have all been accepted by the Councillors who will
appoint state chairmen, city chairmen, local chairmen, and group chairmen to help
them to raise their respective quotas.
SCHOLARSHIP TO BE GIVEN IN MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH HEDGES BLAUVELT, 1896
Mrs. Andre Fouilhoux, the Regional Scholarships Chairman of New Jersey,
announces that a new Scholarship is to be given by Mrs. L. W. Veghte in affec-
tionate memory of her sister, Elizabeth Hedges Blauvelt, Bryn Mawr 1896.
Elizabeth Blauvelt went to China as a medical missionary, after graduating at the
Johns Hopkins Medical School. She died in 1912 after an illness contracted in
China. The Elizabeth Hedges Blauvelt Memorial Scholarship is to be of $300,
given annually, and administered by the New Jersey Regional Scholarships
Committee.
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PRESIDENT PARK DISCUSSES HOPES AND
PLANS FOR THE COLLEGE
I welcome the Council at Bryn Mawr with great eagerness. ]\Iy reason is
definite and seems to me good^ and I sliould like to enlarge on it a little.
Those who are trying to administer colleges wrestle, I take it, with diffi-
culties roughly divided into two kinds. The simpler are usually visible and
audible to every visitor. To keep up the standard of teaching all through the
college or the standard of the food all through the dining rooms — to take examples
of quite different kinds — are tasks obvious, difficult and perennial. The wayfaring
graduate of the college can appreciate them and often adds her contribution to the
succession of momentary solutions— momentary, because in the nature of things
they can never stay solved. But the members of the Council add to the visitor's
useful but casual observation the sharper eye and interest which time develops.
They begin to share the experience of us who live here, and to add a fresher
point of view. And both can be profitably applied not only to the constant-efi'ort
class of difficulty, but to the second type, the complex problem where one advantage,
risk, or catastrophe must be weighed with another advantage, risk or catastrophe,
and a decision made, not clear-cut but qualified, and inevitably leaving in the breast
of the deciders a strong minority of regrets. And in such college problems you cau
hold up our hands with councils of wise caution or of wise boldness.
But of those more perplexing questions there are fortunately few to put to
you this year. The College is full, faculty and students are working with spirit;
the work for the B.A. degree is pointed up, we all feel, by the requirement of a
final examination in the major subject for each student; the list of aj^plicants for
next year is promising. I can bring you all the reassuring signs of health in a
fifty-year-old.
But today I wish to share plans not merely indicating the "normalcy" which
a year or two ago we were relieved enough to report. They will sound to you, I
think, as they do to me, significant of real vigor; they mean not leg over leg
progress, but a spring ahead; they are carefully considered and thouglit out. but
they have the flavor of the pioneer again. In our fiftieth year, I think. tlu>y taste
of 1885.
The three plans I shall outline to you grow out of the possible new buildings
we begin today to think about in hard outline, and they have been drawn u]) by
the departments for which those buildings are intended — the four departments of
natural sciences and the two departments of art and archaeology. Their plans
mean that the new space of those buildings will be more than merely space; for it.
uses new to Bryn Mawr are being planned. The stone and brick of the Bryn ^iawr
next decade will not be an addition, but a living part of a forward movement oi
education in America.
These plans are different from each other on paper, in the way in which they
will be fitted into the College, in the cost of their introduction. They will eventu-
ally bloom out from the tedious work of underground planting on which the
alumnae are about to embark.
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As you perhaps know, Thomas and Martin, of Philadelphia, were asked in the
spring to prepare plans for a science building. In the summer it seemed wise to
take another step and ask the same firm for plans of an addition to the Library
which should at once increase the stack room space and provide quarters for the
departments of art and archaeology. The second set of plans, after much talk
with the Librarian and with the faculty concerned, are almost done — far enough
along to show their fine design, their exact adaptation to use and their attractive-
ness— all these excellencies packed inside the limits of space and expense which
were originally set. When this building can open its doors the department of
archaeology proposes to make its way into an entirely new field. The alumnae of
the College, thanks in part to the report of the Academic Committee, but also,
I believe, to archaeological talk in the country, know that Bryn Mawr is now
a center for archaeological studies. A new building with its modern construction
and its careful planning will make teaching and learning along the present lines
even more profitable. The department wishes now to add the possibility of prac-
tical training for a number of its undergraduate students and at the same time
to repair an outstanding omission. Organized work in the rich and important
field of American archaeology would not only allow students interested in that
field to prepare themselves directly for it, but would offer also to students of
classical archaeology who must usually finish theoretical work far from their own
sites, a chance to do supervised field work. Professor Carpenter proposes to send
students into our Southwest with the cooperation of the School of American Archae-
ology of the Archaeological Institute of America, located in Santa Fe, to learn at
first hand the technique of excavation. At Bryn Mawr itself this would mean the
addition of a properly trained full-time lecturer to the present staff, and the
paraphernalia of books and current publications, slides and photographs which
make up a kind of academic laboratory. This addition to our work would make it
possible to boast even more proudly of our contribution in scholars and scholarship
to archaeology in America.
The second department whose members have been made happy this autumn by
working over plans for lecture and study rooms, exhibition rooms and libraries —
the department of the history of art — is eager to set up a workroom as part of its
equipment. In its wish to give its students practical experience of brushes, paints,
pens and pencils, and sculptors' materials, it repeats Dr. Carpenter's emphasis on
the necessity of direct contact with the objects of book and photograph study. Such
a workroom would not be a studio, directed to turn out artists, but a laboratory
parallel to that set up for the first year science, giving each individual a little
first-hand knowledge of the processes of art. Such a studio entails, of course,
space, light, equipment and a kind of instruction hitherto unknown at Bryn Mawr.
For the space and light I propose a building, away from the formal stone of the
palaces of instruction, informal, charming, half belonging to us, half to the stu-
dents ; combined perhaps, as time goes on, with space for other arts, a little theatre,
for instance. Equipment needs no explanation except as it is made logically to
include more frequent picture exhibitions in the gallery provided in the new build-
ing, and an increase in the visits to the great museums of Philadelphia, New York,
Baltimore and Washington. This plan involves a principle of teaching, which many
alumnae and friends of Bryn Mawr will be glad to have recognized.
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The third plan^ that proposed by the Science Departments^ readies even further
into the problem of teaching and learning at ]5ryn ]\Iawr. You will remember that
earlier these departments urged on the College an increase of training in research
for advanced undergraduates and for graduate students, with added fellowships
and research funds to support it. They now come forward with a plan for the
kind of work which they have in mind. They believe that "science" has too long
been taught and studied as "tlie sciences"; that students and teachers have often
failed to see clearly the influence of one line of study on another, or to buttress
good research in a field by mastery of the borderline knowledge which surrounds
it. When this is at last realized the student is often reluctant or even unable to
build up and solidify his special interest adequately.
It is^ they think, the undergraduate training in science which sliould pre]:)arc
a scholar for this point of view and should establish him on a broader foundation.
The departments of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics propose, therefore, a
gradual reorganization of their great field. Their courses in the separate sciences
would by this plan be continued, but after the first year an attempt would be made
to integrate certain fields of work which by name lie now in two or more compart-
ments. These integrating, not "survey," courses might be given jointly by the
members of the Departments concerned or by special instruction such as now
given in biochemistry. Present courses will also be rearranged within the five
departments to make them more useful to students majoring in other fields than the
one concerned. An example of this would be a course in elementary mathematics
emphasizing the material needed in the physical sciences. I can not yet go into
the details of the preliminary schedule which the five departments are working out
with much labor but much enthusiasm. Progress, even if an endowment for new
instruction and apparatus should be given us, will be slow, for experience as well
must be called in to conduct and suggest our progress. But the goal is even now
and even to a layman fairly clear — for the general student a removal of the imag-
inary barriers between the sciences, and a revelation, however elementary, of science
as a whole; for the advanced scholar and teacher, the power of working in a sjiecial
field, thoroughly and clearly grasped, without crevices of ignoran('t\ with its sur-
rounding areas and their connection with it also in hand. The ach antages for both
teaching and research are in one sense, I believe, as clear to us talking about them
now as they will be when in modern and well-equipped buildijigs tlu- courses tluin-
selves are being presented to a new generation of science students.
Meantime, for those of us who must die in the wilderness, there is at least
possible ungrudging excitement and the remembrance^ of Cer\anUs' sentence. "The
way is better than the inn."
THE ALUMNAE BOOK-SHELF
The Bulletin has asked the Deanery Library Commiltee. which now has
charge of the Alumnae Book-Shelf in the Deanery, to take on t r the task of col-
lecting the publications of alumnae authors as tliey appear. Tlie committee will
see that all books sent to them are first given to the Bulletin for review. The
College Book Shop will gladly take orders for any books noted in (lie Brr.LETix.
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PRESIDENT-EMERITUS THOMAS UNVEILS MEMORIAL
TO DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW
Somewhat to my surprise^ because I had decided never to speak again, I find
myself unable to refuse your request to say a few personal words about the great
woman to whom Bryn Mawr College is piously dedicating a tablet today.
I knew her well and loved her much. She often stayed with me in the Deanery
and in my Atlantic City flat. She loved the College and often spoke to the students
in morning chapel. She used to say that even in far distant western towns when
her audiences were difficult and unconvinced there was always some Bryn Mawr
graduate to come forward to help her. She also loved the Woman's Medical School
of Pennsylvania and other women's colleges. She believed in education^ in stren-
uous mental training and in examinations. She herself had taken all the examina-
tions and degrees she could take at that time in Boston. She was a Doctor of
Medicine and a Doctor of Divinity. Then she gave it all up to become the
beloved disciple and eloquent voice of Susan B. Anthony. Together they trav-
eled and spoke for suffrage in all the big cities and in all the little towns of all the
states of the United States. Invincible, they met obstruction, detraction, malice,
and even personal danger, with good humor and understanding. But they never
swerved from their splendid purpose.
There were giants in the land in those far-off days — Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Lucrezia Mott, Frances Willard and the two
younger disciples of Miss Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt
to whom, more than to any other two women, we owe the final adoption of the
Nineteenth Amendment.
In Great Britain there were also giants in the land — Dame Millicent Fawcett
and Emmeline Pankhurst were the only two" that I knew. But Miss Anthony was the
greatest of them all. She was the greatest person I have ever known. It was one
of the profound emotions of my life when I realized that she and Emmeline
Pankhurst were women to die for.
Miss Shaw was the foremost orator of my generation, and I have heard all of
its famous speakers. Only Henry Ward Beecher seemed to me to approach her.
Miss Shaw spoke on a high level and never sunk below it. She argued and reasoned
and told inimitable stories to enforce her arguments, which shook her audiences with
laughter or tears, just as she wished. She often reached heights of oratory that
had that elusive quality which we call genius which makes us shiver and choke with
emotion while our hearts turn over within us. Great actors, great singers and great
musicians, great artists, have similar high moments. Very few such geniuses are
born in any generation, and Miss Shaw was one. Like all geniuses she was tem-
peramental : sometimes very gay, sometimes very sad, but always witty and amusing.
She never hesitated to say exactly what she thought and never failed to be shocked
by the inevitable reaction. She was not a diplomatist, but those of us who loved
her would not have had her otherwise.
The American Campaign for Woman Suffrage extended over more than seventy
years, from 1849 to 1920, and for forty years Miss Shaw was the matcliless spokes-
man of our cause. It was a campaign of discussion and persuasion, followed by
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conviction. Miss Shaw's wit and logic converted many thousands of 'men and
women. The men repaid her by votes for her cause, and the women by love and
adoration. Ex-President Taft, who toured tlie western states with her in behalf
of the League of Nations^ told me that he had not known that there were so many
women in the world as crowded the auditoriums where they spoke and mobbed the
hotels where they stayed to catch a glimpse of Miss Shaw.
This was Miss Shaw's last speaking tour. She was taken ill with pneumonia
in a western* hotel and had another attack after she reached home. I saw Iier
during her illness. She seemed troubled about personal immortality, wliich was not
like her but she was very ill^ and asked me what I thought about it. I told her
that if there were any such thing in the future I knew of no one in tlie world wlio
could be surer of immortality both on earth and in heaven. Slie seemed satisfied.
Within a few days she died, just one year and one month and twenty-six days
before woman suffrage was won.
I will now read the inscription on the memorial tablet designed by Paul
Manship and placed in the Library Cloisters by the Directors of l^ryn Mawr
College :
ANNA HOWARD SHAW, D.D., M.D., LL.D.
Born in England of Scotch parentage February 4, 1847; died a great
American July 2, 1919. Teacher, physician, preaclier, pioneer in woman's
freedom, beloved disciple of Susan B. Antliony, president of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association, cliairman of the Woman's Com-
mittee of the Council of National Defence, impassioned advocate of tlie
League of Nations and international peace she dedicated her genius to
the cause of women. Her logic wit and matchless eloquence converted
thousands to belief in woman suffrage. To perpetuate her memory in the
college she loved and inspire its students to use for good the riglit to vote
she spent her life to win the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial Lectureship
has been founded in Bryn Mawr College.
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Friday and Saturday, December 7th and 8fh — 8.20 p. m., Auditorium
The Varsity Play, "Cymbeline," by William Shakespeare.
Reserved seats: Friday, $.75, $1.00 and $1.25; Saturday, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50.
Monday, December 1 0th — 8.20 p. m., Auditorium
Lecture on "La femme d'un grand honnme: Madame de Chateaubriand," by M. Paul Hazard,
du College de France, Exchange Professor this year at Columbia University.
Friday, December 14th — 8.20 p. m., Auditorium
Lecture on "Waves and Crystals," by Dr. Karl K. Darrow, Research Worker at the
Bell Telephone Laboratory.
Sunday, December 16th — 5.00 p. m., The Deanery
Third of a series of entertainments:
Lecture on "The Search for the Earliest American Civilization" by Mr. Charles L. Bernheimer.
discoverer of hitherto unknown cliff remains and dinosaur tracks in the Navajo Country. The
lecture will be illustrated with slides.
Sunday, Decennber 16th — 7.45 p. m., Auditorium
Christmas Carol Service. Address by the Right Reverend Frank Creighton, D.D.,
Suffragan Bishop of Long Island and Missionary Bishop to Mexico.
Tuesday, December 18th — 5.00 p. m.. Music Room
Illustrated lecture on Mexico, by Dr. Valentin Miiller, Associate Professor of Archaeology
at Bryn Mawr College.
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THE COUNCIL COMES HOME
North or South, East or West;, Council meetings are always delightful, but the
Council that met on the 8th, the 9th, and the 10th of November this year had a
fine flavor all its own. This year the Council came to the Deanery. That gracious
house cast its spell upon us. We were on the campus and a part of the College.
We had come home.
Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark welcomed the members of the Council, introduced
District Councillors, officers, members of standing committees and of the local
committee on arrangements to each other and to the Undergraduate Council, and
then we were off to a flying start as guests of Mrs. Clark at luncheon.
The brief business session of the Council was held on Thursday afternoon.
Miss Ehlers gave the Treasurer's Report. As always her way with numbers filled
us with awe. She puts figures into words and even those of us who are not math-
ematically-minded understood her concise statements and were cheered by her
optimistic analysis of our financial state. Miss Atmore, completing the picture, took
her stand with Will Rogers because he admired Finland even as she admired Bryn
Mawr for the way we met our obligations. Mrs. Lewis reported with enthusiasm
for the Special Committee on Alumnae Relations with the College. There were
several interesting schemes for bringing the College and the knowledge thereof
into the world and for bringing alumnae back into the world of the College.
The hockey game to one whose memories of such contests are dated by dull
flannels and solemn corduroy, was full of bright pageantry. Slim black legs, canary
tunics, and crimson plastrons seemed heraldic. The straight free haircuts, the
sticks hitting smartly suggested guild apprentices and their staves.
Tea at the President's house brought the lovely day to a close. It was intensely
interesting to see in reality so many of the faculty hitherto legendary to us, and
to speak with those whom we had worshipped from afar in the long ago.
There was a scholarship dinner for some, dinner at Wyndham for others of the
Council, Afterwards, as quietly as might be, we sat in upon a conference of students
with Mrs. Dean, the Anna Howard Shaw lecturer. We were a rapt audience,
wondering whether we could knit as fast, inhale as deeply and think as clearly as
the present generation. We watched the young intently as their mental processes
were shaped by the clever and incidentally very beautiful hands of Mrs. Dean.
We were convinced that any young woman who has lived enriching years at Bryn
Mawr will be able to cope with the world, come what may.
On Friday the weather continued glorious. The sun tipped each separate leaf
with gold. In the morning we went to classes. Like the little girl, suddenly silent,
who answered the inquiry about her strange and unwonted quiet by saying: "Oh
I do love to think," we, too, enjoyed attacking new problems or polishing recollec-
tions grown dim. And the sudden sound of Taylor bell tolling another hour on
the old familiar note took us back these many years.
President Park talked to us at noon. She spoke less of the actual College
which this year we were seeing for ourselves, and more of her high hopes for the
future, of the great and crowning glories which might come to Bryn Mawr. All of
us listening, inwardly pledged whatever fulfillment lay in our power.
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Mrs. Phipps entertained us at luncheon, and then the afternoon session moved
swiftly along in time and space. The Councillor-at-Large, the Councillors or
Councillors-elect from all the Districts were present and gave their reports. It was
a matter of regret that so few of the local alumnae were at the Deanery to hear
the Councillors. To Pliiladelphians tlie account of Bryn Mawr doings is, no doubt,
an old and hackneyed story, but tlie report of the scholarship work should be of
interest, for it really is amazing. The far-flung contacts of the Councillor, the
difit'erent types she meets, the variety of problems which she faces, and her success
in solving the peculiar difficulties of each District make up a saga well worth hearing.
This year, on the other hand, there was the better opportunity of putting the work
of the Council before the undergraduates and of impressing them with the listing
of alumnae accomplishments. Miss Park urged us to return to the campus at three
or four year intervals. We were agreed that by so doing we are sure to strengthen
the solidarity of Bryn Mawr.
Mrs. Slade roused the meeting to a frenzied energy and a sense of power,
telling of the Endowment to be raised for Bryn ]\Iawr's Fiftieth Anniversary. Hir
hypnotic magnetism causes us to look at large amounts of money as through tiie
large end of the opera-glass, so that the difficulties of a campaign seem to wither
and shrivel while we see the generosity of armies of contributors in a rosy light.
The dinner on Friday night which is always one of the outstanding events of
the Council was this year entirely unique. Through the great kindness of Mr.
Stokes the Pennsylvania Museum of Art gave us the freedom of its treasures. Wc
gathered in the vast red-hung upper hall. Diana obligingly aimed her arrow away.
We were conducted to the beautifully panelled Sutton-Scarsdale room, and there
from a long table, candle-lit and glowing with chrysanthemums, our dinner was
served to us. It was a bit disconcerting to sit down to a meal, turning one's back
on a Raeburn, to have a Romney gaze sternly at one's ways with oysters. The
lady with the plumed hat and the pink quilted petticoat looked a bit wistful aiul
wishful as classmates chattered and picked up the threads of the years. Aftt r
dinner we were invited to the pre-view of the Cezanne show. ^Ir. Marceau, the
curator, kindly explained the paintings to us. It was an extraordinary privilege to
have the great museum opened especially for us, and placed at our disjiDsal.
On Saturday morning, students and faculty spoke to us. rounding dut our
understanding of the College. There was good discussion; wi- were cKligliti-d io
accept St. Louis' invitation to hie ourselves thit]u>r next year; there were risi^lu-
tions of thanks to Mrs. Stokes and her wonderfully ea])able i-oiumittie on arrange-
ments; suggestions concerning letters of thanks were made; then regrttfully we
adjourned.
An informal luncheon followed, and most of us stayed for wi^ wanted the
opportunity of hearing President-Emeritus Thomas s])iak at the unveiling of tlu-
Anna Howard Shaw tablet in the cloisters. It rained just a little, rather fortu-
nately I think, for the speaking was transferred to the Deanery and so. once again
Miss Thomas, in cap and gown, stood on the steps and sjioke to us sitting at her
feet in the hall, and her eyes were clear and lier voice was strong, aiul lu r words
were pithy. A fitting close, this, to the Council's first meeting at tiic Deanery.
Alice Sachs Plait. 1P08.
Director-at-Lnrge of tlic Alumnae Assoc'iaiion.
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THE COUNCIL— A TRIBUTE
The suggestion that the Council depart from its precedent of meeting in cities
remote from Bryn Mawr and gather this year at the College was received with
enthusiasm by those particular alumnae. Now that this meeting is history, the enthus-
iasm of the Council members is even greater. To be on the Campus again in the
glory of the fall foliage in perfect weather and to come once more into contact
with the life there would be joy enough. But, in addition, to spend hours in the
atmosphere of mellow beauty within the Deanery was to most of us a novel experi-
ence and to all a very charming one. To our hostesses among the alumnae we are
indeed grateful — grateful for the cordiality of their welcome, for the bounty and
graciousness of their hospitality, for the interesting program. The evening at the
Pennsylvania Museum of Art added a touch not soon to be forgotten.
We are deeply indebted to May Egan Stokes and the other members of her
committee who planned and executed all these delights for us — a committee whose
efficiency was exceeded only by its modesty which was so remarkable that there did
not seem to be any committee ! All the wheels were oiled and set in motion by
unseen hands. May we herewith express our appreciation and gratitude for their
labors which produced this crowning streamline performance of 1934.^
Eleanor L. Aldrich, 1905.
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Miss Appleby had to be cut down a little, because the artist worked from a
recent photograph, and in the years since her epithets rang in our ears, she has
expanded comfortably. That was the only flaw in the meticulously detailed map
of Bryn Mawr which Jacob Riegel has just completed. "The first president of the
College, James E. Rhoads, Miss M. Carey Thomas, and Miss Park lend impressive-
ness to the top of the map ; while all of the famous people are to be found wander-
ing around the campus, all smaller than life, but none the less twice as natural" —
to quote the News. It is, as a Frenchwoman once said of a puppy, gai, mf, mats
de hon caractere. It is in black and white, and may be purchased from the publica-
tions office for $1.50.
Ida Pritchett has made a group of photographs of the College. Thirty-two
pictures make up the set, which is bound in heavy black paper, stamped in gold
with the seal of the College, and carries a foreword by Marjorie Thompson. The
reproduction process has kept perfectly the quality of the original photographs.
This may be purchased from the alumnae office also for $1.50, with 10 cents more
for postage. It is almost impossible to describe the quality of these photographs
without growing fulsome. The students said of the book, writing of it in the News,
"The collection is really complete; no more pictures could be demanded. . . .
More might be wished for, because the present ones are so beautifully and ar-
tistically done." A note in the back of the book states that the publication was
made possible by a friend of the College in the hope that such a book would give
lasting pleasure to all alumnae. Certainly Bryn Mawr has never before had' any-
thing so lovely, and so becoming, to show for itself. It and the map complement
each other perfectly.
Emily Kimbrough Wrench, 1921.
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COUNCILLORS' REPORTS
DISTRICT I.
(Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut)
This report might perhaps best be called a revelation. It is to iiie^ for as a
Councillor I seem to have been fantastically inactive, and yet New Kngland has
been humming with endeavor and energy and accomplishment under my very nose.
Concerted and experienced action seems to be the secret, and we are fortunate in
being well-knit and unified^ though we cover a varied country and are a scattered
group.
Naturally our primary reason for being is the raising of the scliohirships.
There are now eleven scholars in Bryn Mawr from New England^ seven of them
upper-classmen and four Freshmen^ some on full and some on partial scholarships.
but all of them here and, I hope, to stay. We are confronted this year with the
problem of weeding out from an unusually large number of candidates a group
which we might reasonably hope to send to College. The temptation to send more
than the possible four was great, but our pockets could not be emptied in view of
the list of those who wished to come later, and we were contented with four wlui
seemed particularly good possibilities. We jockeyed the funds about, and with tlu:
help of some special gifts and scholarships and unexpected aid from one of the
families we managed to get all four here. The College w^as very generous to us
and helped considerably by holding for us the unused part of a scholarship awarded
last year.
District I. might not be able to send so many scholars were it not for the
splendid generalship of the Treasurer, Susan Walker Fitz Gerald, whose gift for
finding specially interested donors and arranging to fill the gaps of one scholarship
with their gifts in order to stretch our funds is remarkable. Many times she has
managed to arrange the financial situation so that we may send the maximum
number of scholars. This year the response of the Bryn Mawr graduates at
Mt. Holyoke, who, under Helen Griffith, gave one hundred y>cy cent strong, tliougli
they had countless demands made upon them in their adopted college, cannot go
without notice. We also had a generous and enthusiastic response from eight of
the former Regional Scholars.
There does not seem to be any difficulty now in finding candidates for tlie
scholarships. The day of our searching is past seemingly, for they come without
our solicitation from all over New Kngland and from all sorts of schools. Four of
the present scholars, for example, were prepared in ])ublic schools alone, six in
private schools, and one by the combination of both. No two of the scholars come
from the same place, and of the freshmen scholars but one comes from greater
Boston, the others coming, one from Hartford, one from Providence and one from
Northampton; and they entered on as varied a selection of entrance plans. W(^
feel a very reasonable pride in them all, and last year felt that we had reached
great heights in having the leader of the freshmen class one of our girls. Our
future work now is mounting in the form of five excellent candidates.
The three major clubs in New Kngland, Boston, New Haven and Providence,
are, of course, the back-bone of our etlorts, and each pledges itself to a certain
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sum annually on which we can depend. Naturally it is not now so easy to make up
these amounts^ and to interest new donors. Boston is planning to make a special
effort to gain members and wider interest through enlargement among the recent
graduates who have drifted to that part of the world. We have hopes that there
will be a great many of them who will wish to become members of the club and
thus add to the possibilities there. The other two clubs^ being more concentrated
and smaller^ can more easily check their floating population. All the clubs have
been meeting enthusiastically and consistently, and Boston and New Haven had the
pleasure of entertaining Miss Park and hearing her tell of the shoes and ships and
sealing wax of college progress and plans. We wish that all of you might have
the stimulus of her visits each year.
New England Bryn Mawr turned out well for the Seven Colleges broadcast-
ing. A large group met with the other college groups in New Haven, Providence
and Boston, as well as in the western part of Massachusetts. Those in our far-
flung frontier places met in small groups, and I know of one who heard the talk
by Mrs. Morrow alone at her own fireside.
New England is now preparing mentally for the drive next year. We eagerly
await the announcement of our share. Boston is casting about now for the quickest
and most painless way to get their obligations towards the scholarships taken care
of before the deluge. I think I may safely say that we are ready, and I hope we
will not be found wanting.
Mary C. Parker, 1926.
DISTRICT II.
(New York, Southern Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware)
As a liaison officer of District II., I again have a series of reports to present
from the various parts of a widely divided District. Our problems differ so much
that I cannot treat the District as a unit, but must give you separate accounts of
each section.
Beatrice Sorchan Binger, 1919, of the New York and Southern Connecticut
Scholarship Committee, reports an unusually interesting year. She says: "Our two
Seniors graduated in June, one cum laude, and the other magna cum laude with
distinction in History. They have both won scholarships at Radcliffe and are now
working there for their A.M. degrees. The Junior and the Sophomore have main-
tained High Credit and Credit averages, and we are pleased to be able to give
them each $400 this year.
"Our Freshman, however, proved a disappointment, in spite of her extraor-
dinary entrance record, and we have been reluctantly forced to stop helping her.
"The candidates for this year's scholarship were unusually interesting and
our choice might have been extremely difficult had it not been for the fact that one
of them did so well in the entrance examination that the College awarded her the
Frances Marion Simpson Scholarship of $500. Another graduated second in a class
of 960 in her high school. As we had to drop one of our scholars, we were able
to give this girl a special scholarship of $300 to supplement the $200 Bryn Mawr
Entrance Scholarship she won.
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"The girl we chose as our regular scholar had a brilliant record both in the
public schools of New York City and in tlie boarding scliool from wliich she grad-
uated. She entered tenth out of all the candidates for admission, and we were very
much pleased to be able to award lier a $500 scholarsliip.
"We already have six applicants for next year's freshman scliolarship.
"It has been extremely gratifying to us to have been able to raise $1,700
during the past year, and we have great liopes of doing equally well this winter."
Jean Clark Fouilhoiix, 1899, of tlie Northern New Jersey Committee, reports
that they have one student on a $iOO scholarsliip and four on .^200 scholarships.
This means a total of $1,200. She says: "We have very little trouble getting our
money^ as we have extraordinarily loyal and interested Chairmen in our various
well-organized districts. Each district makes a pledge and then proceeds to collect,
or give bridge parties, or concerts, or have old book sales (these are especially
good), and each district this year has sent more than pledged. So the New Jersey
Alumnae are a united, loyal, and fine group, and very happy in their work."
Dorothy S. Bradley, 1899, of the Western Pennsylvania Committee, reports
that in Pittsburgh, though money raising is still difficult, the club members do give
their personal support to efforts to collect funds, even though it means personal
sacrificfe. The club is planning a benefit for the scholarship fund and expects to
make contacts with the local schools.
Marjorie Canby Taylor, 1920, Chairman of Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Southern New Jersey, reports that her committee managed to raise about
$1,300. She says: "They have continued two scholars in College: a Senior with a
brilliant record and a Sophomore. They had eight applications, all from public
schools, for a freshman scholarship, but did not award any, as the two top candi-
dates received other scholarships. They gave $100 in grants to help out girls
already in College."
The question of reorganizing some sort of Executive Conuniltee in the district
has come up. It has become apparent that in connection with such matters as the
raising of money for the alumnae gifts and the arrangements for meetings of the
Seven Colleges' Committees some sort of organization is desirable.
The Bryn Mawr Club in New York would again like to urge any Alumnae
who are in town to avail themselves of the opportunity of using the club. Mrs.
Howard Oliver is most anxious to increase its usefulness. She is also making an
effort to encourage undergraduate membershijx She has hccu serving on (he
Seven Colleges' Committees as our Bryn ■Nfawr rcpresentati^ c and was one of the
hostesses at the Women's University Club, where Mrs. 1) wight Morrtnv sjidki- on
behalf of women's education. INliss Park's s])ecch at []\c annual (iinm>r was the
principal event of the winter.
On behalf of the District I should like to welcome^ the Council and to tliank
the Philadelphia Alumnae for their generous cooperation and enthusiastic help.
If this report sounds disjointed, it is because it is difficult to collect and
assimilate information as to alumnae activities. May I ask those who read it to
send me any details of any alumnae interests that they may know of in the district.^
By knowledge of each other's doings, we shall be better able to help ourselves in
our own immediate projects and to help Bryn Mawr to build for the future.
Harfukt Phicf, Pmrrs, 19*2.'^
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DISTRICT III.
Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee)
District III. is closing its third and, I trust, last year in the hands of an
Absentee Councillor. Under Mrs. Myers, of Tennessee, now nominated for the
position, I hope to see our southeastern states make greater and greater strides in
organization. Progress has been made during the last few years. In 1930 we had
no candidate at all, in 1931 only one. In 1932 we had two, in 1933 three, and this
year four. Last year's freshman scholar won the Longstreth $500 Sophomore
Scholarship. Our junior scholar won an Evelyn Hunt $300 Scholarship, and our
Senior received a special scholarship of $300. In all but one of these years
St, Catherine's School in Richmond has been represented by at least one candidate,
and is already represented in next year's applications. Although this is true and
although twice in these four years the winner has been a St. Catherine's girl, it is
no longer possible to say that this is the only good preparatory school south of the
Potomac. Long before I became interested in scholarship work, southern schools
were preparing girls regularly for college, and since that time we have had candi-
dates from four private and two public schools in Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. The list of private and public schools
which I shall turn over to the new Councillor represents every state in our district
except Florida. As I have pointed out each year, the reason we have few candi-
dates from the South is not that girls are unable to prepare there, but that we
Alumnae have not sufficiently advertised the College. I am delighted that the
Councillor-elect is from Tennessee, a state which already possesses an interested
although not yet thoroughly organized group, and which is also close to Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, where the Alumnae are so few and scattered that almost
nothing has been accomplished. Response to appeals is fairly predictable in
North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. In the other states it is always a gamble
for small stakes. The city clubs, of course, are a separate story.
Financially the district did about as well as it can be expected to as long as
its group is so small. (I am sure that the Council is weary of hearing that we have
hardly over 100 Alumnae, exclusive of graduate students, outside of our three city
groups.) We raised $250 by direct appeals and obtained two special gifts from
non- Alumnae amounting together to $75. The Washington Club had last year
responded to my statement that the district could not raise its scholarship unaided
by cities and voted $50 to us. In spite of this generous gift we came to the close
of our year with only $375. One of our contributors, hearing of our difficulties,
advanced the remaining $125, and had it not been for the still further generosity
of Washington we should even now be in debt to her.
Washington had a most successful benefit performance of The Lake last year,
starring Katherine Hepburn. The proceeds were so great that the club paid its
debt on its 1932-33 scholarship, paid its $500 for 1933-34, and started this year
with $317 in the bank. To the intense gratitude and relief of District III., the
Washington Club, on hearing of our debt of $125, promptly voted us that amount
out of this surplus. As Councillor I feel constrained to state that I firmly believe
in Santa Claus.
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Seriously^ I realize that such successes as the Hepburn benefit come only
occasionally. What I most want to thank Wasliington for is its acceptance of the
principle that the district is a unit and must operate as sucli if the College is truly
to be served by the Regional Scholarships.
Richmond has been entirely inactive recently, but, perhaps stirred to enthusi-
asm by ''College Day/' is now getting together for a more vigorous year. I trust
that no further bank disasters will afflict this highly enthusiastic group.
On "College Day/' October 22nd, district activities were as great as could
have been expected, considering that the date was a most inconvenient one for
everybody, as nearly all alumnae clubs hold elections just before disbanding for
the summer. None of the officers were this autumn, at least in Washington, the
same as those listed by headquarters. Discovering the new officers and organizing
joint meetings was a difficult task in the first month of the club year, and many
Bryn Mawr Alumnae feel that more could have been accomplislied if the date had
been set for the spring and preparations made during the winter.
In Washington a meeting was arranged in the United States Chamber
of Commerce Building. Mr. Francis B. Sayre, Assistant Secretarj' of State, was
the principal speaker, and Mrs. Roosevelt also spoke. The meeting was presided
over by the President of the Washington branch of the A. A. U. W. In l^altimore
a tea given at the time of the broadcast was attended by 130 people. Mrs. Julian
Marshall, Radcliffe alumna, addressed the meeting. As in Washington and
Richmond, those who attended the meeting were chiefly college people. In Richmond
the broadcast tea assembled about thirty-five college women, of whom seven were
Bryn Mawr Alumnae. Mrs. Blanton and Mrs. Catterall were active in arranging
the meeting.
A Washington scholar, now a Senior, has been aided for four consecutive years
by the club. Baltimore this year continues its support of its junior scholar.
District III. has sent a Freshman each year in the belief that by so doing we best
serve the purposes of the Regional Scholarship in a section very scarcely repre-
sented in the student body. Each of our Freslimen has been able by winning further
scholarships to remain in College without our help. In spite of the fact that times
are hard, I believe that the purpose of the Regional Scholarships would be
defeated if we sent a new girl from our district only each four years.
Vinton Liddf. i.l Phkkns. 1!>22.
DISTRICT IV.
(Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia)
I cannot make tliis, my first report as Councillor of District IV.. without
recalling to mind Louise Hyman Pollak, 1908, who, during the last fifteen years
of her life did so much, not only for the Cincinnati Bryn Mawr Club, but also for
District IV. After her death we were reminded anew of her loyally and generosity,
for we learned that she had made Bryn Mawr College the beneficiary of an insurance
policy on her life to the amount of $5,000. This income of tliis nioucy is now used
by the College as a scholarship offered to entering students from a section of tlie
Middle West, more extensive than, but including District IV. Last year this
scholarship was awarded to a girl from Cincinnati, this year to one from Cliicago.
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In speaking of Mrs. Pollak^ it seems to me a significant fact that a memorial
committee formed by the Cincinnati Bryn Mawr Club has established the Louise
Hyman Pollak Memorial Book Fund and has already turned over to the College
a sum exceeding $1,500. This money was contributed not alone by Bryn Mawr
Alumnae, not alone by Cincinnatians ; the many friends of Mrs. Pollak in various
parts of the country all contributed generously. But a group of Alumnae did con-
tribute the nucleus for the fund; and the purpose of the fund, the purchase of
books for the Bryn Mawr College Library, did appear to people generally a suit-
able memorial to one who had been deeply loved and sincerely honored.
No sooner did I find myself Councillor for District IV. than I set out to
persuade Constance Dowd Grant, 1916, to serve as Scholarship Chairman for the
region. Happily she consented. And I feel that, as a psychologist of varied
experience and as one who has done much work with girls and young women, she
is remarkably well equipped to carry on this part of our work.
Six applications for scholarships were the first matters which presented them-
selves to our attention after we took over the direction of Regional affairs from
Mrs. Vorys and Mrs. Farrar, of Columbus, who had run so well the concerns of
District IV. for the past three years. The applications came from girls living in
six different cities and towns, and prepared at as many different schools. All were
very promising candidates, interesting and attractive young women, and highly
recommended by their school principals. As I look back to the time, ten years ago,
when I was Scholarship Chairman for the region, I realize that there now exists a
more widespread interest throughout the Middle West in Bryn Mawr College itself,
as well as in our alumnae scholarships, and that the difficulties of preparation for
Bryn Mawr appear less insurmountable to the uninitiated. We have the Councillors
and Scholarships Chairmen of the last decade to thank for this in part; but I
believe we must also express to the College our deep appreciation of the fact that
the entrance requirements have been simplified without being allowed to become
any less effective. I make this statement thoughtfully and in spite of the fact that
at least one Alumna has written me she would never encourage a girl to attempt
to go to Bryn Mawr unless she could obtain her preparation elsewhere than in a
Middle Western high school.
Mrs. Grant and I made an effort personally to see each scholarship applicant,
her parents and her teachers. We did not succeed in every case, but one or both
of us did see each girl or at least one of her parents. This entailed motor trips
to Detroit, Youngstown, Columbus, and Richmond, Indiana. One girl and her
mother came from Dayton, Ohio, to Cincinnati for a conference. Mrs. Grant and
I both feel, I think, that it was very much worth while to make these personal
contacts, although, before we learned the result of the examinations, we were
unable to pick the winner, as it were, by sheer intuition.
The Regional Scholarship was awarded to a graduate of the Columbus School
for Girls. We were also glad to hear that the College had awarded a scholarship
to another one of our applicants. Besides these two freshman scholarships.
District IV. is giving a scholarship this year to a Senior who has done splendid
work throughout her college course, and to a Sophomore. We have already raised
$800 of the $1,100 necessary for tliese three scholarships. Wliile I do not relish live
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prospect of soliciting this last $300, I feel confident, nevertheless, that District IV.
will not fail to meet its obligations.
Mrs. Grant and I have already seen a young girl from Tiffin, Ohio, who hopes
to enter Bryn Mawr on a scholarship two years from now. And we are also con-
cerning ourselves with the case of a very promising graduate student at the
University of Cincinnati who would like to obtain a fellowship at Bryn Mawr next
year. It has seemed to me more suitable to discuss this latter case in detail at the
scholarships meeting than to do so now. Ihit I should like to record here the fact
that prospective graduate students and their professors are turning to the district
officers for advice and assistance.
And now to the broader aspects of my report as Councillor, and to what arc.
I feel, in some v/ays, the more important ones. With definite exceptions here and
there, I find that the Bryn Mawr Alumna or former student retains a i)ersistcnt
interest in and affection for the College, and does so often without apparently
having received much encouragement from the College or the Alumnae Association.
When happily she lives in Columbus, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, or other city where
there is an active club, she is kept in fairly close touch with the College and almost
invariably responds generously to appeals for cooperation or for funds. When,
however, she lives in a smaller community where there are few if any otlier
Alumnae, and no club, she continues to cherish fond and happy memories of the
College, while, at the same time, she ceases to regard it as being one of her present
near interests. Roughly speaking, there are about 300 Alumnae and former students
in District IV. Of these, about 150 live in smaller communities and are not mem-
bers of local Bryn Mawr clubs. Of these 150, onlj^ three answered tlie appeal sent
out this autumn for scholarship funds ; and one of these three happens to be the
mother of a girl now in College. I think it may be possible for me to organize
clubs in one or two places where none now exist. Beyond that, it would be very
difficult for a Councillor personally to see these 150 Alumnae who arc scattered
through 50 to 100 small communities. Yet they should be reached, .uul rcaclud
not alone when funds are being solicited.
I have given this matter some thought during the last six months, and I have
discussed it in particular with Mrs. Robert Lewis and with Mrs. .I.uol) IMaul. 1 do
not presume to speak for them, but I myself have reached one coiuliisjon : c\t'rv
Alumna and former student whose address is known, whctlur a tmnilur o( [he
Alumnae Association or not, should receive news of tiie College t'rei" at hast imu-c a
year. I have wondered whether occasional co])ies of the Bri i.i:ri\ luiiiht not be
mailed to those who are not members of the Association, or whether the
College News could be utilized in a similar way. T am snre that lucuu y so used
would prove to be well spent, provided, of course, that it is axailabU" at all.
Besides the widely scattered or isolatcnl Aluumat^ of \vhoni. for the most ]iart.
I have been speaking, there is a small group of Alumnae in one of the great cities
of District IV. who have their own and a somewhat ditVennt jirt^bleiu. They find
themselves few in number and completely surrounded bv large nunilHrs of the
alumnae of several of the other women's colleges. These other wonu^n overwhelm
our group by force of sheer number, the girls of high si>hool age in tliis city seem
to turn their faces toward the New England colleges, aiul. worst of all. Bryn Mawr
itself and the Alumnae Association docs not seem to be tspoeially eonseious of tlip
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existence of the problems of this particular group. They wish that the College
would send them speakers^ they wish they could be assisted in making their fellow-
citizens appreciate Bryn Mawr's peculiar virtue, and their cordiality to me on one
of the hottest days of last summer is mute testimony to me that they are not
indifferent to the College.
I do not see clearly the answer to all these problems. I know they cannot be
answered at once or by one individual. I have wished, however, to set them before
you as I see them. I have already mentioned the fact that I hope to be able to
organize two new clubs in District IV., and I have suggested the possibility of
using the Bulletin or the College News occasionally as a form of friendly greet-
ing from the College or from the Alumnae Association to all Alumnae. Mrs. Plaut
and I have also discussed, in passing, the value of district meetings. These would
undoubtedly prove to be interesting and valuable, but they would never, in my
opinion, take the place of newsy, printed material reaching each and every Alumna
in an envelope which contains no appeal for funds.
In closing, I wish to mention the fact that on November 22nd, in Cincinnati,
the Committee of the Seven Women's Colleges is to hold a dinner in honor of the
Presidents of these seven colleges. The Presidents themselves are to be the only
speakers. The Bryn Mawr Alumnae and former students in Cincinnati are coop-
erating actively in plans for this dinner, and all those living within a hundred
miles or so of Cincinnati are to receive invitations; this will include those living as
far away as Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville and Lexington. We hope that this
occasion will prove as pleasant and as interesting as the convention dinner of the
A. A. U. W. in Cincinnati last April. On this occasion we were all proud to hear
Dean Manning deliver the principal address.
Elizabeth Smith Wilson, 1915.
DISTRICT V.
(Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Wyoming, Montana)
District V. has had a very busy and, I think, profitable year. Activity for its
own sake can hardly be called desirable, but a year in which there are many jobs
to be done, and the Alumnae undertake to do them, seems to have a revivifying
effect on the district.
Our first job was the Scholarships Benefit. The Chicago Bryn Mawr Club
always comes nobly to the fore when a benefit is necessary. Eloise ReQua, the
President of the club, was Chairman of the Benefit Committee, and, in the absence
of the Scholarships Chairman, the Councillor was Vice-Chairman. We had a first
night of Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Loves of Charles the Second, and it was a
delightful performance. We lured many suburbanites into the city by arranging
a Dutch Treat supper at the Casino before the performance. Everyone worked
very hard, and the net result was something over $1,350 for the Scholarship Fund.
This year we have scholars in the junior, sophomore and freshman classes.
Our sophomore scholar has been awarded a Maria Hopper Scholarship in addition
to the Regional. Having been overwhelmed by promising applicants this year, we
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were very happy that one of them won the Louise Hyman Pollak Entrance
Scholarship and that another was able to enter with the help of a small grant from
our Scholarship Fund. So far we have no applicants for next year, but we do not
expect that condition of blessed calm to last long. We are already considering
ways and means of raising money this winter, as only $300 remains in our treasury.
As soon as the benefit was over, the Chicago Bryn Mawr Club applied for the
film of the College and showed it at a meeting when the Benefit report was pre-
sented. We held the meeting at a time when many girls were home from boarding
school for Easter and managed to round up a few prospective students and their
mothers. After that the Councillor set out to do a little publicity work in the
preparatory schools within easy reach of Chicago. It turned out to be a rather
exacting job. While the private schools were very cordial, the dates for showing
the film, dependent, of course, on the convenience of tlie schools, were cither
lumped or scattered. Mrs. Chadwick-Collins let us keep the film for several weeks,
in which time it once was shown three times in one day, and at others rested
unused for a couple of weeks. In all, we showed the film at six schools in Chicago
and its suburbs, and at one in Milwaukee and one in Madison. The Madison
Alumnae also arranged a showing and tea for Alumnae, prospective students and
their mothers. One undergraduate and four Alumnae spoke at the various ap})ear-
ances of the film. The real difficulty was to find an Alumna capable, or willing to
admit that she was capable, of running a projector when the school did not provide
a machine and operator. Many could lend projectors, but only one or two would
undertake the responsibility of managing them. I decided that this skill should
be grouped with the ability to swim and to read French and German as a require-
ment for a Bryn Mawr degree.
The next activity of the year was Bryn Mawr's share in the booth of the
women's colleges at the Century of Progress, in maintaining which twenty-one
colleges participated, as against eighteen last year. Rachel Foster Manierre, 1925,
was Corresponding Secretary and a member of the Executive Committee of tlie
College Woman's Board for a Century of Progress, and our other representatives
on the board were Eloise ReQua, who was succeeded by Nancy VanDyke Scribncr,
1914, the present President of the Chicago Bryn Mawr Club, and Elizabeth Tcnney
Cheney, 1910. Our Alumnae again did their share of serving as assistants to the
paid secretary in charge of the booth, which this year was located in a most
attractive lounge in the Hall of Social Science. The total registration of Alumnae
was about half the number of last year, corresponding approximately to tlic drop
in general attendance at the Fair. On the other liand. the requests for lollcge
catalogues were considerably higher than last year, and tliat. lo my mind, showed
that the booth was fulfilling its real function. The proportion of requests for
Bryn Mawr catalogues was very good. There were 70 up to October 25th. while
in 1933 there were only 33 for the whole period of the Ex]Hisiiioii. Tlic question
of continuing the organization as a central information bureau on women's colleges
with an alumnae advisory board is now under consideration.
The last activity of the year was the Chicago meeting of the Seven Women's
Colleges for Mrs. Dwight Morrow's broadcast on October 22nd. Susan Follansbee
Hibbard, Bryn Mawr 1897, was General Chairman for the affair; the speech pre-
ceding the broadcast was made by ^Ir. James Weber Linn, father of Elizabeth Linn
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Allen^ Bryn Mawr 1929; and a monologue that followed Mrs. Morrow's talk was
given by Natalie Fairbank Bell, Bryn Mawr 1905. Altogether, our Alma Mater
received a good share of publicity. I do not know what meetings were held in
other cities in the district on October 22nd. I had no luck in the effort to get the
scattered Alumnae of Illinois and Southern Wisconsin to organize, but the Chicago
meeting was considered quite successful.
The Councillor in October had the pleasure of representing Bryn Mawr at the
inauguration of the new President of Rockford College.
As a result of these varied activities many Alumnae were brought together
who before had not known, or had lost touch with, one another. Licking stamps
and lettering posters can be made very sociable occupations, and the Councillor,
for one, felt that the year had renewed some old contacts and brought some pleasant
new ones, both in Chicago and in other parts of the district which she visited or
with which she corresponded.
Jean Stirling Gregory, 1912.
DISTRICT VI.
(Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico)
May I first say how happy I am to be here with you today at my first Council
meeting. I come rather timidly among so many important persons, but hopeful of
bringing back to my district many new ideas. When I took over the Councillorship
of District VI. last winter I did so with great trepidation. It was described as
eight vast states with only 200 widely scattered Alumnae, who had rather lost
contact with their Alma Mater. In reply to my first letter of introduction to the
district I received a hopeful note from Colorado which began:
"We are a terrible district. I warn you ! We three or four actual Alumnae out
here in Colorado are counted as a large body of able-bodied seamen. Our Western
states just don't have Bryn Mawr Alumnae, and there is no use pretending that
we do."
I did not know Bryn Mawr could produce such pessimists. I had graduated
just the year before and we seemed to be quite a cheerful lot.
Eight months as District Councillor have shown me that we in the Middle West
have every cause to be cheerful, Erna Rice, in whose worthy footsteps I follow,
did a splendid job of organization while she was in office. She left me with
Alumnae Chairmen in five out of the eight states. For the first time we have the
beginnings of Bryn Mawr clubs in middle-western cities other than in St. Louis.
Laura Richardson assembled a lively group in Omaha, Nebraska, and after giving
a benefit movie last spring sent in $75 toward the scholarship. They also announce
the prospect of a scholar for next fall. Last summer I appointed Elizabeth
Edwards as Scholarship Chairman of Texas. She graduated from Bryn Mawr
with me in '33 and promises to bring fresh enthusiasm to the Texas Alumnae, and
will try to organize a Bryn Mawr club in Dallas.
We also have a new and brighter outlook in scholarship material. After a year
of sending no scholar at all, there suddenly arose three prospects — one from
New Mexico, one from Colorado and one from St. Louis, Last spring T sent letters
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to the district describing tliese girls and telling the latest bits of campus gossip
picked up at my last visit to Bryn Mawr. But in response to some 200 letters,
only twenty answers came. Many sent only interest and sympathy, and no funds.
So, as has been the case always, tlie greater ])art of our scholarship money
was raised in St. Louis. We held several meetings, wliere Mrs. Rauh, our Scholar-
ship Chairman, Mrs. Stix and Mrs. Graham raised the large sums. When it was
found that this had to be supplemented, Kmily Lewis, President of tlie St. Louis
Bryn Mawr Club, and I gathered the young people together to work on a benefit.
It was July and the thermometer, as you may remember, wavered around 110
degrees. The only possible form of benefit, therefore, was a swimming party. We
rented a pool in the country on the river bluff's, and one evening invited 100 of
the youth of St. Louis to swim, have supper and play country games. Financially
the party was not a tremendous success. But it was great fun, and c\ eryone wanted
to know if we would give another one like it next year.
But now my optimistic outlook must be momentarily darkened. Of our three
prospective scholars, two did not do well in their entrance examinations. The third
made a brilliant record and we are justly proud of her. This fall we gave her a
tea and sent her off with a $500 scholarship and many envious glances to
Bryn Mawr.
In the future we shall try to continue on our optimistic path. Ihit there are
still difficulties to overcome, difficulties in the large spaces wliicli our district covers,
which make it hard for us to have any real organization. I lune had nuicli
correspondence with the State Chairmen on this subject. After my appeal went
out to the district, I asked each Chairman to send our personal reminders to the
people in her state. I am convinced that tlic work should be done individually in
each state, and not by a single person in St. Louis. We want our scholar to
represent not just St. Louis, but the district as a whole. With this in mind, I
wrote a second letter to the State Chairmen asking them each to pledge $100,
which they could raise in their state at any time during the coming year. The only
result of this was that one Chairman sent in her resignation because she said she
had not realized the job meant raising money.
So you see there is still much to be done. Bui if there were not much io be
done there would be no goal for which to strive. 1 ho))e, tlierefore. at the next
Council meeting to bring you news of progress.
Mahv Tavssig. ID.S.S.
DISTRICT VII.
(Galifornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona)
At present there are in District VIL two Bryu NLiwr ( lubs. ouc in Northern
California with San Francisco as its center, ami the o[]\cv in Southern California
with Los Angeles as its hub.
Mrs. Thomas Fleming, Jr., the President of the sinitherii elub. writes that they
have 111 members and hold three meetings a year, the nuetings being of a purely
social nature, one held in Los Angeles and two in Pasadena.
They participated in the Seven Colleges Luncheon which was heUl in
Los Angeles.
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The one piece of work in which the club is interested is the raising of the
money for the Scholarships Fund and the selecting of a scholar. At present they
have no scholar, but are accumulating money so that they may send another as
soon as possible.
They have discontinued the office of Chairman of the Scholarship Committee
as their College Representative, Mrs. Edward S. LeVino, acts in that capacity.
She also keeps them in touch with other Bryn Mawr activities.
In Northern California the club has a membership of about eighty, fifteen of
whom were present at the Seven Colleges Luncheon, where the total attendance
was 165. That luncheon was a great success and much enthusiasm seemed to have
been aroused. Mrs. Meiklejohn was the local speaker, and the other fourteen
Bryn Mawr representatives beamed with pride because her talk was so well deliv-
ered, so clear, and so forcefully convincing. Another resultant good was that many
of those present expressed a desire that representatives from the seven colleges
might meet together again to become better acquainted and to strengthen their
efforts by unified action.
The Northern Club meets at least twice a year at a luncheon given by a
member, after which a business meeting is held. Beside this, a special meeting,
tea, or luncheon is always held whenever there is a raison d'etre. So far the only
work undertaken is the securing of a scholar and the raising of the money for her
tuition. The usual method is to ask for pledges to be paid at stated intervals
according to the convenience of the donor.
As our last scholar was to graduate in 1934, we had been trying to find another
candidate and had felt very happy in our choice of the daughter of an Alumna, but
this summer her family moved to Minneapolis, so that she is now lost to us. Since
then we have found a pupil of The Katherine Branson School whose qualifications
are unusually satisfactory in every way. Many of the club members know her and
her family personally and are most desirous of having her represent us, but the
matter has not been fully decided upon as yet. She would not be ready to enter
until the fall of 1936, but we are raising the money now with the hope that she
may be our next choice.
One problem that District VII. has to face is the great mileage that separates
many of the members from any possible central meeting place. The result is that
only those who live in San Francisco or its suburbs attend the meetings. To over-
come this difficulty, we are going to try to organize the members in the outlying
districts into small groups with the idea that they will send a representative to the
meetings in San Francisco who in turn will take back all news of interest, thus
increasing the rapprochement with the Alumnae who live at a distance and the
attendance in San Francisco. If this plan proves successful, we shall recommend
it to the Southern Club, for the situation is the same there.
All of District VII. is most enthusiastic about the long-hoped-for visit of
President Park which is to take place in January, 1935. I am sure that the wel-
come that she will receive will be warm enough to make her ignore the rain that
usually visits us during that month.
Leslie Farwell Hill, 1905.
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THE COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARSHIPS
AND LOAN FUND
For the fourth successive time at a Council Meeting I am giving an account
of the activities of the Committee on Scholarships and Loan Fund. For three years
my tale has been distinctly discouraging^ witli reports of great sums expended for
student aid^ and of meager repayments to the Loan Fund. The College did its
part in those difficult times by the giving of sucli amounts in scliolarships and grants
as $53,410 last year, $54,070 in 1932-33, and $48,685 in 1931-32.
When I began going over the material at liand concerning this year's scliolar-
ships and loans, it became increasingly clear to me tliat a cliange for the better is
taking place in the financial condition of the students and of the Alumnae with
whom this committee has to do. Last spring we hoped that this might be the case,
when the recommendations for the scholarship help for 1934-35 were being made,
and we all felt that it should be possible to do without the large Emergency Fund
which has supplemented scholarships for the past two years. The students were
told that there would be considerable cutting-down of scholarship help, and were
asked not to apply for such help unless they were sure that they could not find the
necessary money outside. Consequently there were fewer applications when the
committee, aided at every step by the Administration, began its deliberations. Of
the students who did apply, the ones with poor grades received no consideration,
and the ones in the middle group had their recommendations distinctly cut. The
distinguished students in each of the three upper classes were given as adequate
scholarship help as was possible, though in many cases this was less than they had
asked for, and less than last year's amount. As a result of this policy of paring-
down, for 1934-35, $46,735 in scholarship help has been rccommciulcd and given,
$6,675 less than last year's figure. This amount is made up of $32,235 of college
scholarships, endowed, from the budget, and from special donations; $2,400 in
grants, and $12,100 through the efforts of the Regional Committees. 106 students
out of 388 now in College are being given this help, as compared to 120 out of 385
last year. We feel that these figures are definitely encouraging, as a sign that in
more nearly normal times the regular college scholarships, supi)lcmcntcd always
by the Regional Scholarships and by the Loan Fund, should be able to ]^rovidc all
the financial help needed for the students of Bryn Mawr.
Perhaps it is a reflection of the fact that times arc becoming easier for the
Alumnae that this year the Regional Committees are sending more scholars and
more money to the College than they did last year; in any case, the results are
magnificent. We are proud to be able to report that $12,100 has been raised
through the Regional Committees, which sum has been divided among thirty-seven
scholars. As usual, New England leads the other districts with a total of eleven
scholars, for whom has been raised the splendid sum of $3,750; the other districts
also are doing nobly. New England has four freshmen scholars. New York lias
two, New Jersey one. Eastern Pennsylvania one, the South one. District IV. one.
District V. two, and District VI. one; fourteen Freshmen in all.
When we turn to the affairs of the Loan Fund, we find that there, too, a far
more encouraging prospect greets us this year than last. You will remember that
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last autumn the Loan Fund seemed to have reached a new low^ with demands for
loans coming in as heavily as ever, and with repayments alarmingly fallen off.
The Councillors did some very useful work in finding out about delinquents in
their districts;, and letters were sent out with the bills, as usual. Whether it was
because of these efforts, or because money was becoming a little easier to find, I do
not know, but the results surpassed our expectations. Payments began to come in
to the fund, slowly but steadily. During the summer there were several large
repayments by individuals who had not been specially urged to make them, but
who evidently wished to finish off their indebtedness to the fund. A few figures
will show the difference between repayments last year and this; in 1933, after the
April billing, $120 was repaid, and after the July billing, $263. In 1934, after the
April billing we received $786, and after the July billing, $749. Also, we have
had letters from borrowers who have as yet paid nothing on their debts, but they
give good reasons for not paying, and they promise to begin payments soon.
A few figures from the Loan Fund's statement must be given.
Balance on hand, Jan. 1, 1934 $1,324.71
Receipts, Jan. 1 to Oct. 16, 1934:
Payments on loans 2,882.54
Interest on loans 389.28
Donations 805 .00
$4,076.82 added to the balance
make a total of $5,401.53
Disbursements, Jan. 1 to Oct. 16, 1934.
Loans to students $3,980.00
Repayments of loans to the Loan Fund 350.00
Tax on cheques .26
$4,330.26 which subtracted
from $5,401.53 leaves a balance on hand of $1,071.27
Though this balance may seem unusually large at present, a $500 loan to the
Loan Fund will have to be repaid during the year.
The $3,980 lent to students is a smaller amount by several thousand dollars
than has been lent since 1929; and it has been split up into somewhat smaller
individual loans than usual, as 33 students have been taken care of, instead of
30, 29, and 30, respectively, in the last three years. This seems to uphold the
theory that the students of Bryn Mawr at present do not need quite as much help
as they have in the past three years. You know that the policy of the Loan Fund
has always been to encourage borrowing while there is a penny left in the fund;
but after the terribly small repaj^ments of 1933, when only $1,227 came in, while
$4,110 was lent, possibly our point of view has changed a little, and we are not
displeased to see that the repayments are creeping up and that the loans are
slightly less. $2,882 came back in repayments in 1934, a greater amount than has
been repaid since 1926. Altogether we feel much encouraged as to the state of the
Loan Fund. As a business, it seems to be far stronger than it has been for several
years.
Elizabeth Yarnall Maguire, 1913.
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NEWS FROM THE BRYN MAWR CLUBS
BUFFALO
The Buffalo Bryn Mawr Club met this fall for the first time in six years at
a luncheon arranged by Judith Boyer Sprenger, 1909, at the College Club in honour
of the present undergraduates from Buffalo and the vicinity. The undergraduates
were Virginia Sale, Betty Bock, Ruth Levi, Catherine Corson, and Eugenia
Whitmore. The alumnae who were present were Ethel Clinton Russcl, 1902.
Elizabeth Winchester Brandt, 1927, Stella Nathan Bock, 1908, Edith Fiskc, 19;i0,
Eleanor Lattimore, 1900, Charlotte Claflin, 1911, and .Mrs. Egbert Corson, mother
of a Freshman. They gathered with the other college groups to hear Mrs. Morrow's
broadcast for the Seven Women's Colleges, and went to hear Michi Kawai. 190t.
speak under the auspices of the Federal Council of Churches. Plans for another
luncheon meeting at Christmas time are under way, and they arc eager to know-
whenever anyone representing the College comes nearby.
NEW YORK
The Bryn Mawr Club of New York will give a diniur for Miss Park on
Tuesday evening, December 11th, at the Park Lane Hotel.
Mrs. Howard T. Oliver, President, will preside. President Park, the guest
of honor, will speak on Bryn Mawr developments on the cam]Kis. The progress
made by the Seven College Committee will be described by Mrs. Learned Hand,
and Mrs. Howard Phipps will discuss the plans for the Fiftieth Anniversary of
the founding of Bryn Mawr.
All alumnae are cordially invited to attend. Requests for further information
and reservations should be addressed to Mrs. Louis J. Darmstadt. Chairman of
Entertainment, Bryn Mawr Club, The Park Lane, 299 Park Ave New York.
UNDERGRADUATE APPRECIATION OF
GERTRUDE STEIN
{Reprinted hi part from the CoJlcqe yncs)
Most lecturers available to college audiences, if llu y an' <^oo(\ at all. siuHicd in
imparting and in correlating information. Few lecturers giM^ tin- uiuliM-gradualc the
opportunity of thinking for herself under the stimulus of an arresting idea or of
coming to appreciate a force and a personality in modern tirclcs, cither govern-
mental or literary. This Gertrude Stein acconi])lishrd. Slu^ was ;iliH\-uly well known
to the college for her reputation and for her inHuential work in nunlcru ])rosc aiul
poetry, but in addition she explained to her audience the theory which is the basis
of her work and gave thereby the basis for imnuulialc and intelligent debate on the
distinguishing elements in her books and in the works of her contemporary writers.
Miss Stein succeeded in promoting discussion. Our admiration is for her: and we
declare, furthermore, that we welcome with open arms anii lecturer who will plunge
the entire College into night-long discussion, as Miss Stein succeeds il in doing.
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CAMPUS NOTES
Geraldine E. Rhoads, 1935
What did we say last month? College is completely under way by this time,
and — by popular opinion — is even getting somewhat out of hand with the approach
of quizzes. The surest sign that we are settled and that we are having a good time
is that we are declaring that we shall never catch up with ourselves or our work.
As for our ominous feeling that the hour of judgment is at hand, that may be
discounted. Life still remains: we are in process of finding out that we are so
healthy as to be pretty uninteresting to the infirmary. In and out of Dr. Leary's
office, angel robes are being worn, even though the wintry weather would seem to
favor fashions of a more polar sort.
The early chill has not kept us from outdoor activity at all. The cold-blooded
among us have found that the larger tomes from the stacks make excellent wind-
breakers to and from the library; the athletes in our midst have won all but two
of the Varsity hockey games this year, and have been holding out well in the face
of all-American players and the extremes of climate.
Practically the entire College turned out on Lantern Night in winter array;
spectators looked as if bound for a football game, Freshmen and Sophomores for
the most part wore two of everything that normally constitutes a part of campus
dress (except, we hasten to explain, as to shoes). The ceremonies were exceptionally
impressive in the clear light of the nearly full moon; the singing was better sus-
tained than usual, probably because enough strong voices were placed at the cloister
doors to keep up the singing as the tail-end of the procession was swallowed up
into the inner library corridors. We are more or less inclined to disparage our
singing on Lantern Night, because we know from bitter experience exactly where
the pitfall for second sopranos lies, and we spot immediately any lapses from the
accepted form. The singing was lovely, however, even though a Sophomore of
lusty voice did turn soloist in one of the pauses of Pallas. The 1938 lanterns are
very attractive, blue as they should be, but with an owl on each pane rather than
the traditional conventionalized pattern using the class numerals as a basis for
design. The change has been made because classes are too large to permit of the
yearly expenditure for lanterns. 1938, therefore, is to keep its lanterns only
through the four-year college period, and is then to hand them on for presentation
to the next entering class (1942). We realize that the arrangement is a sensible
one, but we are already sighing for the good old days. We would much prefer
not to be sensible, but to keep to tradition in this matter.
Changing even part of the Lantern Night traditions seems much more heretical
to us than any other changes on campus. Fortunately, all the other new arrange-
ments made in the organizations and in the regulations of the College this fall
accord with our judgment. Student radios with loud speakers are being allowed
for the first time, so that when we are not studying or talking, we live to the rhythm
of static and music. The use of such radios is at present on trial: the college
authorities may yet decide that we are so noisy that it were better did we not
become expert mechanics with radio insides, nor be sidetracked from our work to
listen to the outside world.
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The only other hnportant change on campus involves the reorganization of
the Entertainment Committee. The committee to select lecturers and make arrange-
ments for their coming to speak under tlie auspices of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion is much bigger and more representative under the new plan. The group
includes one girl from each class in each hall. At present, the plans for the year
are not definite enough to be announced, but we are assured that we shall have
programs that the majority of us will want and will support by attendance.
We have not had many lecturers here as yet. The announcement that
Mr. Lowes was not coming to give the Flexner lectures was a great disappointment
to the College. At the moment, however, we are in the midst of the Shaw lectures
and conferences under the direction of Mrs. Dean, a friend of long standing to the
undergraduates. Dr. Desire Veltmann, resident on the campus, lias been giving a
series of lectures on ancient and modern materialism that provide exercise for the
brains of the agile-minded. And a series of lecture-recitals given by Guy Marriner
has been bringing joy to the hearts of the music lovers for several weeks. Such a
series as this is doubly appreciated. Music brought to the campus is always a
great treat, and lectures on music are just what those of us want who like to
listen, but wish we knew hovv^ to listen more intelligently to good music. The week
will see, if we forecast aright, either turbulent debate or common bafflement among
the undergraduates: Gertrude Stein is coming to lecture on Poetri/ and Grammar.
Some of our entertainment we provide for ourselves. The Players' Club has
started its autumn program in an ambitious and auspicious way: the members pre-
sented several one-act plays, the first of which were Synge's Riders of the Sea and
Barrie's The Twelve-Pound Look. Such plays, we think, are almost more fun to
see and to give than formal three-act plays. They draw an audience that is sym-
pathetic with and genuinely interested in amateur production, and the performances
have a spontaneity that is more enjoyable than mere finished excellence. Sucli
presentations are a boon to Varsity Dramat in awakening interest in college dra-
matics and in training us for work in regular Varsity plays.
In addition, in connection with the Alumnae Council meeting at Brvu Mawr,
members of the Players' Club put on three student-written product iou^ and a
ranting melodrama by Louisa M. Alcott. It seems boastful and uniu'ccssary for
any one of the undergraduates to praise the three plays written aiul produced by
students. But we see the day in sight when we shall attend Broadway openings
and scream ''Author! Author!" to get a glimpse of our classniatrs.
Varsity Dramatics has finally decided upon Ci/tiihclnw as the highlight of the
drama for December. We are still in process of speculation as to who will he cast
for the main parts. The momentous decision to give a play by Sliakcsp(\irt^ will
precipitate the campus into complete confusion: roonnnalcs will doubtless be
estranged and unrecognizable in doublet and hose, and light conxcrsation will be
carried on in blank verse.
Glee Club has already organized itself for the year and has decided to give
The Pirates of Penzance in the spring. That seems a long time away now. but
then so does the beginning of College. We are doing so much, and so unuli is goini:
on that it is increasingly difficult to keep track of our fellow undergraduates at all.
The time is not far oft' when we shall be thinking in terms of 19;{(> Big ^^ay Day.
and then there will be no accounting for our actions or our activities.
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CLASS NOTES
Ph. and Graduate Notes
Class Editor: Mary Alice Hanna Parrish
(Mrs. J. C. Parrish)
Vandalia, Missouri.
1889
No Editor Appointed.
1890
No Editor Appointed.
1891
No Editor Appointed.
1892
Class Editor: Edith Wetherill Ives
(Mrs. F. M. Ives)
178 E. 70th St., New York City
1893
Class Editor: Susan Walker FitzGerald
(Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald)
7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass.
1894
Class Editor: Abby Brayton Durfee
(Mrs. Randall Durfee)
19 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass.
1895
Class Editor: Susan Fowler
c/o The Brearley School
610 East 83rd St., New York City.
1896
Class Editor: Anna Scattergood Hoag
(Mrs. C. G. Hoag)
619 Walnut Lane, Haverford, Pa.
1897
Class Editor: Friedrika Heyl
Prudence Risley Hall, Ithaca, N. Y.
Mary Campbell, with her father, spent the
summer at a quiet inn in Boonton, N. J. She
is now having a sabbatical year and will retire
automatically in 1935 from the position of Latin
teacher which she has filled ever since she left
Bryn Mawr. Where will the Brearley School
ever find another?
Sue Blake returned in September to Hollins
College, Hollins, Virginia.
Frances Arnold sailed for France early in
July, taking with her August Arnold, her
young niece. She planned to go to Scotland in
September — not for the grouse shooting — but to
visit her aunt, Mrs. Fraser-Campbell, on Loch
Fyne.
Elizabeth H. Jackson's youngest child, Jimmy,
has gone to Harvard as a Freshman. When she
wrote, the last week in September, she had just
returned from a motor trip on which she drove
in the pouring rain and fog "from Petersham
over the Mohawk Trail to visit Bennington
College, and up the lovely Vermont valley to
Middlebury to see the horses; over Bread Loaf
Mountain, very steep and slippery, and down
across the Connecticut River to spend the night
with Elsa Bowman and her adopted daughter
on the lake at New London, New Hampshire,
and so down to Andover."
F. Heyl is still rather dazed, but delighted,
after an S. 0. S. appointment to find herself
back at Cornell University — "far above Cayuga's
waters" — where she is substituting for the first
semester in Prudence Risley Hall for the war-
den who is ill.
1898
Acting Editor: Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
615 Old Railroad Ave., Haverford, Pa.
1899
Class Editor: May Schoneman Sax
(Mrs. Percival Sax)
6429 Drexel Road, Overbrook, Phila., Pa.
1900
Class Editor: Louise Congdon Francis
(Mrs. Richard S. Francis)
414 Old Lancaster Road, Haverford, Pa.
Eva Palmer Sikelianos conducted a Greek
play, The Bacchae, by Euripides. The prin-
cipal parts were taken by men from the faculty
of Smith and of Amherst. This took place
on the campus of Smith College, the girls
acting the chorus and feminine roles. Everyone
was deeply impressed. Eva made them weave
their own garments and imported the looms.
1901
Class Editor: Beatrice McGeorge
Vaux Apartments, Gulph Road,
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
1902
Class Editor: Anne Rotan Howe
(Mrs. Thorndike Howe)
77 Revere St., Boston, Mass.
1903
Class Editor: Gertrude Dietrich Smith
(Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith)
Farmington, Conn.
The Class of 1903 extends its most sincere
sympathy to Margaret Field Buck, whose son.
Jack, was killed on June 1st. It was a base-
ball accident, and he was killed instantly.
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Alice Lovell Kellogg has sailed with her hus-
band from San Francisco to spend the winter
in Spain,
Ethel Girdwood Peirce moved to East Orange,
New Jersey, where she was living with her
mother, but has returned again to Bryn Mawr.
Constance Leupp Todd's son, David, has been
conducting younger boys on mountain trips in
Switzerland. He goes to Swarthmore College
this year.
Amanda Hendrickson Molinari d'lncisa has
sent a fascinating account of a visit which she
and her husband made on a coffee plantation
in Uganda, Central Africa, almost on the
equator, nearly six thousand feet above sea-
level, in sight of the Ruvengari Mountains.
Agatha Laughlin sailed from California via
the Panama Canal to spend several months
with Amanda in Europe. They will start off
with a motor trip in Italy in September and
October.
1904
Class Editor: Emma 0. Thompson
32'0 S. 42nd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Michi Kawai spoke at a dinner given in her
honour at the College Club on October 17th.
Seventy-five admiring friends enjoyed the story
Michi told of her school in Tokyo and the
moving pictures she showed of her students and
their activities.
Jane Allen Stevenson and her husband sailed
to Panama and South America last summer.
Margaret Ross Garner's daughter, Sue Garner,
entered Bryn Mawr this fall as a member of
the Class of 1938.
1905
Class Editor: Eleanor Little Aldrich
(Mrs. Talbot Aldrich)
59 Mount Vernon St., Boston, Mass.
The class will be sad to hear of the sudden
death of Nan Workman Stinson on November
17th, and will want to send their sympatliy
to her two daughters.
Helen Jackson Paxson writes from Berkeley,
California: "Jane is living in San Francisco
and doing a research job at the University
Hospital. Emma is in Washington, D. C. —
general useful girl in a large office. Her bosses
are in the State Department and are work-
ing on the Revision of Tariffs and Treaties.
Patricia returned to Madison for her senior
year."
The Class Editor recently went to Minneapolis
for a family wedding and had a glimpse of the
Class Collector just getting settled in her at-
tractive new home at 66 Groveland Terrace.
Her son who is studying architecture planned
and supervised the alterations on the house as
his summer job and the whole family took a
hand in the work. Ten days after moving in
she gave a big tea for her daughters. Who
says we are aging?
Margaret Bates Porterfield is now living at
19 Shadyside Avenue, Summit, New Jersey. She
writes: "We had a simply marvellous journey
from Shanghai last winter, two months cruising
about from Hong Kong, Manila, and such civi-
lized i)orts, to queer jungley places in Java and
Sumatra, and then putting in along the Malay
Peninsula for tin, rubber, etc., giving us time
lor marvellous swims in de-sharked waters
while our yachty little freighter took on treas-
ures. Ceylon was too utterly fascinating, and
we had a chance to drive to Kandy and the
gardens there which, like those in Batavia,
thrilled the heart of a botanist husband. The
"Silverteak" accommodated only six passen-
gers and the Porterfields making up four of
that number, we felt as if we owned the whole
thing. Later, we hopped it through Italy,
Switzerland, Paris and London — seeing the few
outstanding features that the children would
enjoy, taking Vesuvius in our stride and. after
all the churches and galleries, airing off with
a few days of skiing in Montreux, ver>- thrill-
ing to young ones who have had so little snow
in their lives. . . . Before we left Shanghai,
I had a chance to go up the Yangtze 1300
miles to Chung King, in Szechuan, through
the gorges and over the rapids. It is a most
amazing journey, through wild, ricb countr>',
over-run with bandits and opium traffic. The
river is certainly wild power and tlie cliffs, like
Wagner music, frozen into great grotesques.
If you have read River Supreme you get some
idea of it. It was grand to see the inland
provinces of China — there is no country like
it to us — and later to spend a few days in
Canton. Really, I feel more at home in some
of these strange cities than here in America.
. . . We were on MacMahan Island. Maine, for
three weeks and now are in Summit with Peg
in boarding school and Billy in Junior High
and China in the background. I'm trying to
become acclimated, read the papers, do without
my precious servants and gel I'nited Statesy.
Also find someone who needs a teacher or hos-
tess or lecturer. If you hear of any such open-
ing, you can always reach me at the above
address.''
1906
Class Editor: Hf.i.kn H mcmwoit Pitnam
(Mrs. William K. Putnam)
126 Adams St.. Milton, Mass.
Romance is not dead. Mary Walcott's son,
John, spent last summer cruising in a two-
masted schooner in the Aegean Sea. among the
islands of Greece. The owner of the schooner
acted as captain, his friends making up the
crew, the only professional aboard being the
cook. Another member of the cruise was Anne's
son. Pasco Grenfell.
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1907
Class Editor pro tern: Cornelia Meigs
Pembroke Road, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
1908
Class Editor: Helen Cadbury Bush
Haverford, Pa.
1909
Class Editor: Ellen F. Shippen
44 West 10th St, New York City.
The class extends its affectionate sympathy
to Dorothy Smith Chamberlin on the loss of
her father on October 10th.
Frances Ferris spent the summer in England
and Scotland — we hope to have more news of
this later.
Dorothy North was married on October 13th
to Sidney Haskins, an Englishman, whom she
has known since war-work days. After a brief
trip to the Southwest they will be sailing to
England — Dorothy writes to Craney — "to settle,
we hope, just outside London, where his engi-
neering work and his political interests are cen-
tered." Mr. Haskins is an engineer and a mem-
ber of the British Labour Party.
Sally Webb and Helen Crane each have re-
cent great-nephews.
Fan Barber Berry and the Shippen family
have both moved recently. Fan to 335 West
14th Street, where she says she has a dining
room! This is so remarkable that it should be
italicized, at least in connection with New York
apartments.
Gene Miltenberger Ustick and her family are
staying on in Pasadena for another year.
Marianne Moore's 5e/ec«edJ Poems will be pub-
lished by the Macmillan Company in January.
1910
Class Editor: Mary Shipley Mills
(Mrs. Samuel Mills)
46 Wyoming Ave., Ardmore, Pa.
It is with great satisfaction that your editor
reports that Mary Boyd Shipley Mills has
agreed to succeed her in the job. Mary Boyd
and her family, after many years in China and
last winter in Switzerland, have come back to
America to live. They are now settled in
Ardmore in a comfortable house near the
Haverford School, where Mr. Mills teaches.
Kate Rotan Drinker: "February and March
in Bermuda with a convalescent son; a sum-
mer at our farm in Hudson with a little house-
work and much golf; and a move back to town
in September, with the farm sold and a new
boat in the offing as a substitute — these are the
chief itetis in my tale since I last told it."
Florence Wilbur Wyckoff and her family
moved last winter from Niagara Falls to AUoy,
West Virginia. The class extends sympathy to
Florence in her grief at the death of her father.
Ruth Babcock Deems, in a letter written last
May from San Francisco, says: "We are poised
for flight and someone is saying goodbye to us
every night for dinner until we actually leave
on June 28th for Minneapolis, where my hus-
band has been called to St. Mark's parish. We
took a flying trip there in April, and a little
later decided to go there to live. After 18 years
out here, it's not easy to pull up stakes, although
we are really awfully keen on going. We are
spending the summer at Lake Minnetonka."
1911
Class Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Russell
(Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
1085 Park Ave., New York City.
Mary Case Pevear's daughter, Catherine, was
married to Mr. Allen P. Whittemore last
August. Another wedding of interest to us was
that of Anita Stearns Stevens' second daughter,
Helen, to Mr. George Dayton Edwards, in
September. Anita has a grandchild, sex un-
known to your editor, born early in the sum-
mer to her older daughter, and so she is our
first grandmother. Incidentally, she does not
look it.
Mary Pevear is an investigator for the Home
Relief organization in New York.
Catherine Delano Grant's new address is
950 High Street, Dedham, Mass.
A long letter from Margery Hoffman Smith
tells us of a fascinating sailing trip she took
recently around Vancouver Island with her hus-
band and an old sea captain, the survivor of
many wrecks. She finds the decorating business
great fun.
The class sends its deepest sympathy to
Harriet Couch Coombs, whose husband, Robert
Duncan Coombs, died this October. Mr. Coombs
was mayor of Paramus, N. J., and had had a
distinguished career in civil engineering.
Kate Seelye is to be assistant to the principal
at the Burnham School, in Northampton, this
winter. Laurens Seelye will be professor of
religion at Bennington College. Dorothea won
the Regional Scholarship from New England.
Kate's father, the Reverend W. Nesbitt
Chambers, died in Syria this summer, shortly
after her arrival there. We all send our love
and sympathy.
Margaret Hobart Myers has sold the old
family place, Sommariva, at Easthampton, L. I.
Those of us who have visited her there, will
know with what regret she has parted with this
house which has been in her family since 1860.
She was at College for the Alumnae Council.
We assume, in the absence of authentic in-
formation to the contrary, that Lois Lehman
will be sailing for her native land this month.
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If anyone wishes to. turn back llie leaves of
time rapidly, we suggest entering one's daugh-
ter in Bryn Mawr. The place is singularly
unchanged, even to the plumbing. All the
changes in routine seem to be for the better.
Did anyone conduct us through the library or
give us a quiz in the self-gov rules?
My dears, they've even painted the sitting
rooms in Pembroke light cream ; I know you
will never be able to believe this!
1912
Class Editor: Gladys Spry Augur
(Mrs. Wheaton Augur)
P. 0. Box 884, Santa Fe, N. M.
1913
Class Editor: Helen Evans Lewis
(Mrs. Robert M. Lewis)
52 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn.
1914
Class Editor: Elizabeth Ayer Inches
(Mrs. Henderson Inches)
41 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
1915
Class Editor: Margaret Free Stone
(Mrs. J. Austin Stone)
3039 44th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
1916
Class Editor: Catherine S. Godley
768 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale
Cincinnati, Ohio.
It is with sorrow that we record the death
of Dorothy Turner Tegtmeier on June 4, 1934.
We send our deepest sympathy to Willie Savage
Turner and the other members of her family.
Dorothy leaves four children — Dora, Fred, Bill
and Dorothy — ^the rearing of whom was a con-
stant source of joy to her.
We also send our sincerest sympathy to
Elizabeth Brakeley whose mother died last
spring. Mr. Brakeley is moving to Montclair
to make his home with Elizabeth and they
have taken a house at 71 Myrtle Avenue. They
went abroad in June and after visiting Norway
and taking the North Cape trip, they motored
through Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg and
northern France.
Marian Kleps was married on June 26tJi
to Dr. Gilbert Joseph Rich. They are living
at 4300 North Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
Constance Kellen Branham's older daughter,
Peggy, spent the summer at Camp Runoia and
was the second 1916 daughter to be under
Constance Dowd Grant's guidance for a season.
This year Camp Runoia had an orchestra in
which Cedy, herself, played the cornet and
Peggy the baritone horn. The orchestra ac-
quired such fame that it was invited to go on
the road and had a successful tour with con-
certs at five other camps. Con and her husband
visited at camp for two days the latter part
of July and found it surpassed their highest
expectations.
Anna Lee has started what promises to be a
record-breaking year. She has nearly 200 pupils
in her classes at Frankford High School where
she teaches English. She says the facilities of
the school, which was built to accommodate
1800 pupils, have had to be stretched to care
for an enrollment of 4200, and the only com-
forting thing is that every one has as crowded
a schedule as hers. She spent the summer at
home with the pleasant diversions afforded by
porch, garden and car. She stopped at Caroline
Crowell's home one day when driving near
Avondale, Pa., and was just in time to see
Caroline who was leaving the next day to
resume her work as one of the physicians at
the University of Texas. Caroline had spent
most of her vacation in California and had
visited Eugenie Donchian Jamgochian for sev-
eral days.
Elizabeth Washburn yielded to temptation
and an urgent invitation and set out for New-
foundland in July. September 1st her address
was still Memorial Hospital, Twillingate. Slie
found quite a few old friends there and "the
same nice place — nothing but rocks and sea."
She had charge of the children and was nurse
in the Out-Patient Department, but did not
think it hard. (It sounds like quite a handful
to us!)
1917
Class Editor: Bertha C. Greenough
203 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, K. I.
1918
Class Editor: ]\I ahy-S afford Hoogfwkkff
(Mrs. Hit\ster HoogowrrtT^
37 Catherine St., Newport, K. T.
Helen Buttcrtiold Williams writes: \^'e spent
the summer on the farm whicli is an old place,
first belonging to my ancestors, then sold, and
bought back by my mother. Am back in South
Adams for the winter and Polly — the class baby
— is entering high school and laps it up. Odd
that my child should turn out to be an "A"
student, isn't it?
Peg Bacon Carey: We had a usual summer
at Portsmouth, N. H., with sailing and swim-
ming and a bit of golf and many guests —
among them Elsbeth Merck Henry and her
husband. Two of the children were at camp
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for part of the time — my six-year-old at Helen
Hammer Link's. I can't say enough in praise
of Kuwiyan and the way it is run. The high spot
of the summer for me was a trip to Newport
to see the first of the International Races. The
British won and feeling was at its best. I was
glad to be there before things sank to a state
of calling names. Now we are at home and
busy with household and schools and music
lessons, etc. I am still the president of a large
Mothers' Club here and do various other out-
side jobs, but nothing spectacular.
Lucy Evans Chew: I have just returned from
an expensive but most profitable summer spent
entirely in Italy. Sam and I saw only twenty
cities new to us this time, but among them
were two of the newest, if not the newest cities
on earth — Littoria and Sabandia, in what used
to be the almost uninhabited and pestilential
Pontine marshes, now known as Agno Pontino.
We were utterly enthusiastic about this mar-
velous accomplishment of the Fascist regime —
this reclaiming of thousands of acres of what
used to be waste marsh land; and we brought
away with us vivid memories of all that had
been accomplished in the way of draining
marshes; building roads, farm houses and
barns; and, most extraordinary feat of all, the
fine new big cities, each complete with church,
town hall, hotel, hospital, recreation parks,
gymnasium, cinema and indeed all that anyone
could wish. I cannot go into detail here for
I am far too busy trying to swing into the
routine of my Bryn Mawr life. But we have
brought back with us folders and post cards
of Littoria and Sabandia which we shall show
to anyone who expresses interest in them.
Marie Chandler Foyle: Really no news at all
— spent the summer in Vermont, where we
swam and played tennis a lot to keep pace
with the idea that "Life does begin at forty."
Felt more like a hundred afterwards, though.
Now we are back in Rochester for another
college year.
Mary-Safford Hoogewerf: My husband is a
member of the Senior Class at the Naval War
College so we are spending this year in Newport.
I wish to thank those members of the class
who responded so promptly to my appeal for
news — there are even some items on Jiand for
next month — and hope the others will not delay
too long.
1919
Class Editor: Frances Clark Darling
(Mrs. Maurice Darling)
108 Park Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.
1920
Class Editor: Lilian Davis Philip
(Mrs. Van Ness Philip)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
1921
Class Editor: Eleanor Donnelley Erdman
(Mrs. C. Pardee Erdman)
514 Rosemont Ave,, Pasadena, Calif.
I came home this week from Wyoming to
find two postals and the shock was extreme.
One from Elizabeth Cecil Scott says that after
her eighteen months in France and Switzerland
(three years ago) she has struggled through
two operations, three lovely, lazy summers in
Bermuda and the presidency of the Richmond
Y. W. C. A. At present she is on her way
to New York to a National Y. W. C. A. Board
Meeting. Her boys, Russell Cecil Scott (aged
9) and Frederick R. Scott, Jr. (aged 6i/4)
are pretty normal specimens of the American
boy trying to learn self-expression and the crea-
tive arts in a progressive school. On their
return from Bermuda on the "Monarch of
Bermuda" they went to the rescue of the
"Morro Castle" — a thrilling but ghastly experi-
ence.
Eleanor Collins Darlington announced on
her card the birth of her son, Jared Lloyd
Darlington, in October, 1933. He is a very
active yearling and keeping one step ahead of
him in her study of child training occupies
all of Eleanor's spare moments.
Nancy Porter Straus, unsolicited, volunteered
the information that they are still living in
Washington, where her husband is director of
publicity for Secretary Ickes and the P. W. A.
They have at last achieved a summer cottage
on their island in Penobscot Bay. It was de-
signed by Olivia Fountain, '24, and is a great
success. Nancy had a continuous Nursery
School there most of the summer with as many
as seven children living in the house. Only
three of these were her own and one was Betsy
Kales Straus' eldest daughter. Betsy herself,
since June, has been the physician in charge
of all the nurses and employees of Cook County
Hospital (some 1200 in all). It is a tremendous
full-time job, but Betsy also continued her re-
search at the Michael Rease Hospital, Chicago,
and her Infant Welfare Clinic.
After this list of Betsy's summer activities I
hesitate to admit I spent mine sitting on our
Wyoming mountain top enjoying the view. Luz
Taylor was with us until we snowed her out
in October and she kept me busy driving her
down the mountain to dictate long letters of
important orders to "key men" in the Junior
League, which she sent off in all directions.
I must admit, however, that except for these
dictating fits and the few times when speeches
were being composed she was quite normal.
Florence Billstein Whitman has, from the
viewpoint of the Class Editor, the perfect hus-
band. He apparently wa-s tired of seeing my
postal, so filled it out himself and sent it in.
They have two children, Eleanor Lee, aged 7,
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and Allen Lee Whitman, Jr., aged 3. They
have just completed and moved into a new
house on River Road, Greenwich, Conn., and
are, of course, absorbed in getting settled.
Mr. Whitman notes, however, that Florence's
major interest has been "what is so confusedly
called 'Progressive Education.' "
Elizabeth Cope Aub has a third daughter,
born May 11th. Her two sisters are Betsy,
aged 8, and Frances, aged 4. Copey is very
busy with the Shady Hill School, but she still
has time open for any architectural job that
might drop from the sky. Her diversions are
gardening and playing the cello.
1922
Class Editor: Serena Hand Savage
(Mrs. William L. Savage)
Overlook Road, Spring Brook,
Morristown, N. J.
1923
Class Editor: Harriet Scribner Abbott
(Mrs. John Abbott)
70 W. 11th St., New York City.
1924
Class Editor: Dorothy Gardner Butterworth
(Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth)
8102 Ardmore Ave., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
1925
Class Editor: Elizabeth Mallet Conger
(Mrs. Frederic Conger)
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Seasons are never so definitely marked as in
the academic profession. The first day of
school, with all our latent energy used for
beaming and shining, ushers in the fall. From
then on every season and holiday is symbolized
in art: jack o' lanterns, turkeys, pilgrims, fir
trees and calendars, cherries and hatchets, rab-
bits and lilies, and at long last comes summer
with Commencement. With our second year's
leave of absence from teaching we are discover-
ing that there are practically no seasons in the
outside world. In fact, as a mere housewife
we slipped from summer into winter only in
time to rake the warm clothes out of moth
balls. We even missed the first Bulletin.
Apologies.
Dorothy Tinker Swartz, in answer to an
urgent appeal, has broken her post-College
silence and reveals a most busy existence. She
writes from Allentown, Pennsylvania: "Now
I'm in the midst of plans for the fall campaign
for the local Community Chest, of whidi —
somehow or other — I've become Publicity Direc-
tor. For two years I edited the national house
organ for the Charis Corporation — makers of
foundation garments (on which I haven't yet
sold myself!). Then for some unknown reason
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I got the idea to write feature stories for the
Community Chest campaign, which appeared in
our three papers as signed articles. After I
practiced on this for two campaigns, the direc-
tor of the Chest decided to give me a break
and put me on the staff as permanent Publicity
Director. I imagine that it was because there
was nobody else in Allentown who wanted the
job. It's really enough to give one extra gray
hairs, at least during the campaigns. My duties
are simply to write all newspaper articles and
features, direct the speakers' bureau and prac-
tically write the speeches, do radio, outdoor,
direct mail, and general advertising, write all
booklets directed to the schools, churches, gen-
eral public, and campaign workers. In addi-
tion, I design the campaign letterhead, emblems,
local posters, window displays; choose the
slogan, and dictate the current publicity theme
(that is, decide just what tactics we shall
pursue in view of local and national conditions
existing at campaign time). I think that is all.
Of course, other things crop up for me to do
from time to time — but I've given you, I hope,
the general idea of how I spend my time.
Ralph is still with the Pennsylvania Power and
Light Company, directing the company's side
of natural gas rate cases before the Public
Service Commission at Harrisburg. So. he's
busy, too! Oh, yes, I forgot to ?ay that I have
just been elected to serve on the Publicity
Committee of the Pennsylvania Conference on
Social Welfare, whatever that means!"
And here's a delightful and most welcome
letter from Kay Mordock Adams (752 Grand
Avenue, San Rafael, Cal. — August 1st): "Each
year seems to bring its own special interest,
and this year we have tico, a new daughter
and a new house — both of which began life at
the same time. In fact, we signed the mortgage
for the house about 6.30 one evening and tlie
small daughter arrived at 8.18! However, she
is far surpassing the house except in size, for
she is quite complete and the house is only
as far as the framework. But we expect to be
in the house by December.
"We now have quite the perfect family con-
sisting of Douglass (age 7^2^, Katy (age S'/j).
Robert (age 3) and Helen (age 5 weeks'). For
a while, shortly after Helen was born, we
weren't quite sure if we could continue even
to feed our family, as the strike situation here
was extremely interesting and somewhat omi-
nous, and groceries were closing fast and
furiously and no truck? delivered to the stores.
It wasn't so bad in San Rafael as it was in
San Francisco, but we laid in a stock of canned
goods. . . . For several days we didn't know
whether we could get any more food or not.
and the amount of hams, corned beef and
bacon that the butchers sold was amazing.
After the first day of the strike you couldn't
find anv bacon anvwhere. Mv only regret is that
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I couldn't go out and see it all, but I couldn't
have gotten very far, for we were unable
to get gasoline for love or money! . . . One of
my friends was buying groceries in the city
when pickets came and made the store close
and they told her she'd better hurry out or
they'd throw her and her groceries out in the
street. Another person I know, whose husband
runs a shipping company, had to carry a gun
wherever she went, even from one room to
another in her apartment. Even over here,
across the bay in peaceful Marin County, the
main street of our little town was patrolled by
armed citizens sworn in as special policemen.
There were no laundries, or cleaners, or deliv-
eries of any kind except milk. Some of our
stores were still open, but didn't dare deliver.
I have been told that one of the immediate
effects this general strike had in San Francisco
is that great numbers of workmen have resigned
from their unions!
"The Class of 1925 has a tenth reunion next
year, hasn't it? It's one of my ambitions to
get East for that, but it's a long way off and
Pennsylvania is a long way from California . . .
I should love to see you all again!"
Gene Boross Cuyler had a little daughter on
September 9th. Gene's husband is on the staff
of Calvary Church, in New York.
1926
Class Editor: Harriot Hopkinson
Manchester, Mass.
1927
Class Editor: Ellenor Morris
Berwyn, Pa.
The class wishes to extend its sympathy to
Alice Speed Stoll in the terrible experience she
has just gone through. The presence of mind
and courage which she showed throughout
make us all proud to be her classmates and
friends.
Lucy Norton, who is paying a visit to Lu
Austin, told us that Alice is very well and
showing no ill effects from being kidnapped.
She said that Alice showed great resourceful-
ness in dealing with her really insane abductor,
and kept him quiet by discussing communism,
religion, and higher ipathematics.
Lucy herself has been very busy since she
left College, and has done some very interest-
ing things. She was secretary of the City Plan-
ning and Zoning Commission at one time, and
has also been chairman of the Placement Com-
mittee of the Louisville Junior League.
We have two little girls to report this month.
Sara Pinkerton Irwin has a daughter, Ruth
Frances, born on May 20th, and Kitty Harris
Phillips has a daughter, Eleanor Harris, born
on October 25th. Little Eleanor has not only
a Bryn Mawr mother and aunt, but three Bryn
Mawr great-aunts, and is, Kitty writes, all set
for the Class of 1955. If our calculations are
correct this will put her in a green class, and
we trust she will have Ruth Frances for a class-
mate.
Liz Nelson Tate wrote us a grand letter with
the following interesting items:
Bee Pitney Lamb has been elected chairman
of the Committee on Economic Welfare by the
National League of Women Voters. Liz says
that Bee is the youngest chairman on record,
and the only one who lies on the floor in com-
mittee meetings. This is not quite as hilarious
as it sounds, as it is due to trouble with her
back which kept Bee from finishing her Ph.D.
work at Columbia last year. Bee has two daugh-
ters, Barbara and Dorothy, about three and two
years old.
Connie Jones has been made head of the
Lower School at Baldwin, a pretty big job;
but then there isn't any doubt that Connie can
cope with it.
Minna Lee Jones Clark lives in New Canaan,
Conn., where her husband teaches. (We don't
know in what school.) Their son, Sandy, is
over a year old now.
Liz Tate is a little vague about her own
doings, but we gather that she and her hus-
band are tied up with the NRA in some capa-
city and are very ardent New Dealers. With
the two boys. Wood and Toby, and their dog,
Judy, they live in a new little house in Foxhall
Village, Washington, D. C.
Lu Austin went as a Philadelphia delegate
to the Junior League Welfare Conference in
Milwaukee.
Natalie Longfellow is back at the Shipley
School, teaching science and math, and seems
to like it very much.
1928
Class Editor: Cornelia B. Rose, Jr.
1745 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C.
The class wishes to extend its sympathy to
Louise Gucker Page whose father, Frank T.
Gucker, died recently after an illness of several
months.
Two marriages burst upon us unawares from
the pages of the New York Times this month.
Burst is the right word, because we had no
previous warning, and because the pictures of
both brides were excellent. Evelyn Brooks was
married to Roger Senger Hutchins on October
12th in the chapel of St. James's Church in
New York City, with her sister as her only
attendant. Eleanor Jones was married to Ernst-
Erich Paepcke at her home on October 19th.
They will live at 131 East 57th Street, New
York City. Jonesy is now with the New York
City Department of Parks, and Mr. Paepcke,
who attended Gottingen University, is with the
Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Co.
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Peggy Perry Bruton's daughter, Margaret
Watson (perhaps it is Walton) Bruton was
born on September 23rd at Westerly, R. L
Peg Barrett sends us news of Sara Walker
Allen's son who, she says, was born around
the first of the year, but of whom we had not
heard up to now; name unknown.
Peg sent us a lot of other news such as the
fact that Ginny Atmore and she toured New
England (as announced) and then Ginny went
back twice more to Maine before returning to
College to help Elinor Amram Nahm run the
bookshop. Evelyn Wenrich Smadel is society
editor of a Reading, Pa., newspaper, and Pol
Pettit has just taken the last section of her
national medical exams in Baltimore. Margaret
Gregson and her mother drove to the Great
Smokies last spring and Greggy spent six weeks
at Gatlinburg, Tenn., and highly recommends
the territory to anyone seeking a vacation. The
rest did not do all that was promised for her
and she is now about to have her appendix out
to see whether it may be that which has been
pulling her down. Peg declares herself to be
"absolutely unnewsworthy."
Ruth Holloway Herndon will live at 151 East
83rd Street, New York City.
We seem to have lost the letter we had from
Jo Stetson Hatcher telling of struggling to find
a dwelling place in Hartford, only to find one
and hear the next day that her husband was
being transferred to Waterbiiry, Conn. There
they stumbled upon someone who wanted a
hostess for a tea room and Jo took the job,
chiefly, we gathered, because it offered a roof
over their heads. Maybe this is all wrong; we
only know what we remember. Her address is
61 Church St., Waterbury, Conn.
The engagement of Marjorie Young Otto to
Mr. Drew H. Hiestand, of Phoenixville and
Marietta, Pa., has been announced.
Your editor has spent a busy fall setting up
her new apartment (and finding that her hus-
band is ace-high as a handyman) and has re-
cently transferred to the Division of Research
and Statistics in the Treasury where she is
working on "international finance." Washington
in the fall reminds her of the B. M. campus
on warm, hazy autumn days when the leaves
are turning.
From a list of new addresses sent us by
the Alumnae Office we learn: Maud Hupfel
Flexner, 103 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, N. Y.;
Helen Hook Richardson, 520 Orchard Lane,
Wilmette, 111.; Polly McElwain, 61 Mansfield St..
New Haven, Conn.; Lucille Meyer Durschinger,
172 Pleasant St., Rochester, Pa.: Ruth Peters,
Judson College, Marion, Ala.; Eleanor Schott-
land Beach, 75 Appleton St., Rochester, N. Y.
A blue Monday was cheered by receipt of a
letter rich in news from Y'ildiz Phillips van
Hulsteyn who announces the arrival of her sec-
ond son, David Bentley, on June 8th. His
mother claims that he has a swell disposition
and one tooth. Yildiz supplies the date of
Sara Walker Allen's son's birth which was on
January 7th, and reports that he is a beautiful
child. While on the subject of children, we
might add that Yildiz has seen a picture of
Eleanor Speiden Davico's daughter and finds
her "very mature." Other gleanings from this
source are: Margery Saunders is still in New
York doing social service; Mary Kite got her
M. A. at Columbia last spring, and is now back
there continuing her study of child psychology.
Jean Fesler is still working in the Cleveland
bank where she has been for some years. And,
by the way, Yildiz has moved back to Jackson
Heights where her address is 3339 — 70th Street.
1929
Class Editor: Mary L. Willi.ams
210 East 68th Street, New York City.
Catherine Rea was married at Beaumont,
Texas, on September 7th, to Mr. Alfred J.
Sawyer. They are now living at 1710 Avenue E,
Beaumont, Texas. Catherine writes that she
divides her time between houskeeping and at-
tending lectures at the Woman's Club, partic-
ularly those on art, history, music, and literature.
Mary Gessner Park has moved again — the
fifth time — she says, in five years, and sincerely
hopes it will be the last for quite some time:
her new address is: 241 Indian Oeek Road.
Overbrook, Pa. She reports that her son is now
fifteen months old and walks, tries to talk, and
cuts numerous teeth.
Winnie Trask Lee moved to \e\v ("anaan.
Connecticut, last spring with her two diildren;
she found they rather rattled around in their
house, however, so now they have a wlu)le other
family (father, mother, and two children)
spending the winter with them. "Vi'hat with two
dogs as well they seem to fill the house quite
adequately and lead a iilcasant sort of com-
nuinistic lite.
Barbara Huniphnys Hicliardson ha< bought
a very old iila((> in \'irginia called "Brooks
Bank" and she and her husband and family
have goTU^ to \irginia to live and farm.
Ella Toe Cotton is still living in \^'ashington
wli(M(> Iter liu-ltaiul has a job connected with
the government.
Laura Richardson sp.Mit ni(»>t of the summer
in the East and is now working in the Music
Department at Brvn Mawr and living in Yarrow
West.
Cliarlotte Purn^ll is working very hard trying
to run The English Sports Shop and ser\e as
President of the Richmond Junior League.
Besides reporting the three items next above
this, she writes that in some paper or magazine
she saw that Roberta Yerkes had made a very
fine translation of a book from the Russian
written In either Tolstoi's wife or his daugliter.
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1930
Class Editor: Edith Grant
Fort DuPont, Del.
1931
Class Editor: Evelyn Waples Bayless
(Mrs. Robert Nelson Bayless)
301 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn.
1932
Class Editors: Janet and Margaret Woods
95 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass.
1933
Class Editor: Margaret J. Ullom
160 Carpenter Lane, Germantown, Phila.
1934
Class Editor: Nancy Hart
2034 Twentieth St., Washington, D. C.
The majority of the class seems to be more
or less settled for the winter, but along with
news of jobs and graduate work we are still
hearing about vacation activities.
You may already have heard Jane Parsons'
voice over the radio without recognizing it as
that of an old friend; she is broadcasting with
the Enna Jettick Shoe Company and declaring
to all the world that she wears Enna Jettick
shoes all the time.
Sue Halstead is working for Miss Hettie
Goldman on preparations for the Bryn Mawr
Archaeological Expedition to Asia Minor next
spring. She writes: "It is lots of fun and very
exciting; I have been cataloguing all her pub-
lications, which are in German, French, Italian,
and Danish. It requires all my erudition and
imagination to find out what the titles of the
darn things are."
Sally Jones, on the other hand, is making a
complete break with her academic background,
and although she is not volunteering informa-
tion, we are told that she has gone in for
horses in a big way, and owns a string of forty
which she is showing.
From the New York colony we learn that
Molly Nichols and Catherine Bredt (who is
studying music) gave a housewarming for their
apartment, and that the affair savored very
much of a Bryn Mawr reunion. Jane Polachek
is studying singing and has a studio on East
16th Street. Havvie Nelson is planning to work
in New York. Cornie Hirons has a full-time
job at Stern's. Mickey Mitchell has a job in
Sacks' toy department. Cora Mclver is a stu-
dent-teacher at the Little Red School House,
and is also attending the Cooperative School
for Student Teachers, otherwise known as the
Bureau of Educational Experiments. Carrie
Schwab visits every school in Manhattan and
the Bronx once a week, as a missionary for
the Times, aided by a tattered map and a stout
pair of shoes.
Halla Brown sailed last month for a trip
around the world, following which she expects
to study medicine. Elvira Trowbridge is going
abroad for six or seven months. Frannie Carter
should be returning soon from her vacation in
England, where she visited friends near London.
Peggy Dannenbaum Wolf is already back from
her honeymoon abroad, and in the throes of
moving into her new house.
Among the ladies of leisure are Polly Cook,
who is at home in Washington; Marion Hope,
who returned from Europe several weeks ago
and finds considerable diversion in golf; Julia
Gardiner, who has cut her hair; Kay Boyd, who
spent the summer visiting on Marion Bridgman's
('36) ranch near San Francisco and is now at
home in Columbia, S. C; Kitty Gribbel, who
is doing Junior League work in Philadelphia;
and M. E. Charleton, who feels that her state
of blissful inoccupation is rather precarious,
and writes: "If I ever escape through this win-
ter without working, probably in a college, it
will be the miracle of the ages."
Margie Haskell, who is now at the Park
School, in Brookline, spent the summer visit-
ing relatives in Santa Barbara, California. She
and Kay Boyd made the trip west together
through the Canadian Rockies and returned
through the Grand Canyon. Dorothy Kalbach
was on the advertising staff of the Reading
Times for a while and has done volunteer work
in a mental health clinic. Betty Fain spent
the summer around Greenwich, Connecticut.
Grace Meehan motored out to Ohio. B. Butler
was at Martha's Vineyard and Nova Scotia,
and Janet Barber (now at Radcliffe) was a
councillor at Pinelands Camp, N. H., teaching
dancing.
Terry Smith is living in Washington with
her mother and taking a business course. Bess
Elder, ex-'34, is engaged to Theodore Harlan
Estey, of Canada; they are to be married at
Easter. Emmaleine Snyder is taking courses
for a teaching certificate and trying to arrange
to practice-teach at the same time.
Four apprentices in math are teaching in
schools near Boston: Mary Elizabeth Launden-
berger at Milton Academy; Ruth Bertolet at
Beaver Country Day; Gertrude Parnell (prob-
ably) at the Lee School; and Frances Pleasanton
at the Winsor School.
Frannie Jones is doing graduate work in
archaeology at Bryn Mawr, after taking a busi-
ness course this summer in Fitchburg, Mass.,
near her summer home. We hear that Christine
Brown is studying "Sanscrit" at Columbia;
Bobbie Smith (probably) and Nancy Stevenson
(positively) are also students at Columbia.
Mary Carpenter is taking a library (or is it
secretarial) course in St. Louis.
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