Concord Academy - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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Cffiaaa glzofzgsay Well, girls, here I am again, poised between the bridge table and the rumpus room, taking time out to send all the latest reports from the great class of 1960! I've tried to get personal let- ters out to all of you, but what with Jack and the seven urchins I just haven't had the time! Saw PAULA PACE Worthingham in the Stop and Shop the other day, and she's busy trying to get her quintuplets ready to be princesses in the Dandelion Festival. She told me that MARY UP- TON Frenchbread has just received Woman-of-the-Year Award for being of service to the farmer in publishing fifty-Hve agricultural yearbooks. And that's not all! NONIE NOBLE Blendington has just been appointed chairman of the Department of Health, Education, and Wel- fare, she is enlisting CONNIE CLARK and JANE ENGLAND to assist her in her crusade for higher taxation for the beneht of the pre-school child. And HEIDI MOSS Lichen has recently been installed as Chairman of the Bureau of Missing Everything. More news from Washington states that SARAH WELLS Leeder, our beloved First Lady of the Land, has recently been lecturing to Congress about the importance of order. It is said that she appeared the other day holding one be-jewelled finger to her lips to quiet fractious politicians. The musical world reports with pride that MEG TWEEDY has just become successor to Rudolf Bing, and that STEVIE JACKSON Peerce has just formed the first all-harmonica or- chestra - in Thomasville, Georgia, of all places. TUCKY FRAZIER Finch, instructor of the very latest in authentic folk music, has been giving clarinet lessons to BOBBIE YONTS Bush- nell's son fwho, incidentally, is about to be billed by Ringling Brothers as The World's Only Singing Giant J, as well as to'CAROL GANSON Reider's daughters who are entering the same field as bare-back artists. The West has been blessed with a goodly number of our crew. SUE DALEY Palamino has just achieved the miraculous feat of playing Beethovenls Ninth on the bugle while rounding up the cows at JAY HUTCHINSON's Dude Ranch. Jay, incidentally, has just come back from a trip into the civilization of Las Vegas, where she ascertained her future in a conference with her astrologer - none other than CONNIE MORROW Sears. Between trips to the slot machine, Connie has been giving a complete English course on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins be- tween the Sands Hotel and Harvard University - all conducted without the use of mechanical devices. - This month there were many letters in the mail from various points abroad. LOIS FARNS- WORTH Schmidt writes from the Belgian Congo that she and hubby Wilhelm have been sell- ing 7500 Volkswagens a day to the natives. Since they do not speak the 107 languages of their customers, they are accompanied by GINGER BROAD, who manages all of them quite ade- quately. News from DONATA ORIGO Jones' ski lodge in Austria has it that PAM PROUTY Pepperidge has been installed as chief-cook-in-charge-oiFrenchbread and peanutbutter and marshmellow-fluff turnovers. Also lounging in the Alps last week were LISA VOLCKHAUS- EN and MARY JANE BANCROFT, resting up between appearances at the Comedie Francais. ULLI SCHUBERT Smith has paid her visit this year, too, but she only stayed a short time be- cause she was anxious to return to the University of Chicago, where she is doing special study in the sociology department on the habits of the American prep-school senior. Also involved in the study of groups is LYDIA HEDGE, who writes from Australia that life is wonderful doing Dolecethalic lndeces on the Mauri tribes. Another scholar, LOUISE SHAW, is experimenting induced mutations in mice found in girls' schools.

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TENNIS VARSITY Page, Johnston, Field, Barnes, Dewey, Pace SOFTBALL VARSITY Second Row: Adams, Farnsworth, Ganson, E. Smith, Kethcham, Hedge, Winship, Harken. First Row: S. Farnsworth, M. Thomas, R. Cummings, Wells, A. Shaw, Moss, Daley. LACROSSE VARSITY Third Row: Mallinckrodt, Howe, Hutchinson, Willet, Tweedy, L. Smith. Second Row: Pleasants, Noble, K. Motley, Hamilton, Crafts, L. Shaw, H. Cominos First Row: Fenollosa, Vance, B. Smith, C. Griffith, Adler, Metcalf, M. Duane.

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From the business world comes a letter from PAM STRAUSS, saying that she and MADGE YOUNG have been in Tanganyika uncovering new exotic designs for Dashaway shirts. While there, they ran into MARGOT DEWEY and SALLY HEROY, who have been camping in the jungle and writing a thesis on the relationship between fertility rites and parthenogenesis. If you happen to be passing through Wfashington, do stop at the National Gallery, where LAURA SMITH Microberry's prize-winning exhibit on miniatura may be seen. It represents the complete Bayeux Tapestry carved within one half of a pistachio shell. Also there are de- signs for the exciting space helmets executed by ANNE BOOTH johnson. Florida provides news of ANNETTE SHAW Haddock, whose husband is a renowned sai- lor and deepsea fisherman. Annette herself is busy producing sons to crew for him. Another crew enthusiast is DALE KETCHAM Shell, whose time is spent lolling on the shores of the Vulga River, coaching Russian boaters for the Olympics. Here at home I just had a call from BETH RICE Homestead, who is organizing the Ver- saille Ball at the Sheraton Plaza. Assisting her is MARY THOMAS Livingston, who has re- signed as Head-Mistress of the Ecole Shampoo in Paris. Evidentally Bethis task is made easier because she consults regularly with MOLLY DUANE, who has just finished executing the same function for the spinster's ball. fMolly was Miss Blondie of the year 1965 - Miss Schoolmarm of 1975 - Miss Boston of 1980 - and now, finally, the most active Spinsterj Oh, speaking of spinsters, I read in the paper yesterday that MARGIE HORNBLOWER Cabot Forbes Channing Saltonstal has married for a fourth time. Naturally I called her immedi- ately and she said she was happy at last because she had finally found someone who did not mind her daily Latin recitations at 4 A.M. Bell Telephone has just acquired two new officers. NICKY CHURCHILL Montgomery Ward has been hired to compute the correlation co-efficient between incidence of triplets in America and the number of yards of telephone wire in Middlesex County. JO FIELD Kov- novski is doing research for Bell. She has discovered that the greatest number of message units acquired by one person in any six month period occurred in our town of Concord in 1960. Io is planning to investigate the significance of this statistic further. Living next door is BINNIE PLEASANTS Cousy, who now has five boys. Word has it that they are training for the 1960 Family Olympics. And now just a word or two about myself: since that day we got our diplomas, my par- onoic tendencies have developed intejective implications evolving in an overgrown Faust neuro- sis - that is to say my basic regressions regressed to primordal image revealing the processes of the underlying psychic phenomena. All and all I've been very happy - but since my first nov- el, Tbe Wariebafzd, I haven't been the same. Love to you all, Janie Barnes Hamburger