VOL. XLIX, NO. 17 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1953 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1953 PRICE 20 CENTS Czech Student Attains Grant, Shapes Career Yirka Hrazdilova Wins Wilson Fellowship For Study by Susan Habashy, °54 Our president of the Internation- al Relations Club, Yirka Hrazdi- lova, came to America in 1948, among the six Czechoslovakian high school students bent on a year’s experience in American high schools—the last people to leave Czechoslovakia legally, before_ the descent of the Iron Curtain on their country. Yirka’s scholarship took her to the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where her main activity (apart from school work) was giving speeches on her country to ladies’ clubs, Rotary club meetings, and other schools— altogether some one hundred and thirty speeches. . Brno, which lies some two hun- dred miles east of Prague, is Yir- ka’s home town, and there she en- joyed the usual Czechoslovakian five years of elementary school fol- lowed by five years in “Gymnas- jum”, Recalled to Czechoslovakia -in 1950 by her country’s government, Yirka was faced with a momen- tous decision. She decided to stay: consequently returning to her country now would involve her in a five year prison term. “Although you get free board-and-room,;-you don’t get a tile bathroom and I couldn’t stand it.” Her whole fam- ily is there, but, she continued, “I think it would be better if I stay- ed: here.” After high school in Wisconsin, Yirka obtained a Rotary scholar- ship to Ripon College, Wisconsin, where she completed her freshman and sophomore years. After that she felt “A change of air was in order,” so she transferred here to Bryn Mawr College as a junior last year. Yirka has just been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. A national one, it is based solely on scholastic standing and provides tuition and full expenses, thus en- Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 Joint Clubs Read MacLeish Drama; Stage Fry’s Play The Bryn Mawr College Theatre and The Haverford Drama Club have announced the casts of their forthcoming productions, Boy With a Cart and The Trojan Horse. These plays will be given on the and actresses will take part in both. Boy With a Cart, Christopher Fry’s charming early work, has a large cast. The play involves people of the English countryside and there are only a few large parts’ along with a number of equally important smaller ones. Roger Euster of Haverford is play- ing Cuthman, the boy with the cart. Cuthman and his crippled mother (played by’ Mary Darling) are homeless, and he must pull her from place to place in his cart. The play is the story of Cuthman’s struggle to find a site for a church and to build there. early in the play as four of Cuth- man’s neighbors. Leaving these people hehind, Cythman and his mother settle in the village of Steyning where they are befriended by an old man (played by Charles Robinson), his daughter | (played by Josephine Case), and his son-in- law (played by John Pfaltz). A farmer, Jack Piotrow, hires “Continued on Page 3, Col.2 Orchestra Concert To Present Handel A festival orchestra composed of students from Bryn Mawr, Haver- ford, and Drexel colleges, under the direction of Mr. William Reese, will present a concert Fri- day evening, March 13, at Roberts Hall, Haverford. The featured work will be Han- del‘s Music for Royal Fireworks with Samuel Krauss, of the Phila- delphia Orchestra, as trumpet so- loist. The composition is written for three trumpets, three oboes, bassoon, strings, and timpani. The rest of the program will in- clude a short overture by Gluck, Rumanian Folk Dances by Bartok Gretry’s Suite of Dances, and La Vie Parisienne by Offenbach. Susan Webb Elected President Of The Underarad Association by Suzan Habashy, ’54 Merion’s Suki Webb spent Tues- day afternoon in a quiet domestic | manner actually straightening up newspapers when the good tidings arrived. Quiet domesticity did not last long, however. “Really, I was being domestic in my room, be- couse obviously I couldn’t study, when Louise came in, bearing a corsage box.” Excitement broke loose, and the Harvard Law Review, an assign- ment, remains as yet unread. Suki, | appearing in her new position, said: “T don’t know how I shall ever live up to the good job Louise has done put it will be fun trying!” She hopes that future plans will include something in the Diplomat- ic field, but before this, hopes for some graduate study at Oxford. More immediate plans? Summer will find her at Camp, in Vermont, and the Bryn Mawr Summer Camp as well, if it can be managed. Among the immediate concerns of Undergrad is the use of the Applebee Barn. Students’ use of]: it is the most “pressing need on the Agen As separds other future seins “I am terrified it may rain on May Day. I won’t know whether or not to call it off. I'll start to call the same bill, and some of the actors. Lois Parry, Laura Lee Stearns, | / Joe Stein, and John Pfaltz appear ‘Saltonstall Speaks About the Senate |At Next Assembly Leverett Saltonstall, senior United States Senator from Mass- achusetts and former governor of that state, will be the speaker at the third Bryn Mawr College Al- liance Assembly on Current Af- fairs for 1952-1958 held in Good- Kart on March 13 at 12:30. “A Senator Reports from Washing- ton” will be the subject of Sen- ator Saltonstall’s speech. A distinguished career lies be- hind the senior Republican’ sena- tor. Born in Chestnut Hill, Mass- achusetts, of a family with genera- -tions of.. New. England patriots be- ‘hind it, Senator Saltonstall grad- ‘uated from Harvard in 1914. After serving in the first World War, he was admitted ‘to the Massachu- setts bar in 1919. His: first political: post was that of assistant district attorney for! Middlesex County in 1921. Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of. Representatives for six out of his twelve years as a member, he was elected governor in 1937 and held office until 1944, a_ longer period of service in that position than any man had attained in ninety-three years. Elected United States Senator in 1944 to fill an unexpired term, Senator Saltonstall has brought to national affairs the New England common sense formerly valuable in Massachusetts state matters. CALENDAR Wednesday, March 11: Juniors. select candidates for vice-president of Self-Gov. Sophomores select candidates for secretary of Self-Gov. . College elects the president of the League. weather man now for long range reports!” : 7:30 p. m. Hygiene Lecture, Common Room. Thursday, March 12: _ Juniors and Sophomores select candidates for Chapel head and vice-president of the Alliance. Freshmen meet candidates for president of the Alliance and Common Treasurer. College elects the president of the Athletic Association. 8:30 p. m. Classics Club pre- sents Kenneth M. Setton, of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking on “Medieval Athens.” Friday, March 13: 12:30 p. m. The Alliance pre- sents Leverett Saltonstall, Sen- tor from Massachusetts, who will speak on “A Senator Reports from Washington”. Goodhart. 8:30 p. m. Concert by the com bined orchestras of Bryn Mawr Haverfort, and Drexel Institute admission $.60. Roberts Hall, Haverford. Sunday, March 15: - 7:30 p. m. Chapel Service. Ad- dress by the Reverend Arthur Lee Kinsolving, St. James Church, New York. Music Room. Monday, March 16: Juniors select candidates for vice-president of Undergrad. Sophomores select candidates Horace Alwyne There was little in Horace Al- wyne’s pianoforte recital Tuesday evening in Goodhart that could not be described with superlatives. Mr. Alwyne, Alice Carter Dickerman Professor of Music and Director of the Department of Music at Bryn Mawr, displayed his sensitive touch and versatility with a highly en- joyable choice of program, from Liszt to Villa-Lobos. It would be difficult to pick the highlights of the evening’s recital. An intricate mixture resulted from a Bach motive as interpreted by Liszt in his Variations on a Mo- tive from Bach’s Cantata “Weinen, Klaken” and the Crucifixus of the B minor Mass. The cathedral-like quality of the music was especially noticeable in the second, more sol- emn part, The Chopin selections, however, were equally outstanding; Mr. Al- wyne illustrated at least two tech- niques beautifully. In the Ber- ceuse, Op. 57, the exquisitely clear quality of the notes was almost like drops of water falling into a pool of music. In the Ballade in A Chorus Joins Club At Trinity Concert Thirty-eight members of the Bryn Mawr College Chorus will journey to Connecticut next Sat- urday to present a concert with the Trinity College Glee Club in the college auditorium in Hartford. The Chorus will offer as its part of the program Litanies a la Vierge Noire by Poulenc, Standchen by Schubert, and Hear My Prayer O Lord by F. Mendelssohn Barthol- dy. The combined vocal groups will sing Vivaldi’s Gloria with Mary Lee Culver and Rona Gottlieb as soloists. A small joint group will execute six Chansons, by Hinde- mith. The program is under the direc- tion of Mr. Robert Goodale of Bryn Mawr, and Mr. J. Lawrence Coulter of Trinity. The two colleges will again unite in a concert on April 14, in Town Hall, New ‘York, when the same program will be preesnted. Gives Recital, Plays Liszt, Chopin, Medtner by Barbara Drysdale, ’55 flat, Op. 47, the playful, easy tempo of the composition was highlighted by the composer’s (and the pian- ist’s) use of silence, Mr. Alwyne also played the fa- miliar Nocturne in F sharp, Op. 15, and the Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49. The swift change of pace in the latter was skilfully and de- lightfully handled. Sonatine by Ravel began the se¢- ond part of the program. Again the change of mood and tempo in the three movements —the quick Modere, the Mouvement de Menuet, and the Anime—was dextrously performed, especially the contrast between the more regular and _ se- date Menuet, slowing toward the end, and the spirited Anime. Reflets dans l’eau*by Debussy was a sensitively-drawn picture of the shapes and thoughts passing over the water, each time destroy- ed by the eternally running waves in the background. Mr. Alwyne’s versatility from the simple to the majestic was displayed in the sec- ond Debussy selection, L’isle joy- euse. Concluding the program were two selections ky Medtner—Son- ate-Idylle, Op. 56, and the exciting but brief Fairy Tale, Op. 26, No. 2. The disciplined complexities of counterpoint were especially en- joyable and intricate, in the Pas- torale movement of the former. Mr. Alwyne also performed three encores upon audience de- Continued on Page 4, Col. 3 Mr. Havelock Views Philosophic Conflict Eric A. Havelock, Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard Uni- versity, will deliver the Horace White Memorial lecture, to be giv- en at 8:15 p. m. on Monday, March 16 in Goodhart auditorium. Mr. Havelock is the author of The Lyric Genius of Catullus and The Crucifixion of Intellectual Man, a study of the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus. The subject of his lecture will be “The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy.” Nano A. Eristott The news came while Nano was frantically dissecting a squid—‘A horrid little animal”—in lab Mon- day afternoon, when a delegation arrived and, well, her expression was, “Overwhelmed!” Even Caru- so, Nano’s pet canary bird, had an “overwhelmed” expression — per- haps from the amount of excite- ment that went on in his mistress’ room! Excitement was certainly present. It gave vent to its feel- ings in unique poetry composition (Things were legal with Reigle; Restrictions are off with Eristoff!) by bards whose names are untold. Dinner was eventful likewise when Continued on Page 4, Col. 2 next year’s president, crowned The Collece Votes for Self Gov. Chosen President by Suzan Habashy, ’54 ‘with laurel wreath and seated on a blanket-draped throne, solemnly received the presentation of a beer bottle. Explaining her feelings, Nano emphasized how overwhelming it would be trying to follow in the footsteps of someone like Marilyn. Her greatest pleasure was in be- ing candidate with three such splendid people. “It made it all so pleasant because of that.” Nano’s activities are known to everybody. She is a history major, but with “lots of other courses.” Future plans include graduate study, but so far the comment was “don’t ask me what!” Page Two T HE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, March 11, 1953 THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914 Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in tne interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief. 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