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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1941
Page
3
Representatives and university officials announce active support for Congress declaration of war. Elizabeth Reynard outlines planned National Service courses and future additions while Barnard and faculty discuss war impact and curriculum changes.
Mrs. Elmore Herrick regional director of the National Labor Relations Board will speak on Labor and Defense next Thursday at 4:00 in the College Parlor. The Political Council sponsors the lecture and discussion open to the entire college. Herrick has held roles with the State Employment Service Consumers League and the State Minimum Wage Board and served as Labor Advisor to the Mayor in 1934. Barnard delegates heard her at the Yale Conference on Careers in Government last spring. A luncheon forum on the Negro problem follows this Friday in Brooks dining room with Mr. Walter White invited to speak.
Den line about Estaban Vicente and Jose de Creeft at a joint exhibition opening under Fine Arts and Spanish departments. Vicente, born in Severia and trained in Madrid, spent two years in Paris on a fellowship and has taught in Barcelona before immigrating to America five years ago. De Creeft, in contrast, is energetic and modern, working in wood and stone with a heroic, lively style.
Dean Virginia C Gildersleeve and Dean Herbert E Hawkes of Columbia College will discuss student action during wartime on CURC this evening. Emily Gunning and Douglas Coster will join as Barnard and Columbia student leaders. They will outline actions under way and urge students to study until called to serve.
Last Friday's craft exhibit by Negro children at Morningside Community Center led to a December 13 benefit of On Strivers Row at the Harlem Boys Club Theatre 28 West 134 Street. The event funds the settlement and raises awareness of Harlem issues with sponsors Barnard Social Service Committee Columbia Earl Hall Society and Union Theological Seminary. Tickets 49 cents are sold by the Social Affairs Office and the organizing committee Members include Jane Devonshire Carol Camblon Nina Diamond Marjorie Lazarus Anne Richardson Miriam Gore Ursula de An Continued on Page 3 Col 3.
An editorial from Barnard College asserts a clear split between fascism and democracy and urges students to join the national war effort. It argues for immediate enrollment in defense courses and for students to become a functional part of victory beyond moral support.
The Wigs and Cues staging of James Parish’s Distinguished Gathering drew praise from faculty and students for a professional, well-directed performance. The sophisticated mystery centers on a freak dinner party where characters confront past secrets, leading to a staged murder as the only solution.
An amateur production of a Whodunit by James Parish features Felix Montague gathering guests to hear Eliot Richard Vines threaten to publish his memoirs. A plan to murder Vines unfolds with clever timing, but the killer remains at large and only a few know the truth. The reviewer praises the competence, staging, and acting overall.
Dean Virginia C. Gidersleeve will make a statement on Barnard and the war before today’s dance recital sponsored by the Physical Education department. The full college is asked to attend at 1 10 in the gymnasium as advanced classes perform.
The Representative Assembly at Barnard College Columbia University unanimously vows to back the President and federal government in prosecuting a successful war against Japan Germany and their allies. It resolves to offer any required service to keep America free and preserve democratic freedoms for citizens.
Dr Arnold Brecht a professor of political and social science and jurisprudence on the New School graduate faculty will speak to government majors at 4 this afternoon in the Conference Room on The Study of Public Administration Monday. He lectured at Harvard 1928 to 1940 and held top posts in Germany before coming to the United States including Reich Minister of Justice and Economics 1910 1921 and head of the Division for Constitutional Administration until 1927.
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