01 May 1947
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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1947
Page
1
A brief notice lists Amalie Mayer Nada Wodenlitch and Muriel Fox as editor roles within the newspaper’s editorial team along with positions for copy editor exchange editor cartoonists and business manager.
In a May Day tribute the Barnard College community expresses deep gratitude to Dean Gildersleeve. Students note her impact in education and international relations, citing praise from President Butler and Roosevelt and her active mentorship guiding students toward intelligent post college life.
Article by Marilyn Karmason recalls Helen Erskine who joined Barnard in 1900 as an assistant to Dean Gildersleeve. The piece describes the dean’s early lectures in English, the hall’s turn of the century furnishings, and Barnard’s student life and aims as the school grew.
An obituary of sorts for Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve in Mortarboard records traces her rise from 1899 student to Dean. The magazine cheers her leadership as Junior class historian and senior president, notes Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Kappa Gamma honors, and lauds her 1946 San Francisco Conference appointment as a landmark achievement. The 1914 dedication and ongoing tributes through 1947 emphasize her lasting influence on Barnard College and its students.
Early Barnard days featured two dogs of Dean Gildersleeve Tommy Gildersleeve a white terrier walked campus with the Dean Culag Beag a Cairn terrier bred in Inverness Scotland joined later He and Tommy became campus fixtures with Culag Beag prompting house rules for caretaking and a notable search and reward when he ran away Readership saw the Dean and the dogs as a charming campus symbol lasting for decades
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