Marjorie Webster Junior College - Web Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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- 'rf THE WEB called Kitty Cammack, who was very busy in her new nursing home out on Long Island. Wilda met me at the station with none other than Betty Frazier, who was com- pleting her new book on Men I Have Known. She said she had just heard from Martie Adams, who was stationed in Shanghai, China, with her husband and Dorry McFetridge, who was studying lnternational Relations there with connection to the Russian question. They were having a wonderful time together, but were homesick for America and planned to return to the Marjorie Webster Reunion the next year. Spring had turned to summer and my wanderings were over so l leisurely turned my footsteps homeward. As l passed through Washington l realized anew that Marjorie Webster would not be forgotten while the hearts of '33 still remembered the dogwood blossoms on the hill of Rock Creek Park. JOLQS Buddy Rogers is such a heart thriller that Currie and Mary Lue even forgot their bus fares Cbut not opera glassesj when they went to see him. Adams thinks Methuselah is some kind of an Egyptian garden. SLIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT Miss Neal: Now girls, take a deep breath and fill your chest full of lungs. Miss Anne Qnot to be outdonejz Girls, get to your work, we want to get a lot of room done. And then we have Frazier trying to catch Smallwood on Freshman get-away night. Marjorie Webster yell: Whose buzzer is that? Ford: When you dropped your watch, did it stop? Hawke: Did you think it would go through the Hoor? McFetridge: What makes you think Parker and Ben are engaged? Walker: She has a ring and he is broke. Miss Hamilton: You may get your exam papers off of my desk before you pass out. 35

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THE WEB ij HO! 'Ml Spring was in the air! I sniffed it again while little shivers of excitement ran up and down my spine or vertebral column as the Phys. Ed. students at Marjorie Webster would say. All of which set my mind off on a different angle. Spring always reminded me of Marjorie Webster sunbaths, gold fish and chocolate cones. Wouldn't it be fun to see everyone again? No sooner said than done and just as the sun set in a glory of rose and violet the train chugged out of the station on the trail of memory. Soon the scenery grew tiresome and I turned my attention to a theatrical magaf zine I had brought with me. Dn the first page I saw the name of Jessie Eaton and sagely read the article. jessie had achieved international success in her poetical in- terpretations but, tired out after so many engagements, was spending the summer in Switzerland to recuperate. Helene Prycefjones was to join her there later after finish- ing a dancing tour of Russia. Her husband, Brook Dennison, was staying in America looking after business and the children. A little farther on I read that the Hotfcha dance team, starring Franny Brunt and Miriam Prettyman, were entertaining boat- loads of passengers en route to Europe on one of our largest ships. I decided to stop in the mountains of Tennessee awhile and visit Tootsie Small- wood and Billy Brown who were running a school for mountaineer children. As a sideline Billy and Tootsie taught them how to play the uke and harmonize 'lazy River -they told me that Betty Sands was playing for the New York Giants and had more home runs to her credit than Babe Ruth. I always knew that Marjorie Webster trained them. I was rather surprised, though, when they told me that Billy Carter was head of a big banana plantation in Brazil and that Carol Kohen, who was her overseer, had finally persuaded Billy to play bridge with her. The foursome was complete with Bea Sondheim, who was singing in a night club in Rio de janeiro, and Billy Buswell who broadcast her famous f'I.aughing Course over the radio in that same city. Much refreshed by my visit here I continued my journey, stopping over in Virginia, where Daisy Day was managing a training camp for Gywnette Willis, Dorothy Dinger, Hazel Harris, Lois Green, and Erances Greely who were preparing for the 1950 Olympics in Cal. Since Helen Wright was coaching football at V.M.I. nearby, I took a little jaunt over there to see her. She told me that janet Trusler was coaching a young lawyer for his next law case. Since Peaches Labaw was making her debut in Hamlet in New York and Dorothea Parker was advertising manager for her I was anxious to be on my way and took a plane on which Kitty Murphy as hostess entertained us. Dn arriving on Broadway I visited the NBC. studios where Kitty O'Neill was broadcasting sea stories and Mary Walker was giving a series of talks on what every young girl should know. Before leaving for the West to Visit Wilda Kilbourne, who was con- ducting tours through Yellowstone Park in her Ford, rather decrepit now, and I 34

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