College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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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

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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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Martin Remp Two decades ago Wooster of the Middle West was noted for Professors Compton, Bennett, Mateer, Notestein, et al. They had fought and bled and striven to found Woos- ter as a Christian college dedicated to the ideal of Religio et scientia ex uno fontef' As Professor Notestein wrote, A tree grows not by outward accretion, but by virtue of an inner life, which draws from earth and sky and organizes a body of strength and beauty. So also grows a col- lege. What the seed is to the tree, that mo- tive ideal, the germinal vision of the found- Alvin S. Tostlebe ers is likely to be for the college. There is now a group of men in Wooster who have taken this mantle of service: B. F. Yanney in mathematicsg William West- hafer in physicsg Martin Remp in psychol- ogyg Roy Grady in chemistryg Frederick Moore in Englishg and L. C. Boles in physi- cal education. This group, which was here when Prexy came to Wooster, along with men like John Olthouse in French and John Lister in Spanish, do much to maintain the continuum of plain living and high thinking in our academic life today. Marjorie Kemp '41 John W. Olthouse Madeline Howe '42 John T. Lister ii'