WHO, WHAT, WHEN
MORTICIANS? Who are these students, where, and what’s on the shelves? Tell us your answers at 518-580-5747,
srosenbe@skidmore.edu, or Scope c/o Skidmore College. We’ll report answers, and run a new quiz, in the upcoming Scope magazine.
FROM LAST TIME
Early Sketchies? Lynn Lavorgna McCrea ’66 still recognizes some of the players, though the show took place before her time. She says, “The person on the far left, I believe, is Eliza- beth Ferguson, who was one of my dear sociology professors. I kept in touch with her for many, many years before she died a couple of years ago.” McCrea also spots Dean Norma MacRury, “sixth from the left.” And she guesses that the shorter woman next to her was a professor of music, “but I have lost her name in the recesses of my memory!” MacRury, dean of the college from 1949 to 1970, is indeed the white-haired cast member in the middle, but her shorter neighbor is actually Edith Stone quist, wife of sociology professor Everett Stonequist. Up in front of them is the chap- lain, Edgar Sather, in un- convincing drag. McCrea is also correct about the per-
son at the far left: social-work professor Tish Ferguson (behind the stage-struck English setter). To her left is Russian and Ro- mance-language professor Rudy Sturm (in glasses and necktie) and art professor Alice Moshier (in heroic armor). What were they playing at? According to Skidmore’s history Make No Small Plans, it was sketch comedy—a popular way to raise funds for student aid, special events, community pro- grams, and other causes in Skidmore’s early days. In 1937 “Faculty Flickers for the Foundlings” was a ben- efit for freshmen who had lost their belongings to a fire in the South Hall dorm. The performance pictured here, in May 1959, portrayed life at the myth ical Breedlove College and featured parodies of Wagnerian opera with Moshier and government professor Henry Galant as Teutonic warriors.—SR
30 SCOPE SPRING 2013
PHIL HAGGERTY
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