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

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called on Mrs. Manning. We gave her Christmas vacation in which to think it over but when we returned, public opinion was firm in rejecting her suspiciously in- adequate apologies. Miss Carey was roped in as a substitute because of the sympathy she had shown us in the situation. When Edna St. Vincent Millay read to us in her smart Virennet model, her expert English accent so won our hearts that we asked her to take over our enthralling Sophomore English course in Miss Donnelly ' s place. Even Miss Donnelly asked her to take Miss Donnelly ' s place. But Miss Millay wearily said that her heart was otherwhere. We were puzzled by this but decided she meant no as she never reappeared. After seeing the Duncan Dancers, 1931, always body-conscious, begged Miss Park to make Terpsichore our gracious inspiration. When she refused, 1931 took their revenge by employing the Duncan technique at the Tea Dances. This made us unpopular with the fellers but who is 1931 to surrender its ideals? The year ended in a round of social activities and hoops. We were sorry when no one in 1929, our sister class, received degrees, but we felt this was really deserved after their disgraceful stubbornness about the chapel situation. They kept right on going to chapel in Taylor long after Miss Park started holding it in Goodhart and often frightened timid professors like Miss Swindler by singing hymns and shouting Amen in the second floor classrooms at nine o ' clock. Even though by this time we saw what it would lead to, some of us thought that we might return the next year. Miss Carey thought that some of us mightn ' t and our faith in her was justified when we found that every time she thought this she was right. P. S. : Here dies The Liars ' Club, founded 1927, by Lewis. Page Eleven

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TOWARDS the end of freshman year, after weeks of intricate mathematical calculations, we realized that 1931 was a doomed group. The class numerals added up to 13. The omen proved only too true. Our high spirits were dampened when on Parade Night, Becky Warfield burned to death in the famous bonfire when someone flung her into it under the impression that she was a hockey stick. The error was not discovered until later. An unfortunate incident also marred Lantern Night. Miss King, back from her sabbatical in Spain, found the contrast in climate very enervating. This Dona was apt to drop off almost anywhere and on Lantern Night she had cuddled cosily up in a corner of the library roof. Miss King is a sound sleeper and it was not until 1931 gave tongue that she rose, a majestic and imposing figure in toreadoric lounging pajamas, and gave her world-famous lecture on the singing line. The darkness and the association of ideas probably account for this; 1931 would have preferred the lecture on listening quality if this had to happen, but conceded none the less that the affair only added to the evening ' s aesthetic value. Election night went off better. Dr. Fenwick was to have led a large and devoted group of Norman Thomas supporters in a parade. But after hours of waiting the parade had to be given up. Dr. Fenwick had not appeared. He was curfew and the group of disgruntled girls were about to retire when Taylor Hall was noticed to be shaking violently on its foundations. Some of us entered and discovered our brave Socialist tearing round and round the Juno on his motorcycle. He had lost control of the machine and was unable to stop hurtling about the statue. Some heroic maidens broke into the bookshop, got provisions and tossed them to the unfortunate man as he went by until he ran out of gas. When Stokowski and his orchestra and Mr. Alwyne and the choir entertained us in our pseudo-Gothic barn we felt that our luck had turned and we were deeply grateful to them for reversing the clouds to show the silver lining. But we were wrong. The last straw came when the liquor ran out at the Christmas party. We were all vexed and a committee of responsible girls headed by Caroline Thompson Page Ten

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CLASS OFFICERS 1928-1929 President . . . . ' . . . Elizabeth Baer Vice-President Helen Bell Secretary Lois Thurston SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION Treasurer . . ' Lois Thurston Executive Board Elizabeth Baer Marie Dixon Caroline Thompson UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION Treasurer Rhys Caparn Advisory Board Helen Bell ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Secretary Mary Frothingham Sophomore Member Elinor Totten COLLEGE NEWS Assistant Editors Jamison Bunn Virginia Hobart Virginia Shryock Business Board Mary Frothingham Dorothy Asher LANTERN Assistant Editors Celia Darlington Evelyn Waples Assistant Treasurer .... Margaret McKelvy VARSITY DRAMATICS Board Members Catherine Rieser Hilda Thomas ART CLUB Treasurer Barbara Kirk Studio Manager Ethel Sussman SONG MISTRESS Sylvia Scott Page Twelve