Smith Grads

Mom is going to her 45th college reunion this weekend.  I found this slide from her graduation day in 1963 and scanned it. She and her three sisters all are alumnae of Smith College (classes of '59, '61, '63 and '68).

But it doesn't stop there.  My cousin Leila graduated in 1992: a third generation Smith legacy, for our grandmother Athalia (Ogden) Barker was Smith class of '34.  Her two sisters Margie and Esther were Smith '28 and '30.  Margie, Mom and my aunt Marty shared the same 5 year reunions.  The picture of Margie and Marty, below, was taken in June, 1968, the year Marty graduated and also the year she married my Uncle Colin. 

There probably should be a Smith weather vane over the family homestead.  In 1975 when Smith celebrated its centennial, my cousins and I all got "Smith College: A Century of Women on Top" T-Shirts.  Must be why we all turned out so progressive.

Happy reunion!

Comments

[Thomas MacEntee]

Ah - one of the Seven Sisters. I'm sure you know the other six as do I. Wonder how many of your other readers know them off the top of their head.

[Tim Abbott]

Indeed I could. I spend a good deal of my undergraduate years happily taken advantage of what one of the other 6 had to offer from an academic, residential and social perspective, though it's companion institution that I actually attended had gone co-ed a few years before.