Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Miss I ' .i.i.kn I kcKAUiii: AIks. W. S. Piksons AIks. i I A ' i: Smm 11 Miss M r (iK (:i ' . n.soN gram ot cxmi-curncular acti in . s with tlicir academic inrcrcsrs. Miss I ' .llcii Huckahcc, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Instruction, received both her A.B. and A1.A. degrees from Duke. After being on the start of the Dean of Residence, as well as being counselor of Pegram House, Miss Huckabee assisted in the personnel work ot Navy Wbmen ' s Reserve. In the fall of 1947 she received a leave of absence from Duke to work on a training program for the Navy. Mrs. Louise Seabolt, Recorder of the Wom- an ' s College, has been maintaining records ot Duke students since 1925. The duties of her ortice include keeping attendance, academic, and statistical records, evaluating credits, and re- cording functions of the dean ' s office. Mrs. Seabolt earned her A.B. at Duke in 1925 and her M.A. at Columbia in 1929. She also works with the Committee on Admissions and in an advisory capacity with the Town Girls. Complementing the start of the Woman ' s College are the eight house counsellors, whose duties are to help provide a homelike atmos- phere in the dormitories and to act as advisers to the women. Lt t to nnht: Whitakcr, F.; (korsc, B., (irimslcv. A.; Heiscr, 1..; il.son, . 1. d., Barnes, .. DcArmond, (■.; lavlor, H.; Wclborn, M. 2$

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WOMAN ' S COLLEGE r 1 ) - » 1 1 1 • AJ 7 j t ' V » 9m ' •V i% ' tV ;»-= ► K ' ' • V • , B. ' vv ' ! ; ' .« flfr ' • ' ♦»- 1 m m u -,.v; ; ■1 ;.: . v » ' ' ■ ' ' !l 41 « ' -- t ' . . - ' - • ;„-,.:- IV Dean R. Florence Brinki.kv ' T ' HE iKw IXan of rhc Woman ' s (College, Roberta BrinklcN ' , came directly to Duke fol- lowing- a fourteen month period of research in l- ' ngland, w here she was on sabbatical leave from Cioucher Ojllege. I kr headquarters w ere in London, but she spent considerable time at the hbrary in Cambridge and at other hbraries, working on her book, Seventeenth (xntury iis Interpreted by Coleridge. Dean Brink ley is a nati e of Ck ' orgia and a graduate of Agnes Scott (College. She recei ed her M.A. from the George Peabody ( ' ollege for Teachers and her Ph.D. from Yale. V ' e find writing to f)e one of her many ac- complishments. She is the author ot Xtill iin Field, The Actor-phyivright , The Arthtman Epic in the Seventeenth Century, and the editor of English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. In the ofHce ne.xt door to that of Dean Brink- Icy, we find Mrs. Ha en Smith, the Dean of Undergraduate Women. Twenty years of ex- perience working with Duke students as Social and Relieious . dviser, V.W .(].. . director, and director of F.A.C. well qualifx ' her for her present position. Mrs. Smith is a native of La Grange, Georgia and holds her B.A. from Agnes Scott College. She received her ALA. at Columbia, where she built up her background for personnel work through activity on publications, Y.W.C.A., and student government. I ' amiliar to all aspiring freshmen is the name of Mrs. W. S. Persons, Director of (ommittee on Admissions. A graduate herself of Duke, Class of 1922, Mrs. Persons holds both B.A. and I LA. degrees from this University. She did further academic work at the Universit) ' of Pennsylvania and returned to Duke in 19. 0. Miss Mary Grace Wilson, who was born in South Carolina, was graduated from W ' inthrop College for Women, and has done graduate work at Columbia. After teaching in several public schools. Miss Wilson came to Duke when the VVoman ' s (College opened in 1930, in the capacity of Social Director. In 1937 she was made Dean of Residence, a position w hich ga ' e her the opportunity to devote herself to the object of her greatest concern, that of see- ing the students combine a well balanced pro- l)i..iii hniikley ]s M-iii t.ilkin ' infi)rin.illy m irli Prt-siilint ;it tin- I ' nil ll.ij; r.ii.sing. Mrs. Hazcn .Siiiitli, in background, joins tlii; group, 24

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DEPARTMENT HEADS Ltj ' l tu riiilit: K. CjIlberi, Aesthetics, Art and Mu i,-; II. 1.. Bi.omql ' isi, Botany; P. Al. Ciuoss, (Jicinistry; k. Rkakdon, Dramatics. I.c t to riiilii: C H. Hoover, luoiiomics and Bnsincss .Id niiiistratio i; A. M. Fuociok, F.dtication: X. I. Wiiiii:, I ' .niilisli; v.. . Bkkio , (icolof y. Left to rii!,lit: G. Voi.i.mer, (krmanic l-anii tafii-s and Litnatiiir; J. N. lid ksdai.k, (ireck; V . ; 1. C ameron, Health and Physical Education; |. Groi ' t, Health and Physical lidiication. 26