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ALUMNAE NOTES
Our Alumnae Association has had a very busy year completing its re-organization. On June sixth at a business meeting and tea at Oakwood, our corresponding secretary gave an informal report telling about the growth of the school, and our president, Dorothy Burke Marshall, announced that the executive committee had decided to turn over to the school $1,700 as a nucleus for the building fund. The Trustees had agreed to allow us five per cent on the money so given, this interest to be used for a scholarship, preferably for the daughter of an alumna, any other money received for this purpose to be used in the same way, so that as the building fund grows the scholarships given will grow too. Miss Hartridgc and Miss Mapelsden were elected honorary members of the Association, and we welcomed the members of the graduating class. Last fall, one of our ambitions was realized, and we had a most successful luncheon in New York at the Cosmopolitan Club. Our president addressed us, and Mrs. Douglas Davis, who is assisting Miss Hart- ridge with the school publications, spoke from her point of view as one of the mothers with children in the lower school. Miss Hartridge talked to us about the work of the progressive school, and told us what had already been accomplished, and what her plans covered. She called also upon several of our members, who very' interestingly spoke of the work that they are doing.
In April we sent out a News Letter, reporting all the information about our doings t h a t we h a v e r e c e n t l y r e c e i v e d . W e h a v e , a s u s u a l , o u r r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s i n t h e b u s i n e s s world and in various professional fields. We work for the Junior League, we entertain our friends, we knit, we play bridge, and we endeavor to combine variety of interests with efficiency and happiness in our homes. Sixty-three of us have entered college in the last school generation (four years). At Smith, Helen Stevens was on the Welcome Committee, Louise Fargo and Peggy Tietjen served on the Charity Ball Committee in December, and Betty Schoonmaker is captain of the freshman swimming team. Jane Yeager Lewis, who won a competitive scholarship at Sweet Briar last spring, is fourth in the freshman class of one hundred eighty-four. Katherine Tweedy is on the Vassar daisy chain, Rita Schwep was one of the delegates from Pine Manor to the Model League of Nations assembly at Williams College in March, Mary Crapo is studying at Columbia University, and Jean
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