Mary Baldwin College - Bluestocking Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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Spanish Barbara Peabody Clarke, M.A. (Middlebur - Col- lege), Instructor in Spanish, has joined the fac- ulty of Mar ' Baldwin College after a year of graduate study in Spain. Miss Clarke worked for two summers in the Spanish department of Time magazine. While in Madrid she ser ' ed as translator and interpreter for an Anglo-Chinese firm in addition to tutoring. Dorothy M. Mulberr., Ph.D. (University of Madrid), Assistant Professor of Spanish, is director of the Man,- Baldwin Academic Year in Madrid. Her extensive European travel and study, as well as her firsthand knowledge of Spain, was a stimulus for the entire program. She has arranged e erything from classes to housing to invitations for a Balenciaga fashion show for the girls. Her jobs include help and counseling in their orientation to Spanish life, in addition to her official duties as director of the program. Barbara F. Ely, Ph.D. (Tulane University), Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, was the recipient of Carnegie and Southern Regional fellowships. She studied at the University of Madrid on an Institute of International Education scholarship. Dr. El -. an accomplished violinist, studied under Hugo Kortschak of Yale University Music School. 29

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Julian E. White, Jr., Ph.D. (University of North CaroHna; The Sorbonne, University of Paris), Assistant Professor of French, was a Fulbright scholar and is a member of the Medieval Acad- emy of America. He recently translated a Regnard play for performance by the Mary Baldwin College drama department, . t present he is compiling an anthology of medieval French literature and writing a comparative study of Voltaire, Swift and Cyrano de Bergerac. Language Department: French and German Vega M. Lytton, M.A. (Drake University; Uni- versity of Chicago; Middlebury College; Al- liance Francaise; The Sorbonne, University of Paris), studied at the Sorbonne under a grant from the Christian Education Board of the Pres- byterian Church, U.S. She has traveled exten- sively in Europe and conducts European tours for college students. Gerda L. Dippman, M.A. (New York University, Friedrich Alex- ander Universitaet, Erlangen, Universidad de Madrid, Univer- sidad de Barcelona), Assistant Professor of German, is at pres- ent working on her doctoral dis- sertation, which deals witli Schiller ' s aesthetics. 28

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Fletcher Collins, Jr., Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor of Dra- matic Arts, is tlie founder and producer-director of the Oak Grove Theater. He is coordinator of the Virginia Alliance for Encouragement of New Playwrights. This alliance of fourteen theater groups encourages new Virginia playwrights by reading, criticism, and production of their scripts. In addition to trans- lating French plays, Dr. Collins composes songs, acts as folksong consultant, and plays the violin, fiddle, and guitar. Fine Arts: Art and Drama Departments Ulysse Desportes, (Doctorat de I ' Universite de Paris), Associate Professor of Art, studied in France on a Fulbright grant and received his doctorate in art history with a designation of very honorable. He has exhibited his works in museums in Charles- ton, Richmond, and Baltimore. Dr. Desportes is completing a biography and catalogue of Giuseppe Ceracchi, an eighteenth century Roman sculptor. Horace T. Day, Professor of Art, was a student of Kimon Nicolaides, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Boardman Robinson at the Art Students ' League in New York. Mr. Day has exhibited widely in national exhibitions and is represented in permanent collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Addison Gal- lery, Andover, Massachusetts; Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri; and other public and private collections. During the past year an exhibition of his paintings of Jamaica was held at The Institute of Jamaica in Kingston. 30