Williams Memorial Institute High School - Legenda Yearbook (New London, CT)

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Jletjenda -f)lillt nts Constance Cheney Barbara Connor Advertising Mary Gaffney Mary Ryan Gladys Giri Valerie Sharaf Janice Mallove Art Marjorie Sismore Hinsley Bridgeman Suzanna Crowe Margaret Bcnney Mabel Brothwell Mary Francisconi Biography Mary Loughlin Circulation Norma Forsyth Dorothy Gadbois Jean Hislop Shirley Schwartz Shifro Traub Marilyn Meek Barbara Neville Mildred Robbins Club Jane Beckwith Felia Karamargin Marjorie Maclnnis Kathleen Crine Georgianna Crowe Kathleen Foss Feature Jane Meadnis Barbara Neville Photography Yolonde Anello Typing Marjorie Haynes Margaret Jezeski Ruth Slater Cecelia Massad Mildred Saunders Mary Whitmarsh IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION The entire staff of the Legenda wishes to express its grateful appreciation to Miss Marion Bedell of the English department for the gracious help which she gave in the preparation of the material for our year book. 8

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TRIBUTE TO MISS MABEL AUSTIN ’ . . . Your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes oI all posterity. During its formative, and thus most important, period, W.M.I. benefited from its association with Miss Mabel Austin, first in her attendance as a student, then as a member of the faculty. Throughout her long years of faithful service she was one of the most honored of its teachers, her intelligence and dignity commanding the highest respect. Ever eager to learn, she pursued the pathway of knowledge throughout her life-time, and possessed an amazing store of information. Her extensive travels abroad had fully equipped her with the rich lore of the old world and had given her conversation that wealth of knowledge at which so many marveled. Her whole being was alight with the buoyancy of living: living to give others the desire to explore the wonders of the world about them. There was no greater pleasure for her than to see her students respond to that urge; to see them discipline their minds as strictly as she did her own; to see them progress. Miss Austin had many great gifts but perhaps her greatest virtue was that of wanting to infuse in others that spirit which had impelled her to a life of so many fine achievements. Truly she was an unusual personality, excelling in nearly all she undertook, not only because of her superior mental capacity, but also because of her wholehearted interest and endeavor in behalf of duty. Miss Mabel Austin was an ardent scholar, a conscientious teacher, and a cultured gentlewoman. As such may she long be remembered in the annals of Williams Memorial Institute. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 7

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THE 1942 LEGENDA STAFF Barbara Thompson Estelle Nasser Editor-in-Chiei Business Managei Helen Aitner Literary Editor Anne Chandler Biography Editor Alice Dennison Circulation Manager Marcslle Dorsky Photography Editor Edith Glassenberg Advertising Manager Elmore Lundgren Helen Hollrieder Doris Sherman Faculty Business Adviser Club Editor Art Editor Claire Sullivan Hillis Idleman Feature Editor Faculty Literary Adviser 9