Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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OCTOBER. 1940 FRESHMEN ON THE STAFF Hesitating to rove an analytical eye over the six newest members of the college staff, BethaniiUi this early in the year contents itself with thumbnail sketches of the freshmen On the faculty. Cassius W. Gould, instructor in music, has the degree of B. Mus. from Oberlin College, 193 3, and M. sylvania, for a M.B.A. earlier this year. Worked in New York City brokerage office and in accountan- cy at Cooper-Bessemer Corporation in Grove City. In college he was on interfraternity coucil, sang with glee club. % MISS MARY C- i ' i.i;i MR. CASSIUS i ' . GOULD A. from Oberlin in 1934. He also attended Northwestern University. Mr. Gould formerly taught at Con- necticut State College and Millers- burg Military Academy. He shares conducti ng the Green and White Band with Dean Weimer, teaches theory, piano, and organ, and is planning to mold new instrumental groups. Edward R. Bowden, instructor in business administration, was gradu- ated from Grove City College in 1937 with B. S. degree. Thence to noted Wharton Graduate School of Finance at the University of Penn- Miss Mary C. Van Pelt, R.N., college nurse and supervisor of the infirmary, graduated from Norton Memorial Infirman ' , Louisville, Ky. Then, like Nightingale, off to the East, where she was supervisor of a hospital in Kuwait, Arabia, from 1920 until 1940. James W. Alexander, instructor in English, graduated from Univers- ity of Georgia in 1934 with A.B. The next year he took his M.A. there. Later in Europe, he studied in .MR. EDWARD R. BOWDEN DR. JAMES W. ALEXANDER Perugia and Padua in Italy, in Grenoble in France, these on an ex- change fellowship. Back in America, he completed work at University of DK- JOHX W. R11. . KD Virginia, won Ph. D. there. He is an excellent pianist, knows Latin and Greek, having once taught the latter at Georgia. John W. Reynard, instructor in chemistry, graduated from Musk- ingum College in 193 5 with A.B. Then to Ohio State University, where he took M.A. in 193 8, Ph. D. in 1940. Because he was a good stu- dent and circulation manager of the college newspaper, was inducted in- to an honorary journalism fraterni- ty, is still looking for someone who belongs to it. MR. WILLIAM H. SPRAGEXS William H. Spr.igens, instructor in mathematics, graduated from University of Kentucky with A.B. in 1935. ' In 1938 took his M.S. there. His wife graduated from the Universitv of Illinois, where he has completed residence work for his Ph. D. Second semester, when Dr. Allen takes his sabbatic leave, Mr. Sprag- ens will also teach physics. PAGE NINE

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OCTOBER. 1940 ' Ii th am 15 X tintatUu THE DEAN LOOKS AHEAD DtAN F. H. KIRKPATRICK Hliniaiiitiii must not he siihiiicrf,cil h scitnct- Before deserting Bethan y for . sabb.itlcal leave that has been ham- strung by the war in Europe, Dean F. H. Kirkpatrick planked down before students the results of much thinking about the nation ' s defense plans and their probable effect on Bethany College. Dean Kirkpatrick, whose long laid plans to study Industrial psy- chology at the University of Lon- don have been stymied, spoke with good authority. Along with half a hundred prominent educators he was called to Washington this sum- mer to help coordinate education with the national defense program. Briefly, the Dean ' s conclusion ' s were: 1. Intercollegiate athletics should be curtailed or abolished and an extension of the physical education program to all students should be made Immediately. 2. Curriculum should be stud- ied, with a view toward introduc- ing new courses (perhaps one called Pre-Mllitary ), and eli- minating some non-essential courses. But, warned Dean Kirkpatrick, the humanities must not be submerged by sci- ences and social studies. He also PAGE EIGHT recommended more courses in in- ternational relations, foreign lan- guages, and problems of democ- racy. 3. Colleges must educate the emotions and emphasize mental hygiene. 4. In preparation for the severe financial adjustments that always follow a war, Bethany must plan for careful business management. Here Dean Kirkpatrick recom- mended sale of non-producing capital investments, reduction of Bethany ' s Indebtedness and ad- mmistratlve costs, and vigorous campaign for new endowment. 5. Students must fight to pre- vent their patriotism from being molded into standardized forms dictated by pressure groups. 6. American youth, accustomed to discuss, to Investigate, to de- bate, to question, and to have plenty of margin for self-expres- sion and personal expression, will find these mental habits being up- set by the discipline and obedi- ence demanded In mllltar - train- ing. 7. Colleges must help students examine criticall) ' and objectively the background, issues, and social psychology related to the war. Students must be made to realize that the war is only a symtom of a profound cultural change. 8. Bethany must demonstrate, by precept and example, that de- mocracy can still satisfy the basic, living demands of people living In the twentieth centurv. ONLY ONE SENIOR FELLOW THIS YEAR Only senior fellow appointed this year is Miss Mlmi Strain, in the En- glish department. Ordinarily several seniors are awarded fellowships, by the committee on honors, after de- partment heads have nominated the student. iMiml (actually Myfanwy) has compiled an enviable academic re- cord since she graduated from FoU- ansbee, W. Va., high school in 1937. She spent her first college year at Bethany, but transferred to Riverside Junior College, Riverside, Cal., for her sophomore year. On the coast she was graduated with honors. Back to Bethany for her junior year, Mimi was named out- standing junior woman by the Pittsburgh-Bethany Alumnae club. Now comes the fellowship. BUT MANY ASSISTANTS Because professors get tired of correcting papers, and answering the same questions over and over again, colleges have long plucked the most alert students out of the classrooms, given them the title of assistants , and put them to work in their maj- or field as aides to the professors. No exception to this practice is Bethany, where more than two score of the better students are this year boosting their academic prestige and income by doing routine work in the departments of instruction. Largest group of assistants are in chemistry, where Professor Dawson and Mr. Reynard need much help in the large laboratories. Assistants for this year are Edward Harris; Roy Hoffman, James Huntsberger, Peter Johnson, Frank Long, Irvan Roche, Jack Ryan, Hilda Sarver, Harold Siegelbaum, Jack Slmeral and Ray Sheline. Second largest group slated to be listed as assistants in the college cat- alog next spring are librarians Sue Beth Archer, Jean Berggren, Mar- garet Ehlnger, Betty Mclntyre, Rosemary Roberts, Betty Schuller, Mary Jean Weir, and Elizabeth White. Current blohigy department assis- tants are Joseph Callgulri, Irving Glassman, Esther Mackey, Martin Reiter, and Dorothy Reynolds. Limbering student muscles in ph)slcal education are Janice Evans, Margaret Hallock, Betty Narrigan, and Ray Thompson. Two departments, admissions and personnel and English, have three assistants each. In the first are George Albee, Gladys Armor, and Louise Gettys. In the latter are William Rutter, Robert Showman, and Norris Whltock. Young experts in motion and en- ergy studies are William Callendlne and Robert Fritz, of the physics de- partment. In history are Edward (Continued on Page 17)

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OCTOBER. 1940 tkletic Ttonti HARRIERS CROSSED UP Although the Bison harriers suf- fered their first defeat in three years against Westminister, a touch of humor flavored the upset. More than one factor interferrcd with the cross-country runners. The New Wilmington course is only two-thirds the length of the Bethany course, making the race a relative middle distance run for the Green and Whites. After striking out into the woods the Bisons lost the trail. Boy Scouts who were stationed along the trail gave garbled directions, sending the Bisons struggling over barbed wire and rail fences. The Bison squad held second and fourth places among the first five at the finish line, with Morgan and McCord at the pav wmdows. Ed- wards, of Westminster, led the field. Coach Boettcher explained the blot on cross country ' s escutcheon by saying, If we had been pressing Edwards as closely as we should have been, we wouldn ' t have lost the trail. BEES IN PLASTIC BONNETS Plastic football helmets, like the ones that were tried out by Univer- sity of Minnesota and Northwest- ern University, are unsatisfactory because they make too much noise when players crack heads at each other, says Coach John Knight. Coach Knight should know, for as early as last spring he examined the lightweight, translucent head- gear. He even considered equipping the Bisons with the Flash Gordon headgear. But when plavers com- plain that sound echoed in the hel- mets like shouting in a barrel. Coach turned thumbs down. NEW FIELDS TO CONQUER Bethany is beginning to make use of the 1000 acres of land mentioned so prominently in catalogs and bul- letins. Of major importance among the new recreational facilities is a five mile cross country and bridle trail which opens up several hundred acres of woodland adjacent to the new Rine Athletic Fields. Starting on Rine Field, the trail rapidlv PAGE TEN drops off the east, down to the banks of Buffalo Creek. Here it turns south, following the creek through beautiful woodland. After following the winding creek for a mile, the trail, which is ten feet wide at the narrowest place, turns west. Several hundred yards later it turns abruptly north to climb a hill directly south of Rine Field. A person walking or riding the ridge of this hill for three quarters of a mile can see the sur- rounding country for miles. From the ridge the trail drops gradually away to the southeast, following the slope along thick woods which it skirts for a mile. Back again in the valley of the Buffalo the trail turns west, swings easily to the south, then east, and finally north in a wide circle that ends again on Rine Field. Important addition to the equip- ment of a college that stresses indi- vidual recreation is the new auxili- ary game field being completed ad- jacent to the gymnasium. Special, hard surface on the new field will bring outdoors such sports as hand- ball, volle ball, captain ball, and other related games, heretofore only playable in Irvin Gymnasium. Eventually the field will contain a smooth roller-skating rink that can be flooded and frozen for ice skating in the winter. Plans call for the equipping of all of this area with electric lights, so that the entire area can be used for night recrea- tion. ARCHERY LEADS TO W.A.A. Most popular of sports with freshmen coeds headed for member- ship in Women ' s Athletic Associa- tion is archery. Arrows fly almost daily toward targets tripoded behind Oglebay Hall, as the girls count up points, trying to amass 100 points re- quired for entrance into W.A.A., then 1000 points required to win a letter. While regular class activity does not count toward point totals, girls have plenty of opportunity, because points are given in tennis, swim- ming, ping-pong, aerial dartst bad- minton, cycling, hiking, skatmg. If as much interest is shown in other sports as in archery, President Janice Evans would have little rea- son to doubt that this year will be W.A.A. ' s best. Ettch hull ' i eyr counts ouarti vn ' mhvnlnjt in W ' l- fur Jennie Umbel, Evelyn Baxter, Shirley Wcalhcruax, lean Goe, and Etelyu Van Strien-