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P ' ' . if 4 :jg ., . ...I 1 V ' .. - n x Q.. i f.. -'--- -, .- Q 1- fi 4,1 15 ll All--'Pj' Lev ,.- yi i ' 2' -:jigs--T - 7' - - ' ...r f -1. 5 ., ' f nt ? Q 1 Q? D Q' V 'L 1-F' . . 3i vol. 65 spring, 1957 No. 1 Compatibility is perhaps the key that unlocks the door to success. Beyond the door ability, stamina, and initiative weave themselves into the pattern that is success. However, there must be a beginningg until the art of a tactful word and smile is achieved one can progress no further. But when these are mastered the battle is half over and preparations for the step over the threshold can begin, for now one has the aid of a friend. THE CONTENTS EDITORIAL LITERARY THREE NIGHTS HAVE I ...... THOUGHTS ............................... THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM .... THE ENGINE ......................................... LIFE IS OFTEN LIKE THE SEASONS .... THE' LAST FIVE HOURS ........................ NOCTURNAL SNOWFALL .... LIFE ................................. THE STRAW MARKET ,,,,,,. A BALLAD FOR RIDING? OR Go NNI-IST, YOUNG MAN, BABYSITTING ............................. THE WEB ............. .. MY RUBY RING ........................ OBJECT BEYOND THE CLOUDS . THE HARBOR ........................... THE INEVITAELE ,,,,,,,,,,,, MY WORK OF ART ............. A STRANGE ADVENTURE ...... THE NIGHT EXPRESS ..... THE SHOE ..................... MOTHER'S DOMAIN ,,,,, APOLOGY ..................... THE CLEARING ............. TODAY'S NEWSPAPER ...... UNUSUAL DAY .......... A FLAME .... ......... . NIGHT EXPRESS ...................... THE DITTY THE CITY SANG ,,,, GO WEST .........-..........n-U.. JUST SHORT OF THE FENCE ................................. Stephanie Healey ,, Virginia Brown Julie Eiseman Charlotte Marsh Sally Cessna Cecelia Wittinann Avis Churchill Julie Eisernan Carolyn Reynolds Janet Lonlbwrd Susannah Carroll Julie Eiseinan Mary Argyle VVendy Elliott Vanessa Noble . Candy Cashman Jane MierS Susan Slzwartz Virginia Brown Lanney Suloujf Susan Shwartz Vanessa Noble Kay King Lynne R0binS0'fI Lynn Kingston .. Candy Cashman Georgene Walkley Elaine Vargis Diane Dubrzlle Illustrations by Martina Bofty, Sally Cessna, Janet Dayton, Stephanie Healey, Saellen MeCar-fhy, Judith Parker, Melanie Suloujff ALU M NAB Literary and Art THREE NIGHTS HAVE I Cloud nights are the gray fog and rain nights. ., . With stinging, curling mists. Unearthly, mystical people and animals dance and cavort, and run with sudden fright- away from the glimmering golden streetlight. Star nights are the crisp, exuberant nights, with sharply defined shadows, and glittering noises, and dancing lights wheeling around the sky, caught for a while as ornaments on the obsidian trees, that crackle in the glacial breeze. Moon nights are the silver nights, when all is filled'with a soft blue light. Ghost people walk through phlox-filled gardens that froth with glistening white petals, ,1 while the-twinkling leaves of white 'f birch trees reflect their silver songs, and the moon swoopsabove the cavorting meadows. STEPHANIE HEALEY, '57 K4 , , ,ff fd x f is MQ I hi s THOUGHTS There is a leaf that Clings to a vine outside A Window. The rains spatter it, The wind blows it, The sun warms it, And the frost kills it. Is life like that leaf : Does it cling to a vine With grasping tentacles, Absorbing all it can from The roots until it is forced By the cruel elements of the World to wither and die? Have you seen a leaf tossed around by the Wind ? H-ave you seen a life raked into a heap and Burned with the rest? GINNY BRowN, '57 P1-0uaQAxb THE OFT REPEATED DREAM Long before she knew the meanings of the words she spoke, Sarah firmly announced that she wanted to be someone. She wanted to be great- to be applauded and recognized, she wanted her star to shine long after she herself had departed. At the age of seven, she appeared in a short class play, and it Was then and there that she decided her field. She was to be an actress In fact, Sarah already thought that she was, but her task was to prove it to the critics of the nation. Her early years passed normally enough. In outward appearance she went through phases of being passionately interested, and then decidedly uninterested in her chosen profession. To herself, she vowed daily she would be like no one else. She would have no part of being married right after high school or college and devoting the rest of her life to bringing up whiny babies the correct way. That was a waste of time -- a method used by average people to show they had no talent - no greatness, and so they must surrender to the dullness of the common life. At the age of nineteen, life really began for Sarah when she went to try her luck in the vastness of New York with another hopeful to-be actress, Ruth Williams. Although Ruth's career was to be only an interlude before marriage, the two girls got along well and set up a tiny apartment -on the top floor of a rundown boarding housefand began as do so many others - making the rounds of producers' oflices. It was soon obvious that more mo- ney than money from home was going to be necessary to make ends meet, and so the two of them got jobs as waitresses in a fashionable restaurant. It was there that Sarah met Brian, at that time just beginning as a buyer for a small time department store. It is indescribable just what it was that drew the two of them together, for, as a rule, Sarah had nothing to do with those who could not help her in any way. Ruth, on the other hand, was a friend to everyone, and it is probable that Sarah would not have gotten along at all without Ruth's being there to help when the going got rough. Eventually, as it it is with all truly great people, Sarah got her break. Out of the blue she was cast as the lead in Don lMichael's great play Forty- Second Street. When the play closed three and a half years later, Sarah was on top. She had offers pouring in with material written especially for her. Of course, by this time she had moved from her cold water flat and was liv- ing in a swank apartment on Park Avenue. She no longer lived with Ruth. Although still friends, Ruth had had to move out when success moved in on Sarah. But Brian was still around. They quarreled bitterly and constantly over Sarah's attitude on life, yet Brian continued to wait, sincerely be- lieving that the greed of power would one day pass, and they could be together. It was the night after Sarah had been signed to do the lead in Home- ward Angels that Brian asked her to give it all up and marry him. Sarah was shocked. Do you think I have worked and slaved so long and so hard to give it all up and marry you? Don't you realize that if this play is a suc- cess, it just might be possible that I would be awarded the Hadrean Award, an honor going to only the greatest in the world? How could you possibly think that I would give all that up just because I was fond of you? It hit Brian hard. She would never change. It was over - he had better end things now than string along for years searching for something that Sarah could never give him. A memory passed through his mind from his early days with Sarah, but he said nothing as he stood to take her home. It was two and a half years before saw Brian again. She had just fi- nished an interview with the New York Press. In two days she was to be presentedawith the Hadrean Award in a tremendous ceremony honoring her success in her new play. She was now, without a doubt, someone. She was recognized and applauded. She had everything. There was a knock on her door. When she looked up it was to see Brian and Ruth standing before her. There was a beautifully strange and exciting look in Ruth's eye as she said, We just came by to congratulate you on your coming award, and to tell you that we were married last night. We are leaving on the ten-thirty plane for Bermuda tonight. We wanted you to be the first to know, Sarah. Isn't it funny how life works out in the end. Our dreams both came true, and at just about the same time. Sarah nodded vaguely, murmured Congratula- tions , and excused herself as the second knock told her she was on in five. Out in the wings she stole a glance at the audience, and a lonely and panicky feeling came rushing over her. What had she done to her life? She thought of Ruth and she thought of herself. What did she really have, what had she really accomplished. Was it worth it, that oft repeated dream? She choked down the sob that surged up in her throat, and walked blindly out onto the stage -- oblivious of the cheers that crashed around her. JULIE EISEMAN, '57 THE ENGINE Thump, Thump, Thump. A mighty engine is Steadily at work. First day, then night, Its hard job never ends. A constant iight to supply and feed The hungry cells that cry in need. Upstairs and downstairs Go buckets of fresh food, A series of pumping and refilling Occupy each interlude. Can one guess what This great engine is? It lies in one's own body- The ever-faithful heart. CHARLOTTE MARSH, '58 LIFE IS OFTEN LIKE THE SEASONS When all around the wind did blow, my troubles did begin. Even through a big full coat I still could feel the cold. It encompassed my life like a Man- of-War, whose tentacles grasped each unpleasant event. My health could not endure this bitterness, and therefore I was sent to bed. My work mounted up, for I could not concentrate. It was depressing to look out the window and see the dark sky above. It was a long, hard Winter ahead. Oh, how I wished that I were home to discuss my thoughts with the family. Now, as I climb the hill, the grass is greener. The goldfinch is singing a song filled with gaiety. The daffodils have started to rise above the soft, rich land. I too would like to make a fresh start with this new season ahead. Spring is here and I feel much happier. My mind feels so clear and fresh like the weather. As I look across the field, from the top of the hill, I see that marvelous place, home. SALLY CEssNA, '57 THE LAST FIVE HOURS I drove into the town. The main street-in fact the only street-was lined with tiny, junky, little curio shops with large signs proclaiming Real Indian Jewelry , Handmade Pottery and Rugs to lure in the gullible and not-too-smart-tourists. Much relieved, I passed the main tourist center and drew closer to the middle of the town. To the right was the Penny Arcade, still strewn with the rubbish of the night before. Far down the row of closed booths, I caught a glimpse of a little guy 'sweeping up the trash into a large heap. A little further on was the bar and 'grill section. The lights on their gaudy signs were off, and it was hard to believe that a few hours ago this had been the section of a number of noisy-perhaps I should say raucous-parties. A few dingy restaurants were opening up and the owners of the souvenir shops were preparing for the daily tourist trade. Almost the only sound, besides the steady swish of cars rushing by, was that of a tinny piano banging out The Music Goes Round and Round . It was coming from the Spot Bar and Grill a few blocks up the street. That's where I worked-at least for a few days. Our radio station was covering the piano marathon up there, and Iphad been assigned along with two other men to report on how Bill Myers-that's the aspirant for the world's record in piano-playing-was doing. It was the last day of the grueling contest and everyone was pretty tense. Bill wasn't though. After four days and nights of pounding out tunes, he was almost as energetic as when he started. This Spot Grill really wasn't much. Run-of-the-mill. Dark green walls in the dance floor and booth section, and veneered oak in the bar on the other side of the partition. An overhead fan blew dusty, hot air on all below. Like I said, the Spot wasn't too much, but I suppose the reason why it was so popular was that it had atmosphere , though I failed to feel any. Over at one side of the dance floor stood the old upright with a tall, lanky man with bright red hair and an unusually long nose playing Sweet Georgia Brown . Hi, Bill, I said gaily. Hi, John. How are ya? acknowledged Bill, without missing a beat in the music. I walked over to the announcer on duty and relieved him of the job. He looked pretty tired. Beside his chair was an ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts, some only half-smoked, a cup of cold, muddy coffeeg and a highball glass filled with melting ice cubes. I looked at my watch. It was almost eight. Just a few minutes for me to grab a cup of java and then begin my hourly report on how things were. I clicked on the mike. This is John Bradley at the Spot Grill here in Manitou bringing to you the reports of this fabulous- piano marathon by Bill Myers. How do you feel now, Bill. I addressed the piano player, who was en- joying his five minute hourly break. Fine, just fine, John, he said in the cliche-type answer of all people who are asked this question. It hasn't been hard at all. So far I feel O. K. This makes the end of your 94th hour? 95th, he corrected. I said goodbye to Bill and left him to enjoy a cigarette and a fast cup or two of coffee while I urged all the listeners to come down and see this great event. I shut off the mike and went back to my breakfast. What an easy job! Once an hour I gave, reports or an interview, and the rest of the time sat around talking - mostly to Bill to keep his morale up. ' I looked out the window. The daily traflic jam was just beginning to pile up. Tourists, all tourists. Many were wearing billed hats and dark glasses with gaudy Hawaiian shirts. The women looked even worse. Mostly middle- aged in slacks and faded plaid shirts, and wearing what they felt was appro- priate - ten-gallon hats! Kids were rushing around the cars and playing catch. Most of them were wearing tattered jeans and plain, bright shirts. The scene was always the same. Every tourist looked alike and soon even watching the kids and listening to them became boring. I walked back over to where Bill was and slipped down into a chair. Anything much happen last night? I asked. He began to play St, Louis Blues . N ot much. Real big crowd, though. Most of 'em didn't leave until about two this morning. Come to think of it, there was a little excitement. Cops had to break up a brawl down at the Loop around midnight. That's about it, though. We continued shooting the breeze for a while. Then I noticed it was al- most nine -- another report. A crowd had begun to gather, so I decided to give Bill a little privacy and get the opinions of the people. Pretty boring, but it was always good as a time-filler. I I snapped the mike on, gave the usual introduction, and approached a burly man of about fifty, who was standing at the edge of the group. His face, hands, and faded clothes were grease-stained as he had a two- day growth of beard on his square jaw. He peered at the world out of beady, black eyes that were stuck under an overhanging brow. Hello, sir, I said. ' He seemed to be in a trance, intently watching a tiny spider on the wall. Hello, sir,' 'I repeated. The big guy turned around. Hullo, he replied sullenly. What is your name, sir ? I asked politely, wondering what would hap- pen next. Henry Martinez . How do you think this marathon will turn out ? Huh ? Do you think Bill Myers will break the record? 'Course not. Crazy guy. Does he think he'll do it? I say this guy once, thought he could do it and . . . Yes, sir. Thank you, sir, I interrupted. It takes all kinds to make a world, I thought philosophically as I tucked the mike back into the corner until the next broadcast. Bill had gone to get a glass of water. When he came back, he looked pretty tired. Hey, Bill you look worn out. How do you feel? Not any different, John. Still as good as ever. Feel like I could stay awake forever. He began fingering the piano nervously. O, K., Bill, Your five are up. He began pounding away at Bumble Boogie. Suddenly, he seemed very tired and switched to Sentimental J ourney . What's wrong, Bill? I'm O. K. Just more tired than I thought, I guess. He began playing more hesitantly. Come on, Bill, I urged. Just a few more hours. A few more hours and you've got the title. You can do it. He slumped over the piano, almost alseep. Hey, Bob, I shouted to the bartender. Better call a doctor. Shaking Bill, I pleaded, Please, Bill stay awake. Just a little longer. You can do it. He began weakly to play Blue Moon, then collapsed over the piano. O. K., folks. Go on. That's all. N o more show, I shouted at the crowd that had gathered. I glanced quickly at my watch. It was time for the ten o'clock report. How was I going to tell what had happened? No more time to think. I touched the switch of the mike and began, This is John Bradley at the Spot Grill in Manitou, bringing you the final report on the piano marathon. After 97 hours of playing, Bill Myers has just collapsed. It is thought that he may have been drugged. We will have more information for you later today. CECELIA WITTMANN, '58 NOCTURNAL SNOWFALL 0 The glistening sn-ow falls o'er the land 0 , . J Like downy feathers. tv D ' 6 0 5 l 0 New, 'G 6 ' H V bf ' ' white 0 6 ob X ' 6 X 0 7 ,, ff ' 0 K 0 6 Q ' Tossed carelessly by the Wind, ' 6 fo ' 0 ' ' 0 D Reflecting the moonlight . . . -rr-A v-,,B,.iN ' 9 O '6, 0 All is still. f-s - is - ' il-Lge--Z.f, Avis CHURCHILL, '57 J - 5 0 ' H9 LIFE What is life? No one really knows. We know that we live, we know that we must die, and the period in between is defined as life. What are things that should be important in life? Why do we have to go to church, why should we respect our elders? What is the reason for am- bition? For after all, when it is over we are laid in the ground never to really know if our life was lived the way it should have been. And who cares? Oh, yes, the loved ones Weep and mourn, but in a month or two they smile again. Living goes on as it always has, and those left behind learn to get along without us. Supposing you are good. As a child you obey your parents and get good marks in school. You go to Smith College, are pretty and popular, marry the boy down the street and raise three healthy and well mannered boys..At the age of seventy three, you die of cancer. Supposing you are bad. As a child you are defiant and rebellious. You take what you want when you want it. You quit high school, scorn the morals of others, and you hold on to your job only because you are reason- ably pretty. At the age of seventy three, you too, die of cancer. The end is inevitably the same - death. Why, then, should we obey rules and listen to those wiser than we? Why should we educate ourselves and try to be nice to people we do not like? Why should we be ashamed to cheat, and why should we believe in God because the Bible tells us to? To 'each of us is given one life. One day we will all arrive at its cross roads to ask, Why should I be good? The answer can only be in you - yourself, your person, your being. It is your decision, your answer to find. The God we hope is there watches us all as We stumble and fall down the road blindly searching for the answer why ? From ashes to ashes, from dust to dust, the period in between is life , g JULIE EISEMAN, '57 THE STRAW MARKET As I approached the straw market, the little colored girls came and tugged at my skirt, shouting, Here, missv, missy, come see the pretty baskets. When I entered this strange market, I was fascinated with the many odd and colorful baskets. The market consisted of rows upon rows of crude tables, each adorned with intricate woven baskets, hats, slippers, and even some seashell jewelry made by hand of native shells. , A day in the life of the colored women who sat patiently for hours waving and continuously talking seemed monotonous to me, but to them it was their way of life, and they seemed to enjoy it. I walked up and down the rows. The hot Carribean sun beat down on me, and as I found a shady spot under a huge orange straw umbrella I stopped short. The scene was typical of the market. A colored lady was sitting cross legged on the ground, and her small children were playing con- tentedly with an empty cork shell by her side. She was busy weaving a mul- ti-colored basket of vivid blue, yellow, red, orange, and green, which she probably considered of the best taste. On her head were perched five or six hats, which was her way of displaying them. Out of the corner of her eye, she was always watching for prospective customers, and in a carefree style she had a corncob pipe hanging out of the side of her mouth. She really looked as if the circus had come to town. To finish the costume, she wore a black dress with blotchy red roses here and there, all the way down to the uneven frayed hem, and a pair of hoop earrings which hung to her shoulders. , Her stand was probably the most eye catching of all because of her ap- pearance, and people bought baskets there just to catch a glimpse of this bizzare figure. The day was fading out in the distance, if you stood on your tiptoes, you could see out over the market to the horizon where the fishing boats were coming in. They were laden with the daily catch. In their wake, the sun cast a lazy shadow over the turquoise waters. This was the end of a typical day in a little village in the Carribean. As the stands closed for the night, the shouting and humming of busy women ceased, and the women gathered their small children, walked down to the wharf to greet their husbands, and were off to their small villages for a peaceful rest and to ready themselves for another busy day at the colorful tourist showplace. CAROLYN REYNOLDS, '58 v-fi A BALLAD FOR RIDING? D OR GO WEST, YOUNG MAN, GO WEST The day is dark, the road is stony but here I come on my trusty pony. Pony? Ah no, he's a full grown horse but he's still a pony out West, of course! My chaps are stiff, my seat is sore, but before we reach town, there are many miles more. We've got to help them, they're depending on us - Oh why, Oh why, didn't I take the bus? We've got to warn them, in our hands is their fate - But look! There! I see itg the city gate! Success, old pony, we've made it at last though even a snail would have been as fast . . . Yet this dreaming has gone too far already as I stand here and look out on a steady stream of traffic going by -on the street, and the pavement is cold and hard under my feet. Back to work, to the steady grind, though I hope someday soon that I will find time to take a trip out West -- not just in a dream like all the rest. JANET LOMBARD, '57 BABYSITTING Every mother, of course, thinks the world of her child and looks upon him as the best of all children. While she murmurs to herself, This is cer- tainly the most charming child, her neighbor remarks mutely to herself, What an ugly, bold, little thing - not half as cute as ours. I, as a baby- sitter, have had a lot of practice in taking care of children, and at times I'm ready to condemn all infants. , Babies possess little character or originality of thought and behavior. Their abilities and pastimes are limited to three: eating, sleeping, and crying. Even with these habits they are defective. They lack teeth and can't digest readily, so that one is forced to feed them strained, soggy food and mashed bananas that look rotten, but are-supposedly only over-ripe. They sleep, yes, but they also wake up in the middle of the night. As to crying, at first babies don't even shed tears, although, I must admit, they develop this talent in a very short time. Soon, they make this an absolute art and become expert weepers. Whn you're asked to take care of a neighbor's child, you usually are very willing to accept the offer in hopes of earning a little extra spending money. It never fails, however, that no sooner do the parents leave for the evening, than the darling baby, who had been sleeping peacefully before you arrived, begins to bawl. You pick him up and sing to him and pray that he'll stop, but if you don't succeed you try dancing from room to room until you've been around the in-side of the house almost fifty times. At that point he is still bawling and you're ready to go to slee-p yourself. This is the typical reaction one evokes from every infant. Either he becomes very sad, or he drools down the length of your new, clean sweater. The parents tell you to give him an ounce or two of milk if he happens to wake up, and after that he'll doze right off to sleep. You try that, but no, he d'oesn't want any milk, either warm or cold. You begin to panic. Then it dawns on you to change the child's diapers. Sometimes this helps and some- times it doesn't. At long last the parents return and take you home. You're rather shaken and nervous. You swear that you'll never accept another babysitting job. I suggest that if you have a lot of patience and don't mind noise, then this is the outside job for you, but if not, I guess you'll have to find a nice quiet job in order to earn a few extra dollars. SUE CARROLL, '58 THE WEB Born to drink, to cheat and lie, To never raise my head. For once begun, forever spun, Enmeshed in the Web of sin am I. JULIE 'E1sIEMAN, '57 MY RUBY RING My ruby ring is a little finger ring about three fourths of an inch long. It has a beautiful hand-carved setting in white gold. The design is like a pattern of fine lace. On the finger, the fancy lace-work stands out and beau- tifies the stone. Adorning the stone, is a string of tiny seed pearls. You ask yourself, How could such tiny beads have been strung? How could they be pierced without breaking the minute sphere? Finally you corne to the most important, the most beautiful, the most glorious part of the ring, the ruby. The color is like the beautiful red rose set in the glistening black hair of a Spanish Senorita. In the shadows, the stone seems to rest in deep majestic slumber. When the rays of the sun strike the gem, it sends forth a radiant red glow. The ring as a whole is a very beautiful example of artistic work- manship. MARY ARGYLE, '60 OBJECT BEYOND THE CLOUDS This summer I took a trip by plane to California, and since it was my first Plane trip, I would like to relate to you the experience I had. I have always loved civilization and I believe it to be an extremely awe- inspiring thing, but nature, however, is certainly beyond compare. Especially is it so when you think -of how each little leaf is so perfect that no human hand could create it. There beyond the clouds, I beheld nature untouched by human hands. Beneath our plane was a blanket of clouds and above there was only space, pure and blue. Often we dived down into the clouds, and the plane became wrapped in a heavy mist. When we climbed back to our original altitude, itwas like finding a sunny clearing in the middle of a dark forest. When the clouds beneath us cleared away, I could not help but admire the little farms below, with their acres laid out in a checkerboard pattern. Later in the afternoon as the last beams of sunlight glistened their way down to earth, I saw a glowing disk-like object speeding in and out of the clouds. In a matter of seconds, every one was staring out the window at this amazing sight. Our plane was going two hundred and eighty miles per hour, yet the speed of this craft was later estimated at approximately one thousand tive hundred miles per hour. For fifteen minutes and twelve seconds, we were accompanied by this strange craft, but then it gained altitude and disappeared leaving us silently watching. When we landed in Los Angeles we found it extremely difficult to come back to reality. What we had observed in the sky seemed so unbelievable that We felt as if we had been intruders in space. WENDY ELL1o'r, '60 1 g 1 ,1 + L 'i'f,Ax ' 'xx 1, P If l , - ...f X I -X1 Y Q THE HARBOR The rotted planks creaked, as if scolding their passenger for his bur- densome weight, and their passenger sighed relieving the tension of his life in one deeply caught breath resistant to the desire to draw another. The overhanging mist snuggled into every damp corner and peeked out at this new visitor. The clouds above hung close together, huddled, watching, hinding this obscure spot from the luminous gaze of the moon. The sea hummed a soft melody as she slipped quietly between the rocks, maternally caressing, protecting, and encompassing her mysterious in- habitants. Abruptly the planks ceased their cries and a curious silence fell. Only the soft breeze, on its endless journey, passed briefly, unwilling to ceasewin agreement with its surroundings. All heaven waited in respectful attention. , In defiance, one cry was uttered, resounding, acutely aware in its tor- tuous quality. A heavy splash sounded, sending full ribbons of spray through the gaps between the battered planks. With all her fury, the sea pounded vigorously, in a mournful, scolding, yet mending way as she encircled her new inhabitant ! Night, in all its glory and wisdom, alone keeps the secret of injustice. VANESSA NOBLE, '57 THE INEVITABLE The day was warm but fresh, with the sun not quite overheard, when we were riding the waves of Lake Huron. In a shiny little racing boat were four bathing-suit-clad and speed-happy teen-agers, out to test a gleaming new motor. Time meant only moments! For as we sped along through buoys zipped around freighters 'and lighthouses, the tingling spray of the Whitecaps, mixed with the beating sun and wind, made one oblivious to such thoughts. Suddenly we realized the approximate hour, and hastily agreed to head for shore. In so doing the driving opened the motor full force, making the fiat boat Hy over the waves. Faster and faster we raced, with the boy, somewhat expertly and very foolishly, turning sharp angles and drawing fmgure eights. Fear swept over me, as I tried to catch my breath. The many gruesome accidents that I had always heard about in the water, especially concerning the whirling motor flashed before my mind as I pleaded with the driver to stop the stunts and slow down. I knew that a mishap of some sort was inevitable, as he not too successfully assured me that, even if something did happen, which seemed very unlikely to him, th motor would automatically stop, and he resumed his tricks to the glee of the others. We were nearing shore, with the spray steadily slapping our faces. The inevitable finally happened, proving my apprehensiveness correct. The boat completely jacked on one angle too many, and too sharp. Well, one by one, four ashy-pale faces popped up, and with frightening eyes watched the boat sink. And yes, I am grateful to report, the motor did stop. The lessons learned by four once speed-happy teen-agers, who took stock of their fortunate position, realizing the danger of speed which more often than not is fatal, I am sure will have a lasting effect. KATHLEEN CASHMAN, '59 MY WORK OF ART When I sit down to write a composition, I usually start off quite well. I hastily jot down a few suggestions for a title and write my name in the upper right corner-about three times in three different handwritings. After that, however, my mind seems to wander, and I sit for a few moments staring into space with a pencil in my hand. Suddenly I look at my paper and discover that I have accomplished all sorts of wonderful things. In the center is a picture of a won1an's head facing, besides an unfinished game of Tic-Tac-To, a queer looking creature with horns, elephant ears, a round face, and a peculiar body. Below him a series of geometric figures, forming what appear to be steps-upside down. Slightly to the right is a rather large abstract creation, which could be interpreted as almost anything. Southeast of it I find several artistic scroll-like figures. Directly above I notice a memo- randum concerning tomorrow's ancient history test. I now find that my eyes have returned to my signatures, and left of them I can see what could be a rocket ship reeling downward from-the top of the page. As I once more scan my work of art I notice that I have greatly enhanced its appearance through the use of innumerable unexplainable scribbles, each of which is retraced many times. I believe I am now prepared to write my composition. JANE Mums, 'eo A STRANGE ADVENTURE The day was extremely warm as the fishing boat Daisy cruised out of the harbor. Four men stood on the deck of the newly painted boat, watching the waves dance lazily to and fro. g The men were equipped with the newest skin-diving gear, and seemed quite anxious to reach the designated place where they were to dive for pearls. It was mid-afternoon when the boat dropped its anchor into the cool depths of the sea. The sun beat down hard and hot on the men's backs. One by one they were lowered into the sea. Jackson and Alex Krune went first. Jonathan stopped a minute to give Gray, the newest man on the excursion, a few instructions. Then they too were swallowed by the cool waters. Gray had not been pearl-diving as much as the others, so he was not as confident as the other men. Coral of many colors lay under the men as they swam. Small fish darted in and out of the sharply-pointed, moss-covered rocks. Gray spied a cave, and thinking it might be a logical place for an oyster bed, he hurriedly swam toward it, not realizing he was swimming in the op- posite direction of the other men. The cave was pitch-black and Gray strained his eyes as he groped along the ocean floor. Suddenly two green luminous eyes seemed to approach him! A chill ran down his spine. He realized that his oxygen was very'low then . Wake up, wake up, Billy Gray, cried an old man dressed in a captain's uniform. Billy sat up, looked around, then sputtered, Pm okay cap'n. This hot sun sure can set a fella to dreamin'. SUSAN SHWARTZ, '59 I THE NIGHT EXPRESS It was just a trip on a train the same as any other train trip. It had a beginning and an ending, as every other journey does. The beginning was sad and unwanted, for good-bys are unpleasant things. But after it is over, there is only a small ache left to prick the mind and invite melancholy. Fortunately most minds pick up other things and at- tention shifts to a book or how to hang one's clothes away or how to get the bed down from its hiding place in the wall. The train rattles and lurches but it keeps going forward into the night. It passes an open blast furnace and the mind of the traveler becomes fas- cinated with the belches of flame that spring skyward and the brilliant grandness of pure power leaping upward uncontrolled. And then that too is gone and once again the all enveloping darkness folds itself around the train as it cuts its way forward. The mind grows weary and sleep takes the place of the millions of day- time thoughts that fill it and in the mind there is silence and the traveler sleeps. There is tugging at the eyelids as the pale red glow of dawn creeps around the window shade. It urges the silent mind to wake and begin the first thoughts of the new day, the day when the journey ends. So the mind and body unite into that mutual agreement known as co-ordination. Small thoughts dart through the mind and are recorded in an instant. The fisherman puts out to sea, the dew is slimy and glistens on the tracks and on the piles of dirt along the banks of the old quarry, and the trees are a touch redder than at homey all these things and more fill the mind as it again begins to think its thoughts of the day. The train moves on and the mind -of the traveler moves even faster than the train. It switches from track to track of thought and lights on one big idea. The journey's end is coming and the train will stop and the trip that started sadly will come to a happy ending, for the mind has already be- gun to think of the new and different sights and thoughts for it to grasp. The mind of the traveler is as life and moves in a cycle as does life. The end of another cycle has come and the by-word is hello and thus another cycle and another journey begin. GINNY BROWN, '57 THE SHOE I once was beautiful T0 YOU, this 209111. With a sole so pure, May Seem fluff!-3 tflte, But now I'm tattered But to me, It IS D And replaced by one newer. The Sf01'Y of my life- LANNY SULOUFF, '57 To many a dance I have been, Only to be stepped on By the shoes of men. Parties, parties I loved them all, From elaborate affairs To tea dances in fall. E Now as I sit Beside my old friends, I realize my life Has come to an end. MOTHER'S DOMAIN There is a room in our home which is a private domain of my mother. Upon entering this room, 'one is greeted with a most untidy sight, for, strewn over the long work table, is a jumble of materials in different stages of completion. The most important appliance, however, sits sedately on the table in the midst of all the color and cloth--mother's real pride and joy, the sewing machine, of course! On a smaller table to the left of the work table, there are boxes of threads in a variety of colors, and all sorts of appliances so necessary to such a workroom. Beyond these tables is a couch, laden down with more boxes and bags overflowing with a variety of materials, which someday will become clothes and trimmings for the house. On the other side of the room is a television set so mother can watch her favorite program while she is working. This room really is the despair of all who enter,but it is a source of hap- piness to mother, who knows just what everything is for and where every- thing is. We are all very proud of this one untidy room in our home! B SUSAN SHwAR'rz, '59 Insecurity . . . Panic . . . APOLOGY Temptation . . . Impulsive plunge . . . Regret . . . Apology . . . VANESSA NOBLE, '57 5 THE CLEARING One Saturday afternoon four friends and I went horseback riding in Gilford, New Hampshire. It was a beautiful crisp October day and because it was so early in the morning, the frost was still on the ground. We were headed for Weirs Beach, which was fourteen miles away. To shorten the trip, we cut through Lincoln's Wood. Lincoln's Wood was a mass of evergreen trees which spread for about eleven miles. When we started into the woods we were following the path, but some- how or other we lost it. The evergreens were so thick that the branches were hitting us in the face so we had to keep our heads down. Since we had no idea where we were or where we were headed, it was decided that the best thing to do was let the horses take us out. After five minutes there seemed to be a dead silence. The branches weren't brushing up against me any more, and the horse was standing still. I looked up to see the most beautiful sight I had ever seen. It was a large clearing surrounded by trees. W got off the horses and started looking around. The ground was a blanket of soft green moss which felt like walking on cushions. Through the middle of the clearing flowed a small stream that was only about one foot wide. The stream ran over a cliff and landed in a small pool of clear, cold water. To me it looked like a miniature paradise. Eventually we found our way out of the woods by following the tiny stream, but when we finally did get out it was time to start back home. Many times I have tried to find that clearing, but it just isn't anywhere to be found. KAY KING, '58 TODAY'S NEWSPAPER This Sunday morning as I picked up the newspaper, and smelled its fresh ink, I began to think how important this paper is. This symbol of one of our rights, freedom of the press, told a worried aunt that her kidnaped nephew was safe. It informed some distant relative of the death of his kin. It helped some decide who they were going to vote for. It gave us information about the happenings of the world. It helped provide jobs for the people through its classified ads section. It gave us news of the latest fashions and numerous other things. Yes, today's newspaper is a very valuable product - until tomorrow. LYNNE ROBINSON, '58 UNUSUAL - DAY The sun shone brightly, the trees were cramped with different colored leaves, and to most of the pople in this town it was a wonderful morning. It was the kind of a day that made you want to jump out of bed and see what this day had to offer. As I lay there I could hear the birds singing and the children laughing on their way to school. I opened my shade, and im- mediately light from the big sun filled every corner of my room, making everything look bright and alive. As I sat in front -of my window, gazing into space, I asked myself what it was about this day that was so different from any other day..Before answering my own question, I jumped up and ran downstairs where breakfast was waiting. After breakfast I got dressed and then decided to take a walk. This certainly was a change! I don't think I've walked anyplace since I got my license. Why, even yesterday I took the car only two blocks to the drug store. As I ran down our hill to the busy street below, I noticed that the grass was very green and the trees were full of beautifully colored leaves. Without realizing it. I started to walk toward the woods. Before I was aware of it, I was running -across a lovely meadow with Chip right beside me. Everything began to come back to me. When I first got Chip, my dog, I used to take him for walks every morning - mornings just like this one. Right in front of us was the brook we used to sit beside for hours on end. I would usually do some fishing, and Chip would spend hours jumping around in the water. The brook was covered with leaves now, and lovely, huge trees hung over its banks. I stood there for a while watching the many colored leaves drift along with the water. It was then that I began to realize that there was nothing different about today -- except that for the first time I had opened my eyes and no- ticed what a beautiful street I lived in. LYNN KINGSTON, '58 A FLAME By appearance, a fiame is a radiant nothingness, but with extraordi- nary usefulness as well as extraordinary dangers. It is the cause 'of the Word iire! . . . one of the most dread expressions in every language. This radiant nothingness holds a peculiar element of mystery, captivating to the senses, and almost bewitching. Its properties are so spectacular that when properly harnessed they are, and have been vital to man since the beginning of time. KATHLEEN CASHMAN, '59 NIGHT EXPRESS On it rumbles through the night Speeding towards its destination, Carrying a few disheartened souls Hoping to find their salvation. GEORGENE WALKLEY, '57 'ar 47 ,Q iii.. .,4,.....-.-l ' 'Bm 4? Q I 1 3 E g I 4 212. H. I . I W f - 3 r , lit u THE DITTY THE CITY SANG The patter of the feet, The honking of the horns, The rumble of the subways, The place of man made mountains- The city with its song. ELAINE VARGIS, '57 JUST SHORT OF THE FENCE The sun rose in a bright red fan over IoWa's lush green corn fields. Marvin Williams was up a little earlier than usual, for today he and his father were to balehay. Marvin was eight years old and small for his age. He had a freckled face and bright blue eyes. Good humor seemed to run in the family, and he had inherited a good deal of it. As Marvin gazed over his farm home from a small Window, he saw tall corn through which a light breeze now rustled. Beyond were green pastures scattered with black and white cows grazing peacefully in the early morn- ing sun. Just then, he heard a call from the kitchen, and it was his mother telling him to come down to breakfast. He hastily dressed and Went downstairs. His mother had prepared bacon and eggs. When he had eaten, he ran out to the barn. There he found his father, a man Whom he resembled, greasing and oiling the machinery they were to use in the coming day. The men who were to help them began to arrive. Joe Yocler had prom- ised to come over a little earlier, because today Marvin was to be allowed to drive the tractor for the first time. Joe was an eighteen-year-'old boy who worked hard and enjoyed farm- ing. His services were always in demand by people who wanted a hand for the day. His cheerful manner and accommodating ways made his a fav- orite with old and young. As the men waited for the hay to drop so they could begin work, Mar- vin became more and more excited about the coming lesson -in driving. Finally Joe consented to take him out into the field and show him how to run the small orange tractor. They rode out of the gate with Joe driving down the land between the gardens where the potatoes and tomatoes grew. They were not large plots, but they served the purpose of growing vegetables for the Williams family. The tractor bounced along beside the fence now separating the corn with its yellow ears and slender green stalks and the cream-white oat field now ripening for the harvest. Joe followed the familiar cow path up which Marvin had so often driven the black and white Holstein cows. His brown horse, Tony, aided him in this task. Although Tony was a little hard of hearing and his eyes were not as they used to be, Marvin never left him behind. At last they arrived in the field. The boys traded seats, Joe taking Marvin's position on the fender of the tractor. Joe told Marvin the names of the levers he would have to use, and showed him how to manipulate them. He then let Marvin try to drive it himself. Marvin did not perform this very well on the first try, but improved enough so that Joe felt it was safe to allow him to drive alone. Marvin -started around the fence with the front tractor wheel in a wa- gon track, and he became very expert at keeping in it. On his third trip around he forgot that the field had corners and that he would have to turn when he came to them. From his position in the middle 'of the field, the observant Joe called to Marvin, but the old tractor made too much noise for his voice to be heard. He walked quickly toward Marvin who was now bearing down on the fence. Joe burst into a run. He knew that in the pasture there were five vicious long-horned bulls which would attack any moving object. Joe reached the tractor. He leaped and pulled the brake stopping the speeding vehicle with a jerk just a few inches short of the fence. Whew ! was J oe's laconic comment on the safe ending of what might have been a tragedy had it not been for his own quick action. DIANE DUBRULE, '60 THE ALUMN AE NEWS X ei , Us .aw R 4, pw uxY :, 91:0 't 51-A .ph . I qnhnt 4 Engagements Louise Caci to Mr. William John Doherty of Everett, Masachusetts. Nancy Gray to Mr. William Gates of White Plains, New York. Mr. Gates attended North Carolina State University before serving two years in the United States Army. He is now attending Columbia University. A spring wedding is planned. M arriages July 7, 1956-Dorothy Fairbanks to Mr. Alden French, Jr., in Annis- quam, Massachusetts. Sue Robertson Gork and Ann Reilly were two of Feather's bridesmaids. Mr. French is now in the United States Navy. At the time that this goes to press they are at the Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia, but in March they expect to be transferred to the Great Lakes Training School in Chicago. July 1956-Mary Patterson Lynchto Mr. Albert I. Alexander, 3rd, invLowell, Massachusetts. r. Mr. Alexander, having served three years in the United States Armv, is now associated with the Alexander Wool Comb!- ing Company. The Alexanders are living in Andover, Massachusetts. August 18, 1956-Elsa Freyer to Mr. Nicholas Neumann in Mexico City, Mexico. After an extensive wedding trip in Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Neumann have returned to Mexico City, where they will make their home. August 25, 1956-Elizabeth Ann Edge to Mr. Harry Tyson Carter in Littleton, New Hampshire. Mr. Carter graduated from the Haverford School and Dartmouth College. He served in the Pacific theatre during World War II with the United States Marine Corps and afterward was graduated from the Harvard Law School. At present he is special assistant to Gordon Gray, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Last year Ann worked with the Graduate School of Advanced In- ternational Studies of the J ohnslHopkins University. Mr. and Mrs. Carter live in Washington, D. C. December 28, 1956-Elinor Hosmer to Mr. Lloyd Herbert Davis in Chehnsford, Massachusetts. Mr. Davis served as a lieutenant with the United States Army in the Far East. He is now a member of the senior class at the University of Rhode Island. February 23, 1957-Jane Cutler to Dr. William Francis Gessler, Jr., in Coral Gables, Florida. Births A daughter, Michele, to Dr. and Mrs. Gabriel Nahas CMarilyn Cash- manj on September 7, 1954. Sorry. We were a little late in finding out about this! A daughter, Sandra, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Lewis CDorothy Win- shipj on July 5, 1956. A daughter, Karen Ann, to Mr. and Mrs. John Cook CHarriett Casey Callawayl on July 10, 1956. A daughter, Mary Ellen Reilly, to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin A. Steele fE1izabeth Reillyj on July 22, 1956, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Steeles live in New York City. A son, Michael Allan, to Mr. and Mrs. James R. Sibley Uosephine Bishopl on August 2, 1956. A son, Mark Allen, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cleverdon CMargery Gui- maraesb on August 29, 1956. A son, Jeffrey Allyn, to Mr. and Mrs. James Harris CMarilyn Morse! on October 23, 1956. A son, William Kenneth, to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tomlinson fJane Baketell on November 20, 1956. A daughter, Elizabeth Aiken, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Griggs lLynne Patrick! on December 1, 1956. A daughter, Patricia Louise, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Morrell, 1 Ruth Bergerl on December 24, 1956. Deaths March 1, 1956-Mary B. Beach in Pasedena, California. May 2, 1956-Janet Nicholson Morrison, after a long illness, in A1- toona, Pennsylvania. August 20, 1956-Elizabeth Mann, by accident, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. November 27, 1956-Marion Ashley Ahlborn, after a long illness, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. January 2, 1957-Carolyn Parchert Anderson, suddenly, in Gloucester- shire, England. , General We must begin this issue with our most humble apologies to Roberta Fielding Bregman! Roberta wrote on her Christmas card that it was fun to read the Alumnae News in the last issue, although it reached her a bit late as she is in Germany, but she was surprised not to see her name among the list of college graduates last June. We misunderstood, or at least took lt for granted, that, having married earlier inthe year, Roberta had given up college and had left for overseas duty with her husband. Instead she fin- ished her senior year and was graduated with the Class of 1956 from Welles- ley College. She writes now that she feels that it was worth all the struggle, but she quite naturally thought that she should have been given credit for all this in our Alumnae News. We certainly feel that she should be con- gratulated for her determination and perseverance! The Bregmans are now stationed in Germany, where they live just outside Frankfort, and they are loving every minute of their time there. In April they hope to return to the States and after that Wally , Roberta's husband, will go on to graduate school. - The Class of 1956 is represented at the following colleges: Carolyn Abbott and Sarah Fisher at Wheaton College, Penny Allen and Judith Kochs at Briarcliff Junior College, Sally Allen at Mary Washington Col- lege, Priscilla Babson and Anne Rolfe at Elmira College, Turner Baker and Tamsen Sears at Hollins College g Diane Collins at Lasell Junior College 3 Elizabeth Cook at Endicott Junior College, Louise Hanson at Pine Manor Junior College, Julia Hutson and Rosamond Wile at Bennington College 3 Jane Jefferson at Bennett Junior College, Virgina Kiser at the Garland School, Rita Lamontagne and Barbara Ann Morse at Skidmore College, Lucy Meyer and Cheryl Powers at Randolph-Macon College, Harriet Moore at Boston Universityg Gail Rockwell at Stephens College, Carol Sue Rosen- blum at Emerson College 5 Naomi Sherman at the Bouve-Boston School g Gail Stainsby at Lake Erie Collegeg Nola Sundin at Becker Junior College, Ruth Traub at Colorado Woman's Collegeg and Linda Wiese at Centenary Junior College. Sondra Byam began a secretarial course at the Bryant and Strat- ton School, but left at the first of the year to accept a position in the Social Service Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Sondra is most ambitious, as, after a full-time working day, she spends two evenings a week at the Lowell Commercial College in order to get addi- tional training. News of another former member of the Rogers Hall faculty has come from Miss Mary Joanna Perkins, who was with us for two years as teacher of history. Miss Perkins resigned to try her hand at public school teaching. However, after one year, she decided that private schools aren't so bad after alll This year she is a member of the faculty of The Grosse Pointe University School in Grosse-Pointe, Michigan, and she adores it. She writes that she has a project, however-to convert the Democrats in the History Department into good New Hampshire Republicans! From a Christmas card we learned that Beverly Cooke N owaczynski and her husband, Wojciech, are the parents of two daughtersg Maria, born January 5, 1955, and Barbara, born July 21, 1956. The Nowaczynskis live at 561 Kindersley Avenue, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. Dorothy Winship Lewis wrote a long message on her Christmas card. The last time we heard from Dorothy the Lewises were in Florida, but they are now on the West Coast and will be until Bob finishes his stint for Uncle Sam in the fall of 1958. They have bought a house at 752 J Avenue in Coro- nado, California, which they love. Carol Brooks Pihl writes that her twins, Martha and Robbie, are now in kindergarten and practically grown up! We were sorry to learn of the death of Louise Lee's father. Louise and her mother sold their house in Grosse Pointe and have moved to 281 South Ridge Road, Lake Forest, Illinois. Thalia Johnson Lamparter is another alumna with a new address. The Lamparters now live at 416 Apple Tree Road in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Judy Kirby is continuing her training at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Anne is working in a dentist's office in Montreal, Canada. Miss Katherine Perry, who will be remembered as a former member of our faculty, writes that, having finally finished the work for that degree',', she has gone back to teaching. She is at Curry College in Milton, Massachu- setts. Starr Fowler Peck says that as she now lives nearer to Lowell, in Southbridge, Massachusetts, she hopes to bring her daughter, Melinda, to see her old school. We hope so, too. Starr's son, Bill, is at Boston Univer- sity-and twenty-one years old! We were very interested to hear from Lynn Hamby Messner from Dallas, Texas, where her husband, Bob, is working for Proctor and Gamble. We feel as though we really knew her family as, two years ago, Lynn and Bob and their two children visited school. Lynn, having left college for matrimony, writes that she is now fulfilling a long-term promise to her parents and is getting her degree. She is a full-time student at Southern Methodist University. Lynn is doing so well that she is fairly bursting with pride and, surely, she deserves to be congratulated and complimented! Judy Streeter is having a wonderful time living in San Francisco and working as assistant buyer of better dresses for Roos Brothers. Her job takes her throughout northern California in order to visit all the stores in the Roos Brothers chain. It sounds like fun and a marvellous experience. Janice Smith Post's Christmas card came from Germany, but she wrote on it that the Posts would actually be en route home on Christmas Day. They expected to arrive by the first of the year. Jan says it's been fun in Germany, but they were eagerly looking forward to home and civilian life. Jean Mcllwraith is now studying at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is most enthusiastic and thinks that everyone should go to Chatham! r Cynthia Irelan, President of the Council in 1954, should be congratulat- ed for her effort to keep her class together by sending out a news letter every once in a while. One of these came to Mrs. MacGay a short time ago. From it we learned the following news of the class. Sally Ringling spent last summer in Italy studying with the Smith College group. Pam Holling- worth is also in Italy this year, taking her junior, year at Smith as an ex- change student. It all sounds very exciting as Pam has traveled a good deal through Italy and also planned to go to Geneva, Switzerland, and San An- ton, Austria, during her Christmas vacation - to Paris and Madrid for spring vacation - as well as a weekend or two on the Riviera. She lives with a family who speaks no English l There were other European travelers in the Class of 1954. Karlyn Herrhammer, Elaine Leary, and Anne Hoff spent the summer in Europe with the Skidmore College Chorus, of which Karlyn is a member. It was an extensive and fascinating trip, covering seven countries on the Continent as well as England. This year Elaine has been elected Sorority Marshall of her house, Kappa Alpha Theta, at the University of Connecticut. She is also Secretary for the Angel Flight, the Women's Division of the advanced A. F. R. O. T. C. Karlyn is having a busy and gay time this year at Skid- more. Besides the Chorus, she belongs to a singing group called the Son- nateers. Anne is at Webber College in Florida. Joan Kuppenheimer is back at Pine Manor where she is taking the third year program in teaching. She assists in the sixth grade and loves it, al- though she will teach a lower grade eventually. Last summer Joan taught in a kindergarten. . Anne Wellesley Howes was elected Treasurer of the Student Council at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where she is working hard for her B. M. Shirley Jo Arn spent last summer in northern Wisconsin counciling six fifteen-year-old girls and teaching riding. She also saw Anne Plaisted some- where along the line, but Cynthia has no further news of Anne. During her summer vacation from Hood College, Sara Lee Callaway had a job in a Knoxville department store as a member of the College Board. She worked in the public relations department and the fashion oflice and also did some modeling. Elsa Freyer Neumann wrote Cynthia that she and her Nick have taken a small apartment in Mexico City. Their address is Prospericlad 3534-502. Roberta Sherman Rosenthal and her husband have moved from Lynn to Swampscott, Massachusetts, where they have bought a house that's about five minutes from the ocean. They adore it! This June Judy Mereness Wilcox's husband, Dave, graduates from Col- gate and they hope to move back to Westfield, New Jersey. Judy has been working at the administration oflice of the university library and has done a lot of work in research. From Linda Hazzard Brading Cynthia heard that H , her husband, got out of the service last summer, so the Bradings have moved from Dayton to Evansville, Indiana, where H has gone into business with his father. Believe it or not, Linda is becoming a green-thumb expert! Anne Adams, having graduated from Marjorie Webster Junior Col- lege, has a job - we don't know what or where! And Ann Cook has also joined the business world. She is an assistant buyer at the R. H. Stearns Company in Boston and is sharing an apartment with three other girls in the city. Other working girls of the Class of 1954 are Mary Leone, who works for her father, and Dede Doherty, who is with a chemical company in New York City. Having completed her training at the hospital in Bennington, Vermont, Ruth N itschelm is now a licensed practical nurse. This summer Ruth is planning a trip to Europe. After traveling through various countries, she will visit relatives in Scotland. In the fall she hopes to work at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire. Sue Fisher is a contributor to the Wheaton College Rushlight , the 101-year-old publication which is the oldest college literary magazine in the United States. Anne Harvey Sexton is another Rogers Hall graduate who wishes to continue her education after a lapse of several years. Anne has been mar- ried for eight years and has two little girls, but recently she wrote for a transcript of her grades at school so that she may go on to furher studies. She didn't say where. Two of our alumnae, Mary Ann Morgan and Constance Veevers, are on the Dean's List at Pine Manor Junior College. Good work! We have just received a notice that Frannie Rogers Quinn has moved to 1132 Blanchester Drive, Lyndhurst, Ohio, from her former home in Cleveland. Alumnae will be particularly interested to hear that once again our enrollment has increased. We opened last September with seventy-two resi- dent and twenty-one day students. This was possible because we were able to increase the capacity of our new dormitory, Shedd, as well as that of the House, by making various changes. The end has been reached, how- ever. We simply cannot have a bit larger school as the dining room, study hall, and class rooms will not hold any more! Among the students who en- tered this fall, the following have alumnae connections: Kathleen Cashman, better known as Candy , is the sister of Marilyn Cashman Nahasg Ellen Cook is the sister of Ann Cookg Catherine Katie Crumpacker is the niece of Margery Crumpacker, Emily Lee Fletcher is the sister of Beverly Fletcher Comstock, Estelle Heifetz is the sister of Phyllis Heifetz Pontyg Carol Lord is the daughter of Ellen Richardson Lordg and Lucy Page is the daughter of Betty Fowle Page. Naturally we are very happy to have them with us. We hope that in the years to come we'll have many more girls who are the relatives of alumnae. As this goes to press. Mrs. MacGay is in Palo Alto, California, visiting Jean and the grandchildren! We're sure that she must be having a wonder- ful time with those two very lively boys, Tony and Alan Curtiss. We know that they are lively as last summer Jean brought them to Lowell for a few weeks visit. It was lots of fun! Mrs. MacGay is also planning to attend to some school and alumnae business while on this trip, but we are sure that nothing will be enough to keep her away from Rogers Hall very much longer! During the summer Barbara Johnson Johnson visited school with a friend. Barbara was bemoaning the fact that she and her husband would be unable to vote in last fall's election as her husband was being transferred from his company's New York office to its Chicago ofiice. This meant that the Johnsons would not have established residence in time to vote. Their new address is 310 McArthur Drive, Mount Prospect, Illinois. We were very proud that a member of last year's class, Carolyn Ab- bott, the daughter of Eleanor Whittier Abbott, won the scholarship given by the Lincoln County Orchestra to young people of the State of Maine at its annual auditions last June. Lyn played the same Second Piano Concerto in G Minor by Saint-Saens which had thrilled us all at our Commencement Musicale. Judy Kellogg has taken a month's training course in preparation for her new duties as a guide at the United Nations Headquarters. Billie Cutler Fitch and her family have moved from Quincy to Long- meadow, Massachusetts, and love living there. Their address is 89 Long- meadow Street. Recent graduates will be interested to learn of the birth on December 7, 1956, of a son, Hugh Stevens, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Mr. and Mrs. Banks Worsham. Mrs. Worsham was the former Dorothy Ann Miller, who taught English and dramatics at Rogers Hall for two years. The Worshams recently bought a house in Carlisle, Massachusetts. We also have received the announcement of the birth of a daughter, Susan Elizabeth, on Novem- ber 9, 1956, to Mr. and Mrs. Robin Higham. Mrs. Higham, the former Bar- bara Davies, was also a member of our faculty before her marriage. Libby Filer Anderson and her Timmy are living at 69 Wendell Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Another new address which we have recently received is that of Betsy Lamb Stranahan. The Stranahans have moved to 1908 Shaw Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Emily Palmer DuPiza and her husband stopped in at school on their way home from Ann Edge Carter's wedding last summer. The DuPizas now live in Groton, Connecticut, where their address is 10 Woodland Drive. Eleanor Eyre is at Katherine Gibbs in New York this year. We under- stand that Ruth Mesics is at The Chamberlain School in Boston, but she hasn't come out to school to visit us yet, so we're not quite sure. We also believe that Kitty Chamberlain has returned to Endicott Junior College. Cynthia Irelan, to whom, as already stated, we are indebted for all this news of the Class of 1954, is a secretary at the J. Walter Thompson Com- pany, an advertising agency, in New York. She loves her job, but feels that she would like to go back to school eventually. Cynthia has an apartment with another girl. 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Sullivan Compliment: W GAUMON T BROTHERS Lowell's Leading Radio and Television Store 338 MERRIMACK ST. Opp. City Hall 'nd Drink More Milk , for Your Better Health THE BARROWS TRAVEL SERVICE, INC. MAIN OFFICE 62 CENTRAL STREET LOWELL, MASS. Tel. GL 9-93 I 3 DIL LON for Bonded Clearnhgn EAST MERRIMACK ST. SPLINTERS Compliments of BRADT BAKERY, INC. BAKERS OF FINE CRACKERS SINCE i833 Whiting St. Lowell, Mass. THOMPSON'S SKI CABIN 254 Merrimack Street Derby Electric Company 82 Middle Sl. Lowell, Mass. We now have 24 hour emergency service GL 9-9351 C om pli ment: of American Cleaning Bn. New England Exlerminaling Co. 20 I-lurd Street LOWELL. MASS. GL 2-9621 Nashua TU 9-9191 Charles' 71 Marsden ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Expert: in Electrical Illumination Specializing in Electric Light and Power Installation Lawrence Tnsrnos: GL 2-6653 21 Chester St. Lowell, Mus. FINEST OF SEA FOOD IN SEASON AMALIA For Your H2510 Sake, Ea TREE SURGEQNS' Inc' More Fish Speclallsls In all phases ol lm me. 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LOUISE STATEN, Alummze Editor MISS HILDRED RAMSAY, Faculty Adu Lf LITERARY BOARD JULIE EISEMAN STEPHANIE HEALEY JANET LOMBARD BUSINESS BOA SUSANNAH CARROLL Avis CHURCHILL BONNEY HERRMANN LYNNE ROBINSON GEORGENE WALKLEY CECELIA WITTMANN RD SUSAN MORSE JUDITH PARKER CAROLYN YOUNG ? 3 sd f , W lx U 9 9 ,lx F? sw ,V L 1 1 f K 5 i 5 A W. I s u ? I 1 1 . w P r r I P I F L ix 1. 7? I Q , VN 5: I, 5 3 g . .4 A 1 fx 1 Lx I, l i 4 E t 1 1 A WORD FROM MRS. MacGAY May you always choose the highest trees to climb! S w I s i I 1 1 I Y I i DEDICATION For your endless patience, understanding and friendship we dedicate our year book to you, Miss Hall. We will not forget. The Colztentf 'Q EDITORIAL SENIOR CLASS Senior - Undergrad Song The Class Undergrad - Senior Song Prophecy Senior Place Cards Eloise is coming to Commencement! Class Will LITERARY Nothing? . The Loan ...... This Could Have Happened Castles in the Sand . . . The Discordant Tree . The Cat ..... The Dogwood . . . Voices in the Wind . Spring ..... Infinity . Sunset . . SCHOOL NOTES ALUMNAE NEWS . . . Jo Pitt . Virginia Brown . Lyn Kingston . Diane Dubrule Stephanie Healey . . Ethel Hodges . . Diane Stone Kathleen Cashman . .Janet Lombard Georgene Walkley . . Diane Stone 1.3.1- . f'N ,L 12- '?.-. -f-. G , :a? VOL. 65 COMMENCEMENT, 1957 NO. 2 EDITORIAL Now in anticipation of the future we have a Heeting moment in which to re- flect upon the past before looking ahead. We will remember the beginning with happy memories of friendships that we will treasure throughout the years. With nostalgia we will think of the experiences we have shared together, from which we gained so much. In the years to come we will look upon these brief years as the foundations of our lives and characters. We will remember with fondness and ap- preciation all that has gone by and we will place these memories in our minds and hearts forever. O CIIIOI' C1388 THE SENIOR-UNDERGRAD SONG Tune: Bermua'a's Still Paradise We Seniors sing to you, To give you our praise, We'll always remember Those happy days. Both Kava and Cae Club Have shown spirit true, The outings and picnics, , We've shared them with you While saying goodbye, We want you to know All that is in our hearts, WVe will remember, While we are apart. And now that we're leaving, We want you to know How much you mean to us, Wherever we go. D. S. M. B CONSTANCE GAY SHOESMITH Route l Clarksville, Virginia President of Senior Class Duke University Cae Club, Basketball, '56, Softball, '56, Volleyball Manager, '57, Splinters Business Board, '56, Business Manager, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, '57, Glee Club, '56, '57, Student Council, '56, '57, Mrs. MacGay's Marshal, '56, Senior Prom Chairman, '57, Class Will, '57, Neatness Award, '56, '57, Honor Roll, '56, '57, Helen Hill Award, '57. f ,, ' 'f lfvv , , wi., ,- fi 49,,Zf,,W.i- Mya A ff Q MW AUDREY ANN HOCKMEYER 170 Holyrood Avenue Lowell, Massachusetts Vice-P1'esz'deut of Senior Class Pine Illaizor Junior College Kava Club, Hockey Sub, '54, Second Basketball, Sub, '56, Swimming, '54, '55, '56, '57, Second Volleyball, Sub, Captain, '56, Senior Life Saving, '56, Advanced Swimming, '56, Water Ballet, Sub, '55, '56, R. H., '56, Glee Club, '54, '55, '56, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, Spliizters Business Board, '56, Marshal for Fac- ulty, '56, Prom Committee, '57. . 1 NICOLE LOUISE BARSON 12 Normandy Lane Scarsdale, New York Lasell Junior College W Kava Club, Hockey, '56, '57, Volleyball, '56, '57 Basketball, '56, '57, Softball, '56, '57, Glee Club '57 Neatness Award, '56, '57, Senior Prom, '57, Christ: mas Pageant, '56, '57, Backstage, Senior Play, '57 Honorable Mention in Bible and Current Events, '57l APPLEY ADAMS 50 Corwood Drive Weston 93, Massachusetts President of Kava Club Centenary Junior College Kava Club, Hockey, '55, '56, '57, Basketball, '56, '57 Volleyball, '56, '57, Baseball, '56, '57, captain, '56 Tennis, '56, R. H., '56, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56 '57, Cheerleading, '55, '56, '57, Senior Prom, '57. CAROLYN FRANCES BOWES 2 Tupelo Road Swampscott, Massachusetts lllarjorie Webster' Junior College Kava Club, Hockey, '56, '57 , Volleyball Second, '56, '57, Basketball, '56, '57, Captain, '56, Swimming, '56, '57, Captain, '57, Softball, '56, '57, R. H. Award, '56, '57, Badminton, '56, '57, Water Ballet, '56, Life Saving, '56, Glee Club, '56, '57, Dramatics Club, '56, '57, Tennis, '57 , Athletic Cup, '57, CYNTHIA JANE BOYNTON 38 Concord Road Billerica, Massachusetts Lasell .,'l'l71l0I' College Cae Club, Christmas Pageant, '56, '57, Debating '56, New Hampton Dance, '56, Typing Award, '56, Commencement Play,'Backstage, '57, Senior Prom '57. VIRGINIA ANN BROWN Fairfield Road Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Jkfary Washirzgf01z College f Eze ygfgub, Second Hockey, '57, Second Basketball, , Second Softball, 57, Exeter Dance 57 Christmas Pageant, '56, Glee Club, '56, '57, Literary Board, 56, Editor of Splintcrrs, '57, Essay Prize, '57, MARIA ZOILITA BRIGHT Harbor Avenue Marblehead Neck Massachusetts l'ic'c'-Prvsidcllf of Kunz Marjorie lfVeI2.vtc1' Junior College Kava Club, Volleyball, '55, '56, '57, Second, '54, Bas- ketball sub, '55, Manager, '56, Second Captain, '57, Badminton, '54, '55, '56, '57, Swimming, '54, '56, '57, Co-Captain, '55, Softball, '57, Second, '56, Tennis, '54, '55, '56, '57, Water Ballet, '54, Cheerleading, '55, '56, '57, Dramatic Club, '54, '55, '56, '57, Undergrad Song, '57, School Marshal, '56, Senior Prom, '57, R. H., '55, '56, '57, Honorable Mention in Music Ap- preciation, '57. SALLY ANN CESSNA 949 Cleveland Road Hinsdale, Illinois Wheelock College Kava Club, Hockey, Captain, '57, Volleyball, '57, New Hampton Dance, '57, Dramatic Club, '57, Christmas Pageant, '57, Commencement Play, '57, Class Will, '57, Captain, Softball, '57, Honorable Mention in Dramatics, '57, ' , is AVIS CHURCHILL 50 Dalton Road Chelmsford, Massachusetts Elmira College Cae Club, Basketball, '56, '57, Captain, '56, Second, '56, Second Volleyball, '57, Softball, '56, '57 sub, Glee Club '56 '57, Senior Prom, '57, Student Council, '57, Spliilters' Business Board, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, New Hampton, '57, JULIE ANN EISEMAN Puritan Lane Swampscott, Massachusetts President fof Cac Bemzingfon College Cae Club, Hockey Sub, '56, Team '57, Second Team Basketball, '56, Team, '57, Badminton, '57, Baseball, '56, '57, Cheerleading, '57, Dramatics, '56, '57, Christ- mas Pageant, '56, '57, Commencement Play, '56, '57, Glee Club, '56, '57, Octet, '56, '57, Bear and Lion Editor, '56, Spliuters Literary Board, '56, '57, Honor Roll, '56, Christmas Vespers, '56, '57, Senior Life Saving, '56, '57, Senior Prom Committee, '57, Tennis, '57, R. H., '57, Dramatics Prize, '57, CATHERINE CRUMPACKER 17 Glendale Park Hammond, Indiana Ulzizicrsify of Illichigau Kava Club, Cheerleader, '57, Christmas Pageant, '57, Commencement Play, '57, Exeter Dance, '57, Class Prophecy, '57, Honor Roll, '57, Honorable Mention in Currents Events, '57. EMILY LOWRY FLETCHER 14 Plow Lane Greenwich, Connecticut Louisiana State University Cae Club, Second Hockey, '57, Second Volleyball, '57, Captain, Second Basketball, '57, Christmas Pa- geant, '57, Commencement Play, '57, Glee Club, '57, Student Council, '57, Typing Award, '57, Captain Second Softball, '57, Tennis, '57, Parsons Award, '57, Current Events Prize, '57. SUSAN ELLEN GAUNT 16 Stevens Street Methuen, Massachusetts Green Mountain College Cae Club, Second Hockey, Sub, '56, Second Basket- ball, Sub, '57, Swimming Manager, '57, Exeter Dance, '57, Glee Club, '57, Typing Award, '57. PATRICIA LANCASTER 895 Park Avenue New York, New York Berkeley School ' Kava Club, Volleyball, '56, '57, Basketball, '55, '57, Old Girl-New Party, '56, Christmas Pageant, '57, Commencement Head Usher, '56, New Hampton Dance, '57, Glee Club, '55, '56, '57, Posture Cup, '57. STEPHANIE McDILL HEALEY Old Mountain Road Nyack, New York Bennington College Kava Club, Baseball, '56, Cheerleading, '56, Hockey Manager, '57, Senior Luncheon, '56, Exeter Dance, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, Commencement Play, '56, '57, Dramatic Club, '56, '57, Bear and Lion, '56, Splinters Literary Board, '57, Glee Club, '56, '57, Neatness Award, '57. GEORGENA LINDENBERG Z4 Old Connecticut Path Wayland, Massachusetts Uniiversity of N ew Mexico Kava Club , Second Volleyball, '55, Manager, '56, Second Hockey, '56, Spanish Play, '55, Christmas Pageant, '55, '56, Folk Dancing, '55, Exeter Dance, '57, Glee Club, '55, '56, '57, Student Council, '57, Honorable Mention in Music Appreciation, '57, JANET LOMBARD 10 Bridge Street Chelmsford, Massachusetts .Mount Holyoke College Kava Club, Splinter.: Literary Board, '57, Dramatic Club, '57, Commencement Play, '57, Honor Roll, '57, Bible Prize, 'S7. VANESSA META NOBLE Jones Park Drive Riverside, Connecticut Prcsirlenf of thc' Sfzrdenf Council Pine Manor Junior College Cae Club, Glee Club, '54, '55, '56, '57, Dramatics, Backstage, Folk Dancing, '55, Cheerleading, '56 Splinters Literary Board, '56, Cae Club Song, '56 Senior Place Cards, '57, Chairman Senior Luncheon: '56' Hockev '56 '57 Mana er '56 Volle ball '55, 7 . 1 ! 1 ' g v y 9 '57, Second, '55, Second Basketball, '57, Captain Baseball, '56, Chairman Senior-Undergrad Party, '56 Chairman New Hampton Dance, '57, Chairman Exe: ter Dance, '57, R. H., '57. SUZANNE MORSE 64 Handy Road Grosse Pointe, Michigan Cae Club, Hockey, '56, '57, sub, '56, Volleyball, '55, '56, '57, Captain, '57, Basketball, '55, '56, '57, sub, '56, Baseball, '55, '56, '57, Badminton, '56, '57, Exeter Dance, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, '57, Splinter.: Business Board, '57, R. H., '56, '57, Honorable Men- tion in Music Appreciation, '57. JANE PACKARD 55 Andover Road Billerica, Massachusetts IfVe.rtlJrool2 fzuzior College Cae Club, Typing Award, '57, Usher for Class Day, '57, Christmas Pageant, '57. ,, be W. . evimzr. , , W Q' wivwfmffw-V l .,,,,,:,r.,f Q. ,. M wa, 3 -, . , .,.i,,sg. W- f- K' faaetfiekrerl ,fm ??'24t7Y'i3,m,-A JUDITH CUCHRAN PARKER 7 Burgevin Street Kingston, New York Centenary Junior College Cae Club, Splirztcrx, '56, '57, Dramatic Club, '57, Senior Luncheon, '56, New Hampton Dance, '57, Life Saving, '57, Cheerleading, '56, '57, Captain, Basket- ball, '56, '57, Second, '56, Volleyball, '56, '57, Second, '56, Softball, '56, '57, sub, '56, Second, Hockey, '57, Swimming, '56, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, R. H., '57, Red Cross Senior Life Saving, '57, DIANE STONE 21 Ramshead Road Medford, Massachusetts Endicott Junior College , Cae Club, Volleyball Second, '56, Octet, '56, Octet Manager, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, Folk Dancing, '55, Honorable Mention Neatness Award, '55, Exeter Dance, '57, Commencement Play, Usher, '56, Typing Award, '57, Undergrad Song, '57. PATRICIA ANN ROSENSHINE Nicolas de Rivera 665 San Isidro Lima, Peru lf'ice-President of Cac' Mary Washington College Cae Club, Hockey, '55, '57, Volleyball, '56, '57, Bas- ketball, '56, '57, Swimming, '55, '57, Baseball, '57, Manager, '56, Badminton, '55, '57, Cheerleading, '55, '56, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, '57, Modern Dance, '55, Water Ballet, '54, Spanish Play, '55, Glee Club, '54, '55, '56, '57, Back Stage Dramatics, '55, Senior Marshal, '56, Honor Roll, '56, Cae Club Song, '56, R.HS7'56, '57, Senior Prom Committee, '57, Ten- n1s,' . MELANIE FRANCES SULOUFF 6 Druid Hill Road Summit, New Jersey Skidmore College Cae Club, Volleyball, '57, Second, '56, Cheerleading, '56, '57, Glee Club, Octet, '56, '57, Bear and Lion, Splinters Art Editor, Senior Luncheon, Senior-Un- dergrad Party, New Hampton Dance, Christmas Pageant, '56, '57, Art Prize, '57, ELAINE ANNE VARGIS 47 Bacon Street 'vVinchester, Massachusetts Endicott Junior College Kava Club, Cheerleading, '56, sub, '57, Volleyball, Znd sub, '57, Basketball, 2nd sub, '57, Life Saving, '57, Dramatics Club, '56, '57, Backstage, '55, Exeter Dance, '57, Commencement Usher, '55, '56, Corn- nggncement Play, '56, Red Cross Senior Life Saving, UNDERGRAD-SENIOR SONG Tune: September Song Oh, Seniors. we sing to you our song of thanks For all you've done for us this whole year through. And as you leave 'this school you'll leave behind The memory of your guiding hand. Q Chorusj Your kind words too, and friendly smile Your good advice, and memories all Will stay with us forever more. GEORGENE RICH WALKLEY 32420 Walker Road Avon Lake, Ohio Denison Unizfersity Kava Club, Volleyball, '56, '57, sub, '56, Basketball, 2nd, '56, '57, Captain, '56, Baseball,-2nd, '56, '57, Bad- minton, '57, Glee Club, '56, '57, Rogers Hall Octet, '57, Dramatic Club, '57, Christmas Pageant, '56, '57, Commencement Play, '57, Bear and Lion Staff, '56, Splinters Literary Board, '57, Student Council, '56, '57, Honor Roll, '56, '57, Honorable Mention in Mu- sic Appreciation and Current Events, '57, Underhill Honor, '57, We've had our fun and play, our hard work too, We've shared together all these and more. The days past swiftly by, each left for us The memory of You're guiding hand. fChorusj S. E. M. PROPHECY By the Beard of Ben, by the Pipe of the Prophet, and by the Seat of Saud, it has been decreed that in the year of 1967 there shall be a pilgrimage made to Mecca by the faithful of '57, All people of the earth, including Burt the Bee, Frank the F ly, and Emma the Elephant, shall spread the news to the four corners of the world. Allah has foretold that: Appley, whose deb is still going strong, shall be as the Been and fly from honey to honey while the much traveled Nicole is to make her journey on a Persian rug. Carol is to lose her stitches and teach the properstance when facing East five times daily. Sue shall stand in the highest minaret and sur- vey Bill boards and pin point them on the maps of the land of Allah. Connie is henceforth to become the official arnbassadress to Maine from Virginia and teach the ndowneastahs' the correct way of sayin' i' you-allv. Upon entering the Mosque the Prophets have decreed that Di-Di and Elaine, the daring darlings of the dance, shall teach rock 'n roll to the faithless. Linda Linenburg, or Nena as she is known, shall try her best to convert the heathens of New Mexico to the Fate of Farouk the Fatty. Since Allah has a memory as long as Queenie's tail, it is written that Katie shall cease her attempts to plan routes from back home in Indiana through Yale Station and come by plane. Cynthia is ordered to buy a new Persian rug as it uses little gas. Allah realizes that this car ban may put Avis's Bird Bathv car wash out of business but she is to accompany Lannie by camel and assist in the careful cut- ting of Carl the Camel's coat. Betty the Beautiful Button is to be sown on all togas by Patsy the Patient, for her domestic skill has reached the eyes and ears of Allah. By the Beard of Ben, Georgene shall abandon Great Big Doorsteps and come Bob- bob-bobing along with Sue Gaunt. Jane Packard, the possessor of the Velvet Voice, and Janet the -Iunkmarfs Jewel, who is hereby forbidden to appear in police sta- tions in tank suits, are to come with Audrey Hockmeyer, the Haver of Heavenly I-Iouseparties. Burt the Bee has called the name of Julie to attend him in the East without the aid of Dunsford's Dignilied Dandiesf' She is to serve Ginny her Blue Ruin and Browned Bruin from a plate peacefully. Sarah Bernhardt Cessna is to portray Mary of Scots for Frank the Fly nightly. Dr. Noble is expected to operate on Duffy Healy to cure her of her strange Mal -ody. Vanessa is also to decipher the title of DuFfy's new book, Philosophical Reflections Upon the Life and Act- ivities of the Polish Hemisa coccusphlonicus and ticaunin ilicus,', for Allah. Beau- ty or Pat, is to discontinue modeling for the Cosmo Nut and Bolt Company for the duration of the trip. Danjer is to come with Lee to Mecca as animals are favorites with Allah. Maria is to write detailed letters to Charlie, a master at Brooks we are told, concerning the details of her trip to the Temple of Tubby. Emma the Elephant wishes Judy to amuse the party with her renditions of Ruddie the Ruffled Rooster and other expressions of joy as desired by Allah. These 'things being spoken and written are to be carried out according to the rules set aside by the council of Mrs. MacGay's Marvellous Meditators. Set by the seal of KATIE THE KITTY GEORGENE THE GENIUS GINNY THE GENN1 N D0 You Know I VDIV f W d N f A Q ANNIQ g S S H H1001 N CI L Q I K 2 , our Seniors? XXX' lo A I 5 I 1 '1 D lg V NNVT A W S D CI I V 51 APPLEY ADAMS Crisp celery Cookie Gold-bordered mirror NICOLE BARSON Beret Old loafers Red tulip CARCLYN BowES Left field fence Fudge sundae Sunflower CYNTHIA BOYNTON Lollypops Ice skating Stufiied animals MARIA BRIGHT Fog horn Crystal bracelets Black-eyed susans VIRGINIA BROWN Watermelon Silver punch bowl War and Peace SALLY CESSNA Harlem nocturne Bank book Lights on Broadway AVIS CHURCHILL Honeysuckle Star Dust A picnic CATHERINE CRUMPACKER Blond Cocker Spaniel A doe Merry-Go-Rounds JULIE EISEMAN Old velvet Autumn Lemon meringue EMILY FLETCHER Harlequin Sunshine A placid lake SUSAN GAUNT A Boxer puppy Freshly-cut grass A horse chestnut SENIOR PLACECARDS PATRICIA LANCASTER Tiger lily Black satin Wind in the willows GEORCENA LINDENBERG Rain drops A robin 6CArpCg,C,, JANET LOMBARD Platinum statue Lemon marrnalade Dungarees SUZAN NE MORSE Fashion plate Manhattan A star sapphire VANESSA NOBLE Lemon popsicle Steuben glass Black Cocker Spaniel JANE PACKARD Sun rays in a library Watch plaid A Scotch Terrier JUDITH PARKER Bubbles Doe eyes Dixieland PATRICIA ROSENSHINE A white swan Circus ponies Pink rose buds CONSTANCE SHOESMITH Chess Lilacs Starched blouses DIANE SToNE Rock and Roll Yellow Chrysanthemum A mother goose MELANIE SULOUFF Butterfly Pixie Apple blossoms ELAINE VARCIS Gold cigarette holder Red sport car Sandals STEPHANIE HEALEY GEORGENE WALKLEY Tweed Pink nail polish Old lace Petticoats A worn cook book Gold cadillac AUDREY I-IOCKMEYER A Hreplace German Shepherd V- N- Yellow straw S. H. ELOISE IS COMING TO COMMENCEMENT! We have a friend from the Plaza, the one in New York you know, who is now planning her trip to Rogers Hall for the Commencement week-end. I heard from Eloise by phone, she called the desk and told them to charge it please and thank you very much, she was very excited and talked continually about her trip and let me tell your ..... c'Oh m'lord there's so much to do! Just as soon as I get there, after appropriate greetings to Mrs. Tremble-she's top girl on the dietetie totempole-I want to know her for Lord 'sake-I want to go upstairs and change all the tags on the trunks, can't you see it now, Ceci's in Peru and Patsyls in Colorado! Then I must run over to Mrs. MacGay,s dinner and put sneezing powder in the pepper. The next day's Saturday and rubber hot dogs at Singing Beach will be fun and then white wash in the milk-Well! You say Sunday's a big day? Well I'm going to Baccalaureate too. I'm taking a big supply of paper money for the collection plate-it'll look so nice and full that way! And then I have a nice stick I want to skidder along the wood- work on the pews. Ha, Ha, Monday's the Senior Luncheon and I hear they have pigeons at R. H. Well, I'm going to get that old bird DeDe and Sarah had and take it under the table and just as things quiet down Illl let him go-can't you just see Di-Di and Sally jump!!! Next is Class Day and I plan to sit under the table, I have to see what's going on there. Of course Tuesday is THE day but first I have to slip into Mrs. MacCay's office and put the invisible ink in that well and then when they are given out and the Seniors open them, Ha, Ha, Ha. I thought pepper on the roses might liven things up too besides the cold cream on the aisle, yes it should be very lively!! But I have to go now ,cause Nurse is calling and I can hear her taffeta petticoat rustling 1ny wayfe But remember Illl be there, don't forget! Needless to say the Class is doing its utmost to prevent the arrival of our small friend from New York. V. A. B. CLASS WILL - 1957 We, the departing class of 1957, well-rounded in twits, procrastination, and hypochondria, do leave in our last will and testament with Mrs. lyIacGay her good- natured warnings and advice to pass on to the future generations, the dejected faculty more dejected, the juniors sleeping late on Saturday mornings, the sopho- mores our dignified behavior, and the freshmen our strength and courage to strug- gle on through the next three years. Cae Club leaves Manuel and Bill still walking the streets looking for baseballs lost through the course of the year. Kava Club leaves the Kava tie to Mr. Bowes for the spirit and sportsmanship he has shown. Appley Adams wills her hidden talent to Gretchen Fowler hoping that she will never uncover it. Elaine Vargis leaves problems of democracy unsolved. judie Parker donates her twit to anyone who is mature enough to handle it. janet Lombard relinquishes her numerous gym excuses in her 'cltty ditty bas- bet to Edna Studley who seems sufiiciently practised in that Held already. Georgene Walkley leaves the bathroom empty-for once. A Sue Morse bequeaths her collection of rings and fraternity pins to Mariella Pomar in case her bracelet needs a few extra charms in the future. Connie Shoesmith leaves her room taking all but a little bit of sunshine which she bequeaths to Carolyn Young and Cindy Migliore. However, as the sun can- not always shine, there is, in the top bureau drawer, a small box of Little Lulu Tissues to wipe away the raindrops on those oh, so gloomy days. Avis Churchill has won one contest too many and donates her date with Tab Hunter to Barbie Van Horne. Lanny Sulouj' wills her Exeter scarf to Sandy Snow, who at this time is inex- cusably in love with Andover. Nicole Barson leaves on foot for France with all her R. H. possessions in a pack on her back. No porters, please! All, that is, but her tank suit. She figures that someone will be able to get at least a dime's wear out of that next year. jane Packard wills her tinkling laugh to that ever smiling Tina Botty. I Ginny Brown informs us that she'll shut up her mug if we'll fill up her jug Wlth that good old mountain dew . The honor is now bestowed on Nancy O'Con- nell. Come on Nancy- They call it that old mountain dew, dew, dew, dew. Nina Lindenberg leaves her available cousins with the instructions that they be well taken care of at all future R. H. proms. Audrey Hockmeyer donates her famous quotation-'Tm not getting serious - to any undergrad fool enough to believe her and reminds her-- If you're not near the one you love, love the one you're near. M aria Bright relinquishes her throaty voice to Dee Dee N ewcorner, hoping that she will be able to lower it another octave. i Di Di Stone and Katie Crumpaeker leave the technique of robbing the kitchen in hopes that there is no nurse in the infirmary and no fire drill. Pat Lancaster bequeaths her spot on the after dinner dance floor to Candy Cashman and insists that Candy lives up to her responsiblility. julie Eiseman relinquishes her bright light to Miss Ramsay, hoping that it will burn long after hours in her memory . Sue Gaunt, softly singing the refrain of Just My Bill , sadly watches the sta- tion wagon roll down the street for the last time as it leaves her. Sally Cessna donates all her tight skirts and yodeling disability to Pat Haass, hoping that she will use them to her best advantage in the Valley of Darrow. Lee Fletcher leaves R. H. for a position with the Yankees. The glove with which she pitched her perfect game is bequeathed to Debbie Blouin in hopes that it will do wonders for her also. Patsy Rosenshine would like to remind any sophomore with turtles to keep them away from the sink. On occasion, she says, f'They do go down. Vanessa Noble donates her heavy, early morning foot to Lynn Kingston in hopes that she can find someone who will appreciate it more than she did.. Carol Bowes relinquishes her shoulder pads to Sue Schwartz in hopes that the added muscles will bring repeated victories to Kava. Cindy Boynton' wills her expert co-ordination in basketball to Wendy Elliott and any left over athletic ability to Nliss Sterling. Dujy Healey leaves her infamous ability to appear busily pre-occupied while accomplishing nothing to anyone who feels she needs added finesse in this compli- cated, yet helpful and handy art. We, the Senior Class of 1957, do hope and expect that the faculty and the un- dergraduates will respect, honor and cherish our suggestions, advice, and prize pos- sessions. This last will and testament was drawn up, compiled, and edited by JULIE EISEMAN CONNIE SHOESIVIITH SALLY CESSNA THE STEP Think well On this your last day as a child. Tomorrow- You graduate, face the great world Alone. J. L. iterar NOTHING? There is nothing to see! It is only a silver birch, But is comes like a beautiful joy to me, Like the joy you feel so calm and free, When all is still as still can be, After a psalm in the church. It is so fair and light! It grows on a rock by a well! The rock is so strong and the birch is so slight That they fill my heart with a strange delight, And I think they make a wonderful sight, Though why I can never tell. The roek I grasp and reach, And the birch tree I cannot touch, But its rustling leaves have a tender speech, For I know that their whispered words can teach, And comfort me very much. The rock is strong and wild, And the well is wide and deep, So I nodded my little head and smiled, For I felt that they both Could protect a child, And the birch tree murmured soft and mild, And so I fell fast asleep. Why should this written be? And what have I got to tell? The wise, wise people will laugh at me, And say there is nothing at all to see, Only a rock, and only a tree, And only a little well. I jo PITT, '58 THE LOAN When one is seven years old, ten cents is a great deal of money and when one receives ten cents every day, it is the cause of much speculation and second graders are a very speculative people. Their world is magnified as If one were looking through field glasses at an object three feet away. So it is that. a very big boy of eleven appears enormous in every proportion and on one's small mind he makes a very big imprint. Size means much to the small but difference in color is cause for even greater speculation, for colors are among the first things to be learned, and reds and blues stand out just as much as do blacks and whites. I cannot say if it is this differ- ence in color that makes me remember this story from my childhood so vividly or not, but I am sure that, no matter what the reason may be, I will never forget it. I can remember a great many things about second grade. I remember taking tadpoles to school in a jar. I remember one Spring when I came with a praying mantis cocoon for the teacher, who said it was a very nice cocoon and that it would, be interesting to watch it hatch. I also remember the day it hatched and I can, still see the hundreds of little bugs pouring out of Betty's desk and running up her legsand arms and across her books. There are other things to remember too, Dick and Jane with their dog, and one of my first arithmetic problems, two and two is four-I think it must have taken me a very long time to remember that-but of all these things, I remember Ghandi the best. Ghandi was about eleven and was in the fifth grade 5 that was upstairs and it was considered very grown up to be in classes upstairs. Ghandi's mother must have washed his face very hard every morning because it shone as a polished buck- eye shines in the sun. I understood that because I had my face scrubbed firmly in the morning by my mother, but I didn't understand soleless shoes and patched pants with frayed ends. I was to understand more though in the years to come. There was a candy store near the school that sold delicious chocolates and pep- permint sticks, and every day after lunch-I have since been told that I was much envied by my city-dwelling classmates, who were never allowed to bring their lunch to school in intriguing paper bags-my fellow rural companions and I would go to Mr. MacFingan's store to sample his Hne candy. I am not sure how I started to give half of my ten cents to Ghandi but I think I must have come to realize that he never ate any candy and that on some days he did not even go home for lunch! I remember that he would silently take the nickel, utter thank you, and run to the store for his candy. I can remember little else about my relationship with Ghandi. I do not know when I stopped giving nickels to him or how many I gave or for how long a time. I never saw him again until one night about eight years later when I was standing by the sidelines of a high school football game. Besides me was a very. tall colored man in an Air Force uniform. I must have brushed his arm as I took my place by the rope, for he turned toward me for a moment and then smiled and asked me if I was still giving nickels to little boys. I shall never forget nor regret that gift-or was it a loan-because it was so remembered. VIRGINIA BROWN, '57 THIS COULD HAVE HAPPENED Night had fallen on the battlefield at Philippi. Kindly night who drew her dusky velvet curtains across the hideous sights of battle, those pitiful mounds which had once been men. Every now and then the light from a watery moon cast a cold and dreary beam upon a discarded shield or a broken sword. Had any living creature been around that bloody battlefield that night, they might have seen a slender boyish Hgure, wearing the traditional Roman uniform, lying remote, alone. Had they paused to look at his face, they would have recog- nized him as Lucius, the faithful boy who had served Brutus and Portia so well. If they had looked even more closely, they would have noticed a serene smile upon his youthful face. Lucius had died in battle by a self-inflicted wound. Perhaps no one has ever heard the real story of what happened to Lucius, and certainly Shakespeare never told us about it. You might say that the real begin- ning was the night the conspirators met at Brutus' house. In the play, Julius Caesar, we are told Lucius leaves the room as soon as the conspirators enter. But the truth is Lucius hid in a secluded spot and overheard the entire conservation. So obviously he was well aware of what they were planning. From the moment that these men had appeared at the door, Lucius had been suspicious of them. He had even attempted to warn Brutus, his master, in a tactful and humble way when he said, No, sir, their hats are plucked about their ears, and half their faces buried in their cloaks, that by no means I may discover them by any mark of favor. Brutus, however, had appeared too distrait to pay much attention to his young servant's words, and had merely motioned to him to leave the room. This strange action on the part of Brutus had stimulated his curiosity enough to make him listen to their schemes. Now Lucius was in a horrible predicament. Which way should he turn? He loved his master and was devoted to him, yet he was in no position to tell him what to do. So he had bided his time in hopes that his master's noble nature would reassert itself, and that he would not succumb to the persuasive arguments of Cassius, one of the conspirators against Julius Caesar. Then the fearful day arrived when Portia, Brutus's wife, said, Run Lucius, and commend me to my lord, say I am merry, co-me to me again, and bring me word what he doth say to thee. He had, of course, obeyed her at once, and hastened to the capitol. Indeed, he had run the entire way until, suddenly realizing that there was an unusual uproar and that he was only one of a vast crowd of confused people, he had found himself gazing in horror at the mutilated body of Caesar. I could not attempt to portray for you the thoughts and confused ideas that were running through Luciusis head at that moment. The loud noiseifrom the im- mense crowd of people, mixed with the sight of Ceasar, must have made him very dizzy-for 'to his surprise, when he looked up, he found himself- at the foot of Brutus. He gazed into Brutus's eyes with bewilderment, as if to say, Please take me with you. As the story goes, Brutus took Lucius to battle with him. This made Lucius very happy, for his one desire was to be with Brutus. In this play Julius Caesar, Antony gives a very convincing and enlightening speech to the people grouped about the body of Caesar. It is important to note here that the minds of the people of this era were swayed very easily. Antony's speech turned them into a very dangerous group of people. All they had Fixed in their minds was to hear whoever had anything to do with the death of Caesar This as I . ' 7 found out by,read1ng the play, caused a treacherous battle, leaving many people dead. Antony s forces were, of course, victorious, Not long after this battle, Brutus killed himself, doing it not out of self-pity, but because he felt it would please his country if he were dead. As I think back, I remember part of the speech given by Brutus after he killed Caesar. He said, As I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself when it shall please my country to need my death. Loyal Lucius killed himself on this very same day. This was out of self-pity. He was a lost person without his beloved master. But this was not a tragic moment, because Lucius was happy. That's why he carried the serene smile upon his face- he would be with Brutus forever now. X LYN KINGSTON, '58 CASTLES IN THE SAND There was sand on the beach And little brother too. With this combination, Just guess what would ensue! First a shovel, then a pail Were ejected from the trunk. Water at the sea shore Scooped up with lots of spunk. A quick run up the beach Was all it took to start. The architect tried building A castle he thought art. Ingredients were carefully mixed In what was called 'cCement. The two small hands constructed then A castle magnificent. The boy worked on adroitly. Minutes passed, and then an hour. A wall of waste had formed around. Yet ever upward grew the tower. The edifice was finished. The boy's attention dwindled. Another occupation His Heeting interest kindled. The forgotten pail and shovel Lay silent on the sand. The lapping waves rolled upward Taking the castle grand. DIANE DUBRULE, '60 THE DISCORDANT TREE O, grant for me a surcease from sorrow, Take from me this cold-as-silver sadness, Make my being revel in gladness To off-set the chimerical hell of tomorrow. The tree of happiness is thus blighted By the viruses of loneliness and misery. I am that tree, quaking, shivering, and affrighted. Restlessly and fitfully, I seek to fling forth My diseased leaves of depression, and ungracious apathy. But why to strive to divert this sorrow? Why to beg relief from its pressing, Why to expel this grief distressing? I am not Afraid of future days, for nothing more could be, That which is now so dread to me. . . STEPHANIE HEALEY, '57 THE CAT The cat slinks in the shadows of the night. Who'll be its victim, who will flee its sight. Gracefully poised on velvet paws, Tenderly cushioning treacherous claws. What sly thoughts hide behind cold, opal eyes, As it traverses beneath misty gray skies. In the day its soft and warm purring fo-r its mistress or master- How different at night, when the last city sound dies away! It changes to its true self, its old primordial way. Its claws are sharp and fast to kill, No scent evades its delicate nostril. Tentative, wary, sly without compare, A warm small body in its jaws it will not share. Beautifully deadly, symbol of the night, Smooth and majestic, resentful of the light, ETHEL HODGES, '60 THE DOGWOOD You burst with life, possessing radiance and beauty. Your petals are of white and chalky pink, reflecting God's creative hands. Through the night you are still, only to be awakened with a kiss from a gentle breeze. DIANE STONE, '57 VOICES IN THE WIND The night, turbulent and black, had an eerie, almost bewitching, atmosphere. There was the incessant and erratic descent of the rain, and there was the wind, there was always the wind. At times on the hill, the wind would sweep in and around the weathered man- sion, not unlike the strummed chords of a harp. It would become lively, almost frolicking in sensation, tiptoeing through the shutters, and skipping around the crevices and patches of decay. Tonight the wind began to swirl, and the rain beat like native drums, in pat- terns and then in capricious bursts. A woman, pale and lifeless, lay in the ink of her chamber, without a stir, scarcely a breath. The musty linen was pulled tight, and she was listening-listening and thinking with thoughts keyed to the mood of the night. What was it?', Her withered features, revealing hints of faded beauty, were taut. 'fThe wind? Yes-the wind. It came driving and pushing, pounding against the house. The twelve great oaks, which enveloped the mansion on the hills sum- mit, bowed and swayed to the wind, as a graceful willow in an impetuous summer breeze. It would ebb, and whistle through the crevices, laughing it seemed, then crash in bringing memories of rough, hard years, lived with lust and impulse. Down the chimney it moaned and wailed through the Hue, vibrating echoes of passion and sorrow. Why, the wind, bewitching as it was, lonely beyond belief, seemed to be mocking, ridiculing. Why? Were those years futile? The wind had a hollow nonresonant sound. The ladyls mind raced like lightning-The wind was interpreting so many half- forgotten deeds and moods, bringing them to mind in retrospect as though by an examination of conscience. The depression which accompanied the inference of her many years was passing. Her mood was of peace. The wind rolled in with a flourish of trumpets, and she uttered with a feeling of fear and faith, O, my God, have mercyli' Then she died. As though a soft pedal was put on the night, the native drums were muted, and the rain descended softly and monotonously. The wind had left, leaving only a tell-tale breeze. She had died better than she had lived. Gone from the wind ..... Yes, gone from the wind, never to awake to its echoes. KATHLEEN CASHMAN, '59 SPRING Springtime. . . Fruit trees in bud The smell of new-mown grass Robins Hying in the blue Barefoot boys with long fishing poles. . . All's green. JANET LOMBARD, ,57 INFINITY Space is inHnity, Endlessness. But can there be nothing else To this vast universe? Certainly all things must cease. . . So why not space- The endlessness that Envelops mankind? Imagine, if you can, What it would be like To go on, forever, through infinity. GEORGENE WALKLEY, '57 SUNSET A golden Coral contrasts against the red, bursting ever outward toward the world. This mass of flame simmers and dies and silently hides behind its blanket. Clusters of petals, stretching towards the sky, reaching for something, Eternity. DIANE STONE, '57 School otes FIRST TEAM HOCKEY GAME It was a beautiful day, on the 14th of November, that the splashes of red and white and blue and gold once more adorned the traditional first team hockey game between Gae and Kava. Captains Kingston and Cessna gave the nod as the whistle blew, and the game was at last underway, From the first, it was against equality. The two teams were unbelievably evenly matched, and each turned in a superb per- formance. At the half, the score was proof of the desperate struggle-one to one. As the game resumed action, Kava suddenly surged ahead scoring two goals in a row. As the second half continued, the spectators viewed some excellent hockey, and the goalies, in particular, made some dramatic saves. As the time clock ticked away the remaining minutes, Gae's efforts were rewarded as they evened up the score to make it three to three. As the final whistle blew, the ball lay in the middle of the field where the game had begun. It was not, however, played in vain. Gae and Kava proved once again that spirit and sportsmanship are far more important than a win or a loss. J. E. SECOND TEAM HOCKEY GAME The first showing of the traditional Gae-Kava rivalry burst forthfrom Rogers Hall on the seventh of November, as the second teams of both clubs took the field amidst the thundering cheers of the well wishing fans. At the starting whistle, Kava quickly fought their way to the Gae goalie to make their first score of the game. The ball shifted from one end of the field to the other, with Kava getting more re- sults from their efforts than Gae. At the half, the score was 3-1. During the second half, Cae suddenly came to life, showing some good hockey for the first time. The final score was six to four in favor of Kava, but Gae put up a good Hght to the Hnish and showed excellent sportsmanship in their defeat. J. E. DRAMATICS On Tuesday evening the twentieth of November Rogers Hall gave its first play of the school year. Under the able direction of Mrs. Koelsch The Great Big Door- step provided the audience with a very gay evening. THE GREAT BIG DOORSTEP BY FRANCES GooDR1cH AND ALBERT HACKETT We :W 2+ 1 - x'U 'ws Ur I . ,N CAE CLUB , 5 M A , E? nw?-J sky' g a? Q . X' 'f Q4 7' ' a C 1 . ' W 4 4 kktg 1' W 2 1 gif C ' AW.-,,, fam, 'WM - -.,., ,.,.,,.. axfww H K'-lf ,. , J, -21, ,A K , KAVA CLUB CLUB OFFICERS CAE: J. :E.isemar1, Presidentg P. Rosenshine. KAVA: A. Adams, Presidentg M. Bright. CAE CHEERLEADING KAVA CHEERLEADING Lqft to rightg L. Sulouff, I. Eiseman, P. Rosen- Left fo ,ffgjzfy row One: D. Purdy, E' Xfargis Shine, I. Parker. A. Adamsg row two: M. Bright, D. Newcomer CAST OF CHARACTERS Evvie omaha: . ...,.. . Sa1lY Cessna Topal Crochet . . Suellen McCarthy MTS. Cmchgt . Julie Eiseman Elna Crochet . - .Sue Carroll Fleece Crochet Dlanf? Shearer Arthur Crochet . Martina Botty Mr. Tobin . . Maria Bright Commodore . Georgene Walkley Announcer . . Joan Goodale Girl on the radio . Betsie Wagner Mrs. Durpe . . . Deborah Hanson Tayo Delacroix . . Jennifer Gang Davy Crochet . . . Stephanie Healey Mrs. Beaumont Crochet . . Judith Parker V. A. B. NEW HAMPTON DANCE Just after Thanksgiving vacation, Rogers Hall took part in a very significant social event. This event was the New Hampton School's concert and dance with Rog- ers Hall. After a long period of absence from the social calendar, this school again came to the fore. The Glee Club concert, so ably conducted by Mr. T. H. Moore, began the evening. The New Hampton choir, with its renditions of New Hampton, Fair New Hampton, Brothers, Sing On Highf, and Old Man Noahf' performed admirably, much to the enjoyment of all. Rogers Hall also gave a most entertaining program, singing such songs as I Could Have Danced All Night, and Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Childf' The concert culminated in the combined choruses singing Coming Through the Rye. The dance, of course, was enjoyed by most, with the gay and Winsome deco- rations in the theme of The Wizard of Oz adding a light-hearted touch. Together with the music of Ken Reeves and his orchestra, and the Rogers Hall octet enter- taining during intermission with Blue Skiesl' and On Moonlight Bay, the evening was a complete success. G. R. W. CHRISTMAS VESPERS Parents and students were crowded into the study hall. The candles on the mantle enveloped the front of the room in a bright, golden mist. The glee club, led by Miss LeButt, sang well-known carols, and Christmas stories and poems were read. Mrs. MacGay presented the class rings, a high point in the lives of the Seniors at Rogers Hall. C. W. CHRISTMAS PAGEANT The Christmas pageant, Why The Chimes Rangf' was given on the last night before vacation amid the bustle and rush of last minute packing. It was the story of a Christmas Eve long ago and told of a young man's wish being granted in return for a kindness he had done. The four main characters were: ir I I I l. l ll ,V i, ll l P l l l 'I l M l 1 I l Y A 1 I l 3 I I E 5 1 The Old Woman . . Joan Goodale Uncle Bertel , . Nancy O'Connell Steen , , Diane Shearer Holga ......... Betsie Wagner In addition to these, there were several minor parts such as those of the kings and shepherds, which were played by various other girls. J. L. VOLLEY BALL GAME 2nd TEAM Miss Sterling blew her whistle to start off the second of the Cae-Kava encounters. Cae immediately took the lead, taking advantage of Kava's obvious nervousness. The second half showed a definite change. Kava recovered to give the audience some terrific rallies, while Cae's confidence wavered uncertainly. It was a fight to the finish, but Kava pulled through on top, 37-32. VOLLEY BALL GAME lst TEAM The atmosphere was decidedly more tense as the first teams of Cae and Kava warmed up for their volley ball game. As the two teams separated to take positions on the court, there was a moment of indecision as to whether Sue Morse would stop Maria Bright's spikes, or vice versa. The problem solved, the whistle blew, and the friendly rivalry was under- way once more. The two teams were very evenly matched-the game being sparked by many good plays and exciting rallies. Cae's serving was on the whole poor, but they re- taliated by returning a great many of Kava's excellently placed shots. Towards the end Cae took the edge to make the final score 35-24. J. E. EXETER The Money Tree-this spectacle greeted the eyes of the would-be dancers enter- ing the gym January nineteenth at seven p. m. It is a shame that money doesn't grow on trees, but it's fun to pretend, as many did who contemplated the luxuriant foliage. During intermission, the Rogers Hall Octet did not sing the theme song, The Money Tree,', but they did give an admirable performance, doing the old favorites, Blue Skies,', Sentimental Journey, and On Moonlight Bayf' The prelude to this affair had been the Concert and dinner enjoyed by Exeter and Rogers Hall. We were fortunate in having both the Exeter Glee Club singing f'Roving, What Care I, and Deck the Halls, and the Exeter Orchestra perform- mg such pieces as the English Folk Song Suite. Rogers Hall gave their renditions of All Glory, Laud, and Honor, Awake Thou Wintry Earth, and I Could Have Danced All Night. After supper, the couples adjourned to the festooned gymnasium to complete the evening dancing to the music of the Royal Exonians. G. W. H, CAE HOCKEY Left to right, row one: K. King, V. Noble, L. Kingston, C. Marsh, J. Parker. Left to right, row two: J. Eiseman, N. Wolf, P. Rosenshine, S. Morse, B. Van Horne, I Goodale CManagerJ. KAVA HOCKEY Left to rjght, .row one: C. Cashman, A. Crocker, S. Cessna, M. Bright, C. Bowes, T. Estes. Left to Mght, row two: B. Wagner, D. Purdy, N. Barson, N. O'Connell, D. Shearer, A. Adams, S. Healey CMa.nagerJ. CAE VOLLEYBALL Left to right, row one: V. Noble, J. Parker, S. Morse, N. Wolf. Left to right, row two: C. Shoesmith QManagerj, B. Van Horne, M. Pomar, P. Rosenshine, C. Marsh, L. Sulouff. KAVA VOLLEYBALL Left to wright, row one: M. Bright, N. O'Conne1l, C. Bowes, A. Adams. Left to right, row two: N. Barson, J. Dayton, G. Walkley, P. Lancaster, C. Reynolds CMa.nagerj A CAE BASKETBALL Left to right, .row one: J. Parker, S. Morse, P. Rosenshine, N. Wolf, J. Goodale. Left to right, row two: B. Van Horne, A. Churchill, J. Eiseman, C. Marsh, S. McCarthy CMa.n- agerj 'ff' 'Cu :ea KAVA BASKETBALL Left to right, row one: N. O'Connel1, P. Chalmers, G. Fowler, C. Bowes, N. Barson. Left to right, row two: D. Purdy, D. Hanson, P. Lancaster, D. Shearer, T. Estes, A. Adams E. Cook fManagerj. 1 i 1 CAE SOFTBALL Left to right, row one: S. Morse, L. Kingston, K. King, J. Eiseman, S. McCarthy. Left to right, row two: B. Van Horne, B. Herrmann, P. Rosenshine, J. Parker, C. Marsh, S. Herrmann CManagerj. , , i 1 i N N !, 1 i r fi 3 ir lr i 2 . 1 KAVA SOFTBALL 4 Left to right, row one: N. Barson, D. Shearer, C. Curtin, S. Cessna, K. Freeman, C. Bowes. i Left to right, row two: C. Cashman, G. Fowler, M. Bright, M. Caley, A. Adams, T. Estes l CManagerj . 1 S I i I ! THE ST. MARKS CONCERT AND DANCE On March second, Rogers Hall embarked upon a new adventure. We were going to St. Marks for a Glee Club Concert and dance. Our ofhcial greeter was a tremendous Labrador retriever, who proceeded to boom his welcome at us as we filed past. fSt. Marks must have a rather large dog food bill.j We began the evening with the concert in the gymnasium.. St. Markstperforrned a group of beautiful religious songs, and the favorite Negro spiritual Going to Live With God. Rogers Hall, much to the pleasure of all, sang, Climbing Up The Mountain, In Wood Emboweredf' and Twenty Lovesick Maidens We. The two schools then feasted, but not for long. Back we went to the gymnasium for the dance which featured a lively Charleston session. St. Marks octet finished the evening by singing most expertly, Blue Skies, Going to Write Myself a Letter, and Ding Dong Daddy. And by the way, the Rogers Hall octet also ranf, G. IV. BASKETBALL GAME 2nd TEAM-MARCH 15 This was a wild, badly played but exciting game of the third encounter between Cae and Kava's second teams. For the Hrst half, Kava's guards held their zone very well, and Cae,s score was kept low. In the second half, however, the outlook for Cae brightened, and the final score was 24-26 in their favor. In spite of the loud rivalry between the clubs during the game, the sportsmanship afterwards was tops, as the court was mobbed with blue and gold and red and white shouting their congratula- tions. BASKETBALL GAME lst TEAM-MARCH 16 The lst team basketball game proved to be one of the best played games Rogers Hall has ever seen. With roommates Carol Bowes and Sue Morse high scorers with 21 and 20 points respectively, the two clubs fought on in a battle of wits and strategy. The outstanding factor in this game was the teamwork, which worked especially well with Cae's defense the last half. Although the Final score was 40 to 30 in favor of Cae, both teams put on an excellent performance in both skill and sportsmanship. J. 13. . THE SENIOR-UNDERGRAD PARTY The Senior-Undergrad Party was held the night of March 16th in the Gym. Carolyn Curtin as Arthur Godfrey was on hand to preside over the festivities, and Tony Marvin fDee Dee Newcomerj gave the inevitable Lipton Tea ad. Assisting him were Hali Loki and her partner, Julie Eiseman, both dressed in the latest from I-lilo-newspaper skirts. joan Goodale, Charlotte Marsh, and Janet Dayton stepped in as Ish, Mish, and Tish. Eloise was enacted by Sarah Butler, with Nancy Mc- Grath. portraying Nanny and Ginny Brown was called upon to give an impromtu rendition of Mountain Dew. We get a nostalgic taste of Paris with Lynn King- ston's original modern dances. The party was wound up with a Nighty-Night fashion show of sleepwear popular with the seniors. C. W. SPRING PLAYS The last night before vacation, two plays, were presented for the entertainment of the students, faculty, and visiting parents. .The hrst play, Red Queen, White Queen, was the story of Ann Boleyn and depicted the struggle for the qucenship between two women. Characters Elizabeth Hammond . . . Madge Skelton . . . . Mary Wyatt . Page . . . jane Seymour .... ,Mary, Princess of Wales .... Margaret Pole fCountess of Salisburyj . Anne Boleyn CMarchionesse of Pembrokej Catherine of Aragon lQueen of Englandj The second play, Maker of Dreams, was man's search for the perfect wife. Characters Pierrette . . . Pierrot . Manufacturer . Sandy Snow . Suellen McCarthy . Maria Bright Charlotte Marsh . Wendy Wilkinson . Bessie Wagner Jennifer Gang . Martina Botty Victoria Estes a delightful presentation about one . Kathleen Cashman . Janet Dayton . Joan Goodale J. L. BADMINTON MATCH - MAY 1 ls, With Patsy Rosenshine representing Cae Club and Carol Bowes for Kava, the badminton tournament got underway. Both girls were tense, and the early rallies ended with many wood shots. The iirst game was the closest with Patsy finally breaking through the tie to end the game with 11-9. Carol swept the second game easily-Patsy's resistance being a mere 3 points. The third and final game held many exciting rallies and some excellently placed shots by both girls, but Patsy emerged the final victor with the score 11-5. All games were well played and the sportsmanship of both the girls and the clubs was tops. J. E. FOUNDER'S DAY May 4th was warm and sunny-a perfect Founder's Day. The alumnae, in- cluding one lady from the class of '94, began arriving about noon-time. After a lunch of lobster salad, they held a shown around the campus by some of the students. meeting while their children were Later in the afternoon, everyone was entertained by a portion of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a few songs by the Glee Club. It was a line celebration for the 138th birthday of Miss Elizabeth Rogers. C. W. SWIMMING MEET - MAY 16 Even the final score, Q43-42D , suggest the tenseness and excitement of the Cae- Kava swimming meet on May 16th. Outstanding in the event was Carol Bowes, l racing breast strokej , and Penny Bruckner, tracing free stylej , for Kava-Pat Haass, lform breast strokel, and Barbie Van Horne, fforrn divej, for Cae. Both teams deserve our congratulations--Kave for the victory, Cae for the fight. J. E. CAE SWIMMING KAVA SWIMMING I I Left lo right, row one: S. Carroll, B. Herr- Left to right, row one: B. Wagner, A. Hock- - mann, J. Parker, row two: C. Migliore, B. meyerg row two: T. Estes, B. Bowes, D. Q' Van Horne, C. Marsh, S. Gaunt CManagerD, Shearer, J. Gang CManagerD, P. Bruckner, M. P. Haass, P. Rosenshine, B. Smith. Bright, ' if CAE BADMINTON KAVA BADMINTON Hi! fo right: P. Rosenshine, L. Fletcher, S. Left to right: M. Bright, C. Bowes, G. Walk- orse, J. Exseman. ley D- Shearer- ONE-ACT PLAYS FIRST TEAM SOFTBALL GAME - MAY 23 The left field bushes and the bordering street seemed to be the favorite spot for this Cae-Kava softball game. The hitting, fwhen it was on the fieldj, for both teams was quite good, and perhaps seemed a bit better than it shoulduhave because the fielding was quite poor. The seven innings, however, proved exciting as Kava battled from behind to eventually take the lead 20-17. Congratulations to both clubs and to Bill and Manuel for the good job they did in retrieving the misplaced balls. SECOND TEAM SOFTBALL GAME - MAY 24 May 24th was a beautiful day, and the five innings of the second team went very quickly. Because of nervousness, the fielding in this game was also poor, al- though there was some nice hitting. Sitting on the side lines offering moral support were a few of the previous day's casualties. As if to even things off, Cae took this game 14 to 4. J. E. PROM From two o'clock to five o'clock p.m. on Saturday, the eighteenth of May, a large number of young men could be seen converging upon Rogers Hall. The occasion? The Senior Prom. The school was a bee hive of activity. During the afternoon, badminton, ping pong, and tennis were played, while many couples walked around the grounds and the general vicinity. As five o'clock drew near, the boys were hustled into cars and cabs to be transported to their respective abodes. Dinner began at seven, while the dancing commenced at eight. With the first notes of Ken Reeve's orchestra, the Senior Prom was under way. The decorations of gay japanese lanterns, potted palms, and lilacs lent themselves perfectly to the festive occasion. Came intermission and the Rogers Hall Octet performed for the audience. Singing Blue Skies falong with New Hampton, who entertained afterwardsl, Sentimental Journey, and joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho, the group terminated its season of singing admirably. This program was followed by the Senior Waltz for seniors only. Twelve o'clock midnight and everyone said their goodnights . Sunday morning was the finish to a perfect weekend, with a steak breakfast, tennis, and dancing in the gym. At noon, the gentlemen said their adieus . Thus, the weekend of Prom came to a close, to be remembered only in the thoughts of those who attended. S G. R. W. BACCALAUREATE The Baccalaureate Service for the senior class of Rogers Hall was held at All Souls Church. on Sunday, June 2nd. The Baccalaureate address was entitled Life's Three Necessities . It imparted to the class the importance of hope, faith, and love, stressing the prominence they hold throughout life. A coffee hour following the service was attended by the seniors and their parents. We seniors shall long remember our graduation church service as one of the most significant and happiest of our lives. . A G. W. GLEE CLUB CONCERT After the Baccalaureate Service June 2nd, friends and relatives of the seniors were entertained by the Glee Club. They sang several religious selections and two Oriental pictures from Rubenstein's Tower of Babelv. Joan Goodale and Janet Dayton sang solos from Patience . The highlight of the concert was Beethoven's Piano Concerto perfonned by Lyn Abbott, a graduate of the class of '56, assisted by Miss LeButt, who played the orchestral accompaniment on the second piano. C. W. CLASS DAY The parents went into the dining room, found their seats, and soon were discuss- ing graduation excitedly and proudly. Undergrads Hlled the small border tables, quietly waiting for the food and wondering when the singing would start. Soon it d1d. Each senior read her verse and held up her gift for all to see and laugh at-a red car, gavel, Easter basket, a switch of mousy hair. Mrs. MacGay ended the meal by telling several amusing anecdotes about former students. Everyone left the dining room and went to the study hall for the presentation of awards and Class Day proceedings. Barbie Van Horne and Joan Goodale were elected president and vice-president of Cae Club 5 Nancy O'Connell and Ellen Cook were chosen to head Kava Club next year. Georgene Walkley read the Class Prophecy-very cleverly written. Ginny Brown read her own composition of Eloise is Coming to Commencement . It was cute and made all of us glad that Eloise is only imaginary after we heard some of the pranks she was planning to play. Then Sally Cessna read the hilarious Class Will. And so another class of - grand, old seniors is out in the wide, wide world . AWARDS CLUB AWARDS CAE KAVA Volleyball Swimming Basketball Softball Hockey - tie INDIVIDUAL AWARDS Tennis Alison Crocker Badminton Patsy Rosenshine Posture Pat Lancaster Neatness-Hall Charlotte Marsh -House Connie Shoesmith and Nicole Barson -Shedd Duffy Healey LIFE-SAVING AWARDS Candy Cashman Jennifer Gang Debby Hanson Bonney Herrmann Charlotte Marsh Cynthia Migliore Judie Parker Mariella Pomar Elaine Vargis Nancy Wolf Carolyn Young 2 SPLINTERS STAFF Left to right, row one: L. Robinson, C. Wittmann, G. Walkley, C. Shoesmith, V. Brown, L. Sulouff, S. Healey, S. Morse, S. Carroll. .gefic to right, row two: B. Herrmann, C. Young, I. Eiseman, I. Lombard, A. Churchill, J. ar er. 31192 3 .Fi -C ,Gill f L .-f.-fAoG+l-...wf- r f I fu f-71.1.4 ,-'JA 'V Y, .I in linux. L BEAR AND LION STUDENT COUNCIL Q, .,, row one: T. Gang J. Miers' Left to ri . - V H., ,, f 7 ght, row one. L. Page, S. McCar Vihigfjfirqangjijlyfiqll liurflyrf: WRU- thy, S. Herrmann, A. Churchill, row two: C. g'Q15',Hij.1'C, VS 'VW mme: Marsh, C. Curtin, V. Noble, G. Walkleyg row Q - . . tx...w1ri. three: C. Shoesmith, N. Linclenburg, L. Flet- cher, T. Estes. fa ? J-ff x H X wx-- A iv.,-f4?Q bg Mv x 'N .Q ,,.cQe.f - . A , 1 , v - .j,i. 7-..,.w ' A ' 4 I if-i Y' if 's -K ,Y 1'q ' 1 'S .-.-x, , ,- f1f,..,f..,... ,, JUNIOR CLASS FRESHMAN-SOPHOMORE CLASS f R. H. AWARDS-given for athletic ability, captains, managers, life-saving sports manship, posture, CAE Julie Eiseman Bonney Herrmann Charlotte Marsh Susan Morse Vanessa Noble Judie Parker Patsy Rosenshine Barbie Van Horne Nancy Wolf attitude, and neatness. KAVA Appley Adams Carol Bowes Maria Bright Gretchen Fowler Nancy O'Connell Diana Purdy C. W. I HAVE FIVE DAUGHTERS BY MARGARET MACNAMARA On June third the last play of the year was given. I Have Five Daughters was an amusing comedy taken from Pride and Prejudice. With parents and students watching, the dramatic year ended in a delightful hour of laughter. ' THE CHARACTERS jane Bennett . .... . Candy Cashman Elizabeth Bennett . . Sally Cessna Mary Bennett . . Sue Carroll Kitty Bennett . . Suellen MacCarthy Lydia Bennett . . Katie Crumpaclcer MVS- Bennett . Julie Eiseman Sally . . . . Lee Fletcher Charlotte Lucas . , , Tory Estes MT- Bennett - . Georgene Walkley Chaflef Bingley - . Nancy O'Connell Fitzwilliarn Darcy, . , Janet Lombard William Collins . . , Jpan Gogdale Caroline Bingley , , I . Tina Botty Lady Catherine de Bourgh ..... . Stephanie Healey V. A. B. COMMENCEMENT As hasbeen the case so often in the past, the Class of 1957 had a beautiful sunny day with mild temperature for the Commencement Exercises. In a short ceremony, talks were given to the Seniors by Dr. Hale and Mrs. MacGay on future success, and the diplomas were awarded by Judge Leggat. Then the various academic. and extracurricular prizes were given out by Mrs. MacGay. Q After a short period of greetings and congratulations, a buffet lunch was served in the d1n1ng room for students, parents and guests. AWARDS AND HONORS The Underhill Honor-College Preparatory f85Wj MARY LOUISE ARGYLE LOUISE HART CATHERINE CRUMPACKER JANET LOMBARD DIANE DUBRULE NANCY FISKE JOAN GOODALE GEORGENE WALKLEY Parsons Award f80'7bJ-General Course EMILY FLETCHER Honor Roll--Average f85'jbJ or above LYNNE ROBINSON SARAH ROBINSON CONSTANCE SHOESMITH GEORGENE WALKLEY CECELIA WITTMANN CAROL LORD JANE MIERS MARIELLA POMAR Helen Hill Awdfd-CONSTANCE SHOESMITH Athletic Cup-CAROLYN BOWES Art PfiZ6-MELANIE SULOUFF Dramatics-JULIE EISEMAN Honorable Mention-SALLY CESSNA 1- GEORGENE WALKLEY MARY LOUISE ARGYLE Bible-JANET LOMBARD Honorable Mention NICOLE BARSON DEBORAH HAN SON CAROLYN KINGSTON Music Appreciation-CHARLOTTE MARSH Honorable Mention MARIA BRIGHT GEORGENA LINDENBERG SUZANNE MORSE MARIELLA POMAR GEORGENE WALKLEY NICOLE BARSON Current Events EMILY F LETCHER-C1358 CECELIA WITTMAN--Assembly Honorable Mention CATHERINE CRUMPACKER GEORGENE WALKLEY Splinters Essay-VIRGINIA BROWN Poetry-JOSEPHINE ELLEN PITT Short Story-CAROLYN KINGSTON . X WE Z 22 ,41 1 A THREE SCENES FROM I Have Five Daughters W My . .nv '15 f Q- - Mx 1, L.. 1 fx AQ fs -,sf -.wie f - 1 f' Y is f 9' '45 ' X' ' f Q r ' 1 Eiaffgfgxgewjst 4 I Lx. L , :wx 1 X, QA Q f ,4-K? w 5' 'ffi-xf'j'1 Q . - , yi Q, :Y . H ,Q f -W 1:5415 Q H, Egg rw ,X 'L .N , W' ' X651 xg L5 X X X Xi 'f ' 'f ff-ff-. X i ,V . H Q. X A fgwmv K , V34 X, X yy , 'fy-,X ' ' ' ew: 1 X-gf. if , 'N VX ' VSiZX Q1 , X, X, X ,,, V ' .- ,, ,5 6X X wi X If I V WX, ,gum X Q XX VNIY, H M M My A Alumnae . CWS Engagements Charlotte Atwood to Mr. James Weaver of St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Weaver is a member of the senior class at Colorado College. Cynthia Dadmun to Ensign Winston G. Bridge, United States Naval Air Force, of Keene, New Hampshire. Ensign Bridge was graduated from Dartmouth College. He is now stationed at Pensacola, Florida. A December wedding is planned. Betty Grimes to Mr. Robert Hill of New York, New York. Mr. Hill is a member of this year's graduating class at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. Betty has just completed her freshman year at Russell Sage College. They plan to be married this fall. Carol Hedblom to Mr. Peter Ney Bennett of New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Bennett was graduated from The Holderness School and attends Yale University. Anne Hoff to Mr. Lewis McCoy, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Mc- Coy is an alumnus of St. Joseph's Preparatory School. He is a member of the grad- uating class this June at Drexel Institute of Technology. Betty MacDonald to Mr. Charles F. Fairbanks, 2nd, of Lowell, Massachusetts. Marriages February 22, 1957-Nancy Elliott to Mr. William Ornstein in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Y April 27, 1957-Jean Holt to Mr. Martin McDermott, 2nd, in Bronxville, New ork. May 12, 1957-Sylvia Wilson to Mr. Dietrich Holzheu in Guatemala City, Guatemala. A May 25, 1957-Claire Hamel to Mr. Jerome Paul Hochswender in Bradford, Massachusetts. Mr. Hochswender is a graduate of The Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School and Princeton University. June 14, 1957jMargo Wilke to Mr. Paul Richard Melichar in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Melichar will be at home at 238 Beverly Place, Munster, Indiana. Births A daughter, Joann, to Mr. and Mrs. Campbell DeMallie fBetty Prattj on Feb- ruary 15, 1957. The DeMall1es make their home in Dedham, Massachusetts. A daughter, Susan, to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mason Rosenthal fRoberta Sher- manj on March 31,1957 Apri53fi135l7i hilip Currier, to Mr. and Mrs. Warren E. Jackson QJewel Currierj on A daughter, Theresa Gayle, to Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lamparter fThalia Johnsonj M1351 10, 1957, General We are extremely proud to learn that Sara Lea Callaway has been elected Presi- dent of the Co-operative Government Association for the coming year at Hood.Col- lege in the all-college election this spring. This year Sara Lea has been V1ce-President of the Extra-Curricular Council and junior class representative to the Government Association. We are equally proud of Barbara Scobie who has also been head of student government at Cazenovia Junior College. Barbara was graduated this june Ph1 Theta Kappa. The following Rogers Hall alumnae were also represented among students who graduated from colleges and junior colleges this year. Polly Atwood was graduated from Cornell University. She has accepted a position to teach English at The Cathe- dral School in Garden City, Long Island, New York. Another member of the Rogers Hall Class of 1953 who received her B. A. this June was Carol Robinson. She was a member of the graduating class at Pembroke College. Cynthia Dadmun and Myrna McElhiney also received degrees from The Sargent College of Physical Education. Four Rogers Hall alumnae were graduated from Pine Manor Junior College: Nina Duane, Mary Ann Morgan, Pam Pence, and Connie Veevers. Joan Kuppen- heimer also completed the three year course in elementary teaching which she was taking there. We are not sure of her plans for the future, nor do we know what Nina and Pam expect to do, but Mary Ann will continue her education at The Katharine Gibbs School in Boston, and Connie plans to go on to Denison University. This summer she is to have a most interesting experience, as she is to go to Denmark un- der the auspices of The Experiment in International Living. For a month she will live with a Danish family and after that will travel through Scandinavia for several weeks. It all sounds very exciting! Kitty Chamberlain was also among this year's graduates, having completed her course at Endicott junior College. Pam Hollingworth is extremely happy to have been chosen to attend' The American Theatre Wing Summer School at The Cape Play House on Cape Cod. The students in this group, as well as receiving instruction, put on two plays during the summer which are given as matinee performances. They also have the opportunity to try out for minor parts in the regular Play House productions. Pam left Italy, where she had been an exchange student from Smith College this year, a little early in order to compete for this chance and we are very happy that she has been selected. She says that her experience in Europe during the past year was completely fascina- ting. She loved every minute of it! Elaine Leary has been elected President of The Angel Flight, the women's hon- orary military division of The Arnold Air Society, at The University of Connecticut. Elaine's rank is that of cadet major, or Hight commander. In addition, she was elected Recording Secretary of her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, for the coming year. She will also serve as head usher for the formal University auditorium concert series. Academically she has done well, too, as this spring she was on the Dean's List. This summer Elaine is to take some courses at The University of Cincinnati. VVe were happy to welcome Lucy Meyer and her mother at Commencement. It was quite a trek for them, as Lucy came from Randolph-Macon College and her mother from their home in Hinsdale, Illinois. Several alumnae have visited school recently. Anne Wellesley Howes and Posh Thompson dropped in one day since Commencement, and during spring vacation Shirley Collette Laffey was here. Jean MacGay Curtiss has been here for a few days visit, having flown on from California to be at her fifteenth reunion at Smith College with Barbara Marden Wilson. Of course we loved having Jean here. California doesn't seem so far off after all! As usual we have gleaned a few new addresses from the replies to our Founderfs Day invitations. Mary Osgood Malcolm's address in Marblehead, Massachusetts, IS now 173 jersey Street. Patricia Talbot Wallace has moved from.Dover, New Hamp- shire, to Farmington, Connecticut, where she lives at 3 Waterville Road. Marjorie Marshall F ield's present address is 323 Shrewsbury Street, Holden, Massachusetts, and Elaine Putnam Bailey now lives in Shirley, Massachusetts. Her address 1S P. O. Box -7329. We were interested to learn that Dorothy Mignault, whose home is, in Goose Rocks, Maine, is represented as one of the two principal characters in My Love AHiair with the State of Maine,', by Gertrude MacKenzie. Ruth French Chirurg writes that she is glad to be back at her home in Danvers, Massachusetts, after a recent lengthy trip to South America. There's no place quite like New England to a New Englander! Polly Piper Elmes evidently loves New England, too. Recently Mrs. MacGa,y received a most attractive card from Polly and her husband, Norman, showing a drawing of their home on Wells Hill Road in Lakeville, Connecticut, and bearing the following verse: Like bewildered birds We have changed our nest Many a time and oft. But here we'll stay 'Till Judgrnent Day Please note-at home The Croft. We can understand why they feel as they do. It looks perfectly lovely. I . Nancy Elliott Ornstein has written Mrs. MacGay since her marriage-reported In this issue-from her present home at 1000 Windemere Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vanla. Bill, Nancy writes, and his sister, who teaches French at Abbot Academy, came to -this country from their native Holland in 1940. Bill works for Westinghouse on atomic engineering as a metalurgist. Prior to her wedding this winter, Nancy' had a position as head bookkeeper with the Powell Motor Company in Fort Lauderdale, F lorida. Now she is very busy just being a housewife and is loving it. She is also an active member of the Garden Club. On their honeymoon they went to Havana, Cuban-and as this goes to press, they are on a second honeymoon-this time to be spent in Colorado. Next spring they plan a European trip. Altogether it sounds like a happy and interesting life! Gail Stainsby will be among the European tourists this summer and Turner Baker will be another. So our alumnae do manage to get around. n Ruth Traub left college to take a job in Kansas City, Missouri. She is living tin Pzplartment if 106 at 321 Ward Parkway and seems to be having lots of fun, inci- en a y. We are a bit late in reporting that Naomi Sherman was on the Dean's List at The Bouve:Boston School during the first semester of this college year. Sometimes we just don t learn these things on time! A letterfrorn Louise Taylor Gerdine from her home at 2306 Holgate Square, Los Angeles, Q-Hllfornla, shows us that she certainly leads a most active life. Besides being il housewife, .she is a Director on the Ezrecutive Board of the Hollywood Chapter, Vvationajl ijoclety Daughters of the American Revolution, a member of the College S Omen s lub. of Basadena., and a Councilor on the Board of the patriotic Huguenot ociety of California. Lou1se's husband, Dr. L. van Horne Gerdine, is a consulting ip neurology and a psychiatrist on the Los Angeles County Superior Court, 5 w.1.'rjAa.i Lbepyartnienvt. He also lectures at the Los Angeles County Hospital. Dr. and ' T- ' 'fl.'ffll't'lS daughter, Eleanor, lives at home with them. Their son, Philip, who ,eng gi-Tritt in Dallas, Texas. Louise writes that she has many happy and l Hall school days, some very amusing! We are especially glad to have this information about her, as she has been among our lost alumnae-- those for whom we have no address. It is always gratifying to be able to take one of those cards out of the lost file and put it back in the active file. Many of our alumnae will be sorry to learn of the death of Miss Dorothy Le- Butt's mother on June 5, 1957, in Portland, Maine. Recent alumnae will also be sorry to hear of the retirement this June of two members of our faculty. Miss Louise Levesque, who has taught French and Spanish at Rogers Hall for the past eight years, plans to spend the next year, at least, in her beloved France. And Mrs. Beulah Hubbard Koelsch, our dramatics and remedial reading instructor as well as housemother at Shedd for the past two years, has re- turned to her home in California. We shall miss them! I ,- , SPLINTERS Courier-Citizen Company Printers and Lithographers Plants Lowell, Mass. Brooklyn, N. Y. Chicago, lll. Gainesville, Ga. Jacksonville, Texas Centerville, lowa Kendallville, Ind. Allentown, Pa. San Francisco, Cal. Sales Offices Baltimore, Md. Boston, Mass. New York, N. Y. Hartford, Conn. Philadelphia, Pa. Atlanta, Ga. Dallas, Texas Columbus, Ohio Des Moines, lowa Kansas City, Mo. 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