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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1941
Page
4
College Corner continues with a note on Bloomingdale's offering a course to transform Hun ter girls into Glamour Girls. Each month a student will be chosen as a model to be remodeled in makeup hair and wardrobe to reveal a hidden personality. A senior song laments the quest for simple platonic companionship and zero P Q.
Algernon Black of the Ethical Culture Society argues work camps are expanding in American democracy and outlines self governance through combined labor and study. Austin and Hirschfeld share camp experiences including a dam project at Grafton Center New Hampshire and a Goodrich settlement camp in Ohio.
Barnard College begins a new course in recreational leadership to prepare students for social service work during college and in their communities after graduation. Miss Agnes R. Wayman outlines three aims: practical training, development of leadership skills, and fostering a philosophy of wholesome activity for women. Thirty-five students are enrolled, reflecting current department capacity.
Helen Harper of Barnard College chairs The Committee to Defend America urging aid to Allied nations to defeat the Axis and secure peace. Members plan student polls and policy messages to Congress and hope to host speaker Christopher Morley on Armistice Day.
Angell is scheduled to address the college next Tuesday as part of an effort to launch the new program for this year by the Political Council with help from Professors Jane Perry Clark and Raymond Saulnier. The Political Council will maintain a reference desk shelf in the library with many of Sir Norman’s books available.
History Department hosts a tea for Spanish majors in 401 Barnard with Professor Frank Callcott of Columbia, discussing career prospects for Spanish majors. Guests include Professors Andres Iduarte and Amelia del Rio and other faculty.
Glafyra Fernandez, chair of Senior Proctors and vice president of the Undergraduate Association, presented keys to forty Senior Proctors at a College Parlor tea. Fernandez hopes the college will know and use the Proctors who aid in enforcing regulations and assisting during exams elections and registration.
Geology department schedules a Saturday field trip for Geology 27 majors led by Professor Henry Sharp and Miss Jane Bell. The group will meet outside Brooks Hall at 8 a.m. and return around 6 p.m. The excursion aims to give students practical geology experience through possible routes to New Jersey and the Delaware Water Gap.
A midnight evacuation of tenants at B and H Dormitory followed a fire drill announced the night before. The procession from Brooks to Barnard looked odd with curlers, greasy faces, varied nightgowns, and striped pajamas as residents were saved and dorms secured.
Summer volunteers and cooperatives including Harriet Hirschfeld 43 Eleanore Manuel 42 and June Amsden 42 are involved in social carvings work. Books on recreational work will be available to borrow on the second floor of Barnard Hall to assist students in the recreation leadership course as part of the physical education program supplementing volunteer work.
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