April 9, 1965 COLLEGE NEWS Page Three Class of 66 Yearbook Editors Jane Walton and Mary Daubenspeck prepare escape to South America. (In the suitcase are the com- pany “engravings.” ) Willis Elected President As Juniors Cast Ballots Caroline Willis became the president of next year’s senior Class, as juniors chose their pro- spective officers during a meeting Wednesday afternoon, Florence Castelle, who was secretary of her class this year, is the new vice president, and Sheila Dowling will be secretary. Senior to Self-Gov will.be ‘Lynn Scholz, secretary of Self-Gov this year. Carol Cain was elected song mistress for the second year in a row. Board Announces Faculty Additions For Autumn, 1965 New appointments to the Coliege faculty were announced this week by the president’s office, The department of Biology, Economics, ‘Geology, German and History of Art received a total of six assis- tant professors, three lecturers, and two instructors. The Biology Department has been augmented by two assistant professors who both come to Bryn Mawr from positions as Postdoc- torate Fellows. Audrey Barnett, Ph.D, has been at Princeton, and William Hopkins, Ph.D, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. George TreyZ, a Ph.D. candi- date at Cornell, joins the Econo-: mics Department as an assistant professor on joint appointment with ~ Haverford. Mr, and Mrs. William A, Craw- ford are both new assistant profes- sors in the Geology Department. Mrs. Crawford, the former Maria Luisa Buse, graduated in 1960 from Bryn Mawr, and will receive her Ph.D. from Berkeley, - New members of the German Department are Katrin T, Bean as an instructor, Marlis Cambon from the University of New Brunswick, Canada as a lecturer, and Nancy Dorian, also lecturing, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, — Charles Dempsey, Ph.D., pres- ently a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, will be an as- sistant professor in the History of Art Department. The Department will also have Stella Kramrisch, Ph.D., professor at the University of Pennsylvania as a visiting lec- turer, and John T, Paoletti as in- structor. Western Union April 8 *“Delighted to tell you Miss Katherine Ellis has been selected as one of Gla- mours ten best dressed col- lege girls for 1965. 297 ex- cellent candidates were sub- mitted and we commend you for choosing such an out- standing young woman to represent your collége.’’ . ‘Kathleen Aston Casey Editor in Chief J owe Finally, yearbook editors are Tane Walton and Mary Dauben- speck. President elect Willis was social chairman of the college this year and vice president of her sopho- more class last year. Her plans include setting up a rotation sys- tem for Undergrad attendance so that class officers in addition to the President will go to meetings. This system, she feels, would make Undergrad *‘less of a secret society.”* She also intends to line up her graduation speakers this summer and in general establish the ‘commencement program early. The yearbook editors for the class of ’66 hope to emphasize **individuality -- the whole point of Bryn Mawr’ in the annual, Their primary intention is to use professionally done candid por- traits rather than formal portraits, not only to stress individuality, but, also to incorporate more variety into the yearbook as a whole. Jane and Mary; also foresee im- proved copy, including a definite activity organization section, in which the purposes and projects of various organizations will be elab- orated, Sophomores Plan Seniors, Prof Win Fulbrights To Study Abroad In Europe, Japan Bryn Mawr students are going abroad to study. Several sopho- ‘mores have plans to enroll in universities in France, Germany, England, Switzerland, and Japan. Most of the girls are going in regular Junior Year Abroad pro- grams, but several are taking a year off to study independently. Germany seems to have the most irresistable call to the rov- ing student. Under the auspices of . the Wayne State program, Nancy Borley and Cynthia Walk are go- ing to Munich and Penny Milbouer to Freiburg where she will live in an international dormitory and take Gerinan courses at the Uni- versity and special language courses with American profes- , SOTS. Also going to Germany is a native-born German, Sibyl Klee- man, who is bound for the archae- ology department of the University of Mainz, France is also attracting “her share of foreign students, In a program operated by the wife of the director of ‘*Maxim’s’’ in: Paris, Kathy Grossman and Elana Klausner will be taking classes at the Sorbonne and attending seminafs with such eminent Frenchmen as Sartre and Mauriac’s son, At the University of Strassbourg will be ‘Patience Meigs, who will ~ be staying with a French family, and studying art and music. Schools in the University of London are welcoming Andrea Saltzman, Anna Hartmann, and Margaret Eggers. Andrea, a sociology major,: plans to take courses at the London School of Economics, where the variety is ‘fan opportunity to get per- speetive.’’ : Headed elsewhere, Lynette Pal- mer is ‘still waiting word from the International University Center in Tokyo on a year of study in Japan, and Barbara Termin is on her way as a history major to Geneva ‘on the Smith program. . Netherlands, For Studies in Fulbright grants for graduate study and research abroad have already been awarded to six Bryn Mawr seniors and to Eugene V, Schneider, Associate Professor of Sociology. The list of Fulbright awards is far from complete and may not be entirely known until the summer, Harriet Swern plans to teach in college or go into the foreign service, and will study next year at the Institute of Political Studies in Bordeaux, taking courses in Russian and diplomatic history. Barbara Thatcher, a History of Art major, will study Romanesque Italian art in- dependently under an advisor af- filiated with the University of Rome. She probably will not go on * in History of Art, but is inter- ested imarily in teaching element school, Both S Harris and Rolly Phillips a so winners of Wil- son fellowships, and both will:go into college teaching in their fields. Rolly will-study~ classical history and literature at Cambridge next year, and then go on to the Uni- versity of Washington, Sally will be working on an as yet undefined project in Bronze Age Archae- ology, particularly that of Anatolia, under Professor Tahsin Ozguc of the University of Ankara. Dr. Schneider holds a grant for research at Eindhoven in the researching at the Philips industrial plant there, and will probably also teach one lec- ture course. Other Fulbright grants will probably be announced throughout the spring. So far, however, two Bryn Mawr seniors will study in Latin America next year, Eugenie Ladner, now president of the Latin American Club and of the Senior’ Class, Will’ study at the University of Cuencain Ecuador, doing particular re- search into the problems and political role of the municipal councils in colonial Ecuador, Ar- lene Joy will work on a study of H’ford News Erroneously Notes | Merger of Economics Faculties by Darlene Preissler Contrary to the statement made in an article of the March 19 issue of the HAVERFORD NEWS, the Bryn Mawr and Haverford econom- ics department have not ‘tmerged.’? Another erroneous sentence contained in the article was that Professor Holland Hunter will ‘“‘chair the new department.”’ Although both of the above cita- tions from the article are false assumptions, it is true that the economics departments of Bryn Mawr and Haverford have recently decided to ‘‘federate.’’ Hardly a move toward uniting both depart, ments under one head, however, each college will retain its own economics chairman: Professor Morton Baratz of Bryn Mawr and professor Hunter of Haverford. The chief purpose of the federation, in the words of Professor Hunter, is to ‘‘make joint use of faculty strengths on each side while pre- serving the flexibility and indepen- dence that we all value.’’ . Several significant changes will result from. the federation, how- ever. In addition to the professors currently teaching economics at Haverford and Bryn Mawr, an assistant professor, George I. Treyz, has been jointly appointed by the two departments, The first « such joint appointee, he may beone _ ae ‘Mawr and Haverford. of several in the future. Another change will be the elimi- nation of all duplicate courses above the introductory level, that is, courses in economics on the same topic now offered at both Bryn Different courses, probably four at each col- lege, will be taught. Thus; most classes will have mixed enroll- - ments and there will most likely be a larger number of students in each class, Only the introductory courses will be separate; and in spite of certain variances in text- books, these courses will be very similar at both colleges. Two other changes not directly connected with the departments’ decision . to federate will also occur. Discontinuing the comp con- ference ineconomics at Bryn Mawr will be one. In place of this course previously required for all econ- omics majors, those majoring in that subject will instead be offered an intermediate economic theory course. At Haverford, Philip W. Bell, formerly a full-time professdr of economics, will assume the title of Adjunct Professor and instruct in only one course per semester. A lecturer, Mrs, Chiou-Shuang Yan, will teach the remainder of the time which Professor Bell would pre- viously have taught, Another Haverford professor not yet men-~<~ tioned will be Professor Howard. . M, Teaf, Jr. _ At Bryn Mawr, Professor Joshua C, Hubbard and Assistant Pro- fessor Richard B,.- Duboff will remain, Faculty Members Vote to Eliminate ‘Calendar Days’ At their last meeting prior to spring vacation, members of the faculty voted to eliminate ‘‘calen- dar days,” which include those times students must register in their classes (i.e. the last day before and the first day after vacations), The ruling will go into effect next fall, since there are no more vacations this year. The voting was not unanimous, and the question still remains as to whether the decision will cause mass exoduses or not, Rooms Students are requested to return room applications and deposits for 1965-66 as soon as possible. ic nae Mla sen ee Pirie Rome, Ankara the executive form of government in Uruguay at the University of Uruguay, and plans to continue graduate work in political science and then to go into the State De- partment. Two Professors Win Guggenheims Two members of the faculty, Hugues Leblanc, professor in philosophy, and Mrs, Willard King, chairman of the Spanish depart- ment, are recipients of Guggen- ‘heim fellowships. Mr. Leblanc will spend this sum- mer and the first part of his year proofreading his book on logic, TECHNIQUES OF DEDUCTIVE INFERENCE, Then he will travel to southern France,-and wind up in Italy and Spain for the summer of 1966. His main project will be to complete his book, A STUDY OF GENTZEN’S CALCULI OF -SEQUENCE, - for which the grant was awarded. Mrs. King will use her Guggen- heim grant to study the works of a 17th century Spanish playwright, Juan Ruiz de Alarc6n, and will be absent from the college from February, 1966. to the end of Jan- uary, 1967. Alarcén is an enigmatic literary figure who has never been exten- sively studied. Born in Mexico, he moved to Spain at the age of 20. His 24 plays, written in Spain, contain no mention of his life in Mexico or of the New World. Critics offer conflicting inter- pretations of this feature of his works. Some attribute the special qualities of his plays to his Mexi- can background, although Alarcon himself never directly refers to it. The opposing school claims that no single aspect of his art can be explained by his Mexican experi- ence. In her study, Mrs. King hopes to discover more of Alarcén and of the structure of his works. Calendar, Exams Prime Proposals For Curriculum At the March 22 joint meeting of the faculty and undergraduate Cur - riculum Committees, discussion centered on two topics: the cal- endar of the academic year andthe possibility of self-scheduled ex- aminations. The major proposal was to lengthen the first semester by add- ing days in September and omitting the entire Thanksgiving vacation as well as two days of the Christmas vacation. Should this plan be put into effect, any of three changes could result: (1) No classes after Christmas, one week for reading, one and one-half weeks for exams, and a three-day holiday; (2)-Three days of classes after Christmas, one-half week,for reading, one week for exams, and a one-week holiday; or’ (3) One week for reading, one week for exams, and also one week for a holiday. In each case, midsemester quizzes would be ‘before Thanksgiving and papers due at the.end of the Christmas vacation. Discussion of the second topic, that of self-scheduled exams under a system similar to the one of Haverford, emphasized as one point in favor of the arrangement , that it would allow a great decrease in both tension and exhaustion. Also, such a system would give all students an equal opportunity to study for their exams, Inregardto the educational values of such self- discipline, comments were both —! favorable and unfavorable.