Arnold College - Fall In Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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i at U WL it fmt .2 K l I :bln 'ii1f. . ...MQ 1928 ,QZ?QT Q -l SAMUEL J. MAssEY f Sam Made or massed. I Indoor and Outdoor Sports. - V- . MARY ELISABETH HOFF lKLib7, Assistant to Dean of Women. CHARLOTTE M. ULLMAN Mpeg!! Assistant to Dean of Women VIOLA LALONDE Assistant to Registrar, Public Speaking. E171

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'T-wo incisors, one czcspid, two bicuspids, three molarsf' D, 5 '1 27022 i WL ...MQ 1928 HAROLD TUPPER MEADE, B.A., M.S. Rabbits Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, Genetics. CLAIR FROST LYMAN, A.B. K:NCL17'0Z60?Z,,-, did you know that? English, History, Statistics. ADOLPH WILLIAM ALEC, M.A. 'iLook out or you will le-urn something. German, Education, Sociology. LOUIS ROBERT GANS, D.D.S. Oral Hygiene. i16l

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Expluring lgvrvhiig illuriher In last year's FALL IN, I had traced my paternal ancestry, a fairly simple matter. When I start to trace my derivation on my mother's side, the matter is by no means as simple. My mother's mother on her father's side was a Miller, old German Thuringian peasant stock, settled for many centuries in Thuringia, where they were free holders. It must be recalled that up to the Napoleonic invasion in 1806 and the collapse of the feudal system, most peasants were fiefs, not quite slaves, but next door to it, to a feudal lord. The feudal lord of our hamlet was the Baron of Leubingen. However, as I have said, the Miller family were free holders. They sat on their own land and were not subjects of the Baron of Leubingen. They served for generations as judges of the patrimonial court of the Baron. On her mother's side, she was a Viol, undoubtedly of French Huguenot stock, who, after the recall of the edict of Nantes and St. Bartholomew's night, fled France and were settled in some of the possessions of the Grand Elector of Brandenburg. They must have come from the southern part of France, since in the family silk weaving was an occupation handed down from generation to generation and some of our people are still silk manu- facturers in the town of Crefeld. Whether the family of Henske, a sprink- ling of whose blood was also mixed in my ancestry, had been brought along by these silk weavers some way or another, I can not trace. They likely were of Flemish extraction and silks and laces their hobby. My Thuringian peasant ancestors were a tall, sparse set of people with all the virtues and faults of peasants, strong, healthy, laborious, saving if not stingy, land-hungry. On the other hand, my French ancestry, the Viols and Henskes were people of decided character, freedom of religious convic- tion, freedom of speech, tenacity of purpose, great skill of hand, artistic traits, great musicians. There are any number of Viols still distinguished singers in Germany nowadays. Such the mixture of my maternal grandmother, who according to the usage of the time is sent to learn housekeeping away from the home farm in Weimar. The court apothecary is a relative of the family and here Sophie is initiated in the housekeeping of a wealthy Patrician Burgher family. Here she meets her fate. In the '3O's, the struggle of the Poles for freedom against Russian oppression flared up. With it came a wave of great sympathizing for the Poles in Germany. Polish songs, Polish music resounded in the concert halls. Poets wrote songs about Polish suffering and freedom. The stage gave itself to depicting the struggle for freedom of the Poles in drama. Polish dances made their entry into Germany and the rest of Europe. The Polka, the Varsovienne, the Polka Mazurka and the like were the order of the day, and the stately Minuet and the measured 'Naltz had to accommodate themselves to this Polish invasion. With the failure of the Polish revolution came an invasion of Polish emigres. While my maternal grandfather had gone into Germany with the I18l