Betty Domrose Brown, M-D '47

So what remains, after almost fifty years?

For this "city student" and first-generation collegian, no wistful recollections of dorm life, nor of Hat Hunt in "October's bright blue weather" (hardly an option, when every day started and ended with a long bus ride from the west side of Milwaukee). I long ago lost track of my class blazer, although I know it was green.

Still vivid as yesterday, though, is the memory of those dedicated women of the faculty-radiating a love of learning; presenting, each one, a shining example of scholarly achievement; opening windows of experience and imagination; persisting in encouragement, insisting on excellence. And, in friendship, revealing the warmth of their many-splendored humanity.

Emily Brown. Frances Hadley. Elizabeth Rossberg. Ella Hanawalt. Esther Howe. And others, of course-bestowing gifts that last a lifetime.

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