Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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Mrs. Myers A woman who for many years has been a symbol of achievement at Tennessee Wesley an College is Mrs. Claryse D. Myers. Her accomplish- ments have been applauded on previous occasions; we would like to rec- ognize them again. Mrs. Myers was born in Dawson, Texas. She remained in Texas to earn her baccalaureate degree at Texas State College for Women. She moved to Tennessee, where she was awarded her master ' s degree by George Pea- body College in Nashville. After teaching English at Chicago Training School, she came to Tennessee Wesleyan as an instructor in English, and with the exception of one year, has been associated with the college since 1934. Since Mrs. Myers became head librarian of Merner-Pfeiffer Library in 1951 , the library has become a place of increasingly intense intellectual excitement. Ten years ago it housed classrooms as well as book rooms; moreover, its periodicals collection was crowded into spaces among refer- ence works in the North Reading Room. Today the classrooms are gone; the library is completely a library— where, since the summer of 1962, there has been a room devoted exclusively to periodicals. The librarian who has guided these changes is a teacher and adminis- trator totally dedicated to her work. She has constantly looked for ways and means to make the library operate more efficiently. These have ranged from such small, but very necessary, things as insisting that all cards be kept precisely in order and that each of the countless book lists from publishers be thoroughly checked, to such unselfish efforts as visit- ing many other libraries during her vacations to seek neiu methods for improving the library of Tennessee Wesleyan. Her influence has ex- tended beyond the library to the enthusiastic promotion of everything which would sharpen the rational and cultural perception of students. However, Mrs. Myers ' greatest contribution to the improvement of the library has been her constant attitude of courage when solving the prob- lems which arise in a growing college. She has patiently directed her assist- ants in the difficult task of improving the library to its present serviceability. And so, in appreciation of her years of service to Merner-Pfeiffer Library; her untiring interest in the students of this college; her devotion to that which Tennessee Wesleyan has been; her work for that which it is; and her dreams of that which it can become; we, the senior class of 1965, dedicate this NOCATULA TO Mrs. Claryse D. Myers

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The 1965 NOCATULA recognizes Mrs. Claryse D. Myers

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MERNER PFEIFFER LIBRARY