THE ALUMNAE NEWS Published Monthly from October to June, inclusive, at 49 East 65th St.. New York 21, N. Y., by the

Associate Alumnae of Hunter College of the City of New York Entered as second-class matter, Dec. 28, 1945, at post office at New York, N. Y., under act of Mar. 3, 1879

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VOL. LVII NEW YORK, MAY, 1952 No. 5

CALENDAR, MAY- JUNE IN MEMORIAM Wed., May 7-Board of Directors, 8: 15 Dr. Elizabeth Jarrett, a former President Fri., May 9-College Sing of the Associate Alumnae, passed away on Sat., May 10-Reunion and Election Wednesday, March 26th, at 87 years of age, Wed., May 14--Executive Council, 4: 15 after a few months' illness. Sat., May 24-Bronx Square Dance Older members of the Alumnae will re- Tues., June 3-Party for Mrs. Draddy member vividly her distinguished leader-

ship during her two terms as President SPRING REUNION (1900-1904) following that of Mrs. Kasson

The Spring Reunion will be held on C. Gibson. May loth, at 2:30 P.M. This is your last Elizabeth Jarret was graduated in 1883 reminder! from the then Normal College with high

A delightful experience is in store for honors, winning the Kelly Bronze Medal you when you see the Hunter College Film. for Methods of Teaching and the Offen- All Alumnae and their children will be dorfer Gold Medal for German. After welcome at the reunion. The younger chil- graduation, she taught in a public school &en will have their own separate program for a brief period, and when a vacancy oc- of activity, and the older ones will enjoy curred in the Training Department of the the film with the oldsters. College, Miss Parsels was anxious to have

Last call for reservations for group meet- her there as a critic teacher; which position ings at 1.30 P.M., or at the Fellowship Hour she filled with distinction until approxi- which will be held in the Student Dining- mately 1889, at which time she began study Room immediately following the meeting. at the New York Woman's Medical College Please telephone Alumnae Hall-BU 8-3202 and Hospital, where she received her M.D. -to leave last-minute word about reserva- degree in 1893 with high honors and a tions. prize-the Dr. Lozier Medical Award for

THELMA VINT, some special branch. I t was not long before Chairman she began to teach there, and she was later

made Professor of Gynecology. When the LET US HONOR MRS. DRADDY New York Board of Education started peri- The friends of Louise Draddy, those out- odic examination of school children, she

side as well as those inside the Alumnae was appointed Examining Physician. Later, Association, are planning to honor her at she was one of two physicians to examine a Cocktail (or Punch) Party to be held in College and Training School graduates in the air-conditioned Vanderbilt Suite at the line for License No. I. She found the girls Hotel Biltmore on Tuesday, June 3, from in such poor shape at the end of all their 4 to 7 P.M. Senior Examinations that she persuaded

Part of the proceeds will go to the Schol- the Board to change the time of the physical arship Fund; the remainder will go to the tests to the beginning of the Senior year. establishment of a Louise Draddy Award Throughout all this time her participa- which will be given annually to a worthy tion in the activities of the Alumnae Asso- graduating senior at the College. ciation was unabated. She was deeply inter-

The price of admission to the Party is ested in the establishment of the "Alumnae $5.00. If you care to send us more and thus Settlement and Free Kindergarten". In Jan- swell the fund, we shall be extremely grate- uary 1902, the Alumnae Settlement Com- ful to you. On the other hand if you are mittee issued its Fifth Annual Report in a unable to come, we shall welcome any con- charming booklet which deserves to be re- tribution you may wish to send us and we printed in quantity. shall be very thankful to you for it. The urge to knowledge and service was

Please make your checks payable to in the air at the birth of the 20th century, "Louise Draddy Award Fund" and send and it was in high gear among the Alumnae them to Mrs. Alexander Berl, Hunter Col- of the Normal College. There were Com- lege, 695 Park Ave. We shall be happy to mittees working on "Child Study", on forward your tickets to you. "Natural Science", on "Education", making

Please try to come. Let us all get together frequent reports that appeared in the and pay a lasting tribute to Louise Draddy, ALUMNAE NEWS. Dr. Jarrett brought dis- a great lady, whom we admire for her charm tinguished persons as guests to the regular and wit, respect for her public service and meetings of the Association, people of prom- devotion to the College, and love for her inence in the literary and educational warmth and kindness. world; among them, Mark Twain, Mrs.

MRS. ALEXANDER BERL Ernest Seton Thompson, Professor Earl MRS. J. LARUS Barnes, Dr. John L. Finley, and Rev. Merle

Co-Chairmen St. Croix Wright.

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In May, 1920, Professor Earl Barnes con- On July 3, 1951, the Alumnae lost one sented to give a course in Genetic Psychol- of its oldest and most loyal members, Jessie ogy under the auspices of our Alumnae Craig Cross, Class of 1887, who died sud- Association. This was followed later by a denly at the age of eighty-one, while visit- course in the History of Civilization. These ing her daughter, Dorothy Cross Cloke, in courses were very popular and established Port Credit, Ontario. Her active mind and a precedent for other lecture courses under extraordinary memory enabled her to tell the aegis of the Alumnae Association, when many stories of the early days of the Col- Dr. Jarrett succeeded in getting their recog- lege, and she delighted in rellliniscences of nition by the Board of Regents. They were President Hunter and his staff. During her thus the forerunners of the College Evening college days she was an excellent student, and Extension Division. and had the honor to recite French in the

In 1905-06, when the College faced the College Chapel on two famous occasions, dark uncertainties due to the imminent - once when Bartholdi visited the College retirement of President Hunter, the two at the time of the dedication of the Statue just preceding Presidents of the Alumnae, of Liberty, and again for Queen Liliuo- Mrs. Gibson and Dr. Jarrett, joined by kalani, Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, some kindred spirits, initiated a small dis- when she was the guest of the College. cussion group where in intimate and fre- Like her four sisters, all Hunter Alum- quent meetings they could thresh out the nae, Jessie Craig loved teaching and fol- many proposals that were agitating the lowed her vocation most successfully for Alumnae. Like the proverbial snow-ball it seventeen years in the public schools, at grew, gaining many likeminded adherents, one time acting as principal and organiz- and soon developed into what they fondly ing a new school while still in her early named the Graduate Club of Normal Col- twenties. After her marriage in 1904 to lege (later of Hunter College). Mrs. Gib- William Spencer Cross, slie resigned from son for years was its capable President. teaching but continued her interest in col- After her death, Dr. Jarrett was elected to lege affairs and in the Alumnae all her life, that office, which she filled until 1946, when serving as Class Representative on the Ex- she retired because of failing health. She ecutive Council for several years. She faith- had relinquished her medical practice a fully attended the annual Alumnae gather- few years before. ings in honor of the College Birthday, and

Dr. Jarrett had many remarkable quali- was especially proud when her grand- ties. She was forward-looking and unafraid daughter's birth date coincided with one of of the new. She was vivacious and a ready them, the Diamond Jubilee of Hunter Col- speaker. In short she was a born teacher lege - February 14, 1945. and a born leader, with even the occasional She had a consunling interest in current intransigence that is apt to be part of that events, and her nlenlory of Grant's funeral quality, and must be forgiven. Her inter- procession and Admiral Dewey's triumphal ests were deep and varied, humanitarian return to New York were as fresh in her and cultural, and she stimulated them in mind in 1951 as a present-day problem like others. She wrote stories for children and "New York's Civil Defense Routes in case articles on education for magazines. She of Atomic Attack", an article which she loved children and she loved Nature. She had neatly filed away. spent many of her summer vacations by the Among her possessions, in a small note- sea in Maine and in the vicinity of Man- book, was found the following quotation:- tauk, where she loved to watch the surf "The secret of happiness is never to allow roll in. The grandeur and mystery of the your energies to stagnate." (Adam Clarke.) ocean stimulated her poetic imagination. This was indeed an abiding principle in One of her many poems, two stanzas of her life, and to attain a great age with all which are ~ r i n t e d herewith, beautifully and one's faculties as keen as hers, is a full strangely becomes a most fitting Requiem reward from a kind Providence. today.

HARRIET H. KEITH Anna Craig Tully, sister of Jessie Craig MABEL S. RICHARDSON Cross, died on October 11, 1951, in her

eightieth year at her home in Sussex, New HAVEN Jersey. Another of the five Craig sisters who

Into the Haven when the night has fallen, were all Hunter graduates, she taught school And hushed and low are all the sounds of day, like the rest in New York City and thor- Save where some gull, its lonely seaflight winging, oughly enjoyed it, until her marriage to Utters the shrill, sharp note that marks its way; Into the Haven of the ships storm pressed, A. C. Tully in 1906 took her out of New Into the Haven of the West. York to small-town life in New Jersey. She

numbered Mr. John Kieran, our own Presi- Into the Haven, Lord, our barques would fain dent Kieran's son, among her pupils. An entrance seek when tossed by wind and storm, slle was a born organizer, and durillg Into the Haven where our rest shall be, Circled by arms of love eternally, the first World War, became head of the Into the Haven of the souls, storm pressed, Ked Cross in Sussex County; founded the Into the Haven of God's rest. first hospital in her town; and was a leader

ELIZABETH JARRETT, M.D. in church qctivities. After her husband's