Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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14 THE BOOK OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN-THIRTEEN jfrestyman £ j)otn THE Refined Vaudeville of our Freshman year was The 1913 Lottery of the Helpless and Hopeless ten hours before 1913 made its first appearance on the stage as a clever, original, and tradition-busting class. Great confusion and little done! The most important things in the caste were the chickens. You remember those wonderful, downy, sofa-cushion-stuffed chickens? Incidentally, recall them in the making — a vast morass of yellow dye and soggy cotton-batting on which Eleanor Elmer ' s black hat floated. The chickens led on our class animal — the Great Cock, which, animated by Ger- trude Ziesing, danced so daintily that night. Then there were Clara Owen and Beatrice Nathans, not together of course. Clara Owen had no equal at the clog nor did Beatrice have when she posed as the languorous snake charmer. Henny and Zelda did their famous nigger stunt together, Alice Aimes, as a chorus lady, jollied our idea of a New York stage manager (Isabel Haines), both making their reputation. Stout and Ziesing talked their way through a clog and — but probably you too have saved a program. Starting our one class tradition that night, 1913 got there some how; it produced a theatrical office with manager, office boy and applicants, disproved the Helpless and Hopeless theory of the rehearsal and covered itself with glory — at least to its own satisfaction. Katharine Houghton Stout. The author of this article states that the only things that she really remembers about Freshman Show are much yellow dye and those chicken trousers. — Editors.

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ifresljman gear Class ©meets Chairman — Eleanor Nixon Elmer Temporary Treasurer — Nathalie Swift Temporary Secretary — Katharine Schmidt President — Eleanor Nixon Elmer (resigned), Katharine Alice Page Vice-President and Treasurer — Katharine Alice Page (resigned), Jessie Crow Buchanan Secretary — Katharine Reilly Schmidt SHflces elo top tfoe Class Self -Government Representative — Sylvia Hathaway Representative on May-Day Committee — Clara Crocker Students ' Council — Marjorie Frances Murray Margaret Graham Blaine

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THE BOOK OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN-THIRTEEN 15 Clje £n otoment iFunfc Prologue THERE we were on Ward ' s Island, Rosa, Worthy and the unhappy author of the following! Dotty, pursued by Nemesis in the shape of the Brown Tail Moth, could not be with us. We had got to the wretched point of considering what was left to be done. Mary Tongue, who had been bound over in early spring to be particularly prolific and clever, had not sent in a line: and there were others. Worthy turned wearily to me, list in hand. Well, then you will have to take the ' Endowment Fund, ' she said. But Schmidt was to do that, I objected. Yes, but she won ' t. How do you know she won ' t? She has just said so. But perhaps she didn ' t mean it, I said with some hope. I know Schmidtie. I am afraid she did though. Why not leave it out? I suggested brightly. Freshman Year would be too thin then; if you can ' t do it, sighed Worthy, you can see that someone else does. It is so likely in the next two days that I ' ll find someone! I snorted indignantly. Or, perhaps you ' d like me to ask the cook! Narrative Now I know very little about the Endowment Fund except that 1913 pledged itself to raise $1000, and proceeded to do it by heroic efforts, witness Maud Holmes, who used to get up on chill winter days to call people and shut their windows. Some members of the class earned their share by cleaning silver, washing tea cups and even