1930s

Helen Anderson MacDonald, BB'36, and husband Forrest, E'36, live in Claremont, California. They have two daughters, Karen and Lauren, and four grandchildren, and stay active in Scottish clans and community events. Helen notes her first teaching position was at a YWCA in Tokyo. She returned to Boston just before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, and taught at the Woodward School for Girls in Quincy, Massachusetts, and Boston Bouvé before marrying Forrest. He started out working for engineering firm Stone and Webster in Boston. Drafted at the outbreak of World War II, he taught at the engineer officer training school at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, before joining a combat engineer battalion. After the war, the couple moved to California, where Forrest was an aerospace engineer, designer, and project manager. Helen taught swimming in a small school district and still teaches the sport to neighborhood children. In 2005, Forrest celebrated his ninetieth birthday.

Dorothea Lagreze Mooney, BB'36, of Maryville, Tennessee, is a former Rutgers University dean. She escorts people on world tours and recently took a river trip in Ukraine. Until last year's knee-replacement surgery, she competed in senior tennis tournaments. She has two sons and two grandchildren.