Chaffey College - Argus Yearbook (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)

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Administrators Dean Pearl E. Clark found the women eager for information con- cerning their place in the war effort and counseled them throughout the year. She served also as adviser for the Associated Women Students and the Young Women ' s Christian association. With Dean Hall she took over some of Mr. Flum ' s classes in mathematics. Dr. Clark was awarded her doctor ' s degree at the University of Southern California this spring although she completed the work during the summer. She was congratulated by members cf the college faculty at a tea in her honor. Dean Walter A. Hall had a busy year as he served as liaison officer for the college reserves of the armed forces on the campus, and acted as adviser for all men who wished in- formation about the different branches of the service. When Mr. Flum left he taught his engineering classes and became adviser for the tennis sguad and Engineers club. (above) Dr. Pearl E. Clark, dean of women, holds an informal conference in her office, (below) Dean Walter A. Hall makes contacts for the men who are determining their military status.

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College above — Assistant Director Leo A. V adsworth conferring with Director Charles J. Booth, (below) Director Booth talking over the day ' s public spea king assignment with W. W. Ma- ther. Both taught classes in public speaking as an emerg- ency measure, (below) Registrar Janiece Bailey advises a student who is arranging her classes. Director Charles J. Booth com- pleted another year of successful counseling students and organizing the college curriculum to meet needs of the war. He worked constantly with the faculty to make the classes offered fit immediate situations for the students; classes were accelerat- ed, additional offerings in mathema- tics and science placed in the cur- riculum, and new organization of old classes made. An illustration of the latter was the stream- lining of the men ' s physi- cal fitness program. Assistant Director Leo A. Wadisworth aided in the immediate counseling of students programs and helped with administra- tive details. Mr. Wads- worth worked with many faculty committees opf specific y-y

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National Defense classes and those closely connected with the warm emergency occupied Dr. R. E. Berry, director of adult education, and his staff this year. Hundreds of men and women enrolled for special day and evening work on the home campus and at the Chaffey airdrome. The program included the federal groups of Off-Reservation-In-Service Training Classes, in machine shop, parachute packing, leather work, aircraft engines, airplane construction. Adult national defense classes, training for work in the aircraft fac- tories, operated around the clock through the winter months in the machine shops. Classes which were definitely related to the war effort were the only ones offered in the regular evening school. These included PBX; business classes in typewriting, bookkeeping, ofiice machines, shorthand; Spanish; orange and lemon packing, sewing, woodshop, mechanical drawing. A series of lectures and demonstrations in agriculture, teaching new gardeners how to raise vegetables, chickens, and rab- bits were followed by a series of demonstrations by members of the home economic department on methods of food preservation — hot water bath canning, pressure cooker canning, and dehydration. Red C ross home nursing classes continued throughout the year. In May classes in English and agriculture were developed with a bi-lingual faculty for the group of Mexican Nationals brought into the district to help with the citrus harvest.