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Executive Board of theAlumnae Association

President, SAR"H PITHOUSE BECKER '27,112 Buck lane, Haverford, Pa.

First Vice President: JANE GRISWOLD HOLMES, '33,2957 Eaton Road, Cleveland 22, Ohio.

Second Vhe Pvesident: VlRGINrA EGGLESTON SMITH

'24, 10 Colony Road, Darien, Conn.

Secretary: \'V'INIFRED NIES NORTHCOTT '38, 4510Cedarwood Rd., Minneapolis 16, Minn.

Treasurer: MARJORIE LAWRENCE WEIDIG '45, 17Oakdale Rd., Glenbrook, Conn.

Directors: SUSAN CHITTENDEN CUNNINGHAM '27,

Rectory Lane, Scarsdale, N. Y.l\lAR10N WARREN RANKIN '35, 42 WellesDrive, Newington 11, Conn.PRISCILLA DUXBURY WESCOTT '41, 155Otis St., Hingham, Mass.ALICE HESS CROWELL '50, 402 PembrokeRd., Bala Cynwyd, Pa.

Alumnae Trustees: MARION NICHOLS ARNOLD '32,21 Constable St., Malone, N. Y.J ....NET M. PAINE '27, Rockefeller Founda-tion, 111 W. 50th St., New York 20, N. Y.C....ROL L. CHAPPELL '41 774 Ocean Ave.,New London, Conn.

Ch.1;"//Ul/J 0/ Alflml/tle Fend: CHARLOTTE FRISCHGARLOCK '25, 6 East Drive, Larchmont,N. Y.

Chairman of Nominating Connnittee: FRANCESBROOKS FOSTER '30, 84 Valaentine St.,\'Vest Newton, Mass.

Cbsirman of Finance Camnrir.ee: NANCY l\[AYERSBUTZER '45, 91 Central Park W., N. Y.

Cb airmnn of SchQldrJhip Committ ee: MARION NICH-OLS ARNOLD '32, 21 Constable St., Ma-lone, N. Y.

E.'·Uti/;fle Secret ary, CHARLOTTE BECKWITH CRANE'25, Connecticut College

Published by the Connecticut College Alumnae Asso-ciation at Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut Col-lege, New London, Conn., four times a year ioDecember, March, May and August. Subscriptionprice $2 per year. Entered as second-class matter atthe Post Office, New London, Conn., under the actof March 3, 1879. AA( member.

Connecticut CollegeAlumnae News

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

VOLUME XXXVIII NU.MBER 2 MARCH 1961

3 COLLEGE RECEIVES LARGE BEQUEST

4 THE NEW DORMITORIES

j THE NEW DORMITORIES

6 WHO GETS INTO COLLEGE'

7 COULD YOU GET INTO CONNECTICUT TODAY'

8 FOREIGN STUDENTS AT CONNECTICUT

II THE TRUSTEES' CORNER

12 THE AGNES BERKELEY LEAHY ALUMNAE AWARD

17 CLASS NOTES

32 ALUMNAE COLLEGE

CAMPUS CALENDARMARCH

24 Spring Recess Begins

APRIL4 Spring Recess Ends

MAY20 Dads' Day

PATRICIA WARDLEY HA!lllLTON '52 Edilol"180 River Road, Nyack 9, N. Y.

MARION VIBERT (LARK '24, Class Notes EditorMARJOR1E LAWRENCE WEIDIG '45, Business Afti/ugelROLD....H NORTHUP C....r-JERON '51

CONSTANCE BRAGAW (ARNEY '41

College Receives Large BequestAnniversary Fund Nears Goal

ROBERT PIERCE

Director of Development

T HE outstanding event of our Fiftieth AnniversaryFund, Since the last report to you in the December

issue of Almnnee News, has been the gift of $424,785from the estate of Mary Williams Crozier.

Not the least of the happy consequences of this substan-tial addition to our Fund total is that it has helped bringthe amount raised to where the achievement of our$3,100,000 objective becomes all at once encouraginglywithin reach. When you read this, the standing will bearound $2,750,000, which has the very exciting meaningthat we are within approximately 10% of our goal.

As encouraging as this 15,however, we dare not concludethat success is certain. It is not! We can reasonably expectmany good friends of the College, keenly interested inseeing us reach our goal, to come to our aid. PresidentPark, members of the Board of Trustees, and many othershere at the College, are persistently seeking out these po-tential friendships. Your Class Agents and the Area Com-mittees of the Fund are hard at it still, doing all theypossibly can. But these activities we cannot be sure areenough.

The moment is here when we believe the call shouldgo out for the help of the alumnae body as a whole. Everyalumna of Connecticut College should at this point, webelieve, be asked to consider herself a member, so tospeak, of the campaign organization and to share in theresponsibility of seeing this important undertaking throughto successful conclusion. The time has come when everyalumnae should be asked, and given, the opportunity to

1961 Class Reunions

'25, '26, '27, '36,'28,

lend the campaign committees a hand.

How can you help? There are several ways. First ofall, if you have not yet made your contribution, do so now.Reply to your Class Agent, or get in touch with someoneon the campaign committee in your area, or if you wish,send your contribution directly to the Development Officeat the College. But do it now'!

If you have contributed, consider seriously another gift,remembering that the contributions of the alumnae so farhave averaged $243 and that at least a third of them havemade two and three and four gifts.

Finally, how about approaching a friend? You, betterthan anyone else, can talk with people you know, capableof giving and willing to give if asked, about your Collegeand about the vitally important objectives of its Annivers-ary Fund. The Development Office will gladly send youliterature and subscription cards. You only need to writeand ask for them.

What the alumnae have already done in this campaignis an accomplishment of which to be immensely proud.They account for $915,000 or 33.55;& of the total amountraised so far. They have already reached a 60% rate ofparticipation. These are achievements almost entirely tothe credit of the Area Committees and the Class Agents.They have brought us this far, to the very threshold ofsuccess. Now, with your help, we can reach our Fundobjective and crown it with a record of alumnae supportto boast of forever.

June 16, 17, 18

'44, '45, '46, '60'47,

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SOllie Views 0/ tlte...

Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, a NewYork City architectural firm, has pro-vided these sketches of the new dorm-itories, currently under constructionnorth of the Crozier-Williams Center.Completion of the project, which willhouse approximately 500 students, isexpected in 1964.

General view from southeast campus approach.

View of north dining halls court.

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NewJ){1fmit{1fies

Northwest view from Williams Street.

View of entrance court at southeast buildings.

WHO GETS INTO COLLEGE?FRANK H. BOWLES

WHAT are my child's chances of getting into college?What can I as a parent do to improve my child's

chances of getting into the college that seems best for him?

Chances are you've asked these questions, and maybeother parents have asked them of you. For admission tocollege has become the nation's surefire topic of conversa-tion.

Elections, baseball and international upheavals competefor attention, of course; but these matters don't touch ourpersonal lives. Yet it seems that every American has somecontact with the business of college entrance, knows asurprising amount about it-or at least thinks he does-andwants to know more.

What he wants to know usually boils down to the twoquestions above.

There is a quick answer to the first question-c-what aremy child's chances of getting into college? Any child whohas an 1. Q. of ninety-five or better, who can write a letterincluding a simple declarative sentence such as "I want togo to your college," who can read without moving hislips, and who can pay college expenses up to $500 a yearcan go to college. But it may also be true that a child withan 1. Q. of 140 who can do differential equations in hishead may not get to college.

Obviously, then, the general answer can only indicatethat there is a tremendous range of institutions, withvarying standards and opportunities, and that many factorsdetermine actual chances of admission. For a full answerto the question, we must examine and describe thesetypes of institutions.

As a first step, let us take a hypothetical group of onehundred high school graduates who go on to college ina given year, and see what the typical pattern of theirapplications and acceptances would be:

Twenty students, all from the top half of the class,will apply to sixty of the institutions that are generallylisted as "preferred." Ten of them will be acceptedby twenty of the institutions. Nine of the ten willgraduate from their colleges, and six of the nine willcontinue in graduate or professional school and takeadvanced degrees. These ten admitted students willaverage SIX years' attendance apiece.

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Photo by Fabien B.lchrdch

Ffcmk H. Bowles, the antbor of tbis article, is president ofthe important College Entrance Examination Board. He besbeen dealing with college admissions and le-rtillg of (IPp/i-cants virttlally euer since he received his B. A. in 1928and M. A. in 1930 from Columbia, serving (IS Director ofUniversity Admissions before going to the College Board.Among hiJ side aSJignmeJlts bnoe been membersbip ill theFulbright National Selection Committee, the King GeorgeVi Scholarship Committee of the English Speaking UIlIOIl,

and the National Scholar.rhip Service and Fund for NegroStudents. CJlrremly Mr. Bowles is in Paris, at the offi"e ofUNESCO, on a two-year assignment of great interest. Heis heading a Carnegie-sllpported study of ,mi'vefSity admis-sions theory CIlld practice aronrui the world.

CouldYouGetIntoConnecticutToday?

LAST year there were 1,727 applicants for places in theclass of 1964, of which 314 entered in September.

The figures indicate the keenness of the competition. Itmay be of interest to alumnae to test their wits on a . fewquestions like those encountered by the students who ap-ply to Connecticut and take the College Board examina-tions.

Algebra

If \/~ =

(A) 1 (B)xv'~then2 (C) 3

x ~ (')(D) 4 (E) 5

Biology

In a cross between two individuals both heterozygousfor a gene which shows complete dominance, the largestclass of offspring would be those individuals that

(A) are homozygous for the dominant gene(B) are heterozygous for the gene(C) are homozygous recessiveCD) show the phenotype of the dominant gene(E) show an intermediate phenotype

Chemistry

Liquid X is white, syrupy, and opaque. When a smallamount of HCL is added, a white solid settles to the bot-tom of the container, leaving a clear, watery liquid. These

phenomena might be partially accounted for by each ofthe following hypotheses except:

(A) Liquid X was a colloid.(B) Liquid X was a gel.(C) A chemical reaction took place.(D) A component of liquid X polymerized.(E) Liquid X was a nonelectrolyte.

Ellglish

Select the most appropriate line to complete the poem.She, whose song we loved the best,Is voiceless in a sudden night,On your light limbs, 0 Loveliest,

(1) Can come no night.(2) May Death delight.(3) May Wisdom bring light.( 4) May the sun be bright.(5) May the dust be light.

A student's College Board test scores provide a means ofjudging her ability to carry the academic work load, alongwith her school record and an estimate of her potentialby an adviser or school principal. This last is regardedby the College as exceedingly important, for it involvesmotivation and interest, drive and incentive, and all thequalities which determine whether a student will makeeffective use of the preparation she has received and theabilities she appears to possess.

Extra-curricular activities are also of interest to theAdmissions Office, for they not only indicate the rangeof a student's interests outside the classroom but also tellsomething of the extent to which she gets beyond herselfand cooperates and works with others. Finally, since Conn-ecticut is primarily a residential college, careful attentionis paid to what is known of the personal qualities of astudent as they bear on her ability to get along with otherstudents in the dormitory and, in general, be a participatingmember of the college community.

In summary, the capable, interested student of good,solid performance who views her academic responsibilitiesas a primary charge on her time and thought but who alsohas time to participate in activities of various kinds iswhat is looked for. Would you qualify today?

The Alumnae News is indebted to Dr. M. RobertCobbledick 101" the figures and informatiol1 contained inthis article,

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Foreign Students at ConnecticutELIZABETH BABBOTT '51

Df(1Il of Sophomores

ANYONE used to the vicissitudes of being a DenMother, YWCA Program Chairman, Field Service

hostess, or PTA member already knows a great deal aboutforeign students. Since there is so much interest now inthe whole matter of exchange, you might like to knowsomething of Connecticut's experience and achievements.

First, a comment about the national picture, for anastonishing number of foreign citizens come to study inthis country. In the last academic year, for example, over48,000 came to American schools and colleges, with an-other 9,000 or more foreign interns and residents in hos-pitals here. In the reverse direction, only about 15,000American students went to foreign shores to study, andvery few US doctors were in a learning capacity overseas.The variety of programs to welcome them extends from theUniversity of California which, alone, played host to over1,900 foreign students last year, to the many colleges whichinvite only one or two a year. Connecticut's record thisyear: 8 regular students who come from abroad, and 6one-year special students who will return home after a singleacademic year here. This nieans that we have 14 out ofabout 1,000 students, a percentage which we can hopewill grow.

We have not always been fortunate enough to have thismany. Out of curiosity, I searched the records for the twokinds of foreign students over the years-those who comefor a degree and those who come for only one year. Inthe first decade of the college, there were no degree foreignstudents that I could find, but there were three Frenchgirls who stayed one year. My guess was that they were un-rer the special wing of Miss Ernst. The Depression wasreflected in the low numbers who came to us from othercountries, and in the five years of World War II, therewere only 2 one-year students and 4 who earned degrees.Since the war, however, there has been a very dramatic in-crease in both categories of student, the '55-'59 periodshowing us host to 33 one-year students and giving thedegree to 15 more.

In the national scene at present, one out of every fourforeign students comes from Latin America, and one out ofevery three from the Far East. Connecticut's pattern isslightly different: in the decade of the 50's about a quarter

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of our foreign students were from South and Central Amer-ica, but our Far Eastern contingent has always been rela-tively low. Scandinavia, France, and Germany prove to beour most popular source of supply. To give examples fromthis year, the four senior BA candidates are from Cuba,Japan, Sweden, and Venezuela; the six one-year studentsare from Austria, Denmark, Italy, Nicauragua, Peru and

Sweden.For a number of years, the foreign students have been

separated, as already suggested, into those who go throughfour years and those who remain just a year or two Thefirst group are screened by Me. Cobbledick along withother applicants, compete with their colleagues for scholar-ship money and Dean's List, take five courses and .boosea major, go through sophomore slump, take comprchen-sives, and generally are considered regular students. Theone-year girls, on the other hand, are special all the waythrough. They apply directly to the Foreign Student Com-mittee or through the Institute of International Education,and their background ranges from the end of high schoolto the end of a university course. They are allowed freerein in the choice of their four courses, for college gradua-tion requirements are not binding. Furthermore, they arealmost all fully supported by the College for tuition, room,and board. On their part, they supply the transportationmoney (though some are the guests of air lines and posebefore the plane in public-relations payment), and theycan earn extra cash here in the language laboratories orby coaching tongue-tied American classmates in Frenchor Spanish or German. Unlike any other college I know of,Connecticut distinguishes itself by the fact that noo ofthese scholarships are raised every year by the studentsthemselves, as part of the Community Chest. This amountsto about $5,100 a year from the students here to the stu-dents abroad.

The variety of major subjects chosen by the degree can-didates is also very great. One might assume that theywould major in their native language. But the records showchemistry majors from Mexico and Puerto Rico, Englishmajors from Hong Kong and France, philosophy majorsfrom Finland and Sweden, French majors from Scotlandand Sweden, and many other combinations. For students

of both groups, the mastery of spoken English alone isa hard and tiring business, not to mention taking notes andexams in it. I recall the jubilant expression on the face ofa Danish girl a few years ago when she strode into myoffice to announce that SHE HAD DREAMED IN ENG-LISH!

Coping with the American idiom is only one of theproblems facing a foreign student when she comes here.There is also the breakneck pace, the food, the weather(have you ever watched a girl from Central America "dis-cover" snow for the first time?), the continual battle withmutual misunderstandings, and the blunt ache of home-sickness that a minimum separation of 3,000 miles isbound to evoke.

Almost without exception, the aspect of America thatmakes the first impact is the outgoing friendliness and op-timism. After gangland movies and the GI image, it may

come as a pleasant surprise. But it is more than just thehabit of compliments and informality which marks us as anation. The general milieu of optimism and constructiveprogress is also very striking to those who come to usfrom countries more bound by tradition and more fatalisticabout their national status. The mother of one of our stu-dents wrote:

"I wish you could read Dutch! 1 would send youher letters about the college and the girls and thecourses and the whole of America as far as shehas seen it. It is a real fairy tale for her . . . Ithink the first thing that so stimulates and liber-ates children from our northern countries is theconstant accent of the positive side of life,-weare rather weighed down by a sort of Calvinisticmistrust of all the good things of life!"

However, this initial warmth may be discouraging, for

Foreign Students at Connecticut this Year

Seated left /0 right, Eva Bracbtl, Amhitl.: Lily PUI/{Til1, Peru; Viuonanna i\1al'itl~Ce1'1,i, [ltdy; MaryCbamoero, Nicaragua, Standing, left to right, Min Stephanie C. Young, student edoisor to foreignsmdenrs : Cbristine Sir) Palm, Sweden; Elizabeth Br/MOIt, dean of sophomores, zoology instructorand fac;,lty advisor to foreign smdents; Nuna Mer21e Jessen ,Dellllt:trk, and Eugenia F. Lombard,

student odoisor.

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it may be followed, later, by what looks like a coolingdown. To a sensitive foreigner, used to the slow growth offriendships at home and the loyal bond that remains as aresult, the ease with which some Americans seem to beable to forget them in busy times can be more disconcert-ing than the ease with which they were taken into thegroup in the first place. This trait, so often noted by new-comers to our country, has sometimes induced the accusa-tion of superficiality and childishness by our active critics.A Pakistan friend of mine, however, told me that he feltit was less childish than child-like. By this he meant that,like children, we may tend to give all our attention to atoy or person as long as it is in view, but we can forgetit easily when it is replaced by other diversions. It is nota matter of insincerity at the time of contact or of malicein the later disregard; it may simply be that as a nationwe tend to be interested primarily in the thing that is newand different, and we can be led astray by something thatis newer, or more different. This is not to say that deepfriendships cannot form; they do, and they can last throughthe years, as many can attest. But it means that the imme-diate, larger group acceptance is slowly replaced by theclose personal contact of a few friends, and the transitionmay leave a temporary gap in which the foreigner may feellost. Quite predictably, it is usually the dormitory hall orneighbor who provides the vacation invitations and thepersonal touches. This year, for example, one of the for-eign students was given, by the girls on her hall, moneywith which she could call home on Christmas Day. Thethoughtfulness of the gesture was as much appreciated asthe quantity of cash.

There is another kind of problem that faces many ofthe foreign students, too. It is the shock of finding dis-illusionment at unexpected levels and places. Dating is areal villain in this category! Another may be our approachto studies, with heavy reliance on tests and papers. A thirdmay be the detailed demands of dormitory living afterthe more liberal apartment life that many university stu-dents lead at home. In any case, the dawning of what maybe unhappy realizations about the host country often comeslate in the fall, and it plays a part in the very specializedtype of blues that marks the experience of many studentsabroad.

It is often true that the initial contact leads to an im-mediate enchantment about everything and everybody. Youare surrounded by much attention and kindness, thenervous system is operating at a high level, and you havethe impression that you are "living" more fully than athome. Then often a few months later, there is a Jet-down,a kind of disenchantment. You are accepted normally andplagued by the same load of work as the rest of the col-lege, and the nervous system, instead of being stimulated

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by the continuing round of new experiences, is simply de-pressed by it! Later, as experience gives perspective, anddeeper friendships form, and indeed, as the imminenceof departure adds the dimensions of poignancy and depthto relationships and events, there is a re-evaluation and,often, a more mature "re-enchantment." With different in-dividuals, this process is more or less pronounced. and,with some, it may never take place at all. It is cruo.d thatthey not return home while still in the doldrums. nor,conversely, remain for an undue length of time in the gripof the initial unrealistic enthusiams.

There is one last aspect that might be pertinent here,the problems of returning home. One student wrote thatshe was distressed to find how much time her mother hadto spend in the process of keeping the home; another thatshe despaired at the tyranny of tradition and fearfulness inher social setting; another that she was stunned at the mis-information and perpetuated prejudices she found aboutAmerica when she began talking about her year, JnJ hersense that she was somewhat suspect in her enthusi.wn fora country not her own.

These are the gloomy parts of letters. Such sections areusually more than balanced by an exuberant gratill:,le forwhat has happened here. One Dutch girl wrote, the Chirst-mas after her return:

"Ever since the time I disembarked this summer,my country has been new and fascinating to me,I am seeing it with new, interested eyes. Havinghad the opportunity last year to look at every-thing from a distance (literally and figuratively),I feel now much more mature, I am able to ac-cept myself and the things round about me; andfrom now on, my attitude shall be more positive.Last year has been the most rewarding year ofmy life, even more so because it will make theyears to come very much more worth while."

I am sure that this kind of letter couJd be duplicatedthousands of times over, as more and more students cometo our campuses and share in our life here. Connecticut canbe happy to be a part of the stream, both in sending Jun-ior Year Abroad students overseas and in acting as host-ess in return, for a channel of constructive action is opento all of us. By coming to live with us, and then by re-turing to reciprocally reinterpret what they have seen, thesestudents add, in growing numbers, to the network ofpersonal contact and experience wherein lies the hope ofeventual concord. Each thread is weak, of course, but thefabric, woven by thousands of students annually, may intime be binding enough to constrain the tense, reflex re-actions of individual nations until we can learn to liveJO peace.

The Trustees' Corner

MARY FOULKE MORRISSON

5ecretary of the Board

A lot of business was handled rap-idly at the last trustees' meet-

ing. MiSS Park reported on a very in-teresting series of talks that started offthe new semester. An analysis of theWestern Tradition-its history, by Dr.Cranz, its literature, by Dr. Baird, itsscience by Dr. Brown, and its art byDr. McCloy-ending in a very livelyquestion period by the students andmoderated by Miss Park. The ques-tions were certainly searching.We have 1,260 applicants for next

fall's freshman class of some 350.The salary raises made possible bythe 50th Anniversary Fund will putus in a reasonably competitive posi-tion for at least three or four years.Thank goodness.The organization of Connecticut

College for Men has now been com-pleted. Bylaws have been adopted, theofficers and Executive Committee arethe same as C. C. and also the faculty,but if any members do not care toserve they are not required to do so.Miss Finney was made Director ofGraduate Studies and the faculty willrecommend to the Board the programand the qualifications for degrees.Mr. Pierce, Director of the 50th

Anniversary Fund, reported that$2,700,000 is in hand, with half amillion still to be raised. (We willall have to buckle down hard to getthis.) He also reported that of thisamount 3,765 alumnae had raised$915,278.Mrs. Lee reported on the Trustee-

Alumnae Development Committeemeeting which included some students.She found them very stimulating. Theyseemed to see their education in per-spective and presented issues with asense of proportion, with sharper anddeeper values, and she felt very grate-ful for the free flowing of ideas be-tween the generations. A universalfeeling of too much pressure was re-ported, with the suggestion that per"haps four courses would be better

--than five, that the honors programbe extended and a search be made todevelop better understanding and re-lationships between the disciplines.Also that Miss Park spend more timetalking to the students as she has agreat capacity for expressing ideaswhich challenge and inspire. She willhave to be relieved of other dutiesto make this possible, but it soundslike a very good idea.After the meeting we had very

interesting talks from Miss Tuve, whotaught at Oxford last year, and MissBabbott who has taught in Japan.Miss Tuve thought that our studentsworked harder but less effectively than

Photo by Murray Barnes

those at Oxford, and that we let toomany in and watch over them toomuch, which prevents their growingup. At Oxford students are on theirown and learn in a few months tohandle their own problems. She saidshe missed the American tension. Inboth Oxford and Japan the studentsare a picked lot and take their workvery seriously as their futures, especi-ally in Japan, are completely depend-ent on their academic success. MissBabbott said that she missed the ex-perience (not common even here) ofhaving a student get really excitedabout work for its own sake, not justas a necessary preliminary to a job.

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The Agnes Berkeley Leahy

Alumnae Award

T HE Executive Board of the Alumnae Association ispleased to announce the establishment of the Agnes

Berkeley Leahy Alumnae Award, which will be given forthe first time in June, 1961, at the Fiftieth Anniversaryof Connecticut College.

This award shall be made to one or more alumnaewho, in the opinion of their fellow alumnae, best repre-sent those whose services to the Connecticut College Alum-nae Association most deserve recognition. Not more thanthree awards shall be made in anyone year.

To qualify, candidates must have been members of aclass which has been graduated at least fifteen years, andmay not be current members of the Executive Board norcurrently employed by the College.

Think of the alumnae whom you know, and chooseone or more whose service and loyalty to and through theAlumnae Association seems outstanding to you. All nameswill be screened by the Award Committee. The final selec-tion shall be made by that committee and approved bythe Executive Board of the Connecticut College AlumnaeAssociation.

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Nomination Form tor the Agnes Berkeley Leahy Alumnae Award

Please note: An alumna shall be judged by her activity in any or all of the categories mentioned below. The candi-date should not know of the plan to nominate her, and therefore information in support of candidacyshould be sought from other sources.

I present the name( s) of Class

Address

Name Class

Address

Alumnae Class Activities of Calldidale(s)

(Activities engaged in during student days are not pertinent to this information)

c7. Alumnae Club Activities of Cellldie/aleCs)

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Alumnae Association Activities of CandidaleCs)

Other Information or Comment

Submitted byname class

Address

Send before April 15, 1961 to: Mrs. Charles E. Cuningham, Chairmanc/o Sykes Alumnae CenterConnecticut CollegeNew London, Connecticut

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Who Gets Into College? (Continued from page 6)

Seventy students, forty from the top half of theclass (including those ten who did not make pre-ferred institutions), all twenty-five from the thirdquarter, and five from the fourth quarter, will applyto eighty institutions generally considered "standard"or "respectable." Sixty will be accepted by one orboth of the colleges to which they applied. T hi,./y ofthe sixty will graduate, and ten will continue in grad-uate or professional school, most of them for one- ortwo-year programs. These sixty admitted studentswill average about three years of college apiece.

Thirty students, including ail of the fourth quarterand five from the third, will apply to institutions thatare ordinarily known as "easy." Half of these institu-tions will be four-year colleges, and half junior col-leges or community colleges. All thirty students willbe admitted. Fifteen will leave during the first year,and eight more during the next two years. The sevenwho receive degrees will go directly to employment,although one or two may return to college later for amaster's degree in education.At this point, we need some specific information about

the types of institutions I have just mentioned."Prejerred" institutions-the ones that receive the most

attention from high school students-number from 100 to150, depending on who makes the list. In my judgment,the larger number is correct, and the list is still growing.It should reach 200 by 1965, and 250 by 1970. Thenumber of places available in preferred institutions-nowapproximately 100,000-should increase to about 150,000during the next decade.

The present 150 preferred colleges are located in aboutfifteen states-mostly in the Northeast, the northern Mid-dlewest and on the Pacific coast. Four-fifths are private, .with three-fourths of the total enrolJment of the group.The one-fifth that are public have one-fourth of the en-rollment. This proportion is changing; in a few years itwill be three-fifths private and two-fifths public, with afifty-fifty enrollment split.

It now costs about $3,000 a year to send a child to apreferred institution.

"Standard" institutions-which are not selective at ad-mission, but will not admit any student obviously destinedto fail-number from 700 to 800. The larger number in-cludes about fifty that could be considered part of thepreferred list and another fifty that could be placed on theeasy list. In my judgment, the smaller number is the rightone for this category. It will stay about constant over thenext decade, with some shifting between lists. But enroll-ments within the standard category will go up by at leastfifty per cent.

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Standard institutions are of course located 11' everystate. Seventy per cent of their enrollments are i.. publicinstitutions, and thirty per cent in private ones. l....ut theprivate institutions outnumber the public ones ill l ratioof sixty-forty. Many of the private colleges are remarkablysmall.

Costs at standard institutions tend to run frorn :q,SOOto $2,500 per year. Yet some of these schools opeLHe withvery low fees, and naturally the public ones are in thelower cost brackets.

rr Easy" institutions number about 800, of which 300 arefour-year colleges and the rest junior colleges or communi-ty colleges. The list will grow rapidly as colleges are estab-lished over the next decade. Even though some elsy col-leges will raise requirements and join the standard :group,there may well be 1,500 colleges in this category b~, 1970.Enrollment will triple in the same period.

At present about one-third of the easy institutions arefour-year private colleges with enrollment problcn .s, andmany of these are trying to enter the standard gru·, il. Butalmost all newly established institutions are tax-suroorted.Thus by 1970 the number of private colleges on tl :..; levelof education will be negligible.

Cost of attending these institutions is now ytry low;tuition ranges from nothing to $500 a year.

With these descriptions established, let us considerchances of admission to these institutions, now and in thefuture.

The "preferred" institutions are already difficult toenter, and will become more so. In general, their require-ments call far an academic standing in the upper quarterof the secondary school class, and preferably in the uppertenth. School recommendations must be favorable, and theindividual must show signs of maturity and purpose. Ac-tivities and student leadership have been much overplayed,particularly by parents and school advisors, but they carrysome weight as indications of maturity. Parental connec-tions with colleges help, but are rarely decisive. If anyfactor is decisive, it is the school record as verified byCollege Board scores.

Chances of admission to any of this group of "pre-ferred" colleges may be estimated as follows:

School record in upper ten per cent, with appropriateCollege Board scores and endorsement from highschool-not worse than two chances out of three.

School record in upper quarter, with verifying CollegeBoard scores-not worse than one in three. Thisdoes not mean that the student will get acceptanceout of two or three tries, but rather that this esti-mate of chance holds for any preferred institutionhe applies to.

School record below the upper quarter, with strongcounterbalancing factors, such as high CollegeBoard scores, remarkable personal qualities, proventalents in special fields, strong family connections,recent awakening of interest and excellent perform-ance, achievement despite great handicaps-notbetter than one chance in three, and not worse thanone chance in four.

Xo others need apply.The "standard" institutions are, taken as a group, still

accessible to any student whose past performance or pres-ent promise gives reasonable chances of college success. Butthere are gradations within the standard institutions. Someapproach the selectiveness of the preferred group; othersare purposely lenient in their admissions and stiffer in later"weeding out" during the first year of college.

A student shows reasonable chance of success when hehas taken a secondary school program, including at leasttwo years of mathematics, two years of a foreign language,and four years of English, has passed all subjects on thefirs- try, and has produced good grades in at least halfof them. This means a school record not too far belowtlll middle of the class, at worst. Now that nearly all5! idard institutions are requiring College Boards or simi-1, types of examinations, the school record has to beb.icked by test scores placing the student in the middleflll.t:e applicants (CEEB scores of 400 or higher).

Such a student can be admitted to a standard institu-non, but he may have to shop for vacancies, particularlyir his marks and scores are on the low side and if he comesfrom a part of the country where there are more candidatesth.in vacancies. Thus students in the Northeast often haveto go outside their region to get into a standard college,even if they have excellent records. On the other hand,where there is still room for expansion, as in the Southand parts of the Middle West, students may enter someof the standard institutions with records that are relativelyweak.

Students with poor records or poor programs who stilloffer unusual qualifications, such as interest in meteorologyor astronomy, students who wish to follow unusual pro-grams in college, or students who are otherwise out ofpattern will often find it difficult to enter standard institu-tions. Curiously enough, they may well encounter greaterdifficulty with such institutions than they would have withmany in the preferred category. In other words, standardinstitutions are "standard" in many senses of the word.They take care of the majority of college students, and willcontinue to, but they do not move much outside of a fixedpattern.

"Easy" institutions are by definition non-selective. Wecan make several generalizations about them:

First, any high school graduate can enter an easy in-

stitution, regardless of his 1. Q., or his studies in school,on what he hopes to do in college and after.

Second, an easy college usually offers a wider rangeof courses, all the way from a continuation of the generalhigh school course, to technical and semi-professional pro-grams, to the standard college subjects.

Third, easy colleges will draw some well-prepared stu-dents who later go on to advanced degrees.

Fourth, since easy colleges are not selective (neitherkeeping students out nor forcing them out), they mustoperate so that students will make their own decisions, andthus they must have a strong institutional emphasis onguidance.

Fifth, since one of thedevices is the charge forcharge low, or no, tuition.

Sixth, easy colleges are a consequence, not a cause, ofenlarged demand for higher education. Even when theyoffer programs which a few years ago would not have beenconsidered as college work, they do so in response to de-mand. And the demand is increasing. Total enrollment inhigher education in 1970 will be about double that oftoday, and it may well be that this type of institution willaccount for from one-third to one-half of that total. Thenumber and size of these institutions will increase, andthey will become widely distributed throughout the coun-try, instead of being concentrated on the Pacific Coast andin the Middle West as they are now. Thus in 1970 it willstill be possible for any student to enter college.

To sum up, then, the answer to our first question isthat a student's chances of getting into college are excel-lent-provided that he is able and willing to do what isnecessary to prepare himself for the college he would liketo enter, or that he is willing to enter the college that iswilling to accept him.

Let's turn now to our second question: What can I asa parent do to improve my child's chances of getting intocollege that seems best for him?

This is one of the standard, rather heavy questionsfor which there are already available a great many stand-ard, rather heavy answers, dealing with the desirability ofthe good life, the need for stable parents and other validbut unenlightening pronouncements. But some of the prob-lems raised by this question do not yield to standardanswers. Three problems, or needs, deserve our attention:

1. The need for parellts to promote thinking, learningand reading.

Colleges, particularly the prefered colleges, are bookishplaces. They emphasize reading and discussion as stimulito learning and thinking instead of stressing note-takingand the study of text-books to accumulate facts. Collegeentrance tests are built in part to measure reading skills.And the student with the habit of reading will do better

most powerful of alltuition, easy colleges

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in work in college than the student who relies on studyingtext books and memorizing facts.

The habit of reading is most easily formed at home.It can be formed by the presence and discussion of books.This means, for example, that the fifty dollars that parentsoften spend on coaching for college entrance tests canbetter be spent over two years in the collection of fifty orsixty "highbrow" paperbacks. For this is reading that willdo more than any coaching courses to improve test scores-and it will at the same time improve preparation for col-lege studies, which coaching courses do not do.

2. The need for parents to make finaJlcial preparationlOT college.

College is a costly business. The preferred colleges costabout $3,000 a year, and of course this comes out of netincome after taxes have been paid. For most families withchildren in college, it represents gross income of at least$4,000. Referring back to the average span of six years' at-tendance for students who enter a preferred college, thefamily of such a student must dedicate $24,000 of grossincome for his college expenses.

Not long ago, a survey showed that half of a groupof parents who expected their children to go to collegedid not know the costs of college and were not makingany preparations to meet those costs. The lesson is obvious.Parents who are not ready to deal with college costs are

failing in a vital area of support. Urging a child to studyso that he can get a scholarship may payoff, but it is a poorsubstitute for a family plan for the financing of the child'seducation.

3. The need to choose a college in terms of tbc '·bi/d'sabilities and interests.

Much is made of the problem of choosing colle.x s, andgreat effort goes into the process of choice. But the results,if judged by the turmoil that attends the annual selections,fall short of expectations. The difficulty seems to lie in theplacing of emphasis on the college, not the student:. \Vhenthe application is sent in, the parent often knows moreabout the merits of the college to which the applicationis going than he does about the applicant as an applicant.

Naturally it is difficult for a parent to be objectiveabout his own child. But enough is now known aboutevaluating individual abilities and achievements that anyparent who really wants to may view his child as the childwill be viewed by the college. Such an evaluation is neitherso difficult nor so time consuming as the processes l'arentsoften go through in evaluating colleges. And since it relieson standard academic information, it involves little or nocost. Yet its value is inestimable. For if the choice .)f col-lege is made in terms of the child's capabilities, the firstand most important step has been taken toward rLlCingthe child in the college that seems best for him. AnJ thisin turn is the best insurance for a successful college ..creer.

Copyright 1961 by EDITORIAL PROJECTS FOR EDUCATION, INC. All rights reserved.

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PhOl0 by MUI"I"a'Y Eames

CL~SS NOTES Editor of Class Noles:Mrs. Huber Clark (Marion Vibert '24)East Main Street, Stockbridge, Mass.

1919

CORRJ-'SPONDENT: Mrs. Enos B. Comstock(Jull( Warner) 176 Highwood Ave., Le-onia, N. ].Alumnae day, Oct. 8, brought back

seven '!9 members, the largest class rep-resent.rtron except '60, according to the list:SadIe Coit Benjamin, still in the AlumnaeOffice; Marion Rogers Nelson from Nor-wren. With Irma Herder and her sisterfrom Quaker Hill; Luna Ackley Coloer,Poquonnock Bridge; Poll-y Cbristie, Gro-ton; Esther Bemus Cottrell, Mystic; and Ifrom Jersey.Priscilla Ford Scbenee sent word from

tb~ir summer vacation spot in New Hamp-shire of the birth of a fourth grandchildthird grandson. Since her husband's retire~meut, the Schenkes have traveled to Cal-ifun:i.l and Hawaii. Priscilla saw DorothyCL,,~ J\1tfnJOIi in July on Dot's first tripnorth from Aiken, S. c., since her hus-bsn.J's death. She also keeps in touch withSh, j!"ihox when at home in the NewHa (11 area.

-trope lured at least three 'Leers lastSL;! -ier: Gertrude Bspenscbeid, early inth.. season; Ruth Anderson, who visitedtL_ountries in spite of wet weather; and1\\ rrh 26 unforgettable days in four coun-rn-s-c-barely time to skim Stratford, West-no.uster, Versailles Florence Venice andf\.rks. Lillian Sh~dd Elliot; was to takean extended trip to the Orient in the fall\\:j~~l the rr:'tired dean of Occidental College,Calif. MISS Josephine Sutton PresidentSykes' secretary, returned recen'tly from aEuropean trip..'!'larioll .Kof~k)1 Harris, before leaving

Philadelphia with her husband Frank fora fall vacation at Nags Head near CapeH~tteras, N. c., sent the last items, along:"lth the sad news of the sudden passing10 Los Angeles of Mary Erwin lVarsfoldon August 30..Christmas greeting included Alison Ha-

sll.ngs. Thomson's annual original poem,tillS time from their winter home in Flori-da w~ere husband Wallace is building anexpenmental greenhouse to raise cuttings~o send to West Hartford. Also from Flor-Ida Dr. Helen Gough writes, "Stoppedformal work Oct. 13 but seem to be asbu.sy as ever-fun to do some of thethlOgS you have wanted to do." In KIa·math Fal.ls, Oregon, Ruth Trail McLellanwas lookmg forward to the family get-to-gethers . ~f their 19 members, includingthe famJiles of their three children. EstherBatchelder and her Maryland housematewere pl~nning to drive to Avon, Conn.,for Chnstmas with her sister Laura '21.pean Nye wrote cheerfully from her home10 O~laho~a City, interested to hear of mymeetlOg With Professor Hendrickson. over90, who used to drive over to CC fromYale to teach Latin and who still attendsclassical meetings in New York.

In MemoriomMARY ERWIN WARS FOLD '19

EUZABETH WIGFALL ROOT '24

HETTIE STEPHENSON OWEN Ex 28

NANCY SCHMUCK KEENAN Ex '49

Dr. Ruth Anderson is still re-living hersumIT!er in Europe and welcoming classcon.ributions to the CC Fund as class rep-resentative. FI.o1"enceLennon Ronieine, aftera summer tnp to Hawaii with son Ste-phen, is still doing part time daily teachingin Hartford and liking the contact withyoung people as much as ever. FromWoodstock, Vt., Mildred lVhite writes ofrecent visits to New York and New Jer-sey. The heavy snows were occupy.ngFlorence Cams and Mar [tlret MItchellGoudj'icb in Connecticut and Ruth AveryPrencb at her quaint colonial home inGrantham, N. H., where in summer Ruthgardens and husband Hollis reports dailyat 5: 30 a. rn. on the weather net. A newgrandson, Matthew French, arrived May 7.Ex '19; Norma Regan, who took her

degree at Cornell, is now active in civicwork in Hartford. Edith Harris W ard andher husband Luke are occupied with churchand public school responsibilities in NewMilford, Conn.

1920

CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Daniel Pease (Em-ma Wippert) 593 Farmington Ave., Hart-ford 5, Conn.Our new Class Agent, Feta Perley Rei-

cbe, trying to get 100% response for our50th Anniversary Drive, writes, "Everyoneis cooperating and we ask only that eachdo whatever she can, but do something."As cburch treasurer and grandmother withmany other outside activities, Feta keepsbusy. She is scheduled to attend two daysof National Girls Club meetings in NYC.She spent the Christmas holidays wifh sonFrank, his wife Janet, and Dean 2 andCynthia .5 in Newark, N. J., where Frankis a lawyer with the firm of Stryker, Tamsand Homer. Karl Jr. has a new ScoutExecutive position in Brockton, Mass. Hehas three children: Nancy 8, Craig 6 andJohn 4.MIff Howard is gratified at the result

of her idea of smaller reunion contribu·tions spread over a period of time. Afterstudying the Dora Gross figures, Miff re-ports, "Of the 39 paying dues, 22 contrib-uted to the reunion fund in sums rangingfrom $3 to $18. This includes 3 membersnot heard from in many years, all 3 pay-ing dues and one contributing to the fund.Many wrote expressing approval." Hard-

working Miff will be off on sabbaticalleave of absence the second semester. Shesays, "During February and March I amtraveling to the Midwest and as far southas Washington, D. c., to observe work inphysical education in certain universities.April 12 I set off for England where Ishall also observe movement education inselected British universities. Then 3Y2months o? the continent and back to Eng-land, getting home the middle of August."Last week a mutual friend and 1 had the

pleasure of having tea with Edith Lind-holm Baldwin at her attractive hillsidehome in South Glasconbury, a home withsuch a vista that at times Mt. Tom, manymiles away, is visible. \'l/e had not met for30 years but she is the same fine andgracious girl 1 remembered. The Batdwinsdesigned their home and have lived therefor 6 years. Their oldest son Lucian ,3

lawyer with Robinson, Robinson and Colein Hartford, married a CC gir!, MaryMorse, and has two boys 12 and 10. Theylive in North Canton. The second son,Raymond Jr., a Bridgeport lawyer, has twoboys 3 and 5. The youngest son Tyler,a trust officer at the First National Bankin Fairfield, is also married to a CC girl,Frances Steene. They have a son 3 andthe only baby girl in the Baldwin family.Teed had received a card with a delicatepink shell design, clever original by ourown At Horrax Scheel.Scott and Gladys Hood Lansing are

among our "travelingest" couples, havingspent all the past summer "doing" westernand southern U. S., with the high spotthree jeep trips to tops of 14,000 footmountains in Colorado. They also madethree short trips into Mexico. Harriet Al-len L'Orsd J two sons are still in the uni-versity. Dave Cooper sent a picture oftheir new home in HendersonviJIe and re-ported that they have house numbers. Theyare very happy in their new locale. TrennSchaeffer Persons promises a visit someday soon and adds, "More stone walls, en-larging the pond, plus a trillion ideasmake life exciting. The children were herefor Thanksgiving and we hope to go tothem for Christmas if Mother Parsons'health permits." Dot Marvin Detwiler hasthree grandchildren in school. Some timeago she saw Lil Shadd Elliott who hadjust returned from a tour of the Orient.

Kenneth and Fem Smith Hinz visitedtheir daughter Dorothy, her husband Stan-ley Ransom, and young Sarah 2 at Christ-mas. When Mr. Ransom was working forhis master's degree at Columbia, he metMadeline Hinchey at the N. Y. Public Li-brary where she still works. He is nowlibrary director at Huntington, L. I. LydiaMar·vill Moody lives in Deep River, Conn.,\V1~ere she has an insurance agency. MarjViets l17illdsor and l17illOIl<1 Young werethe "women who came to dinner" onenight. Marj is still teaching English at

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Wethersfield High. Last Slimmer she anda friend took a tour to Jamaica and Nassau.

To my surprise I won an air conditionerfor a last line in a contest. I already havetwo but I welcomed it, even though itcame on the coldest day of the year andwas so huge that it could not go throughmy front door. My low spot of the yearwas the sight of a small transparent snakeout on the sidewalk here in the heart ofHartford last October. "A milk snake," theman next door said, "and harmless," butnever to my shattered morale!

1921

CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Ruth Bassett(Ruth McCollum) 8 Lupine Rd., Dan-vers, Mass.From Dot Gregson Slocum we learned

that one of Rachel Smith's needlework de-signs has been described in a publication.In December Gladys Beebe Millard andmy sister, Ella MeCotlum Vablteicb andtheir husbands had a get-together in Ella'shome in Englewood, N. J.

Before Christmas our mother, in her96th year, had a cataract operation andafter several years of blindness is ableto see quite well though the total successof the operation will not be known forseveral months. She is now under Ella'scare. J spent several weeks over Thanks-giving with them. I have moved into arecently completed compact attractiveapartment attached to the home of mydaughter Harriet '51 here on the NorthShore where I'm enjoying my childrenand grandchildren. My son Bill and fam-ily live near by in a lovely old nine-roomhouse in Nahant, Mass" bought last yearwhen he became head and consultant ofanalytical design at the Lynn GE plant.He is giving three courses on the comput-er to MIT students, His research article onthe computer has been published by thecompany for use in its libraries through-out the country.

1922

CO-CORRESPOl\'DENTS: Mrs. David H. Yale(Amy Peck) 579 Yale Ave., Meriden,Conn.

Marjorie E. Smith, 181 Irving Ave., Provi-dence 6, R, I.

Alice Hagar ScboffJtali is a grandmothersince her son Peter's child was born lastApriL Peter lives in Rutland where heis on the Herald. Alice is very busy inthe library in BurllOgton. IlYrey !/YamerBarber and her husband expect to go toEurope this summer. She has been beforeand he went with tbe NEA as a leaderfor a high school group, but this is thefirs.t trip t?geth~r. She writes of seeingOilve ruthtll ReId who "looks exactly thesame," Part of the gift shop at the hairpinturn on the Mohawk Trail had a newoccupant this Christmas season-HelenTryon and her partners having held theirgrand opening the night after Thanks-giv!ng and hav.ing been so busy they hadthen own Chnstmas celebration on NewYear's Eve. Among their guests last sum-mer were Elizabeth Bache, who taug.ht

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nutrition at CC when we were there, andher sister. Betty is quite crippled witharthritis but still drives her car and wasthen on her way home from Maine,Marge If/ells Lyboit writes of her work

in San Francisco and her borne in thecountry, canning fruit and "providing red-wood greens for Christmas for all ourfriends." Connie Hill Hathaway's daughterJoanne spent three and a half months inEurope last fall, visiting the British Islesand the continent. She attended the Edin-burgh Festival and in England was inter-viewed for the newspaper of a town inSussex, Nellie Shepard, daughter of MaryT bomson Shepard, teaches science andphysics in Southington, works on theState Board of Education in chemistry andfor the six years of her teaching hasworked on the committee for the NorthernConnecticut Science Fair held in the Arm-ory in Hartford. She won a $250 Staraward and a medal and plaque for thehigh school for her adaptation of Milli-ken's oil-drop experiment for high schoolsand a National Science Foundation stipendto study atomic physics at Yale last sum-mer, getting honors in her work. Maryhas do~e s?me, substitute teaching, takena class 10 ad painting, and recently paintedthe whole inside of her house stertin ewith one piece of furniture an'd havingto do everything to match.Clundine Soiitb Halle and Elmer spent

June and part of May in Orlando Fluwhen Melicent's son, Jeffrey Alla~ wa'~born. Melicent's daughter, Valerie i~ 3Y2~nd her hus~and, Dr. Claude Schmidt, was10 Leopoldvijle, Belgian Congo, where hewas one of the two US entomologists sentby ICA to lec~ure at Lovanium Universityon e~to~nologlCal uses of radioisotopes.Claudine s so~ .Stephen is in Minneapolis10 the advertising field. Her sister Con-st~nce CC '30 lives in Port Said, Egypt,wl~h a daughter, Sandra, in school inBeirut anud a son, David, at Yale Medic-al. Claudine keeps the books at theirdrug store, teaches weekday church schooland, tutors a youngster in phonics andreading. Ruth Bacon Wickwire and Grantstayed at the college this Christmas entertained Grant's probable successor '(6ran~renres In June), and took care of Grant'smother 91, .who h~d recently broken hera~m. Rut~l IS t:achlOg a COurse in reme-dial reading this year.Gertm~e Traurig, now retired, and at

home taking care of her mother 90 takesher vacatlOns flying "preferably by j~t: it'sfaster and there's more vacation," She hasrecently been to Las Vegas, Palm Springsand Acapulco and on another trip wentto Jamaica. Cards have come from Jeann-ette. Sperry Thompson on a trip to Calif.orma,. from AuguJta 0'5uliilian fromWashmgton, D. C, where she attendedsome church meetings, and from Lucy Mc-Dmlllel and Dorothy lJVheeler Pietrallo.In June Helen. Crofoot took a 13-day

conducted bus ttlp to Williamsburg Vaand the S.moky ~tns. In August she' spe~ta week 10. Mame and a week in NewLon?on wltl: her sister Mary. She hadChnstmas dInner with Mary's daughterJeanne, who now lives in Haddam herhus~and teaching m Chester. M{/~jorieSmith went to England on her vacation,

met her sister in London and then wentto Glasgow, Oban, and Edinburgh wherethey took a tour to the western Hiehlands("beyond description"), the Isle of'::>Wight("in a world by itself") and to Invernessa trip "over narrow roads with wvnderfulviews of lochs, mountains, glees andheather." Back in Edinburgh they attendedthe. Military Tatoo at the beginning of theEdinburgh Festival. Back in London witha boat trip on the Thames to HamptonCourt and a bus trip to Devon and Corn-wall. Soon after she returned home, con-tractors began rebuilding the chimney inthe house where she lived and she waswithout heat or hot water for six weeks,For her new address, see above.The only "movings" in the Yale family

have been our son Julius and his familyto . Wilmington, Mass., and our daughterAlice and her family into our upstairsapartment. Our daughter Amy CC 'ex'48 now lives in Topanga, Calif., nearerUCL~ w.here Don is studying. Amy isworking 10 a bookstore in Santa Monica,

1923

CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Kenneth 1(. Kin-ney (Claire Calnen), Mansfield Center,Conn.

Belty Diceinson Clary is nov livingin Prorham Park, N. J. Betty wrote "Afterliving rn one house for nearly 1\, -nty-fiveyears, we have moved to be j,'.<irer myhusband's work. We have less hou-r-, moreyard, and wild life from the woods inback of us, including deer. Bott. lily sonsare married and I have a fifteen-monthold grandson." Betty is active III DAR.~n September she called on Marei ....Lwgle)'10 New Hampshire, Marcia and RhetdClark toured the West last summer bytrain and by bus and reported a wonderfultrip, MariOl1 Page French and her husbandtook an extensive trip this last summerthrough the national parks and other highspots of the far West and Canada. Mari-on's three children are married and shehas five wonderful grandchildren.Mildred Seeley Trotman writes, "At my

advanced years I am still operating TheVillage Nursery School here in Brook-side, large enrollment and a wonderfulstaff of trained teachers. 1 am still writingsongs for little people. I thought that Iwould have them published long beforenow but I guess I'll have to retire to haveany time to get that done." Mildred is onthe. bo~rd of Community Concerts and isactIve 10 the Brookside Episcopal Churchand the AAU\Xf in Morristown. As istheir custom, Mildred and her husbandplanned to spend Christmas in Vero Beach,Florida.Olive Holcombe IPheele1' and her husband

visited Adelaide Satterly Tuthill in Matti-~uck. Adelaide's daughter Virginia liv,es10 Pearl River, N. Y., and has three chtl·dren: Paul 8, Lloyd 5 and Anne 3. Herson Sidney, in M:lt"cellus, N. Y., has a 7-year-old son Bill and a 14-month-olddaughter Sandra. Adelaide's husb:lOd hasbeen ill with arthritis and bursitis andtheir trips have been confined mostly tovisits with tbe children. Bernice Boyntoll

PI"~JtO}/ is busy teaching in a pre-schooltWICe a week' and being a den rnotber for

a group of Cub Scouts at the Blind Schoolin Raleigh. She is also active in the Col-lege \X'omen's Club. B reports that shenow Ius four grandchildren, all closeenough to come for Sunday dinner. Balsahas taken up golf with her husband andhas become very enthusiastic about it.Other ?3 golfers are Helen Borkerdi ngNe1(b(',~ and Dorothy Dean Gardenier ex'23, vi.o played together this summer andman;;,~~,_,Jto win a few prizes in the tourna-ments. This winter they are bowling.Helen visited Rae Tiffany Into in Lyme,Conu., this summer and enjoyed seeingRae's three grandchildren. Rae divides hertime between Lyme and Miami ..Peg Bristol Vincent's son James is one

of my neighbors. He is a Boy Scout ex-ecunve in this area and has come withhis family to live in Mansfield. Peg hasthirteen grandchildren, 9 of whom visitedher at Christmas time.Margaret McCarthy MorriJJey's son John

and his wife have bought a house inChappaqua, N. Y. Her youngest sonCharlie and his wife Brenda will movefrom Berkeley, Calif., to Hanover, N. H.,and Charlie will teach at Dartmouth,where Margaret and Leonard's oldest sonLenr.v also teaches.;\hilla Kreykeubohm writes, "Since los-

ing lly husband, there is no longer anymcaomg to life but to rush around keep-ing involved." Minna was chairman of anAdl Stevenson campaign, then workedfOJ President Kennedy during the cam-p:l!"n She still has her home and now11.1~ ,0 artist from Cleveland and aDa·ni~!'-itudent from the School of Architec-tun: living with her. She has done marketrcsc.ucb in crafts and is now doing ceram-ics .md enamelling and is selling crafts.

\\ e are sorry to learn of the death ofAtl).1 JohNSON Schmllrk's daughter, NancySchmuck Keenan ex '49. The sympathy ofour class is extended to Maya and toNancy's family. Helen Barkerding Neu-berg reported that Charline MitchellBailey's husband had died a year ago inNovember.

1924CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. David North(Helen Douglass) Box 1718, New Haven,Conn.

From Barbara Kens Kepner, Jan. '59,"Harold still teaches but, because of aserious attack of virus pneumonia in 1945,has to be very careful and has had togive up the parties and other activitieswhich go with teaching. Our Janet hasa daughter and Philip a son, Harry willget his commission in the Air Force inJune. Philip spent five years in the AirForce in research at Wright-Patterson AFBase in Dayton, Ohio." Bobbie says she is"fine-too fat, but very healthy and busy."Peg Call Ladd flew to Maine this pastsummer for her usual vacation and had awonderful time.

On Oct. 1, ow' son Richard was marriedto Barbara Bud of Woburn, Mass. Wenow have two daughters-in-law namedBarbara. Confusing- Our younger sonLarry, Brown '53, married Barbara Backes,Smith '53 of Wallingford, Conn. who is acousin of Sally Backes Leighton who was

graduated from CC about the same year.Larry has two children, David Alden II,named for his grampa, and Susan. I doteon them both just as any grandmotherdoes. I had a lovely visit with Aura Kep-ler at Richard's wedding. She leads a busylife but looks fine and keeps real chipper.I had hoped to see Katy Hamblet but shewas taking her father for a trip thru NewEngland to see the foliage which was inits prime that weekend. We had a tele-phone visit. Prior to "Doona," whichwhipped through and left us a car portinstead of a garage, I entertained themembers of the New Haven chapter andtheir husbands at our summer home atVineyard Pt., Guilford. They have sched-uled a repeat performance for early nextsummer. In November David and I droveto Pompano Beach, Florida, left the carat my sister's home and started Northwith our boat, a 38' Wheeler cabin cruiser.We had a delightful cruise up the InlandWaterway and wonderful weather. We leftthe boat at Great Bridge, Norfolk, Va.,and next summer we shall go the rest ofthe way to the Branford Country Club. Ihave spent the entire month of Januaryat Pompano, basking in the sun whileDavid and the rest of the family aredigging themselves out of snowdrifts inthe freezing north. I plan to attend Alum-nae Council in February to represent 1924.Amy Hilker Biggs went last year. Amyand her husband have been in Norway,Me., for 14 months and love it.

1925CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Edmund J. Bernard(Mary Auwood), Tres Palmas, Apt. 9,312 South Orange Ave., Scottsdale, Ariz.

Lila Gallup Ulrey has returned to herhome town of Waterford, Conn., and isliving again on Gallup Lane .. Lila receivedher master's degree from Indiana DOlV. to

1959 and is now teaching at Great NeckSchool.Caiberine Calbonn, class president, lj:7in-

ifred Smith Passmore, and Lila were oncampus Nov. 5 with Gertrude Noyes, Deanof the College, and Cbarlotte BeckwithCrane, Alumnae Secretary. T~e occasionwas a meeting planning reunions to beheld June 16, 17 and 18. The programwill follow the plan of the one last year,which from all acccounts was most sue-cessful. Winifred is chairman for '25 andLila is on the general reunion committeeand local representative. Chronologically'25 will have precedence. Catherine saysit was a beautiful day and bulldozers wereat work on the site of the new dormi-tories-a far cry from 1921 to now.Charlotte Lang Carroll had a wonderful

trip to Arizona in September. She we~tout ahead of the starting date to get Incondition for the Perkin's Ride, knownlocally as the Sycamore Carryon Rid~e, ~neof the most glorious mountam trail tnpsin these parts and a new experience forher Coached by Sophie Burden, ownerof Remuda Ranch, she made out all rig.ht.Sophie told me Charlotte performed likea veteran and that her delightful humorendeared her to the other riders, Pat (herhorse) and I are looking forward to seeingher and her husband Roy at Remuda inJanuary.

Virginia Lnizeuiircben continues withher absorbing and strenuous work at theInternal Revenue Dept. in Chicago. InOctober she had a thoroughly enjoyableholiday in the south she loves so much,this time to New Orleans and all its in-teresnng environs.Cbarlotte Priscb Garlock enjoys alumnae

work. She was in New York Jan. 4th forthe meeting of the Executive Board Fi-nance Committee and in New LondonJan 14th for a Development Committeesession. She saw Cbarl otte Crane, in Larch-mont for a few days, reported wonderfulprogress by class agents, The worst snowstorm since '47 was on then. Here on thedesert the sun was hot and we wereswimming as usual.

Are you planning to go to reunion inJune?

The sympathy of the class is extendedto Willifred Smiih Passmore, whose father,State Rep. E. O. Smith, dean of the Conn.legislature, died early in November.

1926CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Clarence J. Good-willie (Mildred Dornan) '26 Caserta Cu-seni, Taormina, Sicilia, Italy.

Your correspondent and family are intheir Sicilian home until Easter. We planto travel on the peninsula of Italy duringApril and May and to sail home fromTrieste. Tower Thompson, Marge's broth-er, lives in Taormina, found our nest forus and guided us through the maze ofgetting organized in this magical spot.Mary [o Sioanston writes from Torremo-lines, Spain, "We have been bitten withthe travel bug and after driving alloverItaly, will drive north through Spain andFrance and thence home, with plans al-ready for a return to Europe next fall."Helm Famsurortb Schneidewind and Chickare jetting their way around the worldwith stops in Egypt, Jerusalem, Beirut,India, Thailand, Hong Kong and Japan.Helen adds, "As to grandchildren, wehave four: three boys and one girl. Natur-ally we think they are ravishing." .FromPeg Sterling Norcross, "1 am having awonderful time being Granny to my daugh-ter's three boys. J am not too good ababy sitter but enjoy them one at a time.Have done volunteer work of all typesfor thirty years. Now I am taking bridgelessons and being frivolous. Max and Ihave had fine winter trips to Barbados,Nassau, and last winter en route to EI-euthera we stopped in Jacksonville for afew days and enjoyed seeing Att Muir-head Kimball and Peg Durkee McCarthy."Amy Wakefield went abroad last sum-

mer to Ireland, Scotland, England andFrance. Kay Colgrove visited Franny Greenon her way home from Nantucket. KayBronson's son and daughter have gradu-ated from Lebanon Valley College and areteaching. Kay herself is teaching fifthgrade in Redding, Conn. Barbara BellCrouch uses her spare time to sort out theattic, etc., in preparation for a probableenforced move. Their colonial house, inthe Crouch family for generations, is ex-pected to be taken for a new highway.

From Vinnie Scarlett Orr, "I was elect-ed Montgomery County vice-chairman last

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May 12. We put on a concentrated regis-tration drive all summer in the 251 dis-tricts of the county. As my job puts mein charge of the woman chairman in eachdistrict, I was on tbe go all the time untilNovember 8. We would like to have Phil-adelphia secede. The big cities are electingthe Presidents these days."

1927CORRESPONDENT: Grance Trappan, 199Vaughan St., Portland, Me.

Peg Rich Raley spent five weeks in Eu-rope this last fall and returned to River-side, Conn., to get ready to move. "Fourhectic weeks were filled with packing inthe daytime and partying nearly everyevening." She and Bill are now trying outFlorida as a residence and have renteda house in Boca Raton until June. Samand Gwen Hoirt wen to Evanston, Ill., inAugust when their grandson arrived, andagain for Christmas. When Gwen wrotejust before Christmas, she and Sam werejust back from Washington where Samattended Land Grant College meetingsand Gwen stayed in Georgetown with herbrother. Henrietta Kanebl Kobms complet-ed work for her MA this summer andIus now started work toward her PhD.Her daughter, Patty Kay, entered highschool this fall, continues to get excellentgrades, and continues to study dancing.Edna Lnrz Barnes writes to Nubs Verlloflabout herself, "I'm most excited becausethe man finally came to dig the ponds.We'll put in trout and enjoy the reflec-tions of sunsets in the pools. They dis-covered there are more springs than weever discovered. I can only see the topof his tractor even now. The heavy blacktop-soil went down 6-7 feet. So the pondwill be deeper than I'd planned for. Imay buy Avery a house boat." And aboutCeleste Denniston Hoiiman, "Celeste andKen have a beautiful home, on a hillwith a view for miles. She even has wall-to-wall gold carpeting in halls and living:room. And her poodle (standard darkgray color) had on a fancy 2-inch widegold collar to match."

1928CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. W. Edward Frazer(Eleanor Wood), 734 Clarenden Road,Narberth, Pa.

MARRIED: Janet, daughter of AbbieKelsey Baker, on Thanksgiving day toPeter Huston. Helen, daughter of PegBriggs Noble, to E Clarke Russ jr., ofLos Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 28 in Glas-tonbury, Conn.

Hazel Gardner Hicks sent a card fromHawaii telling of the birth of a thirdgrandchild, a boy, on Oct. 10. Abbie Kel-sey Baker's younger daughter Doris isspending her junior year at the Inter-national Ch~istian University near Tokyo,Japan. Abbie hopes to visit her thisspring, stopping in Hawaii and Alaska.Peg Briggs Noble plans to attend the Nat-ional YW. Convention in Denver in May.Daughter Debbie graduates from CC inJune. Halley Loft Owens Rogers and Jim~ere in E~rope this past summer. PatsyIS at BennlOgton College working toward

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an MA in music. She will be in NewYork for nine weeks this winter workingpart time with an assistant conductor ofthe Philharmonic. Kathie is a junior atSarah Lawrence College. She spent thesummer in Guinea helping to build astudent reception center sponsored by Op-eration Crossroads Africa. Jimmy 14 is a10th grader at Exeter. Karla Heurich Har-rison's household has been turned into aa nursery. Daughter Jan, evacuated fromCuba, had a second daughter Oct. 13. Herhusband at Christmas was still in Havanawith another year to go, but since diplo-matic relations were broken, that picturechanged. Son Chip has resigned from theArmy and plans to attend Harvard Bus-iness School next September. Edna Somersexpected to see Peg Bet! Bee during theChristmas holidays. Roberta Bitgood Wier-sma left California in October and is nowlocated in Detroit. She inherited eightchoirs at the Redford Presbyterian Churchwhich has a membership of 3500. Herdaughter Grace is at San Francisco StateCollege pursuing her major interest indrama. Roberta, her husband, and daugh-ter spent Thanksgiving with their marrieddaughter in Walnut Creek, Calif. Ex '28;L1It:y Norris Pierce has joined the ranksof grandparents, with her granddaughter,Lucinda Susan, now 10 months old. Nor-ris and Blanford are in business with theirDad. Daughter Sue is with a travel ag-ency, "Ask Me. Foster," in Chicago. FranHIding .is fine, more horse crazy as theyears pile up and, after owning fifteenhorses, has finally found the perfect one.She goes on all sorts of rides, sleeps onthe ground and loves it. She sends the sadnews that Hettie Stephenson Owen met anu~timely death last July while on a hikingtnp. She had been very interested inconservation and belonged to a hikingclub.

1929CORRESPONDENT;(Beth Houston),Louis 22, Mo.

Linda. Bailey '62, daughter of BdJ"baraBent Batley, was one of the recipients ofthe 1960-61 Alumnae Scholarship. Barbarawrote that Linda loves CC and daughterJanet also hopes to attend Connecticut.Barbara does secr.eta~i~1 work one nighta week for a pediatrician, besides the us-ual community affairs. Her husband worksfor United SI.we Machinery. DorothyAdams c;ranl, wife of an architect, has twograndchildren. Her daughter Sylvia wasattending college in Switzerland last year.

Adeline (Andy) Anderson Wood di-vides her time between Massachusetts andMaine since her husband is an athleticdirector and teacher during the schoolyea~. A.ndy·s married daughter lives inCalifornia. Her son was married in June196.0' Andy has a unique hobby of col-Iecting and redecorating antiques. In 1945Margaret Anderson Hei emeisse- moved too.ur 49th state where she and husbandlive permanently. Marg does social workon a full time scale for the Alaska De-partment of Health and W dfare yet shestill finds time to serve on th~ SewardGeneral Hospital's Board of Trustees, to

Mrs. A. D. Murch720 Luckystone Ave., St.

sew, knit, collect stamps and do woodcarvings.

The class of '29 can boast of onelawyer, Josephine Arnold, who began hercareer in Illinois in 1938. In her ownwords, Josephine is "self-employed," liv-ing in Los Angeles where she Ius beena practicing attorney since 1955. She isalso an officer and a member of theBoard of Directors for the UCLf ....Medi-cal Center Auxiliary. Dorothy Bed,' Dud-ley works full time in the group billingdept. of the Conn. Medical Service locatedin New Haven. She has three children,her youngest at Cornell Univ.On the reunion questionnaire P"JscilIiti

Rothwell Gray spoke of a wonderful visitwith Catherine (Speedie) Greer at Helen(Sol/lIie) Smith HaJdy's beautiful ranchin Mecca, Calif. Priscillia had gone toBarstow, Calif., to visit her Marine Corpsson and his wife. She has a son-in-lawat Fort Dix, N. J. Sonnie Smith Hafdy'shusband, a retired dentist, is now a cit-rus ranch owner. She and her husbandwere planning a to-week freighter triplast summer. Speedie is in charge of theCalifornia office of the Diner's Club or-ganization.

Frances Hall Sseples' youngest, AnnClarke, is a freshman at Connecticut thisyear. One son is an aeronautical cngin-eer, another finishing college at B. U.and a third in the Navy. Fran's husbandis a surgeon. Her own activities arc limit"ed. because of health. Margat'et (Peg)Bristol Carleton's husband is a car dealer.She has a doctor-son doing research on in-ternal medicine. Alberta Boardman T;-/II:'.\"sson graduated from her accountant husband salma mater, Dartmouth. Alberta kads abusy life in Manchester, N. H., what withShakespeare Club, Manchester College Wo-men's Board, and Girls' Club. Winifred(Winnie The Pooh) Link Stewart's daugh-ter Anne Carol spent the summer in Colo-rado along with 250 other college people.She is now a senior at Mary WashingtonCollege, Fredericksburg, Va., majoring infine arts. Son John is in Washington, D.c.: working on a Congressional Fellow-ship while he is writing his PhD., disserta-tion. Flora (Pat) Early Edwards and herhusband were in Hawaii in December1959. They were leaving in April 1960for a four-months trip to Europe. Patpassed along news of Catherine (Kip)Ranney Perry who was en route to SouthAmerica to visit her daughter. Kip's pic-tu.re as Mrs. Warren Perry, appeared inLiie magazine recently in connection withan article on folk medicine. GertmdeReaske Bliss and her husband wentaround the world "again" last summer,as he returned for the third time to teachfor eight weeks in the Philippines. Duringthe school months he is a professor inthe Harvard Graduate School of Business.Muriel Kendrick is head of the Englishdept. at Concord, N. H., Senior HighSchool. As a life member of the NEAMuriel has traveled near and far attendingtheir conventions.

1930CORRESPONDENT; Marjorie Ritchie, 95Myrtle St., Shelton, Conn.

Marion Allen HershaJ and her husbandTim live in Berkeley, Calif., where Tim

operates a small hotel called the BerkeleyInn. Kay Bailey Hoyt and her daughterswere in California this summer. Virginiais a senior at' Duke and Jeanne a fresh-man at Northwestern. Babe Barrett Ber-line has returned from a trip to Hawaiiwhere ~IK'saw her son Peter who is withthe Navy and en route to the Aleutians.Ruth Brou-n and Connie Green Freemanstopped to see Babe recently in Bronxville.Betty Capron, who is at the BridgeportChild Guidance Clinic, lives in Milfordwith an unobstructed view of the Sound.George and Mary Claus Gescbeidev' sdaught'l Anita teaches music in Birming-ham, Mich. Their son George is married,lives in New Orleans and is doing grad-uate work at Tulane. Hawley and MarieGeJCheide1' Stark's two daughters are atWelk,iey. Emilie, a senior, is presidentand Nancy, a sophomore, is treasurer ofCollege Government. Claude and MaritaGionber Williams have moved to theirnew home in Greenwich.Ruth Harrison Street's daughter Sally,

a senior at Smith, is on the Dean's List.At Harvard this summer Sally enjoyedthe stimulating course given by Miss Be-thururn, head of the English departmentat CC Helene Somers Millar and herson David, a senior at St. Paul's, havebeen making the college tour. They spentThanksgiving with Ruth Street's family.Helene recently purchased the revolution-ary and historical house of the Sand familyfor W nom Sands Point, L. I., was named.The house has a hidden passage behindthe chimney where the Sand's daughterwas secreted for three days while the RedCoats occupied the house. Helene busieshersetf with golf, duplicate bridge, realestate and sculpture. Frequently Helenesees Fenella Langenau Rothe who has twogifted children of junior high age. Fenellacontinues to write books and plays forchildren. Terry and Fallny Yotillg Sawyet'spent three wonderful weeks at Biddle-ford Pool, Me., this summer. En routehome they visited colleges with theirolder son Ray, a high school senior. Theiryounger son Bill is a busy ninth grader.Morris and Frances Gabriel Hartman an-nounced the engagement of their daughterDiane over the Thanksgiving weekend.Diane is a senior at Skidmore and herfiance, Donald Cady, a senior at UnionCollege. Edna lr/bitebead Gibson ex '30and her husband are working as engineersat Boeing, have nine grandchildren, andrecently spent a weekend with Bill andEllie Meurer Chiswell in Vancouver, Wash.

1931SchoofPlace,

CO-CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs. C.(Dorothy Cluthe), 2730 PicardyCharlotte 9, N. C.

Mrs. Arthur G. Lange (Rosemary Brew-er) Somerville Road, R. D. #1, BaskingRidge, N. ].

Pat IlIlIet Jenllings, living in Vergen-nes, Vt., writes, "1 am happily marnedand have been for the last 24 years. Jackis head of the data processing dept. ofSimmonds Precision Instrumen~s (theymake fuel gaging units for airplanes, fueliniection pumps, etc.). We live on the

second floor of one of the oldest housesin Vergennes-right across the street fromthe City Hall but have a wonderful viewof Mt. Abraham, Mt. EBen and LincolnMt. from the back. I'm working-secretaryto the Dean of Women of MiddleburyCollege, very interesting work-much con-tact with students-keeps you on yourtoes."Cathie Steele Batchelder is a busy minis-

ter's wife in Lancaster, Pa. She has enjoyedseeing Grace Reed Regan who recentlymoved to Lancaster. "During their Christ-mas vacations we managed to get our twocollege sophomore daughters together."Joyce Regan is attending Jackson (Wo-men's Division of Tufts) and MollyBatchelder is at Lake Erie in Painesville,Ohio. ferry Smitb Cook couldn't make reounion as she had just been to Florida withher eldest son Bruce and daughter Mar-sha. Lee, the second son, is now at Colgate"studying for the first time in his life.But what astonishes us that he is enjoyingit." Toot Holley Spangler, who did a mag-nificent job as our reunion chairman, re-ports that Rilla, her eldest daughter, wasmarried in August, that the bride andgroom have teaching fellowships at theUniv. of California, she in physics andhe in chemistry. Both are getting advanceddegrees. Rachel, daughter # 2, is graduat-ing from Tufts in January instead ofJune, as she has many extra credits. Tootherself managed a quick trip to LaCrossein November, "first time I have been homefor my birthday in 17 years."Evelyn 1Vhit/em ore Woods and husband

spent their August vacation touring north-ern New England, the trip being stimu-lated by Betty Flanders Thomson's book,"The Changing Face of New England."Miss Thomson is with the CC botanydept. Evelyn is president of the local CCalumnae and says that President Park, Mr.Pierce and Miss Eastburn were all presenton Nov. 2 when they launched their 50thAnniversary Fund campaign. She is great-ly encouraged by the results and expectsthat they will teach their quota. 1931 hasa long way to go.

Ex '31 Belly Snowden Marsball ofPainseville, Ohio, "spent most of Mayin Alabama greeting and taking care ofour first grandchild." By reunion time sonRick was home from his first year atCornell. Dot Duff Smith has been livingin Baltimore for the past 12 years andhopes to stay there forever,. as both n~ar-ned children, H. Duff Smith and Eliza-beth Sission (Mrs. Albert), live there too.Her daughter has three sons. Her husbandMercer was made V. P. and Directorof the Chesapeake and Potomac Te. Cc.,last July. Yvonne Carns liVogal/ returnedto New Orleans in September after 15months in Europe. Her husband Dan, withthe Spanish dept. at T~lane, w.as abro~don a sabbatical. At Cbnstmas tune whtleDan was attending professional meetingsat Philadelphia, daughter Caroline andYvonne flew to Yucatan for two weeks"discovering the Mayan ruins and enjoy-ing the Colonial Arc~itecture." Her sum-mer plans include a tnp to the East Coast.

Your co_correspondents were both caughtin the recent December blizzard, Rosemaryin Moylan, Fa., visiting her Mom and I

in Montclair, N. J., visiting mine. Need-less to say we never even chatted by phone.

1932CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. James G. Masland(Susan W. Comfort) 42 Summit Street,Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 18, Pa.

A Christmas card photograph fromEllie ShermttJ] V incent showed her splen-did teen-age sons: Chip, Rag and Rick,all with an unmistakable Sherman lookand smile. From Pat Travis, "Until De-cember 9th when we finished our CChouse-mart project, I'd been running aworkshop in our basement, making table-cloths on our ping-pong table." Pat andEv bad a visit to California in Octoberto see married daughter Linda before thelatter and her husband sailed for Japan.Peg Salter Ferris has been battling nrthri-lis. Mercitt May Richards tells of Furm'sgood recovery from his illness. and opera-tion. Granddaughter Lynn RIChards hadher first Christmas and is "a dear littleelf."

Your correspondent and husband aregratified with son Jimmy's progres.s atTemple University School of Business.An A in advertising at mid-term seemsto point the way toward a possible CHeerwith the Madison Avenue boys.

1933CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. William R. Comb-er (Helen Peasley), 1720 York Drive.S. E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.

Once again Harriet Kistler Browne andher husband took off for St. Thomas 10the Virgin Islands for vacation. Their t:-v0sons joined them for the two-week Christ-mas vacation. Harriet adores the job shehas had for the past six years as churchsecretary, which means she practically runsthe church. AnI/a May Derge Gilmer'sson Charles, a freshman at Mt. Union C?l-lege in Alliance, Ohi~, made the varsityteam in football. Christy graduated cumlaude from Lake Erie College in Juneand is now a social worker in Clevelanddoing child welfare work. Wedding bellswill ring for her in February. Anna Maysees DOl Hamilton Algire from time totime. Dofs daughter Anne is. a f.reshl~lanat George Washington Universuy andmost enthusiastic.

This is the first year in over twentythat we have not received a Christmas pic-ture of Red JPhile Cornish's four children.Danny is now overseas, with the Army,stationed in France. Betty Kunkle Palm-er s son Pat is at Paul Smith College nearSaranac Lake, N. Y. Pete, a 7th grader,is keeping Kunk up to date in. geog-raphy, math, etc. Jessie lVachellhel1!l !3"-rack and husband flew to .San FranCiSCOin October for a College of Surgeons con-vention. They went afterwards to Coro-nado to visit their newly marned daughterBetty. Wachie is still playing tennis. fromfour to six days a week at an ~ndoorclub-figures she may still be playm.g at90! Tempi Cairney Gilbert's daughter IS anRN in Minneapolis where her new hus-band is interning. Tempi visited them dur-ing Christmas vacation when she was freefrom her duties teaching second grade.

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1937CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Floyd Reed (RuthBurdsall) I Box 3'j 1, Middletown, Conn.

From Silver City, New Mexico, Prise-ilia Cole DUflCill! writes that she and herhusband Jim have purchased a Cessna 172and are learning to fly. Dorotby CbateerSauer's oldest boy is IS and a senior atLoomis. Sandy, nearly 15, is a typicalteen-ager who enjoys the Sauer's newestaddition-a swimming pool. Betty COrri-gan Daniels is kept busy in Shaker Heightswith her three little girls, Mary 4V2, Lisa3 and Amy born last Mar. 13. FromLouise Langdoll's brother of LangdonFarms in Westwood, N. ]., comes a notesaying that Louise, her four children andher husband are in Germany where herhusband, Col. Hasselback, commands amissile base. Shirley Cohen Schrager's notesounds as though she is chairman of abouteverything in Storrs-chairman of commit-tees for political rally, chairman of nomin-ating committee for hospital, auxiliary,chairman of education committee for Heb-rew school, etc. She is also secretary andbookkeeper for her husband's constructioncompany and dental office. By a strangecoincidence, friends of Shirley visitedfriends of theirs in Denver who turnedout to be Lis« Bissell Carroll.Leigh, Ellen Cronbecb Friedman's daugh-

ter, who at 17 graduates from Mary In-stitute in June, visited CC and hopes togo there next year. Ellen's youngest, John-ny, is a freshman in high school. GinnyDeuel's latest adventure was a five-weektrip through Europe last summer. Shebought a Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, trav-eled about 2000 miles, shipped the carhome from Rotterdam, and flew homefrom Copenhagen. Ginny says she hasabout 2 hours of movies if anybody hasthe patience to sit through them.

1938CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. William B, Dolan(M, C. Jenks), 755 Great Plain Ave.,Needham 92, Mass.

Aagin this year many of us are goingthrough the "sweating out" period of col-lege applications and entrance examina-tions. Et1elyu Faller Sisk's oldest daughterCarol is trying to make up her mind. Hersister Nancy graduates from junior highthis year and the youngest, Debbie, willenter kindergarten in the fall. CarmanPalmer vOIlBremm is continuing her workat the Livingston, N. ]., school cafeteriaand finds it as interesting as ever.Those of you who have vacationed in

the south this winter will "envy" DotBartlett who ventures forth to work fromher Vermont home in sub-zero weather.Liz FieldiNg is back on the job at Re-publican Committee. Kay Boutwell Hoodspent last summer in Marblehead. Heroldest boy is a freshman at Denison,Univ. in Ohio. The other three go toWinchester schools. Kay busies herselfduring the winter with her hospital vol-unteer service, helping in the schools and,this past year, taking part in the elections.Frannie Willson Russell arrived in NYC

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her train was stuck in the Lincoln tunnelfor three hours. She hasn't been travelingaround the country as much as usual be-cause her husband's business interests aremore concentrated rn the Florida areathese days. BUI1Il)' Hurlbut If/hite writesfrom Mt. Sterling, Ky., that she was incharge of conducting the "open-house"tours of a recently opened 50 bed hospital.In early December before the snows came,she was out playing golf on a newly com-pleted 9 hole course. Her oldest daught~rElise is a freshman at Fairfax Hall 10Waynesboro, Va.The sympathy of the class is extended

to Cdrl and Gracie Smythe Weisenbachon the death of their two sons in a pre-Thanksgiving Day automobile accident.There have been many address changes

too numerous to mention here. If you areJooking for a classmate, check with oneof our class officers.

1941CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Donald N. Twad-dell (Betty Smith), State Hospital, Em-breeville, Fa,

jane Men-itJ Bentley bumped into Nan-cy Butler Findlay at a Berkshire Parents'Day in October. "We both have boys inthe freshman class in the same dorm andboth boys are good friends. Nancy saysher husband commutes to NYC every dayand that they live in Rumson, N, J. 1guess you know that Helen Jones Costenhas a new baby." Kay Keeler Irwin is agood person to know if you move toConnecticut as she has gone into the realestate business around Old Lyme and lovesit. Mary Hall, a busy GP, sees some leisuretime in the offing at last, as a new doctorjoins the community of Clinton, Conn,Bettie Brick Collie- finds it nice to havea two and a half year old in the houseto enjoy Christmas, as Billy is almostout of the toy stage. Marylou SharplessSwift writes that this is the last year fora Christmas card of their six children,as Hugh will be away in college nextyear, Skiing and tennis seem to be thefavorites for the Swifts. Priscilla DuxbU1'Y1/7escou says they are longing to try Cana-da and Europe after a trip to Californialast summer. They managed to includea lot of friends on their journey, withPeg Laiore Moltzell and family for anovernight at Fallen leaf Lake, Calif. Peg'ssecond of four sons was down for threemonths as a result of a baseball injuryand can recommend their new local pedi-atric wing as taps-sun deck, TV andplay room, and gorgeous wide corridorsfor the wheelchair patients. Betty Hol-lingshead Seelye was busy in the fall sell-ing tickets for Advise and Consent for thePhiladelphia Chapter of Cc. Althoughthe Twaddells couldn't attend, I judgethey were most successful.

1942CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Paul R. Peak (JaneWorley), 189 Parkway North, New Lon-don, Conn.

A milestone has been reached for theClass of 1942. Our children are approach-ing college age and at least one is in

college. The first to go is Martha Alter,daughter of Jim and Berry Beecb Alterof Rajpur, India, Marty was graduatedlast May at the age of 16 from Wood"stock High School in India, Where herbrothers are students at the ele.nentarylevel, her father was once a student,and her grandfather was principal, at onetime. In July she entered Isabella Tho.burn College for Women. Barry wrote,"It was quite a change for her tc' movefrom the cool weather of the hills to theheat of the plains, and from Americanways of discipline and teaching to thoseof an Indian college. She was iust be-ginning to know the girls and to appre-ciate her new way of life when she camedown with an attack of infectious hepa-titis. Her case turned out to be a light oneand she was discharged from the hospitalin less than three weeks." Next summerMarty will come to the United States toattend college. Since the return of theAlter family to India in 1959, Jim, amissionary of the Presbyterian Church, hasspent most of his time making a studyof the Protestant churches in Delhi. Barryand the boys, Tommy and John, joinedJim there to welcome President Eisenhow-er to India. Now the family is reunued attheir home in Rajpur where Jim is writ-ing a report of his investigation v-hichwill be published this year.

For the second year in a row jnc., andAdele Rosebrock Barr drove up r romYonkers N, Y., to visit us in New Lon-don on Veterans Day. As Jack is a dentist,they use the dental conventions as an op-portunity to visit different parts of thecountry, and in addition manage an ?c-casional mid-winter vacation in nundaplus a month at Lake George ev~ry su~n-mer, This always results in a reuruon WithDick and Marjorie Mitchell Rose of Rut-land, Vt., where Dick has his own forestrybusiness, Marjorie has two children: Rickie16 and Tina 12, and Adele has two boys:Peter 12 and Dick 10.One of our more ambitious classmates

is Putty Linder. During the war she work-ed for the government in Washington,after which she was with the Red Crossoverseas for four years, and the PersonnelOffice at CC for two years. In 1954 shestarted graduate work at Boston Univ. Shereceived her M. Ed. in 1956 and Certi-ficate of Advanced Graduate Specializa-tion in Rehabilitation in 1957. Since thenshe has been rehabilitation counselor withthe Boston Tuberculosis Association on ademonstration program in four clinics anda sanatorium, and is working for her do.c-tor's degree. She has an apartment 10

Brookline and spends weekends in NewHampshire at her mother's home whereshe relaxes with vegetable and flowergardening.Another who has reached the top in

her field of endeavor, Judy Bardas Pinter,wrote about her career as a chemist: "Thecompany 1 work for manufactures plasticsfor the dental profession, and I do re-search and development work for th~m.This is my lIth year with this orgamaa-tion and we have reached a mutuallyagreeable arrangement. For the past twoor three years J have been sort of a con-sultant to them, which means that I go

in for a few hours each day, take longvacations whenever possible. I find thisan ideal solution as I can still claim theproud title of a working $al and at thesame time have enough leisure for otherthings that interest me. We have no chil-dren but many nieces and godsons whom Ienjoy taking out in free time. I collect an-tiques and _ my hobby is visi,tmg t!le. auc-tion gaucnes. My husband 1S a civil en-gineer, partner in a construction firmwhich voecializes in prestressed concretefor heav \; construction. He is a very busyman an,J my only complaint is that allour trips-after I finally manage to gethim <)v.;,y-are cut short because Georgeis called back for some emergency orother." Judy and George live in an apart-ment (if) the East River Drive in NewYork. lhey take a trip every year. TheCaribbean this winter, Mexico last year,and Europe two years ago.

1943CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Raymond I. Post(Betty Shank), 26 Highland Road, West-port, Conn.

Ruby Zagoren Silverstein, whose letterjust missed our last deadline, writes, "Myhusband, Zuna 10, Grant 7¥z and I ha.vejust returned from two full months driv-ing in Europe. 1t was a very interestingtime. We stayed partly at hostels, partlyat hotels that Europeans themselves stayedat, so v.e met many people of the coun-tries. 1',1.y main interest outside club activi-ties ontinues to be my writing. GoodHOIIJ: eepillg carried my poems in Juneand September 1960. The Christian ScienceMOJliiOl" and N. Y. Herald Tribune arealso publishing some of my articles.In ali I write for some 30 publications ayear. Each morning I sit down and writeuntil noon. Afternoons are free for otherpursuits. Everything gets done except myhousework."

In October Betty Rabinowitz Sheffer '44and 1 spent a most rewarding AlumnaeDayan campus and saw plans for thesix new dormitories with their combineddining halls. Jane Geceler Seelbach haddriven in from Cleveland with her daugh-ter Sally who is interested in Cc. Janehad been in Hartford hoping to see Mar-tha BOJite Morri.fJolI, but discovered Martywas currently in Europe with her hus-band. Mrs. Morrisson Sr. told her Martyhad visited LOlliJe Radford Dellegl'e inBelgium where Louise and her husbandexpect to be for two years.

I ran into Frieda KenigJbm·g Lopatinand her husband at the New Haven pre-miere of Adtiise and COI1Jent. Fl'eida is as-isting in OUI' Fairfield county coffees andbenefit this year. .COllJtallce H(UlreJl IVellJ' charmmg

Christmas family photograph and !ett~rfrom the Philippines states that thIS 1Stheir third year there. "Kim 1, our littleFilipina has learned to walk and talk.Leslie {s a junior in high school and i.nmany extra-curricular activities. Danny 5

interests are all sports. Last year he playedLittle League basketball with Philippi~oboys who taught him a lesson not onlY.Inball handling but also in sportsmanshIp.last April we got to see the Taj 10fahal

and rode down the klong in Bangkok. Wehave just returned from a weekend at Ta-gaytay, the place where there is a vol-canic lake within a lake, and PagsanjanFalls. We have yet to climb Mt. Fuji. Wesail for the land of Supermarkets andBaby Sitters next June and hope for aclass reunion. On our way out here tothe Pacific in '58 we saw Nan ThompsonIFells, Cerolvn Merchant Arbonies andMargaret Hof)pock Feeney."Paula Later Polivy s Dick is now 14,

Ken 9 and Karen 6. She says, "Charlie andJ were able to get away for three weekslast fall to Hawaii. We toured Honolulunnd the islands of Oahu and Kuai. Thepeople were charming, the scenery breath-taking and the beaches wonderful. Afterflying back to San Francisco, we motoreddown to the Monterey peninsula and SanSimeon:'

From St. Petersburg comes word fromMarion Reich Schaeffer, "after 13 yearsall three children are in school and I'mhustling with two PTA's, church, Wo-man's Club and United Fund. Barbarais in 8th grade, cheerleader, Sec. of Stu-dent Council, and water ballet. The boysare great fishermen and catch dozens ofcrabs and fish from our own dock."

Thelma Gustafson Wyland is back atschool one day a week getting her M, A.in education from the Danbury StateTeachers' School. This will go on until1963 but she is thoroughly enjoying it.She saw [anet Sessions Beach at a lunch-eon in Orange, Conn. Janet has fourchildren. Her husband commutes fromBristol to NYC. Thelma spent a day inHartford with Edith Gebennan Sudarskyand her family. Gay and Joe flew to Ber-muda for a week in December. DottleLentz Alld1"1ls has moved to a new homein Orange, Conn. Thelma also heard fromElizabeth Goodrich Barnes in Pine Orch-ard, Conn., whose oldest daughter wantsto go to CC next fall.

BOI1IlY Livingston Campbell was withouta husband for three months last fall whileStaff attended a special management cou~sein Boston. He has also made several tripsto the West Coast but is currently at home.Kitty McKee McVicke~·.r' husband has goneinto a new venture With the Kenneth IvesReal Estate Co., in Darien, Conn. Sheheard that Pranie Adams Crane's husbandBob had been in Memorial Hospital forsurgery recently.

Christmas brought notes from Mat"}Lou Shoemaker Turner with pictures ofher new son and her three daughters; Rltt.hIWilJOll Cain with it photograph of thencharming remodelled farfl.lhouse; Bm·barnAndrus Collills, Evelyn Silvers Da.tYI andBarbara Ho;;ate Ferrill who ha~ Just re-turned from another skiing outlOg.

The Post infirmary is still going strong.I s:ill have three more months of therapyas a result of our car accident. Ou~ Int?-die son Jerry was hospitalized tWlCe. 10November and is currently re~uperattngfrom asthmatic bronchitis. Ray. IS o~ fora Shell communications school 10 ChIcago.

The class wishes to extend its deepestsympathy to He/en Borer J(ICkSO:1 whosehusband Kirk dIed last summer 10 Stam-ford, Conn.

1944

CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. J. Stanley Cobb, Jr.(Elizabeth DeMerritt), 721 Indian Trail,Martinsville, Va.

nORt"'1: to Starr and A1(//"iml DowdellBanmm a third child, second son, Chris-topher in December '60.

This is our reunion year and A'la" CoxW'alker, with Sue Balderston Sears andRust), Grosvenor English are planning nowfor a big event. It will be only as galaas we make it, so contact your friends1l0W, make arrangements for baby sittersand transportation and-See you in June!

Prenny Smith MillS/Hill wrote in theearly fall, "Bill is in Cleveland campaig~-ing for re-election for his 4th term 10Washington. He is a Republican on theAppropriations Committee, sub-committeein defense. The boys are 7, 9 and 11,handsome of course. Life is fun here eventhough we are together only six monthsof the year. Have met many renownedfigures in government. Do much volunteerwork and attend the boys' football games."From North Haven, Conn., Maridll pow-dell Bannon says, '·1 feel like three differ-ent people. Have a to-year-old daughterGrace, who just got her license, so is offin my car; a 13112-year-old son, Starr, \~hois off playing ice hockey; and have Justfinished giving Christopher, age 3 weeks,his 10 a. lTI. bottle. Don't know if Jfeel like a new mother or a grandmother.Besides family, outside activities until threeweeks ago, were golf, garden club and realestate. Now I shall wait and see whatis in store, Had a wonderful Christmasin our newly decorated and done-overhouse."

"Italy," according to Bell}' HarbougbRicbardson "is a fabulous place and thelast two y~ars have flown by .. We've oneyear to go. Living here has glven us theopportunity to really get the flavor ofItaly. We're less than two hours fromVenice and in a few more hours we canbe in Florence. We've made one trip tosouth Italy and have just returned from aweek's trip to England. Each summer thechildren have the time of their lives whenwe spend a month at Jesolo on the Adri-atic. Add to this a nice big a-bedroornapartment and a full-time live-in maid forabout $35 a month, and you can we~lunderstand why we love it here. All thisis possible because Phil took his residencyin orthopedic sUI·gery in the Army. I.aman Army wife and we have three. !L.ttleArmy brats!" Nedda BIt,.~sa1~ Kern IS Justbeginning a twC? year penod ~n Java whereher husbilnd WIll teach phySICS at the In-donesian Polytechnic Institute.

From California, Jean Caldwell Buell~ays "Our new house is giving us all the;pa~e we need at last. It is ~O years oldwhich is considered rather anhque for ourarea. After five years of scouting, I amtaking this year to treat myself to l'!1ember-ship in a singing group. Our vacatlQn w~sspent at the Stanford Fa,?ily Camp ~nthe Sierras where each famtly has il ~a~llland everyone eats in a big central dlOmghall. This sort of activity has becomevery popular for family vacations here .."Jane Belhlck Jl7r,ly has not been well thiS

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past year but is "OK now though I amlucky to have my mother here living withus. Our 15 month old adopted daughter,Mary Louise, is a pretty and smart one.She is into everything from climbing onchairs and tables and under things to in-vestigating all sorts of things." MarjAlood)' Shifler with her two babies 3 and1 is busy! "I admire the people who canmake time for outside activities. Even myfavorite hobby of sewing for Becky andfor me is severely limited to necessities.But I'm not unhappy for I have neverfelt the great need of community activitythat many women have. I worked for10 years before I married and have foundthat home-making is much more staisfy-ing.'Eddie Miller MOil/gomer)' says, "Sum-

mers are still spent in Tenants Harbor,Me., and we have, in fact, just returnedfrom a fall weekend there convinced thatMaine is our favorite spot any time of theyear. Winters involve lots of skiing andTommy and Meredith arc fast becomingthe pros that I'm not. Much of my lifeis now spent in pursuit of Jock who hasreached the 'terrible twos.' Community ac-tivities and the chairmanship of the JuniorLeague Concert Series in Springfield are awelcome escape. We've at last found a newhouse, if you can call it that, built in1792'" Helen Rippey Simpson is occupiedwith the activities of husband George andsons George 12, Jim 10 and Peter 7. Sheis also president of the CC Club of Fair-field County. Doris Campbell Safford hadfun at her Emma Willard 20th reunionlast May with Anne Price Earle and JeanLeinbach Breitinger.Anne Deois Heaton's husband Gordon

is now supervisor of the infants and chil-dren's wear buyinug dept. for Sears forall the retail stores and catalogs, so will betraveling a great deal. Their oldest sonDave had a big football season, climaxedby being selected to the All ConferenceSquad and being chosen a co-captain fornext year. Davie spent a couple of daysin NYC in August and saw Sally Church.Sally visits the Heatons regularly and alsoLois lIv"b.rter Ricklin. Ph)'l CUNninghamleft Hanover, N. H., this f:tll and returnedto NYC, staying with Sally till she foundher own apartment. She has a fine new jobwith the Stanford Research Institute.Barbara Jones Allillt. did some substitute

teaching at Waterford High School thisyear and also visited at her mother's sum-mer cottage on Bruce Peninsula in On-tario. Rl/lhe Nasb IVolver/on visited Bar-bara in the summer. The Allings cruisedon their 26 ft. sail boat to Long Island"and decided the islands here were justlovely and the water just as blue as anywe had seen during our travels. Carol isa junior in hi~h school, Ernest in 6thgrade and Jimmy in 2nd."Mar)' Melville Zildjian is "hoping for a

change of luck in '61 from a streak ofbroken bones. Having a CC coffee morninghere in January for South Shore-Plymouthgals. Priscilla Duxbury Wescott '41 iscertainly a live wire in the alumnae grouphere." Ben and Bm'bllra Pfohl Byrnside arestationed in Honolulu now. Ben is onAdmin,1 Fch' CJNCPAC joint staff. Nan-cy-Carol Smith LeJtlre is still reminiscing

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about their European trip of last year.'Tom, this year, took part of the Medi-terranean Tour seeing North Africa, Spainand Portugal. Then he had the nerve tocome home in time to repack for a sojournto Hawaii for three weeks. Loved it, too.Now he's off to the South Pacific thisMarch and I'm trying to find a way tojoin him. Couldn't trust him in Tahiti."Tom's most recent travel book is TheGrand Tour of Europe, published byHarian.Ph)'l Smith Gotscbatl with her three

children left summer in Argentina forChristmas in Cleveland. They have boughta house overlooking a golf course in Cor-doba where George has built and is man-aging a steel plant for Kaiser. MtlrY JeanMoran Hart from Kettering, Ohio, had abig Christmas with all her family in NewJersey. "Tim, my six foot 10th grader, isbusy with school, guitar lessons, the Ygroups, ice-skating. Bobby continues hiswork on the trumpet and spends everyspare minute. from 6 a. m. on readinghistory and biography. Kevin, growing al-m?st too fast, loves school, teacher, every-thing and everybody. I've been studyingwater color this winter and find not toosurprisingly that the talent is missing. Ithas been an experience anyway." MargeAlexander Harrison ran into Singie HunterSmith and Ginn)' Passavant Hendersonlast year at the Harvard-Yale game.Marge's daughters, 13, 7 and 5"seem to take this male atmosphere atAndover Prep School in stride, at least, atthe moment." Alice-Jane IPeber McDermolthas moved to Caracas and is enjoyingluxury there with General Motors. SuzeeHarbert Boice has taken her daughter for acollege interview at Cc..Ginn)' Weber Marion writes, "My life

stIli. Cub Scout Den, Girl Scout leader,dan ClOg school secretary, Junior League.Have not yet had time to go back toschoo.l as I had planned. Spend my lifeworking for and with Leslie 15, Meredith13, James 10 and Geoff 8. Lots of us areplanning on reunion-Kille,', Site B., Mac,[eaunie, Passy, Sizzle, Cberie, Ssaee,[ecqee;" How about you?

1945CO,CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs. H. P. Wing(Nancy Funston), 218 Inwood Ave., UpperMontclair, N. }.Mrs. D. L. Crossman (Elizabeth Trimble),i77 Hawthorne Ave., Glen Ridge, N. ].

Our class officers are: President Mrs.William Christoffers (Ka/herille IV-e/lk);Secretary, Mrs. Robert E. Leslie (ChadotteE. Browne); Treasurer, Mrs. F. SteeleBlackall 3rd (Patricia Hancock); ClassAgent, Mrs. Joseph Wissman (Betty AII-dersoN) .

From Jack and Pat Wells Caulkillswhose Christmas card pictured four h'lnd.some boys: Corky, Peter, Billy and Chuck-ie, "The ~i.lkinses, Wilk and SlIe (Sock)Porter If/tlkms and their three children-Tony 15, Wendy ]0 .an~ Wayne 3-stop.ped here at the beglOnlOg of their finalfive-week camping trip in June. Also sawSoxie (Peg Stlchs While) in Chicago thisfall who just produced a son after fourdaughters." Pat is eager for the '61 re-

union of our class. She sees N,//! FordMar/in who writes news of her three:"Debbie has a horse now, Julie a ponyand I must say it keeps them busy cuingfor them. Mike is 5' 11" tall, thin, quitehandsome and doing well in school. I'vebeen working with emotionally disturbedchildren two days a week." Nan and Martyhave kept in touch with Dick and KittyIV iltimns Flannery who have three chil-dren: Harriet, Mike and Ann. Kitty writesfrom Perrysburg, Ohio, that they <1.'-"" ina new house and just love it. She, Dickand the children went skiing after Christ-mas with the Martins.Cbarloue Burl' Evans is looking forward

to reunion in June and Jean T bomas Lam-bert says she might be inspired if some-body in the East got things going. Donand Jean have three children: Bill, Tom-my and Nancy. Bill is now a 7th graderat Middlesex School, following in hisfather's footsteps.

Hal and Carol (Tink) Schaeffer lPynnein the past year have settled in a newhome in Arlington, Va., with Hal workingat the Pentagon. Also from Richmond,Va., Florence Murphy Gorman wrues,"Don't know where to start, but I guessour move back East in '57 is as good asany place. We had lived in South Dak itafor four years when Larry was a geologistwith the AEC. Loved the country andpeople but were so glad to be East ndurban again. The greatest event of ourS. D. years, in fact our lives I guess, wnsour adopting our Janie, now 4 years "iJ.But life still held more surprises. Melissawas born to us on Feb. 21, '59 and Ill!April '60 came Lance, our red-haired,brown-eyed boy. It has all been so de-lightful we can hardly believe we havethis nice family in four short years afterour 7¥2 childless years. Larry is now withthe Soil Conservation Service here in Vir·ginia and loves it. He gets to Martinsvilleoccasionally and had a wonderful visitwith Libby Cobb (Elizabeth DeMerrittCobb ex '44 and her family there oneevening. On our trip home to Messachu-setts this fall we missed our usual visitwith Dorsey and Pert Feldman IIYhi/estone.but last fall we had a wonderful weekendwith them and hope to do it again if ourfamily doesn't get too out-sized. Naturallywe always have hope that they will dis-cover the road between here and there isnot one-way. In the spring of '59 I wasdelighted to have Mims Braun Lambertcome spend a day with me while she wasvisiting her mcnther-in-law in Charlottes-ville. I can really reach back and tel! youthat in May '58 I had a day visit withNancy McKewen Cerme in Cochranville,Pa., and way back in the S. D. periodI saw Jean Ann TemlJ/e D,mis on a tripto Denver once Forgot-along withour new family we got a new house-last Feb."

From Jean Patton Cmwfol'd we heardthe Crawforqs traveled a lot in 1960. "Fordembarked on a massive rail shipping pIO-gram to get its vehicles to their ownersa little faster and better. Result? Hank hadto evaluate many rail sites in many citiesto assure they met Ford st:lOdards. In Jan-uary, Jean made a trip of her own toEssex, Conn. In mid-March we all visited

the Phil .1Od Ann Lel.ieore Hermanns intheir new home at Bethel, Pa., with youngPhilip Crawford at 6 mos. blossoming in-to a good traveler ... Bill 9 in January,is the c.tm, thoughtful, intense, thinskin-ned, spL'us-minded, typical (a psychoso-metric tester told us) of the bright, butshort-of .gcnius type. Hal, God bless him(he'll D!.:<:J it) is our 'character'; at 3Y2,however, he is very sure motioned andcan do some things already that giveolder Bi'I trouble. Hall (an be good justso long and then he bursts. Gave him aspecial, Hal-only night out for dinnerrecently he caught on that in restaurantsone speaks in subdued tones and did thisfor one-half hour. Suddenly however, with-out warning, he turned to the other pa-trons to scream about three words, return-ing then to the quiet talk. He just has tobreak loose periodically. Phil, of course, at131/2 months is pretty much animal, but be-gins t: feed himself somewhat, and canunplug electrical plugs, climb into thebathtubs (disastrous at times), attempt toput Of' his own socks. Phil appears to bea middle of the road version of Hal andBill."Trm. me (Eliztlbelh Trimble Crosman}

sees • lot of Leu y Friedlander 5te;'lhtlrt.Bo.h :10k a job this fall doing marketrese«,c., for various companies in NewYork City. The job is just plain inter-viewir-c from housewives all the way topresio. nts and vice-presidents of large com-panic- .u this area. Letty has stuck with itbut T .mmie dropped out around Christ-mas. Lc.ty was appointed recently by theBoar •.i of Education in Caldwell to a citi-zens' committee to do research on theoverc.owding of the schools in that area.A ca.u to Letty from Clara Sinnott Lipsey,Iivinjr in Virginia, "Elmer left on a 2-month trip to Europe in January '60 thatlasted until June. He went again in Oct-ober for 2¥2 weeks and left again inNovember for what is supposed to be a3-wetk trip. I'm keeping my fingerscrossed. That about tells the story of ouryear. 1 haven't done anything in PTA yetthis year although I plan to after Christ-mas. Chris is in 8th grade in a newschool. It is the first year the 7th and 8thgrades are in their own school and theyare still experimenting. Charles is in 5thgrade-nothing special. Debby is in anaccellerated 3rd grade (oniy slightly so butenough to keep her a little bit pressed)."

1946(ORRESI'ONDENT: Mrs. Roger M. Wise, Jr.(Barbeur Grimes), 189 Flowerhill Road,Huntington, L. I., N. Y.

Plans for our 15th reunion are under-way! The class of '46 had a small trial-run reunion early in November '60 inNew London when our Madame-presidentShirley (Chips) lVilsoll Keller, Janet Ken-Nedy Murdock, Joan IVeisslll/1Jl Burness,Mary (Roe) Roemer Brickley, and LeeMimeI' Goode met for a planning meet-mg. Janet and Joan are reunion co-chair-men and Roe is treasurer. Lee is back inNew London for four years while hubbyDick is teaching at the Coast Guard Aca-demy. Chips decided to "come down outof the hills and make a weekend of it too."

They all decided they had weathered the15 years rather well and issue a call toall of you in the class of '46 to come backto New London June 16 thru Igth. Chipsclaims you 11 find little change in thecurrent CC gins (shorter hau, longerskirts) but wondrous changes on the cam-pus. The planning committee of five re-port these plans in the offing: an "Alum-nae College" to be held Thursday nightand all day Friday, a chance for all of usto hit the books a bit and get our rustyminds working again; a buffet supper andfaculty panel Friday night; a class picnicSaturday noon; the class cocktail partiesand a general reunion dinner Saturdayevening. In between there will be timeto browse through the new buildings, re-new old friendships, etc. There will alsobe class elections for new president, vice-president, correspondent, treasurer, chair-man of nominating, and reunion chairman.Any suggestions will be welcomed by Mrs.Chandler Y. Keller or me.

In a Chris.mas note JOt/II IVeisslllalJBurners reiterated all the above news withspecial emphasis on writing to your closeand far-flung friends to save the comingJune 16-18 weekend. Joan tells of muchgolfing with her husband Sid. Jimmy hasgraduated into Jr. High and after takingMarch entrance exams for an excellentprivate day school in the area, is setthrough the 9th grade, and doing his par-ents proud. Patty never gives Joan amoment's worry, most enthusiastic andextremely bright. Jimmy and Patty enjoyedovernight camp for the first time last SUl?-mer. Sid was unanimously re-elected chair-man of the Dept. of Medicine at St. Fran-cis Hospital, Hartford, Conn., for thethird consecutive year.Lee Carr Freeman loves Houston, Texas,

and all are as well adjusted to Texas asany Yankee can be. Dalla Davies Mageeand Curt really feel like residents of thegreat Northwest. The~ and the children,Alison, Andy and Melissa, moved out thispast June when Curt was made. branchmanager in Spokane, Wash. Cymhla. Terrycame to visit for a weekend looking assvelte as ever. Eleanor Tobias (Toby)Gardner husband Bob and the children,Michael: Tommy and Bobby, took theirusual trip to the Thousand Islands nearCanada this summer. In October Toby andBob stopped off to see [oanne Ferry Gatesand Dick for a brief but delightful ch~ton the way to Boston. They saw Cy}~/hlaT en'y, too, but this time in Boston. ArleenMoody Bail/tOll wrote. that her permanentresidence is Buenos AIres; summers, Ama-gansett, L. I. She. and husband Jack b~vetwo children, a girl 1 a ~oy 4. She listsher occupations as houseWIfe, gardn.er, po-tato picker, etc. Jack is a sales engmeer-r-territory, Latin America. Fra,nces Jt7agllerElder and Jim stopped by I~ September.Aileen lunched with M'".lan (Ma1n!Thompson in NYC. Mam IS now !,-~s tPersonnel Director, Assoc. Mercha.ndlslOgCorp. there. Dorry Lovett Morr:ll a~dhusband £d, having moved five times ~nthe past six years, are at last ba.ck 10

Rockland County, N. Y., and planOing tomake this move the last one .. ~~ey arebusy trying to put down roots, JOlOing thelocal church, etc. Darry is looking ~orwar.dto the formation of the new PTA JO their

new elementary school in New Cityand is transferring to the local AAUW.Cub Scouts are coming up for the firsttime in their family. The usual activitieswith Winston 8 and Ann 4 go on. Edkeeps busy with his Masonic affiliationsin addition to his job in automotive saleswork. laue MOlllague Wood and doctortor husband Brooks plan to take in theNYC boat show at the Coliseum in Janu-ary '61. Roger and I hope to join themfor lunch between Broadway shows andsight-seeing. Jane and Brooks hoped tocome NY way in the fall, but the Am-herst-Williams game, a family reunion, andThanksgiving filled their limited time toget away. They still plan to bring Pennyand Toby to NYC during the April V.ILl-

tion.Another possible NY visitor is Helen

(/Hac) jHcG"iI"e A1l1rphy who comes downoccasionally with husband Joe, NY StateTax Commissioner (or technically calledChairman of the Committee). Joe wasill and hospitalized this fall for threeweeks but feels and looks well now. Skip-per and Rob are cub scouts, play football,drums and piano. Sarah is in kindergartenand bouncy. The baby, Nelson, is fat, buthappy and a joy as be stays put and doesn'tplay the piano or get involved in anycarpools. Anne went to some teen-agedances this Thanksgiving. Mac workedon the Junior League regional conferenceand is still on the Hospital and VolunteerCenter Boards plus her usual devotion tothe Christmas Bureau.

As for your correspondent, she had alovely week off in early December on abusiness entertaining jaunt to Washingtonand Rome (N.Y.--darn!) seeing the sig'usand enjoying breakfast in bed and no 6a, m. reveille. Scott 8 is a Cub Scout witha grand passion for the Civil War, base-ball and football in that order. He is inthe top group of his 3rd grade. Andy 6is a live-wire kindergartener with an inter-est in art and science and our tiger cat,Tippecanoe and Tyler Too. Cindy reignsqueen in her last year at cooperative nurs-ery school, busy being busy, Brooks, 2 inMay, is the original Dennis the Menaceand Skippy rolled into one. Rag stilltravels a lot as Air Force Manager for hiscompany and enjoys the sales end of thebusiness very much.

Remember reunion in june 1961!

1947

CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. R. Leonard Kem-ler (Joan Rosen), 65 Norwood Road,West Hartford, Conn.

MARRIED: Ajary Metd to David A.James in October '60.

BORN: to William and JealZne HaroldOlel' a fourth child, second daughter, Imo-gene Elizabeth, in September, 59 in OldGreenwich, Conn.: to Seymour and JeanneStiefel Goodman, a third child, second son,Brian Nathan, on Jan. 24, '60 in Dublin,Ireland.Mary Mead James, David and his three

children - Lydia 7, Debbe 9 and DavidlO-are living in West Hartford. David iswith the Aetna Life Ins. Co. Jeanne Hat'oldOler's family now funs the gamut from

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rock 'n roll to diapers. The oldest Oleris now a teen-agel' and the youngest theaforementioned Imogene. Jeanne loves liv-ing in Old Greenwich and, despite proxi-mity, visited campus this summer for thefirst time in years and was "terribly im-pressed."

Class reunion is June 16-18 when wewill all be able to see the changing CCskyline for ourselves!

jeanne Stiefel Goodman has been enjoy-ing their tour of duty in Ireland. They havebeen traveling about the country and hadan unforgettable holiday in Paris. Five-year-old Nancy's school program consistsof reading, writing and arithmetic. Jeannereports that the heating in most schools aswell as most homes leaves much to bedesired. The Goodmans are thrilled withtheir real live souvenir, Brian, to bringback with them.

Virginia Sf(wfler Hantz wrote this pastsummer from Dover, Pa., "We located avery livable 9-room stone house on threeacres of land a stone's throw from ourfarm 7 miles from York and are ecstaticover the prospects of being able to enjoythe wide open spaces. Two girls 4 and7¥2 and two dogs look forward to a bigstretch. The 100 acre farm is slowly be-coming a tree farm-we planted 3000pines this spring and schedule more plant-ings each year until we run out of land.The pond affords ice-skating and fishing.A smattering of nominating committeework for the Girl Scouts, a bit more thanthat for the finance committee and boardof directors of the Mental Health Centerand a monumental task of compiling anadministrative manual for the the board ofdirectors of the Jr. Service League keptme out of mischief this past winter andspring

Priscilla Gardner Rhodes writes fromSherman, Conn., "Always have good inten-tions of writing to let you know that Iam still alive-but keep too busy withJoe's woodworking business (making allthe dormitory furniture for the Kent Girls'School, 100 teak pews for St. Mark'sChurch in New Canaan, 500 beds forChoate School-all this winter); threechildren 10, 8 and 6 and their variousactivities such as Scouts, dancing school,ctc.; teaching Sunday School; taking careof 10 rabbits, 2 guinea pigs, 1 cat, 3 fish,6 registered Aberdeen Angus cows and 2wonderful riding horses. Any spare (?)time I get I love to ride, either with Joeor Sandy or even alone. But we are allhappy and healthy."

From Gretchen Lautman Bendix, "Thechildren are now all in school, 5th, 4thand rst grades. We had a lovely summer.The children were in day camp, so Iwas able to get in lots of golf and morethan the usual amount of reading. Aftercamp was over, we all went to Coloradofor a vacation." Elizabeth Faulk visitedGretchen when she was in Chicago fora psychologists' convention. Candy, whohas her PhD in psychology, is taking fur·ther training at Menninger's, where sheexpects to remain for several years. Anintriguing change of address notice placesPriscilla Baird Hinckley at the AchimotaSchool in Accra, Ghana, West Africa.

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1948CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Merritt W. Olson(Shirley Reese), 3716 Frazier Rd., End-well, N. Y.

MARRIED: Peg Lucas ex '48 to MaxGunther, an artist rrom Switzerland, inDecember '59: Marfha lVal'dwell to RobertS. Berryman.

BORN: to Bob and Ginny BermanSlaughter a third son, Jobn Phillip, onAug. 11 in Westport, Conn.: to Carl andStilly Wallace Kltapp a third cbild, secondson, William Waldorf Wallace, in De-cember: to Bruce and Betty Mone Baptiea fifth child, fourth daughter, Kate Martin,on Nov. 25.

Ditz Fried Schagrin writes that they soldthe family cigar business in April and setoff in June tor a two-month 11,000 miletour of the West with Gwen 10 andRonny 5. Ditz had a fine reunion with[ean Berlin Coblentz in San Francisco andwith Enid Williford lj/'aldron in Salt LakeCity. After their return, Harry enteredthe insurance business as an agent fOJNorthwestern Mutual. In connection withhis new career, he spent the month ofOctober at Purdue, and plans to return inMuch and August. Edie Lewin M)'erYkeeps busy taking daughters Lisbeth 8 andLindsay 5 to music and dancing lessons.She took Liz to Alumnae Day on campuslast fall and saw Wee Flanagau Coiiin,the only other representative from ourclass. Edie has kept in touch witb PegLaces Gumher who has led a fascinatinglife, having worked with Frank Chapman,Gladys Swarthout's husband, and withAudrey and Mel Ferrer. Peg and her hus-band Max are living in Rome but mayreturn to the States for a showing ofMax's work in Washington, D. c., inJanuary. Edie saw GinNy KIefer [obnsonon Cape Cod last summer. Ginny hasthree lively boys but still manages to bea part of all local activities in WestYarmouth plus visiting her mother inNew York several times a year.

Marum Koenig ScharfenJlelll has joinedthe "suburban brigade" this year-GirlScouts, choir mother, garden club, evenbecoming an herb enthusiast. Tweet de-cided not to teach this year but does "sub."Tom is treasurer of the church and onthe vestry. Jean was confirmed and Susanentered the first grade. The Scharfensteinsenjoyed Florida while Tom learned to bea "Whirly Bird" but are now back inWest Peabody, Mass. AI and Shirl c».tbell Lilllefieid are enjoying a boat andtrailer, and took them camping at BarHarbor. They had a busy summer withLittle League; Al coached and Dana played.Ann is starting ballet lessons, Dana con-tinuing piano, and Ronnie just "raisingcain," Shirl still plays oboe with the Port-land Symphony, which has a full schedule.

All is well with Bruce and Betty MorseBaptie in North Haven, Conn. Bruce isenjoying his work as sales manager at Car-win Company, chemical manufacturers.Betty is involved in PTA, Brownies, gar-den club, church, badminton club, tennis,and work on the 50th Anniversary Fundlocally. They get up to New london oc-casionally to see her folks at the old home-stead on Ocean Ave., but with five chil-

dren it becomes more of a pilgrimage everytime. The baby, Kate, joins Joan 10, San-dra 8, Susan 6 and Robert Bruce jr., 2,Fred and Di UjJjohu and children visitedthe Bapties last summer. Di has beenteaching school. Dick and Seta lVadl,,,,JJSBarker live just four houses from the Hap-ties and their children play together. Dickis a Yale electrical engineering professor.Sela keeps busy with house, children, J.In-inr League activities and Yale functu.ns.

Pbyl Hoge Rose in Madison, \X is.,taught sophomore literature in the Uriv-ersity Extension Division and a creativewriting course in nearby Stoughton. John-ny and Will were in the University nurs-ery school at different times and Phylnearly lost her mind driving over fourtimes a day. John was involved in re-search on absolute gravity until Aprilwhen he had to complete calculations fora pendulum research paper, which he pre-sented at the meeting of the InternationalUnion of Geology and Geophysics in Hel-sinki. This semester John is completingthe pendulum paper and plans to go backto absolute research. Phyl is back teachingsophomore English. Mead is in 2nd grade,Willie in kindergarten, and Johnny andKate at home. The Roses were firmlv re-quested to leave their house by June l S,as it lay directly in the path of the newchemistry building. They moved th-eeblocks away to a convenient house tb.ttthey like very much. Phyl flew East t.irreunion and a visit with her parents inRhode Island. After her return, they ~,.'t.tled the new house and spent a lovely"green week" on Lake Mendota. Phyt'smost engrossing work is her writing. SiH:took an enjoyable summer course in str,l.j'writing and has started to write storiesas well as poetry. She is getting good ItS-

ponse to her poems and has had one pub-lished in a Wisconsin publication. The big-gest success of all is to come some timesoon in Harper's Magazine. She has soldfour scientific and personality articles toWisconsin newspapers and one to Par-ents' Magazine, "Yom New Baby.' Phylhas started a novel but feels that nobodywill see that published for a while.

1949CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Harold K. DouthitJr. (Mary Stecher), 2930 Valley Lane, Hu-ron, Ohio.

MARRIED: Edie Barnes to David G.Bernard on Dec. 10 in NYC. Bdie is stillhandling fashion publicity and public re-lations in children's wear for Dupont, al-though current projects include paintingand papering a new apartment with thehelp of David, who is General Sales Man-ager of The American Can Co. Edie isstill interested in dance and is awaitingthe arrival of her piano to start lessons.

BORN: to Roemer and J 0.111 Lamberf.i!1cPhee a third child, second daughter,In July: to Fred and Jealt Carroll Siefke adaughter, Marjorie Louise, on Aug. 9: toBob and jallet Regot/az Bickal a thirdchild, first son, Jimmy, on Oct. 20: toDon and BabJ AyerJ Herbst a fourth chnd,third daughter, on Nov. 16: to Haroldand Nan Bdwden Hartvigsen a second sC'nin November: to Bob and Taffy St1'ass-

burger Treat. a fourth child, third daughter,Carolyn judith, on Jan, 1, 1961.

Taffy's newest managed to miss beingan income tax deduction by 4Vz hours,bl-it redeemed herself somewhat by beingproclaimed Brattleboro's "New Year Babyof 1961." This involved having her pic-tun: in the paper, her birth announcementca-ned by the radio on enery news broad-(;b!. of the day, and of course, the usualfascinating gifts from local merchants.Con-l Y01Wg Pomeroy's Bob, currentlyteaching at the Air Force Academy, ishoping to go to England next June for ayear. He was chosen out of 10,000 AFpersonnel to take some English trainingcourse. Carol, while thrilled at the pros-pect, is worried about whether she andtheir three children, Bobby, Diane andDavid, will be allowed to accompany himdue to the new government policies re-garding service dependents. Maggie Fams-uiorrb Kemp and Don had a "grown-up"summer as, Julie, their g-year-old daughter,spent the summer with her grandmotherin Michigan. Maggie said it was too longa visit but it gave them a chance to be-come active Yankee fans. EX '49: SelmaWeIner has been living in NYC for thepast 5 years and is now manager of atravel agency there. She says this "grand"title simply means that she gets all theproblems, and when things get too bad,she takes off for the most exotic place shec..n afford. She has seen Mttria Denes Gig-II",:';'; on the Madison Ave. bus severalt!Il"H:S. Maria now has her own interiorc.ccornting shop, Gale H oimen Marks andbarry had a wonderful three weeks in Eu-rope in July. They visited friends in Eng-j..cd, drove and golfed all over Scotlandand wandered the streets of Paris forseven days and nights. Gale has beensinging in the church choir, among otheractivities, and Barry was elected Barring-ton Jaycees "Man of the Year." Jean Mc-Millen Stmckell and John are Jiving inNew Jersey where John is operations man-ager of WKDN, a Camden radio station.Jean is busy with PTA and Brownies, al-though she describes herself as a non-joiner. They have four children: Sally 9,another daughter 8, Bill 7 and Suzy 14n:ont~s. Kay Vall Sant Spalding and Claylive 10 Grosse Pointe, Micb., where theyare doing over an old brick colonial. Theyhave three children: Christy 11, Tom 9,and Stu 4, and Kay also keeps busy work-ing with disturbed teenagers, Kidney Di-sease Foundation and church. MilletteGoldsmith Hoffheimer and Bud and theirfour boys have finally moved into a brandnew contemporary home they built inCincinnati, Ohio.

I am very sorry to report the death ofNan Sc!mwck Keenan ex '49 on Jan, 2after a long illness. She lived with Boband their three children, Sara 8, Scott5 and Jeffrey 3, in Sharon, Penn., whereshe was active in church, PTA and hos-pital volunteers. She is also survived byher parents of Naugatuck, Conn., Mrs,Schmuck being a CC alumnae, I am surethe whole class joins me in extendingdeepest sympathy to her family for hermost untimely death,

1950CO-CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs, Frank L. Ad-amson (Susan little), 40 Cart Toluca,Kentfield, Calif.

Mrs. Ros~ S, Shade (Mary Clark), 53Beach Drive, San Rafael, Calif,

.BORN: to Sheldon and Edith KolodnyMachell a third child, second son, JasonBennett, in September: to Stephen andPete Hoyt Dimmock a third child Evanin October: to Gene and Tinke: Hltll;M~zg(!j" a third child, second daughter,Elise, on Nov, 16,

Jackie Hamlin Maltby's husband Herbhas started his own sportswear manufac-turing business. look for Murray-MaltbySports Classics. He also carries Scottishcashmere and is off on a buying spree inScotland (all expenses paid, of course).As a wedding anniversary celebration Da-vid and Al Hess Crowell took all fourkids to ski at Bromley after Christmas.

How about raising the necessary milliondollars for the 50th Anniversary Fund?Class agents Bert Trager Cohen and He/ellH aYl/eJ Keith did all the hard work. Rais-ing our percentage above the 46.0 reported10 the last Almnnee News should be easy.Barbara Harvey, Holly Barrett Harris andFritzi Keller Mills represented our classat Alumnae Day in October.

One of our San Francisco neighbors isSally [aceson Dunham ex '50. She getsher exercise by an outing to the park everyday with one-year-old Sarah. It was goodto catch up on her wanderings from Conn-ecticut to Texas to San Francisco, at arecent Bay Area Connecticut pot luck sup-per. Barbie Phelps Shepard and Bruce haveone red-headed two-and-a-half year oldterror, Scott. Seasons greetings from MaryLOll Southard Fuller who reveals thatJohnny 5V2 is a big man in kindergartennow, Dave 4Y2 is as goofy as ever, andKathy 2V2 is a dear and talks a mile aminute, Joey Cohan Drier had a month'svacation from her music therapy job inOctober. She saw Jim and Rusly McClllreBlanning and Steve and Pete Hoyt Dim-mock and their new 10 lb. son in Bostonand visted Ridge and Peg MdcDermidDavis and their two children in Storrs.She then flew to San Francisco to presenta convention paper on "The Problem ofControl in Music Therapy." It was sucha success that the Menninger Foundationis now using the information for s.affeducation. We enjoyed seeing her andwe had a small reunion with Gdby Nos-worthy Morris too. She visited in los An·geles and Cambridge, Mass., before re-turning to New Haven. Allita ManasevitPerlman works for the Children's Com-mittee for Community Center in NewHaven and she and Elliott have joineda Great Books course. After taking careof Lissa 5 and Andrew 31/2 she finds "theold brain isn't as nimble as before."

Back North are Bob and Arlemis BlessisRamaker in Wilbraham. Mass. Bob is onthe production staff of the Wall StreelJOIIl"llal's new plant in Chicopee. Artie isdelighted, as one summer of Jacksonville'sheat and humidity nearly finished her.They took care of 18-month-old Kari,John and Emily Hallowell BlesJis' young-est, for a. week in August and found her

enchanting but exhausting. New Philadel-phia residents are Boardy and AliI! Wood-wtlrd Thompson because of Boardy's pro-motion to manager of Royal-Mcbee's officethere. Woody's roommate Gerry Foote Dot-lwei' wrote that husband Dick is now aLt. Commander and Chief of Coast GuardTraining in Washington, D. C. [enet Pill-lIey Shetl writes, "We're here in Manilafor a stretch (a year more to go). Hus-band Jim is with International Coopera-tion Administration-it's the economic aidprogram of the U. S. government whichdispenses money and technical aid. Inother words, we are the Ugly Americans!The Philippines is an interesting country-it seems American but really isn't un-derneath. The climate in Manila is awfulbut the sunsets over the bay are unbeliev-ably lovely. Filipinos are very friendly andwe are enjoying being able to know them.Son Timothy 18 mos. adjusted to climate,etc., better than his parents and was agreat little traveler,"

Adopted Brazilians Tom and Ann Thom-as McDollllell are having a grand timein Sao Paulo. Tom is now a partner in aninsurance brokerage finn after 13 yearswith the American Foreign Insurance As-sociation. They are enjoying having theirown furniture handcrafted from the lovelyBrazilian woods. They and the children,Mark 6, Martha 4Vz and Tina 2V2, en-joyed a summer vacation in Portugal andthe good old USA. Ann writes, "Politicsare a long way behind 1960 and what withthe construction of Brasilia, our new cap-ital, the economic situation is sad. Thecountry has marvelous potentialities andwe hope to see Brazil snap to somewhatduring the next administration."

Hank nnd Nil/a Anionides If/illJOr, ac-companied by Henry Christopher III 6 andPatricia 4, moved unexpectedly to ParkForest, IlL, which prevented Nina fromattending reunion. Teddy Piynn Bergeryex '50 is doing professional acting inNYC. L)'II Raub Creedon enjoyed a post-reunion visit with Carol Baldwin in NYC.The latter is hard at work with her art,both in teaching and learning. lyn volun-teers time for CC Club and the AAUWbranch in Indianapolis from motheringMadelyn 9 and Nancy 5,

We enjoyed Christmas pix of Ralph andIsabelle 'Oppenheim GOllld's Bobby 7 andBetsy 3; John and Ellie 1f/ood Fltwell's(ex '50) Beth 9 and Jim 2; Albert and NdllLoft Parliament -Hawkes' Grace 6Vz, John4 and Emily 2; Ross and LONny AllenRoberts' Sandy 7 and Susy 5; John andMar)' Young Ingham's Peg 7, Sue 5 andBill 3; George and Helell HtI)'Jles Keilh'sDonna SV2, Kitty 7, Bruce 3V2 and Doug1; Don and Mary Gillam Ba,.bd s (ex'50) Patty 9, Nancy 7, Timmy 5 and Kip3; and Frank and Di Roberls Gibson's six-month-old twins, Nancy and Duncan.

To Mary Clark Shade whose father diedearly in January the class extends sinceresympathy.

1951

CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Robert P. Katz(Claire Goldschmidt), 143 North WhitneySt., Hartford, Conn.

BORN: to Ross and Nancy BohmanMcCormick a second child, first son, Stu-

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art Malcolm, on July 23: to Marvin andSMail Brownstein c;rody a third child,first daughter, Erica Alison, on Dec. 12 inHartford, Conn: to Bob and [anet YoungIPitler a second son, Jonathan Ke.ry, onAug. 23 in Honolulu.

ADOPTED: by George and Helen John-1011 Leonard a second son, Timothy John-son, on Dec. 14,

Jack and Belty Beck Barrett have JeftMassachusetts for Cleveland while Jackspends three years completing his residen-cy in orthopedic surgery. Betty enjoyedhearing all about our cth reunion tromMartha Harris Raymond. Willie Bwggl.'1has been working for her father and m-stead of having to adjust her personal lifeto the demands of a job, she can do theopposite. Needless to say, she finds the ex-perience delightful. During the summerwillie realized one of her ambino.uwhen she sailed Long Island Sound fa,two lazy weeks, mooring at Stratford,Conn., to take in a pertormance at theShakespeare Theatre. In the fall she spenta good deal of her spare time mountainclimbing with a hiking club, preparingfor skiing later on. She claims she canbe recognized on the slopes because sherolls down hills. At lunch with Betsy IP"as-serman Coleman, they reminisced aboutthe m:lOy CC friends often in theirthoughts with whom they've lost contact.Betsy has two children, Wendy 7 andJames 4.Nancy Balh Doyle is living in Wor-

cester, Mass" now and studying at ClarkUniversity to earn a teaching degree. Shewould like to begin teaching at Clarkwhen her children are all in school. Cour-tesy of Roldab Northup Cameron, it islearned that Vloiau [obnson Harries, hus-band Brent and their three sons are nowliving in Westfield, N, J. The two metat a meeting of the local CC club.

Jim and Louise Stevens IPheatley had agrand sumOler on a tour of England, kindgrandparents caring for Alison 8, Kather-ine 6 and Christopher 4 in their absence.Jim .finished his teaching stint at Harvardlast June when he was granted his PhD.The Wheatleys now reside in Champaign,IlL, since Jim has joined the Englishdept. at the Univ. of Illinois. In viewof Jim's field of endeavor, it becomes abit easier to understand how Louise man-aged some 200 books a year, thus becom-ing the undisputed champion of our classin that department, as reported in ourreunion booklet.

My family and J are thrilled at the re-sults of our week-long apartment hunt be-tween Christmas and New Year. After noluck at <.II in following up countlessnewspaper ads, we had a lovely and spa-cious apartment practically fall into ourlaps just as we had given up hope andwere on our way back to Concord. Withinten minutes walking distance are threecolleges, a lovely park, the elementaryschool and all the facilities of a busy ave-nue. All this good fortune came to us,rnind you, very soon after I had smasheda brge mirror to smithereens,

1952CORRESPONDENT: Mrs, George M, Covert(Norma Neri), 49 Blueberry Lane, Avon,Conn.

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BORN: to Gene and Geneoieoe IHeLar-ell Priaeasx-Bnme a daughter, Diana, inNovember (about that time they movedfrom San Francisco to a new house in SanMateo.) : to Larry and Ernestine DreyfusGreoin a daughter, Lisa Marie, on Oct. 1:to Jim and [ean Lanuer Palmer a daugh-ter, Martha Morton, on Oct. 18.

Our new mothers sound enchanted withtheir new responsibilities but manage tokeep active outside the home, GiNger Gra-uiu with music and theater activities and[ean Palmer with an interior decoratingbusiness.Betty 20m Alet/lel" ex '52 writes from her

Hamden, Conn., home, "Rolly is now abusiness broker on his own, selling andmerging big businesses. He just startedthis fall and loves it. He also inventsthings on the side and plays tyrnpem 10the professional men's orchestra, I stillwork with the LWV but have so faravoided bcoming a Brownie leader. I con-sider this a major achievement. lm begin-ning to feel older now. What really doesit, I've decided, is suddenly being facedwith the prospect of explaining the factsof life to YOUI' eldest." The Mettler's havethree daughters and a son. Alan and JailIJ:7eil Libman have moved to Evanston,Ill and are busy furnishing a new apart-ment. AI has zone into business distribut-ing farm machinery and tools.

Don and Ann Ball Rose with son Jeff3 traveled to Connecticut in August tointroduce baby daughter Amy to friendsand family in Wilton. Bob and Mary Ses-sions Morier drove up to see the Roses atCandlewood Lake, Conn., where Jim andSally Carleton Trippe were vacationing.The six spent a gay day catching up oneach other's activities. While East, Annalso saw Louise Durfee in New York, Athome in Webster Grove, Mo. Ann andDon keep busy with church work, dupli-cate bridge, and the Great Books course.

When Durf visited the Moriers at GroveBeach, Conn., in August, George and Iwere spending our vacation nearby. Itgave Durf, Mary and me a chance to siton the beach and chat one Sunday after·noon while Geor,ge and Bob counted nosesto see that Mary's five and my two kepttheir heads above water. Besides being atireless Democratic worker, Durf is be-coming an enthusiastic cook. At that timeshe was anticipating a vacation to Floridaand the Virgin Islands which l've heard

1953

CORRESPONDENT: Teresa Ann Ruffolo, 63Clifford St., Hamden, Conn.

1t appears that the majority of theclass is involved in housewifery, PTA,AAUW or the activities of various politi-cal organizations. Dell Stone Martin ismaking like the proverbial one-armedpaper hanger keeping track of three sonsand one daughter while working for theRidgewood, N. ]., Republicans and Jun-ior Women's Clubs as well as the localPTA. Also in PTA is Mary Ann McClem-ents Mason, mother of three, wife of aWall St. investment banker and residentof Summit, N. J. Mary Lee Prentis Mc-Donald is fearful that her efforts in collect-

ing for the many national drives will oneday lead to mass confusion. She envisionsherself spor.ing a cancer lapel pin .....1111easking for a contribution to the HeartFund, Besides soliciting from door to ,J;O[,

Mary Lee assists at the Lincoln Ce.i.erLadies Auxiliary, equivalent to LearnedHouse in New London. Her husband i, anelectronics staff engineer for IBM. '1 heyhave a sao Andrew Charles 4. janie ,1illd-die Funkhouser keeps busy chasing aitcrchubby 2-year-old Eddie and doing ~heusual daily chores involved in "Occu-pation: Housewife." She heads an AAUWGourmet Study Group. When Janie's notparticipating in the affairs of the WelLJreCouncil Committee and the WilmingtonSenior Center, she's trying to develop skillin golf which she has just begun to learnand in bridge which she's still learning.Husband John is a research chemist forDuPont in Wilmington. Andrew, an invest-ment broker for a Chicago firm, and JillOmdol'ff Neely have two daughters; Kath-ryn 6 and Susan 3. Jill is in charge of or-ganizing and staffing the Pre- school secuonof the Presbyterian Church of West. ...rnSprings, Ill., where she lives. She is to-as-urer of the P.E.D. Sisterhood and an sc-tive member of AAU\V and FranklinSchool Family Council.

Wendell and Jean Ann Hallows Dvs.gel'S, Lani 6 and David' 2 are in Seattle.Wash., where Wendell is doing post gr,'·!uate work at the Univ. of Wash., workic«for a master's degree in oceanography. Je~ilAnn finds the Pacific Northwest beaut..ful but looks forward to returning to tl-cEast. Lincon and Pat Browne Hu nt er li',~·in Springfield, Mass. Pamela ') is in kindergarten, so Pat is in PTA as well as iuseveral church and community servicegroups. Summer activities for the Hunter-include waterskiing and cruises on their18 ft. outboard. They often dock at NewLondon. Frank and Jail Roesch Frallenjeld-er seem to have solved the problem ofkeeping their classmates and friends in-formed of their whereabouts by circulatingan annual report that includes the eventsof the year. They moved to Arvada, Colo.,in January '60 and are completely soldon the marvelous climate, mountains.and scenic view from their own backyard,September found Jan plunging into PTAactivities as Gretchen 5 is now in kinder-garten. Heidi, their younger daughter, is apre-schooler. Frank loves the sales workhe does for the American Standard In-dustrial Division. Sue BrowlI Goldsmithseems to be in perpetual motion, devotingthe major part of her time to the house,the children (David 2 and Jill 10 months)and Whigg's-the Goldsmith's men's cloth-ing store-and giving "spare" moments tothe LWV, the Chappaqua, N. Yo, DramaGroup, and the Chappaqua New Neigh-bors. Joal1 Chul"chwa,.d Jenkim has retiredfrom teaching to supervise her own daugh-ter, Martha 1. David is a second yearresident in internal medicine at New YorkHospital. They live in NYC. I am onthe other end of the PTA, 1 have had achange in grade and am currently pourin,gover Gisell, etc., trying to fathom the un-fathomable lurking behind 24 fun"lovinglittle faces, As the education books state,"It's a challenge."

1954CO-CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs. William S.Burlem (Betty Sager), 181 E. Sierra MadreBlvd., Sierra Madre, Calif.l\l,-s, Raymond E. Engle (Claire 1. Wal-L-, h), Newson Ave., Kittery, Maine.

nOHN: to Rollin and Dosie Knup Harp-t! ,1 second child, first son, Rollin Hilljr.l, on Oct. 22 in Lafayette Hill, Pa.: tohi and Pem Kent Laa]: a third child, sec-on.I son, Kent Wainwright, on Nov. 13:to. Lester and Nalley Weiss Klein a tbirdchild, first son, in October: to Dick andS.liiy Steeber Hollington a first child Flor-encc Annett (Lorie) on June 2: td JohnHOJ • .-'1f!!l Dygert Brady a third child, sec-cn.t girl, Emily Wren, on Oct. 5: toW:lyne and J oyce Tower Sterling, a firstchild, Jeffrey Wayne, on Dec. 23.Tom and Aim"gie MacVean Finn visited

Neua CUIl!1mgham DahLing and Billin November, shortly before they andtheir three children expected to move fromToledo to Pittsburgh, Margie's home town.Leer and Sid Robertson Denton have al1(;W baby girl and a new house in GrossePointe Farms, Mich. After five moves in,is man}' years, Marshall and Mm';allilel-isber Hess have bought a home in New-.uvtle, Pa., and hope it will be fairly per-ro.tnent. As Marianne describes it "BothtJ~e furniture and I are tired of I~oving."~ bey have two children, Carolyn 4 andAndrew 2. In her roundup of news Mari-anne said, "I'm sure you know of NancyDi<-fU Lesser' s two daughters but did youknow the second was born at home?" NoU:~1e to reach the hospital, so little Ellen,n'JW 3, made news of her own.Since Pam Kent Laa]: and Joan Aldrich

Zdl live at opposite ends of the San Fran-CISCO Bay area, they and their husbands{!.";t together periodically to "do" manyur the out-of-the-way eating places in town.Pam and Ed live in Palo Alto, south ofSan Francisco, while Joan and Bill liveIII Tiburon, to the north.Last October Cindy Penning Rebm ex-

pressed well That Universal FeelingAmong Old Grads with, "My most recentactivity with the Westchester CC club wasat the end of September when I (famousgourmet) fed 30 fresh young faces-all ofthem CC bound for the first time. I gotvery nostalgic and teary while padding outdozens of hamburgs in preparation. Tenyears since we too were eagerly facingo.ur ~ma Mater. In twenty minutes I re-lived m detail four glorious years. Thenth~ freshmen came in their knee-lengthsh.rts, their madras shirts, their 'kookie'handos and excited high pitched voices.In seconds I could see that child bearinghad not enhanced my youth Of my shape,and that I was quickly filed away in theircollective mind as pre-Piltdown. So I shuff-led away and joined the earlier classes ofalums because they are 'my kind of peo-ple.' It's not nice to grow 'old' when youfeel so young!"Lo;e Keating is back again this year

at her 2nd grade teaching job. She seesJ?ltdy Val's McQuiJiing who is very active10 civic affairs now that her son is inschool. Loie also saw Ann Christensen-Hyde ex '54 who is acting in New York.After their many moves, Leila Anderson

Frel~,Jd and, Gene have bought a. house,fe.elmg t~ey lJ be permanently settled inCincinnati. Frank and Jeanne Knisel IValk·er sound content. in their Newburgh,N. Y., home. Theil' son Alan, gardeningand other happy pursuits related in aChristmas note gave their letter an extraglow. We Engles missed Paul and JoanFeldgoi se Jaffe last summer by a hair'sbreadth. Thinking we were still in NewLondon, they stopped by to see us thereon their way home from a Maine vaca-tion. Both of them are very active in Phil-adelphia community affairs. Paul is presi-dent of the Young Men's Council of theFederation of Jewish Agencies and in thatcapacity attended a meeting in Detroit inNovember, to which Joan accompaniedhim.In North Andover, Mass., Jules and

Marcia Bernstein Siegel have a busy sched-ule. In addition to her newspaper work,Mush has begun writing non-fiction andcontinues her civic work. Jules has begunanother home renovation project and hasbecome a Boy Scout leader, much to thedelight of the local 8th graders, all ofwhom want to join his troop. A changeof address for Jan Parker indicates she isnow a member of the Wellesley economicsdept. Denny Robinson Leventhal is inNewport, R. I., while Bobby is at theNaval War College. Rod and GwynnDoyle Hunsaker have returned to Cleve-land, Rod's home town. Walter and HelenTeckemeyer Allison have moved to Port-land, Me., and Dale and Betsy GoodspeedFellner ex ')4 are in New Canaan, Conn.At this writing the mixed joys and evils

of a Maine winter are hard upon us. Incase we aren't dug out in time, "the nextvoice you hear" will be that of Betty SagerBur/em from sunny California.The class extends its sympathies to Lasca

H»se Lilly and Marcia Bernstein Siegel,both of whom lost their fathers in Sep-tember.

1955CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Charles S.(Cassandra Goss} , Argilla Road,Mass.

SimondsIpswich,

MARRIED: SUZCll1ne Bernet to PaulDaniel Ritter on Oct. 15 in Shaker Heights,Ohio. The Ritters have just moved to SanFrancisco where Dan is an attorney. Theylove California and hope to remain per-manently.BORN: to High and Dorothy Curtice

Hartwell a second daughter, Ann Brons-don, in June: to George and MargeryFanner Keddy a second child, first daugh-ter, Anne, on Apr. 21. (As George hasbeen sent to Arizona for the winter byGE, the Keddys are enjoying a temporarystay in Phoenix until spring, when theywill move back to the New York area.):to Daniel and Anne Talcott Groth a sec-ond child, first son, Charles Hooker, onOct. 30. (The Groths, with two-year-olddaughter Barbara are living in Spring-field, Mass.): to Bob and Poily MoffetteRoot a second daughter, Deborah, in July:to George and Joan Pm'seils Schenck a sec-ond daughter, Margaret Helen, on Sept.18: to Tom and Ginny Fox McClintic asecond son, Kevin Bruce, on Dec. 1.

Kay Lyon MelJ and her husband Donare living in Philadelphia where Don iscurrently teaching English at the Univ. ofPennsylvania while hnishing work thereon his PhD. Carol Kinsley iYlllrchie's hus-band George expects to receive his BD inJune after which the Murchies hope totravel to Scotland to visit George's par-ents. When they return, they will be set-tling into a parish in New England. faneGrosieid Sm;th has moved to WellesleyHills from New York. Dick was recentlymade Chief of Orthopedics at the USPublic Service Hospital in Brighton, Mass.Carole Struble Bakel' ex '55 and her hus-band Don spent last summer at the Broad-moor Hotel in Colorado Springs. Don hasan orchestra which will perform on theBianca c., a cruise ship, which will con-duct a series of trips throughout the Carib-bean with stopovers at the Virgin Islands,Puerto Rico, Caracas, Panama and neigh-boring ports of call. Cyllth;a Russell Rosie,her husband Pete and their two-year-oldson Chris have recently moved from St.Paul to Tacoma where they are living in ahouse overlooking the Sound on one sideand the Cascade Mts. on the other. Peteis working for the Weyerhauser LumberCo. To add to a house already bubblingwith activity and little boys (Pres Jr. 3V2'Mark 2, and Gordon 6 mos.) CarolynDiefendorf writes that Santa brought abeautiful collie. The Smiths are now horseowners too. Pres and Dief have land out-side Denver where the family spends manyweekend hours riding on their "farm"-awonderful outlet from their busy weekdayactivities in Denver, a city they love andnow call home.

1956CORRESPONDENT: Barbara Hostage, 60Briarcliff Road, Hamden 18, Conn.MARRIED: Jackie Jenks to Graham Me-

Cabe on June 25 (They went to Quebecon their honeymoon and Jackie said theplace was overrun with honeymooners.):Suzanne Rosenbirscb to Martin Oppen-heimer on July 3 (Martin, graduated fromYale Law School in 1956, is a labor rela-tions lawyer. Skip is working as a researchanalyst at 1. F. Rothschild & CQ. Theywent to Europe on their honeymoon,spending most of the month of July inMajorca and on the Italian Riviera.}:Amelia Noyes to Richard D. Baughmanon Aug. 27 in the Conn. College chapel(Jeanne Degenge Cattanach was a brides-maid and Dick's brother, Barry, flew fromFrance to be their best man. Amelia andDick met in 1959 when he was a seniorat Harvard Medical School and she wasworking for the Director of Medical In-formation. Dick graduated from Amherstin 1955 and attended Cambridge Vniv. inEngland for a year. After a honeymoon inNantucket, they returned to Hanover,N. H., where Dick is an intern at MaryHitchcock Memorial Hospital and Ameliaworks as assistant to the public relationsdirector.): Aline Buchman to Herbert New-man on Au~. 28 (Herb is a pediatricianand he and Anne met while she was work·ing in Boston. He finished his residency atthe Mass. General Hospital in June andis now doing pediatrics in the Air Force.) :Carolyn Pfeifer to Roger Horchow on De-

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cember 29 (Anile Buckman Newman andMarie IFaurman Harris were in the wed-ding. Roger is the gift buyer at Neiman-Marcus and after he and Carolyn honey-moon in Europe, they will return to Dallasto Iive.)

BORN: to Herb and Joan GaddyAhrens a second son, Craig Nelson, onJuly 18 (when Craig was two weeks old,they moved into their new home, a splitlevel in the suburbs of Wilmington): toJack and Pat Legge Foran a fourth child,third son, Timothy Michael, on Sept. 23:to Terry and Bobby Wind Fitzsimmons athird son, Timothy, on Oct. 7 (Terry is sohappy with his third son; he says threeof a kind beats two jacks and a queen!They are still living in Colorado, whereTerry works for Climax MolybdenumCo.): to Tommy and Nan Teese Arnona fourth child, third daughter, Barbaralynn, on Oct. 15 (Nan also keeps busywith a book study group, AAUW and aRepublican Club.): to Wesley and EliseHoibeimer Wright a girl, Elise Parker,on Oct. 19: to Burt and Jeanne NortonDoremus a son, third child, Paul, on Oct.24 (They are in Pennsylvania, where Burtworks for Armstrong Cork Co.): to Kenand Sally Bergeson Weeks a daughter,second child, Wendy Katrina, on Oct. 3D:to Brad and Nancy Stewart Roberts adaughter, Jenifer Lynn, on Nov. 28.Ex '56: to Jim and Judy Dotson Kline asecond daughter, Susan Elizabeth, on July16, '59: to Dick and Vicky Shennan Maya boy, Ronald Sherman, on Dec. 1, '59(They have a home in Springfield whereDick is youth director of the YMCA.Dick, who graduated from Yale DivinitySchool in .58, was ordained by the UnitedChurch of Christ in June. Vicky edits thechurch news letter, heads the nursery de-partment and is also chairman of the"Liberal and Creative Arts" group of thelocal AAUW.): to Beth Gibbs Cummingsand her husband a fourth child, first son,B. B. Cummings jr., on Aug. 21: to Timand [o Miltoll Perkins a third daughter,Elizabeth Ann, on Nov. 18 (They liveon Long Island. Jim is an editor at Double-d" & Co.)

Ami Hughes Mons/ream and Bob areliving in Hartford with their red tomcat,Oliver, (for O. W. Holmes). Bob workswith the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. andAmi, who received her M. Ed, from Hart-ford Univ., is teaching a fourth gradeclass that is "fast, sincere, witty, energetic,and a joy." Bob is also studying law atUniv. of Conn's night school in Hartford,while Ami takes a course in modernFrench art and sings in a choir. Theytook a camping trip with Ami's sisterwhich included Boothbay and Bar Harbor,Quebec and Stowe and were especiallythrilled with Quebec City. John and jalletFleming Haynes now have a little housein the country in Massachusetts. Two daysafter they moved, Ted and Marilyn DunnMa,pes and their daughter, Debby, spenttwo days with them. John graduated fromLowell Tech in June and is now workingas a design engineer at the Foxboro Co.

Debby Gutman Feher11ary is teachinghistory in the American InternationalSchool in Vienna and Steve is a journalistworking with a newspaper that he andsome friends started a few years ago. They

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have a house and a huge garden a littleout of the city and Debby recommendsVienna-good theater, Jots of music and,of course, the opera. Ken and Dee RoweSandi" will be in Munich for two years.Ken graduated from college in June andaccepted a job as a civilian with the Army.

When Elaine Nelson StONe last wroteshe and Tom were in Nassau enjoyinga long-awaited vacation. Tom was promot-ed to a new position with RCA in Wash-ington, D. c., and they are building anew home in Potomac, Md. But and SallyDawes Hauser will be in Minnesota forsix months where he has accepted tempo-rary training at Gilette Hospital in pe-diatric orthopedics. Pete and Gayle Green-law Ingraham are always on the move-this time to Memphis. Pete is still workingfor the Torrington Co., and Gayle keepsbusy with Judy 2Vz.

larry and Beth Ruderman Levine andtheir y-year-cld JiH are in Massachusetts.Larry was one of the two men selectedfrom a group of 700 to undertake a two-year creative course at G. E. (which Bethsays they look upon as "Generous Elec-tric"). Winifred and Editb Fay 1\'I1"OZ arein Delaware with their three children;Christopher 4, Peter 2Yz and Rosemarie l.The children keep Edith busy while herhusband is working as an obstetrician.

Carol Simpson Paeradooni and her hus-band are living in Columbia, Missouri.Pak is an assistant professor. of navalscience at the Univ. of Missouri and theyboth love the Midwest. Safu Repo Duck-worth is certainly keeping busy. Her twingirls, Sylvia and Marya, are now a yearold and Satu still finds time to teach apsychology course at Mount Allison Univ.She and her family had a nice holiday inNew England and New York last June.Margee Zellers is manager of the newVirgin Islands Government Tourist Officein Rockefeller Plaza, assisted by CaroleAwad HUIl/. Jim and Carole live in Man-hattan. Jim works with National CashRegister and Carole promotes interior dec-orators on the side,

Erick and Skip Ma:Al·thur Vall Duyneleft Cailfornia in July and did much travel-ing to find the best location to start gen-eral practice. They finally decided on Flint,Skip's home town, and are very happythere in their new home, Erick is busy, ofcourse, and Skip is too, both with JuniorLeague and with puppets that she is"trouping" to the public schools once aweek. Irma Levine Alperin is kept busyand amused with Michael 3 and Sharon 1and has just started volunteer work with aneighborhood Boy Scout troop. Harv re-ceived his PhD from U. Conn. in Juneand has been working at BrookhavenNational Laboratory doing neutron diffrac-tion at the research reactor there.

The class extends its sympathy to VickySherman Mayan the death of her motherin March 1960.

1957CO-CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs. Robert A.Johnson (Judy Crouch), clo Crouch,Kings Highway, Groton, Conn.Dorothy Dedrick, 1093 North Farms Road,Wallingford, Conn.

MARRIED: Barbara Dixon to Lt. Rob-

ert A. Biller USCG on May 14, '60 (Barb-<Ira and Hob are living in Monterey, Calif.,where Bob is attending the U. S. NavalPost Graduate School. ohe sees Gail Atle-tlumg Tyler ex '57 whose husband also at-tends the PG School.}: Sarah Greene toEdward Burger on June 18 (After a ben-eymoon in Northern Quebec, they returnedto Boston where Sade is working as J

public health nurse in Brookline whileDr. Ed is studying for a PhD in Aero-space Medicine at Harvard.) : Connie Steinto Gerald D, Tuton on Oct. 9 (Connieand Gerald spent their honeymoon inBermuda before returning north to Bostonwhere Connie is a secretary in the inter-national sales department of PolaroidCorp. and Gerald is a buyer of women'scoats, suits and rainwear for a departmentstore there.] : Eugenia Cuyler to NathanielP. Worman on Nov 26: Ada Heimbach toNorman C. logan on Dec. 10 (jeallJlI!Canett and Nancy Grondona Richards wen:among her bridesmaids. Dusty and Norm-an are Jiving in Chestnut Hill, Mass.Norman works for Raytheon and Dustyplans to do some free lance illustration.)

BORN: to Aud and Mar/i Elliot Spall.';a daughter, Susan Elizabeth, on Mar. 20,'60: to Ralph and Barbara Boylan ,\1ttl'lIa daughter, Alane, on Apr. 10, '60 (TheMilJars are living in Charlottesville, I/.!where Ralph is in his last year as a gradeate student at the Univ. of Virginia anda member of ODK, a national leadershipfraternity.): to William and Meddie Good-/lOW Fox a daughter, Carol Goodnow(they are living on the Cape): to Ausnnand Caco Myers Beillon a son, Paul Aus-tin, on July 14: to John and Barb"f.,Humble Hill a son, John Eugene" on july30: to Dick and joan Heller If/wokIII' ,lson, Theodore David, on Aug. 9: to Joeland Barbara IFesse-strom Alpert a son.Mark, on Aug. 14 (Joel and Barbara ex-pect to return to Boston and civilian litein August '61. Joel will be a researchfellow at the Children's Medical Centerand Harvard for two years.}: to Roy andSue McGovem Herndon a son, Roy leeIII, on Aug. 27: to Edwin and MyfllaGoldberg Geiges a daughter, Beth Susan,on Sept. 6: to Manfred and Susie McDow-ell Leceszas a son, Walter George II, onSept. 28: to Justin and Sally Luchnrs 1\lc-Carthy a son, Brian, in September: to Rayand BUNIl)' Curtis Millal1 a daughter,Melissa Jane, on Oct. 13: to Jim andRachel Adal!ls Lloyd a daughter, RebeccaAnn, on Oct. 21: to Bill and SusaN Ff/C!JPrice a daughter, Chandley Roome, on Oct.21: to Barry and Toni Garland Marsh ;l

daughter, Laurie Butler, on Nov. 25. Ex'57: to Robert and NaHcy Pollack Beres ason, William Frederick, on Mar. 15, '60:to Milton and Gail Rubenstein If/ahl adaughter, Beth Ann, on March 27: toJerry and Lois Goldsmith Rosellau adaughter, Patty, on April 11 '60: to Fosterand joall Tipper Allison a son, Gary Al-lison, on May 6, '60: to Arthur andMartha Northrup Ba/eJ a daughter. Mari-lyn Northrup, on June 24: to Brooks andMilly James Brown a son, Charles Gamble,on June 29: to Charles and Jaue BuxtONBrOWN a daughter, Ann Coady, on July15: to Aaron and Lynne Millen Simon adaughter, lisa, on Aug. 19: to Dick andjean (Jabo) Jablollsky Bonieskie a son,

Raymond Lawrence, on Oct. 31: to Jimend Natbalre Robbins Diener a daughter,linda Robin, on Nov, 24: to Robert andc,',[Jle White Quinn a son, Douglas onlicc. 23: to Myron and ELlen Elgart Con-I/~'ilz a daughter, Amy Merrill, in Dec.'~II', (Myron and Ellen are living in White-~t,me, N. Y., while Myron completes aresidency in internal medicine at MountSinai Hospital. Ellen finished at SimmonsV< hile Myron was in medical school andcou.plered her master's in education atB. L, Her teaching plans were interruptedby the happy arrival of their daughter.)Bjll and Sabra Grant Kennington, with

their two sons, Robert and William (whoarrived Jast March), are in Windsor,Conn., since their return from Hawaii. Billis stationed at the nuclear division of theCombustion Engineering Co. Btlen Smithwas in Minneapolis and had a chance totalk briefly with Louise Backus ex '57who was home for the Christmas holidays.Richard and Dolores Pagani T fill have set-tid in Saugerties, N. Y" where he isnow a diagnostic engineer in the FederalSystems Division of IBM in Kingston.Dolores says she is glad to see somesnow again after living in Florida andH.rwaii while Richard was in the Coastc-uard. Bob and SUZdnile Krim Greenec-caped the snow for a while on a two-week vacation in southern climes. Onedorious" week was spent on a 48'

S([looner cruising through the Virgin Is-lands. While they were in Miami, theysrw [oan Heller Ijrillokur who lives there\\ ith Dick and their two children. Sareyr /Ilkel Bernstein ex '57 is active in com-munity newspaper work and does publici-t\ on organizations for the local paper 10

Stamford. She and husband Samuel havejoined a play-reading group and find itfun and rewarding. Caco M)'ers Boillonhas quite a job on her hands with theirtwo children but has done the decorationsfor homes her husband has bought, re-modelled and sold-quite a job in itself,

1959CORRESPONDENT: Ann Seidel 500% East84th St., New York 28, N, Y.

MARRIED: Paddy Cht/1llbers to KeithCharles (Casey) Moore last summer:MariOIl FriedmaN to Robert Adler on July9: Gail Glidden to LL Charles Goodel inDecember (The Goodels are living inCalifornia where Charles is stationed withthe Air Force.): CarolYIl Baker to MarkFraunefelder on Sept. 4 (The Frauenfeld-ers are both getting their master's in Eng-lish at the Univ, of California in Berke-ley.): Ruth DiXON to Marty Steinmetz onSept. 24: Edith DOlUddson to Daniel TraskSievens on Oct. 8: Edilh Hollmall to Dr.Jack F, Bowers on Oct, 8: Margot Se-bring to Lt. Tom Southerland USN onNov. 25 (AIlII Frallkel Robil/soll was abridesmaid.): Cecily Hamliu to RobertWells in November (The Wellses areliving in Cranford, N. J.). Ex '59: LandaMOlltague to Jeff Freeman on July 11:Alisoll Baile)' to David Berg on Aug, 13:Lois Battles to William Newsom on Oct,22: Paf Calhoun to Stan Keating on Nov.19 (Among her attendants were, CarolBayfield Garbutt and Cynthia WhItworthex '59.)

BORN: to David and Ellen RothschildByck ex '59 a son, David, on May 14, '60:to Kathy Smith Collier a second daughter,Arlette Paula, on Nov. 3: to Eddie andMarty Stegmaier Speno, a daughter, Eliza-beth Bailey, on Nov. 7: to Preston andLinda Schiwitz a son, John Ireland, onJan. 25, .Lucy Allen spent the Thanksgiving holi-

days basking in the Bermuda sun whileon an excursion with fellow employeesof New York's Metropolitan Life Ins-urance Co. Vacationing in California thisfall was Barbie QuiNN, who paid visits to[oatt Peterson in San Francisco and EllenKenney Glennon in San Diego. Barbie alsostopped in Chicago to see stewardess GayHartnett, Seen at several Yale games dur-ing the football season in New Havenwere Jail Blackwell Bent and Sue CalboenHemingway ex '59. Jan and John are liv-ing in Springfield, N. ]., while Sue andCal have just bought a house in Hartford.Sheila O'Neill spent the Christmas seasonin New York working at Altman's. InCincinnati, Sally Klein has been keepingbusy with her job at Proctor and Gamble,a museum art course, and volunteer workat a children's hospital. Lynnie Graveswrites of her teaching job in Californiaas a real challenge, as her pupils include"ex-reform-schoolers and even a few listedas compulsive thieves."Annette Casaoaat Elias and submariner

husband Bill are happily enjoying life in a"lovely apartment at a beautiful old Il}-an-sian in York Harbor, Me," Visiting LindaHess Schiwitz for a weekend in Novemberwere Chi Czaieows ei and I udy Pratt withthir shaggy dog, Boris. Chi and Judy havea new apartment in Boston and get to-gether often with Liz Pugbe and ]HarfhaPalmer. After a year in Europe, Jail Bre-mer has returned to New York and isworking at the Metropolitan ~u:'eum ofArt as a secretary in the publicity dept.John and Marcia Fortin Sherman stoppedin New York to see a couple of Broadwayshows on their way to Norfolk, Va.,where John will be stationed with theNavy. Kent and Alice Randall Campbellhave recently moved into a house theybuilt in Bethel Park, Pa.

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Co-CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs. Robert Feni-more (Edith Chase), 60 Brook St., Wollas-ton, MassSusan Ryder, 71 Charles St Boston, Mass

MARRIED: Patricia lP'erlheim to Rich-ard Abrams in New York in October: JoanAdams to Lt. Robert B. Pirie Jr., on Dec.23 in Barrington, R. L: Gen~e Tracy toGeorge E. Hill on Nov. 26 10 Foxboro,Mass.: Brenda Hitchcock to Ernest Sou7ain September (Buzzy C?eeter was. maIdof honor.): Joanne Dal1tels to DaVId Sol-omon in November in Englewood, N. J::Marina Robillson to Frank Huyler III 10

August: Cary Bailey to Dietrich von Kush-enbahr on June 25: Anile MegrelV to W.Kent Hackmann in August.BORN: to Howard and Sand,'a Fleisch-

}}er KlebanofJ a daughter in. the fall.: toRichard and Maggie Ha1!11llal/(l!l HarriS ex'60 a son on June 25. .Lilld.[ St"lllll(//[ is living with Melfllda

Vail in New York. Linnie is working ata cafeteria while taking several courses atNYU. [udich Van Law is taking theM.A.T. program at Columbia, after return-ing from an exciting trip with Sue Mom-gomery through Europe and parts of Af-rica (in time to celebrate Nigerian inde-pendence), Missie A1issimer, Betsy Fro-mess, and Anile Alexander ex '60 arerooming together in Cambridge whereBetsy and Missy are battling with theM.A.T. program at Tufts, Harriet Kauf-mall is working at the Harvard Law Schoolwhile taking several music courses, DianeZelby is taking the M.A.T. program atRadcliffe. Catherine Wame is a secretaryin the economics dept. at Northwestern.

Pining away for company in the rustici-ties of Portland, Me., is Betty Moss Bun,who hopes for a visit from Sue Biddle,currently zooming through New Englandin a new MG, [tore Salam)' is working asa secretary fur the Carnegie Endowmentfor International Peace and taking nightcourses towards an MA at NYU. PatWein.rteil/ Salzburg is a new bastion ofthe Conn. College ec department, teachingthe introductory course. ML Corwin is atLord and Taylor in New York on the ex-ecutive training program. Pebbles Rocke-feller and lod)' Silvenbome have gone toFlorence to study art and other interestinglocal phenomena. Bets)' Newman, Bets)'Froment, Aggie GUild and Mardie Rothhave all returned from Europe, leavingShirley Devitt behind them at the Sor-bonne, Nancy Switzer and lPillJl Sherwoodare rooming together and teaching element-ary school in East Hartford. Other moldersof young minds are Anile Stilson in Glas-tonbury, Conn., Kathy Cable in Bristol,Conn. and Tommie Saunders at WalnutHill in Natick, Mass. loan Hemenway isliving at the International House in NewYork and attending Union TheologicalSeminary along with CafY GriffiJhs, who isat the School of Sacred Music.Seeking excitement and creative fulfill-

ment in the Boston-Cambridge area areBdee Chase Fenimore, teaching 8th grademusic and English in Hanson (a logicalculmination for a religion major!). Mal')'Dawes, working at Arthur D. Little, anindustrial-research firm in Cambridge; andHarriet KaufJman, working at the HarvardLaw School. SltSall Rydef is working inWidener Library; Patty Saute is a function-ary for a radio station in Cambridge; andCarol Plants is an assistant art director atAllyn-Bacon. Carol spent a summer at theRadcliffe course in publishing procedures,along with Pat Fletchef, who is now work-ing for the World Tax Study and livingon Beacon Hill, After an ultraviolet sum-mer in Hawaii, Liz Hood returned to Win-chester and a job in the outpatient clinicat Boston Children's Hospital. Joan Adamsspent the months before her marriage work-ing in the Development Fund Office atMIT and living in Cambridge with leanGallagher, who, after a summer at Hickox-Radcliffe secretarial school, is working fora law firm in Boston.Seen at Connecticut for Alumnae Day

were the Wertheim twins, Jill Reale, Leo-NO!' Fiske Liz Hood, CYflllie Enloe, SallyGla/lville,' Tommie Saulldeu, Nikki LoefJ-ler McKillnon and Pat lI7eiJlSteill Salzburg,

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REUNION ANNOUNCEMENTJune 16-18, 1961

CLASSES: '11, '25, '26, '27, '28, '36, '44, '45, '46, '47, '60

(Those alumnae whose classes are not having an official reunion areknown as the Class of 1911. A warm welcome is extended to them.)

ALUMNAE COLLEGEThursday, June 15th through Friday, June 16th

The first Connecticut Alumnae College, a program of continuing educationand intellectual stimulation, will be held on campus preceding the regularReunion Program. This is an experiment at the request of the Class ReunionCommittees. It is open to all alumnae. There will be a fee of $12.00 (tuition:$5.00; overnight and meals $7.00). Formal application blanks with full detailswill be sent to all alumnae in May.

THE HUMAN DILEMMA

THURSDAY NIGHT: A NOTE ON EXISTENTIALISMRilla M. Phillips, Lnstructor in Philosophy

FRIDAY MORNING: THE SEARCH FOR MEANINGPeter J. Seng, Assistant Professor of English

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: DISCUSSION

PREPARATORY READING:

William Barrett, Irrational Man, Doubleday& Company, Inc., Garden City, New York.

William Golding, Lord of the Flies, CapricornBooks, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York1959.

Albert Camus, The Fall, Alfred A. Knopf,New York.

These titles may be obtained from the Connec-ticut College Bookshop, campus.

FRIDAY EVENING: EXISTENTIALISM: INFLUENCES and APPLICATIONS

Miss Phillips and MI'. Seng(This session is open to all returning alumnae.)

Special Announcement: The Sunday morning organ recital in the Chapelwill be given by Dr. Roberta Bitgood, '28, nationally known organist andcomposer.