Geneva College - Genevan Yearbook (Beaver Falls, PA)

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Back Row: MCMILLAN, GRAHAM, EWVING, GR1l TITHS Front Row: CAUGHEY, PROP. PARK, ATCHISON COPLEY Until the present the Student Senate has consisted of a man and woman representative of each of the three up- per classes, a president, and a secretary. The powers and duties of the Senate have been the administration of Freshman regulations, the settling of class disputes, the supervision of all social affairs sponsored by the student body as a distinct organization and of such matters as gifts of flowers and expressions of sympathy, nomina- tion of the president and secretary of the Senate, and the election of the editor and the business manager of the Cabinet. As a result of action taken by the organiza- tion, the committee on dormitory regulations, in coopera- tion with the council of McKee Hall, revised the rules so that the overnight privileges have been increased. Two extra overnight privileges are allowed those girls whose homes are more than one hundred miles away. Each girl is granted one eleven-thirty permit a week instead of three a semester. The time for girls to return to the dormitory on week-nights has been extended according to the class seating of the student.

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STUDENT SENATE ' This year the Student Sen- l ate has been continuing the work of the Senate of the previous year in revising its constitution, which is the bas- is for student government. Among the changes made are the admission to the Senate of representatives of the Freshman class-one man and one woman to be elected by the class at the middle of the first semester. Under the new constitution it will be re- quired of every organization to place in McCartney Lib- rary a copy of its constitu- tion. This will be the official copy, and no changes will be etlective unless recorded on it. Any new organization formed will be required to lmxxm1Romuoxin President apply to the faculty for its authorization and to present a copy of its constitution to the Student Senate. Because of the opinion of many members both of the faculty and of the student body that Freshman regulations have de- feated their own purposes by causing class enmity in- stead of aiding in the orientation of the Freshman Class. Freshman regulations have been omitted from the new constitution. A clause has been introduced stating that Freshmen will be expected to uphold Freshmen tradi- tionsg namely, the care of the G and the use of the south entrance of Old Main. Another clause calls for uniform bookkeeping by the student organizations under the direction of the Senate in cooperation with the head of the department of business administration. The Sen- ate may call for an auditing of the books of any organ- ization at any time, and the books of all will be audited every year. The records of the activities of each organ- ization shall be presented to the Senate. A summary of all these activities, as well as one of the work of the Senate itself, will be made and will be turned over by the president of the college to the board of trustees.

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SENIORS - - - 1933-3-1 OFFICERS LESTER KILPATRICK. CLIFFORD J. AULTMAN. .V. XV. GRACE ABBOTT ........ ELIZABETH INGRAM. . 1932-33 OFFICERS ARTHUR lVl!lBSTlflR ....... . . LESTER KILPATRICK . . Vice MARGARET CAUGIIEY . GRACE ROBB ......... Tre:ts111'01' 1031-32 O1 1 ICI'IRS ARTHUR YVEBSTICR ........ . JOHN L. BLAIR ........ Vice MARY A. CAUSER .......... HENRIETTA E VANS . . 1930-31 OFFICIGRS CHARLES T. BROWN. ...... . ARTHUR G. MITCHELL. . . Y MARY A. CAUSER .... JOAN MCCORMICK. . . I'rcsido11t Pvosi den I' TPGRISII l'0l' Sec1'eta1'y President President Secretary President President T1'e:1s1u'c-1' See1'el:u'y I,1'QNlflClll I'residout 'l1l'l?2l.NllI'01' Seeret:11'y N September 9 and 10, 1930, one hundred fifteen bewildered boys and eighty-eight nonplussed girls straggled in groups of two, three, or more from the auditorium to class- rooms, from classrooms to the campus, from the campus to the G , from the G to near- campus confectionery stores, where some of the boys, bolder and braver than their partners in mis- ery, bought ice cream cones for giggling girls. Dur- ing these Orientation sessions the girls were given their arm-bands and the boys their gold dinks. Both groups were given orders as to where to buy the clothes which heartless Sophomores had decreed that they should wear. You see, this was 'way back when-and Geneva permitted some hazing, pad- dling, and not a few other Freshman regulations. Everything was designed to make the Frosh feel as miserable as possible. But if during the two Orientation Days the group were miserable, they were abject on their third day here. For that day was Registration Day. For hours some of them struggled with schedule-sheets, blue cards, and blank checks. Per- haps some kind members of the faculty helped them 0 outg at least, on the next day all of the children showed up for classes. Now they discovered that there was a faint possibility of the faculty members' not being entirely truthful in the speeches which they had made the few preceding days, when they had said that the Frosh were welcome, that all must cooperate, that the work was not hard. Ah, pity the poor Freshmen! For four long years they were to be disillusioned like this. However, they soon learned to like the work, because- On September 17, 1931, one hundred seventy-four of them returned to the campus and registered at the new McCartney Library, donated by the Misses Deal of Philadelphia and dedicated to Dr. Clarence Edward Macartney of Pitts-- burgh, a Geneva alumnus. Ground for this beautiful building-of English Collegiate Gothic architecture-had been broken june 3, 1930. On January 7, 1931, the cornerstone had been laid. By the time school ended in June, 1931, most of the exterior had been completed. During the summer months the library had been completed. Now these students had a place in which to sleep during cut classes, to have afternoon dates, and occasionally to study. 122 IIB