“Wendy Berant"

Last year around exam time there were a number of girls holding a séance in the living room of North Mandelle. Right after the séance the portrait of Mary Mandelle [for whom the building is named] which was hanging over the mantle fell off the wall and into the fireplace. The girls had a fire burning. The girls pulled the portrait out and snuffed out the flame. The girls called up Security, and maintenance brought it over to the art building. What the girls didn’t know was that Mary Mandelle had lived at the house on top of Prospect Hill, and she burnt alive with her house when it burned to the ground.

[1977]