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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1945
Page
1
Barnard College issue presented as a student association notice with staff roles and publishing details. It lists Betty Sachs Annette Auld Jane Wall and others as editors and assistants, Eleanor Wax Frances Hitch as editors, and business and circulation staff. The document is a wartime campus communications page dated Monday January 15 1945, Vol XLIX No 21.
War accelerated classes have led Barnard juniors to graduate a year early with the largest early finish in the hundred and twenty points era. Some groups completed requirements in October, while others advance toward midyear departures, leaving many seniors to linger in the ivory tower before real life begins.
Cursive reflections bid farewell to the fifty seniors about to graduate and head into the world. The piece laments fatigue and test stress while praising their resilience and hope as they pursue diplomas, futures, and success beyond the portals of campus life.
Phyllis Brand, Bulletin business manager, will be missed for her brisk handling of books and advertisers complaints. The Columbia Law School graduate Larry Bangier Marine Colonel on his staff and engagement by long distance are noted. She plans a future in personnel or advertising.
Indiana born Frances Hitch grew up around newspapers and has worked at Colorado Fort Collins high school paper the Spilled Ink Sweet Briar News Barnard College staff and her father’s Colorado newspaper. She recalls summer 1942 as a receptionist and switchboard operator and notes she does not plan to continue in journalism despite the pull of the field.
June Wals, Barnard senior and Bulletin managing editor, is set to graduate this term after accelerating two summers. She plans mathematical work or further study, maybe medicine, and recalls a bureaucratic Civil Service stint. Her NY theater love and Barnard’s small community lift the piece.
Eleanor Wax, a Barnard senior headed for February graduation, is described as bubbly and enthusiastic even when down. The article notes her as blond and mirrors her long time partner Midge Miller in interviews and campus roles. She transferred from Alfred University and majors in sociology, with a past editor and class secretary in Peekskill High School.
The New York Anzac Club serves as official billets and social hub for over 25 000 Australian and New Zealand service members en route to operations. Volunteers staff registration invitations tea and cake host events at venues like Diamond Horseshoe and arrange country weekends and gifts.
A student shares exam anxieties and odd plan ideas for study. She jokes about skipping study and using last minute tactics. The note references Botany exams, planning, reading Plato, and a Dean’s recommended mystery book.
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