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VOL. XLVI—NO. 1

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1960

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1960

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Registration, Appointments Keep 185 Freshmen in Dither;
Campus to Split Seams at Record Return of Upperclassmen





A Haverford student walks through the M. Carey Thomas

Memorial Library.

Tour’s Spin About Library
Circuits Square Doughnut

If the kitchen is the heart of the
home and the tea pantry is the
heart of the dorm, the library must
certainly be called the heart of a
college campus. At Bryn Mawr
this truism is less a figure of
speech than a geographical fact.

The massive, Gothic, grey-stoned
building (covered with ivy, of
course) stands directly, opposite
Taylor Hall. Almost every build-
ing on the campus can be located
either to the right, to the left, in
front of, or behind the library. De-
spite its venerability, it is described
most often, with a decided lack of
both reverence and architectural
accuracy, aS a Square doughnut—
the Cloisters being the hole.

Choice Imperative

As you enter the main door you
are forced—as you all too often are
at college it seems—to make a
choice. You can either mount the
flight of stairs directly in front of
you or go down one of the twin
flights of stairs on either side.
Since what goes up must come
down and the converse is not nec-
essarily true, go up first. The main
reading room is the impressive
sight which meets your eyes.

Two stories high with tall Gothic
windows and filled with rows of
desks, this room is the second home
of many Bryn Mawr students.

Reserve Room

Turning left down the aisle be-
tween the desks, you arrive at the
Reserve Room. Here, if you are
lucky, you will find a copy of the
book your history professor put on
your reading list. Student watch-
dogs preside-over—thisroom to
enforce the rules of fair play (“But
I was here first and the exam is
tomorrow!”). Directly opposite is
the Reference Room where ency-
clopedias and dictionaries await
perusal.

If you retrace your steps and go
down where you previously went
_ up to the main reading room, you

reach the stacks, or where the
books are. Try not be too dis-
concerted as you walk on the glass
floor; with positive thinking, the
black runners will lessen the effect
of the 10 foot drop beneath your
feet. The-shelves-of-books-are-on}
three levels, with the check-out
desk on the middle floor.

As you follow the hall to the
_ left of this desk and entrance to
the stacks, you pass the periodical

-|Collins, Patricia



room where you may see professors
and students, engrossed in nothing



Klein, Deena



more abstruse than the daily news-
paper. Turning right as the hall
does you pass several professors’
offices and department seminar
rooms before you reach the Quita
Woodward Room at the end of the
corridor.

You may wonder why so aha
ing a corner is so thinly populated.
The reason is simple: no studying
is allowed there! Comfortable
chairs and an assortment of light
fiction invite you to an interval of
frivolling.

Next door is the West Wing
where the beoks on art, architec-
ture, and fine arts are kept along
with the record collection. To fol-

Continued on Page 6 Col. 1



New Class Hails .
From All Points

The class of 1964 is smaller than
any in the previous three years,
but the opening of the 76th Aca-
demic year sees Bryn ‘Mawr still

as crowded as ever. ‘fhe reason for

this apparent numerical discrepan-
cy is far less disheartening than
the fact. Upper classmen have re-
turned this year in record number;
of the total expected, 94.6% have
come back, as opposed to 89.8%,
92.8%, 88.0% and 87.38% in the
previous four years.

The 185 freshmen, who bring
this year’s undergraduate popula-
tion to 717, represent thirty two
states and twelve foreign coun-
tries.. Though 46.6% of the group
comes from the middle Atlantic
coast, students come from areas as
remote as India, Egypt and Kenya.

In at least one respect, the Class
of ’64 differs from all its Bryn
Mawr predecessors. It has been
singled out by the Educational
Testing Service for participation
in a study to evaluate the College
Board Entrance Examinations. The
project was launched this morn-
ing With the supplemental Aptitude
tést taken in Taylor by all fresh-
men.

Official orientation and welcome
for the class is now approximately

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Dear—Class—of 1964,

This is a time of launching—
and _launchings are always excit-
ing. They are also a litle fright-

ening sometimes, fraught with the
uncertainty of that which awaits.
We, the Freshmen Week Commit-
tee, hope that we can help maxi-
mize the former feeling, and min-
imize the.latter in this launching
of your college careers.

First impressions are so impor-
tant, and just.as you hope to give
people you meet a good impres-
sion of what and who you are, we
who know and love Bryn Mawr
want so much for you to feel as
we do about this unique place. ft
is exciting to be in a totally new
situation, to be open and eager to
receive what it has to offer; it is
equally exciting to share some-
thing you value with another per-
son. In a very real sense, this is
what we want to do in these next
few days, all too short for every-
thing there is to give and to re-
ceive but long enough to allow a



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Freshman Directory

MERION HALL
Best, Molly
Bunker, Sheila
Canode, Patricia
Carbaugh, Jean

Cross, Anne

DeHoff, Susan
DeReitzes, Irene
Dubler, Nina
Feldman, Roberta
Gibbs, Elizabeth
Greenbaum, Dale
Hurwitz, Barbara
Malamut, Judith
Rothenberg, Ellen
Schulman, Ruth s
Sprengnether, Madelon
Mwangi, Helen (’63, transfer)
RADNOR HALL
Anderson, Susan
Friedman, Janet
Goretsky, Caren

Ide, Heather
Levering, Helen
Link, Martha
Loomis, Mary Judith
Perl, Mary

Preston, Terry
Robinson, Sandra
Rodgers, Terri,

St. Clair, Nancy
Schachter, Judith
Williamson, Anita
Pohlschroder, Christa

160. tranafer)—_—_____...__.| Deupree, Susan

DENBIGH HALL .
Beidler, Elinor
Dolgoff, Carolyn -
Green, Joslyn
Henneke, Hilary





‘Hornblower, Marjorie

Owens, Sydney
Ranard, Patricia
Rubin, Linda
Silberblatt, Ellen
Wolf, Frederica
PEMBROKE EAST
Adams, Harriet
Booth, Elizabeth
Brown, Cynthia





Burdick, Cynthia

Dranow, Patricia
Fernsler, Carol
Ferry, Patricia
Gomez, Carmen
Haskell, Joanna
Hover, Nancy

o

Kauer, Ardis
Lloyd, Margaret
Nicholson, Sarah
Paul, Frances
Priemer, Gretchen
Tarshis, Susan
Watson, Wendy
Woodrow, Joanna
PEMBROKE WEST
Ames, Elizabeth
Bush, Edith

Cox, Catharine
Dimos,. Helen
Fleck, Isabelle |
Herman, Gail ”
Kindall, Nan
Langmuir, Ellen
Max, Lois

_| Meadow, Dorothy

Meskin, Joan ae
Pace, Paula

Sarofim, Norna L.
Sherman, Phoebe
Westbrook, Wendy
ROCKEFELLER
Barrus, Sylvia

Books, Roberta ‘
Brice, Bonnie
Buckner, Bates
Campbell, Anne
Geiger, Nancy

Gula, Kathleen

Hale, Judith

Keith, Beverley
Kobrak, Mary

\Martin,,Harriet

Moran, Barbara

Page, Lynda .

Porter, Margaret

Shearer, Harriet

Unger, Rosa Lee

Bouchard, Brenda (’62, transfer)



Continued on Page 6, Col, 1

Par eepaeene EEL ER EE ER

(a start;

Chairman Welcomes Freshmen

feeling-to-penetrate, a feeling of
what Bryn Mawr is. This is only
but some day you may
feel that in these first days at
Bryn Mawr you grasped the es-
sence of this place most complete-
ly. It is safe to say that these
days of Freshman Week will re-
main among your most memorable
at Bryn Mawr, for so many things
begin. now.

We hope that our spirit of giv-
ing will reach you with the same
sincere friendliness’ and interest
that we felt during our time as
freshmen. We are looking forward
to getting to know all of you, as
these days go by. It is a great
honor to be chosen as a member of
the Freshman Week Committee.
Much thought and planning has
gone into these days to make them
enjoyable, to get things that must
be accomplished done, to keep
everyone busy without being run
ragged, to allow opportunity for
getting acquainted with both your
own classmates and upperclass-
men.

Remain Open

Perhaps the best advice anyone
can offer to you at this wonder-
fully hectic time is this: remain
open. Don’t miss a single thing
Bryn Mawr has to offer you, if you
can help it. Never miss a chance
‘ talk to someone, for that chance





ay not come under the same con-
itions again. Remember that the
way to learn is really through the
exchange of thought and opinion,
so don’t close yourself off too soon;

too quickly you may miss some-
thing immeasurably valuable.

We, the upperclassmen, want to
help you get settled and become
acquainted with your new school
and its people. One of the nicest
things: about Bryn Mawr is the
lack of distinction between fresh-
men and upperclasmen. From the

+very start, this is your school—

and this is a wonderful feeling,
indeed. We all know what it’s
like to be a stranger in a new
place; perhaps tHat’s the most im-
portant reason for ‘our being here
at this time—to help disperse the
feeling of strangeness. Bryn Mawr
is_not—a—frightening place; all it
asks is your eagerness to learn, your
sincerity and friendliness—and it
will give you the infinite treasures
it holds.
Welcome Again

It is a great joy to welcome you
all here. We want this to be a
happy, exciting time for you; we
want to be your friends. I know
I speak for all of us when I say

that I hope each one of you enjoys

Freshman Week as much as we
have enjoyed preparing for and
giving it to you,

Rhoda Leven, Chairman
Freshman Week Committee







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