Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1931, Page 93

THE The class pageant. Girl graduates dearly love a class allegory wherein they can go the limit on splendor instead of just going out and planting a class tree and letting it wither, are giving a magnificent tree day pageant, with a queen of beauty and attendants and After the tree is pushed into the ground Queen Arboria will rise from her throne and present her scepter to the president of the junior class with the words, “Rule thee thy realm full alma mater, “Fair Swatme, Ever True to Thee We'll Be.” and sumptuousness. maids of honor. It is very impressive. well,” whereupon the senior class will up and sing the So this year the seniors of Swatme College, For weeks the girls have prayed for a slightly cloudy tree anything, and, of course, the place will be overrun with news photographers. of days is sunny. Nurses’ training school. brand of poppies) has just graduated from training Shirley (named for the famous schoal and is now a graduate nurse, with proper enough creden- tials to go out and look after anything from scarlet fever to Riggs’ disease. Shirley was very popular with all the internes and was always getting put on bounds b.y the resi- dent superintendent of the hospital, but she’s a big girl now and no nonsense. Looks nice in a uniform, but not so chic as she looks in her monkey fur trimmed Spring ensemble. The class beauty. This is Elsa Mae Peabody of the 1931 class at Wobbe College. One and all, her classmates have vote class beauty. She got “A plus” in her chemistry, too. d Elsa SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. day, because blinding sunshine makes a girl squint like C.—GRAVURE SECTION—MAY 31, * The Sweet Girl Graduates : By W. E. Hill § (Copyright. 1831, by Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) T e 1931. Shakespeare outdoors. The graduating class of Miss Hooey's select school that “Much Ado” would be easier to rewrite. And luck will have it, the da IRy L i Casey as Dogberry.) These four members of the class of 1931 at Mount Oglethorpe Col- lege are representative of the graduating girls at that institution of fearning. From left to right we have Miss Alys Timbo, voted by her classmates as the most unusual girl; Miss Harriet Fibre, voted the girl who has done the most for her college as well as the most painstaking girl; Miss Dorothea Augenblick, senior class president and most popular girl, and Elfrida Stickey, voted the prettiest girl in the class. Miss Fibre has a long list of college honors. She was president of the Junior Hand Ball Association and-head of the Senior Chaucer Club. Miss Augenblick, 7 the class president, has done a lot for her class. When the girls were E& voting on “What man in the country today has done the greatest good for mankind?” (see class statistics), it was Dorothea who persuaded the girls to vote for Edison instead of Ronald Colman. When mother was a girl graduate, and suits and hats were built on a grander scale, this: going-away costume was the very latest word. -And at the senior prom “Maple Leaf Rag” and “I'd Rather Two-step Than Waltz, Bill,” were the up-to-the-minute two-steps. The youngest girl graduate. Elizabeth gradu- ates from kindergarten this June, and now she’s ready for the first grade. Very proud of her graduation frock is Elizabeth. are giving “Much Ado About Nothing” (abridged and made just a little more refined) this commencement in a lovely outdoor setting. There was some talk about “As You Like It” being especially suited, because the side yard between the main building and the infirmary would have been swell for the Forest of Arden; but Elaine Lichenstein, who was picked for Rosalind, had to have her tonsils out about then, and, anyway, Miss Tousey, the English instructress, said (From left to right we have Grace Marie Godsend as Benedick, Patricia Kunkel as Beatrice and Bonita The studious girl graduate. . Ethel has already made a name for herself by writing short stories and poems that are considered very daring in college literary circles. She won't let her family read anything she does, because, being very Victorian, they would hardly understand. and, of course, if they did it would be terrible. (Literary college girls used to wear rim spectacles and feature buck teeth. but no more. Nowadays you can hardly tell them from Follies girls.) Finishing school. Doris is graduating from her board- ing school, and her family can’t decide what to do with her prior to getting a husband. There is some talk about sending her to a nice convent in-France, where she will fearn poise and repression; but Doris wants to be a night club hostess or a movie star. AWy 7 N, SoaWaTE