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Wednesday, February 16, 1954

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Judy Haywood,
Pres. of the League

Because there seems to be a
great deal of confusion in general
and because I have been asked
some questions in particular, I
would like to make explicit both
the financial system and _ the
charging system under which the
Soda Fountain operates,

The Soda Fountain is operated
by the League in order to help pay.
the expenses of the Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp which every sum-
mer provides a month’s free vaca-
tion to underprivileged and D. P.
children in the Philadelphia area.
The Summer Camp is the biggest
item in the League’s budget, av-
eraging $3,000 per year. We would
not be able to continue operating
the camp if it were not for the
revenue that we obtain from the
Soda Fountain.

Not All. To Camp

For this reason, the Soda Foun-
tain is of necessity run on a profit
basis. However, not all the profits
of the Soda Fountain are given to

‘the Summer Camp. The six man-

agers this year, as in past years,
have to put a great deal of time
and energy into their jobs... They
spend easily eight to ten hours a
week working for the Soda Foun-
tain: buying the food, working be-
hind the counter, and adding up
the bills. Because their job is de-
manding and entails a great deal
of responsibility. the League does
not expect them to do this without
being paid..

So the Soda Fountain operates
under a system whereby every
year $500 is given to the Summer
Camp, $200 is left as working cap-
ital for the incoming managers,
and the rest of the profits are di-
vided among the managers.,

We feel this system has two.ma-
jor advantages: first of all, the
Summer Camp is assured of a def-

’ inite sum of money each year, and

secondly the managers are given
added incentive by the fact that
the langer the profits are, the larg-
er will be their share. This is de-

‘its come not. because Bryn Mawr



t Of League,
tain Budget

servedly so because increased prof-

ef



students have suddenly developed
insatiable appetites, or because the
prices of foods have been raised,
but because the managers have
worked harder at their jobs.

System Best

As for the charging system
which has also been under attack
—we have weighed the pros and
cons of other systems and have
come to the conclusion that the one
now in operation is the best? Any
suggestions for improvement in it
will be welcomed. As it now stands,
you are charged to the nearest dol-
lar, That means that-in your in-
itial purchase at the Soda Foun-
tain you theoretically buy a dollar
card even though the food you buy
may come to only 40 cents. Suc-
ceeding purchases are subtracted
from this dollar until it is used up
and you then buy another dollar
card. This is why Soda Fountain
bills on Payday are always an even
amount,

But as to the complaint that you
have no way of checking whether
iyou have been charged the right
amount without making duplicates
of the slips, all I can say is that
that’s correct. The managers would
appreciate your adding up the slips
yourself and then you would be
able to keep better track of how

Bryn Mawr Plans
e.
For Debating Club

Mary Calin and Ellie Silverman
are co-chairmen of the group which
hopes to put Bryn Mawr back into
inter-collegiate debating. The two
are working on plans to organize a
team, which would be under the
auspices of the Alliance. As an
added attraction, they have secur-
ed Mr. Peter Bachrach as faculty
advisor and coach.

Ellie unges that anyone interest-
ed in debating, regardless of prev-
ious experience, should plan to
come to the meetings, the dates
and time of which will be announc-
ed in the halls, or to contact her
or Mary,

The Debating Club has as its
purpose the practice of public
speaking and the exchange of
ideas, but also the “social factor,”
which can be partly explained by
the fact that they now have “ten-
tative offers” to debate at various

Of. Brun Mawr’s

specially contributed
by Evelyn DeBaryshe, ’56

paraphrase Alison Cook. Its new
format, if not good-looking, is the
most sensible and practical the edi-
tors, given their» circumstances,
could have come up with.

In printing 25, instead of last is-
sue’s 11 pieces, Counterpoint now
offers a representative view of
campus writing and, incidentally,
has produced a magazine of a plen-
itude and robustness that has been
lacking in past issues, often ane-
mic in their slimness.

This winter’s edition is a far
better one than the last; is, in fact,
the best I can recall.
of Charlotte Busse, Jean MclIn-

Liz Gordon and Constance



men’s schools.

At the beginning, the club will
hold practice debates among its
members and will also participate
in intercollegiate novice debates.
The collegiate debate topic this
year is: Resolved: that the United
States \should extend diplomatic
recognition to) the communist gov-
ernment of (hina.

Mary and\Ellie, who have been
interested in the prospects of a
team since.«last semester, took a
trip to Princeton in the fall to
study the organization of the
Princeton debate club, and to lis-
ten to the debates in the Eastern



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college tournament,



By Harriette Solow, ’56

Man has been called a social an-
imal but around Bryn Mawr he
rates second to Bumble, a black
dog often seen on campus working
with the men between “7:30 a.m.
and 5:30 p.m.

As the canine-ification_-of _the,
president of some fraternal order,
he has a wide range of acquaint-
ances. “I don’t know the people
but I know Bumble very well,” said
one man who pointed out the way
to his residence,





Gala Entertainment

Dance, Open Houses, Freshman “Sing”

Following New Orleans tradi-
tion, a “Mardi Gras’ dance was
held after the Saturday night. per-
formance of Ankles Away. Guests
received: masks at the door and
upon -entering the gym, found it
gaily decorated with crepe paper
and balloons.

Dance music was provided by
Eddie Clauson and his Orchestra,
and during intermission the Wes-
leyan Cardinals performed. Among
the numbers they sang was a med-
ley of “Biding My Time,” “Some-
body Loves Me” and “Liza.”

As every ‘Mardi Gras ball has a
king and queen, Jean Young, head
of the Dance’ Committee, drew a
name from those on the dance
tickets. Caren Meyer and her es-
eort turned out to be the lucky
couple. :

“ sonia

The traditiona] Freshman Show
week-end songfest took place Sun-
day afternoon, February 12, in
Rockefeller Hall.

Conducted by the song-mistress-

_ es of the four classes, the songfest

consisted of songs from 1958's
Freshman Show and songs from
freshman and junior shows of the
past four years. ?

Betty Vermey and Tawn Stokes.
represented the freshmen with

____“The-Patter_Song”-from-ANKLES,

1957’s LIFE, LIB-



reniealiaiae with Lucy Lindner’s
“Blue Mist” and “We Conform at

| sody in Blue”.

Of ‘58’s Week-end:

Maidenform” and “Good Morning.”

Other soloists ®ere Clare Har-
wood and Violet Shaw, who sang
“Baby” from the 1956 Junior
Show, Clare Harwood in “Big Ber-
tha,” Marcia Storch, Eloise Cly-
mer, Ann Hobson and Leslie Kap-
lan.

Folk Singing

Bryn Mawrtyrs and their dates
gathered in the Common Room last
Saturday afternoon to hear Ralph’
Rinzler and Roger Abrams sing
folk songs. They. accompanied
themselves on the guitar and
banjo.

During many old favorites the
audience sang along with the boys,
and joined in with the chorus of

many other songs.

Open Houses

“Over the Rainbow” was the
theme of the Radnor Open House
held last Friday from xine until
two. The Dragonaires from Drex-
el played, the dance music.

At the “intermission _ Hoan
Cochrane danced to “Hernando’s
Hideaway”; Betsy Hilgemberg and
Madeleine deRopp sang “La Vie en
Rose” and Maryellen Fullam enter-
tained wtih folk songs.

All the decorations carried out
the supernatural theme. The first
floor showcase was designated as
the “Garden of Paradise’ > while
another room was called “Rhap-
Up the “Stairway
of Paradise”one could find both

Concerning Some Data Pertaining
To The Existence Of One ‘Bumble’

Like the typical lodge member,
however, Bumble spends much of
‘his time “away fom home.” His
owners, Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, often
find notes from strangers tucked
into his collar. This conscientious
canine leaves the house promptly
at 7:15 a.m. (except on cold mora-
ings when he waits to get a lift
from Miss Gardiner, who lives next
door). “He is always exact,” says
Mr. Dryden who sees him going
home along Old Gulph Road at
4:33 p.m.

He generally seems to know
when it’s Sunday, but get confus-
ed when school starts on a Tuesday
or Wednesday after a vacation.
During a vacation he just “doesn’t
khow what to do... and checks
the campus every morning,” said
his owner.

Routine 3 Years Old
This routine started three years

jago when a grad student who was

living with the Perkinses brought
Bumble to visit the canine a few
TO ot ae

“T felt as though I didn’t have a
dog,” said Mrs. Perkins, who
bought Poppy, a female golden re-
triever, to be company for her four
children (ranging from six months
to six years) during the day time.

Poppy Not Enticing

Although Poppy “has rejuvenat-
ed Bumble”, who used\to be much
more dignified, she doesn’t have

|what it takes to keep him home.

|He goes out, looks back toward
her, and then continues on his way
to the campus, :

Aside;from this attempt at co-
ercion, the Perkinses haven’t tried
| to make him stay home. “He’s his
own boss.”".

Next year, however, the family
is moving about a mile down the
road to a house with an enticing
stream. “There .are no ulterior
motives,” said Mrs. Perkins. “He’s
so happy now I don’t want him to
stop.”

As to the source ‘of his name,
‘“T used to call him bumble bee,”
said six-year-old John but, as his
mother explained, “It’s eh Te-
member the reason one do-





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re,
es stand out as the issue’s
highlights, but few of the other
contributors are very far behind
them in achievement.

Although I have a fondness for
“Mary Jane Thursday” by Pat Gil-
martin and the anonymous “The
Parrot Club,” I think there can be
little doubt that Charlotte Busse’s
“The Ladder Man” is the most con-
sistently realized of the stories, in
terms of its intention. The imag-
inative quality of the humor that
seems always a part of Charlotte’s
writing is strengthened - in “the
“Ladder Man’ by the consistency
with which the tone is maintained.

Pat Gilmartin has come a long
way since last year’s “Blood And
The Moon.” Sticking to subject
matter which, even if over-worked,
is within her own experience, she
has produced a well-handled story
of real interest and some color. In
her introduction of an immigrant,
Alexis, Pat is running, probably
unconsciously, true to what is by
now a modern convention: the cre-
ation of a character — a young
child, an old Negro, or perhaps a
deaf mute, who. plays a part of
spiritual omniscience.

Mr. Parrot, of a story of almost
the same name, is a delightful ac-
quaintance; not original in concep-
tion to readers of science fiction,
but definitely something different
for Counterpoint. But Anonymous
needs to work on her — and
a few other points.

Two cheers for Counterpoint, to’

The works]: : -

‘Counterpoint’ Gives Fair Sample

Literary Talents

Jean McIntyre’s work is certain-
ly among the best in the collection,
technically — viz. “November.”
From someone as skilled, compara-
tively speaking, as she, we can ask
for more than competence in form.
Yet, if we do, I’m afraid we will
be disappointed; in neither of her
poems can I find any of that fresh,
imaginative vision that would lift
her well-turned images out of their
intellectual conception.

Constance Horton’s “Poets Must
Love” has, to my. mind, just that
quality. A short poem, it gives up
more meaning on every reading;
she has made something of beauty
out of an old, old complaint:
Poets with thoughts too dis-

content to roam

Even the narrow loneliness joy.

knows
Crowd on the still shore some-
where

And weep
Poets sing over and over

To a rose.
Although her other two poems in
this issue do not, I think, quite
achieve the disciplined expression
of unusually deep experience evi-
dent here. Connie’s work, to my
mind, is among the best on cam-
pus. If she continues to develop
the promise of these pieces she
may produce work that will be
good by any standard.

The two short poems contribut-
ed by Liz Gordon, “A Tower” and
“The Player’s Boy,’ are not of
equal quality. “A Tower,” al-
though leaning heavily on interest-
ing images is far from successful.
An extraneous line or two serious-
ly injures the rather doubtful ef-
fect of those images.

“The Player’s Boy” however, is
markedly better and its cadence
follows the meaning with extreme-
ly effective fidelity. It’s definite-
ly one of the really good poems of
the collection.

All the pieces of verse in Count-
erpoint have some merit. There is
not, unfortunately, enough room
here to mention each of the 20.

“Pendulum,” by Mary Vorys,
stands out as something that tried,
but is not rescued from immobility
by it’s baroque lay-out. “The Bean-

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Members Of “Mile”

~<--By- Anna Kisselgoff, ’58

Three more Bryn-Mawr students
have been sélected as members of
Mademoiselle’s College Board, ‘in
addition to the four Bryn Mawr
juniors whose success in the Col-
lege Board Contest was announced
in the last issue of the News.

Proof that juniors are not the
only ones who can score in the pre-
liminary’round of the competition
for the 20 Mademoiselle Guest Edi-
torships, is supplied by the fact
that two sophomoreg and one sen-
ior have also been chosen as Board
members.

Judy Mellow ’57, Beverly Mot-
tram ’57, and Nancy Fuhrer ’565,
have, in fact, probably already
submitted the first of the three as-
signments they will have to hand
in, as,they and 497 other college
studerlts vie. for the Guest Editar-
ships. : ; Ms

Calbeia

_In trying out for the Board, the}.

girls had to submit a criticism of
a Mademoiselle issue, and the
three girls concentrated on differ-
ent aspects of the magazine.

Judy Mellow’s main point was a
criticism of the fiction in the No-
| ve’







mber issue. Judy is in Miss
Gamble’s Experimental Writing

Fuhrer, Mellow, Mottram Selected

College Board

worked on her local paper, The
South Bend Tribune, studied one
summer at the Journalism Insti-
tute at Northwestern, and proudly
admits to being one of the three
girls on the staff of the Harvard
Summer News last summer.
Beverly Mottram

Beverly Mottram, the other win-
ning sophomore, criticized the way
the magazine was organized; the
ads and articles; the way they
were located in the magazine with
‘respect to each other. She has al-
ready submitted her first assign-
ment, which includes some poems
and an illustration. Beverly, who
says she will probably major in
History of Art, entered the con-
test mainly for “fun and experi-
ence.”

, Nancy Fuhrer, a senior in
Wyndham, chose the fashions in
the magazine as her main field, of
criticism, and discussed .their
adaptability to college life.

As her first assignment as Board
member, she submitted a_ short
story and some sketches of loung-
ing outfits.

Nancy, a French major, worked
on the NEWS for some time,
was represented in the last
‘of Counterpoint by a short story. —
She is a member of Mrs. Fetter’s