College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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HEAD LIBRARIAN Miss Elizabeth Bechtel needs six lull-time assistants and twenty part-time working students to run the library efficiently. It is her iob to meet with the eleven- member faculty library committee and decide what publica- tions to purchase. She has been cr Wooster librarian since 1900, is anxiously awaiting the-day when the financial campaign funds will permit expansion of the present cramped facilities. THE MAIN DESK is the clearing house tor the library. Miss Bechtel's annual library report shows that the average stu- dent takes out seven books a year. Behind the desk: Student worker Mary Young. and reference librarian Miss White. In front of the desk: Drusilla May, Eleanor Kister. Mary lane Benson, Roge Stonebumer. and Reid Blocher. Lib and Learn Freshmen became acquainted with the academic aspect of the Henry Frick Library through an early fall tour. Miss Olla Fern Kieffer, head of the reserve department, explained how to take a book out of the reserve, most frosh mustered enough courage to try sometime during the year. On the main floor, frosh learned from head librarian Miss Elizabeth Eechtel that the library subscribed to 328 newspapers and magazines. As they wandered around on the main Hoor, observing yearlings noted Miss Gretchen White, reference librarian, at the main desk recommending a book to a sophisticated upperclassmang they over- heard Miss Maudie Nesbit, circulation department head, remind another that books could be kept out only two weeks. Some of the tourists were interested in the work which head cataloguer Miss Ruth McClelland and her assistant, Miss Norine Flack, were doing at a table on the east end of the Hoor. With several card files before them, they were putting in cards for new books. Miss McClelland said there were nearly 90,000 cards in the files, and that new books added 3,000 more each year.

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AN ORGANIZER, Miss Mabel C. Little has charge of dormitory supervision. With an efficient staff of three assistants she holds sway over tive dormitories. For organizations she aids in planning parties, teas, and special dinners. Under her tutelage things have a way of running smoothly. IN HOLDEN DINING ROOM 136 upper- class girls dine. To help headwaiters handle their dining rooms efficiently Miss Little has written a booklet ex- plaining the correct etiquette of serving meals. Every spring she holds a school to instruct headwaiters-elect. The heads are required to read etiquette books from the library. Six Lessons From the Madam Without exaggeration, the department of dormitories plays the most vital part in a Wooster student's life. You can talk all you want about not living on bread alone, but when you face the issue squarely, Where are you Without a substantial fraction applied to the stomach Wall three times daily? And you can rave about the great out of doors all you Want, but Where are you Without a roof over your head? CThey say it rains in Wooster at times.J Even the flowers that bloom in the spring tra la, have nothing to do with the casegn they all owe their life to the foresight of the department of dormitories. It's a big business, keeping the pantry stocked to provide food for over 2,000 meals a day. When you feed approximately 800 people a day, you are not doing it on chicken feed. Yet in spite of the mass of business details that must absorb most of their time, Miss Little and her staff take the time to put forth that extra eifort which makes college more like home. In the freshman dormitories, for example, the girls Who have birthdays are feted at a birthday party. ln all the dining rooms, holidays are recognized with appropriate ice-cream deserts: Washington gets the axe, St. Patrick Wears the green, and Easter lays an egg. HEAD COOK in Kenarden, Wooster's largest dining room, is the popular Iohn A. Hersey. He controls kitchen workers and full-time assistant cooks. A cook for twenty years, Hersey feels he does his best iob on meat roasts which he cooks according to his own recipes. 25

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HEAT LAMP TREATMENTS are seemingly a cure-all lor everything from colds to muscular bruises. College physician Robert N. Wright is adjusting one ot the hospital's three heat lamps. In addition to heading the college hospital statf Dr. Wright handles a considerable town practice. HEAD NURSE Miss Ethel Venman administers nose drops to a cold-suffering patient. In winter months nurses give fifty nose drop treatments a day. Miss Venman's assistants are Miss Elsie Iohnson and Miss Floribel Boyden. Hygeia nurses must be versatile, able to cope with any emergency. Heat Lamps and Pink Pills Hygeia Hall is the final resting place of all those colds, aches, and pains which Wooster students experience in the course of a school year. Last fall Hygeia was kept busy with the examination of fresh- men, including the administering of the tuberculin test and an x-ray follow-up if necessary. During the Winter months Hygeia and the gym department Worked together so that defects which Were dis- covered in the fall examination could be corrected in the gym Work. The three Week epidemic in January turned Hygeia into a college hangout. The peak of the epidemic Was reached when chapel Was dismissed for one Week to lessen the danger of its spreading further. Nurses estimate that influenza plagued one out of every five students. Plenty of sleep and good care sent most students out in time for semester examinations, but made hard Work for Dr. Wright and his three nurses. The history of the year for Hygeia could be written in terms of about forty minor operations, five major ones, an average of fifty-five calls daily, and four hundred admissions. It is Wooster's haven of rest for the sick and the Weary.