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.