The actress Barbara Babcock, who attended Miss Porter’s in the mid-50s and went on to star in television’s Hill Street Blues, cried every night because she was homesick at first. Her housemother saw that she needed a talking-to and brought her into the office of the headmaster. “I still remember him saying to me in a very severe tone, ‘You are the daughter of a general, now just snap to,’” recalls Babcock. “And I remember standing bolt upright, thinking that I’ve got to do what he said and behave like I was in the army.” An army, that is, of Jackie Bouviers.
