Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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IUZJIOICIUMCUIOIUZJIOEIJIOICUIOIUUIOIOZJIOUUIOIUSIODJI Hmmmht hmhmm deti Due to wartime conditions and two separate campuses, college administration has undergone many Changes in the last two years, but business goes on, if not as usual, neverthe- less with the eHiciency of the past, an under- standing of the present and with foresight for the future. The old traditions remain to re mind us of the days of peace modiEed and restricted though they may be by the uncom- promising demands of war. Formal dress at Freshman Reception and daily chapel belong to the past, but our administrators have pre- served these institutions in spite of necessary alterations. Today ideals and activities per- taining t0 the nation must take priority. Fully realizing this, the administration has chosen a wider field than the college would for its sphere of action. Several of our college leaders have added important work for the government to their academic duties. All the changes which the year has brought, however, have not been unpleasant. The col- lege welcomed Mrs. Robertson to Coucher at a reception early in the spring. Though Dean Dorothy Stimson Ends herself beset with requests for help in arranging ac- celerated schedules, she still Ends time to inter- view and advise students with Dis or other dif- Eculties, and to chat with us under purely social conditions. Miss Mary T. McCurley is taking care of the vocational needs with her well-known capa- bility, keeping fully acquainted with the new- est developments in the held, and helping Gaucher girls to End vacation or postgraduate jobs. Miss McCurley has been a link between our potentialities for service and a war time world anxious for help. Miss Probst, the Registrar, and her assistant, Miss Troxell, supervise domestic relations be- tween the faculty and students: registration, the handling of academic grades, and the ar- rangement 0f Coucheris programs of individ- ual acceleration. The Coucher expansionist policy, tempo- rarily suspendedlfor the duration, is neverthe- less well on its way to maturity. Miss Frances Conner, our able and efficient Student Coun- cilor now has as her assistant Miss Martha Arnold, who is the hrst Director of Mary Fisher Hall. Realizing that a divided house must fall, they have insured the unity of our Greater Goucher by establishing Erm ties be- tween the 01d and the new campuses, and by giving assistance to all students on problematic social and extra-curricular attairs.

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IUZJIOIEIUIOIUJIOICCJIOIEIUIOIUZJIOIUJIOIDZJIOIUZJIODZJOIEIUI ?aculty Z spite of the multiplied responsibilities and complicated schedules which two years of war have brought, the faculty members of Goucher College remain devoted to the ideals upon which their eHorts were concentrated during the years of peace. College as usual may well be considered the watchword of the present, for the education of young women to be at home in a Changing new world is the special concern of our professors. Educating has become increasingly diHicult among the new and disturbing problems of total war and its aftermath. Foresight in anticipating situ- ations which result from world conflict has led to the addition of pertinent courses to the col- lege curriculum and the revitalization of old courses. The changed curriculum helps future graduates to be properly equipped to deal with conditions in the world of tomorrow. Thought- ful advice and experienced guidance give us conEdence in times when values are changing as rapidly as newspaper headlines. Their knowledge and understanding are anchors on the sea of emotional instability and irrationv ality in which we are living. Goucher College is represented in almost every phase of the nations war efforteon the home front and in the fighting forces. Goucher professors wear the uniforms of the Army, the Navy, and the Coast Guard. Others serve in a civilian capacity. Dr. Esther Crooks is ce- menting the Good Neighbor policy by teach- l4 ing English at the Cultural Institute in Lima, Peru, founded under the auspices of the United States government. Dr. Wilfred Beardsley is in Washington with the Foreign Broadcasting Intelligence Service as an inter- preter of foreign government broadcasts for the national government. Dr. Harold Lloyd has recently left Goucher to do special research work in chemistry. Mr. Wilmer F. Bartholo- mew, who formerly taught music at Goucher, is now busy with research work in the held of acoustics in one of the Yale laboratories taken over by the Navy. Faculty extra-curricular activities include everything from lecturing on post war prob- lems to serving as nurses, aides. Last summer Dr. Jeanne Rosselet taught F rench at Hopkins under the Army Specialist Training Program. Dr. Elizabeth Redden tMrs. Fitzhughy is Eco- nomic Analyst for the local OPA. Dr. Grace Hiller devotes Wednesdays to interviewing newcomers to the city who are unable to pay for medical services. Dr. Louise Seibert offers hospitality to convalescent French sailors. These are only a few among many who serve both college and country in this year of 194-4. W e, the students, have come to the realiza- tion that they also serve who remain behind to teach the way, to impart the culture of today and yesterday to the world of the future, and perhaps in the final analysis, theirs is the great- est contribution of all.