1933

In compliance with Ye Editor's decision to devote this issue of the mag to Dartmouth's women, since we have no female classmates, we turn in memory to notable women on the Hanover scene of our day who certainly qualified as members of the College.

We remember Marian Folger, wife of Spanish professor Joe Folger. She was a lovely and personable soprano, who sang "O, Promise Me" as Maid Marian in RobinHood and "The Moon and I" as Pitti Sing to Dan Rollins' Nanki Poo in Mikado. With her vivacity and winning musicality, she captivated the hearts of both town and gown...

Above Occom Pond, Myrtle SpindleLambuth held forth. She was the wife of David Lambuth, professor of English and devotee of Conrad, who sported a Van Dyke and a cloak and drove a white Cadillac. Myrtle was a skillful and imaginative interior decorator and intellectual and was the subject of The Professor's Wife, the ronton scandaleux of 1928, which was written by Bravig Imbs '28. She sought with some success to bring cultured entertaining to backwoods Hanover in her lovely house on Rope Ferry Road, and appeared at times on Main Street to startle the unwary in her high-buttoned shoes and voluminous, flowing garments...

Down North Main Street, in her small white Cape Cod hard by Choate House, presided Alice Van Leer Carrick, wife of French professor Prescott Orde Skinner. She was a writer, antiquarian, and expert on old furniture, who appeared thinly disguised as Mrs. Adams in The Professor'sWife. She also was the mother of a beautiful daughter who married John Carlton, the great Dartmouth skier. A world traveler and expert on martinis, Carrick did not allow her interest in antiquities to mute her vigorous and vocal support of Volstead Act repeal. Would she were with us now!

Below the old Dragon tomb, on College Street, Mary "Ma" Smalley, Hanover's Wife of Bath, conducted the town's best eating club. Ebullient, warm-hearted, and profane, she ran a tight ship and kept her staff up to the mark with her sharp comments, but won their affection with her good food and her basic kindliness. Four great Dartmouth ladies!

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Marian Folger sang "The Moon and I" as Pitti Sing to Dan Rollins Nanki Poo in Mikado. John Monagan '33