Summer 2007 Volume 103 Issue 3 : letters
Euthenics Institute
In your article on Ferry House in the Winter 2006 issue, you make reference to the Euthenics Institute at Vassar. The summer of 1937, my parents, along with their two little children, attended the institute, my father probably commuting from Philadelphia where he was a minister of a church. I was two years old and my older sister was six. I lived in a single dorm room in Cushing, and in my baby book there are pictures taken of me playing in what I now suppose was the Wimpfheimer Nursery School playground.
When the institute was started in the 1920s, families were housed together, but by the mid-’30s children lived apart from their parents and were united with the rest of the family for just one hour a day. Imagine how a two-year-old as well as a six-year-old felt about that separation. I would love to know more about the institute aside from what I can glean from my sister’s memories and our photographs.
Emily Hargroves Fisher ’57
Sheffield, Massachusetts