Barnard Honors Assembly Awards Prizes May 2
The Annual Honors Assembly on May 2 will honor Barnard students for achievement and award aid for study. The Grace Potter Rice Fellowship of 1200 dollars goes to a mathematics or natural science student. the George Welwood Murray Fellowship to a humanities or social sciences student. The Frank Gilbert Bryson Award, chosen by student vote, goes to a senior for greatest contribution to Barnard. Ruth Schwartz, Carol Van Buskirk, Janet Gregory, or Eleanor Epstein were voted for Bryson. The Columbia University Press Prize goes to the best Barnard Bulletin writer among sophomores. The Margaret Meyer Fund prize of 200 dollars funds secretarial instruction. Several prizes are not awarded this year: Freshman English, Hoffherr French, Caroline Gallup Reed, Oral French, Jenny A. Gerard Medal, William Mason Scholarship, and the Gallup Prize.
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Barnard
Grace Potter Rice
George Welwood Murray
Frank Gilbert Bryson
Ruth Schwartz
Carol van Buskirk
Janet Gregory
Eleanor Epstein
Barnard Bulletin
Columbia University Press
Margaret Meyer Fund
Hoffherr
Caroline Gallup Reed
Jenny A. Gerard
William Mason
Gallup
Rally Protests Drills by Columbia Students and Faculty
About 600 members of the Columbia community gathered on Low Library Plaza to protest Civil Defense drills. The protest, led by a student faculty committee, argued that true defense lies in peace and criticized Civil Defense as fostering fear and stockpiling.
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Union Theological Seminary
City Hall Park
New York
Columbia
Barnard
United States
James O’connor
Barnard Economics Department
Michael Lukins
Reinhold Weiebuhr
College Walk
Department Presents Recent Spanish Farce Arlequin
The Spanish Department will stage Mancebo de Botica by Pio Baroja in one act on Wednesday May 3 at 4 30 p m in Minor Latham Playhouse Admission is free Directed by Mrs Electa Rodriguez the comedy follows a girl with many suitors who discovers the duke she marries Frances Holden Brianda Domecq and Victoria Ortiz lead the cast with several senior and junior students in supporting roles A poetry contest and Cervantes essay prizes will also be awarded
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Arlequin
Pio Baroja
Latham Playhouse
Electa Rodriguez
Frances Holden
Pantalon
Brianda Domecq
Colombina
Victoria Ortiz
Bea Mavrovius
Florence Goldman
Bette Steinberg
Dolores Mirto
Susan B. Kaufman
Tonia Leon
Willa Sack
Cervantes
Sophomore Wins Grant For Study
Susan B Kaufman of 63 selected as Carnegie scholar for a joint University of Arizona and Guadalajara Summer School study tour in Mexico. She receives 400 dollars to study Spanish July 3 to August 11 and will reside with a Mexican family in Guadalajara. The trip by car to Acapulco Cuernavaca Taxco and Mexico City runs after the session until August 28.
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Susan B. Kaufman
Mexico
University of Arizona
Guadalajara
Miss Kaufman
Kaufman
Acapulco
Cuernavaca
Taxco
Mexico City
Peace Corps Forms Career Planning Board for Veterans
Peace Corps creates a Career Planning Board to aid returnees in finding jobs at home. Leaders from business government and education will serve. Members include Ralph Lazarus Joseph Beirne Roger Jones and Benjamin C Willis.
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The
Peace Corps
United States
Sargent Shriver
Ralph Lazarus
Federated Stores
Joseph Beirne
Afl-Cio
Communication Workers of America
Roger Jones
Administration
Benjamin C. Willis
Chicago
American Association of School Administrators
Shriver
Assembly Debates NDEA Loyalty Oath at Barnard Rally
The Representative Assembly debated the National Defense Education Act loyalty oath and affidavit amid student protests at Barnard College. Advocates say aid requires allegiance and denial of subversive groups while opponents argue the oath punishes principled loyalists and fails to deter subversion.
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Barnard College
Representative Assembly
N.D.E.A
United States
Kalley
Ex Secretary Narrates Bureaucracy Story by Bromfeld
Esther Bromfeld details Marion Folsom who served as Secretary of Health Education and Welfare on how personality differences among presidents shaped staff use. He recounts Roosevelt and Truman era brains trust changes and Eisenhower vs Kennedy staff approaches, plus lesson from a 1954 Income Tax Revision Act debate and government reorganization efforts.
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Esther Bromfeld
Marion B. Folsom
Eisenhower
Mr. Folsom
McKinley Foundation
Theodore Roosevelt
William Loeb
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
National Security Council
White House
Kennedy
Folsom
the Treasury
Theodore Green
Rep
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