Graduates Awarded Top Honors at 1961 Ceremony
Diploma day honored fourteen seniors with magna cum laude and thirty three with cum laude distinctions. Named magna honorees include Epstein, Gottlieb, Barsh, Fox, Livingston, Geist, Pollack, Gold, Appleton, Friedberg, Hartman, Gurin, Niederer, Kritz. Cum laude honorees include Oberfest, Carlone, Blumefeld, Strassman, Hauck Walsh, Goldwater, Hoffman, Fox, Taylor, Collins Hain, Wolkowitz, Powell, Zebrak, Meltzer, Chabrone, Weinberg, Mayer, Kline, Roth, Symons, Pollitz.
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Eleanor Epstein
Alice Gottlieb
Naomi Barsh
Roberta Fox
Mary Livingston
Grace Geist
Helen Pollack
Judith Gold
Susan Appleton
Phyllis Friedberg
Lilian Hartman
Susan Gurin
Margaret Niederer
Susan Kritz
Marion Oberfest
Gloria Carlone
Hanna F. Blumenfeld
Esther Strassman
Anne-Marie Hauck Walsh
Linda Goldwater
Joyce Hoffman
Nora Fox
Thelma Fishman
Gwendolyn Taylor
Donna Collins Hain
Sheila Wolkowitz
Patricia Ann Powell
Sheila Zebrak
Sharon B. Meltzer
Joan Chabrone
Sydney Weinberg
Louise Mayer
Mary-Jo Kline
Gilda Roth
Maryellen Symons
Ellen Pollitz
Barnard Placement Office Opens Summer for Graduates
The Barnard Placement Office stays open all summer to aid graduates in finding jobs mainly in teaching and abroad in professional fields. Seniors should expect few advance September jobs, as openings grow scarce after mid October. registration is advised for faculty recommendations and alumnae support. The Junior Officer Program of the USIA offers December 9 exam with October 23 deadline. salaries start at 5625.
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Barnard
Ethel S. Paley
United State Information Agency
Washington
United States Information Agency
Miss Shipton and Otten Leave Residence Posts
Miss Jane Shipton director of the residence halls and Miss Ingrid Otten assistant residence director will not return to Barnard next year. Shipton will take a post at NYU's University College, supervising a new 200 bed women’s dormitory as the college goes co-educational. Otten’s plans are uncertain.
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Jane Shipton
Ingrid Otten
Barnard
Miss Shipton
University College of New York University
Miss Otten
NYU
Final Fling Opens With Picnic Prom Senior Week
Barnard marks Senior Week with a Friday picnic on Wollman Library lawn and a Baccalaureate at St. Pauls chapel. June 5 prom at the Crystal Pavilion completes the week. Krumm delivers invocation. Carol Van Buskirk presents class gift. Inez Nelbach announces honors. Millicent McIntosh addresses graduates and guests.
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Barnard
Wollman Library
St. Paul's Chapel
Hewitt
Crystal Pavilion
Sherry-Netherland Hotel
Barnard College in Strong Position and Growth
President McIntosh releases a biennial report for 1958-1960 praising Barnard’s strategic standing among independent liberal arts colleges. The curriculum is sound with emphasis on natural and social sciences and humanities, plus new Oriental studies offerings. The report notes NSF grants for science research, a Lehman Hall-Wollman Library opened in 1959, and Woodrow Wilson Fellowships won by 1959 and 1960 graduates.
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McIntosh
Barnard
Morningside Heights
National Science Foundation
Lehman Hall-Wollman
Sara Straus Hess
Virginia Childersleeve
Lehman Language Laboratory
Student Council names 44 new proctors for exams
The Student Council announced 44 new proctors selected for junior and senior roles. They will enforce college rules at exams, issue Honor Board letters, collect fines, and proctor language tests while also serving on the Senior Proctors Court.
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Student Council
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Otten
Miss Jane Shipton
Sue Tiktin
Sen
Ior Court of Piroctors
Martha Adams
Rena Clahr
Roxanne Cohen
Ramona Danysh
Ellen Davis
Vivien Deutsch
Joy Felsher
Abbe Fessenden
Anne Francese
Sybil Halpern
Joan Howden
Anita Hyman
Leila Kern
Ruth Klein
Ann Sue Kober
Sue Levenson
Reva Mark
Roz Marshack
Jean Murray
Debby Nemse
Tama Osada
Nanes Paige
Barbara Robbins
Elaine Seiler
Jean Shaffer
Ellen Shertzer
Rivkah Teitz
Judy Ten Sue Tiktin
Marcia Wittenberg
Elinor Yudin
Carla Zellermaves
Rachel Blau
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