THE ALUMNiE NEWS
Published Monthly from October to June, inclusive, at 12-14 Lawton Street, New Rochelle, N. Y .•
by the Associate Alumnae of Hunter College of the City of New York.
Entered as second class matter, 1895, a t the post-office at New Rochelle under the Act of March 3, 1879.
VOL. XLIV
NEW ROCHELLE, N . Y., FEBThUARY, 1939
No.2'
a n alumn a of th e College, will be th e soloALUMNAE BREAKFAST
The eventful day is dra wing close a t hand ist, and th e Alumna e Choir will make its
-Februa ry II th- the day of th e Alumnae first appea ra nce. The prize winning ValenBrea kfast at the Hotel Astor. Don' t miss it ! tine will be read by a student, prefe rabl y the
The Associate Alumnae of Hunter College a uth or, coached by Professo r H enrietta
is dedicating the Breakfas t thi s yea r to Dr. Prentiss, of the Speech D epartment of HuntEugene A. Colliga n on the occasion of th e er College.
If yo u have not already don e so, fill in the
fifth anniversary of his in stall ation as Presid ent of Hunter College. It ta kes this' means following fo rm a nd mail at once to the
Chairman of the Breakfast Committee:of. expr essing its loyalty and g r atitude for
his tireless efforts in advanciag our Alma Name .. . .. . ..... . .... ... ... . ... . . . .. .
M ate r to the outstanding position among
Colleges it holds to-day. This is also your Address
opportunity to show yo ur loyalty and a ppre- Year of Graduation ... . ......... .
Ti ckets, $2 .50.
ciation.
GENEVIEVE B URKE: CROTTY
' The Alumnae will be happy to welcome
(M rs. J ames A.) , Chairman ,
many distinguished g uests on this occasion
Alumnae Breakfast Committee.
and takes pride in listing thei r names below: Mayor Fiorella H . La Guardia, Hon. 200 W est 90th Street,
Paul Windels, Dr. Joseph D. McGoldrick, T e!ephone Schuyler 4-6274.
Borough President Stanley M. I saacs, Mr.
CA R N IVAL
George J. Gillespie, Monsignor Michael J.
The Alumnae Committee of the L enox HiU
L avelle, Mr. Lowell Thomas, Mr. Laurence
L. Cassidy, Mr. Phi:ip J. Sinnott, Mr. Settlement is pl a nning a Carnival on April
G eorge V. McLaughlin, Major Irving A. 21st and 22nd, to raise money for the SetHuie, Supreme Court Justices Albert Con- tlement House.
We a re counting on the s upport of the
way, J ames Hallinan, Frank Adel, Frank
Martin, and Albe rt Cohen, Dr. H a rold G. Associate Alumnae to make this a success ful
Campbell, Dr. Wm. E. Grady, Miss Regina affair in every way.
C. M. Burke, Brigadier General Alexande r
Won't yo u help by sending donations of
E. Anderson, Colonel John Mangan, nT. books, toys, linens, gift s, any thing which
H a rry Woodburn Chase, Dr . N icholas Mur- can be sold ?
Have yo u a "white elephant" on your
ray Butler, Rt. R ev. Edward Walsh, Brothe r
A. Victor, R ev. Robert I. Gannon, Dr. Paul hands? Some one may be craving that very
Dawson Eddy, Dr. Paul Klappe r , Dr. Nel- artic!e. Send it to us.
son ' P. Mead , Dr. William Boylan, Hon.
All donation s should be sent to the AlumThomas J. Mangan, Chancellor of the Uni- nae Rooms, 204 W est 55th Street.
ver sity of the State of New York, Mr. George
And write to the chai rman volunteering.
Rya n, M~. William J. W allin, Mr. Christo- your heI p on the days of the Carnival.
pher C. Mollenhauer, Commissioner F.rank
IRENE B. GRAFF, Chairmarr..
P. Graves, D ept. Com. Ernest E. Cole, Mr.
G eorge M. Wiley, Mr. J. Cayce Morrison,
REPORT OF NOMINATING COMMr. L ewis A. Wilson, Mrs . Eugene A. ColliMITTEE
gan, Mrs. L eslie Graff, Mrs. Wl:liam C.
The Nominating Committee is pleased to
Popper, Dr. Elizabeth J a rrett, Miss B et sey present the follOWing candidates for election
B. Davis, Miss Grace B. Beach , Miss J enny to the Boa rd of Directors of the Association:
Hunter, Hon. Newbold Morris, Hon. J ames
Mrs. Ephraim B erline r
J. L yo ns, Hon. Raymond V. Ingersoll" Hon.
Miss Lillian Corrigan
George U . Harvey, Hon . Joseph P alm a,
Mrs. Michael F. Curtin
Hon . Ordway T ead, Mr. Joseph Schlossberg,
Mrs. Harry Arnold Day
Dr. Ruth L ewinson, Mr. Lauson H. Stone,
Mrs. Robert E. Draddy
Mrs. Emanuel van D e rnoot, Mrs. Walter S.
Miss Estelle Forchheimer
Mack Jr., Dr. Joseph J . Klein, Mr. ChaunMiss B. Elizabeth Kallma n
cey L. Waddell, Mrs. Carl Shoup, Hon.
Mrs. James G. MacLean
James M a rshall, D ean H a nn a h M. Egan,
Mrs. Joseph T. Mulligan
M ··s. William Mi:ls, Professor A. Broderick
Miss J eannette Seligmann
Cohen .
Miss Louisa M. W ebster
A very delightful program has been a rR es pectfully submitted,
r anged. Incidental music will be played by
(M rs.) ESTHER G. VALET, Ch airman
th e Hunter Coll ege Orch estra under the di Nominating Committee.
rection of Miss B eatrice Brown . Mrs. Kraus, J anu a ry 12, 1939.
THE ALUMNAE NEWS
I t-" MEMORIAM
In the passing of Miss Anna M. Hunte r
the Associate Alumnae of Hunter College
ha s lost one of its most beloved and valuable
members.
She was a native of N ew York and taught
in Public School No. 103 until she r etired
in 1906 to keep house for hc r fath e r, Dr.
Thomas Hunter.
Since her g raduation, in 1874, she had
been ac ti ve in both Hunte r Coll ege and th e
As sociate Alumnae, and with he r sister, Miss
J enny Hunte r, gave to the Coll ege many valuable books on education a nd liter ature fr om
their fath er's extensive library .
Miss Hunte r was an active member of the
Board of Directors and the Executive Council, as well as the Chairman of the Conant
M emorial, the P ermanent Exhibit, and the
House Committee of Hunte r Alumnae Hall.
At the latest meeting of the Executive
Council, Miss Anna Hunter 's name was
,placed on the " In Memoriam" list ,i n perpe··
tuity.
E . G. VALET.
Ka tharine M. Talmage of the Class of
' 72 died in Long I s!a nd on November 12,
three d ays after her eig hty-fifth birthday .
Born in Amoy City, China, in 18 53, in a
rain of bullets at the time of the Taiping
R ebellion, the daughter of a pionee r missiona ry in whose memory T alm age College was
erect ed, she returned t o her parents at the
Mission with her sist er Mary in 1874. The
Misses Talmage we re the fir st American
women to travel into the interior of China.
They had char.ge of the first gi rl s' school in
Fukien Province, found ed in 1870.
This
school "M iss Kittie" , as she was affectionately called, saw g row from 20 to 600 student s,
from prima ry to high school , and she lived
to teach the grandchildren of her first pupils. She also taug ht in the Kulangs u Boys'
Primary School, and many leade rs in church
and civil life got their start with he r. Later
she was head of the Charlotte W . Duryee
Bible School for Women, the oldest of the
women's schools of China. She nominally
retired in 1927, but continued to teach until 1933.
In 1924 the Amoy Mission cclebrated thc
golden jubilee of the Misses Talmage . Miss
Mary Talmage died in 1932. "Miss Kittie"
hoped also to die in the land of her birth,
but at the insistence of the Boa rd of Foreign Missions she was among those evacuated in 1937 because of war co nditions. She
was at that time the oldest missionary in all
China.
Like her fath er before her, she won distin ction as author a nd tra nsla tor. She tran slated hymns into the Romanizcd colloquial
which he had introduced , and produced collections of short stories, trac ts, essays, and
stud y books.
Again the Class of '78 has to mourn the
loss of one of our fin e classmates,-Emma
C. H av il a nd, who will be lovingly remem-
'bered by them as a pretty brown-eyed lassie,
with brown curl s an d rosy che.eks, in our
unde rg raduat e d,a ys.
S he was a teac he r for fifty y ea rs in the
City of N ew York. Th e l ast twenty of those
yea rs, up to I !:l30, when she r etired, she was
the capab le, fin e principal of P. S. 121 M1lIIhatta n, in East 103rd St. She was beloved
by teach ers and pupils, and honors w er~
g iven to her on her retirement. Sh e kept
on with active work in White Plains, being
the R eco rdin g S ec reta r y of the United
Guilds of Grace Episcopal Church of White
Plains, whe re he r fun era l services were held
at Chri stmastide. On 'Vednesday, D ecember 21 , she s lipped while crossing a street
in White- Plains a nd fell. She was t aken
to White Plains Hospital, where she passed
away on D ecember 24 .
Although born in New York, for many
vears she lived in White Plains, and was an
~ctive member of the White PIll ins Contemporary Club.
She is survived by two sist ers, Mrs . L. R.
Hill and Miss Carrie H::n'i1and, and a
brother, Frank Ha vila nd .
.
H e r genial countenance and sweet smile
linger in the thoug hts of her ma ny friends.
ANNA WALTER CHURCH.
GIFT FUND
" Wake up, . Fellow Alumnae, do your
share!" wa s my closing sentence in last
month's ~EWS. It had th e desircd eff ect. A
number of presidents of cl asses wrote to
your Chairman, and have pledged their
whole-hearted cooperation. Some wrote they
intend to organize their classes, and will welcome members of the Gift Fund Committee
to a ddress their g roups. ' If this Gift Fund
Committee succeed s in bringing togeth er unorganized cla sses, it will havc accomplished
a g reat deal for th e Associate Alumnae of
Hunter College.
A fin e example of the loyal spirit and love
for her Alma Mater is Miss J ennie N. Child~
Class of 1906. R epr esenting her Class on
the Executive Council , she is working anxiously to reach the members of her class and
has started the quota for 1906 by sending
me he r pe rsonal contribution of a $50.00
U. S. Treasury Bond. We wish you success,
Miss Child, and hope your classmates will
be inspired and follow your s plendid example, so that you will succeed in reaching thequota.
A meeting of the Gift Fund Committee
will be held in M a r ch, when, I hope, plans.
will be formulated to r each every graduate
of our beloved Hunter College. The Alumnae ser ving on th is committee are Mrs. L eslie Graff, Mrs . Theodore Simis, Mrs. Esther Valet, Miss Edna L ewinson, Miss Margaret M eade, Mrs. Ida B a ron Sternlieb, Miss:
Christine Kl a uer, Mrs. Selma Lobsenz Berline r, Mrs. Anita N. Paschke5, Mrs. Jacob,
H eiden, and Miss Sibylla A. Mellor.
MRS. SAMUEL BITTERMA N, Chai rman ._
275 Central Park W est. Schuyler 4-3685 .