Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-24
AUGUSTA COLLEGE
! CLUB entertained
|AT BLAINE MANSION
Mrs. Brewster Hostess At En-
joyable Meeting With Many
Special Guests

The March meeting of the Augusta
College Club held Tuesday evening at
the Blaine mansion with Mrs. Ralph
y. Brewster as hostess of the evening,
was one of the most enjoyable affairs
of the winter social season to the large
number of members and special guests
who accepted the charming hospitali-
ty of Names first lady"
- A reception opened the evenings
program giving the members a SPLEEN
did opportunity to meet the speaker
of the evening, Miss Mary C. Robin
son of Bangor. who for five years and
until her resignation in 1925 was dean
of girls at the high school of that city.
Mrs. Brewster, Miss Robinson and
Mrs. Milton Q. Dean, president of the
Augusta College Club, were in the re-
ceiving line.
High school girls who are planning
to attend college on completion of
their high school course were special
guests of the evening, and to insure
general good fellowship and sociability
each wore card on which was in
scribed her name and decorated with
small ribbon bows in the school colors.
Other invited guests at the session
last evening were Mrs. Milton S. Kim
BALI who entertained Miss Robinson
during her stay in Augusta: Mrs.
Charles Dustin, Miss Helen Went
worth, Mrs. Marion Cobb Fuller, Mrs.
John Turner and Miss Beatrice Lang.
assistant superintendent of the State
School for Girls at Hallowell
The girl students who enjoyed the
hospitality of the College Club and of
Mrs. Brewster were Priscilla Dean,
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Louise Washburn, Rachael Maher,
Miriam Thomas, Catherine Haskell.
Ida Drapkin. Helen Cassidy. Rose
Friedman, Vivian Russell Beverley
Hewins, Beu1ah Blaisdell, Marion
stuart, Nellie Curtis. Harriet Lee.
FloreAce Humphrey. Mary Soule and
Gladys Young.
A splendid program of musical Sc
lections was rendered with Mrs. H. r.
Gilmore singing Before the Dawn"
(Chadwick). You and T'-cradle
song-CLehmann) and '"Twas April
(Nevin). The accomplishments were
played by Willard Purinton, who also
played a welI-received piano solo num-
Der. Other musical selections were
violin numbers by Miss Irene Tet-
reault with the piano accompaniment
by Mrs. Dan II. Fem. The chorus
singing of college songs was also an
enjoyable feature.
Mrs. Milton o. Dean, president of the
club, and Mrs. Royal Bodwell, former
president poured chocolate in the
state dining room. and Mrs. Charles
3. Paine, vice president, served ices
in the lounge. These ladies were as
sisted by Mrs. Llewellyn n. Edwards,
Mrs. ErslSnine p. Moves, Miss Maude
Barker. Mrs. Lewis s. Johnson, Mrs.
Earl c. Goodwin. Miss Theresa Stuart,
Mrs. Thomas S. Smith and Mrs. Jessie
Thompson
The hostess, Mrs. Brewster, wore a
corsage bouquet of lavender and pink
sweet peas, the gift Of member of
the College Club.
1.-THE Delights and Disappointment
of College Life" was the subject of a
most interesting talk by Miss Robin
son, in which she treated in their re-
spective classihcations of the wealth
er, buildings and grounds. athos-
phere, extra classroom activities, stu
dents, teachers and studies.
In a delightful little peroration at
the conclusion of her remarks Miss
Robinson said The college girl re-
turning home at Christmas Is not
aware that she has changed. She seems
to herself the same girl that went
away three months before, but she
finds that her acquaintance and
friends seem strangely young, while
they find her more interesting than
ever with her new experiences and
new wisdom and poise. OH it's great
to be college girl home on vaca-
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