Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nurses, photographic technicians, radar experts, Link trainer instructors, and at least one spent her time chatting with the boys at a local PX. Cynthia Brott, Radcliffe '48, spent two years overseas in Iceland and England wielding needled and syringe with the Army Nurse Corps. Anne Kennedy, one of the Wellesley's more nature women, ground out the war at Wright Field, Ohio, as a photographic technician in an optical research laboratory. Each was at her alma matter before the war and both are back, rounding out their general education in what seems to them to be a considerably freer society...
...Wellesley Gets Transfers...
...Wellesley, on the other hand, the ex-servicewomen are returning to the halls of academe with a working knowledge of junior proms, field hockey, and the midnight oil. Agnes Jones, who was a Link Trainer instructor with the Waves, had been a student at the University of New Hampshire before rallying to the colors. Majoring in English, she found the transition back to college life easy. Although she lives at home, her social life around the undergraduate circle hasn't been impaired--indeed, perhaps strengthened--by her experience in uniform...
...Cliffe crewmen, the Harvard Male has been thirsting to assert his traditional superiority . . . in something. Yesterday an intrepid group of Bellboys shouldered the responsibility for vindicating College honor, and engaged a formidable aggregation of Amazonian field-hockeyers on the Browne and Nichols gridiron, with scattered support from Wellesley and some finishing school ringers...
Presented under the auspices of the Carleton Club, the fracas will feature witches from Wellesley and Simmons, residents of Boston, and even a smattering of 'Cliffedwellers peering in at the windows. Stags are urged to come dressed as something more original than a college student, with mask as the absolute minimum, since an undisclosed prize will be awarded to the wearer of the most startling costume...