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Angel Cake. To be the first licensed woman balloonist and the first of her sex to enter the stratosphere is the ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
Helen S. Bagenstose, of Bryn Mawr, Pa. A.B. (Wellesley College) 1931; A.M. (ibid.) 1933. Fellow in Education, Bryn Mawr College. Paul W. Lehmann, of Worcester, Mass, Special Student in the School of Education. Glen A. Marks, of Edwardsville, Ill. (Illinois Goll., 1934). William W. Rodgers '34, of Leicester, Mass. Eleroy L. Stromberg, of Eugene, Ore, A. B. (Nebraska Wesleyan Univ.) 1932. Graduate Assistant, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene...
...Bryn Mawr's smartest junior got her picture taken at the May Day hoop-rolling festival (see cut). She is 5 ft. tall, weighs 98 lb., has been in the U. S. since 1930. Her name is Vung-Yuin Ting. This year she won the Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial scholarship for the junior class's best scholastic record, the Charles S. Hinchman Memorial scholarship for being best of any Bryn Mawr girl in her major subject. Bryn Mawr's only Chinese student, Vung-Yuin Ting majors in chemistry, is one of the campus' friendliest...
...late more & more Chapin girls are preparing for college, chiefly Vassar and Bryn Mawr, but most still take a general course. Here daughters and wives of Morgans, Rockefellers, Pratts, Flaglers, Vanderbilts and Cabots have learned to invest and handle trust funds, budget and manage three households and platoons of servants...
Daughter of a well-to-do Hartford physician, Katharine Hepburn was a member of the Class of 1929 at Bryn Mawr, prefaced her one important Broadway performance in The Warrior's Husband with four small parts and several unproductive engagements as understudy. Since becoming a celebrity, she has fiercely fought to distinguish between her private and her professional life. Of her education, she says: "I never went to Bryn Mawr-that was another Katharine Hepburn." Of her husband. Insurance Broker Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she married Dec. 12, 1928 and with whom she lives in Manhattan...