Sarah Lawrence College - Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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BEFORE THE CURTAIN This year the College has worked hard to bring information about the way Sarah Lawrence functions to Parents, Alumnae, perspective Sarah Law- rence students and other schools and colleges. It has prepared new programs which have been and still are extremely successful and instructive. A major part of the praise for the ideas and excellent handling of this new undertaking belongs to the Student Council Committee, or the Student branch of the entire Development Fund, composed of Faculty, Trustees and Alumnae. The Com- mittee is headed by Peggy Talbott and Mamie Knight, Sally Hillman, Jean Baker, Alison Kelsey, Shelly Wilson, Melissa Richter, Helen Bryan and Mellie Bow- man are its members. They have done a difficult job without any wish for certain acclamation. This spring a pamphlet was published entitled What We Think About Our College.” It consists of questions actually asked about Sarah Lawrence and these are skillfully and honestly answered in the hope that they will clear up many of the misconceptions about us. What is special about Sarah Lawrence? is a stupefying question but their answer is gratifying and sincere. We are treated as adults. Through our- committees and Student Council we share in running the College and are given responsibilities for our own affairs, both in our courses and in campus life. Another greatly beneficial task that the Committee accomplished, was to sponsor informal dinners at college for the Bronxville community and then. Page seventy-nine

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all over the country these dinners were given by the parents of students to meet Doctor Taylor and to learn more about the plans, ideas and aims of the College. As a result of the Boston dinner, friends and parents there organized a local branch to further our interests. This is obvious proof of their reception. Before the war, the College had always sponsored a Parents' Day in order to give the students' families a chance to sit in on classes and to generally watch the motivations and mechanisms of college living. This Committee, for the first time since the war, sponsored and ran Parents' Day with perception and enthusiasm. Besides bringing the parents closer to us, they have renewed an important and vital tradition. While we were preparing ourselves to clean floors, empty wastebaskets, and wash windows, Mellie Bowman, lean Baker, and Melissa Richter, members of the Committee, planned the entire program and laboriously made out the schedules and the work squads. The Work Program, which has now become an integral part of the College, would have been almost impossible without their painstaking job. Dr. Taylor, in his warm and compelling speech given to us after his nationwide tour, said that colleges should be given back to the students and that responsibility of the Student Community must be placed in the students' hands. This Committee has accepted the responsibility and its members have set a standard that in future years should be remembered and followed. Rita D. Kip, '48 Pcge eighty