Milton Academy - Yearbook (Milton, MA)

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Eleanor Perkins Parker '19. My last year's literary efforts in describing my activities elicited so 'much twitting from my con- temporaries that this year I'm extremely self-conscious. However, at least I write, which they don't. My big news is that my oldest daughter will be at Milton next fall with my youngest sister, Joan Perkins. I've already threatened Miss Faulkner with more frequent visits than ever, and Iim looking forward to being more closely in touch with the school. Mrs. Lincoln W. Pierce '19. Kept very busy at home with my husband and two daughters, aged respectively sixteen and twelve years. Also still thoroughly enjoying my connection with the school, through being President of the Alumnae Association. The chief event to us this year has been our move into Dr. Pierce's house, at 48 Centre Street. This has been a great pleasure to us. Lucia Norton Valentine '19, Born, March 8th, Sarah McKim Valentine, my second daughter and third child. Mary Hallowell Crocker '20'. Nothing of unusual interest during the last year. Time mostly taken up with a large growing family. Oldest son going to boarding school in the autumn. Mrs. Frederick J. Libby '20. Recently my husband and I had a delightful flight from Washington to Los Angeles. Hoping for variety in weather, we got clear windy skies, a gorgeous sunset, black clouds, lightning, rain, then stars overhead, a dust storm, and a landing at Fort Worth for the night. In a comfortable upper berth of the Flag- ship Massachusetts, I enjoyed some good naps above the clouds. We arrived in California rested, and feeling that we had no right to be there with so little trouble. Mrs. Richard W. Partridge '20. Life has continued as usual with the exception of a hectic winter due to adding on to our house. It is complete now and we can enjoy it and our garden and hope that old school friends will visit us and see both. Elizabeth Brewster Loring '21. During the past year not much has happened except our change of domicile from Boston to New Bedford. My husband having been called to be rector of the church wfhich I attended as a small girl, I now have to look dignified f 'TJ where I used to pull pigtails. We have a small daughter, Elizabeth, who has just passed her first birthday. A Mrs. Nelson Bigelow '22, Keeping house for my husband and three small sons. Sally H. Bowditch '22. I am just completing my second year of internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and am looking forward to a year of assistant residency on the Private Ward Service in Medicine next September. Helen Howe '22. I went to London on a professional visit last page forty iw.. the magus

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dogwood season was a memorable event. The boys are going to camp in Maine this summer, but Naushon's clear waters and peaceful sun- drenched beaches beckon the rest of the family for the summer. Mrs. Donald C. Watson '15. An independent summer With three children away led to a trip with our oldest daughter to Bermuda. We found it much too hot for our taste, but still Bermuda. Marblehead holds our loyalty. A snowless winter without skiing was hard for some members of the family to bear, but again some shooting in South Carolina and a vacation in Washington kept the ball rolling. We are looking forward to a busy summer of sailing in Marblehead. Mrs. David M. Little '16. We have returned to Cambridge, where my husband is Secretary to the University at Harvard, and hope to set- tle here permanently. My oldest daughter, Priscilla, graduated from school last June and spent the winter coming out . She expects to enter Bryn Mawr this fall. I was busy this past winter answering telephone calls for the debs , my own daughter and my cousin Rose- mary Crocker. Katherine Hitchcock Marshall '16, My days are filled to over- flowing by my four chldren, and all the wiork and fun that goes with running a household, doing a few odd jobs in the community and enjoy- our friends. Elizabeth Hoar Parsons '16. This has been an uneventful year. We still live on Liberty Street in Concord during the winter and at Osterville, Cape Cod, during the summer, and our two children, Todd faged 101 and Mary Sherman faged 71 continue to absorb a large part of our time and attention. Mrs. Robert S. Sturtevant '17. Packing and unpacking every so often, transporting children to and from school for five months in Nashville, keeping track of 5-y-ear old David's adventures while direct- ing Roger's first-grade efforts in Groton, with aid of Winnetka Ex- tension School for Children. Successful trip home from Nashville with whole family in English Austin fbaggage by freightl. Mrs. John Fulton '18, Motor trip in Scotland in August 1936. Still living a pace in New Haven trying to keep up with Yale University activities. Tennis and Squash on the side for recreation. Anna Ware Bird '19. The most important event to us this year was the birth of our first daughter, Dorothy Gardner Bird, on April 11th. However, the Louisville flood also furnished plenty of excitement, although we were on high land and in no danger. It is queer to see a modern city suddenly deprived of electricity, means of transportation and communication, and, in some places, of water, gas, and heat. Laura Richardson Houghton '19. A new son fbringing the total to one girl and three boysj and a new summer home at Marion, Massa- chusetts are the pleasant and outstanding events of the past year. ITIGQUS page forty one

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spring. There I appeared for two weeks in a small theatre and at various private parties, one in honor of the Duke and Duchess of Kent. This winter I have toured the U. S. A. to the Pacific Coast and appeared in New York at the Little Theatre and in Boston at the Repertory Theatre. Between my recitals I am kept busy working on new material. Mrs. Franc D. Ingraham '22. My husband and I own a house at Gales' Point, Manchester, Massachusetts. We live there from May to December, and the rest of the year we are in Boston, at 294 Beacon Street. Mrs. John E. Toulmin, '22. We have a third son, Paul Routledge Toulmin, born on December 10th. Marion Raymond Haskell '23, Anne Raymond Haskell, born April 14th on her father's birthday. Joan, three and a half, Lois, two. Elizabeth B. Hough '23, Have been since early March doing disaster relief work with the American Red Cross in Paducah, Kentucky. Paducah was 9f10 inundated during the January flood. The water re- mained three weeks and the entire town was evacuated. Because the damage was so heavy, the rehabilitation work which will go on until early summer is perfectly thrilling. Marion Adams Moffat '23. Living at 1088 Park Avenue, New York City. No events of interest to report. Margaret Thayer Suydam '23. Have spent the past year support- ing the Children's Hospital with wholesale appendectomies, etc. Taking singing lessons, singing with the Bach Choral Society-also a cor- respondence course in sewing, beside feeding and exercising the dog, Daffy, and the rest of the family. Barbara Burnett Gratwick '24. Birth of a son who is now my avocation as well as my vocation. Caroline Saltonstall Mack '24. Housekeeping and producing a daughter in November. Ellen Hallowell Pratt '24, Harold Irving Pratt 3rd. arrived on April 13th. He will be kept busy keeping track of his three older sisters. Evelyn Perkins Ames '25, Moved to Greenwich, Connecticut last October and on March 14th had a daughter, Olivia, our third child. Margaret Watson Bourne '25, We spent last summer in Cornwall, Connecticut, and will be there again this year. I have been to Milton twice, and my husband and I went to Bermuda in February. It was our first trip to Bermuda and a Wonderful one. The twins are now six years old, just finishing the first grade, and our son is almost two years old. Harriet Saltonstall Gratwick '25, We spent all winter on our farm in the Genesee Valley, New York, kept busy stone-cutting, snow- shovelling, rug-hooking and being a haven of rest for harried city- the ITIGQUS page forty three