Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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9 3 9 TO W E R S HE is effective without being obvious and capable without having the depressingly predictable qualities of an adding machine, d his, of course, we got by induction because Helen is, outwardly at least, as enigmatic and as easily analyzed as a sentence by James Joyce. But to judge by the impressive array of things that she has done, especially for the Missionary Association, she must certainly have a hidden streak of strong administrative ability. Perhaps, what is most striking about her is the way she accomplishes these minor marvels, unhurriedly and unostentatiously with that strange, admirable reserve that she never loses. Helen Brennan, E. de M. Utica Country Day School Utica, New York Camera Club ’38, 59; Children of Mary Council ’39; Essay Board ’39; Sophomore Forum 37; Missionary Association, Sec¬ retary 38, President 39; Phi Mu Beta Chi 57; Thumb Tack Club 36, 57, 58; Pitch Pipe Club 56, 57. Major — English. Twenty-nine

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TOWER Cercle Frangais ’39; Class Council 57, ’58, ’39; College Welfare Committee 56; Ring Committee 38; Tea Dance Com¬ mittee ’56, 57, Secretary ’59; Pitch Pipe Club ’56, ’37; Class Entertainment Com¬ mittee 56, 57, 58, 59; Class Hockey Team 58, 59. Major — English. Sara Brady, E. de M. St. Agnes Academy, Rockville Center, Long Island, New York S ARA, besides Laving enough determination to drag any project through, if necessary by force, is blessed with the wit and the social graces to be able to cause these revolutions painlessly and diplomatically. She can be, on occasions, the very grande dame but at other times she is unconstrainedly friendly and riotously exuberant. All of which means not that she has a chameleon disposition, changing senselessly, but that she can adapt herself gracefully and effortlessly to suit any situation. She is kind and thoughful in circumstances that others, less observant, would ignore and yet she is never solemn and sententious about it, her sense of humor is too good for that. Twenty-eight

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9 3 9 TO W E R Camera Club 38, 59; Social Science Club ’37, ’38, ’39; Thumb lack Club 57, ’38, ’59; Aquatic Club 56, 57, 38. MajorHistory. Mary Austin Brockenbrough, E. DE M. Convent of tbe Sacred Heart Noroton, Connecticut I N tbe midst of time-table precision and all complicated systems for evolving a basty pudding of achievement Austin is like an exponent of tbe Simple Life. She does everything with a drawl. She goes to classes in a leisurely, undisturbed sort of way just as if she were acting casually upon impulse instead of being grimly impelled by a schedule and its guardian angel, the Registrar s List. She is admirably exclusive in her choice of things to do and in the way she does them and from her flawlessly unruffled manner one would suppose that nothing ever disturl aed her equanimity. It’s difficult to imagine her being efficient and business-like but then it’s so much more becoming for her not to be. Thirty