Milton Academy - Yearbook (Milton, MA)

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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

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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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dwellers. Our oldest daughter, aged seven, went to the Park School in Buffalo, our son, aged four, is at school in Geneva, New York and our youngest daughter, aged two and one-half stayed at home. Alida Milliken Camp '26, Most important event was the adoption last August of Nicholas Ridgely Camp, aged eight weeks. My oc- cupation this winter has consisted of furnishing a house in Chestnut Hill, taking care of Nicholas, and attending Chestnut Hill Academy activities as the Headmasteris wife. Also the usual number of com- mittee meetings. Barbara Donald '26. Research Assistant, Education Division, Works Progress Administration, Washington, D. C. Ada Dewson '26. Worked at W. W. Winship for December and January fLeather store in Bostonj. Married on Sunday, May 16th, in the First Parish Church in Milton to Edward Goodridge Iselin, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Iselin, The Chestnuts , Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York. Will be At Home after June 7th at 4 Hutchinson Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Rose Bryant Hamlin '26, Have continued my study of singing, taking lessons in New York and giving concerts, among which was one in Jordan Hall. We have been living in Boston this winter to be near the Massachusetts General Hospital where my husband is working. Hilda Ware '26, Engaged to John Braddock Sturges, Master at Milton Academy. They will be married in September and live in Upton House. Mrs. James A. Howe '27. Have built a Georgian house on Parson- age Road, Greenwich, which we will move into June 4, 1937. Henrietta Hancock Howe, born January 12, 1937. James Jr. is six and Emily is four. Frances Kennedy Vaughan '27. A daughter, Natalie White Vaughan, born in Princeton, New Jersey, on January 28th, 1937, thereby round- ing out the Big Three . Harvard mother, Yale father, Princeton baby, as Dick is head hockey coach at Princeton. I am now very busy with my family and continuing to live in two towns, Newton for eight months and Princeton for four months. Rather hectic but we love it. Anne P. Burnett '28. Chaperoned three Philadelphia girls to a Wyoming Dude Ranch last summer. This winter, I have been taking Weekly Hying lessons and bought half interest in a Taylor Cub in April. I hope to have my private pilot's license by the end of the sum- mer. I have been doing some nursing on the side, too. Dorothy Meigs '28. Bicycle trip in Europe last summer. This winter I have been teaching piano, and studying for an A. M. at Harvard and Radcliffe. Mary D. Chase '29, Teaching at Rosemary Junior School, Green- wich, Connecticut. Living in New York City. page forty four the ITJGQUS -l-