Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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MRS. VIRGINIA M. F ISKE Dean of the Class of 1953 In three years we remember the many firsts through which Mrs. Fiske has guided us. Although being a wife, mother, and xoologist required her attention many hours a day, she always had time to listen to our problems, real and imaginary, to chaperone our dances, and to congratulate us on our academic efforts. As her first class, we remember her patience in helping us to find a purpose in our lives and a place in the college community. MISS PAULINE TOMPKINS Honorary MClllb6P of the Class of 1953 At class dinners, in Forum, on the Senate Board, and in her Tuesday morning chapel talks, we remember Miss Tompkins as a challenging political and religious thinker. Her vital pres- entation of world problems stimulated many ol' us to major in Political Science and the rich student-f'acuIty relationships first established in our courses soon extended into our lives outside the class room.

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THE SOUND AND THE FIfRY lew weeks, but gradually the academic world took its natural and accustomed place in our lives. Certain personalities among the faculty began to stand out for each one of us, according to her own particular tastes. YVC gossiped about them and appraised them, critics in our own right. In conferences with our teachers we came to know them and ourselves better, and our advisers in our major departments gave us prods in the right direction. At faculty dinners Wlednesday night we had a chance to meet our prolessors in non-business hours, where the talk was olf the cull and not off a prepared outline. But our most common meeting-place was the classroom. Although we continued to reel sleepily into our 81403 throughout the four years of study, under the guidance of our teachers we learned how best to use our creative and critical faculties as we struggled with papers and quizzes and unannounced roll-calls .... Some of us exer- THE PILGRINIS' MEANS OF PROGRESS cised the privilege of cutting to the fullest., and Saturday classes on football or prom weekends were sometimes small and bedraggled .... Through the requirement for distribution of courses, we learned to know teachers olf many departments, and some of us came to believe that the most rewarding system was to pick the course lor the teacher rather than for the subject itself .... From being nonentities in some large lecture course, we finally emerged as members of a coveted seminar, where conversation, cigarettes, and coffee blended in a happy, and, we hoped, stimulating and lIlliO1'IHllllYC haze. By senior year we began to take stock olf what we had learned, not only as preparation for Generals, but for the post-college world. And we realized then, if we had not earlier, how much we owed to those patient and exciting individuals, our professors. Their eagerness to teach inspired us with the eagerness to learn, and so the great tradition continued. FOR X! INDI Tlll-I HELL TOLLS . QI o stunts?

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MISS JEANETTE MuPIIERRIN DEAN UF FRESHMEN . who listened to our problems, gZ1VC US honored the honor students with notes at the end ol' each semester, saw that we had rooms to live in, suggested where we MISS LUCY VVILSON DEAN OF STUDENTS DEAN UF THE CLASS UF 1954- RDE pink slips in times ol: crisis, had room for improvement, and eased our transition from adolescence into MISS THERESA G- FRISCH DEAN OF THE CLASS OF 1955 maturity. . MRS- JOHN R- COTTON Miss ELLA KEATS WTIITING IlIl!El1'I'0R Ulf RESIDENCE DEAN 01: INSTRUCTIUN