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Meanwhile, Wellesley's trustees did some choosing, too. In the 18 months since stately old President Ellen Fitz Pendleton had announced that she would like to resign, they had weighed 100 candidates, quizzed 1,000 alumnae, to find a woman who combined "intellectual honesty, leadership, tolerance, savoir jalre, sympathetic understanding of youth, vision, and a sense of humor." Satisfied that they had at last discovered such a paragon, Wellesley's trustees asked Oberlin (Ohio) College's Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee to become Ellen Pendleton's successor and Wellesley's seventh president...
...Secretary Cleland Boyd McAfee of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Mildred McAfee is a "distinctly Christian" joy. Less from austerity than from habit, she does not drink, smoke or play cards. But she enjoys the cinema, likes to dance. In her spare time she knits, and, like Ellen Fitz Pendleton, writes an occasional detective story...
...Wellesley's presidents, none but Ellen Fitz Pendleton has been a Wellesley alumna. Modern Wellesley is the creation of snow-haired, precise "Pres. Penn," who in 25 years increased the "college's endowment by $7,000,000, ruled it with an iron hand. Early in President Pendleton's term the famed 1914 Fire burned most of Wellesley to the ground. Undismayed, the president set out to build a vast neo-Gothic plant which now covers the Waban campus with tons of imposing stone. Big (1,500 students) and expensive ($500 tuition), Wellesley thinks of itself...
...fifth ranking female tennist, deserted their cosy home outside Philadelphia and their fox terrier named "Wimby," junketed to Manhattan for the National Indoor Championships. "Midge" Van Ryn was well prepared for action. All winter she had practiced on the indoor courts of Socialite George D. Widener and Banker Fitz Eugene Dixon, onetime Davis Cup captain, who employs her husband...
...completion. Members of the ensemble at present include, Francis A. Wendell '37, Donald Rowell '37, W. Grosvenor Davis '37, F. Lee Wendell '38, H. Shippen Goodhue '38, Renouf Russell '38, John A. Roosevelt '38, Willliam S. Pier '38, Benjamin Welles 2d '38, Gilbert E. Jones '38, Cammann Newberry '37, Fitz William Sargent '38, Charles S. Mac Veigh Jr. '38, E. Allan Dennison '37, John MaC. Graham...