Mount Vernon College - Bell Cote Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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JiMStorp of tfje fetfjool George Lloyd, respectively, retaining her- self, positions as Headmistress and Chair- man of the Board of Trustees. It was about 1939 when Miss Cole died and the entire school was turned ever to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd completely. Things went along smoothly until the World War came, actively, to the United States. Then it was that Mr. Lloyd was notified by the Navy Department that the school was to be turned over to them. It seemed impossible — what to do, where to go, how to continue? All of these questions seemed unanswerable, but somehow they man- aged, the students and faculty, to move the school to the vacant second floor of Julius Garfinckel Company in Spring Valley, and then, by some miracle, to a new site, 2100 Foxhall Road. The latter did not happen right away, however, and the school is still not completed, but it has come a long way from the Garfinckel days”. In this, the seventy-fifth year, there is pride in every student and faculty mem- ber, as they look around the campus, in being a part of such an institution — one which, though many trials and hardships have invaded its serenity, has not lost its character or discarded its memories of the founder Mrs. Somers, whose very being is still a great part of the life and spirit of Mount Vernon Seminary (Junior Col- lege). Margaret Larin { 12

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Margaret Newman, Shirley Thompson, Nancy Chamberlaine, Katherine Simpson. Mentor Class President Vice-President Secretary T reasurer Those first few days were ones of be- wilderment as ninety-odd girls, the class of 195 0, slowly began to acquaint them- selves with each other and with Mount Vernon; but with their Big Sisters to help them, life at college began to work out in no time. The first task that confronted us was six weeks of probation with a test and a vaudeville at the end. The Seniors as well as the faculty must have been pleased with our performance — The best vaudeville given in ten years”, some said. After- wards, came our class elections, and we Nancy Chamberlaine Shirley Thompson Katherine Simpson Margaret Newman began to work together as a unit under the leadership of Mimi Breitzke. Soon, we selected our class motto, col- ors and flower, which the Seniors never guessed after many drastic attempts. We were challenged to an Ingenuity Contest by the Seniors and while we lost by a nar- row margin, we had become a working unit. Later in the spring we presented our colors, and in May we gave the traditional Junior-Senior banquet, in honor of the graduating class. 14