Luening to Teach and Lead Music at Barnard and Columbia
Renowned composer and conductor Otto Luening joins Barnard College after ten years at Bennington. He will teach two Barnard classes, direct Opera projects at Columbia, conduct the Columbia University Orchestra, and expand campus musical activities. He plans informal singing, expands the Barnard Glee Club, and aims to introduce contemporary composers to Barnard students.
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Otto Luening
Barnard
Bennington College
Col
New York City
Luening
Europe
America
Columbia
Columbia University Orchestra
Barnard Glee Club
Music Department
Zurich
Switzerland
Munich
Chicago
Eastman School of Music
Rochester American Opera Company
University of Arizona
Bennington
Infanes
United States
Canada
South America
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Chicago Symphony
St Lews Symphony
Rochester Philharmonic
Barnard Liberal Club Airs Roosevelt and Dewey Views
Barnard College activity reports a forum where Henry Commager of Columbia chairs a debate on Roosevelt and voting. Frank Kingdon of the Union for Democratic Action speaks for Roosevelt while Joseph Richter promotes Dewey. The event ends with a student discussion and refreshments.
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Edith Udell
Joanne Ruth
Barnard
Liberal Club
Dean addresses Barnard groups as fall team opens
Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve urged spiritual light in a Barnard Day chapel address noting interfaith unity and the need to hold a world light. She recalled tyranny and liberty and stressed broad education and career guidance for Barnard women. Address also covered Representative Assembly prep and budget delays.
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Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Barnard
America
Dean Gildersleeve
Hitler
Interfaith Council
Otis Rice
New Representative Assembly
Virwima C. Gildersleeve
Representative Assembly
Rep Assembly
Barnard College
Alumnae in 1944 careers span arts to law
The page lists former students from 1944 entering varied fields. Josephine DeGeorge supervises recreational study at Lycée Francais in New York City. Georgiana Doubrava works as nursery assistant at Wheeler Day Nursery. Florence Levine is a junior social worker with Westchester County. Shirley Sexauer assists Barnard math and physics. Marjorie Corson is a chemical lab assistant after September graduation. Martha Messler works in Barnard psychology. Carol Ruskin left a summer job for Columbia Law School joining Edith Sprung and Carmel Prashker, class of 1944, already in law school.
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Josephine DeGeorge
Barnard
Carol Ruskin
Columbia Law School
Edith Sprung
Carmel Prashker
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