Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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$7.25 FOR ASPC DUES, $1 for a Sagehen, $1 for a season drama ticket, and, unless she has been forewarned, another $4.50 for a Metate, and Martha Ann begins to wish that she had tried getting a liberal edu- cation via some correspondence school. FURTHER DECIMATION of capital re- sources is effected by a brusque two-minute chat with Miss Amelia Smith, who relieves the exchequers of the Hubbies and 750 other families, of sums ranging skyward from $390 per semester, for board and room. A SADDER BUT WISER GIRL about red p ' tape and registration, Martha discovers that as far as entering college Is concerned there is no getting anywhere without stand- ing In long lines. World-weary, she beats a path to the Coop to consort with a coke.

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THEN YOU MEET HOWARD PATTEE, director of admissions, who is in a very large measure responsible for spreading the name of Pomona from coast to coast, and for seeing that none of its lights are hidden under bushel baskets. In addition to yearly visits to a multitude of U. S. cities, a large part of Pattee ' s job consists in interviewing prospective college candidates — here, Martha Ann Hubble. MARTHA ANN straightens out some irksome complications which have arisen over semester hours or prerequisites or something (as a result of previous conference with her faculty advisor) with Margaret Maple, impresario of the records, sender of D no- tices, best friend of the neophyte job hunter — whose official title is Pomona College Recorder. Now Martha is ready to pay bills. 26

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AND THE DEANS OFF FOR A WELL-EARNED REST, dean of the college William E. NIcholl took his sabbatical second senaester. His duties, at present filled by dean Kenneth Duncan, are general coordinator of college activities, chairman of College Life committee. Probably his most distinguished insignia is the little blue hat donned upon state occasions. WHILE MISS GIBSON took her sabbatical during the first semester, Ellen Bowers, shown here chatting with some information-seekers, held the fort down, was made assistant dean of women. It is her thankless job to de- cide who shall have the use of the new AWS station wagon. DEAN OF WOMEN Jessie Gibson and acting dean of the college Kenneth Duncan had a hand in the awarding of scholarships, buckled down near the end of the year to help decide what students will enter Pomona next fall, write them reams of welcoming and advising letters.