Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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SENIOR CLASS Class Mother Madame Eleanor Peltier Motto: Tibi Fidus Esto Class Flower — Violet OFFICERS President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Harriet Babcock Florence Bontjes Virginia Davison Charlotte Gates Catherine Howell Virginia Jones Margaret Martin Addison Pelletier Natalie Smith Addison Pelletier Virginia Davison Emma Ritchie Harriet Piixh Emma Ritchie Polly Schoder Frances Sherman Betty Slaughter Natalie Smith Emily Whiting Elvira Young 13

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MISS COLE M ISS JEAN DEAN COLE who comes from a distinguished Albany family was born in that city and received her secondary education there. After graduating from the Albany Teacher’s Training School, Miss Cole began her professional experience in a district school, and then, a few years later, went to Mount Holyoke College where she received her B. A. degree. After this, five years of the teaching of English preceded her con- nection with Mount Vernon Seminary to which she came in 1905 as instructor in English. During the last years Miss Cole has been closely associated with the School administration both as a member of the Mount Vernon Corporation and as Assistant Head Mistress. As Mrs. Hensley gradually withdrew from active service, she handed over to Miss Cole more and more of her duties and, in a sense, prepared her for the entire responsibility which so swiftly and tragically devolved upon her this Fall. Miss Cole has done graduate work at Columbia University, and last summer attended lectures at Oxford University. The personality of Miss Cole is so strong and vital a one that it has already left its imprint on Mount Vernon Seminary. Her chief objective contributions to it, in the years that she has been here, have been her revision of the curriculum, the system of classification, and the introduction of intelligence tests. But these are only surface indications of M iss Cole’s personality — a personality that evokes, from her staff, enthusiasm and loyalty, and, from the students, confidence and affection, and the conviction that under her leadership the School is sure of the fine and happy future that is its right. „ 12

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Harriet Babcock Knoxville, Tennessee Four years President of Optima, 74 Glee Club, ’21-’22 Dramatics, 74 White Class Truthfulness in word and thought , and honesty in action ’ 14