Show Proud Son Sees Widowed Mother In C Gap Cap p and Gown ITHACA N Y When When the library tower cl chimes mes at Cornell university peeled forth their congratulations to year midyear graduates Jonathan Hartwell Harwood III aged 4 near burst with pride Among the young women In academic academic aca demic robes was his mother Virginia Vir Viz- ginia Oake Harwood Few fellows have the privilege of seeing their mothers graduate from college Jonny Jenny doesn't know It but he was the cl chief ef reason why his mother finished her course in the college of home economics Jonny's Jenny's father fought in the invasion of Normandy June 0 9 1944 and he never came back Jenny's Jennys dad graduated from Cornell Cornell Cornell Cor Cor- nell too too too-In in 1942 And his mother whose parents live in Lockport N. N Y V. left school in her sophomore year to marry him They didn't have much time together together just Just a couple of summers while dad was training at Fort Bragg Then he be was sent to England to train as a Ranger Ranger and and was made a captain I Then came D D Day People thought I was crazy when I decided to take my two one year old son to Ithaca with me meIn meIn mein In the fall of 1945 and continue college col col- col- col lege Mrs Harwood admits Maybe May II be I was a little crazy But I had I Ito to have something to do something do-something to occupy my time and my mind I could be a better mother to Jonny Jon Jon- ny fly I felt If I graduated from college col lege and was pr prepared pared to earn my living The pension and insurance money made It possible for them to rent renta a small Ithaca apartment and Jive live In modest comfort And Jonny went to Cornell too Jonny attend attends ed the colleges college's nursery school He also will be graduated this year year year- from nursery school to ten |