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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1945
Page
1
Barnard College announces the weekly bulletin during the academic year with editors and staff listed. Managing board includes Joan Raup Dolores Drew Joan Leff Jane Weidlund Mary Brown. News staff features Judith Rudansky Joan Zeiger and others. Vel XLIX Monday May 7 1945 No. 42.
Fitting tribute by Barnard College calls on students to donate this week for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The article notes Roosevelt’s polio battle and urges a small sacrifice to join others supporting the cause.
Orchids to Ruth Farrell and Mary Brown and the associate editors Zeiger and Drew for a wartime yearbook praised across college. Announcement last Wednesday delayed by one day caused a stir at the junior class meeting where Miss Farrell revealed the news. The staff’s effort is celebrated amid wartime obstacles.
On V E Day the school plans a brief gymnasium service to mark the end of the war and refocus efforts toward the global mission. The piece notes no celebration is urged, but a quiet national understanding of remaining work, per the President's wish.
Our calendar message repeats the appeal for Tony, the war orphan, whose box sits opposite the cafeteria. A small contribution of about twenty dollars is still needed to reach the goal and keep Tony supported through the summer.
Professor Reimer retiring head of the Department of Chemistry discusses a lifetime of travel for work and pleasure. She recounts trips to Java China Japan and Europe, teaching and mentoring young women, and her early love of chemistry sparked in a laboratory setting.
The piece urges first relaxing before studying then organizing the desk, turning on the radio, and letting diversion ease tension. It notes debates on best methods, claims sleep and relaxation yield knowledge, and suggests preparation comes from subconscious deduction.
Ruth Landesman Joanne Ruth leads the Liberal Club and speaks on politics and world affairs. The piece notes her Cleveland roots, New Deal ties, and work history from New York to Barnard, including restaurant and retail jobs and her union activities.
Barnard College resumes its All College Athletic Association Banquet this Friday honoring Miss Wayman. The item recalls past banquets with awards, entertainments, and dining rituals, noting 1922 social dancing and 1923 student admissions of 31.25 cents, while dorm students paid 1.25 dollars.
Joan Walsh profiles a 1945 graduate who chooses social work with the Foster Home Division of Westchester County Family and Child Welfare. She notes supervising 30 to 60 children per case worker and visiting foster children in homes, highlighting the essential wartime role of helping youth and building families.
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