Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Newman Club: Standing, Giblin, and Menorah: Standing, Streichler, and Neu- Haggerty. Seated, Aylesivorth , Colgan, mann. Seated, Levy, Lyttle, and Sachs. Zimmermann, Paige, and Farrell. mutual understanding among their members has been the function of the Barnard Interfaith Council. This group, composed of the presi- dents of the various religious clubs, is headed by Patricia Carroll. The Council ' s Thursday luncheon forums were devoted to such varying subjects as the interfaith movement in England and Shintoism in Japan. The new chaplain, the Reverend Stephen S. Bayne, set the keynote of timeliness for the year ' s activities. This spirit reached its peak in the second annual Columbia University conference on religion. The theorem Religion Has a Plan was the subject of a three clay dis- cussion.

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RELIGIOUS GROUPS The sustaining note in Barnard ' s reli- gious activities continues to be that of the Interfaith Council. How- ever the various clubs have also had full programs, all demonstrating a positive spiritual approach to modern life. Led by Eithne Colgan the Newman Club enjoyed its traditionally large membership and successful Open House at Earl Hall. In addi- tion to a program of lectures and discussions, the Episcopal Club, under the direction of president Edna Ely, inspires the College to fill a record-breaking number of Christmas stockings. Ethel Weiss, presi- dent of the Lutheran Club, has led her group in discussions of religion as it relates to present day problems. Menorah ' s activities were both religious and social, including lectures, dances, and Monday Open House at Earl Hall. President Sybil Kotkin stressed religion in the post-war world. Under the leadership of Anne Heene the Wycliffe Club extended its activities into the Community— rolling bandages for the Red Cross was one of its activities. Coordination of the activities of these clubs, and promotion of iromotion of Interfaith Council: Standing, Ely, Colgan, and Lyttle. Seated, Weiss, Carroll, and Heene. The Barnard half of the U.C.A. Blickfelt, Sexauer, and Good.

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N.S.O. . . . Planning the two-hoar week. OPEN FOR BUSINESS . The room in between the Registrar and the Dean ' s Office has been converted into one of Barnard ' s busiest war centers. The activities of the National Service Office range from provid- ing instruction in the care and feeding of the automobile you may some- day own, to organizing the ubiquitous air raid drills. The Student Guidance Committee integrates classroom work into a plan which will be of value to the war effort, no matter in which direc- tion the student ' s interests may lie. This has resulted in the War Minors program, which rescues the English lit major from an unpatriotic fate, by enriching her courses with a secondary group of subjects which are directed towards war activity. All the best people are doing it. Denize Donnegan , N.S.O. chairman.