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College news, May 6, 1953
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 39, No. 22
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BMC-News-vol39-no22
Wednesday, May.6, 1953
- THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
“SLID” Anticipates
College Conference
On Our Democracy
“Conformity and Dissent in Our
American Democracy” will be the
subject of a two-day student con-
ference to be held in New York
City, June 12 and 13, 1953.
The conference, which is being
organized by students, will fea-
ture moderators and __ student
speakers, who will share the plat-
form with well known experts from
various fields. It will be open to
the public, with registration on the
first day of the conference. Stu-
dents who attend schools outside
New York, but whose homes are
here, will be able to participate be-
cause the conference is being held
at the end of the semester.
On Saturday, June 138th, the con-
ference will divide into three
panels, running concurrently.
Panel number one, entitled “Con-
formity in Information Media,
Literature and the Arts”, will deal
with the one party press and the
effects of private censorship on
radio, T.V. and films.
Threats to Education
The second panel will be con-
cerned with “Threats to Educa-
tion from the Right and Left’’, and
will deal with the question of Com-
munist teachers, and of private
pressure groups and their effects
on the schools. Panel number
three on “The Effects of Conform-
ity on Our Foreign Policy and on
America’s Prestige Abroad’, will
deal with the implications of po-
litical warfare.
The conference is being spon-
sored by the Student League for
Industrial Democracy, America’s
oldest campus Liberal society. In
the words of John Dewey, the
League is dedicated to the task of
education on behalf of “increasing
democracy in every aspect and
reach of our common life.” Head-
quarters of the SLID is at 112 East
19th Street, New York 3. N. Y.
Following the conference, the
$.L.L.D. will hold its national con-
vention.
SPORTS
by Lynn Badler, ’56
Both spring sports represented
by varsities—lacrosse and tennis—
played varsity games on April 29.
In tennis the varsity of Bryn Mawr
defeated the varsity of Temple 5-0,
and the junior varsity also de-
feated Temple 5-0. For the var-
sity, Patsy Price, Pauline Smith,
and Maggie Stehli played in the
singles matches, and Lois Bonsal
with Harriet Cooper and Bea Mer-
rick with Sarane Hickox were the
doubles stars. The junior varsity
team consisted of Phil Tilson, Ann
Peterkin, and Ann Fosnocht as
members of the singles team, and
Suki Kuser playing with Nancy
Potts and Laura Larson playing
with Glenna Vare as members of
the doubles group.
In lacrosse Bryn Mawr was beat-
en by Penn 14-2. The line-up was
as follows:
1st Home—Gail Gilbert
2nd Home—Ann Wagoner
8rd Home—Deirdre Hanna
Right Attack—Gay Ramsdell
Left Attack—Saren Merritt
Center—Jan Wilmerding
Right Defense—Wendy Ewer
Left Defense—Ann Coe
38rd Man—Terry Osma
Cover Point—Sally Kennedy
Point—Mary Jane Chubbuck
Goal—Barbara Bornemann
Substitutes — Meredith Treene,
Carlene ‘Chittenden, and Peggy
Hall. ,
On Wednesday, May 6, Bryn
Mawr will play Penn in tennis at
home.
Coatesville Group
Presents Comedy
‘Sailor’s Minstrel’
“The Sailors’ Minstrel” headed
the playbill on Thursday, April 30,
when Bryn Mawr members of The
Little Theatre Players participat-
ed in their last play of the season.
“The Minstrel”, written by a pa-
tient at Coatesville Veterans’ Hos-
pital, deals with a group of sailors
who invite girls aboard ship and
is the story of how one girl con-
vinces the captain that he should
forget the rules and let her friends
stay aboard. The persuasive fem-
ale, played by Vicky Kraver, chair-
man of the Bryn Mawr group, was
supported by a cast including Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania students,
Coatesville patients, and Bryn
Mawr undergraduates.
“We put on musicals just for the
fun of it”, Vicky explains. “You
don’t have to be talented or spend
a lot of time.” This applies to cos-
tumes as well as acting and sing-
ing. Street clothes, gym suits, and
ingenuity helped supply atmos-
phere for “Theatre Party” the Feb-
ruary play.
The three shows Bryn Mawr
shares are planned to leave stud-
ents with free time to study before
major exams. Other members of
The Little Theatre fill in to pro-
vide a play every month.
‘News’ Selects New
Subscription Editor
“Who? Me?” was Di Facken-
thal’s first comment when asked
if she would act as subscription
manager for the News. A dele-
gation of two caught up with her
just between lunch and sophomore
song meeting.
Di has been a member of the
junior varsity hockey squad and a
hall Athletics Association repre-
sentative. She also sings in Col-
lege Chorus.
Between Chorus rehearsals,
hockey practice (in season), and
labs (a math major), Di is to be
found in her room—the room to
the left in the alcove to the right
at the beginning of third corridor,
second floor in Rock—with her two
stuffed and amiable roommates, a
lion named Lucifer and mother and
‘child kangaroos, Kate and Dupli-
Kate.
For those who may arrive at
the Music Room next Sunday,
May 10, at 7:30 for Chapel Ser-
vice and find no one there, the
Chapel Committee wishes to an-
nounce that the final chapel of
the year, with an address by the
Reverend James T. Cleland,
Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina, will be held in
the Deanery Garden.
Classicisis to Give
Final Tea, Lecture
At 4:30 in the Common Room on
Thursday, May 7, Miss Berthe
Marti, Associate Professor of
Latin, will speak on “Student Life
in the Middle Ages.” The tea and
lecture are sponsored by the Class-
ics Club and will be their last
meeting with a speaker for the
year. Miss Marti’s field is Medie-
val Latin. The Classics Club urg-
es all those interested in the Mid-
dle Ages, in Latin, or in an inter-
esting lecture to come to their last
tea.
Letters from
Abroad
Modestly, quietly, almost hap-
hazardly, during the months I have
been staying with them in Paris,
the Carpentiers have tried to -ex-
plain to me what it was like to live
through a war. Their story is of
indiviauals, yet it refiects the ha.d-
ships and courage of all France:
Madame Carpentier, as I know
her, is a dignified, indomitable lady
with white hair and dark, spark-
ling eyes. She manages to com-
bine a broad curiosity about the
world and all its people with a pre-
cise ambition to master every sit-
uation that comes her way. She
rules a large family of children
and grandchildren with tact and
authority, and in her spare time
directs committees for the Red
Cross and the Cancer League. But
sometimes, in a quiet moment,
when she is tired, she pauses and
thinks aloud: “When I remember
all I have lived through, I wonder
that I’m still here.”
Then she talks of the German
Occupation: of what it meant in
day-to-day life, of what it was
like on a few, terrible days.
Lack of Heat
Because her husband, who died
just at the end of the war, was
Mayor of the 6th arrondissement,
his family remained in Paris dur-
ing the four long years of the Oc-
cupation, from July 1940 to Aug-
ust 1944. During this time the
material conditions of life—heat,
clothes, and especially food—were
bad enough, but the emotional un-
certainties—fear and _ suspicion,
and constant secrecy—were “unim-
aginable”.
The Carpentier house has the
massive, magnificent proportions
that were fashionable in the 1870’s,
with spacious drawing rooms and
windows fourteen feet high. It is
not easy to heat, even in peace-
time. And the Germans allotted
almost no wood, oil or coal for pri-
vate use. Winters must have been
as damp and marrow-chilling in-
doors as they were outdoors; and
for some reason, the war years
brought particularly ruthless
weather. The Carpentiers, in their
imposing private house, had chil-
blains.
Food and Clothing Scarce
It was rarely possible to buy
new clothes, either for warmth or
for decency, under the rationing
system. Madame made dresses
from curtains and slipcovers, or
traded outgrown children’s clothes
for things which came nearer fit-
ting. Her young daughter, Mar-
tine, was delighted at the chal-
lenge. She turned into an accom-
plished cobbler, making shoes from
blocks of wood and bits of old ma-
terial.
The worst problem was food.
Rationing allowed less calories per
day than what is considered the
minimum to keep alive. (Gas for
cooking was turned on only a few
hours at a time, sometimes one and
three in the morning, just out of
spite. There was no butter, hard-
ly any fat. Madame took to mak-
ing salad dressing out of cod liver
oil. There was a rare, tough little
piece of meat, perhaps once a
month. The best fish went to the
Germans, and stores sold escalope
de poisson, a pulp made of bones
and fishheads. The vegetable sup-
ply varied from season to season.
The staple was a large yellow tur-
nip called a rutabaga, and at times
the family just ate rotting, uncook-
ed potatoes.
The black market was run by
bofs, collaborators who made great
fortunes selling butter, eggs and
cheese (beurre, oeufs, fromage).
The majority of the French people,
however, were too poor to buy ex-
tra rations, and many died of hun-
ger.
Continued on Page 4, Col. 1
“Murder by Mail”
Delivers Intrigue,
“Taste Of Death”
by Harriette Solow, ’56
“The headline of a Toronto news-
paper was McGrew Mixes Murder
and Mediaeval Studies, or maybe it
was Mediaeval Interest,” explained
Julia McGrew, winner of a Work-
man Fellowship. “I guess it might
be called a mixture when some-
one does two things in the same
Hiifetime,” “she continued, ‘I’ll de-
vote my time to higher things
next year.”
Emphasis on “higher things’ (a
Ph.D. in the field of Mediaeval
Languages and Literature) means
a vacation for Fenn McGrew, au-
thor of Murder by Mail and Taste
of Death. The latter, published in
1958, was written by Mrs. Tom
Fenn with plot and structure sup-
plied by Julia McGrew.
“Mediaeval Studies” might be
responsible for forming a writing
team consisting of a student who
received her B.S. and M.A. at
Oberlin, and of the wife of the
head of the Government Depart-
ment there. The mysteries, in
turn, help “buy many mediaeval
texts and dictionaries.”
As a book, Taste of Death has no
connection with mediaeval ages. A
small girls’ boarding school in
Ohio is the setting. The dramatics
teacher was stabbed just as she
was about to make the spot where
Julius Caesar would be stabbed in
the play which was to be given
the next day. A cast of very in-
teresting characters increases the
fun of “who-done it?” These in-
clude the domineering author of
pamphlets entitled “How to Plant
the Seeds of Assumption of Group
Responsibility” and “How to Pre-
vent Individual Members of the
Group from Verbalizing Their Own
Prejudices”, a very imaginative
and neurotic student, teacher-
roommates who argue the ques-
tion of marriage versus study, and
a police lieutenant who, according
ato the book jacket, “fosters a ro-
mance.”
French Club Farce
Given Drama Prize
Jules Supervielle’s farce La Pre-
miere Famille, as presented by the
Bryn Mawr French Club at the
Cultural Olympics held in Hous-
ton Hall at the University of Penn-
sylvania on February 26, has won
an “Award of Merit in French
-Drama”. This will be formally
awarded on Friday, May 8, at the
Academy of Music.
Directed by M. Gonnaud and
with sets by Fritz Janschka, the
play deals with the problems of
Adam, who is irresistibly drawn
to all females except Eve. The
cast of characters (complete with
a reindeer, a bear, and even a
marvelous dinosaur) includes Jean-
Louis Wolff, Edith Robichon, Sue
Halperin, George Segal, and M.
Leblanc.
Vogue Offers Job
For Contest Prize
Vogue magazine has announced
its 19th Prix de l’aris, open to
next year’s seniors. First prize will
be a year’s job on Vogue with six
months of the year in their Paris
office. Second prize is a six months’
job on Vogue. Ten honorable men-
tion awards include a $25 cash
prize and top consideration for
jobs on The Conde Nast Publica-
tions.
If you wish further details, write
to the Prix de Paris Director,
Vogue, 420 Lexington Avenue,
New York 17.
rmona in Othello.
S.D.A. To Present
Labor Union Movie.
‘With These Hands’
“With These Hands” the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
were organized into a union. Recall-
ing his work in a 1910 sweatshop,
Alexander Brody (Sam _ Levene)
traces the history of struggle
leading to the eventual goal of
stability and ‘security for the gar-
ment workers. This movie will be
shown by S. D. A. in conjunction
with League and Alliance Thursday
night, May 7, at 8:30 in the Com-
mon Room.
Documentarily accurate, the film
is humanized to provide a striking
picture of the development of or-
ganized labor. Told through the
life of one man who helped build
this particular union, the story car-
ries through to the point where the
sixty-five-year-old worker can re-
tire under the Union Pension Fund.
Although the film describes defin-
ite incidents in the growth of one
union, it is, in a more general
sense, the story of every union.
The first film ever made by a labor
union stars Sam Levene and Arlene
Francis as a worker and his wife.
On April 29, the Legislature
voted to accept the new League
Constitution and the changes in
the Alliance Constitution. Drawn
up by Molly Plunkett, Patsy
Price, and their boards, the new
constitutions are now in effect.
Kemp Chosen Head
Of Freshman Week
If you see a preoccupied some-
one who goes around worryg
about scheduling a dance, a fur-
niture sale, and various other
events, a safe bet will be that she’s
the chairman of next year’s Fresh-
man Week committee, Elsie Kemp.
Upon her rests the responsibility
of seeing that next year’s Fresh-
men feel more or less at home and
familiar with the campus within
the space of one all-too-short week.
An English major, Elsie spends
a good deal of time and effort in
College Theater. A notable per-
formance was last year’s Desde-
A busy Junior
(especially now) Elsie calls both
Baltimore and Pem West home.
Observer
The park sounds with the sharp
cries of remote seagulls, children’s
calls, the shriek of a hammer on
the hub of a flat tire and the
rasps of the starling. All around -
the city’s life swirls, a far-off mur-
mur, covered by the cries of the
park. Still, amid the bustle, two
children sit on opposite benches,
looking shyly at each other. The
old ladies nod in the sunshine or
talk quietly to themselves. The
children wander over to the statue
and try climbing it from different
sides. One reaches the bronze
foot. The other peeps around in
admiration. She runs back and
picks up her skip-rope. A young
couple wanders along the path
aimlessly, hand in hand. An old
woman in a wheel-chair goes to
sleep, her head with its flowered
hat rolling tiredly to one side. The
little girl whirls her rope faster
and faster and the other is drawn
by its magic swirl— Orange and
Pink jump together and Orange
misses. Pink explains and the two
jump together. Orange asks her
mother if she can come again to-
morrow as Pink goes home. The
heat swims on the pavement and
the old woman smiles in her sleep.
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