West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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Mrs. Ada W. Bedell felt the touch of the subtle brush of Change near the end of the first semester of the 1947-48 schoolyear; she resigned as the College Avenue House Head of Residence. Mrs. Maude Mick heeded the beckoning finger of Change and accepted the position. Another of the many new faces Change introduced at the beginning of the year was Jean Ann McFadden who took on the task of planning menus in the College dining rooms. Madge Martin greeted Change happily as she surveyed the health office and infirmary the Time-Artist opened for her use in the new Student Center building. Change, who moves ever to the fore and pauses not a second to glance back over his shoulder, tarried not at oil as the 1947-48 schoolyear drew to a close. Our final glimpse of the itinerant artist of the time-river turned our faces, like his, to the future. Change, with a smile of anticipation, was selecting a new brush — a fine brood one — for the busy 1948- 49 schoolyear he saw drifting down the eternal river. MARGARET GUSSLER Head of Residence Housrng Unit I MAUDE MICK Head of Residence College Avenue Hous CAROLA B. REGESTER Assistant Head of Residence Agnes Howord Hall MARGARET DRUMMOND JEAN McFADDEN MADGE MARTIN Housekeeper Dietitian Nurse Agnes Howard Hall 4e Sta REGINA KENNY Assistant to the Treasurer WILLA LOUISE WETHERED Secretary to the Alumni Secretar ' HELEN STOCKERT Assistant Librarian HARRIET WHETSELL Secretary to the President MARY SHAW STRUGNELL Secretary to the Dean CATHERINE ANN TRAVIS Secr etary to the Registrar WINNIE HATHAWAY Assistant Librarian BEATRICE HICKMAN MARY ANN LAW Stenographer in Business Office Stenographer in Office of the Dean MILDRED BARCKLEY Veteran ' s Coordinator Fage Twenty-three

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CHARLES W. FORLINES ROLAND PRESTON RICE JOHN DAVID SHAVER Associote Professor of Music Biblical Literature, Religious Education Associate Professor of Speech 7 e acci(t(f Change was doubly active too among the ranks of the Assistant Professors and the In- structors. Three resignations were noted, those of Assistant Professor of Speech, Ronald E Sleeth, and two Instructors, Francis B. St. Clcir, Business Administration, and John Scott Withers, Physics and Mathematics. Two addi- tions in the Assistant Professorial rank were Sidney D. Davis and John C. Godwin. Other effects produced by the activity of restless Change were the promotions of Miss Knepshield and Miss Moore to Associate and Assistant Professorships respectively. Miss Wilson, on her appointment as full-time Director of Student Activities, relinquished her Assistant Professorship in Religious Education. LEONARD DeGARMO NICHOLS WILLIAM FRANCIS POLLARD, JR. CHARLOTTE B. KNEPSHIELD Associate Professor of Economics Associate Professor of Music Associate Professor of Physical Ed NELLIE G. WILSON Dir of Student Activities Easing up somewhat on his worn brush. Change noted the passage of the office staff of the College in the sw ift stream of Time. He moved Billie Lou Whet- hered with her shiny, new Wes- leyan B.A. into Mr. Foster ' s Alumni Office where she took over the post of the Secretary ' s secre- tary. Mary Ann Law left off her role of student and was added to the staff in the Dean ' s Office. Another student addition to the staff in the Dean ' s Office, but on a part-time basis, was Mildred Barckley who handles Public Law 346 veteran ' s records. Dr. Hupp ' s secretary, Nito Ham- ilton, and Mr. Baker ' s secretary, Audrey W. Riffe, were appointed too late in the schoolyear to have their pictures included in these pages. SIDNEY THOMAS DAVIS Ass ' t Prof, of Rural Church V ork JOHN COCHRAN GODWIN Assistant Professor of Physics MARY VIRGINIA MOORE Ass ' t Prof, of Business Admin RICHARD H. RALSTON Instructor in English Pnriv Twenly-twn

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Mining into its swift, dark tides the silent, precious seconds of yet another year of our lives, the immortal river has swept us all still further along the downstream course of our great journey. Carrying us from our green-hued freshman days through the cynic sophomore year and the sudden seriousness of junior status to our wisdom-wizened senior pedestal, the impassive movement of stolid Time has loosed Change upon us all. Just as the campus buildings hove weathered a barely perceptible deeper shade and the campus trees hove added on unnoticed ring to their girth, so have we all stood silent this year while Change wrought the subtle effects of his skillful brush upon us. Bobbing quietly in the great mouth of the immortal river in the moment left before it is finally swept irrevocably out into the lost sea of Time beyond, the Class of 1948 sees with the startling clarity of sudden insight the whole of Time ' s carefully calculated schedule. For a second the brood canvas of life stands spread wide before the Class, and they see Change impatiently beckoning them on to the tasks he has set for them in the year immediately ahead. More, they see that as the Class of 1944 had to move on to moke room for them so they must now make room for the yet unshoped Class of 1952 forming on the uppermost reaches of the pulsing time-river.