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Senior Class Prophecy
Written in 1935, by a member of the class that graduated in June, 1917, from the Hartridge School.
Esther Strong, having made a good record at Vassar, decided to practise law. She has an extensive clientele in Iowa.
Dorothy McKenzie, as she promised in school, made a poor suc­ cess of life. It is sad to remember how she was first paroled and then expelled from Vassar for her thoroughly disagreeable attitude towards the college. This did not worry her, as she preferred New York the dansants and midnight frolics to books. When last heard from she had married her dancing instructor, and was living in New York.
Saidee Sandford shot up to six feet during her four eventful and suc­
cessful college years. She began training her voice early, and climbed by remarkable leaps, to the place of star on the Metropolitan Opera Elouse stage. It is rumored that she has been called to take the place of the retiring Geraldine h'arrar, whose voice shows the effects of age.
Kathleen Millay soon outshone her sister in Vassar dramatics. So much encouragement did she receive from all sides that she decided to go on the stage. As we know, she is now starring in a Broadway success.
May I say a few words about our former friend and classmate, Dor­ othy Jewett? We like to think of her as our one brilliant student. After graduating at the head of her class from Vassar, she took her M. A. there. At the close of the war she travelled abroad to get material for her book, Europe After the War. She studied hard for her Ph. D.
at Columhia for the two years following the publication of her book. In the winter of 1933 she caught a terrible cold. Pneumonia set in, and the doctors say that because of her weak condition, due to far too much
work and strenuous study, she died on February 4, 1933, her thirty-third birthday.
T.illian Fawcett decided not to go to Barnard, and sent in her appli- 15