Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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MIRIAM BURSTEIN • Bulletin Editor-elect . . . caustic, with over- tones of literary polish . . . entered Barnard at fifteen . . . frightened by rows of library books she may never get to read . . . insists she loves even midnight stints for Bulletin . . . devel- oped misanthropic attitude trying to get in 225 junior class writeups for Mortarboard. BETTY BURTON • Attractive collegiate from Chicago . . . full of pep and fire . . . insists that clothes be un- usual and bright, music fast and loud . . . Psych major, attended Marymount College and Northwestern . . . presses Psych profs for the practical side of all theory . . . likes Shake- spearean plays, movie comedies, and the Coast Guard. NORMA JEAN BUTLER • Accelerated Government major . . . deep devotion to Greek Games . . . for which she did yeoman service . . . comes from Park Rapids, Minnesota . . . but won ' t have career there if she fulfills ambition to enter foreign service . . . although she ' d settle for any kind of gov- ernment work. PATRICIA CADY • Devoted to the bustle of all the people and life in the dorms . . . has contributed ma- terially to the bustle as frosh Games chairman, junior social chairman in charge of Junior Prom . . . and to dorm life as Residence Halls treasurer . . . Math major eying the WAVES or war work . . . next Residence Halls president. MILDRED CARPENTER • History major and a homemaker at heart . . . U.C.A. social chairman ... is crazy about heavy music, particularly Wagner . . . also Russian writers, English poetry . . . delighted with daring afternoon dresses ... is wonder- ing whether to join WAVES or teach history. 28

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AZELLE BROWN • Used to the ups and downs of dorm life . . . by virtue of intermittent experience as Brooks elevator operator . . . majors in math and minors in extra-curric . . . has been Math club president, class Honor Board rep . . . favorite philosophy: Live, don ' t merely exist . . . completed two years of college in fourteen months. MARJORIE BRUDER • Phil major with dramatic background and tastes . . . transfer from Stephens College, Mis- souri, also attended Bennington School of the Arts and the Drama . . . her list of likes includes Shakespeare, Maurice Evans, and Gershwin . . . looks forward to a well-rounded life. JANE BRUNSTETTER • Known for her friendly smile and amazingly long list of extra-curric managing activities . . . as champion Games charioteer, Entrance chairman, junior vice-president, Mortarboard business manager, CURC station manager and Across the Tracks co-director . . . senior presi- dent-elect . . . hopes to combine marriage, farming, and writing. MARGARET BUNCE • Has heart set on social work in Asia, less rushing around after graduation . . . and also confesses to a desire to have ten or twelve dogs some time . . . has lived practically all over the Mid-west, including a year at Depauw . . . shares with her three brothers a love for camp- ing out. ELEANOR BURGE • Well-traveled cosmopolite . . . intends to revisit Switzerland, France, and England . . . summer residence, Cape Cod . . . hometown, Louisville, Kentucky . . . full of vim and vigor, she likes sailing, and rain, wind and sun, but thumbs down on cold weather or jitterbugs . . . hopes to do welfare-aid work. 27

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RUTH CARSON • Born in Hongkong, lived in China and Phil- ippines thirteen years . . . plans to do religious and reconstruction work in Orient . . . Barn- ard — I love it . . . goes in for plays, music ' ' to suit the mood . . . dances, teas, and meet- ings . . . believes in the essential goodness of people . . . insists she ' s pretty average. A. BERNICE CLARK • Zoo major and Choir girl . . . expects to go to med school at University of Michigan . . . near her home in Battle Creek . . . ha done defense work for two summers past . . . fond of books for their bindings and smell of print . . . but looks inside too sometimes . . . prefers those who can see the humorous aspects of life. MURIEL COMBS • Loves music and hopes to do some kind of work connected with it . . . thinks there ' s something good in every composition if you try to find it . . . prefers living in small town, particularly her home of East Rockaway, N. Y. . . . Inspector in a defense plant last sum- mer . . . works for Community Service Bureau in school. JEAN L. CONHAIM • Has traveled through South and Canada . . . and lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, De- troit . . . Soc major, aims to teach nursery school . . . and is already doing it part-time at Manhattanville Day Nursery . . . thinks sincerity all-important, both towards others and oneself. JEAN JAHR CONN • Likes all people in small doses, few in large . . . with her husband one obvious ex- ception . . . post-college plans include three children, two girls and a boy ... a Government major, has seen Barnard as both a dorm and day student . . . claims to be the domestic type. 29