Hood College - Touchstone Yearbook (Frederick, MD)

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a mental note of THATU And to top this she has a niece who will be coming to Hood one of these days. But there's not just an air of business efii- ciency surrounding her. A bicycle looms on the horizon, we squint our eyes, take a second F . Qi? 4 GQQIQ look-and breezing by en route to Ad or Cob- lentz is our Director of Student Personnel . . . a bandbox appearance and a dash of vogue . . . stylish, competent . . . our own Miss Perry. MR. FCRD pl! RINGING to mind another campus 'executive is this line from an old rhyme: The Queen was in her parlor eating bread and honey, but the King was in his counting house counting out his money. Hood's Counting House is an inner sanctum which is to some of us merely an impressive name plate spelling out in raised letters the name of the chief counter himself-Mr. Ford. Busily executing the endless jobs that confront a college treasurer, Mr. Ford is as hard to con- tact as a royal money counter must have been. But once inside his ofiice we of the vivid imagi- nation who might like to picture our treasurer as sitting amidst piles of gold coins and stacks of greenbacks avidly counting and recounting Hood's loot would find our jaws drop and our eyes pop. For there he sits at his shiny flat top desk, black rimmed glasses perched on his nose, efliciently executing his duties. And gosh, rhere's not a dime in sight! Only a select few have ever been inside this oflice. Most people have only a hazy concep- tion of what Mr. Ford looks like and what he has to do. That is, you have only a hazy conception until your father forgets to send your last tuition check on time! Then you are ushered rather hurriedly into his office. Here you will find one of the nicest and most in- teresting people on campus. Mr. Ford will come right to the point, as he always does in business transactions. After you have told him why you are there, he'll do all he can to help you. Your business com- pleted, you still won't want to leave because you'll be held spell-botmd by the many interest- ing ancedotes that he'll tell you. Some of them will have taken place on campus and others will be about his son, Raymond, who expects to be discharged at any time. Don't think, however, that he spends his time conversing. It is his job to keep all the opposing factors of a college in accord, besides running the financial affairs. And we might well add that's quite a job! And so we see that caps and gowns, titles and ofiices do not alone tell the story of these college executives. They are I-Iood's personali- ties, guiding and shaping smaller personalities into what we hope someday will reflect their efforts.

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that she turns gladly to her bed so that she can be prepared for the next busy day. This is a day that we imagine as typical in the life of our Dean. It is a day that is filled to the brim with not only her problems, but also those of many other people. But in spite of this busy schedule, Dean May has a ready smile for all those with whom she comes in contact. Her personality is so open and heart- warming that we are drawn to her when we first step into her oiiice. She seems to under- stand and want to help us in just the way we think we should be understood and helped. img 1 O Q ! r MISS PERRY 'P A E' VE all paid a visit to that little oflice fa . , EM 13 just off Ad Lobby, but we 11 bet you never realized how much of your life was centered in that room. This office knows all about you, where you came from, what you're doing, what your future hopes and dreams areg and even what kind of a person you are. Many a trembling freshman has been sum- moned here by a note typed in blue print. She is greeted at the outside oflice by Mrs. Pilgrim, Miss Perry's tall, attractive secretary. There is reassurance on her face as she points to the bench out in the hall and says, Miss Perry is busy now, but won't you be seated? When the door opens, the freshman has her first glimpse of our Director of Student Personnel. She is a charming lady who extends her hand and says, Won't you come in? Feeling be- gins to flow back into our freshman's veins as Miss Perry asks how she is getting along, and how she and her roommate like each other. At the end of her 15 minutes visit she feels almost as through she were at home talking to someone who was interested in her as a person. The mere welcoming of freshmen, however, is not the only job of the Director of Student Personnel. If each of us knew the number of jobs that went on in that office, our 20-page assignment in English lit would seem in- significant. Besides welcoming freshmen, she tries to have every student for dinner and for coffee at her home fby candle lighty after- wards. She is chairman of so many activities that it seems impossible for any one person no carry them out. We have come to think of Miss Perry as one of the persons to whom we fly whenever some seemingly gigantic problem confronts us. In spite of the fact that she knows all about us, we know very little about her. Most of us at one time have had a peek at all or some of her famous cup collection. She has some from every place she has ever visited. And did you know that she is a native of Ohio and still lives in the same house that she was born in? Resid- ing in that same town are five nephews' fmake

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OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION AND INSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS HENRY IRVIN STAHR ............... . President A.B., A.M., D.D., Franklin and Marshall College: LL.D., Ursinus College JOSEPH H. APPLE .......,............ President Emeritus A.B., A.M., Pd.D., LL.D., Franklin and Marshall College: LL.D., Ursinus Collegeg LL.D., Temple University ELIZABETH ECKHARDT MAY . . . Dedn of the College B.S., A.M., Ed.D., Columbia University RUTH E. PERRY ............. . Director of Student Personnel B.E., Vilestern Reserve Univefsityg A.M., Columbia University ZGRACE N. BROWN . - ....... - . . Registrar, Secretary of the Faculty A.B., Hood College RAYMOND I. FORD . . . Treasurer CATHERINE A. THOMAS . . ...... . . Sttfetdfy FACULTY HENRY IRVIN STAHR . ..-.... - . .,... . President A.B., A.M., D.D., Franklin and Marshall Collegeg LL.D., Ursinus College ELIZABETH ECKHARDT MAY .... . ..... Dean of the College B.S., A.M., Ed.D., Columbia University MARY CASTLE OTT . ..... ......... P rofessar Emeritus of History A.B., Hood Collegeg University of Chicagog A.M., The Johns Hopkins University. LILLIAN OLIVE BROWN ............., . . Professor of Mathematics A.B., Dickinson Collegeg A.M., Columbia University ESTHER ELIZABETH SHAW ...... - .... - . Professor of English A.B., Mount Holyoke Collegeg A.M., Ph.D., University of Michigan MABEL LOWELL BISHOP .............. . Professor of Zoology AB., Wellesley Collegeg A.M., Smith Collegeg Ph.D., University of Chicago MIRIAM RANKIN APPLE .... - ......... . Librarian A.B., Hood Collegeg B.S., Simmons School of Library Science IG. NEVIN REBERT . . . . ......... . .... Professor of Education A.B., Franklin and Marshall Collegeg A.M., Ph.D., University of Qxicago DOROTHY ISABELLA MORRILL .............. Professor of English A.B., Mount Holyoke Collegeg A.M., University of Michigang A,M., Ph.D., Radcliffe College MARTH CRITZ THOMAS ....... . ..,. Professor of Home Economics B.S., A.M., Columbia University HENRY THOMAS WADE . - .......... . .... Professor of Music A.A.G.O.g Graduate of the New England Conservatory of Musicg Pupil of Carl Baumann and Henry M, Dunahmg European study under Ch. Marie Widm and I. Philpp ELIZABETH B. BOWER, .......... - . Professor of Chemistry B.S., M.S., The Pennsylvania State College 13