Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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The most enterprising Coucherites knew Miss McCurley best. It was to her that we reported our summer earnings; to her we went for work at school; and when we were seniors, we looked to her for guidance and help in beginning our careers. From start to finish the Administration stood by. Gaucher has a faculty . . . . . . for keeping its students. The good doctors made every effort to get us satisfactorily through four academic years, with or without recourse to the Deanis oHice. As freshmen we approached the faculty first for program consultations and found that a Doctor of Philosophy has an effective way of dealing with the minor matter of choosing Biology. Miss StiHer, Dr. Moment, Dr. Glass7 Dr. Langdon, Dr. Wolf. Chemistry. Miss Bauer, Dr. Kelley, Dr. Lloyd7 Miss Wfallace, Miss Otto. 18 Economics and Sociology. Dr. McDougle, Dr. Pancoast, Dr. Redden, Mrs. Reynolds. courses and the major matter of choosing careers. Ensconced behind their lecture desks, these same doctors who in their oHicial sanctums had ministered so well to our mental confusion, would, with an aptly put, and for us unfortunately timed question, From the professorial chair, we learned that there is no royal road to an understanding of the Sciences7 the Arts and Society. make our mental confusion supreme. But in our outside contacts with members of the teaching staff, we learned that through a closer acquaintance with their own personalities we could see our way to a useful application of the book-lore. Equally as their knowledge of facts contributed to the affairs of the classroom, their wisdom of action contributed to the affairs of the community. Education. Miss Quincer, Miss Hemry, Dr. Crane, Miss Stippich.

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Miss Riches, Miss MeCurley, Dr. Torrey, Miss Rutherford program cards and smiled herself efflciently into our eonftdence. Gleeful with the prospect of a week-end jaunt, we confronted Miss Connor for the signature that alone could make it legal. And how many one-thirty permissions it took to keep the Dorm girls happy for a year! The Big Three of Coucher College: Doctor Robertson, Dean Stimson and Miss Connor; we looked at them across their Wide, flat-topped desks and watched them sign their names for us. Registrarts OHice. Miss Canady, Miss Troxell, Miss Probst, Miss Allen, Miss Cooper. Doctor Riches was responsible for our being here in the first place. A word from the last room on the right, first floor, Coucher Hall, and the four- year plans of many an aspiring applicant are made or broken, Fate and Doctor Riches brought us together. Miss Probst in her office and the Regis- tration Staff behind the high front desk passed over to us each year a new set of cards that would presently return to us bright With the A, B, GS of our achievement. Miss Rutherford could usually find a reason for Us and E75 tnot to mention Fvst Applied psychology is a wonderful thing, for she could teach us how to read a book and retain a part Of what we had read. Few of us, except those bold enough to face the higher mathematics, knew Dr. Torrey personally. Yet ehapel-goers saw her many a morning when, in the absence of Dean Stimson, she conducted the program. As assistant to the Dean, Dr. Torrey took her place in that famous ofhce t0 the left of Coucher Hallgs main entrance. 17

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We knew far too little of the extracurricular activities of our faculty. A yearly appearance on the platform of Katy H00per7s auditorium was one of the few opportunities for a professor to present his interests and activities to those students not of his classroom gatherings. No professor looked with any great delight upon the prospect of appear- ing in chapel. It is hard to give favorite hobbies and pet projects adequate expression in a fifteen- minute race with a stop-watch. For all that the chapel talks were few and brief, it was through them, together with classroom ttasidest, and tea- time remarks, that we came to know the extent of our professorsa energies. At least we realized that there were those in our midst who could drag them- selves away from reading themes and correcting examinations long enough to act for the cause of Classics. Dr. Braunlicll. Dr. Beardsley. English. Standing: Dr. Beatty7 Dr. Brinkley7 German. Dr. Schaumann, Dr. Guodloe. Mr. Boomsliter, Dr. Blanchard. Seated: Dr. Nitehic, Dr. Hopkins, Dr. Winslow. Fine Arts. Top: Mr, Chapman, Miss Spencer, History. Dr. Stimson, Dr. Gallagher, Dr. Mr. Lahey. Bottom: Miss Cunningham, Miss Curtis, Dr. Wyatt, Dr. Riches, Dr. Lonn. Rosenthal, Mrs. Lahey, Mr. Rusteberg. 19