Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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IN MEMORIAM Mrs. W. J. Babington Macaulay M ourned as one of the outstanding Catholic Iaywomen in the United States and Europe, Mrs. Macaulay died in Rome on November 24, 1938. Educated at Elmhurst and Manhattanville, her qualities and deeds were essentially in the spirit of the Sacred Heart. She founded the Carroll Club for girls in New York, and was a member of the Social Service Committee for the City Hospital. A Papal Duchess, she was honored by Pope Pius XI, and in 1934 received the Laetare Medal annually awarded by the University of Notre Dame to an outstanding member of the Catholic Laity. Her broad vision and sense of social responsibility made her a great woman, known and respected throughout the LInited States and Europe. But she is far more than great in the hearts of those whose causes she endowed with interest and devotion, to whom she gave of herself. Mother Antionette Spies T HE unexpected news of the death of Mother Spies at Roehampton recalled many memories and evoked many regrets among the former students of Manhattanville. Early in the World War, Mother Spies came to the Lhiited States, and for more than seventeen years she taught at Manhattanville, w ith the exception of a short period at Maplehurst. Mother Spies was horn in H olland. b ler character was marked with strong indi¬ viduality ancl her pupils were deeply influenced by her virile intelligence and inflexible will. Pier zeal for the missions was communicative and her willingness to assist others was proverbial. So it was that when she was called to Roehampton in 1952, the College lost one of its founders whose memory wi [I he faithfully treasured. Nine