50th Reunion
Summer 1953 Alumnae Quarterly:
We thank the 1903 Baltimore Committee for all their good work in arranging our get together and Miss Cockey for her kind attention to returning alumnae. We exonerate them from any responsibility for the overly-familiar thunder storm on June 13 and for the broken water main thought ther were some murmors. Except for regrets over the absence of some of our classmates, our fiftieth reunion was everything we wished for. Out of fifty-four graduates, thirty-seven are living; twenty-one came to the reunion; also two ex's, one Goucher niece, and five Goucher daughters, - as happy a group as the college ever sees. We are pleased to record 72 children, 58 grandchildren, with 11 daughters who have graduated from Goucher.
More statistics: We travelled an aggregate of more than 13, 000 miles to and from reunion. Our combined ages, including our two ex's, equal over 1, 633 years.
Financially, we are in good shape. Our handsome gift is paid for and our $750 contribution turned in, with something left over.
The stone bench - our reunion gift - is rather impressive. It faces the long walk which parallels the front of the new library, and bears the plain inscription "Gift of the Class of 1903 in 1953." At the end of the low stone wall into which it is set is the cornerstone of old Goucher Hall, with a brinze, descriptive plaque. Three additional benches, which are also part of the gift, are ranged along the walk. We tried the seat, of course, with a proper proprietary interest.
The A.A.U.W. fellowship named for Martha Catchings Enochs was granted this year to Kathryn Conway Turner of Berkeley, Calif., who graduated from Goucher in 1946.
Everyone present wished to tell those who were absent about Florence Carmine Bankard's luncheon at beautiful Hampton House, just north of the campus. We were all there, -grads, ex's, and six of the younger generation, to enjoy her generous hospitality, to tour the lovely old mansion, to exclaim over her hand-painted favors (her own work), to get in our last gossip and to say goodbye, for most of us did not stay for Commencement. It is pleasant to think that Hampton House will always be there as Goucher's next door neighbor, since it now belongs to the U.S., to be preserved as a historic landmark.
Florence insisted that she did little to help our Baltimore Committee, but her enjoyable party will long be remembered as a major contribution to our pleasure.
At our class meeting it was decided to hold our next reunion in 1958- five years hence, so be sure to make your plans accordingly. To lighten Emilie Doetsch's work somewhat, we elected Charlotte Jones our corresponding secretary.
Fall 1953 Alumnae Quarterly:
If the 1903 visitors to Goucher in June are somewhat effusive about their reunion, who can blame them? A fiftieth reunion can be enjoyed just once. This is the list of those who attended, but if you were not there, you were very much remembered, anyway. Mary Abercrombie Verner, Claire Ackerman Vliet, Mary Beavers, Amelia Benson Bielaski, Eda Briggs Frost, Florence Carmine Bankard, Nancy Catching Shields, Thyra Crawford Rees, Mabel Day Parker, Emilie Doetsch, Alice Dunning Flick, Carrie Fehr, Jane Hyde, Charlotte A. Jones, Helena May Jones, Louise Lawrence Miller, Lottie P. Magee, Olive Mast Pennegar, Nancy Nulton Larrick, Edith Powell Pringle, Letitia T.E. Ricaud, Clara Robinson Hand, and Anna M. Slease.
Last Updated 10/12/99.
Copyright 1999.