StreetScenes
2010
A Historic Day at Bank Street: a visit by descendants of founder Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Left to right: Lucy McLellan, Paul Henderson, Polly Mitchell Henderson, and Elizabeth D. Dickey, President of Bank Street College.
On Monday, October 23, the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Bank Street founder Lucy Sprague Mitchell paid the College a visit.
Granddaughter Polly Mitchell Henderson, who lives in England and was a longtime elementary school teacher in Leicester, came with her husband Paul Henderson, a former professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester. Their daughter, Lucy McLelland, her great-grandmother's namesake, lives in New York and had visited Bank Street earlier. The visitors sat in on classes for 5/6s and 4/5s; went to the Library and talked with Archivist Lindsay Wyckoff and Children's Librarian Lisa Von Drasek; met with Dean of the College and of the Graduate School, Jon Snyder; toured the Archival Picture Exhibit curated by Sal Vascellaro on the sixth floor; had a lively discussion with Graduate faculty members, who spoke eloquently about Mitchell's enduring legacy for their work; and had lunch in President Dickey's apartment with various members of the Bank Street faculty and staff.
