Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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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

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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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better labor conditions, improved housing, peace and conciliation. Those of them that had traveled brought back from their trips abroad and through the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America, something of the world beyond the bounds of our experience7 and made the telling of their travels itself an experience for us. G0ucher7s Haristocracy 0f the intellect moved among us in the college halls bearing under their arms briefcases full of condensed culture, giving us Hgood morning?y On occasion we greeted them Music. Dr. Petran. . . . down long recelvmg lines. From the first awed iiHow do you doiw of our freshman reception to Mathematics. Dr. Torrey, Dr. Lewis, Dr. Bacon, Miss Hedeman. Physical Education. Miss Fiske, Mrs. Sullivan, Miss DuvalL Miss Von Berries, Miss Tapley. Philosophy. Dr. Hawes, Dr. Bussey. Physics. Dr. Taylor, Miss Rich, Dr. Frehafer. Dr. Barton. 20