HUNTER COLLEG'E OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

FOUNDED 1870

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES

The Assembly Hall 695 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK

Thursday, February 19, 1959 AT 8 P.M.

Board of Higher Education OF THE

City of New York HON. GUSTAVE G. ROSENBERG

Chairman

HON. RUTHS. SHOUP

Secretary

HON. JOHN J. MORRIS

Chairman, Hunter College Administrative Committee

HoN. JOHN ADIKES HoN. EDWARD D. RE

*HON. RENATO J. AzzARI HON. SIMON H. RIFKL~D

HON. RALPH J. BUNCHE HON. ARTHUR ROSENCRANS

*HON. HARRY J. CARMAN *HON. JOSEPH SCHLOSSBERG

HON. PORTER R. CHANDLER HoN. HENRY E. SCHULTZ

*HON. JOHN E. CONBOY *HON. ELLA S. STREATOR

HON. GLADYS M. DORMAN *HON. ORDWAY TEAD

HON. A. JoSEPH GEIST HON. CHARLES H. TUTTLE

HON. MARYS. INGRAHAM HON. ARLEIGH B. WILLIAMSON

HoN. CHARLES H. SILVER, President of the Board of Education, ex-officio

"' Member of the Hunter College Administrative Committee

PROGRAM COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES

Presiding: The President of the College

PROCESSIONAL Pomp and Circumstance - EDWARD ELGAR

At the Organ - BRUCE PRINCE-JOSEPH, Mus. M.

NA TI ON AL . ANTHEM Conducted by Anders Emile, Mus. D.

INVOCATION

MUSIC

Chairman, Department of Music

The Reverend Herman L. Heide Chaplain, Newman Clubs of Hunter College

Die Mainacht - JOHANNES BRAHMS

On Wings of Song - FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Monroe Grossman, Ed. D. Conductor

Carl Sebock Accompanist

Hunter College Choir

PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES Mina S. Rees, Ph.D. Dean of Faculty

CONFERRING OF DEGREES George N. Shuster, Ph. D. President, Hunter College

G REE TI N G S FR 0 M TH E G RA DU ATE S Stanley H. Walters

ADDRESS

MUSIC

President of the Class of January 1959, Bronx Division

Patricia Ann Woods President of the Class of January 1959, Park Avenue Division

Syrinx - CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Helena Sophie Schultz Flute

President Shuster

C 0 LL E G E S 0 N G - "Fame" Graduates Professor Emile, conducting

BENEDICTION

RECESSIONAL March of the Priests from "Athalie" - FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Mr. Prince-Joseph

Father Heide

NU CHAPTER

OF PHI BETA KAPPA

Axel, Glenda

Beckerman, Judith

Doonan, Barbara E.

Class of September 1958

Ehrlich, Rachel Levy

Class of January 1959

Gold, Alice

Nichols, Gladys S.

van Houten, J aines Kent

DEPARTMENT AL HONORS

Anthropology

Art

Herbert, Frances M. Quinlan, Mary Ann Rojas, Mercedes Celia

Appelbaum, Gloria Fass, Norma Friedman, Ruth

Biology

Dederick, Barbara Ann

Chemistry

Berglas, Hilda

Economics

Riekstins, Janis Schwartz, Susan

English

Axel, Glenda Ehrlich, Rachel Levy Gold, Alice Lawrence, Stephen Alan

German

van Houten, James Kent

History

Marshack, Barbara C.

Music

van Houten, James Kent

Psychology and Philosophy

Axel, Glenda Cogen, Tess S. Steinberg, Cynthia

French

Ehrlich, Hedy Nelson, Mary Louise

Italian

O'Hara, Mary Capece Patemiani, Lucille A.

Spanish

Nagler, Norbert Rodriguez, Nieves

Sociology

Kitzen, Charles Louis B. Yasgour, Rena L.

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES Class of September 1958

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS

Alperstein, Hadassah Alpert, David Antonelli, Christine H. Baltrukovicz, Malvina Bamonte, Margaret Ann Barnhart, James A. Barone, Wanda Barrell, Catherine E. Bergman, Muriel E. Bergman, Baila C. Bidart, Gay-Darlene Blair, Elizabeth Scott Blum, Sigrid M: Bovino, Angelina Brauer, Melvin Butler, Millicent Cammarato, Shirley P. Chin, Josette Cohen, Bernard Cohen, Gail A. Dawson, Pauline DeFelice, Frank DeLuca, Lucille R. DiTullio, Anita Ehrenreich, Sheila N. Ehrlich, Hedy

*Ehrlich, Rachel Levy Feldmann, Bette Fishkin, Howard B.

*Gailis, Benita Jeremics Garth, Lucette Gaudier, Robert L. Glassman, Eleanor Goldstein, Milton Greenwald, Vivian Groves, Alice Hazel Gubin, Jerold Gunter, Patricia Estelle Halligan, Joanne Agnes Harley, Carolyn Ann Hemstead, Nancy Ann Irizarry, Raymond

Kalkstein, Roslyn Katechis, Anna

*Kaufman, Lenore Kelly, Eleanor Roberta Levine, Julian Harold Levy, Brenda Grandon

~Ligot, Lynne M. Lippitt, Michael W. Lipskin,- Enid Ruth McGarry, James P. Malone, Annie E. Mazzoni, Rose Melworm, Ronald Stanley Meyer, Robert E. Morgan, Carol Joyce Murray, Eileen A. Muzer, Marylyn Gertrude Nicodemus, Irene Ratnavati

*Peters, Ruth Doris Piglione, Olga Rabinowitz, Joan Reinertsen, Clara A.

. *Roth, Alba E. Scher, Ira Elliott Schott, Wolfgang Ernst Schroeder, Joan C.

*Schwartz, Pearl Fanny Sedlacek, Albert John Sentner, Sylvia Kagan Sheerin, Mary Elizabeth Stanger, Lewis Murary Tedeskine, Barbara Ann Teicher, Herbert Tugander, Paul M. Tullio, Nicholas Jr. Ultan, Susan D. Valbuena, Anita Louise Wolk, Irene E. Wong, Anne Marie Violet Yesk, Marianne Harris Zagar, Elliott Zapantis, Anastasia

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION

Garrett, Angela C. Nissel, Anna Lee

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HOME ECONOMICS)

Capone, Angela Rose

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS

Feldstein, Mark Slote, Kenneth William

DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS

Burnstein, Melvin Frank, John L. Huey, Charlotte B.

Kem, Renee McKinley, Bernice Joyce Tuchinsk.y, Isidore

DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION

Allen, Inez Browne, Earl Wilkinson Burr, Marvin Reece Chasnow, Maxine K. Cohen, Diane K. Johnson, Albertina Frances Kalantjakos, Euterpe

Class of January 1959

Kinnally, William F. Lichtig, Barbara Novellino, Mary Rose G. Sherry, Nancy Marie Smith, Thomas Ewin Vachio, Rose Gordon Winston, Helene Eichwald

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS

Adler, Linda Anne Allin, Barbara Sue Appel, Marian Kane

*Appelbaum, Gloria Appelbaum, Leonard

0 *Axel, Glenda Azario, Lorraine Barschi, Jack I.

*Beckerman, Judith Behr, Mary Bell, Sarah Blair Bennett, Joan Louise Berger, Milton

** *Berglas, Hilda Berlin, Sandra Berman, Miriam S. Bernstein, Elaine Sternfeld Best, Jean Gayle Blassberg, Ira Murray Bleich, Grace Boschulte, Arlene Louise Brauman, Thelma

Braun, Rhea Brotman, Irving Bunim, Sarah Silver Bunkin, David B. Burke, Gerald Martin Burke, James Andrew Caggiano, Anthony Joseph Cattell, James H. Cavanaugh, Kathleen Anne Cerny, Frederick Francis

**Cogen, Tess S. Cohen, Arlene Ruth Cohen, Carole Cohen, Edith J. Cook, Dolly Brunson Cooper, Lynwood Calvin Cowlan, Lenore Eisenstadt Dasch, Rosalie June Davis, Sandra Maxine Dederick, Arline Dederick, Barbara Ann Deitchman, Dorothy Ruth

Dellicarri, Joseph Deutsch, Stanley

*Doonan, Barbara E. Dressel, Natalie M. Drucker, Sylvia Klein

*Fass, Norma Feinman, Herbert Leonard Feldman, Roslyn Gladys Finkelstein, Karin Fishman, Selma Mannes Fiske, Renee M. Frankel, Edith Franzel, Daniel Freilich, Anne Debora Friedman, Ruth Gaiennie, Suzanne A. Gale, Dorothy Rose Gilligan, Fred Gins, Evelyn Giorlando, Gaetana Glauberman, Nadine Hope Glicker, Lorraine Marcia

Goelz, Charlotte Kushner, Coleman **Gold, Alice Kushner, Thelma

Gold, Carolyn M. Lane, Spencer Goldberg, Gary Lanza, Barbara Ann Goldfarb, Syril Marion *Laufer, Helen M. Goldstein, Glenda Lea *Lawrence, Stephen Alan Goldstein, Harriet Judith Lax, Phyllis Merilyn Golomb, Mira I. Lehrman, Marvin Edward Goodman, Judith Alda Leighton, Donald Robert Goodwin, Barbara E. Leverone, Cynthia M. Gosling, Craig G. Levine, Brenda M.

*Gottlieb, Rhoda Helfman Levkovitz, Lucyna Graber, Sandra Berr *Lew, Edith Gray, Robert Liekerman, Rosalie Alice

*Greenberg, Sheila J. Loizeaux, Elise Rixson Greenstein, Sandra Helene Lorde, Audrey Greenwald, Franklin *Lovich, Charlotte Schacher Gregory, Thelma Miriam Luersen, Paul Ronald Griesinger,GertrudeMargaret Luftman, Jerome Frederick Grossman, Helaine Budoff Macklin, Ellen Fischer Grunwald, Harriet MacN eil, Jean Sitzer Guinot, Maria C. Magzamer, Judy Haber, Gilbert Mandel, Deanna · Haftel, Carol Lee Mandel, Judith

*Hall, Anna Sirotiak Manning, Maureen Teresa Halpern, Beverly Marcus, David S. Hamel, Evelyn C. Marinoff, Claire Rhoda Hanerfeld, Thelma Silverman** *Marshack, Barbara C.

*Hansen, Irene Elizabeth Mayer, Appolonia, Louise Harelick, Nancy Anne Meltzer, Harold Irwin Haridopolos,AngelaMorreale Mercado, Nancy L.

*Harris, Robert Calvin Merit, William Hauben, Eric M. Mermelstein, Ernst Max Heneghan, Maureen Frances Meschisi, Anita Joan Henley, Loretta Messina, Ursula Anita Herbert, Frances M. Meyerson, Maxine Hodes, Libby Miceli, Ethel Ann Hofmanis, Mirdza Miranda, Lillian Marilyn Hollander, Rosalind Doris Munoz, Juanita Marie Holman, Beverly V. *Nagler, Norbert Hruda, Karel Nathan, Rosemary S. Izzi, Suzanne Adeline Neadle, Carol Fay Janowitz, Richard S. Nebenzahl, Gail Levine Judin, Deborah L. Neher, Norma V.

*Juliusberger, Franz Nelson, Mary Louise Kahn, Myrna Edith Neus, Patricia Marie Karp, Marlene Frajman Neville, Winifred Mary Keenan, Mary *Nichols, Gladys S. Kenny, Mary Catherine Nobles, Patricia J.

*Kitzen, Charles Louis B. Notides, Angelo C. Klein, Shirley W. *Novick, Ruth Knoerzer, Margaret Louise Nussbaum, Carol Kolko, Norma Joye *O'Brien, Nora Theresa

*Kolsky, Judith Marilyn O'Connell, Lenore Ann Konian, Agnes Arline O'Hara, Mary Capece

*Krieger, Sheila Ann Orlando, Rosemary Vessa Krizanowskaja, Natalia O'Toole, Margaret S.

Palmer, Don Panella, Nicholas J. Papacostas, George A. Pasquale, Dolores C. Paterniani, Lucille A. Peacock, Ann Marie Pearlman, Sheila Doris Pelosi, Loretta

*Perlman, Edith F. Phillips, Howard William Pinchoff, Harriet Judith Pinchuk, Frances R. Pinto, David S. Pistreich, Esther Molly Pizzicara, Vivian Maria

*Pizzoli, Lillian A. Polk, John Robert Pollack, Evelyn R. Pollak, Edward Pope, Rhea Louise Potashner, Ira

*Prinzi, Gertrude E. Prival, Ann Ellen Pucci, Josephine Joan

*Quinlan, Mary Ann Quiquerez, Marie Louise Rabinovich, Esther Raebiger, Joan Sheila Rainford, Dorothy Florence Rappaport, Tilly Rastley, Ruth Agnese Reiner, Eric Reynolds, Constance Richter, Margo Margaret

***Rieks tins, Janis Rivera, Ely M. Rivera, Sonia I. Rodriguez, Nieves Rojas, Mercedes Celia Roller, Barbara Ann Rosenberg, Saundra Posner Rosenkranz, Renee Rosenthal, Judith Roth, Jacqueline Vogel Rowe, Jocelyn T. Rubin, Donald Bernard Rubin, Jack H. Rudiger, Florence Elizabeth Salant, Eileen B. Sands, Evelyn Grad Sayers, Myra W. Scherberg, Barbara Schultz, Helena Sophie Schwartz, Melvin Arnold Schwartz, Seymour

*Schwartz, Susan Scuderi, Paul Vincent

*Seligsohn, Adrea Dea Serlen, June Shantery, Dorothy K. Shaw, Roberta Shor, Sall Shotland, Charles Guth Silverman, Diane Rochelle Silverman, Sharon Medjuck Skudin, Sheila Sonia Smith, Helen Elizabeth Smith, Jeanne Newkirk Smith, Maurice Allen

*Solon, Doris Somatale, Marie Elizabeth Spector, Bernard Spirt, Leila Glassman Stack, Martin Stanchi, Patricia Nan Stein, Rochelle Roberta Steinberg, Cynthia Steinberg, Edith

Strassberg, Phyllis C. Strohl, Alice Sussman, Janice Elayne Sussman, Judith Mori Sutherland, Edward MacLeod Swidler, Rita Talbert, Madeleine Tangredi, Adeline Louise Tilger, Grace M. Tobolka, Marie Wanda Tomczak, Edward Stanislaw

*Topping, Patricia Ann Torrents, John E. Tremsky, Edith Tuchman, Max

*Turner, Mary Anna Unger, Theda

***van Houten, James Kent Vassilakos, Mary Villafana, Theodore Vlock, David George

Wallman, Sheldon Walsh, Lorraine Marie Walters, Stanley H. Warshauer, Lois Schiff Weinfeld, Deanna Weinstein, Sheldon Weintraub, Elinor E. Wendell, Joyce S. Wenig, Mona G. Werner, Jerry Whelan, Amelia Kathleen Wilen, Charlotte Willis, Antoinette Marie Willner, Madeline Triebswetter Winer, Sydel Wahlman, Anita Richman Wolf, Charlotte Wolff, Jay Robert Woods, Patricia Ann

*Yasgour, Rena L. Zamuelis, Laila

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION

Bartlett, Mary Alice Bhonslay, Grace Bentley Blackman, Gloria

*Borowsky, Bertel Carter, June Olive Corbin, Evaline A. Craft, E. Carrie Crockett, Helen Green Frierson, Elsie M. Goldberg, Minnie Goldman, Shevonne Janice

Goodin, Ethel Evadnie *Gray, Edward A. Harmon, Joan Marie Harper, Genevieve M. Harris, Flora Mary Huyler, Lillie Mae Johnson, Elaine Claire

*Kass, Evelyn Kaufmann, Amalie Kelly, Joan Elizabeth Klesa, Arlene

Knudsen, Gloria H. LaDuca, Antoinette Josephine L'Esperance, Margaret Bourdon Mayette, Nancy Jane

*Pronko, Catherine Schanbacher, Helen Wilma Stuchbury, Edna M. Taylor, Joan Headley Washington, Iris

*Wechsler, Goldie Friedman Zdeb, Katherine M.

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HOME ECONOMICS)

Bloemink, Hildegarde Brozio, Nora A.

Rosenberg, Barbara Joan Sasanow, Sharon R.

Schwell, Ruby Barbara Wiggs, Annie L.

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (MUSIC)

Chevlin, Jack Rinaldini, Virgil

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ACCOUNTING)

Miller, David B.

Adler, Ruth Relis Antonier, Murray H. Appel, Shirley Arieti, Jane Jaffe Aronoff, Tillie Blechman, Harry Bonagura, Pauline Rose Brennan, Mary Jane Browne, Vivian E.

DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS

Colleluori, Anita Louise Constantinoff, Ema J. DeRosa, Antoinette Dobrjansky, Areta Dolan, William P. Dworkin, Lorette Marilyn Felshin, Augusta Schwartz Fishman, Joseph Horowitz, Milton

Jackson, Frances Josephine Kassin, Leon J. La Cerra, Charles Levine, Barbara Brenner Mikell, Minnie L. Roth, Ana Erika Schmitt, Eileen Mary Vemillo, Joyce Carol Woodburn, Joan Elveta

DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION

Ackerman, Saul Andreadis, George N. Berlin, Frances Lee Blackner, Margaret Theresa Bono, Agnes Patricia Butler, Sister Marie Perpetua Caradine, Don Corbet Castillo, Carol Stroffolino Cohen, Betty J. · Cohen, Edna C. Cohen, Rose Lipkind Connor, Ann Marie Coyle, Annamary M. Curry, Joan Elizabeth Da Ros, Anita Davenport, Margery Ann Delaney, Sister Mary Anselma Derfler, Elliot C. Diamond, Geraldine H. DiGiacomo, Elizabeth Rose Di Paola, Matilda Theresa Donelan, Sister Elizabeth

Irene, C.S.J. Duffy, Helen M. Duncan, Sister Helen Clare Eisenberg, Pauline Meltsner Elkin, Melvyn Ellington, Martha Bara Epstein, Alice Fello, Dorothy Ann Fiorenza, Marie Rose Fishbein, Lucille Ash Ford, Veronica Claire Gallagher, Edward Joseph

Gallant, Elinor S. Greenberg, Nina Cynthia Greenwald; Sandra Hagen, Lydia .

· Hamilton, Ann Marie Hanley, Cecelia Agnes Hawes, Katrina L. Hershkowitz, Libby Beth Huang, Katherine G. J anover, Doris Jewell, Lydia A. Kelly, Theresa Kathleen Klein, Madeleine E. Klein, Madeline S. Kuzon, June T. Leddy, Kathleen Joan Lewis, Claritha Hilda Liesman, Bernice Drimmer Luba, Barbara E. Lucas, Annie Parham Luckton, Rochelle I. McCann, Mary Elizabeth McGill, Patricia A. McGuiness, Sister Mary

Edward, C.S.J. McManus, Betty Jane Magilligan, Irene A. Martin, Grace Elizabeth Martini. Mariann Nancy Marus, Nedda Merlino, Marie J. Miller, Laurence Richard Miller, Margaret W. Donald Montanile, Antonetta

Moskowitz, Renee Phyllis Murray, Patricia H. Musillo, Rosary Mary O'Riordan, Charles Francis Paccione, Rose Pagan, Muriel T. Perpelitt, Lazarus Pezzella, Mariann Porter, Fannie Raggio, Rose A. Ryan, Gloria A. Saffer, Shirley Rubnitz Sanders, Phyllis Schwarz, Peggy M. Scott, James Richard Sherman, Emma R. Shovelski, Anna M. Silverberg, Martin W. Simon, Claire Roslyn Smollen, Barbara Sowards, Lutricia Sternfeld, Miriam Stogner, Pressly Coker Stromfeld, Charles Arnold Urbanek, Richard G. Walker, Michele Waltke, Lydia Whalen, Catherine Whalen, Mary Jane F. Wolk, Walter Yaros, Lillian Zanghi, Josephine L.

DEGREE OF MASTER OF SOCIAL SERVICE

Torrenzano, Dino Francis

DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NUTRITION

Weinstein, Henriette B.

"'Cum Laude **Magna Cum Laude

"'* *Summa Cum Laude

THE OFFICERS OF THE CLASS OF JANUARY 1959

BRONX DIVISION

STANLEY H. WALTERS, President

ALICE GoLD, Vice-President

CAROLYN M. GOLD, Secretary-Treasurer

JUDITH BECKERMAN, Council Representative

ROSALIB ALICE LIEKERMAN, Council Representative

PARK AVENUE DIVISION

PATRICIA ANN WooDs, President

MAUREEN TERESA MANNING, Vice-President

ARLINE DEDERICK, Secretary-Treasurer

GLENDA AxEL, Council Representative

LORRAINE MARIE w ALSH, Council Representative

THE OFFICERS OF STUDENT SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

BRONX DIVISION

HOWARD s. ZUCKERMAN, President

ANNA ZENTELLA, First Vice-President

STEPHEN KRAVIT, Second Vice-President

MARIA RIVERT, Secretary

MERCEDES CELIA RoJ As, Treasurer

PARK A VENUE DIVISION

BETTY ELLEN GREEN, President

CONSTANCE SOPHIA BENOS, First Vice-President

CLAUDETTE YVONNE DI NAL, Secretary

JOAN MARIE DENNEHY, Treasurer

PRIZES AND AW ARDS THE PI ALPHA TAU AWARD

For good scholarship and outstanding service - to be used for graduate study

MERCEDES CELIA RoJ AS Alternate : GLENDA AxEL

THE ERNST REISS PRIZES

For excellent record in Greek

FRANCES J. Ross

For excellent record in Latin

GERTRUDE HELEN BEST JUDITH BESS CHIDEKEL

ELEANOR ZELMIRA MARZIGLIANO JOAN NELSON STEVENSON

THE SIGMA TAU DELTA SHORT STORY PRIZE

JEANNE NEWKIRK SMITH (awarded in 1955)

THE LITERARY SOCIETY FOUNDATION PRIZE

For the best work in Freshman and Sophomore German major courses

MARGARET MENSING (awarded in 1958) JAMES KENT VAN HOUTEN (awarded in 1958)

THE ANNA WEUSTHOFF MOSHER FUND

For worthy students who have completed nine credits of German major courses

MARY CATHERINE SULLIVAN (awarded in 1958) JAMES KENT VAN HOUTEN (awarded in 1957)

THE FREE SONS OF ISRAEL PRIZE

For excellence in elementary Hebrew

HELEN ANN LANDAU

THE HEBREW CULTURE COUNCIL PRIZE

For excellence in intermediate Hebrew

SHEILA HARRIS

THE FARBAND LABOR ZIONIST AWARD

For excellence in the Hebrew major

LORRAINE MARCIA GUCKER

THE ORCHESTRA SERVICE AWARD

For outstanding service to the Hunter College Orchestra

JoSEPH DELLICARRI

THE PHYSIOLOGY, HEALTH AND HYGIENE DEPARTMENT AWARD

For excellence in Physiology

BARBARA E. DOONAN

THE PHYSIOLOGY CLUB AW ARDS

For service in the Bronx Physiology Club

ANGELO C. NOTIDES

For service In the Park Avenue Physiology Club

MARIA c. GUINOT

THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PRIZE

For excellence in Constitutional Law

PATRICIA J. NOBLES

THE SOCIOLOGY CLUB AW ARD

For outstanding performance in the Sociology Club - to be used for graduate study

ANNIE E. MALONE

THE FRANCES M. I. MOREHOUSE PRIZE

Awarded to the graduating senior member of Alpha Chi Alpha with the most outstanding record in the Social Sciences

SUSAN SCHWARTZ

THE AMELIA OTTINGER MEMORIAL PRIZE

For the best speaker in the Ottinger Prize Speaking Contest

RHODA HELFMAN GOTTLIEB (awarded in 1957)