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attention is given to dramatics and debating. Miss Johnson's first care, however, is as it should be, for students' character and spiritual welfare, next for their health, and then for their education.

She emphasizes the fact that all right education is toward character building, and to that end gives definite instruction in the Bible, Prayer Book, Church History and Missions. All through these fifty years the pupils have attended regularly the Church services and have been made to feel that Divine Service was the most important feature of the week's activities. "For the Divine Service is an invaluable part of the Christian life, a great safeguard against distorted ideas and weak-minded devotions, a great instrument of sobriety, peace, intelligence and depth in religion. It is a service of quiet and thoughtful worship, of meditation, of learning, remembering and reflection. There is much rest in it, much time to ponder, and pray, and relax in God from the strain of mundane life, spreading our souls out in the sunshine of heaven, drinking in the atmosphere of ancient holy deeds and thoughts, strengthening our inner life by the fellowship of the common prayer and lifting up tranquil hearts in piety and thankfulness to the God of our Fathers."

Through these fifty years the teachers have been almost exclusively women, though besides the Bishops and Rectors, lectures have been


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given by Rev. F. M. Dimmick on Astronomy and Meteorology, which aroused such an interest in Astronomy that it was a very popular study for a long time; by General Alvord on the exact sciences; by Mr. A. J. Poppleton on Biography, which course aroused both in students and teachers an interest in the lives of great men and great women; and by Mr. J. M. Woolworth, whose lectures on "General History" were really collegiate in their scope. There have been a few male teachers of music or of the languages, but not many.

The school has lived its life under four Bishops, Talbot, Clarkson, Worthington and Williams, and excepting for their influence and the labors of Dr. Doherty, it is almost entirely the product of Woman's Work. Hundreds of Christian homes in Nebraska are due to its teaching and influence. Many of the strongest teachers remained at the Hall a long time, and their personal influence was very great. Several others were there a shorter time, but were at once recognized as strong teachers.

The course of study has been altered from time to time, but is as high now, if not higher, than at any period in the school's history.

It was not until Miss Macrae's time that cap and gowns were instituted, but many earlier graduates rank quite as well in the great "World's Work."

One can hardly give even a sketch of the His-


 
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tory of Brownell Hall without mentioning some of its stars among the students. According to the laws of reflection and refraction of light, Brownell Hall must necessarily shine with increased brilliancy because of their achievements. We cannot omit mention of the dearly beloved Anna Barkalow, poetic Edith Clark, and gentle Josephine Knouy, who many years ago preceded the rest of us to the "Better Land."

As "Stars" must be ranked, Mrs. Harriet Dakin MacMurphy, the well-known newspaper writer and authority in Nebraska on Domestic Science. Mrs. Ida Olegg Tilden, who has a national reputation as a Missionary and Philanthropic worker; Mrs. Nell Brown Van Camp, writer of short stories; Miss Elizabeth McCraken, the author, and Miss Edith Abbott, the Hull House worker and well-known writer on sociological questions. Mrs. Rose North Chambers uses her beautiful voice in the services of the Church, and to give pleasure to her friends, and there are many other "Stars of lesser magnitude," perhaps, who brighten the world by their beauty, talents and charm of character.

Many of the students have been teachers and in that way have lived useful, influential lives, but the vast majority have returned to that highest sphere of woman, the home life, and whether married or single have been better fitted for the ordinary pleasures and duties of the home by their education at Brownell Hall.



SCHOOL SONG


Oh, there's many a school and college,
Full of wisdom one and all,
But for fun and friend and knowledge,
The best is Brownell Hall.

Chorus

Oh, it's Brownell, forever,
We're school-fellows here together,
We'll sing her due praises,
We will sing to Brownell Hall.
      (Repeat Chorus.)

Oh, It's Brownell we will cherish,
When our glad school days-are gone,
And we hope she'll never perish,
As the course of life is run.
      Chorus (Repeat Chorus).

Alma Mater is our glory,
Our greatest joy and pride;
And we'll sing to her the story,
As we stand here side by side.
      Chorus (Repeat Chorus).


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MR. JOHN W. TOWLE


ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION


OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION, 1913-14

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Mrs. John W. Towle
Miss Hannah Forbes
Mrs. D. W. Magowan
Mrs. Denise Barkalow

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Mrs. George C. Smith Mrs. Fred Davis
Mrs. S. D. Barkalow


ALUMNAE

1868

*Helen Hoyt (Mrs. Horace L. Burr)
*Helen M. Ingalls (Mrs. Flemon Drake)

1871

Nellie 'Markson (Mrs. F. H. Davis)
Ida Virginia Clegg (Mrs. George Tilden)
Nellie Flint

1872

Idalyn Gwyer (Mrs. Willis Yates)

1873

Fanny M. Clark (Mrs. Philip Potter)
*Edith Clark (Mrs. Allan Fleming)
Minnie R. Wilson

1874

Mellona M. Buttereld

1875

Anna Hayden (Mrs. Ashbel Patterson)
Carrie J. Lake (Mrs. Jay Morton)
Caroline L. MeNamara (Mrs. S. D. Barkalow)

1876

May Campbell (Mrs. John C. Chadwick)
Meliora S. Hall (Mrs. T. L. Ringwalt)
Jessie Mason (Mrs. Fred Harris)
Ella White (Mrs. George Jones)


*Deceased

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1877

Josle Goodale (Mrs. W. T. Price)
Mary A. Townsend

1880

Carrie Bennett (Mrs. F. H. Wilson)
May Dundy (Mrs. E. W. Lee)
Margaret Z. Maxwell
Jean Morton (Mrs. Joseph Cudahy)
Fannie Wall (Mrs. F. C. Wakely)

1881

Grace Mason (Mrs. Hiland Wheeler)
Lettle M. Welch
Henrietta Wilson (Mrs. Daniel Boughton)

1882

Mamie Ambrse (Mrs. F. C. Revinius)
Susan Hager
Mary L, Waggoner (Mrs. G. W. Loomis)
Florence Ware (Mrs. R. S. Hall)

1883

Caroline Dinsmore
Margaret Wilson

1884

Osie M. K. Abbott
Jennie Cooper (Mrs. George L. Whittiam)
Lulu Cremer (Mrs. George Griswold)
Fannie M. Latham (Mrs. Van Buskirk)
Anna J. Thomas
Anna Wilson (Mrs. J. D. McDonald)

1885

Hattie Drew (Mrs. Wm. Truman)
Daisy M. Reese (Mrs. Charles Sanford)
Leila Shears (Mrs. Albert Koch-Andrianno)

1886

Emma Fried (Mrs. W. S. Chambers)
Ada McBride (Mrs. G. W. Sellers)
Ida Wiggenhorn (Mrs. W. Arthur Meyer)
Florence Yates (Mrs. George Voss)


*Deceased


 
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1887

Florence Ayers (Mrs. George Carter)
Flora Castellar (Mrs. George J. Nash)
Mary Gandy (Mrs. A. T. Timmerman)
Elizabeth Hall (Mrs. Oscar Funke)
Alta May Royce (Mrs. George Cassels Smith)
*Cornelja Thomas (Mrs. John Hall)

1888

Bell Buckworth (Mrs. Cal. Diamond)
*Lucy Burgess
Leola C. Carter (Mrs. Newton Barkalow)
Minnie Comfort (Mrs. Edle)
Carlotte E. Crawford
May Crawford
Ethel Davenport

1889

Blance Buckworth
Louie B. Roe

1890

Winifred Besley
Kate E Drake
Angeline Hansen (Mrs. John L. Neble)
Maude L. Hayward (Mrs. J. B. Watkins)
Lulu Loring (Mrs. A. D. Annis)
Mamle Rainbolt (Mrs. W. H. Bucholz)
Jessie M. Tishue (Mrs. Will Longworthy)

1891

Amy Frances Barker (Mrs. C. W. Martin)
Edith Brant (Mrs. John C. Drexel)
Irene Labagh (Mrs. Charles E. Smith)
Mary Lionberger
Mary E. Scott (Mrs. C. W. Pierce)
Carrie M. Thomas (Mrs. Henry S. Woolfender)
Estella Thorpe (Mrs. Alfred Kneeland Smith)

1892

Pearl Barnes (Mrs. Boyle)
Abba Willard Bowen
Jessie Conway
Naomi Everts (Mrs. John W. Towle)
Madge Means (Mrs. Toland)
Mary Murphy (Mrs. A. L. Conklin)
Hattie May Orcutt (Mrs. Berry)
Maud Anna Parsons


*Deceased


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1893

Edith Abbott
Ellen M. Baird (Mrs. Paul Patton)
Edna Elmer Louise Rheem

1894

Sarah H. Bowen (Mrs. C. H. Young)
Katherine D. Collins
Anna Couchman (Mrs. Henry Roberts)
Mary E. Couchman (Mrs. Arnold)
Elizabeth McCracken

1895

Flora Jane Besley (Mrs. Roland Spencer)
Winifred M. Cattle (Mrs. Byron R. Newton)
Charlotte Diebold (Mrs. Steven Langworthy)

1896

Helen Morgan Burnham (Mrs. J. B. Lewis)
May Alice Hetzel (Mrs. Joseph V. Davis)
Mary Isabel Rice (Mrs. Fred Radcliffe)

1897

Lillian McCracken
Alice Nelson
Edith Smith (Mrs. Clarence Richmond Day)

1901

Luree Beemer
Laura Campbell (Mrs. George W. Lander)
Verenice Cochran (Mrs. George W. Egan)
Hope Hanchett
Susie L. Robb
Minnie Storz (Mrs. Edgar A. Higgins)

1902

Olga Lamhofer (Mrs. George Charters)

1903

Alice French (Mrs. Oliver Carpenter)
Elizabeth Goodell

1904

Helen Davis (Mrs. Walter Roberts)
Isabelle French (Mrs. George W. Johnston)
Gertrude Graves
Katheryne G. McClanahan
Edith M. Patrick (Mrs. Myles Standish)
Olive Patterson


 
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Mabel Perry (Mrs. Wm. Mickel)
Maud Perry (Mrs. Howard Barnard)
Alice Potter Josephine Roche

1905

Belle Bryant
Muriel Cattle (Mrs. W. H. Packard)
Katherine Lee Grable
Katherine Kilpatrick
Helen Remgan (Mrs. Ralph Shephardson)
Dorothy Ringwalt
Marcia Webber

1906

Carolyn Barkalow
Bess Baum (Mrs. John Rouse)
Margaret Bruce Shirley
Castetter Florence Cattle
Gwendolyn Cattle
Jean Cudahy (Mrs. Frank Wilhelm)
Edith Fisher
Annie C. Fry
Elsie Funkhouser
Mona Kloke (Mrs. Louis Clarke)
Ada Ostrander
Louise Peck (Mrs. D. Barkalow)
Mary Richardson
Letta Rohrbaugh (Mrs. J. C. Chapman)
Ethel Taylor
Elizabeth Whittman
Eleanor Williman
Louise Yiells (Mrs. E. B. Lefferts)

1907

Charlotte Fike
Alice Fry
Lela Galloway
Margaret Guthrie
Evangeline Homan
Alice Cary McGrew (Mrs. Wilson Austin)
Elizabeth McMillan
Denna Melick (Mrs. J. C. Swetzenberg)
Dorothy Morgan (Mrs. Ralph Peters)
Gladys Peters
Elizabeth Pickens
Ruth Ralney
Alice L. Troxell (Mrs. Cyrus Bowman)
Gwendolyn White


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1908

Ethel Anderson
Margaret Busch
Carmelita Chase
Perle Eddy
Helen Forbes (Mrs. McPherson)
Zoe Fries
Gladys Graham (Mrs. Joseph Barlan)
Gladys Imprey
Grace Jackson
Margaret Koehier
Mary Lanning
Pauline Mills (Mrs. W. H. Temple, Jr.)
Mary Mellor
Aurel Murtey
Carrie Patrick
Fanny Putcamp
Annie Rogers
Nettle Wattles

1909

Eunice Arthur
Louise Barnard
Vera Benson (Mrs. James Love)
Ethel Bickford
Elizabeth Bruce
Margaret Buckley
Mary Buckley
Maude Butler
Mildred Butler
Margaret Douglas (Mrs. Edwin Turner)
Lela M. Fans
Dorothy Hall
Helen Hailer (Mrs. Wilfred Arndt)
Ruth Hammer (Mrs. Harold Pnitchett)
Ethel Irwin
Helen Koehler
Stella Love
Dora McGurk
Evelyn V. Park (Mrs. Guy C. Congdon)
Bernice Stewart (Mrs. George Porter)
Marguerite Stowitts
Amy Thomas (Mrs. Dickinson)
Jessie Thomas
Hattie Weller
Irma Willing

1910

Lois Majorle Alleman (Mrs. Louis Atkins)
Katherine M. Beeson


 
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Myrna M. Boyce
Mary Alice Carter
Margaret T. Cattle
Mabel Irene Clarke
Frances P. Damron
Ida Rowena Darlow
Irma M. Douglas
Janet Ellen Hall
Ethel K. Holmquist
Catherine F. Thummel
Helen Sylvig Hunter
Ida Belle Jones (Mrs. Boyd Blakeman)
Violet Carl Joslyn (Mrs. T. W. Magowan)
Helen Marguerite Matters
Zoe Mellor (Mrs. Stanley Huffman)
Evelyn Bess Miller
Stella Mulligan
Daphne E. Peters
Hazel Rumsey
Helen Edith Smith
Margaret Spargo
Estella Belle Stephens
Olga A. Storz

1911

Bessie Willifer Cattle
Nona Ruth Cotterman
Bertha Dickey (Mrs. Blomfield Brown)
Catherine Huffman
Perna Jackson
Ava G. Johnson
Helen Elaine Lest (Mrs. R. L. Todd)
Mildred I. Miles
Alma Brooks Seymour
Ruth Streitz
Ruth Wales
Glenn Way

1912

Alice Lucile Bacon
Helen Blake
Harriet Copley
Halcyon Cotton
Mary Alice Duval
Margaret Fugitt
Anne Millard Gifford
Frances Eunice Hochstetler
Stella Margaret Holmquist
Eleanor Johnson
Eleanor Mackay
Pauline Paul
Margaret Louise Salladin
Stella Louise Thummel

1913

Mabel Latham Allen
Genevieve Brooks

Eva Gertrude Hall
Alice Lucile Jaquith

 


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Trenna Marie Chamberlain
Bess Dickinson
Gertrude Draper
Hannah Elizabeth Forbes
Fern Irene Gilbert

Gladys Martin Kindred
Charlotte Eva Mellor
Marion Ruth Towle
Florence Ruth Walker

1914

Ruth Allen Beecher
Elizabeth Hartwell Davidson
Lydia Emma Dawson
Helen Louise Eastman
Mary Etta Higinbotham
Ruth Leavitt Howell
Jean Margaret Hunter
Dorothy Stockett Knittle

Frances Neble
Dorothy Smith
Margery Violet Smith
Mildred Marion Todd
Naomi Everts Towle
Helen Eugenie Van Dusen
Isabel Vinsonhaler
Eliz'a Belle Young



IMPORTANT DATES.

BISHOPS.

Rt. Rev. Joseph Cruikshank Talbot, D. D., Missionary Bishop of the Northwest, 1860-1865, FOUNDER.

Rt. Rev. Robert Harper Clarkson D. D., 1865-1884.

Rt. Rev, George Worthington, S. T. P., LL. D., 1885-1908.

Rt. Rev. Arthur Liewellyn Williams, S. T. D., 1908.

HEADS OF THE SCHOOL.

Rev. O. C. Dake, Rector, 1863.

Rev. Isaac Hagar, Rector., 1864.

Rev. Samuel Hermann, Rector, 1864-1869.

Miss Elizabeth Butterfield, Principal, 1869-1871.

Mrs. P. C. Hall, Principal, 1871-1876.

Rev. Robert Doherty, D. D., Chaplain, 1874-1876; Rector, 1876-1897.

Mrs. Louise R. Upton, Principal, 1898-1901.

Miss Euphan Washington Macrae, A. B., Principal, 1901-1909.

Miss Edith Dearborn Marsden, A. B., Principal, 1909-1911.

Miss Euphemia Johnson, A. B., Principal, 1911---.


OTHER IMPORTANT DATES.

Brownell Hall Founded
Brownell Hall Incorporated
First Graduates
Second Building
Third Building
Alumnae Association Formed
School Closed
First Pupils Certificated to College
Talbot Scholarship Founded
Worthington Scholarships Founded

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1887
1889
1897-98
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