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The College News



VOL. XLVIII—NO. 23

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1952

~ Copyright, Trustees
Bryn Mawr College,

of
1952

PRICE 20 CENTS



Lois Lawrence, Psychology Major, Attains Hinchman;
Jirina Hrazdilova Wins Eastman for Highest Average



Applebee Barn
Blueprints Ask
For New Ideas

AA Dream Materializes
In Recreation
Center

especially contributed by
Laurie Perkins, ’52

Down behind Rhoads at the side
of the all-weather tennis courts
stands the Applebee Barn, a rather
inconspicuous structure of stone
and wood. This building has been
given to the Athletic Association
to renovate and to use as the Or-
ganization sees fit. At the dedi-
eation of the Scull Property to
Miss Applebee and Miss Taylor
early last fall Miss Applebee gave
the A.A. some money in order to
start the renovation. For this we
are more than grateful. Since
last November the A.A. has been
mulling over ideas for the Barn
and it is time to tell the College
as a whole of the plans.

Naturally the details of use and
government can only be definitely

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A Brilliant Spector
Shines on Campus

“She’s a real live wire, and a
go-getter, too’, chorused Emmy
Cadwallader and Cynnie Wyeth,
and their subject was Joan Spec-
tor, the winner of the Elizabeth
S. Shzppen Scholarship in Science.
It is awarded for excellence of
work and for Joan, the work is
in Chemistry. She also merits thre
Trustees’ Scholarship, and _ the
Penvsylyania State Scholarship as
well.

Because Cf the delicate task of
interviewing a scholarship winner
before she knows that she has at-
tained this blissful state, a report-
er is very grateful indeed for two

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Yirka Hrazdilova,
Rich with Marks,

Accedes Eastman

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Jirina Marie Hrazdilova has been
awarded the Maria L. Eastman
Brooke Hall Memorial scholarship
which goes to the member of the
junior class with the highest aver-
age.

Yirka’s home is in Brno, Czecho-
slovakia. There she attended the
zymnasium through the eleventh
graaz. The American Field Serv-
ice offered her a scholarship to
Whayland Academy in Beaver,
Wisconsin, where she could com-
plete her secondary schooling.

Since she was such an outstand-
ing student at Whayland, Yirka
earned a Rotary scholarship to
Ripon College in ‘Wisconsin. Ripon,
she claims enthusiastically is the
home of. the Republican party, “I
Like Ike”, you know. But, decid-
ing that she had had enough of el-
ephants and the Middle West, she
applied to Bryn Mawr as a junior.

Poiitics has always been her
major interest, and upon her ar-

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Shepherds and Sheep Gazed Entranced
While Pages Marched & Ladies Danced

| ethers with. a dog, and all of! them

by Frances Shirley, °53

The spring of the year has ar-
rived again, and the time is come
when we shepherds and shepherd-
esses leave our homes, and go with
our sheep and lambs into the
fields. Today was May Day, too,
and a most gay occasion, with the
maidens from the village on the
high hill dancing on the green,
and music of the band playing the
familar song.

The dancers themselves moved
in the distance, for they were coni-
ing from other halls, but the lady
of all this land passed close to tne
tree and bench. She had an es-
cort of pages, too. Some of them
carried standards, and there were



wore the yellow and blue of the
lady’s house., Even the little lambs
seemed to be excited by the proud
display, such as is seldom seen
from the old tree.

There was color everywhere.
There were baskets of flowers,
and the bright coats of the danc-
ers, the streamers on the May
poles, and the banners flying from
all tne towers of the castles and
maners. There was even a stroll!-
ing :ninstrel, perched in the tree,
watching just like everyone else,
and trying to hear what the lady
and the May Queen said, and sorry
when the gaiety ended for another



May Queen Dawes
Drawls on Georgia
And Findings Here

Bertie Dawes, newly crownet
May Queen, called out all
southern charm and drawled her
way through the annual regal
speech on the morning of the firs:
ot May.

“Yo’all didn’ know ah was from
the South, didy’? Well, ah am.
Ah’m a little bit Yankee now
though, ’cause Rome is in North
Georgie.” The words came out
slowly and distinctly.

“Ah wanted to talk t’ yo’all to-

day ‘bout what ah expected when |_

ah cume to Bryn Mawr, an’ ’bout
how those expectations have been
fulfilled.”
Bertie deliberated, taught her a
phrase pregnant with significance:
“Tewit-Tewoo”, and _ philosophy
taught her that while “hist’ry is
the study of whut neveh happened
by the man who wusn’t there,
philosophy is the study of non-be-
ing.”

Lazily considering atheletics,
Bertie decided, “Ah didn’ come to
college to consideh mah body from
a mechanical point of view. Oniy
strong gentlemen”, crooned as only
a North Georgian could, “and
daisies, should rise in the athletic
field’’,

Are Arthur Doodin
Reeports frum Ark

especially contributed by
Arthur P. Dudden

Sum gurls asked me two rite a
story of the Soffmore Karnivale.
so here gose.

Tnur recly ain’t much I can say
becuz things were so wet from the
rane (and othur things witch 1!
will tell yew about in just a min-
ut) that the Karnivale wuz held
inside Pembrook Haul insted of
outsiae (witch is wear they shud
of oughta bean). And allmost

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CALENDAR
Friday, May 2

8:30 p.m. Square dance in the

gym. Admission $.50.

Saturday, May 3

_J 9:00 a. m. Spanish oral in Room
F and Italian oral in Room 6,
Taylor.

3:30 p.m. Gallicanus a play by
the mediaeval nun Hroswitha,
will be presented by the Classics
Club in the Cloisters.

Sunday, May 4

7.30 p.m. The ‘Reverend Mr.
Armand Currie, Westminster
Presbyterian Church, Nashville,
Tennessee, will speak at the eve-
ning chapel service.

Monday, May 5

7:15 p.m. Current Events in

the Common Room.
Wednesday May 7
8:30 p.m. A. A. awards pre-



year.

sented in the Common Room.

hi,



her |§

The hist’ry depahtment,

Pandas Contrast
Well with Work

States Lawrence



partment store during the summei

psychology!” No one

“Believe me—working in a de-

is excellent experience in appliec



B.M.C. Awards
Record Number
(Qf Scholarships

President McBride
Names Winners
Of Prizes

Miss Katharine E. McBride to-
day announced the scholarships to
be awarded to undergraduates at
Bryn Mawr,

The awards totalling over $50,-
000 include scholarships to stu-
lents from twenty-two states and
he District of Columbia and to

udenvs from Czechoslovakia aiid
South America.

The list of awards follows:

SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE HELD
IN THE SENIOR YEAR
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Me-
morial Scholarship, awarded to the
member of the junior class with the
highest average, and District V Spe-
cial Alumnae Regional Scholarship to
Jirina Marie Hrazdilova, of Chlad-

kova, Brno, Czechoslovakia.



is better

qualified to make such a statement
on this happy May Day than Lois
Lawrence, who has been awarded
the Charles S. Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship for excellence in the
major subject. The major sub-
ject, of course, is Psychology. Lois
adds that graduate work is in or-
der, “Probably at a large uni-
versity. But Bryn Mawr has been
and is a wonderful place to study,
for the individual is allowed to be

Charles S. Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship, awarded for work of
special excellence in the major sub-
ject, and Mary Anna Longstreth Me-
morial Scholarship to Lois Carolyn

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Shippen’s Wagoner
Waxes Elizabethan

“You can go down to Goodhart
if any of you want to‘\hear about
the scholarships, as.* there’ll be
plenty of time for you to get back
and into position’, Ann Wagoner,



just that—there is no set pattern
to follow.”

But all this active lady’s time
is not spent in Psych Lab. Square
dancing is a ruling passion, she
heads the Vocational Committee,
and the huge Panda reposing in
her room is a personally construct-
ed, crocheted one.

Parting words:
worry about being psychoanalyzed
by the ‘analysts’ you meet on
campus—really, we don’t!”

“Please don’t

winner of this year’s Elizabeth S.
Shippen Scholarship in Language,
told the shivering rehearsers for
May Day’s “Special Effects”.
French major (and Baldwin Alum-
na) Ann _ said, however, that
though she would like to win some-
thing, she knew she didn’t have a
chance.

At the moment, she seemed
more concerned with the complete-
ly extra-curricular problem of



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by Sheila Atkinson, °53

“So I smile and say, ‘When a
lovely flame dies, smoke gets in
your eyes’”. As the haunting
words of Stephanie died away
and the audience demanded an en-
core, it seemed that those lines
characterized the play Roberta.

The maids and porters with
their rich, full voices appeared to
be having so much fun on the clev-
er stage sets that the audience had
fun too. A mental smoke screen
was quickly set up, so that the
mind’s eye was barred from notic-
ing the quick glances at M. G.
prompting, up stage right. The
perpetual good-naturedness of the
casual thespians emanated the
same spirit of fun and warmth to
the audience, who left Goodhart’s



fading footlights sincerely appre-



Maids and Porters’ Roberta a Success;
Cloudless Spirits Dispell Smoke Screen

ciating the evening’s performance.

Scharwenka (Pearl Edmunds)
was the hit of the show. As Ma-
dame Roberta’s star customer,
clothes meant everything to her,
especially the ones designed by
George. She did very well without
them, however, and using John as
a microphone, she crooned “Some-
thing Had to Happen”, Sinatra
style, as the audience cried for
more,

Huck (George Bryan) enjoyed
the song even more than the audi- ~
ence as he watched his friend
John (Aloysius Mackey) wiggle
under Scharwenka’s carressing
hands and night-clubby eyes.
Huck’s versatility was a great ad-
dition to the performance. His
“Every dress has a mood” solilo-

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