Roughing It !!

Roughing It: Leaving the East for the Wild West The New Yorker features a story about two Smith alumnae fleeing privileged but unfulfilling lives to become schoolteachers in Colorado in 1916. The April 20th issue of The New Yorker features an article about the adventures of Rosamond Underwood and Dorothy Woodruff, and is based on papers in the Sophia Smith Collection. Dorothy Wickenden writes about her grandmother Dorothy Woodruff, who left home in 1916 with her close friend Rosamond Underwood to teach at an isolated schoolhouse in the Rocky Mountains. The two young Smith College alumnae were fleeing privileged but unfulfilling lives in the East. View a narrated slideshow, or read an abstract of the article: Dorothy Wickenden, Annals of Adventure, “Roughing It,” The New Yorker, April 20, 2009, p. 56 The Dorothy Woodruff Hillman Papers, 1916-1996 can be viewed in the Sophia Smith Collection, Alumnae Gymnasium, Smith College. Rosamond Underwood and Dorothy Woodruff Contact Sophia Smith Collection & College Archives Alumnae Gymnasium (413) 585-2970 ssc-wmhist@smith.ed

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