Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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TRUSTEES James R. Sheffield, Chairman 80 Maiden Lane Miss Mabel Choate, Vice-Chairman 770 Park Avenue Lucius H. Beers, Clerk 2 5 Broadway George A. Plimpton, Treasurer 70 Fifth Avenue Mrs. Alfred Meyer 1225 Park Avenue George A. Plimpton 70 Fifth Avenue Nicholas Murray Butler Columbia University Albert G. Milbank 15 Broad Street Howard Townsend 15 East. 86th Street Mrs. Ogden Reid 15 East. 84th Street Miss Mabel Choate 770 Park Avenue James R. Sheffield 80 Maiden Lane Lucius H. Beers 2 5 Broadway Mrs. Henry Wise Miller ' 450 East 52nd Street Gano Dunn 43 Exchange Place Mrs. Alfred F. Hess 16 Wesl 86th Street Pierre Jay 1 Wall Street Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D The Riverside Church Winthrop W. Aldrich 18 Pine Street F. Bayard Rives 31 Nassau Street Frederic Rhinelander King 18 EaSt 48th Street Mrs. Eugene Meyer 1624 Crescent Place, Washington, D. C. Lindsay Bradford 22 William Street Mrs. William L. Duffy 443 Wesl 162nd Street (Alumnae Trustee, 1931-1935) Mrs. Paul S. Achilles 520 EasT: 86th Street (Alumnae Trustee, 1933-1937) Page 22

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VIRGINIA CROCHERON GILDERSLEEVE Dean and Professor of English A.B., Barnard College (Columbia University), 1899; A.M., Columbia University, 1900; Ph.D., 1908; Litt.D., 1929; LL.D., Rutgers College, 1916; Assistant in English, Barnard College, 1900-1 903 ; Tutor, 1903-1907; Lecturer, 1908-1910; Assistant Professor, 1910-1911; Dean and Professor of English, 191 1-; Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Page 21

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IN MEMORI AM MARY HARRIMAN RUMSEY Ever since the news of Mary Rumsey ' s untimely death reached me I have been sad- dened by a sense of grave loss, to me personally and to the college. All her fellow- alumnae have had a chance to read in the newspapers moving accounts of her long and honorable and multifarious record of public service — from her youthful founding of the Junior League to the important post of chairman of the Consumers Advisory Board of the N. R. A. So I will not rehearse it here, but speak only of her life as it touched Barnard and of her personal character. She was a member of that very energetic and original class, 1905, founder of Greek Games. In her undergraduate days, I taught her English composition and argu- mentation, and learned to respect her sound intelligence and her wide interest in human affairs, and to feel warm affection for her charming and generous t nature. Under the stimulus of Professor Crampton ' s teaching she developed a special interest in Zoology and in. Eugenics, so that after graduation, she kept in touch with that department and was also particularly concerned with the beginnings of our in- struction in personal and social hygiene and the organization of our Physical Educa- tion work. She was elected a member of our Board of Trustees on February 10, 1911. Dur- ing recent years she had lived so much in Virginia and in Washington that we have seen comparatively little of her. But we have followed her career with pride and affection. She was a woman of extraordinarily wide interests and most amazing energy and initiative. Sympathetic and democratic in her instincts, she had a passion for social justice and for cooperative efforts to make it prevail. And no one who knew her can ever forget her quite exceptional charm and warm hearted enthusiasm. In her death, at the top of her powers, Barnard has suffered a grievous blow. Virginia C. Gildersleeve. GRACE POTTER RICE The death of Professor Grace Potter Rice on October 18, 1934, has meant a sad loss to the college, to her colleagues, and to her many former Students. Mrs. Rice was graduated from Smith College in 1904; in 1905 she received the Master ' s degree in chemistry from Columbia University and in 1910 the Ph.D. degree from Bryn Mawr College. She had been connected with Barnard for nearly twenty years. She gave much of her time to administrative work on college committees and to chemical research, but the activity in which she was most deeply interested was her teaching. Her enthusiasm for careful work, her good judgment and wisdom, and her deep personal interest in each one of her students made her an inspiring a nd helpful teacher and an encouraging and dependable friend to all those with whom her many- sided interests brought her into contact. Page 23