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Connecticut College ALUMNAE NEWS: MAY 1969

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Connecticut College Alumnae NewsOFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

VOLUME XLV NUMBER 3 MAY 1969

ContentsThe Inner Eye 1-the crisis of American liberalism by Carol Lashine '69 2-black womanhood conference 5-marine biology by Susan E. Bear '71 6-eye-music by Christina P. Burnham '69 8-the zeiss 9a electronic microscope by Janet 1.Bouchard '69 10-c-the special studies period by Deborah Finkel'71 12-religion for the symbol-minded by Katie O'SuIIivan See '70 16-the birth of community government by Katherine Montgomery '69 20New Special Funds for AAGP Giving 24To Think of Dean Noyes Retiring by Alice E. Johnson 25Alumnae Council 19B9 26Retirements by Warrine Eastburn, James Stuart Dendy, L. Aileen Hostinsky 31Class Reunion Schedule 32Classnotes 33-four years later

Double-Crastic

by Janet 1.Bouchard, Christina PemmerI Burnham,Carol Lashine, Katherine R. Montgomery 47

by Mary Farrell Morse 4B

PHOTOGRAPHS by Philip Biscuti except: p. 10 by Constance Patterson '69; p. 11 byRebecca Brown '69 and Linda Abel '69; p.13 by Christine B. Webb '70; p.14 by Ellen C.Lougee '69; p.15 by Kathryn L.Riley '69; Jacqueline F.McGinty '72, and Elaine B.Finbury'72.EDITORIAL BOARD: Helen Haase Johnson '66, Editor (Mrs. Roland H. johnson, R.F.D,#3, Box 300, Norwich, Conn. 06360) / Marion Vibert Clark '24, Class Notes Editor /Helen L. Brogan '52, Business Manager / Elizabeth Damerel Gongaware '26, AssistantEditor / Rhoda Meltzer Gilinsky '49, Book Review Editor / Margaret Royall Hinck '33/ Catherine E. Maddock '67.ADVISORY BOARD: Barbara Snow Delaney '44, Editorial/Sarah Hargrove Sullivan'57, Graphics / Elizabeth L. Brereton '69, Student Affairs / Eleanor W. Tyler '30, exofficio / Roldah Northup Cameron '51, ex officio.

EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATIONPresident, Roldah Northup Cameron '51 / First Vice-President, Patricia WertheimAbrams '60 / Second Vice-President, Ruth Worthington Henderson '35 / Secretory,Lyda Chatfield Sudduth '27 / 'I'reesurer.Helen L.Brogan '52 / Directors-at-Large,CarolynDiefendorf Smith '55, [ane Smith Moody '49, Eloise Stumm Brush '42, Elizabeth Hood~ilson '60 / Alumnae Trustees, Sarah Pithouse Becker '27, Mary Anna Lemon Meyer42, Martha Boyle Morrison '43 / Chairman of Alumnae Annual Giving Program, MaryFarr,ell Morse '41 / Chairman of Nominating Committee, Alice Hess Crowell '50 /ChOlrrr:an of Finance Committee, Barbara Berman Levy '41 / Chairman of ScholarshipCommittee, Sarah Pithouse Becker '27 / Chairman of Personnel Committee, EmilyWarner '25 / Executive Director, Eleanor W. Tyler '30.

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

Publishe.d by the Connecticut College Alumnae Association at Sykes Alumnae Center,ConnectIcut College, New London, Conn., four times a year in December, March, May~nd August. Second-class postage paid at Hartford, Conn. 06101. Send Form 3579 toykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut 06320. AACMember.

THE INNER

Unless they are your own children, andsometimes even then, you probably findmost students hard to take. For the eyetends to substitute for the mind, and onthe whole, students are weighed byappearances and judged with suspicion.Beards that spelled respectability in thenineteenth century, are mistrusted in thetwentieth. And whereas it was moral,ethical, and good for Amos to say, "I hateand despise your feasts, and I take nodelight in your solemn assemblies,"identical words repeated today becomehateful, dangerous, and eviL And so itgoes. At Connecticut as elsewhere, never-theless, there is more to see than janglingbeads, hair growing longer, and skirtsmini-less. Even in these fast-moving '60s,most students still seek to gratify theirinquiring minds. This month, in articleswritten by girls with varying interests,the News brings you a sampling of theideas and experiments with which thecampus abounds. Think of these notthrough bifocals, but read them with

New Politics- the crisis of American liberalism

CAROL LASHINE '69

ncertain where he is going andwhom he is going with, the whiteliberal in the United States todayis not the same person he was a

few generations ago. Veterans of civil rights cam-paigns and free speech movements, he is findinghimself more and more disliked as an ineffectualdo-gooder with a superiority complex. The blackswhom he wants to "free," hate him for imposinghis values on them; youth and students condemnhim as fundamentally resistant to real change inAmerican society."Liberal," in itself, is an evasive label more diffi-

cult to define than other political terms, for in thecourse of history, it has been used to mean twoentirely different things. Early nineteenth centuryliberalism, expounded by men in England likeJeremy Bentham, or later in the United States byWilliam Graham Sumner and Andrew Carnegie,was a philosophy of self-disciplining individual-ism, democracy, majority rule, and laissez-joirein economics. That is, it was a belief that libertycan exist when the people elect their leaders, andthe government benefits the people by not regulat-ing any part of their economic life. Freedom thenbecomes a responsibility and self-discipline ratherthan a privilege. Thus, in business, those whowork hard will get ahead and prosper becausethere is freedom in the system to allow them todo so.Gradually, however, a change came over the

meaning of liberalism. As John Dewey writes, "Itcame surely, if gradually, to be disassociated withthe laissez-joire creed and to be associated withthe use of governmental action for aid to thoseat economic disadvantage." As industrializationspread and increasing numbers of workers seemedunable to get ahead by hard work, it appearedclear that loissez-toire policy was not the road toliberty. People began to think of liberty as insep-arable from equality, and the only organ thatcould assure its people liberty and equality wasgovernment. Hence, by the careful regulation ofbig business which had grown so well underloiseez-icire, government became for liberals theprotector of the rights of the poor.As early as John Stuart Mill in the 19th century,

liberalism became associated with governmentregulation, planning, and in the most extreme in-stance, with socialism (that is, worker ownershipof factories). In the United States, between 1910and 1917, a strong liberal movement, the Progres-sives, under Presidents Theodore Roosevelt andWoodrow Wilson, were partially responsible forthe passage of anti-trust laws to regulate big busi-ness. In the twenties and early thirties, as shallsoon be discussed, cries came from the liberalcamp for socialism to replace the capitalist econ-omy in this country. Many felt, as John Dewey

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wrote, that only with some form of socialismcould there be a state "in which the productiveforces are cooperatively controlled and used inthe interest of the effective liberty and the culturaldevelopment of society."Today, liberals no longer hold this view. In fact,

liberals are vague as to what beliefs they do holdto. Some points, nonetheless, are clear. For onething, liberals are not seeking to replace the cur-rent system with a socialist system. They believein democracy, justice, freedom and equality, andhave faith that reforming the present political andsocial structure will bring about needed change.Liberals have power today; at times, such as dur-ing the Kennedy-Johnson administrations, they arethe government. And ever since World War IItheir influence has been considerable. They standopposed to all forms of totalitarianism, from theleft (like Stalin) and from the right. Essentially,liberalism does not really have an ideology; it ispragmatic, working for small changes with variousprograms.

n the course of the twentieth cen-tury a change occurred in Ameri-can liberalism, and in the thirties,it reached a turning point. Under

Roosevelt's New Deal, liberalism suffered a lossof impetus when it came to a kind of dejected re-conciliation with the capitalism that Roosevelthad rejuvenated. At first, the liberal movementwas indeed quite radical in its outlook. (There isirony in this way of using "radical" because it isonly in the past few decades that "liberal" hasbeen so clearly distinguished from "radical".) Inthose withered years, shortly after the Depression,many were thoroughly convinced that capitalismhad finally died. As Kenneth Minogue writes,"The depression dispelled what was for manyradicals the last myth of capitalism - the myth ofprosperity." Liberals in the early thirties, observ-ing a bankrupt, starving country, believed thatprosperity could be regained and maintained onlythrough public ownership of business. When theeconomy was planned to insure prosperity for all,and no one had access to private profits, thenwould these liberals be satisfied.Men like John Dewey, Stuart Chase, Charles

Beard, George Soule, Alfred M. Bingham and Os-wald Garrison Villard talked in these terms: revo-lution to socialism. It was not to be a violentrevolution, but an alteration in the activities ofgovernment to put an end to capitalist competi-tion. None of these men were members of anyCommunist or Socialist party. They were, how-ever, excited about the Socialist experiment inRussia. Many had travelled in Russia and wereimpressed and inspired by the rapid development

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Professor Richard D. Birdsall, act-ing chairman of the history de-partment; Carol Loshtne. honorsstudent in American IntellectualHistory; ond Mr. Alfred M. Bing-ham, author of Insurgent America.The authors agreed on goals,shared each other's ideas, but dis-agreed as to methods and means.The two hour lunch proved with-out question that among thinkingpeople, there is no generation gop.

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of the Soviet regime. In a book written after hisvisit there in 1929, John Dewey speaks of theRussian situation as a great experiment in chang-ing not only an economic system but the humanpsychology ~ the substitution of a collective men-tality for an individualistic psychology. It ap-peared to many that the Soviet Union was growingand prospering while more and more Americancitizens found themselves unemployed.These liberals had a basic faith in people. They

believed that beings could be good in a goodworld, that they could build a much beller worldthan the one they were living in, and that peoplecould be changed by reasonable methods, for ex-ample, by education.In 1932 a group of these liberals who called

themselves the League for Independent PoliticalAction, tried to muster support for a third partycandidate on a socialist-like platform. They had ahard time finding support from non-intellectualgroups, however, and ended by endorsing NormanThomas, the Socialist candidate for President. It isclear that they were against the status quo asrepresented by both Hoover and Roosevelt, andthey were against capitalism.By 1936 all had changed. In the space of four

years the liberals had lost their spark (howeverweak) of revolution. They supported Rooseveltwho was running for a second term. Althoughthey continued to criticize him, they came to ac-cept the government-controlled capitalism that hehad created. And they did not fool themselves,for they knew this was not the socialist planningthey had asked for. But they began to say that theNew Deal was the first step toward socialism,which was now placed in some very, misty future.Although not happy with Roosevelt and what herepresented, they supported him because they hadno alternative to offer.Change then, real change in the system, became a

hollow word. By rejecting the very minimal Marx-ist understanding of economics and revolutionwhich they had adopted earlier in the thirties, theliberals, as Hannah Arendt has written, rejectedthe ~nly ideology that begins to make real changepossible. For at the very least, Marxism teachesthat people do not give up willingly what theyhave to others. As long as a few own the tools ofindustry, a few will benefit, to the detriment ofthe majority. Only, as Marxism says, when themasses own those factories in which they workcan equality begin to take on some actuality. Theliberals at this point lost whatever conceptionthey had of what IS mvolved in the revolutionfrom capitalism to socialism.There are many reasons for the death of revo-

lutionary ,fervor among liberals in the thirties.R~osevelt s ~mergency national planning was notallen to the liberal concept of national planning in

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the public interest, thus a reconciliation was nottoo difficult in this regard. Also, as liberals be-came more aware of Stalin's purge trials, theygrew disillusioned with the Russian experiment.Furthermore, the enemy of all democratic peoplesin the late thirties, whether socialistic or capital-istic, was Fascism. Many liberals supported thePopular Front (declared by the Communist Inter-national in 1936) which sought to unite everyoneon the left against Fascism. Liberals eagerly joinedhands with others in any kind of united effortwhether to the left or to the right of them. And afinal reason for the change is that the liberalsnever had a complete understanding of the extentof the change they were asking for. In a refusal toassociate themselves with Marxist thinking, theyalso refused to confront the differences in or-ganization and structure between capitalism andsocialism.With the New Deal, liberals moved into posi-

tions of power and influence still maintained to-day. A move warmly welcomed by them, as theyhad been distinctly powerless during the twenties.Perhaps this shift is another reason for their en-suing complacency, that is, it may be that all theliberals really wanted to begin with was power,and with this achieved, nothing more was neededto be said about changing social structures.

his transition begins to explainwhy liberalism is suffering aneclipse of popularity in the Blackmovement and with youth today.

In this century, liberals at first claimed to be onthe side of definite change. They later droppedthis position and came to represent the status quo- the restructured capitalism of the New Deal.Those who would like to see a true alteration inthe big business-monopoly-capitalist system thatliberalism now represents, are bound to feel thatthe liberals' plea for reform has no significance.Liberals have dashed the hopes of many for atruly better world, and with their much more pes-simistic view of man, now seem content to merelyhold together the viable portions of a faultysystem. •

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New Goals- black womanhood conference, April 18-20

he said, "Feel how cold my handsare." But at the touch of thoseconfident young hands, onethought not of the February snow

outside, but of a warmth born of strength andpurpose. We had gone to Sue Johnson, Chairmanof Black Womanhood Conference, to find outwhat she and the other members of the Afro-American Society had in mind when they decidedto pioneer with this event. Everyone knew thatthe weekend was to be devoted to lectures, sem-inars, and entertainment by famous black women,but not why.After proudly reeling off an impressive list of

nationally known figures who had agreed to par-ticipate, Sue explained:

"We're trying to reach two completely differentgroups," she began. "First, those white girls whotell us how much they like Blacks because theircook is black and wonderful. These kids have gotto discover that we have many, many women whoare outstanding by any criteria. Then there's theblack girl who knows we have loads of famouswomen. But something's missing in her make-up,she doesn't feel any pride about it inside, youknow? She lacks something - 'spiritual aware-ness,' I guess you could call it."Looking back on the weekend, many elements

substantiate the success of Black WomanhoodConference: the character of the brilliant womenwho participated, the beauty and truth of whatwas said, the deep-felt response of the audience,and mainly, a goal surely won. •

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New Courses- marine biology

SUSAN E. BEAR '71

E!&:J ith the coming of spring, skiers•• may be sad, but the hearts of an-.. other group sing in anticipation.

These are the students enrolledin Connecticut's new Marine Science course un-der Robert S. DeSanto of the zoology department.Begun quietly last summer as a pilot program(Marine Explorations Number One), it will emergethis year as a full-fledged, six weeks, six creditcourse.Last year the program ran for five weeks. Dur-

ing this time, boys and girls sifted sand, snorkledamong pilings, and collected new and differentorganisms from varying habitats. And for fiveweeks they learned to use "keys" for identificationand classification of specimens. The collecteditems were preserved in various ways, eithermounted on glass slides in bottles of formalin (abuffered preservative), or else mounted in clearplastic blocks. These plastic mounts are not onlyvaluable in their informative transparency, but inaddition, they make attractive gift paper weightsfor interested friends.Marine science is not a field into which one cas-

ually meanders. Collecting organisms from differ-ent "life zones" is only the beginning. After astrenuous day outdoors, one must return immedi-ately to the laboratory and prepare the specimensfor further examination and classification. Hoursare spent attempting to determine the exact classi-fication (generic and specific nomenclature) of asimple, ordinary looking clam or mud snail. Andafter all specimens from the field trip are classl-

fled and preserved, a student is assigned to writ-ing a paper reporting on the specific trip.Individual projects were also an important part

of last year's summer program. A dental studentfrom Northwestern University ran a study on thereplacement of teeth in certain fish in Long IslandSound. Another project involved the process oftraining hermit crabs to run through a maze. Thesetricky little animals, dragging their home (a stolensnail shell) with them everywhere they walked,proved to be not particularly adaptable to such atraining process. One student from the Universityof Hartford initiated a study of area plankton,while another set up a marine aquarium and alsoran a survey of the various organisms which areattracted to a light at night. At the end of thecourse all reports were assembled into an impres-sive record of field trip findings, individual re-ports, and scientific drawings of specimens.As many factors as possible are considered at

this time. Where did this species occur most abun-dantly? At the edge of the beach? Or in a rockpool? Or perhaps in a low-tide zone? And whatwas the temperature of the water? Salinity? Wasthere evidence of any silt or pollution? What otherorganisms or plants shared the habitat with thisspecies? And of course the inevitable question:Why?A course in scuba diving, for those who have the

stamina, will be given concurrently with marinescience. And while it offers no academic credit,satisfactory completion will result in civilian divercertification by the National Association of Un-derwater Instructors.

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1-Linda Manno '70 andSusan Bear '71. 2-Mrs. SaJ1yTaylor, instructor in botany;Robert Baratz, graduate ofNorthwestern Dental School;Dr. Robert De Santo, assist-ant professor of zoology.

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There is a definite need dunug both winter andsummer for more centers of marine science. Train-ing in this field is difficult to obtain, and the op-portunity of being near the sea where experimentsmay be carried out at first hand, is not always pres-ent. Furthermore, existing centers for marine studyoften give first preference to graduate students.It is going to be an exciting summer for Dr.

DeSanto and those who are fortunate enough toparticipate in his course. Marine science is not afun in the sun vacation, but there is much reward-ing study and discovery standing in back of thosesix credits. And who knows? Maybe this is theyear that someone will finally teach the stubbornhermit crab to find his way through a maze! •

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New Interest

- eye-music

CHRISTINA PEMMERL BURNHAM '69

ecause the words were more im-portant than the musical lines in

_ sixteenth century Italian andEnglish madrigals, eye-music

(Augenmusik) was one of several devices used toportray the text to the performer. An early exam-ple of its use is Cordier's love song, ~eIIe bon~e.Composed in the shape of a heart, It IS not unhkesuch "emblem literature" as The Altar written bythe metaphysical poet, George Herbert. In bothcases, the musician or reader saw a symbol whichemphasized the subject matter to him, but wasinvisible to the audience.The use of obvious pictures was only one of the

devices employed in eye-music. By this time, mu-sicians were well-acquainted with a rich varietyof notational signs. As a consequence, black andwhite notation, and the hexachord system (amethod of naming all notes, similar to modernsolfeggio), were widely used by the composer toincorporate puns and symbolic representations ofthe text into his music.These musical signs employed in eye-music had

two functions. First, they gave the musician amusical instruction relating to pitch, tempo, etc.At the same time, the signs were also symbolic ofthe text. As such, eye-music was never a purelydecorative nor cryptographic use of musical nota-tion. Therefore, neither private asides to the per-former nor puzzle canons are eye-music. Puzzlecanons are those wherein only one or two of theparts are written out, the other parts are derivedfrom these by directions given in the riddle ac-companying the canon. Because the two levels ofsymbolism are not concurrent (the musical in-struction being found only after deciphering theriddle), these are not considered eye-music. Fur-thermore, eye-music must appeal to the eye ratherthan the imagination.There is some disagreement as to just what may

be classified as eye-music. Grove's Dictionary ofMusic and Musicians divides it into four classes:word-painting, changing notation, use of musicalterms, and matching numbers in the text with themusic. Gustav Reese, however, in Music in theRenaissance, more accurately excludes most casesof word-painting and matching members sincetextual representations are audible and designedfor the listener, rather than visible and addressedto the performer alone. Hence, word-painting withconcepts of motion or linear shape (ascending,falling, and rolling), or limitation of sound [laugh-ter and sighing) would not be eye-music. Neitherwould cases of matching number, such as that inthe English madrigal Fair Phyl1is wbere only onevoice sings the text "Fair Phyllis I saw sitting allalone:' be included as eye-music.Some instances of matching numbers, however,

can be described as eye-music. One example may

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be found in a madrigal where the text. "... gar-nished with five pearls," has been set to fivepearl-shaped notes (semibreves) on a single pitch.In this case, the repetition of pitch five times isaudible to the listener, the image of the five pearl-shaped semibreves is not.

n like manner, certain cases ofword-painting are also eye-music.In Non si levav'ancor l'alba, Mon-teverdi outlines an acanthus leaf

at the word "novella." Marenzio also employseye-music in his madrigals. In Gia torno, the"mar" (sea) is visible in the melodic waves of thescore, and in Cedan l'antiche tue chiare vittorie, asong about Rome, the arches of the city are clearlyportrayed in the music.Besides representing the sense of the words

symbolically with eye-music, composers also setmusical puns. In Nasca's motet, Tristis est animamea, "sustinete hie" is set in chromatic half-tonesbecause early theorists used "sustinare" to mean"to raise a chromatic semitone." Another popularpractice was playing on words that had a musicalmeaning. These words included "sharp," "flat,"

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"ftnto," and all solmization syllables (note names)of the Guidonian hexachord system. An earlyexample is [osqutn's Herrcules dux Ferrarie inwhich music is built upon notes represented bythe vowels in the title [e.u.e.u.e.e.t.e-c-re.ut.re.ut..re.Ia.rni.re].

The Altar

A broken altar, Lord, Thv servant rears,Made of a heart and cemented with tears;

Whose parts arc as Thy hand did Frame;No workman's tool hath touched the same.

1\ heart aloneIs such a stoneAs nothing butThy power doth cut.Wherefore each partOf mv hard heartMeets'in this frameTo praise Thy name;

That if I chance to hold mv peace,These stones to praise Thee may not cease.

o let thv blessed sacrifice he mine.And sanctify this altar to he Thine.

In addition to the previously described word-painting, matching numbers, and use of musicalterms, changing notation was a fourth method ofdepicting textual meanings. To emphasize or doub-le the meaning of the text, composers eitherchanged from one mensuration (time signature) toanother, or changed the notation from black towhite, or set different voice parts in differentnotations. These changes usually occurred on pas-sages such as "new masks and forms," "diverstongues," "be changed into a thousand forms," and"change her mood." Marenzio also employed thistype of eye-music by following the text as thoughit were a musical instruction to the composer. Hechanged the notation in Ridean gia perle piaggeat the texts "01 tempo novo" (in a new time) and"novo tempo" (new time). Such symbolic gesturesremained inaudible, but visible to the performer.

Other examples of notational changes abound.Dufay found that conflicting yet congruent time-signatures could be used to symbolize certainparts of the Credo. Ockeghem also played withnotation in passages of his works. In Missa Mi-Mi, part of the Creed, "mortuorum," is written inblack notes. And a classic example of this typeof eye-music is [osquin's Nymphes des bois. Thisentire piece is written in black notes to designatemourning, the text being a lament on the deathof Ockeghem.

hus, in sixteenth century mad-rigals, and to some extent in ear-lier and later works, eye-musicwas developed as a means of

symbolizing the text of a piece in musical nota-tion. It is related to word-painting because it dealsfrequently with the pictorial images suggested bythe words. But unlike word-painting, eye-musicis not an audible phenomenon. Instead, it is meantfor the performer alone, and often requires knowl-edge of musical theory for its understanding.

Eye-music never attained the popularity of othersymbolic treatments. Einstein, in The Italian Mad-rigal, calls it "childish," and claims it detractsfrom the music. Eye-music, nonetheless, is nomore childish than word-painting, a practicewhich has survived through the years and hasbeen used by some of the greatest composers in-cluding J. S. Bach. Furthermore, eye-music de-mands a more sophisticated knowledge of musicalterms and theory than its counterpart. Ratherthan detracting from the music, eye-music adds toa composition by way of humor, and in contribut-ing to the performer's understanding of the basicmeaning of the text. Although never a movementof major importance, eye-music is indicative ofthe sixteenth century interest in art - both in itspurely aesthetic concept and in its intellectualchallenge. •

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New Equipment- the zeiss 9a electronic microscope

JANET L. BOUCHARD '69he zoology department nowoffers a whole new area of re-search to potential honors stu-dents through the use of a Zeiss

9A Electron Microscope. Considering the expenseof the microscope and associated equipment (over$25,000 for the 'scope alone), it is no wonder thatits aquisition is a matter of pride, appreciation,and excitement.As one of two students using the 'scope for re-

search this year, I am studying the ultrastructureof the gastric parietal cell in the rat. The project isan effort to find in its ultramicroscopic structure,some clarification of the mechanism by which thiscell is thought to produce hydrochloric acid. Theactual observation and photographing of tissueoccupies a relatively small portion of the totaltime involved; equally time-consuming and impor-tant is the technical preparatory work.

Although details of procedure may vary withthe individual project, the basic aim in the prepa-ration of material is, first, to preserve tissue with-out inducing structural alterations and, second, toprepare samples small enough to be useful at veryhigh magnification. The extremely small size of thetissue specimens used cannot be overly stressed.To minimize the occurrence of artifacts, the mate-rial is surgically removed from the anaesthesizedanimal, minced with a razor blade and placed infixative within 1-2 minutes after its initial re-rnoval. Time and technique are essential sinceexcessive handling or delay cause the tissue todegenerate very rapidly. Depending on the type offixative used, the tissue is "fixed" for 2-24 hours,then rinsed and "washed" for 15 minutes to 12hours. Water is then removed from the material ina series of alcohol baths. The alcohol is removedwith propylene oxide and the tissue is put in "first

~ - Whit~ bloo.d cell (eosinophile) ot a mognificotion of about 7000x. Amucchondncn (site of energy production) is indicated for comparison withhigher magnification pictures. (Photograph token by Constance Patterson,'69, during Speciol Projects Period)

plastic." The embedding plastic is a special mix-ture of epoxy or polyester which remains a vis-cous liquid until heated, As with many materialsused in this work, it is both toxic and allergenicand must be handled with proper care. The tissueis left in this liquid plastic for 12-24 hours to allowthe tissue to be thoroughly permeated.

Next, the roughly minced tissue must be hand-trimmed to cubes about the size of the periods onthis page, This work is done under a binocularmicroscope using microknives handmade by sol-dering small pieces broken from the edge of arazor blade onto a needle. When properly made,the knives have a fine, sharp edge and are quitesturdy. With a little practice and lots of patience,a cube can be trimmed in 5-10 minutes. The big-gest problem tends to be identifying which partof the tissue should be included in the cube.

The trimmed tissue is transferred to a fresh dishof plastic and oriented as desired. The dish is thenheated for at least 12 hours to polymerize theplastic. Next the block of plastic must be trimmed.A trapazoidal pyramid is cut around the em-bedded tissue. This is done by hand with a razorblade under a binocular microscope. The pyramidmust be cut close to the tissue as excess plasticwill only dull the sectioning knives.

Now the tissue is ready for final sectioningwhich is done on a Sorvall MT-2 Ultramicrotome.The knives, however, are handmade by breakingplate glass strips into triangles having one verysharpe edge. The thickness of the sections ismeasured in Angstrom units but the proper thick-ness is easily determined by the reflected color.Green, blue, or purple sections are too thick,bright yellow may be acceptable, light yellow, sil-ver or grey are the most perferred and, of course,the most difficult to obtain.Loops of hair and eyelashes held by wax on thetip of wooden sticks are the only tools fine enoughto handle sections. The cut sections, floating onwater in little cups attached to the knife, areswept onto a copper "grid," a l/S inch disc of finecopper screening. The grid is then "stained" withlead or uranium compounds. Staining here meansthe impregnation of the tissue with heavy lead oruranium molecules. Then the finished grid and itstissue are inserted in the path of the electronbeam. The heavy metal molecules will deflectelectrons and a dark area will appear in the imageon the fluorescent viewing screen. In this way thevarying intensity of the beam reaching the screenproduces a black and white image of the tissue.

Once the material is prepared, the operation ofthe 'scope itself must be mastered. Precise align-ment of the electromagnetic lenses and othercomponents of the optical system is necessaryfor resolving fine details of structure at highmagnifications.

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The magnification scale of the electron microscope may be appreciated ifone considers that em average drop of blood contoins approximately aquarter of a billion red blood cells and nearly half a milhon white bloodcells. The size of a single white blood cell at high light microscope magnifi-cation (x1000) is indicated at the bottom of the first (low power) electronmicrograph. The third micrograph (x7Z,UOO] shows only obout half themagnification obtainable with the Zeiss EM gA.

The final, and hy far the easiest of all the pro-cedures is the developing of negatives and finalprinting. Since the prints are about four times thesize of the negatives the final picture shows struc-ture at four times the magnification actually seenwith the 'scope. A mag 3 [x18,OOO)negative whenprinted shows structure at about 72,000 timestheir actual size.The work is very demanding but the experience

has been invaluable. First, the 'scope opens wholenew areas of research in cytochemistry and ultra-structure hitherto beyond the reach of an under-graduate. Second, it requires a rather uniquespecialization. Never before have I expended sucheffort on such a very specific topic yet the work isfar from finished. It is difficult to portray theworlds to be explored at the submicroscopic level;for the more the research is narrowed, the morethere is to study. Third, and most important, thepractical experience gained through this work hasled from the realm of the student to that of thescientist. While at the same time, the technicaltraining involved in the operation of the 'scopeand associated equipment, has qualified me for awell paying position in electron microscopy aftergraduation. •

2 below ~ A portion of a mucus-secreting cell of the intestinal mucousmembrane showing a mitochondrion, endoplasmic reticulum studded withabundant ribosomes (importing in synthesIs of the secretory product), golgimembranes (important in "packaging" of the secretory product), andvacuoles containing the secretory product, mucus. x24,OOO (Photograph takenby Rebecca Brown, '69, during Special Projects Period)3 right - Adjacent portions of a mucus-secreting cell (upper right. show-

ing endoplasmic reticulum with ribosomes) and on absorptive cell (lowerleft, showing a mitochondrion] from intestinal mucous membrane. x72,OOO(Photograph token by Linda Abel, '69. eluring Special Projects Period)

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New Experiment- the special studies period

DEBORAH FINKEL '71

rom January twenty-eighththrough February seventh, aca-demic structure was abandonedat Connecticut College as faculty

and students witnessed a totally new phenome-non. Little took place that resembled traditionalacademic life: no assigned papers, no grades, noresidence requirement. In this atmosphere of totalacademic freedom, students and faculty werepresented with the materials needed to creat: a~educational experience. It was up to the Indi-vidual alone to determine how Special StudiesPeriod was to be for her.The initiation of Special Studies Period had been

recommended by the Faculty to replace the tra-ditional Reading Period at the end of each semes-ter. The Reading Period, although meant to beuseful in preparing for final examinations, llsua.llywas reduced to a time when tempers ran highand anxiety about marks ran rampant. Creativitywithin a given subject was sacrificed to intensivereview of the semester's work. Special StudiesPeriod was the absolute antithesis of this situation.To administer the Special Studies Period. the Fac-ulty created a standing committee composed offour faculty and four undergraduate members."Suggestions were solicited from the entire com-munity for seminars or other programs, and theresponse was tremendous with many students andevery department contributing suggestions. Therange of topics proposed to the committee indi-cates the variety of the areas of concern commonto the faculty and the student body,Despite some confusion and dissatisfaction with

the technical aspects, Registration Night (whichwas coordinated by the Student Government)stands as a testimony to the interest and enthusi-asm with which the Special Studies Period wasgreeted. Hours before registration began, it seemedas if the entire student body was waiting on thestairs of Crozier-Williams, anxious to indicatetheir choices for the Special Studies Period.When confronted with a final decision, almost

too many equally provocative alternatives wereoffered. Students could enroll in one of a numberof Directed Reading Programs, for example. Theseprograms, administered by the faculty, consistedfirst of independent reading from a given list andthen concluded with a colloquium to discuss thematerial read during the two weeks. Independentstudy was another choice. In consultation with amember of the faculty, a student could devote hertime to experimental projects through reading

·The members of the committee for the Acodomrc year 1968-1969were: Mr. Lester Reiss (Chairman}, Assistant Professor of Phi-losophy, Mr. Otello Desiderata, Professor of Psychology, Mr.David Fenton, Associate Professor of Physics, Mr. Kent Smith,Instructor in History, Faye Green '69, Nancy Accola '70, DeborahFinkel '71, and Rosemary Thompson '72.

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creative work in the arts, laboratory, or othermeans, There was also an opportunity for studentswho were already enrolled in Honors study or ayear's course in individual study, to continue theirwork during this valuable period of time. By spe-cial arrangement with the Department of Educa-tion, students wishing to qualify for certificationin teaching used the Period for practice teachingin the local schools. But by and large, the mostpopular activity for the Special Studies Periodwas participation in one or more of the seventyseminars offered.many of the seminars dealt with

L J topics of current interest that are" , not as yet part of the college

curriculum: "The Philosophy ofHerbert Marcuse," "Btafra." "The Women's Liber-ation Movement," "Revolution in the UnitedStates and the Draft." Other seminars dealt withmore conventional subjects but were presentedwith a new approach: "Heretical Conceptions ofGod," "Browning- Victorian or Modern," "Marx-ism - Alienation and Socialistic Humanism,""French Revolutionary Tradition," "AbnormalPersonality through Literature." There were alsoseminars that were participatory rather than in-tellectual in nature, such as "Chinese Painting,""Film Production," "Awareness Orientation,""Chess," or "Experimentation in Theatre" with agroup of fifteen girls creating an entire produc-tion.Not all the seminars were confined to the cam-

pus. One seminar flew to England to study Victo-rian Art and Architecture with Mr. Edgar deN.Mayhew and Mr. Charles T. Price, both of the Artdepartment. Miss Margaret Williams, also of theArt department, took her seminar to major muse-ums in Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphiawhere they studied museum technique. Still an-other group attended selected stage productionsin New York with Assistant Professor of English,Mr. Alan T. Bradford. Once back at school, thesestudents wrote reviews and held discussions insmall groups.Conn Quest 1969, entitled "The Media ZO?:

Please Feed the Statues" occurred during thistime and embodied the same mood as SpecialStudies Period. It was a weekend of involvementand new experimentation with art forms. Partici-pants were actually a part of it, not entities sep~-rated from the performers or speakers. Thisexperience of art was shared by relatively fewstudents, unfortunately, for Conn Quest sufferedfrom the chronic weekend exodus, or simple lackof interest. For those who did attend, ConnQuestwill be remembered as a successful and integralpart of the Special Studies Period.The success, or lack of success of Special Stud-

ies Period must be measured on a personal scale.

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All pictures in this article were photographedduring Special Studies Period by students inThe Theory, Practice, and Art of Photographytaught by Mr. Philip A. Biscuti, Mr. Gordon S.Christiansen, Mr. David G. Fenton, and Mr.William A. McCloy.

CHRISTINE B. WEBB '70

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Participation during the first week was excellent,but waning attendance and restlessness on thepart of some students marked the second week.For those who became involved in their seminars,or independent activities, Special Studies wastruly a learning experience. Those who thoughtof the two weeks simply as a reprieve fromclasses and therefore a vacation from education,must have found Special Studies Period boring,to say the least.

s with most experiments, theSpecial Studies Period was notan unequivocal success. But thesimple fact that many of the sem-

inars, such as "Chinese Painting," "Sense Relax-ation," and "Black Revolution; White Students,"(a participation in the cause and effect of racism)are continuing into second semester, should attestto the need for creativity in the total liberal artseducation. Special Studies Period 1969 providedstudents at Connecticut College with this oppor-tunity to create. •

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ELLEN G. LOUGEE '69

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JACQUELINE F. McGINTY '72

KATHRYN L. RILEY '69

ELAINE B. FINBURY '72

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New Ideas- religion for the symbol-minded

KATIE O'SULLIVAN SEE '70

he issues to be dealt with in thisessay are derived from questionsraised during a study of contem-porary trends in Western reli-

gious thought. These problems relate to a dicho-tomy between the subjective truth of religionsexperience and the objective truth of science andhistory. Although too large an issue to be re-solved in one short article, nonetheless, this gen-eral question will be integrated into the morespecific problems raised.Contemporary religious thought draws primarily

upon all human experience for religion. It standsoutside tradition and within self, resulting in aquestioning of some of the basic language oftheology. And it depends upon the extent towhich one can move from the words themselvesto the realities which the words seek to express- from words such as love, truth, justice, God,to their reality. This raises three basic questionsin regard to religious language: In what way cancontemporary language be used about God at all?What is the application of language used aboutGod to the world? What is the significance of"God in the world"? But, in order to deal withthese questions, one should look more closely athow religious language operates, perhaps to showthat its primary function is symbolic.Language itself is the literal form of thought, of

human reasoning. Symbolic language is a linguis-tic form of reality manifesting itself through met-aphor and imagery in terms comprehensible tohuman reason. Because of its participation in arealm removed or at least, distinct, from the com-pletely secular, symbolic language evokes an ex-traordinary response. Symbolic language is truewhen it works, when it reaches out and touchesman in the depths of his being. A symbol does notnecessarily comprehend that toward which itpoints. That which is a symbol is in a sense, butonly in one sense, not completely what it pointsto. In other words, there is a distinction between asign and a symbol.A sign is finite and is grounded in human reason.

For example, the red light at a traffic intersectionis accepted as the signification that a drivershould stop and wait until it is safe to proceed. Asymbol, on the other hand, participates in a realitybeyond the merely significant. For example, thesymbol of the bread and wine as Christ's bodyand blood, is intended to be the expression of theinfinite reality of Christ (whereas the red lightexpresses only the finite reality of the trafficlaws). In a sense, then, a successful symbol couldbe considered as a miracle, for it is astonishingwithout contradicting the nature of reality. Butbeyond that, if it is real [i.e., if it "works"). thesymbol contributes to the content of faith. Thesymbol of bread and wine, as a symbol, contri-

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butes to the Christian's belief in Jesus, in theeternal expression of his sacrificial love. In otherwords, the working symbol expresses the tran-scendent in immediate terms; for the believer, thereligious symbol presents the infinite in finiteterms. The symbol is not the infinite itself but aform presentation of the infinite.In order to put this into a clearer perspective, let

us examine the specific use and misuse of reli-gious language as symbolic. Rudolph Bultmann, inhis book Kerygma and Myth, describes the kindsof misconceptions which people have had aboutthe language of the New Testament. He attempts aform criticism, that is, an analysis of the particu-lars which form the book itself, the language ofthe work. He finds that the language reflects amythic consciousness which uses imagery to ex-press the otherworldly in terms of this world, andto express the divine in human terms. This con-sciousness, however, recognizes the imagery notas imagery, not as symbol, but as reality. AsErnest Cassirer writes in The Philosophy of Sym-bolie Form, "the image does not represent thething, it is the thing; it does not merely stand forthe object, but has the same actuality, so that itreplaces the thing's immediate presence. Conse-quently, mythical thinking lacks the categories ofthe ideal and in order to apprehend pure significa-tion, it must transpose it into a material substanceor being." But modern man, with his knowledge oftechnology and science, cannot digest the food ofthe mythic consciousness; it is quite incompatiblewith reality as he sees it. One cannot accept todaysuch concepts as the hierarchal theist view whichmakes God a link in the chain of being from whichangels, man, animals and other forms of life

descend. Here God is viewed as an absolute Super-man sitting on a throne somewhere on the out-skirts of the universe observing the antics of hiscreatures and parcelling out his graces. Nor withour understanding of psychology and biology canwe accept the New Testament language about the"Spirit" and the sacraments - the idea that re-

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cervmg of the Eucharist unworthily can producephysical sickness seems absurd. Other doctrinespresented in the New Testament appear equallyinconceivable to contemporary man: the doctrineof atonement, the idea that death is a punishmentfor sin, the Resurrection of Jesus - these are nolonger plausible.

The problem then is whether we are to discard thelanguage of the New Testament as a product ofthe mythic consciousness, a relic of the old days.an anachronism to modern man, or are to lookbelow the mythic surface to find a deeper mean-ing. Bultmann offers us an alternative to thismythic consciousness, which does not demand acomplete rejection of the New Testament message.The question, he says, is "whether the New Testa-ment message consists exclusively of mythologyor whether it actually demands the elimination ofmyth if it is to be understood as it is meant to be."Bultmann conceives of myth as an expression ofman's conception of himself and of his relation toto the world. In this expression, the purpose andprocesses of the world exist beyond the world ina mysterious far away sense. Myth then empha-sizes man's impotence, his "awareness that he isnot Lord of his own being," but is dependent uponunknown forces.

In relation to the New Testament, however, thismythic consciousness is made more complex bymany inconsistencies which run throughout thework. At some points there is a positing ofman's impotence, at others a demand for his in-dependence. Although this makes Butmann's aimof demythologizing the New Testament more com-plex, it also serves as an illustration of Cassirer'sdescription of the development from the mythicconsciousness to the religious consciousness. Asman recognizes his own agency in his symbols, heis forced to a more sophisticated awareness of thesacred, and of self.

It is this separation which the New Testament isbeginning to recognize. But at its intermediatestage it results in certain contradictions. WhatBultmann is trying to do is to go beyond the NewTestament stage, yet at the same time retain theessential message implicit at that stage. What heis attempting is not to discard the mythology, butto reinterpret it so as to retain the kerygma as theproclamation of the decisive act of God in Christ.The approach which BuItmann takes is an existen-tialist view of the Bible, recognizing it not as his-toricaI work but as a theological effort to servethe needs of the spiritual community at present.What Bultmann is doing is deobjectifying faith,making it existential. Faith becomes the groundsof existence, the existence of self. The New Testa-ment then becomes grounded not upon history,but upon the responses to the kerygma of Jesus,kerygma meaning the proclamation of Christ inself.

If this is true, then the Gospels were not intendedto present a biography of Christ but to serve adidactic apologetic, proselytic attempt to convertthe hearer. Therefore, it seems that there wouldbe no way to get back through the distortions tothe historical figure of Jesus. Indeed, it appearsnot only impossible to get back to the historicalJesus. but radically inappropriate for faith in theChrist.

Should this be the intent of the New Testament,then we must examine and perhaps eradicate thelocalized world view which it does present, andfind the content of the faith experience which itsymbolizes.

The next step is to examine the contradictionswhich Bultmann finds in the New Testament, tosort out the myth from the symbol, in order tounderstand how "Christian thought tended totranscend, once and for all, the old themes ofeternal repetition, just as it had undertaken totranscend all the other archaic viewpoints by re-vealing the importance of the religious experienceof faith and that of the value of the human per-sonality."The first thing that Bultmann attempts is a re-

statement in non-mythological terms of what ispresented in the New Testament. Immediately, hemust deal with the combination of myth and his-tory which obscure the symbols of the work. Thepresentation of Christ as pre-existent does notagree with the theory of the Virgin Birth, andthere is inconsistency in the portrait of Christ asServant, and the portrait of Christ as miracleworker which is not resolved. But such contradic-tions are irrelevant to the basic content of theScriptures.The eschatological existence presented in the

New Testament is a movement beyond the myth-ological thought of the Old Testament. Bultmannwrites, "The last judgment is no longer an immi-nent cosmic event, for it is already taking place inthe coming of Jesus and in his summons to believe.The believer has life here and now and has passedalready from death into life. Outwardly everythingremains the same as before, but inwardly his rei a-

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tion to the world has been radically changed. Theworld has no further claim on him, for faith is thevictory which overcometh the world." The worldview of the New Testament moves beyond thephysical environment of man to his inner anguishand despair.

As far as the myth of the Holy Spirit and its ex-pression in miraculous acts is concerned, this isnot dispelled in the New Testament. But accordingto Bultmann, Paul insists in his Epistles that "thegifts of the spirit must be judged according totheir value for edification, and in so doing, hetranscends the popular view of the Spirit as anagency that operates like any other natural force."What he is saying is that the Spirit is not a super-natural force but the potential of a new life offaith freely chosen.

For Bultmann these are the basic facets of theNew Testament which have cried for demytholo-gizing. But with that accomplished, the questionnow becomes what happened to Christianity? Foris it Christian thought which transcends the oldmyths, or is this existentialist interpretation justpart of man's spiritual evolution? The answer to

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this question comes from the New Testament itselfwhich claims that faith is possible only throughthe fact of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.The problem then is whether Christ himself is nota relic of mythology which is still wailiug to beelminated.

In other words, to complete the task, the symholsof the Cross and of Easter need to be reinterpretedinto terms of universal validity. The real crux ofthe whole New Testament presentation lies inthese two events. Are they myth, or historicalreality, or symbols? According to Bultmann, thecrucifixion itself is an historical fact. But the lan-guage of the New Testament makes it difficult toaccept. Bultmann finds, however, that the signifi-cance of the cross does not lie in the fact of itsactually happening, but in its effects upon the in-dividual man, and the language of the New Testa-ment succeeds well in depicting these effects.

At this point it becomes clear that Bultmannwould have us read the New Testament, not forits value as chronicle, but as living history. Dis-tinct, but not separable from the crucifixion is theResurrection, and resurrection from the dead isinconceivable in anything but symbolic terms. TheResurrection then must also become a symbol forthe individual man. It points to the content of thefaith experience. Indeed, it is the content of thefaith experience, the putting on of the new selfafter the death of the old self. The New Testamentitself, however, has not achieved the synthesis ofthe sensuously apprehended and the representedto reach the level of abstraction which Bultmannderives from it, and which is necessary if it berelevant to modern man. For this reason, it is easyto be trapped in the mythic presentation of Jesus,the Son of God and the Satan-fighter, and losesight of the kerygma. We must keep always inmind, then, the new meaning of the New Testa-ment.

This new meaning of the Testament is deter-mined by the individual's encounter with the work.The message is not chronicle (historia) that Jesuswas a man recorded to be reputed a miracle work-er. It is not the depersonified dissected history ofancient records. Rather, it is living history (ge-schichte], the significant present, existential formwhose meaning is consequent upon the individu-al's participation in it. Bultmann's conclusionthen, is that there is no realistic alternative toreading the New Testament than that of ground-ing it upon oneself. "The apostles who proclaimthe word may be regarded merely as figures ofpast history, and the Church as a sociological andhistorical phenomenon, part of the history ofman's spiritual evolution. But both are eschato-logical phenomena and eschatological events."

If then, the language of the New Testament is asymbolic presentation of man's reaction to the

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kerygma of Christ, how are we to answer the basicquestions of this essay? How can contemporarylanguage be used about Christ meaningfully? Whatis the application of theological language to theworld? What is the significance of the wholephrase "God in the world"?The answer is that we should demythologize our

contemporary theological language as Bultmannhas demythologized the New Testament. First ofall, the kind of schematic role which Cassirer seeslanguage playing should be recognized. In order tounderstand the religious language itself, we mustfirst understand the role of the symbol in this formof discourse, the symbols as mediating factors be-tween the sacred and the profane, just as the NewTestament is a mediating factor between the his-torical Jesus and the kerygma of Christ. But wemust also become more critically aware of theadequacy of the symbol and the symbolized. AsCassirer writes, "the new ideality, the new spir-itual dimension that is opened up through religionnot only lends myth a new signification, but ac-tually introduces the opposition between 'mean-ing' and 'existence' into the realm of myth. Re-ligion takes the decisive step that is essentiallyalien to myth: in its use of sensuous images andsigns it recognizes them as such - a means ofexpression which, though they reveal a determi-nate meaning must necessarily remain inadequateto it, which 'point' to this meaning, but neverwholly exhaust it."

This is what Bultmann does to the New Testa-ment, this is what we must recognize in contem-porary theological language; we must recognizethat Tillich's "ground of being," and Buber's "1-Thou" encounter, and Altizer's "dead God" areessentially symbolic, that they have meaning,rather than dogmatic character. Only in this sym-bolic way can language, contemporary or archaic,be used about God.

But then, how do we apply this theological lan-

guage to the world? If it is essentially symbolic,how do we translate it into ordinary language,or is it completely separated from the profane?Again, Cassirer begins to point to a resolution ofthis probiem. He finds a unity of the symbolicfunction itself which would resolve the tensionbetween profane and sacred languages. The divi-sion, he claims, "does not exclude a perpetualtransition between them as enduring interaction,and mutual assimilation."

This transition is the common function of thesymbol. It does not signify something objectivelyreal, nor is it pure mystic intuition of the ideal,rather it oscillates between the two. "On the onehand," Cassirer explains, "the very lowest mostprimitive mythical configuration proves to be avehicle for meaning, for it already stands in thesign of that primordial division which raises theworld of the sacred from the world of the profaneand delimits the one from the other. But on theother hand, even the highest religious truth re-mains attached to sensuous existence, to the worldof images as well as things. It must continuouslyimmerse and submerge itself in this existencewhich its intelligible purpose strives to cast offand reject - because only in this existence doesreligious truth possess its expressive form andhence its concrete reality and efficacy."

This is exactly what Bultmann has done in hiscriticism of the New Testament. He has correlatedthe meaning of the historical Jesus and the savingChrist, without eradicating either, This is alsowhat Paul Tillich means by the double edged na-ture of religious symbols: "They open up the di-vine for the human and the human for the divine,"And this is what contemporary theological lan-guage must do in relation to its application to theworld. We must accept the validity of the languageof science and technology without losing sight ofthe significance of religious language, What isbeing suggested is not an integration or asslmila-tion of religious language and scientific language,but the need to avoid imprisoning ourselves in toorigid a separation of these two orders as to im-poverish our investigation of either,

Theological language, then, cannot be separatedfrom our world view. The answer to the questionof the significance of "God in the world" wouldseem to be found in our individual and historicalresponses to "God in the world," It is a symbolicexpression and its meaning is consequent upon,and comes out of, the depths of the individual."God in the world" is significant for those towhom it is relevant, for whom it is actively mean-ingful, for whom the symbol "works." The NewTestament can be valuable in making such sym-boIs work because it is a medium in understandingthe religious experiences of others, It can becomea symbol of a symbol. •

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New Era- the birth of community government

KATHERINE MONTGOMERY '69Chairman, Student-Faculty Academic Committee ('67-'69)

mn 27 February 1969 the students

•voted overwhelmingly in favor ofending the Student GovernmentAssociation at Connecticut Col-

lege. A College Government Association took itsplace, making room for expansion of student in-volvement in campus decision-making. Whatbrought about this change? Why did a oncepowerful Student Government Association fail?Student Government had consisted of three

branches: Cabinet, House of Representatives{House Presidents), and Honor Court. The Presi-dent of Student Government presided over theCabinet as well as monthly compulsory Amalga-mation meetings of the entire student body. Cabi-net members represented vital student interestsand included the Class Presidents and the presi-dents of Service League, Religious Fellowship, andthe Athletic Association. The business at hand usu-ally concerned liberalization of social regulationsand non-academic student events at the College.Gradually the character of the College began to

change, reflecting especially the shifting emphasisin society on social and national problems, as wellas individuality. Girls preferred to work at a localday-care center to spending their spare time or-

ganizing a Mascot Hunt. The size of the Collegealso had grown so that voting by show of handsin Amalgo was unwieldly and highly inaccurate.A new Constitution in 1967 abolished compulsory

monthly Amalgos; social restrictions were greatlyreduced; Cabinet, reflecting shifting interests ofthe students, eliminated the representatives fromthe Athletic Association, Service League, and Re-ligious Fellowship, and added the editors of Conn-Census and the chairman of the Student-FacultyAcademic Committee as voting members. Votingon new legislation was henceforth to be done inthe dorms, and all campus-wide information wasdisseminated through the House Presidents whomet together in the House of Representatives eachweek. Thus the Houses became the main politicalunits, with the House Presidents occupying posi-tions of much importance. The President of Stu-dent Government, on the other hand, by no longerpresiding at monthly Amalgos, was not the power-ful familiar student leader she once had been.Concurrent with this decentralization and con-

sequent de-emphasis of Student Government, stu-dent interests were expanding widely. Not onlywere students involved in community and nationalaffairs, from tutoring at Learned House to cam-

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paigning for McCarthy in New Hampshire, butmany showed an interest in participating in deci-sion-making in areas of College government otherthan the strictly social realm. They felt that theyshould be able to offer constructive criticism ofthe courses and academic procedures they weretold to follow. The students, especially the blacks,also wanted to help the Admissions Office increasethe enrollment of girls from minority groups.Recognizing the change in interests, the Student

Government Cabinet suggested that a joint stu-dent-faculty committee be formed to discuss aca-demic issues. The Student-Faculty Academic Com-mittee (SFAC), formed five years ago, has proveda great success in faculty-student cooperation.Some of the issues it has discussed and formallyrecommended be changed or instituted are: thePass-Fail option, abolition of Calendar Days, re-vision of class attendance provisions, interdepart-mental majors, revision of the calendar to includea non-credit Special Studies period between se-mesters, revision of examination scheduling rules,and revision of the administration of comprehen-sive examinations.The success of student-faculty cooperation on

SFAC led to the development of the Campus Life

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Katie O'Sullivan See '70 president.

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Committee (now College Council under the newConstitution). This Committee was a combinationof the former Committee on Student Organiza-tions, a faculty-administration-dominated com-mittee which had voted student legislation intoeffect, and an Ad Hoc Committee of faculty andstudents which discussed the residential aspectsof the College. The Campus Life Committee, ajoint student - faculty -administration committee,approved student legislation and discussed non-academic residential issues of the College, such asthe Faculty Fellows program, a Rathskeller oncampus, and the new Constitution. The students,all members of Cabinet, outnumbered the faculty,thus gaining virtual autonomy over their ownsocial legislation. More important, however, wasthe addition of faculty viewpoints to what essen-tially was a student Cabinet meeting. Never has avote split between students and faculty, and thelegislation passed in the Committee is greatly en-hanced by the combined faculty-student support.With the successful cooperation thus far achieved,a "Plan for the Reorganization of Student Govern-ment with a View towards Developing a Commu-nity Government at Connecticut College" wassubmitted to Cabinet in December. This plan, thefirst stage of which is embodied in the new student

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Constitution, recognized the lack of student inter-est in "Student Government" per se and recog-nized the increasing demand and need for morestudent-faculty cooperation. Thus Student Gov-ernment was consolidated and redefined alongsimpler lines, providing direct communicationfrom all students through the House Presidentsand Class representatives on faculty committeesto the faculty, administration, and trustees. Stu-dent Government as traditionally known wasessentially put in the House of Representativeswhich now has executive and legislative func-tions, and is presided over by the President of theStudent Body. The major business of this group isto handle social and dorm issues, and hopefullystudents interested in those aspects of College lifewill occupy the major offices. Honor Court re-mains as before.Renaming the whole organization College Gov-

ernment stresses the move towards involving thewhole community. The overall plan proposed ex~tension of student membership to seven facultyand administration committees, and the estab-lishment of separate student-faculty committeeswithin each department to discuss the curriculumand major programs. Whether this extension of

cooperation will occur has yet to be seen. Provi-sion for it has now been stated in the studentConstitution, and SFAC and Campus Life Commit-tee show that faculty, students, and the adminis-tration can cooperate. With men, who tend to bemore belligerent than women, coming next year,serious consideration will have to be given tofurther cooperation if Connecticut is to avoidviolent confrontation.The new Constitution and the establishment of

the College Government Association which actu-ally decentralizes the students is an important stepforward for Connecticut. It reflects the diversityof student interests; those who want to discussacademic policy on SFAC are not obligated to alsobe members of Cabinet and Campus Life, thusdiscuss curfews and parietals - a burden on timeand mental sanity! Hopefully more students canbe drawn into the decision-making process, thuseliminating the few "Big Wheels" who know aboutevery aspect of campus affairs but have no timeto study. The new Association likewise stressesthe importance of faculty-student cooperation andthe need for more of it. Effective cooperation ispossible at Connecticut; why not make the mostaim -

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New Special Funds For AAGP Giving~~~~

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The M. Robert Cobble dick Scholarship for Freshmen, in remembranceof Dr. Cobble dick, who died on February 11, 1969.

The J. Lawrence Erb Memorial Fund, for a room in Dr. Erb's namein the Music wing of the new Arts Center.

The Gertrude E. Noyes Scholarship Fund, for a permanent endowedscholarship in honor of Dean Noyes '25.

Alumnae who wish to designate their AAGP contribution for oneof these special funds may do so by noting the name of the fund

on their check, which should be made payable to Connecticut College.Gifts not specified for these or previously established funds,or for other definite purposes, are used chiefly to support

the College's scholarship program.

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To think ofDean Noyes

retiring •••

To think of Gertrude Noyes is to think ofConnecticut College. Identified with the College atall levels - as student, as teacher, as administrator- she is at once the touchstone by which thegrowth, the development, the direction, and theachievement of the College may be judged. Shewas a student when Connecticut College was stillin its infancy; she was a teacher during itsadolescence; and she was Dean of Freshmen andthen Dean of the College in the crucial years whenit attained full maturity.To think of Gertrude Noyes is to think of the manygenerations of Connecticut students who haveadmired and loved her as a great teacher and awise counselor. Students have been reassured bythe quiet endurance of her steady devotion to them- a devotion which extended throughout theyears beyond the four spent on the campus. Shehas maintained a close interest in their graduatestudies, their trips abroad, their careers, theirmarriages and their children. She has shared intheir successes as well as in their failures. ForConnecticut College students over the years, shehas remained the one most counted on to be onhand whenever they returned for a visit.To think of Gertrude Noyes is to think ofdedication to the highest standards of scholarship.Her goals for the academic integrity of the Collegehave always been of the highest order, and one cantruly say that the major changes and improvementsin the quality of the curriculum could not - and inmany instances, would not - have been effectedwithout her.To think of Connecticut College without GertrudeNoyes is an impossibility.

Alice E. JohnsonDean of FreshmanAssociate Professor of English

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Alumnae Council 1969"Differences is what education's all about."

"Differences is what education's all about" was the admonition guestspeaker Mother Dowd left with an enthralled audience at AlumnaeCouncil, Saturday night, March eighth, at the Lyman Allyn Museum.Mother Dowd. whose school in New York City prepares previouslydiscouraged youths for college, stressed the importance of facing upto our changing social values. Today's problems, she said, call for acoming together of people from different backgrounds with differentideas for the purpose of learning from one another.

Emphasizing the influence of our schools upon the world of tomor-row, Mother Dowd listed three necessary changes in education. First,subjects should be significant to the present rather than the past.Second, a variety of teaching methods must be employed rather thanone type of instruction for everyone. Third, for their own benefit, allschools should include students who in former times were isolatedby economic conditions or locked behind doors of color.

In a sense, "Differences is what education's all about" was thethread running throughout every activity during the weekend. Asusual, important workshops for club representatives, class represen-tatives, and admission aides went about the necessary business ofkeeping Alumnae Association wheels turning. But of equal concernto those attending were the "why's" and "wherefores" of recentConnecticut changes. This year, as never before, alumnae cameweighed with questions.

To the satisfaction of all, President Shain's speech at the openingdinner Friday night, tackled the issue of coeducation. He explainedthat whether it be Yale or Princeton, Sarah Lawrence or Connecticut,an irrefutable fact of modern scholastic life is the determination onthe part of our brightest students to go to a coeducational college.Thus, in order to maintain standards at their present high level, theCollege cannot remain one-sex and still attract a sufficient number oftop scholars. The feeling of most of the audience after President Shainfinished speaking can perhaps best be described by a letter receivedlast fall in reply to the alumnae questionnaire.

left - President RoldahNorthup Cameron '51 withsecond vice-president RuthWorthington Henderson '35.right - Mother Dowd of Har-lem Prep, New York City.

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l-Eleanor W. Tyler, '30, execu-tive director; Mary Farrell Morse'41, AAGP chairman. 2-A sessiondevoted to the subject of Connec-ticut Clubs. 3-Ann Conner Polley'60, president of the e.G. of NewLondon: Linda Travis Arterburn'61, president of the e.c. of Cleve-land; Enid Sivigny Corvine '54,class representative. 4-Even theweather was perfect - cold, butclear and sunny like Councl! it-self.

Connecticut Alumnae News • May 1969

"I was one of Connecticut College for Women'spioneers in the days of mud and faculty squabbles,the ousting of a president, always wondering ifmy degree would be worth much. The College livedon and now I have a grandchild just about readyto enter college. I have always hoped she wouldchoose my Alma Mater, the Alma Mater of herother grandmother, her own mother, her two aunts(my daughters), her two great aunts, and a secondcousin, but she has announced rather emphati-cally that she is going to a coeducational collegeand that is that. So perhaps Connecticut shouldopen its door to men. We can become successfulpioneers once again-so let's go." (Class of 1920)

After dinner, alumnae attended a discussionpanel composed of students and faculty, and ledby Mr. Philip Jordon, Associate Dean for Aca-demic Affairs. When time came for questions,they were at first restrained. But gradually, asalumnae recognized the honesty with which thepanel was willing to face any type of inquiry, thediscussion became more spirited. When asked ifthere was tension on campus, one student repliedthat there was tension but not frustration. In an-swer to the question of whether more changeswere needed, the answer "yes" was followed byan explanation that at Connecticut change cameabout through the involvement of everyone, notstudents alone. On another issue, an Afro-Ameri-can member, speaking for herself alone, said thatshe finds the black experience in courses alreadyestablished, and sees no need for a separate cur-riculum. On a lighter note, when a male studentwas asked what his friends say when they learnthat he attends Connecticut, he replied that aftera moment of stunned amazement, they say,"Wow"! And then quickly ask if he can arrangea date!

On Saturday morning, the general meeting wasconducted by the Admissions office, and onceagain, alumnae discovered that today "Differencesis what education's all about." The subject ofscholarships and their relation to keeping Con-necticut's standards high, was of particular inter-est. Two cases were given as examples of situa-tions unknown years ago; both concerned girlswith exceptional ability. The first girl came from ahome supported by her widowed mother's earn-ings from housecleaning, and by welfare. Thismother might have demanded that her daughter

work and contribute to the household, but in-stead, at a great sacrifice, she was willing to haveher go to college. The second girl came from afamily with an income of slightly over $20,000 ayear (both her father and mother work). But withtwo other children already in college, it would beas impossible for this family to eke out a thirdtuition as for the widow to find money to send herdaughter to college. This twin problem of middle-income families requiring substantial financial aid,and the need to help talented, disadvantaged stu-dents, places increasing pressure on the Collegebudget. This year, inadequate federal fundingadded to the dilemma, and the prospects for nextyear are even gloomier.

The topic of coeducation received considerableattention again at this session, for alumnae wantedto know what type of men are interested in apply-ing to Connecticut. In reply, the audience was re-minded that with approximately one hundred menpresently registered in courses (forty from Wes-leyan and the remainder either graduate or specialstudents), the college is already coeducational withthe exception of undergraduate men. Men inquireabout the College for the same reason as women:academic excellence, flexibility of programs, qual-ity of faculty, size, and so forth And Asian stud-ies, psychology, zoology, marine biology, museumtheory, teacher training, interdisciplinary majors(human ecology will be the first), are particularlyattractive areas. About sixty percent of our girlsapply from public schools and forty percent fromprivate schools, and it is expected that the figuresfor men will be the same. In any case, there is noquestion about their meeting the same high aca-demic and personal standards.

The trustees and administrators have set no tar-get number for this coming fall, but are interestedin admitting as many qualified men students aspossible for the initial class. Therefore, the dead-line date will be extended until the class is filled.Speakers on this subject are available to all clubs.

As Alumnae Council drew to a close Sundaymorning, the air sparkled with enthusiasm. Andalumnae departed knowing that their college wasfacing changing times with intelligence and cour-age. If a lambent sadness lingered at remem-brances of yesterday, it was of little importancecompared to the pride in knowing that at Connec-ticut, differences from generation to generationare "what education's all about." •

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Isabel Coulter AbellConnecticut College was most fortunate in securingthe services of Isabel Coulter Abell [Mrs. Charles H.)on her retirement from a prominent position as Su-perintendent of Schools in Waterford, where she wasthe only woman superintendent in the State of Con-necticut. She had previously had a teaching andadministrative career of distinction, including theprincipalships of the Jordan and Uncasville Schools.Mrs. Abell's concern for all school issues earned herwide respect in educational organizations throughoutthe State.

To the Education Department at the College she hascontributed in various capacities, as teacher of Meth-ods of the Elementary School, as supervisor of prac-tice-teaching, and this past year, on the death of Mr.Holden, 85 Chairman of the Department. Her experi-ence has been invaluable in working out the relation-ship of the program with local schools to enable

students to participate in several experimental prac-tice-teaching programs in September, during springvacation, and in Special Studies period.

With her gracious personality and her high profes-sional standards, she has been able to interpret theprogram of the College to the State, and the practicesof the State to the College.

Her professional contribution to the College hasalso brought her and her husband, himself a retiredsuperintendent, into the center of the College com-munity, where they have both become highly valuedfriends.

Community organizations in New London, in whichthe Abells have been active, and the College, willcontinue to seek the benefit of their wise counsel. •

Martha Alter

Warrine EastburnSecretary of the College

Une harpe a mille cordes. A woman of many facets.To those so unwise as to cross swords, 10 belle domesons merci! For the last forty years an ornament onthe faculties of Vassar College and Connecticut Col-lege. Martha Alter.

Glancing at Clair Reis' Composers in America, andWho's Who of American Women, one gleans a fewpertinent data. Born in New Bloomfield, Pa. Earlymusical training from her mother. Vassar College.M.A. Columbia. MM. Eastman. Composition: Bing-ham, Goldmark, Cow, Rogers. Piano: Chittenden andHutchinson. Kendrick-Ryland Fellowship. VassarAssociate Alumnae Fellowship. Salmon Fund forResearch Award. Vassar seventy-fifth AnniversaryPublication Award. Eastman Teaching Fellowship.Professor of Music and Department Chairman, Con-necticut College. Numerous performances in collegesand universities. "Anthony Comstock," Festival ofAmerican Music, Rochester. "Orchestral RhythmicDance," NBC. Sonata for Harpsichord, CBS.Aristophanes setting and symphonic work, ClaudeMonteux conducting, Vassar Centennial celebration.Yeats setting commissioned by Rosemary Park forConnecticut College's Fiftieth Anniversary.

Martha Alter's interest in Americana and her fresh

approach to music are obvious from a glance at afew of her titles. There is, for instance, "SimonLegree-A Negro Sermon" (Vachel Lindsay) for bari-tone and two pianos. In 1945 she composed a pianowork called "Music of the Stratosphere." "TheMenagerie Improved" is a song cycle with texts froman 1845 American Sunday School book.

Her former students and colleagues will rememberher as an extraordinary personality, a faithful friend,a thorough and thoughtful teacher, and a gracioushostess. Visiting artists at Connecticut College willremember the intimate and sometimes frivolousafter-theatre suppers which she so enjoyed havingat her house.

This is no farewell to Marthat Alter. Now that shehas elected to retire from formal college teaching, herfirst project will be the completion of the scores oftwo operas, librettos by Prof. James Baird of theEnglish Department. She plans to live in her belovedfarmhouse at Middle Ridge, near the place of herbirth in Pennsylvania. •

James Stuart DendyAssociate Professor of MusicCollege Organist

Julia Wells BowerAt a time when such matters as alienation from thesystem and lack of communication are in the fore-front of educational news, it is indeed pleasant forus to observe that through her long and effectiveassociation with Connecticut College. Julia WellsBower has "made a difference." To her, education issomething far more complex and fundamental thantraining students to compute modulo five or to solvedifferential equations; it is a very personal relation-ship. With patience and sympathetic understanding,she somehow has always found the time to help andencourage not only students, but also alumnae, col-leagues in her own and other departments, and localteachers.

In spite of these words, Julia Bower's successfulwork at the College can best speak for itself. As ateacher, she has fostered a creative, analytical anacritical spirit in her students. As department chair-man during a time of tremendous advances in mathe-matics, she has wisely supervised countless changesin the departmen t's curriculum. While performing heradministrative duties with competence and charm,she has displayed a superb ability to handle organi-

zational details and to maintain a congenial atmos-phere. As a faculty member motivated by a consider-ation of the best interests of the College. she hasdevoted no small part of her time to College committeesand organizations. In recent years, she has writtenIntroduction to Mathematical Thought, an outgrowthof her syllabus prepared for Mathematics 106. A per-son of high intelligence and good will, Julia Bowerhas remained a student of the liberal arts with aremarkable knowledge of many areas.

We are very much pleased that Miss Bower willcontinue her association with the Mathematics De-partment through full-time teaching next year. Weare grateful that her energy, enthusiasm and wealthof experience will be there to inspire us. For manyyears Connecticut College and Miss Bower have beenbound together by a bond of mutual affection andgratitude. Fortunately, observance of her actual re-tirement can be postponed. •

1. Aileen HostinskyProfessor of Mathematics

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"The Executive Board of the Alumnae Association interval. But with occasional adjustments, every classhas voted to adopt the Milestone Plan beginning in will finally be on the Milestone Schedule by 1981.1971, with all classes returning every five years for As in the past, a class may request permission. totheir fifth milestone reunions. 1970-1981 will neces- return at another time, and individuals who wishsarily be a transitional period, since making an im- to do so are urged to return in any year as membersmediate change for each class would in many cases of the "Class of 1911."mean scheduling reunions after too short or long an

Class Notes

Editor of Class Nares:Mrs. Huber Clark(Marion Vibert '24)

East Main StreetStockbridge, Mass. 01262

1919 Correspondent:Mrs. Enos B. Comstock (Juline wamen176 Highwood Ave., Leonia, N.j. 07605

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

Mildred Howard will soon urge all members of'20 to start jogging themselves into shape for our50th reunion in 1970. Miff and Kathryn HulbertHall are heading the committee 10 make plans forthis occasion and represented us at AlumnaeCouncil where plans for the Hrst four 50th re-unions were started. Miff is still busy interviewingfor Mt. Holyoke admissions office. She went on aCaribbean cruise on the Franconia with the re-tired head of the physical education dept. atPembroke and later visited Helen Gage Carter inOhio. Together they took a brief trip to Frenchlick, Ind. Kay is presently visiting her sister inFlorida. Fanchon Hartman Title asks all classmembers to send any memorabilia (pictures, pro-grams, clippings, etc.I of our four years at college10 her. Panch and Mel have left for Hawaii,Tokyo, Thailand, Cambodia and home via Brus-sels. Fanch is working on Quest and on herreturn is loaning her home for an evening coffee-cordial party, with a speaker from c.c. MargaretChase is working for a mutual fund organization.She is living in Boston and hopes to return forour next reunion, not having been back sincegraduation. Mrs. leib was ill over the holidaysbut is better and looking forward to seeing us atour 50th. Dorothy Stelle Stone reports a newgrandson, Edward Rogers, born to daughter Cindy.They live in lafayette, La., where Bob is an oilgeologist. Dotty and Wadsworth spent Christmasin wellesley Hills with their son's family. SusannaStone 161/2 attends Winsor School in Brooklineand will soon be college bound. There are twomore children in that family. Mary ElizabethStone '49 is in California. Wadsworth is con-sulting in engineering and makes frequent tripsto Albany. Colonel Charles Clark, husband of thelate Agnes Mae Barllett Clark, has just returnedfrom Turkey where he spent Christmas with Armyfriends. He has sold his Hendersonville home andwill move to an apartment in Philadelphia. Hestopped to see the luces in Richmond on his wayto Florida for a month prior to his move. ThePoteats, John and Isabelle Rumney, have just com-pleted a fabulous world tour, sponsored by TheBrooklyn Museum. They spent Columbus Day onMaui; Election Day in Hight between Tokyo andTaiwan; Armistice Day at Angkor Thorn in Cam-bodia and Thanksgiving Day at the Hilton in

IN MEMORIAMDORIS MORTON WOOD '21GWYNETH REESGREGORY '23OlGA GENNERT GREENE '25JANE SCOlLEY MANNIX '36RUTH J. WOOD '43BARBARA CAMPBELL TEMPLE '47EUGENIA MILLER '47

Tehran. Back in the U.S.A., the Poteats had din-ner and attended a concert with Margaret DaviesCooper and Bennett in Hendersonville.Eleanor Seaver Massonneau spent her summer

vacation in Vermont. She met Mildred Howardin Springfield and they drove to Dorothy StelleSlone's new apartment for dinner. Eleanor's son,Dr. Robert Massonneau, and his family havemoved to Burlington. Dr. Bob is taking psychi-atric courses at the Univ. of Vermont MedicalSchool and treating mental patients while doingso. He is preparing to practice psychosomaticmedicine and to teach. Eleanor has given upvolunteer work at the local hospital coffee shopand switched to working at the gift shop. DorothyMatteson Gray and Bill spent six weeks in Floridashortly after his retirement in May. They sawArvilla Hotchkiss Titlerington and Rayon theirway down and back. They visited Bill's sister,Dorothy Gray Manion '19, in South Carolina.After attending a family reunion in OhiO, theywent to lake Erie to see Bill's sister Josephine.Maud Carpenter Dustin and Clifford finally gottheir five children and their families together fora special dinner, the photographing of all 26 ofthem and a clever program put on by the grand-children. They visited son Bob and his family atNantucket but hurried back because their daugh-ter Marcia was arriving with her group fromMinneapolis. As chairman of the Connecticutlibrary Committee, Edith Lindholm Baldwin'shusband Ray testified recently in support of billsrelating to the improvement of libraries and tothe expenditure of more liberal sums. Dr. RobertPease, Emma Wippert Pease's son, is busy teach-ing physics and mathematics at New Paltz Collegein upper New York State. He is devoting his sparetime to writing his third novel. Emma is taking arefresher course in writing non-fiction. KatherineSchaefer Parsons and Nelson spent Christmas withson Bob and his family in Pennsylvania. Grand-daughter linda, a senior in high school, wasnamed Girl of the Month by a group of women'sorganizations last fall and by a Wayne Countyorganization in February. Harriet Allen L'Orsa wasin South Carolina with her sister-in-law, MarthaHouston Allen '21. Harriet is returning to herhome in British Columbia, which she says is anartist's paradise-be it camera or brush. Harriet isquite a gardener, growing peas, broccoli, cauli-flower, greens and roots and she has a tiny hothouse for tomatoes and cucumbers. She has twosons, Tanya geologist, and Joe a prospector in"them thar hills." loretta Higgins retired after 36years of school teaching. Before teaching, she hadspent 12 years in the world of music, theatre andthe newspaper. Recently she passed the YWCAscientific fitness class. She spends three days aweek exercising, followed by a swim in the pool.Loretta is president of the Shakespeare Society ofNorwich. She is a director of the Norwich Con-

cert Ass'n, which presents four concerts annually.She likes apartment living-no more propertyresponsibilities.Our honorary member, Miss louise Howe, died

in November. From its beginning she was inter-ested in Connecticut College, was a member ofthe Board of Trustees for 45 years and one ofthe founders of Windham House, Knowlton andFanning Halls. She was made an honorary mem-ber of 1920 in our freshman year and through theyears met with us when we returned to collegeuntil her illness made trips to the hill top tm-possible. Contributions in Miss Howe's memorymay be made to Connecticut College Arboretum.Lillian Shadd Elliott '19 reports the death inSeptember of /0 Sutton, Dr. Sykes secretary. Shehad been living in the far west and she and Lilmet frequently. Our classmate, Esther DoolittleLong, died in 1968. Our sincere sympathy is sentto the families of these our friends.

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

1922 Co-correspondents:Mrs. David H. Yale (Amy Peck)579 Yale Ave., Meriden. Conn. 06450Miss Marjorie E. Smith181 Irving Ave., Providence, R.1. 02950

I, Amy, have just returned from Alumnae Week-end where I represented Gertrude Trauelg whowas vacationing in Palm Springs, Cal. Ann HastingsChase moved to Hebron, Conn. last summer andnow she and her husband are in Florida visitingtheir daughter Elizabeth. Miriam Taylor Beadleand Leonard spent the Christmas holidays withtheir daughter Bobbie and her family in NewJersey before leaving on New Year's Day to fly toLisbon for a three months' stay in Estoril, Portu-gal. M.P. saw Constance Hill Hathaway last sum-mer. Helen Tryon wrote from the hospital whereshe had an operation in February hoping thesnow would be gone enough so she could gohorne the next day. Gladys Smith Packard fell lastAugust but by November was recovered so shecould take a 37 day cruise to the Mediterranean,with a 12 day bus trip through Italy, and toSouth America on the way home. This winter shehas visited her daughter in North Carolina. Mari-lyn has two sons and a baby girl born in Decem-ber. Blanche Finley took a week in Nassau tohelp get rid of a flu bug. Alice Hagar Schoffstall'sbrother and his family, two boys and a dog,came to see her last summer. Edith (Polly) PollardHarwood was in the hospital in July but she wasbetter and back at her teachers' aide job in thelibrary when Dorothy Wheeler Pietrallo saw herin August. Polly's son Brian and granddaughterJennifer came to see her while Dot was there.Wrey Warner Barber is vice president of her classof '22 at Oberlin and town chairman of project"Sister-City" for the two 'toledos. She hopes toget home from Spain in time to come to collegein June. Beatrice Clark visited a long-time friendin New Hampshire in the summer. Mollie KenigSilversmith retired the first of December and isenjoying being a lady of leisure. Elizabeth Merrill

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Blake enjoys retirement too. Claudine Smith Haneand Elmer spent some time last summer withtheir daughter Melicent, her husband and twochildren in Maryland and then went to Cape Vin-cent, N.Y. on lake Ontario to see her sister Con-stance Langtrev '30. Claudine is again teaching ata remedial clinic for children who find it hard,because of emotional difficulties, to learn in thelarge classes of regular school. She also teaches aclass for "released time" church school, besidesknitting and keeping house. Marjorie Wells lyboltenjoys the wild life at her hillside home whereshe sees deer, raccoons and recently a flock of 60fantail doves. She gets to San Francisco aboutonce a week but has to walk a mile to get thebus in town. Marjorie Smith keeps busy with theMissionary Society at church, of which she issecretary; the R.L Women's Club, where she ischairman of the program committee; the B & PWmeetings, volunteer work at the VA library, thevisitation committee of her church, and the Life-time Learning Group in East Providence. We weresaddened to hear that Augusta O'Sullivan's sisterJulia died in December.

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

1924 Correspondent:Mrs. C. Doane Greene(Gladys Westerman)Decoy Farm, Rock Hall, Md. 21661

Our 45th reunion committee is headed by JanetCrawford How, with Gloria Hollister Anable,Margaret Dunham Cornwell, Marion Sanford andVirginia Eggleston Smith. We hope many of ourclassmates will return for this reunion, as it willbe the last one at CC as a total woman's college.Gladys Barnes Gummere, who is living in Phila-

delphia, is enjoying her husband's retirement Heis now with the Educational Records Bureau,Philadelphia branch. The Gummeres hope to dosome traveling in the near future. Marion Sanfordhas retired from the Northeast Utilities ServiceCo. Her position was executive secretary to thesenior vice president 01 administration. Marionis living in New london. Dorothea Cramer wentabroad last spring, visiting Ireland, Scotland andEngland. As usual she spent the summer at hercottage on Highland Lake. Margaret Kendall Yar-nell has 28 grandchildren approaching the collegeage in various stages. One girl has entered Gettys-burg College. lucille MacDonall Miller and herhusband went to Sydney, Australia, in February toexplore the business possibilities and outdoorliving of that country Down Under. JosephineBurnham Ferguson, who is companion to a charm-ing and mentally keen Widow, will be unable toattend reunion because she had to take time outfrom her job in january for an operation.

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

1926 Co-correspondents:Miss Hazel M. Osborn152 East 94th St.,New York, N.Y. 10028Miss Marjorie E. Thompson162 East 80th St., New York, N.Y. 10021

On Oct. 11 Dorothy Brooks Cobb's mother,Mrs. Harry D. Brooks, celebrated her loothbirthday at her home in lynnfield, Mass. Dot'simmediate lamily, her three brothers and theirfamilies, including jeanette Bradley Brooks '28,were present, as were Barbara Brooks Biil(by andher husband. Chet and Barbara Brooks Bixby cele-brated their 40th wedding anniversary in June.Their children arranged a party that includedLorraine Ferris Ayres and Imogene Hostetler

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Thompson as well as Dorothy H~ooks Cobb, allof whom had been in the wedding. Durrng thesummer Babs and Chet took four grandchildren7-9 to a Dude Ranch in Wyoming. The previousspring the Bixbys made a business trip to Japanand on the way home spent a brief but delightfulvacation in Tahiti. Kathleen Garrity is an activemember of the Hartford Alumnae Club, whereamong other things, she helps with their annualrummage sale. K. keeps in lauch with EdytheHildreth Shepherd and Pearl Tucker Fowler. Allthree of them have birthdays in March and theyusually celebrate together. Edythe'S daughterMariIyn is a CC graduate, '49. Her husband, Nor-man M. Prentice, is a professor at the Univ. ofTexas. K. has continued to live in her familyhomestead in West Simsbury and Pearl occupiesher family home in Middlefield. Theodosia Hew-lett Stickney writes of the Good Life that she andDick continue to enjoy in Wilmington, N.C. inspite of the low temperatures ths past winter.As a survivor of countless blizzards in Buffalo,Teddy enjoys the irony of her cqrnplaint. TheStickneys enjoy cruising on the IntracoastalWaterway. Last summer Teddy and her sister RuthHewlett '29, spent a month in Mexico. staying atthe Institute Allende at San Miguel for twoweeks, where they studied Spanish and did somepainting. In December Pauline Warner Rootwrote from Bangkok, Thailand, to say that she andWalter had not retired to Woods Hole, Mass."after all", although it is their official home andsome day they will spend more time there. lastyear Walter was invited to spend five monthsin Bangkok as a member of a group from theRockefeller Foundation who were teaching atthe Faculty of Medical Sciences. After leavingthere in April, the Roots toured Greece, Italy andEngland for three months. They visited WoodsHole briefly before returning to Bangkok inNovember for another semester and anotherseason in The Tropical Sun.

1927 Ccsrespondent:Mrs. L Bartlett Gatchell(Consfance Noble)6 The FairwayUpper Montclair, N}. 07043

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

Ruth Towson Moeller and her husband Jerryspent a month at Port St. Lucie, Fla. this winter.Since his retirement they go to Bear Pond, theirsummer place in the Adirondacks, in May anddon't go back to Larchmont until "the snowgets too deep for comfort. We have many proj-ects going 10 keep us busy up there and welove the mountains." laura (Betsy) Ross Raish andPaul visited them at Bear Pond last fall. MaryDunning McConnell and John are back in thiscountry for good after more than four years inTehran, Iran, where John was pastor of theCommunity Church and civilian chaplain to theAmerican armed forces. They had a vacation inEurope last summer, which included home leave,as they had decided to extend their stay inTehran. After their return, with stops in Scotlandand Vienna, they were full of "vim, vigor andvitality to tackle the next two years." But thepressure of many activities and added responsi-bility for the maintenance of church propertyresulted in john's collapsing in mid-November,and he was flown to Germany and eventually toCheyenne, Wyo., where he was hospitalized neartheir daughter, Kathie Lowry'S home. Mary wasalso flown home, and a day or so after reachingKathie's, was hospitalized with flu. On Dec. 21they both left the hospital and have found a smallapartment in Cheyenne. 1968 was brightened forthem by the arrival on Feb. 4 of their 8th grand-child, john Brent lowry, and the safe return inMay of their son, Capt. Allan McConnell fromhis tour in Vietnam. For the last two' years

Dorolhy Bayley Morse has been teaching a classin illustration two days a week at the New York-Phoenix School of Design. "This is a class of 15college age kids, 12 of whom are boys. Most ofthe time I love it, and I have certainly learned alot. My only hope is that they have, too." Dothas also continued in the free lance art businessand lately has worked mostly for text books."We're still doing our two-way living of Green-wich Village in the winter and Bedford Village inthe summer. and liking both."Roberta Bitgood Wiersma and Bert moved to

Battle Creek, Mich., the beginning of the year,where Roberta has taken over the music programat the First Congregational Church, a "trulyhappy move, a great morale boost, and re-juvenation." Bert transferred his activities withthe Michigan Easter Seal Society for CrippledChildren and Adults to Battle Creek, and althoughhe had a gall bladder attack and ended up insurgery on moving day, he has started workingagain on a light schedule. Roberta played violawith the Battle Creek Symphony in their 70thanniversary concert. She is serving on the Na-tional Council of the American Guild of Or-ganists, and attends their meetings in NYC whereshe "likes to go the rounds of publishers." She'son the National Board of the Choristers Guild,an association of some 4,000 directors of juniorchoirs. Roberta tells of four newly commissionedanthems and many trips in connection with hermusic, and of her pleasure in having Grace withthem weekends during the summer while shehad a scholarship at the Univ. of Michigan forgraduate study in Chinese. This was the firsttime they had seen Grace other than brieflysince her marriage in 1962. She and Robert arenow at Berkeley. Shortly after Ethelyn ReddenFarnsworth's daughter Susan was married over ayear ago, Ethelyn moved to lancaster, S.c., whereshe lives alone "in a little house on a 227-acretree farm" and enjoys the peace and quiet. Sheis only 40 minutes from both of her daughters'homes in Charlotte. In February her daughtersand their husbands and her oldest daughter'sfour children came out to the farm for supperand when the snows came, barely made it backto Charlotte. "They wanted me to go back withthem but I stayed here and was snowed in forfour days last fait I visited my son Charles,who is director of the Berean Christian School atStony Brook, L.I." Then she went to Glen Ridge,N.j. "for a delightful visit with Helen little Clarkand John. Helen and john are now at Siesta Keyin Florida for a couple of months. My oldestdaughter, her husband and children, and I aregoing to the Everglades to rent a houseboat andcruise around the canals during the children'sEaster vacation. I see Alice Owens Ansley '27when J go to Atlanta, which isn't often, She cameto Susan's wedding at Hilton Head HelenClark likes to paint and does it very wel1. At onetime, one of her paintings was hanging in theAmerican Embassy in Moscow!-the reason beingthat her daughter Nan is married to Dexter An-derson, who is in the State Dept. and their apart-ment was in the American Embassy."Elizabeth Gordon Van Law was 2nd vice presi-

dent of the Alumnae Ass'n for three years, It in-volved visiting alumnae clubs, helping with anyproblems they might have, and helping organizenew clubs. On one trip to the New HampshireClub meeting, she spent the night with SarahBrown Schoenhut. Although Margaret Bell Beewas not well at the time and died shortly after-wards, she came to the meeting on a cold andsleety day when she heard Betty was to bethere. Betty is still working for ee, being co-chairman for the Westchester ee Club's part inthe $18 million Conn Quest. "I work one day aweek in NYC at a thrift shop which partiallybenefits Children's ViJIage in Dobbs Perry, N.Y.,a resident school for disturbed boys. Also dothe usual church and woman's club work, and,when weather permits, I'm on the golf courseas much as possible. Our older daughter, CynthiaRoss, is enjoying living in switzerland nearGeneva with their two boys and two girls. Wehope to go over and visit them in August. JudyLoucks, our younger daughter, ee '60 is living

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in Wrightsville, Pa. and has two little girls 3 and1112 and two Norwegian Elkhounds, who havealready produced one litter of beautiful puppies.Her husband is a lawyer in York. At Chnstrnaswe spent a week at the Greenbrier in WhiteSulphur Springs, W. va. with Judy, her husband,their two girls and her husband's mother. It wasa beautiful setting for Christmas but it couldn'ttop two years ago when we were in Nassau for10 days with both daughters, their husbands,children, both sets of in-laws-14 strong" Bettyhad an overnight visit with Margaret TauchertKnothe and her husband Alex. "They have soldtheir hotel in Manchester Center, VI. and arenow living in Dorset, Vt. Her daughter Judy,married to a professor at the Univ. of Connecti-cut, has three daughters and a son. Her son Tonyis in Manchester, Vt. where he is the successfulowner of a steak house and night club called'Five Hys". He is engaged to a charming Austriangirl, Gertraut Huth, and will be married injune." from Merle Hawley Smith, in Akron;"Has been a busy year. Alex took early retire-ment so we have done a bit of traveling. Ourson was married in August. Our daughter hasjust moved to Pittsburgh so we have done muchbaby-sitting with Mark 4. Hope to go to Floridain January." From Helen Boyd Marquis in PalmBeach Shores: "All well in our little villa by thesea-in (act I had a swim today, water temp. 78°.Drove 14,000 miles last summer out west. Tonyand family are living in Portland, Oregon, andwe had to go and see."it is sad to report that gleaner Penney Herbst's

husband Ciifford died suddenly on Nov. 1. Oursympathy goes to Eleanor and her family.

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

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

Ruth Barry Hildebrandt and her husband havesold their farm and cattle and are building asmaller place in Litchfield County, Conn. TheHildebrandts are at present staying in New YorkFrances (Pete) Brooks Foster keeps busy with theLadies' Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts.Ruth Cooper Carroll had a lovely dinner at thehome of Eleanor Thayer Toney in honor of Alli-son Durkee Tyler who was visiting from Florida.Allison is president of the Board of lady Man-agers of St. luke's Hospital of [acksonvifle. Thisorganization sponsors tours for convention visi-tors. O.Z., her husband, teaches social sciencesat Florida Junior College. Eleanor has two grand-children. Her son, AI jr.. is at Harvard BusinessSchool. Dorothy Feltner Davis' daughter Dorothy('59) has a son Mark 3. Our Dot's son, Michael,is studying archaeology, now as assistant to Dr.William Sanders at the pre-Mayan ring of moundsaround Guatamala City known as the KamlnalJuju Project. Dot spent four weeks there atChristmas time. Her other son, 1st Lt. George,has almost completed his tour in one grim bas-tion of the Vietnam war. Kathleen Halsey Ripperewrites, "I am so enmeshed in LWV work on thestate and county levels that J only leave NewJersey on vacation trips and for meetings of theleague's Tri-State Committee. I'm in charge ofthe Regional Planning item on the state boardand organization of county councils throughoutthe state The only CC-ite I've encounteredin all this effort is Mrs. John Lee, past presidentof the national league and a trustee of thecollege My eldest son, Robert, is the fatherof two small daughters, resides in Washington,D.C. and works as a microbiologist for the Foodand Drug Administration. #2 son, Kenneth, is ageologist; spent last summer working in BritishColumbia. lawrence, an engineer with lockheedin San Francisco, is the father of two children."Marjorie Nash Lee has lived the past 12 years inWhittier, Calif. "life has been good to us and

our children are a special satisfaction. Our oldestdaughter Barbara married Steve Messner, livesin Cleveland, has a 5-year-old daughter and a4-year-old son. Daughter Randy married MichaelMonsegur, a Univ. of Arizona classmate. Theylive in Tempe, Ariz. and also have a boy and agirl. Our youngest, Frank Jr., is still single, work-ing at IBM, living in 5an Francisco. We havetaken cruises to Hawaii, the Caribbean and Mex-ico. Retirement is no problem for us. We loveit." Helen Oakley Rockhold and her husbandhave bought a lovely home in Bow, N.H. JulietPhillips basked in Florida during the grim months.Helen Benson Mann moved to Dover, Mass. inSeptember to a retirement house which they love.Her daughter Alison and husband are in Burling-ton, VI. where he teaches and does research atthe Univ. of Vermont. Your correspondent hasone son who is a correspondent for the BuffaloEvening News, #2 son a major, studying soci-ology at Northwestern, and youngest son Dave inthe Peace Corps in Mazir-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.

1931 Correspondent:Mrs. Richard M. Jones(Constance Ganoe)25 Bloody Brook RoadAmherst, N.H. 03031

Married: Ruth Griswold Ferguson to HenryLouchheim on Dec. 30, 1968.

SURPRISEI Here we are in the News in thewrong quarter because we are Reuning thisJune. Just want to remind everyone to come toour "Fortieth" (only 38 really). Reunion Chair-man, Elizabeth Hendrickson Matlack, reports shehas had forty-four replies as of March 15: seven-teen definite YES, thirteen ?, the others negative.Do try to join us on the Hill June 13, 14, 15.

Please "v'ell come" and help the class of 1919celebrate the first 50th, also hear about Coeduca-tion and all the other new things going on atour Aima Mater.

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

Excitement is in the air! Reunion in June! Ourchairman, Susan Comfort, begs everyone to makean extra effort to attend. Don't wait until you arecreeping! Mildred Solomon Savin, A.A.G.P. classchairman, would like a great report. MarionAllen continues to be a faithful commercial staffsuperintendent in the telephone company ofNatick, Mass. Gardening is her hobby. MabelBarnes Knauff, class nominating chairman, took amonth oft during March for a cruise to southernclimes. Frances Buck Taylor has four grandsonsand a new granddaughter. AI! live nearby and sograndparents are not lonesome. Frannie is presi-dent of a garden club and does volunteer work atChildren's Memorial Hospital. She and Johnescape to their cabin in Wisconsin as often aspossibie. louise Bunce Warner is unable to cometo reunion. Their Coast Guard radioman son willcomplete his four-year enlistment in May andattend college. Louise helps yacht designer hus-band Wink as secretary and is a hospital volun-teer. Both are active in the Episcopal church.Susan Wistar Comfort had a glorious wintercruise to South America, via Trinidad. DrusillaFielding is having an interesting time as secretaryto a new young president of Bowdoin. After thedeath of her father, Mabel Hansen Smith's hus-band's grandson was killed in a motor accident.Her husband is retired in ill hearth and Pollytries to run the business alone. So coming to re-union is out. Her joy is a small grandson and twoFrench poodles. Margaret Hazlewood, lookingdown from her office over the new arts building,reflects that they whirl at c.c. with constantchanges-course, academic, calendar, construc-tion. Sylvia Hendel Irwin's daughter, RobertaPollock, mother of three sons, presented theIrwins with Jennifer Ann on June 3, '68. SonRichard, an intern at New England Medical Cen-ter, Boston, is to be married in June. Sylviaenjoyed a Mediterranean cruise this past winter.

Reunion is in her plans. Marian Kendrick Daggettspends much time with her daughter Claire andfamily while Claire's Navy husband is in Vietnam.Marian is fascinated with her hobby, genealogy.She will be unable to get to reunion, but afterher husband's retirement, she hopes to come tothe next one. This spring Margaret Leland Weirdid extensive traveling which included HongKong.

Jane MacKenzie retires in June after 37 yearsof history teaching in WiJ!imantic, Conn. MarionNichols Arnold and Ruth Raymond Gav are com-ing to reunion and another recruit may beCharlotte Nixon Prigge who desires a correctionin the report of her family. She has four grand-daughters and one grandson, Christopher Nixon.Chuck lives in Simsbury, Conn. and Nick inFitzwilliam, N.H., practicing law in Keene. RuthPaul Miller's daughter, Pam Rickett, in Chester,Va. has a new daughter, Shan a Beth. Ruth's sonNick married Andrea Swiss in February and leftfor Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, in April fortraining to serve on a missile base. Ruth's Asiantour group held a c.c. 1930 gal, Elisabeth John-son Humes. Margaret Rathbone continues hervolunteer work at Corcoran, enjoys concerts andtheater, and is planning a Smithsonian trip toIran, Pakistan and other far off places. Her gardenwas shown on the April Georgetown GardenTour. Eleanor Roe Merrill and Carl went toAustria this spring. In January Ellie completedsix years on the hospital Board of Governors,but still does volunteer work at the informationdesk. They dined with Ralph and Mary ShermanBriggs from Cleveland. Alice Russell neaske spentmost of the summer in the British Isles where sheand Herbert attended a linguistic institute inEdinburgh. They lived in residence with studentsfrom forty countries and later did some travelingin Cornwall and Somerset. Mildred SolomonSavin had fun speaking to regional class agents.The Savins visited Italy this spring. Harriet SmithHarris is corresponding secretary for three classesfrom her prep school. Her older daughter, HarrietK. Harris '60, has returned from two and onehalf years with the embassy in Saigon. Seconddaughter, Elizabeth, Randolph-Macon '65, has re-turned from two years in Tokyo, likewise withthe embassy. Both are in Washington.

Cecilia Standish Richardson had a beautiful win-ter skiing in New Hampshire. She is trying to cleararound weddings for June reunion. Last springfound laura Emily Taft Clements in the ItalianAlps. She cruised to the West Indies this spring,skates and curls as usual in winter and plans onreunion. Eleanor Wilcox Sloan frequently visitsher three married children. Margie is a teacherin Miami. Richard is a bank examiner in Tampaand Bill an engineer in Annapolis, Md. TheSloans boat and fish in the Gulf of Mexico andEllie, having become a golfer, made a "birdie"at Kees!er Field, Miss. Golf Tournament. MaryElizabeth Wyeth Osher's daughter Pamela andfamily, New Yorkers, spent Christmas holidayswith their parents in Phoenix. Norman, a pro-fessor emeritus, has joined the Internal MedicineAssociates in Sun City. The Phoenix Art Museum,Planned Parenthood, and broadcasting demandMary's time. Constance uennett Crail entertainedthem royally in L.A. in June. They later attendedthe International Council of Museum meetingsin Cologne. Alice Van Deusen Powell's four chil-dren are scattered from Fort lauderdale to NYC.David is at Univ. of Pennsylvania working on hismaster's and Rick is at Columbia Univ. Yoursecretary-correspondent Ruth Caswell Clapp'sdaughter, Nancy Elizabeth, a senior at Mac-Murray College in Illinois has been accepted atCornell School of Nursing for graduate studyduring the next two years. With her commence-ment, followed by Ed's 40th reunion at Harvardand a ministers' wives' conference during thesame week, it will be a squeeze to make it toreunion but hope it can be done.

1933 Correspondent:Mrs. Thomas C. Gillmer(Anna May Derge)1 Shipwright HarborAnnapolis, Md. 21401

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1934 Correspondent:Mrs. George W. Holtzman(Marion Bogart)20 Atlantic DriveOld Saybrook, Conn. 06475

Dorothy Merrill Dorman's husband Dan isfinishing his three year stint as chief of staff atthe newly merged Berkshire Medical Center inPittsfield Mass. Son John is in his residency inBoston, 'married and the father of Dody's firstgrandchild, a boy born in july. Son Tim was mar-ried in August and he and his wife are studentsat Williams. Pril is at Smith and lives in thehouse where Julie Nixon Eisenhower lived be-fore her marriage. Alan is at Holderness andChris his twin is at Gunnery. All were at thefamilv home for Christmas. The Dormans were inCalifornia last June to see Dan's brother electedpresident of AMA and while there they spenta day with Elizabeth Waterman Hunter and her"cute college daughter" Mary. Edith RichmanStolzenberg is excited about Connecticut goingco-educational. Both of her sons enjoyed havinggirls attend classes at their colleges. Her olderson is now a Ph.D. candidate at Ann Arbor. Theyounger one is a junior at Harvard. Both Dodyand Edith plan to be at reunion. Ann CrockerWheeler is able to relax a little more aftermarrying off her daughter in December. She hasreceived 47 replies to the reunion questionnaire.So far we have 21 definite "yes" for attendingand a lot of undecided. We know there will bemany who have other obligations but you whohave no other commitments, come and have funwith us.Eleanor Hine Kranz has resigned as Editor of

the News. Her daughter graduates from EmmaWillard reunion weekend. Ruth Jones Wentworthhas a married daughter and a son graduatingfrom medical school this june. Marie Stone Levyis busy being chauffeur and office helper sinceher doctor husband had an operation on hiseyes. Janet Trace Spragg has two graduations toattend in june and probably will not be able tomake reunion. J had hoped to hear about theirtrip to East African universities last January.Carolyn Huston Hudson would like to have newsand addresses 01 Catherine Jones, Vera Reynolds,lean Dakin and Mary Simonds. If anyone knowsabout these girls, please send the information tome or to Carolyn. Alice Miller Tooker's husbandSterling has been ill and is on vacation fromTravelers. On April 21, Alison Jacobs McBride,husband Vincent, George and I (Marion BogartHoltzman) are flying to Paris, Geneva and Stutt-gart where the McBrides are buying a Mercedes.Then we are traveling by car to the Netherlands,Denmark, Sweden and Norway. We will be backin time for reunion!Our sympathy goes to the family of Virginia

Case Byrne who died Nov. 29.

1935 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Thomas S. McKeown(Ruth A. Fordyce)2141 Ridge Ave., Apt-3-AEvanston, III. 60201Mrs. Eugene S. BackusCatherine Ann K. Cartwright)27 Halsey DriveOld Greenwich, Conn. 06870

1936 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Elmer Pierson (Elizabelh Davis)9 Riverview Street, Essex, Conn. 06426Mrs. AIl'S G. Haman (AIl'S E. Griswold)Ferry Road, Old Lyme, Conn. 06371

Ruth Norton Kuhl went on a three weeks cruisethis fall. Norty has a married daughter, Barbara,living in Scotland and one grandchild. Heryounger daughter, Karen, is to be married thisspring. AIl'S Griswold Haman announces the en-gagement of her daughter, Wendy, to Harry J.

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Kerop of Ivoryton, Connecticut. Amy flex) MeNutt McNeel also took a cruise this past fall-eight days to jamaica. Alice Dorman Webster,Bill and son Tom (who has just returned from anAir Force tour of Thailand) are on a cruise thismonth. Priscilla Spalding Scott's son Richar.d andhis wife are Jiving in Germany where he IS sta-tioned. They became the parents of a daughterthis fall. Joyce Cotter Kern has been most busyrunning a convention for the Soap and DetergentIndustry in January. Elizabeth Ruiter Williamsonis still living in Midwest City, Oklahoma, butmanages to visit Vermont each summer. ~onjohn is a sophomore at Oklahoma State. ArlmeGoettler Stoughton and her husband Bob had amarvelous 3 weeks trip to Europe in November,along with 106 educators from the states. a~dCanada, studying education in schools of SOCialistcountries, anywhere from nursery school upthru the university. The tour also took them toOslo, Copenhagen, Budapest, and B days betweenMoscow and Novcstbtsk (Siberia), 21{)O miles s.e.of Moscow and just north of Mongolia. One ofthe many highlights of the trip was a visit tothe only Protestant church (Baptist) op:n f,?rreligious services on a Sunday morning In

Moscow.

Class of 1936 Reunion '68

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

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

Ted and Marjorie Mintz Deitz's daughter Jane,now liVing in Waban, Mass., presented themwith a grandson this year. Last October Ted andMar] vacationed at Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico,and were joined by their son who flew fromChicago where he is in the management trainingprogram of Sears Roebuck. He has since beengiven a promotion and transferred to Columbus,Ohio. Bill and Wilhelmina Foster Reynolds anddaughter Sue spent last August on the WestCoast She is a junior at Vassar where she par-ticipates in the Vassar-WilHams exchange programinitiated this year. Billie is still on the YWCAboard in Germantown and devotes much timeto the board of Sheltering Arms of the EpiscopalChurch. She was appointed a representative ofthat agency to the Board Committee of the Chil-dren and Family Service of the Episcopal Com-munity Services which coordinate all social ser-vices within the diocese of Pennsylvania. CarmanPalmer von Bremen's son Rob is in the Navystationed for the next year in Pensacola. Her mar-ried daughter Janet is working in the guidancedept. of a nearby high school and her husbandteaches math at the junior high in the sametown. Her youngest daughter Barb was awaiting

college acceptance. Carman is ass'! cafeteriadirector in the Livingston public schools andchairman of the New jersey School Food ServiceAss'n. Her husband Dan is a member of theLivingston Auxiliary Police and First Aid Squad.1968-69 is Helen Swan Stanley'S sixth year ofteaching government, sociology and economicsat the high school level. Her husband Dave hasrecently completed his fifth book, a three yearstudy of Bankruptcy in the U.S., and is now work-ing on his next which will deal with the unionsin public service. Their eldest daughter was mar-ried in April to Peter Hendrikson, a managementintern with the Dept. of Health, Education andWelfare. Son David is in the Army stationed inGermany. Betsy is a junior at MI. Holyoke,majoring in political science and in Februarywent to the London School of Economics tostudy the British government system.The Cauffields (Jane Hulchinson) had a slight

breather in September when all four childrenwere in college, the boys at Akron State Univ.,Cathy at Michigan State, and Carolyn at LincolnCollege. But they still had 6 dogs in the house!In january a couple of litters arrived, making agrand total of 26 Dalmatians. However, the in-vasion came after their daughter Carolyn's debutat the Charity Ball in December and so did notinterfere with the social parties and holidayfestivities. During the summer Carolyn didvery well at the horse shows and after she re-turned to college, Jane took to the saddle. Janeis president of the CC Club of Akron .and alsopresident of the Visiting Nurse Service. Herhusband Ed, even with his heavy practice, ac-cepted the responsibility of being pres.ident-el~ctof the Summit County Medical Society. Withtheir children scattered thither and yon, Dick andWinifred Frank Have" decided to have a Christ-mas reunion in Europe. Son Bruce, married inJune, received an exchange fellowship at theUniv. of Leuven, Belgium. So, after the wedding,they flew to Brussels and Bruce took a summerjob with IBM at Geneva. Both he and his bridewill attend the university for a year, after whichBruce will receive his MBA from Chicago and anadvanced degree from Leuven. Also after thewedding, their other son Fred took off for Romewhere he wJll work for Mobil Oil for two years.Nancy is in her second year at Conn. College,where she is taking the course in Chinese, andjoined her parents for the Christmas reunion withher brothers in Brussels. As always the North-cons (Winifred Nles) are getting their "kicks"out of community involvement. Hal is back atColumbia taking its problems in stride andHeather is a happy high school junior who par-ticipates in various school, v-Teen, and churchactivities as well as holding down a part-timejob. Husband John is president of Big Brothersand director of Health and Welfare Council,while Winnie is a 13 year veteran on the schoolboard. Last November Winn made a trip eastas consultant to the Alabama Dept. of Educationto help set up a pre-school program for assistanceto young deaf children. Frances Walker Chaseworks at the Family Counseling Service in Hack-ensack, N.j. Her work encompasses supervisionof students of Columbia and Hunter Schools ofSocial Work. Fran's daughter Liza, CC '66, wasmarried in October to Fred Millett, Wesleyan '65,who had as his best man Michael Burton, son ofPatricia Burton, CC '36. Liza worked for CC'sHumanities Summer Project for three summersand continued after graduation following upwith students who were college or professionallymotivated. Fran's three sons are all in school,Rich a senior at Boston Univ., Elliott a freshmanat Columbia and Nathaniel a sophomore at BlairAcademy.Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Chase Scully has a year

old granddaughter. Betty's daughter Anne, CC '65,and husband, Michael Lutz, live in Baltim.orewhile Mike is a resident at johns HopkinS.Selma (Sally) Kingsdale Lewenberg has resigne.dher job instructing the blind and is taking Iteasy. She has two married sons, Steve whopassed his bar exams and works for the Nat'lLabor Relations Board, and Frank, at CincinnatiLaw School while his wife teaches social studies.

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Peter is at U. Mass. while Roger, an Eagle Scout,is a junior at Newton (Mass.) High School. Anne(Nance) Darling Hwoschinsky ran a Xmas partyfor the Russian Club and supervised cocoa makingfor a group of community carollers two hoursafter flying home from Maine with her motherwhose leg was in a cast. From San Diego VirginiaWilson Hart reports that son lee is in the AirForce and Doug in the Navy; that Chip, Jim andScott are doing well at San Diego State College;and that Dinah is teaching German at a localhigh school. last November H. G. and AudreyKrause Maron's son Tom made them proud grand-parents of a new grandson. Andy is in the Armyin Vietnam; Chris is a sophomore at De PauwUniv.: Bob is a senior in high school and had anasty surfing accident but is O.K. now; Eric is in9th grade; Ceci is in junior high; and Cathy is inelementary school. Had lunch with Helen (Pete)Pearson Fowler who is renting a house in Sher-born, Mass. before moving to Meredith, N.H.Her daughter goes to public school but her sonBrad is a student at St. Paul's School in Concord,N.H. My oldest son is working for a consultingengineering firm in Seattle, Wash. #2 son isteaching at Falmouth (Me.I High School. Jim isstill at home but not for long, as he finisheshigh school in June.

1939 Correspondent:Mrs. Gaynor K. Rutherford(Barbara Curtis)21 Highland Ave., lexington, Mass. 02173

1940 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Charles I. Forbes Jr.(Gladys Bachman)59 Harrison Brook DriveBasking Ridge, N.J. 07920Mrs. William J. Small(Elizabeth Lundberg)131 Sewall Ave., Brookline, Mass. 02146

Evelyn McGill Aldrich tells of a nightmarishCaribbean cruise in February. "The sea was sorough that all passengers were ordered to stay inbed one day, after several accidents such as abroken hip, leg. two ankles, two heart attacksand one bruised spine THAT was Evie. 1slammed into the back of the tiled shower, wentup in the air and landed on the end of my spine... feet in the air. I was trying to grab a bathtowel to mop up a mess caused by a flying dinnertray that landed upside down on my open, notyet unpacked suitcase." Evie says that our nextreunion is in 1970. So plan now to make our30th the best ever. Barbara Wynne Secor repre-sented our class at Alumnae Council in March.Irene Kennel Pekoe's daughter was elected toPhi Beta Kappa last year when she was a seniorat c.c. Jane Loewer Egnor's two grandchildrenare "original, fat and adorable." Evelyn GilbertThorner and her husband had a wonderful trip toItaly last fall. Elizabeth Morton Herzog spent theChristmas holidays in Florida visiting Betty'sfather and son Tom, who is in the U.S. AirForce. Frances Kelley Bump's husband has beennamed vice president of Ashland Oil & RefiningCo.'s new fabricated products division of Ash-land Chemical Co. Jeannette Bell Winters andHarold had an eventful trip to Mayaguez, PuertoRico, last February. As the Winterses lived therefor the first seven years of their marriage, theyhad many friends and Harold could pursue hishobby by spending one whole day wild orchidhunting. In August they made a 5,000 mile tripthrough the United States when they picked upson Chip at his base camp in New Mexico. Hetoured five southwestern states in a caravan with30 boys and studied geology, mineralogy andwild life. Daughter Evie is a freshman at Vir-ginia Polytechnic Institute. Ginnie is president ofthe Hillandale Woman's Club. Elizabeth Ander-son Lerchen's husband is practicing law and sheis working on her master's degree in libraryscience at Wayne Univ. in Detroit. Daughter Anneand her husband, John Schwab, spent some time

last year in Karachi, Pakistan, where John wasworking with the Ala as part of a graduateprogram in international and public administra-tion at Syracuse Univ. While in Syracuse beforeleaving for Pakistan, they were happily be-friended by Isabel scott McConnelL"

Katherine Arnstein Heinemann is~. '71'""" a part-time instructor in English,~",W) - at the Univ. of Texas in El Paso.l?",~~ She is the author of a volume of.",.<"" poetry, Brandings, recently pub-

lished at The Cummington Pressunder a grant from the National Foundation forthe Arts and Humanities. Two sons, David andPhilip May, have graduated from Harvard andMIT respectively. Daughter Kate Heinemann is ahigh school junior. The Heinemanns collect pre-Columbian art and have been on several expedi-tions in the Yucatan, Quintana-Roo areas. mostnotable at the excavation of the Sacred Well(Cenote) at Chichen ttza. Elizabeth Barron Ding-man's "most important news is Carlton's dis-charge from the U.S. Coast Guard as a Lt. jr.grade. He is now at Columbia Univ. David is inthe U.S. Air Force at Lackland, Texas, taking acourse at Trinity in San Antonio in his spare time.Gage and I have just returned from a visit to mymother in Sun City Center, Fla." Mary ElizabethGehrig Streater has switched jobs and is teachingat Stony Brook. "Hayd and I are looking for landin Northport which is near our golf club and nottoo far from work. We're probably crazy, but Ithink we're going to build again." Daughter Noelis through college and teaching; son lim is doingwell at Niagara Univ.; daughter Susie is applyingfor college. Sylvia Lubow Rindskopf's husbandMike was selected a rear admiral in the Navy in1967 and they have been living in Honolulu andlove it. "like most Navy (submarine) families,we've lived all over the place, including a fasci-nating tour in Italy. Our only child, Peter, grad-uated from Yale in 1964, Yale law School in 1967,married a lawyer (Univ. of Michigan) and hassettled in Atlanta, Ga. I am working hard to getmy golf handicap down. II Katherine Meili Ander-ton has been on some delightful trips this year,part business, part pleasure, to Bermuda, Califor-nia and New Mexico. Their older son Bruce is aphotographer in NYC. Younger son Craig left col-lege and electrical engineering and is enthusiasti-cally and successfully working on several projectsin the field of electronic music. Susan LoomisBell and Charlie moved to Barrington, R.1. inFebruary to be nearer Charlie's office in Provi-dence. Daughter Nancy and husband Bill hadtheir 2nd son, Michener Bell Chandlee, lastAugust. Son Charles is a senior at Lafayette.Barbara Deane Olmsted and family have movedto the Los Angeles area where husband Buzz issales manager for Torque Controls Inc. They tooktheir 5 pintos with them and are enjoying theirnew surroundings.Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune's daughter Candee is

manager of Neiman-Marcus' jr. world dept. intheir new store in Houston. liz and Pete spentChristmas in Beaumont. her first one there in14 years. Sybil Bindloss Sim's husband Harry isnow with Wakefern Foods. Billie is busy with thePrinceton YWCA board and is chairman of theadult program committee. Their pet project isentertaining one day a week two blackAmericans, sisters 8 and 9, from the Trentonghetto. They have helped the whole family bybefriending them during the tragedy of beingburned out of their house just before Thanks-giving. "For the first time I think these peoplefeel that someone cares for them as individuals,not statistics." Constance Buckley Cookson and Imet with our husbands at the home of mutualfriends New Year's eve. We talked so fast thetime flew by quickly. Last summer all the Cook-sons had a wonderful trip to london, Brusselsand Rome. Prior to that Connie joined her hus-band on a trip around the world. 11 wonder-ful days with stopovers at Brussels, Beirut, HongKong and Hawaii. Daughter Connie is a freshmanat George Washington Univ. in Washington, D.C.Your other correspondent, Elizabeth LundbergSmall and J share a similar experience-moving.I'm sure I'll live through it; everyone does.

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

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

Doug and I were fortunate to miss the first bigsnow storm in February as we were in the 8aha-mas enjoying the clear warm waters, gentlebreezes and abundance of bonefish. We more thangot it socked to us by the next two storms.Elizabeth (Betly) Bentley Viering's son Chip IS inthe Mediterranean, second year. "Our other sonPeter and I got over to Rome in March '68 whenChip had a 6-day leave. It was Pete's vacation,really great." She's taking up music again, thistime a group of two pianos, four people playing.lois Brenner Ramsey's son Charlie Ir., dischargedfrom the Navy, is back at Miami (Ohioj as ajunior. Son Ken chose Amherst. "He loves it andplayed freshman football on the first string. OurSteve is 16 and driving, and enjoying having thehouse pretty much to himself." Louisa (Weezer)Bridge Egbert has two college graduates, anotherin college and the fourth to go next year. LenoreTingle Howard's daughter Wendy is living andworking in Baltimore. Icov graduates in June, andson Paul has decided not to pioneer with themen at c.c., feel's he's more the Dartmouth type.From Sara Sears Siosberg, "Our antique shop inNorth Stonington, Conn. is open from Junethrough September. We have much fatigue andlittle fortune, but it's exciting to meet peoplefrom all over the country. We've accumulated somuch stock that come the end of September wepack up over 4000 items, fill our cellar with car-tons and furniture and exhibit at antique showsfall, winter and spring, from Boston to NewYork. It's really a happy disease. Our Oberlinsenior graduates in June and our Columbia fresh-man loves living in the big city." Elizabeth (Betly)Moeller Courtney loves living in the country."We have a 62-year-old remarkable lady living ina little house next to our barn. She takes care ofour two horses and donkey, her two horses andsixteen or so Shetland sheep dogs, whom shetrains, shows, breeds. So with our two dogs, theplace is jumping." Alma (Pat) Zeller enjoyed thefringe benefit of a month in London last springas a result of her work with Gulf Oil.

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

1944 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Neil D. Josephson (Elise Abrahams)7 lantern laneWethersfield, Conn. 06109Mrs. Orin C. Witter (Marion Kane)7 ledyard RoadWest Hartford, Conn. 06117

Everything is A. O.K. GO for the big 25th orbitin June! All your GROUPS are returning to theStone Age of '44. Nancy (Sizzle) Hotchkiss Marshallis opening her summer house in Niantic for re-union weekend. So is Elise Abrahams Josephson.Marion {Killer} Kane witter has her mud-pack inplace. Come back for more, '441 liFT-OFF BLAST-OFF!

In the clouds is Gail Josephson, Ellie's daughter,who will marry a medical student in July. She isteaching English at North Haven High School.Her brother is a senior at Wesleyan, planning tospend his first semester at CC to take advantageof their psych. dept. offerings. Lois Hanlon Ward

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will be THERE I She took her preparatory flight tojamaica last January, plus several -busrness tripsto the mid-west with her husband, who has beenpromoted to medical director of Conn. Generallife Insurance Co. She's auditing a course at theart museum ("don't want to take exams again")and is "doing some of the modern poets thisyear." Susan Marquis Ewing will be THEREI Herolder daughter Debbie was graduated from CC injune and married a week later to a Coast Guardensign. They're in Miami while Paul is on seaduty but are being transferred to New London injuly. Susie is a sophomore at Cornell and hopesto attend the Univ. of london this summer.Phyllis Cunningham Vogel will be THERE! She'salready in orbit about their new cottage in thePoconos. "We've been working frantically reno-vating it. Now our living room is full of seedlingsand as soon as spring arrives, we will transplantthem in the country and hopefully have a bumpercrop of flowers and vegetables. For Manhatlanites,the prospect of fresh farm vegetables is trulymouthwatering. Other activities include volunteerwork with foreign students, helping them withtheir Engllsh comprehension and pronunciation,attendance at the opera and symphony." MaryMelville Zildjian is a grandmother. Her oldestdaughter is in Flint, Mich.; her next is at LakeErie College. "My son is in high school with noother thought than following in the footsteps ofother Zildjian men-ancient cymbal manufactur-ing. I've been re-doing a 300 year old Cape andraising Bassette." She'll be THERE I Alice AtwoodBrennan, who hopes to get to reunion, is teaching4th grade, while her husband commutes to NewYork, working as an engineering field supervis~r."Son Jim is a 2nd year medical student at Univ.of Vermont. Daughter Barbara is a married seniorat Gettysburg College. We are the proud grand-parents of Michael, born Dec. 20, 19&8." life isbusy and happy for Susan Balderston Sears inPhiladelphia. "The real estate business keeps mejumping. Don't Jet anyone tell you you can gointo it part time. I love it and look forward totearing into the office every day. I'm sick that Ican't make reunion. Sue graduates from Scrippsin California that weekend; so of course I haveno choice. She is to be married in Septemberand, as I've never met her fiance's parents, I planto stay on for a little visit. Polly is at Pine Manorthis year and very happy. Beth, thank goodness, isstill with me for another few years. Had a letterfrom Frances Smith Minshall ... Afterreading of her exhausting pre-election schedule, Iwent up and took a long nap." Nancy GrosvenorEnglish writes from Dover, Mass., "We have hada wonderful winter in this snow disaster area-lots of togetherness as our plow man is one ofthe worst, and we were 'in' for several days at atime. Anne is at Dana HaJJ, Tuck and Allan bothat Dennison. The thing they like best about theMiddle West is that it's halfway to Aspen fromBoston. We were at Stowe during Christmas vaca-tion, cold but wonderful snow." Raga will beTHERE! Karla Yepsen Copithorn will be THERE!Her husband is still at Grumman and active inchurch, library and civil rights efforts. "This yearI'm concentrating all my time on American FieldService. We have our second student this year, agirl from Zurich and a delight. Our own Tina isa junior in high school; she's working in orderto pay for the flying she's doing. Rip gets in alot of flying out at the Univ. of Michigan. He's asophomore and majoring in aero-space. Fred is asophomore at Colby in Maine where I don't thinkthey've shovelled out yet." Coming back areNancy Hotchkiss Marshall, Mary Melville Zildjian,lois Webster Ricklin, Ruth Howe Hale, HelenRippey Simpson, Mary Kent Hewitt Norian, Strat-ton Nicolson McKillop, Jane Day Hooker, Made-leine BreckbiJI Driscoll, Elizabeth Travis Sollen-berger, Ethel Sproul Felts, Barbara Pilling Tifft,Nancy Troland Cushman, Mary Cox Walker, Bar-bara Gahm Walen, Joan Decker McKee, ElizabethMassey Ballinger, Norma Pike Taft, Frances SmithMinshall, Virginia Passavant Henderson.

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

1946 Correspondent:Mrs. Sidney H. Burness (Joan Weissman)280 Steele RoadWest Hartford, Conn. 06117

Now that e.e. is coed, we get news from hus-bands. John McCann, husband of Mary Carpente.r,says, "If Mary won't write, I will." They have SIX

offspring, the three oldest in college a.nd theyoungest in grade school. John is "nothing b~tthe picture of industry as a e.G. captain In

Washington, D.e., wearing shoes resembli~g thefamous ones of Adlai Stevenson." It is easier forSally Duffield Wilder to keep up with college newsnow that Joan Jacobson Kronick, with her e.e.offices lives in Dallas. At Christmas their sonsgo! together for chess. The Wilders h~ve ~ newhouse and new Airedale. Two of their childrenwere married in 1968. At this writing CynthiaTerry White is on her semi-annual trip to St.Thomas, "the land of tropic breezes, warm sandand beautiful water." Val mere Reeves Lynn re-lates a marvelous visit with Joan Ireland Adams,her husband Bob, and their two sons. Val keepsbusy with a high schooler, two in junior high, apre-schooler and a very active Shriner husband.Her most recent involvements were last summerin Urban Gateways (a day camp type program forinner city Chicago and suburban children) andlast fall in a venture combining various Protestantchurch school curricula. The family does a greatdeal of camping. The latest trip was three fabu-lous weeks bumming in the Sierras, Grand Can-yon country and the Colorado Rockies.After depositing Alison at e.e. for her freshman

year, Andy at Brooks in North Andover, andMelissa, a 7th grader, with friends, Curt and DanaDavies Magee took off from Kennedy Airport forthree weeks in Portugal and Spain in celebrationof their 20th wedding anniversary. They did every-thing, from SWimming in the Mediterranean tostaying in a palace. Alison is having a fine timeat cc. and made the dean's list in spite of a lotof time spent at Wesleyan. Louise Enequist Fergu-son and Thirsa Sands Fuiks have something incommon-sons at Dartmouth. louise's oldest twoare there, her third boy is in his first year atMercersburg Academy and 14-year-old Laurie skiiswith her mother every weekend. Sandy's Kim is afreshman at Dartmouth, Susan is married andliving at Ft. Benning, Ga., and Matt 13 "can applyto e.c. now." Sandy is busy with hospital workand the usual suburban activities. Harriet KuhnMcGreevey is going through the college ordealwith her oldest daughter; John jr. is in 3rd yearhigh and plays professionally with a rock 'n rollgroup; jim is a freshman; Sally 10 is a 'ith grader;Bill is 4. Harriet volunteers in hospital pediatricsand edits the auxiliary newspaper. Dick and BettyReiffel Bry are having a "hectic but illuminatingexperience in living" now that two of their off-spring are going through the "turmoil of theteens." Ellen 17 and dedicated to drama is in thethroes of which college for September '69. Bill at13, a freshman, is involved in coins, baby sitting,football and "hacking around" and jonn 10 getsa little out of breath trying to keep up. He is a5th grader and in love with .cittens and his fastback bike. Betty is having a ball copywriting adsfor the Stamford radio station. The tam! Iy is set-tling down to a lovely "new" home after a fireand many months of unbelievable upset. On atrip to the west coast, Cliff and Suzanne levinSteinberg golfed in Palm Springs and at thefamous Pebble Beach course on the MontereyPeninsula. In San Francisco they had a most pleas-ant tour personally conducted by Anne FrankOser, who has two children, a daughter 14 and ason 13, loves S.F. and has no desire to live backEast. The Steinbergs stopped in St. Louis on the

way home to visit Miriam Steinberg Edlin and herfamily. Mim's husband Joe is very excited aboutthe "town house" apartments he and a friend areputting up, the first at their kind in that City.Their oldest daughter Jamie "runs" the campus ofCarnegie-Mellon Univ. as features editor of thenewspaper and activities chairman of the entireschool. Laura, a high school senior, travelsthroughout the state in drama competitions, tu-tors inner-city, disadvantaged children, is activein politics and speaks fluent French. Mari hastutored, is an AFS finalist and is fluent in Spanish.

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

1948 Cor-escoooeot.Mrs. Peter Roland (Ashley Davidson)7 Margaret Place, Lake Placid, N.Y. 12946

Janet Evans McBride graduated from Mundeleinin June and is working on her master's in speechpathology at Northwestern. Eleanor Barber Maim-feldt has been accepted by the graduate school atthe unrv. of Washington, where she will workon her master of Hbrarlanshfp. Oldest daughterBarbara is to be married March 22. CharlotteMcCorkindale Smith finds life at Carleton Col-lege, where Bard is dean and professor of Easternreligions, exciting, demanding and rewarding.They spent a month in India working out detailsof a program the students will take part in nextyear. Corky is taking a Japanese history course toprepare for eight weeks in Japan this summerwith their two youngest children and 15 Carletonstudents. Her interest continues in the NorthfieldHuman Relations Council and the CooperativeMinistry. Constance Tashof Bernton received herMA in '67 thanks to a National Defense EducationFellowship for a master's program in educationalcounseling at George Washington University. Shehas been working at the Psychiatric InstituteFoundation receiving training in group therapyand counseling. Connie works with groups ofteachers in inner city and suburban schools inapplying group techniques to classrooms and toteacher groups for problem solving. The Bemtonsare currently hosting eight Argentine exchangestudents, as their boys were in Argentina lastsummer. Edith leWitt Mead spends a great dealof time traveling with her husband, an attorneyand travel agent. In the last year they have beento Nassau, Bermuda, Jamaica and South America.In May they will go to Finland and on to London.Lizz 16 is at" Dana Hall and Lindsay 13 at home.Last October Angela Sbana went to New Mexicoand California on company business and visitedwith Frances Ferris Ackema whose oldest daugh-ter Chris is at UCLA. Angie spent a week skiingin Vermont and looks forward to weekends ather Rhode Island retreat. Joanna Ray Inches andfamily spent winter weekends skiing throughoutNew England and at Vail and Aspen in March.Marika Hariman Herndon enjoyed a California

trip. Her two boys run track and cross countryfor their Waterford high school team, whichplaced second in Connecticut last fall. Her oldestson has been accepted at Berry, a co-op collegenear Atlanta, Ga. Tink is especially interested mGarden Club. In Mystic, Katherine Noyes Fullerand Dan are still running their own dry goodsstore which specializes in custom draperies andslipcovers. Kay is busy with buying, windowdressing, accounting, and clerking. Alison 18 is afreshman at Knox College in Illinois. Howard 17and Noyes 14 are away at school, leaving onlyAshley 10 at home. They hope to vacation inCalifornia this spring and see Virginia Gies~nRichardson and Chella Sladek Schmidt. MarqUitaSharp Gladwin's daughter is a junior at Lynn Hos-pital School of Nursing. Son Warren has co~·pleted B-52 training in the Air Force aand Kathieis a high school junior who hopes to enter nur~-ing t06. Frances Norton Swift's husband Jack IS

engaged in international development work inVietnam, Afghanistan, Iran and Central America

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as Director of Program Services for the Develop-ment and Resources Corp., New York. Cathy is atee, class of '71; John at Middlebury 'n; Peter ajunior in high school. Fran is leaching in a NewHaven Head Start day care center and enjoys herwork as president of the local chapter of Ameri-can Field Service. Polly Amrein returned fromNigeria via a three-month trip eastward 10 Cali-fornia. She has settled in Berkeley, teaching atthe Calif. School for the Blind. In Honolulu shesaw Margaret Yamasaki Harada and Phyllis Hoge

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~ Thompson. Phyl's first book, Afti-~is's- choke and Other Poems, is being

~~): published by the Univ. of Hawaii\..: ~ Press. In June she will read ad-

o<".: 'lanced placement tests in Prince-ton, then go to the British Isles

with a friend before returning to Hawaii to teachsummer scbool. While Marcia Quinn Alfano wasin Honolulu, Muggins and her husband treatedthem to a Japanese dinner and a wonderful tourof Oahu. They also toured Maui and Hawaii.

" Carolyn Blocker Lane is having her~)"'"il- first book published by Bobbs-.~ llW "~ Merrill, Inc. Entitled "Uncle Max

ft.{V! and the Sea lion", it is the first of~ a proposed series of "Uncle Max"

children's books for which shehopes to do the illustrations herself. Her play,"The Wayward Clocks" will have its first produc-tion by the Junior Theatre of Marin, MarinCounty, Calif. on Mar. 29. Phyllis Barnhill Thelenread about Cal's plays in the News, wrote forcopies, and selected "Clocks" for their springproduction.

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

1950 Co-corresponden(s:Mrs. Richard T. Hall (Polly Hedlund)34 Glen Avon DriveRiverside, Conn. 06876Mrs. Joseph Mersereau (Mary Bundy)3738 Chain Bridge Rd., Fairfax, Va. 22030

Born: to Charles and Barbara Harvey Butler adaughter, Amy, in April, '68.Babs works on special projects for General Foods

from time to time Susan MacCallum Glover,mother of Bob 16, john 14 and Cindy 13, as shefaces her 40th birthday is "a living testimonialfor all Clairol products." Marshall and Lois PapaDudley spent most of last year adding to theirhome for the second time to provide growingroom for Marshal1 Jr. 11, Elizabeth 7 and Matthew3'12. A Caribbean cruise in January provided arespite from Marshall's law practice and Lois'community and civic activities and transportingchildren, John and Eleanor Wood Flavell enjoycity living in Minneapolis. John, a professor atthe Institute of Child Development. toleratescommittees, travels to conferences, gives talks,has research going, a book out last year. Hisspecial interest, which interests Eleanor too, iscognitive development of children. High schoolsenior Beth is a National Merit scholarship finalistand "a very mature and enjoyable daughter." 4thgrader Jim, "an independent non-conformist, isour resident hippie. Classical music and historyare his things." Eleanor tutors a neighborhoodbrain-damaged child and two inner-city children."Both have many moments of frustration anddiscouragement but the occasional breakthroughmakes it all worth while." Ann Sprayregen, apsychologist for the College Discovery Program atthe City u. of N.Y., works mainly at Bronx Com-munity College with black and Puerto Rican stu-dents. She does individual and group therapy,referral and consultation work, extending intosupport of community action, discussion groups,magazine and newspaper publication, and secur-ing tickets to cultural activities. "Through theiractivities the students in this program exert a con-

structive influence in the entire college, bringinginto question and ultimate revision some of thecourse content, curricula and the nature of fac-ulty-administration-student relationships." RachelOber Burrell is "into" cub scout den, chairman-ship of a book club, LWV and PTA work, iceskating with Ann 7, playing violin with Peter 10,and hearing as many concerts and seeing as manyplays as time permits. Husband Paul is a DanforthFellow and editor of a campus literary magazine,Notes from the Garage Door. Paul and Rachelhave been working with black students throughProject Commitment.Polly Green Kemp, remembering that the "win-

ter of '68", has come and gone, requests thecomplete words to the class song. Polly and Ed-ward doubled the size of their downstairs lastyear and now have plenty of room for their 7children. The youngest is 2. Ken, the oldest, is aNational Merit Scholarship finalist. The Kempsentertained Dick and Charlotte Enyart Staiger lastAugust. Annette Rapin works in the biochemistryresearch lab at Mass. Gen. Hospital, studying cellwalls of E-coli bacteria and the way bacterialviruses attack their victims by first becoming at-tached to the bacterial cell wall. last year's vaca-tion trip, her first visit to the U.S. West, left Rabbitimpressed by "the vast spaces, the colorful andoften fantastically-shaped rocks and mountainsand the dry heat of the Southwest followed by aheavy snowstorn at Yellowstone on June 30." Sheenjoys the fine supply of concerts and theatre inBoston, does not have a TV set. On Saturdaymorning she often takes children from a welfarehome for a walk. Mary 10 Mason Harris holds thehome front with Indian Guide Ricky and BoyScout Ed when husband Bob is traveling for AlliedChemical. She also volunteers for the school li-brary and local hospital. Last summer their annualjersey shore vacation was enhanced by a newsailboat "for the kids, big and little." Henry andChristine Holt Kurtz, both native Miamians, re-port a move to an old home on the water withdock and swimming pool. Brooks 16, a highschool sophomore, is on the tennis team; Chris-topher 13 attends jr. high on the beach, playscello with the South Fla. Youth Symphony, andstudies piano; Christine 10 studies piano, violinand drama. Christine, Tinder 7 and Virginia 6attend their mother's alma mater. Chris is aninstructor with the Dorothy Carnegie course forwomen and also forms classes and makes presen-tations for Dale Carnegie courses. Diana HawkeyHawkins and family anticipate Tom's retirementfrom the Coast Guard in August. Dee, who spenta year as president of the CG. Officers' Wives'Club in Washington, is a qualified substituteteacher in junior and senior high schools inMontgomery County, Md.; art and English are herfields, but she has taught classes from girls' phys.ed. to advanced mechanical drawing. DaughterGwen, an honor roll senior who worked a 30hour week during 1st semester, is also a driver'sed. instructor and plans a chvs. e. major in col-lege. 8th grader Tommy, also an honor student,plays baritone, runs cross-country, serves on theStudent Council, and is a Life rank scout. Steve,3rd grade, is "a natural athlete who has no timefor study and can see no sense in it."Leonard and Diane Kranich Price happily note

son Mark's freshman hood at the Univ. of Pennsyl-vania, dad's alma mater. Leonard's renewed in-terest in alumni work has "filled the house withcharming young people whom he interviewed."Roger is a high school freshman and Lori a fresh-man at nursery school. Copper enameling fillsDiane's spare time making plaques, plates andcloisonne jewelry. She sells some, makes manygifts, and has just completed dozens of pieces fora charity bazaar. "I work with a talented deafwoman, who lip-reads me perfectly and with adynamic Israeli gfrl." 6th grade Margaret, Sthgrade Ned and 3rd grade Betsy keep Susan LittleAdamson busy with Girl Scouts, Sunday School,and school volunteer work. Gabrielle NasworthyMorris "was here (Kentfield, Calif.) for a lectureand lunch." Gaby, Frank, Cathy 13, Pat 11, andWillie 6 went skiing over Washington's birthday.Susie talked to Sarah (Sally) Jackson Dunham,who had just been chaperoning a Girl Scout

cookie sale. Sally's sideline is upholstering. Davidand Sylvia Snitkin Kreiger are living in Wood-bridge, Conn. Recently David sold his housewaresbusiness and bought into a furniture and homedecorating business in Ansonia. Their childrenare: Roseanne 16, involved in piano lessons; BethAmy, also busy with piano; and a trio of boys,Steven 12, Kenneth 10 and Howard 6. Sylvia takespart in study groups offered by their synagogue.She and David have traveled to Israel, Greece andTurkey recently, as well as California. On the lasttrip she phoned Nancy Puklin Stolper in Muskogee,Okla. After city living, Alonzo and MargueriteStark Fowle and family love their new house on aravine overlooking Lake Michigan. High schoolfreshman Mark and 7th grader Susie are 1st and2nd honor students respectively. Amy is in kinder-garten. Michael is 3. Marguerite writes regularlyfor a Wisconsin magazine and still finds time forskiing, tennis, and the State Historical SocietyBoard. Being mother of Susan 9, Sandra 7 andMark 3 keeps Ann McLear Fussell busy but she isalso treasurer of the Phila. Alumnae Club and amember of the local PTA board. last summerAnnevand Howard had a magnificent trip to theCanadian Rockies. Elsie Miller Palmer is spendingmost of her time in the car, taking Gib 15 andCurtis 11 to hockey practice, Jan 7 to Brownies,and Anne 5 to kindergarten. Even Betsy 13 needstransporting. Says Elsie, "I almost look forwardto the time when Gib gets his license!" HusbandRussell works at Aetna Life, instructs at U. Conn"and in his spare time has constructed a Srd fioorroom and bath for the boys. Frank and DianeRoberts Gibson helped to keep a jetport out ofthe Great Swamp at their Millington, N.J. backdoor. Now Di is a volunteer at the Nature Center,working with school children touring the swamp.Frank is a Township Committeeman as well asadvertising sales representative for FLVING Mag-azine, and has for several years been rebuildingan airplane. With their sloop and their 8 year oldtwins, Nancy and Duncan, the Gibsons summer atBarnegat Bay,Jean McClure Blanning is presently supervisor

of intern teaching of the MAT program at Yale,where husband Jim is with the DevelopmentOffice. Their own adolescents, William 14 andWendy 13, and the students they have workedwith (Jim was chaplain at Harvard for 9 years)keep them in touch with the thinking of theyounger generation. Jean says, "It's exciting if attimes bewlldenng." Sally Nye Hurst will graduatefrom the Univ. of Akron in june, "just 19 yearslate tor the class of 'SO, with a B.A. in history. ram more convinced than ever that much educa-tion is wasted on the young. I plan to enter lawschool in the fall, and who knows, I may neverstop, although I may have to go to work to sup-port my husband's hobby, a 6-place Cessna air-plane, acquired early this year. We have hadseveral jaunts in it and my -3 year old son willprobably have his pilot's license before hisdriver's, 11 year old Anne tends to hang on tightto the sick-sack. Everyone goes to the poorhousein his own way-I guess we will fly." Don andMary Gilliam Barber have four children: Pat 18,Nancy 16, Tim 14 and Kip 11. Pat, a freshman atCC, lives on the 4th floor of Harkness and wishesthere were more to do on campus with her week-end dates. Mary received her B.S. is elementaryeducation from Northern Illinois Univ. in 1967.Now she and her co-teacher have set up a motordevelopment program for 100 kindergarteners.The Barbers have exchanged Thanksgiving dinnersfor several years with Boardman and Ann Wood-ard Thompson and their five youngsters. "It'snoisy but lots of fun." Marie (Mimi) WoodbridgeThompson's husband Bernie will become directorof CG Auxiliary for the 1st district, after his shiphas been decommissioned. The whole family ishappy that they will remain in their lakesidehome in Wayland, Mass. and Craig and Karen willstay in their satisfying school situations. Mimiis finishing a term as president of the CG.Officers' Wives Club in Boston, When Elliott andAnita Manasevit Perlman toured Italy and thechateaux country of France last fall, Anita was re-minded of the CC group tour of 1950. At homeAnita and Elliott are co-chairmen of the art gal-

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lery committee for the New Haven jewish Com-munity Center. Their daughters are 7, 11 and 13.

Anita is "completely devoted to the newly formedConn. Child Day Care Committee. Its main func-tion is to stimulate more and better day care forall children." As she wrote, Anita was anticipat-ing a meeting of the New Haven Alumnae Clubin her home.

Adventure for Dave and Holly Barrett Harris,Heather, Laurel, Todd, Steve and Holly June istaking place in Hawaii now. Dave is an elemen-tary counselor at Kapaa and Holly is in charge ofspecial education at Kaual High. Graduate workand Naval Reserve duty are added to their reg-ular work. Adventures: snorkeling; beach-comb-ing; "bottom-scraping" their 26' sloop; nettingan 8' man-eating shark, "2' between the eye-balls", in a favorite swimming spot; riding overfield, stream and beach on their Honda and inDaisy, the ''>5 Chevy; finding a room for eachchild in a two-bedroom, condemned, termite-ridden "teacher collage" with one two-doorbathroom. Clare Pennock Hilgarlner takes a breakfrom her routine care of Andrew 10, Catherine 7and Emily 4, to get together frequently with Boband Anne Gartner Wilder and Ross and Julia Jack-son Young. The Wilders have moved from Warren,Pa., where they lived for 17 years, to midtownManhattan. All, including Rachel 14, Clinton 11and Robert B, love townhouse and midtown liv-ing. The Youngs now live in Chevy Chase, Md.,with four cats, one dog and three of julie's chil-dren. Ross's two girls visit during vacations. Heis a lawyer with the FTC. Renovating their oldhouse, chauffering, bowling and paddle tenniskeep them occupied. julie is also active at theCorcoran Art Gallery and worked last fall to helpa Maryland congressman win a senate seat.Volunteer work for Rulh Nelson Theron meansSimsbury Auxiliary of Child and Family Services,YWCA, CC Club of Hartford, helping at the ele-mentary school library and being a deaconess attheir church. Peter '2 and Catherine 9 are welland active. Ruth found Alumnae Council meet-ings at College on Mar. 7-B "interesting, fun andrewarding." Also present were Jean Gries Homeierand Marilyn Raub Creedon. Ruth often sees JoanThompson Baker, who lives nearby. Jeanette Mit-chell Vigneron's husband Albert is a G.U. sur-geon on the staff of the Brattleboro Hospital.With son Frederic 11 they enjoy their little Ver-mont farmhouse and the skiing available. Theyhave two horses, a brown Morgan and a greythoroughbred, and a dachshund.

1951 Correspondent:Mrs. Lester P. Jones Jr. (Chloe Bissell)1125 Cambridge afvo.. S.E.Grand Rapids, Mich. 49506

Married: Margaret Park to Milton S. Mautner onFeb. 21

Peggy Park Mautner has been in the CollegeTextbook Dept. of Holt, Rinehart and Wristonfor 12 years, progressing from an editorial as-sistant to chief copy editor. Mona GustafsonAffinito has been promoted to full professor atSouthern Conn. State. Louise Stevens Wheatleyis teaching full time. Patricia Rolh Loeb and herfamily cruised aboard the Leonardo Da Vinciduring Xmas vacation. New winter ski buffs in-dude Joanne Dings Haeckel and Chloe BissellJones who both live in the "snow belt." BarbaraWiegand Pillole and her husband will serve aspresidents of the Bethesda Kiwanis Club and theBethesda Kiwives Club next year. Those whoplan to attend reunion so far are: Helen Iohn-son Leonard, Nancy Clapp Miller, DorothyCramer Maitland, Roldah Northup Cameron,Mary Cardle Lowe, Nancy Libby Peterson,Vivian johnson Harries, Phyllis Hoffmann DriscollBarbara Wiegand Pillote and Chloe Bissell Jones:

1952 Correspondent:Mrs. Virgil Grace (Margaret Ohl)201 W. Lally St., Des Moines, Iowa 50315

Married: Eleanor Souville to Charles O. Duke

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Born: to Kazi and Ruth Gardner Haq a son,Daniel, on Nov. 3, '67; to Richard and HopieBrooks Meryman a daughter, Helena, in 1968; toCampbell and Esther Hammaker Gray a son, johnErnest, on Mar. 2B, '68: to John and Alida VanBronkhorst Knox a son, Trevor McTaggart, onMar. 3.

Eleanor Souville Duke has moved to Man-chester Depot, Vt. In the lively household ?fKazi and Ruth Gardner Haq, Daniel joined twinbrothers Barry and Khaled. They are 71/~ and in2nd grade. Kazt works for NASA in Cambridge,Mass. and the family Jives in the historic townof Concord. Hopie Brooks Meryman found 196B agreat year with the birth of Helena, now 1. Hersister Meredith is 3. Hope continues to work asa prin trnaker and illustrator. She had a show ofwoodcuts and watercolors last spring and againin November in NYC and New jersey. Dick is astaff writer for LIFE magazine and traveled withHubert Humphrey during the presidential cam-paign. In June Dick did a two part story onadoption. For several months he took leave towrite the text for the book Andrew Wyeth. TheMerymans live in NYC in an 1834 house with "athousand projects to go!" Esther Hammaker Graymoved to the Washington area in July whereCampbell is studying for his master's dewee inbusiness administration at George washingtonUniv. under an Air Force program. Wat 5 goesto a Montessori School while newcomer Johnkeeps Esther hopping. Alida Van BronkhorstKnOll'S good news included report of a wild,skidding ride through snow covered, hiJJy streetsin Chatham, N.j. allowing Trevor's shortly-after-midnight appearance to be made in a hospital.Jean Hewitt Thomas is having a Victorian experi-ence in turn-of-the-century government housing(former quarters of the Vanden bergs and theHickams) in Galveston, Texas. The home over-looks the Gulf of Mexico where Dick commandsone of the world's smallest aircraft carriers-onehelicopter. After July 1 the Durable will behomeported in Brownsville and the Thomases"wili be having a togetherness tour elsewhere,hopefully in the North." Jean's college countrydance class now serves her in good stead forBrownies.

From Seattle, Wash., Jane Gerhardt reports thatGerhardt Research Service, approaching its thirdyear in operation, seems to be "in the black",and the list of clients continues to grow innumber and stature. For example, in one recentmonth, the company conducted surveys for agas company, brewery, food manufacturer andbank. Topics ranged from credit cards to cakefrostings to non-lethal protective devices. Whenjane feels like getting away from it all, shetakes the ferry across Puget Sound to BainbridgeIsland where she has a tiny piece of waterfrontproperty complete with tool shed, outhouse andlots of big trees. In 1968 Nancy Eldredge Kelloggand Charles enjoyed a wonderful trip to Montrealto see the World's Fair instead of their usualCape Cod vacation. They were local co-chairmen(and ~onvention delegates) for Tom Meskill,Republican u.s. congressman reelected from thenow Democratic state of Connecticut. After 10years Nancy remains on the GOP Town Commit-tee. She is a charter member of the two-year-oldFarmington GOP Women's Club, serving on itsexecutive board as publicity chairman. She alsodoes hospital volunteer work. The Kellogg's smallorchards (avocation) exceeded the 1967 mark of13 tons picked, packed in three pound plasticbags and sold to chain markets. Charles is work-ing for a master's degree and continues to bebusy with extra-curricular inventions and furni-ture an.d cabinet building. He and Nancy are in!ocal L.lt.tle Theater and also enjoy antique hunt-109, sailing and art exhibits. In Greenwich, Conn.,Marie (Bunny) Godfrey Weicker's husband Lowella Republican, won the U.S. congressional seatfrom an incumbent Democrat. With commutingto Washington added, the family's new yearpromises to be at least as busy as the last. Scotis 11 and Gray 8. Both are doing well in schoolin .Gree.nwi.ch. Barbara Goldman Cohen and familyenjoy life tn Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, skiing inwinter and spending July and August at their

nearby summer cottage. Jack and the boys, Bobby11112 and Dickie 10, are especially enthusiasticskiers. Salty 8 is more interested in figure skatingand swimming lessons at the Y. Mother "Bobby"keeps busy as 2nd vice-president of the UniversityWomen's Club, as corresponding secretary ofanother organization and keeping house for herfamily. The newest addition to the household isa girl Basset Hound, Cricket, whose "engagingpersonality" helps to compensate for the mudshe brings into the house via her less-than.daintyfeet and long ears during the wet spring. Anoccasional winter trip to Nassau, Florida or Cali-fornia and the annual trip to Cincinnati add in-terest to each year. The boys attend the samesummer camp Bobby did and now it looks as ifthey could choose the same college.

Elinor Haider Soja expresses interest in thefact that CC is going coeducational. She hopesto get back to New England some day to seethe changes. In Parkersburg, W. Va., she isteaching 7th and 8th grade at a private Catholicboarding and day school. She is treasurer of theMarietta, Ohio, Audubon Club and a committeechairman for AAUW. Youngstown, Ohio's prob-lems with school financing have affected the lifeof Carolyn Fried Cohn and family. As the resultof six defeats of a levy, schools were closed andchildren missed five weeks which they will makeup in june. Carolyn had worked very hard on thecampaigns. In addition she keeps busy with PTAand the coordinating council of Women in Com-munity Service, an interracial, interfaith group.Steven 14 and Brian ll1j~ keep very active withscouting, etc. Stanley is involved in real estateand a supermarket. From Winnetka, III., FairfieldFrank DuBois writes that her family is healthy,active and thoroughly enjoying life. Her daysfly by with tennis, community activities and fourvery busy children. Frankie and family have had de-lightful visits with Jane Law Koessel's family andwith Bill and Barbara Gueinzius Gridley this pastyear. Joyce Leeming Mayfield and her four chil-dren were guests during the time of the Demo-cratic convention in Chicago. One night theytook what Frankie calls a history-in-the-makingtour of the city. Barbara (Sis) Gueinzius Gridleyreports that the CC benefit in NYC was a greatsuccess and "Hadrian VII' a great play. She waspleased to see lane Law Koessel in NYC inFebruary and Corrine F-isher Smythe in Novem-ber. Sis is doing research in the audio visual fieldfor her son's school in hopes of starting a depart-ment there. She is also working to get CC class-mates from the NYC area to contribute to AAGPand is working in a Horne Study Program in P,S.151 in Manhattan one day a week and in otherphases of the Yorkville Youth Council Program.Her husband is working hard for the UrbanLeague and as a trustee of Tuskegee Institute.

Barbara Frye Laco and Tom are enpoying theirlittle girl who suddenly grew up to be 16 andtheir boys '14, 12'12 and 8, who are also fun andinteresting. During school hours Barb has beenvery active in LWV. She is on the board and ischairman of the local Indian Hill School survey inCincinnati. Florence Dubin Sinsheimer's childrenare Linda 16, Ralph 14, Alan 13 and Michael 9.They live in Scarsdale, N.Y. Flo and Warren cele-brated their 19th wedding anniversary this year.Having finished her M.A. two years ago, Floworks half time as reference librarian in the locallibrary. She also finds herself involved in "theusual share of community activities." On Jan. 2Louise Durfee became a member of the firm ofTillinghast, Collins and Tanner in Providence, R.1.Jeanne Chapell Metzger's son Steven 16lfl is atDeerfield, her daughter 15 at Northfield, Gary 13at Kolburne, Kent 9 in public school and Scot! 5in kindergarten. Jeanne feels she is "the oldestliving mother taking a child to kindergarten." TheMetzgers live in Rumson, N.J. and have just fin-ished a house on Stratton Mt., VI. where theyimmensely enjoy skiing. Peggy 11112 and Julie 10are the daughters of Marguerite (Pidge) HoadleyO'Connell who lives in Silver Spring, Md. Theyare active in Scouts and the usual young ladyactivities of 6th and 4th graders. Pidge has beenserving as secretary of the executive board of t~eSoldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen's Club In

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Washington, D.C., which provides lodging, mealsetc. for enlisted servicemen. Her husband "Okie"is at CG headquarters as chief of the appliedtechnology division. In july he goes to the FieldTesting and Development Center in Baltimore (atthe CG Yard) as commanding officer. Pidge talkedrecently with Katherine Kirch Dietrich who is inWashington while Ned prepares for assignment toBrazil this summer as Naval attache. ThelmaGoodale Heselbarth writes from Paxton, Mass.,that Ed is financial aid director at WPI. RuthAnne 12 learned to ride a unicycle last summer.Eddie 14 went to Montreal with his hockey teamand scored the first goal in a winning 3-2 game.Thelma continues to substitute at Paxton CenterSchool in grades 1 through 8.This year for Mary Harrison Beggs and family

included Jim's being named in February by Presi-dent Nixon as under secretary for the Dept. ofTransportation. when school is over in june, theywill move from Ellicott City, Md. to a Marylandsuburb of Washington if Mary can locate a house.With house hunting and "riding herd on fourkids and a dog" in addition to all her other ac-tivities, Mary finds never a dull moment. As re-union chairman, she reports that the followingclassmates plan to attend our reunion June 13-"15:Leila Larsen Klein, Joyce Leeming Mayfield, Patri-cia Updike Sormani, Roberta Mauro Thurrott,Suzanne Longley Rogers, Norma Neri Covert,Nancy Alderman Kramer, Ruth Manecke Gruber,Barbara Ackroyd Elder, Janet Kellock Dowling,Elizabeth Brainard Glassco, Gertrude PerkinsOliva, Ianlce Weil Libman and Mary HarrisonBeggs. Undecided are: Joan Yohe Wanner, HopeHayman Fremont, Shirley Sly kreitler, Nancy El-dredge Kellogg, Carolyn Fried Cohn, Alida VanBronkhorst Knox, kitty Fischer Lapeerlere, DeneLaib Nathan, joan Katz Easton, Susan FifieldNauss, Judith Frayne Sook, Janice Engler Miller,Corrine Fisher Smythe, Joan Purtell Cassidy, AnnBusker Burack, Laura Wheelwright Farnsworth,Helen Fricke Mathieson, Emilie Starke Piper,Dorothy Shaw and Cordelia Eltl McComas. Maryneeds to hear from classmates who have not noti-fied her. Patricia UPdike Sormani expresses someof her reason for returning in a "Testimony toFriendship": "As we approach our class reunion

J find that our college has given to me themost rewarding experience of making one dearfriend Her field of interest is so foreign tome and vice-versa that only a certain rapportcould possibly have kept this friendship alive.However, our common underlying bond Is ourinterest in our college which we have visitedtogether as a foursome with our husbands morethan once since our departure Above andbeyond the learning and growing experience ofour great college, this friendship which began atConn. College in 19S0 has been one of the deepsatisfactions and pleasures of my life."

1953 Correspondent:Mrs. Bruce Barker (Jane Graham)179 Lincoln Ave., Amherst, Mass. 01002

1954 Co-correspondents:Mrs. John A. Brady (Ann Dygert)2248 School Circle, Sarasota, Fla. 33S79Mrs. C. Robert Jennings(Mary Alice Robertson)277 Bronwood Ave.los Angeles, Calif. 90049

Adopted: by Brooks and Carol Lee Blake Ioslln adaughter Betsy.Bill and Nancy Powell Beaver are thrilled to

have left Manhattan for the rolling countryside ofVirginia. Bill is joining the faculty of the George-town Univ. Medical College as associate professor.From the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.,Dick and Marilyn Johnson Rogers will go to Spainfor a three-year tour of duty. Dave and PollyMaddux Harlow will return to Texas after theirstint in Newport. Phil and Gretchen Taylor king-man are getting ready to leave Hanover, Mass. forManchester, N.H. where phil will be working as

a lawyer in the real estate department of thePublic Service Co. of New Hampshire. Two Navywives seemingly anchored for the time being arekathryn Hull Easton and Nancy Maddi Avallone.Kathy's husband Pete is stationed at the OceanaAir Station near their home in Virginia Beach.Kathy is busy with fund raising for the local hos-pital, a record litter of eight miniature poodlepups, and her children, Bud and Wendy. Wendyspent a marvelous summer in France with thefamily of Kathy's Emma Willard roommate. NancyAvallone keeps track of two boys, a labradorpuppy and historical Annapolis while Gene putshis naval engineering expertise to work on thePolaris/Poseidon missile systems. Dug in for acold winter with a hot typewriter is Beatrice Brit·tain Braden who thinks she's writing a book andwho did have a very funny article published inthe Chicago Daily News. Cynthia Fenning Rehmis busy making sure that Scarsdale replaces Bostonat the Hub of the Universe.

1955 Correspondent:Mrs. Elmer A. Branch (Alicia Allen)2&Scenery Hill DriveChatham, N.j. 07928

1956 Correspondent:Mrs. Norris W. Ford (Eleanor Erickson)Branchbrook Road, Wilton, Conn. 0&897

Born: to Martin and Vicloria Tydlacka Bakker, afourth child, third daughter, Victoria, on Mar. 18,'67; to Robert and Heidi Schweizer Ely a son,Scheffer Alexander, in January '68; to Bradfordand Nancy Stewart Roberts a fourth child, secondson, Mark Hedley, on Feb. 3.Adopted: by Herbert and Mary Ann Hinsch Shafferjr. a son, Geoffrey Anderson, on May 7, '&8.Joyce Bagley Rheingold and family flew 10

California last summer for a three-week vacation.While there they visited Silvia Avendano Bargerin Long Beach. Silvia has three children and en-joys western living. Ann Fisher Norton and familylive in Baltimore where Bonye has been partic-ipating in an inner city project. "I take an orphantrom a local Roman orphanage home one day aweek to give him the atmosphere of a home anda mother substitute." Peggy Mark Heller and fam-ily have moved to Madison, N.J. In the past yearHerb and Mary Ann Hinsch Shaffer have added totheir family, moved to a new old house "whichwe are totally re-doing and which isn't finishedyet", and have taken skiing trips to Boyne MI.,Michigan with their children, and to Aspen withfriends. Mary Ann is also taking a Jr. League artmuseum docent course. What started out as afamily fun project for the Dorothy Lazzaro Serlekafamily turned out to be a booming busmess."With a neighborhood family, we brought anapple crusher and press. In one month's time, weproduced and sold 862 gallons of cider and wereswamped with orders." Dottie is active in PTA,Cub Scouts, c.c. Club, Jr. Service League, Hos-pital Associates, and a part-time job in an insur-ance agency. In Ashton, Md., Irma Levine Alperinteaches 3rd grade math and 1st grade reading tosmall groups of disadvantaged children who needremedial help. Cynthia Korper Porter is living inHawaii where jack is doing data processing forthe U.S. Army. Andorah Morrison lives in SanFrancisco where she works for a firm of attorneys.Anne Mahoney Makin, as our class president,attended Alumnae Council in March. Other classofficers elected at reunion are: vice president andreunion chairman, Elaine Nelson Stone: secretary,Prudence Murphy Parris; treasurer, Dorothy Lazza-ro Serleka: class correspondent, Eleanor EricksonFord. Gale Anthony Clifford is our new classagent for AAGP.Tom and Elaine Nelson Slone have built a

home in Potomac, Md. Tom has formed his owncomputer services company, Computer learningand Systems, Corp. "Being ardent football fans,we're anxiously awaiting Vince Lombardi's moveinto the house across the street from us." NancyStewart Roberts reports, "Last summer I had an in-

teresting job teaching Spanish to 30 policemenenrolled in a course at New Haven College. Itwas fun as well as good preparation for my cur-rent job which is teaching one section of Begin-ning Spanish at Connecticut." Jane Roesler Cor-coran has conducted a home play school for hertwo sons and two of their friends. Heidi Schwei-zer Ely writes, "Semi-annual trips 'outside' to thelower '48 include visits to families and vacation-ing." Helen Sormani Lepke still teaches Germanat Kent State Univ. Husband Arno heads themodern language dept. at Akron State Univ."We're taking janet 5 and Kristen 2 to Germanythis summer. Will improve my vocabulary andintroduce the girls to a new language. Went tothe Modern Language Ass'n Convention in NYCduring Chrlstrnas holidays. Had dinner with JulieConner Collard and Joyce Robin Borden and hus-bands." From Carla Strassenmeyer Wilde, "SonsRick 10 and Phillip 6 joined my husband and meon a trip to Houston, Texas, where Dick coveredthe flight of Apollo 9 from the Manned SpacecraftCenter." After three years of Florida, Vicki Tyd-lacka Bakker and family are enjoying becomingre-acquainted with New England in Topsfield,Mass. Martin has been transferred to the Bostonarea. Your correspondent and family drove toCalifornia last August via Yellowstone Nat'l Parkand back through the Grand Canyon and MesaVerde. After three and a half weeks of traveling,Laurie 8 and Eric 6 have perhaps a too clear ideaof the size of the country and its varying land-scapes. Note change of address. We've built anew home.

1957 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Robert Friedman (Elaine Manasevit)18S Stone leigh SquareFairfield, Conn. 0&&04Mrs. James L. Daigle III(Beverly M. Valteich)3201 Whitethorn RoadCleveland Heights, Ohio 44118

1958 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Richard A. BiioUi (Philippa Iorio)77 Fairmount Ave.Morristown, N.J. 07960Mrs. john B. Slokes (Margaret Morss)232 Seneca Place, Westfield, N.j. 07090

Born: to Ward and Grelchen Diefendorf SmUh athird child, first son, Jonathan Andrew, on Dec.23; to William (Bud) and Gail Wieland Stewart afourth child, third daughter, Daphne, in May '68;to Robert and Barbara (B.'.) Jenks Harris a daugh-ter, Laura Ann, on Apr. 6, '68; to Georges andArline Hinkson Saison a daughter, Tania Mie, onSept. 9.Adopted by jewell and Cassandra Clark Wester-man a second child, first son, Douglas Clark,born Dec. 18, on Feb. 14, '69.II) August Nancy Dorian returned from a year

in Europe and resumed teaching linguistics, Ger-man and Germanic philology at Bryn Mawr, withofficial "time-oft" this semester to continue workon her book about the dying Gaelic dialect. Thestudy, begun in 1963, is developing into an his-torical and sociological as well as linguistic work.Nancy visited briefly last fall with Carol Whitney,who is at Wesleyan studying worid music thisyear. Move #14 brought Bob and Barbara (B.,.)Jenks Harris and family to Falls Church, Va. whileBob has shore duty. They love living in the Wash-ington area with endless sightseeing and "historyvia osmosis." In addition to caring for her chil-dren and their numerous activities, B.j. Is takingcorrespondence courses, and often sees BarbaraBearce Tuneski (at their children's birthday par-ties.I Since December the Tuneskis have beensettled in Rockville, Md. During Bob's year inVietnam Barb stayed in southern California withthe boys, filling her time with golf and bowling.She spent last summer in Boston with her familyuntil reunited with Bob. She worked with JuneBradlaw Wragg, chairman of the hostess commit-tee of the Washington CC Club, planning the

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reception given President Shain in March at theSulgrave Club. June enlisted the help of severalother -saers: Mildred Schmidtman Kendall,Kathryn Rafferty, Judith Epstein Grollman andJean Lawson Carlston for her committee. Doddand june spent their annual mid-winter ski holi-day at Sugarbush, VI. John and Jean CattanachSziklas have forsaken New England with its skiingfor the more temperate climate of Maryland. Liv-ing in a town house in the new city of Columbia,they are enjoying the cultural and recreationalfacilities: tennis, year-round swimming, summeroutdoor concerts in the music pavillion, andjean's membership in the choral society. John hasa fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hop-kins. Jean keeps well occupied with their threeboys but does get to see M.J. Meier Blumenthal,a neighbor.

Following his Army discharge, Bud and GailWieland stewart returned from a Bermuda vaca-tion to the project of building a new house inMalvern, Pa. Bud is practicing at nearby BrynMawr Hospital. For several months the Stewartswere busy scraping down old mantels, paneling,wainscoting, etc. and moved into their finishedhome in October. Edith Reddig Creighton writesfrom New London that Rob is presently on afour-year tour at the Coast Guard Academy aspublic works officer. The Creightons miss Alaska.They devoted much of their time to fishing, hunt-ing and hiking while living in Iuneau. However,they are consoled by the anticipation at spendingsummers at Niantic beach and on the Reddigfamily boat. Richard and Carol Knolt Boyd arealso settled in the New london area, since he isa systems analyst and programmer at the PfizerResearch labs in Groton. Carol, secretary of thecooperative nursery school association that herfour-year-old lads attend while their older brotheris in 1st grade, has time now for sewing, churchwork, and planning family camping trips toMaine. Joe and Marie Iselin Doebler are busylearning Italian. After 10 years in New london,the Doeblers are headed for Naples, Italy, wherejoe will advise the Navy ships on sonar problemsin the Mediterranean. Marie and the childrenlook forward to' seeing new sights. While Bob isflying RF 4's in Vietnam, Marie Liggera Reiningand children spend summers at the Cape Codhome. During school time Marie is busy beingden mother to Roy'S Cub Scouts, volunteering atthe school library and the hospital and last fallrunning the Nixon campaign in So. Hadley Falls,Mass. The presidential election '6B attracted theinterest of Peggotty Namm Doran who workedfor Nixon in the West Hartford area where sheand jim have a new home to which they are?usily adding a den. Other activities for PeggottyInclude work at the Hartford Hospital and "Mealson Wheels," a service for shut-ins. Peggotty andCassandra Clark Westerman often see each other.Last fall Dick and Margaret Porter Mitchell spent aweekend with Cass in West Hartford. The Wester-mans and Mitchells joined Joel and Anne StilsonAlvord '60 at the Yale-Dartmouth game. BarbaraCohn Mindell continues her hobby of sewing forherself, her two daughters, and all gift-givingoccasions. With the girls in schoo! all day Bobbiegolfs, skis and enjoys household projects, i.e. re-decor~ting her kitch~n, painting and building ona family room. Despite being well-entrenched inWoodbridge, Conn. this winter with snow andher three daughters, Simone Lasky leibling foundtime for her weekly tennis doubles game and artlectures. Simmy began work this semester towardsa master's in psychological testing. She and joeloften get together with Jim and Barbara SamuelsHirsch.

After waiting for many years for a classmate tomove within visiting distance of the Alvin Tib-be.tls (Sydney Wrightson) in southern New Hamp-shire, Sydney had a wonderful day of reunionlast February with her ex-roommate, Judith John-son Vander Veer whose husband Gerry was trans-ferre? to Massachusetts and who is living inIpswich. Dan and Joan Waxgiser Goodstein havebecome "confirmed Californians" since movinglast November when Dan's accounting firmopene~ an office there. At the moment they aresearching for a home that will enable them to

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enjoy Caiifornia living to its fullest. In Oakland,Susan Carvalho Efinger and family cure theirhomesickness for snow and skiing by driving tothe Sierras to throw snowballs and sled. PTAdinners and fashion shows for her daughters (pro-viding a real challenge to a novice seamstress)plus "Tiny-Tots" pre-school program for son Judd,Sports and Games Club for jay, and Sue's ownpart in the Bay Area Council of laymen keep herbusy. Sue visited with Charlotte Bancheri Douglaswho Hves a "more and more involved" life withher husband and two active boys in San Francisco.Sally Lewis Horner writes from Montrose, Calif.that she's "busy just like everyone else." Bill andHelen Melrose Sims are delighted to be back inSkaneateles, N.Y. where Bil! has the central N.Y.sales territory for Pharmaseal (disposable hospitalsupplies). Helen is occupied with decorating theirnew house, sewing for daughters Terry and Amy,and her role as treasurer of the Parent-TeachersClub. A little more time to herself has enabledCarolyn Barbour Warr to become active in theBoston LWV, the Newton Garden Club, and theBoston University Women's Guild. Her husbandBruce teaches anatomy at S.U.; Timmy is innursery school and learning to ski; Jennifer ishome to keep her company. Suzanne Kent, whorecently earned her MA degree in French litera-ture and plans to teach French in the fall, hasa busy musical and social life in Boston. She hasspent the last few springs in Tucson, Ariz., withM.J. Driggs Pacholczyk and family, who, on theirreturn from her husband's assignment in PuertoRico, visited with Suzanne in Boston. Arline Hink-son salson continues all her activities, teachesmusic, is on the board of the CC Club of LongIsland, and plays in the Hofstra University orches-tra, in addition to the care of her daughter. An-other Long Islander, Barbara Kalik Gelfand,whose husband Charles has his own business,Geifond Fabrics, in NYC, keeps busy with her 9-year-old-twins, Ellen and Helaine and their extrasice skating and dancing, and a-year-old Patti whodances too. With her children in school, MarleneRapp Bisceglia is also back at school. She com-pleted her master's at Rutgers and is teachingSpanish in Middletown Township, N.j. Bill issales promotion director for a manufacturer ofelectrical equipment. During the summer the Bis-cegltas sail and enjoy the pleasures of Jivin~ atthe shore and, whenever possible, travel. "All"of Lucia Beadel Whisenand's children are inschool "ail" day. Her comment, "Age hath itscompensations!"

1959 Co-correspondents:Mrs. Nathan W. Oakes Jr. (Carolyn Keefe)3267 Ingleside Rd.Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122Mrs. Robert N. Thompson (Joan Peterson)3483 Woodside LaneSan Jose, Calif. 95121

Married: Janet Kemp to Edward K. Leaton onApr. 18, '67.Born: to John and Carol Bayfield Garbutt twinsjennifer Moore and Jann Elizabeth, on Aug. 14;to .Sanford and Nan Krulewitch Socolow a thirdchild, second son, Michael joseph on Dec. 19; toCharles and Ann Seidel Craig a fourth childfirst daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on Dec. 13 j~

Hong Kong; to Albert and Marcia Corbett Perrya seventh child, third daughter, Mary Katharineon I~.me 15; to lay and Judith Eichelberger Grune;a. third child, first son, james Erik, on jan. 2S inLI1:na, P~ru; to Noel and Carole Garcia Fricke athird child, second son, Craig Williams on May 30'6~; to John and Anne Earnshaw Ro~he a thirdchild, second daughter, Barbara Elizabeth aFeb: 21 in New Zealand; to Daniel and Ba~bar~Qumn Flynn a second son, Garrett Scott, onSept. 8; to. jose.ph and Ann Freedman Mizgerd asecond child, first daughter, Catherine Ann aNov. 1S; to Don and Harriett Good Swens~ nthird child, second son, Peter Nils, on Nov. n24~to Paul and Mary Prentice Colombo a daught 'Karen, on Dec. 18. er,Adopted: by Tom and Ellen Kenney Glennon a

third child, second son, in September.Carol Bayfield Garbutt's husband john is a research

associate at Duke Un!v. Besides the twIns, theGarbutts are parents to Johnny 6 and lolvn 4.Herb a~d ~ay Hellsledt Tews are planning tripsto Florida In March and San Francisco in MayHerb left the steel industry last year and is withthe Illinois Tool Works. When Janel Kemp Leatonmarried, she inherited a ready-made family offive sons rang.lng in age from 6-1S. Janet gavebirth to the Sixth son, James, early in 1968. IniBM's sales trainee program is jim Van Trees(Susan Camph). Fred and Sarah (Sally} KleinKreimer attended the Yale-Harvard crew races inNew London last july and were amazed at thechanges on the CC campus. Gaeta, Italy, is homefor Ann-Mary Potter Kapusta and family. Ed Ka-pusta is on the staff of the U.S. Sixth Fleet thereEdmea Silveira McCarty moved to the Washingtonarea in July. jack obtained his M.A. in financialmanagement in june and is now budgeting theCoast Guard's money for research and develop-ment.

Floyd and Holly wrampelmeie- White boughta new home in Alexandria, Va. Floyd finishedlaw school in January. John and Mary ElsbreeHoffman moved to Baltimore last August. Thecompany john works for (Raychem) transferredhim there. Phyllis Hauser Walsh's husband jim isteaching at West Point. The whole family enjoysIce skating, skiing and the four pups their femaleBoxer presented them as an early Christmas pres-e~t. Preston S~hi.witz is in Vietnam until July.Linda Hess Schiwltz and Preston spent two glori-ous weeks in Japan last fall. "I was followedeverywhere by school children who called 'MaryPoppins' to me. Seems my haircut was misieadingthem into thinking they'd cornered a movie starbut I signed autographs anyway." From Marth~Veale von Lamberg-Karlovsky: "Karl lett for SEIran early in June with eight students to excavateat Tol-i-Yahya. Their first summer was very suc-cessful-occupation levels from 6000 B.C. to 161A.D. i joined him during August. We Ilved in amud-brick house and washed clothes and our-selves in an irrigation ditch shared by camels andgoats. Excavation hours were from 6-11 a.m. andfrom 2:30-6 p.m., the hours in between being toohot to function." We (Joan Peterson Thompson)had a delightful holiday season-spent five daysat Lake Tahoe in the snow. I am busy as a HeadStart volunteer and take an art class, but mostimportantly am trying to gather enough materialand PICTURES for our reunion booklet. AnnSeidel Craig and her family are headed to Am-sterdam, Hoiland, where Chuck was transferredby Chase Manhattan Bank. En route to Hollandthis February is Carlotta (lolly} Espy Parkhurstand her son Kley to keep Bill company while heis working there. Lolly and Ann will have theirown reunion. Completing their studies and ob-taining their masters' are Constance SnellingMcCreery and Melinda Brown Beard. MargaretGoodman Huchet and family now call Trenton,N}. home. Peg's husband is director of speCIalservices in Princeton Regional Schools. Malcolmand Suzanne Warner Williams built a home inArdsley-an-Hudson, N.Y. and moved in early1969. Malcolm is financial vice-president forRobert F. Warner, Inc., international hotel con-sultants. Ed and Martha Stegmaier Speno aremoving from Palo Alto, Calif. to Hingham, Mass.Ed will be associated with the South Shore Na-tional Bank in Quincy. Edith Donaldson Stevens'husband is president of Airway Equipment Serv-ices at j.F.K. airport.

The overwhelming response has beein in favorof going to reunion. Make the "scene" and seewhat has happened to our classmates. Collectyour Ten-Year Round-Up booklet which will befilled with photos, up-to-date information on'Sgers and a statistical profile of our class. You'llfind out that some classmates live in England,India, Tonga, New Zealand, France and Belgium;how many gals have their master's and Ph.~.'s,who has the most children and who has tWinS;what was the most popular form of work we pur-sued and what are our favorite hobbies I Come toreunion and discover the answers to all yourquestionsl

Connecticut Alumnae News· May 1969

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

Married: Deborah Ann Stern to Conrad GenePersels on Dec. 18.Born: to Bruce and Betty Jean Spaulding Glad-felter a daughter, Elizabeth, on Feb. 10, '68; toJames and Candace Kinney Moore a second son,Peter Hamilton, on June 25; to John and EmilySue Montgomery Lynch a son, John Montgomery,

ing, the Aguirres set off for Argentina, with st?PSin Florida, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Chile.Panama and Peru provided a few fireworks oftheir own, as Hector and Barbara "ran into"revolutions in both of these countries. Now,finally settled in Argentina, Hector is teaching atEI Colegio Militar de la Nadon, and during theschool year, at EI Institute Superior del Profeso-rado. Barbara herself plans to spend four hours aweek teaching at the same school. Eleanor Saun-ders is back in the classroom teaching seniorAmerican history at Northfield School in Massa-

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on Sept. 23; to Joseph and Carol Plants deBerry adaughter, Erica Longfellow, on July 12; to Irwinand Martha Simonson Lieb a second son, GordonNichols, on Oct. 7; to Robert and Barbara DrakeHolland a daughter, Wendo!yn Spence, on Ocl.13; to George and Susan Herbst Ehrenhaft adaughter and second child, Ellen Elizabeth, onOct. 20; to john and Barbara Siegel Evans a son,David Brooke, on Oct. 21; to Milford and SusanHillman Crandall a son, Mark Christopher, onOct 24· to Richard and Patricia Wertheim Abramsa daughter, Karen Michele, on Nov. 18; to Jeromeand Maureen Mehls Kiernan a daughter, Sarajeanne, on Nov. 22; to Wilford and Adele MerrillWelch a daughter, Ashley Hitchcock, on Dec. 5;to David and Naomi Wolk Goodell a second SOil,

Jeffrey Charles, on Jan. 18.Margaret Roth Brown has worked since last

July for the library of Congress in Washington,D.C. as their paper conservator. Before startingthe job, she underwent eight weeks of trainingat the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sheis now in charge of restoring and preserving thelibrary'S monumental collections of rare photo-graphs, prints, pages of rare books and raresheets of music-a job which keeps her verybusy. In addition, Mardi has done pen and inkdrawings from life of animals at the WashingtonZoo which are being sold as postcards by theSmithsonian and the Zoo. Nancy Bald Ripley andher family are in their 3rd year in the Williams-burg-Yorktown-jamestown area of Virginia. Nancyis busy with her 3 boys and as the president ofthe Yorktown Coast Guard Officers' Wives' Club.Mary Blackall in Spain since October, expects toreturn to this country in June. Candace KinneyMoore has completed her course work at BostonUniv. for her certificate in occupational therapy,but new son Peter is keeping her so busy thatshe can't find time to do her six- month intern-ship. Candy's husband Jim is now with White,Weld & Co. in Boston. Barbara Livingstone deAguirre writes from Buenos Aires, Argentina. lastMay the New Rochelle High School where Bar-bara had been teaching for 2112 years burneddown, making completion of the school yeardifficult. After a relatively calm summer of pack-

chusetts. In ·addition, she is academic counselorto "a lively lot" of 207 juniors and controls acorridor of sophomores, juniors and seniors in a"nice modern dorm." Although Tommie missesher many Connecticut friends, she loves her newspot. Benjamin and Patricia Weinstein Salsburgand their daughters Robin 4 and Lee 18 monthsare now living in PaJo Alto, Calif. where Ben ison the staff of Stanford Univ. and a part-timeconsulting engineer. The Salsburgs are planninganother trip to Mexico in their own plane, andwill be visiting in the East this summer. Pat sawBrenda Hitchcock Souza recently in los Angeles.Brenda's husband Ernest has been transferred toThousand Oaks, Calif. with IBM.In june Merlin and Mildred Price Nygren will

move from Cheboygan, Mich. to San Franciscowhere Merle wilJ be commanding officer of aCoast Guard training unit. Millie, her mother,and the Nygren's three children: Ricky 6, Betsy 4and Mary Ann 1'12, will drive west pulling a newtravel trailer. The whole family is excited abouttheir return to the West Coast. Christine Stein-felder Wagner received her master's degree lastJune in French literature and plans to get herPh.D. eventually. Christie's daughter, Tove An-nika, is now 7. Carolyn McGonigle Najarian'sthree children are all in school now, Peter innursery school, Edward in kindergarten, andStephen in 2nd grade. Eddie is learning to "tum-ble" and Stephen wrestles, as well as indulgingin all sorts of sports with the Najarian family asa whoJe. CaroJyn is active on the WyomissingRepublican Town Committee, the WyomissingRecreation Board, the Berks County Children'sServices Advisory Board, the Day Care CenterAdvisory Board, in the Jr. league of Wyomissingand as a Sunday school teacher for the juniorhigh school class. The Najarians are also buildinga house in Wyomissing. William and Marion filz-Randolph Coste expect to spend one more yearin Annandale, Va. while Bill, now a Lt. Com-mander is with the Coast Guard Data Buoy Proj-ect in Washington. Marion is teaching the 2ndgrade at St. Michael's School and working to-ward a master's degree in elementary educationat the Univ. of Virginia. The Castes recently had

dinner with Ed and Jane Harris Alexander andJohn and Sally Glanville Train, and often seeRobert and Joan Adams Pirie. Naomi Walk Good-ell retired from her job as a caseworker for theJewish Family Service in Dallas, Texas, to awaitthe birth of Jeffrey. He and his brother Scott, nowin 1st grade, and her garden keep Naomi busy.Her husband David is vtce-oresident and actuaryfor Great National Life. John and Barbara SiegelEvans, their son David and a miniature schnauzerare living in an old (c. 1800) house in Warren,N}, which is consuming a great deal of theEvans' time and resources. john is with the Pub-lic Relations Dept. of johnson & Johnson in NewBrunswick, and is an avid fly fisherman in hisspare time. Babs has kept up with her music andstill plays the piano and guitarAll Carol Plants ceuenv's news comes in one

diapered capsule-new daughter Erica. She andJoseph see a good deal of Robert and Diana Bas-sett Perron and Carol testifies that Diana is the"best cook in nine counties." For Judith Van LawLoucks life is "normal" although quite active.Lissa 3 and Laurie 2 keep her busy around thehouse, as do the Loucks' two Norwegian Elk-hounds who are busy having puppies. judy alsodoes Jr. league work and tutors emotionally dis-turbed youngsters. She saw Robert and EdithChase Fenimore and John and Polly Kurtz Baynumin Wilminglon, Del., last fall. Nancy Waddell isin New York working for APA-Phoenix RepertoryCo. and recently had lunch with Betty Moss Burr.Your correspondent attended Aiumnae CounciJ atConnecticut for our president, Jean ChappellWalker and came away excited and fascinated byall the changes at our college. Our class was wellrepresented at the event by Patricia WertheimAbrams, 1st vice president of the Alumnae Ass'n,Joan Wertheim Carris, president of the NewYork Alumnae Club, Nancy Osterweis Alderman,president of the New Haven Alumnae Club, M.Ann Conner Polley, president of the New londonAlumnae Club, and Elizabeth Hood Wilson, dl-rector-ar-Iarge for the Alumnae Ass'n.

1961 Correspondent:Mrs. James F. lung (Barbara frick)268 Bentleyville RoadChagrin FaJls, Ohio 44022

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

Born: to Dwight and Barbara Hockman Baldwin asecond son, Timothy Brooks, on Oct. 19; to Alex-ander and Christel Brendel Scriabine a son,Nicholas Paul, on jan. 16; to Thomas and BarbaraGristede Whipple a third child, first son, ThomasEthan, on June 7; to Michael and Hilda KaplanColten a daughter, Heather Anne, on June 17; toFrancis and Patricia Ingala Scalzi a second child,first son, Giancarlo, on Nov. 17; to john and LeeKnowlton Parker a second child, first daughter,Sarah Lee, on Sept. 24; to Roderic and PatriciaBordley Wiltse a daughter, Diana Louise, onAug. 15; '62 and two sons, Andrew Duncan onDec. 3, '63 and jonathan Ross on Nov. 6; toGilbert and Joan Adess Grossman twin girls,Karen and Linda, on Apr. 17, '68; to Martin andEllen Goldberg Siegel a third son, Barney joseph,on Dec. 24; to William and Beverly FolgmannHeming a second child, first son, William ColbertIr., on June 29; to Raymond and Joyce Heal Payera second son, Christopher, on July 9; to GiJbertand Barbara LessalJ Bach a second daughter, Amy,on Feb. 18, '68; to Dexter and Anne McClainJohnston a second daughter, Alicia Merritt, onSept. 11; to Dudley and Margaret Parsons Sum-mers a third child, first daughter, Brett Wilson,on Feb. 8; to Christopher and Ann Pope Stone adaughter, jessica Burr, on Nov. 1; to Raymondand Sally Raymond Locke a third child, second

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daughter, Rebecca Kingsbury, on Dec. 2; toMichael and Doris Ward Lawson a second child,first son, Andrew, on Dec. 7.Michael and Hilda Kaplan Colten are enjoying

parenthood and the Boston area. Ruth DratlerConant finds some time away from her smalldaughter to do volunteer work with Head Startin Washington, D.C. Happy to return to snow-stormy New England is Mary Cluett Schmitt who,since September, has lived in Guilford, Conn.with her boys. Rod and Patricia Hordley Wiltselove Wyoming, Michigan, where Rod is rector ofHoly Trinity Episcopal Church. Since September'68, Marty and Ellen Goldberg Siegel have beenliving in New Providence, N.J. Marty is directorof instructon for the Union County Regional HighSchools. Ellen is "helped" at home by Steven 21months, while Buzzy 4'12 attends nursery school.jack and Meryl lanning Moscatelli live on BeaconHill in Boston. Mery! is an editor for the HarvardUniv. Press and has edited a variety of books.jack's job as associate director of Harvard Busi-ness School's Divis~n of International Activitiesenables Meryl and Jack to travel. They've beento Europe three limes and hope to manage a tripto Centra! America soon. Bill and Beverly Folg-mann Heming love their home in Staten Island,N.Y., but found they had to readjust to theweather after 4'12 years in Hawaii. Bevis busywith her children, active Kimberly 3 and the newbaby. Joyce Heal Payer is delighted with her newlarge home in Stonington, Conn. and reports thather two sons seem to be enjoying it also. Jacque-line Goodspeed spent Christmas and New Year'sholidays in Britain with friends. She enjoys livingin Cambridge, where she is working as fund di-rector for the Walker Home, a residential schooland treatment center for emotionaJly disturbedpre-adolescent boys. Currently she is inconveni-enced by a broken ankle, an unhappy result ofskiing. Bonnie lessall Bach, with two girls 19months apart still finds time to study Italian"between diaper changes." Joan leventhal Wynn,editor-in-chief of Ingenue magazine, was a judgefor the Miss Teenage America contest last fall.Carolyn Mandell Masler followed her husbandCarl's ship last September, stopping in Paris,london, Copenhagen, Oslo and Edinburg. Dexterand Anne McClain Johnston are kept busy bytheir two daughters, 16 months apart, and anew house they're building. In March, john Ben-nett havtng finished his service term in Frankfurt,Germany, returned home with Barbara Nicho!sBennett via New Delhi anti Afghanistan, wherethey visited fohn's family. Margaret Parsons Sum-mers with two months of busily working on achampagne-art preview for the Children's Psychi-atric Center of Monmouth County behind her,took time out to have her third child in February.After being in New Orleans almost two years,Ellen Watson Payzant and Tom have becomeMardi Gras "nuts", attending all the parades andseveral balls. Tom is administrative assistant tothe superintendent of schools in New Orleans andEllen is active in lWV, being special arrange-ments chairman this year. The Payzants thoroughlyenjoy New Orleans, especially being able toswim from April through October.George and Debbie Brown Pillorge returned to

Baltimore in August, after a year in Cambridge,where George was visiting professor in urban de-sign. He was on a year's leave of absence todirect the "New Communities Project" sponsoredby HUD. Since his return, George has been madea partner in the Baltimore architectural firm ofRogers, Taliaferro, Kostritsky and lamb. Debbieis finishing her M.Ed. in special education (men-tal re~ardation) ~t Loyola College and playingobo.e. In the Ba.ltlmore Community Symphony, inaddition to taking care of Marc 4 and Nicole 2.Dorothy (Dale) Pollock Cozadd's husband Ben isnow studying for his M.A. at Harvard BusinessSchool after leaving the Navy. Dale is active inthe Business School Wives Club where she be-longs to a small singing group in which KirkPalmer Senske 'fA is also a member. New daugh-ter jessica keeps Ann Pope Stone busy at present,but she plans to return to teaching in the fair.Her husband Chris is teaching at U.S.c. lawSchool and the Stones are enjoying living in los

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Angeles. Carl and Pamela Poppe Good live inPrinceton, N.J. with their two daughters 5'/2 and3'12. Carl is with IBM in Cranford; Pam is activein the Jr. league and Conn. College Club ofPrinceton. Ray and Sally Raymond locke have re-cently moved into a home in Newt?n, Mass. an?are now busy painting and redecorating when therrthree children leave them time. Elisabeth RichardsMunde! is teaching 2nd grade at BuckinghamSchool in Cambridge, where David is working atMIT on his political science Ph.D. thesis on Aidto Higher Education. Susan Robertson Richardsleft on july 24 and returned home Dec. 15 after a"once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world." Suefirst traveled for three weeks with Elizabeth(Betsy) Cliff Van Velzer in Portugal and Spain,wandering from place to place in a rented car,with a hectic side trip to Tangiers. After Betsyreturned to New York, Sue continued by herselfthrough the Mediterranean conutries and India toBangkok where she met her husband Jack. Shealso saw him in Hong Kong and Tokyo, besidesvisiting Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambo-dia and japan herself. Finally the Richardses lefttogether for two weeks in Hawaii. Now Sue andjack are at Fort Devens, Mass., until june whenJack will start his residency in orthopedics at theCampbell Clinic in Memphis. Marlha Smith is cur-rently working on a master's of divinity at GoldenGate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mi1J Valley,Calif. In addition, she is assisting in the missionwork among the foreign students at the Uni-versity of California at Berkeley and theSpanish-Americans in San Francisco. After teach-ing astronomy as a part-time instructor at Connec-ticut College from September '66 to january '67,Carol Williams received her Ph.D. in astronomyfrom Yale Univ. in june '67. For the next year shewas a research staff astronomer at Yale and isnow assistant professor of astronomy at the Univ.of So. Florida in Tampa, where she teaches as-tronomy and mathematics. Hal and Roberta YellinBarron and their son larry are now living in Bir-mingham, Mich., wHere Hal is corporate counselfor The Bendix Corp. which has its headquartersthere.

1963 Correspondent:Mrs. A. P. Mclaughlin III(Milbrey Wallin)23 C1airemont RoadBelmont, Mass. 02178

1964 Correspondent:Mrs. William M. Senske (Kirk Palmer)11 Peabody Terrace, Apt. #1603Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Married: Eleanor Jones to Barry John Wendell onDec. 29; levee Humphrey to Joseph Garrett HeardIlIon Sept. 18Born: to Walter and Sally Kessler Mertens adaughter, jennifer Linay, on jan. 21; to Richardand Nancy Lindstrom Young a daughter, CarolynHay, on Dec. 17; to Robert and Jennette Camp-bell Herbert ~ ?aughter, Catherine Deming, onJuly 30; to William and Donna Richmond Carle-ton a daughtar, Elizabeth Joy, on Dec. 25.After receiving a master's at Columbia un!v

Teacher~ College in 1965, Elizabeth (Buncie) Mor~xan Haning headed to Berkeley, Calif. and workedIn Hayward. She moved to Riverside where shemet her attorney husband, Zerne. They have twodaughters but Bunc!e still manages to teach 4thgrade. A ye~r ago, John and Patricia SOlIz Koskt-nen left California (or Washington, D. C. so thatJ~hn could work as special assistant to the deputyd~rector on the President's commission on civild.lsorder '. Now he is legtslattve assistant to Mayorlindsay In the Washington office of NYC. Pattaught 2nd grade and trained student teachers fora year and also got her master's from the AntiochP~tney Graduate School of Education. Pat is ex-Cited now to be a part of a special language artsprdg~~m where she teaches creative dramatics~n It~rature to primary children in an tmpove-,lshed City school. Gail (Gay) Rosenberg has spent

the majority of the last four years in WashingtonD.C. with the exception of a year of graduat~school in economics at Columbia. In 1%5 shejoined the staff of the Securities and ExchangeCommission as a financial analyst. She started outdoing economic studies on the mutual funds in-dustry for the SEC's report submitted to Con-gress. Then she traveled as part of an SEC teaminvestigating a stock fraud case, which The WallStreet Journal recently called "one of the mostimportant business scandals of modern times."Donna Richmond Carleton writes from warmsunny San Antonio, Texas, where her doctor hus-band Bill is spending his two years in the AirForce as a captain. His work involves studyingthe effects of carbon dioxide on men who aretaking part in the manned orbiting laboratory.New baby daughter keeps Donna in orbit. UntilOctober '66 when Jane Tisher Powell and hus-band Robert moved to Michigan, lane worked insystems design. Now two-year-old son as well astwo female Airedales which she and hubby showkeep her busy. Since graduating from ce, Ellen

Shapiro Viletta and her husband~)m~ Tony have been attending grad-.Y)""~~' uate school at NYU. Tony rece.ived

~ ... his degree in chemical engineer-",..; ing and in June 1968 Ellen re-

ceived her Ph.D. in bio-chemistry.During school Ellen worked as a research as-sistant on a National Institute of Health grantand published seven papers in scientific journals.Their daughter spent her first year in the lab withEllen in a small room set up as a nursery. NowEllen is a post doctoral fellow in the dept. ofmedicine at NYU Medical School, working in thearea of immunochemistry. Dhuanne SchmitzTansill and her husband Doug are now commuterson the New Haven, for they have moved out ofNYC to Darien. Dhuanne is still working forGlamour Magazine and is now assistant fashioneditor covering the hosiery, lingerie and sleep-wear markets.Rick and Barbara Brachman Fried are living in

Bowling Green, Ohio, where Rick is teachingat the university and working on his dissertationfor his Ph.D. in history at Columbia. Barbie isbusy with year-old Rocky but she still managesto serve on the board of the lWV and also studyfor her master's in counseling. Not far away inFindlay are George and Eugenie Dunn Hindall.While George is working in his lather's firm,Genie is out flying in those wide open spacesand taking lessons for her pilot's license. Aftertwo years in the Army in the Canal Zone, whereElizabeth Howard Whitfield was busy with lead-ing a Girl Scout troop and working part-time inthe post library, she and husband Rich are civil-ians living in Norton, Mass. Rich is working for ajewelry manufacturer and they both are enjoying1'h-year-old son Bill as well as many "do-it-your-self" projects in their new tsn-vear-cld house.Pamela Goodwin Binks wrote from "DownUnder" in Australia. Pam and her husband Davidwere married a year and a half ago, after theymet when David was in the U.S. as part of around-the-world tour, compliments of a ChurchillFoundation sponsored by the Australian Govern-ment to study boat building. Following a snowyNew Hampshire honeymoon, David and Pamtraveled to South Australia, stopping in Mel-bourne to visit Rebecca Owens Newman and herhusband. They have a flat in Brighton, nearDavid's own business of yacht construction,where Pam is secretary and bookkeeper. JennyCampbell Herbert, after receiving her master's atUniv. of Virginia, has been teaching chemistry forfour years at 51. Anne's School in Char1otl~s-ville. Her husband Robert graduated from Univ.of Virginia law School and passed the bar examlast summer. Now they are members of the Armyfor a few years. Also in Virginia are Carl andAnn Weatherby Smith, where Carl is with a con-struction firm and Ann continues to teach. Severalyears ago Judy Slaughter Cole spent some timein Poland. Then on returning to Kansas she re-ceived her degree in elementary education. ~erhusband Garrett, a Princeton grad, is now Witha cattle ranch management firm. Adrienne 3 andtheir Baskin-Robbins ice cream store keep Judy

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very busy. After graduation Martha Mann Betheaspent 3 months in Turkey with Turay Ucal (M.A.,CC '64) and then moved to NYC and started workat the Rockefeller Foundation. Strangely enough,her "boss" was janet Paine '27, one of Connec-ticut's trustees. Marly's husband Toby works forMcGraw Hill as a traveler in the college division.Marty keeps busy with a job as secretary in thepersonnel office of the RCA Service Co. inGreenbelt, Md. where Toby and she live. Alsoin the Washington area are Elizabeth KimballMaclean and her doctor husband. Bill is now inthe Army for two years, is station~d at FortMyers and is practicing pediatrics, his specialty.Betsy is teaching Modern European history andProblems of Democracy part-time and loves thefreedom to handle the courses as she likes.Scott and Alice Cotsworth Smith are now inMissouri, having enjoyed their year in Englandwhere Scol! was a student at the British ArmySchool. They had several nice holidays. Twoweeks were spent touring Spain and another twoin Scandinavia, as well as side trips to Irelandand Scotland. Last summer Susan WolfendenHinnant and her husband Haskell honeymoonedin Europe spending a month traveling throughItaly, a short time in Switzerland and anothermonth in a rented flat in Chelsea, England. Dur-ing that time, Haskell worked on his researchgrant project and Sue on Slavic studies and thecookbook. They returned to Ann Arbor, where heis an assistant professor of English at the Univ.of Michigan and she is studying (or master'sexams.Now living in Wellesley, Mass. are Joyce

Humphrey Heard and her husband Joseph. AfterCC commencement, Joyce served in the youthdivision of the Christian Science Church in Bos-ton. There she met and married her boss. Joseph,after receiving his MBA from Harvard and hisjurisdoctoris degree from Univ. of Miami lawSchool, serves as manager of the youth division atthe same church. Margot Timson received herB.A. in anthropology from B.U. and started work-ing at the Boston Public library in 1964. She isnow in the Social Sciences Dept. of the libraryafter acquiring her master's in library sciencefrom Simmons. Timmy has been able to do alot of traveling: camping through Canada andsunning in Puerto Rico. On her trip to Europe,she bumped into Carole Hunt Iwanicki '63 inthe Uffizzi Gallery in Florence. Joanna WarnerKennedy is working on her MAT in remedialreading at Harvard and has been teaching inWaltham for two years. Her husband Tom hasbeen ordained and is on the staff of TrinityChurch, Boston, as minister to college students.Lynn Daniels Rowe and her husband Bill havebeen able to enjoy the snow this year, they areliving in Burlington, Vt. Bil! graduated fromChamplain College with a business degree andis working for GE. lynn enjoys working in thecollege library and taking graduate courses ~nlibrary science at Univ. of Vermont. MarieRichard Edwards and her husband are living inthe New london area, where, after graduation,Marie worked at General Dynamics as a scienti-fic psychologist in the Human Factors Section,and later as a programmer/analyst in the In-formation Processing Section. Now Terri Ellen 4,an eight-room home and parttime work at MysticOceanographic Co. have Marie on the go. Herhusband has been affiliated with the u.S. CoastGuard Band as chief musician, solo trombonist.He has also been involved in teaching as amember of [he Univ. of Connecticut music facultyand performing with the Eastern ConnecticutSymphony.Shelley Hodupp Pakradooni loves her work as

museum shop manager at the Philadelphia Mu-seum of Art, where she is occupied publishingmany handsome reproductions. Paul and FrancesWinfield Bremer made a quick move from Af-ghanistan and are now living in Blantyre, Malawi,Africa, where he is 2nd secretary at the embassy.There was quite a gathering of CC '64 at thewedding of lee jones Wendell. Patricia KendallBoyd and Katharine Archer Smith were both mem-bers of the wedding party and yours truly andhusband Bill, Guy and Judith Wishach Curtis,

Harry and Anne Burger Washburn attended. Inaddition, Suzanne Grimes Pakkala and he.r hus-band Alan were there from the home In losAngeles, where Susie is working for the te.le-phone co. in the computer division. Followinga chilly Quebec honeymoon, lee and Barry havesettled in Cambridge where lee is working forHarvard Development. Barry works in the In-ternational Dept. of the First National Bank ofBoston. Ruth Kiven Bowden's husband Paulgraduated from the Univ. of Denver and theyare now living in Rochester, N.Y., where he isan estimator of sales for Eastman Kodak. Ruthieis involved with year and a half old Katherineand a new home. Dick and Carolyn Thomas Woodhave been very academically oriented for thepast few years. He is completing work on a Ph.D.in nuclear engineering at Ohio State. Carolyn re-ceived her master's in history from that Uni-versity. She loves her high school teaching job atColumbus School for Girls.

New correspondent for '64 Mrs. Richard T.Young (Nancy R. Lindstrom), 18 Johnson Drive,Hudson, Mass. 01749

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

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

Married: Ciannait Sweeney to Alan Tait on Apr.1 '67; Danielle Dana to leonard P. Strickman;Marion Jean Steele to Alden Evan Voisine onJune 27; Jane Stern to Peter Buchman on July 4;Deanna B. Stein to M. Brian McMahon; WendelaH. Doble to john S. Yeo on Nov. 9; Bridget M.Donahue to Michael Healy on Dec. 28: KatherineCurtis to U. William Donahue, USMC, on Feb.15; Carol Dee Kapson (0 Gary F. Davidson onAug. 25.Born: to Warren and Maureen Quinn Nicholsa second child, first son, David Everett, on May17, '68.Sandra Jones Thomasson is living in Bremerton,

Wash. where AI is finishing his Navy tour. At-tending Carol Dee Kapson Davidson's weddingwere Elizabeth Dawe Plebenga and Ruth ZaleskeLeibert. Betsy and Larry just bought a house inPhiladelphia where Betsy is teaching and larryis finishing his residency. Ruth is working inWashington, D.C. on "the Hill" while finishingher law school studies. She and Burt are livingin Arlington, va. Dee Dee and Dave, a stockbroker, are now settled in their Chicago apart-ment after a Scandinavian honeymoon and Deehas found time to attend the Art Institute ofChicago. Katherine Curtis Donahue marriedBridget Donahue Healy's twin brother. Bill, aColby graduate, has been in Vietnam. He andKate look forward to settling in Boston after theService. Kate and Jane Brown Baird were brides-maids in Bridget's wedding. Bridget and Michaelwill be living in Portland, Me., after Michaelfinishes this june at Boston Univ. Law School.Bridget plans to continue high school teaching.Marian Silber finishes at Fordham law School thisJune. After the New York bar exam, she'll headfor Europe and then return to a job with oneof the top negligence lawyers in NYC. Sam andElizabeth Staples Harding have returned to theU.S. from Beirut and are living in Cambridge,Mass. Eleanor Abdella is in NYC working towarda graduate degree in Middle Eastern studies, aftertwo years with the Peace Corps in Iran. MarionSteele Voisine is living in Fort Walter, Texas,where her husband is completing a pilot trainingcourse with the U.S. Army. Marion graduatedfrom the Hartford Hospital School of Nursingwhere she was a staff member. Deanna SteinMcMahon and her husband Brian are both doc-toral candidates at the Univ. of Wisconsin. Briandid his undergraduate studies at Catholic Univ.

Danielle Dana Strickman is continuing as a socialworker with the jewish Family and Children'sService in Boston. Her husband Leonard, agraduate of the Univ. of Rochester and Yale lawSchool, is an assistant professor at the BostonUniv. School of law. Cynthia Fuller Davis is busywith her son, jr. League, university courses andplanning a new house. Ralph has a job with theCanadian government dealing with the theoreticalside of water pollution. John and Wendela DobleYeo are living in Cambridge, Mass. where Wendyis a secretary at Harvard. Her husband, a graduateof Northeastern Univ. with a master's degree, isan electrical engineer with RCA. Maureen QuinnNichols is busy now with her two children anda new 11-room home in Kingston, Mass. Doeloves the rural life and her New England house.Warren is working for the South Shore NationalBank and attending Boston Univ. night school.Our sympathy goes to the family of Nancy A.

Dennis who died in September '66.

1967 Correspondent:Miss Deborah Swanson605 East 82nd St., Apt. 9-HNew York, N.Y. 10028

Married: Judith Anderson to Hal Curtis Milton 111;Carol Lee Andrews to John J. Williams; LoisArenstein to Harvey Berman; Frances Beck toRex M. Wessling; Martha Birkett to Jeffrey White;Betty Block to Michael Ritter; Susan Brackin toDavid H. Smith; Nancy Brown to james D. Mor-gan; Patricia Clarke to Alvin R. Topping; LeslieDurkee to Clark A. McKnight II; Ellzabeth F.Ellison to Chase C. Gave III; Meredith Foster toJohn Timothy Howe; Leslie Freidin to PaulCooper; Robin Fromme to Jay Edwin Hines;Sandra Gay to Richard Coralnlck: Patricia Goff toG. Michael DeVanney; Sylvia Golbin to EdwardI. Cohen; Alexandra Gray to Mark B. Creed 1lI;Sandra Hainline to Robert E. Ellen: Paula Hamarto Richard A. Cemlck: Carol L. Hermann toArthur E. Smoot, jr.; jo-Ann Hess to Howard B.Myers; linden Hughes to Charles Gaspar, Jr.;Margaret Keenan to Thomas Sheridan; KatherineKennedy to Timothy A. Richards; Sharon Klelv toHans Fromme; Mary Ellen Klinski to Stephen J.Fuller; Ellen S. Krosnick to Jeffrey F. Skolnick;loan Lacouture to joel E. Brink; Lauren Levinsonto Jack S. Pohn; Elizabeth Lewis to Richard B.Cook; Marjorie Lipshutz to Kevan E. Simon;Elizabeth Lodge to David A. Bremer; Helen LoUto David Begin; Iorl-Ann Lyons to Bruce M.Eckert; Judith Macurda to James Oates; TracyMarshall to Andrew C. Whitelaw; lynda Materato Gregory E. Raisis; Carol Morosky to Joseph R.Hoostv: Mary Ellen Politis to PhiJip Berger; FranceeRakatanskv to David D. Sicher; Phyllis Ray toPaul Perreault; Marcia Robbins to Lors-jorgLugger; Suzanne Rossell to john SI. A. Boyer Ill;Kay Rothgeb to Mark P. Brimijoin; Jane Schefflerto john H. Harris 1r.; Britta Io Schein to DonaldW. McNemar; Valerie Smith to Augustine Ride-nour Ayers; Betty Ann Sugarman to Kenneth R.Silk; Nancy Taylor to D. Randolph Johnson;Susanna Terrell to Stuart T. Saunders Jr.: SusanThompson to Michael E. Britton; Elizabelh Veitchto W. Thomas Dodge; Martha Wagner to RobertNewman; Ann P. Weinberg to Kenneth G.Mandelbaum; Barbara Wend to Richard B. King;Deborah White to Charles Alan Corr: BetsyWilson to Mark Zanna; Charlotte Wolf to DennisJohnson; Heather Woods to Richard Ames; Con-stance Wormser to Michael E. Mitchell; CarolynYeaton to Walter Frank.Born: to jeff and Betty Crowley Gurnham adaughter.Barbara Sachner is working for Time, Inc. and

shares an apartment in NYC with Stephanie Pier-son, Katherine Curtis '66 and Jane Davison '66.Stevie is a copy writer for an advertising agency,Batton, Barton, Durstine Osborn and she and Barbspeak happily of volunteer work at BellevueHospital and art courses at the MetropolitanMuseum. The summer afforded the opportunityfor a small but highly enthusiastic reunion forBarb Sachner, Carol Friedman, Sidney Davidson,Susan Melinette, Deborah Murray, Ann Weinberg

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Mandelbaum and myself (Deborah Swanson) atTrader Vic's. Ann's husband Ken was the lonemale. Carol received an MAT in English fromStanford Univ. and is now teaching secon~arylevel English in Palo Alto, Calif. San FranCISCOhas proven a delightful replacement for .Dallas.Deborah Murray rushed in from Washington,D.C. where the library of Congress ~eeps herbusy and knowledgeable. Susan and Sidney areliving in Manhattan and. wo~k at Tlm~, Inc. ~ndNBC respectively. Walhs Lindburg IS teachingPuerto Rican children in an elementary school In

Brooklyn. She finds the experience both fu.n an~frustrating but very rewarding. Martha Kidd ;sworking (or the N.Y. life Insurance Co. PhylliSRay Perreault and her husband Paul are happyand settled in Alaska where Paul has been pursu-ing graduate studies. Belly Crowley Gurn~am an,dJeff are living in Madison, Conn. Bloomingdale shas proven a frequent and often surprising meet-ing place for a number of us. The regulars areRae Downes, Terry Taffinder, Janet levy an.dPamela Mitchell. Rae is editing the .house. publi-cation of an investment and banking firm onWall SI. Terry is with the J. Walter Thom.psonadvertising agency. Jan worked for ~n educationaltelevision station and has been doing free-Ian~eart work. Pam received an MAT from Colum?laUniv. and is still hoping to find Broadway backingfor Junior Show.Jo-Ann Hess Myers and her husband Howard

were seen briefiy on a shopping spree before re-turning to their home in W.ashington, D.C. T.hemost excited shopper was Bnen Mulrux Chelmm-ski. Her brief stay in New York at Christmas timewas almost over and she wanted to savor asmuch as possible before returning to Moscowwhere her husband Rudolph is a correspondentfor life Magazine. An account of their summertravels in Russia appeared in the Sept. 27 issueof life. Marjorie Singer completed a year of studyat Columbia School of International Relations andis working for a French fabric house in NewYork after returning from a year working inFrance. Deborah johnston is with the investmentcounselling firm of Scudder, Stevens and Clark.Jennifer Josephy is working for Alfred A. Knopfas a secretarial assistant to the editor-in-chief.The Boston-Cambridge area claims among othersIn our class Anne Foss, Anne Clement andMargarel Marshall. Muffin is with the N.E. Tele-phone Co. Sandy is working for a professor atMIT. Anne tells fascinating stories of her sum-mer in Thailand, the major stop on her triparound the world. She is now working at thePolaroid Corp. on their program for the develop-ment of mechanical teaching systems. Workingwith Anne and living in Cambridge is JudithMacurda Oates. Martha Birkett While lived withAnne, Sandy and Muffin until her marriage. Jeffis now stationed in japan and Birk writes thatthe country is beautiful and Tokyo a huge,busy metropolis. Christine Miller, a stewardesswith Pan American Airways saw Birk and Jeffwhen her flight schedule brought her to Tokyo.Patricia Carr and Deborah Funkhouser are inCambridge. Anne Holbrook is filling her dayswith teaching and studying but flourishes despiteIhe frantic pace. Heather Woods Ames taught iltthe Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill,Mass. until last summer when she and her hus-band Richard entered the Peace Corps. They suc-cessfully completed a training program in Cali-fornia and are now instructors at a teachertraining college in the Philippines.Joan Blair and Catherine Maddock received

master of science degrees in the School of li-brary Science at Simmons College. Carolyn An-derson is writing her master's thesis in print-making at the Univ. of Iowa where she has beenstudying under lasansky. Patricia McMurray iscontinuing her Ph.D. program at the Univ. ofPennsylvania which included teaching a seminarin Shakespeare. Susan (Wendy) Thompson Brittonand her husband Michael are living in Avon,Conn. Before her marriage, Wendy was a stew-ardess with Pan American Airways. Marcia RobbinsLugger is living in a charming chalet in Inns-bruck, Austria. Her husband is completing hissurgical residency at University Hospital in Inns-

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b k Carol Morosky Hoosty finds all well inA~~~ri'a Ore. where her husban.d. is stationed.I am s~pervisor of non-selling trammg at Bloo~-ingdale's after having spent eight f~ene~lcmonths as an assistant buyer. New York IS stillan overwhelming experrence and last sum.merI escaped to a Greek island for three gloriousweeks vowing never to return. But come back Idid. Whatever else New York is, it is not tobe ignored. . INew correspondent for next issue Mrs. ~lc~ae

E. Britton (Wendy Thompson), 32 Mountain VIewAve., Avon, Conn. 06001

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

Married: Judith Jones to [ohn McGregor; N!naSemansky to Dr. Raymond G. de jongh; EllalneSeath to Thomas Fiorito; Michaele Br~st~w faAlan W. Besse; Christine Care to William j.Culotta; Marjorie Ann Boone to Douglas M.Miller' Barbara Rein to Robert L. Protell; MarthaKomli~e to Peter T. Smith; janet Suby to jamesj. Cotter III; Elizabeth Sidor to Gerald S. Hanley;Anne Ross to Donald E. Sawyer; Mary P. Frenchto Peter Van Etten; Ruth Cheris to Richard L.Edelson; Dianne Sanborn to Francis Allman 1.11;Susan Sharkey to Thomas J. Hoffman; JudllhGranville to Christopher McCrudden.Born: to Robert and Susan Feigl Lukens a daugh-ter, Whitney Lauren, on Dec. 13; to jonathan andBarbara Rand Clark twins, Jonathan Rand andLaura Sanders, on Feb. 15Anne Ross Sawyer is teaching in Teaneck, N.J.

Sharon Mairson is an American Red Cross recrea-tion aide on the staff of Walson Army Hospital,Fort Dtx, N.J. Ann Fertig Tiemann is working inthe personnel dept. of USC, where she is in-volved with the interviewing and placement ofall female non-academic personnel. PatriciaGaynor Hartman is a social worker in the ChildWelfare Division of the Conn. State WelfareDept. At Judy Jones McGregor's wedding on July6, Betty Sidor Hanley, Ann Engstrom and DeborahBenjamin '67 were bridesmaids. judy Is now sub-stitute teaching. Frances Bertelli is teaching withHead Start in New Haven. She writes, "I findit very excifing-c-in fact somewhat too exciting.My classroom was vandalized twice. NinaSemansky de Iongh plans to spend the sum-mer in the Soviet Union with her husband.She is in the Russian department at Syracuse.Sally Schweitzer sanders works for the AcornPress, which publishes three weekly papers inRidgefield, Redding and Wilton, Conn. Her hus-band Jack is a reporter for one of the papersPolly Leonard Keener and her husband have leftChicago Univ. and will settle permanently inAkron, Ohio, after four months in NYC whereBob will be in the training program on Wall St.for Bache and Co., investment brokers. Last sum-mer they toured Europe for three months InChicago Bob was at graduate school and Pollydid volunteer work at the Art Institute. CatherinePan is an assistant statistical methods analystwith Traveler's Insurance Co. in Hartford. Sheis busily making her wedding dress for her mar-riage to George Flanigan on june 5.Pamela Gjeftum is due back from london in

May and plans to go for her master's in libraryscience at Simmons in the fall. Margaret Oyaashas decided to go for a doctorate at Stanford ineconomiCs. Anne Wadleigh is working at theMetropolitan Museum of Art and very excitedabout it. Christine Adler is working on a NavajoReservation in Chinle, Ariz. with Teacher Corps.She teaches five hours a day, small-group dndindividual tutoring. She is one of four in theChinle team; the other three teachers are Navajo.Three days a month she attends classes at North-ern Arizona Univ. in Flagstaff, and after nexlyear will have a master's in education. BarbaraBrodsky is a social worker for the Mass. PublicWelfare Dept., working in the Roxbury sectionof Boston. She works primarily with AFDC fami-lies, and as many of her clients are Spanish

speaking, her c.c. Spanish is being p~t to ex-tensive use. Barb shares an apartment .n Bostonwith Priscilla Stone. In London Kalhryn Bard istaking a post-diploma course in advanced sculp,ture at St. Martin'S School of Art, under thetutorship of Anthony Care. She is also studyingunder David Annesley and Tim Scott. This pastsummer Kathy spent six weeks in Japan where sh~W<JSmainly interested in visiting Japanese shrinesand temples. She continued to Taiwan and HongKong, and stopped in Hawaii on the way home.Cheryl Shepley Deane is teaching 6th, 7th andBth grade English and reading, and co-directingthe glee club at the Kenwood School in Albany.This summer she and Teny will be living inPittsfield, Mass., where Teny will have a surgicalclerkship in a hospital. Chery will commute toAlbany to teach swimming to underprlvllegadchildren. Amy Bergida has taken a leave of ab-sence from her doctoral program at Case WesternReserve Univ., and is presently involved in re-search in endocrinology at Michael Reese Hos-pital in Chicago Carolyn Conybeare is lookingforward to graduation from the physical therapycourse in which she is involved at Duke. Sheenjoys Duke, and is planning to work on thewest coast after graduation. Ann Humphreys isteaching history and English at the WesttownSchool, a Quaker co-educational private schooloutside Philadelphia and lives in a girls' dormi-tory there. She has found the year to be agreat challenge and plans to stay on for anotheryear. She would like to work on an East AfrlCa.nservice project this summer. Melva Low_e.15completing her master's in English at the unlv.of Wisconsin. In order to finish and qualify, she

Child Sludy by Nancy Dubin

must take another camp-covering six centuriesof English lit. Melva finds the English depl. atWisconsin "very respectable and the facully out-standing./I She works twenty hours a week assecretary for the School of Family Resources andConsumer Sciences. This past summer Mel~atravelled to different Head Start programS I~

several parts of the country, collect.i~g resebar\for Dr. Edmund Gordon, who is wrltmg a 00.on the program. Fredricka Chapman McGlashan ~steaching 4th grade at a Catholic school in 8ernl-cia, Calif. Doug is with the Navy Nuc1ea.r PowerSchool. They will move to Idaho Falls 10 june,and New London in January. After working onthe Kennedy campaign, Joanne Inlralar beganworking for Mayor lindsay in September. Shedoes research for the mayor's speechwriter,. jeffGreenfield, one of Robert Kennedy's speechwrlte~si'oy<:e Newman is in an MAT program in sociastudies al Harvard's Graduate School of Edu~a·tion. She is involved in Roxbury, trying to writea proposal for a summer program in the eve-nings for Roxbury parents. She also teaches anAmerican history course to juniors at Newton

Connecticut Alumnae News' May1969

High School. Nancy Dubin, finished at Conn.in january, is working with Benton and BowlesAdvertising in New York and doing excellentphotography of children. The New london Dayran a full-page spread of Nancy's photographsof tst grade students at the Noank elementaryschool where she practice-taught. Barbara RandClark's husband has returned from Vietnam wherehe was injured in October. He is now doing verywell and is home to stay.Susan Sharkey Hoffman and husband Tom are

at the Univ. of Tennessee, where Tom is study-ing for a doctorate in nuclear engineering andSue works for the College of Home Economics.Deborah Hitchcock works for the Court SquarePress in Boston and enjoys it. Debby now sharesan apartment with Krisli Gunnill and Bonnie Boer-meester in Cambridge. Katharine Hensler is a 4thgrade teacher in "one of the 'Target Area' ele-mentary schools" in New Orleans, where herfiance, Kenny White, is a first year medical stu-dent at Louisiana State Medical School. Kathyis taking two post-graduate psychology courses.Eileen Pond has changed jobs within NEWSWEEKmagazine: she is now an editorial assistant inthe newsmakers and transitions sections of themagazine. She interviews, reports and writes.last summer was Marian Bruen's second seasonas a medical volunteer in Hopedale, Labrador,with the Grenfell Mission. This fall she has beentaking graduate biology courses at Adelphi Univ.and math at C.W. Post College. She is an assis-

tant 3rd grade teacher at the Westside School inCold Spring Harbor, L.1. Joanne Dunleavy hasbeen working since last August as a financialanalyst at Salomon Brothers and Hutzler onWall St. She is sharing an apartment in theColumbia area with a girl from Mt. Holyoke.Constance Perekslis is working in New York forMerrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith as ajunior portfolio analyst (as is lynn Miles) and issharing an apartment with Martha Hackley. Thispast summer Connie spent seven weeks in Hoi-land on the AIESEC program. Mary Harp hasgone back to Holland to work for Esso for ayear, an extension of her AIESEC job. Diane(Chickie) littlefield Berry and her husband areliving in La Jolla, Calif. after a summer and fallof moving all over the country with the Navy.lade Schappals Walsh and husband David wereon the TV quiz show Dream House and won oneroom. navrd left at the end of February for hislast three month out-to-sea deployment and hasbeen accepted at Harvard Business School fornext year. Jane Enright is teaching latin at theWatkinson School in Hartford. She spent thesummer as an intern in Greek at the AdvancedStudies Program, St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.where highly motivated high school juniors COII-

ered a tst year (college level) of classical Greek.Barbara Halch, who is sharing an apartment withlinda Seale, is teaching math at the WinsorSchool in Boston. Dorcas Hardy has journeyedthroughout the East; stayed with families in

Pakistan; and is now on a two month stay at51. lui ian's Community in Kenya. Jane RanaJ10 isworking as a traffic and production assistant atSmith/Greenland advertistng in New York andshares an apartment with Robin Salzberg. Janeis Involved with the theatre and is currently inrehearsal for two one-act plays which are to bepresented on weekends this month. She iswith a small actor's workshop. She has beendoing some singing with Terry Taffinder '67, andhopes to get some work along that line beforelong. Ellen leader, working on a master's de-gree in East Asian Regional Studies at Harvard,has been a volunteer teacher in an after-schoolenrichment program at a Boston elementaryschool where she teaches Chinese language andculture to a class of 2nd and 3rd graders. RulhCheris Edelson is doing graduate work at Yalein urban enllironmental health. Her husband isa 3rd year medica! student at Yale. leslie levinis working with the Center for Urban Educationin New York and plans to move to San Fran-cisco soon. I, Katharine Spendlove Talmadge, amteaching 5th grade at the Chapin School inPrinceton, and am still tutoring two Thai stu-dents here at Peddie where Jeff is teaching. Iam in rehearsal for Dealh of a Salesman, thePeddie senior play, in which I am playing LindaLoman. I got the part because they wanted anOLDER wornan-cevervone else in the play, 111·eluding Willy, being 18.

The Barbara Dane Scholarship

A gift of stock to the Parents Fund of Connecticut College has permanently endoweda scholarship fund named in memory of Barbara Dane '32.

Ill health forced Miss Dane to withdraw from the College after completing hersophomore year. She died on January 24, 1931. An English major, she lived in NewtonCentre, Massachusetts, and entered Connecticut from the Stoneleigh School in Rye,New Hampshire, where her main interest was dramatics. One of her friends andclassmates, Margaret Hazlewood '32, who was president of Wig and Candle and isnow a member of the English Department, recalls that Barbara was also interestedin drama while here at Connecticut.

In establishing the scholarship fund in his daughter's memory, Mr. Walter A. Daneof Newton Centre, senior partner of the Boston law firm of Dane, Howe & Brown, askedthat first preference be given to qualified scholarship applicants in the field of Englishliterature. The College is grateful indeed to Mr. Dane for this gift perpetuating Bar-bara's name.

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"What do I think of Connecticut College and my four years here? ... ~onn is a good place and it

If ODd education. In four years, I've managed to take courses III most of the departmentsa ers a g . t i d th hil S h . d .and have found, in general. that they were mteres mg an war v.: 1 e. lie a JU gment IS, of course,very subj ective and I feel that a m~re valid com~en t on the quahty ?f Conn Co~le~eas an academicinstitution concerns its overall pohey of education. The overwhelming emphasis IS on the studenthich Is probably the major reason Conn has not been plagued by the current demonstration syn-

;;'rome. \ have always felt that my profess~rs were sincerely intere,sted i:n thei.r sub~ect a~d concernedfor the student's interest and comprehensIOn or lack thereof. In line WIth this attitude IS the atmos-phere of friendliness of this campus between studen,ts and fa.culty. Perhaps the most meaningfulaspect of my stay at Conn has been the close co~tact I ve had WIth members of the faculty, especiallyin my own department. Their interest, enthusfasm an~ enco~ragement have "" well --:-made mycourses meaningful; made them real because real and Interesting people were Involved In themandtook the time to involve me."

Janet 1.Bouchard

"If I had to choose one word to summarize my four years at Conn College, it would be change,Conn itself has changed - coeducation. dorm keys, cars on campus, pass-fail option, liberalizationof requirements, special studies period. And the girls who come have changed too. The differencesare more subtle perhaps but the contrast between the outlook of the seniors four years ago andthe freshmen today is marked. The Vietnam War, poverty, discrimination - all the cares of theoutside world are more pressing to the students now.

What I sense most is the change in myself however. I realize now that growth is what collegeis all about. I've made friends - both student and faculty - and learned facts and theories. I'veread good books and seen fine movies and heard great concerts, But even without any of these ex-periences I would leave Conn a richer person because I've learned to examine problems and ideas,I've learned to think.

There have been changes at Conn College - some for the good, and some, well, some I considernot so good. Conn will continue to change as it responds to the changing needs of its students andthe times. It is still true that the fullness of the in tellectual experiences that Conn College offerscanonly be achieved if the student not only takes of the college but also gives of herself."

Christina PemmerlBurnham

"Looking back on it, I strongly feel that the educational experience at Connecticut College is essen-tially destructive to its students. Although the academic material presented here is of a high quality,I think the atmosphere is not encouraging to growth in really valuable directions. The whole personis divided into parts, and only one part, the intellect, is developed.

It seems to me .that on the whole people leave Conn very much the same people they were whent~ey entered. Noth~ng here challenges one to reevaluate one's life, or to question what the fancygirls-school education is for. There is such an abundance of book-work that there is little time foro~h:r kinds of exploration. Because of the oppressive isolation, and because it is not coed, life isdivided up; to have any pleasure, or to see what is going on in the world, one has to get away, Ihave. found that the only w.,ay I could maintain any perspective has been to spend as much timeaspOSSIble.away from Conn, Involved in political activities. The alternative that Conn offeredwas anopp.ressIve dullness. of hard work, and competition, where girls are tacitly encouraged to workagainst each other, Instead of supporting each other to explore new ideas,

fndiCative of the non-challenging atmosphere is that most classes are lectures, and that girlsra:e y fee,l !he~ can an~ should speak and develop their own ideas; there is no recognition thatthis creativity IS more Important than any wisdom in any book. We keep accepting things as theyinfc I cannot hel~ but wonder if the fine education given us does little more than make us well-m armed compamons to our husbands.

I think these things may he cha . d . ... I f 1th tI d ' . ngmg as stu ents themselves take the Initiative. But ee a

un ess e ucation IS seen as thi .ill uontl lfl some mg more than mind-work, the Connecticut College experienceWI can mne to stI e exploration and creativity." Carol Lashine

"My four years at Connecticut ha ld d di fmyself as an . divid I' ve prcvr e me with a better awareness and understan 109aIn IVI ua In a mass so . t Al hcu ah nt tt . d i itof my interests as t f ' ere y. tough at times I felt confined and restrlcte In pursui

on the whole, I thin~o I c~7n~~mIng to th?se of ~he "~verage student" for whom the rules are made,As a philosophy ma'or,gr did an educatI~m which .wIll prove even more valuable in the years ahead,think in a way hig~ school not memorize facts, figures, and quotations, but rather learned ~~w tofuture problems and situatio~=.ver taught me to, a way that will enable me to evaluate critically

Being chairman of the Stud t Fwith many more memb f h e~ - acul ty Academic Committee for two years, I came in contactam extremely grateful. e~oork:n e ;~ulty and administration than the average student for whi~hImuch insight into the hilcso hg ith studen~s and facuIty on matters of joint concern prov~dedof the committee systeP rIP kYfof a small lIberal arts college as well as the joys and frustratiO~Slife of anyone at a wo~' ,00 11orward, however, to graduation and escape from the schizophremcdemands of academics en 5 co :ge who must try to achieve a satisfactory solution to the time

, commumty activities, and social life."Katherine R. Montgomery

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