Elizabethtown College - Conestogan / Etonian Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

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Women ' s Auxiliary Lancaster area members of the Women ' s Auxiliary discuss plans at the apartment of Miss Ethel Wenger. Mrs. A. C. Bougher, center, is sur- rounded by Mrs. Jack Bryer, Mrs. Henry Musser, Mrs. Wilbur Gorman, Mrs. Merle Black, and Mrs. Fronklin Cassel. Another indication of expansion was the organization on March 17. 1956. of a Women ' s Auxiliary ' for Ehzabethtown College. A month later the auxiliary had grown to a member- ship of fifteen hundred with the prospect of three thousand members by the close of the year. The first areas to be activated were Lancaster, Lebanon, York. Philadelphia, and Cumberland Val- ley. As the auxiliary grows, plans call for extending the membership not only to alumnae but also to other women who are friends of the college. During punch hour under the elm on May Day, the auxiliary introduced its purpose to many pros- pective members. Area representatives, meanwhile, were scheduling teas and meetings to extend the aux- iliary to many friends and alumnae. Designed to undertake projects- to make college Hving more pleasant for the women students in the growing school, the auxiliary ' s first project was to provide silver tea and coffee services. As the organ- ization expands, the members hope to undertake more ambitious projects including the establishing of scholarships, furnishing needed units, and provid- ing the many small necessities for gracious living. Miss Ethel Wenger, left, chairman of the executive committee of the auxiliary, exchanges ideas with Mrs. John Minnich, representative from the York area. Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Mrs. C. M. Papson from the Lebanon area chat with Miss Vera Hackman, dean of women, and Miss Ethel Wenger, woman member of the college board of trustees. 11

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A »- ' - ■ • The present-day auditorium-gymnasium changed into a chapel-auditorium in this architect ' s sketch ot the future building will adequately seat the entire student body. The Drawing Board I HE COLLEGE ATHLETIC program runs ahead of the facihties. Careful planning insured maximum use of the present plant. Physical education classes, wrestling and basket- ball practices, a monthly student assembly, occa- sional professional conferences, and rehearsals filled the weekday schedule in the gymnasium. During the winter months the gymnasium was in use six evenings a week for practices, intercollegiate games, commu- nity program series features, and intramural sports. The commuting third 6f the student body filled the additional parking spaces on the gymnasium drive and rainy day latecomers found themselves parked nearer to the lake than to Alpha Hall. And so the cycle continues — planning, expand- ing, increased enrollment, further planning and ex- panding, larger enrollments. The architect ' s sketch of the Health and Physical Education Building for men and women to be constructed as part of the expansion progrom. y v 10

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A college is the faculty; The fraternity of teachers and scholars, Unselfish, thoughtful, sincere, Patient with ignorance; Lecturing in words of four syllables, Some giving brain-cracking exams; The old professor- Wise with the experience of age. The younger prof — Filled with the facts of the modern day; The sympathetic dean — Always a mixture between stern admonition and kindly counsel, Asking students about their homes and parents. About their hobbies, girl friends, and ambitions. Weaving bits of philoso[)hy with casual talk, Sometimes touching the prosaic with fine poetry.