College of Mount St Vincent - Parapet Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Rah, rah, rah for MSV Blue Mountain Lodge . . . marshmallows and mickies, and tall tales spun around the open fire . . . And in the Spring a Mountie's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of -tennis and softball . . . hardier perennials out on court and diamond, having a bracing game before breakfast . . . the unmatched rivalry of Field Day and our last try for the coveted A. A. trophy . . . the track meet, intermural games, archery . . . a premature Father's Day when Play Ball! called Dad to bat in the Fath- er's annual baseball classic . . . and the last marshmallow roast, with campfire songs un- der a starlit sky, when Seniors bid a final goodbye to the camaraderie of college days. I '43 li ,. A K Nl, I The Winnah! ,Yagi U all K X , 1, A Ivv. A fl' X. ., A If , 1 Al gli: f W ku ' X a' ..n Blue M ountain, Here We Come l, . 1

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CLASS PHUPHEIIY It was more than coincidence that the opening night for Dorothy DaParma's newest play should be just ten years from the very day that the Class of 1946 was graduated from the Mount, for an enclosed card told me that the opening was to be the occasion for a class reunion. Proceeds were to be used to establish bus service on campus to the college cafeteria. I had been looking forward to seeing Tweet Dreams or All This and Davidson, Too, based on the life of the famous motion picture comedienne, and now I would have the added thrill of meeting my ex-classmates at the performance. I scarcely had time to lookthrough the latest edition of Gerry Farrell's fashion magazine, Senorita, and select a chic Marie Murphy gown to run up on my atomic energy sewing machine, when it was time to leave my angora rabbit farm in the Aleutians and catch the next helicopter for New' York. When stewardess Norma Curran had punched my commutation ticket, I examined the program for the opening night. Mount alumnae were well represented. Margaret Webster's protegee, Fran Pegnam, was directing' the production, Marion Resta and Colleen Welch had the singing leads, Jo Bernhardt Dove was playing the ingenue, while prima ballerina Aileen Lallyowitch was to dance in the ballet sequence. Just then our helicopter was taking on passengers at Sun Valley and I noticed a pair of familiar skis advancing down the aisle closely followed by the famous ski-instructress, Eleanor Curran. Flo Schweitzer, who had been practising at Sun Valley prior to her opening in the Garden Ice Follies, joined our little party, also. Being hardenedcommuters, we soon turned our attention to that morning's edition of The Carey Clarion Csuccessor to the Herald Tribune which Mary Carey had bought after years of selling the Trib to indifferent college womenj to read about our classmates. The science section of the paper was devoted to a story about Nobel Science Award Winner Betty Jane Rock's newly inaugurated lecturc series on thc chemical composition of the moon with accompanying films and exhibitions prepared by her colleagues, Fran Schug, June Saal, and Joan Gardner. The series was being sponsored by millionaire Marge Phillips, atomic energy industrialist. Senoritas Nilda Arroyo, Carolina Morales, and Antonita Rigau smiled up at me from the society page and I wasn't surprised to read that the picture was taken as they landed at La Guardia to attend the opening of the play. On the same page I noticed that Corinne Pike had been re-elected president of the Bronx section of the Navy Wives' League of America. I read in Nlargaret Scoop Grady's syndicated column, The Foreign Exchange, that Ruth Sweet's consulship in Mexico City was receiving high praise from the State Department, especially Under-Secretary Anna Doyle. A corner of the front page featured a story on UNRRA's work in central Europe with a picture of director Audrey Gallon passing out canned food with the help of her secretarry, Dorothy Koepplin. I made a mental note to send notices of the play to them and to Georgette Dircks and Irene Walsh who were attend- ing a Scholasticism conference at Rome. I had just started an article on the Anne Shalvoy Settlement House's fifth anniversary when Eleanor Mulligan, chaperoning a group of her aspiring math students, Anne Marie Connellan bearing a package of her latest NFCCS pamphlets for distribution, and Terry Steele, with a portfolio of stenography papers to correct, boarded the helicopter. After perfunctory greetings, I continued the story to discover that social workers, Ginny Costigan and Marie Perini had recently joined the staff of the Shalvoy House. Before I folded up my paper and passed it on to the conductor, I wept a little over Mary Shea's advice to the lovelorn column called So You're In Love Again, made a few notes for my teen-age friends from Ruth Caviston's fiftieth article in the series How to Be Date-Bait in Twelve Hundred Easy Lessons, and clipped a book review of Joan Lee Johnson's and Mary Jane Mason's history text Past Ages. 109