OBSERVER Vol. 3 No. 10 June 5, 1961

Page 1 Editorial Eight Appointed To Fall Faculty Fourteen Faculty Will Not Return Next Semester Vote on Constitution To Be This Week Faculty Examines New Academic Plan Iris Johnson Dr. Sottery Views The Changing Bard Edith Rothaus Page 2 Constitutional Committee Letter To The Editor Seminar At Bard Dr. George Dalton Ergo Ego David Federickson In Defense Of Student Government Richard Greener Letters To The Editor The Bard Ideal Eugene Goodheart Page 3 Commencement Plans Announced Letter [“ . . . A proposal to help Frank Findler, former Bard Night watchman, . . .”] Judy Goldman Diantha Stevenson Alex Friedman Carl Hacker Wallace Loza Large, Diversified Class To Enter Next Term Library Fines Page 4 Softball Team Finishes Successful Season Seniors Plan Graduate Study Steve Snyder Furniture Received Softball League To Be Formed Charles Patrick Bard OBSERVER The Official Publication of the Bard CoUege Community

VOL. 3, No. 10 ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. June 5, 1961 Vote On Constitution Faculty Examines This week the members of the Ba.rd community will To Be This Week - vote in a referendum to decide whether to adopt one Council has finished its work of two revised constitutions or to retain the present one. on the proposed constitutions N~ewAcademic Plan The basic difference between the proposed constitutions and this week they will be sub­ by Iris Johnson June 5 meeting. is that one provides for a community government and mitted in referendum to the T~e proposed program is or­ the other for a student government. Under a community community. Plans for a new academic Referendums will be held program for Bard, which gamzed along the following organization, faculty and administration, as well as stu­ lines. There would be a "Ba­ on two separate days. On the would go into effect in Sept. dents, are represented on council; a student organization sic Six Point Course" running first day, the community will 1962, have been completed and would deny them representation. through the Freshman and So­ be · asked whether they want await the discussion and ap­ phomore years and covering Basic to the Bard system and concept is the existence to scrap the old Community proval of the Faculty be·fore Common Course and Back­ of a community, united both academically and socially. Government Constitution and they can be accepted. grounds of Western Civiliza­ tiol) in the Fall Semester of To propose that two segments of the community be adopt the new Community Gov- Today the 'Report 'of the denied representation in its governing body is to attack the Freshman year; a writing ernment Constitution. The in- Academic Planning Committee' course and Western Civiliza­ the existence of a Bard community. structions to voters will ask was submitted to the Faculty tion, in the Spring Semeste·r. It is claimed that a student government would pro­ everyone to vote without con- for "discussion and to convey The courses "could draw ma­ mote unity within the student body and therefore more terial for each other." sideriilg whether or not they information." On Wednesday, political influence for the students upon the adminis­ During the Sophomore favor student· government. June 14 year rative policy of the college. It is also claimed that it the Faculty will vote students would take On the second day, the for or against a Natural is the presence of the faculty and administration which its acceptance. Science Course and English hampers the functionirrg of the present community question will be: Should the . A majority vote will carry 200 organized along lines of new Student Government Con- It although it could be council. the Divisional Seminar, in the stitution be adopted? In other changed to a 2/3 vote should To expect unity to remain within a large group, es­ Fall semester and Natural Sci­ words, in the second referen- the faculty so decide at the ence and Art in the pecially a group of Bard students, is unrealistic. The Spring. for­ dum, voters are to decide Three courses during each mation of factions within the student body and council whether to scrap Community semester would be electives. will be inevitable. A student council will not give more Government (under either the Backgrounds of Western Civ­ influence to the student body; it will become a lobby for old or new constitution, de· Dr. Sottery Views ilization would be a lecture student opinion rather than the governing body in com­ pending on the results of the class comprised of an estimat­ first referendum), and to adopt munity affairs. Why should the administration respect The Changing Bard ed ~ 70 students. The length a body to which it does not belong more than one to student government In any of time the class will be held which it does? The quality of the deliberations of council event a Yes vote on the first by Edith RothaU8 or the number of times a question would be impaired by the absence of the mature opinions wil lallow the old week has not been decided. constitution to be replaced by The question "What is of the faculty and administration representatives. Bard?" and "Where is it go­ Common Course and the a new one, · either community Writing Course would consist A look at the accomplishments of this year's com­ ing?" are trying to be an­ government or student govern­ of an estimated 170 student>~ munity Council is one of the best arguments for the swered by a faculty Commit­ ment. tee in 8 sections of 21 peopl; continuation of community government. This council on Academic Policy. In question will allow the old a discussion with Dr. each; English 200, of an esti­ succeeded in revitalizing Sottery community life at Bard. It rein­ ment. Council members have he expressed some of his mated 115 students in 4 sec­ stituted most of its sub-committees which had become urged everyone to vote in the thoughts on this subject. tions of 29 each; Art 200 one inoperative OP atrophied affimative on this section of 115._ ' over the past few years. It suc­ question. Dr. Tewksbury once said cessfully settled many of the problems that existed on Thus if you are in favor of "Bard could never stand still" The program has two major S t u d e n t government, you and (Continued on Page !!) as the faculty member advantages: (1) "better educa­ should vote yes in the second who has been at Bard since it tion at Bard; (2) it would "put referendum, while voting yes was St. Stephens, Dr. Sottery the seminar system on a firm in the first referendum. If has witnessed and been a part footing." you are in favor of Community of all the changes the school The faculty has become con- Eight Appointed government, you should vote has gone through. cerned over the deficiencies" no in the second referendum, 'I am interested in what in the students' education, it while voting yes in the is first Bard is becoming more than reported. Many students referendum. grad­ w~at it is now as a static 1 uate with no knowledge in Sci­ T.o Fall Faculty The new Community govern­ thmg' was the main theme of ' ence or a Language other than ment constiution employs a Dr. Sottery's thoughts. The English. The new system Miss Im1a Brandeis, former Bard instructor, will rejoin the staggered method of Council means to control this is also would eliminate this. The lee­ faculty as Prdfessor of Literature starti111g with the fall, 1961, elections, with half the mem­ the thing most important to ture system it is believed, semester. Other appointments announced by the office of the bers elected in the fall, and the. college: the type of educa- would present some material president ar-e: Mr. Marvin Gelifand, as&t. prof. of Economics; half in the spring, all serving tion it offers. more effectively then is being Mrs. May Gelfand, asst. prof. for one year terms. Bard education at the pre- done in the seminar. The stu­ of sociology; Mr. Henry Kritz­ Fourteen Faculty Vacancies will be only tem- sent is deficient in many things dents can combine "facts" with ler, assoc. prof. of Biology; porarily filled by Council, and the gre-at difficulty lies in "evaluative procedure·s." Miss Rosalie Tucker, organist Will Not Return with the Assembly electing determining which of the pre- The seminar system has , j permanent replacements. In and choirmistress; Mr. J. Vogel­ sent practices have worth. Is caused Bard "to vacillate ;another innovation, only fac- education here structured among three equillY . undesir­ baum, asst. prof. of English; Next Semester ulty members will vote for enough in the sense that one able situations": (1) financial Mr. Sherman Conrad, assoc. faculty members on Council. envisions the Fourteen faculty members courses that one crisis caused by their small­ prof. of Art; and Mr. Bert Both faculty and students will is taking or plans to take in ness, have announced that they will (2) to large seminars as vote for student members. Al­ view of a· definite end? If a the student body Koslin, asst. prof. of Psychology. not be teaching at Bard next increases,. so, Council will be able to levy student is guided only by an (3) too Mr. Gel!fand and Mr. KosUn semester. Included in this expensive tuition rates dues only on students. (For­ adviser to his goal, is it then caused by excellent "all semin­ are . presently on the faculty of group are eight who are tak­ merly, they theoretically had desirablc that all advisers 1 ar" programs. I Farley Dickinson University; ing either a year's leave of the right to levy dues on the agree on the same goal for The new plan would put Mrs. Gelifand is on the faculty absence or a semester's sabbat­ faculty, but the use· of this all and have the same concept Bard on a basis in which 75% of Colulffilbia; and Mr. Vogel- ical, and six who are resign- power brought storms of pro­ of Bard the· school? How can of the student's four years ing. test.) The new constitution baum teaches on the University the small seminar be main- are seminars. It would reduce Those takmg a year's leave also contains major innova­ tained with a rising number of the average of Minnesota. Miss Tucker is are Mr. Joseph class size from ap­ Ablow, Mr. tions in the Educational Poli­ students? proximately 15.4 in 1960-1961 now at Vassar; Mr. Conrad is George Dalton, Mr. Richard cies Committee, the House Dr. Sottery is of the opinion to approximately 11.8. a former Bord professor, having Gummere, Presidents' Committee, the Ad­ Mr. Frank Riess­ that the addition of a few, se- been missions Committee, the Orien­ Incidental benefits of the on the faculty from 1945- man, and Mr. Theodore Weiss. lect required courses to 1950. Mr. Clair Leonard, Mr. Ge- tation Committee, the Enter­ the plans would include advanced . . rard Degre, and Mr. Fred tainment Committee, and the· cur~iculum could lead to. a reading lists in the required ~1ss Brandeis taught at na~d . Crane will be on sabbatical for Calendar Committee. basis of understanding univer~ I courses, and the courses being sal untd the spring of 1960 and 1s I the fall term .. Mr. Ablow i to the college. In a course able to draw upon each others The Student Government similar to the common course materia!r als'O on the taculty of the New taking a leave to complete his Constitution retains mQSt of or the divisional seminars in The need for a new acade­ School. She is & well known studies for a PhD at Har­ these innovations, while re­ Dante authority and author of vard. Mr. Dalton will social studies and literature mic program came about after spend moving the faculty and admin­ a common the recently puiblished "The the year doing a field survey background of fac: the Academic Planning Com­ istration from the Assembly, tual knowledge will be estab- mittee Ladder of Visi'on", a study of and working on a develop- and thus from representation considered Bard's goals · the Divine C~medy. (Continued on Page· 3) 1 on council. (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 3) PAGE TWO BARD OBSERVER June 5, 1961 EDIT·ORIAL Ergo Ego Letters To The Editor (Continued from Page 1) by David Frederickson I tunately not too heavy-often John M. Synge's " The Tink- obscured the words of the ' ' campus including the social regulations er's Wedding" was a brief, vig- lines and made the actions The _Bard Ideal question, the reinstitution of E.P.C., and is orous, and genuinely enjoyable less meaningful than they now ready to present a new draft of the old, play. Irish comedy is almost should have been. The. theme of my article is what a "cor- out-dated constitution to the community inevitably more · actable than The heroic tinker, played by 1 respondent" to The Bard Observer calls "the for ratification. Irish Tragedy; the difference Robert Bauer, ~as a mercurial miasma of exsufflication." The miasma of clown caught m the clutches . . . For these reasons we fe el that commun­ was apparent. The actors, when weren't carried away by of the eternal predatory fe- exsuffhcat10n, as far as I can make It out, ity government is the best form of govern­ they unfortunate impetuosity of ac­ male. His petulant-little-boy means the noxious atmosphere that emanates ment for the Bard community and call tion, clearly knew what they hamming appeared as a well- from an inflated emptiness. Though the cor­ upon the voters in this weeks referendum were doing and were glad to conceived interpretation of the retipondent chose to express himself in a bar­ to give the new community government show it off; the result was a role. His would-be wife, Mar- barous version of the style of Wyndham Lewis, constitution the 213 margin it requires for vital freshness that has been gery Apsey, was the sort of I went to the trouble of deciphering his prose adoption. sorely missed on our stage of enjoyable shrew one wouldn't -an occupational habit-because I suspected late. that much mind being caught that the symptoms of a dis~ase were present Kemper Peacock's direction by; only occasionally did her both in the substance and the style of "the showed considerably greater gesturing get to the point of letter." Mr. Kagle-1 name him because it is polish here than in "No Exit"; flailing. And Alfredo Porras easier to refer to him by name - chose Constitutional the problems - almost com­ was fine as the priest; the as his text the letter of President Kline in pletely different-were better points where he let himself which he speaks of "a new excitment at Bard" solved. In this production the go to free satirical comedy at the prospect of rebuilding the college. Mr. Committee use of the stage was full, ex­ were always fun. Kagle obviously does not share the excitement pressive and varied, and the Darryl Clegg's set was the and he has a right to his feeling, but the We would like to extend our praise and pacing never lacked momen­ most mature he has produced; letter that he writes disqualifies that feeling thanks to Ralph Levine and the Consti­ tum. A few spots of slower the theoretical conception was from serious consideration. I respond to it tutional Committee which worked so hard, and less farcial action were, enough modified by practical only because I believe that the letter is of the peculiar corruption of long, and well in the formation of the however, clearly called for. considerations to result in a symptomatic workable and pleasing stage. those students who steadfastly adhere to what constitutions that will be voted upon by But with a cast exuberant to the point of rambunctious­ Even the unsolved pro~ they call "the Bard Ide.al." What is the Bard the community this week. Few of us ness it must be hard to draw lems of this production-too £deal in the minds of these students? I imagine realize the time and effort that must go in the reins. Sarita Patterson great speed, a tendency toward the freedom to be rude and ignorant. Apart into an undertaking of this nature. It is clowned all over the sage in mannerism, and unmodified from Mr. Kagle's pretentious vocabulary, his vital that more students and faculty mem­ an effectionate, wholesome faith in Bergson's mechanical prose exhibits no knowledge of the spirit or bers be willing to spend the time and conception of the drunken mo­ theory of the comic, and . the the idiom of the tnglish language. Mr. Kagle's energy needed if community life and gov­ ther. Her problem, as every­ dialect-did not spoil an en- remarks about President Kline's style has in­ errnment are to continue to flourish vig- one's, was that the tumultu­ joyable evening in the thea- deed its unintentional irony, the irony that orously at Bard. ous pace and the dialect-for- tre. derives from self-ignorance. There are other ignorances in the letter that lead to an ob­ noxious rudeness. Mr. Kagle, without the In Of slightest knowledge of the purposes of the ·Letter To The Editor Defense Academic Planning Committee, accuses it of sychophancy to the Board of Trustees. Does Student Government Mr. Kagle know that one of the purposes of the committee was to protect the seminar by Richard Greener sh'ould also have to abide by the regulations and standards system from the increasing size of the student a system incidentally which has Seminar At Bard Soon we shall all be asked set orth ·bY Community Coun­ population, 1to choose between student gov­ ciL They should not have to been dishonored not by the faculty or the I should like to record my agreement with :ernment and community gov­ and they don't. Faculty and Administration, but, as Mr. Leary has demon­ Dr. Leary's elegant and persuasive article on ernment. The new Constitutions administration should not have strated, by the unconscionable sloppiness and the Seminar at Bard, and add one point: not are almost completely alike to stand by regulations passed laziness of Bard students? And how can a stu­ only the Seminar, but all the special tech­ exce.pt for this basic difference. :by a body on which they are dent of literature refer to "epistles that show niques employed at Bard are graduate school There are no specific anticles not given equal representation. a healthy contempt for content and a mature techniques, and to be successful require the in either Constitution which Yet, students must like by what reverence for form?" What, in the most gen­ could Mr. graduate student response. are radically different from one passes Council-a Community erous interpretation of this plirase, Kagle conceivably have meant? In addition to the weekly Seminar and another. The question is wholly Council that deals with issues of frequent papers instead of tests, the Modera­ concerned with the form having to do only with stu­ I might add that the. rudeness and ignor­ government. If we examine tne by The Bard tion and the Senior Project are the Bardian dents - a Community Council ance of Mr. Kagle were equalled facts closely enoug,h, we will equivalents of the Preliminary Oral Examina­ on which there are three votes Observer itself in its failure to observe the realize that student government tion and the Dissertation, at the Ph.D. level. belonging to people not direct­ elementary journalistic decency of publishing is the better of the two. The issue. The To be· successful they require what most ly effected by the issues. Mr. Kagle's letter in the following principles upon which student two letters­ graduate students bring to their studies: a The concept of the "Bard simultaneous publication of the government is based are valid Community" is a lovely one, Mr. Kagle's was prominently featured in what total commitment, a sustained immersion in ones while the prindples upon their work, a willingness and ability to read, but it i.s only a myth and should is normally the editorial column - can be Which community government compared to a situation in which a guest to write, and to talk inside and outside the not be mistaken for reality. rests are myths. speaker is suddenly interrupted by a lriend Seminar room. 'Dhe myth is already eX!posed Community government is with t•he creation of a Fresh­ of the host and permitted by the host to carry Without these, the graduate school tech­ based upon-the idea of a "Bard man Dorm and it should be ex­ the day. Fortunately the ignorance as well niques are worse than the orthodox undergrad­ Community" which does not posed. Let us not labor under as the rudeness discredited the interruption. uate system of lectures, textbooks, and fre- exist. As Dr. Koblitz stated in false assumptions. Let us not But enough of Mr. Kagle. What concerns quent exams. this newspaper last semester, inco~orate our inyths, however me-and other members of the faculty-is the With mediocre or lazy students, the Sem- the interests of students, :£ac­ nice they may be, into our gov­ free-wheeling aggressiveness that often con­ inar degenerates into a collective baby-sitting I ulty and administration are ernmental structure. It has not ceals itself behind "the Bard Ideal." I have session in which the bland lead the tame; the I different and to claim that they worked in the past and it will yet to see an account of the Bard Ideal in Moderation into a painful exposure of semi- are equal members of a com- not work in the future. the letters that are periodicall:y posted on . . . . . , munity is false. There are very The Stude n t GoveDnment board that shows the necessary hteracy, and the Semor ProJect mto a month s distinct differences between the bulletin Consti·tution recognizes that the respect for the conditions of civilized exchange effort of • disguised plagiarism. I these three groups and they HBard Community" is a myth. in an intellectual community-first, that a -Dr. George Dalton I shall continue to exist so long The Student Council would deal person know what he is talking about and as there is a College. Oommu- with matters concerning stu­ second, that he have a sufficient command of ------nity government cannot work dents and not attempt to in­ the means of expression to state what he server as it now exists and it cannot fringe upon the rights of the knows clearly and gracefully. . work in a changed form if the £a c u 1 t y and adminig.tration. Ob basic princi,ple remains. If it is There would .be only students Intellect and imagination both are con­ called "community govern­ voting :for the budget. There cerned with the creation of order and signifi­ Editor: Stephen Hurowitz ment", why do the students would be only students voting cance; they were never meant to be an ex­ Fred- have eight Council members on issues that involved . only cuse for the kind of "freedom" which is the Associate Editors: Wallace Loza, David expression of malice or weakness or witless erickson, Alan Skvirsky while the faculty have two and students. This d'oes not mean the administration only one? that StudeUtt Government would frivolity. I would suggest that the word "cre­ Literary . Editor: Madeline Berger Why must a student be chair­ ·be anti-'faculty or anti-admin­ ative" become taboo on the Bard campus Assistant: Edith Rothaus man? Why must the "commu­ until the time when some of those who par• Feature Editor: Charles Haun istration. The 'PUI'!pOse of Stu­ nity" be broken down into the dent Government is to give tcularly pride themselves on their "creative" News Editor: Iris Johnson "assembly"? ~tudents a common meeting capacities learn something about the rigor and Business Manager: David Lieberman Let us be honest. We all ,IU"ound, a forum for the airing discipline that go into the making of "creative Photography Editor: Carl Geisler know that the students have. ru student opinion-not com­ imagination." The vigilance- which some Bard Assistant: Peter Hyde to live by the regulations .passed munity opinion which does not students exercise in relation to the Adminis­ Literary Board: Dorothy De Steno, Linda in Community Oouncil, ibut that P.Xist. A change from Commu­ tration of the College or the teaching of lnuba, Judi Kuppersmith, Eve the faculty and administration nity Government to Student classes would merit the consideration which Odiorne, Beth Porter. do not. There are separate fae­ Government at this time is not it clearly does not merit now, if it were pre­ Staff: Ronnie Crystal, Janet Hall, Ralph ulty and administrat.ion com­ a sign of revolution; it is not ceded by housecleaning among the students Ellen Millman, BilJI Senfeld. Levine, mittees. There are not other a radical move away from or­ themselves-that is, if some of those who call Circulation Manager: Saul Rosenfield student governmental agencies. der. A change ,to Student Gov­ themselves students began to learn the mean­ THE BARD OBSERVIm, the omcla.l publication or However, this is not to imply ernment is a recognition (){ ing of being a student. the Bard College Community, is issued every two weeks during the Fall and Spring Semesters. that faculty and administootion political realities. -EUGENE GOODHEART ~ THREE June 5, 1961 BARD OBSERVER PAGE

... cine will be presented this · ,.-a.. ~ .•.1 ••f. t,'•m·~ ,.• ..,.•• fllll..:lll year in honor of the memory Large, Diversified Class ' of the late Prof. Vasil Obresh· Faculty Examines ,P/ansAnnountetl ·ko;~ ·e Arthur F. Martin, Jr., (Continued from Page 1) To Enter Next Term Scholarship, given in memory president for "this time of history," and The office of ·the of the late Arthur F. Martin, and long­ \Although all the data has dents from the South coming plans for the the "immediate has announced Jr., a graduate of Bard Col­ steps· to achieve those not yet been completely corn­ to Bard, Mrs. Crane said. They and com­ ranged annual baccalaureate lege, class of 1956, by his for­ "" piled, next semester's Fresh­ programs, which goals." have been accepted from states mencement mer classmates, friends and The Committee agreed that man class will be comparable place June 18 and such as Virginia, Florida, Ten­ will take teachers, is awarded to a qual­ there was greater need for to that of 1961. This was· the June 24, respeCtively. ified and deserving student in of other cul­ opmwn of Mrs. Curtmarie nessee, Maryland and Washing­ (1) knowledge com­ Principal speaker at the the Division of Natural Sci· (2) a sense of historical Crane, Assistant Director of ton, D.C. Two boys are tures, Color­ commencement will be the ences, preferably one planning chronology, (3) knowledge of Admissions. ing from as far west as Hon. Abraham. Ribicoff, Secre­ to ente·~ medical school. (4) proficiency in "Like last year's Freshman ado and Wolfpont, Mont. There Science, from tary of Health, Education and The Wilton Moore Lockwood either mathematics or a for­ class, the new students look are two applications Welfare. Mr. Ribicoff has not Prizes will be awarded again eign language, (5) vocation­ like eager, capable people many Greece. yet announced the topic of this year. One of these prizes finding. of whom already excel n their More Interest his address. is awarded to a senior student The proposed program may fields. More students are becoming Four honorary degrees will who in the judgement of the be a step toward meeting these Talented Students interested in Bard through the be awarded, one posthumously, president has contributed the needs. "Two who come immedi· "College Handbook," a publica­ during the commencement. In most to the intellectual life. of Seven members of Faculty ately to mind are an extremely tion which lists the names of keeping with 'tradition, na~es the college. The other · is and two from the Administra­ talented pianist who has played college followed by a 1 or 2 of those who are to recetve awarded to a senior who in tion were instrumental in draw­ with the Cleveland Symphony page write-up about it, she the·se degrees will not be an­ the judgement of the presi­ ing up the new plans. They Orchestra, and a prize winning continued, or through . alumni ·OUncd ahead of time. dent has contributed most to were Mr. Bleucher, Driver, sculptor. Many other students associations which are bein~ The John and Samuel Bard the general welfare of the col­ Shafer, Sottery, Tremblay, have won prizes in and out reactivated in many areas. Award in Science and Medi- lege. Wanning, Weiss, Dr. Kline, and of high school for poetry and This year Bard had 400 ap· Bachelor's degrees will be Dean Dorothy Bourne. short stories." plications for the Freshman awarded to 48 members of the Students who have reserva­ Diversification class and so far 189 have been class of 1961. tfon about the plans can make There are a few more stu- accepted, she said. Letter BACCALAUREATE their voice felt through EPC 'To all Members of the although the final say will lie new books Musical compositions by be able to purchase Bard Community: with the Faculty. with the money; if he's slow weeks ago, a pro­ three Bard students Tom Ben­ plan will not Library Fines About two and Dick The proposed it." help Frank Findler, jamin, Dave Moulton any student now en­ Miss Marion Vosburgh, Li­ about it, we don't see posal to be featured at the affect former Bard night watchman, Perry will rolled or entering in the fall. today that "Perhaps if the students annual baccalaureate service. brarian, announced and his wife was presented to a new arrangement for the col­ know that late fines won't do Council al­ The address at the service the library any good-and they the community. Rt. lection of back fines will be buy materials will be delivered by the seem to have a genuine con­ located $300 to Wetmore, jun­ used starting this semester. for Findlers' unfinished house, Rev. J. Stuart Dr. Sottery was cern for the library-they will ior suffragan of the Episcopal Formerly, registration and the community was ap­ returning stu- be quicker about paying fines," Diocese of New York. The Les­ held up for a pealed to for additionel funds (Continued from Page 1) dent until he had settled with she added. "Or maybe they'll son will be read by the Rev. about return­ and volunteer labor. both the library and the fin­ be more careful Reamer Kline, president of the lished leading to the final goal books on time and not Following the circulation of ancial office. Under the new ing college. The Rev. Frederick Q. of the student. · losing them, which would be this proposal on campus mem­ Shafer, college chaplain, will These courses would be· of plan, all unpaid library bills re­ even better." bers of the student body, fac­ direct the service. the lecture type and would for back fines and book ulty, administration, and staff have assigned readings and ex- placements will be sent on The library budget for the is better than this responded with a total. dona­ amma· t'tons . By havt'ng one July 1 to the financial office, 1961-62 year tion of one-hundred and fifty­ of eighty or one which will take over the res- year's. "In comparison to this Fourteen Faculty large class of five dollars ($155) as of Fri­ hundred students tought by ponsibility for collecting them. year's austerity budget (Continued from Page 1) new day, June 2. However, due professor, instead of six "The disadvantage of this $1000 for purchasing one maps, and records, we to a change in Mr. Findler's Mr. professors teaching the same plan," Miss Vosburgh was books, ment plan for Liberia. have $4300 budgeted for next condition we were compelled the Grad· unrequired course (English quick to point out, "is that Gummere will be at year." To this, she said, must to postpone work on the house. uate Instiute at Columbia ·Uni- 101, for e·xample) there would the financial office will put the Right now Frank is in the hos­ teachers available to money colle·cted after the first be added nearly four thousand ve.rsity Teacher's College and be more other pital and is not expected to seminars of July into its general fund. dollars this year from will do work towards his PhD. hold more smaller gifts, fines, live much longer. at the present. So, very simply, if a student source·s, such as Mr. Riessman has taken a re- than and earnings from Esoteria. U we are unable to do search fellowship at Columbia Examinations, although dis- pays before that date, we will any work on the house the University Psychiatric Depart- tasteful, are important and es-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~ three hundred dollars received ment. pecially to those going to grad- from Convocation will be re­ Mrs. Margaret Artinian, Mr. j uate school an~ one in each For The turned, and the donations Ralph Ellison, Mr. Ira Reiss, course would g1ve the student from the Community will be Mr. Michael Shaw, Mr. Carlos an opportunity to learn how Finest m Laundering put to a proper use. As of Suirnach, and Mr. Elgenio to take a uniform test. the now we do not have a clear Villicana have resigned. Mr. These are just some of Quickest Service idea of what we will do with Ellison will join the facul- questions and answers which are the money. We will just have ty of the University of Chica- being. considered ~oth by the to wait and see the ways in go. Mr. Reiss will teach at the committee and by mdependent And Most Reasonable Prices which these donations can best University of Iowa whe·re part thinkers. Before the e~d of benefit the Findlers. of his duties will be the de- the semester a report Will be It's The On behalf of Mr. and Mrs. velopment of a graduate pro- presented to both the faculty Frank Findler, and all of their gram in the sociology of fam- and the· student body for con­ friends on the Bard Compus, ily. · sideration and comment. It may we say thank you for Mr. Emil Hauser has retired is hopeful that students and Ri: ch ~ mon~d Lau ~ ndromat your co-operaton, moral and from the Bard faculty. He their representative EPC will Rt. 9 Red Hook , be a Whittney give as much thought to these financial. will, however Service Thank You, Visiting Professor of Music problems as Dr. Sottery and Quick Service Laundry- Shirt JUDY GOLDMAN, here for 1961-62; the committee have done. 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Steaks and Sea Foods Prescription Specialists Dealer Tel. Rhinebeck TR 6~ 189 Complete 65 East Market Street Route 9 Between Cosmetic Line Rhinebeck, N. Y. Rhinebeck and Red Hook Fanny Farmer Candy ------• PAGE FOUR BAR~ ~R June 5, 1961 Seni,ors Plan College, Albany Jr. College, Softball Tean1 Finishes Softball League and Dutchess Community Col­ Graduate Study lege. All preliminary responses have been favorable. by 'Steve Snyder To Be Formed Successful Season We plan to hold a winter Forty-eight students will by Charles Patrick meeting at which time sched­ The Bard softball team com­ four hits, Marrow and Captain graduate from Bard on June Bard will enter into a new­ ules and rules will be dis­ pleted its most successful sea­ Ralph Levine drove in four 24. Approximately sixty per­ ly organized softball league cussed. In keeping with a phil­ son this year, ending up with a runs, while Levine scored five cent will be going on to grad­ next spring. This will consti­ osophy of a sane athletic pro­ 3 and 0 record against college times, with Marrow and Mellk uate school. tute an innovation in college gram, we plan to allow the teams, and a 1 and 3 record scoring four times each. It In a sample group, Tom Ben­ athletics. It has been custom­ students every opportunity to against town teams. The team certainly was a day to fatten jamin will attend Harvard ary' in the past, for schools, grow in experience with a defeated Orange County Com­ up batting averages. Graduate School in Music. Ash­ and colleges to participate in program of this type. Stu­ munity College, Albany Busi­ The team expects to do very er Edelman is going to work baseball on an intercollegiate dents will manage and coach, ness College, Marist College, well next year in the newly on Wall Street. Bob Ehrlich level, although because of the select players, serve as um­ and the town team of Rhine­ formed softball league. There and Ricky Friedman are going weather and expense, it has pirs and take part in forming beck. They lost to Rhinebeck, is only one senior, Alan Skvirs­ to Rochester Medical School. been felt by many athletic de­ the league. partments, Red Hook, and Pine Plains. ky, . on the team. Marilyn Fish will study litera­ that baseball is not Many worthwhile objectives an ideal spring sport. In· one of the victories, Bard Plans are being made to ture at Bryn Mawr. Gary Gold­ can be attained by a pro-gram set a team record, getting six­ have an upper college - lower berg will study at , Brooklyn In talking with Mr. Richard of this nature under compe­ teen hits to demolish Marist, college softball game to com­ Law School . . . Judy Green Bogdan, the athletic director tent supervision. We hope 22-8 (see boxscore). Highlights plete the season. is going to Albert Einstein of Albany Business College, it that the program will give boys of the game were: a first inn­ Box Score Medical School. G e r s h o n was decided that our two col­ an opportunity to develop ing three-run homerun over Player ab r h rbi Greenberg will be at Colum­ leges participate in softball traits of leadership by partici­ the center field fence by Ar­ Skvirsky, c, cf 4 3 2 1 bia. Michael Heinrich will be this spring. Our game was pating as leaders of their nold Mellk, the longest home­ Levine, 3b 3 5 2 4 touring Europe. Charles Klein very successful and we decid­ teams. Many boys will receive run ever hit at the field; a Goth, ss 4 2 1 0 will attend NYU Law School. ed to approach three or four an insight in organizing, sched­ three-run triple by Bob Mar­ *Lipsius,. rf 0 () 0 0 Alan Skvirsky will be studying other colleges in an effort to uling, and playing which should row in the second; and a Marrow, lb, c 4 4 4 4 law. Deanne Rothstein will form an intercollegiate soft­ serve them in good stead when three-run double by Bobby Ep­ Mellk, 2b 3 4 1 3 attend the Bank St. School of ball league for next spring. they take their places in their stein in the third. Bard scored Sarasohn, rf 3 0 0 0 Education. Diane Miller will Schools contacted were Albany own communities after gradu­ three times in the first, five *Millenbach, rf, 2b 1 0 1 1 go to the Brooklyn Museum College of Pharmacy, Marist ation. times in the second, six times Knight, cf, lb 5 1 2 1 Art School. in the the third, twice in the Epstein, If 4 1 2 3 fourth, and six times in the •smith, If 1 o o o fifth. Pitcher Mark Bern~ Bernstein, p 2 2 1 0 Furniture Received RED HOOK FLORAL stein gave up only a single be­ *Greener, p 1 0 0 0 A completely new set of SHOP fore being removed in the dining commons furniture has Bernard Lasher, Proprietor fifth inning. Bob Marrow got TOTALS ...... 22 16 begun to arrive on campus. 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