Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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u922 NIKE 2g COHEN, ELSA ANNA Chairman Vocational Committee Deutscher Verein “What is it you want now?” Elsa vigorously stirred her tea. “‘Make it snappy!”’ Straightway we made known our mission. “TI have two hobbies; clothes (I love to make underwear) and electric toasters. Id like to see a toaster attached to every table in the dining room. But I’m not planning to be either an electrician or a dressmaker. Next year I want to work with an interior decorating firm in Boston. Yes, it must be in Boston; I don’t want to go away from home. “Yes, indeed, I read a lot,’ she continued in answer to our next question, ‘‘and I like to read anything at all. Just at prese nt ’m reading Richard Harding Davis most of the time. He's my author for American Lit., you know. I like him pretty well. But he’s such an optimist, ‘happy-ending’ sort of per- son. He always sees the sunny side, and I love the gloomy side, to read about, at any rate; and [I like to see characters drawn absolutely true to life. “T suppose the thing in me that makes me like the gloomy is the same thing that makes me love snow and storm and lying on the wet beach watching the ocean. But I'm not moody really. I like people to snap and do things efficiently without a whole lot of sentimental dawdling.” CRITCHFIELD, DOROTHY Secretary Student Government 3 Treasurer I. C.S. A. 2 Class Hockey 4 Studio Club Psyche “This is my first interview,’ declared Dot. “Moreover,” she continued, “you couldn’t find anyone who knows less about herself.” “Perhaps, then,” we suggested, “you have some decided opinions about other people.” “My land, yes,” replied Dot, climbing up on her bed. “I haven’t any opinions, for that matter, that aren't decided. “First of all,’ she continued, “I hate to hear people always complaining about the way this or that is done at Wheaton. As long as you stay here, I believe that you should abide by the rules of Student Govern- ment and observe the customs of the college.” “Would you like to live in New England?” we asked. “No, I wouldn't.” she replied promptly. “T think New England is very beautiful, and the people aren’t half as cold and inhospitable as they’re made out to be. I do think, though, that they’re very fond of New England; and they live too much on their past glory. I like New England for a time, but I'd rather live in the Middle West—and be in the centre of things. “My plans for next year are very uncer- tain,’ Dot told us. “It’s possible that I may be in Mrs. Prince’s school in Boston. Ultimately, I hope to be a buyer, either pic- tures or children’s clothes. “One thing more,” exclaimed Dot as we closed the note-book. “If there’s anything I hate in this whole world it’s the water— in large quantities!”’

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28 NIKE BROWNSON, HAZEL RUTON iY. We CeAs Cabinet 2a3. 4 Assistant House Chairman 3 Silver Bay Delegate 2 Glee Club Choir Mandolin Club Cercle Francais Deutscher Verein Psyche We finally managed to find Hazel at home in between Symphony concerts and Student Volunteer meetings. She must have been expecting us, because we were scarcely in the room when she began, “I’m five feet one, and weigh 111. Now, what next?” “Your plans, ambitions and please,’ we directed. “T have no definite plans for next year,” she replied. “‘I shall probably do either Y.W. work or teach. I should love to do Y.W. work abroad, but I don’t know about that. If I do teach next year (and I really don’t want to) I hope it will be in a city where I can get at a pipe-organ. I love any kind of music, but I like the pipe-organ best—either to hear or to play. Did you ever hear “My Old Kentucky Home’ on the pipe-organ? “But there’s just one thing here at Wheaton I like better than the organ. That’s Metcalf. Tm just crazy about the whole building— it’s so nice and homey, and you get to know everybody so well. I lived on Senior corridor last year, and, do you know, I don’t like Lar- com nearly so well. “T love our ‘campus pets’ too—particularly Rover and the kittens. Rover, though, seems so much more permanent than the kittens. In the fall of my sophomore year I did my best to hide all the kittens from Miss Martin,” she sighed, “but somehow or other it didn’t do much good.” hobbies, IR Pas CHASE, ELIZABETH GARDNER President Student Government 4 Y. W. C. A. Cabinet 4 Endowment Campaign Committee 4 Vice-President Student Government 3 House Chairman 2 Winner Swimming Meet 1, 2, 3 Winner Tennis Doubles 3 Varsity Basketball 2, 3, 4 Class Basketball 2, 3, 4 Class Hockey 1, 3, 4 Psyche “Next year,” said Betty, “I want to get into some kind of social work. I may have to take a year’s training at the Boston School of Social Work first, but I hope not. I’m really very anxious to get out and be doing some- thing right away. I’m crazy to go into gym work, but I don’t like the idea of two years more of training. I hope that I shall be able to use what I do know of gym work, though, sometime or other. “No,” continued Betty, in answer to our next question, “I don’t want to stay in New England. It’s too conservative. In the West they're glad to have progress and changes; theyre willing to give new things a chance. Look at the remarkable way in which they have accepted social service work, for instance. They have left New England far behind. Here in New England we ask of a man, ‘Who are his family? What’s his business? How much money has he?” In the West they ask, “What kind of stuff is he made of?’ ““What subjects am I most interested in? Spiritualism. Of course I don’t doubt but that there’s a lot of fraud connected with it just at present, but I do believe that there’s something in it. At one time, I think there was complete harmony between the physical and the spiritual. We've lost it. I hope that, through spiritualism, we'll be able to get it back.”

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30 NIKE 1922 DARMEDY, ARLINE BERNADETTE Classical Club Cercle Francais Psyche “Next year,” said Arline, “I expect to teach school somewhere in Massachusetts. I’m not sure what I’m going to teach, but if I have my choice I'll take history. “Tm erazy about biology, too. I enjoyed my zoo courses here more than anything I’ve had in the entire four years, I think. Yes, some day I would like to do something or other with it, but for a while I'll be contented to teach. ' “T love to dance,” she continued, ‘‘and I love to knit. I like to swim, too—though that may sound strange from one who has not yet passed her swimming test. But swim- ming in a tank is so very different from ‘regu- lar’ swimming! I love to visit art museums, too—and I’ve actually learned to find my way around the Boston Museum! Painters? Oh, I like them all, though I’m particularly fond of the work of Titian and the other Venetians.” DAVIDSON, PHYLLIS HUSSEY Cercle Francais Deutscher Verein Maine State Club Psyche Phyllis was reading. No, she wasn’t busy, she said, not until she found out what we came for. And then it was too late! “My ambition? Oh, heavens! Well, next year I hope to teach—High School English, I hope. I don’t care particularly where— just so it’s in New England. Some day I'm hoping to get a Master’s degree in English from Columbia.” All this time we had been puzzling over two clay pipes, which were sunning on the window-sill. We asked Phyllis about them. “They re the remains of the Senior-Sopho- more party,” she explained. “Someone just brought them to me. I was in the infirmary at the time of the party.” Phyllis beamed at the thought. “People get the queerest ideas about you sometimes, she continued. “Everybody says I’m fond of details, for instance, and really I'm not at all. I haven't a logical mind, and I hate arguing. “Yes, I belong to the Shifters,” she replied in answer to our next question. “But I had the worst time getting in! Marian and I couldn't speak for a whole week, except when we were dressing. We couldn't stay in the room together, and we weren't allowed to be seen together outside of the room. I was glad when it was over.”