Plymouth State University - Conning Tower Yearbook (Plymouth, NH)

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ALUMNI As the students of the Senior class at Plymouth Normal School become members of the alumni body, a sincere welcome is extended to them by those graduates who .have striven to organize and maintain an active alumni association. Your school will need you as alumni in the years to come, fully as much as it has needed you while you were active members of its student body. Come back to your class reunions. Organize your own groups, keep informed concerning the work which Plymouth Normal School is trying to do, and above all be loyal to your school at all times. The following letters were recently received from the three presidents of our active alumni organization. From Mrs. Ella Batchcldcr, President of the Plymouth Unit: Dear Seniors: The Plymouth Alumni Unit extends greetings to you! We have been organized eight years and through our small organization, we feel a closer relationship with Plymouth Normal School. We have about thirty active members, including alumni from Ashland, Campion, North Woodstock, and Plymouth. We entertain the graduating class and faculty each year and hold two other meetings, one being our guest night and the other an annual business meeting. Of the various entertainments we have given, I think our Gay Ninety Pops Concert was the most successful. We have had as our guest speakers, Professor Eric P. Kelly of Dartmouth College, author of the well known trilogy of Polish stories for children; Mrs. Ella Shannon Bowles, P.N.S. '05, notable author of New Hampshire; and Mrs. Elizabeth Elkins, P.N.S. ’06, now a member of the State Minimum Wage Board. Last year we were guests of the Concord Unit, where we heard an address by Dr. Fred Englehardt, President of New Hampshire University. During the first few years of our organization our funds were sufficient to enable us to present several gifts to the school. We contributed fifty dollars to the camp at Loon Lake, and in the living room of Samuel Read Hall dormitory are a mirror and an urn, both of which were gifts from the Plymouth Unit. Meeting with our fellow alumni always brings us great enjoyment and makes our memories of P.N.S. most precious. Cordially yours, Ella Fleming Batchelder, Class of T8 From Mrs. Charlene Pettengill Lyford, President of the Concord Unit: Dear Plymouth Seniors: As president of the Concord Unit of the P.N.S. Alumni, I am very happy to send you a short note concerning our activities. Although we have been organized less than three years I feel that we have definitely established ourselves among the organizations of the community. We have about 55 members, 60% of whom are very active. We have four meetings a year from October till June. The first one is a business meeting with a speaker and tea; the second a social meeting; the third our annual guest night; and the fourth is a picnic. One year we had our picnic at the P.N.S. camp at Loon Lake. Our main purpose is to establish a scholarship fund from which any needy girl in this community may borrow. We have earned our money in various ways and have already made a fine start toward a substantial fund. 29

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THELMA ALBERTA WADE “Thellie Plymouth, N. H. Basketball (1) (2); Deck Tennis (4); Badminton (4); Bowling (4). As a desirable friend, cheerful and sincere, you'll find none better. FRANCES BERNADETTE ZAREMBA Frannie” Manchester, N. H. Basketball (1); Senior Glee Club (1) (2) (3); June Pageant (1); Pan-Athenaeum (2); Volleyball (1). We shall always have memories of her sweet and melodious voice. ANNE HEDWIGE WOJNILOWICZ Anchka” — Woji” Manchester, N. H. Junior Glee Club (1); Volleyball (1) (2). Ready, willing, and able—that’s our Anne! RUTH HELEN YEATON Ruthie'’ Barnstead, N. H. Ruth was ever willing to do for others at any time. A real friend. Good luck! 28

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At our first meeting this year we were fortunate in securing Mrs. Ella Shannon Bowles as our speaker. Being an alumna herself made her seem even more interesting to us. We should like to hear in the near future that other alumni groups throughout the State are getting together as we are, to work for P.N.S. Sincerely yours, Charlene Pettengill Lyford, Class of ’23 From Mildred Stone, President pro-tern of the Metropolitan Unit, Boston, Mass.: Dear Seniors: I should like to send you a brief story of our last Metropolitan meeting which was held March 26, 1937 at the Pioneer Club on Stuart Street in Boston. In the absence of the president, Mrs. John Curtin (Jimmie Keenan ’15), the president pro-tem, Mildred Stone, conducted the meeting. We elected new officers for the coming year. There were twenty of the alumni present. Miss Laura McLean (for many years art teacher at Plymouth Normal School) was with us, as she frequently is. We discussed the 1937 reunion at P.N.S. Since it was the reunion year of the class of 1917, several of us had been back and took this occasion to tell of events and happenings at that time. We were told that at least one other group of P.N.S. graduates holds occasional informal meetings in Boston. In fact, Miss McLean told us that she had been present at one such meeting. We voted to urge these people to join the Metropolitan Unit. Miss McLean gave us the names of leaders in that group. We all wish that more meetings were possible, perhaps regional meetings, at the homes of alumni, but we are so scattered and all so tremendously busy that we don’t seem to get to it. We are very glad to keep the spirit of P.N.S. alive through our Metropolitan Unit, and we feel that if it were not for this unit, many alumni teaching and living in Massachusetts would lose contact with the school. Sincerely yours, Mildred Stone, Class of ’17 PERSONALS The alumni and students of Plymouth Normal School extend congratulations to Miss Augusta Nichols, P.N.S. ’25, upon her recent appointment as assistant-superintendent of schools in Manchester, N. H. Miss Nichols was formerly a critic teacher in the training school here. At the time of her appointment, she was headmaster at Hampstead High School, one of Plymouth’s secondary training schools. Miss Nichols received her B.S. and Ed.M. degrees at Boston University. At the present time, she is working on her doctorate. She has been justly recognized as an able executive in the supervisory field. Plymouth Normal School is proud of Augusta Nichols and of her excellent teaching record in the schools of New Hampshire. Mrs. Ella Shannon Bowles, P.N.S. ’05, is now State director of the Federal Writers’ Project at Manchester. Mrs. Bowles’ most recent book, “Let Me Show You New Hampshire,” has received considerable recognition since its publication a year ago. Always an interested and loyal alumna, Mrs. Bowles has addressed two of our meetings in different parts of the State within the past year. Plymouth Normal School is proud of Ella Shannon Bowles as an alumna and as a distinctive contributor to the literature of New Hampshire. 30