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

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Nineteen-forty- Mrs. James Bush-Brown Miss Anna E. Hkick Miss Margaret K. Watt Dr. Ruth J. Patrick Mr. John A. Miss Katherine Barber Miss Virginia Leader Director Assistant Director Mrs. J. Folsom Paul Mr. James Bush-Brown Andrew, Jr. Miss Margaret Thatcher Miss Mary Enck 8

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Wise-Acres VilE-czrf-atiE± cStaj-j- Editorial Staff Marjorie Johnson '40 Marion Sharpe '40 Associate Editors Peggy Sanford ’40 Sarah Burbank '41 Mary Bittner '41 Feature Editors Carolyn Jones ’40 Lillian Luben ’41 Rhoda Specht ’41 Assistant Editors Phyllis Woerner ’40 Jeanne Dorsey ’40 Betty Reed ’40 Elaine Condit ’40 Ann Heartt ’41 Billie Rudolf ’41 Dorothy Barry ’41 Jean Butz ’41 Mary Jane DeMuth ’41 Art Staff Photography Staff Marion Sharpe ’40 Barbara Brown ’41 Lillian Luben ’41 Ruth Yates ’41 June Eld ridge ’40 Marjorie Carmichael ’40 Betsy Vansant ’40 Marilyn Mitchell ’41 Peggy Van Buren, ’41 Advertising Manager Marjorie Carmichael ’40 Advertising Staff Roberta Hughes ’40 Ethel Emery ’40 Peggy Geuting ’40 Peggy Sanford ’40 Betty Avery ’40 Sarah Burbank ’41 Gloria Clarke '41 Linn Henry ’41 Faculty Advisors Mrs. James Bush-Brown Miss Anna E. Heick 7

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Wise-Acres By Mrs. James Bush-Brown On an April afternoon, in the year 1910, Miss Jane B. Haines presented to a congress of women at Bryn Mawr her plans for the founding of the first School of Horticulture for Women in America, and 1 am going to quote briefly from the address delivered on that spring afternoon thirty years ago. “Believing thoroughly in the principle of horticultural training for women, and that the time for founding such an institution is now come, a number of people have associated themselves together with the purpose of opening, in the near future, a school for this practical training of women in gardening and kindred subjects. The purpose of the school is to offer to educated and earnest minded women, who have a love for country life and an aptitude for country pursuits, practical training in horticulture. The first students in the School will have much of the fun, for to them will be given an insight into the foundation of things—the laying out and planting of the gardens and grounds, and the creating of custom and precedent so dear to all schools and colleges. “One principle above all others we will keep before us and would particularly enforce,—the trained hand with the trained mind, which means mastery and success.” During the months preceding the delivery of this address at Bryn Mawr a survey had been made of the European Colleges of Gardening which have long held such a recognized place in the educational world, and it was decided to establish this new school in America along similar lines. A farm was purchased near what was then the little country town of Ambler, and the first entry in the Log Book which was kept during those early days is dated September 21, 1910, “Work was begun on the alterations and repairs of the house.” The work on the old farm house continued throughout the winter months and on February 10th, 1911, the School of Horticulture for Women officially opened its doors with Miss Mary Collins as principal, Miss Varley as instructor, and four students. Some of the entries in the Log Book during the first year of the School’s existence are both interesting and amusing. Early in March, several weeks after the opening of the School, a demonstration of pruning and spraying was given, to which the public was invited. The weather was very unfavorable, one of those bitterly cold and windy March days which 9