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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1940
Page
3
Barnard College prepares an antiwar debate with Wilter Millis editor at New York Tribune presenting the pro war view. C Hartley Grattan and Willard Waller join as speakers. Friday classes suspended at 11 am for a peace assembly.
Anne Connolly 41 was elected president of the Spanish Club. Doris Prochaska 41 will lead the Lutheran Club next year. Cecil Golann 41 was elected president of the Classical Club with Isabel Gaebelein 41 as new vice president and Harriet Smith 43 as secretary.
Helen Taft 41 elected vice president Alice von Storch 43 secretary and Mary Jo Jordan 43 treasurer after voting of 275 ballots for each office Frances Murphy 42 and Mary Ewald 41 named Camp and Health Chairs respectively Other nominees for vice president included Patricia Draper 41 and Marie Walbridge 41 Taft is a Representative Assembly member and basketball manager with prior roles on Junior Prom Committee Budget Committee and Lost and Found auctioneer status Von Storch serves as freshman representative to the executive board Jordan is freshman class president Murphy previously chaired Greek Games and served as ASA secretary Ewald has two years on Health Committee is Wycliffe Club publicity chairman and Mortarboard roster committee
Latin American and Spanish undergraduates hosted a tea and lecture marking the Pan American Union’s fifty year milestone. Barnard graduate Jan Gay presented travel films on Latin America with English sound, while attendees wore costumes from across the region. Ida Espaillat outlined the Pan American Society’s aim to broaden understanding and cultural ties among Latin American students.
The junior show heads toward a Friday opening after overcoming barriers including costume humor and room shortages. Tickets are 50 cents for most seats, 65 cents reserved, programs 10 cents featuring cast lists and music. A post show dance with John Carvey's Blue Lions follows for 25 cents admission.
The class of 1942 won the thirty-eighth Greek Games at Barnard Gym last Saturday, defeating the freshmen 53 to 46. The event featured strong performances in dance, athletics, and music with Betty Elwyn as lyricist for Pandora. The Camp Leadership Course will run June 7 to 21 at Barnard Camp, cost fifteen dollars, limited to eighteen, with applications to Miss Margaret Holland. Meredith Wright will attend the Northeastern Conference in Ohio State University, while Miss Agnes Wayman speaks at the Southeastern Conference in West Virginia.
The 1940 44 student Council and Representative Assembly will be formally installed at 1 10 today in the gym. Officers taking over include Ruth Taubenhaus undergraduate president Adeline Bostlemann vice president Doris Bayer treasurer Phyllis Hagmoe secretary Alice Drury senior class president Emily Gunning junior president and Peggy Jackson sophomore president Also Meredith Wright A A president Doris Williams Honor Board Chairman Irene Lyons Bulletin editor and Ruth Stevenson president of the Residence Halls.
The Representative Assembly considered amending Article X to cut Board of Senior Proctors from 48 to 40 and to make elections instead of appointments. It also accepted a Charter System revision turning it into Article XI, with social calendar controls and budget provisions, including deficit payment timelines and potential fiscal extensions.
Mortarboard will be published on Monday April 22 and distributed to the college on Tuesday April 23 Jean Ackermann editor announces. Subscribers may pick up at Mortarboard Office room 405 with continued note on page 4 column 4.
Harvard Law professor Thomas Reed Powell will discuss Constitutional Face-Lifting and the supreme court in a democracy at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Conference Room. He speaks to government and history majors and American Studies students and will be hosted at a tea by the American Studies group after the talk.
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