Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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from the streetcar at the corner of Twenty-third Street and St. Paul. Quickly nicknamed GWVuthering Heightsf Mary Fisher was soon the scene of academic as well as dormitory life, as professors conducted classes in the Recreation Room, commons rooms, and the trunk space under Hooper. In maintaining instruction on both campuses, many members of the faculty were called upon to make the round trip twice a day. By 1947, many classes were able to convene in an unfinished Van Meter, but the struggle with the 44wilderness continued, and lectures were delivered above the roar of the bulldozers laboring in the mud outside. That was the year the tornado struck, uprooting even some of the largest trees and relocating two-thirds of the roof of Baldwin House on top of Bacon. Somewhat earlier, Nature had shown her wit when lightning had struck the Dean,s offlce in old Coucher Hall just before the issuance of warnings and burned all the recordsJ The Humanities Department of English Seated, left to right: Dr. S. Jones, Dr. S. deFord, Dr. M. Robin- son, Dr. E. Geen, Miss J. Grundy, Dr. V. Rad- ley. Standing: Dr. B. Peirce, Dr. V. Canfield, Dr. R. Waidelich. 18

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Department of Political Science Left to right: Mr. B. Corrin, Dr. C. Winslow, Mr. D. Pettengill. contemporaneously at State Teachers7 College, City College7 Friends7 School, a Methodist church, two bowling alleys, and a skating rink. The effort ahead loomed enormous. After all the bright hopes and anticipation, could the College actually both finance and survive such a move? At last, in much excitement, September of 1939 saw the order given for the commencement of building operations. That month World War II began. ttWe had every alibi in the world for giving it 1113,79 recalls Miss Spencer, utaxes, the war, everythinv. 17 Departments of Education and Child Development Left to right: Dr. H. Loane, Dr. B. Tatum, Dr. J. Morrell, Dr. A. Rose, Dr. M. Bennee. There were many who wanted us to take the easy way, to stay in Baltimore and to become a strictly city college by giving up dormitory accommodations; but we went ahead.a7 The fall of a42 saw the opening of Mary Fisher Hall to dormitory residents, initiates 0f the life of commutation which was to prove the test of Coucher mettle for years to come. On that first class morning of September, 1942, one hundred and eighty Mary Fisher girls were given an official academic welcome by President Robertson and Mr. Winslow as they stepped

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Departments of Classics, Religion, and Philosophy Left to right: Mr. J. Williams, Dr. M. Rose, Dr. J. Scanlan, Mr. W. Morris, Dr. 0. Kraushaar, Dr. J. Chamberlain, Dr. B. Peirce. That year, too, ninety-seven people and a horde of field mice moved into Residence Hall No. 2. EUllhere were no tiles, finished plastering, or door latches7 and it rained through the walls, but we were happy,77 Miss von Berries remembers. 4lI gave all the students mousetraps for Christmas?9 Unlinished but functioning, c4Our Adobe Abode,9 had joined 6WVuthering Heights,7 011 the Towson Hill. Preparing a brand new Froelicher for the arriving students in September of 1950 found the faculty armed with shovels and brooms performing a far from Department of History Left to right: Dr. W. Neumann, Dr. R, Dorsey, Dr. K. Walker7 Dr. G. Foole. academic function through the dehris-strewn halls. That fall, nearly all classes but labs were meeting 0n the new campus; by 1953 even the last of the sciences had moved. ttWe were operating the department from barrels and packing boxes arranged in the halls, but we were here:, Miss Kelley recalls. That year, the second for the library and the flrst for the completed science building, llGreater Goueher had arrived and the last of the town holdings were released. The eleven years of moving were accomplished.