Barnard College Plans Fifth Parents Day on Armistice Friday
Millicent C. McIntosh leads a nine member committee to renew Parents Day at Barnard after a three year gap. Dean Thomas B. Peardon and Dean Helen P. Bailey will outline undergraduate life curriculum and advising. Catherine Comes and Forrest L. Abbott discuss activities and finances. Parents of 1956 57 58 classes will gather in James Room and College Parlor with badminton modern dance and fencing demos, lunch in the cafeteria, and registration from 9 a.m. to noon at Milbank Hall.
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Barnard
Millicent C. McIntosh
Thomas B. Peardon
Helen P. Bailey
Barnard and
Dean Peardon
Dean Bailey
Catherine Comes
Barnard College
Forrest L. Abbott
James Room
Milbank Hall
Noon Meeting Explores Cabbages and Kings Theme
College Parlor talk by Helen Carlson contrasts Voltairean wisdom with the search for knowledge. She warns against choosing comfort over growth and urges embracing change while maintaining imaginative freedom. Economics professor Eli Ginsburg to discuss gender relations at this week's noon meeting.
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Miss Carlson
Robert McCracken
Diana Cohen
Cynthia Bachner
Clarise Debrunner
Betsy Wright
Wigs & Cues Opens Season With The Recruiting Officer
Wigs & Cues presents The Recruiting Officer in the Minor Latham Drama Workshop December 7 to 10 with an original musical score and full orchestra. Cast includes Justin Rogers as Captain Plume and Richard Denby as Captain Brazen with Naomi Gladstone and Eva Kessler as Sylvia and Melinda. Other players include Stanley Tannen, Peter Falk, Sally Brinsmade, Lillian Wishnia, Miranda Knickerbocker, Sara Hanft, and Suzanne Knoffel. Tickets are $1.20 in Hamilton and Barnard Halls.
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Wigs and Cues
Latham Drama Workshop
George Farquhar
Adolphus Sweet
Barnard
Captains Plume
Justin Rogers
Richard Denby
Naomi Gladstone
Eva Kessler
Sylvia
Melinda
Stanley Tannen
Peter Falk
Sally Brinsmade
Lillian Wishnia
Miranda Knickerbocker
Sara Hanft
Suzanne Knoffel
Hamilton
Barnard Halls
Lands Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for Electron Moment
Columbia Professor Polykarp Kusch shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Willis E. Lamb Jr. for precision measurements of the electron magnetic moment. Barnard’s Kusch says his family is proud as the Royal Swedish Academy notes this as a major advance in atomic understanding.
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Kusch
Albert G. Prodell
Barnard
Columbia
Polykarp Kusch
Willis E. Lamb, Jr
Stanford University
Royal Swedish Academy
Dr. Kusch
Sweden
Katherine Kusch
Drama Workshop to Stage Alcestis as First Production
The Drama Workshop presents Alcestis as its inaugural production running Wednesday through Saturday November 16 to 19. Cast includes Barbara Anson Sally Brinsmade Barbara Florio Jean Houston Naomi Gladstone Cornelia Grunge Michelle Marder Suzanne Mann Jean Neal Shirley Olsen Renee Sessions Elaine Sharp Sondra Sickles and Jane Thornton. Production team features Mildred Dunnock Norris Houghton Adolphus Sweet Carlotta Leif Harriet Saks Nat Campbell Collins Bell Kay Andrews Vida Farhad June Knight 757. Tickets are 75 cents and sold at the Minor Latham Drama Workshop Box Office. The Euripidean play tells Admetos plight and Alcestis sacrifice with Hercules returning life to Alcestis after Apollo intervenes.
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Drama Workshop
Alcestis
Barbara Anson
Sally Brinsmade
Barbara Florio
Jean Houston
Naomi Gladstone
Cornelia Grunge
Michelle Marder
Suzanne Mann
Jean Neal
Shirley Olsen
Renee Sessions
Elaine Sharp
Sondra Sickles
Jane Thornton
Mildred Dunnock Army
Norris Houghton
Adolphus J. Sweet
Carlotta Leif
Harriet Saks
Nat Campbell
Collins Bell
Paul Sovik
Kay Andrews
Vida Farhad
June Knight
Barnard
Latham Drama Workshop
Euripedes
Admetos
Apollo
Hercules
Head Tax Collection Begins Friday for 1956 Greek Games
The 1956 Greek Games head tax starts today at noon at a Jake booth. The tax of one dollar, paid by all sophomores and freshmen, funds the event and grants a ticket to the Games, with collection daily at noon this week.
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Jake
Jane Peyser
B C Alumnae Expand Barnard Relations Discussed
Fourth Alumnae Council meeting at Barnard on November 4–5 outlined plans for a new dormitory and library and renovations to Brooks Hall. Panels led by Dean Thomas P. Peardon and Mrs. Leonard Cronkhite covered faculty selection and teaching, with emphasis on scholarship, teaching, and student admissions.
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Barnard College
Barnard
Millicent C. McIntosh
Catherine Baldwin Woodbridge
Margaret Gristede MacBain
Bath
Brooks Hall
Marian Churchill White
Thomas P. Peardon
Leonard Cronkhite
Radcliffe Graduate School
Martha Reed Coles
Peardon
President Outlines Barnard Solution to Manage Growth
President Millicent C. McIntosh, addressing the Alumnae Council, argues Barnard must stay under 1,500 students, pursue a medium sized model, and consider a new 40,000 square foot library. She supports dormitory expansion, tuition increases, and retaining strong faculty by adapting to social and educational revolutions while preserving core ideals.
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Judy Smith
Millicent C. McIntosh
Alumnae Council
Whither Barnard
Barnard
McIntosh
Barnard-Columbia
Columbia
Barnard and Columbia Relations Explored by College President
President Millicent C. McIntosh spoke to about thirty dorm students in Brooks Hall on Barnard College’s evolving ties with Columbia University. She reviewed Barnard’s origin, its separate faculty, and joint class and appointment possibilities with Columbia, noting slow but steady progress and ongoing committees including Columbia department members.
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Barnard
Columbia
Millicent C. McIntosh
Brooks Hall
McIntosh
University
Barnard College
Columbia University
Columbia College
Barnard-Columbia
Bulletin Schedule Adjusted for Election Day Holiday
The Thursday Bulletin will not publish on November 10 due to the Election Day holiday. The next issue will appear on Monday, November 14.
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