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Since 1954 there has been close cooperation between the College and Students’ Aid. Under this “streamlining” of fi nancial aid, resources are pooled and students are required to make but one application for assistance. Each year Students’ Aid makes available to the College a designated amount of money for gifts and loans, and on this the College can count in planning its scholarship budget. No recital of facts and fi gures nor any brief history of the Society could give a total picture of the scope of its work. Some of this you will gather from the President’s and from students’ letters, some from fi nancial statements, and a great deal from the imposing list of contributors to whom this Society gave the means of expressing their desire to help students at Wellesley College. Gifts from Classes and Wellesley Clubs throughout the country, as well as individual memberships and contributions, all combined to give early strength to this organization that has long since passed through its growing period into a vigorous effective maturity. The Society has an endowment of money and of spirit. The desire to serve has been contagious—among board members, students and alumnae. This great asset of the spirit has created vitality in the Students’ Aid Society that will endure long after it has celebrated this, the fi ftieth anniversary of its incorporation. “In an era of thinking of billions, the value of five dollars is likely to be disregarded. If ever you fall into skepticism, just go away from home, in reality or imagination, and find yourself with nothing in your purse except the Lincoln penny your brother gave you for a lucky piece. Then remember that you would die rather than write to that dear, toilsome, burdened home so soon again for money. And just then a kindly disposed person lends you five dollars to tide you over. That is what the timely help of the Students’ Aid Society does for one. The loan of five dollars means laundry bills, and fees, and dues, and ink, and notebook paper, and soap, and shoes ‘tapped’. It means stamps and carfare, a war relief pledge, Pegasus your bicycle repaired, or how are you to make swift connections between your earnings and your studying? And sometimes it means a book of your own to save you from constant loss of time and power. Can you not give at least $5.00 for one such loan?” October 1919 – First Students’ Aid Report of the Offi cers – a Wellesley Sophomore 8
The Wellesley Students’ Aid Society provides fi nancial help to all Wellesley students who need it. An independent corporation, the Society is directed by alumnae and carries on the tradition of service to Wellesley College students begun by Pauline Durant over one hundred years ago. We continue to be supported by your donations. HOW DID THE STUDENTS’ AID SOCIETY HELP WELLESLEY STUDENTS DURING THE 2005-2006 ACADEMIC YEAR? We gave $230,000 in tuition grants. We lent $415,000 for tuition. We provided $49,031 in short-term emergency loans. We spent $38,500 for textbooks ($100 credit to the College bookstore for all new students on fi nancial aid); lent English and other foreign language dictionaries to students who requested them; gave towels, sheets and blankets to international students receiving fi nancial aid. We awarded $29,015 in commencement and other gifts. We provided gently used clothing that has been donated (suits, coats, hats, boots, gloves, etc.) to students in our unique boutique — the "Clothes Closet." “Perhaps the most remarkable fact in connection with Students’ Aid is that the Wellesley Alumnae without special appeals of any sort have chosen so to present their Students’ Aid officers with the ‘sinews of war’ that we never have to refuse any girl whose accomplishment at college is such as to make it seem right that we should spend Wellesley Alumnae money in keeping her there. Such achievement as we have is yours. In one way or another you have made it possible for us to fill every rightful need that has come to us.” May 1928 – Students’ Aid Report of the Offi cers 9
Page 1 and 2: WELLESLEY STUDENTS’ AID SOCIETY,
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS In this, our 90 t
Page 5 and 6: FROM THE PRESIDENT As we have reach
Page 7: In 1918, Abbie L. Paige (1896) beca
Page 11 and 12: “To the wonderful Students’ Aid
Page 13 and 14: September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2006
Page 15 and 16: Katharine M. Pearce Rhoda E. Schnei
Page 17 and 18: 1997 - Mariana Alexandrovich Seiko
Page 19 and 20: September 1, 2005 through August 31
Page 21 and 22: Please come to our Annual Meet ing!
Page 23 and 24: ADDITIONS TO FUNDS continued Ida Fl
Page 25 and 26: ADDITIONS TO FUNDS continued Marily
Page 27 and 28: ADDITIONS TO FUNDS continued Barbar
Page 29 and 30: ADDITIONS TO FUNDS continued Elizab
Page 31 and 32: ADDITIONS TO FUNDS continued Amy Br
Page 33 and 34: Bicycle riders through Green Hall A
Page 35 and 36: DONORS continued “I want to thank
Page 37 and 38: MEMORIALS continued 1944 - Marion S
Page 39 and 40: January 1966 - Wellesley Students

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