Maryland College for Women - Marylander Yearbook (Lutherville, MD)

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N' CLASS PRoPHECY.-Continued 1 we had determined to make a day of it. Just as we reached the corner, I heard someone calling, Nice apples, bananas and grapes! Cheaper than anywhere else! This appealed to my economical spirit, and I turned around to cast an appraising eye over the fruit. There stood Little Mary behind her fruit stand, calling her wares. We hailed her and soon became clubby, and had a real old hash session right there on the street corner. Mary had taken up a wanderer's life and was engaged in hiking across the continent. When she ran out of funds she took up some genteel occupation until she was re-financed. Right clever of Mary, I thought, and there's nothing more commendable than independence. a I had heard that Lucy Sawyer, the President of the Class of '27, was living just outside of New York, so I suggested to Jean that we forego the matinee, and drive out to see her, which we did. We found Lucy happily settled in a beautiful home in the suburbs, leading a contented life with Marion and their children. It made me wonder 'if marriage and a home wasn't prefer- able to a career after all, and I decided by the time we left that perhaps mar- riage and home were preferable to a career, although I did like my position editing the Advice to the Lovelorn column in the daily newspaper. After we had heard items about some of the other Maryland girls, we were convinced that none had made the success of life that the Class of '27 had, and this is undoubtedly due to the superior talents and abilities of that class. A ' CSignedj J. W. B. Page 81 , xy-kk 1 i 1 i 1 a

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Ja x CLASS PROPHECYP-'Confinued considering her occupationj, and told us to be sure to attend the Metropolitan Opera as Anita Spedden was appearing as Prima Dona. She had climbed to fame over-night, and at the age of twenty-six was the sensation of the season. Remarkable we thought, but considering her excellent training warbling hymns in Chapel at Maryland one couldn't be too surprised. By that time I was ready to wend my way onward, so we bid farewell to Ouida, after assuring her that we would keep our eyes open for good positions for her. We toured over to Fifth Avenue to look in the shop windows, mean- while chatting continuously. Jean's eagle eye espied a conservative sign over one of the shops, Gertrude Belle Crawford-Designer and Importer of Gowns . Without a word we entered, and Gertie advanced to meet us smiling graciously. Of course we knew she thought we were prospective customers, but when she recognized us as the old college chums, Gertie's smile turned to a full-fledged beam, and we knew that she still had a soft spot in her heart for us. We looked around her Shoppe, and it was indeed a credit to Gertie's ability and originality. We learned that Gertie had married Dee just recently, and would soon sell her Shoppe to take up her happy home life. She wasn't able to give us much information on any of our old classmates at Maryland, but Josefina Suarez had come into her Shoppe one day on a trip to the States from her home in Porto Rico. Joseina had returned home in 1927 after gradu- ating from Maryland, and started out her career by teaching Domestic Science in one of the schools there. However, so many little Porto Ricans contracted ptomaine poisoning from the strange recipes she concocted, that she was forced to give that up, and finally compromised by marrying one of her wealthy admirers and lived in idle luxury. . Jean and I continued our journey up the Avenue, and by that time our appetites began calling us, so we darted into the McAlpin Hotel for lunch. In passing through the lobby, I heard a voice that sounded strangely familiar, and upon tracking it down found myself at the telephone operator's desk, and there sweetly cooing, - Number, please into the transmitter was our old friend and classmate, Ann Elizabeth McCluer. Yelling from the fourth to Hrst floor at Maryland had given her the charming voice so necessary to telephone operators. We left Ann, as she was very busy getting a call through to Morgantown, W. Va., and couldn't talk to us. I heard' later, however, that she was still engaged to Jim, and it wouldn't be long until she would be leaving the bright lights to return to Parkersburg and Jim. ' After we had finished lunch four appetites were still as large as they had been at Maryland, so it took us some timej we started out for the matinee, as I I l I 5 1 .-,.,,..,... -Q- ,,4-in-.. V..- 4

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raves! Eotcromf 7542? it- V224 1 E' J J VAL F14 wg ..,...., ..., , QMMENCEMENT! It is true that, for four years we have looked forward to this day, but now that it has come. we are Hlled qrith if Sorrow and regret. It is hard to realize that all these days gf work and happiness that we'have spent together. will to-morrow -J be just memories: but memories we can always keep unchanged and undimmed. in And now we say Farewell . To you. dear Alma Mater. we say it. sad to leave you, glad to take with us all those ideals for which you stand. instilled in our hearts. To you, President and Vice-President, Mr. and Mrs. Rouse. who hay aided us in every way, always upholding the highest and noblest standards. we owe a debt which can never be paid except by loyalty. 'e ' To you, our Faculty, who have guided us through the intricate paths of knowledge, who have given us a broader vision of what life max' mean. vt' , e say Farewell , with deep appreciation and gratitude. Fellow-Students, we shall miss you greatly. 'I'he memories of these yearsspent together will never be forgotten. for we are eternallv bound together by the chains of true friendship, love. and loyalty to our Alma Mater. and to each other. Once more, dear Alma Mater. Farewell . May our lives be such that you may always look upon the Class of 1927 with lm-Q :ind pride. Jtsax l.t'citt-tt' Scitttvttaxx W 'wg' fix' Aw., . . ,x I M t Y ., , Ki1ECj?,tJf3f:3s1 X .--iQN,t-:swr fn-pw-it,-fs-4 -up-f-,.1fwe Q' L ,J ef--2-fn-1 ' t-- -V -N-st ,.tYffC57Y 'Sfq'i.lPf'xf'Ni'lg1T2:' kfQJJ.Ff 'J'3t' tiki 5544 4, ggwg, 'ns,,,,,a K,xLb 'L ' 1 W Pddt' il -