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

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MARTHA DARLING History JANET ANN HOUZE Biology ELIZABETH DUFFY KENNARD History LYNN LEWIS Politics SALLY WISNER LOOMIS Classical Archeology MARGUERITE OTTILIE VORYS History of Art Page twenty-five

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BRENDA WINTHROP BOWMAN English JEAN A. BROADFOOT Biology DENBIGH Stubborn? We-ell, it ' s just that individualism is their characteristic trait. However, they are a cohesive group of eight, taken as a class, and as members of the hall, are absorbed into the Denbigh spirit of equality, liberty and sorority. Very particular about their food, most of them diet hap- hazardly at their minute dinner-table which is graced by a collection of private condiments — pepper-corns, the prized pepper-grinder, mint and Worcestershire sauces, and curry powder to liven up menus subject to change. Traditionally the singing hall, they gather around a nucleus of chorus members on the steps outside the Quiet after dinner for Ann Boleyn with her head tucked under- neath her arm and Dem Bones. The other tradition pe- culiar to Denbigh is the faculty tea to which professors are invited to come in shorts or jeans for a rip-roaring game of baseball on the green afterwards. On spring afternoons and evenings there is always a game being played; in winter, card crazes replace the baseball fever and Pounce sweeps the smoker. A leading motif in the hall is the espousing of the cause of the Coatesville Mental Hospital. The Pink Elephant dance is rehearsed in the Show Case, and after the per- formance is over, the rouged and powdered heroines bring the excitement of the mellerdrama back to the hall for post-mortems. As individuals, the Denbigh seniors vary. Brenda is wee — an even five feet — and cannot walk very fast. She insists that skipping is easier, and that is how Denbighites catch the Local — Brenda skipping, the rest plodding behind, Marathon-fashion. As for the rest of the procession, Broad will try and tell yo u that she ' s descended from Chief Broad- foot of the Sioux Injun tribe. She ' s really a guinea-pig fancier and raises them in the Bio lab. Corcoranisms are treasured by the seniors, for Ann can always be counted on to say the obvious when it is least expected. In Molly, they have half a pair of twins, an ancient history expert, who previews the Monday night concerts for the rest of the hall on Friday afternoons. Jane Ann is a notorious card- shark in the smoker and an embryo-dissecter in the lab, while Sally, with her Duncan dancing and knack for song- writing, represents the aesthete. Margo is pure energy — writer of world-shaking philosophy papers, producer for the Coatesville theater, and always the last to walk out on night-discussions. ANN CORCORAN History of Art Page twenty-four

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MARTHA DORRIS BARBER History SARAH BEAMAN MERION Merion ' s atmosphere can be cut with a knife. It is the oldest hall and is known campus-wide for having and at- tracting more characters, for having more dates per capita and more escapades than any other. Every once in a while, an epidemic of idiotic fiascoes breaks out. These range from Lost Mondays at Princeton to periodic New York binges and bicycling down the Atlantic City boardwalk at 6 a. m. Five of the fourteen seniors are already engaged, which leaves only nine to be frustrated school-teachers and librarians. Hall life centers around the smoker which has clasped to its bosom (littered with tomato juice cans and cigarette butts and discarded mail) such personalities as Chuckles and Herman, Cupcake and Rabbit , the ditchdiggers who used to hold seminars there on existentialism, and Uncle Mike , ever game for a beer at Fords. Sheila is always there, squashed into the sofa reading either The New Republic or a Big-Little book, waiting for the stroke of midnight when she can get up and collect her miscel- laneous political thoughts for a paper due at 9. Sitting cross-legged in an enormous Indian blanket robe will be Skip, spouting ideas, facts and opinions or passing around Aunt Hattie ' s last letter and envelope decorated with pic- tures from Burpee ' s seed catalogue. Conversation ranges from men to men, sprinkled with a bit of college gossip or a smattering of opinion on world affairs. Here Bob Lindsay Day was evolved, reputations are made and unmade, and the cud of vacation and week-ends is chewed. The Show-Case, decorated in the Victorian fashion with curved sofas and lion-footed tables, is the scene of polite chatter over the after-dinner demi-tasse, and the hullabaloo of Lanin ' s hall meetings. Among those playing bridge on the floor will be Kippy and Shirley Fish, who spent last year in Geneva. Others of the international set are Molli, in a cable-stitch sweater, looking like a fashion plate from Vogue, who spent last year at the Sorbonne, and Sally Beaman who came back from Zurich with a fiance hailing from Chestnut Hill. From the deep South is Syb with a Scarlett O ' Hara waistline and a father who is footbaU coach at Duke, and also Norma Jane with the distinction of having become engaged two and a half weeks after she met Alan. Yoey ' s claim to fame is a black leotard — enuf said! NORMA JANE BERNSTEIN English Page twenty-six