Barnard College Adds Seven Professors for 1955 56
An associate professor and six assistant professors join Barnard College faculty for the 1955 56 year. John Imbrie will teach geology at Barnard and Columbia, with a focus on taxonomy evolution and ecology of invertebrates. Others include education expert Mrs Helen G Trager, two visiting assistants Miss Edith Porada and Mrs Alice S Wilson, mathematics educator Miss Joanne Ellicott, psychologist Miss Rosemary Pierrel, and geology specialist Leonard Zobler.
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Barnard College
Millicent C. McIntosh
John Imbrie
Columbia University
Barnard
Columbia
Imbrie
Princeton University
Yale University
Helen G. Trager
Trager
New York University School of Education
University of Rangoon
Vassar College
Edith Porada
Fine Acts
Alice S. Wilson
Parada
Queens College
University of Vienna
Wilson
University of North Carolina
Smith College
University of Missouri
Cornell University
Ladycliffon-Hudson
Cornell
Joanne Ellicott
Idaho
Brooklyn and
Mounter Colleges
Barnard Introduces Broad Range of New Courses
Barnard College will add new offerings for 1955-56 across psychology religion English history and fine arts. New religion courses include An Analysis of Religion in Contemporary Society and Culture and The Religious and Metaphysical Bases of Western Social and Political Thought. The psychology major in clinical psychopathology will be offered with Payne Whitney Clinic. Freshmen take The Individual and Society. Other new courses cover art in New York museums American Art from Colonial to 1913 Seventeenth Century Rationalism and The Drama of Italy.
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Barnard College
Barnard
Ursula Niebhur
Religion Dedepartment
Niebuhr
John B. Stewart
Thomas P. Peardon
Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
New York Hospital
Cornell Med
Ical Center
Payne Whitney Clinic
Fine Arts Department
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Italy
America
France
Barnard Freshmen Told to Embrace New Responsibility
President Millicent C. McIntosh addressed Barnard College's freshman class of 310 at the orientation luncheon. She urged students to choose courses and activities wisely, take advice, stand on their own feet, and shape their lives within the university's rich opportunities. The program included campus tours, religious talks, a dance with Columbia freshmen, Play Day, and student government discussions.
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Millicent C. McIntosh
Barnard
New York
McIntosh
Krumm
Hoffman
Neibuhr
Columbia
Barnardites
Barnard Annual Carnival Introduces Extracurricular Program
The Barnard Activities Carnival showcases the new academic year and extracurricular life. Hazel Gerber, 1955 Carnival Chairman, guides the event running 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on North Lawn or gym if rain. A faculty judged booth contest and Club Council planning meeting on Friday aim to involve all clubs and publications.
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Hazel Gerber
Barnard
North Lawn
Club Council
Barnard Hall
Barnard Renovations Modernize Locker Rooms and Dorms
Barnard College undertakes major renovations including new tile and showers in the basement locker room of Barnard Hall and expanded cross access between the two dormitories on all floors except 2 and 7. Painting will finish by Christmas.
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Barnard
Barnard Hall
Remembering Professor Gladys Reichard and Her Work
Prof Reichard, executive officer of Barnard College anthropology, died July 25 in Flagstaff Arizona. She joined Barnard in 1922 authored fourteen books and many articles and studied Navajo culture. A symposium in her memory is tentatively planned for November 28 in the College Parlor.
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Barnard
Gladys A. Reichard
Department of Anthropology
Flagstaff
Arizona
Reichard
Museum of Northern Arizona
Southwest
Term Drive Aims to Raise 5000 for Children's Aid
Barnard College plans a semester Term Drive from November 7 to 23 to fund a summer camp called Wagon Road for physically handicapped children. The drive, chaired by Teri Kaplan, will culminate in an evening carnival with proceeds to the Children's Aid Society for therapy and recreation. A Solicitors Tea on November 2 will feature a Society speaker and some children.
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Teri Kaplan
Children’s Aid Society
Barnard
Barnard College
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