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

Text from Pages 1 - 128 of the 1940 volume:

A. B. KHY MAWR 1940 iu. ' i, DEDICATION The Class of 1940 dedicates its year book to Howard Levi Gray, Ph.D., Marjorie Walter Goodhart professor of history and holder of the Marjorie Walter Goodhart Grant. Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College 1915-1940. At its monthly dinner the College Council dis- cusses campus problems. The Council includes the President, the Dean, non-resident and faculty representatives, the editor of the Netvs, the director-in-residence, the presidents of the four classes, the Alumnae Association, the Grad- uate Club, the Self-Government Association, the Bryn Mawr League, the Undergraduate Associa- tion and the Athletic Association, together with the directors of Admissions, Physical Education and Halls. The Formal Madhinerr In the production of bachelors of arts, the term Bryn Mawr College may imply many different parts of the organization. From the most formal and legal point of view, however, it is to the Corporation that our tuitions are paid, to them that endowment money is entrusted, and it is by them that faculty are hired, buildings kept in order, and the final diplomas awarded. In practice, however, the student may pass from her entrance as raw material through the entire process until she emerges as a finished A.B. without any awareness of the Corporation. For four years she may be nourished physically and intellectually by their thoughtful provision and never know about them. For all the undergraduate knows, the College Council presides fully and representatively over her collegiate destiny, but above all is the Corporation, unknown and hitherto unsung. Once upon a time there was a man named Joseph W. Taylor. He lived in Woodlands, in the county of Burlington, State of New Jersey, and he was as good as he was beautiful. In his will he devised and bequeathed a great deal of property and wealth for a female college in the rolling beautiful country of Bryn Mawr, State of Pennsylvania. He also designed Tavlor Hall. Then one thing led to another and the first thing it led to was a Corporation. This is a beneficent body of Quakers who own, run, govern, and partially support the college. Because they felt that thirteen Quakers ' points of view would not cover all the needs of a female college they appointed themselves and some other people to a Board of Directors. The Board includes faculty and alumnae and six civilians. This group is subdivided into five committees who see that the grass is cut, the bills are paid, the library books return unscathed, and that everyone is happv and orderly. There is also a Committee on the Religious Life of the College. This busy board provides an army of people to carry out the plans of Joseph W. Taylor. There is, of course, the faculty. Their function is self- evident. There are many other indispensable branches of the service, all designed to make us happy, healthy, and very learned, by the time they are through with us. The library is full of efficient workers who pick up the books, straighten the files, soothe the freshmen, and see that fair play predominates in the reserve room. The vast dim complexity of the stacks finds them unafraid. Another department handles the cuisine and the bodily comforts of the college. From their neat, quiet headquarters they see that the college is pro- vided with such fantastic things as 291 pounds of roast beef and 110 pounds of shelled peas, 78 quarts of ice cream a day, and 11,218 half-pints of milk twice a month. They see that the food is cooked, served, eaten, and cleaned up. They 7 181 470 The Board of Directors consists of the thirteen members of the Corporation, the President of the College, five directors of the Alumnae Association, and six others whose membership is appropriate and useful to the college. They supervise and control the academic work of the college, fix the salaries and duties of the professors, care for the college property, have charge of all matters pertaining to student fees. also are responsible for clean sheets every week on each little white bed. It is their personal fault if the plumbing misbehaves, if the fires smoke, if the door knobs fall off. Mice and cockroaches are laid at their door. In this herculean task they are assisted by a legion of maidsandporters. These cheerfully tend the furnaces and the plumbing, kill the varmints, sweep up bushels of cigarette stubs, make all those beds, carry bags, answer bells, order taxis, and smile while they do it. They even sing and give plays. The building and grounds committee has been particularly prominent during the generation of the class of 1940. Mr. Stokes, its chairman, appears at all ground-breakings. And he it was who provided so many narcissi and daffodils that we were allowed to pick them. 8 The one person who can cope with these groups collectively and individu- ally is the President. She interprets the Corporation to the aluninae and the faculty to the Corporation. She presides over hoards and committees. She also has the delicate joh of dealing with naughty students. When fond parents call on her unexpectedly she remembers daughter ' s first name, her major, that she did very well in the Freshman Show and is having a difficult time with her Baby German. When she is not doing all this, she is representing the college to the Outside World. In short, if she should find herself behind the tea tabic faced with an alumna who had a daughter in college who had just done Some- thing Dreadful, a member of the Board who was complaining about the trend towards communism, a Flexner lecturer and a warden crazed by waterbugs, she would have to make them all comfortable. All this, from the highest ideal to the lowest cigarette stub, is watched over by the Corporation. And whether it was what he meant or not, it was made possible by the late Joseph W. Taylor of Woodlands, in the count v of Burlington. State of New Jersey. The Faculty consists of the President, the Dean, and everyone else above the status of instructor. They have power over academic requirements, but their activity is generally subject to the decision of the Board of Directors. They have a committee of three on the Board of Directors for purposes of discussion, without vote. The Library The M. Carey Thomas Library. Reserve Room. Miss Terrien, who alone knows how to use the reference room without her own help. Main Reading Room. 10 The Library Miss Reed, head librarian, ready to silence the gigglers and gurglers at the water-cooler. The Psychology wing — as it looks to the naive subject. Periodical rooni. The English corridor blocked as usual with art students. 11 The Alumnae Association The Alumnae Association does a great deal more for the college than appears to the casual observer. They give large sums of money for the general use of the college; they bring in appropriate and useful students and support them while they are here, and by their achievements they bring to the college excellent publicity. The Association has a central executive board consist- ing of seven members, and a larger group, the Council, which is made up of all the people with offices in the Association. The Council succeeds in coordinating all the activities of the Association, and in furthering the understanding between the alumnae and the undergraduates. The standing committees, on Academic matters, Finance, Scholarships and Loan Fund, and Health and Physical Education, are an important part of the Association. These committees confer largely with the president and appropriate members of the faculty, deciding the policies in these matters. The Association is further divided into regional groups which choose the regional scholars and raise funds. Individual members can keep in touch with the campus through the Alumnae Bulletin, returning to the college for the annual fall alumnae week-end, and through members on the Board of Directors and on the College Council. Much of the work of the Association at college is done in consultation with the President, the Dean, and the Publicity offices. 12 Publications and M uhiicity Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, director-in-residence, serves for the formal structure of the college much the same function as does the president of the Under- graduate Association for the student society. She copes with speakers and all forms of imported entertainment. She serves as clearing house for practically all campus information. She presides over the editing of all official administra- tive campus puhlications. Miss Cary tends to the more journalistic part of the publicity department ' s functions. It is she who releases pictures and names to the public press. She directed the College movie. On Monday mornings Mrs. Chadwick-Collins and Miss Cary meet with Miss Park, Mrs. Manning, Miss Howe, the editor of the Alumnae Bulletin, and the editor of the College News to pool their information about past and future college events. 13 Tit Office of the JDean Dean Manning serves as the humanizing link between the student and her requirements. She must resolve conflicts, temper enthusiasms, encourage the hesitant, and personally deliver the sad news in cases of failure or want of merits. She meets with the student curriculum committee to discuss their proposals. As head of the Health Department she or Miss Ward writes to anxious parents when overwork or overplay sends us to the Infirmary. 14 Courses and Course Curds Miss Ward, director of admissions, interviews a sub-freshman. Miss Gaviller sends out course cards and holds hall draws. The semiannual puzzle of how to fill out a course card correctly. Mrs. Anderson takes in course cards and files averages. The dollar fine for late return of course cards. 15 Money Out Sandy Hurst, comptroller, takes care of the pounds. The undergraduate pay day mistresses take care of the pence. 16 Money In The Bureau of Recommendations finds outside jobs for students, particularly seniors. Undergraduates may also work part time on campus, mailing college letters, managing the hall hook stores, assisting in the Publicity Office, helping with Rock laundry. 17 Vreatwre Comforis Miss Charlotte Howe, director of halls and head warden, in her office. Miss Ida Hait, college dietician, in the kitchen at Rhoads. Bed, bedclothes, bureau, study table, bookcase, desk lamp and chair are provided by the college. They make our beds. They bring us cold water to drink. 18 Communications They bring us telephone messages. They let us mail our laundry in Rock basement. They bring us letters. They carry campus mail from hall to hall. 19 Public Utilities 20 In JLaca Parentis Denbigh has a fire drill at 2 a. in. Joe Graham, authority on ghosts and stars, begins his rounds. Joe, the Lantern Man, waits for the Local. George makes his headquarters under the Goodhart stage. Policeman saves students from sudden death outside Pembroke Arch. Warden Jane Matteson posts police warning against lonely roads. 21 3§edical Care . The Infirmary. Miss Hadley, technician, higher laboratory. Dr. Leary will he back in three-quarters of an hour. Happy with Lord Peter. Better bring me toothbrush and Spinoza. ' Miss Slavin checks on the universal cold. 22 Medical Requirements 23 Athletic Requirements Freshman Swimming Test. Iliopsoas Muscle — Body Mechanics Physical Examination. 24 Athletic Requirements Hockey in the Fall. Basketball Practice. Rhythmic Dance. Modern Dance. Tennis in the Spring 25 Aeadewnic Requirements The Hygiene class learns to make a scientific bed. French or German Orals, the night before. Diction: Where have you put the sugar? I think the cook took it and put it in a bucket. Freshman English papers are due at nine on Tuesdays. 26 Academic Requirements One laboratory science: the geologists on their spring field trip. Literature: Dr. Herben enlivens the Survey Course. Philosophy: afterclass, But Dr. Weiss, how can you say . . . 27 If Work We Must SONNET XL Two lives have I of comfort and despair — One lived as God and Mrs. Manning will: In treks to Dalton and the rabbit there, The surging crowds at Tavlor and the chill Sad chairs in the Deans antechambers, where We wait upon the fates; scholastic jokes, The tocsin bell, the lank uncrimped hair, The smoking room at dawn, all stubs and cokes. 28 Eat JVe fVitl Yet if I loathe existence, now and then, I think upon my other life: the teas, The crackers baked by Ritz, milk-lunch, the vain And foolish bridge-hands, saddle-shoes, and men Occasionally for dances, all of these Almost persuade me I am young again. 29 AFTER DINNER — DISORGANIZATION IN ROCKEFELLER Four go to the movies. One, in paper uniform, takes an afterdinner respite from toil. Others, less desperate, chat happily before drifting to the library. Two sit on the stairs, their dates not due till 7:45, so there is time yet to go up for a last polish. And the inevitable bridge. 30 THE INFORMAL PROCESS Each Bryn Mawr A.B. is equipped, by the formal machinery of the college, with a standard set of physical and intellectual skills. But it is the imprint of the other side of her life at Bryn Mawr, far more than this, that distinguishes her subsequent behaviour from that of the A.B. ' s of other colleges. The college, as it is directed by the Corporation, may in a sense refine her, but it is from the fermenting action of the material, from the life that the students create for themselves, that the distinctive flavor arises. When we arrive at Bryn Mawr, we are confronted with an appalling barrier of half seen and half only felt organization and efficiency. After butting our noses into it a few times, we leave it to work itself out, with the firm conviction that it will run on without ever a single slip. We turn hastily to the other side of college life, the side upon which we can make some imprint, and the side which in the end affects us more. Here we find overwhelming traditions and patterns of living, Lantern Night, Freshman Show, Parade Night, and on up, until we sing the hymn in the gray dawn on Rock tower, and finally graduate. We wander through the little daily routine of classes, library, tea, dinner, quiet study and bed, intermixed with much talki ng in the smoking room. Or on a sunny afternoon we grow energetic and walk hastily to the village, or later to the movies and the Greek ' s. This pattern we enlarge further to take in a trip to Philadelphia for the concert or the theatre and dancing, and then, biggest and best of all, by a week-end far away. This is our substratum of activity — we build upon it. We join the French Club, or the German Club, or the International Relations Club, or the ASU, or we try to publish in the Lantern or get on the Neivs. Then come those midweek days when there are two dozen announcements at lunch and we have to struggle with five allegiances to decide which meeting to go to. We work hard for these clubs with a rationalized idea that they are more important than classes, until we find we are flunking. Then we calm down a little and write a philosophy paper, until a play or a college dance or a picnic comes along and again the studying is thrown overboard. Or there is an intermediate stage when we work except for going to all the college lectures, which our conscience will almost always excuse. These things form a pattern of their own, slipped in edgewise here and there, not so important to the Dean, but very important to us. There is a more organized side of our own college life that doesn ' t affect us until we begin getting into trouble. This is the Self Government Association, which tries to stop us from climbing in the windows, smoking in our rooms, or violating other taboos. We elect members of our class to be on the board, and then we forget all about it until we find 25 cents fine on pay day for returning 31 Twice a year the Undergraduate Association organizes an all-college dance. The Gym is disguised with different colors of crepe paper every time, and those who have no inclination to import a man are welcomed by those who have, for the stag line is always active. There are other dances, hall by hall, and perhaps twice in a college generation, class dances. Other formal campus amusements are the Entertainment Series in Goodhart or the Deanery. from the movies 15 minutes late. The Undergraduate Association is quite official too, although we never quite understand what it does. The Head of it always seems to know all ahout speakers and dances, and generally manages everything that goes on around the campus. In college we must live some sort of ordinary life. We cannot only study or cope with our organizations. It is an ordinary life, in a way, but it has a defini te flavor all its own. At home we don ' t smoke in ten-minute intervals between classes all morning, nor do we drink eternal cokes under the delusion that they will keep us awake, knowing all the time that they won ' t. At home we don ' t borrow, buy or exchange each other ' s hats, dresses and even shoes. But 32 after a month or two this seems the most natural thing in the world to us here. In New York or San Francisco we wouldn ' t spend several nights per week in a dismal spot listening to Oh Johnny — but we love the Greek ' s. Nowhere else do we set up community projects where one girl provides the scissors, another the handaids, another the com]), and another the typewriter, to the satisfaction of all. When we finally leave Bryn Mawr as seniors we have acquired a lot of new habits, we have a lot of new ideas about how to live. They may not be lasting, but they are there. And all these new things are brought about by our day-to-day existence on the campus, by these minor things we do, the things we bring into the life here, as well as by the things we take out of it. All this is more important to us immediately than the great efficient organization that holds the campus together mechanically. Under the Undergraduate Association are all the campus clubs. These amuse their members in many ways: German Club waltzes, ASU barn dances, League parties with the Summer Camp children. The Science Club picnic is a highlight of the year for all who can get on the list, with hot dogs, faculty children, and random baseball in a sunny meadow. 33 Morning Around Colli fj€ Any girl with a long paper 34 ••v.J 35 A. ftemoon Relaxation from the paper 36 37 Evening to Dawn The paper somehow gets clone. 38 39 Tea Hamburgers at the Inn. Cinnamon toast at the Deanery — Senior privilege. And Mare Tea Toasted Dutch bread at the Cottage Tea Room. Abundance at the Community Kitchen — better skip supper. 41 In the Vit The Local at the B.M. Station. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Drugstore and Post Office. The Pike, Bus Stop and Shopping Center. Bryn Mawr in the Greek ' s with Mike. 42 In the Vil Farther clown the Pike. Still farther clown. Community Kitchen for Tea. The cosmetic urge. Home of the May Day Band. Saturday morning at the Farmers Market. 43 POP. I ' 44 45 In Philadelphia Planitarium at the Franklin Institute. The long trek from Broad Street to the Museum. Buying theatre tickets. Going rush to the Academy of Music. 46 Weehenil Friday, the 1:39. Hamburgers at the Barn. Sunday: English muffins for breakfast. Dance week-ends, breakfast at the Inn. The Choir assembles for Chapel. 47 Tiwnv off Our Hands Art Club Tea in the Common Room. Chapel in the Music Room. Information Please in the Deanery. 48 Dramatic Output 1939-40 Latin play — The Menaechmi. The Choir sings with Princeton. Porgy and Bess. Iolanthe. Bartholomew Fair. 49 Time and Lighting. Scenery. Make-up. Properties. Book Rehearsal. Dress Rehearsal. 50 The Conway s Publicity. Sale of Tickets. Final Performance. 51 Freshwnan-Sophownorc Traditions Parade Night Bonfire. Lantern Night Rehearsal. 1943 ' s Freshman Show: Daisy chain scene, Swing at Radcliffe, English corridor, Roose- velt and the Inter-collegiate Rally. 52 Christmas Customs The Maids and Porters sing earols and spirituals. Rock exhibits itself in a pageant. Everyone has dinner in evening dress and the faculty entertains. The Summer Camp has a party. 53 31ay Day 54 55 Last Hides Senior Bonfire. Last Day of Classes with step speeches at Dalton, Taylor, the Gym and the Library. 56 Commencement SEW! O It S We ' re a very bright class. We write what we think. We ' ve got just the creature for us. He will always keep us supplied with ink. He is the octopus. ' —Forty Bust, 1937. 58 . . In Biology «  « ■ :!■ ' ■ : . ■ Faiechild Bowler Susan Gardner Miller 59 In Chemistry . . Ingeborg Karla Hincic 60 . . In Chewnistry Rozanne Marie Peters Genieann Parker Elizabeth Dawson Taylor 61 In Classical Archeology Jane Lawder Gamble Anne Shuttleworth Homans 62 . In Classical Archeology Jane Norton Nichols, Jr. Margaret Iglehart Long Emily Lamb Tuckerman 63 In Economics Marcaret Elizabeth Eppler Emily Cheney IsABELLE MlDDLETON GAUD 64 . and Politics Mary Annette Beasley 65 In Politics . . Helen Bowden Louisa Lazarus Louise Booth Morley 66 ... In English Elizabeth Crozier 67 In English Eleanor Stoers Emery Janet Wedderburn Gregory Dearborn Colette Hanham 68 In English Marian Kirk Frances Elizabeth Homer 69 In English . Elizabeth Marie Pope Sally Hutchman Noeris 70 . in English Louise Sharp Kristi Aresvik Putnam Isota Ashe Tucker 71 In French Deborah Hathaway Calkins 72 . In French ■■■■■■■■i Mary Caroline Garnett Jane Anne Jones Nancy Church Logan 73 In French . . Charlotte Snowden Pancoast Jean Flender Small 74 . In French I Dorothea Dunlap Smith Jt il Barbara Anderson Steel Margaret Hepp Voegel 75 In Geology . . Tfya in Anne Moking Robins 76 In German Ruth Marie Lilienthal 77 in German Bernice Olivia Schultz Mary Wolcott Newberry Ruth Mary Penfield 78 . In History Barbara Auchincloss 79 In History Helen Jackson Cobb Barbara Groben 80 ... in History Bettie Tyson Hooker Rebecca Ledlie Laughlin 81 In History Julia Conner Ligon Mary Macomber Josephine McClellan 82 In History Lucy Dunlap Smith Anne de Bonneville Young 83 In History ot Art In Bistary of Art Catherine Hildegarde M orris Marian Parkhurst Gill Janet Russell 85 In Lut in Helen Hazard Bacon Anne Head Bush 86 In Latin ... Terry Ferrer Camilla Kidder Riggs Betty Wilson 87 In Mathematics . . Jane Klein . . . In Mathematics Julia Whitney Martin Marie Anna Wurster 8 J in Philosophy . . «; Jeanne Marie Beck 90 . . In Philosophy Mary Jordan McCampbell Mary Kate Wheeler 91 In Physics Anne Louise Axon 92 ... In Physics Helen Stuart Link Ellen Matteson 93 in Psychology ... Katherine Comey 94 . In Psychology Lois Johnson Dorothy Voigt 95 in Sociology X X .i_ Janet McLean Arnold 96 In Sociology Dorothy Auerbach Della Margaret Kurtz Joy Rosenheim 97 In Sociology Lillian Seidlek Anne Elizabeth Spillers 98 . In Spanish Josephine Randolph Lane I ht Man Flexner Lectureship Bnn Maur College THE LITERATURE OF SPANISH AMERICA DR. RTlRll rORRES-RIOSECO in I ... ' . ' ' . ' ' - . ' . Colonial Culfwr and LifCMIuratnlhe 16tn C« - • Colonial Griti « and LiUrofut. m lti« mhC-n rWuMy :j- Th« Rt.uMfona ' r Sp.r,) and ftomoot« L. -.a Th«Nat.onal Mc.nwnt - Go-cr., Lu.o Tk C;i-:ij.i . ■ Ruben Dane and Mode So iol Trvndi « lk Spanith-AnwUon N . . . ■ DR. W lilll i. inwin S«.i . Aimmim A. t ho, i LiMidharl Hall. Bnn Start- College 8:30 P M 99 CLASS HISTORY We were the orange-juice babies — the biggest class in physical stature for some time in the dim distant past. They told us we were pretty, too, but we do think we have improved over those pictures thev took that first day. I cf . p. 100. 1 The upper classmen were a little terrified of us — but that was nothing to what we felt about them. We were silent in the extreme, we asked permission to do everything and anything. We were silent and smiled sweetly, but that was all. yndhani was social. Rock was wild, and the rest of us wandered along. Freshmen Week was a long stream of doing too many things and not enough. There were the red liver walls in Pembroke to discourage us: the bare empty rooms, running the gauntlet of wardens at Miss Park ' s tea, trying to get into our first angel robe, wondering what the hoops could possibly be for, and admir- ing Miss Park ' s conversational abilities in that interview with the PRESIDENT that we had dreaded so much. When we had lived through freshmen week, we found that our troubles bad just begun. We were lost in Tavlor. One acquired member of our class asked an upperclassman where she could sharpen a pencil. The helpful senior replied in the Dean ' s office, of course. So little innocent trotted into the office, saw no sharpener, trotted on into Mrs. Mannings sanctum, quietly sharpened the pencil and trotted out. Or so she says. Then in our first English class we waited some time for a Miss Stapleton, who finallv sailed in, impressive in an academic gown. We thought this was really college, and were even more impressed when she announced that now, at last, we were about to start the great adventure. Unfortunately, after she had called the first five names on the roll, with no response, she picked up her belongings in irritation and sailed out. We were left to face the real Miss Stapleton. Then there was a terrifying experience in Denbigh. One night as we were taking a bath, the fire bell went off. Wet and dripping we ran downstairs to find the hall dark, and masses of frantic people running around, trying to get out the door, which was securelv locked. We leapt out of a nearbv window and stood shivering in the spring air, while the power house siren wailed for- lornly. At last the door opened, and all was found to be a tragic mistake on the part of some deluded maid who had thought that she was turning off the lights. Senior year the Pem East firebell was taken for a light switch six times, but by then we were hardened. We had lots of adventures such as climbing in windows after going to the Greek ' s and finding we were back at 10:35, only to find that our helpful room- mates had asked the warden to hold the door open for us. So that we had to climb back out and go around in — fines, too. We weren ' t bad, we were just scared of being late, you know. One night as we were coming back from the vil alone, a big dark man followed us, all the way. We were duly terrified — of course we didn ' t know about the recent unpleasantness then — but we were very young and we were seared. We dropped into the warden ' s arms with a breath- less story. But she threw cold water on it. It ' s the Lantern Man she said. We felt very grown up at the elections — we marched in the torchlight parade, behind the republican banner because most of our families were republicans and so we were. The faculty were mostly democrats. Every day 101 Dr. Fenwick came into first year Pol. and said cheers from the Democrats, groans from the Republicans, Iowa is being swayed! We all felt happy about Anne Louise because she went to a college dance and wore a new pink dress and looked pink and rosy all over, like a strawberry soda. She felt pink and happy and excited too — but the next morning she woke up with poison ivy swelling her eyes shut and we were sympathetic when we weren ' t laughing too hard. We had many sorrows. One of them was the incredibly bad singing. It all started out at Parade Night when we sang a terrible song about how we were good enough. We weren ' t. The sophomores knew our song. And then it rained Lantern Night and we sang Susanna just dreadfully. Along about May when we wanted to go for walks and pick violets in the beautiful spring, we had to sit on the floor in Wvndham and practice it dismally to sing it again. In Rock there were many adventures. First of all Mary Alice and Bonnie started with great genius a Doggie Laundry. They caught all the stray pooches on the campus and put big signs on them saying, your dog needs a bath — see M. Sturdevant and so forth. Unfortunately they went so far as to tag the Dean ' s fox terriers and there was a legal investigation. About guess what? Where were they intending to wash the creatures? Not in the Rock bath tubs they hoped? It was discouraged. Rock gave us all kinds of a bad reputation. They had another wonderful idea — this time about underwear! After weeks of careful plotting, they strung across the arch the collected undergarments of the whole hall. A lucky few were awakened at 7 by raucous laughter from some workmen — very gratifying. But bv the time that the rest of the campus were wandering sleepily to classes, it all had mysteriously disappeared. The powers that be took measures — they were afraid of the Life cameramen it seems. So all Rock was to be campussed unless there was a confession of guilt. We were never a dishonorable class — we confessed. We were campussed for four long weeks; very, very long ones. Self Gov. had no rule about hanging up underwear, so we almost stumped them. But they are crafty, and they said that we had illegally gone out of the hall in the night, and anyway there was an elastic clause about discrediting the college. We thought that this was stretching a point, but we were only freshmen. Then there was a burglar in Wyndham and we shadowed him all the way to the vil and around in extraordinary places. Joe finally caught him, but we did our bit. We wanted to be detectives when we left college, for a while. One night in Rock again, Rhoda Limhurg woke up to see a hand reaching around the corner of her door, and saw it pick up a great big hunting knife from her bureau. It was only an innocent friend looking for a pencil, but Rhoda slept with her light on all the rest of the time that she was in college. We had lots more adventures, but we finally got to be sophomores — old and experienced — and the adventures grew fewer. We had more to do. We looked at life much more solemnly and felt that it was all in the day ' s run when Dr. Anderson gave the same lecture every day for three weeks after his first baby was born. But time was passing and we were growing old. We led a rather dull existence and all decided to leave college next year. Junior years were planned for Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Geneva, Oslo and all kinds of places in the U. S. They didn ' t work, most of them. One after another we grew discouraged by Miss Ward and the faculty ' s cold remarks, and we most of us ended up back here. 102 Miss Ward didn ' t think very highly of us. She wrote a letter to Pussy Curtis who had bravely defied all and left for Paris — and said that she under- stood that Miss Curtis was not coming back next year. But that she wanted to point out that if she did, she would have no cuts left until the middle of her senior year. In junior year we had Orson Welles and the end of the world to cheer us up and make some excitement. We were harassed and telegraphed to our friends in Princeton. And then there was another Weiss baby, and Judith Evelyn ran around and talked to us as we walked to the Inn. A very smart girl. A whole afternoon she stopped one after the other of us — saying isn ' t Sharp a funnv name, ha ha ha — on and on. Kaffy Comey gave us our only fame when she took her snow bath on the Denbigh balcony one night. It was a moonlight night, at about 11. When shed just found out that it wasn ' t fluffy nice snow like that on the ground but only ice cakes she looked over the edge and saw a group of men standing by the Denbigh door. So she had to huddle on the ice cakes, waiting and freezing in her birthday suit. Great fortitude we have. We are impressed with ourselves. Miss Henderson kept Pembroke busy, calling us Chick here and Chick there. She said that we looked like pigs coming to breakfast in our housecoats and wearing pants to supper. We went on wearing them, but we got inferiority complexes. But once she stopped one member of our class who was having tea in the Deanery with her mother and told her that she had a beautiful R. Don ' t ever lose it. We felt all right then. We were getting frightened about hygiene and German and French. We taught each other hygiene on the train to Bryn Mawr between New York and Princeton Junction, but we didn ' t understand while the Princeton boys, being very smart, did. We had a fire drill reform and were to have one at 3 a. m. Some of us thought that this was most unfair, so we sent a freshman into the room of the fire captain, and made her bring us the alarm clock. We moved the clock up till it said 5 minutes of 3 and retired to a hysterical smoking room to await developments. Sure enough, in 5 minutes the fire bell went off and we didn ' t have to wait till 3 for it. But the fire captain had a mental collapse when she saw from another clock that it was only 12. And the poor first lieutenant almost got fired. The most extraordinary thing that ever happened to us in our college career was when we woke up one morning and found that we must be Seniors. There wasn ' t anybody who ' d been around any longer. Of course the freshmen still asked us if we were freshmen, and a few of the faculty weren ' t quite sure of it, but we could rise above such things now. We didn ' t feel old then, in the fall. But since then we have learned, bowed down by comprehensives, too much extra-curricular activity, job hunting and all the rest. We can still do a little — Miss Grant told us that we had some varsity material there after we had beaten the freshmen in hockey. And Janny Russell led the Christmas carol singing with a beer can. We can rise to the occasion when necessary and when properly prodded. Our class is so small that we are epiite lost on the campus, and don ' t always get the proper respect from the gigantic and jitterbug freshmen. We have had musical and religious revivals — the recorder groups and the inde- pendent Ithan choir. We won the Vogue Prix de Paris, two of them. We played 103 kick the can with an ash tray all over Rhoads, driving ont everyone else who was afraid that we had reached our second childhood. We do feel younger than the Freshmen, hut very, very tired. We ' re tired of the rain, and the sunspots, the hurricane and the floods. We want summer, and just a little sleep; some moth-eaten hunny fur and a hot hlack gown. We felt awfully silly with everyone expecting us to be the center of attention and very dignified and serene with the procession. We couldn ' t stare so well at Miss Rohbin ' s red velvet from the University of London and the wonderful Sorbonne hat, like a chef ' s only black, that Mile. Bree wears. At rehearsal Miss Gardiner said please could we try to concentrate, we wanted a smart-looking Commencement. We supposed we really did have to take it seri- ously, a little. And Jerdy and Debbie were read out as magnas and said no, no, that ' s wrong. But it was true. We sang our rowdiest songs at bonfire, saving the lyrical stuff for after Garden Party. And it didn ' t rain, though it was exhaustingly hot on Wyndham lawn. And afterwards we ate with our families and the faculty. It was pretty silly crossing the threshold that all our remote aunts had talked about on the card with the graduation present. It didn ' t feel like a threshold — if we didn ' t think hard about it. 101 The Year Booh Board Editor-in-Chief Ellen Matteson Business Manager Julia Whitney Martin Format Editor Mary Jordan McCampbell Assistant Editor-in-Chief and Literary Editor Kristt Putnam Literary Editor Elizabeth Pope Staff Photographer Katherine Comey Advertising Manager Margaret Eppler Subscription Manager Jane Jones Junior Advertising Assistants Georgia Trainer Elizabeth Rowland The Staff wishes to acknowledge the assistance of many friends, and to thank Mr. Philip Livingston for his advice and aid in all departments. 105 The following list page by page gives credit for the pictures used in this book. Where a single page is endebted to several photographers the credit is recorded showing the number of pictures due to each in the order left to right, top to bottom. 2, 3— PL 5, 6, 8, 9 H F 10— CP, 3 KC 11— KC 12— PL 13— H F 14— KC 15—3 H F, KC 16— H F, KC 17— H F, 4 KC 18—2 H F, 3 KC 19—2 H F, JG, KC 20—5 KC, PL 21, 22— KC 23— KC, FB, 2 KC 24— KC 25— CW, 2 KC, H F, KC 26— CP, 3 KC 27 — CP, HW, CP 28— H F, KC, PL 29— KC 30— PL 32— KC 33— J B 34-39— Girl with Paper CP 40, 41— KC 42— KC, JG, KC, JG, 2 KC 43—2 JG, KC, JG, KC, JG 44, 45 — Drawn by E. M. Pope. Paoli Local JG, 9 KC 46 — Planetarium, courtesy of Franklin Institute, 3 KC 47— JG, E. Matteson, 3 KC 48- -LS, 2 KC 49 — T. Ferrer, unknown, 3 KC 50, 51— KC 52— H F, JG, 3 KC, D. Voigt, KC 53— PL, LS, FB, LS 54, 55— Chiefly KC, LS 56 H F, CW, HB, CW, HB 58 — Class Blazer Emblem 59 — KC, with technical work PL 60— KC 62— KC, with drawing M. Moon 65, 67, 72— KC 76— A. Robins 77, 79, 84— KC 86— LS 88,90,92,94,96,99— KC 100— B.M. Publicity Office, Septem- ber, 1936 CP— C. Pancoast, ' 40 CW-C. Waples, ' 42 FB— F. Bowler, ' 40 HB— H. Biddle, ' 41 H F — Hollander and Feldman, official pho- tographers of 1940 Yearbook JG— J. Gamble, ' 40 KC— K. Comey, ' 40 LS — L. Schwenck, ' 42 PL — Philip Livingston All portraits by Hollander and Feld- man, Philadelphia. 106 Farwner Members © 1040 peggy bates barbara battin mary ann brereton martha jane chambers gertrude cheney priscilla curtis peggy davidson carolyn de chadenedes hazel farmer barbara fleming vera friedenberg sylvia gerould jane-louise harvey barbara hauxhurst jeanne hislop edith hooker ellen hunt harriet hutchison frances daniel keller helen lee rhoda limburg ann Mccormick ELIZABETH McGILL JANE WARDLAW MILES VRYLENA OLNEY LOIS OVERHISER JULIA POORMAN LOUISE PRUGH FRANCES REITLER MARGARET SCHWARTZ JANE HARPER SIBLEY ANNE LEAKIN SIOUSSAT JANE TRUE SUSAN MORRIS VAUX VIRGINIA WALTON SHIRLEY WEADOCK MARY ELIZABETH WICKHAM 107 SENIOR niKKCTORY Arnold, Janet, 2324 Butte Avenue, Duluth, Minn. Auchincloss, Barbara, 171 East 70th Street, New York City Auerbach, Dorothy, 1040 Prospect Avenue, Hartford, Conn. Axon, Anne Louise, 1606 W. Main Street, Jefferson City, Mo. Bacon, Helen Hazard, Peace Dale, R. I. Beasley, Mary Annette, Berwick Road, Ruxton, Md. Beck, Jeanne Marie, 125 Radnor Road, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Bowden, Helen, 512 Woodbrook Lane, Philadelphia, Pa. Bowler, Fairchild, Noroton, Conn. Bush, Anne Head, 510 Railroad Avenue, Haverford, Pa. Calkins, Deborah, 164 Vicente Road, Berkeley, Calif. Cheney, Emily, 110 Forest Street, Manchester, Conn. Cobb, Helen, 334 Adams Street, Milton, Mass. Comey, Katherine, 17 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Mass. Crozier, Elizabeth, Sewaren, N. J. Emery, Eleanor, 740 Washington Street, Denver, Colo. Eppler, Margaret, 1612 W. Sparks Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Ferrer, Terry, 10 East 66th Street, New York City. Gamble, Jane, 33 Edge Hill Road, Brookline, Mass. Garnett, Mary Caroline, Calle de Gante 1, Mexico City, Mexico. Gaud, Isabelle, 94 King Street, Charleston, S. C. Gill, Marian, 15 Holly Street, Providence, R. I. Gregory, Janet, Box N, Winnetka, 111. Groben, Barbara, 54 Highland Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. Hanham, Dearborn, 8 Pine Tree Road, Asheville, N. C. Hinck, Ingeborg, 150 Montclair Avenue, Montclair, N. J. Homans, Anne, 33 Leicester Street, Brookline, Mass. Homer, Frances, 819 W. University Parkway, Baltimore, Md. Hooker, Bettie Tyson, Westhampton, Richmond, Va. Johnson, Lois, 6615 Greene Street, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Jones, Jane Anne, 136 S. Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa. Kirk, Marian, c o Mrs. F. L. Chapin, 2101 Connecticut Ave., Washington. D. C. Klein, Jane, 178 Rector Street, Perth Amboy, N. J. Kurtz, Delia Margaret, 906 South George Street, York, Pa. Lane, Josephine Randolph, 1228 East Newton Street, Seattle, Wash. Laughlin, R. Ledlie, Concord, Mass. Lazarus, Louisa, 822 Marietta Avenue, Lancaster, Pa. Ligon, Julia Conner, Brinklow, Md. Lilienthal, Ruth Marie, 2519 South Lambert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Link, Helen Stuart, Academy Headmaster ' s House, Sewickley, Pa. 108 Logan, Nancy Church, c o Central Hanover Bank, 70 Broadway, New York City. Long, Margaret, 700 Kerlin Street, Chester, Pa. Macomher, Mary, 66 Crabtree Road, Squantum, Mass. Martin, Julia Whitney, 178 East 64th Street, New York City. Matteson, Ellen, 5 Buckingham Place, Cambridge, Mass. McCampbell, Mary Jordon, 162 East 80th Street, New York City. McClellan, Josephine, Spring Grove, Pa. Miller, Susan, 50 East 96th Street, New York City. Moon, Mary Charlotte, 755 Park Avenue, New York City. Morley, Louise Booth, Roslyn Heights, L. I., N. Y. Newberry, Mary Wolcott, Milwaukee, Wis. Nichols, Jane Norton, Jr., 108 East 37th Street, New York City. Nicholson, Elizabeth Nash, 32 Montgomery Court Apartments, Narberth, Pa. Norris, Catherine, 1611 Bush Street, Baltimore, Md. Norris, Sally, 317 Euclid Avenue, New Castle, Pa. Pancoast, Charlotte, 5926 Greene Street, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Parker, Genieann, Van Houten Fields, West Nyack, N. Y. Penfield, Ruth Mary, 4302 Montrose Avenue, Montreal, P. Q., Canada. Peters, Rozanne, 263 S. Monroe Street, Tifflin, Ohio. Pope, Elizabeth Marie, 2853 29th Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Putnam, Kristi Aresvik, Dorset, Vt. Riggs, Camilla, 61 E. 90th Street, New York City. Robins, Anne, 6 Buck Street, Canton, N. Y. Rosenheim, Joy, 44 Park Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. Russell, Janet, 1085 Park Avenue, New York City. Schultz, Bernice Olivia, 101 Renfrew Avenue, Trenton, N. J. Seidler, Lillian, 1951 Harlem Boulevard, Rockford, 111. Sharp, Louise, The Plains, Va. Small, Jean, 42 Abbotsford Road, Winnetka, 111. Smith, Dorothea Dunlap, 347 Forest Avenue, Winnetka, 111. Smith, Lucy Dunlap, 90 High Street, New Haven, Conn. Spillers, Anne, 1445 East 19th Street, Tulsa, Okla. Steel, Barbara, Huntingdon, Pa. Sturdevant, Mary Alice, 2310 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Taylor, Elizabeth, 217 Walnut Avenue, Wayne, Pa. Tucker, Isota Ashe, 1180 Murrayhill Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuckerman, Emily Lamb, 1209 Park Avenue, New York City. Voegel, Margaret Hepp, 1000 Wyndon Avenue, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Voigt, Dorothy, 6633 Sheridan Road, Chicago, 111. Wheeler, Mary Kate, 1928 N.W. 31st Avenue, Portland, Ore. Wilson, Betty, 1128 Clay Avenue, Pelham Manor, N. Y. Wurster, Marie Anna, 6145 Webster Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Young, Anne de Bonneville, 6617 Dodge Street, Omaha, Neb. 109 n a For Better PICNICS Educate your friends to bigger and better picnics with a Charco-Grill. For full particulars see Georgia Trainer, Campus Representative or write THE AMERICAN BRAKE SHOE AND FOUNDRY COMPANY 230 Park Avenue, New York LOMbard 7800 Park 4781 J. M. Thompson Company Sylvia Brand Canned Foods Frozen Fruits and Vegetables 943 N. 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