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_a gift of $300,000 from the estate









VOL. LII-NO. 21

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR,

PA., TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1956

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1956



Announce Recipients Of Scholarships For Coming Year:
Ruth FE. Corn Wins Brooke Halland Hinchman Awards



Louise Breuer Uses

Letters To Describe &

Her 4 Adventurous Years At Bryn Mawr

Louise Breuer, May Queen and
President of the senior class, re-
lived her four years-at-Bryn Mawr
in her speech given at the Maypole
this morning.

Reading from four imaginary
letters written to her parents, Lou-
ise was able to recall some major
impressions and incidents of her
college life.

‘As a freshman, Louise had taken
her “adjustment to college life as

a matter of course, bui-simce it-has.
been explicitly pointed out to me by
any number of people that it is a
very difficult process, I have come
around to their way of thinking. I
have not adjusted.” ‘
From then on, things went stead-
ily downhill. She was not even to
be reconciled by Haverford men:
“Their bearded, mustached appear-
ance and their talk about existen-
tialism and my inner true soul just
do not contrive to make me feel—
well-comfortable . . . I know noth-
ing about existentialism and I not
only don’t understand my inner



College Receives
$300,000 Bequest

Bryn Mawr College has received

of Mrs. Marguerite N. Farley, Miss
McBride has announced.

Mrs. Farley, who lived at the
Mermont Apartments in Bryn
Mawr, died in Palm Springs, Cali-
fornia, on March 18. She named
the college as the residuary bene-
ficiary of her estate and directed
that the income be used for schol-
arships with preference for foreign
students.

Since World War II, Bryn Mawr
has provided both graduate and
undergraduate scholarships for
foreign students, particularly for
those from countries where univer-
sity life was disrupted. Mrs. Far-
ley was interested in this expand-
ed program of scholarship aid.

In the last sixty years at Bryn
Mawr, a few foreign scholarships
have been offered yearly by alum-
nae and friends, Miss McBride
stated, and since the war the im-
portance of such scholarships has
increased. The ‘interest of foreign
students in study in the United
States is far greater than the
scholarship opportunities available
to them and their experience of
study in this country can bé a val-
uable one for international under-
standing. Pa s
~—~Faced- by-~many ~ applications,
Bryn Mawr has made available for-
eign scholarships, Miss McBride
said, as sufficient funds could be
given or set aside‘for them.

“The college has not earlier had
an endowment for foreign scholar-
ships,” Miss McBride said, “and
we are therefore especially grate-
ful for the Farley Fund which will
provide the means for expanded
‘service to foreign students and a

more regular program of scholar-|

ships which we

true soul, but, mother, I never even
knew I had one,”

As_a sophomore, Louise suffered
the numerous discomforts of pa-
per-writing. She did manage to
get one extension: “I went to my
professor and threw myself down
at his feet, explaining that I had

pad of yellow theme paper, and
that all the-Tines had run together;
and_férthermore, I had lost my
Reget.Thesaurus. He was very |
understanding and gave mea whole’
extra 24 hours. However, the re-
sult was rather disappointing as
I didn’t get a very good grade on
it. As a matter of fact, there
wasn’t any grade at all—just a
comment at the end: “Is English
your native tongue?”

Louise began her junior year in-
auspiciously by failing her hygiene
exam and her Spanish oral; how-
ever, she was somewhat consoled
by the fact that “about fifteen
years ago there was another jun-
ior in my predicament.”

After surviving her hall faculty
tea, Louise had her first personal
introduction to Self- Government.
“The board considered the case of
a junior (myself) who returned to
the hall at 3:15. The student said
that she realized this was a viola-
tion of the honor system but she
explained that she had been stuck
in the woods and unable to get to
a telephone to call her wardeneThe
Board, in considering the case, took
full cognizance of the extenuating
circumstances of her particular
predicament. However, it was felt
that the student displayed a decid-
edly careless attitude toward the
importance of a complete aed ac-
curate signout. The Board stres-
ed that her failure to state her ex-
act destination was a serious in-
fraction of the rules. Mother, I
won’t be able to come home this
week-end.”

One more year passed, and at
the end of her senior year Louise
noted that “It doesn’t seem poss-
ible that I am going to graduate
in a month. Rather, it doesn’t seem
possible that I might graduate in
a month. No, as a matter of fact
there isa pretty good chance that
I will not graduate at all.”

Although she is fifteen pounds
heaivier, Louise feels that some
things about Bryn Mawr haven’t
changed at all. “Stevenson was
running for President then, and he
is, still running; The attitude on
campus is objective as always. The
faculty, remains impartial, unprej-
rising from their backgrounds, un-
touched by political propagan
remain unbiased Republicans, ex-
cept of course for the radical lib-
eral wing—bah, social reformers.

“No not much has changed— the
College needed money then, and it
needs even more now ... The boys
we dated our freshman year are
‘still around campus—coming to
fetch their wives and children.”
Louise noted that “A lot of girls
in the class have decided to get



have long hoped |
for.” .- Bator



been caught in the rain with my|@



RUTH ELEANOR CORN

Three important scholarships
have been awarded to Ruth Eleanor
Corn, an English major, class of
1957. She has'received the Maria
L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial
Scholarship, given to the junior
with the highest general average;
the Charles S. Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship, for work of special
excellence in the major subject; and
the Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Schol-
arship, awarded for excellence of
work in advanced English courses.

Ruth, who lives in Rhoads Hall,
attended Harpeth Hall Prepara-
tory School, Nashville, Tenn.

Last year’s*winner of the prize
for the highest average in the jun-
ior class was Ros Siman Harrison.
The Hinchman award was given
last year to Betsy Mendell, a math-
ematics major.

Play Within Play
Presented May 1

This year’s May Day play, tra-
ditionally given the evening of May
1 in the Library Cloisters, will be
the play within. a play, from
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream.

The cast for this comic version
of Pyramus and Thisbe is as fol-
lows:

Peter Quince, a carpenter, and
the prologue: Sue Fox; Nick Bot-
tom, a weaver, and-Pyramus: Riki
Lann; Francis Flute, a bellows-
Yhender, and Thisbe: Maya Yard-
ney; Robin Starveling, a tailor,
and. Moonshine: Ellie Clymer;

|Snug,—a joiner, and..Lion: Kathy

Kohthas; Tom Snout, a tinker, and.
Wall: Pat Moran; Robin Goodfel-
low: Nancy Dyer.
. Anne Farlow and Betsy Johnson
will play the flutes. The,directors
of the play, Jean Young and Bob-
bie Goldberg, would like to take
this opportunity to thank the Phil-
adelphia Zoo for their courtesy in
providing the lion’s head. ___

The play will be presented at
6:45 in the Cloisters. In case of
rain, it will be postponed until

thiehest_average in the ju
|and for best work in the
| subject.

At the scholarship assembly
this. morning President McBiride
announced the winners of 132
scholarships. 111 undergraduates
have received scholarships and four
recent graduates have won awards
for medica] studies. Sue Thurman,
"56 also recieved one of these
awards.

The total value of the scholar-
ships was $85,000.

Ruth Ellen Corn received thea
two ‘major honorary awards for
ior class

as
Pat Moran received the

Katherine Hepburn award and



Researcher Traces
May Day History

by Rita Rubenstein

The original May Day celebra-
tion began with the Northern Teu-
tonic peoples to whom the first
of the month symbolized the pass-
ing of the intensely cold weather
and the coming of the short spring
and summer of the North. But the
Bryn Mawr fete has a significance
and history all its own.

The idea was conceived by Evan-
geline Walker Andrews, who was
looking for a way to raise funds
for a new students’ building (to-
day’s Goodhart).

The inspiration came one March
afternoon in 1900 when she was

| struck by the beauty of the cam-

pus. “The Bryn Mawr English set-
ting, the rolling hills and well-till-
ed fields; grey stone, ivy-covered
buildings of Elizabethan architec-
ture with spring and May coming
over the hills and youth, almost
500 strong—waiting merely for the
word—why not an Elizabethan May
Day?”

Six weeks later the first such
fete took place. And, to be gure,
the costumed Bryn Mawrters’ pri-
vacy was carefully guarded; pho-
tography and publicity were re-
stricted. A 1929 issue of the Col-
lege News commented:

“Today when we are accustomed
to see women of all ages wearing
street gowns 14 inches or more
from the ground or dancing
rhythmie or ballroom. dancing in
the scantiest of clothing—it is rif-
ficul to realize that as late as-1900
such things were not only not done,
but storms of criticism were arous-
ed because college girls even ven-
tured to wear their sports skirts
an inch above their shoetops .. .”
In_a later part of .the article
..».» it was possible for a Phila-
delphia critic to say that the Eliza-
bethan crowd at Bfyn Mawr ‘was
as leggy as young colts and for
the delightful old farmer who
came all the way from Lancaster
to drive his handsome belted oren
in the pageant to exclaim as the
procession started that he never
again would allow his oxen to see
such a sight’.”

Since then, the May Day cele-
bration has been held annually ac-



the evening of May 2.



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ERAS Hea

President McBride Presents Scholarships
To 111 Undergraduate Students

Miriam Beames and Kate Collins
have retained the General Motors
scholarships awarded to them last
year: ‘

In all, 37 juniors, 39 sophomores,
and 85 freshmen are receiving
awards. The winners ‘come from
22 states, the District of Columbia,
Hawaii and five foreign countries.

‘The following are scholarships
for the year 1956-57:

SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE HELD
IN THE SENIOR YEAR

Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Me-
morial Scholarship, awarded to. the
mbor.of..the iunior class with the
highest average, and Charles 8. Hinch-
man Memorial Scholarship, awarded
for work of special excellence in the
major subject, and Sheelah Kilroy Me-
morial Scholarship, awarded for excel-
lence of work in English, for the Ad-
vanced Course, Ruth Eleanor Corn, of
Franklin, Tennessee. Prepared by
Harpeth Hall, Nashville, Tennessee.

Special Trustees’ Scholarship, Mar-
guerite Stein, of Jackson Heights, New
York. Entered on transfer from Lycee
a de New York, New York

y.

Anna M. Powers Memorial Scholar-
ship, Edythe Bruce Hammond, of New
York City. Prepared by the Chapin
School, New York City. - ,

Mary Hamilton Swindler Scholar-
ship, Gloria Sandra Jacower, of New
York City. Prepared by Hunter Col-
lege High School, New York City.

Jeanne Crawford Hislop Memorial
Scholarship, Barbara Flinker, of Rock-
ville Centre, New York . Prepared by

South Side High School, Rockville
Centre, New York.
New Jersey Alumnae Regional

Scholarship and Class of 1903 Scholar-
ship, Barbara Ann Palmer, of Irving-
ton, New Jersey. Prepared by Irving-
ton High School, Irvington, New Jer-



sey.

Mary Anna Longstreth Memorial
Scholarship, Dorothy Grant Innes, of
Toledo, Ohio. Prepared by Sarah Dix
Hamlin School, Cali-
fornia.

Elizabeth 8. Shippen Scholarship in
Language, awarded for excellence of
work in a foreign language, Ina Gwyn
Seward, of Scarsdale, New York. Pre-
pared by Scarsdale High School, Scars-
dale, New York.

San Francisco,

Serena Hand Savage Memorial
Scholarship, Carole Jo Colebob, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prepared by

Perry High School, Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania.

Washington, D. C., Alumnae Region-
al Scholarship and Thomas H. Powers
Memorial Scholarship, Sally Jean Wise,
of Washington, D. C. Prepared by
Woodrow Wilson High School, Wash-
ington, D. C. .

New England Alumnae Regional
Scholarship and Susan Shober Carey
Award, Christine Ambler Wallace, of
Providence, Rhode Island. Prepared
by Mary C. Wheeler School, Provi-
dence, Rhode Island.

Bryn Mawr Club of Southern Cali-
fornia Scholarship, Sylvia Atherton
Hewitt, of Pasadena, California. Pre-
pared by Westridge School, Pasadena;
California. ; ee at

Elizabeth Wilson). White~Memorial
Scholarship, Leone Iris Edricks, of
Flushing, New_York. Prepares by
punter College High School, New York

Be ae

_-€onstance Lewis and Martha Rock-

well Moorhouse Class of 1904 Memo-
rial Scholarship, Sylvia Shields Allen,
of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. Prepared
by Upper Darby High School, Upper
Darby, Pennsylvania.

Anna Margaret Sloan and Mary
Sloan Scholarship, Reva Scheinbaum,
of Cincinnati. Ohio. Prepared by Wal-
nut Hills High School,

Ohio.

Elizabeth 8. Shippen Scholarship in
Science, awarded for excellence of
work in science, Virginia Cox Arm-
strong, of Hardin, Montana. Prepared
by Dana Hall School, Wellesley, Mas-
sachusetts.

Book Shop Trustees’ Scholarship, R.
Suzanne Levin, of Mt. Pleasant, Penn-
svivania. Prepared by Ramsay High

Cincinnati,

| School, Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania.

George Bates Hovkins Memoria
Scholarship. Mildred Kestenbaum
Klein, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Entered on transfer from Wells Col-
lege, Aurora, New York.

Tuition Exchange Scholarship, Stef-
anie Haines Hetzel, of Haverford.
Pennsvivania. Prepared by Westtown
School. Westtown, Pennsylvania.

Lilia Babbitt Hyde Foundation
Secholarshin. Margarethe Christine
Liedke, of West Englewood. New Jer-
sev, Prepared bv Teaneck High School,
Teaneck, New Jersey.

Awellta Richards Scholarship, Mary-
lyn Elliott Jones, of Scranton. Penn-
avivania. Prepared by Central High
School. Scranton. Pennsylvania.

Katharine Hepburn Scholarship, Pa-
tricia Moran. of Arlington. Virginia.
Prenared by Washineton-Lee High
School, Arlineton, Virginia.



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