Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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MARGARET MORRISON CARNEGIE SCHOOL HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, Sc.D., LL.D. Director of Carnegie. Institute of Technology Mary Bidwell Breed, A.B., M.A., Ph.D. Dean of the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School Frank P. Day, A.B., M.A. Head of the Department of General Studies Katherine Murdoch, B.S. Head of the Department for the Training of Teachers Harrietta Hinman, B.S. Head of the Department of Costume Economics Marion Holmes, Pii.B. Head of the Department of Secretarial Studies Adah Hopkins, L.B. Head of the Department of Social Sendee Carrie H. Lyon, B.S. Head of the Department of Household Economics Bessie E. Merrill, A.B. Head of the Department of Home Arts and Crafts Elizabeth R. Stoner Head of the Department of Physical Education Page Twenty-five

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MARGARET MORRISON CARNEGIE SCHOOL DAY SENIOR CLASS HISTORY °hc 'C )c stle OXG ago upon a still, warm afternoon in September, six sisters came to the entrance of a large, beautiful building, and there paused to read the motto engraved around it: “To Make and Inspire the Home; To Lessen Suffering and Increase Happiness; To Aid Mankind in Its Upward Struggles; To Ennoble and Adorn Life’s Work, However Humble— These are Women’s High Prerogatives.” And having read this, they passed silently in the door to the right. Within the building the six sisters took up their work, and here also they found most of their play. The work has not been easy, and it has taken much perseverance and determination to keep some of the weaker sisters alive. The strongest and oldest of these sisters is called Household Economics. She rises from her bed early in the morning; hustles to the beautiful building; and there, dressed in a stiff white shirt waist with a high standing collar, she begins her work and spends her time 'twixt cooking and special methods. Another of the older sisters is Costume Economics. All day she designs costumes and patterns, and then she sews and cuts and fits. For hours she must weave lace, and her other sisters hear her sigh when she is told that a certain piece must be finished by “the next time.” The next sister rises up before us. She is our matter-of-fact, business-like sister. She wears an agitated expression on her face most of the time, and we wonder what in her department has caused her to lose her gay and happy disposition. She must typewrite page after page without errors or sight of the keyboard. She must add columns of figures and keep books. Double entry-bookkeeping!—no wonder our Secretarial sister wears an agitated look. From her we pass to another sister quite opposite in disposition. She is one of our smaller sisters, and her name is Home Arts and Crafts. She also makes lace, and weaves rugs and sashes. She is artistic, and we go to her to make posters for us, and to illustrate our magazines. She models clay and makes wonderful trinkets. Next we turn to a still smaller, but a very lively sister, General Science. She is looked upon as being queer, almost insane. Her sisters call her “ Froggie” and “Spirogyra” and Cranioto.” They cannot imagine why she chooses to spend her time peeping through a microscope. From her we must pass to our baby sister. Social Service. Because of her cheerful disposition, she can go out and spend hours visiting the poor and the mis-fortunate, studying “Misery and its Causes.” She is one of the things which has helped us to be the big, broad family that we are. Now the time is drawing near when the six sisters will be separated, and they will pass out from the doors on the right, realizing that their education is not finished. but commencing; and as they walk away they will turn to look backward, and to Margaret Morrison, their Alma Mater, each one will be saying: “Thy' motto ever will remembered be By? each of the sisters in M. M. C. A little learning is a dangerous thing; ‘Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.’ ” Page Twenty-six