Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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ClhxiAtian -fi66 JCL ztL jn The year 1940, whieh the world will remember as a year of tension and readjustment, will be remembered by those who worked with Christian Association as one in which this organization strove lo meet these challenges with keen, unprejudiced eyes. The chief purpose of C. A. can be well expressed in the words of Kahil Gihran: Work is love made visible. In all of its activities, but particularly through those of the study groups, dealing with pacifism, interfailh, and worship; through social work of various types; and even through posters on the index and house boards, our aim was entrusted to others. However, C. A. has not, and will not, confine itself only r to Wellesley. By- offering the college opportunity to work in these fields, C. A. hoped, not merely to create one friendly Wellesley community, but to widen its scope so that it contributed its share in the great undertaking of building a world founded on peace and love. e w Y Vvuj— e. V C. A. Tea Christian Association: Katherine Snow; Gloria Hine; Caroline Paterson: Christine Corey; Charlotte Hanna; Mar- ion Peck; PrisciUa Carter; Margaret Bhimer. 23 ■

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Forum: (1st row) Doris Bock- mann; Barbara Bishop; Fiora Mariotti; Elizabeth McClure.(2nd row) Hope Sisson; Julia Schmidt; Jean Pinanski; Frances Clausen Johnson; Louella Belle La Mer; Elizabeth White. To o-tum During the last decade, current events have become increasingly important to the world at large. Paralleling this trend, Forum has become increasingly important to Welleslev College, for it is, in a measure, responsible for keeping the members of the college abreast of the times. It is an organization to which everyone here belongs. Aided bv a faculty advisor, a board of students determines its activities. Each year, the board plans and executes, with the help of the college, programs dealing with political and economic affairs of the day. It procures outstanding speakers for din- ners and lectures, sponsors student discussion groups, debates with other colleges, and cooperates with members of the faculty in offering series of related lectures. High spots of the last campaign season were a mock convention and a mock election, complete with torchlight parades and rabble-rousing speeches. Forum attempts to be impartial and non-partisan. In line with this policy, it sponsored, before the recent presidential election, speeches by members of the three major political parties. It was fortunate in procuring for this event one of the presidential candidates, Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party. Forum aims to give members not only an intelligent knowledge of present-day events, but some understanding of the antecedents of these events, insofar as they can be ascertained. Torchlight Parade on Eve of Presidential Election 22 Tyota- Ma oTF?

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School days, school days — days spent in Founders Hall where classes with rapid note-taking, numerous roll-calls, mid-years, and finals leave us with nightmares. In the corridors of Founders, we jostle and elbow our way about, especially at the vortex of the whirlpool that is always swirling around the Index Board. Here, we battle for a place within visibility range of the board, which announces all the events of the day. If we only read the notices and then moved on, the con- gestion might not be so bad, but we meet friends and stay to talk, making passage through that particular part of the hall a matter of grim determination. Sometimes, there is a notice £ on the Index Board referring us to a class board, so we hasten downstairs to the little room, rather like the Black Hole of Calcutta, which is next to the one where the El table stands. There, usually before a big week-end, we often find little slips of paper bearing the well-known query: anyone driving to New Haven . . . , or Princeton, or . . . v ■