Florence Carmine Bankard

On Thursday, January 24th, Florence Carmine was married to Mr. Henry Nicholas Bankard of Cincinnati.

March 1909 Kalends:

Florence May Carmine Bankard, of Cincinnati, is visiting in Baltimore during March.

December 1911 Kalends:

FLorence Carmine Bankard is a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati.

July 1930 Alumnae Quarterly:

Florence Carmine Bankard is truly the class traveler. We thought she had been everywhere, but find she is leaving very soon for Africa by way of Europe. She plans to make a trip through Central Africa, coming up inland from Cape Town to Cairo. She is going to hunt big game in Africa.

November 1935 Alumnae Quarterly:

Florence Carmine Bankard has been hunting big game in Africa! Thus the Baltimore Sun of October 20 reports the expedition: "One more jungle has been explored by Mrs. Florence Bankard of the Greenway Apartments. It was in Africa. She spent four months last spring and summer on safaris in the Dark Continent 'just to see what it looked like,'she said...
"Her safari took her up the Zambezi River. With a party of Europeans and native guides, she penetrated the jungles, sailing on the river past innumerable crocodiles and hippos.
In Eastern Trasvall she spent five days in the big-game country, riding on the barely passable roads in a lorry, an automobile which has been stripped to its chassis to make it light and then fitted with a box body as a protection from the animals. On this trip and a subsequent one to the source of the Nile in Uganda she was conducted by European guides who were residents of Africa."
Lions, giraffes, warthogs, zebras, wildebeeste, baboons, impala, jackals, ostriches, water bucks and boa constrictors were all in the day's work -or sightseeing- the article goes on to say, and tells a thrilling tale of one encounter with a lion. None of these seemed to bother Florence, however, for she reports that the danger of disease from the malarial mosquitoes of the country was the greatest menace and it was this dread that made her glad to return home.

July 1939 Alumnae Quarterly:

Florence Carmine Bankard attended Reunion. She was enthusiastic over a recent trip to Mexico by auto, and is preparing to return in August for another visit into real Mexican wilds.

Fall 1954 Alumnae Quarterly:

If Florence Carmine Bankard thinks she can surprise us by the places she chooses to visit she's mistaken. Even if she wrote from Cambodia, from Timbuctoo, or from Madagascar, we'd never lift an eyebrow, though we love to hear about her travels. Her cards to Emilie this summer came from the far, far, north, where she went "From Winnipeg to North 54 Parallel and Hudson Bay, - on the rim of adventure. To go into the interior one must travel by plane, canoe, or pack trip in summer, and snowmobile or tractor in winter. The MOunted Police are the Law. Weather freakish and always windy. The Hudson Bay Route is marked by the terrible sacrifices made by the first men who found the way. This is a bleak land, with its wind-swept port of Churchill, - a few hodge-podge buildings, - and all of it very truly the domain of the polar bear.
Later. After watching an angry storm over Sleeping Giant and Thunder Bay Mountain, I had a glorious trip over 200 miles, past logging camps back in the Bush, two gold mines, by Orient Bay and Royal WIndsor Lodge, where the Duke and Wally made a long stay."

Summer 1956 Alumnae Quarterly:

This is news which will warm your heart. Florence Carmine Bankard has given the college $10 360 as a memorial to her parents, and I am sure they would be proud of their daughter for her loving thought of them, and for her never-failing generosity. You will recall that Florence's sister, Laura, gave $10 000 to the college in memory of Margaret Carmine, the sister who was a member of '01. Many of us in '03 have endearing memories of Margaret's charming friendliness and kindess. Goucher is grateful for these memorials, for the trust in the future of the college, for the service made possible, and and for the spontaniety of the donations. And '03 shares in the joy over this last gift particularly.
FLorence enjoyed a visit to a beautiful farm in the lovely part of Maryland around Fort Frederick (not to be confused with Frederick). There was an anniversary celebration which commanded the interest of all the near-by Marylanders in this very, very old town.

Summer 1957 Alumnae Quarterly:

"Intended to write before I left Baltimore, but the days really fly by fast. Now I am down at Atlantic City for a couple of weeks, and I am feeling satisfied about managing to take up the winter rugs before I left, - so that's off my mind (or rather, off the floor!)"

Winter 1958 Alumnae Quarterly:

Our sympathy goes out to Florence Carmine, who says, "It cannot be a merry Christmas for me, because my niece died on December 15, leaving three children, two boys, 10 and 12 years old and a little girl of 8, and that is pitiful."

Fall 1958 Alumnae Quarterly:

The members of the class wish to express sympathy to Florence Carmine Bankard whose sister, Laura, died on July 21.

Winter 1960 Alumnae Quarterly:

Florence Carmine Bankard dropped us a card just before leaving for a combined business and pleasure trip to New York, -rather a hectic trip, I imagine, if she squeezes all her projects into the time she was allowing for the trip. Greetings from Florence.

Winter 1961 Alumnae Quarterly:

Florence Carmine Bankard is quite sure of one thing about next June - that we'd all be pleased to have some of this cold air or maybe even the sight of a snowflake. If she's in Baltimore she will be with us.

Fall 1961 Alumnae Quarterly:

Now Florence Carmine Bankard says "Keep rolling to keep cool" so she rolls South.

Spring 1963 Alumnae Quarterly:

Florence Carmine Bankard, thejauntiest, youngest business woman I know, flits in and out of Baltimore on seemingly magic wings. We hope that they will drop her at Goucher in June.

Summer 1973 Alumnae Quarterly:

Mary Abercrombie has not been well for some time, and neither are Charlotte Jones and Florence Carmine Bankard.

Spring 1976 Alumnae Quarterly:

DEATHS
Florence Carmine Bankard