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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1953
Page
4
Joan Afferica discusses Barnard College round table findings on international affairs career paths. Employers seek specific specializations beyond a BA, language and stenography for entry, with proven skill and work experience crucial for substantive roles. A book of job listings is available in the placement office.
NYU's Graduate School of Public Administration and Social Service will grant twenty scholarships for graduate study in social work starting September 1953. Dean Dr. William J. Rowan announced applications are now being accepted for full or partial tuition awards up to 600 dollars per year for a two year master of social service program. Applications available at 31 University Place, New York City.
The article notes the Mademoiselle College Board semi finalists faced a questionaire exploring their attire habits living arrangements and grooming. It highlights the college man’s tuxedo ownership whether ships with accessories and daily routines from shoes to umbrella use.
Charles Laughton presented a program featuring readings from Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe and tales by Hans Christian Andersen then closed with two Abraham Lincoln pieces. He recited Lincoln's first political address at Pappsville Illinois and the Gettysburg Address, noting humility in both.
The New York Times and New York Herald Tribune invite student applicants for campus correspondent roles. Appointments with Mrs. Phyllis Michelfelder at 107 Barnard Hall Public Relations Office. Tryouts include one daily news story and one full-length feature. Candidates from Class of 1954 or 1955 may apply. Nancy Amsterdam 53 and Lynn Minton 53 previously served as correspondents.
The Recreational Leadership class led by Professor Margaret Holland hosts sixty underprivileged children from the Manhattanville Community Center on April 29 from 4 to 5 15 pm. Barnard students demonstrate skills while the kids enjoy relay races ball passing games and ice cream as Riverside Quadrangle activities area is converted into a playground with archery and golf range.
Professor Douglas Moore of Columbia University spoke at the Music Club in the College Parlor on why America lacks native opera. He cited theory knowledge and plot commercialization as obstacles while noting Menotti’s success and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess as steps toward authentic American opera.
Plans for Columbia University’s 1954 bicentennial celebrate the theme Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof. Dr Grayson Kirk reports 303 nations and many US groups will display, lecture, and study free inquiry as chairs and professorships are created for related topics.
The Columbia University Chorus elected two Barnard students Shirley Waterman and Charlotte Raup to the managing committee for 1953 54. Sue Markowitz became Barnard Menorah president with Diana Cohen as secretary and Rena Feuerstein as treasurer. Gusta Zuckerman is Fine Arts Club president with Renee Rauch treasurer and Eileen Spiegel publicity manager.
The former chair of the Barnard College French department retires after a prolific tenure. He served as general editor of Harper Brothers French works, authored Esquisse de la France, and remains foreign correspondent for L Epoque.
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