| One of Sophie's Hartford Public High School teachers Harriet Barstow interested Sophie in attending Mount Holyoke College.In Pearsons Hall freshman year particular friends included Eleanor Hall, Clara Michal(-opoulos, born in Smyrna) and Becky Smaltz. Sophie scored a 98 in Economics sophomore year, and Professor Alzada Comstock said Sophie wrote the best exam paper she had ever received from a student.Sophie waited on tables and worked on the switchboard - the last job arranged for her by Cora Hughes'22 so Sophie could afford a junior prom date.Sophie's sister Bertha had a friend Sadie Slonaim of Hartford who eventually married U. Mass journalism student Bert Quint,and they introduced Sophie and Nandor Porges, who played football and dated Sophie 1922-l923 - expect to study soil schemisty - used to commute by trolley from the amherst campus to Mount Holyoke. Sophie studied statistics under labor economist Amy Hewes who invited her to work in statistics laboratory while doing master's degree (Young Offender and the Law in Massachusetts MA 1925.Sophie minored in German with Grace Bacon, who went to France l9l9 with Army nurses.Sophie enjoyed hearing Mary Woolley in chapel mornings and class singing. Her father and mother attended the 1923 graduation when Amerst's president Alexander Meiklejohn was featured speaker. |
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