_a gift of $300,000 from the estate VOL. LII-NO. 21 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1956 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1956 Announce Recipients Of Scholarships For Coming Year: Ruth FE. Corn Wins Brooke Halland Hinchman Awards Louise Breuer Uses Letters To Describe & Her 4 Adventurous Years At Bryn Mawr Louise Breuer, May Queen and President of the senior class, re- lived her four years-at-Bryn Mawr in her speech given at the Maypole this morning. Reading from four imaginary letters written to her parents, Lou- ise was able to recall some major impressions and incidents of her college life. ‘As a freshman, Louise had taken her “adjustment to college life as a matter of course, bui-simce it-has. been explicitly pointed out to me by any number of people that it is a very difficult process, I have come around to their way of thinking. I have not adjusted.” ‘ From then on, things went stead- ily downhill. She was not even to be reconciled by Haverford men: “Their bearded, mustached appear- ance and their talk about existen- tialism and my inner true soul just do not contrive to make me feel— well-comfortable . . . I know noth- ing about existentialism and I not only don’t understand my inner College Receives $300,000 Bequest Bryn Mawr College has received of Mrs. Marguerite N. Farley, Miss McBride has announced. Mrs. Farley, who lived at the Mermont Apartments in Bryn Mawr, died in Palm Springs, Cali- fornia, on March 18. She named the college as the residuary bene- ficiary of her estate and directed that the income be used for schol- arships with preference for foreign students. Since World War II, Bryn Mawr has provided both graduate and undergraduate scholarships for foreign students, particularly for those from countries where univer- sity life was disrupted. Mrs. Far- ley was interested in this expand- ed program of scholarship aid. In the last sixty years at Bryn Mawr, a few foreign scholarships have been offered yearly by alum- nae and friends, Miss McBride stated, and since the war the im- portance of such scholarships has increased. The ‘interest of foreign students in study in the United States is far greater than the scholarship opportunities available to them and their experience of study in this country can bé a val- uable one for international under- standing. Pa s ~—~Faced- by-~many ~ applications, Bryn Mawr has made available for- eign scholarships, Miss McBride said, as sufficient funds could be given or set aside‘for them. “The college has not earlier had an endowment for foreign scholar- ships,” Miss McBride said, “and we are therefore especially grate- ful for the Farley Fund which will provide the means for expanded ‘service to foreign students and a more regular program of scholar-| ships which we true soul, but, mother, I never even knew I had one,” As_a sophomore, Louise suffered the numerous discomforts of pa- per-writing. She did manage to get one extension: “I went to my professor and threw myself down at his feet, explaining that I had pad of yellow theme paper, and that all the-Tines had run together; and_férthermore, I had lost my Reget.Thesaurus. He was very | understanding and gave mea whole’ extra 24 hours. However, the re- sult was rather disappointing as I didn’t get a very good grade on it. As a matter of fact, there wasn’t any grade at all—just a comment at the end: “Is English your native tongue?” Louise began her junior year in- auspiciously by failing her hygiene exam and her Spanish oral; how- ever, she was somewhat consoled by the fact that “about fifteen years ago there was another jun- ior in my predicament.” After surviving her hall faculty tea, Louise had her first personal introduction to Self- Government. “The board considered the case of a junior (myself) who returned to the hall at 3:15. The student said that she realized this was a viola- tion of the honor system but she explained that she had been stuck in the woods and unable to get to a telephone to call her wardeneThe Board, in considering the case, took full cognizance of the extenuating circumstances of her particular predicament. However, it was felt that the student displayed a decid- edly careless attitude toward the importance of a complete aed ac- curate signout. The Board stres- ed that her failure to state her ex- act destination was a serious in- fraction of the rules. Mother, I won’t be able to come home this week-end.” One more year passed, and at the end of her senior year Louise noted that “It doesn’t seem poss- ible that I am going to graduate in a month. Rather, it doesn’t seem possible that I might graduate in a month. No, as a matter of fact there isa pretty good chance that I will not graduate at all.” Although she is fifteen pounds heaivier, Louise feels that some things about Bryn Mawr haven’t changed at all. “Stevenson was running for President then, and he is, still running; The attitude on campus is objective as always. The faculty, remains impartial, unprej- rising from their backgrounds, un- touched by political propagan remain unbiased Republicans, ex- cept of course for the radical lib- eral wing—bah, social reformers. “No not much has changed— the College needed money then, and it needs even more now ... The boys we dated our freshman year are ‘still around campus—coming to fetch their wives and children.” Louise noted that “A lot of girls in the class have decided to get have long hoped | for.” .- Bator been caught in the rain with my|@ RUTH ELEANOR CORN Three important scholarships have been awarded to Ruth Eleanor Corn, an English major, class of 1957. She has'received the Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial Scholarship, given to the junior with the highest general average; the Charles S. Hinchman Memorial Scholarship, for work of special excellence in the major subject; and the Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Schol- arship, awarded for excellence of work in advanced English courses. Ruth, who lives in Rhoads Hall, attended Harpeth Hall Prepara- tory School, Nashville, Tenn. Last year’s*winner of the prize for the highest average in the jun- ior class was Ros Siman Harrison. The Hinchman award was given last year to Betsy Mendell, a math- ematics major. Play Within Play Presented May 1 This year’s May Day play, tra- ditionally given the evening of May 1 in the Library Cloisters, will be the play within. a play, from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The cast for this comic version of Pyramus and Thisbe is as fol- lows: Peter Quince, a carpenter, and the prologue: Sue Fox; Nick Bot- tom, a weaver, and-Pyramus: Riki Lann; Francis Flute, a bellows- Yhender, and Thisbe: Maya Yard- ney; Robin Starveling, a tailor, and. Moonshine: Ellie Clymer; |Snug,—a joiner, and..Lion: Kathy Kohthas; Tom Snout, a tinker, and. Wall: Pat Moran; Robin Goodfel- low: Nancy Dyer. . Anne Farlow and Betsy Johnson will play the flutes. The,directors of the play, Jean Young and Bob- bie Goldberg, would like to take this opportunity to thank the Phil- adelphia Zoo for their courtesy in providing the lion’s head. ___ The play will be presented at 6:45 in the Cloisters. In case of rain, it will be postponed until thiehest_average in the ju |and for best work in the | subject. At the scholarship assembly this. morning President McBiride announced the winners of 132 scholarships. 111 undergraduates have received scholarships and four recent graduates have won awards for medica] studies. Sue Thurman, "56 also recieved one of these awards. The total value of the scholar- ships was $85,000. Ruth Ellen Corn received thea two ‘major honorary awards for ior class as Pat Moran received the Katherine Hepburn award and Researcher Traces May Day History by Rita Rubenstein The original May Day celebra- tion began with the Northern Teu- tonic peoples to whom the first of the month symbolized the pass- ing of the intensely cold weather and the coming of the short spring and summer of the North. But the Bryn Mawr fete has a significance and history all its own. The idea was conceived by Evan- geline Walker Andrews, who was looking for a way to raise funds for a new students’ building (to- day’s Goodhart). The inspiration came one March afternoon in 1900 when she was | struck by the beauty of the cam- pus. “The Bryn Mawr English set- ting, the rolling hills and well-till- ed fields; grey stone, ivy-covered buildings of Elizabethan architec- ture with spring and May coming over the hills and youth, almost 500 strong—waiting merely for the word—why not an Elizabethan May Day?” Six weeks later the first such fete took place. And, to be gure, the costumed Bryn Mawrters’ pri- vacy was carefully guarded; pho- tography and publicity were re- stricted. A 1929 issue of the Col- lege News commented: “Today when we are accustomed to see women of all ages wearing street gowns 14 inches or more from the ground or dancing rhythmie or ballroom. dancing in the scantiest of clothing—it is rif- ficul to realize that as late as-1900 such things were not only not done, but storms of criticism were arous- ed because college girls even ven- tured to wear their sports skirts an inch above their shoetops .. .” In_a later part of .the article ..».» it was possible for a Phila- delphia critic to say that the Eliza- bethan crowd at Bfyn Mawr ‘was as leggy as young colts and for the delightful old farmer who came all the way from Lancaster to drive his handsome belted oren in the pageant to exclaim as the procession started that he never again would allow his oxen to see such a sight’.” Since then, the May Day cele- bration has been held annually ac- the evening of May 2. Continued on Page 6, Col. 5 Continued on Page 4, Col. 3 ERAS Hea President McBride Presents Scholarships To 111 Undergraduate Students Miriam Beames and Kate Collins have retained the General Motors scholarships awarded to them last year: ‘ In all, 37 juniors, 39 sophomores, and 85 freshmen are receiving awards. The winners ‘come from 22 states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and five foreign countries. ‘The following are scholarships for the year 1956-57: SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE HELD IN THE SENIOR YEAR Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Me- morial Scholarship, awarded to. the mbor.of..the iunior class with the highest average, and Charles 8. Hinch- man Memorial Scholarship, awarded for work of special excellence in the major subject, and Sheelah Kilroy Me- morial Scholarship, awarded for excel- lence of work in English, for the Ad- vanced Course, Ruth Eleanor Corn, of Franklin, Tennessee. Prepared by Harpeth Hall, Nashville, Tennessee. Special Trustees’ Scholarship, Mar- guerite Stein, of Jackson Heights, New York. Entered on transfer from Lycee a de New York, New York y. Anna M. Powers Memorial Scholar- ship, Edythe Bruce Hammond, of New York City. Prepared by the Chapin School, New York City. - , Mary Hamilton Swindler Scholar- ship, Gloria Sandra Jacower, of New York City. Prepared by Hunter Col- lege High School, New York City. Jeanne Crawford Hislop Memorial Scholarship, Barbara Flinker, of Rock- ville Centre, New York . Prepared by South Side High School, Rockville Centre, New York. New Jersey Alumnae Regional Scholarship and Class of 1903 Scholar- ship, Barbara Ann Palmer, of Irving- ton, New Jersey. Prepared by Irving- ton High School, Irvington, New Jer- sey. Mary Anna Longstreth Memorial Scholarship, Dorothy Grant Innes, of Toledo, Ohio. Prepared by Sarah Dix Hamlin School, Cali- fornia. Elizabeth 8. Shippen Scholarship in Language, awarded for excellence of work in a foreign language, Ina Gwyn Seward, of Scarsdale, New York. Pre- pared by Scarsdale High School, Scars- dale, New York. San Francisco, Serena Hand Savage Memorial Scholarship, Carole Jo Colebob, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prepared by Perry High School, Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania. Washington, D. C., Alumnae Region- al Scholarship and Thomas H. Powers Memorial Scholarship, Sally Jean Wise, of Washington, D. C. Prepared by Woodrow Wilson High School, Wash- ington, D. C. . New England Alumnae Regional Scholarship and Susan Shober Carey Award, Christine Ambler Wallace, of Providence, Rhode Island. Prepared by Mary C. Wheeler School, Provi- dence, Rhode Island. Bryn Mawr Club of Southern Cali- fornia Scholarship, Sylvia Atherton Hewitt, of Pasadena, California. Pre- pared by Westridge School, Pasadena; California. ; ee at Elizabeth Wilson). White~Memorial Scholarship, Leone Iris Edricks, of Flushing, New_York. Prepares by punter College High School, New York Be ae _-€onstance Lewis and Martha Rock- well Moorhouse Class of 1904 Memo- rial Scholarship, Sylvia Shields Allen, of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. Prepared by Upper Darby High School, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Anna Margaret Sloan and Mary Sloan Scholarship, Reva Scheinbaum, of Cincinnati. Ohio. Prepared by Wal- nut Hills High School, Ohio. Elizabeth 8. Shippen Scholarship in Science, awarded for excellence of work in science, Virginia Cox Arm- strong, of Hardin, Montana. Prepared by Dana Hall School, Wellesley, Mas- sachusetts. Book Shop Trustees’ Scholarship, R. Suzanne Levin, of Mt. Pleasant, Penn- svivania. Prepared by Ramsay High Cincinnati, | School, Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. George Bates Hovkins Memoria Scholarship. Mildred Kestenbaum Klein, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Entered on transfer from Wells Col- lege, Aurora, New York. Tuition Exchange Scholarship, Stef- anie Haines Hetzel, of Haverford. Pennsvivania. Prepared by Westtown School. Westtown, Pennsylvania. Lilia Babbitt Hyde Foundation Secholarshin. Margarethe Christine Liedke, of West Englewood. New Jer- sev, Prepared bv Teaneck High School, Teaneck, New Jersey. Awellta Richards Scholarship, Mary- lyn Elliott Jones, of Scranton. Penn- avivania. Prepared by Central High School. Scranton. Pennsylvania. Katharine Hepburn Scholarship, Pa- tricia Moran. of Arlington. Virginia. Prenared by Washineton-Lee High School, Arlineton, Virginia. Continued on Page 4, Col. 1