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Bard in Black and White 150th Anniversary

Women Arrive

 
WWII took an enormous toll on Bard, with most of its students enlisting or being drafted into service (in 1943, only five students graduated). Admitting women helped the College remain open, but required that it sever its ties with Columbia University, the charter of which would not allow women to be admitted. In the fall of 1944, Bard admitted its first class including women.
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  • Painting class, 1948.

    Painting class, 1948.

    Former College historian Annys Baxter Wilson ’48 identified three students on the back of the photograph: Ellen Adler ’48, Ruth Schultz ’48, and Beverly Pruzan ’48.

  • Saul Yalkert, professor of industrial design, with three unidentified students, ca. 1948.

    Saul Yalkert, professor of industrial design, with three unidentified students, ca. 1948.

    Saul Yalkert, professor of industrial design, with three unidentified students.

  • Elaine Hollander ’48 and children, 1948. by Elie Shneour

    Elaine Hollander ’48 and children, 1948.

    Hollander stands in front of Warden’s Hall with four young children, all part of a “recreation group” she organized and ran as an experimental child study for her senior project. Hollander identifies the smallest girl as the daughter of Professor Artine Artinian. In her senior project, "The Problem of Leadership in a Specific Recreation Group over a Two Year Period" Elaine Hollander describes outing around campus with her charges, including dancing lessons and pumpkin carving in the recreation room, scavenger hunts, chocolate sodas and ice cream cones at the school store, and games such as "Red Light Green Light" and "Statue."

  • Two female fencers pose in the Memorial Gymnasium, late 1940s.

    Two female fencers pose in the Memorial Gymnasium, late 1940s.

    The woman on the left is identified as Irene Zimmerman ’48.

  • Two women identified as Dorothy Lasker ’48 and Margery (Jerry) Rosenblum ’48 practice archery on campus, late 1940s.

    Two women identified as Dorothy Lasker ’48 and Margery (Jerry) Rosenblum ’48 practice archery on campus, late 1940s.

    Dorothy Lasker ’48 and Margery (Jerry) Rosenblum ’48 practice archery on campus.

 
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