Ortiz views Cuba through student eyes on June trip
Report from Cuba details 58 American students including Vicki Ortiz of class of 1964 touring Havana and conversing with locals. The group traveled despite a State Department travel ban to observe education reforms, free schooling, and housing for students amid Castro era changes.
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Paris
Prague
Havana
Cuba
Vicki Ortiz
United States
Miss Ortiz
U.S. State Department
West Coast
New York
South
Puerto Rico
Barnard College opens 75th year with convocation address
Miss Rosemary Park, in her first convocation as Barnard president, notes changes since Frederick A. P. Barnard era. She condemns academic indecision as a luxury society cannot afford and urges motivation toward defined college degrees amid specialization.
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Miss Rosemary Park
Barnard College
Frederick A. P. Barnard
Columbia
Royalty Grace 75th Anniversary at Waldorf dinner
Queen Frederika of Greece will be guest at a January 22 1964 dinner at the Waldorf Astoria for Barnard College s seventy fifth anniversary. The afternoon ceremony at Low Library will confer an honorary degree. A KI cabinet member will deliver the major address.
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Barnard
Greece
Waldorf-Astoria
Kennedy
Low Library
Queen Frederika
Henry A. Boorse
Ogden Reid
Faith Holsaert Returns from SNCC to Barnard
Barnard sophomore Faith Holsaert returned from a year with the SNCC in Albany Georgia and Pell County to resume studies. She described Albany as a social force and plans to monitor urban social changes in New York. She aided voter registration, filed affidavits, and helped DOJ discrimination research while jailed with demonstrators. She participated in the Birmingham rally of ten thousand.
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Sandy Fromer
Faith Holsaert
Barnard
Albany
Georgia
Pell County
Faith
Miss Holsaert
New York
SNCC
Brooklyn
Justice Department
Bulletin
Birmingham
Pickets Protest SACB Hearings On Advance in NYC
In New York City today and tomorrow student groups plan protests at SACB hearings on Advance a New York youth group ordered to register as a Communist front under the McCarran Act The actions are led by Students for a Democratic Society and Campus Americans for Democratic Action ADA SDS urge repeal of the act and condemn government labeling of political groups.
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SACB
Advance
New York
Attorney General's Office
Church Street
Manhattan
Students For A Democratic Society
Campus
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
SDS
Faculty to Advise Seniors on Graduate Opportunities
Faculty volunteers from each department will advise seniors on graduate study options. Listed teachers will guide majors in anthropology to zoology, with specific names for each subject. Students seeking information on Institute of International Education awards should consult the noted page 3.
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Haviland
Held
Miss Novak
Ritchie
Saulnier
Lekachman
Breunig
Bailey
Zobler
Sharp
Boorse
Fuller
Brennan
Moore
Niebuhr
Stahmer
Barber
Komarovsky
Meyer
Fox
DaCal
Florit
Institute of International Education
Physics Library Moves Missing Books Replaced
The College moved the Physics Library from Milbank Hall to Wollman Library after $1000 worth of books vanished over time. Dean Henry A. Boorse announced the change. over 100 titles were lost, mainly advanced physics works. A detective failed to locate the missing books, which appear to have been stolen for personal use.
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Milbank Hall
Wollman Library
Henry A. Boorse
Dean Boorse
Barnard
Columbia
Boorse
The
Two Barnard Buildings Undergo Space Upgrades
Barnard administrative offices gain more working space with Milbank Hall renovations expanding the Office of Buildings and Grounds and Mail Department. The General Secretary moves to Room 102, repainting covers first and second floors and the Minor Latham Playhouse. Barnard Hall plans move of the second floor rest room for a new medical office, and The Deanery north of Hewitt Hall is repainted.
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Milbank Hall
Latham Playhouse
Barnard Hall
Hewitt Hell
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Ses Oritz
By Janet Roach
Mrs. Ogden Reid
Holsaert
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By Gayle Krub li
Brary
John Kiessling
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