Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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in when the Stanley Steamer first alarmed the Gibson Girl as it puffed up Beacon Hill, Simmons College opened its doors to the first students. That the doors belonged to Tech only increased the enthu- siasm of those early Sally's. They dashed to chem lab in Walker Building, and crowded into Rogers for English, lan- l H g guages, and history. Besides Tech's loan of these classrooms on Boylston Street, the college had quarters rented at go Huntington Avenue. Here Sally studied short- hand, typewriting, and accounting. just a buggy-ride away, on St. Botolph Street, her library classes met, ,,,..g.,-----ag, and a few doors down stood the dorm, Simmons Hall. Many a Har- vard beau came to call on Sally in the parlor of a Sunday afternoon. Her social evenings featured taffy- pulls, charades, and chaperones. John Steele was her Frank Sinatra, and her favorite song, 'Tm Only a Bird

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Q in a Gilded Caffe. It was the first ' D ee- - bright year of a new endeavor, and MU ll J . .. TWH,-nik-I Q I she found life exciting, however f -s l I I T,r,u,E if,. V earnest. Sally worked hard, and l L l H. r,-V l '52--- . Emi , iq Q she made history. A-i K- .i'.?+-- 9' f s V ' - ' - , ,F-Emu L . gf When the school s enrollment in C '. J' ' creased at the end of that year, Rug classes at Tech had to be discontin- ued. Simmons moved, book and bustle, to a new home at 739 Boylston Street. Here Sally invaded the three top Hoors for her science and typewriting classes. The library and college oflices were also moved to Boylston Chambers. And so a new experiment in feminine education began. Because it Hlled a need, the venture prospered, and soon Simmons was again bursting its rented seams. A search began for land on which to build permanent quarters. After much dis- B ,lt I Chambers cussion, the Corporation decided on a swampy, duck-inhabited section of the Back Bay. And here it was that pi a resplendent new Simmons arose iM! from the marshland. Sally packed up once more and moved into the build- ing at goo the Fenway that we know as the Simmons of today. 91193