Word: alumnae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first calls went to a loyal McPherson alumna, Rozella Switzer, the town's Democratic postmistress. Rozella, a widow in her 40's, runs an efficient post office, smokes Pall Malls, drinks an occasional bourbon & coke, likes politics and people. She was curious about the African students and invited them over. Two nights later they sat comfortably around her living room, sipping coffee, browsing through her books, listening to her records-and talking...
...camels that no one knew what it meant Eleanor Roosevelt saw it once and marked with surprise that it was pi propaganda. But the college did not to it down, and many expect the gar work to become quite famous. "And that's to be the case," said an alumna "we want it at Dartmouth...
...Bureau says it is still optimistic. The Class of '41, with only ten years to try, have done better than any of the classes before them. Already they show 1.42 children per alumnus and 1.19 per alumna. Harvard men are slug-a-beds, though, with only...
...final choice. As a matter of fact, the outcome is still in doubt. The suitors could be distinguished only by their green, red, and blue cummerbunds, of which the princess chose the red; at this point, there was much cheering. I asked one of the applauds, an elderly alumna, who the princess had selected. "Why," she said, "it was the one in red, wasn...
...similar social consciousness carries through into the undergraduate's every action. An alumna tells the story of this spring's version of a traditional Wellesley rite--theft of the sophomore banner by freshmen. In an unusually spirited retaliation, the sophomores kidnapped the president of the freshman class and held her overnight in ransom for their flag. "Of course," the alumna adds quickly, "they asked the permission of the Dean of Students first...