Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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tddgy llaneroft lleatley. l'ltl.D., l.it I ,X L C x -' V. is. . John Simmons was a Boston merchant fdatcs 1796-18719 who lived on Tremont Street with his wife- Anna, his sons, john, Theodore, and Lorenzo, and his daughters Alvina and Mary Ann. He is best known to students by an oil portrait that hangs in the President's office and is occasionally reproduced in the .M1ze.t, and by the terms of' his will, which provided for the establish- ment of' a college for females that should give instruction in art, science, and industry best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an independent livelihood. John Simmons' words were subsequently engraved on the seal of Simmons College C Art, Science, Industry, around an oak tree that has a lamp oflearning beneath its branchesl when the College was founded in 1899. Classes began in 19o2. The first students wore long skirts and rode to their dormitories in horse-drawn cabs, but they were entering a modern college, the first ofits kind in the countryethe first to provide professional, as well as liberal arts, training for young women. The Corporation was established in 1899. Today it consists of twenty-five members, men and women, who meet several times a year in private to discuss questions of' administration, finance, property, and the like, and once a year in public eeat Commence- ment time. The Corporation includes: Henry Lefavour, Ph.D., LL.D.q john W'ashburn Bartol, A.B., M.D., 1:'111e1'z'tz1.f,' Mary Eleanor VN'il- liams, Henry Edmund Bothfeldg Sarah Louise Arnold, A.M., Ed.D.g Carl Dreyfus, A.B.g Charles Miltoii Davenport, AB., X bool' for the President A toast lo the Graduates A caller for the Dean Ito! I HH, -- X , , . , . t n 12 t.-xrrrwrvrrr-'r 'P' 1 'Y'

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N - ,' V . . ,, . g,f',. -1 V. ru ff' 'rw ,ff ,ff 'it ii lfgtertita M travis t P my tr f LL.B.g William Emerson, A.B., Art.D.g Francis Prescott, A.B.: John Stanley Ames, A.B., M.F., William Brooks Baker, A.B., LL.B.g Bancroft Beatley, A.M., Ed.D., Litt.D.g Erwin Haskell Schell, S.B., Edward Frost, Rosamond Lamb, Richard Mason Smith, A.B., M.D., S.D.g Ruth Hornblower Greenough, A.B.g Charles Belcher Rugg, A.M., LL.B.g Elisabeth McArthur Shep- ard, S.B.g Robert Fiske Bradford, A.B., LL.B.g Ada Louise Com- stock, A.M., LL.D., Litt.D., L.H.D.g Abbie Edith Dunks, S.B., Arthur Perry, A.B.g Eleanor Cassidy Keegan, S.B.g Eleanor Hayward, S.B., M.B.A. For the students, the Corporation is symbolized by President Bancroft Beatley, Dr. Beatley enters into student affairs at dances QMICI, this yearj, suppers, and, most popular of all, at the annual Faculty-Student Baseball Game. Active in education circles and in the civilian war effort, he still finds some time for his stamps and for the huge miniature train set he has in his Belmont home. President Beatley's jurisdiction is over administration, instruc- tion, college policy. The Dean's is over student welfare, scholar- ships, and residence. Dean Jane Louise Mesick is friendly, un- affected, and very busy-busy not only with all the student prob- lems, but with Red Cross work, aid to an English prisoner in Germany, and the job of Executive Secretary ofthe Medical Division of Civilian Defense in the Boston area. Dean ofthe Graduate Division since 194.0 is Dr. James Mead Hyatt, physicist and lecturer extraordinary, who combines administrative ability with proficiency in the laboratory. Jane Louise Mesick, Ph.D., Lill.D A modern college, the first of its kind in the country llll