Sarah Lawrence College - Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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January 28: The Scholarship Fair: Biggest success of all . . . Brothers Solomon and Hart saved us. February 1,2: Allcollege ski week-end. You don't have to go to Florida February 3: to get a tan. Fortini and crew stepped on the Tiger's tail. We beat the Princeton Elm Club at basketball. At last! February 4: Chest X-Rays inside a caravan. The mayor was supposed to give a speech, but it rained. Miss Trumbull substituted. 7:15 Lead Belly packed Bates with a ten string guitar. We were stunned into silence. February 5: Second meeting of the Marriage Course. Some of us tittered and learned of the birds and bees. February 20: Maya Deren's avant guarde films... watching them, something like swimming under water. Miss Deren didn't like to explain her method . . . she has her own. March 1: The Midwinter dance in Westlands White Room: Bal- loons in the goldfish bowl and vice versa . . . hair atop heads . . . orchestra so good it afforded real conversa- tion . . . snow for extra festivity. THIS IS A YEAR OF INCREASED ACTIVITY And wasn't there some fracas about a beauty contest? Someone didn't approve of movie contracts. March 7: The chorus sang at Williams. Where did Bennington go that week-end? Pag© sovonty-two

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December 11, 12, 13: Three one-act plays presented by the Theater Workshop: Saroyan's Hello Out There took place in jail with Don Pratt behind the bars. Highlight: Brad Fuller shot Don with a derringer and the sound effect was 22 calibre . . . Queens of France . . . Art Edelman played the part of a New Orleans swindler a la Charles Adams ... became the year's number one funny man by virtue of those lace cuffs and draped hands . . . Kathie Shaughnessy, as the little girl in This Property Is Condemned walked the rail superbly. No one has been able to sing You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven since without a tear. December 14: The Prom: It wasn't formal ... a bar in Bates . . . the DQ and Twila sang . . . December 18: Christmas dinner: sitdown supper . . . candlelight and carols . . . must we really leave? January 6: Trunks stacked outside MacCracken ... some came back with rings . . . Mass council meetings for those who over- slept a week or two . . . here we go again . . . January 17: Return basketball game with Hunter College. They had cheerleaders . . . need we repeat? January 21: Living Endowment Fund dinner: We sit down again. You have to pay for tablecloths now. January 25: Mr. Altschul ate in the faculty dining room. Page seventy-one

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March 10: For Women” deleted from our name. March 12: Work Program: The union of M.O.P. and R.A.G.” Sev- eral archeological objects discovered by moppers and sweepers in Dudley Lawrence basement . . . March 15: Spring Recess: Bermuda, Miami, Morris House and the Middle West. Apparently it was sunny everywhere. April 7: Leon Barzin and the National Orchestral Association played the compos of our music students. April 15: La Vie Parisienne,” Carmen,” Marriage of Figaro” made a quick change of Bates to the Met. April 30: Times Hall concert . . . Dancers and Chorus at their best. May 17: Another prom ... the Junior League in New York this time. May 28. 29. 30: HITS AND MISSES DO IT AGAIN. May 30: Can it be? We're off to the cold, cruel world Spring: Typewriters on the lawns: I'm going to begin my con- tract early this year... croci (that's classical background for spring flowers ) and forsythia pathing the cafeteria . . . someone discovered barbed wire on MacCracken's sunbathing roof . . . expecting Germans? . . . Nina hand- ing out two grapefruits at breakfast . . . the operetta singers practicing by painting scenery . . . I'm going to begin my contract early this year ... The Campus wrote a letter to Myra Cohn. Suzanne Shillington '49 Pag© seventy-three