Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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FOREWORD Foreword is of times a looking backward, a reviewing ol the accomplishments and events of the past year. We are constantly looking back in history to the standards set by our forebears, anti to the events which have receded in time sufficiently for their greatest effects to stand out in strong relief. In retrospect, therefore, vve gain a rounded comprehension of the circumstances that go to make up our lives, and from it we know the better, what in the future is expected of us, whether it be in a boarding school, or the life into which the Class of 1930 will soon enter. Memory is perhaps the strongest of the four processes of learning. Our memory is the record of the happy, sad, or difficult experiences by which we are made. School, though it seems almost prom idle to repeat it, is, outside of daily lessons, an experience to which we often attach too little importance. Almost unnoticed it leaves its impress upon us, through friends, contacts, community living, and their daily demands. In meeting girls from different parts of the country, we find the need for tolerance of viewpoint in living with a large group, the necessity for cooperation; in coming into contact with more mature minds than our own, we grow with that interchange of ideas and with that challenge to thought. Demands are made of us daily, which in the successful fulfillment should bring out our best abilities, call upon our originality, and develop a sense of proportion and responsibility in budgeting time so that we may finish in a limited period all that is asked of us. Where is this better exemplified than in the non-academic activi- ties — Tea House, Creative Writing and Dramatic Workshops, in the Ingenuity Contests, Athletic Banner, and Flag Honor? Consequently The Cupola is a looking backward over 1930. May it recall memories of what has passed, and be the testimonial that we have carried a step onward the tradi- tions and ideals of Mount Vernon. Marianne L. Stevenson, Editor in-Chief.

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CUPOLA STAFF Mjss Ballou. Marianne L. Stevenson Virginia Shumate... Elizabeth Bingham Janet Williamson,.,,, Wilma Koenig Virginia Me Fir, Fay Randolph Wilson., Ilma Jane Theurer Florence Krueger...... ... Josephine Crawford Mary Louise Bonthron Florence Bates, Jeanie Dean Lauer Louise Raynor,. Zor Pickering Ad riser , ..Editor-in-chief .... Assistant Editor Bust n ess A I citing e r Assistant Business Manager ...Advert i sing A anag e r A s s is tn n t Ad t e rt is ng M a nag er .Literary Editor Assistant Literary Editor Photo gr a ph Edit o r . Art Editor Assistant Art Editor Athletic Editor ... Dramatic Editor Snapshot Ed it or Humor Editor [ 10 ]

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he Cupola i STAFF, 1929-1930 Jfan t Dfan Co IT Head Mistress and Teacher of Soci lpgy and Bible A. B., Mount Holyoke College Studied at Columbia University Marion Alcott Ballou Academic Head A. B.. Mount Holyoke College Graduate Work at Bryn Mawr College Katherine E. Hill..,. ... Recorder Steubenville Seminary Margaret G. Barber. ... „ , .Financial Secretary A. B., Vassar College ANNIE M, BaYlis. Dietitian ( A thfrinf S. Bi.akeslff Registrar A. K. t Mount Holyoke College M, A., University of Chicago Mary Pitman Brown Head of the House A, B., Bryn Mawr College Beulah Jam i s Carpenter . English Syracuse University 7 Oxford University Lecture Course Grace H. Carhoi i ..A ntant to Hmn Mount Vernon Seminary Frances E. Chjckfking . MpsU ss Mount Vernon Seminary Smith College Agnes DfLano History of Art and English A. B,. M, A,, University of Michigan Alice E. Edwards Art Department Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Pupil of Charles Lasar, Paris, and Charles W. Hawthorne, Provincerown Helen Dorothy Elliott ... ...Secretary B. S,. Simmons College Rfhfkan Elting ... ....Science A. B.. Vassar College Wood ' s Hole Biological Laboratory Graduate W ' ork at Columbia University Clara W, Forman Hostess and House Mother J. Lorn a Guard Librarian and Supervisor of Sightseeing Mount Vernon Seminary Mildred Hanna . Latin A. B„ and A. M, Stanford University Studied at Wellesley College. American Academy at Rome, and University for Foreigners at Perugia, Italy Helen C Hastings Director of Studies for Forms A. B., Raddiffe College B. S.. Simmons College Elizabeth Alger Hillyar.. . Art Womans Art School, Cooper Union, New York City Diploma. Fine Arts, Columbia University Rowena Holdken .... Home Economics M. A.. Columbia University Alice B. Hopkins. . — .... Assistant, Business Department Zola Bauman Larkin . Expression and Dramatic Art Graduate of Emerson College of Oratory Pupil of S. H. Clark, Edith Coburn Noyes and Leland Powers [ 12 ]