Sweet Briar College - Briar Patch Yearbook (Sweet Briar, VA)

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Mentor Cla0S 0ropl)ecp SwKKT T!i;iAi;, : ■2: r.ciieclict Ihill. Dkak Jimmy — My ilcai ' l such excitciiicur ! Of cuiirsc yon lia r lieanl from vdur iiicitlicr all alidiit flic Wdiiderfiil class uf l ' ,ll- l. of wliicli my mother, -},lrs. Sediiwick Wilson, ucc Mai ' v Tyler, was a mciiilier. They are jiisf now eelebratiiii;- the twentieth anniversary of their i radnation here at Sweet Briar, From their jiictnres in mother ' s ohl anninil I hail imaiiiiied tlieni all as yoniiij: and i; iod lookin,i;yi;irls, and snch I ' are old liii ' ds as they are I lother wa.s the fii ' st of the class to ai ' ri -e. She l)i-oni;ht fallier. and while waiting for the rest ni the (dass to come, they spent their time i-nnnini; ' around catching grassho])|iers to w r in theii ' histological in -estigations. .Moth( r is very active for a wonnin of her age. How nice it is that she and father are hoth biologists, for they ha -e smdi frolics together dissecting organisms, and living close to natni-e keeps them yonng. The ne.xt to ccinie was .Miss Eugenia linfHngton. I was rathei- overawed to meet the ])resident of Vassar, hut she wasn ' t so dreadful as I had inuigined, although her hair was skinned hack painfully tight and she wore a funny little hat. She mnst he (piite a womlerfnl w iman to manage a fhonsaiid girls .so easily. She claims that this isn ' t half so nerve-racking as ( Inding a student government meetim: at Sweet Ihdar. She |oesn ' l ha -e such pi ' lty wcu ' ries as redueini; the meal hies. I loesn ' t it .seem strange that they had the same j)rob- lems that we ha ' e to-day ' . I forgot to nieiilion that Violet Cheswick ' ame along with .Miss linfHngton. It seemed odd at tirst thai the dignilieil pi-esideiit of N ' assar slionid l e so rv intimate with the most popnlar comeiiienne on the stage. Iml when I learned that hei real name is llessie (li-ammei ' , I ni ' derst i. 1 suppose yon ha c seen liei ' on the stage. She is playing in this season. .Mothei ' says she got hei ' traiiung at college, taking otf the faculty. She has a vivacious, Frenchy way of talking, and has done some fancv dances for us in the i;vm.