In June 1936. Ellen Fitz Pendleton will have been a graduate of Wellesley for 50 years, Wellesley's president for 25. In June 1936, she informed her Board of Directors last week, she will also become president emeritus. Wellesley girls of today know "Pres-Penn" as a handsome white-haired lady who glides about town & campus in an ancient electric automobile. To alumnae she is the doughty money-getter who buried the ashes of the College Fire of 1914 beneath tons & tons of Collegiate-Gothic building stone.
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