College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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ETHEL MCCULLOUGH ' f PEARL HECKBERT Ass't Secretaries JOHN MILLER Alumni Secretary A Lifetime With the Alumni After four years of what is broadly de- fined as a liberal education, the shift of a tassel makes a student an alumnus. Al- though the College then gives him a final benediction, it still is keen on his con- tinued interest in higher education: speci- fically, in the College of Wooster. Anyone who wants to forget Wooster af- ter he graduates has a hard time of it, for the alumni office takes pains to keep a per- iodic check-up on the grads. And anyone who becomes very prominent is likely to be chosen as one of six alumni members of the Board of Trustees. Henry Seidel Canby once borrowed a theory, and the Index unblushingly bor- rows it from him, that the alumni and al- umnae bond is one of the most important in the social history of the United States. Upstairs in Galpin Hall, therefore, three secretaries spend forty hours for morej a week keeping alma mater's home fires burning. John Miller, ,34, an ex-editor of the Voice, is head of the alumni office, Pearl Heckbert, '01, and Ethel McCullough, '33, work with him. They send out more than two-thousand copies of The Wooster Alum- ni Bulletin ten times a year, October through July. This is a twenty-page publi- cation financed by an active alumni-mem- bership-subscription plan. In addition to publishing the Bulletin and assorted college literature, the secre- taries bear the yoke of Homecoming, Woos- ter Day, and Commencement celebrations. Finally there are forty alumni clubs strewn about the United States and foreign countries. These clubs, conceived and nour- ished by the home office, quietly testify to the place of Wooster in the world today.

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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.

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,J Alpha . . Between registration on September 18, 1939, and graduation on June 17, 1940, the student is caught in a rush of events. The Index is what its name implies, it is an at- tempt to make a systematic, permanent re- cord of these events. Any such attempt is incomplete, and every yearbook editor sighs in June, If I'd only known in September what I know now.. . For instance, this book does not make proper mention of Prexy's Convoca- tion Sermon, The Christian and World War, or Dr. Lincoln Long's Week of Pray- er, or Wendell Wi1kie's broadcast here Feb. mi, f 9, or the classical conference attended by over seven hundred teachers Oct. 26-28, or the Color Day Pageant by Ruth Lam- born and Jean Hudson, or the Mock Con- vention, or the refugees. But of one fact the staff is proud. An in- formal faculty section has been introduced, and a hasty evaluation has been made of Wooster's academic life. When the Index adviser first saw these write-ups he said, Too bad you have to rehash this stuff every year. Those are fighting words, sir! It may be hash, but it's not warmed over! and Omega