Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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M. Andre Liotaid, former French minister to Turkey, spoke in February. The officers of Le Ccrcle Francais are: Mary Elizabeth Baker, presi- dent, Margaret Cardiner, vice-president, Irene Ephrussi, secretary, and Marthajanc Kennedy, treasurer. CLASSICAL CLUB THE PURPOSE of the Classical Club is to provide an opportunity for those who are interested to discuss subjects connected with the classics. The club gives these students a chance to get acquainted with the classics by other means than those provided by the courses in college. There have been several meetings this year at which the members enjoyed refresh- ments and played some Latin games. There have also been plans made to organize a Roman Banquet later in the term. The oflicers of the Classical Club are joan Chesney, president, janice Martin, secretary, Helen Cohen, vice-president, lrcne Hussey, treasurer. SCIENCE CLUB THE SCIENCE CLUB is an organization in which all science majors are members. lt thus provides the student with an opportunity to broaden her scientiiic outlook, learning of Helds other than her own. The club conducts three or four meetings a year, at least one of which is reserved for student participation, and it sponsors a contest for seniors. Among the speakers this year have been Dr. justina Hill, Dr. Bentley Class, and Dr. Manfred Cuttmacher. The officers are Mitsu Tashiro, president, Annette Rowe, secretary- treasurer, and Harriet Burns and Charlotte Anderson, publicity chairmen. PSYCHULIIGY CLUB 'TI-IE early meetings of the Psychology Club this year were given over to discussions of the role played by psychology in the present world situation. Later programs featured as speakers alumnae who are working in various Eelds of psychology. At the invitation of Dorothy Cort Leonhardt, the club observed the perception experiments at the Wfilmer Clinic, johns Hopkins Hospital. The year closed with a party for the incoming majors. The ofhcers of the Psychology Club are jacqueline jenkins, presi- dent, Helen Harrison, vice-president and treasurer, Carey jennings, secre- tary, and Anita Kanner, publicity chairman. PHYSIULGGY CLUB THE PHYSIOLOGY CLUB is composed of twenty junior and senior majors in the Department of Physiology and Hygiene. Notable among the activities of the year were a tea held at Dr. Kings home, the showing of physio- logical Films from the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and the animal 'J DD 'P

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Urgani ation SPANISH CLUB THE SPANISH CLUB is now twenty years old. During its existence it has brought to Coucher many prominent Spaniards and Latin Americans. Another activity has been the dramatization of numerous literary works. This year the Spanish American speakers were the Minister from Costa Rica, the Costa Rican artist, Senorita Carmen Madrigal, and the Chilean writer, Dona Craciela Sotomayor de Concha. Two Maryland educators, Miss Catherine Beachley and Miss Merle Bateman, presented Cuatemala in pictures and handicrafts. Mrs. Helen Hepburn, a Coucher hall mistress, related her experiences while living in Bolivia. To its list of plays the club added three more this season. The oihcers are jane Caither, president, Roberta Bordner, vice- president, Margaret Meredith, secretary, Betty Clamann, treasurer, Frances Roderick, social chairman, Robin Eckhart, publicity chairman, Alice Sylvester, refreshments chairman. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS THis YEAR Le Cercle Francais has adopted two objectives: to enable French majors and students who cannot continue their study of French to maintain contact with and enjoy the language, and to enable students to keep alive something of the culture of a country now suppressed by a nation with no interest in the heritage of France. At the first meeting of the club Irene Ephrussi and jacqueline Powell, two freshmen of French descent, were the speakers. The next meeting celebrated the six hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Swiss Republic. The annual F ete des Rois was held in january, and SPANISH CLUB First row: M. Meredith, R. Bordner, R. Bleier, M. Kemp, R. Eckhart, Brodsky, A. Meltzer, B. Bregman. Second row: M. Myers, D. jaffe, N. Sussman, G. Newman, L. Bechtlc, S. Iohnson, Fuller, E. Rafkin, E. Accles, F. Roderick, A. Arnold. Il. Townsend, D. Havener, M. E. Baker, M. Gardiner. Standing: M. Apostle. I. A. Abell, Gaither.

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dinner meeting in May, at which Dr. Ceorge Corner, Director of the Department of Embryology of the Carnegie Institute in Wfashington, was the guest speaker. The present members and new physiology majors attended this concluding aifair. Officers of the club are jeanne Chase, president, and Bernice Fox, secretary-treasurer. PHYSICS CLUB TI-IE PURPOSE of the Physics Club is to broaden the scientihc viewpoint of the students by arranging visits to exhibits and laboratories and by bringing to the college those speakers who are doing important physics work in research or industry. This year VV alter R. Irledeman, Sc.D,, of the Naval Crdnance Department, spoke on Seismology and Mr. E. K. Foster of the Bendix Corporation addressed the group on Communi- cations in Vxfartimef' The club also sponsors informal gatherings and dinner meetings at which the members discuss problems related to their field. The oilicers of Physics Club are Marieanne Porter, presidentg and Mary Lou I-Iaclcethal, secretary-treasurer. INTERNATIUNAL RELATIONS CLUB THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB is sponsored by the Carnegie Insti- tute. This year it has been the policy of the club to have at each meeting discussions on issues of international importance and to limit its mem- bership to those students who are vitally interested in such an organization. One of the projects which the club sponsored was the sending of a delegate to the I. R. C. national conference at Lehigh University. The officers are Kathleen Coyle, president, Evelyn Spiegel, program chairman, Blanche Weiiar, publicity chairman, Betsy Boyce, secretary- treasurer. Miss Wyatt is adviser of the club. EQUAL RIGHTS CUUNCIL IITHE EQUAL RIGHTS COUNCIL at Coucher College is a branch of the National VVomen's Party whose headquarters are in VVashington, D. C. The chief aim of the party is to put through Congress an amendment to the United States Constitution reading as follows: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. The VVomen's Party publishes a monthly magazine to which the college library subscribes. The president of the Equal Rights Council is Marthajane Kennedy. MASKS AND FACES WV HAT has become of Masks and Faces? was once a familiar question. In I94I, however, the advent of a production course under the capable