Emma Willard School Diploma Ceremony Encourages Probing Future
Emma Willard School awarded diplomas to 66 graduates in a packed ceremony at Kellas Hall. Speaker Mr. Cleland urged graduates to blend liberal education with modern world challenges, stressing literature, social sciences, and religion, and recalling Robert Frost and Gilbert Murray while urging lifelong reflection and courage.
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Emma Willard School
Emma Willard
Gilbert Murray
Robert Frost
Emme Willard
Kipling
Chaucer
Canterbury
Hamlet
Falstaff
Portza
Rupert Brooke
Former Bundist Jailed in Westchester County
White Plains FBI agents announced the arrest of five enemy aliens in Westchester County including a former member of a German American band who served in Hitler's army during the Polish campaign. The bandsman burned papers after Pearl Harbor and had taken trips up the Hudson River to photograph. he belonged to the band’s service group that participated in Bund functions at Yaphank.
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White Plains
INS
Westchester County
Pearl “Coo
An. O
Hudson River
Yaphank
Two Troy Girls Win Scholarships At Emma Willard
Two Troy seniors were honored at Emma Willard School prize day. Janet Hannon won the science chemistry cup and Patricia Johnston the art prize. other winners included Joan Campbell and Betty Lilly for English and German, Ruth Wyman for mathematics, and several students earning citizenship and life saving honors. The program also noted class day events, ivy planting, and the launching of the ship Emme Willard.
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Emma Willard School
Janet Hannon
Patricia Johnston
New York
Emma Willard Alumnae Association
Carol Jones
Joan Drukker
Mra. W. B. Frear
Joan Campbell
Betty Lilly
Miss Campbell
Barbara Bowman
Mary Elizabeth Frear Browne
Campbell
Lilly
Doris Willard
Christie
Nancy Houston
Ruth Wyman
Sally Lise Pember
Troy
Anne Hazlewood
Nancy Wieler
Dorothy Schlesinger
Physical Education Department
Sibyl Kirby
Jean Rohrbach
Emily Hemke
Patricia Riple
Eleanor Crawford
Diane Duncan
Nancy Kahn
Nancy Manning
Virginia Roche
Carolyn Taylor
W. B. Frear
Jane Zerbey
Edgar H. Betts
Board of Trustees
Cum Laude Society
Cum Laude Keys
Margaret Johnson
Sally Caven
Barbara Mills
Alice Robertson
Mabel Martin
Janet .Cannon
Barbara Stratmeyer
Emma Willard Trustees Elect Three New Members
The Emma Willard School board announced the election of Miss Anns Wellington Ernest L Warneke and Gorham Cluett to the board. Wellington, a Vassar graduate and former Wellesley admissions official, becomes head of the school succeeding Miss HWhea Kellas. Warnecke, a Brooklyn native and R P I graduate, serves with W P Herbert Co and other Troy area boards. Cluett of Troy, MIT alum, is plant engineer at Cluett Peabody Co and serves on multiple local civic bodies.
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Emma Willard
Dorothy Elizabeth Kirkland
Troy
Edgar H. Betts
Board of Trustees
Anne Wellington
Emma Willard School
James T. Cleland
Amherst College
Katherine van DerWerken
Cohoes
Anns Wellington
Ernest L. Warneke
Gorham Cluett
Miss Wellington
Vassar
Wellesley College
W. P. Herbert & Co
Troy Prudential Association
Samarian Hospital
First Presbyterian
Delta Tau Delta
Warnecke
Gwenllian Herbert
Margaret C
Elizabeth P
Emma Willards School
Cluett
Albany Academy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc
Maintenace
Samaritan Hospital
Troy Area Council
Boy Scouts of America
Troy Boys’ Club
Marshalls Sanitarium
Troy Cemetery Association
Troy Community Chest, Inc
E. Harold Cluett
Eleanor Lane
Milton
Mass
Susan L
Samuel M
Ellen G
June Day pageant at Emma Willard School highlighted by ivy plantings
Miss Rohrbach presided over the senior class as Ellen Jane Ingraham received the ivy symbol for the class of 1944. The program included two piano numbers, a class gift presentation, and traditional ivy planting on the Weaver Hall lawn. Maypole dances closed the afternoon with seniors and juniors joined by the Queen and attendants.
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Brayton
Beth Rafferty
Joan Wallace
Jane Zerbey
Jane Logan
Doris Willard
Carol Wollen
Anne Wellington
Jean Rohrbach
Ellen Jane Ingraham
Paula Raigorodsky
Weaver Hall
Alice Robertson
Rohrbach
Ingraham
Margaret Fitzgerald
Janet Beach
Sally Caven
Jean Cloud
Sibyl Kirby
Nancy Mills
Miss Rohrbach
Miss Alice
Glen Ridge
N. 5
Mary Sue
Spain
Gail Blake
Virginia Calhoun
Carol Houston
Donna Neill
Jane Lidford
Mary Kay Harmon
Joan Drukker
Josephine Hastings
Marion Frazer
Frances Townsend
Joan Campbell
Louise Prangley
Nancy Wieler
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Amherst
Arthur Johnston
Mt. Ida Memorial Presbyterian Church of Troy
Tchaikovsky
God of All
Wellington
Betts
Johnston
Kellas Hall
Cleland
Ted
Leme Ugsy
Jesus
Sir Henry Jones
Glasgow University
Rhaid
Barbara Cornell
Ruth Harvie
Mary Lou Matthews
Miss Houston
Coral Jones
Margery Mack of
Menands
Bibi Pattison
Anni Taylor
Carolyn Tay Katherine van der Werken
Patricia Whitehurst
Helen O'Connell
Misa Sue Ford
Dorothy
Ernest L. Warncke
Emma Willard Trustees
Anne Hazelwood
Claire de Lune
Constance Ciuett
Ann Deviereaux
Rochester
Gare Dener
San Francisco
Cal
Netherlands Merchant Marine
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