THE BARDIAN
Special Centennial Issue
The Official Publication of the Bard College Com1nun'ity VOL.2, No.3 ANNANDALE·ON·HUDSON, N. Y. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1960 Prof. De,Cre Returns Committees Consider New Pres. Candidates James Case Named Since the resignation of James From South A \merica H. Case, Jr., Bard's former Last June Dr. Gerard DeGre, Director Of E-SU Professor of Sociology, took a presid.ent, a committee of trus leave of absence from Bard and tees and a faculty advisory James Herbert Case, Jr., formerly President of Bard Col went to Santiago, Chile to de committee have had several lege, has been named Director General of the English-Speaking liver a series of Fulbright Lec meetings to consider candidates Union of the United States. Mr. Case will leave for England tures at the University of Chile. for the presidency. in September under their auspices. The exchange was arranged On the trustee committee are Bard President for Decade by the United Nations sub Mr. Richard Revere, Mrs. Chan Ran Blake Plays At committee called FLACSO (La ler A. Chapman, Mr. Henry Mr. Case was president of tin-American Faculty on the Scott, Mr. Leslie Lang, Mrs. Bard from 1950 until his Social Sciences) and the Chi Martin Belefant. The faculty Notre Dame Festival lean government which secured advisory committee is composed Ran Blake was the only piano resignation in 1960. He was his position at the University of Mr. Charles Tremblay, chair soloist at a Jazz festival featur President of Washington and of Chile, in Santiago, as a vis man, Mr. Andrews Wanning, ing more than thirty college Jefferson College in Washing iting Fulbright lectur,er. Mr. Theodore Weiss, Mr. Frank comboes and big bands held at ton, Pa., before taking his post Most of the students whom Riessman, Mr. C. Theodore Sot Notre Dame University, South here at Bard. Mr. Case is a Dr. DeGre taught were post tery, Mr. Fred Crane, and Mrs. Bend, Indiana last weekend, graauate students doing ad D. Bourne-. March 18-19. graduate of Princeton Univer vanced research in sociology. The candidates being consid Applicants for the competi sity and holds an M. A. in His lecture topic was "The So ered will be recommended to tion were selected on the basis philosophy from Ohio State ciology of Knowledge." Also, the entire board of trustees for of tape recordings submitted University. in October of last year, Dr. Professor Gerard OeGre formal consideration at the end from unversities and colleges The English-Speaking Union DeGre went to Buenos Aires pho to by Hurowit!Z of March. all over the country. Awards of the United States is an or· for about a week, to deliver rangr:!d from bookings at Chi ::;everal lectures at the Univer cago's Blue Note, to new in ganization which promotes ami sity there. struments. Ran, however, be- able relations among all Eng While in South America he Expanded Care·er Day collected some Easter Island cause he was the only soloist, lish speaking countries through artifacts which are now on was not eligible to compete for the exchange of ideas and cul most of the prizes. display in Hoffman Memorial Planned For This Year tural materials. Library. This was not part Ran .expressed surprise at the selection of his tape, and was Headquarters in New York of the program, but a hobby for Bard College will hold its second annual career day on slightly apprehensive about the Dr. DeGre, instigated by a March 31, 1960. Bardians will meet informally wth representa reception he would receive. His Mr. Case succeeds Dr. Archi non-professional, personal in tives of various professions during lunch and dinner in the style is highly individualized bald C. Coolidge who resigned terest in Easter Island. dining commons. and personal. "I have roots in from his post as Director In Santiago the DeGre's saw Among notable representa folk music, blues, gospel sing the work of a comparatively un tives attending the conferences "I hope for the same results ing, and Bela Bartok," he said. General of the Union after known artist named Fernando will be David Faulkner, tele as last year, that people will He is sometimes uncertain of holding the office for seven Tortorola, and because they vision actor, to speak on the be able to get information whether his music is really years. Mr. Case assumed his both liked it, arranged an ex Theater; Elsa Heister, former about the vocations that inter Jazz, based on the music of our post at E-SU Headquarters in hibition for him in New York Director of Bard Alumni As est them." (Continued on Page 6) this spring. The exact dates of sociation, on Publishing; Mr. New York on March 7. the exhibition have not yet been Lawrence Gilmour, Principal Mr. Case resigned last term announoed. of Rhinebeck Central School, after he had been given a on Teaehlng Bnd Education; Community Rllmo Stlltion Resumes vote of "no confidence" by Legal Fight With Clll'ol MQYQr member of the the faculty. Although Mr. Case , N~w York City Department of OpertltiDns Alter Temporary Lapse had the :support ol the Board Dorm Contractors Welfare. on Social Work; and of Trustees, the parents, nnd David Schwab, New York Law WXBC, the radio voice of the be aired in their entirety with- the students, he stated that he Is Still Unsettled yer, on Law. With the excep Bard College campus, is re- out interruption. The station co."~idered facu.lty support a tion of Mr. Gilmour all are suming operations this term also plans to record and broad- mlm.mum reqUIrement for a After a lengthy legal fight Bard Alumni. between the Rockland Con under the direction of a new cast student recitals, among preSIdent. The Tr~stees. re struction Company and the In addition, there will be staff. Plans for the r,e-estab these the presentation of senior Ig.retfully accepted ~lS reSIgna- representatives from the fields lishment of the station, which tIOn and elected hIm to the College, the common room and (Continued on Page 6) Board of Trustees. the faculty apartment of the of Art, Architecture, Writing, suspended operations the middle New Dorm were completed. the Foreign Service, Medicine, of last term, were initiated dur For the first time since the Psychology, Music, Physical ing the winter session by stu and Occupational Therapy, dents who wer,e taking courses completion of South Hall in 1936, the Bard Campus has Public Relations, Secretarial on campus. been graced by a new dormi Training and the Armed The object of operating the tory building. The college, Forces. radio station is service to the still embroiled in a legal fight The day is being made pos- community. Thus, the staff with the contractors, is repre sible through the combined ef- hopes to be of assistance to the sented by Brown, Brill, and forts of Dean Dorothy Dulles faculty, clubs and the student Gangle, a New York law firm, Bourne, Miss Carol Kapiloff, body as a whole. Immediate who, under the guidance of Student Director of the Voca- plans call for the broadcasting Mr. William Asip and Mr. Cal tional Office, and Mr. David of listening assignments for Avery, are compiling lists of Banker, Director of the Bard those taking music courses. claims and counter claims. College Alumni Office. Mrs. Hourly news programs will There is yet some hope for Kate Wolff, assistant to the be featured on WXBC. The an out-of-court settlement. Dean, stated that "informed. news staff is hoping to secure discussions, not speeches" will the services of two teletype The Social Studies Division take place. Mrs. Bourne and agencies in the near future. Ac will present the well-known Miss Kapiloff hope that the cording to Lee Hammond, news historian, Richard Hofstadter day will help to promote the director of WXBC, the teletype from Columbia as its John importance of the Vocational service would enable the sta Bard Lecturer speaking on Office and inform Bardians tion to air important develop "Anti-Intellectualism In Amer- about career opportunities. ments in the news field within Members of the Bard community crowd the gym at the i~an Politics." This lecture, on Last year career day was in- minutes after they break. Feb. 24 student protest meeting against the change in social Tuesday, April 5, at 8:30 P.M. stituted in the hopes of en- In the field of music, pre regulations. At the meeting, moderated by Ricky Friedman, in Bard Hall, will be the first lightening the students about entations will range from the House Presidents and a majority of the members of Council John Bard Lecture this year. the possibilities in numerous classics to American folk music. and EPC resigned. _iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii_.iiiiiii______iiiProfessions. Mrs. Wolff said, Such works as symphonies willi photo by Hurowitz PAGE TWO THE BARD IAN ~RCH 22, 1960 Social Regulations Life At Winter College By Dan BUcksHver We can understand the frustration of the House Presidents and the members of About sixty students, girls outnumbering EPC and Council who wished to resign. boys by a ratio of 2 to 1, ,tayed on the Bard They had sacrificed many hours to the prob campus during the seven-week Winter College lem of social regulations and the latest de session. The boys lived in Albee and Wardens; the girls occupied South Hall. Dining Commons cision was a complete reversal of all they operated cafetria style, and to, supplement this had worked for. fare, the Coffee Shop remained open on a lim-: We have long recognized the social prob ited schedule. lem at Bard. It became obvious that some Atmosphere thing had to be done to improve the college's Depending on individual temperament, the social reputation. But we have gone from campus was either a secluded haven or a de one extreme to the other. Perhaps the ad serted mortuary. Since the students had vetoed ministration has completely abolished open an entertainment fund. no dances or other house merely to put itself in a better posi elaborate events were held during the session. tion for the forthcoming compromise (and However, the house Presidents, with the help of various hard-working students, did initiate forthcoming it must be, for a stifled soci~l some inexpensive diversions, such as motion atmosphere might discourage more prospec':' pictures, a folk-sing, and two Friday night tive students than the previous situation Winter College, 1960 suppers in Albee social. did). When the compromise comes, the photo by Hurowltz Though the community b:r;oke down into studen ts will feel as if a victory has been small groups, these groups were fluid. As a achieved, while if the same rules were put r.esult people who scarcely knew one another into effect six months ago, there would have during the Fall .became pleasantly acquainted. been a clamor for a still more liberal com Bard College, Snow promise. In mid-January the campus was covered by At the student meeting, it was pointed several inches of snow. Students sporting dark out that to establish fair regulations, we goggles appeared on skis. Those without equip 1860 - 1960 ment contented themselves with 'bellywhopping' need representative bodi~s. The many peti tions being passed around-no matter ·how down the lawn on borrowed kitcnen trays. many signatures they contain-are weak A Critical and Intimate History Weekends ushered in a general exodus with only a few lonely rooking cars standing in the substitutes for our Council which represents by Richard Gummere, Jr. I erature per diem. He was spir parking row. Two students might be sitting the entire community. Director of Admissions itual adviser for a sizable alone in the Coffee Shop playing chess. With A united student front is what the situ Bard College has always been neighborhood congregation, as this silence, a driver on the highway would not ation calls for. Organized protests which small, precarious, and distinc well as for the students; ana have known he was passing a college. display student unity but do not harm the tive. According to one alum he held the position, ex officio, nus, at the lowest ebb of our of Postmaster of Annandale-on college are in order. Our objective should be Hudson. Mrs. Richard Aldrich, to secure these modifications at the earliest fortunes just before World War I, wlwn the State of New York of Barrytown, recalls the War possible date. We call upon the Council den conducting an entire Com Senior t:>roiects In Dance Members to work for a solution which will was about to revoke our char ter for financial and other men cement in Latin. And Drama To Be ·Presented benefit those .students here and also the reasons, the faculty and their Though the curriculum was reputation of Bard in the long run. teaching were superb. Per the typical stiff dose of Cicero, The Drama and Dance Department will aspera ad astra! Virgil, Horaoe, Juvenal, Sopho present two senior projects on the weekend of cles, Homer, Euripedes, Aristo April 3 and 4. We have also always focused phanes (well edited!), et alteri, our energies around something A medieval dance performance featuring Varsity Sports relieved by small doses of sci Carolyn Bacon, in partial fulfillment of her important. In the 19th century ence, mathematics, and philo St. Stephen's had varsity basketball, this was religion. Evangelism senior project, will take place in the Chapel tennis, football, baseball' and soccer teams, sophy fit for today's high at 7:30 P.M., April 3 and April 4. She is ~sisted was sweeping the nation before school sophomores, this histor but today's Bard College has none of these. the Civil War, usually for popu in the performance by Penny Axelrod, Michael ian guesses, from evidence, that Giffen, Sue Gorman, and Alice Grossman. We think the school is poorer for the loss. lous "hot gospel" sects. John we were more vital education . Varsity athletics would be an important Bard imported from England One hour after the start of the dance pro allly than most Victorian col ject, Chekhov'oS "The Brute" and scenes :£rom step towards lifting the school morale and the high Anglicanism of Car leges. Because aU students were dinal Newman, leader of the Sh'akespeare will be presented at the theater. spirit. pected to be candidates for the Carol Kimball, as part of ber senior project, The college could achieve this goal by "Oxford Movement" - a more Episcopal ministry, they may genteel gospel. But in its more will do monologues of various Shakespearian providing money for varsity teams in tennis have been on the whole some scenes and, with Lenny Rosen and Sherman dignified way, our Victorian what older and more serious and basketball. We already have facilities college-then called St. Ste Webb, wiII perform in "The Brute." .for both these · sports and raising' them to than typical students of the phens-was as ardent as our last century - an egregiously · -varsity level would require only a nominal own rural Baptists. callow lot. sum. The publicity alone from varsity Over the college for most of Mr. George Barringer, R.F.D. .sports would do the school a lot of good. its 19th century life presi~ed carrier for Annandale today, re "The Great Warden." The calls as a boy in the 1890's taking Letters . • • Reverend George Brinkerhoff part with delight in the activi FairbaIrn, scTlolarly, rubicund, ties of the St. Peter's Brother Winter College Letters . .. amiable, domineering, glares hood, a service society run by down in bronze from over the the college students for the The winter college program turned out to An American 'Student Cause President's fireplace. From a benefit of the neighborhood. be one of the most successful experiments About one month ago, a group of Negro large photograph in Aspinwall, Mr. Barringer sang in their Bard has .ever tried. From the point of view college stulents in Greensboro, South Carolina, he negards us through his spec chorus and attended their ser of the students attending, the advantages were started a sitdown strike of a chain store tacles with a twinkle, more like vices in a little chapel they threefold: first, the concentration of work in one a clergyman out of Anthony erected at Budd's Corner, since course; second, the friendly atmosphere; and which refused to serve them at the lunch coun third, the general seminars. ter. Trollope. moved and attached to the rear Northern colleges and orther politically The ruthless Calvinism and of St. John's, Barrytown. During the regular term, the average stu conscious elements joined in protests in Classicism of American col The college has often tended dent's interests are usually ·divided among five support of Negro student actions. Students leges before the Civil War was to hold on to a good thing"':'" equally demanding subjects. He may, through at Bard were willing to picket the Pough temper,ed by a philosophy called sometimes even a bad thing careful planning, be able to arrange enough keepsie area to participate in this national "Scotch Common Sense." War too long. Warden Fairbairn free time to explore one of these courses to 'the movement. But oh the advice of the NAACP den F·airbairn practiced, wrote displayed this characteristic. He fullest extent. Generally he just doesn't bother chapter in Poughkeepsie, this action was not and preached about this system insisted on preserving the col doing this. The Winter College idea of one taken. Instead petitions signed by 100 stu with such distinction that he lege in its early Victorian form course did a wonderful job of overcoming this dents were sent__ to the national chain stores was elected a Fellow of the to the very end of the 19th problem. Students did have the time to explore involved in discriminatory practices. Royal Academy of Arts and Century, when he retired and their fields and through discussions with others Thus student groups have spontaneously Letters. At commencement, as soon died. Since his immediate could try to approach the same subject from Bishop Potter, on behalf of the successors-who came and went a different angle and gain many valuable organized and attempted a new method for the insights. meaningful realization of "the law of the land." ~oyal Society, hung the medal rather quickly-had not enough ALAN SKVffiSKY around the Warden's neck, the imagination or nerve to change Social problems seemed to be nonexistent Bishop proclamed him to be it after him, by the time of during the Winter period. Individuals who "not only still, at heart, a young the First World War, as the normally stuck with one particular clique be fellow, and, as we all know so action o:f New York State came friendly with many other people with The Bardian well, a good fellow, but now, in showed, we were an enchant whom they had had little contact before. Both deed, a Royal Fellow." ing anachronism. Offering fine these phemomina seemed to stem from the size Editor: Naomi Parver Fairbairn was the very model education, we neverthelesss of the winter session-sixty students. Associate Editors: Steve Hurowitz, Ralph of a Victorian college president. were almost without money or The general seminars offered another oppor Levine, Herman Tietjen. At one time or another he students,a position rather like tunity which is usually missing at Bard. Winter that of Robinson Crusoe's boat. Reporters: Geoffry Ball, Daniel Blicksilver, taught everything in the cur College students were able to hear teachers Malcolm Bukatman, Jeffrey Eisen, riculum. He always offered the The Trustees found an ener from different subject courses approach the Carron Draughn, Nan Feldman, most important course in those getic, inspired, and extraordin same. basic problem. Teachers engaged in spi Marilyn Katzenstein, Wally Loza, days: Moral Philosophy for the arily articulate young clergy rited interchanges and students added their Barbara May, Susan Playfair. Bill Seniors. He did all the admin man with a concern for the ed own questions and opinions. The result was a Senfeld, Al Skvirsky, Joan Spiel istrative work, with no secre ucation of young men. Bernard uniquely stimulating academic atmosphere. berg, Fred Ward, Dan Weller. tary. Come what might, he read Iddings Bell, as new Warden, one hundred pa~s of fine lit- (Continued on Page 5) JACK BLUM MARCH 22, 1960 TWE BARDIAN PAGE THREE The Buxton Players The Spirit Of Guy Ducornet Exhibits Perform At Bard Art Work at Bard By Michael Colefax Gay Ducomet is an exchange student on a A review of AN ITALIAN STRAW HAT Saint Stephens Fulbright Scholarship from the SorboDlle Uni by Eugene Labiche and Marc-Michel performed versity in Paris, presently attending Bard. For at the Bard Theatre, Sunday evening, March By Herman Tietjen a total of $250,000 during the the past week he has been exhibiting his paint 13th, 1960. There was a great need in John Lloyd Aspinwall, a man ings and wood cuts in South Hall social. The "Let's go to bed!", a line spoken in the sec the 1850's for a diocesan col- of means and a resident of following is an article which Guy wrote about ond act of "An Italian Straw Hat," seemed lege to train young men for the Barrytown, devoted constant at .himself for "Tbe Bardian!', a most apropos suggestion. During the final Protestant Episcopal Church. In tention to St. Stephens. Aspin Now that the prevue of my first exhibi uncoordinated minutes of the last act, the response to this need, a college wall served on the Board of tion in the United States is over, I know that viewer's reaction is to take the author's sug was founded at Annandale on Trustees as col1ege treasurer it was a success. The idea which prompted me gestion and drag himself home to bed. the banks of the Hudson. A for a great many years. Be to exhibit my paintings and woods was that if It seems most unfortunate that the audi group of sixteen men served on sides his services, Aspinwall I am to revisit the United states in the future, ence's memory of the play is most based upon the first Board of Trustees of contributed an annual sum of I would have to pay for my trip to and from their last impressions of it, for all in all it was this college and it wa·s through $1500 for the payment of the France. Thanks to the people who purchased quite a commendable peciormance in its variety their effort and determination warden's salary. At a later paintings and wood cuts, this summer I can of aspects. Had members of the orchestra had a that an institution of higher date, Aspinwall gave an addi return to the University of Caen in Normandy, little more nerve before the performance and learning flourished at Annan- tional $1000 per year towards France to take my examinations in English and all gotten into tune, and had the players given dale. curr,ent expenses. In addition American literature. The young men who came to to being officer and contributor, a little mor.e of life rather than confusion to the I came to the United States to study litera last set, the performance would have been more the college soon became aware Aspinwall at one time also tur,e because I feel insecure relying solely on my of the determination of the taught chemistry at the col than commendable. art work to make a living in France. I timidly But, th~ pln~, nrl WQll llS the east and or founding hthers to see to it that lege. When his cook, Misfl Bet start0d exhibiting my work in a French pro Stephens livQd and grew. sey Preston, who W!Hl without chesti'll, d.id providg !l pleasant evening.
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~ PAGE FOUR THE BARDIAN MARCH 22, 1960 The Spirit of St. Stephens (Continued from Page 3) Ba ~~W~I~ T~~ ~~~!iro~~tua_ ~!:e~;;~i:::i:!ans The Rev. John McVic~ar and By Steve Bernbach Mr. James F. DePeyster were Committee Plans I Beneath the furor of day to tion than simply .. a change in also among the sixteen men of , day events, which mayor may educational philosophy. ConmUttee Chairman faith, charity, and determina-' Events For Term not have meaning, it is nice to From the very beginning The film · committee bas at- tion who formed the first Board Never before has the res imagine that there is some there has been a moderate tempted to BChedule films . this of Trustees and who helped cre larger purpose being fulfilled. rather than a radical approach term that are entertaining; yet ate the spirit of St. Stephens. ponsibiity of the Entertain This view may not result in to education. Bard still has a worthwhile. 1n the course of However, space dQes not permit ment Committee been so great: more accurate news coverage, creative emphasis, so that the the· semester the student body elaboration on their contribu to provide a social life for the but it will possibly make the individual is expected to relate will see such films as "Potem tions. While some of the orig students of Bard College. For tedium of daily life somewhat and modify the book-know- kin" and "Intolerance," films inal sense of St. Stephens is no longer is the Entertainment more dramatic. In order to as- ledge he acquires in the light that have made major and last long gone, the college at Ann Committee to provide merely certain just how much Bard of his own experience with ing contributions to techniques andal,e still remains a unique an occassional event, but rath had changed, if it has, over life. But the big question is of editing, montage, camera institution. It stands as a symbol er an almost weekly diet of the years, an interview was ob- the attitudes of students, and placement, ·etc. of the ideal and importance of socialization and relaxation. tained from Mr. Richard Gum- of the policy makers toward Material to be Printed the small college in American The two main events of the mere, Director of Admissions. the students. How much have The committee hopes to pub- higher education. semester will be the Formal, It appears that beneath the these attitudes changed? Ush sonie introductory material Yet, today, while Bard is and the Semi-Formal. Are glittering generalities found in Mr. Gummere related that that will discuss the particular desperately trying to uphold the turn of the Gold Dust Casino: catalogues and reports, a few in the earlier days, as now, the films and films in general. This role of the small college, at least one lawn party at things have happened around predominating attitude on the combined with the films should beside trying to maintain its Blithewood (as soon as the the campus that might pos- part of the students was "we aid the student body in form unusual educational system, the weather permits), and smaller sibly make a difference in first." "What," I asked, "were ing a more discriminating atti small college at Annandale is parties for the remaining week some people's lives. envisioned as the qualities of tude. With a more profound faced with a crisis. Many times ends are planned, and will be The Bard Plan began in 1933 the ideal graduate?" The an- awareness should come a in the past this college has been held if financially possible. under the direction of Dean swer was that there were no greater appreciation of the faced with financial and other Headed by committee chair Donald Tewksbury. The word- moral requisites for gradua- cinema and a finer realization crises and has sucessfully with man Fred Ward, the Enter ing was hardly shocking or tion, and that what a graduate of its unique contribution to stood them. In every case, tainment Committee is seeking novel, yet the system when did was his own business. In art. We must give the film men like those who founded to provide as much for the put into practice involved an other words, it might appear our attention if it is to be placed the college, came fo~th with Bard students as the budget approach hitherto neglected. that the college was interested among the other arts. money or ideas and helped the will allow. "I only hope we Its over-all emphasis was on in the development of an in- List of Films college to survive. In each of can afford to do everything we creative work, that which is dividual's intellectual and art- The following list is a tenta- the past crises the spirit which want," says Fred. "I know we'll colored by one's own person- i~ic potentials, and left his tive schedule of films for the helped found St. Stephens havc everyone's cooperation." ality as contrasted with a personal life to his own judg- semester. They are not ar .. pulled the colleg,e through. Stu The three other members of the more formal, academic ap- ment. If this is true, it must ranged in order of appearance. dents, faculty, administmtion, steering committee are Com proach. Tewksbury envisioned also be remembered that Bard In total tbey form an introduc trustees, alumni, and friends mittee administrators, Stuart Bard as peopled by students in its earlier days did have tion to early American comedy, have remembered what the Small, and Neil Josell, and Com who had already developed a fraternities and was also close- early drama that brought with college at Annandale had stood mittee Treasurer, Jack Blum. strong interest in a certain ly associated with the Epis- it major technical advance, and for and they have done all they field, who would then work in- copal Church, two strong con- an introduction to the surrealist could to see that the flame did The Entertainment Commit tee belongs to the students of tensively in that area, spread- trolling factors no longer pre- movement in the cinema. not die. Yet, in this centen ing out in their later years at sent. "Orpheus" by Jean Cocteau, nial year, Bard faces a crisis Bard. Its greatest achievement can only be providing worth college to a broader cultural At the back of my mind was "Day of Wrath" by Carl Dreyer, worse than any in the past. Not outlook. The students would the question of a recent "Potemkin" by Eisenstein, "In- only does it need finances, it while entertainment. Sugges tions to help make this sem take only a few courses, and change in social regulations. tolerance" by D; W. Griffith, needs to have its spirit revived. wou ld receIve' as muc h m. d'IVl 'd - Mr. Gummere replied that the "Pais an" by Rossellirii, "Arsenic Today, students, alumni and ,ester's entertainment successful are always welcome. ual attention as possible. Act- faculty and administration felt and Old Lace" with Gary Grant, friends have forgotten Bard and ing as a unifying factor and that the previous social regula- "The Strong Man" with Harry what it stood for. The spirit s tImu· Ius f or the .en t'Ire com- tions permitted more freedom Langdon, "The Big Day" with of St. Stephens which flouri..shed the creation of a Bard spirit munity would be the arts, rep- than could be handled in this Jacques Tate. Also Charlie under the "great warden" which would serv€ as the bea resented b y drama, mUSIC,· particular environment. He Chaplin, Benchley, Marcel Mar- Fairbairn and which was given con for the, next century. scu Ipure, t and pam· t' mg. Also, believed that, despite individ- ceau, Ben Turpin, Laural & new life and meaning by Dr. There is no better time than b d t· th ht Hardy, and experimental shorts Tewksbury, is now dead. ecause e uca Ion was oug ual experience and maturity, a now for students, alumni, fac to h ave a dlrec· tit' re a IOns h'lP bookish environment was too by Dali, Man Ray, and Rene In this centennial year all ulty and administration to go to life's activities going on out- thin to provide a realistic and Clair. . out and try to make more those who are concerned about side of the campus, a Winter balanced outlook. "Extensive vironment can be created and the small college at Annandale friends for the college so the Field Period was instituted to sex relations are healthy," be some growth an d progress should revive the spirit of St. next c,entury can be entered into provide for independent ac- added, "when they are in- I k I Stephens and its founding fa with a new spirit of unity and 'bl k real y ta e pace. ademic work and POSSI e wor volved as part of other respon- determination. thers and use it as a basis for of a remunerative nature. sibilities, including those of ~ Just what has happened work and family." Youth along the way to these ideas? tends to allow sexual relations Congratulations They are still present, or al- to release emotions which to Manny's most. There is still an early cannot be put in a proper per- selection of a major field of spective, and hence controlled. BARD COLLEGE study, but it hardly amounts He believed that even in a Alumni, Students and Red Hook Barber Shop to an effort that could be call- college community of consider- ed intensive. The early system ably older people it would be Faculty N elV Modern Establishment of individual advisors is pre- necessary to have some form You are invited to drop in sent, but is not so extensive of regulations. to browse. Laugh with us as before. The Common At the close, ,Mr. Gummere at our contemporary cards. Prompt, Courteous Service Course, delivered largely in said that he believed Bard had View our displays of Ger- the form of lectures, has as- changed, and would continue man and Swedish crystal- Across from New Bank sumed the role of imparting to change, but in a dynamic craft jewelry and other pleasant gifts for your to a11 stu d ents a generaI cuI - way that implied growth and friends or yourself. Building . tural background, which pre- progress rather than stagna- viously was held to be the tion. Exactly what growth and The Hawley 21 W. Market object of individual discovery. progress are, is hard to deter- The arts have not proved to mine. While the unhappy pre- Gift Shop be quite the impelling force sent situation hardly can be Closed W edne~day they were hoped to be, and ap- called progress, it may poss- 17 MILL STREET pear to be on the decline. But ibly provide the opportunity RHINEB-=CK, N. Y. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~. ;_~~;_~_;; ~w~h~e~re~b~y~a~n~e~w~~an~d~b~e~t~te~r~e~n~-~~~. !..~g. . ~. ~Q~~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~ Compliments of Adolf's , ScheiRer L~ber Checking Accounts Annandale., Hotel . Savings Accounts Company Social Relaxation for "Birdians Traveler's Checqs INCORPORATED Christmas Club Good Food - Beer - Liquor Phone PL 8·2222
RED HOO~ NEW YORK Open Nightly Member Federal Deposit Insurance MARCH 22. 1960 THE BARD1AN PAGE FIVE wide "Great Books" courses. scholarly but not too "acade- Insufficient Interest Bard College, 1860-1960 A short, heavy man with a mic" -faculty; and present them big voice, Warden Bell was a with students eager to learn a Forces Disbandment {Continued from Page 2) lege attracting a high propor- distinctive figure on campus, lot about a particular field; persuaded the State to grant tion of pre-ministerial candi especially when wearing one and encourage these students Of Bard Fire Dept. five years of grace. This turned dates. of his extensive collection to go intensively in pursuit of of clerical hats. their heart's desire; then, un- :Because of insumcLent parti out to be much more than was Second, we threw ourselves, somewhat late, but all the more But the Warden added a cluttered by course require cipation' the Bard Fire Depart needed, for he soon discovered exuberantly, into Big Time foot- contradict~on too many to the ments, examinations, grades, ment has been forced to curtail several responsive Episcopal- ball. A man was discovered who set of forces he was trying to and other punctilio, but 'broad its activities. ians of gerat wealth and piety. was both an Episcopal prie$t reconcile. He insisted on main- ened by much fraternizing with Student firemen will still taining stiff classical require- their elde~s, such students re5pond to an alarm sounded for At Least he discovered how to and a first class coach. Father an on-campus fire. Their pri move them to large donation$ Bray, in clerical collar, knick ments for all. In the early would eventually both bore deep 1930's every :student for grad- and fare wide. The harmoniz mary function will be to con for a small church college. So ers, and loot ball ShMS, soon M trol the blaze until trucks from by the mid-1920's new build- came a figure on campus ..second uation even had to satisfy a ing of the whole experience requirement in Greek. would probably take place Red Hook arrive. ings had sprung up like mush- in importance (at least) to The main reason for the fire roms and the enrollment was Father Bell. Bray's devotion Appar,ently, we could not mostly over the teacups or at easily live a hundred years' a professor's fireside. department's curtailment of twice what it had ever been. was so great that he has been activities was lack of time. More important, Father B,eIl decribed by one alumnus as "a growth in ten. The tensions Perhaps the most important were too great. In spite of part of this vision was the in Weekly training sessions and in modernized the curriculum. At- football Saint." When funds spection and maintenance of tracting excellent young scho- that some thought should have affiliation with Columbia Uni- dividualism. Zealous students versity in 192s.--.some say Fa- given their own way in a rich equipment took more hours than lar,s and teach(ll~s (among them gone into books, laboratory the members could afford away young Theodore Sottery), he equipment, or the aging plant ther ' Bell bewit~hed President environment with some fatherly Nicholas Murray Butler with guidllnCQ would find a liberal from their studies. The strain enriched especially the Sciences were consumed in footlball e'x of being on constant alert also and Social StudieB. The mettle penses-in~luding large scho his eloquence _ the college ~dul!9tion for themselves! could not keep incre~:)ing its Though relaxed but purpose detracted from the member:)' of Bell, in fact, was shown in larshiPs-but still were imiUf academic endeavor:.. his introducing Sociology in the ficient, Father Bray is said to enrollment or its funds to a iul Victorian or Edwardian workable point. In 1933 But- types have come to Bard to do The Building and Grounds early 1920's-an age of decided- have contributed his .entire sal staff is assuming most of the ly worse red-baiting than Mc- ary to The Cause. The college's ler invited Professor Donald this, they have not been numer Tewksbury, of Teachers College, ous ,enough to carry out Dr. maintenance duties formerly Carthy',s-wIlen most of those picture book, used for recruiting handled by the students, and h h d h d f't .d d students, had several pages to become Dean (new title in- Tewkbury's design. Com.pared w ~ a ear 0 1 consl , e~e ,showing muscular young men stead of Warden) and design with most colleges, we have will form part of the fire SoclOlo~ a branch of RUSSIan hurling each other around on an experimental college plan. made an impressive achieve fighting force. The Depart Commumsm. the gridiron. . The next year our name was ment. But for years the facul ment may eventually be run B.ell defended hi~ ac~ion 1 Third, under Bell, we went changed to Bard. ty has been steadily r,ebuilding entirely by Building and agamst all comers I.neludIng, . scholarly. In the 1920's many St. Stephens had produced a a more formal academic struc Grounds. Because of the less they say, s.om~ po~entlal he.avy colleges were doing the same. ened activity, one of Bard's fire small army of fine clergymen, ture. And they may be right. trucks has been put out of use do.n?rs. HI'S .sltuatlOn w.as SI~- Aydelotte of Swarthmore, one including more than her share For like all good colleges today, pllfled by hiS new SOCIOlogISt, of the leaders of the movement, leaving only the tanker in op~ of bishops. Also, some of the we are under the shadow of eration. the Reverend Lyford. Edwards, counted ov,er 90 new "honors progressive character of mod- the graduate schools, whose in who t~ught a. le~t-wmg brand programs" in the mid-1920's. ern Episcopalianism was bred fluence is more academic than T,he formation of Bard's Fire of socIal studIes In hearty de- Bell h db " f It Department, a rarity on college ' f t' 'b'l' a een raISIng acu y under the spirited leadership of ' liberal. And our faculty just campuses, was prompted by the ft~:~ce 0 conserva Ive sen'S1 1 1- and student standards. When Bernard Iddings Bell. And because it rs a very well qual still with us are Professor The- ified group of scholars, is quite fact that it takes the Red Hook " football suddenly collapsed be- trucks six minutes to reach the Father Bell. s college .tele- cause of over-emphasis in 1927 odore Sottery, beloved Nestor strenuously involved in speci ('olLege, which as former Chief scoped. th~ hIS torr of, hIgher and diBappeared £orevel' from Qf the present faculty, and Pro- alized work. Neil Josell succinctly put it, "is III £essor Emeritus Lyford Ed- The late Werner Wolff em e~u.catlOn .Amenca :)lnce the our campus, Bernard Iddings about five minutes too late." CIVI~ Wa,r mto one decade, Bell put all his powers into wards, once affectionately nick- bodied the ideal of Bard. I ask -Cal Avery emphasiz{ld that Durmg th~ last hundred years furthering the cause of high named "Trotsky," but now chief leave to picture him not as an Bard will again have a full we have trIed to m~ke the most scholarship at Annandale. The grace of the academic proces- international pundit in psycho fledged Fire Department as of three focuses m our col- best scholars in their senior sion at Commencement in his logy, nor a's a student of all the canon',s regalia. world, nor as a warm and ac- soon as student support makes le~s and universities: rel~gion, year, were ~xcused .from the one possibLe. football, and recently, Ideas. usual academic procedures to Bard in the 1930's became as c,essible teacher, but simply as Though .there has been so~e study on their own. The col a man. One Easter morning, fervently intellectual as we once a~ter Chapel, we held an .ogg U f t overlappmg, generally speakmg lege began a senior research · . L h' '1. '" more. n or unately, we are we took them up one by one in monographs by the faculty, and h a d b een re1 IglOUS, et t IS roll for small, faculty children somewhat afraid of our development be symbolized by on the grass by the bell. Wat'ch- promptmgs. and stirrings. that order. Bell attempted to Bell writing as eloquently as t d t d h emphasize these three things all he 'preached, lambasted the a s u en or tTlose ays w 0, ing blis1sfully from the step, lit President Grey, who did bold after his Senior Project. h review, h by more than the Easter sun- ref ,ormmg . h'Imself, said anxi- together. Philistines harder than ever. b b k First, we continued to be a One of hIs woms is now an edu n ':JUght tne 00 ,S Wit . wb ich k shl'ne, sa·t Werner Wolff. ous 1Y to the community, as he h e h a d prepare d f or It ac The c·olleru. now has as much 1ft "D strongly church-oriented col- cational classic in use in nation- 'b . ~ e ' us: 0 not, I beg you, be to telh I ' rary m a wheel bar- vitality as ever, maybe even afraid to change."
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But at The opening of the Spring posters and other devices, kept for the benefit of those who men are plunging into' the home the same time, we're fortunate S erne s t e r brought faculty its nature unknown to the com are unable to attend. Along stretch of the current season in having Arthur Levekove as a changes in two divisions. munity until Friday, March 18 with this, plans are being for with a record of 4-4. This replacement for him. He should when it presented its first for Mrs. Vida Deming of the mulated for a tape exchange should be seen as a fine tribute ,be a real asset , to the team." Drama Department has left for mal debate. to Coach Charles Patrick and In basketbaU, as in any oth- personal r.easons and has been "This house deplores poli program with other colleges and his crew of "short-legs." er sport, constant practice and replaced by Mr. Curt Conway. tical ideals today which claim universities. Through this In a game where it is often conditioning are essential. In Mr. Conway, an actor of twenty universal merit and applica program, WXBC will send out said that' height makes points, this respect, nature has worked five years' experience with the tion" was the motion being de tapes of lectures and programs and where a man under six feet against the Bard boys, who have bated. Speaking for the motion Group Theatre, has directed presented here to other institu is almost labled a midget, the ,had their training interrupted both on and off Broadway, and were Mr. Ricky Friedman, Bard boys, with an average by the field period. In addi· Principal Speaker, and Mr. Phil tions in return for tapes pro at the Summer Theater in Bea duced at the other schools. height well under the six foot tion, they have usually been con, New York: He has taught Coffino, Secondary Speaker; mark, have shown that what is able ' to schedule only three at the Actors' School for pro speaking against the motion The staff of the station has generally said isn't always true. practice sessions per week. fessionals in New York City, were Mr. Avron Soyer, Princi informed the faculty of According to data obtained be- "Nevertheless," reports Coach and has been a guest teacher at pal Speaker, and Miss Carol WXBC's desire to be of assis fore the March 12 game at Patrick, ''the boys have been Boston University. Kapiloff, Secondary Speaker. tanoo to them. Several possi Rockland Community College, working very hard and should bilities are now under consider Dr. DeGre Returns Miss Deanne Rothstein chaired Bob Ehrlich, high-point man on make a good showing in the the debate, Miss Holly Cullum ation. Each week, a mimeo Dr. DeGre has returned to the Bard squad has racked up last games." The last game of served as Scribe, and Mr. graphed listing and schedule of a game average of 22.71 points. the season, which is against Bard after spending six months Mark Lambert was the Bailiff. all programs for the coming in Chile on a Fulbright scho In four out of the seven games, Rhinebeck, is slated for March Audience "Iotes week will be distributed to the Bob has totaLed 25 points or 24. larship. memhers of the community. Dr. Irving Horowitz, who At the end of the debate, the better and has a season high of The game scores for the sea- substituted for Dr. DeGre dur ballots were collected and The radio staff numbers 35 31 in a single game. son are as follows: ing the fall term, is no longer tallied. Nineteen voted for students. No student on the Artie Levene who at press Bard 73-Germantown 57 a member of the Bard faculty. the motion and seventeen, staff will give more than three time is the number two point Bard 8O-New Paltz Teach- ' against. The chairman an hours per week to the station. Mr. Bertelsman on Leave man, has accumulated a season ers' 73 nounced that the next debate In this way, the board of direc total of 86 points, averaging ,Bard 6O-Dutchess Commun- Mr. Heinz Bertelsman, last is scheduled for April 24. tors hopes to solve the peren 12.28 per game. Marv Schwarz ity College 53 semester's head of the Social Kaleidoscope was organized nial problem of too few doing pulls into the stretch with a Bard 53-New Paltz Teach- Studies Division, is on leave for at two initial meetings during too much. 9.71 average and is followed ers' 79 the spring term. He will spend Winter College, Jan. 24 and The members of the board of by Skip Skvirsky with an 'Bard 79--Red Hooks 77 the time in West Germany do Feb. 7. An "executive" com ing research. directors are Jack Blum, sta 8.43. Bard 63-Rockland Commun- mittee consisting of Deanne tion director; Ann Ho, produc When asked if Jerry Liss,ity College 65 Rothstein, Carol Kapiloff, Judy tion director; Wally Loza, di who graduated this winter, Bard 67-Dutchess Commun- Green, Eve Lange, Martha rector of publicity and public would be missed by the team, ity College 74 Ran Blake Levinson, and Mr. Liang was relations; and Eric Werthman, elected at these meetings. In program director. (Cont1nuea from Pate 1) the future, the chair will be ancestors, or whether it consti rotated among the students on tutes a musical experiment this committee. The Red Hook which threatens to be unmusi that they woufl1 represent re fLections of the more informed cal. "The reaction of a serious Festival judges were Charles listening audience could have a popular opinion, rather than Hotel Frank, the publisher of Down really qualified jazz critics. great effect on my future de Beat Magazine, Frank Holz FULLY AIR CONDITIONED velopment, but if they are just fiend, the owner of Chicago's The Columbia Broadcasting a noisy, beer-drinking, college Blue Note, and Robert Shane, System is preparing a fifty-five Recommended by AAA, Rotarv, mob, I won't be too influenced the administrator of the Berk minute taped broadcast of the and American Association by their judgement." ely School of Music. Ran felt Festival. 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