Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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and Karl Dremp ... all widely recognized in their fields ... all inculcating in Adelphians, a creative spirit . . . and in 1957, we added the Children's 1 heatre . . . under the super- vision of Miss Grace Stanistreet. a member of our Speech and Dramatics department ... its New York debut took place during Christmas week of 1944 . . with performance of I he Golden Cockerel . . . Adelphians are proud of still another his- tory-making feature of the College . . . the estab- lishment of the School of Nursing . . . helping us to contribute a large part to the War Effort . . . training Nurse Cadets for later duty with the United States Army . . . Adelphi, selected by the New York State Nursing Council for War Service , . . after division of the state into seven emergency training areas, in which there were no or very few schools or hospitals . . . the first class in the School of Nursing was held on January 28. 1945 ... a red-letter day for Adelphi . . . under a program which provided for cooperation between the College and selected I ong Island hospitals . . . our School of Nursing was legalized by the Bolten Act . . . which gives Federal aid to Nursing students . . . lor a period of thirty months of concentrated professional preparation . . . study which is divided into two parts . . . completing the requirements for the state licensing examination . . . with a fourth year required for a degree in Bachelor of Sciences . . . May 6. 1944 . . . and the official dedication of the two new dormitories . . . architecture which is akin to that of the buildings already in use . . . large, comfortable lounges open to all Adelphians . . . cheerful double- bedrooms made personal by the addition of college banners and pictures of families and friends . . . Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt . . . our First Lady, and chief speaker of the big day . . . with Dr. Thomas Parren. Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service . . . Miss Lucille Petry. director of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps . . . and other notables . . , present . . . the event was highlighted by an official march of the Cadet Nurses from the R building to the East Dormitory . . . uniforms, et al. . . . the fall of 1944 . . . and ground broken for a new Dining Hall . . . big news at Adelphi . . . but the New York reporters claim that the mushroom-like sprouting of the buildings on the Garden City campus is just too much for the press . . . it’s not loo much for Adelphi however ... for we have visions of full realization of the blue- print . . . and. after fifty years, look ahead to still better things . . . 8

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 Jhroa h the ears Mary Savacool, sculptress, who exhibited at the New York World s Fair . . . Virginia Griswald. artist and National Academy winner . . . Marie Bennon Ray. well-known psychologist and writer , . . Jane Smith Cramer, lawyer . . . Dorothy Locke. Olympic fencing champion . . . Ida Adelberg Webster, archi- tect . . . Dorothy Longacre. scientist and author . . . Helen H. Ringe, member of the War Manpower Commission . . . and. of course. Ruth S. Harley, former Registrar, and now Dean of the College itself . . . Furthermore. Adelphi has been blessed with a group of administrative directors who have constantly and vigorously urged and abetted our progress . . . our first President, Dr. Charles Levcrmore. outstanding in the lield of International Relations, and winner of the f$ok Peace Prize . . . succeeded by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman . . . Dr. Frank Blodgett, appointed in 1915... largely responsible for our removal to Garden City . . . Dr. Paul Dawson Eddy. Adelphis President since 1957 . . . infusing in faculty and students, his pro- gressive. forward-looking spirit . . . speeding our growth and development . . . encouraging the expansion of curriculum offered by the College . . . while he him- self instructs in the department of Religion . . . stimu- lating mutual understanding between faiths . . . during his administration, we have seen ... an increase of the number of buildings to double the original . . . we have added new departments of . . . Home Economics . . . Social Work . . . Business . . . Medical I echnology . . . and we have formed an affiliation with the Mills School in New York City . . . since 1955, an expansion of our two-vear kindergarten program . . . above all. Adelphi has always excelled in the Arts . . . we have had as faculty members in this department . . . George Bockman. Ruth St. Denis. Jack Cole. Hanya Holm. 7

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Adelphi has carried over many of the traditions of the old Academy days . . . All-College Night was first begun in Brooklyn, as a Halloween Eve Party . . . and now is an indispensable All-College event . . . ‘Fortnightly” too. is a product of our Brooklyn days . . . similarly, Junior-Freshman sister arrangement . . . and the luncheon, with which it is customary for the Juniors to greet incoming Adelphians . . . Garden City residency has added . . . May Day . . . All-College Ball . . . Orientation Week . . . the Christmas Cathedral Services . . . our Lantern society, based on Mortar Board standards, dates hack to 1925 . . . and our national societies, in fields such as Psychology and Spanish, were added later . . . And so. we have reached our Golden Anniversary . . . fifty years . . . and each one. taking us a step nearer to a Utopian Adelphi . . . fifty years of a growing Brown and Gold spirit . . . some things old . . . some things new . . . some things borrowed . . . but nothing blue . . . and today, we sing with pride. As we march onward . . . 0