Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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Undergraduates Front Row—Helen Ernst, Martha Lucies, Leora Seeber, Margaret Hazel, Mary Louise Davidson, Mollie Bunting. Second Row—Edith Chambers, Margaret Dawson, Elizabeth Ackroyd, Mary Piercy, Dorothy Atkins, Cicely Browne. Third Row—Anabel Jova, Christina Kersey, Gertraud Vieser, Virginia Leidenroth, Amy Pearce. Fourth Row—Marion Baldwin, Lois Woodward, Idella Krause, Audrey Hedge. B

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School oj Horticulture ELIZABETH POWELL RIDGWAY Mickleton, New Jersey “Betty” Betty graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls in June, 1927. Then came hard work at the School of Horticulture in September. Her principal interest is the growing of native plants requiring acid soil. She reigns supreme over a section in the WoodLand Path and even delves into bog plants whose tastes are acid. She hopes to be a consultant horticulturist. PENELOPE ROBERTS 137 West Twelfth Street New York City “Penny” Penny left Berkley Institute, New York City, to come to us. She is intensely interested in Landscape design and wishes to work with a Landscape firm. CLARA J. SIMENDINGER 144 Meadow Lane New Rochelle, New York “Rosebud” “Rosebud” graduated from the New Rochelle High School in June, 1927. Since then she has shown a great deal of interest in the forcing of cut flowers. This is only natural as she hopes to have her own nursery, greenhouse and florist shop after her graduation here. Cl 13

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The New Dormitory Louise Bush-Brown The new dormitory which has been so long a dream of the future has become a reality. During the autumn of 1927 a committee was organized for the purpose of raising funds for the new building. An extensive survey of the School was made by the John Price Jones Corporation in order to determine, to some extent, the policy of future expansion, and after several months of preliminary work the active campaign was launched in the spring of 1928, under the able leadership of Mrs. John Hampton Barnes and Mrs. George L. Harrison, Jr. The members of the various Garden Clubs in the vicinity of Philadelphia and the many friends of the School responded most generously to the appeal for funds. Individual contributions ranged from one dollar to ten thousand dollars and by the first of July the sum of about seventy thousand was in hand. It was therefore decided to let the contract for the building, and on Commencement Day, July the 20th, 1928, ground was broken. At the close of the Commencement exercises everyone gathered upon the hill above the garden and after a few brief words Miss Haines, the President of the Board of Directors, turned the first spade-ful of earth. It was, indeed, a memorable occasion in the history of the School. During the months that followed, the Committee for Raising Funds