Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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SUc u ' bbb , m 3 b E AlS I % L Me

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A v. o A Vi t ore wore O UR attention this Bicentennial year has been centered on the early days of our country. We have been shown that the vision and courage of our forefathers, and especially of the great personality around which our gov- ernment grew up, are responsible lor our position in the world today. So in our school we also should look to the past and remember that, were it not for the dynamic personality of Elizabeth J. Somers and her small beginnings at F Street and later at 1100 M Street, Mount Vernon Seminary never would have existed. When the neighborhood around 1 too M began to change and Mrs. Somers was less able to participate actively in the adminis- tration of the school, Adelia Gates Hensley, through careful managing and planning, made possible “the Greater M.V.S.” we know today. After the death of Mrs. Hensley in 1923, Jean Dean Cole became our headmistress, and now stands to us as representative of the past, with its leisure and graces; and as a leader of the present, broad-minded and progressive, promoting the best inter- ests of M.V.S. It is ours to remember our responsibility to the past, for the fulfillment ol the visions of those who made possible our position both in our school and in our nation.