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AN INTERIM REPORT
1942 Alumni Fund Nears $10,000.00
The 1942 Alumni Fund
has made commendable pro­
gress to date. In this year o f
uncertainty and increased re­
sponsibilities
1260 alumni
and friends o f Swarthmore
h a v e a lr e a d y contributed
$9,495.04.
In our second year o f an­
nual giving it is especially
encouraging
to note
the
splendid response from the
younger alumni.
Further­
m o r e , 3 2 7 a lu m n i ( e x ­
clusive o f last year’s gradu­
ating class) have made their
first contribution to this Fund
which is helping so much in the support o f the College. As
we approach Alumni Day we are confident many more
Swarthmoreans will lend a hand by sending their gifts to the
growing total.
In this year’s campaign the results achieved are due in
great measure to the efforts o f those alumni, who, at the
request o f the General Fund Committee are serving as leaders
o f their respective classes. W e are indebted to them for the
splendid support they have given us and for the continued
efforts which they are making on behalf o f the Fund. It
behooves each o f us to get behind our class leaders. They are

giving generously o f their time— in turn for which they ask
little but cooperation from each o f us.
A t this stage o f the campaign the race for leadership is
quite close, but for the second year the Class o f 1907 leads
the field. One-third o f the total membership o f the class,
(graduates and non-graduates) have sent in their gifts. Con­
gratulations, 1907, on your consistent demonstration o f loyalty
to the College.
In second and third places are the Classes o f 1909 and
1887 with achievements o f 32 percent and 31 percent re­
spectively. Close on their heels with 29 percent is the Class
o f 1930, which incidentally was a challenger for leadership
in the 1941 campaign.
In the "Battle o f the Sexes’’ the
women are outranking the men by a 7 to 4 ratio. Here’s a
challenge men— let’s get goin g!
W e are now entering the last phase o f this year’s cam­
paign and shortly after Alumni Day we plan to submit our
final report.
At that time we hope to announce a large
increase in the number participating in Annual Alumni Giv­
ing. To do so however, we need your support.
If you have not done so already we urge each o f you to
send in a contribution at once. Remember, we are not asking
for large gifts— we are asking for 100% participation. If
you will sit down today and mail your check, you will be
doing your part in making the 1942 Alumni Fund a real
success.
By CHARLES E. RICKARDS, '27
General Chairman

CLASS LEADERS - 1 9 4 2 ALUMNI FUND
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915

Senior Alumni-—Caroline Lukens
Hannah Clothier H ull— Hannah Clothier Hull
Edward A. Jenkins— Edward A. Jenkins
Margaret M oore Bancroft— Henry C. Turner
Caroline Sargent W alter— Caroline Sargent Walter
Bertha Lippincott Parrish— Charles M oore
Clement Biddle
Robert Pyle-7-Robert Pyle
Caroline Lukens— Caroline Lukens
Alice Lippincott Booth— Gilbert L. Hall
Margery Pyle— W illiam H. Thatcher
Mary Lippincott Griscom— J. Warner Love
Edith Verlenden Paschall— Elliott Richardson
Nora Stabler W orth— J. Hibberd Taylor
Louise Fahnestock Poole— C. Marshall Taylor
Helen Carre Turner— Edmund Robinson
Emma Jane Shoemaker— George Lupton Broomell
Helen Ridgway Cooley— Isaac Garrett Darlington
Susanna Haines Parry—-J. Stokes Clement
Edith Tiel Smith— Frank Ridgway
Anna Griscom Elkinton— Frederick Blatz
Ruth Verlenden Poleyii-Charles A. Eberle
Phoebe Lukens M iller— Laurence Sharpies
Margaret Clifford Bryant— C. Harry Tily
Mary Roberts Smith— Frederick Higham
Elizabeth May Roberts-—James R. Frorer

1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941

Eliza Ullrich Ullman— George Corse
Harriet Keen Turner-—Clarence G. Myers
Claire Richardson W eltz— Herbert Jackson
Dorothy Y oung Ogden— W illiam Ridpath
Isabel Jacobs Ruth— Frank Fetter
Elizabeth F. Barth-—Arthur Lukens
Elizabeth Griscom W iding— Norton Landon
Kathryn Pflaum— J. Edward Clyde
Florence Green Broomell— Merle Mulloy
Inez Coulter Russell— Benjamin Burdsall
Mary Althouse Goman— John Swope
Lois Thompson Thompson— Herbert K. Taylor
Mary Sullivan Patterson— Malcolm Petrikin
Mary Roberts Calhoun— Harold Snyder
Eleanor F. Jenkins— W illiam Poole
Katherine Sonneborn Read— Joseph H. Walter
Katherine R. Booth — Harry Sprogell
Jean Harshburger Lewis— W illiam F. Lee
Betty Seaman Dawes— Ellis Ridgway
Emma Michael Reynolds— Mace Gow ing
Carolyn Keyes CadwalladeGNRobert Turner
Constance Smith— Charles Lyon
Virginia Newkirk Weltmer— George Carson
Elizabeth Boss Krattenmacher— David Harman
Adelyn Purdy Jones— Lewis Morrell Robbins
Edith Melville-—John Knud-Hansen

tntered as second-class matter January 10, 1941, at the post office at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, under the Act of August 24, 1912,

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ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1942
IM PLICITY is to be the keynote o f Alumni Day this year.
If the day is fair, it is planned to hold everything possible
in front o f Parrish Hall. Headquarters for the reunion classes
will be set up on the front campus so that members o f those
classes may assemble quickly and easily. There will be a
slight departure from the usual procedure for luncheon,
which will be served in the dining room and eaten outdoors.
Miss Carr, the college dietician, has agreed to undertake the
job o f serving the buffet-style luncheon, and those who en­
joyed the excellent supper she served last October on Hom e­
coming Day will have no doubts as to her ability to do the
luncheon successfully. There will be chairs grouped around
class headquarters on the front campus where the alumni may
settle down and enjoy their luncheons.
It will be necessary for the reunion classes to assemble
immediately after luncheon in groups in readiness for the
parade which should start at about 1 :30. It has been decided to
dispense entirely with stunts and costumes for the parade, a
simplification which is sure to appeal to hard-working class
committees. Classes will fall in line and march twice along
the walk in front o f Parrish, then proceed directly to the new
Arthur Hoyt Scott Outdoor Auditorium which is going to be
dedicated at 2 o ’clock. This is an unusual and very pleasant

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feature o f the day, and we hope that a particularly large num­
ber o f alumni wall be on hand to see this lovely spot, created
by a gift o f Thomas B. McCabe in memory o f Mr. Scott. The
new auditorium is on the site o f the old one, and should
recall many happy memories for those alumni who were in
college when the first auditorium was in use.
At 10:45 o ’clock in the morning the Alumni Association
will hold its business meeting, under the leadership o f Amos
Peaslee. There are always alumni affairs that need discussion
and this is the time to come and exchange ideas on them.
After the parade and dedication exercises, there will be a
baseball game and tennis matches to watch. For those who are
too weary or too warm to enjoy the games, tea will be served
on the front porch o f Parrish at 4 o clock by members o f the
Junior Class. Though this was an innovation last year it proved
to be well attended, and we hope that by holding it close to
Parrish this year, even more people will find their way there.
The five-year reunion classes will hold their dinners at
6 :3 0 that evening in various places on the campus, and at 9
o ’clock the alumni dance will be held in the dining rooms.
Bert Brown has again promised to lead the group in songs in
front o f Parrish at ten o ’clock or thereabouts, which will be
the last official event o f the day.

COMMENCEMENT WEEK PROGRAM
F R ID A Y , M A Y 21, 1942
Alumni G o lf Tournament at R olling Green Country Club
S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 23, 1942— A L U M N I D A Y

6:30 P.M.

Class Reunion Suppers

9 :0 0 P.M.

Senior Dance, W om en ’s Club House

9 :0 0 P.M.

Alumni Dance, College Dining Room

10:00 P.M.

College Sing in front o f Parrish Hall
Bert Brown, T 6, Leader

Reception upon arrival in the Parlors, Parrish Hall
Abby Mary Hall Roberts, ’90
Caroline A . Lukens, ’98
Special Reunions o f ’ 77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’ 97, ’02, 07, 12, 17,
’ 22, ’ 27, ’ 32, ’ 37, ’40
9:30 A .M .
10:45 A.M .

Meeting o f the Alumni Councils
Annual Meeting o f the Alumni Association,
Meeting House
Amos Peaslee, President, Presiding

12:00 to 1 :00 P.M.

Alumni Buffet Luncheon
Served in the Dining Room

SUNDAY, M A Y
11:00 A .M .

24, 1942— BAC CA LA U R EA TE D A Y

Baccalaureate Sermon, Clothier Memorial
J. Seelye Bixler, President-elect o f Colby College

1 :00 P.M.

College Dinner

4 :00 P.M.

M embers o f Faculty at home to Alumni,
Seniors and Friends in front o f Parrish Hall

6 :0 0 P.M.

College Supper

6 :3 0 P.M.

Ivy Planting: W alter Skallerup, Ivy Orator

6 :45 P.M.

Last Collection, Clothier Memorial
Annual Meeting o f the Swarthmore Chapter o f
Phi Beta Kappa and Initiation— W hittier House

1:30 P.M.

Parade o f Reunion Classes

7 :3 0 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Dedication o f the Arthur Hoyt Scott Outdoor
Auditorium

8 :3 0 P.M .— Phi Beta Kappa Address, Meeting House

3:15 P.M.

Baseball Game
Tennis Match— Alumni vs. Varsity

M O N D A Y , M A Y 25, 1942— C O M M E N C EM E N T D A Y

4:00 P.M.

Alumni Tea— Served by the Class of 1943 in
front o f Parrish Hall.

5:00 P.M.

Class Day Exercises, President’s Lawn

6:00 P.M.

College Dinner

11:00 A .M .

Commencement Exercises, Scott Auditorium
Address by M ILO PERKINS
Conferring o f Degrees by the President

12:00 - 1:00 P.M.

College Luncheon

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VARSITY
" Varsity Swarthmoreans” is an attempt to focus your attention on some o f our fellow
alumni who are doing a commendable job in the game o f life. This feature will be
repeated from time to time, and we invite nominations from Garnet Letter readers.
Ah, she’s a clever girl!
She’s an honor to her sex.
Here s her health and wishing they was all like h er!” A
toast to Abby Mary Hall Roberts, straight from Charles
Dickens.
Clever she has been from the beginning. Even as a
college student she was running people and things: running
Somerville in part, running the Phoenix and the Halcyon,
running the Latin Society, participating in a Greek play. And
as the Halcyon reports, what she wanted, she g ot! A m ong
other things, Phi Beta Kappa. In fact she and Helen Smith
Brinton were among the first women from American colleges
to receive this honor, and for a number o f years, as delegates
from Swarthmore, they introduced the intricate triennial con­
ferences to simple Quaker ways.
T o add a further Halcyon note, Abby Mary Hall "tackles
gently, never slugs, and schemes w ell.”
Ever so many
schemes! A fter an A.B. from Swarthmore in 1890, she was
on to Cornell to fortify it with a second degree in 1893, and
to assist in Greek for a year. Then there was Latin at Friends’
Central School, where she played around the heartstrings and
endeared herself as "M iss A bby” to several school generations.
But Abby Mary had been born to Swarthmore, so to
speak, for her mother, Lydia H. Hall, had served on the
Board o f Managers from 1883 to 1908. By 1906 she was
herself at the College again, instructing in Latin for a year or
two, and serving as secretary o f the Alumni Association, a
capacity in which she functioned thirty-three years.
A ll
Swarthmoreans adopted
Miss A bby.”
Every alumnus re­
members the cordiality o f those years: the personal, long-hand
notes o f congratulation or condolence, the tactful handling o f
problems great and small, the personal attention to all the
little details o f home coming, and a cheering welcome always.
Meanwhile Chester Roberts had stepped into the picture,
succeeding W illiam J. Hall as superintendent in 1904.
Straightway "the Supe” became an institution, and all roads
led to the little rooms next to the Reception Parlor. These
quarters became indelibly stamped as the Superintendent’s
Office— little use to label them "Business Office” or "In form ­

ation'” even after Mr. Roberts had his hands full as Purchas­
ing Agent and Swarthmore’s "machine age” carried the Sup­
erintendent’s Office into engineering quarters. Hitherto "the
Supe had done it all. Gardening? Engineering? Banking?
House directing?
Purchasing?
Furnishing?
Repairing?
G o to the Supe.” He it was that singlehanded wound the
clocks; he alone was familiar with underground tunnels and
overhead wires and all the inner workings. Nowadays, five or
six huskies are needed to keep such things in mind and hand.
Legend has it that Chester Roberts, even before he be­
came superintendent, had met Abby Mary Hall through a
mutual friend, fate-directed. She was fetchingly dressed for
a game o f lawn-tennis. A t the very first glimpse— ut vidit,
ut periit! The meeting led some years later to the happily
inevitable consummation. Accordingly in 1908 Swarthmore
alumni gladly added "Roberts,” but resolutely refused to
relinquish 'M iss A bby.” The team ■was inimitable: "Chester,
will thee?” "Chester, w on’t thee?” "Chester, has thee tried?”
— ' Thee tell them, Chester,” lightly carolled Miss Abby, and
Chester would and could and had and did— or was going to!
Commencement week-end in particular always brought a bril­
liant star performance, with all the high lights.
But Swarthmore College has been only one o f the many
interests o f the Roberts. They have reared a fine fa m ily.
George-and-Edward,” college bred, are now fending for
themselves and Margaret Ann McCracken, bonnie daughter of
Lydia (Earlham, 1938), is a year up, in the third generation.
" O f course there are all the Friendly concerns: Race
Street, and the Swarthmore Meeting (quilting, clerking, and
affairs); the American Friends’ Service, too, and Pendle Hill.
N ot to mention ail things friendly, you will find a pleasant
room at Miss A bby’s ; you w ill secure a maid through Miss
A bby; when seemingly "there’s not a house in the boro” for
forlorn new faculties, Miss Abby and Chester will magically
point the way. A nd if you would cross the threshhold o f the
family entrance any day, you must pick a path through barrel
packings: this and that for the Schofield School, books for
camps, garments for Relief. Miss Abby herself tells the story
o f a young man, a holiday guest one year, who had difficulty
in finding a place for his coat and hat amid this welter of
charitable barrels, to-be-rummaged clothing, and the general
busy disorder. A pologizing to him for the state o f domestic
chaos, she explained, "Thee knows how it is in the holidays.”
"But Miss A bby,” her guest replied, "fo r fifteen years I’ve
been coming here, and it’s always like this!” (
As for Committees, Committees, Committees — how
many hours constitute the Roberts day? N othing escapes them,
from race relations and internationals to civic improvements
and prison reforms. A nd back they scurry from an "anti­
lynching” group, to dig in the garden midst the ferns and
Canterbury bells.
Matchless!
That is what they are. A nd the soul of
integrity; Chester might serve cider aged beyond one day, but
not Miss A b b y ! N o, you could not duplicate them anywhere.
They are just their unique and genuine selves— Quakers true
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— Swarthmore’s own Chester and Abby Mary Hall Roberts.
ETHEL H . BREWSTER, ’07

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SWARTHMOREANS
Drew Pearson, renowned
as one o f the great reporters,
and Leon Pearson, now com­
ing into his own as a radio
news-interpreter, got their
first nibbles o f experience on
The Phoenix.
Drew was
editor his senior year, 1919,
and Leon his, 1920.
Drew began rolling im­
mediately.
It wasn’t until
1926 that he took his first
heavyweight job with an
American newspaper. But in
the intervening six years from
graduation he crammed in
much o f the concrete know­
ledge o f personalities and
. . . DREW
occurrences in international
politics that enabled him to
emerge into his current reputation as the American newspa­
perman best-versed in foreign goings-on.
He made three
trips abroad in that time, once for the British Red Cross and
the Friends, twice on his own. A t intermissions, he taught
at two universities, Pennsylvania and Columbia. On com­
pletion o f his first teaching venture, he was next heard from
in Yokohama.
On completion o f his second, it was the
Gobi Desert. Drew, irrevocably choosing journalism for his
future, made the rounds in his journeys o f the Balkans,
Siberia, Albania, Montenegro, Saghalien, Nikelaevsk, Vladi­
vostok, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, N ew Zealand, the
Tibetan border. On one trip he embarked broke. During it
he landed interviews with Gandhi, Mussolini, and ten more
foreign celebrities. He returned with a distinctive reputation
in journalism, and $734.
The United States' Daily offered him the post o f foreign
editor in 1926. The follow ing year, he was assigned to the
Geneva Naval Conference, and in 1928 his paper sent him
with Secretary o f State K ellogg to Paris and Dublin, and with
President Coolidge to Havana.
The Baltimore Sun wooed him over in 1929, and that
year had him cover the London Naval Conference. For his
superb reporting o f that event, The Sun paid him the almostheretic bonus o f $1,000.
Came the depression, and Drew sensed that now was the
time for vigor. W ith Robert S. Allen, he wrote the book,
"Washington Merry-Go-Round,” an unmitigated lowdown on
what was doing.
So rocking was the effect, they decided to write a daily
column. W ith their enterprise, understanding, and exclusive
sources, they were a natural. Drew, the accomplished master
of diplomatic techniques, and Bob Allen, the champion
reporter o f the Congressional rough-house, had the market
closed in both directions. It was the journalistic equivalent
of a combination o f Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey. The
column went over with a click heard ’round the journalistic
world. Inside news, stifled news, advance news, to a troubled
country hungry for facts. Drew Pearson, the unbridled indi­
vidualist, had helped introduce a new kind o f journalism.

By the time the Roosevelt
Administration was barely
under way, Drew could no
longer attend to the manifold
tasks accumulating.
In the
Summer o f 1934 Leon was
invited to Washington.
Leon had been teaching
speech at the Haverford
School for 11 years. He had
virtually abandoned any ex­
pectation o f getting actively
into the drama, which had
been his fancy since Chatauqua summers as a student.
First year out o f College he
had gone far afield, teaching
economics at the University
. . . LEON
o f Pennsylvania.
The next
two years were the most
promising, as a graduate student o f drama at Harvard,
for one year under a Hannah Leedom Fellowship.
After
getting his Master’s, Leon found tight all doors to his heart s
choice.
W ith Drew, Leon saw at least spontaneous drama in
action. He moved in fascinating circles, was helped to a job
as Havas News Agency correspondent by Drew, and became
immersed in Pan-American affairs. W ith some study and
wide contacts, he grew into one o f the best-informed corres­
pondents on Western Hemisphere matters in Washington.
Leon was making the grade in his own right. He laughed
recently to a friend that in Washington he was called "either
Drew Pearson or Leon Henderson,” but the newspaper fra­
ternity generally agrees that all that Drew had to do with his
status was in giving him his start.
"T he M erry-Go-Round” column turned into a wildfire
success. W ith the N ew Deal in and the old-time Washington
hierarchy out, there was a perfect opportunity for a column
which had the new time’s tenor and plenty o f ingenuity. Soon
it caught up with, then passed columns which had been stand­
bys for years. Drew and his partner cut the swath even wider
with two new books, "M ore M erry-Go-Round” and "The
Nine Old M en.”
Leon began syndicating a Latin-American column, "South
o f the Rio Grande,” and one day one o f the publishers run­
ning it noticed in talking with Leon that he had an unusually
fine-sounding voice. For a year Leon was on the air once a
week with a program called "Personalities o f the W eek .”
Then several months ago, the Pan-American Coffee
Bureau, discovering Leon’s radio talent, put him on the air
every week-night except Friday. He now has use for his
dramatic bent. Y ou can hear him colorfully analyzing the
day’s news over W O L , the Mutual link in the Capitol.
Drew, you may know, has a program over the W J Z
network every Sunday evening. A nd "T h e M erry-Go-Round”
now has 600 papers, more than any other column in news­
paper history.
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SOMERVILLE DAY
By GENE ROBERTS SMITH, ’42
Chairman, Somerville Alumnae Committee

MRS. N A S O N . . . MRS. A Y D E LO TT E . . . MISS McBRIDE

Elizabeth Haines, ’43, told us o f the defense activities of
Swarthmore women, and Mrs. Blanshard gave her now tra­
ditional and always interesting "A ccount o f the Year.”
W e understand that the Somerville alumnae have always
delighted in vigorous discussion and in this respect the meet­
ing was not a disappointment. Under the guidance o f Anna
O. Eberle, ’ 13, the group decided to reorganize under the
W omen s Alumnae Council, using this body as the governing
force o f Somerville and thus lightening the load, which has
grown too heavy for the students in college. Somerville Day
will remain unchanged, but the financial burden and organi­
zation responsibilities will be assumed by the alumnae. An
outgrowth o f this decision was the discontinuing o f the
Somerville edition o f the Phoenix because o f the cost involved.
The other major issue concerned a suggestion to increase
this year’ s Lucretia M ott fellowship, since there had been no
applicant for the Martha E. Tyson in the last two years, and
since there were two recipients who must divide the original
amount o f the Lucretia Mott. There was a majority opinion
in favor o f the increase, but considerable difference o f thought
as to how’ the increase should be accomplished. A happy
solution was brought about by referring the matter to the
Fellowship Committee.
Appetites much improved by the vigour o f the discus­
sion, we filed into the dining room to eat heartily and re­
spond to roll call. The earliest class represented was that of
1877, when Eudora M agill responded to that number. 1913
had the greatest number o f members present. President John
Nason and Dean Everett Hunt, the only men in attendance,
paid for the privilege with speeches that were not only amus­
ing but instructive.
In Clothier, Katherine McBride, President-elect o f Bryn
Mawr, addressed us on the subject o f "Colleges in War
Tim e.” She emphasized the importance o f the college but

N APRIL 11th 300 Swarthmore Alumnae visited the
Campus to take part in the Somerville exercises. A l­
though the day was not balmy, some earlier weather had
brought to blossom daffodils, forsythia, magnolias and Japan­
ese cherries. The campus presented a spring welcome to the
fair alumnae who gathered to reminisce, uninhibitd by the
presence o f the "stronger sex.”
The annual business meeting occupied a large part o f the
morning, with the traditional reports and some untraditional
business. A report from the Chair told o f the social activities
o f the Somerville Alumnae Committee in being entertained by,
and entertaining, nearby alumnae.
Mary Capehart, ’42,
Somerville Lecture Forum Chairman, told us o f the events
sponsored by her committee during the year. Their policy
was to bring to the College and its friends such men and
women as might be called "too popular to be altogether
scholarly.”
Those invited to Swarthmore were: Edwin
Embree, President o f the Julius Rosenwald Foundation; Martha
Graham and her group o f dancers ; Charles Morgan, English
novelist, playwright and dramatic critic, and the Golden Gate
Quartette. The season will close this year with
a speech by Max Eastman, author o f Enjoymetit
o f Laughter.
Mary Capehart also reported on the other
branches o f the Lecture Forum’s activities— that
o f providing art exhibitions for the college. In
this connection she announced that an art gallery
had been opened in the Cloisters o f Clothier,
where the exhibits have been by Elizabeth
Scudder Capehart, Ernst Barlach, the Federal
Art Project o f Philadelphia, and where a stu­
dent show is now on display. In Collection Hall
we have seen this year an exhibit o f London
Underground Posters and one o f Negro work.
H
The climax o f the Somerville business meet­
ing is always the announcement o f the fellowship
winner. This year the announcement was doubly
exciting for Ada Graham Clement, ’07, in­
formed us that the committee could find no
alternative but to award the fellowship to two
seniors— Hazel Maxwell and Aline W o lfe . Later
the girls were formally presented to the meeting.
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SWARTHMORETTES
By PEG G Y A N N E M O R G A N , '42

all told, have been exploring the mysteries o f locks, hinges,
electrical devices, washing machines, refrigerators and paint
pots. The theory behind this heterogeneous outlay has been,
o f course, to teach women how to carry on when Private D oe
is not on hand to stop the leaky water main from flooding the
house, or make the electric iron work when the cord comes
loose. H ow much o f their vastly assorted knowledge these
enterprising students will retain is hard to tell but there is no
doubt that they could compete successfully with their menfolks right now, as you may see by consulting recent news-'
paper photos taken by an astonished feature reporter from
Philadelphia. Mr. Renshaw has been so much impressed, in
fact, by the interest and aptitude o f his pupils that he is
enthusiastically starting what he hopes will be an even better
seven weeks course.
IT H 'fiv e months o f this second W orld W ar behind the
Less unique, but o f more immediate service, have been the
country, we o f Swarthmore, looking around the campus,
efforts o f ten girls who have been travelling into Philadelphia
can note that it is not the men alone who are finding capaci­
to the AFSC storeroom where they have been helping out a
ties in which to serve. The better part o f Swarthmore’s fair
short handed staff by doing office work weekly. Likewise, o f
sex has enrolled in one or more o f the numerous college war­
course, the Service Committee has been represented on the
time activities, ranging from household mechanics to office
campus by girls who have distributed w ool for a large num­
work for the Friends’ Service Committee.
ber o f sweaters, advertising their w ool in competition with
Ten energetic lassies, for example, have been struggling
the Red Cross by assuring all comers that the colors were
under the patient guidance o f Miss Carr, the college dietitian,
much prettier to knit on. As a matter o f fact, both organi­
to perfect their culinary skill so that they could prepare full
zations have given out large quantities o f w ool on campus,
meals for hordes o f people, with one hand tied behind their
for response has been enthusiastic, heavy scarves and sweaters
backs, more or less. The natural setting for this was the col­
outnumbering even the all mighty argyle.
lege kitchen where the staff has had the unnerving experience
T o prepare for a possible emergency here at the college
of seeing sleepy coeds appear at five a.m. to prepare cocoa and
or in the neighboring towns, several women students have
bake bread for the students’ breakfast. Besides learning to
been putting in volunteer time in the infirmary rolling surgi­
produde numerous bakery products, soups and such, the group
cal dressings under the supervision o f the nurses. Over in
has attended lectures on nutrition and quantity buying, climax­
Martin Biological Laboratory apparatus for typing blood and
ing their career with a canteen dinner for fifty guests, served
classifying the students has been set up so that students who
to perfection in the lodges. W hich all goes to show that it
wished to donate blood at such a time w ill be ready for call.
takes a national emergency to bring on proficiency in those
In the meantime many have also volunteered to act as donors
activities most necessary to all o f those who are to swell the
in order to add to the medical supplies o f the Red Cross.
ranks o f Swarthmore matches!
Finally we have those twenty-two hardy females who
Up in the womens’ infirmary another group, under the
have donned working clothes to meet with Mr. Felsenthal o f
tutelage o f the college nurses, has been taking the Red Cross
Sears, Roebuck in the M otor Mechanics course open to those
course in home nursing, meeting twice a week for an hour, o f
who have already passed preliminary Red Cross tests. W hen
lecture and an hour o f practical demonstration.
Besides
and if the time comes for women to show what they can do,
learning to roll each other deftly over in bed while spreading
we hope to prove ourselves as capable as the men o f making
the sheets, and to give each other baths in bed, these bloom ing
contributions to the war effort. In college and out, Swarth­
Miss Nightingales proved themselves, according to their
more women are anxious to be o f service, and to the best o f
instructors, most ingenious in devising substitutes for hot
their ability are preparing to take the helm wherever the
water bottles and back rests, suggesting quart bottles, hot
country needs them most.
sand, washboards and suitcases. A ll o f them took the Red
Cross written examination and are now ready to put their
knowledge to the test when the need arises.
Most popular o f the wom en’s defense activities has been
the First A id courses which have enrolled altogether over one
hundred students and so made it contingent upon several
faculty members to become instructors so that all volunteers
might be properly taught. Three classes have completed the
course so far without major mishap although victims o f
amateur respiration and bandaging have been seen limping
rather dolefully around at the height o f activities. Much
more glamorous for publicity purposes, as it developed, was
the Household Mechanics course conducted by the foreman o f
repairs in the wilds o f Beardsley, where among mazes o f saws,
adzes, nails, screws, and machinery, the uninitiate, about forty

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ATHLETIC NOTES
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The final results o f
our men’s winter sports
season are:
won

lost

Basketball .... 10
7
Swimming .... 5
4
Fencing ........
2
5
During the winter
season Co-Captain Roy
D a r l i n g t o n o f the
M e n ’ s Swimming
Team, broke the college
record in the 220 free
style and W alt Skallerup twice tied and then
broke (on three occa­
sions) the college and
pool records for the
150 yard back stroke.
Bill Stetson’s basket­
ball team was much
better than their 10
and 7 record indicates.
In four games they
were
beaten by a single
. . . ST A N COPE, A ll State Guard
point and in one other
by two points. If the team had shot good fouls’ our year’s
record would have been 15 wins and two losses.
Basketball Captain Stan Cope has established himself as
one o f the greatest athletes in Swarthmore court history. In
his last game he scored 41 points against American University
(a new college and Philadelphia District record).
In ad­
dition he was selected on the All-Philadelphia first team and
by the Associated Press as guard on the All-State team.
During the past few months Hall Gymnasium has been
painted inside and out. T w o new dressing rooms which have
been added to the South side o f the Field House greatly im­
prove the accommodations for our visiting teams. Refinishing
o f our basketball floor and resurfacing o f the outdoor track
are other major improvements to our men’s athletic facilities.
At the February meeting o f the Faculty the physical
education requirements for men were extended to include
juniors and seniors as well as freshmen and sophomores.
The passing o f a swimming test was another addition to the
basic requirements.

th e lAJo
W om en ’s Swimming

Swimming was given a big boost this year by the pres­
ence on the team o f Rozanne Hamilton, holder o f many free
style, breast stroke and individual medley records. Her home
is in N ew Y ork where she is a member o f the Women’s
Swimming Association. Beaten only twice the entire season,
(then by two o f her N ew Y ork club team mates, now study­
ing at N.Y.U.)^ she has set new college and p ool records in
both breast stroke events.
Something new has been added to the winter swimming
program in the form o f a Figure and Formation group. The
feature o f the season was their appearance in the formation
swimming demonstration at the University o f Pennsylvania
in March o f this year. Five other colleges and schools par­
ticipated in the program which is a movement to bring form­
ation and musical swimming to the attention o f those good
swimmers not interested in speed swimming.
W om en ’s Fencing
The fencers had a real boost this season, due to a vigor­
ous manager who succeeded in getting seven matches for
them ! W illiam and Mary brought up a very good team and
our team went to N ew Y ork for a triangular meet with Hun­
ter and Brooklyn College. Later they met W agner College on
Staten Island. Student interest in fencing has increased this
year by the addition o f Mrs. Jormila Vokral to the teaching
staff. Mrs. Vokral is a member o f the last Czecho-Slovakian
Olympic fencing team, and brings stimulating and excellent
teaching to the girls.
W om en’s Badminton
The W om en ’s Varsity badminton team closed another
unbeaten season. Donna Larrabee, freshman, easily defeated
all her opponents. Libby Ramsey, captain, playing number 2,
lost only one match in the three years she was on the team.
Barbara Bowman, last year’s captain, also closed out her
career, and was unbeaten in four years o f intercollegiate com­
petition. Four letter girls will be available for next year—
Donna Larrabee and Jean Blanchard, both freshmen, and two
juniors, Mary Blankenhorn and Janet Bartleson.
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Swarthmore’s freshmen rule has gone by the boards—-at
least for the duration. This year’s spring sports will receive
no material aid from the new rule, because we have an ample
supply o f upper class material. Track is a notable exception
however.
Plans are now in progress to maintain a regular inter­
collegiate schedule for the summer session in baseball, track,
tennis and golf.
Swarthmore’s State Champion lacrosse team is off to a
good start with victories over Lafayette, Drexel, and Univer­
sity o f Pennsylvania.
(Incidentally Swarthmore’s all time
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right at the U. o f Pittsburgh since she
started teaching first aid to several women’s
classes. And R usty stepped info the the­
atrical spotlights when she played the part
o f the little sister in the Civic Theatre pro­
duction o f "A h Wilderness” in Indianapolis.
I have just learned that Sibley R eid
graduated
from
the
Oklahoma
Flying
School on March 23rd.
The follow ing letter was received re­
cently at the Alumni Office from the Em­
bassy o f the Union o f Soviet Socialist Re­
publics, Washington, D . C.: “ W e regret
the inability to forward your letter to M r .
O leg T r oyan ovsky ow ing to the present

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state o f communications. He is now in the
U.S.S.R. fighting in the ranks o f the Red
Army at the front.”
I also have a goodly supply of names of
those who have been back to campus lately,
and o f who has "reunioned” with whom,
but they become out of date so quickly that
I haven’t been including them. I have also
omitted addresses, because they take up so
much room. However, I am not at all sure
that this is wise, because perhaps some of
you would be stimulated into correspon­
dence (and I w ould thereby hear o f more
news) if some o f the addresses were scat­
tered around. Next time, we’ll see what

can be done along that line, and any sug­
gestions w ill be carefully considered. In
the meantime, collect all the news you have,
and bring it with you on Alumni Day, if
you can possibly make it. This is not our
reunion year, to be sure, but with things as
indefinite as they are, it seems as if all who
can come back this year, should try to make
it, because there’s no telling where we’ll be
next year. H oping to see you in Swarthmore on May 23rd . . . Best o f luck.
Secretary. D o ro th y R akestraw
2651 Rochester N o. 403 B k
Detroit, Michigan

A TH LE T IC NOTES

SOMERVILLE D A Y

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From the M en
record against Penn in lacrosse is Swarthmore 33 wins, 13
losses and 1 tie.)
Our tennis team has been awarded the M iddle Atlantic
Conference Indoor Championship which, this year, was played
at the Garnet Field House. Victory was not earned until the
final match when Captain Dick Mayfield and Rufe Blanshard
won the doubles from the Bucknell team.
Bob Dunn, who is beginning his seventeenth season as
varsity baseball coach, has a well balanced squad and one
which may cause considerable trouble before the year is over.
Several freshmen are making strong bids for a position on the
varsity. In the opening game o f the season against Susque­
hanna another John Ogden established himself as a star
Garnet pitcher.
Y oung John, now a sophomore, won an
eleven inning game 2-1. In doing so he struck out 12 op ­
posing batters and held the opposition to three hits.
In the first two track meets against Lafayette and Lehigh
we were beaten decisively because o f a poor showing in the
sprints and in the weight events. Bert Barron, however, has
the largest squad in many years— one which should show
decided improvement as the season progresses.
The G o lf Team has started auspiciously with a 5-4 win
over Penn. Hopkins was another Garnet victim a few days
later.

urged that no one forget the early significance o f education,
which "Reflects the state o f the world . . . but is also a cause,
determining in which way events g o .” W e are happy to know
that Miss McBride will be steering the course for our neigh­
bors and friends at Bryn Mawr.
The tea, in Collection Hall, was the final event on the
day s program. In the receiving line were Miss McBride,
Mrs. Aydelotte, and Bertha W hite Nason, ’ 26.
During the day our eight Somerville members who visited
on the campus for an extended program o f three days con­
vinced all their friends that they had enjoyed an enviable
experience. Those fortunate few w ere: Ellie Simons Bassett,
TO; Nan Openlander Eberle, T 3 ; Iva Appleby Goehring,
’ 13; Reba Camp H odge, ’ 15; Auguste Jellinghaus Knaur, ’ 15;
D olly Oliver, ’ 15; Anna Campbell Rittman, TO, and Sue
Thomas Turner, ’ 35. Their accounts o f classes, seminars,
college meals, the motor mechanics course and the Dorothy
Thompson lecture were most enthusiastic.
W e are very
anxious that a similar group attend next year, when we hope
on Somerville Day to have an even larger turn-out o f the
women o f Swarthmore.

Alumni Golf

From the W om en
Dance Groups
The Swarthmore M odern Dance Group, though small
this year, has done some interesting work. On December
17th, in conjunction with Somerville Forum and the W om en ’s
Athletic Association, they sponsored Martha Graham and her
Group in a Dance concert in Clothier. Dancing at the Cul­
tural Olympics Dance Festival at Penn the group won an
award o f Merit.
Later they presented a program at the
W om en’s University Club in Philadelphia and at the Swarth­
more W om an’s Club. The climax o f the year was a popular
recital program in Clothier on April 25 th
The Folk Dance Groups which include about forty dan­
cers, have participated in various demonstration programs and
festivals in the course o f the year. The demonstration group’s
annual party at the Field House was very successful and well
attended. On May 9th, they are taking part in a Festival here
at Swarthmore; Michael Hermann and his group o f Ukranian
dancers from N ew Y ork will be here to dance for us,

A ll men interested in the Annual Alumni G olf
Tournament to be held Friday, May 22nd, please
communicate with Sam Eckerd at the College.
Club and supper arrangements will be announced
later.

A L U M N I D A Y — M A Y 23rd
Be sure the enclosed reservation card reaches the College
not later than May 20th.
Please note that reservations for Class Reunion Suppers
are to be sent DIRE CT T O Y O U R CLASS C H A IR M A N .
Mark the enclosed ballot and mail so that it will reach
the Alumni Office by Saturday, May 16th.