Berea College - Chimes Yearbook (Berea, KY)

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DEAN T. A. HENDRICKS With the increase in enrollment of the College there arises a need for organized per- sonal contact. For this purpose the office of the Dean exists. At first the primary function of the Dean was to enter into the lives of the students and to dispense moral and intellectual advice. Later it became necessary to enforce the rules and regulations pre- scribed by the Administration and Faculty, therefore considering the Dean as the disciplinarian. Perhaps the greatest responsibility of the Dean at present is to reduce, or keep at a minimum the number of college failures, especially among freshmen and sophomores. With this also goes the responsibility of assigning men to dormitories, regard to health, control of social and moral environment in cooperation with the Dean of Women, and most of all he must assist in the solution of the problems peculiar to the individual student. In his many relations with the men of the campus it is always the intent of the Dean to give human rather than an official contact. No two problems are exactly alike, and ii they were the diversity of human nature would not permit the solution of one to be applicable to the other. Hence, the office of the Dean is a clinic where the peculiar problems of the students are sympathetically considered. Some collegiate campus phi- losopher has been led to say humorously that when a man has learned less and less about more and more until at last he knows nothing about everything he may become Dean of Men. 1932 ?age Fifteen

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PRESIDENT WILLIAM I. IIUTCHINS 1932

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DEAN MARY E. WELSH Miss Welsh came to Berea i n 1902 and began her work as teacher of Greek, Latin, English Grammar and Bible. She counts it her greatest contribution to Berea that through the long years of poverty and struggle, she was able to help build a college in the making. Those who know her as a teacher of Art, testify that she inspired them with a love for the classics and a sense of beauty for the original. Miss Welsh became Dean of College Women in 1918, serving in that capacity until her retirement this year. It has been her great joy to see the college she loved and served for thirty years grow into an institution of great influence. Many girls who know her and admire her as Dean, have come away from an interview, conscious of having found a real Friend. They have had glimpses into the soul of a strong woman — all made for finer living. May memories of happy relations with faculty and students go with her to her Boothbay home. She can say with President Elliot, writing to a friend in his ripened years: Yet in our autumn- boughs unflown with spring The evening thrushes sing. Page Sixteen 1932