Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Faculty: In tlw Heading Room IN THE HOME Mrs Lindsay is our beloved School Mother With kindliness ami tact she watches over our home life in work, in play, and in rest hours. She is assisted hv a sturdy but kindly staff of trusties who help her keep us some- what in line. Miss Jean Pearson, Athletic Coach and star wielder of the hockey stick, is her able Aide and Abettor. Miss Jean and Mrs. Si guy Walker sa v Yes and No to a lot of things in the college. Miss Mary Brown is our best friend at vacation time Just think of the places she could go. if she kept for herself some week-end all those train, plane, and bus tickets! Miss Florence Carter ts Special Advisor to the Third Form. She presides amo ng other things over the book- store and the mails. Spell it any way you like. Miss Nan Moses, M.V.S. 1938, hts cheerily into this house group in so many capacities that we wonder what any of us should ever do without her. Whenever our homework is done in Study HalL Miss Linda Stickles Edwards- Librarian, is right there to keep us busy and to come to our rescue when we just can’t find that book . With so many hungry children to feed, you may imagine the strenuous activity of Mrs. Bayhs’s days. She not only provides Faculty: In the Studio 9

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AT PRACTICAL WORK Mr. George W, Lloyd, President, and Mrs, Lloyd, Head mistress, preside over the Administrative Body of Mount Vernon. These beloved ' Lloyds of London” play an important role in all school activities. M iss Catherine Blakcslec, Director of Admissions, is in constant demand as Advisor- At-Large. Although unceasingly busy, she is always ready with a sunn) smile and a helpful suggestion. She is assisted this year by Miss Frederica Duehring, as secretary. Miss Helen Hastings, Academic Dean, lias that happy faculty of taking alt our problems in her stride. Always ready with information and suggestions as to classes, courses, senior colleges and such matters, she holds our individual futures ever in mind- Miss Helen Myers is Miss Hastings 7 very special secretary. On the side. Miss Myers acts unofficially as Mother Confessor to the Day Students. Mr. Robert Rice, Business Manager, is more than patient with our many per- sonal financial tangles. Secretary to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd is Mrs, Frances N nelson. Representing t he Student Body in the administration of the school is an effective system of co-operative government, functioning through the Student Council. This Council meets once a month to discuss particular problems referred to it through representatives of the Forms and the Junior College Councils. These supplementary Councils deal directly with all matters arising within their special jurisdictions. Ruth Applewhite, Head of Student Body, is from Newport News, Virginia. Klizabcth Young from Worcester, Massachusetts, acts as Head Proctor, strenuous occupation at M.V.S. I dmin istratvrs ; In Counsel 8

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several meals a day, but she is always read} with most delicious sandwiches, cakes, and other dainties for our frequent parties. She and her assistant. Miss irginia Ritter, face another demanding task in the other part of the house. The less said about our own housekeeping, the more tribute to the pa- tienee of these two good friends of us all. Now’ and then we partake too heartily of the good things to cat. At such times we are throw n on the truly lender mercies of our best of all school nurses. Miss Davis and Miss Violet Slrausbaugh. They take our ills most seriously, whether real or imagined anti always seem able to do something about it, whatever it is. Miss Davis was married last summer while we were away, and now 7 she is sweeter than ever. All happiness to you, Mrs. Gladys Davis Steinem! A Form ami a Microbe Faculty; In the Coffee Hoorn IN THE CLASSROOM Do you know Miss Agnes? Everybody does, of course. She leaches literature history of Art, and creative writing. Whichever course you choose, you arc bound to fin d i I thrilling and busy. Miss Agnes is assisted in the col- lege English by Mrs. Solon Buck, and in the secondary school by Mrs- Helen Hill Currier, Advisor to the Fourth Form. Mile. Suzanne Donze teaches French and Spanish in the college, presides over the French dining- room. and directs the French Club in meet- ings, in plays, and in occasional jaunts to French restaurants. VI me. Jeanne Canton does the same for the preparatory school. All the Latin is taught by Mrs. Marion F. Moore. We had to give up trying to photo- graph Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Buck. The one time we got them both still together, Mr, 10