Ossining School for Girls - Quill Yearbook (Ossining, NY)

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THE QUILL for 1916 youthful cadets casting looks of admiration toward the gray-clad figure. In a trip through the new government buildings at Washington, I met Alethea Carpenter, a far-famed statistician on Eugenics, and learned that it was largely due to her- influence' that Congress had in- stituted the National Eugenics Law. . In a rather roundabout course, l visited the city which Genevieve Race was so loath to call home, and on one of the main streets I saw her, a martyr to the musical world, which she had renounced for work in the Salvation Army where many cheery songs and large collections were attributed to Salvation Gen. ' , A Near the mid-west of the country, I investigated the Michigan University where lived Emily'Thomp- son. Never having been quite willing to go far from home, she had refused many offers of marriage, al- ways promising to be a 'csisterv tothe rejected, and had finally established herself as the Michigan Col- lege Widow. I Nearby, the flourishing town of Peoria invited me for a brief tour of its main buildings and sights of interest. There, on the very vehicle in which strangers rode to see these sights, did I find the once- diffident Lucile, a guide in the employ of the 'tPeoria Sight-Seeing Transit Company. - ' Between the central and far western portion of the country, I passed a nameless village, where was said to flourish, under the instruction of Eleanor Carroll, a Co-educational School, innocent of any discipline and of all purpose. I -I .1 I

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THE QUILL for 1915 hooksj, and as I passed by the place, I saw the pros- pcmus young proprietor ride off in a beautifully appointed new limousine, with her efficient advertis- ing agent, Eleanor George. ' n I had expected to see the name of Margaret Ham- ilton Paine in blazing lights above the entrance of the Schubert Theatre. I learned, however, that her sueeess on the stage had pleased the public but had failed to satisfy her. She had given it up for a domestic career and had married an unassuming Russian shoemaker, so, instead of seeing her in some Shakespearian role, I caught a glimpse of her, scrub- hing the back porch of a small apartment. On my way to Ossining I glanced at a latest edition. Large black headlines announced that Lonisc M. Frick had won' the world's tennis cham- pionship in an International game. game. I I stopped to see the new improvements for which the Ossining School had become famous. Among the changes, was a new Domestic Science building, where .-Xdeha Floyd was ably supervising classes as suc- cessor to the recently-married Miss Vosburgh. In Ossining, too, was Helen Calam' also situated. Happily married, she had found a use for every phase gi Home-Making course-even that of the Kinder- hl . . A little further up the Hudson, I visited the Gov- ernment Military School where I was enthusiastically flfeefefl by Florence Leisy, the first woman student S293 Qflmiffed to West Point. She looked nobby in- te 111 her trim uniform, and I saw many of the 44 THE f if I' zhegftfi' IDE in f ,' 1,1 alla? stattiilfd laftfl stililfi 5' irsrf aidfmf the 11551 woitizff and lift. Gu' Ya' I son. home. ways if had ta lege Wg X.: lllt id? 0f inte:- dfffliezi y Bm theme! Chit i

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THE QUILL for 1916 Not far distant' from the school, and in the same neier-do-Well village, was an 'ardent disciple of Samuel Richardson, who wrote rhymed love-letters for the giddy young people in attendance at the above-mentioned school, and I learned thather name was still Julia Frankle. I In the yet-wild state of Nevada, I met a troupe of vaudeville artists- Qamong them a mesmerist and his adept partner, known in real life as Majel Reevej, which had been disbanded by a young circuit-rider, then holding Gospel Meetings in a rudely-erected tent on the main street. He had been bereft of one leg, when serving as lieutenant in the great European War, so he had as his very helpful aid his. meek, little Wife, nee Beatrice Payne. 'V Far down in the novv peaceful territory border- ing on the Mexican line, I was interested in calling upon the founder of a new Military Institute, which he and his Wife, Mrs. Martin, were so ably conducting. As I had begun my tour in the chill land of ice and everlasting night, it was altogether fitting that I end it in the land of everlasting youth. There, among the orange blossoms, I found Thelma Senior Uber, who having discovered matrimony a failure without three daily letters, had agreed to Mutual SepaI'aii0H so that she and her husband might carry on the inter- course so strongly encouraged during her school- days at Ossining. - . i Thus profitably did I find that the Oss1n1n8 Seniors of 1916 had used their training. THE f Elf l thelllt? I if declrf ,,'g,. ,.-.J 'mf UW' Tm, , 'V Io wt the tem S pair ot ga: minutes 2 Quinn ii ,intent Gamer: itrpenif .laude C I Slfad. E A 80051155 - Helen Lamb S1 l'0ff-5 XP' X-4-a 3111241 Smith Ultnl: Q, I, le. -to