Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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MARY BENEDICT • The petite and pretty gal whom everyone greets with a smile . . . active in the social af- fairs side of extra-curric . . . Fine Arts major . . . looks forward to marriage . . . and hopes to write and illustrate children ' s books . . . gay samples of her talent appear in Mortar- board and decorate the hallways on persuasive posters. MARION BERENSON • Smooth transfer from Middlebury ... en- joys being able to go to college and live in the city at the same time . . . likes suits, casual clothes in general ... a Soc major, outside in- terests include good musical comedies and dramas . . . and, like the majority of her class- mates, practically all kinds of music. MIMI LEFF BERGMAN • Graceful, easy-going brunette . . . majors in Eco and dance group . . . has commuted to New Orleans on vacations . . . using one to become a Mrs. . . . raves about her wonderful job in an experimental engineering lab wo rking on radar . . . Mortarboard copy editor . . . chair- man-elect of dance group. HENDRIKA BESTERBREURTJE • Ski and skate expert with many European race trophies . . . would use medical training for reconstruction work abroad . . . has seen Europe, England, Ireland . . . but her home remains Rotterdam . . . regrets losing the chance to enter Olympics . . . but keeps up her devotion to swimming, riding, winter sports, here. NELLY BESTERBREURTJE • Government major, would like to augment her extensive travels in the course of her post- college job . . . enjoys the opportunity for get- ting to know the American girl at Barnard . . . holds stern beliefs on the impossibility of peace unless Germany is completely destroyed . . . sports expert and lover. 24

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ADRIENNE APPLEGATE • Touring Europe was enjoyable, but not so the daily commuting from Crestwood . . . Waits till the last minute for everything: didn ' t find out about Student Mail until finishing a month at college . . . French major, spent over a year in convent school in French Switzerland . . . hopes to work in secretarial line. ANNETTE MARIE AULD • Nicknamed Muzz . . . American Studies major and looking forward to WAVES, jour- nalism or government work . . . Anxious to see sites of present fighting . . . nuts about hockey, meaning the Rangers, acorn squash — and Sina- tra . . . thumbs down on Codfish, French, Don Ameche . . . Newman Club vice president, Bul- letin devotee. MARCIA BARISHMAN • Pocket-sized philosopher . . . packs artistic wallop . . . ultra-feminine, despite tendency to omit lipstick unless reminded . . . outside of painting, tastes incline to music, fine conversa- tion, climbing of medium-sized mountains . . . topnotch student, reads omnivorously, dresses in her own sweet idiom. ROBERTA BARR • Tuneful temperament — test tubes and toc- catas ... a Chem major who whistles Bach on Broadway, a musical medic to be . . . hep with the harp and the pulsing piano . . . reads Omar Khayyam, A. A. Milne, and the Medical Dic- tionary . . . revels in red. JACQUELINE BAUMANN • After experience at Ohio State and Cornell, reports that you learn more at Barnard . . . French major, hopes to hold an interpreter ' s job or one in foreign service . . . goes in for the sophistication of Chopin, Debussy — and Elling- ton . . . traveled widely since leaving home in France. 23

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RUTH BISCHOFF • Calls Hempstead home ... but has traveled from it as far as Salt Lake . . . majoring in Math . . . ambition is to understand Einstein . . . co-chairman of college teas . . . pet peeve, Don ' t say the cup is half empty; say it ' s half full . . . Barnard converted her from swing to the other kind of music . . . wants to help reconstruction in America. ARGENTINE BLACK • Distractingly heterogeneous in talents and charms . . . cosmopolitan with southern grace . . . educated in New Orleans and abroad . . . studies diligently for medicine as Zoo major . . . Mimi loves week-end sprees, steaks, sal- ads, sambas, swains . . . raised dachshunds at home, tadpoles in college. ELIZABETH BOGARDUS • Pre-med transfer from William and Mary . . . busy accelerating . . . spent a week victory farming in Newburgh last summer in a short time out . . . cheerful and effervescent . . . likes Barnard the way it is ... a Brooklynite, she favors the Dodgers, sports clothes, serious movies . . . helped out the Student Aide Corps. BETTY BOOTH • Ambition is to do postwar propaganda on reconstruction . . . reports from experience that Bennington and Barnard are two different worlds . . . has seen a large part of the coun- try . . . and did professional writing for Charm . . . has dipped into CURC and Bulle- tin . . . goes crazy over deadlines as Mortar- hoard associate editor. ANGELA BORNN • Majors in accuracy . . . from her pet field chemistry to her hobby photography . . . com- ing from the Virgin Islands, had her greatest thrill when she first saw snow . . . like s sports: volley ball, tennis, swimming . . . dorm life is tops . . . but getting up in the morning is just as onerous there as elsewhere. 25