Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Editor was kind. N0 manuscripts were returned; no rejection slips were issued. The medium of self-expression for aspiring poets and short-story writers needed no high pressure sales talk to step up the yearTs subscriptions. Coucher Kalends was a tgpopularT magazine and never more popular than with those who first saw their own names in print upon its pages. This years editorial policy was directed toward more contributions from the student body and less writing by the staff. Instead of carrying a theme throughout each issue, as had been done in past years, the best of the material on hand was included regardless of the continuity of the magazine as a whole. Whatever artistic merit was taken from individual issues by lack of a theme, was more than compensated for by the rise in literary standards. The staff : Carol Drechsler, Editor-in-Chief ; Vera Beck, Associate Editor; Fontaine Mann, Exchange Editor; Mignon Sauber, Art Editor; Helen Alexan- der, Business Manager7 assisted by Frances Reiner and Florence Wagner; Doris Grain and Miquette Miller, Circulation. Daily newspapers . . . . . of Baltimore and New York City wanted first- hand reports on Coucher activities. So that we Kalends. 0n floor: M. Miller, F. Reiner. Seated: D. Grain, J. Chadwick, R. Wolf, H. Alexander, C. Drechsler, E. Layton, K. Neuer, N. Elliot, D. Ervien. might be fittingly prominent in the ucollege newsi, sections of the best eastern journals, Goucher had its own Representatives of The Press. Each Wednesday morning the Press Club took seats in the ohice of President Robertson while Miss McCurley released the official college news bulletins for publication. The Staff Correspondents were Barbara Banker, The Morning Sun; Dorothy Elliot, The Evening Sun; Elaine Katz, The News-Post; Virginia Babeock, The Herald - Tribune; and Dorothea Kopsch, The New York Times. Press Club scooped the Towson story. Left to Right: B. Banker, Miss McCurIey, E. Flack, D. Elliott, Dr. Robertson, E. Katz. 29

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Weekly. Seated: B. Borwick, B. Ferris, R. Landesman, D. Greenherg, S. Fineman, J. Gardner, 5. Barman, B. Fox, E. Kramer, S. Brach, G. Semen, G. Yampolsky. Kneeling: H. Townsend, B. Connolly, R. Levine, L. Schrank, B. Bernstein, D. Elliott, S. Harris, E. Apter, N. Left, D. Wofsey, D. Jaffe. Standing: J. Martin, H. Jasper, A. James, E. Accles, J. Grossman, R. Crothers, EA Katz, F. Heilig, J. Swire, M. Holteen, D. Lipsitz, C. Rosen, D. Foreman, J. Keven. Weekly, on Wednesday Mnrninq . . . . typewriters in the Smoke-House, first Hoor front, reeled off accumulated scoops and straight news stories onto the bright yellow copy sheets of Coucher,s Paper. On Thursday, the dummy lay in state upon the oval green table while columns of proofs were cut, juggled and finally pasted into a f ront page layout that was a journalistic triumph. No news was the only bad news. Yet, while it was often difficult to dig a feature story from the routine of college life, on Friday morning mail boxes were crowded with W eeklies. We called W eekly an organ for the expression It had been a rather high- sonnding and meaningless appellation until this of student opinion. year,s editor forced the main campus issues into print. But our newspaper staff did more than express itself editorially. In the first term days of ttthird ternf7 argument W eekly tossed fuel on the local political conflagration when it spon- sored a straw vote for President. If, in actuality, Mr. Roosevelt won, it was not Coucher,s fault. Nor was Weekly to be chided because Mr. 28 Willkie led on their make-believe ballot. The Hobby Show in Coucher Hall rotunda so amused us between classes and so impressed us with the preoccupations of our fellow students and faculty, that it didn7t much matter when, at the last minute, Weekly forgot to announce the winner of their project. In forty-forty-one, the Weekly Flag read: Editor-in-Chief, Jean L. Koven; Associate Editor, Grace Semon; Managing Editor, Doris Foreman; News Editor, Dorothy Elliot; Business Manager, Selma Brach; Advertising Manager, Dorothy Lipsitz; Circulation Manager, Gertrude Yampolsky. Quarterly . . . . . . the creations of Coucherk literary artists were gathered within the covers of Kalends, ttmonthlyii There was no dearth of con- tributors as had plagued past editors. Unlike W eekly, the problem before the Editorial Board of the magazine was selection rather than collection in name only. of material. But when aspace did not permit the inclusion of all copy, as it seldom did, the Kalends9

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have a name fur authurity Top: J. Dunton, M. McComas, J. Uffelman Middle: C. Cook, B. McCall, C. Bush Bottom: M. Ascherfeld, M. Randall, F. Flynn 30 K. Gilbert, J. Caither, D. Cort, J. Chadwick THE PANHELLENIC COUNCIL, governing body of the united Sisterhoods, first asserted itself to the new students when it presented the Freshman Class with the Handbook of Greek Orthodoxy: a catalogue of fraternities on campus, and the last word in the inviolable rules of rushing. Representa- tives, two from each of the eight fraternities, regu- lated rush-week activities and kept up diplomatic inter-fraternal relations throughout the trying time of rivalry. That the Freshmen might find their choice of sisters a little less diHicult, Panhellenic enter- tained the Class Of Forty-four at tea where a guest speaker from a fraternity not on campus could answer their problems with impartiality. ttPanhell did all but decide the one really troublesome questioneWhich Fraternity shall it be? Each Freshman had to answer for herself to the Pan- hellenic Council on the day of preferentials. When rushees became pledges, the new fraternity girls of f orty-f our became members in good standing of the Goucher Panhellenic Association, For the Ltcultivation of good College Citizen- ship:7 the associated fraternity members developed a two-fold course of action. Inspired by the C0uncihs Annual Scholastic Rating of fraternities, they put their minds to things intellectual. Set an example by Panhellenic social planning, they gave an incessant series of teas for their aHiliated and unafhliated friends on campus. Panhellenic Association, Patron 0f the Arts, introduced some local talent when Alumnae Lodge