I ELIZABETH GRAY VINING Far Beyond Bryn Mawr: The International Network
THERE w As NE v ER A TIME when the international aspect of Bryn Mawr was not in evidence. M. Carey Thomas had studied abroad and was vigorously aware of what European universities had to offer American education. Several of the earliest faculty were imported; after r 892, ten resident fellowships at the College existed for foreign stu dents, and by the first decade of the twentieth century, four European fellowships were established for graduating seniors. In 1965, a Com monwealth Africa Scholarship made it possible for Bryn Mawr grad uates to study or teach in former British colonies in Africa. And in 1973, the Elizabeth Gray Vining Scholarship Fund was established "to support Bryn Mawr alumnae, graduate students or faculty members who desire to do academic research in Japan or to have direct contact with Japanese culture." Indeed, Bryn Mawr graduates were to be found everywhere in the world (as Emily Vermeule has described) , making and witnessing history. Alice Boring, Class of 1904, visiting professor of Biology at Yenching University, described "The Funeral of Sun Yat Sen" for readers of a 1925 Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin; Anna Louise Strong (Class of 1906), wrote from Russia in that same year of how, as a correspondent for H earst's International Magazine, she still could "take time off to give English lessons to Trotsky . .. for three months, learn ing from him the real feeling of the Russian revolution." To be sure, scholarship itself assumed a knowledge of the world and its tongues. Bryn M awr's language requirements were famed and d rea d e d for much of its history, although lacer t h e " ora 1s " as thes. e were called became written examinations; eventually language req u1rements Were broadened to include mathematics. Today, Bryn Mawr language
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_ _. _ - AY igno n. Flo rence. M adri d. M oscow, and T. i11 s11turcs c:--is t 111 • - 1 ' . . n er. • - J • n,--ird Pres ident T 10 111 as 111t cr11 ati o nal c0 111 . Mi,s 1',1rk orrn:u 10 · , , . llllt- ELIZABETH GRAY VINING _· rl, . rroubkd vca rs o f thL Seco nd Wo 1Id War, and Har.· cnrs Ll u11 11 g L _ , . _ ·d l , , _ . · 11 s 111 . d J _- 1 · presid ency estabhshc t 1e l11t u 11 ati o 11 a] Advi·s Woftor . u u1111 g 11 5 ' . . - . . ory . . - 1 stinporred rh e exa m111 :1t10 11 o t g lo b.ii issues on the ca Counc1 . " 111 c 1 , _ _ . . _ _ _ , 111- 1 . .• ,cem s hu11u111t :n1 :111 dfoi ts. ,111d po litical activi't• pus. ua k· e11 v c 01 · . _ . . . 1es Q the cosm o po htaii qualities with w hich the Colle have strcngt 11 en Cd ge began. · - 11 · 1 · Bur the story Eli zabeth G ray V 11111i g re s 1ere 1s no t of w hat the • tLideiit" ]ea rned o r w here rh cv wcnr o r w h at they have doii A n1 en ca n s ., ' . _' . . e, but ofrh c great gifts of presence. d1versn y, and quality which have been bestowed 011 the College by its foreign students. In recent years, these women have fo rmed a tenth of the student bo d y and represented as ,, J w AN T To TELL Y O u, and please tell President Thomas t ,, m any as forty different countries._ One o~.them , Mid1i Kawai, Class of w ro te Ida de Bobula, a Hungarian student, in 1924- 2 5, "that I ~~~c 6, dedica ted one of her books 111 I 9 50 To m y_ fnends of o ther lands 190 carried with m e some of the Bryn M awr spirit over the ocean. I have w hose soft touch of understandmg and open-mmdedness w ill readily given it to others, to a younger set, and I hope they will give it to others induce any door of m y country to shdc to let them sec even our inner again, in order to m ake women here freer, better and happier." Her chamber. the real J apanese heart." This essay honors in turn all those sentiments echo and are echoed by m any of the foreign students who fo reign students w hose own courage, understanding, and fa ir-mind have com e to Bryn M awr, but w hose contribution to the spirit of the edness have opened, for Bryn M awr, the doors to self-know ledge and College was as great as what they gained and w hat they car ried away the wider reaches of the human heart. w ith them . H er message would have pleased Miss Thomas who was convinced of the value of international contributions to offset Ameri can provincialism, and w ho was herself educated in Europe and re mained, throughout her li fe, an ardent internationalist and intrepid traveler. After Ida, it was almost sixty years before another Hunga rian student arrived to join the class of 1987. Andrea Madarassy was one of thirty- seven entering foreign students (in a class of 299) from some twenty-four countries across the world.' Nearly a century earlier, when Bryn Mawr opened its doors, there were no foreign students amon g the thirty-six undergraduates of the It is particularly the presence among us of students from foreign countries who Jog us into an awareness that ours is not th e only world of thought, the only first class. It was not until 1 889 that one appeared from Croydon, Eng language , the only national point of view, that "God's own co untry" stretch es land-Jessie Ellen Barritt, of the Class of 1892. Few though they were, far beyond our na ti onal boundaries, even to th e uttermost ends of Cathay. ' For the generous time they gave me I am es peciall y indebted to L_ucy Fisher West, College Archivist; President Mary Patterson McPherson; Elizabeth G. ELINOR B. AMRAM '28 Vermey, Director of Admissions; and Charles Robert Heyduk , Director of Student Services. Sources fo r this essay have been histories of Tsuda College and Keisen, My Lamem and S lidi ,1g Doo rs by Michi Kawai, the files of the Bryu Mawr A lumnae R eg ister, the Bry11 Mawr A lum nae Quarterly, the Bryn Mawrnd I am no visionary, so I see nothing, but, like a lantern lit, one of the symbols of A lumna e Bull etin , Commencement Programs , personal corres pondence. a th 0 our College, I am standing on th e mountaintop and letting th e li ght you kin other material in the Coll ege Archi ves. Throughout, I have used e names 1~ · · h h . 11· 1 college Many o dl ed 111 my heart alm os t twenty yea rs ago shine far and wide. th e mternat1onal students as they were w en t ey were · th h th em, perhaps most of them. have since married. They can be traced roug DORA OB I C HI ZE A ' 69 the Alumnae Register.
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1111111 r - . •• -] . fo rcia n students i11 the College's hi sto r y were t Coll ege Cambridge, w ho ca m e in g a d k ,llllll' l l i ( 1!(lSl l,l l ) ~ 0 1 93 .' . n too a Ph D 111. M _,. l I · 1·v ·s 11 0 11 c rn o r L· so th:m th:1t of a youn g wom an w]10 m a tics m 1 896, was an o utstandmg succcs · · ath c- k.lli rt'lll,11 .. .1) l I l . " . ' . , I s. 111 1905 her pl . J .. . "special student 111 1 XX9, w ho st:1yed fo r two aiid fi g ures in the Senio rs Cass Book among thcf; 1otograp h ,·.1111c tro1 11 JpJn ,l s ·1 · ' ' . I k ac u1 t y as re cord · d I She has a romantic oo am o ng the other wo ing can. h.ilf ye:irs but did no t graduate. . . • I · • men w I1 0 resolu tcl f; d .. --_ d "S" ve ry speciJI stud rnt 111d ecd . She had com e to the the cam era 111 s 11rtwa1sts and tics. Her hea d • Y ace U ill l' 1 Sil J W" " · . . is turned to show h • d S · 1,, , .1s· schild o f scve11 , thcyo1111 gcst offivc j apancsc o u th fu l pro fi1l e an d swan-like neck, bare in an fif.- h h er U 11 nc ta tes 111 " 7 • " · . · Y· J d h · 0 t c-s ould cr eve- • I .. to study by thc j :i pancse govcr11111 c11t. w hich o nl y eleven n mg dress. n m y ay s c was assistant to the prcs id k !..( Ir 1S SCI! t l C I C , _ . " I M d " cnt, nown to th e y• ears ca1-1 1· c1· li ,·i d c- 111 c1·gcd fro m its two- and-. a. -halt century isolation · ti1 stu d cnts as zzy a . xx 2 she returned to J apan to teach Eng lish 111 the newly o pened Peer- In th e year of Miss M addison's Ph. D. 18 6 Al ett v 1 1 . I d c: ' 9 ' a an 1,cy pcn esses' School. Seven yea rs later, on leave fro m the school, she came cam e fro m Fm an to r an A .B. . Fo. urteen yea rs later , n1 arn·c d to 13 aron back to the United States . the fi rst o f a lo n g line ofJa panese students, Serge A . Ko;.ff, she had _a n article mth e Bryn Maw,· Ah,mnae Quarterly, m ost of them fro m the schoo l Miss Tsuda later founded in 1899 and A pnl r 9 1o, T he Practi cal Wo rkmg of Woman Suffrage in Finland ." w hich became T suda College, and m an y of the m funded by a scholar With confiden ce she assured her Ameri ca n fri ends th at "th e experience ship w hich Umc Tsuda had herself helped to establish . o f three years of wom an suffrage 111 Fmland has proved, I think, beyond C lose on the heels of Miss Tsuda came g raduate students from Eu doubt that the em anc1pat1011 of women is not a thing to be feared or rope and Canada. An article in the Bryn Mawr A /1111111 ae B11/letin ofJ an dreaded , but m erely a natural step in the evolution of modern society." uary 192 7 describes their effect o n the students of I 892: " The under So did the o ld world teach the new about the future as well as the pas t. graduates o f that day can recall the thrill cau sed by the arrival of these Since Aletta Van R eypen 's day, there has been a trickl e of students from honour students fro m London and C ambridge w ho broug ht into the Finland, the m ost recent in the Class of r982. cloistered life of those earl y years a sense of the o lder European world Across the p ast century, then, the connec tions between Bryn Maw r fro m whose traditions of culture and scholarship our sm all college had and countries around the world were made. From Eas t and West stu drawn so much that was valuable." dents came; alumnae committees promoted interchange, and patterns The first graduate student fro m Europe, A g nes M athilde Werge of relationships were established w hich were to be enduring. land, came fro m N o rway in 1890 to study the Swed es and Germans in In 1900, the Japanese Scholarship Committee, formed Lmder th e Pennsylvania before the American Revolutio n . A gifted critic and his leadership of Mrs. Wistar Morris together with Ume Tsuda, brought torian, the first N orwegian woman o n w h o m the d egree and title of to Bry n Mawr first Michi M atsuda and then Michi Kawai . Michi Ka doctor of philosophy had been conferred, she sou g ht and o btained a wai was to become one of the most original, determined, far-seeing, stipend fro m Bryn Mawr. " M ay it bring m e h appiness," she wrote in and influential of modern J apanese women. Returning to Japan after her diary. "God grant it." But her prayer w as d enied . A s she wro~e her g raduation in 1904, she taught in Miss Tsud a's School and als o later, "I ca m e to America by seeking a fell ow ship at one o f the woman s founded the YWCA in Japan of w hich she was general secretary for ' c: tin · J was still colleges there and the following year I w as appo inted R eader in HistorY many years. In 1928, w hen anti-American 1ee g 111 apan o f Art. It lasted two years. There was no material with which to work. strong over the Oriental E xclusion Ace, she wrote with her uncon- · · · , me I do not hes- I m ysel f was com pell ed to buy all the m aterial I needed and I found a q uera bl e honesty: " Whenever an opporturuty is give r1 nd . . . . d 'd f America. Your ]and ce rtain jealous opposition o n the part o f those in autho rity." Wergela Itate to speak the positive side, the goo si e O . h b · · d mixed and we w 0 went on to the U niversity of C hicago and w as finally appointed pro emg big, there are lo ts o f go od and ba qua rm ·es ..' . ·d h · . . f h ractensncs and casrc fessor of history and French at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. ave w itnessed the good qualmes o your c a . d h. f d of true fnen s rp or Wergeland was succeeded by Fellows from Can ad a, England, Scot your C hristian hospitality should be t h e bo n land, and France, w ho came to study G reek, Eng li sh , History, Ro these two countries." . d teachers Miss I · 1· l rl s an ten · m ance Languages, Teutonic Philology, and Physics. Occasio nall y it n 1929, in her own home with nme ict e gi . h . . s Fountain of th Ka · c: h I K · n wh1 c mean was e College w ho was disillusioned: one unfortunate g raduate stu w a1 LOunded her own sc oo , eise ' . ., -c:, ,·scold in che BI . fM ss Kawa r s 111c ~ent se_ems not to have been well prepared and was in additio n labeled essm gs. The w ho le w o nderful story O 1 ( ) ·in d S!idi11J 1 93 9 negan ve and unmspiring." O ne, Ada Isa bel M addiso n , fro m G irton two vo lumes o f her autobiography, My Lantern • '
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► t rying rather anxious girl w ho remains in my mi d' . Duor; (1950). She came through Wo rld War II without lowering h ' . · h c 11 s portrait gallery standards or succumbing to government pressure to temper her er But Miss Liu went ome to ,ound her own school · C . · . . . D . teach- · c· ·1 . In anton lll I92 · 1 1 and dunng the 1v1 War, when the Nac1onalisc Arm d Ch. ), ing on the value o f mrernanona 1s111.. urmg r 1e war she actual! Y lllan- · h Yun er 1ang aged to add a Deparrmenr o f 1--j o rticu 1turc m odeled on the School of Kai Shek batt Ie d agamsc t e. war lords, she kept her scho o I gomg,· unul. Horriculrure ar Ambler, Pennsylvania. and after rhe w ar she added a finally• she moved. her. boardmg school. students. co Hong Ko ~md crnh junior college. to Macao. Concnbut1ons from friends 111 the United States not only en- Lantern Night ar Bryn Mawr had deeply touched Miss Kawai's heart abled her to go on w ith the school bur also gave her the courage co con and imagination, and she took the ceremony to her own school. In the tinue. By 1937 the school had 140 students. "The young people," she more frugal Japane_se way, ead1 class had one lantern, and in the grad w rote, " must be trained to think fa irly and to act fairl y." uation cercmomes It w as earn ed at the head of the academic procession Miss Liu was followed by a succession of able Chinese students, one of whom, Vaun Tsieng Bang, A. B. 1930, became associate editor of a by che srudenr w ith the highest record. "The things I learned in the classroom," wrote Miss Kawai more C hinese weekly in Shanghai. Another, the first graduate student, Djuh Luh, 1924-1926, was married at Miss Park's house in Chinese dress co than thirty years after her own g raduation, "may slip from my mem M r. Foo-Hsi Hsiung, who later became ambassador ro Russia. Still an ory; but the things girls said and did under this circumstance or chat can other, Fang-Chi Chen, also known as Agnes Chen, was the first Ori never be erased from m y memory. Even now m y decisions are affected by those things and I pity our Japanese young people who go abroad to ental student to earn a Ph.D. It was, of course, easier for students ro come from Europe than from study and gee nothing o utside ofincelleccual education. I crave for chem Asia. Germany had been the scene ofM. Carey Thomas' own academic che personal associations w hich are the by-products of college life that triumph, and conversely, students had been coming from Germany have been so precious to me." since the early days. One of them , Elizabeth Klein, a graduate srudenr The exp ressions of friendship and suppo rt for Michi Kawai which in 1910-1 1, wrote to the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly: "Ir is rhis gen weave through che alumnae notes of her class, the patent grief of her eral patriotism, the social spirit and the training in working together for classmates over her death, testify to the permanence of the Bryn Mawr a common purpose, which seem to me che most attractive fearurc in all ties, to that bond of true friendship of which Michi Kawai was such an college life," in contrast to the individualistic ideal in German umver extraordinary example. sities. She also noted "the general sense of humor, which is anorherka Such close personal ties were not confined to J apanese students. ture of Bryn M awr life." It is good co be able to add rhac she Survived 111 111111 Somewhat later than the Japanese Committee, a C hinese Scholarship both Wo rld War I and World War II and in the 1960 Bry11 Ma r A/ ,ae Committee came into being. It followed upon a sabbatical trip Lucy Bulletin was to be found married and living in Goccin gen. . G de 1ts at Bryn Mawr. Martin Donnelly took to the Orient. She had stopped first in Japan, Even dunng the 1940s there were erman stu I h . R h F. l A l:l 1942 the daug - where she visited Miss Tsuda 's School, and then had g one on to Chma. refugees from Hitler. One of them, uc 1ese, · · ' ... Eva Fiesel renun1song re- T here she was struck by the lack of similar opportunities for C hinese h l D ter of the distinguished German sc o ar, hr. he' rhat 'che tio rc1·g n stu - women and came home to establish the Chinese Scholarship Commit cently about her years at Bryn Mawr, r oug cernc'd wit. h tion n , chc tee. In January 1917, it issued a brochure w ith this statement: dents, especially the French, were more con II ugh since l cl natura Y eno · Americans with content. On rhe or h er ian ' . h United Srarcs We hope that the coming of Chinese girls may add much to l ir own way in c c th many of them would have co mak et ic . b ore important the life of Bryn Maw r. ... Acquaintance and friendship wi ducanon co c 111 a ter g raduation, the Europeans h e Id e • She was cs- mo_dern C hinese girls should give more reality to the study_ of fi . l d , also on marnage. t ]1an did the Americans, who 1a an eye . . t Bryn Mawr. their ancient arts and should add greatly to the variety and m . . 11 k f anci-Se1111nsm a . peCially unpressed by the rota ac O d cs in the 1940s was terest of campus stu life. Perhaps the most interesting ofrhe German cencial scholarship of- t . . . I 948 on a sp ' . . The firS t student, Liu Fung Kei of Canton , cam e to the United S atcs Ma n a von Wedemeyer, w ho came 111 k ble record u1 oppo- th fcred "to a German citizen who had had a r;i~ar : reacher, she had at m e autumn of 1917. She had a preparatory year at the Shipley Schoodl and graduated from Bryn M awr in 1922. I knew her o nly by sight all sition to the Nazis." A Red Cross nurse an c ien 1 I had no idea ofth e courage an d v1·s 1on· that w ere latent 111· t h e ti 1·11 ' )lu r- 207
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. b yo111 c engage d to Dietrich. Bonhoeffr.- r, .a young Ge rrnan 111m·tcc 11 c . AlJ11 ost in1t11 cd1ate 1v af ter t 11e 1r engageine l !l ouse at Tsuda along with a group of sen· . . 111 d thc·olo"tan. f l . ~ ~ nt, 1e . 1ors at T d C pas tOt b::, I , N az is 0 11 the charge o p Ot ting against H· l ., hole scene remmded me of reeepti·o su a a llege. Th~ . 1_· oncd y t l l . _ it er " ·as 1111p ts _,- __ ·h , was able to \\Tltc to h1111 and occasional] · \ •v , • ns at the De . ' ·l · t\\·oyca1ss c . ·1 · - - , Yto Thomas day, when we sat m a wide c,· _ anery 111 Miss For neat\ . . snnll dclicaocs, u11t1 111 Apnl 1945 he Was . . h re 1e around th fi . ._. I111· 11 nkma 111111 · r • exc- Thomas 111 _t e ce_1~te,r, and she would begin, "Now e ire, Mi ss \" tSlt- : • ::,W-demcyer was at l:\r y 11 M aw r 1o r two years and t k about?" Miss FuJ 1ta s room was much sm II b ' what shall we talk _ -d Miss vo 11 e . . G . _ oo ' a er, ut We . . cutL · . . 111 stead ot rcturnmg to c1n1.111 y, sh e re ain d . 1 -· MA 1111 9)0 - ' - . . . 111 e 111 around her and she herself offered a topicfio d. . sa t 111 a circle 1u · · .· , d a Mr. Weller, and h\'cd 111 Sudbury, M assa h r 1scuss1on this co untry. martlL , - 1 · 1 , . . . c U- In the same autumn of 1972, w hile I was th M. · . . d th some rime after 1966. --l et ctte1s to Dietrich ·11 h ' k . h ere, iss Hosh· d. d setts. unnl 11 c1 ca _ ·d . , . . _b 13 on- In her w1 , t 111 m g t at very few would w mo 1e . ·. d • her arc 111 the Harva t U111 vcrs1t y Li rary and arc . . c . . ant to come to h fi hoefter an 111 s to _ f I . . not she left d1rect1ons 1o r hold111 g it at her small lo h h . er un eral , ca 1c urc Wh h access1b. 1e to tie1 pttbli c. _ln _ a bnef account o 11111. , however,. 111 the ap- came, n ot only were the church and all its offic . · en t e day . l ,o]ume ot hi s Lcccer., a11d Papcrs.frn111 Pnso n, she includ d • d cs Jammed to th IJ Pen d1x to tie \ e but friends stoo on the steps and in the street .d e wa s, f 0 111 his las t letter to her, dated December 19, 19 . "Wh . . . . ou ts1 e to the c - a paragrap 11 r d . I . 44· at both d1rect1ons, hstenm g to the service over lo d k . orn er 111 1. s 1iappmcss - a1id unhappiness' It depcn. s . so 1,ltt c _011 _th e c1rcumstanc es; had been greatly loved and respected . u spea ers · A1 H os h111. 0 it depends really onl y on that w hich happens 111s1de a person. am 1 From the early 1950s most of the Japanese have t k M . grateful every day that I have you, and that m akes me happy." of A.B.s an d many h ave returned to Tsuda Colle a en .Asb_- 111 stead- Over the years there had always been students from France, and even mg. wit. h m arriage.. T h e first Japanese to earn a PhDge to comHi 111 e teach- during the war there were_a fev.i at_Bryn Mawr, notably the daughters m· ant h ropo I ogy 111· 1964. She was a small slender · · was roko Sue. of Rene Pleven, former Pnme M1111 ster of France, w h o was at that time . .d . . . . . , young woman wuh an mtrep1 sp1nt, 111defat1gable 111 the pursuit of k I d working in the Underground in Paris. Franc;oise Pleven won her A.B. • . . . now e ge. sa t en- trance d m a g roup one evenmg, bsten111 g to her account f 1 • in 1944 and returned to France in 1945. Nicole stayed until 1947. Pres ter mont h s spent among the Eskimos. in an igloo El o severa 1 wm- ident Wofford, in France thirty years later, met Rene Pleven and his . · even yea rs ater she returned to Bryn Maw r with her husband Dr T d h'k H 1b daughter Nicole, who as M adame Michel Worms de Romilly was . . . , · a a I o ara , oth as v1s1tmg professors of anthropology and archaeology fio I J doing outstanding work at the Maeght Gallery m St. Paul en Vence, - r a year. n a- pans h e teaches at Ochanomizu University and he at th u · · f not far from Nice. Tokyo. 2 e n1 vers 1ty o The war had, to be sure, interrupted much of the earlier exchanges 1 with Japan. It was not until 1949 that the first oftheJapanese came back In 975 an effort began to reciprocate the flo w from Japan to the ~mted States. The Bryn M awr Alumnae in Tokyo es tablished a fe l to Bryn Mawr. Taki Fujita, Class of 1925, returned to the College for 111 four months in the spring of that year. After twenty-five years as a pro owship J apan for Bryn Mawr graduates from the United States of which the first holder was Susan Jones, M . S.S. 1975. Four others h~ve fessor at T suda College, she was one of two women sent by the Japa succeeded her th · b . - f . nese government in 1949 to study college administration . She was es . . , e1r su ~e cts rangmg rom soc10lo gy to Japanese phnnts . A l1ttle later Bryn Mawr and Tsuda College set up a student ex- pecially impressed, she said in a letter to President M cBride, by th e c ange The · h . b administration-student relationship, by the cooperation among the M · re IS not mg new a out a Tsuda student coming to Bryn three colleges, Bryn Mawr, H averford , and Swarthmore, by the num lwr, but a Bryn M awr student taking a junior yea r in Japan is indeed a eparture'. though Bryn Mawr students have long been enjoying a ber and variety of scholarships, by the Graduate School, and by the JU11!or year 111 Europe. friendliness of everyone. Between 1951 and 1962, w hen she succeeded d During our first sixty- fi ve years most but not all international stu- Ai Hoshino, A.B. 1912, as President of Tsuda College, she held var ents came to the campus from Europe and Eas t Asia. During the ious positions in the Japanese government, m ost notably as delegate to 194 os, two came from M exico and one each fr om Australia, Costa the United N ations Commission on the Status of Women in 1957, R1ca H · · J 1 8 V ' alt), ersey (of the C hannel Islands), New Zealand, Turkey, and 95 , and 1959- She was a delegate to the World Conference of the In enezuela. The Haitian was M adeleine G. Sylvai n, whose ances tors ternational Women's Year in M exico C ity in 1975. 1 2 In 97 I was in Japan and was in vited by Miss Fujita to lunch at her p ' Dr,- Tadahiko Hara was 111 y student in Japan in the late 1940s, in the Crown nnce s class in the Peers School. 208 209
t r _ic ed Kingdom, and of the students from Engla d . . H aitian War fo r lndcpc11d c11cc of 1804 a, d U leaders in c1 ll l I - 1 n H K d n m 1983 threeb h.1d b ce n ' . .. ·ccr to France. ,vhcrL' s 1c 1crselt received h , . dian names. ong ong sen s more than France· d _ ore I n l Ph']' . S . ' 1n ones1a Mal ·l . ' 1· ch er was IllllllS . '. 1·s . l . Cl _. Nepal, t 1e . 1 rppmes, n Lanka, Thailand T . ' ay- \\ 10,L a B M·iwr she cook a Mastu o oc1a Work Ill 1938 . . · 11· 1a At ryn · ·' . . . < s1a , dd d h c . ' a1wan and Vie cJrl ) ti am ::, · f S • Work in 1941 .. l<.cturn111g to Ha1t1, she wa N am arc now a c to t e 1am1liar names ofJ apan Ch· ' . t octorate o ooa 1 l d'd . s ' ma , Australia :i n d a D . - ·issed a law wh1c 1 1 away w ith the restric- New Z ea l an d . ' l . , cal lll acmng p, . 111 scru mcn · " , f·om the law school there. ln 1983, after forty Another benefit of the international student populat· f h . b rnng women I d f .. · • 1011 0 t e Coll ege t1 0 11 s a . t Br)'Il Mawr a stu . cnt ro1n Ha1t1. .5 that it lends further d1vers1ty to a student body whi h d . , there was agam a , . - l 1 . h . . . c a Irea y 111 _ years, . dd )'cars more South Americans iave made their Cllides Blacks, Spams -Americans, Mexican-Americans t. A J 1 the last c11irty-o _ ., - - l fi - · . . , 11 a 1ve mer- 1 B w hen there we1 c to1 t 1e n st t1111e a student icans, and As1an-Amencans. 3 a ca rancc. ctwccn 1950 ' . . d ' l •_PP d three from El Salvado1. an 1983. t 1ey have come Ever since M artha Diez, who served from 1948 to 195 s, there have trom .Gu ya. nf a an _ of the countn· es o f Sout I1 A m e11ca-- · an d fi1ve ofCen- cri ckhna m rom ten . d been foreign student_adv1sors, but _in the past few years the work has " . ,ell as from J am aica and Grena a . In 1984 students en- tral America as,\ . ceased to be a p art-time respons1b1hty and become full-tim e. At the present writing this post is held by Charles Robert Heyduk , to whose d f1.0 111 Peru Bolivia and Mexico. ccrc · nts have com e from A f nca· t lian f rom S outh and Even fiewer stu de . office comes a steady stream of foreign students in search of advice on · In 8 there were cntermg freshmen from Ghana Ccncra l A men ca. 19 3 ' problem s ranging from uncongenial roommates co summer jobs aanda one from each country, and the one from Morocco, an d U "' , evcrything, in fact, that is not covered by the academic dea ns. cond record from her land. Though students have Ugan d a t I1 e sc 011 Always interested in special groups of foreign students, th e alumnae · fr South Africa since 1912, only very recently has there b ecn commg 0111 have recently been finding new ways of channeling their interest and been a black student from there. . . concern to include the whole range of councries from which the stu As for che Middle East, students have been commg from Egypt smce dents come. President Wofford brought to the ca mpus periodic round and from Israel since 1948. The first student to come from Iran 194 7 ups of interested alumnae, and che Incernacional Studenc Committees was Iran M. Ala, A.B. 1951. She was followed by nearly a score of of the Bryn Mawr Clubs of Philadelphia and Wilmington have been ac ochers, some of whom returned to Iran and since _the fall of the Shah tive. They have introduced an annual program of orientation for in have been Jose co us. Ochers have remained in chis country or other coming students two or three days before College opens. The Inter Western countries. In 1983 there were four Iranians at Bryn M awr, two national Students Association, the largest of all th e campus undergraduates, one in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and organizations, with over 200 members , organizes meetings, social one who took a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. events, concerts, trips, and, each spring, an International Week and a Recently students have come by ones and twos and threes from the very popular dinner, at which the representatives of the different co un United Arab Emirates-Bahrain, Cyprus, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, tries produce and serve their native dishes . It also issues a lively news and Saudi Arabia. In 1983 Maureen Hula Acaka, a Palestinian from the letter. troubled Le ft Bank, working for a Ph.D. in the Department of Edu Through all the years our foreign scudencs have made their generous cation and Child D evelopment, wrote: contributions to us not only during their college years but also Once back at Birzeit University I will again take up the job of throughout their lives, as individual friendships formed in college con student counsell or. . The knowledge, experience and op tinue in warmth and depth and co sorne degree permeate communmes portunity for growth that Bryn Mawr has offered m e will be both abroad and at home. One of their greatest co ntributions has been invaluable in all aspects of my work. The friendship and in bringing to the parochial America n young a keener awareness ofrbe warmth of all the people who have touched my life while I world beyond the United States. have been here will be a constant source of encouragem ent. According to Dr. Alice Stone llchman. President of Sarah Lawrence C 0 11 egc, " Foreign· students m· campus co mmu111t1cs· ·, 'arc ·ill coo often an For many yea rs most of our foreign students came from Canada and st , Tl . . . ~ 111 China, indoncsiJ . Europe, but by 1983-84 the balance had shifted from West to Ea . In 1e Asian-Americans, naturalized onzcns, come ro . N dia now sends more students than Canada, Pakistan more than the Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines. Singapore. and Viet am .
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0 . . , 1 ind unintn,r:itcd resource for d ispelling the . d 11 ndcrut1 1l ZLt • ,_ ' b . . unrca I1zc -- . d . of A 111 en c:in scuuc'11ts a out mtcrnat1onal . k ot know 1<' gc ' st1rthng 1ac JONATHAN E. RHOADS -itYairs.'·, . t McPherson it this were' true of Bryn Mawr • ·k -d Prcs10 en - ' When 1 '" c ht it " ·as. But she \\"Cllt 011 to say that the , -. 1· -d that she t Iio ug .. I I I . she 1c p ic b bl _ l~·s ·icute at Ur\"11 M a\\ 1 t 1:111 at t 1e arge um- Just B eyond Bryn Mawr: The , - s pro ~ ' L~ ' · ~ . prob Iun "a . · . 11 size and the greater pnccntage ot mter- - -,. b •ciusc ot out s1111 , Haverford Connection \·crsttlL' c · , ·rccnt at Brvn Ma\\T versus an average of a lit- - l ·tudcnts-tcn pc - nanona ; _,, ,crct'nt in the country at large. 11 tle oYer t LL f . , - this si tuation the president has instituted a sc- As one \\-a\· ol mcenn0::, - . . b c . ,. . · - g o-atherm<>s 111 her home ot a out 1orty Amen- _- ' O I mforma1 cve 111n ::,' ::, . ncs _ . students and an expert o r two on the subject of can and mternanona 1 _ _ . . d db - A - ofinccrnanonal mterest 1s tosse out, an etween the n ·cnmg. topic . . . · 1· J d. . , t scven-th1rtv and dcpa1 tu1 c at nme, 1ve y 1scus- dessert an d co ftcc a . I d . 5 . f the topics have been: N orthern Ire an , Reagan- sion follows. ome o ' Th [) . . - D- I Between che '6os and the Bos, e os1t1on of om1cs, 13 ogue - · I I d L b - M"d E tern countries Relat1ons between srae an e a- BR y N MA w R A ND HA v ERFORD: the relationship between the two Women 111 1 - as ' - dira Gandhi. These evenm gs have been greatly en- colleges has been more kaleidoscopic than any of the aspects elsewhere non t h c Legacy o f l 11 . - c - described in this volume. There is continuity too. The geographical J-oye'd an d l1ave scr ved the double purpose of bnngmg. l tor- e1gn and Ameri· can stu d en ts together and of widening America.n 1on zons. proximity planned by the founder, Joseph Taylor, fo reseen as "mu It 1-s not poss1"b l e t o foresee what lies ahead ' w hat. w. ill. be the patterns tually useful" as lo ng as "wise restraint" was exercised, insured some an d -m fl uences o f the 11exc hundred years. _Perhaps _ It 1s JUSt as well. We sort of connectio n . T here were, however, early decades when chat con c d ·n hope and faith buildmg on w hat has been done, can on l y go torwar 1 ' . - - h nection was tenuo us. A ch aracterization of Bryn Mawr. written in 1908 confident that whatever may be the stresses in international polmcs, t c by M . Carey Thomas' sister, H elen Thomas Flexner, Class of 1893, individual fri endships and the shared pursuit of knowledge will con does no t o nce m ention H averford. The College's identity is described tinue to serve a network of understanding across national boundaries. in terrns o f "the joy broug ht by rigorous academic endeavors; pastimes May the "general sense of humor" so much enjoyed by the long-ago of long walks, athletics, and conversations with one's classmates; the German student continue to flourish , as well as the expen ence de influence of the graduate schools and the beauty of the architecture." scribed in 1983 by one ofa long line of students from across our north N o t so Bryn M awr's Admissions Office literature of the mid ern border. "One of che things I love here," she wrote, "1s long talks at eighties. M en abound in the pictures, as they do on campus. A blue bus dinner with people who love to learn; we may no t love to study, but we spans the mile and a half between the two institutions. From the shared love to learn." Friends' meeting ho use of one hundred years ago, the colleges moved toward cautious cooperation on theatrical production and musical • Speech given by Alice Stone llchman to the Japan International ChriStiai} University Foundation March 16 1983 in which she said that the number 0 events, and this was eventually followed by a spectrum ofaca denuc a_nd C . ' I I • 954 {O ,om gn students in United States colleges had grown from 34,000 111 1 ex_tracurricular cooperation, dormitory exchange and adm1111stranvc more than 312,000 in 1981. JOl11t activities. By 1984, the Boards of both institutions were coordl natmg som e Board and committee meetings. T hat the delicate work of cooperation and coordination has gone and docs go forward has been largely due to the remarkable diplomacy of Mary Patterson M cPherson whose terms as Dean of the Faculty an_ 2 [ 2