Beaver College - Beaver Log Yearbook (Glenside, PA)

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IHA DEAN OE THE COLLEGE RUTH LOVING HIGGINS DEAN OF STUDENTS RUTH M. HOWELLS ZURBUCHEN

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the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary for three years, after which he was ordained. ln l928, Westminster College granted him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in l937 Beaver bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. We students of Beaver have not found it difficult to accept Dr. Kistler as president. He accepted us, and we have had to do very little to respond. To speak figuratively, Dr. Kistler sat himself down in our midst and became one of us. At Song Contest, he marched at the head of the Freshman Class and threw away his green cap with the rest of the new studentsg Wednesday afternoons he emerges from the sanctum sanctorum of his office and has a cup of tea with usp practically every day he descends to the Chatterbox for the refreshment of a chocolate coke He and Mrs. Kistler have extended the hospitality of their home to us. Very early in the year they held a reception in their home. We were welcomed as members of the familyg we were made to feel at home. Cn that evening the Kistlers became the un- contested heads of the Beaver family. This family feeling has come to be part of Beaver in the past year, fostered by the warm and gracious personality of the president and by his understanding of all of us. He has listened patiently to our problems, our questions. He gives us a chance to express our ideas, and after having heard us, he gives wise judgment and careful counsel. Almost a full college year has passed since Beaver settled down under the guidance of this new presi- dent. ln this year we have cast off the feeling of constraint which comes with any new regime, we have forgotten the attitude of caution with which we watched the president during his first few weeks. We no longer refer to Dr. Kistler as the new presi- dent g he is now our president, and we know it with the comfortable feeling of an established friend- ship founded on understanding, assurance, and faith. To us individually and to the college as a whole, Dr. Kistler has brought many good things. His first year with us indicates that Beaver has entered a new and brighter era under his vibrant leadership.

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