Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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HELEN ANN CRAN • Transferred from University of Washington . . . where she stopped off on way from her home town of Hilo, Hawaii, in the summer of 1941 . . . likes musical comedies and good music . . . finds people of New York of increas- ing interest . . . after coed school, found it hard to get used to no men. OLGA CRESCIONI • Has thirst for knowledge, particularly in Spanish fields . . . majors in Spanish litera- ture . . . also wants to travel, marry, have at least four kids . . . has already toured An- tilles, U. S., Canada . . . born in Puerto Rico . . . likes to think she ' s a radical, but knows that actually deep inside she ' s a conservative. ALECIA CONNER • Cookie works equally hard at government and history major and student government . . . hopes to go through Law School, have a career, to travel . . . and, finally, to marry . . . dis- tinguished college career as frosh vice-presi- dent, soph president, Undergrad treasurer, vice-president-elect. CHARLOTTE VIRGINIA CONWAY • Dorm student, enthusiastic about New York . . . but it isn ' t home, like Schenectady . . . clerked in war plant, fascinated by scenes be- hind the production lines . . . Botany major, hopes to do post-college research in that field . . . partial, like most of us, to people with a sense of humor . . . shies away from prejudiced ones. MARJORIE CORSON • Chem major from Suffern with checkered career behind her . . . including travels and schooling in Northern Europe and England . . . and experience as Games business chairman, Lutheran treasurer, Silver Bay delegate, Prom committee member . . . has accelerated with an eye to topping it off by joining the WAVES. 30