Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1958-1959 Student Newspapers 11-20-1958 ConnCensus Vol. 44 No. 9 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1958_1959 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "ConnCensus Vol. 44 No. 9" (1958). 1958-1959. 13. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1958_1959/13 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1958-1959 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Vol. 44--No. 9 New London, Connecticut, Thursday, November 20, 1958 lOe per eopy Ellen Freedman Newly Elected Play Production Sakura Matsurl Theme of Hop Plan Dryden'. Presidrest ent 0f aass 0f 1962 ~~ThT, " Cathy Burrowes Heads Event Ellen Freedman has just been ly French. e empe.t Cherry blossoms, parasols, and elected president of the fresh- This year Ellen is also eo-chair- No sooner had the curtain Japanese lanterns will prevail at man class. Ellen comes from man of Branford House. dropped after the performance of the Sophomore Hop weekend, Freehold, N. J. She attended high The Old Wives' Tale than ihe December 5, 6, and 7. The theme school at Miss Fine's in Prince- Play Production Class began is oriental and the title of the ton, N. J. At Miss Fine's she was I work on its second production of dance is "Sakura Matsuri" (Cher- President of the Social Service the season, Dryden's The Tern. ry Blossom Festival). Committee, an organization for pest. The play, which will carry raising money for outside charf- through the fairy-tale motif of its The events of the first college ties and for amassing volunteers predecessor, will open on Janu- weekend festivities of the year from the students. Previously she ary 9 in Palmer Auditorium, will begin at 8:00 p.m., Friday was a representative and treas- While Dryden's play may be evening with the Wig and Can- Candle play, The Enchanted, by urer for this organization. unfamiliar to many on campus, Jean Glraudoux. The "Utai Kai," Ellen also served on the school the plot is not unknown since his or Song Festival, will take place newspaper, was a member of the work is an elaboration of Shakes- Glee Club for four years, and a peare's Tempest. An old man, in Palmer Auditorium at 2:30 Sat- urday. Participating groups in- • member of jazz and madrigal played by Nancy Donahue, his clude the Jabberwocks from singing groups, In the realm of two daughters, portrayed by Lin- athletics, she was a member of da Bowen and Nancy Waddell, Brown University; the Dunster the hockey, basketball, and Ia- and a young man, Thalia Geeter, Dunces, Harvard; the Jibers, Wesleyan University; the Idlers, crosse teams. Iive in exile on an island, Since Coast Guard Academy; the Dis- At Connecticut, Ellen is unde- the old man has kept the young sipaied Eight, Middlebury; and cided about her major, but she is people apart since childhood, they Connecticut's Shwiffs and Conn very much interested in Ian- have no knowledge of love or ac- Chords. Ed wtttstetn's orchestra guages. Last summer she was on quaintance with the opposite sex. CATHY BURROWES will play for the "Sakura Mat- the experiment to France, and Their only companions on the is- surl" at Knowlton Salon from this experience contributed a land are spirits in the guise of Last year Cathy Burrowes was 8:30 p.m. to 12:00 p.m., and the great deal toward her enthusiasm Nancy Savin, and monsters, play- president of the Freshman Class. about foreign languages, especial- ELLEN FREEDMAN ed by Pam von Nostrand and This year her election to the posi- Duke's Men from Yale University will entertain during intermis- ---- Janne Theilgaard, until a ship- tion of Social Chairman of the sophomore class automatically sion. wreck brings the usurpers of the made her head of Soph Hop. She Dad's Organization Provides old man's dukedom, portrayed by began to function in this capacity Marcia Silverman, Lynn Coyne, as soon as she arrived back in hi H l Mary Wofford and Tove Martin, September by forming an "idea Anonymous SCh 0 lars lp e p to ihe island. Margarei Kegelman committee" which is to be credit- will be seen as the son of one of The Dads' Fund is a unique in- senior class. The advisory mem- the usurpers, who is also ship- ed with the choice of the Japan- stitution at Connecticut College ese theme for the weekend's ac- bers of the committee are Prest- wrecked. From this point on the tivities. through which financial aid is dent Rosemary Park, and Mr. M, plot revolves around the ro- anonymously extended to girls , mances of the young people and Cathy's home is in Keyport, who find themselves unable to Robert Cobbledick, Director of the punishment of the usurpers. New Jersey, where she went to remain at college because of un- Admissions; the secretary is Miss The play will be presented in a high school before attending the Northfield School for Girls in expected family reverses, It is an Warrine E. Eastburn, Assistant setting designed by Jill Dargeon Massachusetts. She has two sis- emergency fund which operates to the President. while behind the scenes Sue Olio independently of the regular ters: one (Mariby) is a senior scholarship program. The fund was originated in ver.r Linda Stallman and Margar- here, and the other is a senior at Handled by a committee of 1938 when a girl in the sopho- et Kegelman will handle the the' Kent Place School in Summit, fathers composed of three repr~ more class who would have had lights. Pam van Nostrand will New Jersey. Her brother teaches sentatives from each of the four to leave school because of finan- provide the make-up while Laurie at M.LT. classes and a chairman, the fund cia! circumstances at home was Pritchard and Nancy Waddell ----- is administered by the college so anonymously aided by the fath- will design the costumes. Harriet that committee members never ers of her classmates after they Kauffman will supply sound and know the recipients of the aid. learned about the situation from props with Colleen Dougherty act- The committee, which is elected their daughters. It has continued ing as stage manager, Dede Plio annually by the previous commit- to grow until today the fund has mer as assistant stage manager tee is headed this year by Mr. helped as many as twenty girls a and Joan McDuffee as publicity Owen L. Quinn of West Hartford, year. During the academic year manager. Miss Margaret Hazel- Connecticut, father of Barbara 1957·58, the Dads contributed I wood will direct the entire pro- $10,585, to the fund. duction. Quinn who is president of the Letters are sent annually to the --------- fathers of all students, and con- Dean Noyes Names GF h P tributions in any amount are giv- reat renc oet en voluntarily. Mothers andlEl' CAd hi t of Speech guardians ar~ invited to contrib- Rlne • n erson SU Jec ute If they wish. By Yale Professor TheDad's Fund this year has Winthrop Scholar been incorporated Into the 50th The French Club ~n~ the De- Annlversary , Fund Campaign. At the afternoon assembly on partment of French Invite every- This general campaign, the first November 19, Dean Gertrude ....E. one Interested to a lecture to be in the history of the college was N s ed th It EI' C . lth f ' oye announc a alOe. held ill English. (WI a ew conceived for the purpose of rais- Anderson has been named Win- French quotations) on Tu.esday, ing $3,1000,000 which will be used throp Scholar. A member of the December 2 at 4:30 p.m. ill the for salaries, scholarships, boo\<s Class of 1959 Elaine is an English Palmer Room of the LIbrary. The and buildings, A sum of $445J>OO. ' lecture is to be held in celebra- has already been given or pledged maJor.. .. tion of the 150th anniversary of by trustees and cloSe friends of The Institution .of Winthrop the birth of the great French the college, and the college hopes Sch~lar was established at C0!1' Poet Gerard de Neval Neval t h $1500000 b th necticut College by the faculty in ' '0 ave , , more y e . h' whose legendary life ended commencement of 1959 through 1928,.m recognttton of igh schcl- through madness, in suicide, was contributions of alumnae, parents, arship, pers.onal.fitness, and aca- one of the most exquisite lyrical and friends. Of the proposed demic promIS~, Smce 1935, when a poets also noted as a novelist, a $3 100 000 . t 1 .'00 000 chapter of PhI Beta Kappa was es- translator,, a friend of the Ro.· will, be , allocated ,approxuna to stUdent e y "",, schol- t a bl' IS hed here , the ho n or of Win - mantic poets painters musicians h' 'p 'd t P k h . t throp Scholar has been awarded a world trav~ler' , edarsIPts'thrte~l en edar hasI pom .--automatically to those senior stu- . ou a mcreas sc 0 ars Iph . .. d' . The lecture will be given by aid will be necessary to meet the dents who were. I~ltiCl;te mto PhI Professor Henri Peyre, Sterli~g ever-increasing tuition costs. The Beta Kappa theIr JUnior year. professor of French and chaIr· rest of the money raised by the The daughter of Mr.