Kappa Gamma Chi Reunion Photo Album, 1952

Item — document case: MSS 044 Box 01

Identifier: MSS 044-2-2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The folder contains a handwritten title describing its contents as the 50th reunion of the Emerson College Kappa Gamma Chi sorority on June 6, 1952. The album holds 16 photographs of Babbitt and her college friends, which are glued to the inside of the cover with adhesive. Most photos can be lifted to expose the names of those pictured.

Dates

1952

Creator

Babbitt, Ethel Berner (Person)

Language of Materials

Records in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open to researchers. No materials may be taken out of or borrowed from the Emerson College Archives & Special Collections.

Biographical / Historical

Ethel Berner Babbitt (1898-1974) grew up in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and attended Emerson College for oratory studies, where she served as a sophomore class officer and worked on the yearbook editing team of the Emersonian before graduating in 1920. After graduation, Berner married Charles Babbitt of Nashua, New Hampshire, an ophthalmologist who owned a business fitting and grinding lenses for eyeglasses. In Nashua, Ethel Babbitt organized an amateur theatre group called the Nashua Players, which performed throughout the mid-1930s and into the 1940s. The Babbitts had two daughters, Ethel Jean and Carol "Cay" Babbitt. They kept a summer farm called Elmcroft, overlooking the Starr King range of the White Mountains from Jefferson, New Hampshire, in exchange for Ethel's care of the home's elderly resident.