Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Alma Mater UK Alma Mater Glorious With loving hearts and proud, We crown thee all victorious And sing thy praise aloud. In loyalty we serve thee And strive to heed thy call. Mount Vernon, O Mount Vernon ! Through self to conquer all. You give unfailing kindness If trouble meets us here; You foster all our pleasures And make them seem more dear. Nor time, nor care, nor sorrow Can these fair days erase, But they with each tomorrow Help us new tasks to face. Like breath of Spring ' s fresh morning That lifts the heart to song. When courage droops and wavers And paths seem gray and long. Will come thy dauntless spirit To help us on our wav. Mount Vernon, O Mount Vernon ! Hold fast thy tender sway. The changing years may bring us Some longed-for dream of bliss, Yet memory will cherish A sympathy we miss. In hours of joy or sadness, What ' er our need may be, Mount Vernon, O Mount Vernon! Thy children turn to thee.

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Foreword ' HE S ta ft of l he Nineteen Thirty- five Cupola sincerely hope that the changes they have made this year in the construction of the student annual will more truly portray the campus spirit of Mount Vernon Seminarv. In dedicating the Cupola of Nineteen Thirty-five to the Alumnae of Mount Vernon Seminary we are happy to testify to the very important part that the ‘‘old girls” play in the life of our school and we hope to he of service in arousing interest and enthusiasm in the Elizabeth Somers Centenary to he held in 1937, But above all we want our Nineteen Thirty-five Cupola — the New Cupola to stand for the New M. V. S. —an M. A ' . S. growing more mature and more progressive with each succeeding year.

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EmZA m: r I t L So M KKS A m:Ll A ( i AXES 1 l EN SEE V hJ HA N D K A K CoJ,E Three t comen have consecrated their lives to the making of M on ft Vernon Seminary ELIZABETH J. SOMERS Elizabeth L Somers was its creator. Her many-sided genius fashioned its ideals ■ her farsightedness shaped its curriculum ; her insistence upon perfection gave it charm ami atmosphere and when it had ftruwii prosperous her beneficence swung open-wide its portals that scores of eager girls without money and without price, might share with those more affluent, that intangible possession which men call culture. Woven into her very nature was the power to inspire a loyalty to herself and to her school which abides today not only in the hearts of her students but passes on, as in a legend, to their children and to their children ' s children. ABE LI A GATES HENSLEY A delta Gates Hensley was a rare personality. She possessed an unswerving sense of justice which led to her inaugurating increase in salaries. Sabbatical years for her faculty and pensions as a reward for length of service; hers was the self-effacement which abolished prUate ownership of the school, and tiers the superb eourage t hat carried to success the building nj the Greater M. Y S. at a time when the world was in the agonies of war. When death came, as a bolt from the blue— she had already laid Indelibly upon the school — the impress of her own serene and lovely nature. JEAN DEAN COLE TIk deeds of Jean Dean Cole are eloquent in her praise. The completion of the Mcmormi Chapel had her unstinted support; the Golden Jubilee was horn in her active mind and carried to success by iier tireless planning; to her the school owes the development of . r . Somers pioneering plan tor a Junior College; to her the brave meeting of discourH ?- iimit and depression in a distraught world and to her, the celebration of the Elteabeth burners Centenary, destined to reinspire, assemble and unify the hopes of these three women who have given to Mount Vernon Seminary their all. She is the final link in this triad chain, for however great and prosperous the Mount rrnon Seminary of the future may be, these three unchallenged women shall ever occunv a unique place in its history. V • | Hklex Ye atm ax Doughty, ]h. [Y a|