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Vol. XIX MAY 24, 1957 No. 1 SENIOR COMMENCEME NT JU NE 9 ...... ---- ... --- ...... 41 Senior LOIS HERBERT, Viewing The J, MAY QUEEN Council Co1nmencement At the last meeting of the Stu Lois Herbe1it, '57 was crowned May I June 9th dent Government Council a new Queen of Lesley College at the May policy was announced . All meet Day celebration held at the Lesley Ellis Sunday afternoon, June 9, Commence ings are now opened to all mem- Field on May 2. ment Day activirlies will begin with the bers of .the college. Our meetings Baccalaureate service at the First P aris h will take place on Monday nights in Cambridge (Unitarian), H arvard Sq., at 6:30 in the Gym. Every third at 3 :30 P.M. Dr. Russell G. Schofield, month there will be a special Lesley College chaplain, will deliver the Thur sday afternoon meeting so baccalaureate sermon, with President that those who commute will have White and Dean Thurber conducting the to see Gov the opportunity the ren~ainderof the service. Mr. Benjamin ernment in action. will be the organ ist. Members of it' We hope that by extending this Emerald Key Society will usher, · invitation to you, you will come this and the Commencement cer·
·-~tingsand learn about • Government in order
at banquet Tuesday night May 7, Garden St., The Class of 1958 in the dining room. P eggy Conway, the address will be given l' you outgoing President, announced the newly under the tutelage of Margaret Russell Park, Presi dent of siJ'>· new ~ · Be ready to elected officers for t he year 1957-1958. won and the name of their class was put cause Need You Let's The invocation and benedi Te .... She introduced the speakers for the on a special plaque awarded by Dean e of 1957-58 some given by Dr. Schofield. Lesley" mak the year banquet who were Dean Thurber, Presi Thu rber . The Freshmen then did the thing worth while to remember. mencement Chorus, led by Edyth' dent White, Mr. Morris and E ileen Keefe, traditional Maypole Dance and did a This is your government . Again Arthur, with Sondra Shind el!, solois· the new Pres ident of the Penguin Clu,b. very admirable job in braiding the we urg e you to see the committee will sing, and Mr. Benjamin again will ribbon. chairmen represented on govern A good time was had by all. be our organist. Among the special award s, three honorary degrees will be Thanks for a wonderful job and ment. What committee interests you the most? Remember that next ...... conferred and one alumnae ciotation. The orderly program go to Miss Brennan I recipients of these distinctions will be year we will continue to hav~open whose guidance was invaluab le, Kathrine announced at that time. Some ninety Schatz and Carol Webber, Co-Chairmen meetings. We hope to see you there. seniors and graduate students are ex of the program, and to Joanie Petraglia still Hillel Faculty Tea March. Along with the problem of the B
LESLEY COLLEGE LANTERN May 24, 1957 THE LANTERN N!~!!~:~!;;t~~!::I Olficial newspaper of Lesley College, published fortnightly during the college year, exclusive 1A Child's Wisdom of vacations, by the students of Lesley College, ~9 Everett ::>treet, Cambridge, Mass. Printed by the l{ichdale .Pres;, 6 Walden Street, Cambridge, Mass. Tel. EL 4-0505. Subscrip its complete staff for ithe coming year tion rate by mail: $3.00 a year. Advertising rates on requebt. 1957-1958. We are again fortunate in This column this month is dedicated ,.-fhe Lantern Staff having Doctor Leslie Oliver as our to some of .the children in the var ious Adviser. Filling the ·position of News schools in which we student teach. They Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Contributors Editor is Roberta Shapiro . Although were given to the LANTERN 1by TuJ.a Marian Zashin Rosemary Si)va Joni Chernoff she has only been on the paper for one Tatalias, and were written by her pupil, News Editor Associa,te Business Robert Yates year, Roberta has demonstrated both Eugene W. Giromini, who is nine years Roberta Shapiro Manager Gladys Acosta interest and ability in working. Her old. Layout Editor Carol Barnett Tula Tatalias Jane Ade,lberg Circulation Co-Managers team is composed of Jane Adelberg who Rewrite Editor Diane Sharp will head the Rewrite and Layout De in spring the treese bud with ese Jane Adelberg Elaine Zucker partments, Rosemary .Silva who is tak and the sky is blue and white Faculty Advisor, Dr. Leslie M. Oliver ing over the joh of Business Manager with Carol Barnett to assist her, Diane The country is so butful like the Sharp and Elaine Zuker, Co-managers bidrs when thir flight THE LANTERN SPEAKS of the Circula tion Department and in Jun e you will see the moon when Sandi Borr who is again taking over it is in full bloom With the closing of another wonderfu l year at Lesley it is well for us to the task of Art Editor. When you look at the flowers you will scrutinize and evaluate our goals. We, on the LANTERN staff, look over our With this staff and wit h the suppovl see that they are butiful as can be progress this past year and we are pleased with the results. We have built a of the Student body, Administration at last we come to the sun that ways firm foundation for our newspaper. We have secured advertising from many and Faculty we are looking forward to many and many a .tun new advertisers and we have in some measure ·brought you the news of our a very happ y and successful year. the oshen will always flow and ships will college activities. always go Next year many new plans are in the progress of being put into practice . thirs lots of otherthings. We hope tl:iat with your support we can increase the number of issues so .that FIRST MODERN when we leave the paper next May we can produce possibly two papers a month DANCE RECITAL instead of one. We are also initiating an alumnae column so that we here at NATURE Lesley's newest club, Modern Dance, the college will not lose contact with those who have been grad uat ed. presented its first recital in cthe gym I look at the sky at night, Putting out a newspap er, even once a month is a difficult task, and there nasium of Lesley College on Thu rsday All the stars are shining bright, are many jobs to be done before the paper finally comes, to you. First and night, May 9, at 8: 15. The river flows with greatest of ease, foremost is the task of collecting .the news and writing up the articles. After The .program was composed of five The flowers grow like Christma s trees, this has been completed the articles go to the rewrite and typing editors. Simul selections, each girl participating in two The squirrels gather nuts to eat, taneously, our business manager is scouting the various stores securin g ads. dances out of five. The selections were : Old Mr . .Sun gives us lots of heat, The paper is then .taken to the printer who returns it to us in long galley a calypso number, demonstration exer When grass gets greener every day, proofs. Then it is the lay-out editor's job to jugg le and rejuggle them until they cises, sport silhouett e illustra 1tion, an We know summer's not far away, fit into the paper. The paper then goes to the printer to be printed. When it interpretation of Lisa, and a "free ex The wind blows the fields of wh eat, _mes back it is the duty of the circulation managers to see that it is distributed pression" dance to which the girls And the papers on the street, J10ut the school. Thus you can see from this brief summary what com- danced as they f elt, never having heard The rain falls just likesnow, 'fd mechanics take place before you receive your copy of the paper. the music before. 'd And the ocean floor is quiet below. ~-llTERN ur gently needs revitalizing. needs "New Blood" to carry It Th e very mterestmg. . co,,A>.'-VnSl " ' dd e d
"•f making it a. bi,gger and better paper. We appeal to you, the . ""h · norrr~. . 1 to th ~ elp us in this t - "t. building. You can do this by joining one co or e ~have\' the Club, Ar. RAIN ~_(lPto put ~izepiv;aper and by patronizing the advertisers Ceremony, . '!> . ,.;-aT~ - - -- ...... - ..,.,_ . an• -- •"'-' ~·t~a""~--- ~-- The~ at Lesley 'J fciecidE!s'tf o cat'cli a rat~.• under the "";:. ~1 ~~ The The clouds are big and black ATTENTION, SENIORS! suppor t fromJ& College - 1 Club's twelve members ar'Working and one looks like a sack. _ leave .the hallowed and secure walls of Lesley College and go out extremely hard to leave the Cluib, with If it's going .to pour we don't orld to fulfill the mission you have prepared for during your four years want any more. i PAGE 2 LESLEY COLLEGE LANTERN May 24, 1957 Northeast Language EVENTS TO SEE LESLEY-ELLIS NEWS A Sailor's Diary A special workshop for the Questing Conference REIGEN .. (LA RONDE) Child will 1be conducted by the Lesley Land Ho! M'ladies-this is a sailor's Arthur Schnitzler's play, "Reigen" Ellis School this summer from July 8th dairy. to August 16th. Children will be given Possibly you can picture men on a Lesley College was well represented will be present ed by the Harvard Dra a chance to explore, experience and. ship working, sleeping and relaxing to at .the Northeast Lang uage Conference matic Club Thur sday, Friday and Satur experiment on their own in order to gether. It might be considered a floaiting which was held at the Hotel Somerset day nights, May 16, 17 and 18, in Agassiz find out through experience things that dormitory equipped with guns and maps in Boston on April 12 and 13. Theater , Cambridge. they are curious about. The group will rather than windo.ws and textbooks. EMERSON PLAYS be limited to 15 boys and gir ls who will But, like Lesley where ther e are no Miss Evelyn Singer, the Head of the be between e and h des men, what a ship hasn't got, in the A musical and a drama will be the th fourth sixt gra Modern Language Depa1,tment at Lesley, words of Oscar Hamm erstein, "We ain't last production s of 1957 for the Emerson next year. served as a member of1 the planning and H .M.S. PINAFORE got dames.' 1 College Theater, Berkeley and Beacon working committees and also attended Presented April 10th and 11th And whether you know or not, Sits., Boston. it the Conference. Dr. Trentw ell Mason mermaids are .strictly mythical-and we "Guys and Dolls" will be presented by White was a guest of honor at the GRADES IV, V & VI at Lesley-Ellis never have the pleasure of their com banquet which was held Friday evening Friday and Saturday evenings, May 18, Music director-M rs. Lyle R. Ring pany. in the Louis XIV .Ballroom. Several 19 at 8:15 in the New England Mutual Dramatic director-Mrs . Virginia Rogers But Mother Nature we do have. She members the u body attend ed Hall. "T here Shall Be No Night" will of st dent Scenery-Mrs. Shirley Bloom sends various sights for a lonely night the Conference serving as aides. They be performed at the college theater the Costumes-The Parents after a day's duty. The ocean cries, were Adel berg, Marian Zashin, nights of June 5, 6, and 7. Jane The operetta was a greait success due sighs, laugh s and sings, but can get Lau Mae Oar p, Deborah Millman, ra to the complete cooperation of everyone iterribly violent and lose its temper. This Lindalee Levin, Eli:r;a;beth Bouffard, ROYAL BALLET SALE in the school including the student large, awesome personality is our tour Claire Gaffey, and Anne Houseas. Beginning on May 13, the Boston teachers of Lesley College. ing ground, our plaything, our fri end Opera House will begin filling mail Some of the children showed out and our foe. orders for the seven Boston perform The 1purpose of the Conference was standing musical and dramatic ability in Thoughts of a sailor are many-of his ances to be given by the Royal Ballet, to discuss, demonstrate, and evaluate this project. As for aPtistic ability just shi shipmates-his gir l or girls-his formerly the Sadler's Wells Ballet, next p- the modern methods· of teia.ching foreign go over to the school and see the back duty on the ship and,-alth ough he'll Fal l. Applications will be filled strictl y languages on the elementary and sec. drop made by some of the boys and girls hide his thoughts of it a great deal, in order of postmarked date. · ondary levels. The implications of the under Mrs. Bloom's direction. Sorry his HOME. The repertory will include Fr ederick Conference led to the belief that Amer[ everyone was not able to see and hear The Navy moves to the far -flung cor Ashton' s new "Birthday Offering", new can educators are preparing to meet this unusual event for such an age ners of the globe, and the same sights productions of "Petrouchka," and "Les the linguistic needs of the citizens of group. you see each day inside a ship are lost P atineurs," "Swan Lake," "Coppelia," tomo·rrow. SOME of the RESULTS of the when you see something new outside "Facade," and "·Sleeping Beauty." PROJECT: from the deck. It may be the enchant Great improvement in ability to co ing brilliance of an Indian Ocean sun FAVOR ISLAND operate and work itogether in a large set, a bridge in Sydney, Australia or "Favor Island, " a new play by W. S. group. to,wering whiite ice cliffs of the Antarc Career Day Conference Merwin, opening May 20, will be ithe Great improvement in diction, vocabu tic. To others it .might be the skyline final production of the season at the lary, singing and acting. of Copenhagen, Denmark, Norfolk, Vir- On Thursday morning, Apr il 11, Mrs. Poets' Theater, 24 Paimer St., in Cam- Int erest in music in general , especially ginia, or Boston. . Ackerson, Director of Admissions, and 1bridge. Tickets will be on sale Monday, operettas and operas . There is. battle too even in peac Merle Royte Nelson of Emerald Key, May 13, r''"' Int erest in producing a play. when "Bat tle Stations" are represented Lesley College at a Career ..'"; ._ '\"'· : ' Inte rest in a musical score. the furious "epercussions ·f ~~Day . held in the Burlington , Mass. High t~ n IN Interest in conducting. · wind. And th · School. vV Interesting in singing and acting . • . er;:, . <>L 1 Ii:itere11i,,in recording . _ • ~ . T'!~'iW~tii~g¥;cre~~~'ffu.'O··fitie·/m fuJotony or en°tQi periods 'to give the visitors an ~ study of the British Isles, including the as Thomas Heggen p tunity to meet scho.ol IJ!!!'ate·r under _,;f classic and music and folk .songs of these countr:ies. Roberts" carries , men greet each other. There was also great interest in all to apaithy and back agair .. semi-class~ laysopens Tuesday, Jun e 18, with a new British play, " The Car sorts of projects pertaining to the sea, I hope I have brought a: •• Approximately 25 students attended nival King," by Henry Treece, and con pictures of different types of boats, sailor's life to all of you for thN' the conference period on Elementary tinuing through Saturday, _ June 29. songs of the sea, sea chanties, poetry of stars above which direct our cou~ Educa1tion at which Mrs. Ackerson brief Moliere's "Follies of Scapin" will play the sea, and music of great composers the continental · United States. An ly discussed the teachers what private from July 2 thro ugh 13; followed by portraying the sea. that's our home wherever we may roam. colleges offered the prospective student. Shaw's "Man and Superman," July 16 - Robert S. Yates through 27; Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano PINNINGS Mrs. Nelson spoke on what teaching de Ber,gerac," July 30 through August Miss Marcia White to Mr. Bruce Mac is like and what makes a good teacher. 10; David Belasco's "The Girl of the Gregor. A FASCINATING COUNTRY Drawing from her own practice teaching Golden West," fo.1· fiv e perfor mances Miss Jean Schinzel to Mr. Roland experience, she readily communicated to only, August 13 through 17, and John Paterson. Anybody can now go to Japan in two the group the challenge of PAGE J LESLEY COLLEGE LANTERN May 24, 1957 particularly this chapter has caused such Library Alumnae Generationsof fury? However, mother is but one of the vic The Lesley Gollege Alumnae welcomed Vipers tims of Wylie's injuriou s pen. Mo!Jher's Contest Dean Thurb er's suggestion to include a daughters are char,acterized as simple es brief article on alumnae activiti in the by Philip Wylie minded worshippers of the CinderaUa Last Monday d 1ternoon the judges of I Lesley College LAN'l'ERN. We gra du myth who, when they find they have the Library Contest arrived to choose ates Ielt that her suggest ion had merit captured .a man who resembles Prince the prizewinners, reaching :the scene on two counts. First, it might give the To write a report on Genwration of Vipers, by Philip Wylie, seems a little Charming not at a ll hurriedly turn to roughly two ·hours after the last l•ate general student body ·some insight into producing offspring •SO that fuey may entry. Again this year, these judges were the activities in which ,they will be !Ike sittmg at a banquet table laden with every delicacy imaginable and being told enter into the mother cult. These daugh Dr. White, Mr. Philip McNiff of Widener Ie ngaged after gmd uatio n. Secondly, ters rare handled in a similar method in Library, and Mr. David McCord, the isince the LAN 'fE.HiN is already reaching that you have five minutes to make a choice and finis i;d to emph,~i~;,_J>ar- j · Dean Thurber spoke ·briefly on the ~af'!$rH~ ....wa.re l impiu:t~of strengthening th~organi ttn I was v~i·yz,ation through better attendance at the Abee •meetings which are held 1at the college ·on the first Tuesday of each month at mons. The poI"ary events, history, eight o'clock. The association will award lined by Mr. Wylie thus Awakening novels. No honorable a scholarship to a deserving under is the affirmative o.f th _,_ It almost seems as if with spring's could be made for fear of graduate prior to commencement day. solved, thrut Americans have lost their return we too awake, s distinctions, but the large mora l sensibilities by living too objec And even all stirs, we umbers of pa;pe11backs in the other two Please let us. know a.bout interests so tively an d with too little subjective as nature turn to h and take entries should be an example to observers that others may read about them in " The awareness." stretc that no one's desire for a library need be Lesley College Alumnae Lantern" which Another look at life, with all the frustrated. Anne Brennan'e were very Cleaning by: RITE-WAY RICHDALE PRESS DRY CLEANERS Inc. MONACO (Printers of the LANTERN) "Let us show you the difference" Same day dry cleaning service Complete Laundry Service 6 WALDEN STREET CAMBRIDGE Seamstress or Tailor on Premises ELiot 4-0505 4 HUDSON ST. 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