Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Muscle maids and motor morons, all Barnard girls, are sisters under the sneaker when it comes to A.A. Food, fun, and frills are part and parcel of A.A. ' s varied activities: food means fresh fruit carts and vitamin milk bars, which Ruth Sauer, President spring up overnight on Jake or in the Jungle; fun means luscious barbecues at camp, run by the hard-working camp committee, an off-shoot of A.A. Sports week in the fall brings tournaments for those who aspire to that tennis title, or wish to rival the feats of William Tell. Spring Carnival finds the pool a damp center of wet activity for a galaxy of stars . . . fish variety. And frills are fluffed up at the annual Harvest Hop which opens the social season at Barnard with a triumphant bang. A.A. officers Ross, Ferris, and Monohan. Harvest Hop: the last time Gym went formal.

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VORMS • Inside Info The war has found its way into Brooks and Hewitt. Most often it ' s in the shape of a blue uniform with a midshipman inside of it, but there are a variety of less palatable forms, too. Those little pats of butter are getting thinner and thinner; but why complain if it accomplishes similar results in the dorm girls? Those boxes of sand, we learn, are not over-grown cigarette cemeteries, but the means by which the efficient defense squad can combat any stray incendiary bombs. The windows and doors may be well blacked-out, but at least once during the year, the dorms have their chance at spirit- as-usual— Christmas Formal. Under chair- man Dorothy Carroll, this year ' s dance suc- cessfully furnished fun and a sizable profit for the Russian War Relief Drive. ormal moment at Christmas Formal.