Barnard Loses Trustee Dunn After His Death
The death of Gano Dunn on April 11 deprives Barnard College of its vice-chairman and a leading trustee. Dunn led executive and financial committees and helped push Barnard to sell 119th Street. He chaired Cooper Union trustees, served on Roosevelt’s Science Advisory Board, and held engineering and academic honors.
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Gano Dunn
Barnard
Dunn
Barnard 119Th Street
J. G. White Engineering Corporation
Roosevelt
Cooper Union For the Advancement of Science and Art
Harvard Engineering School
College of the City of New York
United States
Columbia University
Barnard Senior Awards Spotlight Scholars and Scholarships
Senior Awards continue with 1953 54 honors. Elizabeth Hapsburg of Vienna receives a $1000 Resident Graduate Scholarship in Economics. Anne Betty Jaffe earns a $1000 Resident Graduate Scholarship in History of Art. Elizabeth Sommer ’53 wins the Student Medal Award of the American Institute of Chemists from the New York Chapter on March 26.
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Elizabeth Hapsburg
Vienna
Austria
Anne Betty Jaffe
Chemistry
Barnard
American Institute of Chemists
Elizabeth Sommer
New York
Institute
State Department uses Barnard to publicize foreign students
Miss Jean Speiser, a State Department Information Service reporter, interviewed foreign students at Barnard College for publicity releases. Write ups featuring reasons for study and class activities were sent to the department and will be distributed to home towns and foreign publications. Interviewees included Tenki Tendulla, Bhinda Malla, Bina Saksena, Raquel Arditti, Marie Verkhovsky, and Mercedes Cabada among others.
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Barnard
State Department
Miss Speiser
Tenki Tendulla
Tibet
Bhinda Malla
Nepal
Bina
Guidance Service Meeting at Barnard College Parlor
Miss Ruth Houghton director leads annual meeting of the Alumnae Advisory Center in the College Parlor. The center provides free vocational advice and placement in New York for alumnae of 21 colleges. Within three years 1855 applicants registered and 3988 job orders were received from nearly 1000 employers. Center supported by employers and personal contributions.
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New York
Campus group talks and events at Columbia this week
Seixas Menorah and Newman Club schedule talks by Rabbi Arthur Gilbert and Father Joseph Daly at 4 PM today and tomorrow. Luncheon Wednesday noon in Earl Hall. Interfaith discussion four o clock Wednesday. Dean Lorna McGuire speaks on Ash Wednesday. Christian Association hears Pastor Herb Thursday at 4. Freshman Class meets Thursday 1 PM Brinckerhoff. Columbia Band Concert Friday 4 PM Van Am Quad. Junior Prom Friday 8 PM Terrace Room Hotel Plaza.
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Seixas-Menorah
Arthur Gilbert
America
Dodge
Earl Hall
Columbia Band
van Am
Placement Bureau Forecasts Interesting Vacation Positions
The Barnard Placement Office Led by Mrs Ethel Burgess notes many summer jobs for students. Psychology sociology majors can work with New York philanthropic groups and Fresh Air organizations. Columbia Presbyterian Hospital offers ward aide training for pre medical students. Math physics majors assist engineers and analysts while English majors find roles in publishing and research. Avg salaries around 35 a week rising to the fifties in specialized fields with secretarial work especially lucrative. City jobs usually fill after May.
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New York
Floating Hospital
Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital
Bur
Sociology of Knowledge course to be offered
New graduate course under Professor Bernard Barber titled the Sociology of Knowledge will explore forms of knowledge including science myth and ideology and their links to social factors and organizational forms in intellectual life.
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Bernard Barber
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U.S. State Dept
U.S. State Department Information Service Bureau
Jean Speiser
Guidance Service
Ruth Houghton
Barnard Placement Bureau
Newman Club
Joseph K. Daly
Earl Hall Society
Dean
Lorna McGuire
T. S. Eliot
Barnard Hall
University ‘Christian Association
Donald W. Herb
Brinckerhoff Theatre
Hotel Plaza
NAAAL
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem, N. C
Gess
Amsterdam Ave
St. Tel
Bart Franklin
West
113Th Street
Gibbs
Giass
Katharine Gibbs Ee
Gimorue
Aew
Park Avenue
Montclar, S
Plymouth Street
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