Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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some eighty of them in all — are with us, and it is we who are fortunate. Our group oi teachers and leaders is peculiarly fitted to Wake Forest because they are Wake Forest to a large degree. It ' s not the librarj that we think of; it is the librarian and her assistants. Likewise, il isn ' t the English Department that finds its way into our thoughts, hut Dr. Jones and his group of associates. What they — and the formative influences and personalities who preceded them of the present — have thought and done in the past has come to he a synonym for Wake Forest, a synonym with a ll -and sub-divisions. What they have accomplished has drawn lens of thousands ol students I M ■ 1 M in the | a [ and over a thou- sand at the present. The same power and influence ol the past and present bids fair to continue its pro- gressive pace into the in- definite realms ol an often- referred-to I uture. Professor Donald Pfoh chats with Monogra Owen, technician, Medical sludent. Boyd i,l Mrs. Kitchin of decorations ; Baf.iu.-I. Professors of .. pipe flock to gether. Dr. Black lights up; I)r F..lk forges full steam ahead. The faculty is comprised of men who are engaged in work in the three chief schools: The School of Law, of Medicine, and the School of Liberal Arts. But these educators are divided up into even more specific departments. Some call their specialty English, others History, others French. Yet, beside being an authority almost to perfection in his department, each has his own versatile traits. And each is one to whom we look with pride as being a part of our institution.

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the} watch us. The forma- tive influences ol our more youthful college e a r - (•nine I rom the .-inn total ol i in impressions ol them, or I Him men w hose character- istics have been shaped li their hands. They laugh with us. and at us. We laugh with them and at them. The lliing- that are funny to ns arc sometimes funny to them. And some of the things that are serious In us are funny (or pathetic) to them. There £ ft« the formal o t lies the line ( demarcation: l ' a-i-lial and Professor Ciiflni him to The founder I the Lav Scl I. I c N. Y. Gulley, [eaves the church after wit- nessing the inauguration of anothei year ' s work. they have a license in tell us we are wrong, and we turn the wrong to right or cease to he members of their usually-large families. It is indeed hard to comprehend. For in- stance, the same lone calls our name at the opening ol the first class period as a fresh- man as the voice that calls out our name across the quiet ol a commencement plat- form. Next year there will be others to begin their parade in what has come to be a perpetual trek across an academic stage. The faculty members — and there are Dr. Cull., he returm and worki

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the fr Professor ( arroll goes over a over his pa t. Even ( harles Was ' course didn ' l keep Jim Bonds awaj from the infirmarj ; Mackie presides. Founders ' Day broughl celebrities. Gubernatorial Candidate I M. Brougl i was among them. (yuR Friends THE FACULTY (j RAl E BOOKS l blue, bul sometimes lilack or brown. All (il them are filled with line-divided pages and open spar.-s for names, dates, and confidential remarks. What a proloMir thinks of yon, the student, as a student is recorded by adding the striti ol self-confided remarks and setting down a figure on the extreme right-hand margin. What he lliink- ol you otherwise doesn ' t matter so much hack home. It was a beautiful day in Raleigh. Tin the Sir Walter. a banquet at Nevertheless it must be said that students and professors do think of each other. Wake Forest is no exception to the rule, and here the freshman, sophomore, junior, and even the senior, learns sooner or later that his best friends will include the faculty members. In the majority of cases his interest in you is deeper ami more constructive than many of your more intimate allies in other form-, of activity. n;