Harcum College - Purple Patches Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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Turple Ta tclzes world remote from all material things. Should anyone spoken to me I should not hear him. Again the melody of the first movement rings out. I hear the last note, but sit as in a dream. I am not aware that the music has stopped and eagerly wait in the hope of hearing more. There is to be no more, I awake from my dream. I am crying! I JANE PENDLETON. Alumnae DEAR OLD GIRLS: g We are planning an Alumnae house-party at the school for the week-end of April 22. The Alumnae agreed last year that they could have a better time at Harcum if they could meet there during the session rather than at Commencement when all attention has to be focused on the senior class and their activities. I have always felt at Commencement that it was difficult to see as much of the old girls as I wanted to and I am delighted that we are to have the week-end together in April. Most of the new girls of the school are going off for that week- end'and will give up their places so that when you come back you will be a real Harcum girl again. It will be nice to hear your voices in the halls -nicer than it used to be when we had to 'fcall you down. VVe are planning a party for Friday night at the school, a luncheon at the tea-room run by Elsie Millar QHarcum ,QU and Helen Evans CI-Iarcum ,21D, with a matinee at the Seville Theatre-Bryn Mawr's latest acquisition-and a tea given by the College Club in honor of the college girls. Saturday evening we are having a theatre party in town, all going in together in a bus. Sunday afternoon, after all of you have gone to hear Dr. Mutch, we will have an Alumnae musicale with buffet supper afterwards. I am hoping to have many of the old girls playing andasinging: Aileen Jones, '4Sling,,' Emma Ivey, Eleanor Clark, Maisie Chance, Dolores Jones, Celeste Shadburn, Isabel Rudd, Sarah Horner, Virginia Straley, Elinor Reed and other musical stars. I am going to try to make you as comfortable as possible and I hope you will write your special friends and ask them to meet you here. I know we are going to have a good time and you can count on a warm welcome from me. Hoping to see many of you in April, Afectionately yours, EDITH HATCHER HARCUM, Head of the School. 26

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Turple Tatches The f Musical Gomment HE Studio Club misses Margery Atwater, who has been kept at home by illness since the holidays. Miss Conger is starting the Glee Club at work on The Pirates of Penzance, -another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. We had such fun last year in Trial by Jury. H The Glee Club and dancing recital went off gracefully and beauti- fully. It's impossible to tell which we enjoyed most-the singing or the dancing. Our jazz orchestra is becoming very proficient, though perhaps the rehearsals may not seem proof of the fact. However, rehearsals are never the same as finished performances. Our extensive repertoire includes at least eight pieces. We are especially admirable in 'gMoon- light on the Gangesf, and Mary Louf' The Symphony-goers missed Stokowski, who did not conduct for some time because of neuritis in his right arm, but we found Rodzinski a splendid substitute. We have heard beautiful programs and we hope that the girls who have not been to any of these concerts will go before the end of the season. Many of us went to hear the La Scala Opera Company's produc- tion of Othello with Titta Ruffo and Muriella Cianci, and found it very worth our while. Miss Cianci sang for us at the Christmas dinner, and we were specially interested to hear her again in real opera. Symphony Woods IGI-IT rippling tones come through the air, at first so slowly and delicately that they seem to be coming from a great distance. As the time increases, the very tones themselves appear to sparkle like highly polished gems. The picture of a brook gaily running its course, cool and reassuring on a spring morning, is suggested. One is able to visualize it perfectly as it trips along over rocks and stones singing its happy song. It now conquers some obstacle that has fallen in its path, perhaps a piece of foliage that has dropped from a near-by tree or bush. On, on, on, it bounds until it is swallowed by a great stream. Again the strains of music are heard as they softly penetrate the air. Instinctively I fall into its mood. My spirit spontaneously follows each movement, frcm a very soft pianissimo to a Crescendo that is pro- found and vibrating! My whole being is enthralled, I am in a different 25

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Turple Tatches Athletics ETHEL M. COLEGROVE A A T THE present time our interest in athletics is centered upon basketball. Our tirst game will be played on the 15th of February with Saywardis team, at their gymnasium. g W The second game is scheduled with Ogontz for the 24th of February, and the third game is to be with Mary Lyons on March 11th. Ruth Knipe and Ethel Colegrove have been elected cheer leaders. Although the Varsity team has not been picked, the six players will be chosen from these enthusiastic members of the squad: Mary Jane Fulton, center, Catherine Hartman, center, Helen Dery, side-center, Virginia Roundey, side-center, Eleanor Davy, for- ward, Emily Heine, forward, Cora Swoope, forward, Helen Wilson, forward, Jean Salfisberg, forward, Amelia Gross, guard, Florence King, guard, Betty Knipe, guard, India Newton, guard. ,,,M.-.--- Tersonals I'r's A WONDER THAT: The Ffoulkes twins donat wear some jewelry. Serena Wheeler doesnit go home once in awhile. Helen Tate doesn't say Mon Dieu. W Evelyn Jackel doesnit get about 7 letters a day. Becky Shope doesn't stop talking. Ruth Heller doesnit sing well. E E. Heine and H. Wilson are not elected to serve on The Committee. Ruth Knipe doesn't have a date. Isabel Hock doesn't say something funny. The Fox girls are never late in the morning. Alma Polhemus doesnit practice. Betty Davis doesnit write something clever for PURPLE PATCHES. Sally Beeson doesn't act -- We don't have some hard exams. ISN,T IT? E. M. C. 27