BEACON Published Every Other Week by Students of the Bennington College Community.

April 5 1949, Vol. 3, No. 1 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont 15 cents per copy

College Optimistic About Critical Financial Issue Admissions Office Plans The most important current issue this amount for general funds, and Beacon Staff Elects facing the college is the financial $9,000 was raised by alumnae for the Travel Program situation. In September we found out scholarship fund. Therefore, by Feb- New Editor 2 As a part of the College's whole plan that we were minus about $150,000 of ruary 28 we had available $7 ,000 for At a staff meeting held on March of public relations Miss Shelly andMiss the total estimated cost of running the general funds and $34,000 for scholar- 24, Ellen St. Sure was elected to re- Boynton are carrying out an annual school for the year. The situation was ships making a total of $107,000. This place Cynthia Lee as editor of the Bea- program of planned travel. It includes brought to a crisis during Non-Resident amount subtracted from the original con. Cynthia is one of the founders of extensive excursions throughout the Term when, at a meeting of trustees $150,000 deficit, leaves a $43,000 deficit the Beacon and started as a member of United States to visit various public and administration, reports as to how which we must. still meet. the editorial board in her freshman and private secondary .schools as well the deficit has been handled this year We have fairly definite. assuranceyear. She has been editor for the past as to carry on the usual important pre- were given, and decisions as to how it that this deficit will be dimimshed by year Ellen joined the Beacon staff liminary interviews of candidates for could be met next year were made. about $24,000 by the end of the school early last Fall and was elected to the admission. This kind of travel and vis- year. The goal for the alumnae editorial borad in October. itation is not only valuable to the Deficit Largely Diminished This Year scholarship fund for this year isset at Linda Borden's term as asisstant ed- yearly admissions program but is equal- In spite of the fact that we have $20,000. $9,000 having been paid, the itor also expired this term. Linda had ly vital in establishing a sound relat10n- done everything possible to meet this remaining $11,000 will be paid before served on both the staff and the editor- ship and mutual understanding of pol- deficit completely this year, we found July Also, it is expected that the As- ial board before being elected assistant icy and principles between the College it impossible to raise all of the $150,- sociatesof BenningtonCollege and par- editor last Spring. Since the editors and the secondary schools from which 000. In round number the financial of- ents will contrbmte $13,000 for general have decided to dispense with the of- students come. With lack of contact fensive went like this: . funds. In short, the .approximate fice of assistant editor this year, no over a period of years and without op- Last August 1, the beginning of the amount which we can feasiblycount on one was chosen to succeed Linda. portunity for face to face discussion, in- school's fiscal year, we had on hand by July is $24,000 leavmg a total of Betsy Palmedo replaces Susan Pierce terest wanes and mistaken notions de- $67 000 in reserves. From August 1 to $19,000 which the college hopes to as Business Manager of the Beacon for velop on the part of both school and February 28 we received an additional raise before· July. the coming year. Betsy's former po- college. $40,000. The Associates of Bennington Plans Made to Alleviate Next Year's sition as Circulation Chairman is being College and parents gave $31,000 of Deficit filled' by Laura Franklin who worked Assisted by Alumnae Because of the proved fact that each under Betsy last year Patty Powell, Last fall Miss Boynton visited twenty- year the college will need$150,000 more who was on the writing staff of the three schools in the Cleveland, cincin- ? Which One of the Nominees. than it nets under the present financial Beaconlast term, is takingJame Rob- nati, Columbus, Louisville, Detroit, system, the trustees and administra- ert s place as Adverbsmg Manager. Chicago areas. This winter, between During elections, it is usual to con- tion have had to make several neces- them Miss Shelly and Miss Boynton sider the nominees' qualifications in sary changes in the income plan. These visited forty-six schools in Virginia and terms of the formal statements in the changse include: in or around Washington, Baltimore, constitution. Consider further: Opening Meeting of Philadelphia, New York, Providence l. An increase in the student body from Which one of the nominees for exec- 300 to 350 students. Social Science Workshop and Boston. A considerable amount of utive committee will keep herself well- talking, walking, and traveling by pub- 2. An increase in tuition from $1,750 An idea which originated simultane- informed on committee activities and (double room) and $1,850 (single lic transportation took place. In some will use her knowledge and abilities to ously but independently at a faculty . cases Bennington alumnae who were room) to $1,950 and $2,000. facilitate coordination and communica- 3. An increase in the scholarship fund and student committee meeting last Fall also alumnae of the schools joined in became a reality last Tuesday when the on thevisits. Because of their first tion between these committees and the in proportion to the incraese in the campus as a whole? whichone willuse student body. That is, about one- first of a series of Social Science Work- hand knowledge of Bennington, they shnp meetings was held. contributed a considerable amount to forthought and ingenmty m msbgatmg third 01' the students will be on and exciting stimulating Community scholarships; the same percentage This Workshop is designed to chal- the interviews and in the visits. In col- lenge the knowledge and methods of laboration with the Alumnae Office this Meetings? that we have at present. Which one om the nominees for Judi- various fields for the solution of com, plan of operation for future visits will By increasing the student body by mon and pertinent problems, to facili- be further developed. It is hoped cial Committee will enforce a law passed 50 students, the school will gain a net by the community? . Whichone will tate the exchange of information among- eventually that students now in College of about $100,000. This amount will students who are specializing in partic. may also assist when a trip to a school use perception and insight in under- cut next year's deficit down to $50,000. by a r epresentative of the Admissions standing personal and communityprob- ular subjects and to encourage critical This year the scholarship fund total- evaluation of basic assumptions and Office coincides with their non-resident lems? Which one will use objectivity ed abot $52,000, enough to provide about assignments. in coming to decisions and firmness m one-third of the student body with full concepts. The Workshop meetings are We are listing the schools which have standing by them? or partial scholarships. The reason being planned and organized by the stu- been visited this academic year. You Which one of the nominees for Rec- for this high percentage of scholarship dent committee composed of Jane may be an alumna of one of them. reation Council will solicit ideas from students is that out of all the register- Walker, Sue Bangs, Packy Cooke, Mary Lou Kingsbury, and Travis Foote. November 1948 students organize these ideas, and fol- ed applicants who are most eligible for Mr. Brockway served as chairman of Cleveland low themthrough? Which one will be acceptance at this college each year, the first workshop meeting at which The Hathaway-Brown School conscious of the great need for recrea- about one-third cannot afford to pay The Laurel School tional activity and will use persever- full tuition. In order to maintain our the problems and techniques of inter- Shaker Heights High School ance and imagination in promoting it? high scholastic standing and in order viewing were discussed. Three students Cleveland Heights High School who spent last winter period working (Continued on page 6) Which one of the nominees for the to get the right type of student for this college, we must necessarily raise in this area presented a short resume of Educational Policies Committee will the methods used in their particular work effectively as a liaison between the scholarship fund in proportion to the IN THIS ISSUE raise in student body. This fund will t ypes of interviewing, the problems en- faculty and students in her field andwill be raised to $67,000 next year. countered, and the ways in which these Community News: Page contribute actively to the committeeas All of these calculations are based on problemswere met. a whole. working on over-all educat10nal Beacon Staff E lects New E ditor 1 the assumption which seems reliable at Admissions Office Plans Travel policy ?' Which one will see thatt each this point, that prices will be the same Three Students Discuss Program ...... 1 division is formed on all committee ac- next year. On t he basis of Benning- Interviewing Experiences College Optimistic About Financial tivities? Which one will be persistent ton's fund raising experience over t he Issue ...... 1 in following through the objectives of Gloria Berger worked in the Boston First Social Science Workshop .. 1 last few years, a $50,000 deficit is a the committee? Psychopathic Hospital interviewing pa- Which One of the Nominees .... 1 practical goal, within the college's fi- tients after shock treatment to ascer- Executive Committee P lans . . . . . 1 The Executive Commitee nancial grasp. Faculty Changes ...... 6 tain the effects of the treatment on memory. The most important limita- Features: Bennington Students Try compete for College Guest Editorships. tion on the interviewer in this case was Bennington D ance Gr oup on the to avoid asking questions which could Road ...... 4 For Guest Editorships F ive Appointed to Board be answered by "yes" or "no" since the Scholarsh ip H unt by Greyh ound 5 As the result of a visit made to Ben- Although it is not kown precisely problem was to let the patient construct Reviews: nington last November by a r epresen- how many Bennington students entered his own answer. Standard questions A City Child in the Country . . . . 3 tative of "Mademoiselle," several Ben- this contest, it is gratifying to note that were asked about the family, the pa- Commons Exh ib ition ...... 3 nington students entered the first round five were appointed to the College tient's illness, etc., the problem being to Th e Medieval W orld ...... 3 of "Mademoiselle's" annual College Board. These include one senior, Peggy get the patient to elaborate upon the Editor ials Board contest in December for which Brown; two juniors, Cynthia Lee and~ answers given. T.here were several each contestant was required to write Ellen St. Sure, and two sophomores, methods of domg this:the patient could Prognosis ...... 2 a short article on some aspect of college Preview of Coming Attractions . . 2 Bibi Patterson and Sondra Parkoff. be urged on by the mterviewer saymg, life. These five, together with several hun- "ur huh", or some encouragement; by General: "Mademoiselle" received many hun- dred others, were then sent three as- repeating the last word of .the patient s Benn in gton Students Try for Gu est dreds of entries from college girls all signments which they were required to last sentence; by elaboratmg upon the Editorsh ip s ...... 1 over the country, and from these t he complete before certain deadlines in patient's last sentence; or by a mild B ennington Students Teach editors eliminated all those which sug- Children ...... 2 order to r emain in the running for one command,"tell me about... ". In this R.S.V.P ...... 2 gested illiteracy on the part of the en- of the twenty guest editorships. type of mterv1ew where the quest10ns N ew Students Interested in Per- trant and notified the remammg con- were largely open-ended with the em- forming Arts ...... 4 testants that they had been appointed Sophomore Wins Prize . phasis on any response rather t han upon Triv:a et Miscellanea . . . . . 6 members of "Mademoiselle's" College Four of these Bennington students a specific statistical answer, t he prob- Board and were therefore qualified to (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 2) Page 2 THE BEACON THE BEACON Preview of Committee Plans Ellen St. Sure Editor Coming Attractions c/o R. S. V. P. The plans of the Executive Commit- Catherine Osgood Foster Faculty Advisor tee, the Judicial Committee and the James Turner Jackson Faculty Advisor We are experimenting. Instead of Letter Box Editorial Board Recreation Council for this semester the usual review written after faculty are already well under way. Olivia Pattison Dusty Hutton concerts, we are going to offer a short March 29, 1949 J erene Jones Sydney Brucker "preview" of the music to be performed To the editor: Executive Committee Staff next Thursday, April 7th. The purpose Sondra Parkoff Reva Brown It canont be stressed too often that good The Executive Committee is to hold Barbara Ushkow Marianne Byk of this experiment is to increase the public relations begin at home. Bennington a community meeting on April 6, at Corinne Silverman Joan DuBrow appreciation of the music by. a few College is no exception. Nevertheless, I hard- ly think that the student body recognizes yet which the results of elections for new Suzanne Mosher Sue Raynor pertinent facts, not to analyze m detail government officers will be made. There Joanne Evans Ann Goodman its form, or to prophesy reactions. how important it is for us students to adhere Barbara Goldberg Virginia Wilson to the standards we theoretically (and some, will also be reports from the Co-Educa- Lynn Fletcher Ruth Lyford First on the program will be the practically) try to uphold. tional Policies Committee, the student June Klensch Beverly Butler Brahms Sonata in A Major, Op 100, for Bennington College has a dynamic spirit treasurer, the Bennington representa- violin and piano. This is sometimes which all its students should appreciate. I Photographer Elizabeth Ivory wonder if such a feeling prevails. It it doesn't, tive to the National Student's Associa- Business Manager Elizabeth Palmedo called the "Prize Song Sonata" because the fault does not lie in the standards, the ad- tion and the fire department, and a Circulation Chairman Laura Franklin it contains themes similar to the songs ministration, or the faculty. The fault can be discussion m conjunction with E.P.C. Circulation Staff: Betsy Palmedo, Suzanne found in the students, only. What, then, is Bunker, Nan Alter, Stephanie Chamber- in Op. 105; or the "Thun Sonata", nam- The subject for this discussion will be, ed after Brahms' residence in Switzer- this spirit? lain, Marie O'Donnell We have no banners here, no school songs, "More Access to Outside Performances Advertising Manager Martha Powell land during the summer of 1877 when rings or cheers. There are no inter or intra- in the Liberal Arts". The Executive Assistant Ad Manager Elizabeth Winslow he composed the work. The salient college athletic teams. Many freshmen, I Layout Fanny Parsons Committee has met with the Judicial features in the form to recognize are: think, miss these outer signs of group feelings. Committee and E.P.C. to discuss plans (l)The slow movement and scherzo However, Bennington possesses a character which, to my mind, far surpasses any or all for this term. Prognosis are combined with a gay vivace in- of the forementioned indications of spirit. We Petrie Manning was appointed by the serted between the lyric melody on the have intellectual freedom and social inde- Executive Committee as a delegate Better Beacons are on the way, violin and its two repetitions. (2) The pendence to an unusual degree; we have the from Bennington College to the New use of arpeggios to bring about a sense right to genuine individual responsibility; Articles interesting, devoid of cliche ! we have the opportunity to grow and work England Student Government Associa- Humour, of foreboding. (3) The Sonata is unified together as a unit of learned and thoughtful tion which is holding a meeting on the rumour, by a device, somewhat less obvious, call- leaders in society. These paths are, perhaps, weekend of April 9. This is to be a and Intellect ed ladder pattern, based on steps of but a very few of the chances which we can meeting discussing the problems of thirds and fourths. The final passage grasp while at Bennington. To me, they are Grammar that's good, (carefully among the most wonderful qualities Benning- various student governments. The checked) of the sonata is one of the most beauti- ton College has to offer. Most colleges for representatives will consist of student Montages, ful. and well worth waiting for with women, I believe, are not as foresighted in government members and thirty-seven anticipation. this manner as Bennington. mirages Certainly we must understand that such New England colleges will participate. and funny cartoons Next on the program will be a suite qualities as I have mentioned are precious and A report will be given to the Benning Of the Bennington Myth and the for violin, clarinet, and piano by Darius must be carefully h andled if they are to re- ton Community after the meeting. College buffoons. Milhaud, one of the "Group of Six" main. Why, then, do so many students seem The Executive Committee has re modern French composers. Specific to disregard or not to care about the chances News of La Dance, offered here? Is it that there is not a unified quested that "No Smoking" signs be La Drame things to listen for in the first move- concept of our opportunities and mores? placed in the Carriage Barn Pit. et Les Sciences ment are the rhythmic patterns and It appears to me that our attitudes are This term the complete incoming Agreements, discussions and outright strong off-beats, the ostenuto piano shown to outsiders in such seemingly trivial student handbook will be revised and against unison clarinet and violin which things as dress, hours, and social habits. If defiances. this were not so, it would not matter how we will be compiled in printed form Aesthetic concepts, clear and pure builds up the climax, and polytonality behaved away from college. However, it is Therefore, the Executive Committee has New! Improved! What's the cure? which is used at times in all the move- undeniably true that what we learn here is been looking over such publications ments, but not consistently. The second reflected in our appearance and behavior away from 1933 on, in order to supplement (Read the answer in your next issue movement starts with a lovely duet in from the campus; for outsiders judge the col- their ideas. of the Beacon) which the clarinet and violin imitate lege by its individuals. Bennington's spirit, I feel, lies in the way J udicial Committee each other. The piano then repeats we students observe, care for, and handle our the theme while the other instruments highly valuable standards. The Judicial Committee held an in augment the time. The third move- Sincerely, formal meeting Tuesday evening, March Bennington Students ment, called "Jeu", changes the instru- Wilhelmina Eaton ' 22, with the new students for the pur Teach Children mentation by omitting the piano entire- pose of discussing Bennington's stand ly. A passage of the blues which ards and rules, and to answer any ques Private School sounds as if it were from Old New Or- l'air du soir", based on a poem of Baude- tions. learns improvisation is captured in the This winter a wide variety of teach- Finale. laire. This committee also reports that at ing jobs were taken by Bennington stu- "La Puerta del Vino" which was inspir- the beginning of the spring term, there dents. Candy de Vries traveled to the The five Debussy Preludes are among ed by a scene of Spain and the Alham- was slackness in signing out. This has West Coast to teach classes of six year the last period of the composer's works. bra. improved a great deal. The styles are varied according to the old children at the Presidio Hill School "Canope" evoking by its funeral march Recreation Council in San Francisco. The school was a subject which was their stimulus, poetic or pictorial, but are always con- its inspiration of antique cinerary urns. The Recreation Council has announc private elementary school which tried "Feaux d'artifice" which contains al- to preserve a highly mixed group of chil- cise. The picturesque titles Debussy, ed that this term the formal dance wil for purely musical reasons, inserted lusions to the Marseillaise, suggesting be held the weekend of May 21. The dren, enrolling a representative showing only at the end of each piece or in the the 14th of July celebrations. of all nationalities and races. committee is trying to get Susan Reed index. The preludes to be performed The concert will contain, m short, and her group of ballad singers to en Navajo Reservation are as follows: everything from the Blues, to Baudel- tertain during that weekend. Barbara Godley taught a group of "Le Vent dans la plaine" which blows aire and the Marseillaise. We hope This semester there will be baseball, 57 Navajo children of all ages at a along based on three common chords, that mentioning these outstanding fea- tennis, ping pong and badminton. John boarding school on the West Navajo C, D flat, and D; and then goes off into tures will only serve to increase the Jay, author of several books on skiing Reservation m northern Utah. The thin air with a B flat chord marked enjoyment of the works, and not de- and a famous lecturer, who is director of Navajos Barbara taught are a pure "laissez vi bar'. tract from their beauty and intrigue. athletics at Williams College, may come to Bennington to show moving pictures strain of Indian, and still retain their "Les sons et les parfums tournent dans Ann Goodman old tribal customs. She instructed them of skiing. Also, the Recreation Council will provide transportation facilities for m reading, writing, arithmetic and Opening Meeting of also ·essential to establish a rapport with drawing. They all understood English, g swimming. There is a possibility that the interviewee, giving the impression a tennis instructor might be available but for the most part they used their Social Science Workshop that you are in agreement with them to to give lessons to those who are inter- own language, of which Barbara has a

Book Review / Exhibition Presents Variety Photographs Portray Life A CITY CHILD IN THE COUNTRY of Media and Purposes in Middle Ages "I like Herman Wouk's THE CITY BOY is The current exhibition on the third THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, a photo- not an important book. Unlike most floor of Commons of work done by mem- graphic exhibition prepared by the edi- modern novels it is concerned with nei- bersof the Art Faculty presents a va- tors of LIFE, will be shown on the 3rd ther social problems, war, nor sex. The riety of media, directions, emphasis and floor of the Commons Building, begin- story of an eleven year old city child's purposes. George Holt is displaying ning April 3rd and continuing through first summer at camp, it is content to be a large still-lifo in egg tempera and April 17th. just that and nothing more. againthe same subject in a small wax This exhibition is made up of photo- because 0£ his deathless (for six painting on wood. Bernard Kessler is graphs which are soon to be published because months, at least) love for redheaded showing a view-drawing and floor plan as a two-part pictorial essay in Life, Lucille Glass, Herbie Bookbinder leaves of a small house. Jane Wasey, new and also includes many pictures that the familiar joys and sorrows of life in sculpture Faculty member, is presenting may have to be omitted from the maga- the Bronx for a summer at Camp Man- a small bronze figure of a seated woman zine for lack of space. it has friendly service atau. Bright but fat, Herbie finds his and photographsof t.wo s.tone pieces, a Twenty-four panels, each containing place in Lucille's heart being usurped by wood piece, and a relief piece. A foun- from one to six photographs and cap- and distinctive clothes Lennie Krieger, Herbie's arch-rival tain-pen line drawing of a still-life, a toins, delineate the roles of the Church from the Bronx and a skillful athlete to painting in casein of two female figures, the Town, and the Castle in the day- at all prices." boot. It is in desperation that Herbie and another still-life done in mixed to-day life in medieval man. The sec- seizes on a spectacular plan to win back technique, oil, charcoal, and coulage are tion devoted to the Church reflects the Lucille, a plan that involves robbery and being shown by Paul Feeley. Daniel medieval spirit in a sequence of panels Marie O'Donnell financial dark deeds at Herbie's father's Shapiro offers a pen and ink line draw- which include the cathedral of Chartres, ice plant, a plan that eventually makes ing of war figures, an engraving en- the Abbey church at Vezelay,Fountains the inventive fat boy hero of the camp. titled "Cyclist," and two record album Abbey, sculptural details and color re- covers. productions of stained glass from The children in THE CITY BOY are Bourges and Chartres. ------real children, drawn with amusement and sympathy. On the adults in his Engravings and tapestries book Herman W ouk showers as many Bennington Students Try Photographed Knotty Pine Diner smiles but fewer tears. And though The second division of the exhibition his book is not important, it is as highly For Guest Editorships (Continued from page 1 ) treats town life, late in the Middle enjoyable a novel as this neurotic age Ages. Here are seen engravings of may yield. eliminated themselves from the compe- anonymous Streets and street scenes as Fine Foods Reva Brown tition by failing to submit one or more well as such centers of medieval life of the required assignments, but the as Nuremberg, Dinkelsbuhl, Constance, fifth, Sondra Parkoff, not only com- Carcassone and Avignon. Welcome back pleted all three, but also received a Feudal life, centering around the prize for her first assignment which lord's castle, is portrayed in the third At stop light on Route 7 from was judged by the editors to be one of division. Color reproductions from the the ten best submitted. Nancy Garoutte, May 26th issue of LIFE include the ------Eva's BeautySalon "Mademoisell's" College Board Editor, Unicorn Hunt tapestry (now in The wrote of this entry: "Sondra Parkoff's Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art) INVENTORY CLEARANCE 463 Main Street forum outline was read two days after and also Life in the Manor (from a 15th Bennington, Vermont we had final 0. K. on the subject of our Century Flemish manuscript in the of Sixth College Forum. Our title: INDI- Morgan Library). There are also pan- Stop in and have your VIDUAL FREEDOM AND SECURITY. els illustrating a tournament and the RECORDS Hers : MAN'S CHOICE, SECURITY OR crusades. Of the 35 photographs in hair trimmed FREEDOM. We thought her idea, nat- this exhibition, 24 tell the story of 1/3 to 1/2 off on urally, excellent; her development customes and courtesies of castle life, ALBUMS thoughtful; her choice of speakers good while the others reveal the interiors and appropriate." and outside walls of medieval castles HOTEL PUTNAM The Twenty Guest Editors who will still standing today. be chosen from the College Board on ______Noveck's and the basis of this and the two subsequent assignments, will be brought to New Subscribe to the Beacon ! RESTAURANT York for the four weeks from June 6 to July 1 to help write and edit the an- Fill out this blank and put it in Box 104 and nual August College issue of "Madem- c/ o Circulation. Checks are payable to oiselle" and will be paid round trip "The Beacon". CARVER'S TAXI transportation plus a regular salary for One Term ($1.00) One Year ($1.75) The their work. In addition, while in New PHONE 68 OR 69 Tuckaway Outside of College ($2.00 per year) York City, the Guest Editors will take AT NIGHT. WATCH FOR GREEN LIGHT part in a full calendar of activities de- signed to give them a head start in their Name careers. These include personalized OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM - - tn the spring a young career guidance as well as interviews Address 334 MAIN ST. with top celebraties in their chosen WE NEVER CLOSE fields, and trips to newspaper offices, City ...... State .... lady's fancy lightly turns fashion workrooms, radio stations, to thoughts of clothes at stores, agencies and printing plants. Want a ghost writer? Co1ne in and see our new Put a Want Ad in the Beacon Go to (See Page 2) JESSIE WOOD Easter Finery . DANNY FAGER Rearranging your room? for Distinctive Clothes The Arax Shop and Find nails and paint 414 Main St. Bennington ROY AL SCOTT at ...... Invite you to renew The Adams Hardware Co. .Leopold Feldstein old acquaintances after Dinner ond Dancing 497 MAIN ST. IN BENNINGTON College Hill . the winter holidays to "The Three Aces" Providence, R. I.

Lily of France Girdles and Brassiers. Display of Sneaks Also Maiden Form Brassiers. Saturday Nights Swim Suits Bass W eejuns Blouses, slips, handbags, scarves and gloves. Cotton Separates, Scotch Saddles Green Mountain Diner Sweaters, Shirts, Blouses. The Town Shop Route 7 DRAGON'S SHOE STORE Arlington, Vt. Tuesday - April26 at the 113 South Street Tel. 41-M 444 Main Street Co-operative Store .Page 4 THE BEACON

Bennington Dance Group eluded setting of dates, transportation understood to be comic, and for once arrangements and a publicity press we had enough room to perform Bun- on the Road book; Nancy came up from Washing- ny's group without fear of landing in "Last night Cornell theatre goers ton, Barbie arrived with a sketch pad, the orchestra pit. Back on the 11 :59 were given a rare treat. The perform- and by Feb. 15th we were rounded up to New York (25c per pillow) and next ance of the Bennington College Dance and ready to go with a full itinerary to Spence and a rather catastrophic Group provided excellent entertainment in view. performance where the Victrola caught in an art form which is still fresh from We spent most of the next two weeks fire. (Don't use water 'til you see the newness of interpretation in the running from studios on 17th Street to flames"-instructions from Miss Full- modern medium." 69th. The Birsch domage (all of two er). With some quick changes we pull- and one-half rooms plus kitchenette ed the show through in style and left Cornell Daily Sun which came in handy) became the cen- for Springfield where we had an au- "Eight girls and one boy-the Ben- ter for quick bites, costume fitting and dience of 1100 and a very welcome nington Dance Group to you-capti- collapsing. The only catastrophe dur- roast beef dinner at Bunny's. Main Street, Bennington, Vt. vated their Skidmore audience at the ing this time was our mistake in over- Before we knew it, we were on our Dance Concert held at the Little Thea- loading the elevator and the resultant way to Boston, and what turned out to tre on March 2 ....The Bennington fear that we would spend the rest of be the best performance of the trip. Phone 400 Group have a large vocabulary of the term in the elevator shaft. As We were sponsored by the Dance Lea- dance movement and technique, under- time drew closer, Allegra, our able gue, a new organization of teachers. stand the theories of composition, and minister of finance, informed us that We were happy to play to fifty standees working from this background, have we would save a mint by using buses. as well as all our Bennington friends Call us for service produced dance that is alive, expres- as well as trains. Little did the Grey- and large groups from schools in the sive and uniquely their own." hound Company know what they were vicinity. To our great surprise instead Skidmore News in for. Mr. Bales gave us words of ad- of being banned, Bert's and Pat's blues vice and cheer on a dismal day in Feb- brought down the house with calls for Daily Pick-up and Delivery " .. . the group struck a fairly high ruary at a traditionally discouraging encores, Allegra's group got wonderful level of accomplishment for college dress rehearsal, and on March 2nd we response, and Chicky "Scored for the dancers .... the tendency still prevails were off for Skidmore. Twenties" closed the show with a bang. among practitioners of the modern Go! We had two more stops, Providence FUR STORAGE dance to dwell far too much on socia] consciousness, psychological mal- After depositing our bags at a mid- and Teaneck. At the Providence Y adjustments, mine disasters, maternal victorian mausoleum in Saratoga we we had a private ironing room for our anguish, and the various sorrows of ran to the theatre to rehearse the pro- cos.tume mistresses, (thanks Joan, Send Easter Clothes Early children." gram which included thirteen numbers. Chicky and Gail)' and beds m the locker HereCorey made her debut as coloratura room for casualties, all ten of them. Providence Journal singing Chickie's folk songs, Bunny did The combmat10n of a sparkling gold ". . . the Bennington Dance Group a magnificent job as drummer for Bert drop as background, and complete brought to an audience, made up al- and Doris made her appearance as ac- blackouts between numbers had us most entirely of students, an easily un- companist in an outfit of high red slightly cross-eyed,but we were amazed derstood and stimulating program of socks, leotard, and pigtails, a picture at the ingenuity of our hosts in turning contemporary dances." sure to win a prize. After getting a gym mto a theatre. Springfield Union over the shock of a peeping Tom in the We .were at our charming best at a dressing room who made his presence receptionafter the show, and per usual, There are a few places in New Eng- known at calculated intervals, we fin- ran out later to the local all-night diner. Lloyd will be here land that will never be the same. Nine ished up the show and ran down to the We wound up at Bergen Junior College, girls, a man and twenty-five suitcases, local hot-spot, Mother Goldsmith's and where modern dance seemd to mean April 7 not to mention two drums and a fence, stumbled back to cold baths and bed. bebop, but felt happy when at leaving, provided amusement for many pass- Next day we were on to Waterbury we found a few converts. Make arrangements to engers on New England Lines who and St. Margar·et's where Bert made a Home Free! watched us purchasing reading matter hit with all the girls. . . . have your photograph from True Story to Fortune, eating our Cornell, on March 7 was one of the We finished up tired but happy on way from Ithaca to Teaneck, and mak- highlights of the trip. We found our- the 15th of March and ran home for taken. ing life miserable for sundry bus driv- selves advertised all over the campus; our blue Jeans. We were relived to ers and train conductors. But we had were given a dinner by the dance club get of our . twenty-five smtcases, a good time, gave a good show, and and played to a packed house. "Avon- teary-eyed at disbandmg and we are Photography by Lloyd we're ready to go again. Here's how it dale" came through in high style with pleased to _report. that we returned with started: Chickie doing the honors as balladier. a net profit of six cents. Ready! Allegra's pre-classic suite finally was P. Birsh and J. Dubrow Go and hear We met on June 5th to organize the dance tour of 1949. This was the New Students Interested in Want to swap your bubble-gam for a third time that a dance group had gone p f A lollypop ? Ernie on tour, but the first time it played er orming rts Put a Want Ad in the Beacon one-night stands any distance from The beginning of this Spring term (See Page 2) at the New York. Due to the financial situa- finds Bennington with about fifteen tion we decided to spend the first part new students, many of whom are trans- of non-resident term on individual jobs, fers from other colleges. Although STATE LINE and the last two weeks on tour. these students come from various parts Letters to schools and colleges tell- of the country, the first three inter- Compliments of North Bennington ing them of the prospective tour went viewed would seem to have a number out in September and October. Spurred of interests in common. on by a few answers, we sent out sec- "Jo" Brown of Kilpatrick hails from ond letters asking for transportation Dallas, Texas., where she studied for expenses, overnight room and board, one semester at the Texas College of The COOKIE JAR and a variable performance fee. With . mines and Metallurgy. "Joe" apparent- the aid of telegram and phone calls, we ly decided that mines and metallurgy 113 North Street Denim Playsuits managed to set a few dates before could not _provide her with a good leaving for Christmas in hopes that background in Drama and consequently Phone 1920-M more would come through· and settled transferred to Bennington this year. Shorts on the personnel of the group Which Music was another of Bennington's at- included: Patsi Birsh, chairman; 'Helen tractions for "Jo" as she also intends Cappel, Barbara Corey, Joan DuBrow, to devote much of her time to the piano. Allegra Fuller, Bunny Gillett, Gail Switching from Union, an all men's Pedal Pushers Greig, Doris Robbins as both musical college in Schenectady, to Bennington EASTE R is accompaniest and dancer, Bert Prensky, is a radical change, according to Winnie and Nancy Smith, technician. Farrell, a local Schenectady gal. Winnie are here in quality and Get Set! isn't quite sure whether she is a fresh- nearly here! man or a sophomore now as she was a Mad money making was the project student at Union two years ago. Since styling yet prices that are during the first part of the term. then she has held various jobs which Chicky and Bunny were lost in the included singing on radio and television You'll find lovely stacks of the New York Public Li- in Schenectady. She intends to major surprisingly low brary, Barbie was in Kansas working in drama at Bennington but is also for the State Architect, Joan DuBrow, very interested in poetry and sculpture. dresses and blouses at the Community Center, Santa Mon- Coming straight to Bennington from ica, Cal., Allegra at the World Travel the High School of Music and Art in Agency, and Doris the smiling recept- New York City where she studied for at ionist at RCA. Bert was on tour with four years, Mimi Tannenbaum is also the Dudley-Maslow-Bales Company, a potential drama major. Mimi's im- • Gail was ushering at the Sutton and mediate plans, however, include voice working for the Girl Scout Office, and training and learning to play the ac- Patsi could be found any evening at cordian. the City Center replete with white col- Next issue of the Beacon will carry lar and programs turning slightly more interviews with new students. The E. L. NICHOLS Store green at the thought of seeing Carousel DRYSDALE'S again. Want to start a Pyramid Club? 457-461 Main Street On Your Mark! Put a Want Ad in the Beacon During this time, correspondence in- (See Page 2) THE BEACON Page 5

Scholarship Hunt ers. We asked her about Abraham Life at the Louisiana State University Mrs. Close of Macon, Georgia. We met Lincoln. in Baton Rouge. We were referred to them like this. We got into Macon by Greyhound "Oh, Abraham Lincoln wasn't so him by a friend of ours in Texas and at 8 :00 one evening and found that all Dusty Hutton great. Besides I've heard that some were told to treat him with kid gloves tourist homes were full and the hotels of his forefathers were of fairly good as he was a real Colonel and, if he too expensive. Then we remembered By this time, most of you know some- stock." didn't think we made sense, out we'd that a banker friend of ours in N.Y. thing about the actual procedure of the Silva said quietly, "You know, Mrs. go. Col. Cole arranged a meeting for had written to all the banks in the scholarship hunt w hich Silva Mardiste 3mall, I am descended from slaves who us with many representatives of cam- cities we planned to visit asking them and I went on this winter. We were were sold, suppressed and killed by the pus organizations, and silva and I ex- to assist us in any way possible. Mr. working for Bill Sudduth whose avoca- German barons in Estonia, and these plained the D.P. situation to them and Close had been contacted and his reply tion is bringing Displaced Persons to barons were the so-called aristocracy asked for their cooperation. There was had been very favorable. We called this eountry, and we got about fifty There was no answer to this and it a long moment of loud rumination and, him and after fifteen minutes of con- scholarships for these D.P.'s. What was a glorious moment. We changed when the Col. had fully digested the sultation with his wife he consented I'd like to write about here is the "non- the subject, but somehow it got back material, he stood up. to pick us up in ten minutes. We wait- technical" side of the trip: the people to politics again. When she said, "All "Now I like to work in figures," he ed an hour, smiling hopefully at every we met and the places we visited. the American consuls in Europe are said, and then brought a militant fist one who came into the bus station. Home Base Communists, you know'', we excused down on the table. "We'll take twenty- Finally, we were ushered into a big ourselves and went to bed. So this five". So that was that and right then black Buick and introduced to Mrs. In fact, the first introduction will be was what we'd find in the south! and there we became life-supporters of Close who stared curiously from her to my favorite place, the D.P. apart- But happily, we didn't find this. I the famous "military manner". froth of minks and said, "We've de- ment. The fact that it's on E. 87th think Col. Perry Cole showed a more For the sake of ambitious psychology cided to show you our lovely Macon." Street isn't especially significant be- typical attitude. He is Dean of Student majors, I'd like to introduce Mr. and We were so exhausted and so hungry cause when you walk in, you feel that we really didn't much care what their it could be almost anywhere in the lovely Macon looked like. We drove world. The living room is stacked through residential sections while Mr. high with boxes of clothes waiting to and Mrs. Close argued about the cost be packed and mailed to D.P. friends of the houses. We then went out to of Bill's in Germany. You can make see Fort Hawkins. It was a vague out vague semblances of chairs and black hump on a hill and Mrs. Close desks, but the boxes are most import- asked us if it wasn't just the cutest ant. Bill has a couch-bed there too. thing we'd ever seen. Yes indeed it Second in importance is the ever was, just adorable. Where were we jangling telephone constantly bringing going to sleep? After another tour of questions and voices seeking advice the camellia gardens, we drove up to and appointments from Bill. From a large. white mansion in the most ex- there you go down a long hallway which clusive part of town and they announc- has four adjoining rooms. These are ed tha,t this was their little place. constantly full and being refilled with ' They'd decided to let us stay the night. people who come to New York from After we'd made up our cots I went Europe and have no place to stay. The downstairs and asked very meekly if hall terminates in a large bedroom I might have a slice of bread and but- which was a dining room. You still ter as I hadn't eaten since early morn- have a sense of old gentlemen eating ing. Mrs. Close then aroused the old their chops from silver plates and a grandfather who cooked us some eggs. more recent sense of the many people In way of conversation I mentioned who have left their unuttered tragedies that Silva was from Estonia and had here and started from this place with lived in Germany for three years. new, bright expectancy. This room I With that the grandfather said, "Ger- shared with Silva. It was my favorite. many, eh? Well I was there in 1911." Off this was the community kitchen We listened dutifully for forty minutes which was also used as the overflow to his adventures in Dresden. Mrs. room when too many guests arrived at Close then asked Silva if she had ever one time. The whole apartment had a been to, oh, you know, that beergarden mysterious, warm excitement about it. somewhere in Germany. The one with a certain live wisdom, for it has heard the big gray house next door. Strange- many stories and seen into many lives, ly, Silva didn't know. After another so if ever you're in New York of a rainy dissertation on the Christmas parties afternoon with nothing to do, go and in Macon we excused ourselves and see it for yourselves. This was our went up to bed. We resolved then and home for three weeks, and it was from there to go to a hotel the next night here that our trip started. if it cost us our last cent. Fortunately, "Southern Hospitality" Wesleyan College offered us a place and so we said goodbye to Mrs. Close Perhaps one of the most startling and told her we would let her know if people we encountered was Mrs. Small. we got any scholarships at Wesleyan. Her name doesn't really matter, but for the sake of introduction we shall call "Scholarships?" she murmured. "Oh, her Mrs. Small. She is a Southerner, so that's what you're doing here." head of the D.A.R. in Washington, and Home Again, Home Again, Jiggidy Jog she stayed for two days in the D.P . apartment. During the course of con- Dusty and Silva in the throes of first publicity These were just a few of the people versation she made a few remarks and a few of the places we'll never which I thought were so fantastic that forget. I've written about the more I jotted them down. Such as : "Some- peculiar personalities, but on the whole day the U. S. will be ruled by the real BEECHER'S DRUG STORE the people were very receptive and eag- old aristocracy again." Chanel Yardley Elizabeth Arden Chen Yu er to help us. They were part of a It was Mrs. Small's contention that wonderful job which we will remember only people whose great-great-grand- Revlon Dorothy Gray Coty Lentheric for a very long time. fathers were governors could be lead- and other leading cosmetics KODAK AGENCY COMPLETE LINE Adamshop Our reliable Prescription Department is always at your service. 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.Admissions Office Trivia et Miscellanea Biggest Faculty Change Plan·s T'ravel Program The first person we saw from Woolley in Dance Department (Continued from page 1) house breathlessly exclaimed that they The ElmTree Inn There are four new members of the Lakewood High School were a very dull house: although they had had serenaders on Sunday night, faculty this term. Louisville FINEST GUEST HOME The Kentucky Home School and (since they apparently didn't ap- Mrs. Jane Wasey is taking Mr. Mo- The Louisville Collegiate School for Girls preciate this any more than certain selsio's place in teaching sculpture. IN VERMONT January, February 1949 members of Stokes, and were within She comes from New York and has her New York City closer range) had doused them with a own studio there. bucket of water. From the multitude MEALS SERVED The Nightingale-Bamford School A Bennington graduate, class of '45, The Gardner School came the shout that they had ruined Ethel Winters, is replacing Miss Hill Miss Hewitt's Classes a beautiful suit of gray flannels, cost- The Fieldston School ing the wearer $105. Comment: no one in the Dance Department. Miss Win- The Lenox School wearing $105 suits should be allowed ters is a member of Martha Graham's The Dalton School to live if possible. dance group and has taught at Miss Corner Washington and Elm Streets The Brearley School Graham's School. There are two fur- The Birch Wathen School Marcy Sweeney, an ex-Wooley mem- ther changes in the Dance Department. Bennington, Vermont The Walden School ber now, married Harold (Sandy) Sante The Spence School on February 5, and is now living in Alec Rubin is taking Bert Prensky's The Chapin School place and Joe Leibling, who is studying Telephone 1435 Columbus Williamstown. Julie Armor is at the University of Texas, where she is re- to become a conductor, is accompanist T he Columbus School for Girls :for the dance. The OhioState University School ported to be doing well plus having a Bexley High School good time, which isn't always easy. Mr. Wallace Fowlie, who taught in Chicago Franklin reports the birth of a son, the Literature Department from 1935 The Francis W. Parker Michael, to Ann Pratt Ladd in Decem- to 1941 has returned to Bennington Seasonable The Girls Latin School ber. this Spring. Mr. Fowlie has been The North Shore Country Day School Linda Borden, in the touring com- teaching at Yale University and the The Roycemore School Botany Woolens Hyde Park High School pany of Clare Tree Majors, was last University of Chicago. He has just New Trier Township High School heard from in Durham, N. C. She has returned from France where he was Tweeds Greenwich, Connecticut the role of Katherine in the Taming on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Rosemary Hall of the Shrew, and a smaller ( !) part Greenwich Academy m Romeo and Juliet. Charles Hyman is working here part Spring Dress Fabrics Scarborough, New York From Stokes we heard that Cynthia time as a technician in the Drama De- The Scarborough School Geisicke will marry Robert Henry partment. He will be here regularly Fleisher Yarns Scarsdale, New York Stewart III in San Antonio on June 11 starting in May. Scarsdale High School Jeannette Winans, formerly of Dewey Cincinnati house, was married last December to The College Preparatory School for Girls John F. Bertles, a med student at Har- THE YARD STICK The Hillsdale School Come on! Walnut Hills High School vard. Ann Triechler has left college to start a Ceramics studio with her HOTEL PUTNAM Detroit Spring is here BENNINGTON, VT. Kingswood School Cranbrook brother. The Grosse Pointe Country Day School Eleanor Cohen is Mrs. Edward Still- Phone 370-MK Miss Newman's School man as of about March 10th; Bingham Get a new pair of Lees Mamaroneck, Nek York also announces the coming marriage of Mamaroneck High School Cynnie Coe to Leland Stewart Smith of Darien, Connecticut Princeton on the 25th of June. at Darien High School Margy Wood will mary James Rob- Bronxville, New York ertson on the 9th of July; McCullough Bronxville High School says it has nothing else to offer-noth- The New York Store RUSKIN'S TAXI Chatham, Virginia ing printable, that is. Chatham Hall Carol Baumgarten married Arthur Middleburg, Virginia Goldwyn on January 2nd, but is still in The Foxcroft School college. From Swan there have been Phone 702 Greenway, Virginia various rumors which. we cannot di- Best Apizza for miles around The Madeira School vulge, but Joyce Spiegel's engagement Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Arthur Goodman is definite, and at the The Germantown Friends School they plan to be married in July. 24 Hour Service The Stevens School Molly Blake in Welling house is The Shipley School The Baldwin School engaged_ to Bob Agger who graduated The Springdale School from Williams last year and is now at TOP HAT 444 Main Street Friends Central School Yale. Law School. Joyce Perry was The George School married to Amos Murphy on January Bennington, Vermont The Agnes Irwin School 4th, and they are now living in Law- in North Hoosick Washington and Environs rence, Mass. National Cathedral School Kristin Curtis of Leigh house was Mount Vernon Seminary Sidwell Friends School elected queen of the Williams Winter The Honeywell Foundation Carnival last month. The Holton-Arms School Gina Raffetto returned to Booth Boston and Environs house from the University of California New Fashions of Easter Jewelry Concord Academy and Jennifer Brown has left to work The Winsor School for . her degree at Stanford. Cookie The Buckingham School Milton Academy White is spending this semester in $1.20 to $75.00 Baltimore and Environs Italy doing photographic. work for the The Park School Readers Digest but will be back in the The Friends School Fall. The others in Booth are, of The Bryn Mawr School course, too wrapped up in their studies jewelers The Garrison Forest School to create mere news. At least that is Ye GiftBox- Oldfields School The Greenwood School what they want you to think but we __ The Roland Park Country School dunno. · ' .. _ Providence, Rhode Island The biggest question on campus is The Mary C. Wheeler School which of three very eligible gentle- men (we quote) presented one of the GEN. STARK THEATRE top-notch drama queens with that Wednesday and Thursday, April 6, 7 sparkler? There have been so many WAKE OF THE RED WITCH John Wayne, Gail Russell FOR varymg opm10ns, and the holders of same would so love to know. Friday and Saturday, April 8, 9 WOMAN OF THE TOWN Claire Trevor, Albert Dekker EASTER KEY LARGO Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall Hallmark greeting cards Sunday and Monday, April 10, 11 CRESTWOOD MEXICAN HAYRIDE Bud Abbott, Lou Costello Easter Bunnies Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 12, 13, 14 GOOD FOOD ~EXCELLENT BAR FIGHTER SQUADRON Technicolor Also special added attraction: ANDY YOUNGMAN, internationally- MOD ERA TE PRICES famous magician. No extra charge for this show. Friday and Saturday, April 15, 16 GIFTS CALIFORNIA Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck Featuring of quality and good taste. JUNGLE PATROL Kristine Miller, Arthur Franz Sunday and Monday, April 17, 18 ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON JOE LAWRENCE Dennis Morgan, Dorothy Malone of New York Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 19, 20, 21 Walt Disney's THE BENNINGTON BOOKSHOP at the piano SO DEAR TO MY HEART Technicolor 427 Main Street Tel. 259 Bobby Driscoll, Beulah Bondi