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College news, October 2, 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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1955-10-02
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 42, No. 01
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol42-no1
VOL. Lil, NO. 1
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR,; PA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1955
Bryn Mawr College,
,
Copyright, Trustees of
1955 PRICE 20 CENTS
Bryn Mawr Introduces 164 F resumen to .— Life
New Students Welcomed to
Parade Night Completes
Hectic Week
For °59
Freshman Week is rapidly draw-
ing to a close, but somé of the
most ~pleasant and traditional ex-
periences still lie ahead for the
Class of 59.
The first of these is Miss Mc-
Bride’s tea for all freshmen, Sun-
day afternoon, to be held at the
home of the President. One of the
final official “welcomes,” but one
of the warmest and most gracious,
will be extended to the Class of ’59
by Miss McBride.
The first chapel service of the
year will be held in the evening at
7:30 in the Music Room. The Rev.
Robert James will be the speaker.
At 8 p.m. upperclassmen will be-
gin returning to the halls. This
annual event, which will continue
through Monday, will be marked
by much excitement and confusion,
but with general good feeling. Pre-
viously..desérted rooms will be ex-
plored and settled, and civilization
will grow and flourish along the
corridors,
Also on Sunday eahe, at 9:15 to
be exact, one of the newer Bryn
Mawr traditions will make its first
appearance before the freshmen.
The Soda Fountain, equipped’ with}
hoagies, ice cream, and sticky buns,
will begin another year of offering
food and comfort to the Bryn
Mawr student.
Monday morning, medical and
mental examinations will continue,
and in the afternoon the athletes
Continued on Page 3, Col. 3
Freshman
Statistics
One hundred and _ sixty-four
freshmen, representing 26 states
and three foreign countries,..have
entered Bryn Maw) as the Class
of 59,
New York state has the largesc
representation in the freshman
class, with 48 students. Pennsy!-
vania is second with 2y.
Five freshmen made the long
trek from California, and Texas
can boast, naturally, of four ‘5y’e.s.
The freshmen class has only five
foreign students: Madeleine Adler
and Sigrid de Vogel of the Neth-
erlands, Margaret Bickley of Ber-
muda, and Janet Myles and Gil-
liam Pearson of England.
There are 12 freshmen “alum-
nae daughters”: Gail Beckman,
Helen Farr, Elizabeth Foshay, Cor-
neélia Hoeffel, . Edith Kunhardt,
Laura Pearson, Ruth Simpson,
Theodora Stillwell, Ann_ Tilson,
Lucy Wales, Carolyn Williams and
Cathya Wing.
A new “dorm” has been added
this\ fall—Rhoads Annex. Rhoads
Annex is actually the home of Mrs.
Longmaid, where 5 freshmen are
-staying. They will. eat all of their
meals at Rhoads, and will join in
ithe social life of that hall.
East House, which served as a
Spanish House last year, has been
turned over completely to the
‘freshmen. \ The 15 freshmen who
are living there will eat some of
their meals at Rockefeller, Pem-
broke and Merion.
Class of 1959 Directory
Did We Ever Look Like That?
The Ville Provides Shopping Facilities;
Main Line Town Important To B. M. C.
I can recall a sentence from the
“special hints” section of my
freshman handbook. It read, “BMC
students cail tae town of Bryn
Mawr ‘The Ville’.” This is not tech-
nically correct for the term “Ville”
refers only to the business section
of the town, the place where Ber-
muda shorts cannot be worn.
There are three other girls’
schools in the residential part of
town besides this college. More
than one person has driven through
the campus of The Baldwin School
thinking it-ewas Bryn Mawr. Right
outside Rockefeller Arch is anoth-
er girl’s academy, Shipley, and
farther in town on Montgomery
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DENBIGH SOWIDIG By cc We nissascis:
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Butterworth, ©. ...:.......... 75 MERION HALL Sun., October 2
i ilestois ayes tenses 13 Aschenbrenner, J. .......... 6 4:30 p.m.—Miss McBride’s tea
Py Mie ovis eos emeeeseteei 16-20 ate 11 | for all freshmen, at the home of
MET i i terececeessigeiescin 26 Ta hecdcn, 8 the President.
I By Si ssvccvesccesesoessny 83-84 Pe eco 27 7:30 p.m. — Freshman chapel
SI 5s. cs -hencsinaessass 21 Deitelbaum, R. 9 service. Address by the Rev.
TG ies isjscctsysteagonss 87 Pee, WC ....a.\.:.s.. 19 Robert, James. Music Room.
FOREMEAL iste oteheines 5-9 Cer ee ., 44 8 p.m.—Halls open to return-
Water, By osc 5-9 OMe ee eh 7 ing upperclassmen.
Luckman, L. ......0...0...0.5 10-14 Jamison, B%.......:¢:.\:-- 19 9:15 p.m.—Soda Fountain offi-
Ollken, Ne oi... gic 86 RA he eos tek 1 | cially opens for business.
Palm, We icc 11 Me acne 5. | Menday, October 3
Rich, We ae iio eects 10-14 Rosenberger, K. ............. 23 430 pm: — Miss Clayton
Robbins, gee eee 88 Schenk, as 12 speaks to all freshmen in gym-
Skromak, is oak acres 32 a ovccecas - 9 ili,
Tilson, Ad verse rere 16 eee es. wees oy ——o 2-4 p.m.—Sports ‘afternoon.
Townsend, ny ee 16-20 Wineberg, J. o...c.cccce..-: Gs 7 p.m.—Step singing in front
WINGER Oe ics seacciiis vee 83-84 PEMBROKE ST of Taylor Hall, if weather per-
EME Auchiricloss, N. .........2. 89-41. | ™**:
Adams, MoM. die 10 Rae Mie 94 | Tuesday, October 4
Bickley. Mya ...c:-0 ees 7 Pemen O CS... 22 . 8:45 a.m.— Opening of 71st
‘Bouillets-A. .......... unuen 8 ELE 26 Academic Year. Address by
I ii vsepeteeg--scgeesseans- 8 Blaisdell, ae —g-—}—President__ Katharine McBride.
SU Ms s.ycssayesasvsaseds ‘ 11 eo ccctnes 23 Goodhart Hall. Sapa eae
Erickson, 6. ........... atisesties 9 @owles, M. . 18-20 7:45 p.m.—Parade Night.
Gagliardi, M. ................... 1 Digmuke, | as 2 Monday; October 10
Green, Be... 2 Bee, Me on. eeeeeeecseccseee 19 8:30 p.m.—Jean Seznec, Mar-.
Haney, Be oonnsesssseecessseeeeeoon A Seeiatpin, Te cc... 23 | shal Foch Professor of French
Leve, ©. He oo... at! Ingersoll, Ri: leiage 39-41 Literature and Fellow of All
Levy ,D, Be vss 7 1 Lang, Nn Recall adcviyvieree 30. -|:Souls College, Oxford Univer-
Morgenstern, D. .............. 5 MAB. saci 18-20 | sity, and the Mary Flexner Lec -
Rennolds, Ey... 4 Painter, J... ... BN cede 32 turer for 1955, will begin a series
Rubinstein, R. ................. 1 Tae Oe. 3 | on “Diderot and Antiquity.” His
Sherman, F. ............. pereer* 6 Me ena afgeecsane 17 first lecture is entitled “The
FRENCH HOUSE Wits, MG. gots. 60 Imaginary Socrates.” Goodhart
GithethenD. oo.. igi 5 Continued: on Page 4, Col. 3 Hall.
Avenue is Harcum Junior College.
When walking to the Ville, a dis-
Frosh Are On The Run
With Exams,
‘Meetings
“A senior? I thought you were
a freshman! ... Omigosh, I’ve
missed my voice test ... No, really,
I don’t hate my mother” . .” The
comments heard during the first
few days of Freshman Week were
typical of a new class at Bryn
Mawr. But in spite of the cus-
tomary: confusion, the class of ’59
lived through the period of Sept.
29-Oct. 1. . and even enjoyed it.
The halls opened to the incoming
class at 8 a.m. Thursday, with
the upper classmen (amazingly)
dressed before breakfast. The
freshmen were rushed through in-
troductions, appointments, inter-
views and tests until their heais
were spinning. The tea for fresh-
men and their parents provided a
welcome interlude in the ~ ac-
tivities.
The evening of their first day at
college brought the meeting with
members of the»Self-Governnient
Association, at which president
tance of about three blocks, one|
must pass through a tunnel under
the railroad tracks. There is a
superstition that anyone who. is i
this tunnel while a train is passing
over and holds her top button will
hot fail her next exam. There are
no statistics proving the reliability
of this action, however.
Bryn Mawr is one of several
suburban. towns which stretch
westward from Philadelphia form-
ing a section called the “Main
Line.” It is hardly necessary to
leave the town to shop, for one
ean find almost anything in the
Ville.
First Stop
The Acme Super Market is the
first stop on the tour. There you
can find almost everything, includ-
ing lots of fattening food for teas.
Next door is the Country Book-
store, and beside it is Parvin’s
Drug Store. Below Parvin’s is
Cook’s, the jeweler.
Further down Bryn Mawr ves
nue, past the Post Office and the
Bryn Mawr Trust Company, is
Lancaster Pike, where you find
most of the shops.
Two blocks to the left are the
A&P and The Blue Comet — for
food in the raw” and “at _your
service.”
On the right hand side of the
street are Miss Noirot’s—expensive
clothes and lovely windows for
window shopping —and Jeanett’s
Flowers. Several cleaners are on
this side, as is the famous Ham-
burg Hearth, a three-college hang-
Continued on Page 2, Col. 3
FRESHMEN
The Business Staff of
The College News
wants and needs
YOU
Experience is not necessary
If interested, contact
Gloria Strohbeck,
Pembroke West
Anne Hebsud coorplained the ideais
land methods of the organization.
in | Following meetings in the halls
with wardens and hall presidents,
members of the class of ’59 were
entertained with games and the
memorable class and college songs.
Meetings and Teas
Friday brought more tests and
appointments, and in the afternoon,
the first meeting of the freshmen
as aclass. The explanation of the
many Bryn Mawr traditions was
followed by the election of the first
temporary song-mistress,
At the curriculum committee tea
in Wyndham, the freshmen at-
tempted to pick up a few pointers
about a possible major. The day
was ended by the rewarding, if ex-
hausting, scavenger hunt and the
traditional picnic supper in Apple-
bee Barn.
Coming in like a lion, Saturday
started off with the French lan-
guage exam in Taylor, and the
freshmen were given their first
glimpse of the gym suits. The ac-
cent on sports continued, after a
brief pause for lunch, with hockey
tryouts. The efforts of the pros-
pective hockey players, as well as
the rest of the class, were reward-
ed at the soda fountain party.
Freshman Mixer
Question of how to sign out and
what to wear came to the fore as
the halls were overrun by the
special Haverford College “wel- —
coming committee.” The dance in
the gym and Radnor’s open house
introduced the class of '59 to ‘the
Haverfordians and the joys of
2:30 permission.
With one day to go, it is agreed
that Freshman Week has been fun, ,
if hectic. We hope the class of /
69 finds the whole year as stim-/
ulating! ’
WELCOME
by Campus Mail
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