Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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The Senior Era classes now began to mean the sacrifice of extras Consequently, our Sophomore play, for which the cast had already been chosen, was laid away, our plans for the boat ride forgotten, and only our Daisy Chain remained as a tribute to 1917. In our junior year a serious question confronted us at our first Donny- brook Board meeting. VVere we justified in spending a thousand dollars and devoting our greatest efforts to Donnybrook when our country was at war? We decided that, if the college was willing, we would give up the book and collect the subscriptions for some war fund. The Seniors willingly voted to give up the record of their Senior year, and we gave up, what was perhaps just as hard, the fun of making a Donnybrook. What we lost of the joy of working together we tried to make up in giving our Junior play. Pmmella, which was to have been our Sophomore play, was revived, and, with its large cast, its home-made scenery and costumes, kept practically the whole class busy during the two weeks of preparation. Not the least of the fun was in having 1921 occupy the front seats, and tell us they had liked it. The spring brought plans for Junior Banquet to the front. All prepara- tions were made when two days' before Mrs. Vernon Kellogg, a member of the United States Commission to Belgium, spoke to us in Chapel, telling graphically the story of the suffering within the steel ring and particularly of the scarcity of food so that once more we asked each other, 'Can we spend this money for food when people are starving ? At an inspiring meeting of the class we resolved to make the banquet a one-course collation, donating the money saved from the other courses to the Belgian Relief Fund. The Seniors showed such a fine spirit of co-operation that the banquet of ice-cream and cake and strawberries seemed really a banquet. A little later, IQZI entertained us with a lovely May Fete given in the woods near Roland Park. Wfe stayed long after supper, and, sitting around a huge camp-fire in the moonlight, we sang and gave stunts and forgot that there was such a sport as boat riding on the Chesapeake. Daisy Chain re- minded us that only one more year would we be at Goucher. Back from a summer of farmeretting and war work of all kinds, we began our Senior year with high resolves to keep alive every single Goucher tra- dition. Very soon after the opening of college the signing of the armistice ended the war. At the end of the parade with which the college celebrated, when we were all gathered around the door of Goucher Hall, Dean Lord said that the four years which had been IQIQ,S four years' of college life had been the most momentous years of the world's history. We realized then how fortunate had been the lot of 1919 to have been able to give up some of her class life for our cause. 93331 gsm? .1351 Y- 46.176 4 ni, 'M i , .W . . . ,. 'ifi fL l lt i ,.,,,,,,.. ct 3 lwut fafs, i f ' wif 'QW 'f4'4i,:E'?4 'f-'wc- --:':1. 5 - sg '51-4': :3Q23.: fl' m g gi me 15.5, A: ff:,,g'..5' -Q Rss, ... .....-. .:..-...-... .. -.r .. 1911. uf 1' .- za. , - . Lu . ! tifb:-. 1 .1 P 'J ,ff-f 1. 5 'e'1 :'i 'Gg : L'e' e' 5 2.- ,ni nkzsgffaf-Q I 3,1 D 851 . lf1,.': Q ima M 4-1 I .-'f' we V' -sl nag,-- L ' ,Q TP a : -T-QQQQ , X f 1 m , ...M .1 .,.- , ..-Wu.-. ., ,. ,,., 24

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The Senior Era C A History ofthe Moderns-Seniors NOTE.-This history is of especial value, since it is taken from the autobiography of a modern.. The vivid pictures of the times are effective because they are seen by us tlhrough the eyes of 'an actual witness of the events herein narrated. Note the influence of the Great War in the history of this people. . Senior Class History HEN 1919 gathered for the first time in the gallery of the old chapel it did not Seem possible to most of us that we could ever get ac- :, . .quainted. But when, two days later, we heard the Ten Command- ments read and were given little green caps with white shoe buttons, we saw that we were a unit, all humbled and green together. ,, The-Sophomore Party, Senior Tea, and the Y. W. C. A. reception con- vinced us that Goucher had no equal. Vtfhen we succeeded in winning the Hrst. tennis match without walking beneath the Sophomore banner, and in having our numerals engraved on the brand-new hockey cup, we were also assured that 1919 had no equal. 1917 meanwhile was showing us their loyal friendship and soon enter- tained us' in the big gymnasium, on the last improvised stage to be seen at Goucher, with The Amazons. just before Christmas they shared with us their custom of singing carols to their honorary member, so that we, too, sang to Miss Jesse. When the time came to show our gratitude to 1917 we worked very hard over our boat-ride plans and our play, Ulysses. The sun came out through the rain to provide a pleasant day for the Juniors' entertainment. The play, the supper succeeding and the ride home up the moonlit bay made us wish 1917 might always remain our Juniors. The night of our lantern chain to the Seniors was clear and starlit. Somehow the green and gold lights, the music of the band as we entered the square, and the familiar faces of our classmates in the lantern light made that occasion, rather than our first chapel, I9IQ,S birthday. How we did lord it over the Freshmen in the fall! But our haughty pride was later replaced by a realization of the necessity of preparing for the responsibility of our position as upperclassmen. Vtfe grew into a new class unity which was manifested in the unanimous' election of our Donnybrook Editor and most of the Board. ' Returning from spring vacation we found everything changed by the en- trance of the United States into the war. Attendance at war-preparedness 23

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HELEN LOUISE ADAMS, 2129 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md. NIAJOR DEPARTIVIENTZ PHYSICS. We delight in physics. Helen soon decided that physics was the hub of the universe, and that an afternoon in physics laboratory offered endless oppor- tunities for discerning great truths. In other departments her grave nod of approval always meant, That tits in with the modern scientific attitude. MARIE MOYER ALLEMAN, I4S North Front Street, Steelton, Pa. MAJOR DEPARTMENT: ENGLISH. Learning it but an adjunct to ourselves. Beginning in her freshman year, Marie steadily continued tn build up her reputation as an English shark and to walk with a regal-like tread. In American literature she was always asked to close the discussion if she had not already contributed to it. Her replies conjured up visions of future M. A.'s and Ph. D.'s. MARGARET C. AMIG, 2105 Homewood Avenue, Baltimore, Md. NIAJOR DEPARTMENT: IVIATHEMATICS. Be silent and safe. To leap from one's bed and sprint through the cold blackness to dance in an ice-water shower is joyful. So is pitching wheat and cutting corn all the day if you are a husky, like Margaret. She has always been a husky as a student, too, if the same signs hold. In the realm of talking-well, why notvote her an A. for the excellence of her silence? MARY CARYE BATCHELOR. I02I Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Md. MAJOR DEPARTRIENTZ SocIAI. SCIENCE. I am not only witty myself, but Ilze cause of ilmt wit which is in other men. Always on the go, talking, and making everybody hold their sides with laughter every inch of the way, was how Mary Carye went through college. Of all her occupations, her favorite was cheering up soldiers and sailors. We don't wonder they forgot their troubles when Mary Carye served them in the canteen. 25