Wellesley Gets AEC Grant

-- J Lt Vol. LIV WELLESLEY COLLEGE1 NEWS 1 WELLESLEY, MASS., NOVEMBER 10, 1960 No. 8 Cosmopolitan Faculty Members Diversified Backgrounds Wellesley Gets AEC Grant; Characterize New Staff First To NE Womens' College New faculty members have come ment of Sweetbriar College in Vir to Wellesley this year from as far as ginia. ~ Science Students Germany and as near as Harvard, ac Miss McCulloch has just published companied by equally diver e back a book for Chapel Hill, Medieval To Reap Benefits grounds. Latin and French Vestiaries. She did by Cheryl Buresh '63 Karol J. Magassy, the newest mem research at Oxford, London and The Atomic Energy Commission ber of the Russian department, spent Paris for the work, which deals in has granted Wellesley $14 248 to pur his undergraduate years at the Uni- part with the illuminations of the chase atomic equipment for teaching . versity of Goettingham in Germany. original texts. Miss McCulloch com purposes. The grant is the first made A native of Poland, Mr. Magassy has plimented Wellesley girls on their to a New England women's college received degrees from the University keen interest in national and inter and one of the first to any liberal · of Wisconsin and Harvard. national affairs as well as in their arts or women's college anywhere Wellesley is Mr. Magassy's first ex studies. in the country. perience with teaching, and is "very· Friday, Miss Jean Glasscock, Di enjoyable, though rather frightening rector of Publicity, held a press con at first. I pay my compliments to Students Help ference to explain and demonstrate Wellesley students who are sweet, how Wellesley is using the funds. To kind and forgiving." He is mainly in P•·odu~e Play date equipment has been installed in terested in Russian literature, partic the departments of botany, chemistry ularly in translation and linguistics. and . physics. Later the geology and Cliffie Enters Community On Loeb Stage zoology department will make use An Instructor in English, Mary L. Five Wellesley students, working of the grant. Manson came to Wellesley after tak through Service OPgianization Social Tracer Employed in Botany ing three degrees at Radcliffe Col Work Committee in the Cambridge Emanuel Rudolph, Assistant Pro lege. As far as she can see, "Welles Neighborhood Hou e, have helped fessor of Botany, Nancy Clark '61, ley girls don't differ greatly from produce Trouble in Swanson's Alley. who is doing 350 work in. botany, and Cliffies.' " Mrs. Manson wrote her The play, which iis an adaptation of Millicent Kalil '61 demonstrated how doctoral thesis on Virginia Wolfe, West Side Story will be staged at an atomic tracer is used to analyze and is primarily interested in the the Experimental Theater of the physiological function of living or- modern novel. She has taught at Har Loeb· Drama Center at Harwird ait gani m. vard, and served as Director of the Radcliffe Graduate Center. 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Sat Mr. Rudolph, who attended a sum urday ntights. There will be no admis mer session at Iowa State University Louise C. Pappoutsakis has added sion chairge. on the use of radiation in biology, her talent as a harpist to the Music mentioned that, although all students department. She has studied with Teen,agers of the House wrote the play from their own experience last in the department will obtain basic Bernard Zighera and is a graduate information about the equipment, it of the Paris Conservatory of Music. year and are now in the cast. The experiences if not the play, ante-date will be used mainly by advanced Chemistry 104 students experiment with new radlc1tion equipment. They Mr . Pappoutsakis has appeared with students. the Boston Symphony Orchestra and West, Side Story, Miss Elsa Baldwin, are, from left to right, Gloria Ross '64; Sue Churchill '62 and Wendy Snow '64. ha taught at Stephens College in Director of the i;ettlement house and Used Throughout Chemistry Missouri. She is now also teaching a Wellesley giraduate explained. "The · · Curriculum every course. Miss Jean Crawford, or excess radiation and of the rules harp at the New England Conserva• kids never even heard of it,'' she The Chemistry department, on the Associate Professor of Chemistry, em of safety necessary while working tory of Music. said, refa-errin,g to the Broadway other hand, plans to use its equip phasized that all the students will with radio-active material, besides Born in Germany, Ruth V. Ward, Musical. ment for at least one experiment in learn of the effects of un~ontrolled learning about the uses of atomic in tructor in Getman, has studied at equipment in chemi try. Chemistry 104 students demon strated how the equipment is used ;~;~:h.~ii:;;;li!~:!~:.~~~::~!LedererScores U.S. Propaganda Methods to analyze a chemical by determining German literature is Mrs. Ward's America is not losing the propa- in theoretical football instead of and every organization, including its half-life. All the students wear specialty. ganda war because she is not even training a team. labor and student groups, must share film badges and a few wear dosi• Well Traveled Medieval Scholar in the running. This opinion was No Oi:ie Responsible the. responsibility of aggression in meters, which are checked periodi• Florence T. McCulloch has joined est forth by William J. Lederer, co- The prominent author defined a the propaganda war. cally for radio-active exposm·e. the French faculty as an Assistant author of The Ugly American and propaganda war as the sum total of Language a Problem Attend Summer Training Courses Professor with special~ies in Medie- Far East correspondent for the Read- acts aimed at holding or acquiring Addressing the often-cited prob- Mis Crawford attended courses at val French literature and the manu- ers' Digest, at the Harvard Law national power, spanning from trade Continued on Page Seven Continued on Pag~ Three script illumination of the period. Miss School Forum Friday night. and institutional strategy to the McCulloch's studies have· touched in Debating with George V. Allen, Olympics and the behavior of Amer the farthest· parts of the United Director of the United States Infor- icans abroad. States, starting as an und~rgradu-ate mation Agency, Mr. Lederer stated The United States' major difficulty Shak:espeare Society to present at the University of Hawaii and ijn- clearly that he was not slamming is the lack of any agency or execu ishing at Vassar, then traveling to his opponent. "Our information tive responsible for conducting our the University of North Carolina for service is doing what it is designed propaganda program, he emphasized. 1st Non-Coinedy, Winter's Tale her two graduate degrees. She has to do and doing a good job," he Waging the propaganda war must Shakespeare Society will present, tragedy. Tragedy ends in the loss been a member of the French depart- note, but it is like teaching a course not be limited to the "gentlemanly as its fall play, scenes from Winter's of all value, and in the death of strata" of the population, for if the Tale, Wednesday and Thursday at the hero. In Winter's Tale, the main non violent war fails only violence 8:00 p.m. in Shakespeare. This will character loses all because of a moral Professor Rene W elleck To Discuss can result. be the first, non-comedy which the lack. He does not die, but lives Sharing Responsibility society has played. Winter's Tale, to repent and regain his loses. Main Trends In Modern Criticism Mr. Lederer described his ideal is seldom done, and so is unfamiliar Shakespeare presents a broad vi Rene Wellek, Sterling Professor propaganda agency as headed by the to many people. sion-long comic cenes which con~ of Comparative Literature at Yale second or third most powerful man Sally Hoover '61, its director, has tain a more total picture of life. and chairman of the new Compara in the .United States. The organiza termed it "late, late Shakespeare," "Rebirth, youth, babies and sex" are tive Literature department there will tion should be operated strictly with many of the same qualities as the themes in these seen.es, Susan lee.tore on "Main Trends in Twen above board by informing the public The Tempest. lt is "a romance", believes. tieth Century Criticism" Tuesday at of its specific goals in specific inter very poetic, and unrealistic in the Variety of Scenes 7:45 p.m. in Pendleton. national situations. sense that real p~Jple act in an un The poetry in this play is some of Professor Wellek was born in In addition, each ambas ador real manner. Shakespeare's most beautiful. Susan should know what he is trying to Vienna, Austria in 1903, of Czech Deeper than Tragedy finds it "compact, close-knit, and accomplish by a given date, the parentage. Receiving his Ph.D. de Susan has interpreted the v1s10n complex.'' It contains a variety of speaker advised. Every individual, gree from the University of Prague in this play as a more profound in scenes: comedy, music and dancing, from tourists to traveling presidents, in 1926, he studied also at Lawrence sight into life than the vision in all of which the Society plans to College and Princeton University. present. Since then he has taught at Smith, The cast includes Molly Mason as Princeton, the Universities of Pra ET Stages Original Student Play; Leontes, Katherine Kitch as Her gue, London, and Iowa. mione, and Jane Smith- as Pauline. Language Groups Dramatization To Have Two-Day Run The youth, the romantic interest, is As a member of the Modern Lang repersented by Polixenes, Bonnie The Opposition Is Demanding, first ium, November 18 and 19 at 7:45 Royster; Florizel, Van Cortelyou; uage Association, Professor Wellek ET production of the y,eair, is an p.m.

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