Miss Porter's School

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Miss Porter's School
Location
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Farmington , Connecticut United States
Coordinates	Coordinates: 41°43′21″N 72°49′46″W / 41.72250°N 72.82944°W / 41.72250; -72.82944
Information
Type	Independent, boarding
Motto	Puellae venerunt. Abíerunt mulieres. (Latin = They came as girls. They left as women.)
Established	1843; 178 years ago (1843)
Head of School	Katherine G. Windsor, Ed.D.
Faculty	52
Grades	9–12
Gender	Girls
Enrollment	325 total 212 boarding 113 day (2014)
Average class size	10
Student to teacher ratio	7:1
Campus	55-acre (220,000 m2) township campus
Color(s)	Green and White
Athletics	18 Interscholastic teams
Mascot	Daisy
Endowment	$106 million
Tuition	$63,595 boarding $51,200 day[1]
Website	porters.org

Miss Porter's School is a private college preparatory school for girls located in Farmington, Connecticut. Throughout its history, Porter’s has been known by many names, but the most persistent alternatives of which remain to this day to be MPS, Porter’s, and Farmington. Porter's enrollment for 2017–18 academic year was 313; 200 boarding students, and 113 day students. Known for its nationally and internationally diverse population, the school draws students from 21 states, 31 countries (with dual-citizenship and/or residence), and 17 countries (citizenship alone). All told, international students comprised 14% as of the 2017–18 year.^[2] Average class size is 10.^[2]

The community traditionally denotes those new to campus collectively as New Girls, those returning members as Old Girls, and alumnae/i as Ancients.

History[]

Sarah Porter, the founder of Miss Porter's School

Miss Porter's School was established in 1843 by education reformer Sarah Porter, who recognized the importance of women's education. She was insistent that the school's curriculum include chemistry, physiology, botany, geology, and astronomy in addition to the more traditional Latin, French, German, spelling, reading, arithmetic, trigonometry, history, and geography. Also encouraged were such athletic opportunities as tennis, horseback riding, and in 1867 the school formed its own baseball team, the Tunxises, the name of which itself harkens back to those members of the Saukiog tribe who originally settled the area on which the school is situated.^[3][4] In 1884, Sarah Porter hired her former student, , with whom she began to share more of her duties as Head of School. From then until her death in 1900, Miss Porter gradually relinquished her control of the school to Mrs. Dow.

Sarah Porter's will named her nephew, Dr. Robert Porter Keep, as executor of her estate, of which the school was the most valuable asset. Mrs. Dow's compensation for her position as sole Head of School was also specified in the will. As executor, Dr. Keep began extensive repairs and renovations to the school. While Mrs. Dow continued to receive a salary as per Porter's will, she became convinced that Dr. Keep, in diverting the school's income to pay for construction, was enriching his inheritance with funds that were rightfully hers. The conflict escalated and culminated in Mrs. Dow's resignation in 1903. She moved to Briarcliff, New York, taking with her as many as 140 students and 16 faculty members, and began Mrs. Dow's School for Girls, which would come to be known as Briarcliff Junior College only to be absorbed by Pace University in 1977.^[5][6][7]

A banner hanging in a themed guest room in the , at Miss Porter's School, gives insight into how Porter's girls lived during the mid 1900s

Dr. Keep announced in July 1903 that the school would reopen in October of that year with his wife, as Head of School, eleven teachers, and between five and sixteen students in attendance. After Dr. Keep succumbed to pneumonia and died on July 3, 1904, Mrs. Keep continued his legacy of renovation and construction. One of her many legacies was the establishment of a kindergarten for children of her employees.^[8] The kindergarten, on Garden Street, is now home to the Village Cooperative Nursery School, and is no longer connected with Miss Porter's School. When Mrs. Keep died of influenza on March 28, 1917, leadership of the school passed to her stepson, , who moved to Farmington from Andover, Massachusetts where he had been teaching German at Phillips Academy. From 1917 until the school's Centennial, in 1943, he and his wife, , remained Heads of School at Miss Porter's.^[5][9]

Mr. Keep appointed members to the first Board of Trustees including:

• , Yale's Horace Walpole scholar
• 1920 (Wilmarth Lewis's wife)
• The , a senior minister at King's Chapel
• Lewis Perry, headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy
• , a lawyer and Mr. Keep's classmate at Yale

The school was incorporated as a non-profit institution during the school's Centennial in 1943, with the primary purpose as a college preparatory school rather than its previous reputation as a finishing school for the social elite.^[5] Also in 1943, the school ended the tradition of choosing a successive Head of School from the Porter family tree, selecting as its Heads, and his wife Katharine Johnson^{[disambiguation needed]}.^[5]

As of 2018, the school's endowment was estimated at $113 million.^[2] The school is undergoing a capital campaign in 2018 to support a more consolidated campus that harkens back to its original roots. The campus at one time incorporated more than 90 buildings, most of which were in historical districts in Farmington and/or on the National Registry of Historic Buildings. Consolidating the campus supports the school's mission of educating young women for the future, while incorporating its rich past as the school celebrated its 175-year anniversary.^[10]

Campus[]

The 40-acre campus overlooks the Farmington River and includes a number of historically significant buildings which have collectively served the wider Farmington community in a range of functional capacities over their respective histories.^[11] Over the years, the degree to which the school has transformed its campus assets to suit its needs almost brings new meaning to the concept of adaptive reuse while literally blending town and gown. Ironically, the space most recently renovated and incorporated into campus operation, The Thomas Hart Grist Mill, dates back to the 1600s and predates most of the structures in its vicinity. Until the 1960s, the site was a functioning grist mill noted for its historical service to President Calvin Coolidge, and, until its 2012 rehabilitation, it morphed sporadically, independently with respect to character and degree of access it offered the general public, serving in its capacity as one or a couple of the following functional operations at any one time: restaurants (notably, The Grist Mill Restaurant^[12]), gift shops, and office space.^[13][14][15] In its present form, the space functions as the school’s admissions office. The Thomas Hart Hooker House, on Main Street, was recently converted into the campus alumnae/i and development office having itself served an extended period as student admissions office.^[16] Together with the Major Timothy Cowles House, itself located just south of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, and the F.L. Scott Store (alternatively called Your Village Store or Samuel Deming Store) on Mill Lane,^[17][18] these structures are noted for their presence on various historical registries and hailed in social justice circles for having sheltered African American 'fugitives' off La Amistad in their flight from slavery in the south.^[16][19] With the exception of the Thomas Hart Hooker House, these historic structures have since been converted for their ongoing use as faculty housing.^[20]

Academic facilities[]

• The Main building, the front door of which is depicted on the school seal, was built in 1830 as the Union Hotel on Main Street. Originally intended to serve patrons of the nearby Farmington Canal, it was rented to Sarah Porter in 1848 until her eventual purchase on April 19, 1866.^[21][22] Retrofitted with a kitchen during a renovation c. 70s, the building serves as the central-most hub of campus life. More recently, the dining hall was expanded to accommodate the school’s burgeoning enrollment; a project which also saw the campus security office and adjacent student spaces reimagined with intentions to bring the whole facility around to bear a closer historic resemblance to the original hotel, and the school opting to have the structure outfitted with an elevator to facilitate access.
• The M. Burch Tracy Ford Library, often abbreviated to Ford, one of the newer academic facilities on campus, is named for the school's eleventh Head of School and houses over 22,000 volumes, electronic books, magazines, journals, newspapers in addition to a collection of 1,308 academic and entertainment DVDs and videos. The building also houses a computer lab and eight study rooms.^[23]

Former History Building at Miss Porter's School

• Hamilton, previously a dorm, is currently home to the English and History departments. It is named for the Hamilton sisters, most notably Alice and Edith.
• Leila Dilworth Jones ’44 Memorial, commonly abbreviated to Jones or Jones Memorial, serving as a pharmacy prior to the school’s founding, is home to the language department, where students may immerse themselves in modern and classical cultures including, but not limited to, Spanish, Latin, French, or Mandarin. As with most buildings on campus, Jones Memorial has served in many operational capacities to suit the school's functional needs, sporadically as faculty housing and as temporary storage for the school's library contents.

The Kate Lewis Gym at Miss Porter's School

• The Kate Lewis Gym, at one time serving as the campus’s only gym and theater, now serves as the schools music rehearsal space. In the years since it was built and incorporated into the campus, it has served in a variety of functional capacities as befits the advancement of the school’s mission and, in its current state, is considered to be home to the school’s student a cappella group, . The space is wedged between Main and the space known to the community as Counting House, itself once housing the music program and currently serving in an administrative capacity as the school’s business office. The KLG, as it's known on campus, is scheduled to undergo renovation which will improve the space's accessibility and outfit the space's west-facing outdoor patio with a firepit. At present, the upper levels of the structure are not especially accessible to persons with reduced mobility. Also scheduled for the future is a project which will see the interconnecting pathways of the Central Quad optimized for efficient, non-destructive foot-traffic.
• The Ann Whitney Olin Arts and Science Center, the renovation and expansion of which was designed by ,^[24] and which is known to the community simply as Olin, is the main building for mathematics, science, and arts. Studio art labs include a painting and ceramics studio, each with 25-foot (7.6 m) ceilings and 500-square-foot (46 m²) of windows, separated by a textiles lab and a digital media lab, while the lower level of the facility is home to the department's photography classroom and darkroom, and all with full wheelchair-access accreditations.

Athletic facilities[]

• The Colgate Wellness Center is an eight-bed licensed infirmary, wholly Ancient-run in its medical and counseling capacities. The facility was recently remodeled to extend the space and streamline student access.^[25]
• The Student Recreation Center, designed by Tai Soo Kim ^[26] and built in 1991, includes the Wean Student Center (a gift of the ), Crisp Gymnasium with an elevated running track, a weight and exercise room, an athletic training room, and four once-standard squash courts, the court space of which has since been repurposed to accommodate a collective of Concept2 machines, a free weight room, and a climbing wall. The school’s squash program has a permanent home elsewhere on campus.
• The Mellon Gymnasium, designed by Maxwell Moore and built in 1962 as part of the theater-gymnasium complex, was a gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation. It is home to Varsity Badminton in the fall, JV and Thirds Basketball in the winter, and is the designated indoor practice space for Varsity and JV Softball in the spring. It is also the official home of the Minks, Possums, and Squirrels, intramural rivalries that feature prominently the week leading up to the Welcome Tradition; outside of the complex, there is a statue for each of the three teams. The COVID-19 pandemic saw this space temporarily transformed for the purposes of meal service in order to bolster social distancing capacity of the school’s permanent dining facility, a space which had already been scheduled for expansion and the renovation of which began mid-2020, the school having already engaged the services of Centerbrook Architects & Planners and to complete the project.^[27] Additionally, the administration rented space at adjacent village spaces, namely and the , to aid in the de-densification process. In a space adjacent to the gym, the Barbara Lang Hacker '29 Theater is home to the Players/Mandolin Performance Troupe. During the pandemic, Brooks Field, itself sandwiched between the library and science centers, permitted the community well-ventilated and socially-distanced respite via projected movies and lawn games.^[28][29]
• The Gaines Dance Barn, built c. 1930 and remodeled in 1993, is the 3,500-square-foot (330 m²) facility that serves as both rehearsal and performance space for dance groups. In March 1998, the facility was acoustically treated following complications stemming from the 1993 remodel.^[30][31] Most recently, the space underwent a partial expansion over thanksgiving break 2020, and now includes a locker room and foyer space adjacent to the school's north entrance on Porter Road.^[28]
• The Pool & Squash Building was designed and built by Stanmar Inc. in 2007.^[32] As the newest athletic facility on campus, it contains an eight-lane, 25-yard (23 m) pool and eight international squash courts, and is nicknamed the Cool House, a combination of terms "Court" and "Pool House." It also contains multi-function rooms that are frequently used for receptions for Ancients, Trustees, and guests.
• The Farmington Boat House, a cold storage boathouse on the nearby Farmington River, is home to the Varsity and JV Crew teams of both Miss Porter's and Farmington High School, shared in a unique public-private relationship.^[33] The program is equipped with six Vespoli fours, a pair/double and three recreational singles.^[34]
• On the southwest edge of campus are situated a number of athletic fields: Kiki’s Field, an NCAA-regulation synthetic turf field and home to the varsity soccer and lacrosse teams; Maple Field, a NFHS-regulation synthetic turf field and home to JV and Thirds Soccer as well as JV Lacrosse; and Cow Barn Field, which serves as home to the softball program in the spring.
• Oaklea Field, a full NCAA-regulation turf field that lies opposite the Hill-Stead Museum on Mountain Road, situated in a space which, years prior, played host to the school's once independently operated equestrian riding ring. The field serves as a home to the field hockey and ultimate frisbee programs.

Administration[]

The current Head of School of Miss Porter’s School is Dr. Katherine Windsor, Ed.D., who draws on her past experience running the Center for Talented Youth program at Johns Hopkins University and The Sage School in Foxborough, Mass. Her tenure as Head of School has seen the school, among other things, instantiate its partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education’s Independent School Teaching Residency program. On March 1, 2019, the school partnered with Sotheby’s to host the first-ever all-women benefit auction at a major auction house, with Oprah Winfrey and Agnes Gund serving as honorary co-chairs, both of whom have longstanding relationships with the school.^[35] On March 31, 2021, Dr. Windsor announced via her personal Twitter account that she is currently serving as a faculty member at the UPenn Graduate School of Education.^[36]

Admissions[]

Admissions is exclusively restricted to girls. Historically, this has meant an admissions policy largely restricted to and those who alter their status in an official capacity prior to enrollment.

Transgender applicants[]

While transgender and non-binary students have attended the school since its inception, no data exists publicly to confirm the matriculation of the first of such an openly non-cis student cohort. And while school’s official admissions policy with respect to nonbinary and trans women remains unclear, the school administration has in recent years taken steps to bolster its institutional support systems for students across the gender identity spectrum, including but not limited to inclusion of preferred pronouns in individual introductions.

Academics[]

Classes at Porter's are held Monday through Friday, with Wednesday as a half day and Thursday as a late start to accommodate teacher meetings and allow for additional student rest following the previous day's athletic contests. The schedule consists of an eight-day cycle with eight blocks, each 80 minutes long and meeting every other day, and with Wednesday and Thursday classes shortened to 60 and 70 minutes, respectively. Porter's utilizes a style of teaching similar to the Harkness Method, wherein students and teachers sit around an oval table for discussion-based humanities courses. STEM courses take place in traditional classrooms and/or labs, while arts are taught in studio. Porter's has a student-to-teacher ratio of about 8:1.

Students are required to take courses in the arts, computer science, English, ethical leadership, history, modern or classical languages, mathematics, and science.^[37] Typically, students take a total of five to six units of credit per semester.^[37]

On May 19, 2011, the Online School for Girls announced that Miss Porter's School and School of the Holy Child in Rye, New York had become consortium members.^[38] At one time, three faculty were listed as featured teachers on the OSG website.^[39]

Athletics[]

Officially, the school has no mascot, a holdover from a time when exercise for girls was seen predominantly as a means to sustain patriarchal systems. However, over the years and as the athletic program has gained standing in competition with other NEPSAC schools, students have come to be known collectively in interscholastic competition as Fighting Daisies.

Interscholastic sports[]

Porter's competes in the Founders League with Choate Rosemary Hall, Hotchkiss, Kent, Kingswood-Oxford, Loomis Chaffee, Taft and Westminster schools. At the end of each season, Porter's competes against the league's most competitive teams in the New England Championships.^[40][41] Porter's traditional rival is The Ethel Walker School.

Championships[]

Basketball[]

In the last decade or so, the school has taken steps to bolster its basketball program, coming close at various points and in 2020, claiming its first Founders League championship.

Crew[]

In 1997, the Crew Team ranked 1st in the New England Championships.^[42] In 2009, the Varsity Crew Team placed fourth in the New England Championships.^[42]

Squash[]

In 2012, the Varsity Squash team placed fourth in New England Championships.

Following the 2014 NEISA Team Championships, Varsity Squash ranked 8th out of 16 teams in Division A of the .^[43] Participation in the 2014 NEISA Individual Championships earned the team 74 points and 6th Place overall.^[44]

Volleyball[]

In 2010, the Varsity Volleyball team defeated Convent of the Sacred Heart to become the 2010 New England School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) Class B Champions.^[45]

Swimming[]

The Porter's Girls Swimming and Diving team went undefeated in their 2019/2020 season. Then, they proceeded to make history by winning their Founder's league championships for the first time and breaking numerous records. To conclude their season, Porter's swimming and diving also took home the win for their New England Championships. For the second year in a row, they competed against several teams in the state region, broke some more records, and took home another dub.

Equestrian[]

During the 2012–2013 season, the Miss Porter's Varsity Equestrian Team won the Interscholastic Equestrian Association's Zone 1 Regional Championship, making it the first time in school history the team brought home a major championship.

Students[]

Traditions[]

Residential culture and student life[]

Approximately 75% of Porter's girls live on campus in dormitories, all but one of which are former Farmington private residences left to the school. The school currently maintains a total of nine student residence halls (or “houses”): Brick, Colony, Humphrey, Keep, Lathrop, Macomber, Main, New Place, and Ward, two of which are strictly limited to the senior class. Each dormitory has a house director who lives in a private suite or apartment in the dorm, often with his/her family. One of the school's distinguishing features is that house directors' primary responsibilities are within residential houses. Each dormitory, with the exception of the two senior dorms, has two Junior Advisors who serve as peer counselors and mediators.^[46] Each house is self-governing to an extent, with students responsible for chores on a rotating schedule, the threat of curtailed privileges ever looming.

Cottage, which sits off of Sarah Lane, the main thoroughfare bisecting campus between Main and Garden Streets, has served the community intermittently in its capacity as residential housing and storage, and has somehow come to be known by the moniker, Ancient’s Cottage.^[47] According to administrative staff, the school is in the midst of plans to transform the space into the main community hub for day students, for whom the school currently reserves space in an annex off a residence hall.

In her later years, Miss Porter’s Ancient Theodate Pope Riddle outfitted a section of her family’s homestead on Mountain Road as The Odd and End Shop, known alternatively as The Grundy. A reincarnation of this corner store remains to this day on campus as The Daisy, in the southwest-most corner of Main, for all students to peruse at their leisure or, else, avail themselves of the hangout amenities. The pandemic saw The Daisy temporarily reimagined, yet again, with snacks instead made available in residence halls, further 'downstream' so to speak, in order to ensure that students wouldn't intermingle at a single point of distribution.

Various community cohorts around campus elect representatives to the student government, lead by members of the Nova Nine, themselves elected by their classmates in the late spring of their junior year: Head of School, Second Head of School, Co-Heads of Main, Co-Heads of New Girls, Head of Diversity, Head of Athletics, Head of Student Activities. Tapping, the process by which student leadership positions, standard-bearer roles, and various artifacts are ceremoniously passed between student cohorts, occurs at various points throughout the year, skewed however toward its conclusion.

Chief amongst the school’s many longheld traditions is the Old Girl/New Girl relationship. Prior to their arrival at the school, each new student (New Girl by on-campus terminology) is paired with a senior Old Girl who serves as a friend and mentor throughout the year. New Girl/Old Girl events are organized throughout the year by Co-Heads of New Girls in collaboration with the school’s administrative staff.

Week-to-week, the Head of Student Activities works closely with the Office of Student Life to build an array of weekend activities; any one weekend has the potential to see a student take in a movie at a nearby AMC Theatres complex, peruse the Westfarms Mall, and partake in a game of lasertag, all in one fall-swoop. This privilege is made available on an individual basis, at a student’s leisure, depending of course on the student's academic or disciplinary standing and barring explicit parental restriction.

Clubs, sports, and organizations[]

In addition to an array of club and varsity sports, the school boasts current slate of over fifty active student-run clubs and organizations that cater to a wide variety of its students’ interests. If a student doesn't find an organization that fits their specific interest or need, there is a process by which they can create their own. Amongst this wide array of clubs are a smattering of organizational boards that sustain each of the school's community-wide publications:

• Salmagundy is the school's student-run monthly newspaper, founded October 27, 1945. Salmagundy is now both an online and paper publication.^[48]
• The school's journal for scholarly writing, Chautauqua, sharing its name with the US adult education movement, offers publication examples of student research across a variety of academic disciplines.
• The school's yearbook, Daeges Eage, literally translates from Old English to "eye of the day," from which the modern word "daisy" is derived.
• Haggis/Baggis, the school's magazine for literature and fine arts, features student poems, short stories, photographs, and artwork. Since it was first published in 1967,^[49] the magazine has received numerous awards and recognitions.^[50]
• The Language Literary Magazine is a yearly publication which showcases writings by foreign language students, including essays, poems, commentaries, and dialogues.

Intramural teams[]

In addition to its slate of interscholastic and club sports, the community maintains an active rivalry in an intramural capacity. Upon first arrival to the school, students are sorted onto one of three intramural teams. Teams have evolved over the years in name, various trivial attributes, and process by which students are sorted onto them. The process as it operates today sees the school population (faculty included) divided amongst the following three intramural teams, each named for its mascot and each assigned a school color: Minks  , Possums  , and Squirrels  .

Cultural organizations[]

The school charters a number of student alliance and affinity groups. Porter’s make a point to distinguish between affinity and alliance groups; whereas alliance groups are “open to the entire community” with the “aim to educate others on topics of diversity and foster an empathetic environment through collaborative learning, discussion, and respectful dissent,” an affinity group is a “space for individuals who identify as members of the group identifier.” The school has also made a point to create “a space for white adults and white students to navigate their own racial identity and affirm their commitment to anti-racist work,” namely White Anti-Racist Educators (WARE) and Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE), one for educators and the other for students, both of which providing feedback to one another on a monthly basis.^[51]

Academic year events[]

Roughly speaking, Spring Traditions serve to celebrate that academic year’s graduating class of seniors while Fall Traditions function primarily to welcome New Girls to the community and as a means of general relationship building. School-wide traditions generally find students clad in color-clashing apparel, wielding noise makers and posters, and are rumored to involve not too infrequent streaking.

Heading up the fall semester is the Welcome Tradition, during which students introduce themselves to the intramural and wider Farmington communities, loudly in every sense of the word and as a symbolic means of women reclaiming their rightful place in society. The night’s celebrations culminate, among other things, in the first performance by the school’s seniors-only a cappella group, The Perilhettes, since the academic year prior when they were first 'tapped.' The line-up is completely replaced each year and is composed entirely of senior students, maintaining a repertoire of old standards and contemporary music alike.

Mountain Day, typically observed early in the fall semester, and a beloved all-school tradition eagerly anticipated by students, is a surprise reprieve from schoolwork obligations and is usually announced, in dramatic fashion, by dinner's end the evening prior. In 2018, to mark the school’s 175th anniversary, Mountain Day was announced by none other than Oprah Winfrey herself, live via the school’s Instagram account.^[52] Traditional observance of Mountain Day might involve off-campus excursions amongst various student cohorts, and, for new students, an obligatory hike to the Heublein Tower high atop nearby Talcott Mountain.

Various locales around campus play host to twice-weekly instances of Singing in the Garden during a period of the academic year which roughly correlates to the spring athletic season.

Each academic year culminates in a series of commencement exercises, the main objective of which is to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating class. But, not to be lost amongst these rituals is the Ring Ceremony, the conference itself of which traditionally marks a New Girl’s graduation into the Old Girl cohort of students, and during which upperclass Old Girls ceremoniously wish upon the rings of New Girls with whom they have developed a strong bond over the course of the academic year. Each New Girl chooses for her ring ceremony, a specific campus locale with which she holds particular reverence.

Student body[]

Miss Porter's offers need-based financial aid as well as a variety of merit scholarships. The school reports that, for the 2017–18 school year, roughly 34 percent of the student body receives some form of financial aid, with a total of over $3.3 million in aid awarded,^[53] although fewer than 2% of the student body receive a full scholarship. In 2018, 37% of students received some form of need-based financial aid.^{[citation needed]}

Notable alumnae[]

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  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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  Pema Chodron

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  Nellie Grant

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  Julia Lathrop

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  Norah, Alice, Margaret, and Edith Hamilton

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  Theodate Pope, Alice Hamilton, and a student believed to be Agnes Hamilton, 1888

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  Madeline Breckinridge

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  Ruth Hanna McCormick

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  Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark

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  Emily Hale

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  (right)

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  Gloria Vanderbilt

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  Edith Bouvier Beale

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  Gene Tierney

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  Dina Merrill

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  Lee Bouvier Radziwill (right)

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  Sarah Blake

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  Mamie Gummer

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  Katherine Pope (right)

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  Mary Anne Mohanraj

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  Eliza Talcott

References[]

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