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eing carried out on the new high energy atorn
smashing machines at Columbia, Harvard, Illinois
and Cornell.
Thirteen of the atomic scientists were guests of
the University and SDme 80 others prominently engaged
in the field of high energies produced by the
large cyclotrons, betatrons, cosmotrons and other accelerators
attended the meetings from all parts of the
country.
In the field of the humanities, the English Department's
third annual conference series brought distinguished
authors, scholars and critics to the University
on December 1 and 2 and again on February 9. The
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general theme was the novel and its place in the culture
of the past and present. At the opening session,
James T. Farrell, author of "Studs Lonigan" and
other novels and short stories, Dr. Mark Schorer,
professor of English at the University of California,
critic and short story writer, were the speakers on the
respective subjects, "The Novelist as Reporter" and
"The Novelist as Interperter." Scheduled for the
February 9 meeting were another well-known novelist,
Katherine Anne Porter, William Tindall, professor of
English at Columbia University, authority on James
Joyce and the modern school, and Joseph Warren
Beach, professor emeritus of the history of the novel,
University of Minnesota.
Alu mnae Career Clinics Aid Students in Selecting Life Work
"w HERE do we go from here?" How many of
you as graduating seniors found yourselves asking that
very question? Perhaps you were interested in law, in
some type of social work, in teaching, or perhaps in
advertising. These are varied fields, certainly, and
they require far different types of preparation and far
different kinds of interest in those who wish to enter
them. It is an attempt to tell the undergraduate something
of the field and of the types of work to be found
in it that the alumnae sponsor a program of five or
six career coffee hours each year.
At each of the coffee hours two or three related
fields are discussed, and outstanding Rochester area
women in those fields are asked to present the facts
and figures to the undergraduates who attend. There
have been three such meetings thus far this year. The
first, on law and government, was held on October
10 with Cecile Genhart Dutcher, '46, and Rosemary
Fay Loomis, '47, as the speakers. On November 13,
Miss Catherine Meisenzahl spoke on medical social
work and Miss Birdell Jackson on group social work.
The third, on radio, advertising and journalism, was
held on December 4 with Ann Houlihan Keefe, '46,
and Mrs. Clara C. Lawler, from the women's department
of the Democrat and Chronicle) as the
speakers.
Invitations are sent to those students who are concentrating
in subjects which might lead to work in
these fields, and posters are placed in strategic spots
about the campus.
The coffee hours are made possible by a committee
under the able co-chairmanship of Nancy Levy
Cohen, '47, and Louise Gelli Wendt, '28. Special
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thanks go to. the women who give so freely of their
time to address the groups and to Dr. Isabel K. Wallace,
' 16, whose original assistance in setting up the
series this year and whose continued aid throughout
has been invaluable.
Such a program is, in the minds of many alumnae,
an indispensable part of their work as graduates of a
college of liberal arts and sciences. They realize, perhaps
more than anyone else, how important it is for
the undergraduate to have some ideas regarding the
fields of work which are open to. them. Those who
concentrate in science have a fairly clear picture of
what they want to do, but those in the so-called "arts"
fields have a far wider scope of opportunity and a
far wider variety of careers to choose from. A liberal
arts college aims to turn out a well-rounded individual
and in these times of international strife, it is to be
hoped, a humanistic one as well, but humanism is too
general a thing to be anything other than a basic
philosophy Dr point of view. When supplemented by
the CDurses of special interest leading to work in
specific fields it gives the individual the equipment to
take her most active part in society.
It is the aim of the career coffee hours to aid the
student in selecting her courses so they will prepare
her for the field in which her primary interest lies
and to tell her about those fields so that she may
choose wisely on the basis of her own interest and
abilities. Here the Alumnae Association is joining
hands with the vocational counselor and the placement
secretary of the College for Women to help the
students fit themselves for the society in which they
live.