The College VOL. XLVIII, NO. 3 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1951 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1951 PRICE 20 CENTS Educators Ask Women to Aid Defense Work Miss McBride Attends Service Meeting In New York ‘Especially contributed by Alice Mitchell, ’52 Gathering a thousand people to- gether in a hotel ballroom to draw up a pattern of action for half the nation for the next ten years is an audacious undertaking. The Amer- ican Council on Education’s con- ference on Women in the Defense Decade, held in New York on Sep- tember 27 and 28, set out to con- sider all aspects of woman’s role in the 1950’s. No such conference had ever been held before and an attack on the problem in its en- tirety was, some thought, long overdue. “Since we acknowledge nationally that we have entered what is called a period of defense”’, said one of the delegates, “it is high time that the duties and re- sponsibilities of women be defined for that period, and that they be explained and let women get on with the jobs”. If the task before the conference was staggering, the delegates were at least-as able a group as could! have been found to tackle it. Miss McBride, Mrs. Cox, Miss Biba and I, representing ‘Bryn Mawr, found ourselves among labor leaders, business women, engineers, church leaders, women politicians and ed- itors as well as college presidents, deans of women and «xollege stu- dents, interspersed with a sprink- Continued on Page 5, Col. 2 Newly-Launched Friends Give Aid To BMC Library “Libraries are not made; they grow”, said Augustine Birrel, and the newly-launched Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library have taken this as their motto. The Li- brary has long needed the interest and financial support of those in- terested in the advance of scholar- ship. Last spring it was decided to form a Founding _ Committee which could enlist such support, Mrs. Jacques L. Vauclain was elected chairman of the committee, and some seven hundred appeals were sent out. To date over three thousand dollars have been receiv- ed. Donors are automatically ac- corded the use of the Library, which is renowned especially for its resources in the departments of classical literature and archae. ology, modern languages, Oriental ant, and certain of the sciences. The Friends of the Library will hold special cards entitling them to full privileges, and designating them as the supporters of this ex- cellent institution. The money coming in each year is to be used for the purchase of books. It may go to one depart- ment or to many, depending on the current needs. If this year’s enthusiastic sup- port continues into the future, the Library should become progress: ively larger_and finer. The Undergraduate Associa- tion is very pleased to an- nounce the election of Anne Foley, 53, to the office of Com- mon Treasurer. Dutch Freshmen From English School In Buenos Aires Arrive at Bryn Mawr by Patricia Murray, °52 Lyke Ooiman and Carla Kauf- mann are two Dutch girls who have just come to Bryn Mawr from Buenos Aires. As I entered their room, which is on the third floor of Merion, I was welcomed by Carla’s smile and Lyke’s, “Well, what can we tell you’? Then both of them hurried into talk, each corroborating the other, almost without my having to ask questions. Lyke and Carla have a quick, eager way of speaking which seems to translate a desire to put one at ease. Carla, the tall, dark-haired one, began: “Mother and I chose Bryn Mawr when we came to the States, college-hunting, in 1948. Of all the colleges we saw, we liked it best. Lyke and I have been close friends for years, so it was natur- al that she come with me. “Lyke and I went to an English school, Northlands, in Buenos Aires; it was a girls’ school run entirely on the English pattern. We were 800 in number, mostly| . English and Anglo4Argentines. The school was divided into four ‘houses’, or divisions, with a self- government consisting of house- -eaptains and prefects. . After. the six primary grades which are entirely in English in the morn- ing and in Spanish in the after- noon. _You might learn long division by the English method in the morning, but in the afternoon you had to do it in Spanish. We had mostly literature courses, no sci- ence. “Lyke and I were house-captains the last two years. We were sup- posed to keep order—you know, keep lines straight in assembly and that sort of thing. We were responsible to the teachers. Under our honor system you could win marks in sports and for good work in class; you can lose them for dis- order. Every month we had to a each girl’s points in a black book”. Carla has a way of speaking which provokes images. Here one imagines a huge notebook black- ened with columns of points. I asked about the other schools in Buenos Aires. It was Lyke, who is short and blonde, who ans- wered this time. “Each foreign colony, Dutch, French, German, English, Amer- ican, has its own school, run ac: cording to the pattern of its own /country. _Of course there are the| Continued on Page 6, Col. 1 taught in Spanish, we were taught| ° “Happy Medium” Provides Preview; Plans Include Potentates and Politics ‘Posters all over campus adver- tise the Junior Show as a mystic experience. Its title “The Happy Medium” bodes pure and romantic escape into another world. It will be all of that; in fact, it -will be more. History, politics, and even college also enter into the plot. The history department mustn’t expect too much, but still it should be glad to hear that Henry the Eighth is mentioned at least once. And Corrie Voorhis, as an Eastern Potentate, does considerably better than ‘Henry, with four wives at a time. In rehearsal Corrie chuck- led happily at her situation, bal- ancing first one wife, then another, on her knee. Politics is at the very core of the show. The reporter of politi- cal events, Janie Martin, is on the’ trail of a story and finds himself | with considerably more than he had bargained for. The interna. tional goings-on are of course cloaked in red. One lilting melody, sung with lamblike delicacy, is called “Veto, Veto, Veto’; some- where in the middle it deteriorates into the rousing bars of “Meadow- lands”. ‘Nearer home there are ambitious politicians: Jackie Lin- dau is out for money, and Barbara Pennypacker is out for women. Pennypacker was so ambitious a Rock Crystal Ball Welcomes Mystics Rockefeller Hall cordially in- vites you to attend the Crystal Ball after Junior Show. M. G. Warren and Claire Robinson, co- chairmen, have planned an eve- ning of fun, dancing, and enter- tainment. John /[/Whitaker’s or- chestra will provide music, and refreshments will be plentiful. The dance will begin at eleven and last until one. Tickets will be on sale at the door. So to complete an evening of mystery, intrigue, and fun, be on hand . and don’t forget to look for the celebrated swamis at_inter- mission. CALENDAR | Wednesday, October 10 7:15 p.m. Common Room, mar- riage lecture. 8:45 p.m. Permission Givers; meeting. Friday, October 12 - Dress rehearsal of The Happy Medium. Saturday, October 13 9:00 a.m. German oral. your dictionary! 8:30 p.m. The Class of 1953 will present The Happy Medium with an all-star (fore)cast. 11:00 p.m. “The Crystall Ball” will be given in Rockefeller Hall. The dance ends at 1:00 a.m. and all who attend may have 2:30 permission (with the OK of a PG). Sunday, October 14 The Soda Fountain will be open for breakfast in the morn- ing from 10:30 to 11:30. Coffee is very strong and black. 7:15 p.m. Chapel Service. Dr. Geddes MacGregor will speak on “The Practical Wisdom of the (Sermon. on the Mount.” Bring Continued on Page 2, Col. 3 few nights ago that the director, Kathy Lurker, had to speak sev- erely about cuddling. This brings us to women’s place in politics. Some consider them “good agitat- ors but not suited for academic positions”. Ronnie Gottlieb, as the Medium, has other ideas. She is interested in neck-romantic arts; she knows how to put over a song; her speaking voice is low and hus- ky (or, as a stage hand remarked yahoo). She is, in short, run- ning for the office of Vice Poten- tate. Other Aspects Then too, there will be some re- marks about Bryn Mawr. It seems we do nothing but knit, give tea parties, and go to the flicks, when we’re not eating at the Hearth or, perhaps, maypole dancing. Some- thing is said about Phi Beta Kap- pa, but it may not be a joke. Yet the fabulous and fantastic are not forgotten. Costumes use the signs of the zodiac. The sets, worked over by an imaginative and paint-besmattered crew, prom- ise to be both worldly and out of this world. Marilyn Reigle and Sheila Atkinson stand on _ their heads for long periods of time with no apparent strain. Judy, Mc- Culloch, a lanky blonde who seems to do anything—absolutely any- thing—gracefully, cavorts and teases. M. L, Culver is sawed in half. And the court jester, com- plete with yo-yo, is blithely called Disaster. Furthermore, the Juniors have chosen October 13 to present their show, and as everyone knows, thir- teen is a supernatural sort of number, Alliance Presents Robert Sherwood (Robert Sherwood, noted play- wright and former director of the Overseas Office of War Informa- tion will speak at the first Alli- ance Assembly of this ‘year on Tuesday, October 16 at 12:30 p.m. The title of Mr. Sherwood’s ad- dress is “Rearmament—Morality— Peace”, and because or Mr. Sher- wood’s vast experience in the na- tional defense branches of our gov- ernment as Special Assistant to Secretary of War in 1940 and Sec- retary of Navy in 1945, it should prove extremely informative. Equally outstanding in the field of playwriting, Robert Sherwood has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times: the first for “TIdiot’s Delight’, in 1936, follow- ed by his second in 1937 for “Abe Lincoln in Illinois. In 1941 his third prize was for “There Shall Be No Night”, and his fourth and most recent prize in 1949 for “Roosevelt and Hopkins”. The Class of ’52 takes great pleasure in the announcement of the following elections: President .............Bertie Dawes Vice-President ........Julie Boyd Secretary ...........Helen Loening Song Mistress ........ Lois Bishop WSSF Session Considers New Campus Plans Funds and Fellowship Essential, Says McBride The World Student Service Fund held the morning session of its conference in the Common Room on October 6th from 10:30 a.m. till 12:30 p.m. The purpose of the WSSF at this session was to discuss the New World Pro- gram of World University Service and consider plans for individual college campuses. Following the welcome to dele- gates representing twenty col- leges and universities, given by Lita Hahn, chairman of Bryn Mawr United Service Fund Drive, President Katharine E. McBride spoke on “International Coopera- tion Through Student Exchange— Gain or Loss.” President Mc-~ Bride, a Vice-President of the. Service Fund, stressed the im- portance of not only helping ex- change students by funds but also by offering them the “fellowship” and solutions to -problems--which undoubtedly present themselves ta the foreign students. Miss Mc- Bride felt that this interest of the outsider was one factor which could render the foreign student’s stay a more successful one; in studies, in impression, and in fu- ture results. Mrs. Emlen, the Regional Sec- retary of New York and the Mid- dle Atlantic States, introduced the second key-note speaker, Mr. Theodore Harris, former national president of N.S.A. and associate general secretary of World Uni- versity Service. Mr. Harris, now studying at Princeton, has recently returned from Geneva with W.U.S. His duties as secretary carried him Continued on Page 4, Col. 3 Foley Takes Office As Common Treas. Anne Foley was carefully weigh- ing her KHp in the Chemistry Lab when Alice Mitchell appeared to tell her she had just been elected Common Treasurer. Anne takes on a lot of figures with this job as she is now responsible for partial- ly budgeting and completely hand- ling the financial affairs of most of the clubs. Foley is known to all for her efficiency, and her new po~ sition will necessitate what she calls her “fifth bank account.” She. is relying on the trusty adding- machine to keep the clubs “out of the black or red, whichever is the wrong side”. She has been given some reserve assets—a large wad of play paper money—to help out in time of crisis and a junior po- lice badge, complete with a sum- mons pad for all lagging debtors. © Good luck, Foley, you sound very well prepared. POL Ce