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To toughen them morally as well as mentally and physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some...
First to prescribe uniforms in a U. S. girls' school, Miss Ruutz-Rees introduced them, over her girls' objections, in 1897. Uniforms now are Rosemary blue (matching her eyes) tweed skirts and sweaters for fall and winter, gingham dresses for spring, blue capes for chapel, star-shaped berets...
This year Endicott Peabody, 83, retired as headmaster of Groton. Last week Rosemary Hall celebrated its 50th anniversary. Between those two events there was more than a timely connection. Like swank Groton, Rosemary Hall, a swank girls' school in leafy Greenwich, Conn., has been ruled from its beginning by...
To pay homage to her, there arrived at Rosemary last week socialites, college presidents (including Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken), 250 devoted old Rosemarians. They found Miss Ruutz-Rees in nominal retirement, two new co-headmistresses in charge. But there was no doubt who was boss. At 73, Miss...
Miss Ruutz-Rees put her girls through a rigorous classical curriculum, teaching them Vergil herself. She horrified parents, who feared their daughters might develop "unsightly muscles," by introducing athletics. First Rosemary sport was cricket, but Rosemarians could find no worthy opponents, took up basketball, track and field hockey instead. Now...