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Note: Find A Grave Memorial# 41139217 MARTHA FICK 19 Jun 1917 Mar 1983 21206 (Baltimore, Baltimore City, MD) (none specified) 216-03-3400 Maryland 1920 15-223-9-19 846 37th St., Baltimore NORMENT, Louis T. Sadie M., wife 30 MD Martha V., dau 2-6/12 MD LANDWALL, Arthur E., boarder, 26 NJ HENRY, Lydia A., sister-in-law, 35 MD Education: 1933-4 attended Antioch College but "left because Aunt Caroline Norment made life unbearable." She never explained the details but it was understood that nothing was ever good enough for Carolne. Martha was also under pressure from her own mother, who wanted her to get a job with the telephone company, believing it to be of more value than a college education. "Scott Sanders" <ssanders@@antioch-college.edu> 4 Jun 2004 "Antioch Victory" broke in half and went to the bottom, an unfortunate tendency of the Victory ships as they were welded together instead of riveted. I once met a returning soldier who was on the last trip she made under that name and then watched her sink. Some merchant company later raised her and so our boat got a second life as a cargo vessel. "Scott Sanders" <ssanders@@antioch-college.edu> 7 Jun 2004 I'm sure we didn't know that the woman on the far right is Martha, so that's very helpful. The bespectacled man in the foreground is an econ prof named Wm. Leiserson, who went on to be an important figure at the National Labor Relations Board. The guy with the buzzcut is W. Boyd Alexander, longtime Dean of Faculty and probably the best bridge player in Antioch history. We still have the christening bottle (held by '46 grad Jeanne Watson), which came in a lovely teakwood box. Times Recorder, The (Zanesville, Ohio) Tuesday, January 30, 1934 (the year her niece Martha Norment was there) Antioch Co-Eds Flee Blazing Dormitory YELLOW SPRINGS, O., Jn. 29--(AP)-- Eight Antioch co-eds today fled with their dean of women from their dormitory home as fire destroyed Spruce cottage, a 50-year-old frame structure. The girls lost virtually all of their personal belongings as they snatched what scanty clothing they could and fled into zero weather. Dean of Women Carolone [sic] G. Norment lost a valuable collection of bric-a-brac besides her personal effects. Elsie Newcomer of Dayton was trapped in a second floor room as the flames ate up form [sic] the basement. She leaped to the ground and escaped injury. The total loss was estimated by Dean Norment at about $12,000, including more than $2,500 of personal property of the girls.
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