Harding College - Petit Jean Yearbook (Searcy, AR)

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Smiling John Lee Dykes, head of the Math Department teaches interesting courses in Analytical Geometry, Socialized Mathl Plane Trig, and Calwlusenot to mention the ordi- nary run of the mill. Despite a full schedule of teaching he preaches almost every Sunday, directs the work of about twenty preaching students, and teaches in the teacher training course dawn town. He is chairman of the library committee also. Food rationing will be no problem to him with his productive hobby of raising 600 chickens. He is interested in more systematic Bible and Sunday school teaching and reads much in that field, feeling sure that this work will better the world's morals. Just as the Indians were here when the pilgrims landed, so Miss Catharine Score, our librarian, was on the campus when Harding College arrived. She had been with Galloway College for ten years and now seems like part of the library. There are l7,l45 volumes charged to her meticulous care and the yearly circulation is about l0,000. Periodicals are subscribed to which cover all departments, 115 magazines in olll Les, lie's Illustrated Newspaper from 1857-l885 is one of the library's rare possessions along with the New York Herald for April 15, l865, reporting Lincoln's assassination. Esther Marie Clay and Marie Chunn were seniors who assisted in the library work. Knitting and reading at the same time constitutes Miss Score's unique hobby. A subtle sense of humor is Miss Score's and you will often see her with a twinkle in her eye. In her library work she is conscientious and will not rest until a lost book is found.

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Please tell people that home economics means much more than sewing and cook- ing, emphatically stated Mrs S, A. Befl, Home EconOmics Department head. All home economics courses teach a girl culture 05 well as skill and fit her for gracious social living in any situation. They teach her in the classroom and laboratory the equivalent of ten years' experience in homemoking. More equipment is available in Harding's home ec department then is usual in small colleges or even in larger ones, Practical experience in applying what the giris have learned is on outstanding feature. Faculty teas, dinners, and receptions, are given under super- vision, every girl participating in one such entertainment each termt Success in 0 new hobby every year is the ambition of Mrs. S. A. Belt who heads the de- partment. Her list of accomplishments is impressive and includes painting, a collection of unusual buttons, 0 flower garden, and a knowledge of photography including developing and enlarging Someday she hopes to collect antique furniture for a dining room suite At Bell's Orphan Home in Quinlan, Texas, Mrs. Bel'I was mother to thirty-nine small girfs for three years She planned a nursery for twoiyeoerlds and under or that time which has since been constructed, Teaching the practical courses in clothing is Miss Elsie Moe Hopper whose Afmo Mater is Harding. Miss Hopper applies her knowledge of home ec outside the classroom in such Service clubs 05 the Eastern Star. Motoring is her favorite pastime and she is proud of her pretty green Fordt

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General Fadulty C. D. Brown The busmess officeethe place where the painless extraction method of securing payment irorn students is practiced IS the office of Bursar Brown, Here he is pictured with two of the student helpers, Coudeil Lane and Bertha Smith. In addition to the student transactions, all problems and financial affairs of the two forms, laundry, and College Club pass through the hands of Bursar Brown. A sub post office station is maintained in the business office. When not in his office greeting students with the phrase t'Let's decorate the mahogany, he likes to fish or read to his children. Earl Smith Assocmted With Hordrng this year I5 EorJ Smith, su- perintendent of buildings and grounds and maintenance Engineer on top of that. His hobby IS anything meA Chonicol and that is rather strange for a man who knew nothing but horses and 50d- dles on a Texas ranch until he woa twenty years old. Brother Smith preaches. too, and established two con- gregations Gt Clayton, New MeXico, while he was there in the government service. Mrs, A B. Chandler M0 Chondlcr daily feeds 200 hungry students. She is the coltege dietitian who welds the big stick in the kitchen, and isn't so small herself Be on time is her motto. She has over 2,000 recipes to show for her hobby and her first love is fixing diets for Sick people. Mrs. J. Harvey Dykes HWe've been very lucky with thirteen, says Mrs. Dykes, matron of the thir- teen girls who live in Gray Gables, the threeestory home house south of Pot- tse Cobb Hall. The girls do light housekeeping with Mrs. Dykes as their second moth- er. Sewing of all sorts Occu- pies much of her tame and she teaches the lodies'Thurs- day afternoon Bible closst