Miss Porters School - Yearbook (Farmington, CT)

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First Row: lllarjorie Flagg Mary Graham Betty Rockwell fchairmanj Nancy Eliot Ruth Humphreys Second Row: Caroline Washburn Mary Buhl Prudence White Louise Morse Betty Rochester Marion Payne Dorothy Blackwell Priscilla Baker Absent .' Katharine Hamill gy 1 X Firxt Row : Joan Richards Phyllis Preston Betty Rochester Ethel Strong fChairmanj Virginia Lowry Anne Backus Jean lX'IcKee Second Row ilfiarian lWcLaugh Mary Jane Ellis Anne Schrafft lllargaret Delan Emily Holcomb Elspeth Herberf The Library Committee The Library Committee has charge of distributing books for week- end reading. This year the books have been moved to new and more spacious quarters in Adgate. The Train Committee The Train Committee members attend to the supervision of the girls on the New York-Farmington train. They arrange the seating, dis- tribute sandwiches and cookies, and see that everyone is ready to leave the train promptly upon arrival at the destined point. ji 'QKJ

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First Row: Grace Putnam, Caroline Pumpelly, Virginia Durand, Anne Wisner CChairmanJ, Elizabeth Rockwell, Audrey Smidt. Serona' Row: Marion Payne, Mary Jane Ellis, Henrietta Gould, Gene Tierney, Ann VVooster, lllarjory Hasler. The Health Committee The Health Committee has representatives in each house. Their responsibilities are checking the girls out for sports in the afternoons, and seeing that hats and rubbers are worn on rainy days. The Chorus Committee The Chorus Committee supervises the school's Chorus meetings, which are conducted every Wednesday evening by Mr. Fox. First Row : N ,L K' ' i--- Nancy Wylie 1 Cynthia hlyrick H p A I 6 fclhlliflllllllj H ,, 3' 4 i Frances Drisler ' TTT ii Second Row: Rosamond Reed Nancy Tenney .1 ,,.,f Absent : Ann Fisk

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First Ro-w: Anne Whitmarsh, Louise Simrall, Helena Pate, Mary Graham, Elizabeth Barker, Elizabeth Holton, Prudence White, Harriet Watson. Setond Row: Ann Smith, Peggy Gould, Phyllis Preston, Ruth Humphreys, Hope Jerome, Mary Jane Ellis, Audrey Smidt. Third Row: Marion Payne, Anne Stewart, Grace Putnam, Cynthia Landon, Catherine Whittemore, Caroline Pumpelly, Sibyl lVIehaffy. Fourth Row: Barbara Pitt, Stephanie Leonard, Ann Ellis, Anne Jones, Julia Spencer, Mary Watts. ffbsent: Katharine Hamill. Philanthropies The carrying on of the traditional work for the numerous philanthro- pies is a very interesting and deeply gratifying part of our school lives. The Farmington Lodge Society was organized by a small group of girls, in 1887, with Miss Porter's approval, and is maintained in her memory by former members of the school. The Lodge extends its hospi- tality to professional women of any age who may need a pleasant country place in which to recuperate from illness. The Ancients may recommend anyone who they feel needs the comforts the Lodge affords. The chairman of the school auxiliary committee this year is Elizabeth Barker. The Elizabeth V. Hale Memorial Kindergarten was founded by Mrs. Keep, Senior, who was deeply interested in the welfare of young children. About thirty years ago she started a kindergarten for the children of the school employees. Since then, many other children have been admitted. After her death, the Kindergarten was purchased and endowed in her memory by the girls who had been at school while she was principal. The auxiliary committee, of which Henrietta Gould is chairman, also provides knitted clothes and other handmade articles for needy children.