Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School - Gleam Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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THE GLEAM By the Light of the Fire i -- ,T was a cold, dark, dreary night, and I felt much diseontented and K5 lonesome even though I was sitting in a large arm chair in front of , an open fire where everything was cozy and comfortable. Engle ' ' l Settlement, in Fairmont, VVest'Virginia, is my home for the present 5 l and although it is neat a11d attractive I do get lonesome and blue at times. If I could but see the faces of the girls in the class of '30 for if l a few minutes it would help to make things more pleasant. The ' letters I used to get have ceased to arrive and the friendships seem to be growing farther and farther apart as tl1e days wear around more swiftly. But look! Can I believe my eyes? I am sure I see faces in the flames! There is Frances Calkins. She is talking from the pulpit of a large church which is over-crowded with people. C, yes-il recall, just ten years ago we sent Frances to Porto Rico and to this very day she is there preaching the Christian religion to the needy people. How good to see her face once more! Blackness comes upon the flames. Suddenly before my eyes a familiar door opens which displays the third floor of Iiust Hall. A voice is heard saying, '4Good night, girls. It is Luella Didget who has taken the position of Dean of Rust Hall. ,lt is a very high and honorable position and Luella is more than i . ' N deserving of it. - The face of a familiar friend has come upon the scene. It is Margaret Thomas, but not as we knew her for she has increased in weight until we would hardly recognize her. il. do not see a kiiidergarten room but rather a long room lined with shelves upon which are rows and rows of bottles. There is a bit of writing on each bottle which says, Increase your weight by drinking one bottle. Margaret has invented a medicine which builds up the tired, worn frame. She received her vast knowledge for this art in Rust Hall Kindergarten where she mixed the oils for the children. A tall sedate lady looms up in the very highest and brightest flame. At once I hear singing, then I behold thousands of people gathered to hear the wonderful artist. Doris Rising has found her place in Grand Opera. work. Who can this second lady be in the picture? The face is growing clea.rer. It is Verna Cook and with her are two little children, a little curly-headed boy and a fairy-like little girl who are wanting everything they see in the windows of the large stores on G Street. Verna has become! a little housewife. Imagine that! At this time there appears another familiar face. Mildred Cheever is on her way to church. But what is she to do there? Look! She is director of I43j .

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THE GLEAM Utah Indian Reservation where Hickie Schoppert was teaching hygiene to the children. ' When we landed in Chicago we looked up Mumps. She invited us in to see her in her new position as nurse in a training school for boys. She to-ld us that she had seen Virginia Allen several times. Virginia was following her ca.reer of nursing at the University of Illinois. We crossed the Great Lakes to Canada. At Toronto we saw a large new hotel which we were told was managed by a woman from the United States. Cnr curiosity led us to investigate and we were surprised to find the woman to be our own Kathryn Scott. As we landed in the States once more, we found that we were so near Syra.cuse that we would have to see Polly Collins. We found her picking dai- sies in her fathe-ris back yard. We next stopped in Philadelphia and were much pleased to read in the bright lights Geraldine Logan, Famous Contraltof' The theater was crowded as it. was her tinal week of a fifty-two week contract. Cn our way to our hotel we were almost run over by a man and his wife in a 1929 Packard roadster. It was none other than Jane Annan and Freddie-just the same a.lthough the car showed the hard service of ten years. The next morning being Sunday, we attended the nearest. church. We sat behind an attractive person who listened very attentively to the sermon. YVhen church was over and 'l was able to sec her face, it was Edna Heckinan. YVe were in her husband's church. ' YVe left XVashington in the afternoon and as we circled over St. Eliza- beth' s ready for our la.nding, we noticed some one pushing a. twin baby carriage around. As we dropped nearer, we could see that it was Phyllis Harner who we had heard was happilly married and living in Congress Heights near her husband' s work. We visited Frances Sheetz immediately. She was doing research and had become very famous because of her discovery of measle anti-toxin. She told us that Hazel Shutters was living in Maryland where she and her husband had a large fishery. She also told us that she had been to see the new Walkersville hospital founded by Hazel Feaster. YVe visited Sibley and were surprised to tind Mary Bange night super- visor. Marjorie King a.nd Tvola. Hart, we learned, were popular specials in Sibley. Virginia. Turner ha.d just left for Kentucky where she was assisting in a clinic to remove tonsils. .We read in the paper that Gertrude Gift was marrying her third husband as soon as she received her divorce papers. Having seen most of the world and spent all our money, we put our names on register and started doing special duty the next day. I 421 --EVA MAE MURRAY.,

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THE GLEAM Hamline cho-ir, and now she is able to display some of that musical ability be- fore the eyes of the appreciative public. T see a little kitchen in the Haines, four poorly clad little girls a.re seated on the bare floor of a little dark cellar room. A dignified la.dy is standing at the stove. It is Helen Phillips still working for the Associated Charities. She is trying to teach a mother to cook cereal for t.he starving family. That picture has so soon vanished, but another one comes before me ac- companied by words sailing out in all directions. HI am the advertising man- ager of the New York Life Insurance Company, and have come to you for your ad. Sure as I am living that is Mildred Sweet. The New York Life Insur- ance Co. having heard of her wonderful success in securing ads for the GTJEABT, has employed her as their Advertising Manager. Wlia.t can that great building be and who is seated at the desk? That must be a library and there is Catherine Frey seated with about. fifteen books before her. She is reading with great interest. The Rust Hall Faculty has employed her to censor all the books as soon as they leave tl1e press to see whether or not it is worth the valuable time of the incoming students to acquire the knowledge the new books afford. - Behold, T see Phil Boccardo standing at the door of the Italian Mission at Syracuse, New York. Before her are a group of boys and girls waiting for the clock to strike seven in order tha.t they may get in to hear Phil tell stories for them. Phil is now superintendent of t.hat Mission. A wide door opens before me and a host of boys and girls are trying eagerly to learn to read and write. Brown Culp seems to be the teacher of these Primary grades in the famous Mitchell School. The love for this school has grown so deep within her that she had to leave her Kindergarten and take up work with her home and friends. '4Her hair' like ebony glistens, her eyes are like twin stars. If it isn7t Gertrude Starr, the third Hoor pal to everyone. I see no church, no mission or settlement, but before me stands the dearest little bungalow with old fashioned shutters at the windows. To my great surprise, Gertrude is standing in the doorway. She is the mistress of this little abode-. The fire is going out and the faces have gone from before me. It is getting late in the night, but it has been areal treat to gaze once more into the faces of the members of the class of ' 30 if only in the flames of a great Open Fire. Q -ALTA Ion. i441