College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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A Day With the Deans The Deans' Office. . .The Dean of Men? I-Iello. . .Yes, that card came from this office. I want to see James about his cuts. Has he been ill? No? He's been afraid to come? He'd better anyway. Yes, he's worked hard, but sixty-seven cuts mean a loss of credit...Well, he should have knowng it's in the Handbook. The Deans' Office . . . Long distance for the Dean of Women? It's very nice to have you so appreciative. . .We send those letters to the parents of all students who have grades below C. Home encouragement means so much. . . No, I wouldn't take her out of college . . . Yes, D is considered an unsatisfactory grade, but a student can graduate if three-fourths of his work is C. . . That's right, one-fourth may be D, thirty- one hours. . .Thank you for calling. The Deans' Office . . . Not at all . . . We always welcome constructive criticism. RACHEL MACKENZIE, Dean of Women RUTH LAMBORN '42 l. The Deans' Office. ..The Dean of the College? Yes, I have charge of chapel programs. . .I'm sorry, we'd like to, but it's against college policy to have political candidates appear on the chapel platform . . .No, I'm sorry, we don't lend our band. . . No, nor the uniforms. The busiest place about the college now- but for thirty years we got along without a dean. Then the process of evolution be- gan: first one dean, next two, and now for twenty years we have had three. Deans are the administrators of college rules, the President's first line of defense, buffers between students and faculty. Counsellors, storm troops in time of stress, and general custodians of the academic, social, and re- ligious traditions of Wooster. The coat- of-arms of the office-a shock absorber up- held by three caryatid deans, not recum- bent. BOB LOWERY '41 J oHN BRUERE, Dean of Men

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5 ts ? Lv- 1 .55 .W President CHARLES F. WISHART Twenty-one Years With Wishart About the time most of the present seniors were learning to toddle, Prexy Wishart came to Wooster. As the toddlers grew, so Wooster grew. In 1919 there was a plant of fourteen modern buildings, to-day there are twenty-five, some new, others aging, but all part of the Wooster scene. In those twenty-one years at least 31,075,000 have been invested in buildings and land for the college. In 1928-29, while alumni could still show their love for alma mater in a monetary way, the resources of the college were increased about a million dollars, mostly for endowment. Douglass Hall sprang up for men, and later, to be impartial, Babcock Hall for women. So Wooster has grown physically and financially. Under Prexy the college has also added a cubit to its scholastic stature. The faculty has doubled, the endowment WILLIAM R. WESTHAFER, Dean of the College has doubled, but so has the student body. Accordingly, Wooster's needs have doubled. Recently Prexy jolted his board of trus- tees by saying that Wooster must have one million dollars to mark time, and two mil- lion dollars to march ahead in the next ten years. He said that it now costs S700,000.00 a year to run Wooster. Under Prexy, then, Wooster has begun a drive for two million dollars. The object is to increase endow- ment funds, to enlarge the library, and to improve the campus. In a speech before the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly of 1937, Prexy pled for Q11 decent endowments, or Q21 decent inter- ments. Wooster has been training students for sixty-nine years, yet is not decrepit. Wooster, though not so big, is quite robust. The Index feels with Prexy that it is still too early for the burial.

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WALTER PAINTER Assistant Treasurer CURT TAYLOR Secretary to the Board of Trustees ARTHUR SOUTHWICK Registrar JAMES MCLAUGHLIN Treasurer JOHN McKEE Business Manager ARTHUR MURRAY Director of Student Aid and News Ser- Vice. Four Years With the Administration Where, oh Where, does the money go? A vital question to a college president. Al- most as vital as, Where does the money come from? The Board of Trustees has to worry about where to get the money, the Treasurer's Office corps has to worry about where it goes. All in all the former has acquired, and the latter is guarding assets totalling S6,401,425.06 as of June 30, 1939. The endow- ment fund represented S3,624,317.69 and in- vestments in buildings and grounds 52,- 430,934.76, of the total. The Index cannot account for the other S5346,172.61, but bus- iness managers lVlcKee, McLaughlin, and Painter can. Ever since 1870, when Woosterites first had to pay their pittance for admission down on City Square, they have secretly resented the Treasurer's demands for funds. When one of our 951 students now pays part of his S300 tuition fee, however, he seldom remembers that the college is matching him dollar for dollar on his in- vestment-like matching pennies, only the student can't lose. Racky Young of the Admissions Office separates intellectual sheep from unintel- lectual goats before matriculation. After that the ones who need work in college can get it. CDigression: Wooster tears down some social distinctions, and creates new ones, in Wooster it is no disgrace to work.J The student Aid Office under Art Mur- ray passes out more than one hundred din- ing hall and scullery jobs. There is also more dignified but less lucrative NYA work for both men and women. Besides employment, the office hands out scholarships, loans, and outright grants-scarcely with a lavish hand, but few have cause to complain. In fact, fifty per cent of Wooster students get aid in one form or another. Then there is the Placement Bureau run by Mr. Southwick, who keeps a paternal eye on grads in the wide, Wide world.