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COLLEGE NEWS

April 9, 1965

 

Parents to View ‘Extra-Curricula %e

Frosh Show, Octangle, Dancers

*‘Extracurricula,”? a sampling

of the non-academic side of Bryn

Mawr life, will constitute part of

' the Parents’ Day program Satur-

 

day, April 10, at 3:15 p.m., not
3:30 as originally scheduled in the
program,

**Extracurricula’” was planned

The Spies listen carefully to direction notes as the freshmen
prepare ‘‘Rotten to the Core’’ for Parents’ Day “*Extra-Curricula.’’

Salt-in the Tea Adds Spice

To Parents’ Day of the Past

by Erica Hahn

Parents’ Day, that grand old
tradition, turns out not to be so
old and venerable after all, The

. very first Parents’ Day, featuring

teas, lectures, meals in the
dorms, and parents, took place

- long ago on May 2, 1953,

Even in those dark ages, the
COLLEGE NEWS supplied its own
special guide to the stately, stoic,
and sometimes silly events of the
day. For example, to acquaint
parents with their fellow
comrades: the. NEWS ran a list
of fathers’ occupations. In those
days, Daddy might have been an
archeaologist, sculptor, brewery
owner, rancher or traffic planner; ,
or again he might not.

It was a very athletic infant
tradition that May 2, which included
softball on Merion Green, a Bryn
Mawr-Goucher fencing meet (lost
in the mists of time is the identity
of the victor); and sightseeing.
“Come to the Cloisters where
blossoms are falling from the pink
cherry tree.’?

1955 brought a new innovation --
name tags; -new entertainment --
the Princeton chorus, (perhaps to
prove to Mummy that not all the
boys around here look like Haver-
ford); and a new catastrophe -- at
one of the teas salt was accidently

College Receives
Anonymous $5000

For New Trees

Joyce Kilmer, the tree fancier
who saw poems and trees would
smile graciously upon a recent
anonymous donation to BMC’s
varied monies, This new contribu-
tor has given the college a $5,000
award “‘to replace losses and for
new plantings’? of campus trees.

The award couldn’t have come
at a better time, Mrs, Margaret
Tyler Paul, retired assistant to
the President, has been given
charge of this fund and plans to use
it to save Senior Row.

The maples that line the row are
dying of blight, and various oaks
around campus are very old. These
can now be replaced, New trees
may also be planted around Wynd-
ham House, along the new path to
the science buildings, and perhaps
some evergreens around the
science buildings.

Also in line with the arbor-
conscious spirit of the administra-

. tion, the hemlocks around Pem-
- broke Arch have been trimmed.
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substituted for sugar,

Thus Parents’ Day itself is a
fairly new custom to introduce
families to their daughters intheir
other lives. The institution,
however, has become pleasantly
entrenched in the moves of Bryn
Mawr College.

by Ellen Simonoff and Mary
Delaney and will last. about 45
minutes, The showing will include
selections sung by Octangle, per-
formances of the modern dance
group, and excerpts from this
year’s Freshman Show, ‘Rotten
tothe Core: Another Prometheus
Bond Thriller.’’

Members of Octangle will sing

“Anything Goes,” ‘*Muedchen,”’

“Dancing on the Ceiling;” aiid
‘*In the Still of the Night.’? Octangle
includes Anne Clark, Penny
Pierce, April Southern. Mary Lee

-Slvess, Marge Eggers, Carol Cain

and Martha Morgan.

Dance Club will present four
numbers, First is ‘‘Lute Song’’
with Liz Schneider, Eddie Beren-
berg and Mary Farrell dancing,
The second is ‘‘Anemone’”? with
Alice Leib dancing to music by
Bartok.

The third is ‘**Improvisations
to Poetry’? with Liz Schneider,
Alice Leib, Elene Mestre, Eddie
Berenberg and Mary Farrell danc-
ing and Jane Taylor reading, The
fourth is ‘*Folk Suite’? with Toby
Williams dancing and music’ by
Miriam Maceba, The choreo-
graphy for ‘‘Lute Song’ is: by
Liz Schneider and for “Folk Suite’’
by Toby Williams,

Freshman Show, reputed to be
the most successful one in his-
tory, will be presented in a con-
densed form by the original cast
with director Lynne Meadow nar-
rating.

Admissions Office Participates
In Negro Scholar Programs

by Lynne. Lackenbach

The civil rights issue has
brought increased attention to the
problem of educational op-
portunities for Negroes. For many
years it had been the rare Negro
who cut obtain, or would even
apply fo
called ‘‘prestige’ colleges, par-
ticularly the Ivy League and the
Seven Sisters schools, y

Recognizing ¥ difficulties
posed by finances, educational
preparation, and social back-

ground, these colleges have made
extra efforts over the past few
years to encourage applications by
qualified Negroes and to provide
scholarship funds for them.

Mrs, Broughton, Director of Ad-
missions, summed up the problem
for Bryn Mawr by saying, ‘‘We
did not realize how much en-
couragement Negroes needed to
even dare apply.’’

A pioneer in the field of equal
educational opportunities, Bryn
Mawr has had Negro undergradu-
ates since 1928, and has generally
numbered Negroes among its grad-
uate students, But it is only in the
past few years that fairly
Significant numbers of Negroes
have applied. ‘‘Now they are more
awakened than ever before to the
opportunities,’’? says Mrs, Brough-
ton, ‘‘and of course few realized
that we could offer big scholar-
ships.’?

Bryn Mawr has joined several
programs to gain funds for such
scholarships, and to find and en-
courage. qualified applicants. The
newest of these plans to improve

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opportunities is the National
Achievement Scholarship Pro-
gram,

The NASP was created in 1964
by_a Ford Foundation grant and is

‘administered by the National Merit

Scholarship Corporation It offers
200 scholarships to Negro stu-
dents, and its avowed purpose
is to ‘identify, honor, and en-
courage superior academic at-
tainment’’ among Negro students.

Bryn Mawr also belongs to the
Cooperative Program for Educa-
tional Opportunity, a referral
agency sponsored by the members
of the Ivy League and the Seven
College Conference, CPEO has no
scholarship funds to offer of its
“own; it acts solely as a contact
between student and college. Its
representatives.visit schools and
talk with guidance counselors and
influential local citizens;-urging
qualified students to apply to mem-
ber colleges. These are assured
that for qualified applicants, schol-
arships, loans, and job opportuni-
ties will be provided.

As part of this program, the
College Admissions Center pro-
vides further counseling for stu-
dents who prove not:-to be eligible
for these fifteen colleges,

These, and longer established
programs such as the National
Scholarship Service and Fund for
Negro Students, are part of Bryn
Mawr’s long range plans to. en-
courage talented Negro students to
attend integrated schools. They.are
part of the reason Negro Bryn
Mawrters are steadily increasing
in number and will continue to do
so in the next few years.

(This is one of a series of arti-
cles on Bryn Mawr’s admissions
policy—ed.)

Explorers’ Tales,
Dante Commedia
In Library Exhibit

Records of early exploration in
North and South America and a
collettion of rare editions of the
works of Dante are now on exhibi-
tion in the Library. :

The books on ‘‘Early Travels
in. the New World,’’ now in the
Rare Book Room, are a gift and
bequest of Louise Bulkley Dilling-
ham of the Class of 1916, a for-
mer headmistress of the Westover
School in Middlebury, Connecticut
They range from a 1516 Bible
to a manual for priests printed
in Mexico in 1759 containing
sermons in Aztec.

Most. of the books involve the
early history of South America;
the Library will soon receive the
entire collection, including a spe-
cial group of books on the history
of Paraguay. On display, however,
are also explorers’ descriptions
of the West Indies, including a
1657 *‘True and Exact History
of the Island of Barbados,’’ with
detailed diagrams of palm trees;
and more general accounts of the
voyages, of Sir Richard Hawkins,
“Sir Walter Rawleigh,’’ and
others.

Included are a number of books
describing the’ relations of
Europeans and Indians, ranging
from John Harris’ 11744 discussion

of the dislike of California Indians _

for snuff to Bartolome de las
Casas’ ‘Exact Relation ... of
their unparallel’d Cruelties ... in

the destruction of above Forty

Millions of People,’’
The Dante exhibition in the Quita
Woodward Room, commemorating

the 700th anniversary of his birth, ©
includes a 1491 edition of THE

DIVINE COMEDY illustrated with
woodcuts, modern limited editions
of the work, and even a 19th-
century edition belonging to Walt
Whitman, ~