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ews Vol. LVII WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS., JAN. 9, 1964 No.12 Eight Facuity Members Rise in Rank; Promotions Become Effective in Fall Promotions of six members of of London. She is especially con the Wellesley College faculty, four cerned with consumption econ to professor and two to associate omics and the economics of ac professor, were announced today counting. During 1960-61, while on by Miss Margaret Clapp, president sabbatical leave from Wellesley, of Wellesley, and will become ef· she held the Shirley Farr Fellow· fective in September 1964. ship from the American Associa Named to the rank of professor tion of University Women, which are: Patrick F. Quinn, EngUsh; was awarded to support her stud Mrs. Carolyn S. Bell, Economics; ies concerning the economics of Mrs. Ellen S. Haring, Philosophy; consumer innovation. She is the Joseph L. Sullivan, History. Miss co-author of The Economics of Maja Goth has been appointed as Consumption, pubished in 1956, sociate professor of German, and and has been a contributor to sev Dante L. Germino has been pro eral volumes of economic essays. moted to the rank of associate pro· She joined the Wellesley faculty fessor of Political Science. in 1950. c American Scholar Interest In Greek l 1 A specialist in American litera A graduate of Bryn Mawr Col i ture, Mr. Quinn is the author of lege who received the M.A. and lf i i _, The French Face of Edgar Poe Ph.D. degrees from Radcliffe Col· I and in 1959-60 was a Fulbright lege, Mrs. Haring came to Wel l lecturer on American literature at lesley in 1945. Greek philosophy l •••• ~~ti. •i Catania University in Sicily. He and in particular the writings of A tentative sketch of the proiected dining rooms for Stone-Davis. According to the most recent plans J. received the B.A. and M.A. de Aristotle, is the field of her spec the buildings will be faced in brick. The black areas may be full length windows that will face the grees from the University of Wis ial interest. She is an officer of meadow. consin and the Ph.D. degree from the Metaphysical Society of Amer Columbia University. He has been ica and has also been active in the a member of the Wellesley faculty American Philosophical Associa since 1949. tion and the Association for Real Plan To Renew Stone-Davis Mrs. Bell is a graduate of Mt. istic Philosophy. Plans for the addition of two Stone - Davis will have as much Councils of Stone and Davis met Holyoke College and received the Mr. Sullivan received the B.A. dining rooms and for other major space in the living rooms and din with Miss Clapp to discuss the Ph:D. degree from the University and M.A. degrees from the Univ renovations of the Stone - Davis ing rooms as those in all the other suggested changes. Cathleen Rols ersity of Texas and the M.A. and dormitory complex were announ dormitories,'" Miss Clapp said. ton '64, house president of Davis, Wellesley Student Ph.D. degrees from Harvard Univ ced early this week by President Sketches In said that the general reaction of ersity. A member of the Wellesley Margaret Clapp. Construction of The Boston architecture firm of the group was favorable to the faculty since 1949, he is a speciai the dining rooms is tentatively Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and plan. Has Poem Selected "We all were very pleased that ist m the history of Russia and the slated to begin this spring. Abbot, who designed the Bates both Stone and Davis would re· A poem by Ellen Jaffe '66 has Near East and is the consultant on "The hope is that through this Freeman-McAfee complex, has sub been selected for publication in main esentially separate dormitor Continued on Page Four building project the people in mitted several sketches for the The Annual Anthology of College project. The most recent plan de ies," she said. Poetry. picts the two dining rooms (see To date, no contractor has been The poem, entitled "Promises" Miss Levier Back From Milton Study; above) as circular brick structures chosen to do the construction and was selected from many thousands with low dome-shaped roofs. no figures are available n the pro of manuscripts submitted, announc The rooms may be entered from bable costs of the renovation. ed Mr. Dennis Hartman, editor of Publishes Books on Jesus' Teachings the basement level of the dormi the National Poetry Press of Los tories and are separated by a Angeles, which publishes the An by Rosemary Metrailer '66 she was able to present some of her Boatwright to Sing thology. The yearly Anthology is a Miss Katherine Lever, Associate ideas in seminars and share those moveable partition. The plan must collection of poetry written by col Professor of English, returns to the of others. During her stay, she was be approved by the Board of Trus 20th Century Music lege men and women from every Wellesley campus this year after a invited to present a paper on Mil tees before construction may be- year's sabbatical leave spent in ton in Chicago, over this Christmas, gin. Miss Helen Boatwright, a soprano state and aimed at stimulating in acclaimed both for her vocal tech terest in writing poetry among Washington, D.C., and a summer in to the Milton section of the Modern Other Changes England. Language Association. nique and musicianship, will give ,; students. The other major renovations a concert of twentieth-century Read in Class Close upon her return is the no· Miss Lever adds an interesting comtemplated are a central en songs this Sunday at 8:00 p.m. in Ellen read the poem last year as tification from Seabury Press of ac note about her experiences in the trance for the two dorms and re ceptance of her latest realised nation's Capitol. "I was staying in Jewett Arts Center on the Welles part of her speech program to' Mrs. modeling of the present living ley campus. The concert will be V. R. Miller of the Speech Depart work, The Perfect Teacher, for the quarters of the National Wo room and dining room. ment. Mrs. Miller liked the poem publication. This book, first written men's Party, supposedly one of the sponsored by the Wellesley Music A circular drive (see page 3) Department. and asked who had written it. in the summer of 1962 and revised oldest buildings in the city. The for automobiles leading to the sin Ellen said that she had written it last summer, is a study of the art women there are working actively gle entrance for Stone-Davis may Miss Boatwright was most recent- , on her own, "however poems come with which Jesus taught. Miss Lev to promote passage of the amend ly heard in this area as the be built next to the new dining soprano soloist in the televised to be written," sometime last fall. er explains that she first became ment for equal rights for women, area. This central reception hall Later, Mrs. Miller submitted "Prom interested in the stories, images, and I couldn't help but become presentation of Handel's Messiah and parables which Jesus used in quite interested in their work." She on the first floor will eliminate by the Handel-Haydn Society. She ises" to the Poetry Press. the need for two bell girls and Ellen has also written a one act his teaching. Stemming from this, noted the recent New York Times frequently performs in the major play, "In Flight", which was pro she began to study the wider prob and other publicity about tl;lis or cut down the house work load for cities of the United States, Europe, duced by the Gateway Summer lems of how this man, "neither a ganization's activities. the students. Canada, and Mexico. Theater in Bellport, Long Island military leader nor a political fig Returning for her third trip to Presently the dining room and 20th Century Selection in the surp.mer of 1962. ure, came to have such world-wide Great Britain, Miss Lever did fur living rooms are located on the For her Wellesley concert Miss "Promises'' influence through a few short years ther research in the London British Boatwright has chosen songs by Come, mon enfant, and I'll feed of teaching in ancient Palestine." Museum and travelled about the first floor of the buildings. This the twentieth-century composers you wine Miss Lever spent from October country to various points of inter space will be used for a lobby and Hindemith, Poulenc, Berg, and And wrap your heart in a prickly to April of the past year as a fell ow est for her studies. She visited the living room after the remodeling. Ives. vine. at Folger Shakespeare Library in house where :Milton wrote the end Mrs. Frank Allen, a trustee, is Miss Boatwright graduated from We'll live in a lily on sunlight Washington, working on her study of Paradise Lost and . Paradise Oberlin Conservatory and immedi- I and silk of the ways that Homeric epics Regained, as well as the church chairman of the committee in ately afterwards studied at the And savor the nectar far sweeter function in Milton's Paradise where he is believed to be buried charge of redocorating the living Berkshire Music Center. There she than milk. Lost. There, in a congenial atmos (both at Chalfont St. Giles.) The rooms. Work on the inside of the made a youthful operatic debut, phere of scholars from all over the highpoint of her trip was a week's buildings is not scheduled to be- singing the role of "Ann Page" The wine, dear, is chilling the vine visit in the medieval city of York, United States, New Zealand and gin until after commencement.

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