Seniors Celebrate June Week At Barnard College
Seniors week events run from June 1 to June 5 featuring Step Sing plant ivy ceremony Baccalaureate at Saint Pauls Chapel with Rev Otis Rice Sophomore Banquet in Hewitt Hall Class Day at Barnard Hall includes roll call gift of 400 war bonds and telegram from Dean Gildersleeve Valedictory by Sabra Follett, graduation reception on terrace Core to follow on page 3 col 1.
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Milbank Hall
Miriam Burstein
Saint Paul’s Chapel
University
Otis Rice
Brooks Hall
Hewitt Hall
Barnard
Jane Brunstetter
Barnard Hall
Janet Kempton
Virginia C. Gildersleeve
San Francisco
Columbia
Sabra Follett
Butler Addresses June Graduates
The 191st Columbia University commencement held on the Law Library steps conferred 305 degrees in course 9 honorary degrees six university degrees and 260 certificates. Edward R. Stettinius Jr received the honorary Doctor of Laws in absentia for public service at the San Francisco Conference. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler delivered the address urging international cooperation to end wars.
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Columbia University
Law Library
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
San Francisco
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
1945 class roll of Dorotheen Abbott to Frances Hitch
A partial 1945 class roll lists numerous cadet names including Dorotheen Abbott Frances Achillea Charlotte Adler and Yelena Albala. The fragment ends mid list with entries like Harriet Hanley Mary Harvey and Edythe Hearst and notes continued on page 3 column 1.
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Elizabeth Flynn Sabra Follett
Daisy Fornada
Helene Frank Zilpha Franklin
Lorraine Frianz
Julia Fremon
Renee Friedman
Rachel Frisch
Marion Fuhr
Elsa Funaro
Jean Gimbert Gudny Gertsen
Mary Glading
Barbara Flixman Fernande Goldmann
Exlith Goldsmith Florabel Gonsior
Sally Good
Marjorie Goodman Dahrl Green Marenaret Greene
Marjorie Greider
Irene Griffin
Berth Guilhempee
Emily Hallock
Jean Hamilton Harriet. Hanley
Mary Harvey Edythe Hearst Fileen Hellawell
Joy Hink
Seniors Awarded 13 Prizes for Academic Excellence
Barnard College announces 13 senior prizes including Estelle M. Allison for literature to Daisy Corinna Fornacca and Mary E. Allison for general scholarship to Dorothy Rose Dattner. Sabra Wyman Follett wins Bryson Memorial for unselfishness. other awards honor German, botany, mathematics, history, dramatic composition, secretarial training, and special study in origin.
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Estelle M. Allison
Daisy Corinna Fornacca
Mary E. Allison
Dorothy Rose Dattner
Frank Gilbert Bryson
Sabra Wyman Follett
Dean
Beverly Turner
Gerard
Barnard College
Marcia Perin Jordan
Herrman
Virginia Helen Conway
Kohn
Rita Wals
Margaret Meyer
Ruth Sherlock Philpotts
Helen Prince Memorial
Columbia University Holds Over Navy V-12 Unit Through 1945
Navy will keep Midshipmen's School at Columbia until end of 1945 and will add 184 new V-12 recruits in July to form a new Naval unit by September. ROTC plans delayed to fall, freeing Johnson Hall for Barnard overflow starting September.
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Navy
Columbia
Columbia University
University
R.O.T.C
Midshipmen
Johnson Hall
Barnard
Brooks and Hewitt
Barnard Class Day Honors War-Time Class of 1945
About 275 seniors attended Barnard College Class Day on Tuesday to receive diplomas, with speeches by salutatorian Jane Brunstetter and valedictorian Sabra Follett. Dean Louises H. Gregory presided in place of the traveling Dean, and the class, the first fully wartime graduating group, reflected on wartime trials and future plans.
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Barnard College
Louises H. Gregory
Virginia C. Gildersleeve
San Francisco
Shea
Jane Brunstetter
Sabra Follett
Barnard
Dean Gildersleeve
Occupation Bureau
Barnard Honors 29 Graduates in History Making Year
Barnard College reports 29 graduates earned honors out of 270 in the 1945 class. Seven students total received summa or magna cum laude honors, including four this June and three in January, with many others earning cum laude distinctions.
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Barnard
Sabra Follett
Miriam Skinner
Mary Charlotte Morgan
Dorothy Ruth Terrace
Jean Campbell Neel
Jane Compton Walsh
May Edwards
Sara Demarest Ferris
Avra Phyllis Kessler
Alecia Muriel Conner
Bernice Gloria Linuenbergs
Dean Gildersleeve Receives Mills College Doctor of Laws
Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Mills College at the eighty eighth commencement on May 27. She is recognized as the sole U S delegate at the United Nations Conference and for her decades of advocacy for women’s education and international understanding.
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Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Mills College
California College
United States
United Nations Conference of International Organization
Barnard College
American Association of University Women
Educational Council
Navy On Women’s Reserve
International Federation of University Women
American College
Istanbul
Turkey
Gildersleeve
Rutgers
Mt Holyoke College
Western Reserve
Goucher
Smith College
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Salutatorian
Butler
Mildred Carpenter
Katharine Carson
Patricia Cavanagh
Joan Glark
Liubica Cole
Suzanne Cole Marie Coletta
Ligia Susani
Muriel Comba
Jean Conn
Alecia Conner
Charlotte Conway
Virginia Conway
Marjorie Corson
Gene Cox
Olga Creacioni
Phyllis Crosa
Elizabeth Cronter
Grace Cutting Flene Dale
Doris Dann
Dorothy Dattner Doreas de la Franier
Helene de Sanctis
Betty Dirickson
Helene Preifuss
Veronica Trwight
Alice Eaton
Nancy Edwards
Mary Fnee
Elizabeth Flynn
Renee Vivian Friedman
Julia Margaret Fremon
Helene Driefuss
Miriam Schwartz
Bette Kuhlman
Marcia Barishman
Anna Maria Modigliani
Margaret Eleanor Naumburg
Rachel Lea Frisch
Barbara Arne Glixman
Madeline Clara Kessler
Lorraine Margaret Franz
Joanne Ruth
Elsa Johns Funaro
Charlotte Betty Sachs
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