2 THE HUNTER COLLEGE ALUl\L\, 1 NE WS Hunter Co Uege today is a n increasingly ENGLISH cO!~lplex structure. There are tw enty·two in· The winner of the Blanche Colton Williams structi onal Departments, as follows : four De· Fellowship last year was Pearl Wiesen, now partments of Langu:lges and Literatures, con· doing graduate work at Hunter. We are offer- stitut!ng the . Humanities Di vision, namely, ing the Helen Gray Cone Fellowship this ClaSSICS, .En ghs?, German, and .Romance Lan- year, an award open to all graduating seniors ?uages . (ll1cludll1g French, Itahan, and Span- or graduates under thirty. Ish ), Wlt~ Hebrew under t~e aegis o~ German, No fewer than four full-length books were and. RussI.an under the aegls-{)f ClassIcs;. seven published in 1956-1957 by members of the Social S.clence l?~partm~nts , namely, HIstory, Department: Vol. IV of Religious Trends in Economics, Pohtlcal SCience, SoclOI?gy and Poetry (Columbia) by Professor Fairchild, Anthropology, Psych.ology and ~hllosophy , Professor Robert Halsband's Life of Lady EducatIOn, and Busll1ess EducatIOn; seven Mary Wortley M ontagu (Oxford), Professor Science Departments, namely, Mathematics, Marshall Stearns' Story of Jazz (Oxford) and Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Biological my own Tom Paine: Freedom's A;ostle Scien.ces (in.cludin.g Botany and Zo~logy), (Crowe) . Also noteworthy was the lengthy PhysIOlogy (ll1cludll1g Health and Hygiene as profile of Professor Helaine Newstead in The well as Physiology), Geology and Geography, New Yorker of March 28, 1957_ and Home Economics; and four Departments LEO GURKO, Chairman dealing with special subjects, namely, Art, Music, Speech and Dramatics, and Physical CLASSICS Education. In addition, the Library counts as Professor E. Adelaide Hahn, Chairman of the a Department. Most of the instructional De Classics Department of Hunter College, last partments give major, minor, and optional summer attended the International Congr.ess of work; and in addition there are Interdepart Lingui sts at Oslo as a delegate of the Linguis mental Majors in Humanities, Linguistics, ti ~ Society of America and the Linguisti c Pre-Journalism, Archaeology, International Af Cncle of ew York, and also the International fairs, American Civilization, and Pre-Social Congress of Orientalists at Munich as a dele Work. All the above majors lead to the A.B. gate of the American Oriental Society and the degree. Special curricula also lead to other Linguistic Society of America. She presented undergraduate degrees : namely, Bachelor of a paper on "Voice in Hittite" before the Lin Fine Arts (in Art); Bachelor of Music (in guists, and one on "Personal Pronouns in Music) ; Bachelor of Science in Acco unting, Hitt.ite" before th e OrientaJists. At the closing Education (including Nursing Educati on), sessIOn of the Congress of Linguists, when Home Economics, Music, and Nursing. The representatives of fi ve countries (U. S., Eng Basic Collegiate Nursing Program, a four-year land, France, Italy, and Russia) delivered co urse combining academic and professional farewell addresses, Professor Hahn was ac work, is co nducted in part at Metropolitan corded the honor of being selected as speaker Hospital and other health agencies of the City. for the U. S. Undergraduate work is provided by day In June at the meeting of the American both at the Park Avenue Center (mainly for Classical League, Professor Lillian. B. Lawler women ) and on the Bronx Campus (for both was elected a Vice-President, and received a men and women ) . In addition at Park Avenue trib~te in reco.gnition of her twenty-one years' undergraduate work is offered under the service as. Editor of the League's periodical, auspices of the so-called School of General The Class~cal Outlook-a post from which she Studies (which is co-educational) in the late was now withdrawing. On this occasion she afternoon and evening during the regular put on a dramatic reading of the Trojan sessions, and also in the summer_These pro Women of Euripides. In September appeared grams are intended primarily for regular the eighth edition of her little book, The Latin matriculated students, but qualified non-ma Club, considered the standard handbook on the triculated students are also admitted at Park subject. Avenue both by day (as special "unclassified" Professor Harry L. Levy has served as a students) and by night. In addition the School member of the College Entrance Examination of General Studies conducts Adult Education Board's Latin Advanced Placement Examina courses, which do not grant college credits or tion Committee, and as Chairman of the Cur lead to degrees. riculum Committee of the Joint Committee of Graduate work leading to the A.M. falls into American Classical Associations. With his two parts: the Master of Arts Program in Arts wife, Professor Ernestine Friedl of the Queens and Science, and the Teacher Education Pro College Department of Sociology and Anthro gram. In the field of Teacher Education there pology, he has given several illustrated lectures are also certain curricula leading to the degree on the study they made in the previous year of M.S. in Education, and to Professional Cer of Greek village life. During the current tificates in Guidance. The Louis M. Rabino semester he is serving as Visiting Professor of witz School of Social Work grants the degree Latin at the University of Michigan. of Master of Social Service_ Professor Raymond Mandra is the President Early in the year, we invited notes from of the New York Classical Club for 1957-58. the various Chairmen, and we are happy to Professor Adelaide D. Simpson has been print below the contributions of those who serving as a Trustee of St_ Hilda's School at responded. 621 West 113 St. MAY, 1958 3 Professor Meriwether Stuart was elected a Flen ner, June '56, was one of the winners of Director of the American Philological Associa- th e Lafayette Year Essay Contest ; she spent tion, and was the recipient of a grant in aid the summer of 1957 in France_ Gail F. Turner, of research in the amount of $500 from the June '57, was awarded an assistantship at the American Philosophical Society. College de Charleville, France, offered by the The Department had the privilege during French Government for 1957-1958. the semester beginning in February 1957 of In February th e Department of Romance having as a member of its evening staff, teach- Languages welcomed back Professor Rene ill g a course in Ovid, Mr. Rolfe Humphries, Taupin, Professor Sidonia C. Taupin, and gifted poet and distinguished translator of Miss Blanche M. Dalleine from their sabbatical Vergi( and Ovid. leaves of absence, which all three had spent Ursula Schoenheim, June '55, has a Senior abroad. Professor Rene Taupin is preparing Fell owship of $2900 in Classics at Cornell ; she a monograph on Guillaume Apollinaire and will probahly receive her Ph.D. at the end of Professor Sidonia Taupin is continuing her the current academic year. Alice M. Jones, research on modern Franco-Spanish literary June '57, has a Fellowship of $2600 in Classics relations. Miss Dalleine traveled extensively at Cornell. Charles John Milhauser, June '56, in Africa, France, Italy, and Spain. In July has an Assistantship in Classics at the Univer- she attended a congress of modern language sity of North Carolina. teachers in Heidelberg. The Department regularly holds four func- HE NRY DUPONT, Acting Chairman tions each year : two dramatic readings ill costume, one each semester, of a Greek or GERMAN Latin comedy in translation, given as a class Professor Lena F. Dahme is the Hunter project by Professor Lawler's classes in Roman College representative on the International Comedy; the Earle Lecture, in the spring Hospitality Committee of the ational Council semester (last year Professor Emmett L. Ben of the Women of the United States. She was nett Jr. spoke to a huge audience on "The appointed by President Shuster to serve as Decipherment of Minoan Linear Script B", Chairman of the Local Committee of the and this year Professor Carl Boyer told of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Greek achievements in mathematics, physics, Foreign Languages, just held in N ew York and astronomy) ; and the Department Dinner, at the Hotel Biltmore on April 18, and at at the close of the academic year. Hunter College on April 19. At this year's Dinner, on Wednesday, June Professor Bertha M. Masche is conducting 4, Dr. Thelma B. DeGraff, Chairman of the the third year of an experiment in teaching Latin Department of Hunter High School, will German to Hunter Elementary School stu speak on Cicero, in commemoration of the dents. She is a member of the National Com 2000th anniversary of his death. mittee of the Program on Foreign Languages E. ADELAIDE HAH N, Chairman in Elementary Schools. LE NA F. DAHME, Chairman ROMANCE LANGUAGES In April 1956, Professor Taupin appointed RUSSIAN Mrs. Dora S. Bashour and Dr. Lucia D. TillS is how I would summarize the history Bonilla to study the question of a Language of the Russian Division of the Classics Depart Laboratory in Romance Languages. The De ment. partment of Romance Languages was able to In the fall of 1955 a young man of 25 was purchase two recording-reproducing machines graciously accepted as the newest member of which were placed in the Reserve Library the Classics Department. The fact that he knew after consultation with the Librarian, Professor no Greek and that his Latiu was rusty added Stewart. Special recordings of some of the some interest to the appointment. The young material used in the elementary and inter man became-and still is-the sole member of mediate French, Italian, and Spanish courses the Department's Russian Division. The Divi were made available. Student response to the sion leads a nomadi c life commuting between project has been so gratifying that the Depart the downtown and Bronx campuses of Hunter ment hopes it will be possible to have a fully College. It publishes occasional articles and equipped Language Laboratory at Park Ave reviews and is very busy trying to complete nue and another in the Bronx in the near its doctoral dissertation. The Division's staff future. also represents Hunter at numerous conven The following Romance Language students tions and conferences devoted to things Slavic: have recently won fellowships and scholar Last spring it even played host to an annual ships: Mary Carmona, June '54, a fellowship meeting of the American Association of for study at the Escuela de Medicina Tropical Teachers of Slavic and East European Lan in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the summer guages, the first such event ever to be held at of 1957; Blossom M. Douthat, June '51, a Hunter. fellowship offered by the French Government Russian is no longer a total stranger at for study at the University of Paris in 1957- Hunter. It is currently taught in six language 1958; Michael Howley, Sept. '57, the Father courses and one dealing with literature. Felix Varela Scholarship for 1957-1958, of Thanks to the cooperation of the Classics De fered by the Instituto CulturaICubano-Norte partment, the College Library already boasts americano for ~tudy in Cuba. Frances Lococo a small collection of Russian-language editions 4 THE H UNTER COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS of Tolstoy, Push kin, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, POLITICAL SCIENCE and other major authors. In the corridors and The Political Science Department is pleased in the cafeteria one occasionally sees students to report that it has made some new additions carrying Russian tex tbooks, and it is no longer to the Department for the year 1957-1958. unusual to encounter a group of students mak These include Professor John Stoessinger, Dr. ing a determined effort to converse in Russian. Joseph Maloney, and Dr. Alfred Junz. The first public display of Hunter students' Mr. Junz, whose dissertation deals with proficiency in Russian took place in 1956 "The Theory of the Legislative Process", re when Radio Liberation broadcast to the Soviet ceived his Ph.D. from the New School for Union the proceedings in one of the class Social Research last year. In addition to an rooms. award-winning article on "Congressional In The fact that Russian has already taken vestigating Committees" and a forthcoming root at Hunter is illustrated by the presence article dealing with the possible "Parliamen in a language course of a chemistry professor tary Breakdown" of the Canadian House of and-within two years!-of a second-genera Commons, he is co-editor of The Political tion student: a mother of a student who took Philosophy of Arnold Brecht. Associated for Russian two years ago. It appears that next five years with the National Foundation for year Columbia University will accept the first Infantile Paralysis, Mr. Junz has served as alumnus of Hunter's Russian Division to do consultant systems and procedures analyst for graduate work in Russian. various organizations in New York City. Hunter's Russian Club shows Russian film s, Dr. Joseph Maloney is currently on leave presents speakers, organizes excursions (last from Fordham University, where he received year the Club went to Vassar College where his Ph.D. and is Assistant Professor in the it presented a program of songs, dances, and Department of Government. Author of the poetry-reading) ; it gives parties (it held, e.g., forthcoming Case Study in Public Administra a Russ ian-style Christmas party, complete wi th tion, to be published under the auspices of the Russian food and music); and this semester Intra-University Case Program, Dr. Maloney it presented a short play of Chekhov. The is exceptionally active in municipal affairs, actors were second year students of Russian. and is currently serving as consultant to Judge MAURICE FRIEDBERG Louis Goldstein, trial examiner for the Board of Education in proceedings under the Fein HEBREW berg Law. In addition to his activities as Di In addition to the Free Sons of Israel semi rector of Research for the Nassau County allliual award for excellence in elementary Democratic Organization, Dr. Maloney has Hebrew, two new prizes have been established conducted research studies for the New York by the Hebrew Division: the Hebrew Culture Metropolitan Regional Survey and last year Council Book Award for excellence in inter served as Associate Director of the Citizenship mediate Hebrew, and the Farband Cash Clearing House for Southern New York. Award for outstanding achievement in the Professor John Stoessinger received his Hebrew major. Ph. D. from Harvard University, where he To meet the growing demand for teachers taught Political Science throughout the period of Hebrew in the Junior and Senior High of his graduate studies. He has also taught at Schools, the Committee on Graduate Studies Wellesley College and the Babson Institute. of Hunter College has approved the follow Professor Stoessinger's secondary school and ing four new courses in addition to the ten undergraduate training was done in such courses offered in the past: 1) Literary Anal widely diversified places as Austria, Czechoslo ysis of the Bible; 2) Bialik, his poems, stories, vakia, China, and Iowa, in addition to which and essays; 3) the Hebrew short story from he has traveled extensively in Japan and the 1881; 4) Current Israeli Literature. U.S.S.R. His publications include The Refugee HARRY BLUMBERG and the World Community, published in 1956 Chairman of Hebrew Division by both the University of Minnesota Press and the Oxford University Press; an analysis of INTERDEPARTMENTAL FIELD "The Refugee: Challenge to International Or IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ganization" (Harv.ard Studies in International President Shuster asked Professors Beatrice Affairs) ; and more recently "The Century of F. Hyslop and S. Etta Schreiber, members of the Homeless Man", a contribution to The the Committee on the Interdepartmental Field Humanist. In addition to his own writing, in International Affairs, to represent the Asso Professor Stoessinger served for a number of ciation of American Colleges at a conference years as editor of the Harvard Studies in called by the American Association for the International Affairs. United Nations to preview the tenth report Guided and directed by members of the "Strengthening the United Nations" of the faculty of the Department of Political Sci Commission to Study the Organization of ence, annual educational field trips for stu Peace, Research Affiliate of the AAUN. A dents include a three or four day visit to conference was held on October 10 (afternoon Washington, D. C., and a two day study trip and evening) and October 11 (morning and to Albany, as well as field trips to local gov afternoon) in the Auditorium of the World ernmental offices. These trips include visits to Affairs Center. the legislative bodies, courts, and government S. ETTA SCHREIBER, Chairman departments at the federal, state, and munic- MAY, 1958 5 ipal levels of government. MATHEMATICS Under the direction of Professor Ruth G. Professor Mary Dolciani received an award Weintraub, Chairman of the Local Arrange of $850 from the Mathematical Association of ments Committee of the American Political America and the Social Science Research Science Association, both the faculty and stu Council, to attend a Summer Institute at Stan dents of the department were very active in ford University, jointly sponsored by the two getting the Association Convention off to a organizations. good start. The Convention was held at the Professor Jewell Hughes Bushey has been Henry Hudson Hotel in New York City, Sep elected to membership on the Board of Gov tember 5-7. ernors of the Mathematical Association of RUTH G. WEINTRAUB, Chairman America to serve until July 1960. Professors Mary K. Landers and Jewell SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY Hughes Bushey were members of the six weeks Professor Theodore Abel, chairman of the seminar on Electronic Computing Machines department, served as president of the Eastern held by the Remington Rand Company during Sociological Society for the year 1956-57. the summer. Professor Dorothy Keur was away for a Professor Laura Guggenbuhl read a paper year participating in a study of the Dutch entitled "An Unusual Application of a Simple Caribbean Island made under the auspices of Geometric Principle" at the Congress of the Columbia University. French Association for the Advancement of Professor Dorothy Jensen published a sec Science, held at Perigeaux in July. Professor ond volume Qf an archeological study. Guggenbuhl's paper was published in the May Professor Philipp Weintraub was guest lec 1957 issue of The Mathematics Teacher. Her turer at Uppsala University, Sweden, in the "Note on the Gergonne Point of a Triangle" summer of 1957. appeared in the February 1957 issue of The Professor Gottfried Delatour was guest lec American Mathematical Monthly. turer at the University of Berlin and the Pi Mu Epsilon, the Department's honorary University of Munich in the summer. fraternity, initiated thirteen new members at Dr. Dorothy BIitsten is chairman of the a dinner held on October 14th. The guest Paper Committee of the Eastern Sociological speaker for the occasion was Professor R. D. Society, and has been made co·editor with Schafer, Visiting Lecturer of the Mathematical Professor Robert Nisbet, Dean of the College Association of America. Professor Schafer lec of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cali tured in the afternoon of the same day at a fornia, of the Autonomous Groups Bulletin. meetin g of the Bronx Mathematics Club. Dr. Jerry Epstein was granted his Ph.D. Miss Janet Norman, A.B., January '57, was degree by the University of Pennsylvania in awarded an Assistantship in Mathematics at June. Cornell University and a $1000 scholarship Mr. Daniel Rossides and Mr. Hugh O'Gor and a Junior Instructorship at Johns Hopkins man were granted fellowships by the Social University. Miss Gertrude Neuman, A.B., Jan Science Research Council for the completion uary '57, was awarded a $1200 Fellowship at of their doctoral dissertations. New York University. Miss Marion Kavee, Mr. Ernest Smith is co-director of a com A.B., June '57, was awarded an Assistantship mittee organized to study agencies that deal at the University of Maryland. with juvenile delinquency under the chairman JEWELL HUGHES BUSHEY, Chairman ship of Professor Robert Maciver. THEODORE ABEL, Chairman CHEMISTRY Professor Horst W. Hoyer spoke before the SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Metropolitan Long Island Sub-Section of the The Louis M. Rabinowitz School of Social American Chemical Society on "Some Electro Work opened its second year with an enroll phoretic Studies of Micelles and Their Inter ment of 43 matriculated and 50 non-matricu pretation in Terms of Micelle Structure", and lated students. TWQ members have been added before the 31st National Colloid Symposium to the faculty: Associate Professor Irving of the American Chemical Society on "The Weisman; and, on a half-time basis, Mrs. Standard Free Energy Change for the Forma Florence Schwartz (Hunter '41), to take tion of the Sodium Lauryl Sulfate Micelle". charge of the group-work sequence. Our full Professor Eleanor B. Marr is co-author, with time students receive their field instruction in E. J. Crane and Austin M. Paterson, of "A 22 community agencies. These include, for Guide to the Literature of Chemistry", 2nd the first time, group-work agencies. Prepara edition, published by John Wiley and Sons tion for practice in Social Group Work is last summer. being offered now, in addition to preparation Helen Ondik, June '52, won a Fulbright for Case Work. Fellowship to the University of Amsterdam, Last spring the School was the recipient of Holland. Katherine Lee, an undergraduate, a $25,000 grant from the Wollman Founda recently won second place in a nation-wide tion, to be used for scholarships and student contest sponsored by the Continental Oil Com assistance. In addition, a substantial number pany and conducted by the University of of agency stipends and fellowships have been Southern California, for her essay on Ein made available to our students. stein's Contribution to Colloid Chemistry. PAUL SCHREIBER, Director A. WILLIS DEARING, Chairman 6 THE HUNTER COLLE( PHYSIOLOGY, HEALTH, AND ' , HYGIENE The Department of Physiology, Health, and Hygiene sends greetings to all of its former students. We are happy to report that during the year 1956·1957 six majors received awards which enable them to pursue graduate studies at six different universities extending from N ew York to the State of Washington and as far South as Louisiana. One January '57 graduate is working under the direction of a Nobel Prize Winner at Bellevue Hospital. A Physiology staff member received a grant from the American Physiological Society to conduct research at the University of Minne· sota during the Summer of 1957. The heavy registration in the courses offered in the School of General Studies threatens to exhaust all our facilities. The Research Asso· ciates graduate program continues to attract earnest, conscientious students who are eager to work on an independent project; and reo ports have been presented before an interested group of staff and fellow students. To all of the graduates who keep us in· formed of their good work the Department members are ever grateful, and we hope that you will continue to enjoy the ever unfolding opportunities graduation from Hunter College offers to you. BERTHA G. GOLD, Chairman
DIVISION OF NURSING EDUCATION Since the first group of Nursing Education students graduated in June 1945, a total of 392 graduates have completed the degree reo quirements. The number of graduates has been increasing yearly from the original six in 1945 to 63 during the 1956·57 academic year. Of the total number of 392, 71 have graduated with honors. Fifty Freshmen were admitted to the Basic Collegiate Nursing Program in September 1957. This makes a tota1 of 122 students en rolled in this program. The first group of students admit,ted in September 1955 will graduate in June 1959. CLAIRE H. FAVREAU, Director