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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1953
Page
3
Barnard alumnae have surpassed their annual Barnard Fund goal by reaching 117 percent with 76 596 34 dollars raised. The class of 3s and 8s will meet in Brooks Hall tomorrow as Millicent C. McIntosh and Mrs. Ogden Reid address attendees and a Jake poster exhibit highlights undergraduate activities.
Dr. Leroy Breunig, associate professor of French at Harvard since 1948, is appointed executive officer of Barnard College's French department succeeding Professor Frederic Hoffherr who retired. He holds a PhD from Cornell 1941 and has written on French literature. Dr Tong Hing will be visiting assistant professor in the coming year.
The class elected Mary Anne Armaganian as president and Patricia Root as secretary-treasurer at the last meeting. Mrs. Daniel Callahan spoke on the Alumnae Association fund and the history of the group from 1893 to now, noting 10,000 alumnae nationwide and 6,000 in New York area. The class will attend tomorrow's alumnae reunion as its first postgraduation activity.
Six more fellowships and scholarships have been awarded to members of the graduating class, bringing the year total to sixteen. Recipients include Susan Comora at Barnard College studying a 17th century poet, Ginette Muller in France, Joan Belenken at the Cornell School of Industrial Labor, Janet Bloch in Chemistry at Syracuse, Pearl Sobel at the University of Rochester, and Gabrielle Wolfsohn with a Ford Fellowship to Harvard. Flora Bridges, 42, Mount Vernon Junior College lecturer, also earns a Fulbright grant to study in Japan for PhD work.
The Senior Banquet closed Senior Week after a formal dance and baccalaureate service at St. Pauls Chapel. Milbank Hall renovation curtailed activities. Sophomores served roast chicken and strawberry shortcake, in gay nineties attire, followed by a vaudeville medley. The Senior Prom at the Terrace Room, Hotel Plaza, featured Alfred Drake entertainment.
Dr Grayson L Kirk was formally installed as the fourteenth president of Columbia University during commencement exercises. He received the charter and office keys from Frederick Coykendall, trustees chair. Kirk joined Columbia in 1940 after teaching at Wisconsin and wartime service at Dunbarton Oaks and the San Francisco Conference. He delivered the commencement address and conferred degrees on about 6000 graduates.
The graduating class outlines future paths with thirty to permanent jobs across subjects including science navy research journalism religion and teaching. Forty eight will travel summer or winter. 64 enter graduate school at journalism law teachers college and Columbia Union Theological Seminary among others. Five note medical school admission, 25 married and three with children, 35 engaged.
Barnard College and Columbia University capped the class of 1953 with ceremonies outdoors on the North Lawn of Barnard and at Low Memorial Library. Diplomas, honors, and class gifts marked the event, with students receiving magna cum laude and cum laude distinctions and a planned typing room being funded by the graduates.
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