Mary Beaman

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Courtesy of Western Regional Archives

FOCUS

Social Sciences

ROLE

Student

ATTENDANCE

1934 - 1936

BIRTH

1913-08-09

Cornish, NH

DEATH

1994-03-03

Windsor, VT

Mary Stacy Beaman was a student at the college from the fall of 1934 to the spring of 1936. She served as a Student Officer and on the Board of Fellows. Mary wrote in her application to the college that she was interested in "music, persian art, early French, [and] psychology."

She focused on abnormal psychology for her senior examinations, but letters in her student file share that she did not show up for her final examinations. She took a Spinning class with Anni Albers in 1935 but dropped the class before the end of the semester.

Alternative name: Mary Lagercrantz

Courses Taken

Fall 1934-1935: Music I (auditing) with Evarts, Music II with Evarts, Drawing with Albers (no card), Physics with Dreier (no card), Hematology with Georgia, French Seminar with Mangold for only 1/3 term.

Winter 1934-1935: French 19th Century with Mangold, Economics Tutorial with Boyden (no card), Socialism Seminar with Boyden (no card), Writing with Wunsch, Music II with Evarts, Intro to Chemistry with Georgia dropped in middle of term.

Spring 1934-1935: Music II with Evarts, Economics Tutorial with Boyden (dropped), Dramatics with Wunsch, Writing II with Wunsch, French Novel with Mangold

Fall 1935-1936: Psychology Tutorial with Knickerbocker, Piano with Sly, Music Theory and Practice with Sly and Evarts, Spinning with A. Albers (dropped), Child Psychology with Knickerbocker.

Spring 1935-1936: Shakespeare with Martin, Social origins with Zeuch (no card), Psychoanalysis with Mollenhoff, Music Theory and Practice with Sly, Piano with Sly(dropped)

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