Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Foreword the year 1951-52 in picture and story . . . Four years ago the class of 1952 entered Coucher College as the hope of the post-war world. They saw the struggles of the UN during its beginning years. They heard universal mili- tary training argued back and forth. Halfway through college they saw the dreams of peace shattered: Korea, June, 1950. Their senior year saw Eghting still brutal, interrupted by efforts at peace negotiations. Their uneasiness at the turn of events their college years have witnessed is reHected in the minds of all the students at Coucher; we find ourselves accused of tilack of hreit by our elders. Our hesitancy is only bewilderment. We revived the gaiety 0f the 703, but somehow the revival missed the essence of that Flaming Era: carefree spontaneity. There was little room for that Spirit halfway through the twentieth century. We feared to revive the intellectual revolt of the 130,3: Communism had gone out of fashion. There is a new Spirit afoot in colleges today, a spirit of quiet determination to show the pre- ceding generation that we can help re-establish the peaceful world which is a dim memory for most of us. Our Coucher world is a proving ground. Its story is one of education, adjustment, and progress. The 1952 DONNYBROOK FAIR pre- sents now the story of that Coucher world. i. van meter hall ii. mary fisher hall iii. hennett-rehinsen house iv. treelieher hall v. the athletic field vi. the year in review vii. the seniors

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Dorothy Shields, A.B., A.M.. PhD. 3m memoriam tiring the past year, Coucher College lost two of its bCStekIlOWH faculty members. Our hearts were heavy when news reached us last summer that young and vibrant Dr. Dorothy Shields had passed away. Her political science Classes had always been the center of lively dis cussions, an exchange of ideas that kept students keenly aware of their potential roles in the world around them. Dr. Shields shared with Miss Claire Quincer, who passed away this winter while on leave of absence from the College, a genuine interest in her students. The personality of each girl who worked with these professors was enriched by the knowledge and the high ideals they offered. One of these women repre- sented the Ere of life; the other the mellow rich- ness that a full and useful life achieves. We bow our heads in humble acknowledgement of the debt we owe Dr. Dorothy Shields and Miss Claire Quincer. Claire Quirlcer, B.S., ALVI.

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the botany building The Sciences . . . they fashion hen the atom bomb Erst cast its mushroom- ing shadow over our world, few of us under- stood the enormous strides science had been tak- ing behind our backs. Now we face the realizae tion that Our times are revolutionary even in a revolutionary age of science. We see in LIFE: ilToday, in its laboratories the U. S. Navy is readying itself to Eght a modern, three-dimen- sional form of warfare. . . .7' TIME reports on a supersonic yaw , a new peril for jet pilots. Rockets to the moon, something we envisioned as youngster fans of Buck Rogers, would hardly surprise us today. Alleged germ warfare in Korea made only a temporary splash. XVe hear of small Baby A-bombs being tested in the deserts of the western United States. White Sands, New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, are names no longer strange to us. And this superhcial familiarity with science- what has it done for us? A fear of ourselves as products of a scientiEC age grips us. That fear arises from our pitiful ignorance of the vast potentialities of peaceful progress that science offers us. New methods in surgery, experiments in physiology laboratories, atomic knowledge used for the improvement, not the obliteration, of mankindethese things do not receive the publicity they deserve in a seience-minded age. Professors of the science department at Goueher study and examine and corroborate the studies of their colleagues in order to present their knowledge and ideals to Goueher students. The hope of the science departments of Goucher Col- lege is that their students will hnd full expression for their knowledge and training. The hope of all Goucher in this year 1951-52 is that the mushrooming shadow will cast a brighter lighter shadow over a healthier, happier world.