College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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YOU'RE A BETTER MAN THAN I, QGUNGA DEAN' DEAN OF THE COLLEGE WEST- HAFER, in addition to other tasks, selects chapel programs. This year, chapels ranged from Eskimo speakers to madrigal singers. LOOKING OVER THE DATE BOOK with secretary Harriett Klein is Dean at Women Rachel MacKenzie. Her job makes her arbiter of college social life. A general clearing-house for Woos- terian affairs is the Deans' Office, presided over by the efficient trium- virate of Westhafer, MacKenzie, and Bruere, From the momentous undertaking of revising the college curriculum to meet the new accelerated schedule to placing a tactful taboo on doubtful social functions, the job is theirs. Theirs, too, is the task of placating irate students, irate professors, irate parents, or just plain irates. THE GOOD DEAN JOHN is Dean of Men Bruere, who keeps the male animal within bonds of civilization. His trying task has made lesser men curl up and die: yet Bruere marches on.

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Seated: Henry W. Taeusch, Miss Lucy L. Notestein, Daniel C. Funk, William H. Miller, William F. Weir, President Charles Wishart, Bruce Knox, Richard L. Cameron, Arthur H. Compton, Mrs. Alva C. Bailey, FUBNIULATUBS The all-powerful governing body of Wooster College is the Board at Trustees. Responsible only to the Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, this group of men has the final say in matters of college management and policy, faculty appointments, and authorizations of expenditures. Ten members each year are elected by the Synod for terms of three years, vacancies being filled on the rec- ommendation ot the Board. Mrs. Albert D. Frost. Standing: W. Dean Hopkins, John D. Mc- Kee, Howard F. Lowry, William H. Hudnut, J. Harry Cotton, John R. Williams, Arthur F. Blaser. 0F DESTINY . Held in the spring, tall, and winter, its meetings are at present presided over by Arthur H. Compton. Meetings open with a prayer by Prexy and conclude with luncheon at Babcock, but during the session, all is business. Discussions range from questions ot academic policy to the vital matter of smoking in the Union Building-to them all, the Board of Trustees has the answer.

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ADMINISTRATIVE IIFFICEIIS Behind the wheels of college progress are Wooster's administrative officers. This year they bore the brunt of the gearing of those wheels to the new tempo produced by the college's accelerated schedule. Keeping the mechanics of an institution oiled and running smoothly is a tremendous job at best, but this extraordinary year has increased greatly the manifold tasks of Wooster's administrators. A prospective student's first contact with Wooster is through the office of Director of Admissions Rackey Young, whose yearly campaigning treks bring him in contact with hundreds of high school students. His Galpin across- the-hall-mate, Arthur Southwick, takes up the job from there. As Registrar, Southwick is in charge of college rec- ords which pursue the student through college and of the placement service which aids and pursues him through life. Ray Griffith is in charge of the least-loved of the phases of Wooster life. Officiating behind brass bars, he presides over the collection of college tuition. Treasurer Frank Knox is over- seer of the budget, and bookkeeping lies within the domain of college Audi- GGKEEP 'EM CIIUIININGF' tor Frank Spalding. John D. McKee, as Business Manager, authorizes ex- penditures, but McKee occupies a dual role in administrative affairs. Also Alumni Secretary, his is the task of keeping grads amused, interlinked, and beneficent. Curt Taylor, like McKee, leads a multiple life. Secre- tary of the college, he is also secretary to the Board of Trustees and to the President, where his biggest problem is keeping an intelligible schedule of Dr. Wishart's whereabouts. Director of Student Aid Art Murray doubles as Publicity Director and divides his time between granting board jobs and whip- ping up enthusiastic college blurbs for vicinity newspapers. Donald E. Dicka- son, Assistant Business Manager, whose modest, debris-filled office oc- cupies the slightly outmoded Book Store building, handles the purchasing and dispensing of college materials. Collegiate health is built up by Dr. Jacoby, new head of Hygeia Hall, while at the hands of Mabel C. Little, dormi- tory food chief, it is strained. College librarians, under Miss Elizabeth Bechtel, strive to promote intellectual health.