Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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18 THE NORMAL OFFERING Isherwood, Elsie May New Bedford Sanders, Laurilla Jeannette Wayland jones, Florence Willis Ai Waltham Seagrave, Anna Ross Southbridge Keenan, Margaret Winifred Southbridge Smyth, Marguerite Teresa Fall River King, Alice Williams Taunton Sweeney, Ellen Congdoin So. Dartmouth Knobel, Amalie Endicott Tilden, Helen May Cohasset Law, Elizabeth Waltham Traill, Mary jane Spencer Lennon, Catherine Ann , Quincy True, Irma Blanche Manchester, N. H. Lindsay, Helena Miller Andover Vestal, Cora Bernice Fall River Lovejoy, Lettie Josephine So. Weymouth Warner, Melora Ella Townsend Centre Luther, Cora Wheaton Somerset Wheeler, Della Rhoda Springfield Marshall, Margaret Jane Brockton White, Hattie Mabel Springfield Nolan, Ona Irene South Weymouth Williams, Agnes Sophie Taunton O'Connor, Mary Elizabeth Taunton Winslow, Alice Crane Taunton Patterson Grace Elizabeth A. Wollaston Woy, Nancy Emerson Atlantic Reid, Gertrude Louise East Weymouth former Wembers. Dougherty, Francis Patrick Ahern, Lucy Edith Belcher, Helen Elizabeth Bentley, Mary Elizabeth Chase, Emily Hussey Crowell, Rose Adelaide Dow, Barbara Riddle Everett, Grace Morrison Farrington, Grace Fuller Gifford, Mabel T. Gillis, Anna Mary Griswold, Kate Matilda Hannon, Helen Marion Holden, Mary Edna ijones, Hattie El Verna King, Marian Russell McCarthy, Emma Frances Moran, Gertrude Lillian Phillips, Bertha Isabel Place, Nellie Sophia Pope, Ilda Towle Reade, Lenore Tobey, Blanche Mae Towle, Lena Ethel Worcester, Sarah Sargent Q 'S if it liz is xx! lu 01 XXSSSS. .ebb

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20 THE NORMAL OFFERING a 'fmaple-sugar party given by one of the Vermont girls. All who enjoyed her hospitality heartily responded to her favorite toast, Verrnontl Noted for her men, horses, maple-sugar and girls. The first are strong, the second, fieet g the third and fourth, remarkably sweet ! . Perhaps the love we bore to learning was in fault 5 for, as a class, we were not athletically inclined. So few of the members of the class took gym- nastics that a basket-ball team could not be formed. Nature-study and the search for geology specimens, however, lured many to long walks in field and wood where some acquired such proficiency that I would vouch for their ability to identify any natural object from a violet or vireo to a volcano. In February one member of the class resumed her work as teacher, but, as three new students joined us, our number was not diminished. S' As the year draws to a close and we take a wistful backward glance we begin to realize what the year has brought us and unanimously cry, Long live Bridgewater l Members. Packard, Leonard Oscar Rockville, Me. Joslin, Della Elizabeth Northfield Taylor, Charles Ralph Arlington june, Elizabeth Lorraine Bridgewater Wells, Reuben Field Hatfield Kerry, Alice Sumner Norton Albee, Helen Mabelle. St. johnsbury, Vt. Leonard, Harriet Agnes Bridgewater Bearse, Isabelle Maria South Chatham Lermond, Aubigne Morton Mansfield Clark, Mattie Gray Ludlow Center Maxson, Persis Henry Warner, N. H. Crowell, Myra Delia Chatham Merrifield, Flora Lincoln Cummington Dodge, Dora Boyd ' Newton Pottle, Abbie Goulding Dorchester Gammon, Addie Lillias . Lynn Sawyer, Annie Lawrie Warner, N. H. Gilfillan, May Candace East Barnet, Vt. Seyser, Abbie Augusta North Easton Goddard, Edith Campello Smith, Ethel Dedham Guild, julia Ethel Roxbury Smith, Helen Lincoln Leominster Guptil, Myrtie Florence Waterbury, Vt. Upham, Carrie Abbie Springfield, Vt. Hull, Mabel Knowlton Newton 'Wilson, Eva AQice Winthrop Irish, Emma Sophronia 'Hillside, Me. - former Member. Washburn, Mabel