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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1941
Page
3
Kathryn Bruns becomes president of the Residence Halls after Marjorie Madden withdraws due to injuries from the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck on November 9. Madden, now married to Edmund Burke, is hospitalized in Kenton Ohio and expected to be absent at least two months.
Mrs. Reinhold Niebuhr, lecturer in Religion, will speak at the Classical Club open meeting at 4 in the College Parlor on What Has Jerusalem to Do with Athens. A tea will follow, giving members and others a chance to meet the speaker who graduated first in Oxford’s Honor School of Theology. The talk links Christianity to the classical tradition and interests Philosophy and Medieval History students, said club president Margaret Duncan.
Barnard and Columbia sponsor a charitable Thanksgiving Eve dance at Earl Hall on Wednesday evening from 8 30 to 1. Admission is fifty cents a couple with proceeds split between Barnard and Columbia relief funds. The event features the China Clipper dance team a magician and fortune teller with entertainment by the United China Relief and a Columbia Glee Club group. Helen Kandel, W S S F chair, appeals for large Barnard turnout.
The annual Thanksgiving Service will be held today at 1 10 in St Pauls Chapel. Faculty and students are excused from Barnard Assembly and classes to attend. Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin will address the crowd on Sacrifice and Thanksgiving and offerings will fund Thanksgiving baskets for the poor. Continued on Page 4 Col 2.
A delegation from the Department of Public Education of Mexico will present Mexican films to the Spanish Club in the College Parlor. The program includes a review of Sports in Mexico Dances and Indian Costumes in Mexico and a regional survey of Taxco. An exhibition of Jose de Creeft sculpture and Vicente paintings runs December 1 to 12, with works showing at the Passedoit Gallery in New York.
The Central Committee of the 1942 Greek Games will meet tomorrow November 19 at 12 o clock in the Greek Games Room, 206 Barnard Hall. Nananne Porcher, business manager, announced the gathering to discuss this year theme.
Acting president of the International Federation of University Women Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve travels to Havana to preside at a regional meeting as part of the Conference of the Committees on Intellectual Cooperation. Attending are Meta Glass of Sweet Briar College and other federation officers to discuss university women in the Americas, refugee aid, cultural exchange, and postwar education reconstruction.
Spectator editor reports the first Co ed Sports Afternoon at Barnard Columb ia. Fifteen male crew shirts struggled to top female teams in badminton volleyball and ping pong setting a precedent for joint activities. Organizers Jane Harting and Anne Heene praised the event and suggested more sessions will follow with strong student support.
The German Club lists the remaining participants for the Christmas Pageant. Ellen Hirschland will narrate. The orchestra includes Donna Brown Eleanor Pearlman Sylvia Elion Doris Kosches Carshialita Dra ghi and Ann Rosensweig. Angles cast features Enid Pugh Ruth Stern Constance Bright Elaine Grimm Evelyn Steinhardt Marjory Rosser and Amelia Brink.
An all college round table at the College Tea will explore 1939 1941 neutrality with ERIC International Relations Club Barnard Student Union and CDA viewpoints. Edith Bornn Helen Baker and Caryl Cattell present background followed by a general discussion chaired by Doris Bayer and moderated by faculty advisers.
Helen Kandel, 42, chairwoman of the Barnard relief drive, announced the World Student Service Fund drive will open officially November 26, one week from tomorrow. Students have learned the aims through pamphlets circulated via Student Mail in the past two weeks.
The Office of National Service reports a new Committee on Registration and Personnel has begun an intensive drive at Barnard to assess student abilities for potential defense related roles. Registration confirms no obligation to serve and runs daily this week from twelve to one in the Little Parlor.
A Friday fire demonstration at University Place sponsored by Professor Harold Fale of Columbia chemistry showed extinguisher methods using carbon tetrachloride foam. Flames leapt near gasoline soaked pavement before the show ended, leaving only ashes and teaching paper and wood fire classes for observers and chemistry students.
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