Vassar : A Second Glance 1942 Cartoons / Anne Cleveland & Jean Anderson 1st

Description: Vassar. Cartoons Spoofing Campus Life. By Anne Cleveland & Jean Anderson. 32 pages. Stated 1st edition. Published 1942 by Vassar Cooperative Bookshop, Poughkeepsie, NY. Very good condition. About the authors: Anne Cleveland: With a keen wit and distinctive visual style, Anne Thorburn Cleveland’s cartoons of life at Vassar during the 1930s give vibrant insight into college life in the mid-twentieth century. Cleveland was born May 12, 1916, in Cincinnati, OH, and grew up surrounded by three brothers, including her twin Van. Her father, Stanley Matthews Cleveland, an Episcopal minister, died in 1927 of a blood infection, after which her mother Marian took care of the family on her own. Anne attended private schools in France and Switzerland, finishing her preparatory education at Abbott Academy in Andover, MA. She showed her talent for art early on at Abbott where she served as the literary editor for the school paper, The Courant, and as the chief art editor for her yearbook. She majored in art history, drew cartoons for a variety of campus publications and was appointed editor of her senior yearbook. After graduating, Cleveland stayed on for the 1937–1938 academic year as an assistant in the Art Library, where she met Jean Anderson ’33, another assistant. The pair, who had both drawn single-panel “gag” cartoons for The Miscellany News, began collaborating on a book of cartoons about Vassar students’ daily lives. Published by the Vassar Cooperative Bookstore in 1938, Vassar was tremendously successful, going through several reprints and garnering attention and work for the pair from such magazines as Ladies’ Home Journal, Life and Harper’s Bazaar. Cleveland spent the next year in New York City at the Art Students’ League. Continuing their work together, she and Anderson published two more books about the college. Vassar: An Informal Study (1940) was a breakaway hit, receiving praise in The New York Herald Tribune as a significant sociological work, and Vassar: A Second Glance (1942) was also commercially successful, selling 20,000 copies in four years. The Vassar series led to more projects for Cleveland. She went on to illustrate Henrietta Ripperger’s A Home Of Your Own And How To Ruin It (1940), Priscilla Hovey Wright’s Weeds Are More Fun (1941) and Jack Goodman and Alan Green’s How To Do Practically Anything (1942). When her freelance work began to slow, Cleveland moved to Florida to teach freshman art for the 1942-1943 academic year at Rollins College, where her mother served as dean of women. Cleveland left her teaching position in 1943 to join the Women’s Army Corps, serving until the war’s end in 1945. In WAC, she designed posters and filmstrips and worked briefly as a nurse’s aide. After the war, Cleveland collaborated again with Anderson on Everything Correlates (1946) and, much later, on their final book together, The Educated Woman in Cartoon and Caption (1960). she wrote The Parent from Zero to Ten (1957), inspired by her own young family, and The Life-Savers (1952), a children’s book. She also returned to collaborative work, publishing But I Wouldn’t Want To Live There (1958) with Heather Jimenez and Straw In My Camel’s Hair (1961) with Naida Buckingham and Ingrid Etter. Jean Anderson enjoyed two successful careers, first as a cartoonist who drew upon her experiences at Vassar and later as an obstetrician who was influential in popularizing the Lamaze method in the United States. Born on June 3, 1913, in Morristown, NJ, Anderson attended University High School in Ann Arbor, MI. A Presbyterian minister, her father Merle H. Anderson attended Washington and Jefferson College and McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, and her mother Sallie Jeannette Wilson attended Wilson College in Pennsylvania. Jean’s older brother McDowell Anderson, a Princeton graduate, completed Harvard Medical School in 1931. An English major at Vassar and hoping for a career as a magazine illustrator, Anderson also harbored dreams, she later recalled, of one day becoming, “the great American novelist.” After graduation, she studied painting in New York City at the Art Students’ League from 1934-36, before shifting her focus to library science. Finishing a degree from the Pratt Institute School of Library Science in 1937, she returned to Poughkeepsie in August of that year as an assistant in the Art Library at Vassar. After six years in the Art Library, Anderson decided in 1943 to pursue a career in medical illustration, moving to the University of Illinois at Chicago, which had a renowned graduate program in the field. Her course of study included first-year medical school classes, and Anderson soon found herself more and more interested in medicine itself. Having fulfilled no pre-medical requirements at Vassar, she moved back to New York in 1945 to take an intensive, yearlong program at Barnard to meet the medical school pre-requisites. She described the year as “pure sweat.” At the age of 33, Anderson applied to and was accepted into Columbia University Medical School. Half of her tuition came from money she had earned from the Vassar books. After finishing medical school at Columbia in 1949, Anderson interned at Grasslands Hospital in Valhalla, NY, where she witnessed the peak of the first polio epidemic. She then moved back to New York City, selecting obstetrics and gynecology as her specialties. She completed her residencies at French and Bellevue Hospitals from 1950 to 1954. In 1954, Anderson entered into private practice in partnership with Dr. Heinz Luschinsky. The partners, Anderson claimed, “started the Lamaze movement in NYC.” Inspired by the teachings and practices of French physician Dr. Fernand Lamaze, the Lamaze approach to birth promoted, among other things, instilling women with confidence in their understanding and ability to give birth successfully, having fathers in the delivery room, giving babies to their mothers immediately after birth and generally treating birth as a normal life event, rather than as a surgical procedure.Jean Anderson did not publish any further work in her lifetime, but her life and careers as both cartoonist and doctor have had a lasting impact, both on present-day readers who still enjoy and relate to the understated humor of her Vassar cartoons and on the thousands of people who she helped usher into the world

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