Summer School

Every summer hundreds of people—world renowned artists and thinkers, current heads of state, influential businessmen, and the curious people who come to see them perform or lecture—convene on the shores of New York’s Lake Chautauqua for the annual Chautauqua Institute. And for the last 30 years Mary Louise Burgess Day ’39 has been one of them. She goes for the scenery and the relaxation, but most of all she goes for the “intellectual stimulation.”

Recently, Day has had company. Pictured here on the porch of the Athenaeum Hotel at Chautauqua with her are (from left to right) Marion (Marnie) Horne Dowley ’39 with her husband George, Nona Baldwin Brown ’39, who has attended the institute every summer since 1996, Carol McCarthy Duhme ’39, who was brought up at Chautauqua, and Day. “The overall atmosphere,” says Day, “is invigorating.” With such good company, it’s no surprise.