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College news, May 31, 1955
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. 41, No. 25
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol41-no25
Mr. Harry L. Case
Robin Road
Fountain City, Tenn.
d noe Trustees of
VOL. LI, NO. 25 Bryn Mawr College, 1955
College Confers 124 A.B.’s; 37 Receive Higher =
Rodgers, Preston and McMichael Awarded Major Prizes
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, TUESDAY, MAY 31, _19§5 PRICE 20 CENTS
Thomas Essay Prize,
Corner Prize
Awarded
Ann Harris McMichael has been
awarded this year’s M. Carey
Thomas Essay Prize. Ann, an
English major, won the award for
her honors paper on “The Quality
of ‘Mercy in Ford’s Plays.”
The M. Carey Thomas Essay
Prize is given annually to the sen-
ior writing the best essay.
Corner Prize
The Hester Ann Corner Prize
. for distinction in Literature has
been awarded this year to Cather
ine Rodgers’and Patricia Preston.
The prize is awarded every.second | ,
year to a junior or senior, on the
recommendation of the chairmen
of the departments of Classics,
English, and modern foreign tan-
guages. The prize is given in the
memory of Hester Ann Corner of
the class of 1942.
Catherine, an English major, and
Pat, a Spanish major, will both
graduate this year with Honors.
Catherine also holds a Fullbright
Fellowship,
The News regrets that it is
unable to print the name of the
winner of this year’s European
Fellowship. This name was not
disclosed before the News went
to press.
Graduates Receive
Honor Degrees
The following seniors will re-
ceive their degrees with Honors in
special subjects:
Classical Archaeology: Ann Kon-
rad Knudsen.
Economics: Judith Kate Hay-
wood, Constance Mary Hicks.
English: Elizabeth Christine
Fischer, Ann Ashton Fosnocht,
Margot Sofia Liljencrants, Ann
Harris McMichael, Catherine Rod-
gers,
French: Nancy Elizabeth Fuh-
rer.
Greek: Nancy Jane Degenhardt.
History: Ann Lebo Dyke, Lyte
Armistead Mitchell, Eleanor Steph-
ens Small, Sara Ann Winstead, Ur-
‘sula Ann Wolff,
~~ History of Art: Nancy Acheson | ~~~
Houghton, Irene Marsha Peirez,
Emily S. Rauh.
Latin: Lidia Wachsler.
Mathematics: Jessica Dragon-
ette, Martha Becket Walton.
Philosophy: Elizabeth Ida Klupt,
Joyce Elizabeth Mitchell.
’ . Political Science: Elaine Sartori
Ewer, Anne Rita -Mazick, Jane
* Strickler Miller, Ann Hart Robin-
- gon.
Psychology: Elaine Bernice Al-*
ter,
Russian: Judith Russell Catlin.
_ Sociology -'Anthropology: Joan
raion Plotkin.
Spanish: Lois Elva Beekey, Pat-
ricia Ann Preston.
Artist's sheiiteh of the n new aryn:d Mawr College | Science Conk which will occupy ta acres
on the campus.
When completed, it will be the first center in a women’s college for students
in science at all levels from the first year to the Ph. D. The architects are the Philadelphia firm
of Martin, Stewart and Noble.
President McBride discussed
plans for the new science center
on campus at today’s commence-
ment exercises. The project will
cost about $1,600,000. ©
When completed, the center will
be the first in any women’s col-
lege for students in science at all
levels from the first year to the
Ph.D. It will occupy nearly four
acres of the 70-acre campus and
will bring together the college’s
full program of teaching and re-
search in biology, chemistry, geol-
ogy, mathematics and physics. .
Planning for the center is the
result of Bryn Mawr’s 15 years of
experience in developing a_pro-
gram of coordinated teaching in
the sciences and mathematics. In
the new layout of buildings, de-
partments that function together
will. share expensive equipment
necessary for interrelated work
and duplication of libraries will be
reduced to a minimum.
The proposed building program
provides for two new units to be
added to the present unit, Park
Hall, built in 1938, which now
houses the chemistry and geology
departments. A three-story struc-
ture will be built for the biology
department and another for the
mathematics and physics depart-
ments.
65 Students Receive Degrees With
Distinction, Five Summa Cum Laudes
The following Seniors will re-
ceive their degrees with. distinc-
tion:
Summa eum lauda
Judith Russell Catlin
Nancy Jane Degenhardt
Catherine Rodgers
Lidia Wachsler
Martha Becket Walton
Magna cum Taude ~~
Elaine Bernice Alter
Lois Elva Beekey
Sidney de Shazo Callahan
Jéssica Dragonette
Elizal Southall Edwards
Marjory Hofmann Fair
Ann Ashton Fosnocht ee
Diane Druding Fuhrer
Sarah Bird Grant
Anne Mowbray Haywood
Constance Hicks -
Ann Konrad Knudsen
Ellen Drews Kristensen
Laura Claar Maioglio
Ann Harris McMichael
Irene Marsha Peirez ©
Carolyn Blau Perot
Ann Hart Robinson
Eleanor Stephens Small
Jane Morris Weiss
Sara Ann Winstead
Cum laude
Alice Lea Baer
Anneke Blohm
Mary Berkley Bowie
Charlotte Fredricka
Busse
Mildred Yuhua Chang
“Mary Jane Parke Chubbuck
Ann Lebo Dyke
Elaine Sartori Ewer
Diana Fackenthal
Elizabeth Christine Fischer
Jane Follett
Silba Marianne Frischauer
~Naney Elizabeth-Fuhrer
Abigail Elsey Gilbert
S
Annette
~-gElizabeth Palmer Gordon
Margaret Rumsey Hall
Judith Kate Haywood
Julia Heimowitz
Nancy Acheson Houghton
Cynthia Standish Josselyn
Beverly Jeffers Kennard
Elizabeth Ida Klupt
Deborah Katz Lieberman
Margot Sofia Liljencrants
Continued on Page 4, Col. 5
Miss McBride Discusses Plans For Science Building;
|Will Contain Facilities For’ Science Teaching, Research’
The biology building, which will
cost about $900,000, will contain
besides laboratories and classrooms
for regular work, special labora-
tories for teaching microbiology,
biochemistry and anatemy, -a lec-
ture hall seating 125, a library,
and an isotope room for storing
and processing radioactive com-
pounds.
The physics and mathematics
building will have laboratories lo-
cated below ground level in which
the precise control of temperature
and humidity necessary for mod-
ern physical research can be main-
tained. The plans also call for lab-
oratories and classrooms on the
upper floors, an optics laboratory,
a lecture hall and a library in this
‘unit, which will cost about $700,-
000.
President McBride announced
preliminary gifts of $200,000 to-
ward the center. “The building
program will be accelerated,” she
said, “because of the crowding in
all buildings in the College and be-
cause of the effort to put the
teaching of science on the best pos-
sible basis in view of the demand
for highly qualified personnel.”
“Present shortages of scientists)
prepared to undertake basic re-
search or teaching are known to be
serious,” President McBride went
on to say, “and there is evidence
that they will be come more criti-
cal. Teachers of science are in
such short supply that the educa-
tion of future scientists is threat-
ened.”
Miss McBride also said that pro-
portionately large numbers of
Bryn Mawr students studied in sci-
ence or mathematics. A _ recent
survey showed that one quarter of
all Ph.D.’s at Bryn Mawr. were tak-
en in science. A study of occupa-
tions showed that teaching was the
most frequent choice of Bryn
Mawr graduates holding A.B.’s,
| M.A.’s,. or Ph.D.’s.
Miss McBride Speaks
At Graduation
Exercises
Bachelor of Arts degrees were
conferred on 124 members of the
Class of 1955 at Bryn Mawr’s 67th
Commencement exercises this
morning. Higher degrees were giv-
en to 37 men and women in the
graduate school.
President. McBride was the Com-
mencement speaker at the cere-
mony, held at 11:00 in Goodhart
Hall.
Major Subject, Biology:
Barbara Just Borneman
Madeleine De Ropp
June Rita Edelman
‘Marjory Hofmann Fair
Lois Marshall
Natalie Lorraine Rothenberg
Eva Marianne Schur
Major subject, Chemistry:
‘Mildred Yuhua Chang
Anne Mowbray Haywood
Carolyn Blau Perot
Major subject,
Classical Archaeology:
Patricia Carol Feeny
Ann Konrad Knudsen
Dorothy Soo Mun Shaw
Major Subject, Economics:
Alice Lea Baer
Judith Kate Haywood
Constance Mary Hicks
Major subject, English: '
Sarah Handy Edwards Baltzell
Lisa Blau
Charlotte
Busse
Mary Olive Byrnes
Sidney deShazo Callahan
Barbara Jo Drysdale
Elizabeth Christine Fischer
Ann Ashton Fosnocht
Elizabeth Palmer Gordon
Sarah Bird Grant
Margaret Rumsey Hall
Lydia Longstreth Hunt
Cynthia Standish Josselyn
Barbara Jeffers Kennard
Isobel Young Killough
Emelyn Story Ewer Kirkland
Margot Sofia Liljencrants
Janet Elizabeth ‘Lill
Ann Harris McMichael
Mary Jane Oatfield
Catherine Rodgers
Rosemary Ryan Rudstrom
Martha Caroline Warram
Janet Warren
Joan Paula Wolfe
Major subject, French:
Mary Berkley Bowie
Alexandra O’Neill Davies
Diane Druding Fuhrer
Nancy Elizabeth Fuhrer
Suzanne Margaret Hiss
Carol Eckley Hopkins
Susannah Gaines Lucas
Mary Dione Ritch
Elizabeth Elliott Warren
Major subject, Geology:
Gracemary Elizabeth Denegar
Major subject, German:
Anneke Blohm
Major subject, Greek:
Nancy Jane Degenhardt
Major subject, History:
Ann Lebo Dyke
Elizabeth South Hall Edwards
Abigail Elsey Gilbert
Agatha Ashton Gray
Ellen Drews Kristensen
Lyte Armistead Mitchell
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1
Fredericka Annette
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