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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION' 



Established 1875 Incorporated, Massachusetts, 1892 Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



Our Greenwich Academy Chapters. 



The officers of the Putnam Chapter 

 for the current year are : President, 

 Rita Ann Rheinfrank ; Vice-President, 

 Annie Louise Brush ; Corresponding- 

 Secretary, Katherine Marsh ; Treasur- 

 er, Elizabeth Anderson. 



Of a recent visit of the two Chap- 

 ters to ArcAdiA, the President of this 

 Chapter writes as follows : 



"October the ninth was looked for- 

 ward to by every girl in the Academy, 

 for that was the day we were going to 

 ArcAdiA. At last it came and with 

 rain, but even rain did not stop us from 

 going and we sallied forth with happy 

 hearts. 



"When we arrived at ArcAdi Y we 

 were heartily greeted by Dr. Bigelow 

 and invited to sit around the great fire- 

 place while Dr. Bigelow talked to us- 

 I will state briefly about the things he 

 told and showed us. First he told us 

 of the little building we were in ; look- 

 ing not unlike a chapel it represented 

 the home, the church and the school 

 And we were by this time feeling very 

 congenial and cozy at Arc \m A. We 

 then went way back to the time of 

 Lincoln and Dr. Bigelow brought out 

 nine shingles for some of the cirls to 

 draw on, and they drew three things, a 

 plant, an animal and a rock, three of 

 nature's first formations. 



"After many. many more interesting 

 things told us the new girls were made 

 Members of The AA and received their 

 buttons: 'Under the light of the Swiss 

 Cross, holding the leaf of a living plant 

 from the hands of T ouis Agassiz. mav 

 we be inspired bv his life to studv ah 1 

 nature with his enthusiasm.' Dr. Big- 

 elow told us that Louis Agassiz found 

 the plant and brought it to the United 

 States from South America, till at last 

 it has found its home with The Agassiz 

 Association. 



"After all the new girls had been 

 made members the lights were turned 

 out and we were shown many, main- 

 interesting things on the screen pertain- 

 ing to nature. We saw some scenes of 

 the life of the plants and animals at 

 ArcAdiA, and of the different schools 

 on their visits at ArcAdiA- One of our 

 members was kind enough to give Dr. 

 Bigelow a tiny snip of her hair and 

 he put it on the screen powerfully mag- 

 nified till each little hair looked indeed 

 like an amber knitting needle. 



"At last as a farewell Dr. Bigelow 

 told us that if we were asked at home 

 what we had done at ArcAdiA to tell 

 our parents that we had played in a 

 fly's eye, and he threw the reflection 

 of the flv's eye powerfully magnified 

 on a table and we played in it. 



"And I am sure T need not add that 

 we all went awav feeling that we had 

 had a wonderful and thoroughly en- 

 joyable day." 



The recently elected officers of the 

 Putnam Junior Chapter are: Pre c ident, 

 Elizabeth Drummond ; Vice-President, 

 Frances Gaines; Secretary, Flnora 

 Gmnnis: Treasurer. Mary Pouch 



Of the trip to ArcAdiA the secretary 

 of rH<? Chapter writes: 



"On Tuesday all the girls of the- 

 Greenwich Academv above the third 

 grade went to Sound Beach. We went 

 in automobiles. We went to be initiat- 

 ed as Members of The AA. Dr- Bige- 

 low met us at the door and told us to 

 +-ke o^ our wraps and sit by the fire. 

 P"p talked to us about The AA and 

 shout its magic number, three. Then 

 he gave us a shingle to draw on. We 

 drew a rock: he showed us the rock. 

 We drew a plant and anv kind of an 

 animah Then he showed us some oic- 

 tnres on the screen and he told us about 

 them. We went home at five o'clock." 



