Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Helen Margaret Hanson, Teaneclq, New Iersey Helen Delaire Hartman, Columbus, Ohio Violet Rornaine Hausrath, Cleveland, Ohio Lawrence Wayne Hodges, Superior, Nebraska Margaret Elizabeth Hunt, Detroit, Michigan Ruth Irene Hunt, Detroit, Michigan Melvin Iasper Hunter, Mount Healthy, Ohio Ruth Clark Hutchinson, Seuficlgley, Pennsylvania Walter Dayton Iackson, Tryonville, Pennsylvania Iames Irving Iohnson, Worcester, Massachusetts 76

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L A D Y A L I C E An appreciation of cz most delightful gentlewomafz HERE is a little room in the Clinic that is, in a Way, quite out of place. It should never be in a house of healing, but, rather, in some little vine-covered cot- -A'i'ee--4! tage with flowering window-boxes and a thatched roof. It is a room that will live long in the memories of many Antiochians as a delightful haven of refuge from the cares of campus life. It is Antioch's closest approach to a salon-to one of those gathering places of delightful people, presided over by a charming Woman. And who will deny that the one who holds sway over the gatherings in that little room is not charming? Miss Alice Bingle came here several years ago and quickly won herself a place in the hearts of everyone. She instituted, early in her career, the practice of afternoon tea, proving that-although she was away from her native Britain-she was still loyal to its tradition. It was not long before she was gathering in by degrees the whole campus to join her in the four o'clock ritual. About her table, students forgot campus feuds and petty dis- sention. With consumate tact, she made everyone feel at home. More than one cloud of homesickness has vanished with the magic of a second cup of tea. Weakening spirits have found fresh stimulus in the tiny corner room. And who can count the budding romances that have bloomed in the spring when the rattle and clink of cup and spoon sounded in the Clinic garden P 75 -.+L

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An ability to win and hold the affection of many of us has given Lady Alice a place that cannot be filled. When We go madly about, having our silly fun, she smiles gently and un- derstandingly. With the patience of Iob, she bears good- naturedly no end of bantering and ragging on the part of students. The many photographs that adorn the wall of her sitting-room testify to her popularity. One needs only to be a patient in the Clinic to realize her professional ability and the sunshine of her disposition. Too, one learns of the hand of iron beneath the velvet glove- no light ever burns after hours in that building. To many a lonesome invalid, she has meant an inexpressible lot. In emer- gencies-and a college community provides many of them in the course of a year-she is always ready to step in and take charge, quietly and efficiently. But, We cannot write of Lady Alice without mentioning her one great pet and companion, Gussie. Never has there been a more famous Ford on this campus-nor, some say, a more rambunctious one. But what care We for a few garage doors and nasty stone pillars? QThey shouldn't have gotten in the way.j So long as we can hear the toot of Gussie's horn and see Lady Alice go whizzing by, with a cheery Wave of her hand, everything's dandy. As one combs one's memories of Miss Bingle, one finds many joyful fragments-steak-roasts at the f'Magic Carpet, happy afternoons in Iune when there is tea on the Clinic porch, gloomy Winter days abed made bright by her cheery presence, and the Howers in Gussie's vase. 77