Mabel Hunter Wiant

1904 Program:

Present address: 1225 Juliana Street, Parkersburg, W. Va.

November 1904 Kalends:

Mabel Wiant is studying at Columbia University.

November 1906 Kalends:

Mabel Wiant received her master's degree at the University of Columbia in June.

July 1929 Alumnae Quarterly:

Mabel Wiant, who has spent the last two years in Europe and North Africa writes to Edith Powell Pringle that after spending the summer in Italy she plans to return to the United States.

November 1933 Alumnae Quarterly:

Mabel Wiant's card comes from Blowing Rock, NC, where, she says, the mountains are far lovelier than the Poconos where we were last summer. Here we are 43 miles from the RR and 4000 feet above sea level, in a tiny village." Mabel complains of having nothing interesting to report of herself and then mentions seven years in Europe, Asia, and Africa!

November 1938 Alumnae Quarterly

"I live in New York when I am not in Europe,"writes Mabel Wiant,"and while I am not domesticated, lead a rather pleasant existence. My chief study has been international affairs, but this is becoming almost too complicated and deptressing. All good wishes to my classmates of 1903 and all other Goucher alumnae."

November 1945 Alumnae Quarterly:

Mabel H. Wiant represented Goucher College at the inauguration of President William Allison Shimer of Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio.

November 1949 Alumnae Quarterly:

Mabel Wiant was in Philadelphia to see her dentist. From there she wrote: "I wish my mode of living offered something of interest to the QUARTERLY. But alas! I do nothing 'that's fit to print.'
My winters I spend in New York City at the Seville with my friend (met while taking my M.A. at Columbia); and my summers in Mountain Lake Park, Md-where I occasionally meet Ursule Guard '10 and Rebecca Ruhl Crane '15, the only Goucher people I run across.
Every year I pay a visit to my home in Parkersburg. W. Va. where my sister Ethel Wiant Davis still lives. Her daughter, Barbara Davis Cherrill. is our family's chief interest-married to an Englishman, she lives in Singapore, which is an exciting spot in these days of Russian aggression.
I regret that I can't send a report of a career in business, a profession or even domestic achievements. I don't classify myself among the 'idle'; (heaven knows I am busy with trifles for six hours a day) but, I am afraid I don't rank with those who spend a lot of energy on uplifting my fellow men (if the New Deal has left any who desire or require assistance).
These scant details of my modus vivendi must seem exceedingly dull. I am not quite happy about it myself-but just now nothing can be changed and besides each day holds a good deal. 'How good is one's life--the mere living'- I often think wise philosophy."

Winter 1970 Alumnae Quarterly:

Mabel Wiant writes delightful letters from her home on Nantucket. Her years of study and travel enrich the quiet and comparative seclusion.