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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1944
Page
3
Ruth Raup reports Barnard Camp Croton on Hudson hosts the annual Spring Barbecue on Sunday April 30 open to all students and friends. Sign the Jake poster to estimate food and arrange taxi service with tickets priced seventy five cents sold midweek. An outdoor barbecue will use an open pit fire with chicken featured. Students may also opt for a country weekend and spring dance.
Julia Fremon and Louise DuBois announce a circus theme for a Red Cross benefit dance on Saturday April 29 from nine to one. The event features trapezes pink lemonade a guest star Cyrus St Clair orchestra and entertainment. Bids at noon next week set at $2 25 with optional dress approved by Student Council.
Shaw play Devil's Disciple produced by Wigs and Cues will be staged at Brinckerhoff Thursday and Friday April 27 and 28 by an all student cast directed by Richard Skinner. Tickets go on sale next week at twenty five cents for students and fifty cents for general admission.
In response to a student petition parts of Greek Games will be presented again this Friday after noon at 4 10 in the gymnasium. Admission is fifteen cents and proceeds may go to the Red Cross drive if Student Council permits. Sophomores and freshmen dances the chariots the hurdles and the hoop race will be repeated for students who missed the original sold out performance.
The 1943 44 Representative Assembly elected Roberta Trilling editor of the Quarterly and selected Gloria Siff Marta Obregon to represent Barnard at Madamoi selle College Forum in New York City this Saturday April 22. Obregon born in Spain will attend the panel. Siff newly elected International Relations Club president will join the Democracy discussion. Martha Halbert attends as observer. Reports will appear in next week's Bulletin. Budget revised allocating 200 for Wigs and Cues and 100 to the Athletic Association.
Freshmen lead with sixty percent enrollment and contribute $399.40, seniors follow with the same rate and $253.83, sophomores give $189.65 from half their members, and juniors report $232.50 from thirty-five percent. Red Cross total nears $1500 with $2206.38 to date from student gifts, raffle, and a health bar. A Cake sale runs today and tomorrow on Jake. The Société Francaise presents Les Suites d'un Premier Mariage and Martine at Brinckerhoff Theater on May 6 at 8:30. General admission $1.20, student $0.35. Fifty percent of play profits go to Red Cross.
The College urges students to handle the new Barnard catalogue with care as paper limits allow only one catalogue per student. Virginia D. Gildersleeve, dean, notes the distribution constraint.
Professor Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary will speak on religious and secular tolerance at a luncheon today in Earl Hall from 12 20 to 2 sponsored by Barnard Interfaith Council and the Earl Hall Society. He has been on the Seminary faculty since 1928 and has published ten books and edited two periodicals.
Required majors meetings for the classes of 1945 and 1946 will be held at twelve next Tuesday. Freshmen meet in Brinckerhoff Theater. List includes Anthropology Botany Chemistry Economics English Fine Arts French Geography Geology German Government Greek Latin History Italian Mathematics Music Philosophy Physics Psychology Religion Spanish Zoology American Studies Barnard International Studies at 12:20.
Miriam Skinner ’45 was elected vice president of the Athletic Association at the elections held last Friday and Monday with 825 votes cast. Carol Johns ’47 won treasurer and Barbara Byrne ’47 became secretary, alongside other candidates for these posts.
Dr. Jacques Barzun argued that war’s impact on European culture is uncertain but far reaching, with postwar effects likely to spur cultural activity as leaders flee and reconstruction begins. He noted U.S. focus on politics might curb culture, while England’s rebuilt architecture offers a counterexample.
Two Barnard College clubs were chartered by the student council on April 14. The Barnard Liberal Club aligns with the United States Student Assembly while the Action for Democracy Club echoes the American Youth for Democracy, though without formal ties. Provisional chair Joanne Kuth says the aim is to foster informed student opinion and convert it into democratic action amid concerns about fascism at home and abroad.
Three speakers at the Installation Assembly on Tuesday, April 18, stressed the role of representative student government in wartime. Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve highlighted studies as building intelligent citizens and cited Wave Station Florida as a model of postwar women's roles. Bear Pin awards honored Audrey Brown, Sue Cole, Peggy Hine, Doris Lander, Ference Levine, Florence McClurg, Martha Messler, and Shirley Sexauer for service, with Lelia M. Finan receiving the honorary Bear Pin from the Physical Education Department.
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